Diabetes and the imbalance of the subtle system

Advice by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

Another disease that people normally suffer from specially in Delhi is very common, is diabetes. Diabetes is caused because the same center, which is using its power to supply the cells the fat cells for your brain has to look after also the pancreas. Now the pancreas is the one which digests your sugars. Now if all the time you are thinking all the time you’re planning then what can the poor one center do? It cannot work out the pancreas and that’s how only the so-called educated and planners get diabetes. It’s a balancing. Because they use too much of their right side and the left side is completely frozen, what happens that all their left side problems start. The nature takes its respite. It tries to teach you through these methods. If you do not understand that you have to lead a balanced life the other problems can crop up like kidney troubles. (1981-0206)

Now, a man who thinks too much, you see, works through this center, who plans too much, thinks too much, works through this center, because this center converts the fat globules for the use of the brain when you are thinking. Now, such a man neglects other organs which are looked after by this center. The man who is a great planner will have diabetes as a disease because his left side is completely frozen, he never uses it. He becomes emotionally a dry person and he develops diabetes." (1979-0726)

Shri Raja Rajeshwari

So many names have been described of the Goddess, especially Adi Shankaracharya called Her Raja Rajeshwari, meaning “She’s the Queen of all the Queens”. Also, for Mother Mary they have used this title in the West. These ideas have come from the pagan religion, as I’ve told you before, and that they didn’t come by the description of Mother Mary in the Bible. That shows that there have been a lot of changes into the script of Holy Bible. Also there has been lot of changes in the script of Indian scriptures, even Gita. And that’s how the derailment in every religion started. ...

Today we are going to do the worship of Raja Rajeshwari. I’ve never said this to you before. I’ve never asked you to read Guru Gita for the same reason. I’ve never told you that She is Raja Rajeshwari because again that might little bit go into your ego, how can She be the Queen of all the Queens. Of course, Christ’s mother is alright but not Mataji, it’s too much. So I never told you this. ...

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extracts from Shri Raja Rajeshwari Puja, Madras, India Tour 1991 (1991-1206)

Eczema

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: Now let me ask a question. Why a child will have an allergy? The doctors have to answer. Or, of course you are all doctors so you should say. Can I have the answer?

Yogi: It could be an imbalance of heat and cold in the body?

Shri Mataji: But why? Say on the chakras. You say on the chakras what will be catching. If somebody has allergies, what does it catch?

Yogi: The Left Nabhi.

Shri Mataji: Correct. Left Nabhi. Left Nabhi will catch. Now that means the mother. Because the child is not yet married so it’s the mother. That means mother must be having a left Nabhi herself and that’s why the child must catching with that allergy, so instead of punishing the child, why not cure the left Nabhi of the mother and left Nabhi of the child? Now what will you do if there’s a left Nabhi of the child? What we can do to help the child to get rid of it?

Ah, very simple. Anything that is left [side] can be taken out on the little flame. Put your right hand on the left Nabhi of the child and put your left hand to the flame and finished. ...

Yogi: Eczema?

Shri Mataji: For eczema same thing. [left side problem] Eczema is the same thing, is just like allergy, eczema same thing. But for eczema because it’s outward you can use certain things like neem ka pata and all that I’ve told you and so many things can be used on top. ...

Yogi: Why does cow’s milk make allergies and eczema worse?

Shri Mataji: Cow’s milk..

Yogi: Because it’s left side?

Shri Mataji: Left side. Cow’s milk always give you the left side because she’s the mother, and you should not have her milk, because it’s left sided. Whether it is cow’s milk or buffalo’s milk, all will give allergies but if you have animals which are smaller than you like if you can drink like Mahatma Gandhi the goat’s milk then you might not have the problem.

(1986-0131 Health advice to yogis, Rahuri, India)


Q: I have had eczema for quite a long time. I’ve had it for quite a long time, [unclear] itching, almost drives a person to distraction, and it’s really hard to control.

Shri Mataji: I was telling you there is a liver problem. Are you going in for a liver treatment? And you should go on a diet. No fats, nothing, just a regular diet for liver and do that for a month. You see? Go for a liver treatment completely. [unclear] Now, liver diet is the best.

(1983-0319 Advice to Mothers, Sydney, Australia)

Have patience with yourself

Now for the new people I have to tell, you have to have patience with yourself. You have to have patience. As I have patience for you, I have love for you, I am here only because of you. You also must have patience for yourself and full confidence in yourself that you’ll become the Spirit. If you have these two things, I’m sure it will work out. It is going to work out. Once you get your Realization you have to work out on other people, and gradually you will be amazed that it will grow, and it will convince you, and you will know that you have become the realized soul. But the realized souls are very simple people. If they say, “I am a realized soul,” nobody can believe them because there are no horns around them. No gurudom around them, nothing of the kind, they’re extremely simple people. So what is going to help you is a simple attitude toward yourself and toward these Sahaja Yogis, and towards Sahaja Yoga that you have come here to become the Spirit. We have to gain nothing from you. There’s no clientele as such, there’s no money proposition, nothing. It is you who have come to the Ganges, to take the holy water, it is you who has to take it. We are here to help you. If that attitude is developed I’m sure, with your co-operation, we can change the face of this world. And as William Blake has said in this Hampstead, “We have to build up Jerusalem here.” May God Bless you all.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from 'How to talk to new people', Hampstead, London, 1983 (1983-0512)

Attention

In this song, saint Namdev uses symbolism to emphasis the need for attention on the Divine during daily life. A variant of this poem has been refered to by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in several talks (eg. 1990-0506, 1995-0716, and others):

The name Ram has entered my heart,
placing a golden scale within.

A man makes a paper kite and flies it in the sky.
And though he keeps talking to his friends,
his mind is on the string.

The perfect princess balances a pot full of water on her head.
Laughing and joking she claps her hands.
[But] her mind is on the pitcher.

There is a house with ten doors [the subtle body]
from which the cows [the five senses] go to pasture.
Wandering, a cow grazes for ten miles, [but] her mind is on the calf.

The child lies in the cradle and the mother works in her room.
[But] her mind is on the child.
Listen to me Trilochan*,
Says Namdev.


*Trilochan was a contemporary of Namdev, originally from the Sholapur district of what is now Maharashtra. Little is known of him.

Source: The Hindi Padavali of Namdev: a critical edition of Namdev's Hindi songs with translation and annotation [by] Winand M.Callewaert and Mukund Lath (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989)

The unbounding Love

Even when you get your realisation you are sometimes in a growing stage up to a point. Like you're nourished by the Mother Earth all the time, but you're not aware of it. In the same way the womb of Sahaja Yoga nourishes you to grow into beautiful human beings. Still you have to come up to a point when it has to click in such a way that you start feeling the awareness of that unbounding love. In the small children it clicks very fast because they're so innocent and uncomplicated and in some people also I've seen it click very fast - as soon as they get their realisation. Feel the awareness of that unbounding love.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk in English to the Sahaja Yogis. Maharashtra, India Tour 1984. (1984-0119)

Sahaja Samadhi

The knowledge coming from the arousing of Kundalini and [the associated] state of actionlessness brings about automatically the Sahaja Samadhi.

Varaha Upanishad 2.77

Enjoying the Disadvantage

First time I went to America I also went by ship. Now the ship has one problem: that it cannot have any problem, because there are no solutions. It is so limited. Whatever is not on the ship is not there. Now, supposing you want to have a pair of scissors, it's not on the ship, so you cannot find it. So there's no problem. (laughter) Because you have possibilities and you have choices that’s why there is a problem. So, on the ship you start understanding, whatever we have we are happy.

In the same way a Sahaja Yogi should be: whatever we have we are very happy. So there’s no problem. Supposing you are lost on the way somewhere then you have to say, “I have to be here. That was God's desire, so I'm here. So I'm not lost. Whatever is myself is with me, how can I be lost?”

There are all such things, if you see, because many people write to me about their problems. And the problems are such that actually there are no problems. Once you start thinking like that you’ll be amazed how the problems get solved.

Now Italy had no rain for all these days. And that people wanted that there should be some rain before I come, because it should clean out the whole thing. So they must have said, “There is no problem.” So it rained. Then the other day it was quite cold. Now they wanted to have, say, a music program. So it was very cold, so we decided we'll not have it. So there is no problem. (laughter)

We slept nicely and got up nicely in the morning because we had to get up nicely in the morning. Otherwise in the night you would have been singing till three o'clock. (laughter) So, it’s better that it was not so all right. And now today it's very warm and nice.

So in Sahaja Yoga you must always think if there is a disadvantage it’s an advantage for us. You should see to the essence of the disadvantage and you will overcome it with an advantage. You will see human beings have done this many a times. Like in Holland, you know the sea is much higher than the land. So what did they do? They created canals. So automatically they got very good roads. They don’t have to worry about keeping the road all right.

So in every way if we can learn, how to enjoy the disadvantage, the so-called problem, then you'll see that the solving of that is the solution in a way that there is no problem. It should not be taken as a challenge, but like a big wave comes onto a swimmer how he enjoys it, you see, to jump over it. That's why we are not joy-killers and we are not also spoiled-sports - spoiled-sports - spoiling the sport.

So you should not say, "I don’t like it, I don’t enjoy it", but you should say, "Why not?" Because if you decide not to like it, you will spoil the joy. But if you keep yourself open all the time and think, "Oh, I’m going to enjoy it”, then you start enjoying. For example, cappuccino was difficult for me in the beginning. (Laughter) But now I enjoy. (Laughter & applause)

Thank you!

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Informal Talk on board a ship, Italy, 1989-0505

Mantras and the Divine Connection

Advice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

As I told you about eyes yesterday, it’s very important that eyes are the ones which give you the play of Shri Krishna, the power of Shri Krishna. Even a glance, a little glance of a person who has Krishna consciousness, as they call it, if he has Krishna consciousness, then should be able to awaken the Kundalini, should be able to redeem, should be able to comfort, should be able to cure anyone. Even a glance, a side glance can do it, if it has Krishna consciousness, but not self-certified ones who say, “We are Krishna consciousness,” all the time taking the name of Shri Krishna or any mantra.

So on the left hand side the escape is feeling guilty. When you feel guilty, they try to find out some method of expression. So they say they go to some guru and then the guru gives them some sort of a mantra, and they accept that mantra, they go on saying. As a result of that they catch more on the left Vishudhi. Because if you go on saying mantra without the connection, you get completely caught-up. So the left Vishuddhi is again gone and your mantras are absolutely useless, they’re destroying them. Actually many people I’ve seen who get to heart attacks, who get anginas and also who get cancer are the people who have been doing mantras like this, without the connection with the Divine. If you’re not connected, say for example this is not connected and I start using it too much, it will get spoilt. In the same way the centre on the left hand side gets spoilt when you start saying any mantra without being connected, without feeling the power of that mantra. So in Sahaja Yoga we’ve got mantras to neutralise these mantras on the left hand side.

(extract from Shri Krishna Puja, USA, 1986-0622)


This understanding about Vishnumaya’s powers should be there with us. That if we try to continue with our mistakes and putting them here, then first thing we become vulnerable to all kinds of diseases. With that if you are smoking, you can become also very much vulnerable to cancer of the throat. Another thing which people do not know is the mantras. If you go on saying any mantra — I mean in India there are people who will every day, morning get up and say some mantra for about, say, hundred times, some say it at least three hundred times, five hundred times. They go on measuring, mantra, mantra, mantra, mantra, like that. Now She’s the mantrika. She’s the one who gives the power to the mantra.

Now if you are not connected to this Divine Power, then there’s a short-circuiting takes place and if you go on saying this mantra, you develop all the troubles of the throat, throat cancer. You can develop also stomach, in the stomach, problems because it is Krishna and Vishnu are the same. You might develop also the problem of Virata. Because you are reciting a mantra like this, you see — a telephone, if it is not connected, I go on using it, the telephone will go out of order.

In the same way, if you are doing wrong mantras in the sense that the mantras which are said before you have connection with the Divine, then they can spoil your left Vishudhi.

(extract from Shri Vishnumaya Puja, New York, 1992-0919)

Confucius

Confucius (551-479BCE) was a Chinese sage, teacher and administrator, whose ideas have profoundly influenced Chinese society through 2,500 years. His observations and teachings are to be found in the Analects (Li chi), which were mostly compiled by his disciples and successors in later years.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has stated that Confucius was an incarnation of the Primordial Master, who came to teach humanity how to improve relationships (1995-0913), and who wished to establish a class of public-minded people (1986-1009).


from Saints, Sufis and Yogis: A Biographical Dictionary of Realised Souls

Evolution

When I was a young student in school, at that time I could never have believed that we could ever reach the moon, none could have believed. If anyone would have said that, the people would have laughed at such a conjecture. Even today if you tell my grandmother, she does not believe it. She thinks it is just a story you are telling. But we have reached the moon, no doubt.

In this system, we have used a very wonderful system of putting five capsules one into another and the first capsule, the lowest one explodes and triggers the movement of the rest of four capsules. When the second one explodes, it gives an acceleration many more times than that with which it was already moving; the speed increases in such a tremendous way that suddenly we find that the acceleration is a very high multiple of the first one; then the third one when it explodes gives another push to the capsule. Next, the fourth one explodes; then the fifth one which contains the spacecraft. Through this kind of explosions from one to the other, through that built-in mechanism, we have been able to achieve a very high acceleration for the spacecraft.

In the same way our evolution has taken place. We got this idea without even knowing about our evolution from the Unconscious. We have come to know how it has happened, but we cannot correlate both these together. So, in the same way human being was created out of amoeba or amoeba was created out of all the elements. In the same manner we can say that we were made again of five capsules.

The first one is the physical or physical being. Inside the physical being was kept the emotional being. Inside the emotional being was kept the spiritual being and inside the spiritual being was kept the Spirit or our attention.

We can say, Kundalini is the one that triggers, that is the one that explodes. So Kundalini force is in everything, but in the most affective, the best, the highest form, it is in human beings. It is this force which exists in everyone and evolves everything, say from carbon to the amoeba stage and from amoeba to animal stage and from animal to human stage. Even in elements it exists because the elements also evolve. We do not know how they evolve but it happens in Nature, that elements start changing their forms and mass and they become different elements; we have no idea of this because we have no way of measuring the quantity of this change that is taking place.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, extract from Talk on the Creation of Man, India, February 1979