The Void

The Void
‘Now here Mother has given me
the Spirit and I have my own Guru
which is the Spirit. I am master of
my own. Let there be no
abandonment, let there be dignity
in my character.’
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation
 About this booklet
This booklet describes the beautiful qualities of the Void which is the centre of our
spiritual mastery and the Guru principle. Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga
Meditation, has given countless talks about this subject. Some of these talks are
presented in this booklet.

Contents
About Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ..................................................................................... 1
The Void – the Guru Principle ........................................................................................ 2
‘Ten Gurus are incarnated. They tell us about the dharma.’ ...................................... 3
The 10 Primordial Masters (Adi Gurus)......................................................................... 6
Evolution: first was innocence, then seeking ............................................................... 8
The Ocean of Illusion ...................................................................................................... 9
‘I hope you'll understand as a Guru what you have to do.’....................................... 10
‘You are like diamonds, thrown into dust.’................................................................. 12
‘Where is your attention… If you are the Guru, where is your attention?’ ............. 13
Knowledge of the Void ................................................................................................. 14

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Life Eternal Trust Australia and Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia
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 About Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Internationally recognised
Shri Mataji was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, recipient of the United Nations Peace
Medal and was twice honoured by the United States Congress. She was
internationally recognised for her contribution to humanity through a lifetime of
work for peace and the wellbeing of mankind. She received awards and citations
from the governments of many countries in recognition of her selfless efforts for
social improvement.

“Shri Mataji’s discovery brings genuine hope to humanity.”

(Claes Nobel, grandnephew of Alfred Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize Foundation and
Chairman of the United Earth Organization.)

Start of Sahaja Yoga meditation

In 1970, after studying the field of medicine and focusing on the scientific
terminology of the anatomy and human physiology, she started Sahaja Yoga
meditation, which she insisted be shared with all, at no cost.

Shri Mataji’s core teaching is that within us all lies a transformative potential, which
can be awakened using her method. By doing so, we can bring peace and wellbeing
to ourselves, our families, our social institutions, our nations and our world.

In keeping with her principles, Sahaja Yoga meditation is now offered in over one
hundred countries worldwide, free of charge.

Shri Mataji in Australia

After her first visit in 1981, Shri Mataji continued to visit Australia on many
occasions, giving free public lectures to share her knowledge and teach the
Australian public her simple method of Sahaja Yoga meditation. During these years
she gave over fifty public lectures around Australia, without charge. Over the years,
many tens of thousands of people attended her talks. Shri Mataji would stay for
many hours after these lectures, to individually meet all the audience members
who lined up seeking her guidance.

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The Void – the Guru Principle
“All these great saints came on this earth to tell us
how to keep in the centre, how to keep our
sustenance, how to be human beings.”

The contributions of the Adi Gurus to mankind -

the generosity and certainty of Abraham, the
regulations of Moses, the single-mindedness of
Raja Janaka, the recognition of the purifying
power of fire and the elements by Zarathustra, the
powers gained by 'going with the flow' of Lao Tse,
the social disciplines of Confucius, the wisdom of
Socrates, the clear focus of Mohammed, the
The Void is located in the abdominal cavity. On the collective joy of Guru Nanaka, and the freeing
subtle system, it is shown as a large green area from prejudice by Shirdi Sai Nath – have all had a
circling the Nabhi, with the Void itself being tremendous beneficial impact. They help to
encircled by the Swadhistan chakra. The Void remove the clutter and obstacles that get in the
represents the Guru principle, the area of self- way of that good journey to love, detachment and
mastery. As the Kundalini rises and passes ascent.
through the Void, the attention is enlightened and
enables an awareness of a higher reality, allowing “All these are the one and the only one principle of
the individual to start on the journey to becoming Primordial Master who came, and they all said the
their own guru. same thing.”

“So you become your own guru. You start The influence of the Adi Gurus helps to bridge
understanding what's wrong with yourself and the space that exists between the seeker and the
correcting yourself.” Absolute, enabling the seeker to subtly evolve
from a world of illusion, to enjoying the reality of
The Deity of the Void is Shri Adi Guru Dattatreya, the Divine. The individual develops and builds on
the Primordial Master who incarnated many times their base foundation of, firstly, innocence, then
throughout history, to guide and help mankind. searching for food or material wants, to then
He is the essence and innocence of Shri reaching for something more subtle, their Spirit.
Brahmadeva (creation), Shri Vishnu (preservation
and evolution) and Shri Shiva (destruction); and as “Once we cover that gap we have finished with
such, the Adi Guru is symbolically portrayed as our evolution and we are there, where we have to
having three heads. be.”

“All these Adi Gurus and their incarnations, if you At the Void, we are helped to remain in balance
see them, they always had balance and always by spiritual boundaries such as the Ten
praised the love of God.” Commandments, which are designed to keep us
in harmony with each other and with the Divine.
Ten great Masters have taken their births, in
order to help establish righteousness and “Now in this area, as you see the greenish area,
exemplify good conduct. These incarnations are what we call as the Void in Sahaja Yoga, resides
the navigators who help chart the journey for these ten valances, the religion, the inner religion,
those who are desiring to cross the turbulent not the outer one.”
waters of the Ocean of Illusion.

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 ‘Ten Gurus are incarnated. They tell us about
the dharma.’
♥ “They are the same people. There are ten of
them born like that. They are the same people
born again and again. And they are the people ...
if you accept them in only one incarnation, they are
not going to accept it. You have to accept them in
all their incarnations.”

♥ “We have faith in every thing. As well as we

worship Rama we worship Muhammad Sahib also,
same way, no less. As we worship Brahmadeva, or
as we worship, we say, Dattatreya, we worship
Zoroaster, there's no difference at all, same way.”

♥ “…as they showed how Lao Tse has written

about the masters, how they were above
everything, above turmoil, above jealousies,
above talking loose. They are so great, they are
the masters, and they will be the masters, and you
will be the gurus if you try to do that. This is what
you have to achieve. I know some have achieved
it, but most of you have to achieve with
compassion and love.”

♥ “Whatever They touched, They could create

♥ “Guru Tattwa, is the principle of master, water out of it. Water is the life, life force which
primordial masters. The principle is born again sustains us; without water we cannot live, is the
and again. …all these great principles of Gurus sustenance. But, They actually are symbolized in
were born. They had one job to do is to establish an ocean, in the ocean, because They give us the
your dharma (righteousness). Their job was not to salt, the salt of life, which gives us the sustenance.
give you Realisation, you must understand, If you see the salt, if we do not have salt in our
everyone has one's own job. See Mine is a horrible body, we'll have no sustenance.”
job because I have to do everybody's jobs. But
their job was just to establish your dharma. They ♥ “At the time of Janaka, who was the father in
came at that time, in those places where it was law of Shri Rama, it is mentioned that Nachiketha
needed the most. So these ten principles as I told got Realisation, one person. Now that time, one
you, they established. They are created in the person all right on the tree of life, there are few
Void, as you see here the Void part, this part is flowers at the beginning, but as the blossom time
made out of the water element. So whatever comes there are so many flowers and all these
miracles they did, had something to do with flowers are to become the fruits”.
water, like they could create water anywhere they
wanted to.” ♥ “the Principle of Shri Mahalakshmi is very close
with a guru...a relation of plenty of love and
♥ “So these masters who are born on this Earth are purity. Now if we see from the beginning with all
innocence at its best, all integrated together. the Adi Gurus, She was born to them as a daughter
These masters have incarnated on this Earth or as a sister.”
mainly ten times, but there have been many
others incarnations also, there have been
repetitions just to correct themselves.”

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 good. Why all these prophets talk about it
because they are all born in that green patch of
ours; they are all placed in this green patch where
we get our sustenance, which is ten. We have got
ten sustenances within us - like the gold has a
sustenance that it does not tarnish, in the same
way human beings have got ten sustenances; and
these ten sustenances are represented by great
prophets.”

♥ “Though this incarnation is such that it never

dies, even if they leave the body, they are always
around. And they are the ones who perform lots
of miracles when any other incarnation comes on
this earth. They help support, guide and... seekers
to go to the incarnations. So, to celebrate his (Guru
Nanaka’s) birthday, on such a date is also a myth
because he never died. He is eternally living. They
never grow and they never die. But His birth is
important, because symbolically He came on this
earth not to propagate any particular type of the
♥ “Now imagine at the time of Shri Krishna, He Void as Mohammad did, or say Moses did, David,
talked to one person about the spirituality, only Moses and then before that Abraham, Lao Tse, or
one person, Arjuna, which was heard by Sanjaya Socrates, which followed into a religion. But He
and which he related. It is so written by Vyasa, but came to create amenity, amity we can say, to
He didn't tell to everyone, didn't show to anyone. create understanding, to create unity between
He appeared in His Virata form on the battlefield religions. This was a very big step for Sahaj Yoga.
but He never showed, but now you have got After that as you know, He was born again, God
photographs to see, even if you can't see with knows where, no one knows where He was born,
your eyes. Some can see some things also, I've but He appeared as Shirdi Sai Nath.”
seen that some are feeling it. So you are
developing, you are growing into it. So this is into ♥ “Now these Gurus came on this Earth to remove
a new realm. It was Shri Krishna who started fanaticism, the last of them came as Shirdi Sai
talking about it. Of course these Nath pundits did Nath, he was the one who had said very clearly, in
believe in all that spirituality, but they did not talk Marathi he had said it, that to speak ill of any
about it, till the time, I think, of Gyaneshwara, other religion is sin, is sin, nothing can be more
perhaps would be. It was first the Gyaneshwara powerful than that.”
only who started talking about it. Before that it
was a secret kept. Of course after Gyaneshwara ♥ “Now all these great prophets or Primordial
we had other people talking about it, like we had Beings, we should say, they were the ones who
Mohammed Sahib, we had Nanaka, we had so were the Masters. They came to inform us that if
many other people like Shirdi Sai Nath and some you cross too much onto the left side or too much
Sufi people and they started talking on on the right side, then you will be falling in your
spirituality.” sustenance, in your quality as a human being. As
a human being you have to have a sustenance,
♥ “All the saints in the world have said that and this is the centre, that gradually unfolds the
alcohol is very dangerous for life. The reason is it sustenance from animal to higher animals and to
goes against our awareness. ...Moses has clearly human stage, where a person starts realising that
said that these are strong drinks, very clearly - I these sustenances exist within us. That's how all
don't know if people read - and they should be our laws have come.”
avoided. I don't know if the Jews do that. They

should not be taken, he's very clearly said it.

Abraham said the same thing, that drinks are not
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 ♥ “Now unfortunately after Socrates, who came
here in such a condition when people were really,
absolutely ignorant, in the complete darkness of
ignorance, they could not understand Him, they
could not understand Socrates at all; and so like
any other Primordial Master was treated by the
people who were surrounding Him, He was also
very much ill-treated and nobody listened to Him.
But of course, as you know, He was Primordial
Master and His wisdom is well-known, and He
created out of Him disciples, but none of them
could go anywhere near His wisdom; and they
started their own theories, own styles, and that's
how we find the accent from philosophy that was
Socrates' aim, gradually came into political and
then into economic side. So the attention was
moved from philosophy to economics today, not
towards the philosophy which was established by
Socrates.

We can say Socrates was the one Primordial

Master, after Abraham and Moses, who really
♥ “I mean we have a quite a long traditional made it very clear-cut understanding about
history of all these great people came on this earth spirituality. Of course Moses and Mohammad...
at different places, at different times. According to Abraham had different problems. Like Abraham
the time they had to talk. had problems of talking to people who were really
very, very ignorant, and Moses had problem with
When they talked say, about the flowers, say they people who were very indulgent people, so He
talked that they are Gods, like Socrates talked had to pass laws of Shariat, different, different
about Gods, like Confucius talked about Gods. laws to make the people follow religion precisely.
When they talked ‘We have to please our Gods’, So He did not argue, He did not say why you
we started doubting. ‘What Gods he's talking should do it, didn't give any explanation. "You do
about?’ Whatever they saw, we could not see, all it!" Like that. Because He thought that these
right. Then they thought no use talking about people are so ignorant that you cannot leave it to
Gods. If you talk about Gods then it becomes a their freedom that you understand this or that
sort of a worship of something that is a flower. We you see the point; He could not do that way.”
talk about flowers then we think we have become
God and we talk about flower all the time. But we
have to get to the honey. How do we do it?

So they said, "All right, don't talk about God, talk

about abstract, talk about the fragrance, talk
about the honey itself." But how do you become,
how do you get to the honey?

By talking about it again it became a talk and talk

and talk. So how it has to happen that you have to
become the bee, the transformation has to take
place.”

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The 10 Primordial Masters (Adi Gurus)
Raja Janaka 5000 BC, Mithila, India
Janaka was the king of Mithila and the father of Shri Sita, the wife of Shri Rama. He
was brave and virtuous and well-versed in the shastras and Vedas. According to the
epic Ramayana, Janaka proposed a test of strength in which suitors vying for his
daughter’s hand in marriage would have to string the great bow of Shri Shiva. Shri
Rama passed this test, and married Shri Sita (also referred to as Janaki). Despite the
responsibilities and trappings of his kingship, King Janaka was completely detached
and on one occasion remained in meditation by the river while his house burned
down. This made a lasting impression on his only disciple, Nachiketa.
‘When you live in the realm of the divine power, the Brahma, that looks after you’
Raja Janaka

Abraham 2000 BC Mesopotamia & Palestine

Prophet and first patriarch of the Jewish nation; an equally important figure in both
Christianity and Islam; acknowledged as the ancestor of Mohammed. In his youth he
opposed idol worshippers, including his own father. He is associated with the
‘So only, you can see it, in the time of Abraham that His own lifestyle… I mean,
that was just a system when the family was building up and the relationships were
building up, and He tried to work it on that level.’ Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Moses 1200 BC, Egypt & Palestine

Prophet and religious leader of Hebrew origin who was raised as an Egyptian prince
by the Pharaoh’s daughter. Appalled by the treatment of Hebrew slaves, he ran
away and encountered a burning bush where he was instructed by God to return to
Egypt and lead the Hebrews out of their slavery. For forty years they wandered the
desert while Moses struggled to correct their immorality and imbalances. While on
Mount Sinai, he received the Ten Commandments directly from God. Recognised as
a great prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
‘You shall therefore keep all the commandments, which I command you this day,
that you may be strong.’ Moses

Zarathustra (Zoroaster) 1000 BC, Persia

Ancient Persian prophet and religious poet who viewed the universe as the cosmic
struggle between truth and falsehood. He emphasised the importance of using our
free will to sustain truth through active participation in life and the exercise of good
thoughts, words and deeds. (Represented as Sarastro in Mozart’s opera ‘The Magic
Flute’)
‘Therefore may we be those who shall heal this world!’ Zarathustra

Confucius (Kong-Zi) 551-479 BC, China

Taught ethics and compiled I Ching. Chinese philosopher, who deeply influenced the
way of life and thinking in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. He emphasised
morality on both personal and governmental levels, and the value of social
relationships, justice and sincerity.
‘I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and understand.’ Confucius

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Lao-Tse (Lao-Zi) 6th century BC, China
Author of Tao Te Ching. Chinese philosopher and founder of the school of Taoism.
His writings teach the philosophy of the Tao or the Way – the universal truth that
transcends the physical universe of man. The Tao is to be found by experiencing the
oneness of all things, by being one with nature and one with the inner Self.
‘Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.’ Lao-Tse

Socrates 469-399, Athens Greece

Classical Greek philosopher and reformer, considered the father of logic and
Western Philosophy. Originally a sculptor, he gave it up in order to devote himself to
the moral and intellectual reform of his fellow citizens. He believed in the existence
of absolute truth, and often referred to guidance from a ‘divine voice’ from within.
He was an advocate of careful reasoning in pursuit of the truth, and his analytic
practices gave rise to what became known as the Scientific Method.
‘Be as you wish to seem’ Socrates

Prophet Mohammed 570-632 AD, Mecca, Arabia

Founder of Islam (meaning ‘surrender’). Born in Mecca on the Arabian peninsula, at
the age of forty he began to receive revelations from the Angel Gabriel. At first
distressed and unsure, he spent three years in prayer and spiritual practice until he
was convinced of their genuineness. These revelations which continued throughout
his life, and his subsequent teachings, later became the words of the Qu’ran.
‘One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of
prayer’ Mohammed

Guru Nanak 1469-1539 AD, Punjab, India

Founder of Sikhism. Born in a Hindu family near Lahore, he spoke of the oneness of
God, salvation by faith and good works, and the equality and brotherhood of man.
He also believed in the equality of women, and in universal religion. He advocated
devotion of thought and excellence of conduct as the first of duties.
‘See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of yogis; conquer your
own mind, and conquer the world.’ Guru Nanak

Shrī Sāī Bābā of Shirdī 1838-1918 AD, Shirdi, India

Indian guru and Sufi, who, in his life and teachings, tried to embrace and reconcile
Hinduism and Islam, celebrating festivals and rituals from both. Also referred to as
Shri Sai Nath, he lived in Maharastra as an ascetic, teaching about love, forgiveness,
helping others, charity, contentment, inner peace, devotion to the guru and to God.
‘See the Divine in the human being.’ Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi

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Evolution: first was innocence, then seeking
that gap we have to cover. Once we cover that gap
we have finished with our evolution and we are
there where we have to be. We have found out
our use, we have found out our meaning, we
become that.”

♥ “The seeking started because we have inborn,

built-in sense of seeking. Amoeba seeks the food.
Animal seeks also food and also the things like
protection. It learns how to protect itself. But a
human being seeks the meaning of his feeling.
This seeking here is our something to know. This
line is the, this blue line that is shown to be blue is
♥ “Then animals started seeking the food. While the line of your existence, which manifests your
seeking the food they also started seeking the left side physicality and the line, other line that is
strong shores of the sea. And that’s how they shown here, is the line of your creativity, of your
crept out of the sea, and the reptiles started, and physical being which is represented by or
that’s how the evolution started in that area manifested by your right side sympathetic
which you see as the green here, the round. Now nervous system. In the centre is the seeking, and
this is the stage where we see how the Divine you see that there is a void; there is a void in
helped us. And He sent ten times the incarnation between. You do not how to approach from here.
of the Vishnu, we call Him, because Vishnu is the Human beings have this centre as medical void,
One who gives us sustenance. So the three because up to the point of protection, animals
aspects were, the first one as I told you was that rise. They learn methods how to protect
of the desire, is the Shiva aspect. The second is the themselves. But this is the point which is very
activity, Brahmadeva, the Creator, aspect of God important, where human beings have raised their
as a Creator. The first as a desire and when the heads up. This centre is a very, very vital centre
desire finishes is the destruction. So the first one, because that is the point where human beings
you can call it, as the one who is the desire and have accepted their responsibility. They have
existence, as well as destruction, because then if accepted the situation that they are something.
existence is not there, there is destruction. This ‘I’ness started with this centre.”
Negation of existence is destruction. So that’s the
first thing. The second thing is the activity which is
the creativity, and that is Brahmadeva, and the ♥ “That doesn't mean that I'm preaching anything
central one is the aspect of God, which is the Hinduism or anything like that. All the saints, I will
sustainer, the protector or the one, which gives us tell you. I will also tell you about Christ where He
our dharma, is our religion. …This activity took exists. I'll also tell you about Mohammed Sahib
place because there were ten main, these great where He exists, about all of them. So it is no
prophets, were there.” question of one religion or anything. But these are
different things which came in the evolutionary
♥ “Now the centre one is the one which is very process of man, and all the evolution that took
important, which gives you the idea that there is a place in every human being is within himself, is
gap between you and the Absolute. And that gap recorded, and he's standing on that. For example
is shown here as that green coloured Void, all as you come up to first storey you should know
that. Above that is the channel which is that the whole first storey is there. Second storey,
responsible for what we have achieved so far up it exists. Third storey, it exists. In the same way all
to the human level. Whatever has come into our these storeys that you have climbed in your own
conscious mind up to the human level, is evolutionary process are on these seven steps
expressed by that channel which is broken, and which I'm telling you.

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The Ocean of Illusion
within this Bhavasagara within us, which are to be
awakened and to be brought to light, to be
manifested. As you can see that the limits of this
principle are done by the movement of the
Swadhistan chakra. Swadisthan is the chakra
which gives you first and foremost thing is the
creativity. A person who is a Guru has to be
creative by nature, if you are not a creative person
you cannot become a Guru.”

♥ “So spirituality itself should be self-satisfying. If

you are spirituality endowed, then you are self-
satisfied. And this self-satisfaction within you will
lead you to that ocean of joy about which I’ve
been telling you and all the scriptures have
described. For Sahaja Yogis, the word we use is
♥ This place is called as Bhavasagara. It is the ‘Nirananda’. Nirananda, means a joyous state,
ocean of illusion in which we live. And we are where nothing is needed. Joy itself is joy. You are
seekers…. If we are in the ocean, our ship should enjoying only joy, nothing is needed to make you
be seaworthy. Then any kind of illusion is not happy, you are happy because of the joy that you
going to deter us if we are seaworthy. But have, in the Nirananda, the state. If you go and
seaworthy means we must know if there is a fog, see how these saints lived, you’ll be amazed how
how to move in right direction. We should know they managed their life, you’ll be very much
how to overcome all the hazards of all kinds of amazed. How many days they used to fast,
storms and all the knowledge should be built-in without food, it never bothered them, they never
within us. And that built-in knowledge is this thought it was fasting. They just used to think we
dharma. It is a religion within you – not without, have no food, so no, don’t eat. Of course you
but within you. don’t have to go through it, you have got your
realisation. So now you have a power to achieve
this mastery. Now, you have this power.
♥ Like the ship is built, is brought to the sea, tried
and found to be seaworthy to sail out now into the
sea. So you have to sail out when you know ♥ “And when such a happening takes place,
everything about the ship, everything about the gradually you find that you have become the
sea. With complete freedom and wisdom, you witness of the whole show. When you are in the
have to sail now, not afraid of any storms or any water, you are afraid of the waves. But when you
hails or any typhoons because now you know your get in the boat you see the waves and you are not
job is to cross through. afraid of them. In the beginning, is rather difficult
to forget the habit for some people, but mostly
people just jump on to another side and become
♥ “Within us, as you know in all of us there lies the
something different, completely transformed.”
principle of Guru. It's very interesting to notice the
Guru principle being drawn beautifully round the
Nabhi Chakra. We never see any chakras
connected with the Guru principle. You see Nabhi
and around is the Bhavasagara. So this
Bhavasagara, which is the ocean of illusion,
cannot be the Guru. So there are hidden chakras

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‘I hope you'll understand as a Guru what you
have to do.’
should have a personality, a character and a
temperament that people would see that you are
a personality who doesn't get dissolved into
worldly things, a personality which doesn't get
ruined by the skirmishes of life. Is the personality
of a Guru which sits down deep into his - into his
being and is not easily disturbed or dissolved by
any solvent whatsoever. This is the first principle
of the Guru, is the gravity. As I told you it is
something which cannot be dissolved into
anything. It settles very deep down into your
personality. So it doesn't float in the water.”

♥ “Surrendering is the best way for Void people

especially. First of all you must surrender
completely, blindly you can say. Just jump into it.
Do not reason it out. Complete surrendering.
Once you have done that you will be surprised
how you'll be so blessed with the powers of a guru
that you'll rise to heights and you will do all that
William Blake has said. Because it is like a drop
submerging into the ocean and becoming the
ocean. And you know the ocean is the Guru, not a
drop. It's the ocean and the ocean has everything
in it. So we have to learn from the ocean to be the
ocean by becoming the ocean yourself.”
♥ “Now Sahaj Yoga has a very big responsibility,
which I don't think people understand. I wish they ♥ “You must have the gravity, by your weight.
could listen to Me very intensely and understand ‘Weight’ means the weight of your character,
it. So far if you see, Gurus remained Gurus and no weight of your dignity, the weight of your
disciples became Gurus. They were still regarded behaviour, the weight of your faiths, and your
as disciples of a Guru, whether it was fake or light. You become the guru not through
anything. They never became Gurus themselves. frivolousness and vanity, cheapness, vulgar
So there was no need for them to grow, they had language, cheap jokes, anger, temper: all must be
to take the name of their Guru, all right. Christ had avoided completely. With the weight of your
His disciples; Mohammad Sahib had His own sweetness, of your tongue, the dignity will attract
disciples; Nanak had His own disciples; Shirdi Sai people, just like the flowers when loaded with
Nath had His own disciples. None of them became nectar attract the bees from all over; in the same
Gurus. But now it is in your lot, sorry to say, that way you'll be attracting people. But be proud of
you have to become the Gurus. It's a privilege, that; be very, very proud of that, and have
actually. It's a very great privilege to become the sympathies for others and care for others.”
Guru. And to become the Guru, we must learn
what we have to do.” ♥ “One should not try to become a Guru. That's
very, impractical. If you try to become, you'll
♥ “…the principle of Guru resides in the Void. This never. It has to come to you automatically,
is the principle which gives you balance, which without any asking, without any effort. … just
gives you the gravity. The gravity that we have in meditate, and meditate, do not ask for anything.”
the Mother Earth is expressed through your Guru
principle. The first point of gravity is that you

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 can see who has that gravity, here is the person
who has that beauty." It acts inside outside. A
person who has that sobriety inside dresses up in
a sober way. He doesn't dress up to impress
others, or just to show off or to hide something or
to expose something. But just to respect his body,
he dresses up. When he talks to others he talks
wisdom.”

♥ “Now we have so many here sitting down, they

are all Gurus and they have to behave like Gurus
and they have to do the job of great Gurus. And
this is what today we have to see if we can
develop that gravity within ourselves and
understanding within ourselves. When that peace
resides within you, the joy of becoming Sahaja
Yogis will be really felt, will be really understood
and will be enjoyed by all of you.”
♥ “This is one of the signs of gravity in a person,
that he doesn't float on the ground like straws. But
it stays, it stays like a beautiful pearl in the deep
shores of understanding. So those who are today ♥ Perhaps Sahaja yogis do not realise what they
here to worship the Guru, they have to worship have achieved. The only difference between an
their own Guru within themselves and have to Adi Guru and a guru, Satguru I would say, is this
understand that first thing and foremost thing is that the Adi Guru knows that He is the controlling
that we must have gravity in temperament. You power. He knows He is with absolute oneness
do not need education for that, university with the Brahma Tattwa, with the cosmic. The
education. You need not read books, you need authority with which He talks, the complete
not do anything. Only thing is that you have to confidence with which He says things. There's no
have your value system corrected. When your doubt in His mind.
value system is corrected, you understand what is
good for the society. What is good for you. For
example, if it's a lotus flower, it will never emit ♥ “When a guru does not feel vibrations properly,
filth and dirt. The fragrance will be always there if he become diffident about giving realisation. But
it is a rose or any other fragrant thing. It will emit even when he feels it clearly he will not say things
fragrance only. It cannot emit something that is with authority. Authority by any chance does not
filthy. Now those who think they are Gurus and mean aggressiveness. Authority is because you
have achieved that gravity will never write have it, that's why you express it. Like this light is
something which is ugly, say something which is now shining on My face. It is shining; it's not
dirty, will never use their mind to appreciate aggressive. Because that's the quality it has got -
anything that is filthy and wrong. This is the that it has to shine, so it is shining. In the same
second sign of your value system. way a Guru shines before the disciples.”

In your value system you have to first of all

understand what is auspiciousness, what is Divine
beauty, and what is morality of the spirit. These
three things are to be realised and are to be part
and parcel of your being so that when people see
you, they should say that, "Here is a person we

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‘You are like diamonds, thrown into dust.’
boundaries is difficult when you have two
problems: one is the ego, another is the
superego."

♥ “Then another thing is try to see that your mind

doesn't react. Some people have a habit, or I think
most of them have, to react. You tell them
something and they'll put their own one tale with
it, sometimes. Never will they accept if somebody
says something. If you are reacting, what will go
into your heads, what will go into your heart, what
will go into your attention? So the reaction itself
is a sign of not proper development within
yourself. This attention, which is trying to go into
all the areas of your mind and your body and
everywhere - is not there. It cannot enter,
because as soon as it tries to enter, you shut it by
reacting. You cannot see anything just for seeing
sake, you must react. You say this is not good,
that's not good. If I say it is five o'clock you say no
it is five past two minutes three seconds. This
comes with terrible conditioning, which has to go
away - not to react. Why should you react? Then
the argument starts, then fights starts, then wars
come in. If you tell your mind, nothing doing, you
are a myth and I am not going to react to anything,
♥"You must find out your relative relationship 99. 9% problems will be solved.”
with all these useless things where the money is
wasted, you are frittered away, your time is ♥ "So you have to feel very happy about it,
wasted, everything wasted, just find out. Once extremely happy and beautiful that you have got
you discover that, then you start detaching all these powers."
yourself from that.”
♥ “Yesterday I told you about the Void, the
♥"So the principle of ascent is to be in the centre, dharma, which one has to establish. In modern
to be in the balance, to be in the maryadas of the times, people have used their freedom to such an
centre; to be in the boundaries of the centre is the extent, they have moved so much, to this extreme
principle. So what happens when we do not keep or to that extreme. They have left their central
to the boundaries, to the maryadas? Then we get path and have accepted and identified
caught up. If we keep to maryadas we can never themselves with such an extreme ideas about
be caught up. Many people say, why have the everything, that it is rather difficult to convince
maryadas? Say, we have the maryadas, the people that they have lost their way. All extremes
boundaries of this beautiful ashram here, and are wrong. Moderation is the way we really solve
somebody is attacking you from all the sides, on the problem. But human race is such that
all the sides of the Void; so if you go out of the everybody starts running very fast, you see, and
Void you get caught up. That's why you have to there's a competition set in: who goes first to
keep to the boundaries, and to keep to the hell.”

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‘Where is your attention, is the point. If you
are the Guru, where is your attention?’
something great, already, then what can you do?
Ego makes you very arrogant, horrible, but if you
are humble, really - not to, just to have the
humility of a business man - but if you are humble
from within yourself, from your heart, enjoying
your humility, then this ego can run away. You
have to ask yourself now what are you angry for?
Again, I come back to the same point -
introspection. Because you are not here just to
carry on some jobs, but you are here to become
saints. Then this ego should be made into a great
instrument of love and joy - you can, it is not
difficult. This one is what is ego is reactions to
things. You can react to things in a sweet way or
you can react to things in a deadly way. Then the
humour comes in.

♥ “The whole understanding of the cosmic Also you speak as if there is fragrant flowers,
consciousness can be put in one little sentence: which are coming out. Then every action of yours,
that it cannot be attracted by the gravity of any everything becomes very gentle and sweet. Have
stars, earth, moon or sun. The other attractions this ego that will be gentle, will be kind, will be
one has from the Mother Earth are all for food, sweet, will be forgiving, will be loving - let's have
greed, lust - materialism at its worst. It comes this ego. Start with this kind of an ego, the other
from matter. All that comes from matter, once way round. You will be surprised how you can
you start getting used to it you become a slave really conquer the whole world.”
and not a guru. So the first attempt should be for
anybody: to be a good guru is to get over material ♥ "Now as realised souls you have crossed the
attraction.” limit, you have come out of your Sahasrara, you
have transcended all those things through your
♥“I can't understand a saint having an ego - just Brahma Nadi. But that does not mean that you
can't understand. It's so stupid to have ego. It's a have developed that gravity. You have now
kind of a domination, if slightest things are wrong, achieved a state, if a flower is there and you put
you get angry. If somebody says something, you the flower on the water it will float. But when it
get angry. That means your power of love and becomes the fruit and matures, then you put it in
compassion is still not full. You can of course the water, it does not float, it goes deep down, it
correct people when they have to be corrected doesn't get dissolved. It keeps its own identity -
but for that you should have this power within that is what is to be done now that you have to
yourself. The person should know that you are become the fruits of Sahaja Yoga, fruits of Sahaja
correcting that person because you love that Yoga. Blossom time is over now, you have to
person. Not for selfishness, not for any gain. But become fruits, and people who see you should
this ego is a very big problem and that comes up know that you have no imbalances at all. You are
by, I should say, not only ignorance but stupid the people with special gravity.
ideas about yourself. If you think you are

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Knowledge of the Void
♥ "All of you must know Sahaja Yoga full well. Very few people really know about kundalini, really know
about vibrations, they do not know where is the Void. There should be a regular class even for grown-up
Sahaja yogis. Where is the Void on the feet, where are the chakras on the feet? …You must have full
education of Sahaja Yoga; only giving realisation is not the work, you must have, so others must know you
are knowledgeable. The amount of education you have had nobody had before, no saint had it. So now take
full advantage. …Just to enjoy Sahaja Yoga is not the point, you must also know.”

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The Void (Bhavasagara, Ocean of Illusion)

Principle: The Guru; principle of self-mastery, knowledge
Affirmations: Centre, Left and Right.
Centre: Shri Mataji, by Your grace, please make me my own guru, make me
my own master.
Left: Shri Mataji, by Your grace, I am my own guru, I am my own master.
Shri Mataji, as I am the pure knowledge, by Your grace, I am my own guru.
Right: Shri Mataji, verily You are my Guru, You are my master.
Deity: Shri Adi Guru Dattatreya
Physical location: Abdomen
Subtle location: Surrounds the Nabhi chakra, encircled by Swadisthan
Quality: Gravity, righteousness Position on Head
Geographic region: Left Void: Western Europe; Right Void: Middle East
Organs Controlled: some talks indicate general abdominal organs; others
may include all the intestines, uterus, kidney, pancreas, spleen, descending
colon, and upper part of liver
Element: Water Colour: Green
Clearing: Salt water footsoak Day: Thursday
Plexus: Myenteric Gemstone:
Planet: Jupiter Flower:

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