ŚHRĪ GYĀNEŚHWARA 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

"Śhrī Gyāneśhwar was another famous Saint of Maharashtra region. He wrote a commentary on Gītā called Gyāneśhwarī. The sixth chapter of this epic is devoted to Kuṇḍalinī awakening."
1900-0000 Two Quotes from the book Divine Knowledge through Vibrations (1992) by P.T. Rajasekharan and R. Venkatesan, Page 77

"But amongst all these, the middle path was that of sahaja Kuṇḍalinī awakening and Nāth Pānthis used to follow this. All this knowledge is scripted in Sanskrit language and all discussions were also done in same language.
On this matter, in twelfth century Gyāneśhwarjī requested His elder brother [who was His Guru too] for His permission to write about this power within us in His book Gyāneśhwarī, the power which gives us our Self-realization, as nobody had clearly documented this before. When His Guru granted permission, He narrated about Kuṇḍalinī very clearly in sixth chapter of His book."
1907-0000 Interview (Hindi) with a Lady for a TV Program Directed by Ashok Agarwal, Ardhamātrā Volume 2, New Delhi, India

"Just yesterday a person was arguing with Me about Gyāneśhwarī. If Gyāneśhwara was here we could ask Him today. He too was trying to find a way on how to explain it. But He could not do it as He died at a very young age.
Because of many people dying before their [due] time a lot of misunderstanding has spread in the world."
1973-0903 Pūjā (Hindi), Ātma-sākṣhātkār ka Arth (Meaning of Self-realization), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"The best example of this is Śhrī Gyāneśhwara: when His Kuṇḍalinī was awakened He wrote the sixth chapter, then He got His awakening. And when He was realized, by that time His Gyāneśhwarī was completed, that time He took to Samādhi. "
1973-1117 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, 4 Duplex Lane, New Delhi, India

Version 1:
"One gentleman was asking Me yesterday that, "What madness possessed a pundit like Gyāneśhwar to sing the praise of Śhrī Gaṇeśha? It is surprising that You consider Gyāneśhwar as a great pundit. Do You consider Him a pundit because He has made skillful use of words?"
These Scriptures have been written by people who were born on a very high level. Their consciousness was much higher than ours and their vision was directed at something else altogether."

Version 2:
"One gentleman was telling Me yesterday that, "What stupidity made a saint like Gyāneśhwar write praise [stuti] about Lord Gaṇeśha? You consider Gyāneśhwarjī a Saint, this in itself is a big surprise. Do you consider Him a Saint because of His śhabda chāturya [skill of writing]?"
In these Scriptures whatever is written, it has been written by those people who were born at a very high state, whose vibratory level was very high, whose chakṣhu [eye, vision] was something different."

Version 3:
"Yesterday, someone was telling Me that, "Sant Gyāneśhwar was such an intelligent man, and what foolishness that He used to praise Lord Gaṇeśha." You think that Gyāneśhwarjī was intelligent, this, itself is surprising. Do you consider Him intelligent because of His knowledge of words?
Whatever is written in the Scriptures is written by those who were born as higher beings. Their attention was much higher. They had a different eye to see things."
1975-1223 Public Program (Hindi), Day 2, Paramātmā ke Prem ke Anubhav (Experiences of Divine Love), Bal Mohan Mandir, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"From Nāṇakjī to Kabīr Dāsjī have talked about this. I am talking about the modern time.
Gyāneśhwarjī and all have spoken about it a lot. But nobody understood it."
1976-032x Public Program (Hindi), Day y, Advertised as 'Kuṇḍalinī Awakening', New Delhi, India (date to be confirmed)

"This type of an organization [doubt] keeps going on. Even if it is the Age of Jesus Christ, even if it is the Age of Gyāneśhwarjī, even if it is the Age of Śhaṅkarāchārya, Age of Zartosht [Zoraster in Urdu], these people who think of themselves as special and overly smart (ati śhahāṇe), think of themselves to be special type, think themselves as very high scholarly, have always been there and will be there. They will all the time do these kind of true barricades (āḍ aṇge) and there are precious moments of life, those they will spend in this only. They don't have any treatment (ilāj)." [ Variant: "A doubt of this type lingers on, whether it is during the period of Christ, Gyāneśhwar, Śhaṅkarāchārya or Zartosht. Anytime! Those who think they are very helpful, special people, those who think they are scholars existed and will always be there. They will always create obstacles and spend priceless moments in such activity. There is no cure for it."]
1977-0323 Public Program (Hindi), Prem Dharma (Dharma of Love), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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1978-1015 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Zen and Void, Part 1, First Western Seminar, Day 2, Session 2 (during and after tea and coffee), Conference Center, East Hampstead Park (near Wokingham, 60 kms W of London), Berkshire, UK}

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"All this when we say that you are 'this', there's no need to be puffed up. You see, if I tell a little tree, that, 'You are going to be a big tree,' doesn't mean that it has become a big tree. One has to become the big tree by pushing forward.
And that quality like Gyāneśhwara, like Tukārāma, like Rāmadāsa, you all have to become that quality.
They never saw Me. I just nourished them, without they seeing Me.
But they nourished themselves on their own virtues, on their own qualities, on their own greatness.
You have to be great like that!"
1984-0213 Śhrī Devī Pūjā, What Is Expected of Sahaja Yogis and Where Are We, Bordi, Maharashtra, India

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"If you use your language, they will not follow. If we try to explain the chakras directly, they will not understand.
But if you tell, that, 'Dyaneśhwar has explained that we have Kuṇḍalinī power within us, you respectfully call Him as Mā'ūlī and take out religious processions and diṇḍīs [parades] in His name but you must first read what has been written by Him.
Now why has it been told to you that, 'You should not read the sixth chapter'? Because if you read that, these people who are leading you to the wrong path, people who are looting you, will not benefit. Hence this has been written.' If you tell people that whatever is written in the sixth chapter is what we give you, then they will understand."
1986-1231 Śhrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā (Marathi + English), Sangli, Maharashtra, 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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"But in the twelfth century, Gyānadeva, Gyāneśhwara, who was another Nāth Pānthi, His Guru was His own brother, He ... asked the permission, from His brother, that, "Please allow Me to say all these things openly. At least to say in Marathi language, because the common people don't know anything about this knowledge." So He allowed Him, and He wrote the sixth chapter of Gyāneśhwarī in which He described Kuṇḍalinī.
But it was in the twelfth century.
After that, many Saints described, talked about him [It].
Where we went yesterday, to Sātārā, you know that's the place where Śhrī Rāmadāsa lived.
He said that, "Kuṇḍalinī"" -- they asked, somebody asked: "How much time does it take to raise the Kuṇḍalinī?" He said, "That Tatk-ṣhaṇa." Means, "That moment." "But the person who wants to take it should be deserving, and the one who wants to give should be capable."
[As a Sahaja Yogi starts laughing:] It's a big condition. This is such a big if, capital If I tell you. [Laughs.]
As a result, very, very few people got their Realization. And those who were born as realized Souls, found ... found it impossible to talk to people.
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1990-1217 Śhrī Chakra and Śhrī Lalitā Chakra Pūjā (English + Marathi), Brahmapuri (near Sātārā), Maharashtra, India

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"But then a great Saint called Gyāneśhwara, He asked the permission of His master that, "This knowledge should be at least told in some of the vernacular languages to the people. Permit Me that much." And then in His book Gyāneśhwarī, He wrote the sixth chapter about Kuṇḍalinī, that, "This is the power that gives us the Self-realization."
Of course, He wrote another beautiful book, called Amṛutānubhava, where He has described what happens after Self-realization."
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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"But in the twelfth century, Gyāneśhwara asked His Guru, who was His brother, Nivṛuttināth. He asked Him: that, "You just allow Me to write about this Kuṇḍalinī." Because He wrote Gyāneśhwarī. And in Gyāneśhwarī, He wanted to write about this Kuṇḍalinī, just to little talk about this secret Power within us. His Guru allowed Him, and then He wrote it."
1993-1016 Public Program (2nd Day of Navarātri), Auditorium, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64 Street, Manhattan, New York City, NY, 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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"The knowledge of Kuṇḍalinī was known to us, I don't know how many years back, you cannot say because our history is so unknown. But at the time of a great Saint, called as Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth, they were indulging into awakening of Kuṇḍalinī, but the condition was that: 'One guru should give Realization to only one guru ... person.'
Went on like this, till the twelfth century when Gyānadeva first of all asked His Guru, His own Master was His own brother, asked Him that: "You please allow Me to at least write about Kuṇḍalinī."
Because in the Gītā it was not described. Though Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa has talked of Sitha [Sthita] Pragñya [Unmovable in all situations] and all those things but He didn't talk about: 'How to get it? What is the mechanism within us whench [which] works it out?'
Then ... He wrote it in His Gyāneśhwarī, which is just a, I think, explanation of Gītā, very clearly, that: 'There is a power within us.'
In the sixth chapter He wrote about Kuṇḍalinī, but the people who were in charge of religion didn't want that. So, they said, "This is a niṣhiddha [prohibited] part, and you should not read this part of Kuṇḍalinī." "
1997-0406 Public Talk to Doctors, Conference "The Art of Healing and 'Sahaja Yoga' -- A Special Session on Alternative Medicine", Indian Medical Association, FICCI Auditorium, 1 Tansen Mārg, New Delhi, India

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"All this has been described by great Seers and Saints like Mārkaṇḍeya, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, Nāṇaka and Jñānadeva."
1997-0827 Written (Presented) Talk, Russian Folk Medicine Conference, Russia (other date 0901)

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"Regarding the program, that was presented by the French, is remarkable, I must say. Last year they had one very good drama on Gyānadeva. And this year, the another one, was really very-very remarkable."
1998-1024 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, after the Evening Program (French Play Jeanne d'Arc: Revelation d'une Śhakti'), the day before Diwālī, Pal Sports Complex, Novi Ligure, Alessandria, Italy

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2000-0325 Public Program (Hindi), Hamārī Ātmā Kyā Chīja Hai (What Is Our Spirit), Rāmlīlā Maidān, New Delhi, India

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2000-1231 New Year Pūjā (English + Marathi), You All Have to Become Masters in Sahaja Yoga, Kalwa, Thane, Maharashtra, India

"The writings of these great enlightened souls are mostly in Sanskrit and were not available to the general public. Whenever translated they were not even mentioning Kuṇḍalinī awakening as the only way to achieve Self-realization. It was completely deleted when translated. It was in the twelfth century that a Great Incarnation of a Saint, Śhrī Gyāneśhwara (God of Knowledge) was born. He live[d] for only twenty-three years. They were three brothers and one sister. All of them were tortured by the dharma-mārtaṇḍas. Gyāneśhwara took the permission of His Guru (Master), who was His eldest brother, and wrote in the regional language a book called Gyāneśhwarī. In the sixth chapter He clearly wrote about Kuṇḍalinī but again the people in charge of religion (dharma-mārtaṇḍas) said that this chapter was not allowed to be read (niṣhiddha)."
1991-0700 Book 'Sahaja Yoga', Chapter 2: Vishwa Nirmala Dharma

"Then came, in the Twelfth Century, a great Saint called Gyāneśhwara in Maharashtra. It was a tradition of his time that one Master of Nāth Pānthis could give Realization only to one disciple. This Master was not supposed even to talk about the fourth dimension to normal people. They were only told that they should remember God and should sing the praise of God. But He, the great poet and a very great Saint, Gyāneśhwara, felt that it was time that the subject of spiritual ascent should be made much more clear to people.
In Gītā there is no description of the Kuṇḍalinī or of the awakening, though Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, at the very outset, has said that a person should achieve the state of Sthitapragñya, which means, the one who is balanced, through enlightenment by Divine Knowledge. All this was a description, but he did not talk about how it is brought about.
It was Śhrī Gyāneśhwara who wrote a treatise on Gītā called as Gyāneśhwarī. In the sixth chapter he very sweetly described the nature of this fourth power, called the Kuṇḍalinī which rests in the triangular bone and the way it is awakened by some great Soul by which one gets his fourth state of awareness. He did not take permission from his guru to give Realization to others but he only asked that he should be permitted at least to write about it. Later on, this sixth chapter was not understood by the people who were in charge of religion (dharma-mārtaṇḍas). They said that this sixth chapter was not to be read (niṣhiddha) and thus this great chapter was completely neglected by the people and they just tried to follow the path of bhakti, which means devotion to God by chanting the names of God or singing the praise of God Almighty.
There were three types of movements in our country. In the first one, people wanted to know about matter, the origin of matter, the origin of this world. In this quest they came to know how our right side is built up and what the elements that build our body are. The advancement on this knowledge led to science as a new field of study. Another aspect was constituted by people who were absolutely dedicated and were singing the praise of all Deities who were created by Mother Earth (Swayambhu). They sang praise of God and prayed to God Almighty in the way their gurus told them. There were also people in the middle path who were called the Nāth Pānthis, specially in Maharashtra. These were realized Souls who had received their Realization through the "one guru, one disciple" principle. Saint Gyāneśhwara was also from the Nāth Sampradāya, meaning the Nāth Cult. He was a great exponent of Kuṇḍalinī awakening in his book."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 9: Evolution

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