2026 Celebrating Rakṣhābandhan: “Unless and until you have a sense of chastity, you cannot have dharma.”
"Many blessings,
Received your rākhīs conveying your deep love. Rākhī is Protecting Power. Its bond is very strong and extremely tender because it symbolizes the noble love of sister. Customarily, tying a rākhī to someone is establishing a place of Pure Protection. However, man's ability to understand love has become so feeble that tying of rākhī has become merely a mechanical process. All beautiful human traditions become lifeless and dry formalities if there is no warmth of faith in them.
I have taken birth in this world in the binding of Sahaja Yogis and have been moving around only in their binding. I am desireless and hence My everything depends upon your desires.
You have to ask something with rākhī. Please consult all Sahaja Yogis and ask what you want by writing a collective letter. I am keeping good health because you are desiring it. There will be only minor}} operation {\textcolor{darkgoldenrod}{on My ear and it should not make you anxious at all. Moreover, I have no trouble whatsoever. So do not worry.
Rākhī Pūrṇimā is a day of great significance. On that day you should ask for perfection, make big decisions and keep attention on high ideals. Sahaja Yogis should not destroy their attention on trifle issues. Lot of work has yet to be done. Those Sahaja Yogis who have progressed should get busy. New centers should be opened. People should be cured of their diseases and their attention should be drawn towards God-realization.
Please show this letter to all Sahaja Yogis.
Always remembering you
-- Your Mother Nirmalā"
1978-0817 Letter (Marathi) on Rakṣhābandhan and Pūrṇimā Day (0818), London, UK
"Today, in India, we celebrate a set ... special festival. It is called as Rakṣhā-bandhan. Rakṣhā means protection and bandhan means the bondage: the bondage of protection.b> Is a very nice, good, social custom to have this beautiful festival today.
Today is the Full Moon Day, and this day what we do is to tie a band of threads around the person whom you want to protect.b> But it is done between brothers and sisters. The sisters tie this bondage to the wrist of the brothers, and when they do that, they are putting all their love around the wrist, that it is the day for giving all their love, everything to their brother, as a protection, as a symbol of their protection through that thread. Is a very, very simple thread they use. And uh this is, has to be tied on the left-hand side. But people tie it on the right-hand side, which is a mistake. But it has to be tied on the left-hand side."
1980-0826 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Rakṣhābandhan Day), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Bandhu Ātmā-prabudhyata sākshāt
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
(The One who cares for the spirituality of Her brother)
"So today is a very great day, when I arrived here, is the Day of Guru [unclear] ... today is the Pūrṇimā, is the Full Moon Day, or it's a day when the brother is tied with that spanda.
[During translation:] [unclear] let Me show them.
So I brought for you all, all of them.
Tied in the hands of brother by a sister, for the protection of the brother.
......
And Viṣhṇumāyā, the One which today announced our coming, is the sister of Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, and you must know ... who disappeared in the sky and you know who announced the coming of Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa later on -- Viṣhṇumāyā.
And after eight days we have the Birthday of Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa to be celebrated in Geneva. That's why it's very suggestive today that I should bring rākhī to you, because a sister will give you this great protection to her brother."
1983-0823 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Rakṣhābandhan Day), Āśhram, 1 Chemin du Joran, Tannay (13 kms N of Geneva), Vaud, Switzerland
1985-0901 Śhrī Viṣhṇumāyā Pūjā, Southlands College, University of Roehampton, Wimbledon, London, UK
You purify all relationships.
You envelop our sisters' chastity in Draupadī's sāṛī.
You adorn our brothers with valour and chivalry.
You are the flute player of collective charisma.
You play rasa with Sahaja gopīs
"Now, the Indian Sahaja Yogis have sent Me three rākhīs. This was by somebody else, but three of them, which is a very, very ... another very poetical situation. That, M... Modi has written that, "You are the protection for all of us. And a how ... what do we do ah to put this onto You? And what are we doing it?"
So, they said that: "All the sisters of Sahaja Yogis are sending this to be tied on all the brothers of Sahaja Yoginīs who are in Your wrist."
And that's how they've sent three -- of Mahākālī, Mahālakṣhmī, Mahāsaraswatī -- three things which I will ask one of the child to come and do it because it is the work of a small little child, if -- where are they playing? Just call them. They are needed here.
May God bless you!"
1980-0826 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Rakṣhābandhan Day), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
Rakhī offered to Śhrī Mātājī from America 1993-0815 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, Dharma, Cabella
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And surprisingly, the other day [on 1990-0807] we celebrated the Rākhī Bandhan, the Rakṣhābandhan, which is the same thing as the brothers-sisters relationship.
So now here we are celebrating actually the Deity which is the Sister of Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa.
Later on She was born as Draupadī. And that's why Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa went to save Her chastity, because is the brother only who is concerned about the chastity and the name of the sister."
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"So, this day is uh extremely important, in a way, for Sahaja Yogis to observe, and I'm happy that I am here, because it's very important also for America.b>
Uh as I told you that, I have already talked to you how the-ee war between Alexander and Puru's was finished because of a sister's intervention.
And, also, how Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, whose sister was Draupadī, Viṣhṇumāyā was born as Draupadī, and how He came to save Her chastity, by rushing all the way from Dvārikā.
So, we can see that when we ascend in the Collective Consciousness and we have collective living, collective meeting, at the Viśhuddhi chakra, Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa establish[ed] this, or He manifested uh this pure relationship of a sister.
In a collective life that we have, in the Āśhram where we live, where we move about as Sahaja Yogis, if we do not have this basic principle within us, there will be a chaos, complete chaos. Once this purity of relationship is established, that apart from my wife, all the rest are my sisters or mothers, it cannot be a proper society and the chaos of the social system of America is because they have no sense of pure relationships.
Once you call somebody a sister, she's a sister. And once you call somebody a brother, she's [he's] a brother. It's not only that you should be born of the same parents, it's not necessary, but this is a very important principle to have a very pure society where everybody can live peacefully."
1990-0807 Rakṣhābandhan Pūjā, Room, House of Dr. Vinod Worlikar, 17301 Maria Avenue, Cerritos (32 kms SE of Los Angeles), CA, U.S.A.
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Bandhu Rakṣhita Pāvitrya sākshāt
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
(The One whose chastity is prptected by Her brother)
"Is so important, that on this day if this is tied on your wrist, then you become brothers and sisters.
Now, in Sahaja Yoga brotherhood is the most important. That is the friendliness among ourselves. When you are very good brothers and sisters, first of all, your left Viśhuddhi improves.
This left Viśhuddhi. You get this left Viśhuddhi, because we don't have proper brother and sister relationship. Is not that we should have our own sister, but any woman who is a Sahaja Yoginī is your sister, except for your own wife.
And this is the feeling. Unless and until we develop that pure feeling within ourselves, we cannot work out Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga cannot be worked out. I know it's rather difficult to digest, but is a fact. You have to feel clean and pure within your heart.
Now see, we are so many Sahaja Yogis together, live in Āśhrams. We have no problems. But supposing, if you had these problems, this girl is running away with that boy, that boy is running with that girl, could not have known with whom she is living today. And those problems can only be solved, if you have the proper sense of a sister and a brother. And that is our dharma. That is our valence."
1986-0818 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (the day before Rakṣhābandhan Day), Room, Āśhram, Hampstead, London, UK
"Now for a Pūjā, we should have a very simple Pūjā [unclear]. Actually, I was saying there's no need to give Me a sāṛī because I am not anybody's sister or a brother.
But Rākhī Day, My brother is here. It's nice that we can have it in a way My physical brother is here. It's very good we are having a rākhī program today in his presence. And, all of you should also understand that it's a very subtle, pure, beautiful relationship that exists between a brother and a sister."
1988-0820 Śhrī Viṣhṇumāyā Pūjā (1 week before Rakṣhābandhan Day), Cure that Left Viśhuddhi, Śhuddhi Camp (now The Hall, Shudy Camps Park), Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, UK
Nirmalā, Kiti Varnāvi Tujhiga Stuti
Bābā Māmā (in March 1990): This is what the brother has written for the sister:
"O Nirmala, my sister, how much should I praise You? Because You have given the human being the experience of God."
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Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!