On bringing back the Dharma of Christ, this Christmas!

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

Merry Christmas to all, from Australia! Shri Mataji talks about bringing back

the Dharma of Christ, in a puja address given in Pune in 1987.

 

Enjoy,

 

violet

 

 

 

Shri Mataji's Puja Address at Pune, 1987 - Christmas Puja

 

Today is the great day when a great son of the Goddess was born, at least it is

celebrated today. And you all are assembled here to celebrate the birthday of

Christ. You already know how He came on this earth, and what was His great work.

But we must see to the subtle side of Christ. What was His power? Christ's power

was of course aumkara. His power was pranava.

 

But the essence of Christ was tapasya, tapasvita. He is the incarnation of

tapasya. And in that incarnation is a sinless personality. He's sinless. Of

course incarnations never commit sins. But apparently things that look like sins

are also not in His life story. Like one can say that Shri Rama's gave up His

wife, so it is a sinful thing. Of course those who understand the subtleties of

Shri Rama's life will know that it's stupid to say such a thing. Or Shri

Krishna's life, they might say He married so many women. But in Christ's life

you do not find anything that could be pointed out as a mistake, even a

slightest mistake. It's a very straightforward life, absolutely pure life and

doing no commitments of ambiguous nature.

 

But it's very surprising that Christianity is just the opposite of what Christ

wanted it to be. They painted Him so differently, brought Him out so differently

and made a mess of His life. A terrible mess I must say, because He was the

person who tried to keep to the maryadas of the dharma to the maximum. And while

the Christians stretch their imagination to such an extent that their sinful

life is shocking, the kind of sins they commit is extremely shocking. For

example, He said in a very subtle way, " Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes. "

Even in Sahaja Yoga I find people still have this problem. What a sinful thing

to do to Christ. For Christians to have such eyes which are adulterous, and they

are the people who have the maximum number of this. Not only that, but they

generate it, they give it to others. Those who wept, go to them, pay them

nothing. Those who meet them, they take it up as something really great and

elite. It's such an infectious horrible stuff, and even after coming to Sahaja

Yoga if you do not understand, I cannot say what one can achieve in life.

Because he's the gate. You may cross over all the chakras, but if you are closed

at that chakra you cannot get out.

 

The kind of sinful life people are leading in the western countries has to be

absolutely condemned and has to be thrown out, and nobody should explain it.

Nobody should say that it is something, it is just a sin, and all right, Mother

will forgive, all this kind of nonsense. It is the greatest wrong you are doing

to yourself and to Christ. The abandonment of your character, which is just the

opposite of the golden character of Christ. He burnt Himself like chandan,

sandalwood. Like gold He came out of that fire of hell to burn away all that is

sinful.

 

So the first attention of anybody who wants to cross the Agnya has to be a

sinless life, and that is what one has to realize that how, in the west, they

have become all anti-Christ. On this day of His birth, one has to say that a

great life, a great personality, was not only wasted, but perverted, misused.

Just can't believe, how can you use the life of Christ for doing all kinds of

nonsensical things?

 

We have one instance where Christ converted water into wine. I can do it also

very easily. Wine is not the alcohol. Alcohol is the rotten wine. You have to

rot it for days together and the more rotten it is, the more old it is, then it

is regarded as something very expensive. The whole idea is so ridiculous, so

repulsive, absolutely below the dignity of human level to bring down Christ into

all this social life that you are leading there. For you it is important now,

all the Sahaja Yogis from the west, to stand up and make your life pure. Make

yourself pure, and hate all that is created in the name of Christianity.

 

Actually, thank God they have found out now the book written by Thomas who has

described Gnostic way of life, where gnya means 'to know.' In Sanskrit language,

gnya means 'to know,' gnya. So he has described very nicely the gnostic life.

This was the Gnostic Bible, or whatever we call it, saying about a personal

experience of achieving God realization, self realization. It talks about Sahaja

Yoga out and out. Thomas on his way to India, went to Egypt and there he has put

this in a big vessel of some metal. Thank God it was done in Egypt, otherwise in

any other place they would have used it for some other purpose. And already it

would have been perverted.

 

It's important, very important for all of us to understand that the first and

foremost thing for us is to purify our attention. And for that Tukarama has

said, Thank God, " if I become blind it is better. " He was born in a very humble

place because He was a tapasvi. For a tapasvi doesn't matter where you are,

whether you are in a humble place or you are in an elaborate. Doesn't matter

where you are born in a very humble way. As this humility of His is never, never

expressed in the western lives. On the contrary, I find they despise people who

are humble, the humble abodes are despised.

 

Now, it is for you people to bring back the glory of Christ, to bring back the

dharma of Christ, to reflect the great image of Christ. When people say that you

have no ideals, I'm amazed. Who could be a better ideal than Jesus Christ? Can't

think of anybody better, but nobody tries to follow Him, only try to use Him for

wrong purposes. Christmas means they are all must be drunk already everywhere,

all very drunk, and maybe they might have had all kinds of programs to show that

they are absolutely insulting Christ. So today we have to pray for them, that

may God give them some sense, not to do these things in the name of Christ. They

can do in the name of Satan is all right, but in the name of Christ to do all

these things is extremely wrong.

 

So coming to His Mother, She was the power behind Him. And in India still all

those people who believe in Christ do respect Her as something like a Goddess.

But other Indians, who are not Christians, really think Her to be Goddess and

they visit Her temples all over. She was Mahalakshmi. And She was Mahalakshmi,

which shows that people who follow the Mahalakshmi principle are beyond the

material understanding of life, beyond the Lakshmi principle. On the contrary,

what we find, they are extremely conscious about the material wealth.

 

See how it shows so clearly. Anything that they will buy, they would like to buy

something that can sell. It must have a guarantee. Even if they want to have

anything like a small little spoon, they would like to see a brand in that. All

the time they are thinking what can they sell and what can they buy to sell. The

attention doesn't go beyond it. Moreover, they are very much impressed by people

who wear something rather expensive or unique. One day I was wearing a ring. It

was an old ring of mine, for me it was nothing, I mean just thought it's an old

ring and it was matching the sari, so I wore it. Everybody started saying to me,

" Madam, Madam, Madam. " I said, " What is happening? " Started looking if there

is anything on the sari, what is it? Then one lady asked me, " Is that a real

ring? " I said, " Yes, yes, yes, yes. " " Oh Madam, Madam, Madam! " I am amazed.

Otherwise, I have no value. Except for that ring, for which I have no value at

all. I just wore it by chance. It's an old ring from my family. All right, it

might be real. So what? Immediately you become " Madam " if you wear a ring.

 

It's very surprising, but in this country if you are going in a big car, people

don't like it much. If you are going in a big car, and you want to buy some

vegetables, they will say, " Oh, how much black market money have you got? " Not

much respect for people who have money. Of course you are expected to dress up

according to your status in life. But that's all, those who wear it do not have

the consciousness and those who see them also do not have the consciousness.

 

It is something very surprising, that where they are supposed to be worshipping

the Mahalakshmi principle, people just get absolutely thrown off if they see

something extraordinary. I am seeing people, I mean very, supposed to be, you

can say high class ambassadors and all that. If they come to my house they would

like to turn the plate to see from where it comes, or they would like to watch

to see the spoon from where it comes. It's very surprising. Actually, we do not

know in this country what comes from where, what is the mark. We don't have any

marks, nothing of the kind. And there is this thing, " All right, nothing wrong

with us. " This kind of mental attitude towards life and the mental projections

towards life makes you absolutely gross, while Christ was the subtle, complete

subtle. He was nothing but subtlety itself personified. He was so subtle, He was

such a Sukshma that He walked on the water. He was nothing but pranava, just

vibrations. He walked on the water. There was no Jada Tattwa in Him. There was

no gross principle in Him, and while the people who follow Him are following

nothing but the devil. I have to now request you all to say, to understand that

when we are celebrating the birthday of Christ we have to imbibe his qualities,

his subtleties, his nature.

 

Also, I will request Indians, because they are also becoming westernized now,

thinking that western people are the wisest. They have to understand also that

we should try to be subtler and subtler and not gross and this is what is

important in Sahaja Yoga culture. In Sahaja Yoga culture, our attention is on

the subtle. On the beautiful varieties of subtle. See all the sweetness and the

goodness, all the artistic, aesthetic projections of human life. Not the gross,

not the grotesque. It's going to be a new culture for us. We have started the

dharma all right. But every dharma has to have a culture and we are the culture

of sukshma, of the subtler life. That doesn't mean we should be untidy or in way

funny type or funny people. Subtler people are the most beautiful, are the most

congenial, are the most idealistic, and are the most honorable like Christ.

 

So for us the ideal is Christ. Of course, I don't expect you to crucify

yourself. But always be able to sacrifice, coping with all the discomforts and

problems and not talking about yourself, not worrying about yourself, not

discussing others and judging others, but giving assurances that now we are at

this level, we'll be at a higher level and all the world has to come up to that

level. Very positive talking, very positive thinking and very positive doing is

the way you can really follow Christ. Whatever He had to do, He did it with such

great sense and beauty. That is what it is. So we have to be born like Christ

today.

 

We are all born like Christ because we are born without a father, by the Holy

Ghost, just like Christ was born. But look at Him and look at yourself, born the

same way as He was born. So you must respect yourself as He respected Himself

and the way He worked out His resurrection. In the same way, you all have to

work out your resurrection, and that is very important.

 

....Today you have to ask just one thing from Me, that Oh, Mother, today we ask

you to give us that power of penance, of tapasya of Christ... And you will

become tapasvis. God bless you.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christmas Puja, Pune, India, 25 December, 1987

 

[Note: After the puja, Shri Mataji commented that this was one of the two most

powerful pujas we have ever had. She also said that it's easy to be Christ, but

it's most difficult to become the Mahalakshmi, and at this puja, that was

accomplished.]

[Guest guest]

Dear Violet, Jagbir, Nicole and all

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all...

Thank you.

 

 

 

Violet <violetubb Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 4:22:30 AM On bringing back the Dharma of Christ, this Christmas!

 

Dear All,Merry Christmas to all, from Australia! Shri Mataji talks about bringing back the Dharma of Christ, in a puja address given in Pune in 1987.Enjoy,violetShri Mataji's Puja Address at Pune, 1987 - Christmas PujaToday is the great day when a great son of the Goddess was born, at least it is celebrated today. And you all are assembled here to celebrate the birthday of Christ. You already know how He came on this earth, and what was His great work. But we must see to the subtle side of Christ. What was His power? Christ's power was of course aumkara. His power was pranava. But the essence of Christ was tapasya, tapasvita. He is the incarnation of tapasya. And in that incarnation is a sinless personality. He's sinless. Of course incarnations never commit sins. But apparently things that look like sins are also not in His life story. Like one can say that Shri Rama's gave up His wife, so it is a sinful

thing. Of course those who understand the subtleties of Shri Rama's life will know that it's stupid to say such a thing. Or Shri Krishna's life, they might say He married so many women. But in Christ's life you do not find anything that could be pointed out as a mistake, even a slightest mistake. It's a very straightforward life, absolutely pure life and doing no commitments of ambiguous nature. But it's very surprising that Christianity is just the opposite of what Christ wanted it to be. They painted Him so differently, brought Him out so differently and made a mess of His life. A terrible mess I must say, because He was the person who tried to keep to the maryadas of the dharma to the maximum. And while the Christians stretch their imagination to such an extent that their sinful life is shocking, the kind of sins they commit is extremely shocking. For example, He said in a very subtle way, "Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes." Even in Sahaja

Yoga I find people still have this problem. What a sinful thing to do to Christ. For Christians to have such eyes which are adulterous, and they are the people who have the maximum number of this. Not only that, but they generate it, they give it to others. Those who wept, go to them, pay them nothing. Those who meet them, they take it up as something really great and elite. It's such an infectious horrible stuff, and even after coming to Sahaja Yoga if you do not understand, I cannot say what one can achieve in life. Because he's the gate. You may cross over all the chakras, but if you are closed at that chakra you cannot get out.The kind of sinful life people are leading in the western countries has to be absolutely condemned and has to be thrown out, and nobody should explain it. Nobody should say that it is something, it is just a sin, and all right, Mother will forgive, all this kind of nonsense. It is the greatest wrong you are doing to

yourself and to Christ. The abandonment of your character, which is just the opposite of the golden character of Christ. He burnt Himself like chandan, sandalwood. Like gold He came out of that fire of hell to burn away all that is sinful. So the first attention of anybody who wants to cross the Agnya has to be a sinless life, and that is what one has to realize that how, in the west, they have become all anti-Christ. On this day of His birth, one has to say that a great life, a great personality, was not only wasted, but perverted, misused. Just can't believe, how can you use the life of Christ for doing all kinds of nonsensical things?We have one instance where Christ converted water into wine. I can do it also very easily. Wine is not the alcohol. Alcohol is the rotten wine. You have to rot it for days together and the more rotten it is, the more old it is, then it is regarded as something very expensive. The whole idea is so

ridiculous, so repulsive, absolutely below the dignity of human level to bring down Christ into all this social life that you are leading there. For you it is important now, all the Sahaja Yogis from the west, to stand up and make your life pure. Make yourself pure, and hate all that is created in the name of Christianity.Actually, thank God they have found out now the book written by Thomas who has described Gnostic way of life, where gnya means 'to know.' In Sanskrit language, gnya means 'to know,' gnya. So he has described very nicely the gnostic life. This was the Gnostic Bible, or whatever we call it, saying about a personal experience of achieving God realization, self realization. It talks about Sahaja Yoga out and out. Thomas on his way to India, went to Egypt and there he has put this in a big vessel of some metal. Thank God it was done in Egypt, otherwise in any other place they would have used it for some other purpose. And already it

would have been perverted. It's important, very important for all of us to understand that the first and foremost thing for us is to purify our attention. And for that Tukarama has said, Thank God, "if I become blind it is better." He was born in a very humble place because He was a tapasvi. For a tapasvi doesn't matter where you are, whether you are in a humble place or you are in an elaborate. Doesn't matter where you are born in a very humble way. As this humility of His is never, never expressed in the western lives. On the contrary, I find they despise people who are humble, the humble abodes are despised.Now, it is for you people to bring back the glory of Christ, to bring back the dharma of Christ, to reflect the great image of Christ. When people say that you have no ideals, I'm amazed. Who could be a better ideal than Jesus Christ? Can't think of anybody better, but nobody tries to follow Him, only try to use Him for wrong

purposes. Christmas means they are all must be drunk already everywhere, all very drunk, and maybe they might have had all kinds of programs to show that they are absolutely insulting Christ. So today we have to pray for them, that may God give them some sense, not to do these things in the name of Christ. They can do in the name of Satan is all right, but in the name of Christ to do all these things is extremely wrong.So coming to His Mother, She was the power behind Him. And in India still all those people who believe in Christ do respect Her as something like a Goddess. But other Indians, who are not Christians, really think Her to be Goddess and they visit Her temples all over. She was Mahalakshmi. And She was Mahalakshmi, which shows that people who follow the Mahalakshmi principle are beyond the material understanding of life, beyond the Lakshmi principle. On the contrary, what we find, they are extremely conscious about the material

wealth.See how it shows so clearly. Anything that they will buy, they would like to buy something that can sell. It must have a guarantee. Even if they want to have anything like a small little spoon, they would like to see a brand in that. All the time they are thinking what can they sell and what can they buy to sell. The attention doesn't go beyond it. Moreover, they are very much impressed by people who wear something rather expensive or unique. One day I was wearing a ring. It was an old ring of mine, for me it was nothing, I mean just thought it's an old ring and it was matching the sari, so I wore it. Everybody started saying to me, "Madam, Madam, Madam." I said, "What is happening?" Started looking if there is anything on the sari, what is it? Then one lady asked me, "Is that a real ring?" I said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes.Oh Madam, Madam, Madam!" I am amazed. Otherwise, I have no value. Except for that ring, for which I have no value at

all. I just wore it by chance. It's an old ring from my family. All right, it might be real. So what? Immediately you become "Madam" if you wear a ring.It's very surprising, but in this country if you are going in a big car, people don't like it much. If you are going in a big car, and you want to buy some vegetables, they will say, "Oh, how much black market money have you got?" Not much respect for people who have money. Of course you are expected to dress up according to your status in life. But that's all, those who wear it do not have the consciousness and those who see them also do not have the consciousness.It is something very surprising, that where they are supposed to be worshipping the Mahalakshmi principle, people just get absolutely thrown off if they see something extraordinary. I am seeing people, I mean very, supposed to be, you can say high class ambassadors and all that. If they come to my house they would like to turn

the plate to see from where it comes, or they would like to watch to see the spoon from where it comes. It's very surprising. Actually, we do not know in this country what comes from where, what is the mark. We don't have any marks, nothing of the kind. And there is this thing, "All right, nothing wrong with us." This kind of mental attitude towards life and the mental projections towards life makes you absolutely gross, while Christ was the subtle, complete subtle. He was nothing but subtlety itself personified. He was so subtle, He was such a Sukshma that He walked on the water. He was nothing but pranava, just vibrations. He walked on the water. There was no Jada Tattwa in Him. There was no gross principle in Him, and while the people who follow Him are following nothing but the devil. I have to now request you all to say, to understand that when we are celebrating the birthday of Christ we have to imbibe his qualities, his subtleties, his nature.

Also, I will request Indians, because they are also becoming westernized now, thinking that western people are the wisest. They have to understand also that we should try to be subtler and subtler and not gross and this is what is important in Sahaja Yoga culture. In Sahaja Yoga culture, our attention is on the subtle. On the beautiful varieties of subtle. See all the sweetness and the goodness, all the artistic, aesthetic projections of human life. Not the gross, not the grotesque. It's going to be a new culture for us. We have started the dharma all right. But every dharma has to have a culture and we are the culture of sukshma, of the subtler life. That doesn't mean we should be untidy or in way funny type or funny people. Subtler people are the most beautiful, are the most congenial, are the most idealistic, and are the most honorable like Christ.So for us the ideal is Christ. Of course, I don't expect you to crucify yourself. But

always be able to sacrifice, coping with all the discomforts and problems and not talking about yourself, not worrying about yourself, not discussing others and judging others, but giving assurances that now we are at this level, we'll be at a higher level and all the world has to come up to that level. Very positive talking, very positive thinking and very positive doing is the way you can really follow Christ. Whatever He had to do, He did it with such great sense and beauty. That is what it is. So we have to be born like Christ today.We are all born like Christ because we are born without a father, by the Holy Ghost, just like Christ was born. But look at Him and look at yourself, born the same way as He was born. So you must respect yourself as He respected Himself and the way He worked out His resurrection. In the same way, you all have to work out your resurrection, and that is very important....Today you have to ask just one thing

from Me, that Oh, Mother, today we ask you to give us that power of penance, of tapasya of Christ... And you will become tapasvis. God bless you.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christmas Puja, Pune, India, 25 December, 1987[Note: After the puja, Shri Mataji commented that this was one of the two most powerful pujas we have ever had. She also said that it's easy to be Christ, but it's most difficult to become the Mahalakshmi, and at this puja, that was accomplished. ]

[Guest guest]

Dear Christy,

 

i hope you also had a Merry Christmas and will have a great New Year!

 

love from violet

 

 

, christy piczon

<cjpiczon2000 wrote:

>

> Dear Violet, Jagbir, Nicole and all

> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all...

> Thank you.

>

>

>

>

> ________________________________

> Violet <violetubb

>

> Thursday, December 25, 2008 4:22:30 AM

> On bringing back the Dharma of

Christ, this Christmas!

>

>

> Dear All,

>

> Merry Christmas to all, from Australia! Shri Mataji talks about

bringing back the Dharma of Christ, in a puja address given in Pune in

1987.

>

> Enjoy,

>

> violet

>

> Shri Mataji's Puja Address at Pune, 1987 - Christmas Puja

>

> Today is the great day when a great son of the Goddess was born, at

least it is celebrated today. And you all are assembled here to

celebrate the birthday of Christ. You already know how He came on this

earth, and what was His great work. But we must see to the subtle side

of Christ. What was His power? Christ's power was of course aumkara.

His power was pranava.

>

> But the essence of Christ was tapasya, tapasvita. He is the

incarnation of tapasya. And in that incarnation is a sinless

personality. He's sinless. Of course incarnations never commit sins.

But apparently things that look like sins are also not in His life

story. Like one can say that Shri Rama's gave up His wife, so it is a

sinful thing. Of course those who understand the subtleties of Shri

Rama's life will know that it's stupid to say such a thing. Or Shri

Krishna's life, they might say He married so many women. But in

Christ's life you do not find anything that could be pointed out as a

mistake, even a slightest mistake. It's a very straightforward life,

absolutely pure life and doing no commitments of ambiguous nature.

>

> But it's very surprising that Christianity is just the opposite of

what Christ wanted it to be. They painted Him so differently, brought

Him out so differently and made a mess of His life. A terrible mess I

must say, because He was the person who tried to keep to the maryadas

of the dharma to the maximum. And while the Christians stretch their

imagination to such an extent that their sinful life is shocking, the

kind of sins they commit is extremely shocking. For example, He said

in a very subtle way, " Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes. " Even in

Sahaja Yoga I find people still have this problem. What a sinful thing

to do to Christ. For Christians to have such eyes which are

adulterous, and they are the people who have the maximum number of

this. Not only that, but they generate it, they give it to others.

Those who wept, go to them, pay them nothing. Those who meet them,

they take it up as something really great and elite. It's such an

infectious

> horrible stuff, and even after coming to Sahaja Yoga if you do not

understand, I cannot say what one can achieve in life. Because he's

the gate. You may cross over all the chakras, but if you are closed at

that chakra you cannot get out.

>

> The kind of sinful life people are leading in the western countries

has to be absolutely condemned and has to be thrown out, and nobody

should explain it. Nobody should say that it is something, it is just

a sin, and all right, Mother will forgive, all this kind of nonsense.

It is the greatest wrong you are doing to yourself and to Christ. The

abandonment of your character, which is just the opposite of the

golden character of Christ. He burnt Himself like chandan, sandalwood.

Like gold He came out of that fire of hell to burn away all that is

sinful.

>

> So the first attention of anybody who wants to cross the Agnya has

to be a sinless life, and that is what one has to realize that how, in

the west, they have become all anti-Christ. On this day of His birth,

one has to say that a great life, a great personality, was not only

wasted, but perverted, misused. Just can't believe, how can you use

the life of Christ for doing all kinds of nonsensical things?

>

> We have one instance where Christ converted water into wine. I can

do it also very easily. Wine is not the alcohol. Alcohol is the rotten

wine. You have to rot it for days together and the more rotten it is,

the more old it is, then it is regarded as something very expensive.

The whole idea is so ridiculous, so repulsive, absolutely below the

dignity of human level to bring down Christ into all this social life

that you are leading there. For you it is important now, all the

Sahaja Yogis from the west, to stand up and make your life pure. Make

yourself pure, and hate all that is created in the name of Christianity.

>

> Actually, thank God they have found out now the book written by

Thomas who has described Gnostic way of life, where gnya means 'to

know.' In Sanskrit language, gnya means 'to know,' gnya. So he has

described very nicely the gnostic life. This was the Gnostic Bible, or

whatever we call it, saying about a personal experience of achieving

God realization, self realization. It talks about Sahaja Yoga out and

out. Thomas on his way to India, went to Egypt and there he has put

this in a big vessel of some metal. Thank God it was done in Egypt,

otherwise in any other place they would have used it for some other

purpose. And already it would have been perverted.

>

> It's important, very important for all of us to understand that the

first and foremost thing for us is to purify our attention. And for

that Tukarama has said, Thank God, " if I become blind it is better. "

He was born in a very humble place because He was a tapasvi. For a

tapasvi doesn't matter where you are, whether you are in a humble

place or you are in an elaborate. Doesn't matter where you are born in

a very humble way. As this humility of His is never, never expressed

in the western lives. On the contrary, I find they despise people who

are humble, the humble abodes are despised.

>

> Now, it is for you people to bring back the glory of Christ, to

bring back the dharma of Christ, to reflect the great image of Christ.

When people say that you have no ideals, I'm amazed. Who could be a

better ideal than Jesus Christ? Can't think of anybody better, but

nobody tries to follow Him, only try to use Him for wrong purposes.

Christmas means they are all must be drunk already everywhere, all

very drunk, and maybe they might have had all kinds of programs to

show that they are absolutely insulting Christ. So today we have to

pray for them, that may God give them some sense, not to do these

things in the name of Christ. They can do in the name of Satan is all

right, but in the name of Christ to do all these things is extremely

wrong.

>

> So coming to His Mother, She was the power behind Him. And in India

still all those people who believe in Christ do respect Her as

something like a Goddess. But other Indians, who are not Christians,

really think Her to be Goddess and they visit Her temples all over.

She was Mahalakshmi. And She was Mahalakshmi, which shows that people

who follow the Mahalakshmi principle are beyond the material

understanding of life, beyond the Lakshmi principle. On the contrary,

what we find, they are extremely conscious about the material wealth.

>

> See how it shows so clearly. Anything that they will buy, they would

like to buy something that can sell. It must have a guarantee. Even if

they want to have anything like a small little spoon, they would like

to see a brand in that. All the time they are thinking what can they

sell and what can they buy to sell. The attention doesn't go beyond

it. Moreover, they are very much impressed by people who wear

something rather expensive or unique. One day I was wearing a ring. It

was an old ring of mine, for me it was nothing, I mean just thought

it's an old ring and it was matching the sari, so I wore it. Everybody

started saying to me, " Madam, Madam, Madam. " I said, " What is

happening? " Started looking if there is anything on the sari, what is

it? Then one lady asked me, " Is that a real ring? " I said, " Yes, yes,

yes, yes. " " Oh Madam, Madam, Madam! " I am amazed. Otherwise, I have no

value. Except for that ring, for which I have no value at all. I just wore

> it by chance. It's an old ring from my family. All right, it might

be real. So what? Immediately you become " Madam " if you wear a ring.

>

> It's very surprising, but in this country if you are going in a big

car, people don't like it much. If you are going in a big car, and you

want to buy some vegetables, they will say, " Oh, how much black market

money have you got? " Not much respect for people who have money. Of

course you are expected to dress up according to your status in life.

But that's all, those who wear it do not have the consciousness and

those who see them also do not have the consciousness.

>

> It is something very surprising, that where they are supposed to be

worshipping the Mahalakshmi principle, people just get absolutely

thrown off if they see something extraordinary. I am seeing people, I

mean very, supposed to be, you can say high class ambassadors and all

that. If they come to my house they would like to turn the plate to

see from where it comes, or they would like to watch to see the spoon

from where it comes. It's very surprising. Actually, we do not know in

this country what comes from where, what is the mark. We don't have

any marks, nothing of the kind. And there is this thing, " All right,

nothing wrong with us. " This kind of mental attitude towards life and

the mental projections towards life makes you absolutely gross, while

Christ was the subtle, complete subtle. He was nothing but subtlety

itself personified. He was so subtle, He was such a Sukshma that He

walked on the water. He was nothing but pranava, just vibrations. He

> walked on the water. There was no Jada Tattwa in Him. There was no

gross principle in Him, and while the people who follow Him are

following nothing but the devil. I have to now request you all to say,

to understand that when we are celebrating the birthday of Christ we

have to imbibe his qualities, his subtleties, his nature.

>

> Also, I will request Indians, because they are also becoming

westernized now, thinking that western people are the wisest. They

have to understand also that we should try to be subtler and subtler

and not gross and this is what is important in Sahaja Yoga culture. In

Sahaja Yoga culture, our attention is on the subtle. On the beautiful

varieties of subtle. See all the sweetness and the goodness, all the

artistic, aesthetic projections of human life. Not the gross, not the

grotesque. It's going to be a new culture for us. We have started the

dharma all right. But every dharma has to have a culture and we are

the culture of sukshma, of the subtler life. That doesn't mean we

should be untidy or in way funny type or funny people. Subtler people

are the most beautiful, are the most congenial, are the most

idealistic, and are the most honorable like Christ.

>

> So for us the ideal is Christ. Of course, I don't expect you to

crucify yourself. But always be able to sacrifice, coping with all the

discomforts and problems and not talking about yourself, not worrying

about yourself, not discussing others and judging others, but giving

assurances that now we are at this level, we'll be at a higher level

and all the world has to come up to that level. Very positive talking,

very positive thinking and very positive doing is the way you can

really follow Christ. Whatever He had to do, He did it with such great

sense and beauty. That is what it is. So we have to be born like

Christ today.

>

> We are all born like Christ because we are born without a father, by

the Holy Ghost, just like Christ was born. But look at Him and look at

yourself, born the same way as He was born. So you must respect

yourself as He respected Himself and the way He worked out His

resurrection. In the same way, you all have to work out your

resurrection, and that is very important.

>

> ...Today you have to ask just one thing from Me, that Oh, Mother,

today we ask you to give us that power of penance, of tapasya of

Christ... And you will become tapasvis. God bless you.

>

> Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christmas Puja, Pune, India, 25 December, 1987

>

> [Note: After the puja, Shri Mataji commented that this was one of

the two most powerful pujas we have ever had. She also said that it's

easy to be Christ, but it's most difficult to become the Mahalakshmi,

and at this puja, that was accomplished. ]

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