1982-0801: Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Cowley

Manor Seminar, Cheltenham, UK

[Informally, before the speech/puja to some persons]
Shri Mataji: Just help him, one person can’t do it, somebody else.
Marcus, Nick, anyone, just help him out, it’s too much for one
person, just help him, please.

Alan, go and tell Bai to bring My handkerchief from My… I’ve got My
pur– No, no, it’s all right, it’s here, with My purse have you brought
it? Yes, it’s here. Don’t worry, don’t worry!

Man: Here’s Your purse Mother.

Shri Mataji: Have the Americans come, those who have done the
Puja, have they come? Are they here?

Man: Yes.

Shri Mataji: Oh, they are here. Then it’s all right. And, in these new
centers, have you started with Puja anywhere? No, yours [speaks to
a specific country/leader, maybe India – ed.] is all right, I’m asking
about England.

Gavin: Any centers in Britain, where there are new people…?]…

Shri Mataji: Cheltenham, for example, where is Alan, ask him.

A man speaks: He’s just gone out for now.]

Gavin: Any centers in Britain any new people here, right now?

Shri Mataji: If you have introduced them to puja I don’t mind, but if
they have never been introduced to puja then you have to be
careful. From their good point of view. I am sorry I had to say this,
because yesterday the load was too much, you know I couldn’t
speak even and, lifting the Kundalini was like raising hundred
donkeys on your head, it was too much. And all these half-baked
people are such that they are like dog-in-the-matching, they won’t
have it and they won’t allow others to have it. They’ll argue before
the program, before the meeting starts, before the puja starts,
specially. Because they won’t want you to enjoy the fruits of the
puja; they’ll spoil your attention, they’ll argue, discuss –

[…? just sit down.]

What is there to argue in Sahaj Yoga? You have to take, that’s the
point is, you have to take, there’s nothing to argue. How much you

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take is the point. And the worst part is that they don’t want to grow
and they want to pull you down. So, unless and until they are
introduced to the idea of puja beforehand – then they start
understanding the worth of puja, otherwise they do not, how will
they understand? You see, it’s beyond them. So, you should not
make them attend any puja, minimum, and also seminars I would
say. Because seminars are meant for people who are intensively in
Sahaj Yoga, to intensify their awareness, not for people who are
half-baked, who are Doubting Thomases; all these kind of people
are absolutely useless, you should never bring them to seminar!
Whether it’s your son, father, brother, mother, sister, husband, wife,
nothing. You shouldn’t bring anybody who is not fully awakened
Sahaj Yogi, because seminars are meant for very intensive work.

And what I find, always these people will argue with Me, they are
the first to question, they have something to say [Shri Mataji
laughing:], they are the ones, sahaj yogis are keeping quiet and
receiving… I don’t mind even that, what happens in the seminar,
you have to receive more, and they do not receive, their attention is
outside, they are disturbing everyone. So, seminars are even, in a
way, more important than an ashram, because in ashram there’s no
other problem but to fight them out. But here, in a new place we go,
we have to fight out all surroundings, the place itself has to be
cleansed, everything has to be done. On top of that you have these
terrible people around you, whom you have to convince. If they are
not convinced, why are they here? Why did they spend so much
money to come down? Be sure, they have come here to disturb us.
I’m sorry we had to do that way. I wish people could be simple,
straight forward, uncomplicated, and sensitive, but they are not.
They are not sensitive people. They don’t understand what are they
up to. By that they destroy themselves, no doubt, but they destroy
part of you also… and also trouble Me. Yesterday, it was too heavy,
you know that. Such a deep subject and it was too heavy for Me. If
they say they feel bad, all right, tell them: “We are sorry, we can’t
help.”

See, there are certain points where we have to have our freedom to
allow those who can come in. That’s the point where we close the
door. And there’s nothing wrong with it, because you have to equip
more to pull them out. It has been always our practice, since long,
there’s nothing new about it, everyone knows, not only in England,
or any other place, even in India: we never allowed anybody to
come for the Puja who was not a realized soul, and who was not a
sahaj yogi. From the very beginning, wherever we tried that we
found it was very difficult. So I hope there’s nobody sitting here with
a doubting mind. If somebody’s there he should with all sincerity
leave the hall and leave us alone, for the ascent. Anybody who has
doubts should be kind and generous about it. It’s a very serious
work we are doing. It’s not of making money or of throwing an

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enterprise or building a house or something like that. It’s not even
just making creations of worlds, it’s much more than that, it’s a very
serious work we are doing and we don’t want anybody to cut our
attention. Even some of the Sahaj Yogis I know, are half-baked. They
must be corrected, all right, doesn’t matter, but they have been
exposed to pujas so it will do them good not bad. But some people
are just anti-God, and they have allergies for God, any work you’d
start doing in the name of God, they are so allergic, they react.
These are anti-God allergies, and they express themselves by
different, funny methods. Now, all the sahaj yogis must know this,
then you will not go too far with them. You will, you should discover
this in anyone this allergy existing. You should say: “Sorry, we have
nothing to do with you”

So that is for the people who have to have the privilege of this
worship. Today is specially a great privilege because it was not so
planned but it worked out, just worked out. Yesterday, we did lots of
cleansing. Now today tell your mind to rest for a while. Tell your
thoughts to stop for a while, and receive, receive more of it.
Everybody has benefited by this reception but you have to receive
more. There’s a capacity within you to receive.

Puja, as I have told you many-a-times, is not for My benefit, by any

chance, take it from Me. I am much better off without it. Because
when the enthusiastic deities start emitting vibrations with your
asking because you are saints. You see they just, they are over-
enthusiastic. And they are sitting there, busy bodies, you know, they
are sitting quietly waiting for a chance, you see. To emit vibrations,
to save you, you see they want to just rush. They emit so much that
they lose, just wait, just wait. They want to save you, they want to
give you, they are so anxious, in their anxiety you see? I like it, to
see the way they are anxious. But you don’t suck it, I have a
problem there. Once they have given they don’t want to take it
back. You don’t suck it so it has to go to the atmosphere, it has to
disappear somewhere. Is directed towards you and you don’t take it;
so where does it go? It hanks into My tissues, it pains Me. So,
sucking should be more. Sucking should be more. And just before
the Puja you should say: “Mother, make me such that I suck more of
the Divine!” Just pray that, with sincerity from your heart, just say
that.

There’s another beautiful gesture I have seen, in Uzbekistan, it’s

very good. They put both the hands on their heart like this, and just
press it, bending their head, asking. See it creates a vacuum. That’s
how they bow. [long silence] It’s beautiful!

That’s very nice today. So, let the children come here.

Shri Mataji: Aja,… didi agai, didi agai (some words in Hindi)

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(Translation of the above sentence in English as below.)
Shri Mataji: Come,… Sister has come, Sister has come

Now, sit there, all of you sit down, all right? Sit down now, sit down,
sit down! Now, come along, Mathew is also coming, sit down there,
sit down, come along, let’s see, sit down. Now all the children are
very sweet, they are going to sit down. Come along, sit down, sit
down, nicely.

Shri Mataji: where is didi? Didi kaha hai?

Younger grand daughter: UPar
Shri Mataji: Upar! Abhi aya nahi?
(some Hindi words)

(Translation of the above in English as below)

Shri Mataji: Where is sister? Where is Sister?
Younger grand daughter: Upstairs
Shri Mataji: Upstairs! Not yet come?

[continuing in English to the child:]… All right, now, should give Me

the flowers now, so would be better for you to have vibrations,
thank you. Thank you very much, thank you very much. Poor Nishi
has none. Now, you give Me these, to Me, give Me now. Give Me?
Give Me, to Mother. All right, give that also!

Child [indisinctly]: But you have the one.

Shri Mataji: Also give. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.

[one word aside, SOUNDS LIKE: “Ah, the system”]

All right, so now what should we do Puja is it? Just put a Thika to
him. Put to everyone, not to the Pujari. …

All right. That’s kajal? No, don’t put kajal. He’ll be like Bhairava!
[laughter] Give it. May God bless you.

All right. Now, the children should sit like this, all right, on the sides,
for Ganesh Puja, like this, straight. So everybody can take
photograph also, sit like this, all right? Ah. They have to take
photographs. Yes, good, good. Oh, now sit here. Sit, sit, all right.
Very good, it’s very good. But, you have to take out shoes! That
can– cannot have shoes here, take out shoes. Take out shoes,
everybody’s taken out shoes, take out, take out, take out shoes. Ya.

All right. Come along.

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Sit like this, on the sides! [Hindi SOUNDS LIKE: Shuddhi mein
Ganesha Puja?]

Pujariin Hindi: Ha, Ha, Shri Ganesha Puja.

Pujari in English: To begin with, we will do first the invocation of the

puja, then the puja to Lord Ganesha. And this would be followed by
the puja to the Adi Shakti, Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi.

“In the Devi Bhagavad Purana it is written that the puja to the Adi
Shakti is the greatest puja that can be done by any being.”

Shri Mataji: That’s why you are privileged.

Pujari: “Even the Gods, they do it.”

Shri Mataji: None of them. They just touched My feet. None of them
did Puja to Me. Believe Me.

[Some children are laughing]

Shri Mataji: All right, sit down. [softly, to a child, I suppose - ed]

Pujari starts and yogis join in: Om Twameva Sakshat, Shri Ganesha
Sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Sakshat, Shri Bhagawati Sakshat, Shri
Mataji, Shri Nirmala Devi Namoh Namaha. ….

[Most yogis start to repeat the Shri Ganesha mantra while a few
begin the Mahamantra. - ed]

Shri Mataji: One person should say, then you can repeat, that’s
better. What about Aradhana, where is she? Has not come?
(Aradhana is H.H.Shri Mataji’s eldest grand daughter.)
Child: She’s upstairs nanny. (It is a Hindi word which means
GrandMother)

Pujari: We’ll start again. First Lord Ganesha, then Mahalakshmi,

Mahasaraswati, Mahakali. Then Lord Kalki and then Lord Kalki and
Sahasrara Swamini. –

Yogi: Three times Shri Ganesha? Each how many times the Ganesha
mantra?

Pujari: Each once, I mean. …

[Everyone recites the Shri Ganesha mantra followed by the three

Mahamantras.]

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(“Om Twameva Sakshat Shri Ganesha sakshat Shri Adi
Shakti sakshat Shri Bhagavathi sakshat Shri Mataji Shri
Nirmala Devi Namo namaha.”)

The first two Mahamantras were recited ending with “Shri

Adi Shakti sakshat Shri Bhagavathi sakshat Shri Mataji Shri
Nirmala Devi Namo namaha”

Pujari: Now the names of Lord Vishnu.

“Om, Shri Keshavaya Namah, Om Shri Narayanaya Namah, Om Shri

Madhavaya Namah,
Om Shri Govinday Namah, Om Shri Vishnuve Namah, Om
Shri Madhusudanay Namah, Om Shri Trivikramay Namah,
Om Shri Vamanay Namah, Om Shri Shridharay Namah, Om
Shri Hrishikeshay Namah, Om Shri Sankarshanay Namah, Om
Shri Vasudevay Namah, Om Shri Pradyumnay Namah, Om
Shri Aniruddhay Namah, Om Shri Purushottamay Namah, Om
Shri Aghokshajay Namah, Om Shri Narasimhaya Namah, Om
Shri Achyutay Namah, Om Shri Janardanay Namah, Om Shri
Padmanabhay Namah, Om Shri Damodaray Namah, Om Shri
Upendray Namah, Om Shri Haray Namah, Om Shri Krishnay
Namah "

“Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

Namo Namaha”

Why these 21 names are taken before every puja. Even

before the --- first. You have to worship Shri Ganesha. Even
before worshipping why these names are taken. It is
important to understand. Everything has a why. Because
these are the 21 channels within your Sushumna, 21
channels, we should say, in the complete Ida, Pingala, and
Sushumna Nadi. So, to raise you, absolutely to give you the
ascent, 21 channels in Ida, Pingala, Sushumna. So, one
would say 7 channels in the Sushumna Nadi. But these 7
channels are divided, multiplied by 7 x3. So, every channel
has got 21 other channels. So, sushumna nadi has got also
21 channels. Left hand side nadis are as you know that,
perhaps you know, I don’t know if you know the names and
the right hand side also like Gayatri, power Parvati and all
these are on the right hand side. And the left ones are
called as chamundi and all these left side things, there are 7
of them. Now, the central path has got 21 channels.

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Sothat within you all these 21 channels are awakened,
within you first of all.
Puja is a double thing. That a cup has to be made and then
this source has to be opened. So, you are the cup. So,
sushumna is the channel you have by which you suck, so, to
open the sushumna these 21 names are said.

Now why first Shri Ganesha. Because Shri Ganesha is the

beginning of the desire and the end of the desire. You start
with Ganesha and end up with Ganesha. That’s why Shri
Ganesha is worshipped, It’s the other way around now, the
source. When you direct your attention to the source, you
worship it and when you want to incite or open out your own
being, then you chant.
This is the difference between worship and a mantra. If you
just say a mantra, you open yourself up. But when you
worship and chant, then you tap the source. I don’t know if I
have said this before or not. That’s how you understand the
puja part. Now, those who are new comers, their cup is
completely useless. And, when you excite the deities , they
get busy opening their cups, everybody’s cups also. So, it’s
a double work.

But if your cup is ready, it is very easy to fill. So, now

these21 names, I think you should take again with the
understanding, it’s better.

“Om Shri Keshavaya Namah, Om Shri Narayanaya Namah,

Om Shri Madhavaya Namah,Om Shri Govinday Namah, Om
Shri Vishnuve Namah, Om Shri Madhusudanay Namah, Om
Shri Trivikramay Namah,
Om Shri Vamanay Namah, Om Shri Shridharay Namah, Om
Shri Hrishikeshay Namah, Om Shri Sankarshanay Namah, Om
Shri Vasudevay Namah, Om Shri Pradyumnay Namah, Om
Shri Aniruddhay Namah, Om Shri Purushottamay Namah, Om
Shri Aghokshajay Namah, Om Shri Narasimhaya Namah, Om
Shri Achyutay Namah, Om Shri Janardanay Namah, Om Shri
Padmanabhay Namah, Om Shri Damodaray Namah, Om Shri
Upendray Namah, Om Shri Haray Namah, Om Shri Shri
Krishnay Namah "

“Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

Namo Namaha”

Pujari: Now we have the mantra for Pranayama.

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