"Join Mataji" 28/9/93!
"Suddenly, out of nowhere, a thunderous voice bellowed, "JOIN SHRI MATAJI." It was like a thunderclap that jerked him out of a drunken stupor into an awakened, shocked daze. He whirled around in disbelief but there was no one around. The intensity and clarity of this Mighty Call penetrated and shook every nerve and fiber of his body. Where did this majestic voice come from? Who was it that spoke with such authority?"
The Divine Message on Tuesday night from Shri Ganesha as jotted down September 28, 1993 but only found almost a year later.
Late afternoon on September 28, 1993 Kash's father started his usual drinking binge and by nightfall was really inebriated.
His children were fast asleep and wife still at work. He switched his stereo system and began listening to Kitaro, his favorite new age musician. This soothing New Age CD of harmony with Nature increased his sense of serenity, reflecting and complementing the stillness of the night. Nothing stirred. With eyes closed in deep inner peace and relaxation, he was completely at peace with himself and Earth. In this thoughtless trance-like stupor he drifted slowly into deep sleep.
He had no idea how long he was in that intoxicated sleep.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a thunderous voice bellowed, "JOIN SHRI MATAJI." It was like a thunderclap that jerked him out of a drunken stupor into an awakened, shocked daze. He whirled around in disbelief but there was no one around. The intensity and clarity of this Mighty Call penetrated and shook every nerve and fiber of his body. Where did this majestic voice come from? Who was it that spoke with such authority?
The mind reeled in reverence to this divine message that had come like a massive bolt of Cosmic Consciousness. It was an awesome, extraordinary call for no power on Earth could have had that force of awakening a sleeping drunk.
Despite his intoxicated state he knew that this message had to be remembered at all costs. There was a force in it that jolted his numbed senses to act immediately, lest the sheer strength of intoxication would reel him back into hapless lethargy and deep sleep. His heavily smashed state of mind ruled out any hope of remembrance. The only way was to somehow jot it down on something.
He managed to stagger to the kitchen table, take out his wallet, and write down the message and date on a calling card (the date took a considerable time to confirm.) The exact words written down were: 'Join Mataji 28/9/93.' He was confident that in the morning he would come across this card and find out who this Mataji (Mother) was.
Morning arrived, accompanied by a huge hangover.
But a strange thing happened. For some reason his body suddenly rejected cigarettes. Incredible as it may seem he just could not smoke anymore, accomplishing overnight what he had struggled between intermittent bursts of inspired determination and New Year's resolutions to kick this addiction for more than twenty-five years! He just could not understand why his body was suddenly rejecting cigarettes for no obvious reason.
Nonetheless he was proud of having done the almost impossible. This time he was certain that he would never smoke again.
The Call of the previous night was completely forgotten. There was not a single recollection of what had transpired just hours ago.
Such memory loss took place on certain occasions when the amount of alcohol exceeded his bodys capacity to cope. It then supplied just the bare necessities to function a sort of emergency power during an electrical failure just sufficient to continue slaking the desire for more alcohol.
The card with the scribbled mighty message, misplaced within some photos in the wallet, was completed forgotten. There it lay for nearly a year until September 5, 1994. Until then there was absolutely no knowledge of what had transpired on that fateful night of September 28, 1993.
Though his father had forgotten the Mighty Message there was no stopping Shri Janma-mrtyu-tapta-jana-visranti-dayini Devi.1 She had to awaken the seeker who had earlier beseeched with all his heart and soul for the Truth. The Great Primordial Mother had to fulfill Her unconditional, time-honored promise to rescue any human who, tired of earthly illusion and delusion, cried to Her for help.
A few days later the SY asked for permission to give Kash and his brother Shahwinder Self-Realization by awakening their Kundalinis. Their father agreed as he had experienced Sahaja Yoga three years ago and, though uninterested himself, found no harm in his two young children getting their Self-Realization. It was more of a gesture not to offend a guest rather than any belief in that same mataji and her funny ganesha. (The message "Join Mataji" written about a fortnight earlier as a reminder was completely forgotten.)
Kash and Shahwinder followed the Sahaja Yogi into their room and were given a detailed explanation of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Self-Realization, meditation, subtle system and Kundalini awakening.
After raising their Kundalinis the Sahaja Yogi told them to meditate.
When they finished Kash went straight to his father and exclaimed that he had journeyed to a very beautiful and peaceful land far away.
Kash said that the very instant he closed his eyes and went into meditation, he found himself standing on a soft carpet of clouds hues of blue and white not seen on Earth spreading in all directions as far as the eye could see. Some distance away there was a very bright Light of Great Beauty shining above and illuminating the entire vastness. In spite of its dazzling brilliance he could gaze at it without hurting his eyes. He just stood and looked around in amazement and awe at the tranquility and stunning beauty of the surroundings.
For a long time he continued gazing around this strange serene land, wondering where he really was. Kash did not even take one step in any direction. The sheer splendor of this awesome scene illumined by a single dazzling Light and his inability to comprehend where he was kept him mesmerized and rooted to the spot.
The father skeptically listened, occasionally glancing at his friend to see if it made any sense to him. (Unknown to him his Sahaja Yogi friend had just awakened his sons Kundalini, the potential divine energy residing within humans at the base of their central nervous system, known as the sacrum bone through a stupendous spiritual breakthrough achieved by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga.)
From that day on the child held his father spellbound with wondrous wanderings in his Sahasrara, describing in detail and accuracy about the Kingdom of God, His Holy Spirit, and His Messengers who brought forth the great religions of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism all living together in perfect peace and harmony in the Spirit World. The absolute certainty that his son was telling the Truth rudely shook his father and finally broke the spell of Kali Yuga (Age of Darkness).
For a period lasting exactly 21 full moons the Great Adi Shakti took Kash across the Celestial World, and introduced him to the greatest Incarnations who ever walked the Earth. The Spirit of the Living God revealed to him the whole, entire splendour of the Kingdom of God for those able to attain eternal life.The absolute surety that such astonishing spiritual facts were being extracted by a spiritual breakthrough enthralled his father. How else was his young son able to tell him about something absolutely unknown to his tender mind? He had never heard of any human explaining such penetrating insights into the Kingdom of the Almighty Creator.
As he listened in reverence to these daily spiritual journeys, the awesome fact that the Almighty Creator really existed could not be doubted anymore. He knew there was only one purpose left in life Surrender! Total surrender to a Higher Being! He realized it was time to return to the Kingdom of God, and began preparing for the spiritual trek ahead. His mind, body, and soul had to be purified and cleansed of all earthly defects. The greatest adventure of all, far surpassing anything known to the human race, was just beginning.
He realized that it was time to return to the Kingdom of God, and began preparing for the spiritual trek ahead. His mind, body, and soul had to be purified and cleansed of all earthly defects. The greatest adventure of all, far surpassing anything known to the human race, was just beginning.
For the first time in his life he realized the magnitude of his spiritual ignorance and the sensual gratification he had become addicted to. He retched from the first faint stench that wafted from the grimy gutter of his earthly existence, and was nauseated by the strength of sin. In the ensuing months his body occasionally shuddered involuntarily as images of his perverted past flashed by every now and then. These spasms were the only way he could snap out of the recollection of his decadent decades, and shake off the lingering drowsiness of a long spiritual hibernation.
This witnessing the Cosmic Play of the Great Primordial Mother has no parallel in history. She had descended on this Earth for the very first time during its darkest hour of Kali Yuga, in time to awaken the human race to the first faint Light of the Resurrection and Last Judgment.
It is Buddha who said that "our life is like a river. On this side of the river is the ordinary life we live. It is a life of samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth, empirical existence, social development, economic growth, the march of history and civilization. On the other side of the river is timeless reality, the kingdom of heaven in the transcendental sense of the word.
Some people through their spiritual development cross the river, experience transcendental reality and come back to tell their fellow human beings about the other shore and to help them get there. Still others cross the river, experience the treasures of transcendental reality, and discover that both shores are interconnected and interdependent. There is no dualism, no complete separation.
These people come back armed with the power of the divine and with a clear understanding of the purpose of the ultimate reality. They understand that the ultimate purpose is to develop something on this shore. They come back to inspire others to build a divine kingdom on this shore, transforming human society into the perfect image of the transcendental reality.
This becomes their purpose and is the true goal of the evolutionary mysticism. It is the balanced spiritual ideal: attaining mystical experience and also having an evolutionary perspective regarding life. Through this we grow true to the kindred points of eternity and time, of heaven and earth."2
This is the true story of those who have experienced transcendental reality with the Primordial Mother through the Third Eye and who have come back to tell their fellow human beings about the other shore, and to help them get there.
Eastern masters say our visionary power lies in our pineal gland, that is our "third eye," the source of spiritual and prophetic energy. Now, in the New Millennium, comes the dramatic growth of this body deep within our brains, of these receiving antennas connected to the vast collective unconscious described by Jung. Tapping into our inner well opens the way to visions, to prophecies. Our antennas will be turned on and tuned in as they never have been before. The greatest mediums of all time are being born already; people will connect with the past and help lead us into the New Age.
Humanity returns to the simple and natural on this plane, but our spirits, as our bodies sleep, can come into contact with other realities, can receive knowledge through our astral voyages. We can develop our ability to reach out with this power and gain revelations. Charged with the energy of the coming age and opening ourselves to it, we increase our capacity to abandon our bodies, to leave our bodies, to send our spirits through space to see and know distant places through time to know the future and the past, and to connect to other spirits, other consciousness. . . .
Mystics speak of powers of levitation, of raising the physical body with the power of the mind. Researchers have confirmed the existence of out-of-body experiences, of sending the spirit to explore outside of the spiritual body. The spiritual awakening that comes with the New Age brings not just the integration of science and spirituality, but a balance of spiritual and physical energy.
We will see that our bodies are but the space suit our souls wear on this terrestrial plane. Once our mission here is completed, we discard it and move on as our true selves, our spirits and selves intact, to the next plane.
Things that we call miracles will be understood in the Age of Aquarius. We will know the law of nature that makes our miracles happen, we will know why they happen, and we wont think of them as miracles, but as blessings.3
As the renowned historian Mircea Eliade has observed: I do not believe that certain primordial revelations could disappear . . . But what I am sure of is that the future forms of religious expression will be completely different from the fossilized, obsolete and meaningless forms that we meet in Christianity, Judaism, Islamism. I'm sure that there will be other expressions to come. Humanity is assured that we have entered into the blessed Golden Age of the Last Judgment and Resurrection where we learn the deepest secrets of our souls' journey to the next Spirit World.
"She is ever attentive to the world, particularly to her devotees"
"The central role the Devi plays in mythology is that of creator and queen of
the cosmos. When she is portrayed in her own form (sva bhava), she is usually
described as a beautiful young woman in regal attire surrounded by thousands of
attendants and seated on a throne in the highest heaven.[10] As cosmic queen she
oversees or performs directly the three primary cosmic functions of creation,
preservation, and destruction. The world is said to be destroyed when she blinks
her eyes and to be recreated when she opens her eyes.[11]
Many Hindu mythological texts attribute the three cosmic functions to Brahma
(creation), Vishnu (preservation), and Siva (destruction). While texts extolling
the Devi often picture these three deities in their familiar roles, it is made
clear that the male gods only act according to the Devi's will and at her
command.[12] Some myths make the point that the great male gods are entirely
dependents on the Devi for her strength and power and that if she withdraws her
power they are impotent and helpless.[13] The Devi-bhagavata-purana also makes
it clear that the traditional heavenly bodies of these deities are far below and
inferior to the Devi's heaven. Indeed, the text asserts that there are
innumerable Brahmas, Visnus, and Sivas, whose tasks are to govern the
innumerable universes that ceaselessly bubble forth from the inexhaustibly
creative Devi (3.4.14-67). In the Lalita-sahasranama the Devi is called she from
whose ten fingernails spring the ten forms of Visnu
(Karanguli-nakhotpanna-narayana-dasakrtih, 80). In the Saundaryalahari the
entire universe is formed from a tiny speck of dust from the Devi's foot. Brahma
takes that speck and from it fashions worlds that Visnu, in his form as the
many-headed cosmic serpent, can barely support with his thousand heads (verse
2). In a particularly humbling scene for the male deities, the Devi is described
in her heaven as seated upon a couch, its four legs consisting of the great male
deities of the Hindu pantheon.[14] The point is clear: the great male gods still
have important roles to play, but ultimately they are servants of the Devi and
do their bidding. She has created them, indeed, she has created innumerable
copies of each of them, and they act as her cosmic agents, overseeing the
universe she has created.
Although the male deities are frequently portrayed as carrying out their
traditional cosmological functions at the Devi's command, she herself is also
pictured as taking an active role in the cosmic processes. She is ever attentive
to the world, particularly to her devotees, and in various forms she acts to
uphold cosmic order and protect her creatures. Although her concern is that of a
mother for her children, hence a passionate and ever-watchful concern, her
favorite role as protector and preserver of the cosmos is that of the warrior, a
traditional male role. Many of her epithets emphasize this aspect of her
character. The Lalita-sahasranama calls her she who slays demons (Raksasaghni,
318), she who grant boons to great warriors (Mahavirendravarada, 493), ruler of
armies (Caturangabalesvari, 691), she who is worshipped by warriors (Viraradhya,
777), and mother of warriors (Viramata, 836).
The Devi's most famous mythological exploits usually involve the defeat of
demons who have taken over the world and displaced the gods from their positions
as rulers of the cosmos. The three episodes featuring the goddess Durga are
particularly popular in texts celebrating the Mahadevi, and she is identified
with Durga in various renditions of the tales. To a great extent Durga is the
Devi's most common or favorite form, and Durga's exploits are the most commonly
celebrated events in Devi mythology. From the point of view of Mahadevi's
theology the two are essentially the same deity. The account of Durga's defeat
of Mahisa in the Devi-bhagavata-purana, for example, explicitly states that the
Devi, though nirguna in her ultimate essence, assumes for her pleasure a great
variety of forms in order to maintain cosmic order and that her form of Durga is
simply one of those forms, though undoubtedly a very important one. [15] As
Durga, the Mahadevi is typically described as a ferocious, invincible warrior
who descends into the world from time to time to combat evil of various kinds,
especially demons who have stolen the positions of the gods.
As Durga, the Mahadevi is in many ways like the great god Visnu. Visnu is
usually pictured as a cosmic king who oversees that stability of the world. When
the world is threatened by demons, he descends in different forms to combat the
danger. The Mahadevi is also said to assume forms appropriate to cosmic threats.
Visnu is traditionally said to have ten avataras. In each universal cycle he
takes ten different forms to combat ten different demons. The Mahadevi, too, is
said to have ten forms, the Dasamahavidyas (the ten great scenes or insights).
These ten forms include several well-known Hindu goddesses, and like the
Vaisnavite idea of avataras the ten forms of the Devi effectively bring together
distinct strands under a unifying great deity.[16] From the point of view of
Devi theology and cosmology the Hindu goddesses are varying manifestations of
the Devi's activity on behalf of the world. Durga, Laksmi, Parvati, and other
goddesses are all understood to be parts of a transcendent divine economy that
is governed by the Devi in her own form (svabhava) or in her aspect as brahman.
This economy, with a few important exceptions, is oriented toward upholding and
protecting the world.
The Devi, like Visnu, also plays the role of protector and preserver in less
grand, cosmic ways by making periodic and dramatic appearances on behalf of her
individual devotees. In this role she plays the savior. Her devotees Samadhi and
Suratha propitiate her in the closing scene of the Devi-mahatmya. She appears
before them and graciously grants their desires (13.7-16). In the
Devi-bhagvata-purana when her devotee Sudarsana is surrounded by his enemies and
prays to her for help, she appears as a great warrior riding on her lion and
quickly routs them (3.23.18-41). She appears to aid Rama when he prays to her
for help in defeating Ravana. She empowers him to build a bridge from India to
Lanka and announces that she will cause him to defeat Ravana (3.30.43-61). In
the Devi-bhagvata-purana's account of the well-known story of Hariscandra, who
is reduced to poverty and the pitiable status of an outcaste, the Devi answers
Hariscandra's prayer by appearing and restoring him to his former state and
reviving his child from the dead (7.27.1-7). The Mahadevi, then, though
typically pictured as a distant, awesome figure who sits in majesty on a
heavenly throne surrounded by divine attendants, is responsive to the pleas of
her individual devotees and is quick to come to their aid in times of distress.
She is understood to be an approachable, motherly figure who is never deaf to
the cries of her children."
David R. Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu
religious tradition
University of California Press; 1 edition (July 19, 1988), pps. 137-9
Notes:
[10] Devi-bhagavata-purana 3.3.35-67; 12.10-12.
[11] For example, Lalita-saharanam 281; Saundaryalahari 56; Sita-upanishad 34.
[12] For example Devi-bhagavata-purana 3.5.4; 7.33.13; 12.8.77; Saundaryalahari 53.
[13] For example, Devi-bhagavata-purana 7.29.26-30
[14] Devi-bhagavata-purana 7.29.7.
[15] Ibid. 5.7.57-60
ADDITIONAL QUOTES
"The Bible speaks of the Second Coming of Christ, of a millennium of peace that comes when Jesus returns anew and all of us join together universally. The time is at hand. Christ is coming, but not physically, spiritually. The Bible spoke in many metaphors. The Spirit of Christ is what comes now in our souls, in our awakened spirituality. The cosmic inner Christ is coming. It is time to realize that we are all the "children of God," and that the "Son of God" came to show us the way to unite with that divine universal spirit."
Walter Mercado, Beyond The Horizon: Visions of the New Millennium
A Time Warner Company, 1997 p. 108
"Mother is the first manifestation of power and is considered a higher idea than Father. The name of Mother brings the idea of Sakti, Divine Energy and Omnipotence: the baby believes its mother to be all-powerful, able to do anything. The Divine Mother is the Kundalini sleeping in us; without worshipping Her we can never know ourselves. All-merciful, all-powerful, omnipresent -- these are attributes of the Divine Mother. She is the sum total of the energy in the universe. Every manifestation of power in the universe is Mother. She is life, She is intelligence, She is love. She is in the universe, yet separate from it. She is a Person and can be seen and known -- as Sri Ramakrishna saw and knew Her.
Swami Vivekananda
"Early in the history of Islam, the Sufis were not satisfied with the outward observances and rituals of religion. They wanted, instead, a religion of inner experience, an asceticism that renounced the luxuries of the world and devoted itself purely to obedience to God.
One of the greatest Muslim mystic and theologian, al-Ghazali made a formal attempt to merge the doctrines of mysticism with the orthodox consensus of the community that was the Sunnah. He told the other theologians that unless they created a "science of the heart" for all believers, the doctrines of Islam would be nothing more than outward formalities devoid of any inner life or meaning. The Sufis called the feminine Presence of God Shikeina after the rabbinical name for God "Shechina." "
Rabbi Dr. Michael Samuel
www.jewish.com
"I'm a Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Taoist ...
I'm a muslim because I submit myself to the Lord of the world. also because I testify that 'There is no god but One True God, and Mohammad is the last messenger of God.".
I'm a Hindu because a hindu is a person who seeks the Truth. And God is the Eternal Truth, the Reality behind everything.
I'm a Christian because I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in his second coming as the messiah. Jesus is the Spirit from God (Isa ruhullah).
I'm a Jew because I believe in Moses as great Prophet of God who spoke to God (Musa kalimullah).
I'm a Buddhist because I seek enlightenment (Nirvana) of my soul. I pay my respect to Gautama Buddha who is one of the most brilliant personality who walked on this earth.
I'm a Taoist who believe in Tao, the Ultimate Reality behind everything.
And I have no hesitation to say to all other religion that I belong to them as well. They are all my beloved brother and sisters as One God's creation. We belong to the same family. Our blood is the same, our feelings and emotions are same. We are all seeking the same goal only at different path. And all the atheist are my brothers and sisters as well. They also have a different path to seek the Knowledge.
We are all on a journey, knowingly or unknowingly we are trying to reach to the Ultimate goal.
Some will struggle more, some will less. Some are on straight path, some are not.
But can we deny our aspirations to Love our Beloved God, can we condemn other just because they speak different language and have different culture? Can we deny their faith just because they call the same God in different name, the same God who is beyond name and form?
Sadiq M.Alam
REFERENCES
1. Janma-mrtyu-jara-tapta-jana-visranti-dayani (851st): To those devotees who are consumed by the evils of life, death, and old age, She is the harbinger of peace and solace by endowing them with true knowledge of their selves. Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Associated Advertisers and Printers, 19892. Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri, The Essence of Spiritual Philosophy, Thorsons Pub. Group (UK, 1990, p. 200).
3. Walter Mercado, Beyond The Horizon: Visions Of The New Millennium, A Time Warner Company, 1997 p. 128
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