National Collective Online Program
Preparing for Navaratri Puja
“Mind is just like a donkey”
Saturday 7th October 2023 • 7PM (Sydney time)
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Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
In preparation for Navaratri Puja this month, the NSW collective invites us to join them this weekend to enjoy Shri Mataji’s talk from Shri Durga Puja 1982 where Shri Mataji describes our “mind is just like a donkey”.
Let’s gather at our Divine Mother’s Lotus Feet as one strong collective to enjoy Her loving vibrations.
“…mind is just like a donkey”
“So either before [the] Puja, you tell your mind to keep quiet. Tell him not to talk now, “Better keep quiet, now I have to ascend and I have to receive the blessings of the Divine. So just keep quiet, and if you cannot keep quiet then I cannot ascend.” I have told you many a times it is like a donkey, [the] mind is just like a donkey. If you go behind the donkey, it kicks you, it will tell you, that you are the bad man, you are the worst man; all the self-pity will come into you. If you go ahead with the donkey, then he’ll put his ears to you, you can hold him like an ego, you see. You can go wherever you want, [and] do what you like, “What’s wrong?” It will not control you. If you sit on top of the donkey it will still play about with you, to see how you work out. So, if you allow the mind to go here and there, through your eyes or through your attention, or anywhere, or through your tongue or your senses, it will say, “All right.” It will eat the grass on the sides, it won’t move. It will move [to] this side, eat some grass, that side.”
Shri Mataji – Shri Durga Puja Vienna 26th Sept 1982