The quality of discretion - Part 1

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Dear All,

 

Shri Mataji says that " Intelligence cannot give you discretion, it cannot give

you discretion as far as the conditioning is concerned. For a Sahaja Yogi it is

important to understand how you develop your discretion. "

 

Here now is Part 1, regarding the quality of discretion.

 

Enjoy!

 

violet

 

 

 

The quality of discretion - Part 1

 

Today we have decided to have a Hamsa Puja in Germany. We have never yet paid

much attention to this center of Hamsa, which is, I think, very important for

the Western world, rather than for the Indian or the Eastern. The reason is, at

the Hamsa chakra, part of the Ida and Pingala come out and manifest - means the

expression of Ida and Pingala is given through the Hamsa chakra.

 

So this Hamsa chakra is the one that, as it has not gone up to the Agnya, but is

holding on certain threads or certain parts of the Ida and Pingala, and they

start flowing through your nose, expressing through your eyes, from your mouth

and from your forehead. So you know that Vishuddhi chakra has got sixteen petals

which look after the eyes, nose, throat, tongue, teeth. But the expression part

of it comes through the Hamsa chakra, of all these. So it's a very, very

important thing in a Western mind, to understand Hamsa chakra.

 

There's a beautiful couplet about this in Sanskrit, " Hansa kshveta ha, baka ha

kshveta ha . ko bhedo hansa bakayo ho. Neera ksheera vivek e tu. Hansa ha

hansaksh, baka ha baka ha. " Meaning 'The crane and the swan, both are white. And

what makes a difference between the two? If you mix the water and the milk

together the hamsa (swan) will just suck in the milk. So it can discriminate

between the water and the milk while the bakha, means the crane, cannot'. It's a

very significant thing for Sahaja Yogis to understand.

 

Discretion is to be understood very deeply within ourselves. And how we develop

discretion is very important in Sahaja Yoga. But before we go to that, let us

see how this discretion plays a part, very much, in the manifestation of our

expressions outside. We are the people, in the West, who always try to express

ourselves outside. It's very important how you look, it's very important where

you look, what you look at, what you see. It's very important that your

appearance should be good. [They are] very particular, they spend lots of time

in improving their appearance. This is the minimum. Then they have a method by

which we call the Medias. The country speaks or manifests through the Medias.

And the Medias have to have a training. Every country has its specialty one

better than the other. And when you see all of them, you find they lack

discretion completely. Also in our speech, in our expression of literature,

expression of poetry, expression of our relationships with others, any kind of

expression requires discretion, which is a deep-seated knowledge or wisdom.

 

If in the West people were not so much outside, they would have been much better

I think. If, supposing, in England, people don't become punks, then others will

laugh at them and they'll think that this man has no money to become a punk. So

a kind of a fashion that sets in, in a society of that kind, which has no

discretion and which is very outward. Fashions won't work out in countries where

they are deeply rooted into traditions and into a proper understanding of life.

Of course, the countries which have been very ancient, have been traditionally

trying to improve themselves, with error and trial and error and trial methods,

have developed much better discretion, much better understanding. But the

countries, which have not gone through all that ordeal, have not worked out,

have not gone through that discipline, lack in discretion. And that's why many

of the people though they are of very deep seeking have gone astray. If they had

discretion they would not have gone astray, they would not have gone to wrong

places, but the discretion was missing.

 

So it comes to the discretion how to use your Ida Nadi and Pingala Nadi and

discretion to understand what is good and what is bad. Now let us see the Ida

Nadi. Ida Nadi is very important because the discretion in this can only come

through traditional understanding. Ida Nadi starts from the Ganesha's point –

Mooladhara.

 

So first we miss the biggest support, the biggest help, the biggest nourishment

of holiness and auspiciousness, at Mooladhara, if we have no discretion. We

always take to a thing, which is detrimental to our growth, and also which may

destroy us, not only us but the whole country. We like people who are

destructive, when there is no discretion. Discretion means that you must choose

the things which are good for you, which are benevolent to you, which are good

for the collective, which are good for your ascent. On the contrary, the people

who have no discretion fall into the traps of wrong type of people like, say,

Freud. I mean to an Indian, Freud, nobody can believe that you can go into such

an nonsensical idea. But people accepted Freud more than they could accept

Christ. Because the discretion was completely missed. If they had that

traditional discretion in them, they would have been saved. This traditional

discretion is the thing that comes through Ida Nadi. Now that's what the people

call `conditioning' and they say that conditioning is very bad, and people

should not take to conditioning and one should be free from conditioning, which

is absolutely a wrong idea. In that also there has to be discretion. What

conditioning is good and what is not good has to be taken. Now, because there is

no discretion about conditioning also, outright discarding all traditions, all

that is coming to us through our experiences of our forefathers, everything is

discarded. The history is discarded and we say, " Oh, no, we are beyond it, we

feel free. " Like I was surprised, yesterday, in the plane, somebody told Me, " I

feel very free when I have no clothes upon myself. " I mean if the clothes can

imprison you then what happens to the real prisons, what will they be for you?

But that sort of a funny idea comes into the head of people and they think that,

" We can justify all this stupidity that we follow because we lack discretion. "

Intelligence cannot give you discretion, it cannot give you discretion as far as

the conditioning is concerned. For a Sahaja Yogi it is important to understand

how you develop your discretion.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Hamsa Puja, Germany, 07-10-1988