- GURUPOURNIMA
- 10 Incarnations of Adiguru Dattatreya, Primordial Master
The source of meditation is Guru’s image. Dhyanamulam Gurumurti ध्यानमुलं गुरुमूर्ती
The basic (most important) object to be worshipped is Guru’s Lotus Feet. Pujamulam Gurupadam पूजामूलं गुरूपदं
The source of all mantras is Guru’s words. Mantramulam Guruvakyam मंत्रमूलं गुरुवाक्यं
The source of moksha, Self Realisation is Guru’s grace. Mokshamulam Gurukrupa मोक्षमूलं गुरुकृपा
Detachment is Nourishment
Excerpts from H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmaladevi’s speeches:-
1- 1993 Bulgaria https://www.amruta.org/1993/09/08/mahalakshmi-puja-sophia-1993/ … “By this principle (Mahalakshmi Princiole) you realise what is wrong with the outside religions, you realise also, that inside all the religions are born like flowers on the same tree of spirituality. And automatically you start worshipping all the prophets right from Abraham, Moses, Confucius, Lao Tse, Mohammed Sahib, Nanak. You worship them! It is not that you have respect, but you worship, and thus you lose the barriers of fundamentalism. By the ascent, with this principle, you achieve a personality by which you become a universal being. You understand the problems of your country and of your race, and you transcend to see what’s wrong with them and how to correct them. When the Mahalakshmi principle is awakened we realise that outside we may be different but inside we are just the same. All the masters and prophets are just the same, whatever religion they might have been born.” …
… “If you cannot surrender and detach, you cannot enter into Mahalakshmi channel.” …
… “With this Mahalakshmi principle our attention should be on our virtues, and we must enjoy our generosity. We must enjoy our purity. We should enjoy our innocence and chastity – even men have to do that. We should enjoy our detachments. All this is already within your reach.” …
2- 1981 London https://www.amruta.org/1981/07/19/guru-purnima-london-1981/ … “But you have a Guru who is a Mother. I never hit you, I don’t think I have hit anyone of you. You got your realization. In all my compassion I looked after you. I have given you compassion. I’ve never asked for anything nor have I complained for anything or grudged for anything. I have been extremely, extremely, extremely patient with you.
So you have to be My prototype. You are a guru in Sahaja Yoga, in this Maha Yoga, you are not a guru of this type who can only create one disciple in twenty one thousand years, sort of a thing. You have got the knowledge of Kundalini much more than any one of these gurus have got. You have the powers much more than any one of these gurus have. Indiscriminately this power has been given to you.” …
3- 1980 Paris https://www.amruta.org/1980/04/20/puja-in-paris-1980/ … “With puja the vibrations try to detach you from your mental activity, from your rationality and then you are stationed into the realm of Divine existence.”… …“Once you are detached from yourself, all your problems become so tiny as you see from the sky, from the aeroplane all the farfetched things which are not so important. And the problems that are going in the houses down below do not touch you. You go beyond clouds and you live in the area of that ‘space of Divine love’. Then all your petty things, irritating things, all your so called problems of life, all disappear and then only you can be effective more, much more effective, because you become a source of Divine love. Puja is the only way I feel you can stop your mental activity. Sahaja Yoga cannot be understood trough rationality. Mentally it may be, but ‘to become’ you have to detach yourself completely. You have to go beyond it, because this limits your movement.
Everything that you are doing here is significant, but it’s not a mental significance, it has a Divine significance. For example even painting My Feet now. What you do is to recognize Me first of all. Then the importance of these Feet- these Feet have been working, have been dancing for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.” …
4- 1982 London https://www.amruta.org/1982/08/06/importance-of-dedication-and-devotion-london-1982/ … “So once you start facing yourself, you will like yourself. You won’t feel disgusted. Because that what your ‘Self’ I’m talking about – is glorious, is beautiful, is without any kalank [blemish] on that, is absolutely detached. But first of all, your attention has to accept it, that “This detachment is my life, I’m a different personality, detachment is my nourishment.” Detach yourself.” …
5- 1984 Pandharpur India https://www.amruta.org/1984/02/29/mahashivaratri-puja-1984/ … “Colour of the Spirit is the light of the Spirit; and this light of the Spirit acts, works, thinks, coordinates, does everything.” … … “now detach, become the brain yourself. Only the brain. Detach, Detach”. And then, take this detached brain, completely filled with the colour of the Spirit. It will automatically happen. As long as you’ll have these limitations to your attention, it will not happen. So one has to really, deliberately do this tapasya. Every individual. I’m with you; so you don’t need any puja that way. But that state has to be achieved, and for achieving that state, you need the puja. I hope so many of you’ll become the Shiva Tattwas in My lifetime. But don’t think I’m asking you to suffer. There is no suffering in this kind of an ascent. If you understand that this is the complete joyous state, that is the time when you become Nirananda. That’s the joy named in the Sahastrara, the name of the joy is Nirananda, and you know your Mother’s name is Nira. So you become Nirananda. So today’s worship of Shiva has a special meaning. I hope whatever we do in the outward way, in a gross way, happens also in the subtler way. I’m trying to push your Spirits into your brains, but I find it rather, sometimes, difficult because your attention is still involved. Try to detach yourself. Temper, lust, greed – everything. Try to reduce.” …
… “detachment must start expressing itself in your Realization. Detachment. What is surrendering? Is nothing because when you are detached you are surrendered, automatically. When you are holding onto other things you are not surrendered, that’s all.” …. “And then, once you get detached, you’ll start feeling responsible – (अभियुक्त) abhiyukt – responsible.”
6- 1992 Cabella https://www.amruta.org/1992/07/19/guru-puja-1992/ … “So the ascetic ideas, I don’t know from where it has come, whatever it has come. Maybe because they wanted people to pay more attention to their Spirit. But a Guru is not ascetic by nature. But he’s so detached that he’s ascetic. He may be the king or he may be a beggar or he may be a big personality somewhere or he may be just an ordinary person. If he is a Guru then in every state he’s in complete balance. Nothing can disturb him.” …
… “So the symptom is that you are in balance and you cannot be dominated by food or by power or by wealth or money or anything – nothing can dominate you. You are above all these things. And once you know that you are above all these things then you are not afraid. No more you are afraid. Fearlessness comes into you, you become absolutely fearless. Nothing can put you into imbalance. Nothing can dominate you. Nothing can weaken you. Nothing can make you an addict. Nothing is tempting. There’s nothing like temptation left anymore. When you reach that state, beyond temptation, beyond any greed, beyond any lust, then there is no problem. Nothing, nothing can really bring you down.” …
7- 1998 Cabella https://www.amruta.org/1998/07/12/guru-puja-1998/ … “So, what is the greatest thing you have to achieve? Your detachment. Then you become gunateet, means, as you know, we have three gunas within us. One is called as Satvaguna, is the best, but there are two other gunas which are, as you know that, Left Side and Right Side. Either you are a right-sided person or a left-sided person.” …
8- 1985 Switzerland https://www.amruta.org/1985/10/19/navaratri-puja-1985/ … “Guru Puja is a day of thanksgiving to your Guru, the One who has counselled you, the One who has told you about the Truth, the One who has taught you the Truth and has given you Realisation.” …
9- 1979 UK https://www.amruta.org/1979/12/02/shri-guru-puja-1979-the-declaration/ … “My announcement will work it out within them – the recognition. Without recognition you cannot see the play, without play, you cannot have confidence within yourself, without confidence you cannot become Guru, without becoming Guru you cannot help others, and without helping others you are not going to be in any way happy. So, to break the chain, is very easy, but to build the chain one after another is what you have to do. This is what you were all wanting to be. So, be confident, and be joyous, and be happy that all My powers will protect you, My Love – will nourish you, and My nature will fill you with peace and joy.
May God Bless You!
Audio link: Shri Mataji telling the meaning of Shloka from Shri Adi Shankaracharya
blossom of sahastrara 