Navaratri 5th Night
“Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything, but it’s the deep attention of your heart”
Excerpt from a talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Place and Date: Los Angeles (USA) 2002 Oct. 27th
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Today, we are going to worship the Goddess. That’s the, first the left side programming is with Her, but later on, at Sahasrara, She’s the Adi Shakti.
And, on the left side, whatever She does is already written, as you must have seen, because She’s the memory and that She’s the wisdom and, that She protects you, is shown when She uses Her power over the Ganas. [...]
So, as you worship the Goddess, you are also worshipping Shri Ganesha who is the power behind Her.
But the greatest power that is belonging to the Mother is your protection, protection from all kinds of things. All the left hand side protections are there.
They are described, as you must have learned, in the Devi Mahatmyam, what a protections She gives you. So tremendous in Her protecting power, and this protecting power gives you understanding: how kind She is and how, I should say, how very, very protective of you, extremely protective. She’ll guide you all the time that you should be protected, on the left side, and through Her Ganas She looks after you.
But on the right side also, those who are on the right side, the Goddess puts Her powers to put you right, to bring you back to normal conditions, to humble you down and make you understand that you are a child of the Mother and you have to behave like a child. [...]
So the protection is also built-in your body by Ganas on the left hand side and by reactions on the right hand side, but the greatest thing is the blessings of the Mother: the way She looks after you, the way She loves you and the way She cares for you - which you should never take it for granted!
You must meditate, you must meditate, it’s very important, no question! Without meditation you can[not] keep yourself alright - it’s no question. Meditation is the most important thing which must be followed because that’s how you come close to Her vibrations, come to Her - I should say to Her nature.
Even animals are so sensitive to Mother, very sensitive to vibrations; animals are, but human beings have their own understanding, have their own freedom, have their so-called intelligence and they fall a trap to it; they follow things which they should not have.
So what is necessary very much, in the country like America, is the devotion and bhakti.
These two things are not there.
Indians take to Sahaja Yoga and go deep down into it because they know what is bhakti, what is devotion. All this ego and all that melts away. But this bhakti is to be enjoyed.
I don’t know how to create bhakti within you - that I can’t say. But I have seen people with bhakti, they have achieved great heights, though it’s a left side movement.
With the left side movement they have achieved great heights. I don’t know how the bhakti (devotion) and shraddha (faith) has helped them so much. In this, I must say, Indians are the best because they have this power of bhakti and of shraddha. It’s not madness, it’s not madness as they have here: I have seen people who get into some sort of a cult or something, they go mad. It’s not madness, bhakti is love, and love which is understanding, which understands what is bhakti and shraddha.
Unless and until you develop that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise, you cannot rise above your problems, you cannot rise above your personality because bhakti is something you cannot impose on anyone, you cannot force on anybody.
You can make somebody mad and say that he can do bhakti, [but] he cannot.
You have to have all your qualities absolutely intact: you should be intelligent, you should be understanding - everything should be there, but at that time the joy of bhakti is within you. And this joy of bhakti when it starts flowing, the Goddess Herself enters into your being, I should say.
I have seen people, bhaktas, many great saints in India who achieved a lot of height.
They’ve gone too far into it. And if you read about them and, if you understand them, you are amazed how, without any help, without any guidance, how could they go that deep and worship Devi.
Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything, but it’s the deep attention of your heart; I think it’s Spirit. If the Spirit is awakened within you, you develop the bhakti and drop out all nonsensical ideas, all different things that have crawled into your head, but you just develop the bhakti. [...]
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