ŚHRĪ KABĪR in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ
"References to Kuṇḍalinī awakening abound in many of the Indian Scriptures. Some of these are Vāsiṣhṭha Yoga, Ṛigveda, Puruṣha Sūkta, Upaniṣhads of Atharvaveda, Yogopanishad, Yogaśhikhā Upaniṣhad, Kaṭhopaniṣhad and Yoga Kuṇḍalinī Upaniṣhad. In the Purāṇas are Devī Bhāgavat[am] Purāṇa, Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, Śhrī Bhāgavat[a] Purāṇa, etc. In Sanhitas: Haṭh[a] Yoga Sanhita, Laya Yoga Sanhita, Rāj Yoga Sanhita, Śhiv Sanhita. In the Yoga tests: Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā, Saundaryalaharī, Śhubhodayam, Lalitā Sahasrānam, and by Saints such as Bhakt Kabīr, Nāṇak, Gyāneśhwar, etc."
1900-0000 Quote from the book Divine Knowledge through Vibrations (1992) by P.T. Rajasekharan and R. Venkatesan, Pages 73 and 74
[Do not go to the garden of flowers O friend, go not there In your body is the garden of flowers Take your seat on the thousand petals of lotus, and there gaze upon the infinite beauty.]
[There is a strange tree, which stands without roots bears fruit without blossoming It has no branches and no leaves, it is lotus all over. Two birds sing there: one is the guru, and the other disciple. The disciple chooses the manifold fruits of life and tastes them, and the guru beholds him in joy.]
"In the first stanza Bhakt Kabīr has talked about the Sahasrāra [limbic area in brain] and the infinite beauty and joy felt when Kuṇḍalinī reaches there
In the second stanza 'Tree' symbolizes the Kuṇḍalinī and various chakras. Kabīr referred to Kuṇḍalinī as 'Surati' in many of the verses. His followers call this as 'Surati Yoga'." "
1900-0000 Quote from the book Divine Knowledge through Vibrations (1992) by P.T. Rajasekharan and R. Venkatesan, Page 76
"Pramila has also sent exceptional letters. They are in Hindi. She is an exceptional writer. She is able to write and express in Hindi. Her knowledge is very high. Sahaja Yoga and Kabīr, if you give these topics to her, she will write excellently and send it."
1901-0000 Letter (Marathi) to Anant
"Kabeerdas [Kabīr Dās] the great Saint has critisized the fake ones in his poems."
1902-0000 Handwritten Note on Haṭha Yoga related to The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 7
"In olden days, tradition of 'one master -- one disciple' was common, when they use[d] to grant Realization to one disciple only. So, there were very few realized people and if someone talked about Kuṇḍalinī, would be perceived as crazy.
Like Kabīr Dāsjī has mentioned in his poetry, "How do I explain, as this whole world is blind?""
1907-0000 Interview (Hindi) with a Lady for a TV Program Directed by Ashok Agarwal, Ardhamātrā Volume 2, New Delhi, India
"It is true, but you should forget about what you have read and just try to feel it. They spoke about the Kuṇḍalinī in metaphors or poetry but nobody wrote about it clearly. Perhaps they felt the time was not yet ripe. For instance, the Nāth Pānthis diligently guarded their knowledge and only passed it in the lineage of a master to a disciple. Gyānadeva could not give Realization to anybody. Same with other Saints like Kabīra, Tulasīdās, Ramaṇ Mahāṛiṣhi, Sufis and others. They were undoubtedly very great Saints. Whatever poetry they gave, people were singing, but that's all -- they did not know thyself. It was a very difficult situation because in modern times, like you, people only accept what is written in a book."
1972-0200 Meeting with a Boy or Public Program, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India (month not sure)
"You can read Nāṇaka, Kabīr Dās, you read Vasiṣhṭha, read about the Guru of Gurus Janak. Not only in our country but also in the foreign countries they have been writing like this for thousands of years. They have all been writing about which I am talking. "What you have to get is unexpectedly within."
But those poor things just kept saying. Maybe because they could not search it. If they were not able to find out about it, it does not mean that they were any less.
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There maybe many people among you who feel your hands are shaking or getting hot when you put your hands towards Me. You might feel so. So people may say we are getting vibrations. These are not vibrations. That is because you are opposing Me. Something within you is opposing Me. The love that I am giving you your hands are shaking because of your opposition.
I believe the vibrations come when your Sahasrāra starts moving. Kabīr Dās has said, "On the Top of the head the Anāhata [the unheard sound] beats." It means that just like the beating of heart the same happens at the top of the head.
When the noise of this breaks and pierces then you become one with God, then no noise comes nor do you see anything, nor is anything visible."
1973-0715 Guru Pūjā (Hindi) (Guru Pūrṇimā), Sahaja Yoga is a New Discovery, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India}
"Those people who are very big paṇḍits, if they want they should read Kabīr Dās, Nāṇakjī and if possible also read Śhaṅkarāchārya, He is the best. If you read Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya then you can understand what is this Chaitanya Laharī [Wave of Vibrations], I am talking about.
I have not yet met anyone who has systematically said or explained about Kuṇḍalinī."
1973-1209 Public Program (Hindi), Day 3, Śhrī Dattātreya Jayanti, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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1975-0201 Public Program (Hindi + English), Dhyāna Kyoṃ Karanā Chāhiye (Why Should One Meditate), Gurudev Cooperative Housing Society, Prabhadevi Sea Face, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (other dates 0202 and 0209)
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"I mean, you take one of them, and is sufficient to give you full idea of Sahaja Yoga.
You take the simple person, uh-uh-uh a very simple person, like, say, mhh Sāī Nāth, who was to look at very simple, but what tremendous Ocean of Knowledge He had. Who was not educated or anything, nobody knows where He was born, what happened, from where He came and where ... uh where He lived, and how He came up to that age, no one knows about His uh-uh-uh background.
Or you take Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, or uh-uh you can take Kabīra, or anyone.
For example, you take Macchindranāth. If you uh read about Macchindranāth, you won't know, uh you'll think it's some sort of a mysterious uh knowledge He's giving. It's a tremendous work they did! They went into all the left and the right, and everything they did, all kinds of experimentations. If you see the books they have written about Nav Nāth, the Nine Nāthas, and about Macchindra's life. Macchindranāth went into such depth, and He found out so much about the places where women were rulers.
I think [it] must be the Belgian place He must [laughing:] have been [laughter, laughs], where women were the rulers and husbands were just like cabbages, and this and that.
And all kinds of things He discovered, and then what happened and how He tried to cure that.
It's the movement in another direction, you see, in the root direction, that how these roots have gone and given rise to such horrible trees, here and there, and that's how He worked out.
And it's such a symbolic thing that to understand their work, you have to be really very deep and very penetrating, for which thee [the] human mind, so far, is not boo... able to see the amount of work they have done. I[t']s not possible to see.
Like, if you see Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya's descriptions or that even Mārkaṇḍeya's descriptions about your Mother, it's remarkable: how little, little things He could see, from where, from what angle. And every little bit of Mother He could see, as a child would see, you see, absolutely close to the Mother. That means the innocence was complete and perfected in Them. Otherwise you can't see these points that They have seen, all the little things like the three folds of the Mother. How can anyone see? But a child can see that three folds of the Mother's are there, that She has three folds in Her body. Uh only a child can see that.
It's-ss tremendous. I tell you, it's tremendous: Their innocence, Their penetration, and Their cou-rage.
You need real courage to grow into that penetration. "
1982-0926 Śhrī Durgā Pūjā, Mind Is just like a Donkey, House of Grégoire de Kalbermatten, Sternwartestrasse 62, Vienna, Austria
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"So, try to gather nourishment. Like reading Devī Māhātmyam, reading about ... finding out about Bible and finding about other Scriptures, about Qur'ān, this, that, and which supports you, which nourishes you. Blake, Kabīr, Nāṇak, I mean there are so many, Lao Tze. This is the Guru: is a knowledge."
1982-1101 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Śhrī Guru Nāṇaka Jayanti), Every Sahaja Yogi Has to Become a Guru, Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane, Balham, London SW12 8LZ, UK
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"Then you have got Kabīr Dās, who was treated like a Scheduled Caste! Like a Scheduled Caste He was treated. Nobody respected him."
1985-0920 Public Program, Memorial Hall, City Hall, Sheffield, UK
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"Kabīra has said: "Iḍā Piṅgalā Sukha Mana [Suṣhumṇā] nāḍī re." "
1986-1104 Public Program (English+Hindi), Balance is for Ascent and Everything Emerges into the Ocean of Love of God (Dharma Is only of One Viśhwa Dharm Paramātma and that Dharma Is to Achieve God), Mavlankar Hall, Constitution Club of India, Vithal Bhai Patel House, Rafi Mārg, Sansad Mārg Area, Behind Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, India
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"I am not a politician, I am not a business lady, neither am I a very learned lady [some laughter] of some university. I am a simple Saint of this country. And that I should be respected by you all, shows thus the recognition of the Divine, today.
This is e ... is the basis of Sahaja Yoga.
The basis of Sahaja Yoga is: that whatever these Great Saints, like Śhrī Gnyāneśhwara, Nāmadeva, Sant Tukārām, Rāmadās Swāmī, Ekanāth, and so many others, like Nāṇak Sāheb, Kabīr Das, and so many Muslims also, like Nizamuddin, Khwaja Nizamuddin, and Chisti, all these great people have been bien in this country, have been talking about the Divine, they have been saying, "There is the Divine surrounding us," but nobody could recognize them. Because they were not realized Souls.
And this is the reason why Sahaja Yoga had to come to make people self-realized, and they can feel the divine all around you [them]."
1987-1223 Public Program (English + Marathi), Ātmyāche Darśhana (Vision of the Spirit), School, Akole (24 kms WSW of Sangamner), Maharashtra, India
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"After that we had Kabīra, we had Nāṇaka, we had Rāmadāsa, uh we had Tukārāma: we had so many of Saints who have talked about it."
1991-0413 Public Program, Auditorium, National Press Club, 16 National Circuit, Barton, ACT, Australia
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"After that, then later on, so many great Saints, like Guru Nāṇaka, Kabīra, Tukārām, Rāmdās, Narsi Bhagat [Narsinh Mehta, the Ādi Kavi of the Gujarat' poetry], so many people have written about Kuṇḍalinī."
1991-0427 Public Program, Queens Theatre in the Park (now Queens Theatre), Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 14 United Nations Ave S, Queens, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
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"Of course, this is written in ... about, I think, fourteen thousand years back by Mārkaṇḍeya in Sanskrit, but a very difficult Sanskrit language.
Then also Śhaṅkarāchārya at ... when ... at the sixth century.
But this was brought to the public by Gyāneśhwara. But that also was denied.
In the villages of Maharashtra, they all sing Nāmadeva's poem say-ing that, "O Mother, give me the Yoga. Give me the connection with the Divine Power." They are all singing. From ages they have been singing, not knowing what they are singing about.
Then the development came through Guru Nāṇak Sāhab, Kabīr Dās, Rāmdās Swāmī, Tukārām. All these great Saints in ... in this country talked, specially Kabīr Dās and also Nāṇak Sāhib, very clearly they talked about Kuṇḍalinī: very, very clearly.
But still people misunderstood because: there there was no way to know it."
1992-0322 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Birthday Felicitations Program, the day after Birthday Pūjā, Siri Fort Auditorium, H637+854, August Kranti Marg, Siri Institutional Area, Siri Fort Institutional Area, Siri Fort, New Delhi, India
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"Then came, after that sixteenth century, was full of Saints in this country. Not only in Maharashtra, everywhere. Even in Punjab, you know that, Guru Nāṇaka was there. Kabīra, Rāmānand, Śhyāmanand, so many there, all over. At the time of Śhivajī there was, his Guru was Śhrī Rāmadāsa. You see, all, full of it. And they all talked about Kuṇḍalinī.
They asked uh, uh-uh-uh ... Rāmadāsa [smiles]: "How much time will it take for Kuṇḍalinī to rise?" So, He said, "Tatkṣhaṇ," "That moment." "But the .. there should be a person who is a giver and the one who wants to take it."
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"Tatkṣhaṇ!" That moment it will work out.
So, in that all authorities, eh we should not go to these modern writers about Kuṇḍalinī. What is this? These are our authorities to talk about it."
1993-0310 Press Conference (English and Hindi mixed), Pune, Maharashtra, India
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"So, but I would say, after that, many Great Saints like Guru Nāṇak, Kabīr, Tukārāma, Rā... uh Rāmdās, in the sixteenth century, did a great work of Kuṇḍalinī.
Even in the Bible it is: "I will appear before you like tongues of flames [fire]" [related to 'The Acts of the Apostles', Acts, 2.3, New International Version], "Tree of Life," so many things are described!
But in the little time that they had, they could not explain so much."
1993-1011 Interview with Audrey Hope for the TV Talk Show 'Real Women', What Is the Hope for a Stable Society, Part 1, Century Cable Studios, 513 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 336, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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"This knowledge was known not only in India but in various places. But in India, they had mastered this knowledge.
Uh-uh but only thing was that in tradition: one guru used to give Realization to one disciple in his lifetime.
This uh-huhh ... lasted for out tuh [the] twelfth century, when One of them published in His book, Gyāneśhwara, He published in His book, in the sixth chapter, about Kuṇḍalinī.
It's a-uh-uh ... we can say, an a... exposition of the Gītā. But this ... uh, you see, this Gītā which was written, not by Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, Vyāsa, He wrote what you have to become. Just like what Christ said. Just uh-uh-uh just like what Qur'ān says.
So, when everybody said the same thing, it was never told how to achieve it. That is how this knowledge was not given.
Till the sixteenth century, [when] in India we had lots of great Saints. Like Guru Nāṇaka, Kabīra, Nāmadeva, so many of them. In Maharashtra like Rāmadāsa, Tukārām. They, also, said: that, 'Is the Kuṇḍalinī which gives you Realization' -- clearly.
But people didn't give any attention to it.
Like Kabīra has said that: "How am I to make them understand when the whole world is blind?" "
1994-0730 Public Program, Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnopolsky Amsterdam, Dam 9, 1012 JS Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2002-0724 Guru Pūrṇimā Pūjā, Hangar (now Nirmal Temple), Albera Ligure, Alessandria, Italy
"In a way, man becomes very collective, like the drop falling into the ocean. As Kabīra has said that, 'When the drop falls into the ocean, it becomes one with it.' The same oneness takes place.
This has to happen. We have to get this climax of our evolution."
2003-0314 Interview (Hindi) for TV Station, Broadcasted as 'Towards Liberation', Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Variant 1:
"On being awakened She pierces the Brahamarandhra passing through six chakras. The fontanel area is called the Brahmarandhra. "Śhūnya śhikhar par anāhat bāji [re] [Anāhat is sounding on the hollow top]" [by] Kabīr."
Variant 2:
"This is an awakening [which] crosses six chakras and pierces the Brahmarandhra (it is known as the fontanel bone area). "Śhūnya śhikhar par anāhat bāje" [re]" "by Kabīr."
1976-0000 Chaitanya Nidhi (Hindi) Written by Mr. S. C. Rai and Mr. Mishra with Handwritten Corrections by Śhrī Mātājī Nirmalā Devī
"This was how human beings paid homage to their Primordial Parents, God their Father and Ādi Śhakti their Mother, under the influence of these tāntrikas. They actually committed a sin against the virtue of chastity. Chastity is the power of Ādi Śhakti, the Primordial Mother, and everywhere tāntrikas have ruled, women were insulted and treated as a possession and a toy for the cruel enjoyment of men. The erotic images that mar these beautiful temples should not be taken as a sign that public opinion approved. It was the opinion of very few people, who ruled under hypnosis, that counted in those days, who were convinced they had achieved sexual liberation by delving into it. Many saintly people protested against the blackmail and the pornography of those times. There is historical evidence of uprisings against such kings who tried so hard to shame God. In later periods many courageous poets like Kabīr and Nāṇak used Their talents as writers to scourge the tāntrikas. "
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 6: Tantrism
"There are many examples of cruel and ascetic Haṭha Yogis (saṃnyāsins) in ancient times. One of them was Viśhwāmitra who went after many truthful and saintly householders. Rāja Hariśhchandra, a noble king, was cruelly tortured by him. From Paraśhurāma's son onwards there was a steady stream of very hot tempered ascetics. It is hard to imagine how such people, devoid of any Divine Love, can achieve their salvation.
They observed very strict abstinence and had nothing to do with sex. They did not believe in any family ties or involvements. If they had a guru who was a realized Soul he gave them the fatherly love they needed, and brought balance into their ascent. Macchindranāth, an Incarnation of Dattātreya, the Primordial Master, started Nāth Pāntha. There were some very feared gurus (Avadhūtas) of this cult even decades later. Its deterioration started, though, when tāntrikas imposed themselves as gurus, and took over the cult in many places. These fake gurus were criticized by the great Saint Kabīr Dās in His poems."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 7: Haṭha Yoga and Rāja Yoga
"Unfortunately for many, like the friends of the Western gentleman who wanted to shout about truth from the rooftops, in Kali Yuga, seeking has developed its own momentum and people don't want to give up the activity of seeking, even when they come face to face with what they are looking for. In the film "Modern Times", when Charlie Chaplin has been working on a conveyor belt full of bolts, the activity of fixing the nuts creates such an inertia in his body that even when he has finished fixing the nuts and the conveyer belt had stopped moving, he still performs the same actions of fixing something with his hands. This really is an analogy of those people who are running in the rat race of seeking and just can't get out of the habit. In this way, the seeking of Truth has that inertia, which can no longer be controlled by putting the brake on, or pausing for a moment in order to listen to someone who really can say how one finds the Absolute Truth. But the knowers of Truth are always faced with blank incomprehension. As the poet Kabīr has said: "How can I explain what I know and see, when the whole world is blind". Of course, since Kabīr's time things have changed and at this present moment I cannot say that all the world is blind because there are thousands and thousands who have come with open minds to know about Absolute Truth through Kuṇḍalinī Awakening. Surprisingly there are quite a number of these realized Souls."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 1: Modernism and Rationality
"Then I turned to the question of shaving the head to get salvation. The great poet Kabīr has said about this: "If by shaving your head you get Nirvāṇa then what about the lamb which is shaved twice a year." Hearing my comments, the Hare Kṛiṣhṇa leader got very angry with me. I said: "Why are you angry with Me. I am your Mother, I am just asking you not to wear this dhotī in such cold weather because you will have problems with your legs." He said: "I am angry because you are criticizing my guru." I said: "I am not criticizing him, but I am just asking you a logical question." It is very surprising that these people should advised by their gurus to wear clothes which are suitable for the hot climate of India but totally unsuitable for the cold climate in America. This gentleman was very intelligent. He had read the Gītā very well and he talked about the Gītā. But I told him that in the Gītā it is not written anywhere that you should wear a dhotī or shave your head."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 4: Racialism
"The Sufis in the real sense were realized Souls. In Turkey I met many who are seeking the Truth. The poetry of Yunus Einre is absolutely heavenly. How could he speak about the Global Religion and about Divine Love? He described man as the most elevated creature created by God in His image. In India we had Nizamuddin Auliyā, Amīr Khusaro, Moinuddin Chisti, Kabīr Dās, Śhrī Sāī Nāth Śhirḍī, Kāniphanāth, all saying the same Truth about global unity.
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Once I found Myself in a very awkward situation when I went to Hastināpur with My husband, who was a collector of the Meerut district. There was some sort of a dispute between the two wings of the Jain religion. One is called Digambar, where they need not wear any clothes nor believe in saints who wear any clothes, because they are clothed by the directions like north, south, east and west. The second one, Śhvetāṃbar, believe in wearing white clothes, but cover their faces with a piece of cloth to prevent any germs from entering their body so that the germs may not be killed. Unfortunately we first went to the Digambar Temple and sat in the front row with all the paraphernalia of the collectorate, when 40 absolutely nude saints came and sat on the platform. It was a rude shock to me! I just put down my head and my husband went into a rage. These men were plucking their hair from their head and everywhere that was possible. For this the great poet Kabīr has said, "By plucking your hair if you think you can go to heaven or by shaving your head if you feel are going to heaven, then the sheep which is shaved twice a year will arrive in heaven much before yourself." So what is the use of trying these tricks. It is very interesting that they believe that if you go on plucking your hair then you attain the complete form of Jainism. All this drama really made my husband so furious that he got up from his seat and, holding my hand, walked out of that hall with all the paraphernalia of the collectorate behind us. My husband pushed me into the car and then got into the car. One man came running and asked him: "What's the matter. Why are you angry?" My husband said: "I cannot stand this unmannerliness, vulgarity, this insult." The driver had already started the car when he looked down and asked me: "Why did they do this to us?" I was already speechless with shame. I just said: "I did not know that the followers of the Great Lord Mahāvīra do this. I must, therefore, leave immediately". He said: "You know about religions and how do you not know about this kind of horrendous shock they give to others?" I confessed: "I know about religions but I do not know about their followers, who are just the opposite of their Masters who started those religions.""
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 6: Religions
"Later on, in the sixteenth century many Saints existed who started talking and singing about Kuṇḍalinī, the channels and the subtle centers. All over India all these Saints talked about Self-knowledge, Self-realization (Ātma-sākṣhātkār). Some of the Saints tried to give Self-realization to their disciples but they actually gave it only to very few persons because they thought that the world was not yet ready to receive Self-realization. As Kabīra has written: "How am I to explain to these people, who are blind, about the light, mostly who are blind?""
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 9: Evolution
Jay Śhrī Mātājī!