Post 37: Photograph
"This Photo was taken after I opened the Collective Sahasrāra Chakra. I even look a bit sad.
I look very serious in this Photo. At that time I even stopped eating and became a little thin.
From birth I knew I was the Goddess, and My job was to save and raise up this doomed humanity."
1900-0000 Quote on a Photo Taken in 1970 on the Terrace, Flat with View towards the Sea, A1 Jeevan Jyot, Nepean Sea Road (now Lady Laxmibai Jagmohandas Mārg), Setalvad Lane, Breach Candy, Cumballa Hill, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"... Teach them not to put their back and their feet to the Photo ... "
1900-0000 Quotes on Children from the book Raising Children in Sahaja Yoga
[Śhrī Mātājī further on says that there will be a day when She will not be there and even Her Photograph will not be there, but Sahaja Yoga will be there.] "...... that Sahaja Yoga cannot be destroyed because it is a living thing. It is an energy."
1900-0000 Quote on Poetry and Sahaja Yoga, India from the book The Breeze of Sahasrara, Pages 200 and 201
"Do you differentiate Me, the physical Form and My Photograph in My nirākār Form? At times I Myself wonder how it works out, but it works out even at times better that My own physical presence before You.
May be you need to stabilize your wandering thoughts and seek Mother in your heart, you really do not need to come near Me to meet Me to get your all problems solved. My Photograph ......"
1900-0000 Quote on Personal Attention
[In early eighties Śhrī Mātājī discovers that catches from removed ex-leaders have passed on to new Sahaja Yogis who have received Realization from them.]
Śhrī Mātājī: [Asking these new Sahaja Yogis:] Did he [removed ex-leader] give you Realization before My Photograph or without it?
New Sahaja Yogis: Before Your Photograph.
Śhrī Mātājī: Then it is I who gave you Realization, so there is no reason to feel indebted to him. Forget him. [With that, catches fled.]
[Śhrī Mātājī instructs that Realization should be given before Her Photo, then the catches do not transfer from one to another. Moreover, one does not absorb the catches of the seekers.]
1900-0000 Quote on Catches and Photograph from the book Insights, Inspirations and Eternal Moments, Chapter 6, Page 20 by Yogi Mahajan
"Behind every element is a Deity, when you put the elements before My Photograph they get vibrated."
1900-0000 Quote on Elements, Photograph, and Vibrations from the book Insights, Inspirations and Eternal Moments, Chapter 14, Page 39 by Yogi Mahajan
[Arriving in a city for a Public Program, Śhrī Mātājī observes there are no posters anywhere.] Śhrī Mātājī: Why there are no posters?
Sahaja Yogis: Śhrī Mātājī, we were worried about the protocol of Your Photograph. People might tear or trample on them.
Śhrī Mātājī: The city gets vibrated with My Photograph, and that is how the Paramachaitanya informs the seekers through their unconsciousness. When I went to Russia, the Russian seekers had never known about Me but the Unconscious informed them and they came in thousands. When I asked them, "How did you recognize Me?" They answered, "From your Photograph of course Mother." I have given permission for putting My Photograph on posters, you don't have to worry about the protocol.
1900-0000 Quote on Posters from the book Insights, Inspirations and Eternal Moments, Chapter 22, Pages 64 and 65 by Yogi Mahajan
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1901-1029 Letter (Marathi) to Mrs. Rāja Kuṃwar
"In meditation try to stop your thoughts. Watch My Photograph with open eyes and see that you stop your thoughts. You should stop your thoughts, then you go into meditation. The simple thing to stop your thoughts is the Lord's Prayer, because that's the Āgñyā state. So in the morning you remember Lord's Prayer or Gaṇeśha's mantra. It's just the same. Or you even say 'I forgive'. So you can start with Gaṇeśha's mantra, say Lord's Prayer and then say ]I forgive'. It works out."
1905-0000 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, On Meditation
[Poor eyesight: looking through candle flame on Mother's hands Photograph, Devī Kavach: Śhrī Śhaṅkhinī mantra. Mahāgaṇeśha, Mahābhairava, Hiraṇyagarbha. Viśhuddhi and back Āgñyā treatment. Massage wrists/Viśhuddhi with ghee camphor. Cover Viśhuddhi. Ghee camphor in nose.]
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[Cancer: skin tumor. Śhrī Mātājī has said that at initial stages, Sahaj will help. In advanced stage you need medical help. Remove tumor and continue Sahaj methods. Don't worry, surrender to Mother. Speak to Photograph. Be innocent and surrender.]
1908-0000 Advices Given to Dr. Madhur Rai, India
"So, there is another question which was asked - of course, they ... they thought it was very wise, and I think it is a great help - that, "When we put hands to You, we burn. But when Your disciples put hands to us, they burn. Now, who is the positive, who is the negative?" It's a complicated question.
So, for that, we have to use a person who is lunatic: absolute accepted lunatic or psychologically affected person. Ask that person to put the hands to Me or to My Photograph, and raise the Kuṇḍalinī, he'll start shaking too much. Now, you ask a realized person to put his hand and go into meditation, while a person who is suffering from negativity will start shaking and burning.
The one who is a certified person and a negative personality, the one who suffers from inferiority complexes and the fear and all these symptoms of negativity, should be used as a measuring rod.
One gentleman wanted to take full advantage of My raising things. He took My Photograph and put it and all that thing. And he also said he was My disciple, [laughing:] very openly. Of course, I accepted that, "You be my Guru. You can give me something sensible." And then I got something also, [unclear] he said, "You must tell people that, 'I am your guru.' " I said, "All this thing if you want I will tell them. But I don't think you have done anything unique." But even now he is been too much. He is telling people that he's doing My work."
1973-0325 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Seminar, Day 3, Cowasji Jehangir Hall, 15, Madam Cama Road, Mantralaya, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"Then you take a big, nice Photo of Mine, frame it nicely, and sit in front of it after lighting a lamp, in meditation. Meet Me after two or three days."
1973-0xxx Public Program, Day 22, Gita Mandir Hall, Bharatiya Vidyā Bhavan (3rd floor), 29, Kulapati K.M. Munshi Mārg, Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"Whosoever will come in front of you should dissolve in your love. And if he does not dissolve, then he will run away. A day will come and that day you will not need this protection.
You people have found many ways of protection. These people can tell you about some of the ways if you want. You can ask them. Like taking vibrations on the Photo. Taking out [vibrations] with feet or taking out with water. How to put your own bandhan, etc. Taking different names, etc. There are many types. If you want to know about them then you can talk to these people, then these people can tell you all this.
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You have to do no business whatsoever.
You have not to collect money in any way. For nothing at all.
One person said to Me that he will sell My Photos and then that money he will give to the Āśhram. I said, "Which Āśhram? What money? Who said so? Why do you listen to others?" "
1973-0903 Pūjā (Hindi), Ātma-sākṣhātkār ka Arth (Meaning of Self-realization), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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1973-0910 Public Program (Hindi), Bholāpan (Innocence), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (place not sure)
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"I went to a photo vendor and saw all pictures [of Deities] have bad vibrations. I took one picture home but it has such bad vibrations that I had to dispose it in water (visarjan)."
1975-0313 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Hindi), Beyond Guṇas and Clearing Baddhas, New Delhi, India
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Śhrī Mātājī: So, Photograph is much more powerful than any other statue. Moreover, it is a reproduction, no doubt, but reproduction of reality, with five elements. So, I shouldn't call it just a representative, it's quite Me. Because My attention is there.
Sahaja Yogi: Mhh.
Śhrī Mātājī: We have experimented with this.
There Śharayū Gaḍakarī had a Photograph of Mine. And her relation came to her and she used to mock at the Photograph and say all kinds of things.
She brought the Photograph to Me, ss-showing that it had become all dark, black. So I said, Who was there?" She said, It's my, some relation who had come she used to do like this. It has become black." I said, You'd better put it in the sea now. My attention is not there [claps]. No vibrations. My attention has come away, receded from there, I can see that. [Claps.] You should not have put the Photograph like that."
So there's a very big difference between a statue and a Photograph, because My attention is there.
Of course, even the statues which are, I mean, I mean the ones which are swayambhu, which are created by Mother Earth, also has [have] vibrations, and they also show that they have vibrations, but [clapping:] they cannot give you awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī. Because My Photograph has got My desire, also, in it. They cannot. If they could have, Stonehenge should have.
1980-0518 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, The Real Becoming, Seminar, Day 2, Old Alresford (13 kms ENE of Winchester), Hampshire, UK
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[The next day the same Sahaja Yogi brings his collection of Śhrī Mātājī's Photographs so that Śhrī Mātājī selects for the book cover. He suggests a Photo taken by an older Sahaja Yoginī in the early years of Sahaja Yoga. Śhrī Mātājī points out it had no vibrations because the older lady, who had taken the Photograph, was negative. She explains the vibrations of the person who took the Photograph reflect in it, and therefore it was important to check the vibrations before using Her Photograph anywhere.]
[Then he pulls out another Photograph. Śhrī Mātājī is surprised that it had become all so dark:] Who has used it?
Sahaja Yogi: [Replies that the Photograph was lent to a relation of his who was a follower of a false guru.]
Śhrī Mātājī: See how dark it has become because My attention has receded from it. There are no vibrations. You better put it in the river.
It is not for decoration but to be respected. As much as possible, respect the Photograph with the understanding, 'It's Mother with me.'
1991-1015 Conversation with a Sahaja Yogi, Photo Selection and Respect, Palazzo Doria, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy
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Jay Śhrī Mātājī!