Shri Mataji
This is a summary of a speech by Mr Claes Nobel, Chairman of United Earth and the grandnephew of Alfred Nobel (creator of the Nobel Foundation). The speech was given before Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s program on Self Realisation and Sahaja Yoga at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Thursday 3 July 1997.
Mr Claes Nobel spoke of his vision of a world in which human beings would live in harmony and peace, both with themselves and with Nature. However, in order to know how to act rightly to achieve this end, we need a reference point. It is Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi who enables us to distinguish what is right by granting spontaneous Self Realisation, through which we can know absolute truth and absolute peace.
He stressed the importance of the inspiring insights of women, such as those of Shri Mataji, particularly in relation to achieving peace. Mr. Nobel distinguished four aspects of peace in his notion of “Earth Ethics”: first, inner peace within the individual; second, the peace among men and nations, religions and races; third, the peaceful relation with Nature and the Earth in which we listen and respect; and fourth, the peace between man and God, which precludes all violence and war. Shri Mataji enables us to perceive the underlying and eternal spiritual laws which govern the cosmos and life on Earth.
Shri Mataji’s followers, whom he had met all over the world, were all radiant with inner peace and balance and should be called “Ambassadors for the Earth.” Shri Mataji’s gift of Self Realisation gives discrimination to know the truth and to avoid the extremes of blind faith and fanaticism.
There had been enough talking about a sustainable future for the Earth. What was needed now was action. An Indian fable pointed the way forward: the greatest fulfilment and satisfaction are attained not by thinking of self, but through a true insight into our collective identity.
You have a storehouse of compassion, which can be enlightened by the spirit. You have the storehouse of love, compassion and knowledge and an ocean of forgiveness …
What we should ask for is that beautiful, soft, soft, compassionate nature and then the Kundalini will supply because She only has that. Kundalini doesn’t have anything else. All Her power is of love, nothing but love …
So, in your introspection, … in your meditation, if you see for yourself why are you meditating, it is for the pure desire of compassion and love to be awakened within us.
Shri Mataji, 1991
When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people because people think that those who love are weak. But the most dynamic power in this world is that of love. The most aggressive power is that of love. Even when we suffer in love, it is out of our strength that we suffer and not out of our weakness …
The love that Iam talking about, the divine love, makes you not only strong, but dynamic. It is the greatest, luminous power that we can think of. Only when love is surrounded by gross and is lost in the gross, it looks as if it is weak and under chains. At the time it is released, the dynamic power of love can transcend all the evil powers of the world …
But it is not now for the realized to sit down and to wonder and laugh at the foolishness of the people who are not yet realized, not even to take pity on them, but to come out, come out with the sword of love, to win the whole world. It is very, very essential …
All the wrong ideas about love, all the falsehood about love has to be given up. One must know that it is the dynamic power. And it won’t allow you to sit comfortably with yourself, enjoying the peace and the bliss, when the rest of the world is not enjoying that and is playing into the hands of these evil geniuses who have come in this world to destroy, to bring the satanic realm on this Earth …
Today is the day to brighten up your understanding about your own strength that is within you. Those who are gross should worry about their insecurities and their problems and their organizations, but not for the people who are realized …
You are never alone when you are realized. There have been many people who have been realized, before even you were born, who exist, who are happy to help you at every moment.
Shri Mataji, 1973
I tell you the story of Markandeya. You see, his father had no children and the father and mother were unhappy. So they prayed to Shiva and they said that we want to have a son. Shiva said, “I’ll give you the son, but I will have to take him back after eight years. So he’ll only exist till he is about eight years of age.” So they gave that boon to him, plus this kind of a curse. The parents were very upset that, “our child will die after eight years of age,” very upset. But they found the child very bright, brilliant, and also shining and very religious.
One day he asked his father, “Why do you always so worry? I mean, after all, I am your son.” So they said that, “It is said so, eight years or sixteen years, something like that, now I will be losing you very soon. Who can surpass Shiva? So I cannot think we can really ask anyone to neutralize the curse upon us. If you are not born to us we would not have been so attached to you. Now you are born to us, we are so much attached to you.”
He was a very wise person. He said, “No, I know someone. I know Adi Shakti.” And he went to this place where you got to see this Saptashringi. There he prayed to Her. Nobody had prayed to Adi Shakti. They would pray to Jagadamba. They would pray to all others. To Adi Shakti, who is the God, he prayed to Her… She came there, appeared from the Mother Earth. She just came out and he prayed to Her. He prayed to Her and then the whole place became so vibrated that Shiva could not touch him.
Then he wrote all this Markandeya things. I mean, he was the first who wrote about Adi Shakti. All these things that you read about Shankaracharya, he took it from Markandeya. He was the first who wrote about Kundalini, the first about realization. He was the first who did all that …
So that’s the great part of Markandeya. He took his birth later on as Buddha. Then he took his birth as Adi Shankaracharya. It’s the same personality. But he was actually the son of Rama, to begin with. He was Luv and he went to Russia and that is why they are called as “Slavs” … Another son was Kush, who went to China. That is why they are called as “Kushan”. Then they incarnated again and again, also as Hassan and Hussain, as Mahavira and Buddha, as Adi Shankaracharya and Gyaneshwara, like that.
Shri Mataji, Vienna, 1988