Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
Shri Mataji has often spoken about the importance of early morning meditations for our individual and collective spiritual growth.
So in preparation for Diwali this year, 21 days of 5:30AM meditations were hosted on Zoom and YouTube from homes around Australia – this was called the ’21 Day Diwali Challenge’.
Please enjoy this short video showing Shri Mataji’s Altars from the homes that hosted a morning meditation during the ’21 Day Diwali Challenge’.
The video concludes with a short talk by Shri Mataji about Diwali and the importance of early morning meditation. Transcript of the talk is below.
Recordings of the daily meditations are here: yogis.com.au/collective
To continue with online meditations, we have listed some local and international daily collective meditations here: yogis.com.au/meditations
Many thanks to those who initiated the ’21 Day Diwali Challenge’ and to all the yogis who hosted and participated in this wonderful initiative.
Jai Shri Mataji!
With love
Brett.
Video Diwali Challenge 2021
Diwali Puja Talk
“Early to bed and early to rise”.
“Diwali means the, the rows of lights. So, you are going to make this beautiful mansion of God full of Diwali light. You have entered into the kingdom of God and you have to enlighten it. So you are the decoration of God on one side, you are the glory of God and also, on the other side you are the guide, guidelines – you are like the torches, you can say, you are like the, what you call them, which are used by ships those…
Yogis: Lighthouse.
Lighthouses? You have to become lighthouses. So that people see you, you stand out, a light see. Like that you have to be. And, for that you have to have self-discipline. Put your will power. Put it. Will power! Put it down. How can I not do it?
Now, in this place I’m going to start within say two-three days after this Diwali, a morning session. Say, about, we can start about five o’clock every morning or five-thirty every morning. You have to have your bath before coming here. Say, five-thirty or five o’clock? Will that be all right? Your Mother gets up at four-thirty whatever may happen. You have to change your habits. You have to!
Get up in the morning. You know, by getting up in the morning you finish off so much of work because in the night what do you do? Lay, gossip, waste your time! But if you say that, “Tonight let me sleep late and tomorrow I’ll get up early.” You’ll never. First get up early and then you will sleep early. The other way round! You see, you have to see your mind how it works.
So, get up in the morning, have your bath then sit down for meditation. It’s quite a warm room. Have your nice hot bath; sit down for your meditation for about an hour or so. Meditate. You will feel so nice, after sometime you cannot sleep after four-thirty.
Now, look at My system. I mean, whether I am in America or whether I am in India, and when I get up at four-thirty. How do I manage? I’ve no watch, nothing like that. I just get up at four-thirty. I’ve tuned Myself to the sun. You are tuned more to the moon. I have tuned Myself to the sun.
When the sun comes at this angle I have to get up because that is the time vibrations have to flow. All over the world, at four-thirty in the morning all the vibrations, the best time, flow in the purest form.
That’s why all the seers, get up very early in the morning, have their baths and sit down for meditation. It’s too much I know, especially for English men but you have to train up yourself. You will do it; you will like it if you do it like a festival. See today is a festival day, let us get up and have a nice bath and have a nice soap, you see, perfumed one and nice things. You will enjoy, you see. Bath should be a ritual. But should not be all the time because I see Reg is sitting there quite happy. [laughter]
Like Indians also, they bathe too much. That is not necessary. Too much not, but once. And, then if you sit at home for about an hour or so the house is lighted.
I could get this place lighted in the morning, you come here, you will be amazed that if you develop this habit you can do such a lot. Because in the evening you are tired and you cannot do many things and you are absolutely fagged out, you see, so you will sleep early.
And this is English saying: “Early to bed and early to rise”. Not Indian, is it? [laughter]
And, that’s what we have to do. And, you will be amazed you’ll do thousand and one things, thousand and one things if you get up early in the morning. So, we are going to try that after Diwali. I’m going to announce those who can try with Me can do it.
H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ~ Diwali Puja Talk: Lakshmi Principle London 27th October 1981
Video and full Transcript