ŚHRĪ MAHĀVĪRA in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ
"Sahaja Yoga is very difficult for the Jains. If the Jains come into Sahaja Yoga they are very difficult people. Because their traditions are very shallow. The people of Ārya Samāj are very shallow people.
Similarly the Buddhists: they believe in the formless but not as far as God is concerned.
Look at this, 'We do not know Buddha. We do not know Muhammad. We have not seen Them. We do not know Mahāvīra. We do not know anyone [of Them]. Who gave us Self-realization? Śhrī Mātājī. That we were able to know because of Śhrī Mātājī.'
So, whomever we believe in Them, we will have to believe Them in Śhrī Mātājī itself. Not in Sahaja Yoga."
1900-0000 Quote, Navarātri Pūjā, from the book Sahaja Yoga, An Experiential Treatise (Sahaja Yoga Anubhavāche Bola) by Venu Narayan Phaḍake, Chapter 19, Pages 248 and 249
"Lot of work was done to cross the Void, some success was achieved. And if you people could get it, They are helpful today. They become eternal. The founder of Jaina Dharma, Śhrī Mahāvīra and Śhrī Buddha are amongst Them. They were born of the same Mother, born of the womb of Ādi Śhakti. Try to know Their first relation that where were They born. But it was experimental for all of Them. All of Them made experiments so that human beings could cross the Void. Very few, however, could cross the Void."
1973-1125 Public Program (Hindi), Day 7, Pāne ke Bāda: Sāta Chakroṃ ke Devatā (After Getting It: Deities of the Seven Chakras), 4 Duplex Lane, New Delhi, India
"Now, what can I say, you would be surprised, that the Shia sect that started after Muhammad Sāhab, His daughter was Fāṭimah, She was also Ādi Śhakti.
And Her two children were, Hasan and Husayn, back then, when They saw even after the annihilation of the world, the human beings did not understand, then They were born as Buddha and Mahāvīra and They brought the non-violence as religion, and attempted that, 'Maybe with the establishment of non-violence people will achieve Self-realization.' But couldn't do it."
1973-1208 Public Program (Hindi), Day 2, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"And His daughter Fāṭimah was nobody else but Sītā Jānakī Herself.
And Her two sons, Hasan and Husayn, were nobody else but Lava and Kuśha. They were born again and again: They were born as Mahāvīra and Buddha, and then They were born as Hasan and Husayn.
It is only possible through Sahaja Yoga to realize that this is the Truth, this is the fact."
1976-0205 Public Program (Vasant Pañchamī), Day 2, Description of Kuṇḍalinī, after Śhrī Viṣhnu Havan, New Delhi, India
"Such born realized people: this is a very, very far-fe... fetched stuff. They are very few!
I would say, perhaps, you can Buddha and Mahāvīra are the only two, two human beings in who have gone through many lives. From one extreme to another They went. And ultimately, They found out: that going to the extremes is not proper. Still, They have not reached the complete height of an Incarnation."
1977-0126 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (28th Republic Day), Day 1, Questions on Chakras, Bordi, Maharashtra, India
"Now beyond that is God's Realization.
There are three stages to that also, but just now I have told this: the Sat-chit-ānand State.
The God's Realization is the state in which Gautama Buddha and Mahāvīra only rose, and They are settled down here in our brains, both of Them are here, Christ is here.
And these two were not Incarnations. They were born as human beings. They were born to Sītā, as Lav and Kuśh. Then they were born as Buddha and Mahāvīra and Ādi Śhakti was their mother again. Then they were born to Fāṭimah Bi as Hasan and Husayn. They are both placed here in your head and They are the two milestones you have got by which you can know what a human being can rise up to.
Now today they are like Incarnations. Incarnations are beyond but maybe the gap can be bridged."
1977-0215 Public Program (Hindi + English), Day 2, Sat-chit-ānanda, New Delhi, India
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1977-0216 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi), Śhivajī Ke Ūpara Sārā Saṃsāra Nirbhara Hai (The Whole World Is Dependent on Śhivajī), New Delhi, India
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"All the Scriptures, whether it is Bible, Qur'ān, or any Indian Scripture, even Lao Tze, or if we go to Zen or Buddha, Mahāvīra, all of them have said that: "You are to be reborn." "
1982-0823 Public Program, Day 1, Temple de la Fusterie (Fusterie Temple), Place de la Fusterie, Geneva, Switzerland
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"And that's what one has to do: is to place yourself in such a way, 'Let us see.' Keep your minds open to see: what is the Truth about yourself.
Now this Truth has been told by many Great Sages, by Prophets and many Incarnations who came on Earth. As we know Christ has said about it, Nāṇaka has said about it, Kabīra has said, Lao Tze has said, Buddha has said, everyone has said one thing, which is ... people ... which I should say people neglect and are not bothered about it. And the simple thing is, that: 'You have to have your Second Birth. You have to know your Self. you have to have Self-realization.' This every one of them have said it."
1982-1007 Public Program, Truth Is to Be Achieved, Guild Hall (now Bedford Guild House), 56 Harpur Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
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"Everyone has said it: Christ has said it, Muhammad has said it, Buddha has said it, Mahāvīra has said it. Everyone has said the same thing! Like Lao Tze, you can say Zen system, everything has said that, "You are to be born-again," there has to be some transformation within you. They didn't tell us lies!"
1983-0308 Press Conference, The Hotel Windsor, 111 Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia
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"Now, what people are enamored is that, if they see some people dancing madly, they feel enamored. Is a sign that you have not been able to understand.
We have seen Christ, we have seen Buddha, Mahāvīra, Kabīra, Nāṇaka, we had Lao Tze and so many others. Did They behave like this? Did They become mad? We have got Moses, did He become mad anytime? Was He mad anytime, behaving like a mad person?
All these new theories have started, I think, fifty years back, or about sixty years back, that people believe in these new theories and they have forgotten all the kn... traditional things that have come to us, our heritage. And we depend more on these nonsensical things, which has no moorings at all! Because the people who are supposed to be the founders of all the religions, have never behave like this, and why this new type of things that has started? That people are behaving in this manner, and accepting it to be a very normal thing."
1983-0315 Public Program, Day 1, Maccabean Hall, 146, Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst (eastern suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia
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"We have come to a place which we call as Brahmapuri here, called, perhaps, maybe because here Śhrī Rāmadāsa, the Guru of Śhivajī Mahārās [Mahārāj], in these deep waters found the statue of Śhrī Rāma, Sītā, Lakṣhmaṇa and Hanumāna together.
Then they were carried from here and put in a temple called Chāphaḷ, the place where I saw that, also.
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Also we have some miraculous things about Christ and His Mother, that we ... they found a statue of Mother Mary and Christ in one of the shores of Bombay [Mumbai] City, ca... and ... called as Worli [locality in central Mumbai and one of the 4 peninsulas], the fisherman found it in their net.
Like Rāmadāsa when He jumped inside this he found it in the river, in the same way.
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Now today, I am telling you this because Rāmadāsa was the Guru of Śhivajī. And He was the man who was very detached, He was Hanumāna Himself. And once He came to Śhivajī's place and Śhivajī was so fed up with this people and with the whole administration, and the way the things were. He had made a chit, saying that: "Mh... O, my Guru, I give You all my property, all my lands, all my kingdom, everything at Your Feet and You better look after it." And he [laughing:] put that chit in the ... uh-uh-uh we have the choḷī, you see, in the cloth sort of a thing.
So He stood in the door and read it and he said, "What? [Laughing:] You've given Me everything?" He said, "I am a saṃnyāsī, and I don't know administration. But you can do everything ... uh-uh-uh the same way as you have been doing, but be detached about it. And to show that you are detached you must use a ... a ... waist under's ... under dhotī stuff we call it, in a triangular manner, it is made. You see, that thing, with the ... uh saffron color showing that you are detached and you are a saṃnyāsī."
That's how this flag came into being.
So the entry of the politics has been in this country ... uh entry into politics by uh-uh-uh sākṣhātkāri people or by Incarnation has been there.
Most of the Incarnations have been kings. Like uh we have got Buddha, he was a king, Mahāvīra was a prince. Both were prince. Then we have got Rāma who was a king. Then we have got Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa who became a king.
So the aiśhwarya, the king-ness, has to be there. Has to be a royal family. Has to be, Incarnation should be from a royal family. In India it is, that is the concept."
1988-1220 Pūjā (English + Marathi), Garden, little House, Brahmapuri, Maharashtra, India
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"All the Incarnations who came on this Earth were a milestone on the ladder of our evolution. But They all had one type of work to do.
Like the Goddess had to kill the rākṣhasas and save the devotees.
That is why Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa arranged this play. This was all a play. There is no need to be so serious about it. Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa won everyone with His sweetness. He explained all our faults in a sweet and roundabout way. It was a very beautiful Incarnation of His.
After Him came Mahāvīra and Buddha, who took an Incarnation of Seriousness. In this seriousness, They spoke of Oneness of the Spirit and the knowledge of the Whole.
Then seriousness developed and the people became serious-minded, and made their daily lives very difficult. In fact neither Buddha nor Mahāvīra had said so."
1990-0409 Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Pūjā (Hindi), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 6: Religions
Jay Śhrī Mātājī!