Control Your Attention (4 Excerpts)

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Excerpts of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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Excerpt from talks by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1980/10/27/public-program-what-do-we-expect-from-self-realization
1987/12/24/we-are-here-for-our-ascent-pune
1984/01/15/shri-ganesha-puja-mumbai-1984
1991/02/28/holi-celebrations-delhi-india
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1) And, last of all, the most important, is your Spirit, Spirit that resides in your heart. All this beauty is only perceived when there is light in your Spirit otherwise you cannot see all this beauty, you cannot enjoy it. Spirit is the one which is the diamond which shines on this beautiful ring of your body, mind and your emotions. That’s the most important thing. That is to be achieved, to be absolutely absorbed into your being. That state should be achieved by all of you. But the growth, if the outside is not alright, then the inside cannot be carried by that weak outside. It’s such a strong thing spiritual life is a very strong thing; it’s so dynamic, it’s so powerful. Sometimes, you know, it floods me completely. I mean, I have to control myself; the love just shoots off from the being and just I want to give it but I wonder whether you’ll be able to bear it, so I have to control it a little bit [because] that flood may not be borne.
So you have to enrich your outside to bear that inside beauty. And the more you enrich it, the more you make it strong, the more it will shine. It’s so simultaneous because one must understand that Spirit is love, is all intelligence, is all awareness, and it knows your problem. It slowly shines. It sees how far you can bear, how far you can go.
Then after realisation, when you start looking after your outside, the inside starts shining by itself. But attention should be towards your Spirit. All these outside qualities are so joy-giving to the Spirit, you can’t imagine. Try them! You will enjoy yourself. We have not been able to enjoy ourselves much. If we could we would not [even] shun the jails, I mean I would be happy in a jail I tell you, because I can enjoy myself there better! But the one thing is there, you cannot enjoy yourself so much when you cannot share it with others also isn’t it? It becomes like that. Without sharing you cannot enjoy yourself. And that’s what should happen to all the Sahaja Yogis. At that level you should come. We should be at that level. Try to keep your level that high, is important. Sometimes you come down, you start criticising others. Others are also not right, for example, somebody sees somebody filthy, dirty, something like that. The person who’s filthy, dirty, of course there’s something wrong with that person, no doubt, but that person should be pitied. At least he should be clean. I mean, that’s the minimum of minimum. But instead of that if you start criticising that person, you also become filthy in your language, filthy in your mind and everything, so why [do it]? Leave it! Let that person improve by himself, to see that he has to be clean, he has to be neat, he has to be sensible. This is to be seen by that person himself and not by you. Where is your attention? It’s a habit in India, all the parents will ask the children when they are standing, “Where is your attention?” “Where is my attention?” alright. Then again he’s standing there, “Where is your attention?” Again he’ll be on the watch [out], “Where is my attention gone?” We have to look after our attention, that’s all. “Where is my attention? Is it on the Spirit?”
2) I hope this time we are going to achieve a lot because I have a feeling that this time, in all the pujas, I am really working very, very hard - very hard. And if you people little bit, little bit decide that we are not here for enjoyment, for buying clothes or saris or anything, but we are here for our ascent. If that is decided in your hearts, I’m sure it will work out. Please try to control your attention. Control it. Chitta niroda. Control it. Where is it going? See, “Where is my attention going? Ask, “Where is the attention going?” Ask yourself, “Am I there or am I out?” Otherwise you’ll have very funny awareness, very funny awareness.
3) But the most thing is, that in your heart, in your mind, don’t allow funny ideas to come in. First of all watch what’s in your mind. It will give you ideas like, ‘This man is not good, that man is not good.’ Just don’t listen to these things, just listen to yourself, that ‘Where am I?’ ‘What am I doing?’ ‘What have I done for Sahaja Yoga?’ ‘My vibrations - are they all right?’ ‘Am I helping others?’ ‘Where is my attention?’ The attention has to be: ‘What am I doing with what Mother has given to me?’
4) ... Agnya chakra is nothing but your attention. If your attention is all the time roaming about paying attention to 1001 thing, then you cannot develop that concentrated penetration of your attention into things and whatever you do is very superficial. It’s not joy giving.
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