shri krishna puja booklet 2009

Shri KrishnaShri Mataji Nirmala Devi

the Mother of the Universe

in the Words of

But when He says surrender all these dharmas He is meaning to say you should only know what

you owe to Me meaning the Divinity.

Now Shri Krishna is not here. It is Me who is Shri Krishna, so you must know what you owe to Me. I have only changed

My language. He used to take out His finger and say give up everything and surrender everything to Me.

I dont do it that way, I give a big lecture and bring you to a point

H.H. Shri Mataji, Vishuddhi Chakra, Sep 4th 1983,

Vienna, Austria

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that humans have been given. Shri Krishna, in His life, taught us what is the essence, what is at the core of true enjoyment: a detached, collective witnessing power, free of guilt, attached love or self-interest. His life is an example of the sweet leela of life, and the sweet nectar that is waiting to be discovered behind all our words and actions.

As we read through this small booklet, prepared collectively by brothers and sisters from throughout His great lands, may we all fully imbibe some of Shri Krishnas essence in our lives and beings... Simple things: kind words, love that is light, not clingy, freedom from the escape of guilt or the downward spiral of self-pity, collective thinking and act-ing, and, like our daddy at the rivers edge, a witnessing power that enjoys, no matter how the Play unfolds ...

The mommy perches, arrow-straight, on the bank of the sunny river ...

Straining to see her young son playing with a small net in the low water, she feels his aloneness, the lack of playmates at his side. Her heart is captured by his attempts to scoop up minnows, saddened by the sight of his empty, dripping net, as he struggles to pull it, hopefully, up over his head, time and time again. The result of his play is only dirty feet and a wet shirt. Her thoughts only call for a little friend for her son. Her heart only wishes that he could capture one little fish!

The daddy rests against a large rock in the shade, enjoying the easy way the cool, shallow water navigates its rocky path in the riverbed. He glances with amused interest at his young boy, so self-content at the rivers edge. With such satisfaction he plays in nature! He delights in the hopeful way the little one flings his small net high above his head, sending rivets of cool water down his soft arms, then pitches it back into the clear stream, time and time again, never losing hope. His heart aches with the joy of this quiet, determined play, with the beauty that is everywhere around him!

Shri Krishna challenges us to do what our Divine Mother Shri Mataji invites us to do in every moment, of every day: just enjoy. Why can this enjoyment, this detached witnessing of the Divine Play, sometimes prove so difficult for us? What is hard in simply witnessing this play that the Goddess Herself has scripted, cast, designed and directed for all of us?

Shri Krishnas life, from our studies of it, as well as what Shri Mataji has told us, both formally and informally, is the greatest example of this detached witnessing power

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Shri Krishnas Life 9

Divine Aspects of Shri Krishna 152.1 Yogeshwara 162.2 Playfulness / Leela 172.3 Spontaneity 202.4 Compassion 202.5 Dharma 212.6 Witness state 232.7 Virata 252.8 Sweeteness 282.9 Discretion 302.10 Destruction 322.11 About marriages and family 342.12 Ocean of joy 372.13 About devotion 392.15 Wisdom 422.16 Collectivity 432.17 Doctor of Doctors 44

The Vishuddhi Chakra 47

ContentsCleansing Techniques 51

4.1 Right Vishuddhi 514.2 Left Vishuddhi 544.3 Central Vishuddhi 564.4 Lalita Chakra 594.5 Related organs 59

Enemies of the Vishuddhi Chakra 635.1 Ego 635.2 Intelligence 655.3 Pride / Vanity 655.4 Greed 665.5 Lust 665.6 Jealousy 675.7 Hot Temper 67

First it is important to understand the incarnation of Shri Krishna. The word Krishna comes from the word Krishi. Krishi means agriculture. Shri Krishna has sown the seeds of spirituality, and for that, first of all, He had to think, Where are we as far as spirituality is concerned. How is the land?

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Virata Puja, Sep 5th 1999, Cabella, Italy

As a yogi, Shri Krishna was born into a royal family, but he lived in the jungles in the forest, with the cows, with ordinary people. He used to sleep on ordinary places. Sometimes on the stone or on the grass, when He would go with His cows for their feeding.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 28th 1983, Geneva, Switzerland

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To be playful in lifeShri Krishna was born into a very difficult situation, as you know. He was carried

from there to Gokul where He was brought up by Yeshoda. Once there He started His playfulness.

So you have to be playful in life. You have to create fun and joy. He didnt say that you sit down like an old sage somewhere in the Himalayas, but you mix up with children. You talk to them, you play with them, have fun. At the same time, He was destroying negative forces which acted upon Him. In His playfulness only He has done it. As a child only He has done it. How matured He was as a child you can see that He killed Putana and there are two horrible rakshasas, also He killed them. At the same time, He was playing with the Gopis and teasing them, troubling them, making fun of them. Why? Because He wanted them to be playful.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 20th 2000, Cabella, Italy

EnjoymentThe collectivity that He preached through rasadena, that He brought in His, I should

say, adolescent age, was also remarkable. That He made people dance together, pray together, to be festive and to know that. He introduced the Holi festivals and many others, like Rakhi-Bandhan. All these He brought in because He thought this is how the society will be cleansed, and they will also have a lot of enjoyment. So the idea of enjoyment He brought it into the lives of people in the little childish pranks He used to play on people, just to teach them and make them turn to something that was a very great enjoyment.


He is a master of tricksHe played so many tricks. In the Mahabharata, Bhishma had a blessing that,

unless and until He wants to die, nobody can kill him. So Shri Krishna decided that He should use some tricks. Krishna told Arjuna to just make Bhishma sleep on the arrows and let his body be on the arrows and so he has to decide that he will die. So Krishna organized it in a very special way. He got a sikhandi a eunuch in front of Arjuna. A eunuch in India is regarded as a woman, so Dhronacharya said, I cannot kill a woman, and thats how He killed Dhronacharya. He played these tricks to get rid of the illness is the main thing. If you are not capable to get rid of the illness - you better tell somebody else to get rid. Because that is very important - to get rid of the evil - and if you can transfer this to somebody else who is more capable, in your own humility, youll

do much better than to directly attack that person. Thats tomfoolery. No use. So this was the trick of Shri Krishna throughout, if you have seen Mahabharata. Shri Krishna told Arjuna that, Either you can have all of My army or you can have Me. Same He told to the Kauravas. The Kauravas said, Well have Your army. But he (Arjuna) said, You will be mine, Krishna. He said Youll be on our side. But He said, No, Ill be just on the chariot. Ill not hold any weapon. But He is a master of tricks. He does not need any weapons with Him. Without weapons also He can do everything. So Arjuna said, All right, You be my chariot driver, and He was there.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Sep 1st 1991, Cabella, Italy

The GitaToday Im going to tell you about Gita. That is the second part of Krishnas life,

which was so different and varied that some people, intellectuals as usual, say that the Krishna who played as a child in Gokul was different from the Krishna who was the King of Dwarika. So when He became the King of Dwarika there was a war between Pandava and Kauravas one representing the good people, another representing the bad people. So they came to ask Him if He would join their side. So He said, Ive got My army and I Myself. So whichever you choose, you can have. So Kaurava said, Wed have Your army, but Pandava said, Well have You. And that is how the war started and in the war His greatest disciple was one of the Pandavas called Arjuna. And Arjuna asked Him to fight for him. He said, I will not take any weapon in My hand, but I will be your charioteer and drive your chariot. And when He was driving the chariot it so happen that Krishna saw Arjunas depression and Arjuna said, What is this war? Why should I fight? Im fighting my own gurus, those who have taught me all the vidyas of the battleship, battle and also the vidya of archery. And Im fighting my own cousins. So Shri Krishna said, that They are already killed, they dont exist, they are already dead people, because they are not Realized Souls. I have already killed them. So you have to just play this drama of killing them Kill your attachments and your relations, thats what He said. If in case they are troubling you in your ascent. This is the message of Gita, to begin with.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 23rd 1986, Schwarzsee, Switzerland

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It is not easy to understand HimShri Krishna is the one who was Virat, who fought all kinds of evil without entering

into the arena. Shri Krishnas life is itself, is a very beautiful, creative and loving thing. But to understand Him, it is not easy.

Shri Krishna has described a personality, which is a sage, we can call Him a saint or He called it a sthita prag. So when asked what is the definition of the sthitha pragya, the description He gave was about a person who is absolutely at peace with himself and at peace with his atmosphere. It is very surprising, all this knowledge He gave in the first place, in the Gita that is. That is the best. That He called as the gyanmarga, that is Sahaja Yoga, by which you get the subtle knowledge. But at the same time, when you see Him advising Arjuna, it is very surprising that here He is talking only of spirituality, of complete detachment, and He is telling Arjuna that, You go and fight. They are already dead people, whom are you fighting? This conflict is difficult to understand, that how could Shri Krishna, the same person who is preaching that you have to all become sthitha pragya, suddenly starts telling Arjuna that You go and fight the foes? On one side it is complete detachment and on another side it is war. How will you explain this?

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Jul 29th 2001, Canajoharie, USA

He is totality, but He doesnt give total knowledgeAs a Mother, I have to warn you that nothing will work out unless and until you are

a realized soul. Nothing will work out. Now, for Realization, He has said, You have to become. But He didnt say at that time how you will become, what will work it out. Because you see, sort of, if you go to college, all the knowledge is not given in first year. Something is given, then something in second year, then in third year. Now in the seventh year. Now Sahaja Yoga has come to tell you everything, totally. He is totality, but He doesnt give total knowledge. The whole knowledge of Gita is nothing but a trick that He has played with human beings who were stupid, and would never have understood Him if Hed told them about Sahaja Yoga.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Oct 2nd 1994, New Jersey, USA

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We have to work out everything within us because we are conditioned, we are in an atmosphere. I would request all of you to try to understand these subtleties of Shri Krishnas personality. Try to become like that extremely peaceful, extremely kind, tender, helpful. And in humility, He had no consciousness of money. Nothing. And also, as you know, He was a dark person for some reason, but the way He led his life should be an example for us....

Today is the puja of Shri Krishna. I need not tell you how many qualities He has, as I told you, but the greatest quality He has is that He is the doctor of doctors. Now, in His name you will know how many qualities He has and you will understand. Try to understand that we have to have these qualities within us also. Whatever qualities are described or said, try to see how many we have. Thats the way the introspection will start. Once you start introspecting yourself and understanding yourself, the wisdom will grow not by seeing faults in others, putting blame on others, but on yourself. That is how the things will work out. Though Krishna didnt have to do that because He was Sampurna, He was complete. But we have to do all this to see that we also become complete.


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2.1 Yogeshwara

The God of Yoga - the Lord of our Union with the Divine The greatest of all the aspects of this Primordial Being was that He was the Yoges-

hwara. He was the God of Yoga - Yogeshwara. He was the Lord of our Union with the Divine. Without His permission and without His sanction we cannot be Sahaja Yogis. He was Yogeshwara and a real yogi is a person who gets this Yogeshwara awakened within him....

So He comes on this Earth every time to establish dharma at the Vishnu level. But at the Shri Krishna level, He comes as Yogeshwara. This is the point that many people have not even thought of. For Vishnu they may not say Yogeshwara....

As soon as you become the spirit you get powers. One of the powers you get is of collective consciousness that is also the gift of Shri Krishna and that you start feeling the collectivity. Your ego and superego is sucked in, so you get rid of your karmas and your conditionings and a new sprouting of the new life of the new age starts.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 15th 1982, Chelsham Rd, London, England

He is detached absolutely. He is complete. The greatest quality of Yogeshwara is that He is not at all involved in it. He is detached

absolutely. If He eats His food, He does not eat it. If He speaks, He does not speak. If He sees, He does not see. If He hears, He does not hear. It has no effect on Him. He has no retention on it, no action on it. Whatever He is, He is complete.... That is how one has to be, complete in oneself complete confidence in oneself. But the confidence should not be confused with ego. But confidence is complete wisdom, is complete dharma. It is complete love, complete beauty and is complete God. That is what it should be....

Give up the responsibility to Shri Krishna. So the complete integrated Divinity will start expressing through you. That means if you say that you have to be responsible, then He says, All right go ahead, try. But if you say that You are responsible. I am just an institution or an instrument in Your hand, then you start manifesting it well and that is how your Vishuddhi chakra gets opened out. This is just some part of the Yogeshwara that I have spoken to you.


Yogeshwara is the ViratSo unless and until you pass your Agnya chakra properly, you cant get to the

Virat. And Yogeshwara is the Virat. That is the aspect we have to worship.... In the same way, we have to worship the aspect of Shri Krishna in Me, which is Yogeshwara. I am Yogeshwara ... so today we have to know that our personal life has to be extremely clean. We face ourselves every moment and find out within ourselves that are we really worshipping Yogeshwara within ourselves, who resides within us? Let us develop that purity.... Let us worship Yogeshwara with our heart. When you worship Me today, it should be the worship of Yogeshwara and nothing else.


He is the Ishwara of all the yogis What is the speciality the greatness of Yogeshwara? He is the Ishwara of all the yogis.

And what is His capacity? What is His nature? For Him everything is a play - a leela. When I see people, young people, doing all these things I wish they could under-

stand the value of their lives, the esteem of their lives. Their Ishwara is Shri Krishna. Hes not the Ishwara of everyone, only of yogis. He is only available to you. He is only your Ishwara. He manifests only for you. He is your own. So He is actually your own king, who is always there, looking after you. When you call Him, He comes with all His powers to support you. But you have to be a yogi. If you are not a yogi, who is of course certified by Lord Jesus Christ, then Krishna has nothing to do with you.


2.2 Playfulness / Leela

He is the Leeladhara, the one who plays the leela Shri Krishna came up to show that He is the Leeladhara the one who plays the

leela, the play. Leeladhara is the one for whom this whole universe is a play. He is at the axis and for the whole periphery. It is nothing but a play. Except for your spirit everything is false. Its all a joke going on, you can say, a drama going on, nothing so serious. The spirit is the only truth within us the rest is all untruth. There cannot be many types of truths you see. In the Sanskrit language, there is only truth or untruth, satya or asatya, there are no ten words for truth.


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It is all the play of GodHe was a very important advent, but I dont know how many people understand

that. He came to show us that its all a leela, it is all the play of God. What is there to be serious? What is there to be ritualistic? You cannot bind God in any rituals. Thats why He came on this Earth, to tell you that you should not try to bind yourself by rituals, which are nonsensical. This was His teaching so many years back. He taught this six thousand years back, but still, if you see every religion today, there are so many rituals going on.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 6th 1988, Garlate, Italy

She saw the whole universe moving in the Vishuddhi chakraIn His childhood He was very fond of butter. He would go and make His friends

help Him and make a pyramid out of them. He would climb up and break the butter container and would eat all that butter like a little baby. So one day His mother said, All right, why did you eat the butter? He said, I never ate it. She said, Then what is this on your mouth? He said, This is what all these boys have put on my mouth. You see, to Him, even telling such little, little lies was also a fun with the mother. He would go to that extent.

So He told her a lie. See now, these people have put it on my mouth. They have eaten all the butter and now I am the one you are catching! you see. So she said, Really? Open your mouth. So He opened His mouth and then She saw all this. [Shri Mataji points to the solar system which is part of the puja decoration backdrop] in the mouth. The whole universe moving in the Vishuddhi, the complete Vishuddhi chakra she saw and she just bowed to Him. Then He said, Why are you bowing to me? as if nothing has happened....

Now stealing is supposed to be bad but He was stealing only the butter of His mother that she had made them. And He used to steal the butter of all the ladies who used to take it down to Mathura, where Kansa was ruling. This butter was eaten by all the rakshasas there and they were becoming very powerful. So He thought, Best thing is to go and eat all the butter so that these ladies wont be able to go and sell it.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 14th 1989, Saffron Walden, England

Enjoying the dramaHis mother came and she took one stick and she said, Now You have eaten all the

butter. So He said, I never ate any. His whole face was filled with it. And these boys must have put something on My mouth because they have eaten everything. So then

say, let us see now, the whole day I work for your cows and, when I come home, you just trouble Me like this. And then He said, Now, I am your foster son, that is why you are troubling Me like this. And she started looking at Him and then He put His hands towards her, little hands, and He said, But I have kept some for you in my hand, though they have eaten everything. And He put it in her mouth, so that all her temper went away and she just embraced Him to His heart. And thats how the whole thing ends up into a sweet drama.

When Krishna is awakened within us, we also can do all such dramas with each other and enjoy the frolics. Then we dont lose tempers, we dont get angry, we enjoy each others personality very much.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Nirananda part 1, May 2nd 1985, Vienna Ashram, Austria

The play of a childIn the case of Shri Krishna, it was a different phase because people had become

extremely serious, very disciplined and were leading a life which was, we can say, over-dharmic. And this had put the people at a fixed level and they thought that If we are doing all these things every day then its all right. We have reached the last. So Shri Krishna had to come Himself. Shri Vishnu, came as Shri Krishna, to tell us about the ascent and that all this is just a play. But only a person who is a master of the play can do the play.....

For His part, Shri Krishna arranged something in His lifetime in a very simple way, as a child. It looks, very childlike. Like when the Gopis were taking their baths, He hid their clothes I mean Indian women are never fully nude, never He hid their saris and all that and He could see their backs, this little boy. What is for a little boy? Hes sitting on a tree and is trying to raise their Kundalini. Theyre coming out of the River Yamuna, which is being vibrated by Radha. Already there are vibrations, you see, raising their Kundalini. Then they are taking the water and He breaks their pitchers, from the back, which have also got vibrated water in them. So the vibrated water falls on the backs of these ladies and He tries to awaken their Kundalini. See the play of a child, how He tried to play in His childhood, just like a child....

His power was Radha, Radha Ra, dha. Ra means energy. Dha means the one which sustains Radha so the Dha Re Di Dha Sa Ma, as they say. In the same way, Radha Ra Dha the one who sustains the energy. So with Her powers, He could work out this alaahd to all the people with whom He was connected. So all the Gopas and Gopis who were with Him had to do rasa Ra is energy, Sa means with to dance with the energy that is Radhaji. He used to just play the flute and She used to dance. The energy used to pass through Her hands to all the other people and the

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Kundalini would be awakened. So this was another play that He had. So in the play only, He raised the Kundalini. But in modern times its very difficult. It is not easy to raise Kundalinis in modern times in that way. I mean nobody will understand.


2.3 Spontaneity

Immediately spontaneous like Shri KrishnaNow what should the attitude be of a Sahaja Yogi towards taking decisions? One

should understand this. It should be a spontaneous decision. You dont have to tally it with this, go there and find out immediately, spontaneous like Shri Krishna who jumped inside the river. So in the same way, you should have a very spontaneous deci-sion for anything.... A Sahaja Yogi has to decide everything absolutely spontaneously at that moment.


2.4 Compassion

In the life of Shri Krishna, you can see that He had a friend who was very poor and he wanted to meet Shri Krishna.... When he went to Shri Krishna, Shri Krishna was in His palace and the people at the door said, No, you cant meet Him. He said, All right, you just go and tell Him that Sudama has come.

He was sitting on the throne discussing something and He said, Sudama has come? He rushed out and went to the door and hugged him. Hugged him again and again and He said, Why are you standing here? He took him and put him on the throne and He told His wives, Please come and wash his feet. Then they brought clothes for him. He had a bath. Shri Krishna made him sleep on His bed and asked the ladies to fan him so that he wouldnt feel hot. See the compassion of Shri Krishna. It shows so beautifully. Are we that compassionate? There was no need for Him to do that because there had been no drama, nothing. But His heart He took a spontaneous decision. When He had heard Sudama was there, He just rushed to him. He just felt so happy that My old friend has come....


2.5 Dharma

He is the integrated form of all dharmasThe greatest freewill comes from the Vishuddhi chakra, as I told you, and that is

why we call Him Yogeshwara. He is the Ishwara of Yoga. The establishment of yoga is possible when you surrender yourself to Shri Krishna. Completely surrender yourself to Shri Krishna your Yoga will be established. What does this mean? It means that your balance will be established. You go into complete balance because of Shri Vishnu, who is the incarnation for sustaining the dharma, who is responsible for giving you the balance and becomes complete in the form of Shri Krishna.

After Realization, you go beyond dharma.... You are using the dharma first of all to establish yourself, but when you go beyond dharma into the state of Virat, then you dont need any dharma. You become the dharma of the Virat.

Now, what is the dharma of Virat? What is the dharma of Shri Krishna? It is collectivity. Shri Krishna is the brain. Shri Shiva is the heart and Shri Brahmadeva is the liver. Now what is the faculty of this brain? that the tree of life, of evolution, grows downward, as Shri Krishna says. This tree is growing downwards from the awareness from the brain. But if you have to go to the roots, you have to ascend. And that ascent you have achieved. Now you have gone to the roots of your brain where all your roots are enlightened, all your nerves are enlightened, your brain is enlightened, you are an enlightened person. When you are in darkness you may catch hold of a snake as rope, but when you are in the light you will drop it. In the same way, when you become enlightened, your dharma is enlightened. You dont have to take to any guru or to any book or to anyone. You know yourself.....

At the Vishuddhi chakra, you surrender all of your other dharmas. It means that it all gets sublimated. It all gets complete. The wholesomeness is achieved because He is col-lective being. He is the Virata because He is the integrated form of all the dharmas and He is the Virata in our brain. He represents our brain. When this Virata in us is awakened fully, then all the dharmas become natural with us. We dont have to do any dharmas. We dont have to be conscious of any dharmas, but automatically we become dharma ourselves.


Dharma is an evolutionary process of human beingsWhat you have to do is to save the dharma not the dharma that people talk

about, but the dharma which means the evolutionary process of human beings, which is going on and, if all the good people who stand for righteousness are finished, then how will this evolutionary power will be saved? So you have to save them and for that,

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if you have to kill, you dont kill anybody. They are already dead because they are not evolved souls and they dont care for their Realization. So you have to fight them. You have to fight the negative forces. You have to fight the wrongdoers. All this He explains in a very beautiful manner, that we have within us three kinds of powers, which we also know, and by the middle one that we have, we rise above all these material, physical, mental, emotional, all these problems facing us, into a new realm of spirituality. And thats what He wanted to save from the cruel people, from the aggressive, those who were also misleading others. Its a very good understanding, if you have that. Who is your relation? Who is your brother? Who is your sister? Those who are evolved souls are your relations. They are your own and, for them, if you have to fight the people who are aggressive, you better do it. You have to do it. That is the way of dharma.


You should only know what you owe to MeWhen Shri Krishna says surrender all these dharmas, He is meaning to say you

should only know what you owe to me meaning the Divinity. Now today Shri Krishna is not here. Its Me who is Shri Krishna, so you must know what you owe to Me. I only changed My language. He used to take out His finger and to say that give up everything and sur-render everything to Me. I dont do that way. I give a big lecture and bring you to a point.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Sep 4th 1983, Sternwartestrasse, Vienna, Austria

The building up of the spiritual sense is our workIt is natural to be a Sahaja Yogi. This is also built within us. For example, a seed

is a seed. When it is a seed, we call it a seed. All right, naturally it is to be a seed, but then it sprouts and becomes the tree. So it is also natural in a seed that all that future, all the thousands of trees it is going to be, is also in that seed. Now as you know, they are experimenting that in one seed you can get a minimum of thousands of little, little sprouts in one seed which can all be made into trees or plants. This is a new thing that has come up. So when He said that you have to become a stitha pragya what He was trying to say was that you should achieve your balance. Now He told that there was a war on. When they were warring, you have to do it. If you have to war with people, if you have to kill them its all right. But afterwards, once that is over, then what you have to do is to build up your spiritual sense. Now the building up of the spiritual sense is our work and that is what we have to do not only dharma.


2.6 Witness state

He creates drama, He acts in the drama and He is the spectatorShri Krishna is the one who is an expert of drama. He creates drama, He acts in

the drama and Hes the spectator also. In these three forms you should see yourself. You create the drama of yourself, Aha this one now, see now, how Im acting here. Then you become the spectator also.... It is I think a more evolved state now than it was at the time of Shri Krishna because He talked only to one Arjuna. Now Im talking to thousands about this knowledge. At that time, He just talked about it at the time of war. I am talking at the time of peace. And its much more evolved because Shri Krishna didnt give him Realization. But you have got the Realization. Youve got the knowledge. You know everything. You have all the subtle ideas.


Watch everything as a spectatorLike even if you think everything is a play, what happens is that your attitude

towards it is like a spectator. You see the whole thing as a spectator. Like in a drama you sit down and you watch everything as a spectator, but you know what part is being depicted is a tragedy and what part is a comedy.... You have a sense of discretion as to know what is a comedy and what is a tragedy. But if you are an actor, then to you it is not a comedy or a tragedy. It is a work for you. If youre acting, then youre acting and you are an actor.Youre involved in it.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Jun 2nd 1986, Englewood, New Jersey, USA

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Standing on the shores, just watching the waves moveWhat happens really is that inside you you become a witness. You become a wit-

ness in the sense that all that is disturbing, all that is troubling you, all that is a problem, you just start watching it, you start witnessing it, you start seeing it and you do not get disturbed. That seeing, that witnessing state has a tremendous power. Whatever you see without thinking, your problems get solved. Any problem you have, once you get this witness state what you call tatasth, which means you are standing on the shores and watching the waves move then you know how to solve the problems....

First get Self Realization and then be aware of your position. Then you will be surprised how you develop proper attention and proper understanding. Absolutely, it is an easy thing to do as soon as you find that you have achieved that witness state. So please try to make yourself a witness. When you see something, go into thoughtless awareness. That is your fort. Dont think. See the beauty that is there just pouring in. Just watch how these trees are standing still just watching you all. See absolutely still, nothing is moving. They dont allow even one leaf to move. Let it be. Until the breeze starts, Mother starts the breeze, until we will just keep quiet and watch.


As a yogi, your state of mind should be etherealHe was a sakshi which means that He had the capacity of witnessing the whole

world as a play.... Now this capacity in Him to witness has to be seen in every yogi. The element He controls is ether. We call it as akasha in Sanskrit. This ether, as you know, we are using now for our television, for our radio, for every sort of a collective work. So we have to be in charge of the ether element, as yogis. And that is the subtlest of all, in the sense that you permeate into everything with that.... The negativity cannot enter into ether. When you enter into your ethereal zone, you actually enter into the area which is thoughtless awareness. So to achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness. The sustenance of that is done by Christ, by the spirit.

So you can realize now as a yogi that your state of mind should be ethereal. And what should be the state of your superego? This is the ego part of it, that you should be in the ethereal state, and, as a superego, you should see it as a play. You should see the play of the negativity. Negativity will run away, but dont get involved into it, dont play into their hands. Then the negativity will separate from you. So the ego and superego both rise from the Vishuddhi chakra. They can be receded from the Agnya chakra, but are to be sucked in the Vishuddhi.


I am the sakshi of the whole worldYou are not only in joy, but you know the truth. You know the absolute truth. And

this absolute truth is the one that makes you understand what is right, what is wrong and you develop your wisdom, not your intellect so much. You then see your intellect misbehaving sometimes, telling you negative ideas, sometimes too much of aggressive ideas. You can become a witness, sakshi, and thats what Shri Krishna has said. I am the sakshi of the whole world, the witness of the whole world. See, you can go on talking about Him, but what we have to see is where are we going wrong and how can Shri Krishna save us not by singing, Hari Rama, Hari Krishna, like that. By becoming, day by day, a wiser person. Wisdom gives you definite ideas as to how you have to be.


2.7 Virata

The power of the Virat becomes so tremendous, it acts globallyThe Vishuddhi chakra is where Shri Krishna resides, but when He rises to your

Sahasrara, when He rises to that level, then He becomes the Virata. So the Viratas chakra is placed in the head above the Agnya and this Virat is the form of Shri Krishna who has risen above the Agnya. When you have risen above the Agnya, you become a part and parcel of Viratas land, we can say, because unless and until you are above your ego, you are still involved with yourself and with wrong ideas of maryadas. But when you rise above that and you become the Virat, the great, then you are in the land of the Virata. And the Viratas powers are tremendous, as was seen by Arjuna the form of the Virat. The power of the Virat becomes so tremendous that it acts globally. It acts in such a manner that you sit here and anywhere it can act....

The power of the Virata is that it can penetrate into the subtle side of human beings in such a manner that everything we are is connected. We are not separated and every drop is connected with the ocean. We are connected with the whole universe. And when you become a citizen of the Virat, then all the things with which you are connected also get your vibrations, your ideas, your ambitions. Everything passes through that and it works. You have seen how many miracles have taken place in your lives. It is the Virata Shakti that works.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Virata Puja, Sept 5th 1999, Cabella, Italy

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Doubtless awarenessThe last is the Virat. That is the state you have to reach.... Once you get into the

Virata, then all your ideas of separating or differentiating go out. You do not have any more ideas of races left, of nationality, of your city, of your village or anything. At that stage, you dont belong to any place. You belong to every place and you dont belong to every place.... Nothing bothers you because you are in the Virata state. Because everything is absorbed by the Virata you do not feel anything. Whatever sort of person you may be, you do not feel it. The Virata has to suffer, not you, and that is what is the best state where I want all of you to reach and to become absolutely free. Nothing can impress you. Nothing can influence you, nothing can dissuade you, but you stand on your self esteem and understanding about yourself, that you are a Sahaja Yogi and that you are connected with this power and you are a citizen of the Kingdom of God....

The whole attention should move like that. This is not only mine. It is everybodys. It belongs to everyone. Everybody has a right. that sort of a thing. When it starts growing from the individual, what we call vestiti tu sumestiti in Sanskrit, which is from individual to collective. Such a personality is then the most effective one for any kind of collective work.... I find that still there are people who do not understand that they have to rise above the Vishuddhi chakra. If they do not ascend over the Vishuddhi they can never be proper Sahaja Yogis. They will always be half-baked. So we must try to rise above the Vishuddhi, the discretion part, then at that point we can never doubt Sahaja Yoga. We can never doubt and thats how the doubtless awareness can come to us.


Egoless intelligence, the pure intelligenceUltimately, Shri Krishna becomes the brain. Thats what I told you, that the fat of the

stomach goes into the brain. So Shri Narayana enters into the brain and becomes what we call as the Virat, Akbar. When He becomes Akbar, then He is the brain in the big macrocosm. He is the brain, so people who worship Shri Krishna become brainy people without ego. Their brain develops and they have no ego about it. Egoless intelligence, which I call as the pure intelligence, starts manifesting.


Virata Shakti: the sense of collective consciousnessThe other thing that we have to understand is Shri Krishna at this stage of Sahaja

Yoga, that it is the Virata Shakti that is manifesting at this time and not the Shri Krishna Shakti which was at His time. The power that is working here is no more that of Radha or of Mary, but of Viratangana. Thats why the knowledge of Sahaja Yogis is much wider than the knowledge of all the saints of all the ages. But it is not deeper than them. If you can deepen your knowledge, this wider knowledge will have proper roots within you. So the brain is the roots. Here are the roots of the whole tree of life. Actually the Kundalini comes up and waters the brain first so that the whole tree of life is drenched in the divine bliss and divine knowledge.

So this Virata Shakti that we have to work out gives us the sense of collective consciousness first. First we understand it through our brain power. But the whole brain power is to be guided by the heart. It is to be watered, but in Sanskrit it is a very beautiful word sinchena, like dewdrops you see, sprayed with the love of God. So the integration of this brain has to be with your heart and with your liver. Then only the Virata Shakti takes another form. The weapons of killing become the weapons of forgiveness. Every sort of destructive power is used for the construction, as if it is tricked.

Like now I told them a trick, how to trick these gurus. The power that they have can be tricked against them, as He said that their teeth must be put into their necks, into their throats. Instead of taking out their teeth, it is better to put them back into their own throats. And if you can do that, then there is no problem as far as their effect is concerned because you are more powerful and more tricky.


Viratangana Shakti: the power of maturity up to the fruitThe Virata Shakti has now taken that form so you are the fruits, that Viratangana

Shakti. Because you are so valuable, those people who wanted to ruin or to destroy the Divine Power from this Earth will start thinking that they have to gain something out of these fruits....

You have to become that. The biggest thing one has to know is to bend down towards the Mother Earth, to be humble. Absolutely, the humility inside out is really going to give you the complete value of Sahaja Yoga fruits.... Only fruits which bend down are accepted as good and matured fruits and not those who assert that they are the highest.... But the matured fruit shows its humility by its weight. That is the Guru Tattwa weight. So from the Viratangana power we get the power of maturity up to the fruit and then we become blessed by the Guru Principle.


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Madhura Shakti: when the fruit becomes sweetThose who are still involved in getting to better sunshine or getting to a better

water supply or all these things that have not yet matured because the fruit doesnt need anything any more. It doesnt need anything from the Mother Earth nor from the elements. But it surrenders, it bends, it bows to the Mother Earth. So the Sahaja Yogi who goes on asking questions to Mother, bringing personal problems, stupid ideas, negativity, all those people are still not yet the fruits. The matured people are those who surrender, who bow to the Mother Earth. So the capacity to bow is the best judgment of yourself and leaving everything to the power of the gravity of your Mother to do every work for you and leaving all your small little worries behind.

You have to rise above these restricting powers and achieve the completion of this Virata Shakti, which ultimately becomes a Madhura Shakti madhura. There is no word in the English language, but it means a sweet power. Like the fruit becomes sweet. Thats how you all have to become very sweet. Shri Krishna tried to make everything very sweet in the sense it was all Madhura Shakti that was acting, all His play, all His dancing. All His stories, if you read, it is nothing but Madhura Shakti towards the Gopas and Gopis, towards other Sahaja Yogis. So you have to keep your Mother pleased by pleasing all other Sahaja Yogis and not other people.


2.8 Sweeteness

Sweet like honeyTo know the technique and the trick of the technique is also another meaning

of yoga yukti.... First is that His character was madhuriya, meaning the sweetness. We always say, Hes sweet like honey. So when He talked to anyone or He com-municated with anyone, it was through sweetness. And this communication, if you have not developed it, then you are nowhere near yoga. Everything is madhuriya for Him, His talking, His actions, His face. Everything is madhuriya. So the second trick is how to master your own temper and the third one is how to master the temper of others. Thats even better.


The principle of communicationThe first principle is how you communicate with others. Start it at home with your

children, with your wife, with your husband, how you communicate. Are you gentle? Are you kind? Are you dominating or aggressive? Just try to find out. It can go to any limit this aggressiveness, for either the women or the men.... In My experience, Ive seen the women are very dominating. In India men are extremely dominating, but here I find the women are. Now the basics as human beings is that you should have good manners....

Now how must you communicate? Decently, with very tender and very beautiful mannerism you have to talk to another person, talk to other Sahaja Yogis, talk to any-one. In a very sweet manner you should talk. I do not mean the French style, bending your body and all artificial stuff not that. I am saying that if you are naturally talking to somebody, you should talk with decent language, with decency, with humility and need not go on jabbering all the time and talking too much. Theres no need. But on the contrary, this was the style that was Shri Krishna. In short, His power was madhuriya, which is the sweetness, like the honey. When you are worshiping Shri Krishna you have to know that you must talk in a manner that will please another person.


The peace should be with your brothers and sistersThe peace within expresses, first of all, the peace with others. This is the first sign

of the manifestation of peace. Such a person doesnt use harsh words, does not use cruel words. But he is also not a person who is ineffective. He is very effective, using very sweet and nice words. Maybe he begins by using harsh words, then he mellows down and comes down to a position where he is effective as well, as he is very mild and sweet. Such a personality has to be developed outside.

So the peace should be with your brothers and sisters. They are all born out of my Sahasrara and nobody has the right to insult, to be sarcastic. Saying things which are harmful. That is not friendship. It is a kind of very subtle enmity that you are carrying on in your hearts that cannot be forgiven. If you say sarcastic things to others, you are not in the culture of universal religion. You should be respectful. The more respectable you are to each other, the better will be.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, The culture of Universal Religion talk before Puja, Feb 7th 1985, Bordi, Maharashtra, India

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Diplomacy is for the benevolence of the spiritWhat is the essence of diplomacy? It is benevolence. You have to achieve the

benevolence of the whole of humanity. This is the essence of it. If you are doing it, you are not doing it for yourself, for your own gain. You are not doing it for the gain of any particular person, but you are doing it for the benevolence of the whole of humanity. So once you know that this is the essence, what is the need to shout? By shouting you are not going to achieve anything.

So discipline doesnt mean something very dominating of one person or two per-sons. Discipline means that whatever we do has to be for the benevolence of your spirit and the spirit of others. This is what is the Sahaj discipline, where you do everything for the benevolence of others and for the benevolence of your own ascent. Once you have established this idea of hita, of this benevolence, you have known the life of Christ, the life of Mohammed, the life of all these great people.


2.9 Discretion

Once you are in the realm of divine discretion you cannot commit mistakes

His specialty was to create discretion in you.... At this juncture, when we are facing a sort of a challenge of this new millennium, that the whole world is going to be destroyed and all those things people are talking about, it is really very important to know that, through discretion, what is good and what is bad.... Once you are in the realm of divine discretion you cannot commit mistakes even if you want to do it.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Sept 5th 1999

Discrimination on vibrationsHe gives us the gift of discrimination. That is His style, I should say, to teach you

how to discriminate and then you will become experts on discrimination, on vibrations. On vibrations you can get everything so clearly, so beautifully. Others may not agree with you, thats a different point, but you know what is right and what is wrong and that is what Shri Krishnas gift is.


Divine discretionWe come to the point of the Virata. Before that, we have to cross the Hamsa.

Without that, you cannot reach the Virata. So the Hamsa, as you know very well, is the discretion, the divine discretion, which must be within you.... With this discretion, absolutely you have a complete understanding as to what has to be done and what is not to be done and, if that is established, a discretion is established. In many Sahaja Yogis, I must say, discretion has come even with their left Vishuddhi. Even if they have left Vishuddhi, they have this discretion. They know what is right and what is wrong. With that divine discretion, the first thing that happens is that people get impressed by you. Its real collectivity. It impresses the collectivity....

This is a very important point that one has to know, that while introspecting your-self just see if you have developed this quality of divine discretion or not. For example, there are many I have seen who, when they come to the program, they come and tell Me, Mother, some Sahaja Yogi told me that You have a bhoot. Have I got a bhoot in me? I said, Not at all. How can there be any bhoot in you? He may be having, but the divine discretion is not to tell him just now, but to remove it.


Shri Krishna and Shri Jesus Christ at the Hamsa chakraThis Hamsa chakra is the one that, as if 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 flow-ing through your nose, expressing through your eyes, from your mouth and from your forehead. So you know that the 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....

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. 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.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Hamsa Puja, Jul 10th 1988, Germany

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Hamsa chakra expresses auspiciousness in our awarenessHamsa chakra is a very pivotal centre, which expresses auspiciousness in our aware-

ness. That means if this centre is alert and awakened, then we immediately know what is auspicious and what is not auspicious. We can say that we get the divine discretion.

I think it is a part of the genetics that people have discretion between good and bad, destructive and constructive. It basically has to be there. But we can easily spoil it by all these organs which are collective, the conditionings and the ego from outside. That is why this centre is very vulnerable. Other centres are not so much connected to the outside as this centre is connected. It receives all the information from all these organs. For example, the eyes are very important because they say they are the window of the spirit and you have seen that when the Kundalini rises and the spirit starts shining there is a dilatation of the pupils. You look like an innocent child and there is a twinkle in your eyes....

What happens really is this: our eyes can be a very good door for all kinds of bhoots to enter into our spirit and, when you start projecting it back, the same bhoots can pass into another person and can create the same kind of vacuum or same kind of vulnerability in the Hamsa chakra of other people. So thats why eyes have to be very, very clean, innocent.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Hamsa Puja, Sep 9th 1992, Vancouver, Canada

2.10 Destruction

People do not know the other side of Shri Krishna. Its a play, all right. But He is Samhara Shakti. He is the power of destruction. Its very good that He is there, as He comes with everything to protect us. He has also got Sudarshan chakra. Sudarshan su means auspicious. Darshan is vision. He gives us auspicious visions, you see. If you try tricks with Him, that goes around your neck and then you have auspicious darshans of yourself, that you are hanging in the air somewhere.... But when Krishna was born, He was born in the most horrifying circumstances. The same is the case of Sahaja Yogis today. Its a thing of great joy and jubilation, no doubt, that He came and He gave us His Vishuddhi power, but we must understand that we are born in a very precarious time. Ive been saying this so many times. Theres not only one Kamsa there. So many are there. There is a big fight going on, in that you people are here in charge. You are the ones employed by God. You are the ones who have been given this great work. You have powers like Shri Krishna.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Yogeshwara Puja, Aug 15th 1982, Chelsham Rd, London, England

He does not believe in forgivenessShri Krishnas star is Saturn, Kshni. They say that if He gets after somebody, then

nobody can be saved.... This Saturn of Shri Krishna is a quality within us that, sup-posing if somebody troubles us or does something, we dont have to do anything. Now this Shri Krishna policy, this Shri Krishnas nature, will work it out. It will inform this all-pervading power and, through that, this man or this woman or this party or this organization which is trying to trouble us will be hounded while we will be just sitting doing nothing. They will be just hounded until they jump in the sea. Automatically it will happen. But you have to know that you have the powers of Shri Krishna, by which, if He gets after someone, then nobody can save them. He is the last one who plays around, but He doesnt forgive. He doesnt believe in forgiveness. He says, Now, you had enough of it. He gives a big, big long rope to hang yourself, but He never forgives. One thing is for definite He never forgives. As you must have seen in the Mahabharata His own judgment of things, which He doesnt forgive. He says, You have to pay. You have to pay for it except when you transcend.

If you become a Sahaja Yogi, if you have transcended the Vishuddhi, then He cannot do anything like that to you. But if you have not, if theres no ascent, you cannot be saved. You cannot be saved from Him.


O Lord, finish all the evil of the worldThis is to be understood in His life, Krishnas life, that this is the first thing that happens,

so that for you people, evil is to be finished. So what you have to pray is that, Oh Lord, finish all the evil of the world, all the destruction of the world, all the minds which build up our destruction. Please try to neutralize it. This is what a Sahaja Yogi should ask for.


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2.11 About marriages and family

Absolutey detached in His yogaThen came His life when He became the king. When He became the king He

wanted ... to establish people in dharma and He needed the help of the five elements. So He made them into five ladies whom He married. So He has five wives, but they are five elements, part and parcel of His being. But He was Yogeshwara, absolutely detached in His yoga, but He had, for practical purposes we can say, five wives. And there were sixteen thousand women who became His wives. These sixteen thousand women are nothing but His sixteen thousand powers because you know His chakras have got sixteen petals and these sixteen petals multiplied by the Viratas one thousand petals each so it comes to sixteen thousand powers. So these sixteen thousand powers were incarnated as women, were taken away by some horrible king and He went there, fought this king and brought these ladies.

So He had to marry all of them so-called marriage and these sixteen thousand powers stayed with Him by which He established our Vishuddhi chakra.


A place in the heart of Shri KrishnaOnce it happened that the ladies who were married to Shri Krishna got very jealous

of Radhaji and they told Shri Krishna that You dont love us. On top of that, Shri Narada came to put more oil on the fire, that he said. He really, I believe, He never cares for you. He just likes Radhaji. He is not bothered. So Shri Krishna, as diplomatic as He was, He started saying, Oh God, I have a terrible pain in my stomach. Now what to do? So they said, Now what to do? He said, It is very simple. You know anyone who is my bhakta [devotee]. If you can give the dust of your feet to Me to eat, then I will be all right. So they got a fright of their life, you see.

As it is, if I tell you anything, you just want to give your solutions every time. Nobody listens to Me. If I say go here No, no, it is better to go that way. Come here. No, no, this way is better. Everybody has a brainwave about it. It does not matter. So there they had brainwaves. They said, You see, why dont you take some medicine? Then somebody said, We will call the Vidya. He said, No, I know for definite that I cannot be cured by anything else but one thing, that you have to get the dust of one of my bhaktas and I will eat.

So everybody started looking at each other, as some of the Sahaja Yogis do when it comes to paying. They never heard it. Some of them never heard better. You see, it is a very tricky nature. So they said, Now what to do? If we do not cure Shri Krishna, He is just wailing and what to do? Shri Krishna said, Have some pity on Me. Give Me some dust of your feet. So He said to Narada that You go and ask Radha to send the dust of Her feet.

So he went to Shri Radha. Shri Radhaji was in Vrindavan and the soil of that place is yellowish in colour like Keshar, like saffron. So he went and told that Shri Krishna is very sick. He has got a terrible pain in His stomach. She got a fright. She said, Really? How can that be? I cannot believe it. So what does He say? What treatment can He take? He says anyone of His disciples, anybody of His bhakta, if they send a little of the dust of their feet, He will be all right. He has to take that as a medicine. So She said, All right, take the dust of My feet. He was amazed. He said, What are you doing? You understand if you give Him the dust of Your feet, then all your punyas [merits] will be lost. He is playing some trick, you know. Just dont try this thing. She said, Nothing doing, you better take it. But he said, What about Your punyas and papas? She said, I know one thing. It is He who looks after My papas and punyas. I have not to think about it. So he took the dust of Her feet, which was absolutely yellow like a saffron or like a pollen of the flower and he went and gave it to Shri Krishna. Shri Krishna said, I knew Shri Radha would send, Now let me eat it. He said, You can eat, but You have to answer the question that Shri Radha has said, that You look after Her papas and punyas. How is it? How can it be? What does that mean that you know what is punya and what papas are and She is not bothered about it? She has not to worry about Her papas and punyas. He said, All right, now let me take the medicine. He took the medicine and He said I better sleep. And Shri Narada saw the heart of Shri Krishna opened and in the heart was the lotus of a very beautiful pink colour. On that lotus was lying Shri Radhaji and Her feet were rubbing against the pollen of that lotus and the yellow of the Vrindavan clay was the same colour as that. And then he realized that when She is touching that lotus with Her feet, what does it matter if She gives the dust of Her feet to Shri Krishna to take. She is in His heart. When Her feet are in His heart, what does it matter? And that is how they realized that Shri Radhas love was so great that, for Her, She did not think of dharma and adharma, but just to be at the command of Her Lord. She acted and that is how She had a place in the heart of Shri Krishna.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Feb 9th 1983, Jangpura, New Delhi, India

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He took and came on His Garuda to save the chastity of His sister immediately, spontaneously, that moment

When Draupadi was in trouble Draupadi was actually Vishnumaya, His sister She thought of Shri Krishna. She was holding onto Her sari, when it was pulled out by Duryodhana. And She was holding it like this [with Her teeth] Kri. She wanted to say Krishna, but She thought, If I say shna it will fall down. So She was holding on. As soon as She dropped it, shna, the sari dropped out of Her mouth. Then its described about Shri Krishna, Dwarika me shora bhayo, shor bhayo bhare. Shankha chakra gadaa padma, Garuda laysidhare, that sound went into Dwarika. Now where is Dwarika and where is Hastinapur? at least a distance of two thousands miles. But the sound went through the chaitanya and made a big sound there and Shankha Chakra Gadaa Padma. Shankha, Chakra Gadaa, Padma are the weapons [of Vishnu], as you know. All of them He took and came on His Garuda to save the chastity of His sister immediately, spontaneously, that moment. He could have said, All right, let it be. Let one sari come out, then I will go later.


He is not the Ishwara of everyone, only of yogisHe is the Ishwara of yogis, as Ganesha is the Ishwara of the Ganas. You see, its

the Ganapati who looks after the Ganas and He is our Ishwara. That is we have to have Him as our ideal.... He is Ishwara. He is your Ishwara. You are not Ishwaras, but you are at least the yogis. We have to be the yogis first, then He is our Ishwara ... otherwise He doesnt want to rule you. So what we have to do is to become the yogis first. And one of the signs of a yogi is that He is, in His sex life, extremely pure. Absolutely purity must exist and, after some time, one should get beyond. Your relationships with other people, whether it is your sister or a brother or any other woman or any other man, there should be complete purity. And this is extremely important.... We have to decide that He is our Ishwara. He is the Ishwara aspect and, if He is our Ishwara, then we have to cleanse our attitude towards sex, towards the gross way of life that we have developed, to just shun it and throw it away absolutely. There cannot be compromise on that, otherwise you cannot be a yogi. You cannot be a yogi


Our family is the whole universeYou are married. You have got children. Im happy you are married because that is

an auspicious thing to do, to marry to begin with. But you should not get involved with your family, my child, my family. Many people I have seen, they come to Sahaja Yoga, get married and get lost because, to them, married now, Im enjoying my family now, looking after my family. Our family is the whole universe. It is not just my own wife and my children, but the whole universe is our family and this is what Shri Krishna tried to show in His life, that the whole universe is your family.


2.12 Ocean of joy

Joy is all-pervadingThe third point was for Him to make people joyous and happy. But with all these

maryadas of Shri Rama, He didnt know how to do it. So to give people joy, He said, All right, let us dance, let us sing, let us play Holi, all sorts of things.... All that He did to give them a full idea. As for a Sahaja Yogi or for a self-realized soul, what should be the attitude towards everything? But it is not that you have to do it, but it just works out. It is like that, that in the state of Sahaj, you enjoy everything enjoyment. And that is what His idea was, to create a sense of joy among people.... He said, You must enjoy, enjoy with detachment. For people, it is very difficult to understand how can it be.... With attachment you can never enjoy. If you are attached to something, you cannot enjoy anything in a full way....

Joy is all-pervading. It has no boundaries, and you just get dissolved. You get dissolved in the ocean of joy. That was what Shri Krishnas idea was, that cut out these maryadas.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Sept 5th 1999

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All these joys put together are NiranandaWhere there is complete joy, there is no happiness and unhappiness. You dont feel

happiness or unhappiness. These are the qualities of the ego and superego. In Sahaja Yoga, as you grow from one to another, there are different types of anandas. Like we can say, the spirit, when you see the spirit, you get an anand called swananda. That means you feel your spirit yourself and you feel very happy. Then you give Realization to others. You get parananda, the joy of others. But when you get the enjoyment of well-being, in health and materially all right and everything all right, everything in santosha. In complete satisfaction, then its Brahmananda. And like that, you start feeling higher and higher joys within yourself because your nerves start opening to new dimensions. So you can say that at the Krishna level, you get Krishnananda, where you get the sweet-ness, the madhuriya. And when you see your generosity, then you get Shivananda. And when you are with children, you get Ganeshananda. And that can be described. All those can be described, but Niranand cannot be described, because it is Mahamayas joy. All these joys put together are Nirananda. So there is no place for ego and superego at all. The complete Sahasrara is opened out and nothing but the complete rapport is established with the Divine. And there is a pouring of light all the time in the head and the light going back, that you have seen in My photograph, as if the Sahasrara becomes like a sucking child from the Universal Mother, sucking the joy inside and it is again reflecting back. It would be like the waves reach the shores and then they are again repelled. They go back and then they form a pattern. Now the joy out of that pattern, how can you describe? The only thing about Nirananda is that you have Mahamaya so close and so far away. That is the speciality. Completely thoughtless, silence there. Complete silence you dont think. Its just silence you cannot put into words any more because the words break with the force of the ananda.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Nirananda part I, May 2nd 1985, Vienna Ashram, Austria

Nirananda is sheer joyNow we have to realize that the Sahaja Yogis have done so much to channelize this

Nirananda all over the world. So I am very thankful to you for all that. Now we look for-ward to the people who are coming. They are coming here to enjoy the Nirananda and we have to see to it that we give them all that is Niranand. Niranand means just kevalam. Ananda kevalam is Nirananda ... sheer joy. I mean nothing but joy. It is Nirananda. And this word delight itself is of light, comes out of the light. It is the light and the joy.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Nirananda part I, May 2nd 1985, Vienna Ashram , Austria

The shakti of Shri Krishna is Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy

When your attention goes to the Vishuddhi, then you see the shakti of Shri Krishna, Shri Radha, who is Allahad Dayini, the giver of joy. Just by seeing Her, people feel joy-ous. She is the Allahad Dayini Shakti. which is in flowers, in children and it can awaken in you. Until the depth comes, this Allahad Dayini Shakti will remain verbal. Think about the combination of these two. It is very important for us to get depth within. And to give joy from that depth is equally important.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, talk given in Hindi during Holi Celebrations, 1991, Delhi, India

2.13 About devotion

When you do Ananya Bhakti, you are one with MeHe says, You go praying to Me and if you give Me flowers, Ill take. If you give

Me water, Ill take. Whatever youll give Me, Ill take. He says clearly, But what will you gain out of that is very important. He doesnt say, If you give me something, Ill give you something. He doesnt say that. So what should be the state, what should be the condition? He said, If you praise Me, if you have bhakti for Me, you are giving Me presents, you are doing all sorts of things, you are very dedicated but, you should do ananya bhakti. The word is ananya. Ananya means when there is not the other. When we are one, when we are connected, then the bhakti you do that time, whatever music you have of devotion, whatever flowers you give, whatever expression you have, it should be ananya.


2.14 About Introspection

Until and unless Sahaja Yoga is completely manifested within us, the people who respect Sahaja Yoga will not continue to do so

We have to realize that Sahaja Yoga has spread a lot and, in all corners of the world, people respect Sahaja Yoga. But until and unless Sahaja Yoga is completely manifested within us, the people who respect Sahaja Yoga will not continue to do so. That is why it is essential that we look inside of us. The nature of Shri Krishna is that we look inside of us and see what are the things that put us in trouble. We should find that out. We should look towards ourselves, within ourselves and that is not such a difficult thing.

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When we want to see our face, we look in the mirror. Similarly, when we need to see our spirit, we should find out how to see it within us. Many Sahaja Yogis have asked Me, Mother, how do we see what is within us and how we are doing? For that, it is necessary that we ourselves should become very humble. If we lack humility, we will be clouded by our own thoughts.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 9th 2003, Pratishthan, Pune, Maharashtra, India

The defect lies within us onlyWe should look within ourselves and see. This is what Shri Krishna has said, but

people find this hard to do. It doesnt happen. What is the reason that we are not able to see ourselves? What is this veil in between? The veil is of bad things like ego. They stand up and we are unable to see the defects that we should see. To see these defects is very essential.

I am very happy that you kept todays puja. Shri Krishnas Puja will take place and a lot of people will get cleansed from within because this is a special blessing of Shri Krishna. He will do it Himself, but you have to show a little interest, an inclination that you want to be completely cleansed from within. You dont know how profound this question is. To fix this we have to work very hard....

When this happens, you will start manifesting innocence within you. This is the bala leela [playfulness] of Shri Krishna. Once you get bathed in this innocence, your eyes will become very steady. On your own, you will start understanding yourself. Actually, the defect lies within us only. Looking at the defects of others, how can we fix our own defects?

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Krishna Puja, Aug 9th 2003, Pratishthan, Pune, Maharashtra, India

I have given siddhis to all of youFor a Sahaja Yogi, it is to witness himself first of all. That is the introspection. He

should see for himself, Where was I and I have come here. Dont indulge too much in the past, but see the distance you have crossed in such a short time. Now you have come into the Kingdom of God. You have all the powers. I dont tell lies. It is a fact...

See for yourself how many powers you have got. Now, with your Left Vishuddhi, you will always conclude, Oh, how can I have any powers? After all, I have done this, I have done that.... Because that, the left Vishuddhi is all the time telling you that you are good for nothing. Its like a leaking hole in your brain that takes away all the sense. And you accept it....

You know what you can do. You also know that whatever you say happens. What-ever you want, you can get it. Try, try, try, but if you dont do it, then you will be all the time half-baked. Take the experience of your powers. See how dynamic you are. Dont have formalities about it.... I have given siddhis to all of you. I never discriminate, but its only He that is very brave. He uses left and right. If you do not use your siddhis, what can I do? Ive given you all the siddhis. No doubt about it. So try....

Have faith in yourself. If you have left Vishuddhi, this Vishnumaya wont work out. But be like Vishnumaya. Just give up this guilt. No, I am a Sahaja Yogi. Im not an ordinary person.


So now I have to improve ...Another style of this left Vishuddhi is this, which one must understand, that it tries

to give an explanation. As I told you many a time, you tell somebody telephone to someone. First they will say, He may not be there, Mother. Baba, you telephone. First find out if he may be there or may not be there. But they would not. They would just avoid and that is another thing. Vishnumaya never avoids. You have seen that. Once She has to shine, She shines, wherever She is, whatever She is. So in the same way, we have to be like that. We have to know that we are special people, we are chosen, we are angelic and that we have entered into the Kingdom of God and it will all work out. Sahaja Yoga is not meant for useless people. As I told you in Marathi, Tukaram has said, Eddia gabalache kam nave Its not meant for lunatics and lousy people. Its meant for somebody who has thiala pahije jatiche. You need people of character. I know that there cannot be many like that, but there is no place in Gods realm for many people, for all these useless people. Its only for something special. These seats are reserved and you have got your Realization now, somehow. So now try to understand that this Vishnumaya principle has to be expressed and has to be shown and you introspect yourself, Have I done that or not? Dont be afraid that they say that Our ego will come up. It doesnt matter. You will also see your ego. This is the second part of Shri Krishnas play, that in this Krita Yuga you see your ego.

Now the third situation is that you accept whatever is wrong with you. If you do not accept, then you have not been kind to yourself. That is the central part of it, that you must accept, Yes this is the wrong. This is something wrong with me. I have gone in this part ... or that part. Im wrong. So now I have to improve.


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2.15 Wisdom

Wisdom is a temperament. It is a quality of a personality which comes to you by balancing yourself

If you are awakened by Shri Krishnas powers, then the first thing that should happen to you is wisdom. Now the wisdom is something you cannot describe. You cannot say what is wisdom. Its very difficult to describe it or to delimit it. Wisdom is a temperament. It is a quality of a personality which comes to you by balancing yourself, by a trial and error method. All traditional countries innately have much more wisdom than people who are not traditional. But Krishna broke all the traditions. Thats why you people are here without much tradition. He broke all the traditions, but He was Shri Krishna, so He did not need any tradition at all. But for you, you have to understand from the people who have tradition what is wisdom. So we do a trial and error. We make mistakes, from that we learn.


The light of the spirit, which shines through your Hamsa chakra, gives you wisdom

The light of the spirit, which shines through your Hamsa chakra, gives you wis-dom. Wisdom doesnt mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesnt mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive....

You start enjoying every aspect which is supposed to be very, very bad for oth-ers. To you, you know the aspect of that, what is to be enjoyed, that part which is to be enjoyed. And once you know how to do it, then you say, We are swimming in the Ocean of Joy. The ocean is the same. But now you just achieve those beautiful drops of ambrosia, which are in that ocean and the rest are worried of getting drowned same ocean, same world. Thats why they say its a maya, but after this discretion is shining theres no maya.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Shri Hamsa Puja, Sep 9th 1992, Vancouver, Canada

2.16 Collectivity

Collectivity is the blessing of Shri Krishna. He teaches you to be collective, the fun of collectivity, the enjoyment of collectivity. A person who is secluded, who keeps himself off like a drunkard is not the one who worships Shri Krishna. The one who is one with Shri Krishna enjoys everyone, especially if they are all realized souls. That person enjoys their company very much.


To be collective is to be joyousAnybody who cannot be collective is not yet a Sahaja Yogi not yet a Sahaja Yogi

at all. Collective in the sense that anybody who cannot live with other Sahaja Yogis, who tries to find faults with someone all the time, wants to run away with his wife and will stay somewhere else or with her husband, who wants to get out, is not a person whos collective....

Anybody who goes against collectivity, who sticks to their bhoots, sticks to their negativity will have to get out of Sahaja Yoga and that is to be remembered, that to be collective is to be joyous, is to be progressive, to be going further.


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2.17 Doctor of Doctors

Shri Krishna is also a Dhanvantari. That means the doctor of doctors. He is the One who cures

This Yogeshwara, Shri Krishna is also a Dhanvantari. That means the doctor of doctors. He is the one who cures because its all the brain and the vibrations which flow on the nervous system. So He cures people through His brain.... Supposing somebody is having a problem, say on his heart. So as soon as he puts his hands to My photograph, immediately he gets problem on his left finger here. The brain is working. So in your brain, My vibrations go to Shri Krishna and they start sending these messages because I am also Shri Krishna. So this computer acts and immediately you know whats wrong with that person. He is a heart patient. You dont have to do any diagnosis. You dont have to do anything. Immediately you know. And who does this? It is the principle of Shri Krishna in the brain of the Virata. See this is also working for some people, I think. Now you are convinced about it. You know that it works, it acts like this, it happens like that and how it communicates through you. So this computer of Mine communicates. Now, in a computer if you go, you can just press the button. Of course, they are all man-made, but whatever it is, you then get the result. Here it is not like that. It is the brain which automatically gives the result, immediately through the other person. And also the same brain tells you what is to be done to such-and-such a person, how to work it out. The same brain is emitting vibrations and those vibrations are flowing through this brain and they are the ones who tell you whats wrong with this person. So all this work of penetration is done by Shri Krishna, no doubt. He takes these vibrations, puts them into another brain and then that brain, that central nervous system starts working and then you get the result. But instantaneously, its not so much time it takes. Another way I have described it, it just works immediately. As soon as they put their hands before Me, immediately.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Oct 2nd 1994, New Jersey, USA

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The Vishuddhi ChakraThese hands are to be used for collectivity. See, you say namaste when we meet

others. To thousands of people we can say namaste. But I dont like the shaking hands business because its no good. Shaking hands doesnt create any collectivity. On the contrary, you might get all kinds of pins and needles and all kinds of problems from others. But, when you talk to people, also, with these hands only you can feel them. With these hands only you can care for your children. With these hands only you can suggest your softness, your sweetness. Your gestures and everything should show very heartfelt emotions and then only these gestures have some meaning. I would say that the most important things are the hands which act for your collectivity. As far as you are concerned there are many other angels and other ganas who are standing behind you. They also extend their help help to you whenever you want to communicate something. They also do your jobs very well, so whatever is expressed in your hand or through your hand, they immediately pick up.


In your art, in your music, in your gestures, in every way, your hands are very impor-tant. But the Vishuddhi chakra also plays a part, as you know, on the 16 chakras or the sub-plexuses which look after our face, our ears, nose, eyes, neck, all these things are looked after by Vishuddhi chakra. As a result, you can become great actors. You can have eyes which are innocent. You can have skin which is shining. You can have ears which can hear the divine music and you can have a nose which shows your dignity.


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The Nose: is the specialty of Shri KrishnaThe nose is very important. Nose has to be pure in the sense that you should be able

to discard whatever is smelling badly and you should be able to accept whatever is fragrant. Its very important because nose is the specialty of Shri Krishna, I would say, in the sense that Hes the Kubera, and the Kubera has given the nose to the Goddess. Some people have a bad habit of moving their nose just to show disapproval or something like this. They go on doing like that. This is very wrong because then you are insulting yourselves; youre insulting your Kubera power. So you have to keep your nose in a dignified manner.


All the qualities of your Vishuddhi depend upon the teethThen your teeth are very important. You have thirty-two teeth, see; 16 of Krishnas

powers divided into, you can say, thirty-two. These are your teeth on both the sides. The right side is on top and the left down below. That is one thing we neglect very much in the West, I must say. In India it is not. It is very much we neglect and thats what we have to look after Ive seen many people who come to Me in the evening in the program, such a horrible smell from their mouth comes out. It is not that its a disease, but they have not cleansed their teeth Teeth are very important and one must look after them. On the teeth depends all the qualities of your Vishuddhi.


The features are given by Shri Krishna but the inner part of it is all done by Shri Rama

In our Sahaja Yoga we have three Hearts: one is the left, another is the right, and one is the center. Now the right Heart is a very important thing. The right Heart looks after the whole lungs, both the lungs, all the throat, the trachea; the nose, the inner part. The outer side is looked after, we can say, the features are given by Shri Krishna,

This is how the Indians clean their teeth. They never have tooth problems because they just chew on the

branches of the neem tree, Shri Mataji said

from Eternally Inspiring Recollections: Volume 1 Indiapublished by NITL, Pune

but the inner part of it is all done by Shri Rama. They are the same, but one acts as an inner part, another as the outer part. It gives you the ears, from the inner part, Shri Rama does. He gives you the eyes, in the inner part of the eyes. Now, its so important to have the inner side all right and the outer side. It is an example of Shri Rama that He never cared for the outer side or the outward looks of a person. Because He came before Shri Krishna, He tried to build up the inner side of a human being. So we can say, though He is on the right Heart, He acts through your Hamsa chakra and partly through your Vishuddhi chakra in the inner side of it. Because Shri Krishna, in the inner side of it is Shri Rama, is Shri Vishnu.

@ H.H. Shri Mataji, Oct 4th 1987, Les Avants, Switzerland

The Eyes: give you the play and the power of Shri KrishnaIts very important that eyes are the ones which give you the play of Shri Krishna, the

power of Shri Krishna. Even a glance, a little glance of a person who has Krishna conscious-ness, as they call it, if he has Krishna consciousness, should be able to awaken the Kundalini, should be able to redeem, should be able to comfort, should be able to cure anyone.


All the qualities of Shri Krishna can be expressed on your faceA person who is spiritually endowed has an expression which can never be aggres-

sive. He may not be good looking, may not be very a sort of a attractive personality, but the expression on the face is absolutely saintly. That is also the blessings of Shri Krishna The whole thing becomes absolutely mild, soft, peaceful and very joyous. All the quali-ties of Shri Krishna can be expressed on your face. You can be sometimes mischievous to look at. So many expressions there are which come on the face and give you a very sweet feeling. But some people have a habit of looking in the mirror all the time, which is very wrong, because it gives you a kind of a funny ego. Is better to look at Shri Krishnas photograph than to look at your own faces, so that your face will become like that of Shri Krishna ... So, one has to be careful not to pay so much attention and importance to your own self, but to your Self which is within, which is your spirit, and if you look after that side, then all these things will happen in such a beautiful manner. Also, the hair are looked after by Shri Krishna. Now, you see, you know that Hes very fond of anything that is, um, like butter, so you have to put either butter, or oil, or something in your hair. If you dont put it you will become bald. I mean it is after a

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