Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
We wish you all a happy Makar Sankranti!!
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sankranti Puja Mumbai India 1985
Let us all promise on this holy day to speak sweetly to our brothers and sisters all year!
Let’s all commit to dedicating ourselves to Sahaj Collectivity.
Love
Andre and Lyn on behalf of your Australian Councillors
“So the best way to conquer your ego is to speak sweetly first.”
Sankranti Puja, 14 January 1985, Mumbai India (32 mins)
“So the best way to conquer your ego is to speak sweetly first. It is such a small thing to be done but it brings you to that synthesis of character within yourselves first of all and to the synthesis of all the beautiful principles of lives.
Like you talk to somebody sweetly, the person may like you. He may tell you something, which he may be knowing of a very great importance for you. If you talk to somebody sweetly then you get the peace of mind because you have given peace to another person.
Whatever you give to another person, that you feel within yourselves. But if you are quarrelling with another person, actually it is the reflection of your quarrelling nature within yourself.
Today there is a big dirt and big cry and big organizations working out the peace missions. The peace mission is within yourself! Let us start all of us the Sahaja Yogis who are great saints sitting here decide today that we are going to make peace with ourselves and with others. But first and foremost thing, the peace cannot be made with quarrels. You see like America and Russia want to decide it, with missiles – the peace part. They say: “let’s fight as many as will remain, they can live in peace. Let all those who are fighting, kill each other!
[Shri Mataji laughs] They think this is the solution of the problem. It is the other way around. Let everybody live peacefully within themselves and give peace to others, so that this peace will become a nucleus for the peace of the world. So, your great task today is to establish a great source of peaceful people. We have so many Sahaja Yogis here. You’re sitting in complete peace and happiness and joy, you don’t know you are emitting all that peace, channelizing it and doing it. But still, there are some who are suffering from horrible ego, and with hurt ego, and they are trying to do something, which they should never do, is to think just now. [Shri Mataji smiles] If you are thinking just now, you will not register what I am saying. Because this is another quality of a person who is ego oriented, is not to register. You may say anything you like, but they don’t hear. They hear what they want to hear, or they don’t hear.So, this is another thing we have to, today, decide, that we’ll register things than to tell out. Let us register. This is a sign of a character that wants to know, wants to know more about. The criteria of ascent is synthesis and integration. A person who is not integrated with other Sahaja Yogis is not a man who has ascended. Who tries to divide and talk of divisions: “We, the English, we, the Germans, we, the Indians”. Then they are not Sahaja Yogis, they are Indians all right, but not Sahaja Yogis. Sahaja Yogis have no caste, creed or nationality. We have to carry our passport only because we are born in this jail. So, we have to carry our criminal number. [Sahaja Yogis laugh] But actually you don’t need it. You don’t need all those things.
Now for us today to decide first of all in your heart that we will take to peaceful methods, when we are troubling, we will be taking to peaceful methods. Anybody who is trying to provoke you or trying to create a problem or divide you on any issue whatsoever, run away from that person as fast as possible. Anybody who talks of peace, the peace makers, stick on to that person then only you will understand that you are also getting peace. You, here, you have come to get peace, not to create problems or to listen to your problems, but to get to peace.
Peace is a nature or is the quality of your spirit. So, once you jump onto your peace, somehow, what happens that you go beyond the cause and the effect. You are beyond the cause and the effect. So, the cause disappears and the effect also disappears. So today we all have come here to worship the peace, the within and the without. Let us be peaceful within. Let us not join groups who hate, who talk hate. Who wants to hate one person who wants to create a group. Who says “we, the Americans” or “we, the this”, just.
In Sahaja Yoga you must learn from people who have advanced who have very much progressed. For example, I would say among all the Europeans, Australians have done very well. There is nothing to feel jealous. All right if Australians have done well, all right, that’s your glory. So ask them how they have done, how they have worked it out. Tomorrow, may be that Americans – I wish that very much- may do the best.
So, then you should ask them, how have you done so well? That’s the way we are going to live. We are not going to compete, we are not going to be jealous, but we are going to absorb all that is best. This is Sahaja Yoga. It is the other way around. Like, if they discover something like a pilotless bomb, then they will discover something as, which is a machineless bomb. No. It is another one: we develop a mind, which absorbs everything, and then we develop a bigger mind, which gives everything.
There is no secret in Sahaja Yoga. Everybody who has known something better, have had some good experiences of Sahaja Yoga, should tell. But then in ego I have seen people start preaching that all right this method you try, that method you try. There is no need to do that also, because of lack of discretion. If you had discretion, you would have known that this is not to be done. What is not to be done in Sahaja Yoga is not to be done! But how will you know when you don’t have the discretion, like a lost ship?
So, then you have to see how your Mother would act at such a position. And then I am sure you will go beyond the cause and the effect. So today is the day I should also not say anything that is in anyway hurting to anyone and I am trying to make you smile and laugh but you are so serious [big laughs].
So today we decide on peace. Peace with ourselves, peace with others and that is how we worship the Sun, Christ the one who was the emblem, who was the absolute practical symbol of that peace. And once you understand this, I am sure you will try to follow that instead of hitting everybody, getting angry with everybody.
Just forgive all these things. You have come here to ascend, and your gain is your gain. Your fighting is not your gain, remember that. Your quarrelling is not your gain. The gain is the peace that you have achieved, the love that you have developed, the compassion that you can emit, the amount of relationship and the report you can penetrate into others. This is your gain which we have to receive today, a mind, a heart like a lion and not chicken-hearted people. Not people who would be angry and this, to boast off your anger. These days are gone, we boast off our peace, we boast off our contentment, we boast off our glory and we boast off our state. And that is the state where we are now in the Kingdom of God. May God bless you!”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sankranti Puja, 14 January 1985, Mumbai, India
(Full Transcript with Video and Audio)
“We have to show to this world that it is only the spirit that can save the world, nothing else.”
“We cannot play about with that. It is a very great emergency. I can feel in the atmosphere, the emergency. All the Gods and Goddesses are there to help you to work it out. You are on the stage and you have to create that great drama of revolution. We have to show to this world that it is only the spirit that can save the world, nothing else. And so from today, we start our journey towards that subtlety and that sensitivity which you can feel. Nirananda – your Mother’s name is Nira and at Sahasrara you feel the ananda, the joy of Nira.
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Makar Sankranti Puja, 14 January 1984, Mumbai, India
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Sankranti Puja at Arrival Sydney 14th January 2006