Shri Raja Lakshmi
The Giver of Transport
Jaya jaya durgatinasini
Kamini
Sarva phala prada
Sastra maye,
Ratha gaja turanga padati
Sama vruta
Pari jana mandita
Loka nute
Hari Hara Brahma supujita sevita
Thapani nivarini
Pada yute
Jai jai He Madhusudhana kamini
Raja Lakshmi Shri Nirmala Devi Palaya Mam.
Victory to the destroyer of all our miseries!
You are the One who loves us,
You are the Giver of all the fruits of our prayers,
chariots, elephants, horses and footservants,
Its a total congregation of all the people,
The world bows down to You.
The Lords Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma worship You and
serve You.
You lift the sadness of people who are in extreme sorrow,
They come to Your Feet.
Oh, Shri Raja Lakshmi, Thou who Art the
Giver of help & prosperity.
Shri Nirmala Devi, I bow to Thee,
You rule over me.
NOTE:
Traditionally, when one joyously gives ones child in marriage, it is a sign of great auspiciousness, generosity and prosperity, to have a procession of all the elephants,
horses, etc .
Likewise in daily life if blessed with this quality of Shri Lakshmi we will find somehow we are helped to move around, we have sufficient prosperity to enjoy our generosity and there will always be transport and people around to help when needed.
Shri Raja lakshmi
Worshipping Shri Rajalakshmi
Today we are going to worship Rajalakshmi, means the Goddess which rules the kings. It’s a very important thing today to understand that something has basically gone wrong in the working of our political systems and why the people have lost their sense of justice, fair play and the benevolence of the people. Where have we gone wrong that this is being lost?
It’s not only in India, it’s not only in Japan or in England or any other place where we think there is democracy. First and foremost thing is that all these countries, even those who have got their freedom, started following those countries which were supposed to be highty and mighty and very powerful – like America, like Russia, like China, England – without understanding how far they have reached in delivering the goods that they are supposed to do.
In any case, in a country like England, you see the monarchy, the way it has been working, is shocking, absolutely shocking. The way they have acted towards their ministers, like Cromwell, you feel as if some primitive people are trying to manage something. And the kings so cruel, queens so cruel, so character-less, so irresponsible. They had no character to be kings and queens. There was no surrendering to the Rajalakshmi principle of one’s being.
All the people who had money donated lavishly to so many things. I mean in My place there was one Rahbahadur Lakshmi narayan, he donated all his money, everything, to a big university. Most of the things that happened in those days were done by charity people. I mean they never thought our children should have so much money, crores and crores and crores. They never thought like that. Whatever limited money they had they wanted to donate and do something good for others.
So when the Rajalakshmi, Lakshmi that is the one responsible for looking after the benevolence of the people, when She acts people think that they have, not even think, they do it, automatically, that they are there for benevolence. They don’t have to tell themselves, it’s just that they feel that it is their job, this is what they have to do, is to look after the people they are to be brought to better levels of life. This is what they think, they don’t think like a party politics, who is coming up, whom to kill, nothing of the kind!
Under the influence of the Goddess of Lakshmi, which rules the political side we can say, the kingdoms and all that – first thing is generosity, first thing is generosity.
Truth of Mahavira’s Test
For example, Mahavira was meditating and while coming out His cloth – He had one cloth around His body, dhoti and He had covered himself. And the upper cloth just got caught up in the bushes. So he cut it out and came out with half the cloth – it was in His own palace. So Shri Krishna wanted to take His test. He said, “See I have no clothes, I’m just naked.”
He came before Him like a beggar. “You have this, why don’t you give Me this cloth? You can go to your palace and wear your dress.” He said, “Alright.” He took it out and gave it to him. And then He got some leaves and all that, covered Himself, went to His palace and got dressed. But now these Jains, you know, they make His statue so big, insult Him completely by showing all kinds of nonsensical private parts to the details. This is what is, where you have no worshipping of the Goddess.
Goddess is Shri Shobha! She’s the One who decorates you. She’s a mother. She decorates you with ornaments, She decorates you with beautiful clothes, She’s your mother. She does it!
Spiritual Majesty of Raja Janaka
Like, Raja Janaka, He was the king so He had to wear ornaments, He had to wear beautiful clothes, He had to do everything. And when Nachiketa went to Him he was quite surprised that why my guru has sent him to this king who is wearing all kind of dresses and this and that and he also had a big function of dancing and this. He said, “He’s not a saint so why my guru touches His feet? He’s a king.
Of course Raja Janaka knew what he was thinking about. He said, “Why have you come here Nachiketa?” He said, “I’m here to get my Self-realisation.” He said, “You can take all My kingdom but not easy to give you Self-realisation.” He said, “Alright, whatever you say I’ll do.”
So He put a big sword on his head and asked him to sleep. He couldn’t sleep at all. Then they were having a bath, he said, “Come and have bath in the river.” People came and told that there’s fire and everybody’s running away and Raja Janaka was in His meditative mood, He was just sitting quietly. Nachiketa got a little upset.
Then they said, “The fire is coming here and all these cloths are going to be burnt.” So Nachiketa ran out to save his things but still He (Janaka) was meditating.
Then they came out and Nachiketa found that nothing that was burnt was there. It was just an illusion for people. He was amazed. Then he realised what was wrong with him, that he was doubting the Divine power Itself.
The one who was Janaka, who was a king, was not bothered about His own powers, these are what? Because he is today, this you have to do it. Because I’m married, I have to wear a mangalsutra. So this is for the parampara, for the tradition style, but inside He was a saint, a very high…high level of saintliness.
When this thing happens that you get some position, any power, even in Sahaja Yoga I was surprised. If somebody becomes leader, I don’t know what happens to him. It is a myth. There’s nothing like leadership in Sahaja Yoga, nothing like that. It’s just a myth. But suddenly people jump up. It is ego that gets pampered.
But this ego can be easily managed if you worship the Rajalakshmi. She is the giver of balance. Firstly, She rides on the elephant. Is not easy for a lady to climb on an elephant, I have done it, it’s not easy. Without fear. And She sits straight with a complete balanced attitude. And Her blessings are tremendous. The first blessing one gets: the imbibement of dignity.
Dignity of a king, dignity of a queen. You are a queen so you can’t behave like street women. With Her blessing, first of all, you get that dignity. That dignity is full of love, love for others. That personality emits nothing but love and benevolence for others, nothing else. Wherever She looks, in every glance She blesses people. She doesn’t expect anything.
She is a queen, what can you give to the queen? She’s the highest of all in every way, what can you give it to Her? These, all these politicians and all these so-called presidents of all these countries are beggars. All the time give me this, give me this, like greedy people going around are beggars! They are not the people who can rule. Hankering after things.
So first thing is the sign, is that such a person has a personality that just blesses people, thinks of their benevolence, cares for each and every person who comes along. This is a blessing of the Goddess. Then the second blessing of the Goddess is that you develop a kind of a temperament, which is very dignified, but also very humorous and understanding what other people are like.
There’s a story of a king who was going on a horse and he met a drunkard. So you can say these our drunkard can be compared to our politicians. So the drunkard stopped. He said, “I want to buy your horse.” People said, “Do you know what he is?” “Yeah I know he’s a king. Alright. So what? I want to buy his horse.” He said, “Alright not today, tomorrow we’ll sell the horse to you.” So went away. Next day he was called. So he came with folded hands bent down. He said, “What, you were the one who was going to buy my horse, what has happened to you? I want to sell it to you.
He said, “Sir, the one who wanted to buy is dead. I am an ordinary person.” Such a personality, such solid personality I should say, that anybody would have been angry, would have said “Beat this man! Throw him away! He talks to me like this, behaves like this.”
What the king said was remarkable. Because he knew he’s drunk, he knew he’s not in his senses, that’s why he’s talking. Didn’t get angry with him, he said, “Alright, come along tomorrow, I’ll sell you the horse.” That’s only possible if you have this Rajalakshmi in you otherwise you would never behave like this.
Now what about today’s politicians anywhere? They even shoot people, they kill people, they arrest them, they put them into trouble I mean, all kinds of things they are doing. Such people have no right to call anybody as criminals! But we accept! As in Hindi we say, “Aaj kal ka zamana hai aisa.” (Such is todays world) We accept it – all such people as our rulers.
Then Rajalakshmi is the one who stands on dharma. She stands on dharma. If there is some adharmi then she will not bless that person. Adharmi is to be taken out. But if he’s not, then he will go all out to save that person.
But if he finds he’s adharmi, he will not. Is a kind of a divine discretion he should have as to whom to be kind and whom to be punishing. That divine discretion should be there in a person, otherwise you can play into the hands of ten people who are around you, teaching you something, doing something.
One day I was in My mother’s place Nandgaon, and there was one gentleman who impressed our Yogi very much. I just kept quiet. He was a big politician and he told Me, “We have to do like this and we have to do.” I said, “Alright, alright, alright.”
Then three, four professors from the university came to tell Me, “Mother, he’s a politician, be very careful. He’s a very bad man, you be careful about him.”
I said, “What do you know about him?”
They said, “He’s a politician.” I said, “There are so many politicians.”
“But he’s not a good man.”
“But what do you mean?”
I said, “Now you sit down and I’ll tell you. This man has eloped with the wife of a Brahmin. He himself is not a Brahmin and this child is from him to her and how much he has deceived people everything I know.”
They were shocked. “You know Mother?”
“Of course. I know everything!”
“Then why do You allow him to come close to You?”
“Do you think he is close to Me?” I said, “You are sadly mistaken. But it’s nice he’s come to Me because he’s been troubling people too much and I’ll correct him.”
While some people thought he was a great achievement we have got, and some of them came to tell Me be careful of this man without knowing what he was. This kind of a divine discretion has to be there.
If a king does not have that divine discretion then he can punish the good and he may help the bad people. But this divine discretion disappears when you are self-centred. That’s the main point, is a complete detachment about the power should be there. Complete detachment.
Why should Rajalakshmi care for anything? What does She get? But now there are some who’ll pamper a person this, this and that, and then they feel “ah, we’re on top of the world!” They just pamper, pamper and pamper the ego of a politician and he thinks he is a very big man, then in the election he doesn’t understand why he’s on the ground.
So with this self-dignity, self-knowledge, you know what you are. Whatever you may tell Me, whatever you may say to Me, I’ll listen, “Alright, alright, alright”, but I don’t accept anything as something great. Because if I am that, what is there to be great?
Now supposing this is a lamp here. So is it great or not great? It is a lamp. So if I’m Adi Shakti, I’m Adi Shakti, So what? If you are a king you are a king so what? I mean if you are an impostor then you might feel your ego.
But if you are really the king then you won’t feel. If you are under the influence of the Goddess then that is the only thing you enjoy. The rest of it is nothing. Whether you have diamonds or you have silver or you have anything makes no difference at all.
Now how people misuse the scriptures also one should see, that, Rajalakshmi is sitting on the elephant alright, so they should have all very big cars, you see. She’s sitting on the elephant because elephant is the highest animal! Is very kind, very forgiving and has such a tremendous memory.
That’s why She’s sitting on an elephant. She’s not sitting there to show off. But She’s sitting there to see around, what is happening avalokan, She can see around what is happening, to be at a higher place. That’s why a king is made to sit on a higher pedestal. But the purpose is not to show off. But the purpose is that from that state he can see others better, he can be watchful of others.
If somebody gets a high position then they think they are the owners of that position. This has all come because the brain has gone upside down I think. How can it be? Logically. Now if you are this throne is given, alright, so with the throne I sit on this, but this throne cannot give Me anything, I can give something to this throne.
The king has to think he is obliging all these things that he is sitting on them because he is a king. On the contrary he thinks all these things are important because something is lacking in him or what? And that’s why when they come to do Raj they start gathering things which are useless absolutely, clutter up their houses, homes, everything with something that is useless.
All their dignity, everything, is itself a decoration on them and to show that they are kings. Of course they are given a crown, they are given a big necklace, they are to wear something here because they are kings. But these are not actually his decorations but these things get decorated by a king.
when Raja Lakshmi gets enlightened within us, then everything changes inside us. Our wants and requirements change; our consciousness of being an individual changes; and we go from individuality to collectivity. We rise above ourselves, and become part of the whole world. We don’t think only of ourselves. And we think only of the whole world.
You will be amazed that I never think what things I am in need of. That thought never enters. And nor do I buy things for Myself. As it is you people are doing all the buying.
But once there was a burglary in our house. Everything was stolen. All My sarees were taken, and it was a bad state of affairs. Now My husband is a very honest, government official, and everything was spent making new outfits for him. So for seven years of My life, I managed with one silk saree. Cotton sarees I had, but when I went out, I wore that same saree, every time. Just managed with one silk saree. But till today no one noticed that. Only My husband was aware of this.
And now you have given Me so many sarees, that I keep thinking that only if one more Draupadi Vastra Haran (disrobing of Draupadi) happens, then only these sarees will be of use. Otherwise they are just piling up in heaps and heaps. Where will I wear all these sarees. But no one is willing to listen. I keep saying “Please don’t give me any presents. I do not require anything”. So they say “Then you should not give us”. But let Me give. I am a Mother. Are you a Mother? And they say that only this gives us joy.
Reference :- 1994-12-04
