The quality of discretion - Part 5

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Dear All,

 

We concluded Part 4 with the following:

 

" The second discretion is to read those scriptures and find out what is so

special that these incarnations have said. I would say, if there is a Muslim, he

should go to Koran and see what's written in Koran as far as Sahaja Yoga is

concerned. If it's a Christian, let him go to the Bible and find out whatever is

written there as far as Sahaja Yoga is concerned. Because Sahaja Yoga is the

truth, and what truth is written has to be found out. If such a thing is

developed, then you can go further, if you are brave enough, and can be

courageous, to go and tell the people, that, " See, what is this nonsense you are

following? It's not written, it's not done. Whatever is written this is the

essence of the whole thing. " That's the third stage where you have used your

discretion as far as a particular religion, nationality is concerned. "

 

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

 

Here now, is Part 5.

 

Enjoy,

 

violet

 

 

 

The quality of discretion - Part 5

 

Now, when I am in the West, I have to discuss the West. But when I am in India

you must hear Me! You don't understand the language - it's good for you because

you'll lose all respect for Indians. I give them left and right! And tell them

what's wrong with them. But here it is important that, much is wrong with us in

the West. So the discretion is to see what's gone wrong with us, where are we

wrong. Have you got any courage or not. For example, ladies don't have courage

to wear a sari outside. Why? Sometimes it doesn't matter. When Indians can wear

your dresses you can wear sari also. Or a man won't wear Indian dresses outside.

Is a little 'hum' is needed. They enjoy it, but they won't wear. They'll wear

the same funny holey pants. They can wear the punky stuff, but they can't wear

something that is sensible, is good to wear. It's something that must give you

the idea that we are different people.

 

Now this red mark is very important because then you don't catch any bhoots and

has to be worn. In the Bible it's written that there will be a mark on their

heads. But because there are so many other stupid people like Hare Rama Hare

Krishna - I don't think they wear any marks - we are frightened of the society

how to wear a mark. But supposing they say that you go about with dishevelled

hair, we'll do it, because that's allowed in the society.

 

We are not to be afraid of any society, we have to come out of it and we have to

teach them. Whatever is good we are going to do whether you like it or not,

that's the sign of a saint. If you have seen any saint anywhere, they've gone

all out to say whatever is right and whatever is to be done and whatever is to

be followed. That's the sign of a saint, otherwise if a saint sometimes gets

dissolved into the society, sometimes in Sahaja Yoga, sometimes here, then

what's the use of such saints?

 

Tell me any saint whom you know, who has not fought the society, who has not

pointed out the mistakes of the society, in a very loud manner, without any

fear. Have you known any saint like that? For Sahaja Yogis it is very important

to have that courage within themselves. If you develop your discretion, then it

works out.

 

On the ego side what kind of a discretion you develop and how. On the right side

are all the Devas, all the deities sitting around you. You have to understand

these deities, you have to know what They are going to do. Supposing, now you

are lost on the way. So, you should not think like all other people, " Oh, I'm

lost in the way, how will I go there, what will I do? " After all, you are going

for some nonsensical work. Doesn't matter. But you must think, " Why? Hanumana,

he must have brought me here for some purpose, let's be on the lookout. "

 

Accept it. Accept the situation. When you accept the situation you are playing

into the hands of the deities and they are guiding you, your deities are working

it out. Accept it. And this acceptance will give you a wonderful discretion over

your ego. Whatever goes wrong – " It's all right, we accept it " . And above all

the vibrations part, which you have to see. If you do something, if the

vibrations are going down then of course, " I am a Sahaja Yogi. To me vibrations

and my ascent is the most important thing " .

 

So to develop the discretion on the right hand side you have to know your goal,

your destination. You must know on what path you are standing and where you are

brought, where are you today. You are not like other people. If that kind of a

discretion you develop, within yourself, through pure intelligence. For that you

need pure intelligence. And pure intelligence in a hamsa (swan) is that it

glides on the water, it shrugs [off] the water, it doesn't allow anything to

overpower it. It's in the water beautifully beautifying the lakes, also not

allowing the lake to dissolve them or to overpower them or to cover them. This

is the part where they are 'hum'. If they want they can dive down, if they don't

want, they will not. They're gliding on the ocean, ocean of Samsara, of this

Bhavasagara and they are not going to be drowned into it. That is the 'hum' part

of it which you should have, the discretion. On the one side you should accept

things that come to you.

 

The best among these was Shri Krishna, I would say, who had real discretion.

But, after all, He was Shri Krishna. But His methods were so interesting of

discretion that it's enjoyable to know about how He destroyed so many rakshasas.

Every time He did not use his Sudarshan chakra, He used his discretion. Like

there was a rakshasa who was trying to overpower the Pandavas, who was trying to

overpower the people who were good. Shri Krishna said, " Now, what to do with

this horrible fellow. " And this fellow had boons from Brahmadeva and from

Mahadeva and everyone. So Shri Krishna was in the center, after all, so He

wanted to organize a proper destruction of this horrible rakshasa. So what He

did, that there was a great right sided saint meditating, and he had taken a

boon that, " Nobody should disturb me, at least the one who disturbs me for the

first time, I should have power to destroy, if I look at that person " . And this

one was meditating in a cave. Shri Krishna very beautifully ran away from the

battlefield. His name is Ranchordas. It's a little bit derogatory to say to

somebody that `The one who ran out of the battlefield'.

 

So Shri Krishna ran out of the battlefield. But there was no other way out to

kill this horrible fellow. And He went and He was covering Himself with a shawl,

He went into that cave and covered that saint with His shawl. After Shri Krishna

was running [away from] this horrible rakshasa, to kill him, Shri Krishna went

and hid Himself. When this rakshasa came near the cave and he saw the shawl

covering this saint. He said, " Oh, so now you are tired and sleeping here,

running away from the field! Get up now! " As soon as he said this, this saint

got up and looked at him and he was completely burnt away.

 

So, if Shri Krishna is the Virata, at His feet or if Shri Krishna is Vitthala on

His head, in between the two resides Hamsa chakra. The discretion is very

beautifully described in the life of Shri Krishna. We can call Him that he had a

naughty way of using His discretion. He has done so many things like that. But

they create a drama, they create his Leela. Because He was `Leela' that's why He

could use His discretion to create a drama or play.

 

So on one side we have the help of Shri Krishna to give us the discretion, and

on the other side we have Christ. In between is placed this Hamsa. So we have

two great incarnations within us Who are the embodiment of discretion. So one

side is Shri Krishna Who is the one who looks after the conditioning side of it.

And on the other side is Christ Who starts looking after the ego side of it. The

One who says on the cross, " Oh, God, forgive them because they do not know. Oh,

Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. " Is the same One

Who takes a hunter in his hand and hits people, starts beating them, because

they are making money in the name of God. See the discretion. That's Jesus. Same

Shri Krishna, Who with His Sudarshan chakra can kill thousands and thousands of

rakshasas, becomes the driver of Arjuna. The contrast of their behavior is the

beautiful saga of Their discretion.

 

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