Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 8

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Dear All,

 

We concluded Part 7 with:

 

" So from Buddha's life, you don't have to learn that He went into the jungles,

went and did this, also did renunciation, gave up his wife. No! That's not

needed now. That's over. This is where we fail, where we cannot explain to

people about those who say: " But we must have renunciation! " We have

renunciation from within, like the sand [flowing easily through the fingers], as

I have told you. We have detachment from within, but this is compassion. Pure

compassion is the most detached thing. The most detached thing is the pure

compassion. Anything that is pure is pure because it is detached. It's a proper

mathematics: " Anything that is pure has to be detached " . If it is attached it is

contaminated. See the logic! Absolute mathematics is there! If you have pure

love, then you are detached.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88

 

Here now is the conclusion of " Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong " .

 

Enjoy!

 

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Shri Mataji on where religion has gone wrong - Part 8

 

Now, supposing you love Mother - all right, take that. Now you have, say, pure

love for Me. Then you won't get angry if I don't come to your house. You won't

feel disappointed if I can't sit in your car. You won't feel unhappy because I

could not touch your sari: " Because I just love Mother " , finished. It ends

there. Just pure love. Of course, I know these weaknesses, so I try to please

you, alright, alright. But actually, if you really love Me: " It's alright, I

love Her and She loves Me " ; finishes. " Whether She comes to my house or not,

whether She gives me a present or not, whether She pats me or not, whether I can

see Her or not, whether I can meet Her or not. Makes no difference; I love Her " .

That's the purity of love: 'where there's no expectation of any kind, except

that I love and that love is the ocean of enjoyment and the ocean of bliss',

finished.

 

It's the easiest thing to do, is to love. Just love. How your heart increases

like an ocean. I just love. The sea is not attached to any shore. When it has to

come, it comes out, when it has to go back, it goes back. When it has to give

water for rain, it gives. The water goes as the clouds are formed, then falls as

rain and again comes back to the sea. It doesn't stop anywhere. In the same way,

if we just think: 'It's a feeling I have that I love Mother' - what a feeling it

is! That should be the end of everything, absolutely. I feel the same way;

otherwise I would be feeling guilty every day, or I didn't smile at that, I

didn't give a present to this one. I should have brought something special for

that person; I was late for the program. But I don't feel guilty because it's

all managed. If I had come earlier, all these hecklers would have been there to

trouble us. So all the horrible people disappeared and we had the right people.

Then I sat down too. I didn't say: " I'm going back " . There is no need to be

nervous. If Mother is late, there must be some plan. If She is early, there must

be some plan. If She's going by plane and not by another way, there must be some

plan. Not to doubt it. If She's doing something, there must be some plan. You

know, Mother has Her own plans. It's a nice idea to think like that: " She has

Her own plans, you know. " Once you start feeling that way, such security and

beautiful peace will spread in your being. And you will be quite satisfied.

 

Now, everybody brings food forward, look at that. I mean when I see that I get a

fight, baba. I mean, look at that! I'm supposed to taste it, but even tasting it

will be so much. But I've to eat, you know, because if I don't touch one of

them, then they will think: " Why didn't Mother touch? Must be something wrong. "

This is a very big problem for me, to keep you happy and to assure you. But I

assure you that I love you all very much!! Whether you bring food to me, or

flowers for me, or anything. Does not matter.

 

When I'm leaving Bogota, my heart is wrenching. I've seen the wrench of My

heart; I've seen. Because I'm leaving all the new babes there; that's all. Then

I just don't want to face, I mean, the thing I feel: " Oh God, please see, I'm

leaving them " . But it's because I love them. So I see, because I love them, I

feel it.... Even this pain is alright because I love them. I enjoy that pain

because I love them. And then I come here and see all of you standing at the

airport. The whole thing is fulfilled again. Not just because you have come, but

because I have come to love you. All this is such a beautiful rapport and such a

beautiful feeling. I want you all to enjoy this and not petty things and small

things, which spoil your joy. These are all joy-killers and that's why the

greatest joy-killer is the nonsensical ego, which tells you: " Oh, why didn't

Mother do this or that? " It's the ego part of it. That's why we have to think of

Buddha and celebrate his jayanti [birthday] within ourselves - to establish Him,

to say that: 'this ego cannot take away our joy'. Anywhere that such an idea

just comes into your head, just say: " Now Mister ego, I know you very well! " In

the light of Buddha, you can see your ego very clearly and He is the killer of

your ego. He's the one who finished off your ego.

 

So today we have to pray for the whole of America which is really suffering from

this nonsensical, mythical ego - which is being exploited by everyone. People

are befooling them. The media is befooling, all the doctors are befooling, all

the psychologists are befooling, all the governments are befooling. I mean, I

don't know, everybody is befooled, because they've got ego. If they had no ego,

they could not have been befooled. All these advertisements and all all this

hokus-pokus that's going on, is because human beings have ego and they can't see

it.

 

So we have to say: " Mother, please take away this curse of ego from Americans

and America " . That's why it is nice today that we have this Buddha Puja.

 

May God bless you.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lord Buddha Puja

San Diego, U.S.A.

23/07/88