Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
We wish you all a Happy Shalivahan New Year – Gudi Padwa!! Shri Mataji allowed Her children in Australia to worship Her as Shri Ganesha Shri Gauri for the first time on this auspicious New Year Day in 1981.
Many of us will be worshipping Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in honour of Her Divine Birth today. In 1985 HH Shri Mataji held Birthday Puja in Melbourne on 17 March and then again on 21 March in Mumbai!
On this day dearest HH Shri Mataji, we promise to You that we will completely surrender our lives to Sahaja Yoga. We promise to have full confidence in ourselves, master the knowledge of Sahaja Yoga, keep ourselves clean and spread Sahaja Yoga collectively and with dynamism.
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“But the most important thing is that once you are in the Sahasrara you become My brain, you become really My brain. And so you have to be very careful, because you’re not thinking about your family, your children, your household; not thinking about Melbourne ashram or Sydney ashram or Australia; but you’re thinking about the whole world and the whole universe, and the betterment of it. When you grow to that state you become really part and parcel of My brain, which is concerned with very bigger visions, higher things.”
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“So today on this day of My birthday, I want to bless you very much. But every birthday is reducing My age, you must know that, and so you must grow up now to take over – is important. Is very important that you must grow up. So-called age of Mine though it doesn’t show, but it is decreasing, you must know that. And so you have to now fasten your movements, get to it, work it out. When others come, talk to them nicely. Give them joy, don’t give them any – give them joy.
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First remember you are Sahaja yogis, you are My children, and I love you very much – very, very much. So please have confidence in yourself, complete confidence in yourself, all right? That’s the greatest thing you can give Me today as a present.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 17 March 1985, Birthday Puja, Melbourne, Australia
“Now the third is that with all these things we are doing, we must promise to God also that we will know about Sahaja Yoga, through proper understanding, reading every word of it. We’ll master the knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. We’ll keep ourselves clean. And completely surrender our lives to Sahaja Yoga. This is what you have to promise in your heart. Surrendering to Sahaja Yoga is actually surrendering to joy, bliss and peace. In that you are the gainer, nobody is a loser in it. This is how today we have to decide once for all. Today is the day you know, my forefathers called it the first day of the year (*). And they have the Kalasha and the shawl of the Goddess as the emblem or you can call it as a flag of Shalivahan.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 21 March 1985, Birthday Puja, Mumbai, India
“Today is a very unique thing that is happened – is a special luck for Sahaja yogis of Australia. This day has never been celebrated before in the history of Sahaja Yoga. Today is the New Year’s Day for Sahaja yogis, because this is the New Year’s Day of the Shalivahan calendar. As you know, Shalivahan is My dynasty, and they are called as Shalivahan because they are the carriers of the shawls of the Goddess, they are called as the, because – as you are also carrying so many times My shawls around – and they were called as Shalivahan.
So this New Year’s Day is the first day of advent of Goddess – the nine days there are. Then in another times that there are Satya Yug, then there’s Dvapara, Treta. Kali Yuga: there are four yugas. So in two yugas the Goddess incarnated, one before the Satya Yuga and one after it. So today is the day to mark absolutely the first day when She incarnated on this Earth. That’s the day also of the Gauri, because Virgin is the first form of the Goddess. And she created also Ganesha on Tuesday, just starting this week.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 4 April 1981, Shri Ganesha Gauri Puja, Sydney, Australia
“Today is a very great day with the New Year. Within two years from today Satyayuga is going to start. It’s a great day for many things that nine days are celebrated after this for the advent of Mother. It is the date, or I should say: the calendar was started by my forefathers and they perceived that this is the day when the Mother started creating. And this is the day She created Ganesha to begin with. In the ‘Utpatti’ stage, She started her work this day and that’s why they put this date as the first date because the time started from this date long time back. And that’s why this date is very important, and if you cross this date then you are beyond time. You have to step on to this date and go beyond. You have to step on your Dharma, on to your religion, and go beyond – ‘Dharmateet’. You have to be those three Gunas and to go beyond – ‘Gunateet’. You are all those three. But the steps on which you are standing have to be all right, or those which are crossed or… have to be all right too. So when you are beyond, you have to repair those steps, which you have crossed somehow, which can be done through meditation, Puja, prayers. But the most important, the greatest advancement is done by giving… the universal through your universal being. You all must dedicate your life to Sahaja yoga and give more and more. Among us there are some people who have given a lot and by that they have achieved a lot too. You have to give, talk about it, spread it and bring more people to get this, otherwise they will be left out of evolutionary process. There’s no time for you to doubt and think; don’t waste your time in all these useless activities. If you have still doubts, its better to give up. It’s high time that you get into the process.
So today I wish you happy New Year for a journey in the spiritual life of this world.
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If you could receive whatever I am emitting, in balance, with your Puja, then only it helps better. That means, when you are doing Puja, also receive it. Be in thoughtless awareness when you are doing Puja, completely concentrated in receiving. But while Puja people are talking, I’ve seen, they’re moving about. I mean, I don’t know how to explain it. That’s the time something is oozing out – the nectar – and you just receive it at that time with full devotion. It is oozing out. If you feel my vibrations of my Chakras at that time, you will realize that even the minute, small little, wheels in my body are moving at different space… at different speed, at different dimension. And I really don’t know how to explain – but you see it creates a melody. You have to receive it and it is a melody individually – suitable for every individual – and when you receive it, it triggers in you that state of infinity. So at the time of Puja you must know that you… all your attention should be in reception.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 30 March 1976, Meditation in thoughtless awareness, Delhi, India
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Love
Lyn & Andre on behalf of your Australian Councillors