Shri Mataji: “Indians have no goal as far as spiritual life is concerned.

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The Material Marathon

 

In 1988 when Kash was eight his parents left Malaysia for Canada,

where millions of immigrants toiled hard to accumulate wealth, status

and success. In this land of milk and maple syrup all dreams were

within reach. There were great expectations of instant happiness that

this vast, wealthy nation would shower on those reaching its distant

shores.

 

The euphoria of a materialistic lifestyle removed the last remaining

traces of religiousness. The heart, mind, soul and sinew were

harnessed for the sole purpose of hoarding wealth. Minimum wages

brought instant happiness. Fifty cents raises brought glee and

celebrations. High class Hindus slogged and sweated in dirty, menial

jobs. Ugly, uneducated permanent status sons married fair,

intelligent deshi daughters. Western-bred city sons argued with

village parents over money matters, and goaded even the aging to

work, or dumped unproductive ones to fend for themselves. Women

gossiped ceaselessly, constantly complaining about beer bellies and

bad breath of husbands with pig appetites, foul mouths and filthier

minds.

 

The opium of affluence had its price but its addictive high was most

welcome. The flashing wheel of fortune kept everyone mesmerized with

financial fantasies and erotic daydreams.

 

" Indians have no goal as far as spiritual life is concerned. Mostly,

if they have it, it is so limited, that it should help them in family

life, in their relationship with others, with their bodies, or with

their jobs, or with their marriages, or little more and little more —

that is all. But very gross, the goal is extremely gross of Indians;

is that they want to achieve a kind of an affluence that you have, in

their hearts of hearts. But they do not know the pangs . . . they

think they can keep the Spirit as well as the other side of it. You

cannot. You cannot serve two masters. So now what to do? They would

prefer to choose this side than to choose the Spirit. "

 

Shri Adbhuta-caritra Shri Nirmala Devi

Importance Of Self-Realization,

Delhi, India — February 8, 1983

 

Adbhuta-caritra (987th): Of marvelous history as depicted in

Lalitopakhyana and other Puranas; or Her acts from Srsti to Anugraha

are unique and marvelous.

 

 

" Some great voice is waiting to be heard which will usher in the

sacred light of truth in the dark hours of the nightmare of politics,

the voice which will proclaim that 'God is over all,' and exhort us

never to covet, to be great in renunciation that gives us the wealth

of spirit, strength of truth, leads us from the illusion of power to

the fullness of perfection, to the Santam, who is peace eternal, to

the Advaitam, who is the infinite One in the heart of the manifold.

But we in India have not had the chance. "

 

Rabindranath Tagore

 

 

" Vedic Heritage

 

I do hope that your newspaper will acquaint the Hindus living away

from India with the source of Hindu Dharma and not only to the

mythological information about it. The Vedas, the Upanishads and the

Bhagavad Geeta are the source of Hindu Dharma. The homogeneous

wholeness of cosmic life, the mysterious, interrelatedness of all

things and beings inhabiting the planet, the divinity and sacredness

of life and the built-in equal status of all living beings obliging

us to have reverence for life, are some of the salient

characteristics of our Vedic heritage.

 

The Hindus who have gone abroad with the sole purpose of acquiring

money and physical comforts must be made aware that dedication to

atma-paramatma — the existential essence of life — is the ultimate

purpose of human life. Instead of aping and imitating non-Indian ways

of life, they should carry the torch of Vedic culture to all parts of

the globe. "

 

Vimala Thakar, Himachal Pradesh, India

Hinduism Today, February 1994

(Himalayan Academy, 1998, www.hinduismtoday.kauai.hi.us/welcome.html)

 

 

Note: Throughout this book there are quotes of Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi taken from SY magazines, books, articles, audio and video,

relevant to issues being discussed. It has to noted that Her quotes

were inserted only after this book was nearly completed, and not

before or simultaneously. There was never an instance where Shri

Mataji's quote was read and then something written about that

subject — it was always the other way round. This might seem

improbable but any work undertaken in the state of `thoughtless

awareness' has a divine direction that cannot be explained — it must

be first be experienced to be understood.

 

Shri Adi Shakti: THe Kingdom Of God, 1999, pages-33-34

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