Tad Niskala By Adi Shankaracharya
Om, I am neither the mind,
Intelligence, ego, nor „chitta‟,
Neither the ears, nor the tongue,
Nor the senses of smell and sight,
Neither ether, nor air,
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I am neither the „prana‟,
Nor the five vital breaths,
Neither the seven elements of the body,
Nor its five sheaths,
Nor hands, nor feet, nor tongue,
Nor other organs of action.
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
Neither fear, greed, nor delusion,
Loathing, nor liking have I,
Nothing of pride, of ego,
Of „dharma‟ or Liberation,
Neither desire of the mind,
Nor object for its desiring.
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
Nothing of pleasure and pain,
Of virtue and vice, do I know,
Of mantra, of sacred place,
Of Vedas or Sacrifice,
Neither I am the eater,
The food or the act of eating.
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
Death or fear, I have none,
Nor any distinction of caste,
Neither father, nor Mother,
Nor even a birth, have I,
Neither friend, nor comrade,
Neither disciple, nor Guru.
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
I have no form or fancy,
The All-pervading am I,
Everywhere I exist,
And yet I am beyond the sense,
Neither salvation am I,
Nor anything to be known.
I am Eternal Bliss and Awareness.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
That‟s what you are. You are Eternal Bliss and Awareness.Consciousness. The Pure Consciousness. I think this must be. Everyone must learn it by heart and must say it in all the ashrams. That‟s a very good way of remembering what you are! May God bless you!
Reference :H.H. SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI, GMUNDEN, AUSTRIA 1986
True Guru: Rising Beyond the Gravity of Illusion
Guru means a thing which is higher than the gravity of the earth, or stronger than the gravity of the earth. What is the gravity of the earth? Superficially when we see that we understand it as a thing that acts on our body to keep us on the ground. Also there is a load of a big atmosphere on our head, of many elephants standing on our head. Plus the Mother Earth has the gravity to pull us towards herself. That’s on the gross level we understand the gravity and on the gross level also we sometimes understand the Guru Principle.
On the gross level we think a good guru is that person who just attracts you towards himself – body attraction, or may be other attractions which are gross. And that’s why people always go to the gurus who are false, who are superficial. But the one who is above the gravity of the Mother Earth, the gross, the subtle, the subtle, subtler and the subtlest – beyond all these attractions – that is the one, is the guru.
So in the very gross way we see that normally people are attracted towards other through the body element, the gravity acting through the body. A guru who looks like a cinema actor is very much appreciated. They cannot see the totality of beauty, but just one aspect. The earlier gurus, who came as false gurus used to paint their faces even, in India. Or they would go to special decorators, who would make their hair look like Shankara’s jatas and eyes were painted with big black coal up to this. And the whole body was covered with a funny type of a powder.
Or they would wear a kashaya, a cloth that was given a color of saffron without using the saffron. In two rupees you can get that. And people would be attracted towards such a person. They would carry an elephant, to sit on an elephant, even to add to the propensity of the superficial gravity and walk on the streets. And people would bow to them and give them whatever they wanted. This cannot elevate anyone. Any body attraction can enslave you, cannot give you freedom. It will give you habits for your body enslavements, and also it will enslave you to your guru if he knows how to keep attractive in various ways.
The whole understanding of the cosmic consciousness can be put in one little sentence: that it cannot be attracted by the gravity of any stars, earth, moon or sun.
The other attractions one has from the Mother Earth are all for food, greed, lust – materialism at its worst. It comes from matter. All that comes from matter, once you start getting used to it you become a slave and not a guru. So the first attempt should be for anybody: to be a good guru is to get over material attraction.
In a subtler way we can see it happens like this: a lady or a gentleman buys an ashram in Sahaja Yoga. And the Sahaja yogis start living in that ashram. The owner of that house starts worrying about the house and all material things in that house rather than the emancipation of the disciples or the Sahaja yogis who are there.
The whole attention is towards the material upkeep of the house and not towards the emancipation of the Sahaja yogis who are supposed to rise into the cosmic consciousness. And such a person, if he starts believing that he is the guru or in any way even a Sahaja Yogi, he is sadly mistaken.
Where is your attention is the point. If you are the guru, where is your attention? If your attention is on the correction and the nourishment of yourself and of others then you are first of all the Sahaja yogi. And once you rise above the gravitational force of materialism, then you could be called as the guru.
Anything that is living has a capacity to rise against the gravity, up to a point, that is limited. Like we have seen the trees, they come out of the Mother Earth and grow upward, up to a limited space. Every tree, every type of tree has its own limitations. Cedar will be cedar and rose will be a rose. Is all controlled by the gravitational force.
But there is one thing which rises against the gravitational force which has no limits, and that is your Kundalini. It cannot be controlled by the gravitational force unless and until you want it to be controlled. Nothing can control it but you and your Self can control it. So, as soon as you become in charge of your Kundalini, you have crossed one step forward that you have overcome the force that is the gravitational force.
Then the cycle of all the five elements is bound together. All the five elements have to go in a cycle in such a way that nothing is wasted, nothing is spoiled, everything is organised. But the cycle is broken only by the awakening of the Kundalini. Because you enter into the highest of highest, which is the cosmic consciousness, which you know how to regulate yourself.
“The Satguru: Oneness with the Cosmic Principle”
That cosmic consciousness is the Param Tattwa, is the principle of all the principles, controls all the principles. So it controls also the principles of all these five elements. It controls the Mana Shakti. It controls the evolution and gives you the power to evolve others. So, this great Brahma Shakti is at your lotus feet.
Perhaps Sahaja yogis do not realise what they have achieved. The only difference between a Adi Guru and a guru, Satguru I would say, is this that the Adi Guru knows that He is the controlling power. He knows He is with absolute oneness with the Brahma Tattwa, with the cosmic. The authority with which He talks, the complete confidence with which He says things.
There’s no doubt in His mind. In anyone of His teachings He’ll say, “I verily say to you that confidence that I am with the Brahma Tattwa, that I am the Brahma and that I am controlling all that Tattwa,” makes Him a prophet. Because whatever He says, prophesizes, is the truth. Whatever He says about the past is the truth. And He knows that; He has no doubts.
The authority with which Moses talked, authority with which Socrates talked, authority with which Lao Tse talked – all these great Adi Gurus, from Adi Nath to Sai Nath, they didn’t say, “If you do this way will be good, or that way would be good.” No, “This is what it is, you better do it!” This is what it is.
Need for a Mother: Realization Beyond the Façade of Gurus
But in modern times those gurus may not work out. That’s why a Mother had to come. First to give you Realisation. Because these gurus did not realise another point: that their disciples not understand them at all. Whatever they are doing, they are doing out of awe. But awe doesn’t have understanding in it. Or even the earlier ones may have had, the generation that came afterwards did not have.
So, they turned the gurus into a façade and the whole building they owned as their own. Creating all kinds of problems, killing the universality and the collectivity because Brahma Tattwa is the power of the collectivity. Is in everything – in the atom, in the molecule, in the human heart.
Everywhere it is reflected, depending on the reflector. And it controls. This understanding they had, but the human understanding perhaps they did not have. That if you today tell them something they might listen to us, but tomorrow they will forget.
So, it was necessary that you all should be given Realisation. Otherwise, also without realisation, what’s the use? What’s the use of talking to people about the colours, those who don’t have eyes? So, Realisation has to be given. But it should not be done with diffidence. When a guru does not feel vibrations properly, he become diffident about giving Realisation.
But even when he feels it clearly he will not say things with authority. Authority by any chance does not mean aggressiveness. Authority is because you have it, that’s why you express it.
Like this light is now shining on My face. It is shining; it’s not aggressive. Because that’s the quality it has got – that it has to shine, so it is shining. In the same way a guru shines before the disciples. It’s very easy to understand this word shine. When you have something dirty, it doesn’t shine. Even the gold which is always shining, is not tarnishable, if you put it under the mud it won’t shine. So, you have to wash it, clean it and rub it nicely so that it shines.
But in Guru Tattwa, it is from the basics you have to start. Before the gold came into its own state of gold it was mixed with so many other things. So it had to be heated up, melted away, sieved out, and so many processes it had to go through to become gold. So, when you become Sahaja yogis, you have become gold.
Now, the second job is to keep this gold shining. And third would be to get a part in the crown of your Mother, so that you can never be tarnished. Into these three stages one has to come. First of all to judge yourself to be a guru you have to have a gravity of your own, which is not bound by the gravity of the Mother Earth. That’s the minimum of minimum.
Which does not mean you wear outside the kashaya, the dress that suggests that you are a sanyasi. But from inside you should be a sanyasi. Now a sanyasi who is inside a sanyasi will have a big bank balance, maybe, but will know nothing about it. Will be very indifferent and any day willing to part with it. A sanyasi has to be a person above lust. Should not know what is a lust is, what is this attraction of lust is.
That through his Kundalini and Mooladhara he can achieve it. Because now you have a capacity to rise above the gravity. You have got that power now to rise about this lust business where your attention gets absolutely ruined.
But in Sahaja Yoga we have everything. Like on Indian streets you’ll find the most modern car, a Rolls Royce, Mercedes as well as you can find a bullock cart and also lots of cows and buffalos, everything there. In the same way, I think, in Sahaja Yoga we have all kinds.
We have some people who are very great and try to achieve a state of untarnishability, put their attention to it, work it out. But we also have people who are absolutely useless things, just hanging onto Sahaja Yoga to use Sahaja Yoga for their own popularity, maybe, for their own gains. I don’t know for what.
I have seen people who give lectures in the name of Sahaja Yoga and are badly caught up. There is that gravity acting in you, remember that. The gravity of the Mother Earth. Some sort of a gravity which should be located. But some of them are nothing but worms, they cannot go higher. And the outsiders see those worms only and try to say that Sahaja Yoga is no good.
Your Kundalini has the power, it has all the powers to make you the highest of highest. An ordinary grass can become a cedar. There’s no limits to it. But you must have confidence in yourself and confidence in Sahaja Yoga. If you don’t have confidence in yourself or in Sahaja Yoga, nothing can work it out. But the highest of all is the sincerity which nobody can instil in you.
There are so many descriptions of a guru, how a Satguru should be. Not in the West, I didn’t see that, because I think they never believed in gurus, but they have lots of gurus, like Pope is another horrible, fake guru sitting here. Then we have another one, Bishop of Canterbury sitting there.
All of them are false gurus, know nothing about Kundalini, don’t know anything Brahma. And they just want to denounce Indian ideas not because they are Indian, but because if Sahaja Yoga is established they will lose all their earnings. From where will they get their money and their crowns? So they want to propound that they are the solution, achieving nothing, spoiling the name of Christ, saying all kinds of things against Him, stupidly, without knowing the Divine.
Then we have many in the Islam, horrible people, just the opposite of Mohammed Sahib, doing all wrong things in the name of Mohammed Sahib. It’s something like one can understand that a thief has to become an imposter to behave like a king to show that he is not a thief and to have his thieving done. This is how they are, all of them. Right from India we have many Brahmins of the same category. This priesthood has to go. Wherever there is a priest, know it’s a mafia. It’s a sophisticated mafia.
No Sahaja Yogi guru is going to take any money, nor anybody is going to bow to them. Nor they are going to take any kind of special attention. In the sense in one place we had a ashram where the guru and the guruvi became very important, and the guruvi wanted her tea to be sent on her bed with a proper table, and she became a mini-Mataji – or a greater Mataji, because I don’t demand many things which she demanded. I never demand anything, whatever you do is very great for Me.
And this is how they felt they were great gurus by asking for this privilege and that privilege. Guru has to suffer the most, that’s how he can command. He has to be the example of austerity and of detachment, that’s how he is going to get respect. In Sahaja Yoga nobody is going to respect anybody because that guru has made so much money out of Sahaja Yogis.
But the attention on money itself of Sahaja Yogis itself is suggestive that they are not Sahaja Yogis. For example, when you wanted to collect money – I mean, I never asked for a house or anything. The idea came from some Sahaja Yogis – there should be a house for Me. Who can house Me? Just think of it. Is it possible? Is it possible to house Me? Not possible.
So, with the purpose and with My name, we could have something done in the heart of the universe where everybody is sleeping practically. We had to do something dynamic there. And I heard that some stupid people started arguing on that. That’s again the sign of not understanding. If Mother has said, “Yes,” She would not do it for no reason.
So, the power of understanding only come when we become the power of cosmic consciousness. Because cosmic consciousness understands each and every thing; sitting down here you can understand every thing, you don’t have to go there.
Everything. And because your Mother is a Mahamaya it may not show, but it will expose one day. So, you have to depend on that part of Sahaja Yoga, that it is a Mahamaya’s job. So we should not get disturbed or upset, it will show.
So, you are doubly blessed. First of all you got your realisation, which they say is the hardest of hardest thing to get. You have overcome the gravity. And secondly, your Mother is the Mother of all the Adi Gurus. She’s the One who taught all the Adi Gurus. She created the Adi Gurus and She’ll create out of you the Adi Gurus.
