What a true sahaja yogi leader is really like - Part 5

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Dear All,

 

We concluded part 4 with:

 

" There have been a few sahaja yogis who were leaders and who have had to leave

Sahaja Yoga. Some of them started becoming dictatorial and started making money

on their own. Some of them had some physical weaknesses for some sort of carnal

love and have also departed from Sahaja Yoga. But there are some who fell prey

to their wives, who were not sahaja yogis and were nowhere near the quality of a

sahaja yogi. Such women have dominated their husbands for their personal needs

and also dominated the group. Such women are like so many women such as Mrs.

Chiang Kai Shek or Marcos' wife. They are the ones who try to take over from

their husbands by dominating the platform and want to assert themselves, while

they have no capacity, no ability to be there. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

first small English book

Chapter 5

'The Leader in Sahaja Yoga'

 

Here now is Part 5 - the conclusion.

 

Enjoy,

 

violet

 

 

What a true Sahaja Yogi leader is really like - Part 5

 

The duty of a sahaja yogini who is married to the leader is first to understand

that she is the mother of all the group, and she has to look after the group

with a very forgiving nature. Supposing a leader does not like the way one of

the group members is behaving towards sahaja yoga [union with the divine]. It is

the duty of the wife to talk to this particular individual and try to tell him

in a mild and motherly fashion that he should try more to work it out, and

gently reach a certain understanding through his efforts; meditating and

reaching his divinity.

 

It is she who has to look after the comfort, the food, the clothing and the

overall care of the sahaja yogis. But instead, if she starts using them as her

servants or using them for her own demands and her own wants; if she starts

using their money for a particular purpose, then such a person is absolutely

incapable of being the wife of a leader. Such a leader should immediately find

out what this woman is up to, and then he has to tell her very frankly that he

doesn't like all these things happening, and if she goes on like this he will

resign as a leader. After some time, even despite his warnings, if she doesn't

accept what he says, then it is better to inform the world leader and offer your

resignation from the leadership.

 

We really have had very big problems with two or three such women, who have been

extremely immoral, selfish and also anti-God. Such women can be very popular to

begin with when they want to increase their popularity and then they come back

as monsters on the group or on one individual. This is possible because they are

not seekers. I feel that perhaps they have been planted there by some devils -

the way they have been behaving and acting and playing games with sahaja yoga.

The main source of a leader's wife is her immense love and immense power to

sacrifice anything for the group. While the leader may not be able to really

devote that individual time for the group, she can do it. She should never

report against any one of the sahaja yogis, but always for them, and if there is

some danger, she can warn her husband. In any case she has to know that it is

firstly her responsibility to verify that the danger about which she is thinking

is not only to her, but to the whole group. All such situations can be handled

very nicely this way.

 

The children of sahaja yogis are nothing exceptional. They should not try to

assert themselves on the sahaja yogis. They should not ask for any special

favours or to be treated like some 'Prince Charming'. They should really live

like very, very ordinary people doing the work of sahaja yoga in a very silent

manner. They should not be in the public eye. They should be behind the public

eye working it out in such a manner that the effects of that can be felt - yet

nobody sees these beautiful children who are enlightened souls.

 

Leaders should not get into quarrels about the property of Sahaja Yoga. They

should know that this property belongs to God and they should in no way claim

anything as their own, which is supposed to be that of the collective. They

should, of course, be fully aware of the list of things [inventory] that are

collective and all things should be kept in proper condition.

 

The accounts must be absolutely clean and clear-cut. There should be no money

collected without the permission of the world leader. All the accounts must be

shown to every member of the society. All accounting should be done in such a

manner that people should watch and see for themselves your expertise as far as

the maintaining of the accounts are concerned and the honesty with which you

have handled the money. The best thing is to give the money to some group of

people who can be called the finance committee, who should look after it and

decide where it should be spent. Of course, the leader should have the overall

charge of the money.

 

One of the weaknesses of human beings is money and when they start seeing money

they may try to take advantage of the human weaknesses. So a leader should be

quite aware of people who still have got this lingering weakness for money and

should try to put such people into places where they do not deal with money.

After some time with their growth they will become extremely honest people.

 

A second weakness human beings have is for women or men. This can be overcome by

the practice of mooladhara cleansing. If the mooladhara is cleansed it will

improve a person who has this kind of a weakness. But if there is somebody with

this kind of a weakness, please ask such a person to go out of Sahaja Yoga,

because one bad apple can spoil the whole box of apples. But even if it does

not, it can create a problem for all the men or all the women who are living in

that ashram. So, a man who is a flirt or who takes to women very much, such a

man must be kept outside the ashram. That is the best way to save yourself the

difficulty of handling people who are still not matured enough to be celibate.

 

Celibacy in Sahaja Yoga is that you live with one wife and with full confidence

and it also means that you have to be with one wife all your life without even

looking at another woman. That is the aim of Sahaja Yoga in the future.

 

Actually this kind of attention, moving all over the area of women, suddenly

recedes back into yourself - and then you start seeing the good points of your

wife and you want to lead a very good life. This happened in the case of Jung,

who suddenly became very friendly with his wife, absolutely attached to her and

this must have come about because he became a self-realised person.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

first small English book

Chapter 5

'The Leader in Sahaja Yoga'