"They Are Different, Papa."

"Mysticism is a way of life that transcends religion or dogma; therefore, it is often found at the foundation of the world's great religious systems including Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Taoism."

The physical Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi whose eternal spirit form Kashwinder, Arwinder and Lalita visit and meditate daily within their Sahasraras ever since 1993.

"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 with our brains, of these receiving antennas connected to the vast collective unconscious described by Jung. Tapping in to 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 won’t think of them as miracles, but as blessings." ¹

Nearly six months later on February 2, 1996, at 9:35 a.m. Arwinder was abruptly asked about his spiritual experiences with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, specifically the fruits he had eaten on many occasions.

He said that they tasted a little bit different, concurring what Kash had insisted all the while. A banana tastes like a banana, more so to a kid. But for a child to say that the fruits in the Spiritual World tasted slightly different from that of Earth, a fact easily demolished by adult disbelieve, requires the confidence of a genuine experience. Moreover, flavor has to be actually savored and distinguished by the tongue before such a statement made! It is impossible otherwise to discern taste difference as the senses of sight, smell and touch cannot ascertain subtle changes, especially if applied to fruits. Only the tongue is able to confirm taste. (It is possible that all food in the Spiritual World is free of impurities and hence tastes slightly different.)

Arwinder even explained how one of the spiritual inhabitants peeled open a yellowish-gold pomegranate. Again, this confirms a true experience for it is difficult for a 5-year-old kid to peel a pomegranate with bare hands. He was asked exactly how this spiritual being managed to peel open the pomegranate with his bare hands (since even for adults it is hard on their fingernails, and messy as well.)

Arwinder replied that the spiritual being first cut the pomegranate into half with a knife, removed the skin, picked off the seeds, put them into a bowl, and then offered them to him.

That made a lot of sense, a Reality that had to be experienced. Otherwise, how did he know?

The other favorite fruits that he ate were grapes, bananas, and yellow apples. No help was needed to peel the bananas. Apples and grapes were picked directly from the bowls and consumed.

On November 3, 1997, at 11.38 a.m. he was asked about the other type of food offerings. He explained that the other prasad he often took were "nuts like the one yesterday." The Sahaja Yogis in Montreal had just performed a Diwali Puja a day earlier and one of them, Georges Obas, always brought cashew nuts as prasad. These were the nuts that Arwinder loved and ate often with Shri Mataji and the other Spiritual Beings in the Kingdom of God.

He was asked about the taste. Again he said that it was not the same.

Then he added that he also used to eat a lot of pistachios. However, he admitted that he did not detect any discernible difference as far as pistachios were concerned.

On May 10, 1997 at 9.05 a.m. Kash was again asked about this particular fact. He reiterated that all food tasted a bit different.

As this paragraph was edited on July 10, 1998 at 10.15 a.m. Arwinder was again asked if the fruits and nuts taste better at home in Montreal or in the Spiritual World. He replied, "Over there." Then, without being asked, he added, "Because it is Shri Mataji’s place."

These are the experiences of children who underwent true Kundalini awakening and entered the Mystical Kingdom of God (Sahasrara) within. It is unlike the experiences of those following the so-called Kundalini masters, the vast majority of whom are just charlatans. These unauthorized fakes have absolutely no power to raise the Kundalini and some have caused great harm to their disciples.

On August 28, 1996, at 6:20 p.m. Arwinder and his father went to the nearby Maxi supermarket in Lachine, Montreal. Among the groceries purchased were four red pomegranates.

Common red
pomegranates

Arwinder was again asked if these were the fruits that he ate in the Celestial City. He replied they were but added that the ones he ate with Shri Mataji were yellow, not red in color. His father thought that Arwinder had made a mistake of color, and changed his original story.

He was asked a few times to be sure.

Arwinder repeatedly replied said that they were yellow, not red. In the end, under sustained questioning, he replied that they were "yellow, maybe golden yellow, but they were yellow." He was positive that they were yellow, but were definitely not red. His father was positive there a mistake.

After they returned home his father checked the computer files on this particular record. The pomegranates were yellow. Arwinder had stuck to his previous narration of yellow pomegranates, even when reminded numerous times that he might have made a mistake. It was his father who had forgotten that there were also yellow pomegranates. Reason: Yellow pomegranates are rarely sold in Montreal, unlike the common red ones.

Arwinder always maintained that he had on many occasions meditated with the Messengers of God. On September 4, 1996, at 6:20 p.m. he was questioned again about the Spirit Beings who meditated with Shri Bhagavati Shri Nirmala Devi to find out whom, out of the 34, he could identify or distinguish by certain features.

He immediately singled out Shri Ganesha. His elephant head and human body were distinct, and was clearly Arwinder's favorite friend! He also picked out Shri Krishna by His distinctive skin color. Arwinder explained that he remembered clearly that one of them was blue in color, but did not know His name. According to him the Great Divine Mother is of a fair complexion and extremely beautiful. The rest had no unique distinguishing features and thus could not be singled out.

Half an hour later he picked out Shri Siva. This happened when, while browsing through the book Childcraft: The How and Why Library About Animals, Vol. 5, (World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer Co., 1986), he saw a cobra on page 27. Immediately he recalled that one of them had a similar-looking snake around His neck.

He was told that it was Shri Shiva. Arwinder then added that Shri Siva also had a swastika on His left palm. The father inquired how did he find that out.

He replied that Shri Siva normally meditates with His left hand raised up, with a red swastika clearly visible on the open upraised palm.

On December 12, 1996, at 5:30 p.m. Arwinder was asked where was this fabulous Jeweled City that Shri Mataji and he had strolled around — whether it was in the universe, within himself, or wherever?

He replied that he did not know.

He was told to try harder. He closed his eyes in concentration, recalling that there were many people, buildings, a river flowing, bridges, birds flying around, and Cool Breeze blowing. He even ascertained that the average distance Shri Mataji took him for a walk was that from his home to Bonanza Supermarket (now IGA), just over a kilometer. However, he could not understand or determine that the City was within himself, and well as without.

This handicap was similar as that of his brother Kash who always felt that his spiritual body was elsewhere — even after the Golden Goddess told him that he was within himself.

It's impossible for any of them to comprehend that the universe exists within themselves! This is the microcosm of Shri Sandhya Devi, the biblical Kingdom of God, the Quran’s Regions in their Souls, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib’s Imperishable Home, and the Inner Reality that numerous Vedic and Buddhist texts expound. This is what great realized souls and mystics mean by the microcosm in the macrocosm.

"Beginning as ever with the study of the microcosm as the clue to the macrocosm, but seeking at the same time to envisage the macrocosm in order to understand the microcosm, man will some day establish an intelligent relation to the whole of which he is a part and this with conscious cooperation. Thus the higher mind and the lower mind, the abstract and the concrete, the subjective and the objective will be brought into a functioning unity and man will be whole. . . .

Be of good cheer for there is no true defeat of the human spirit; there is no final extinction of the divine in man, for divinity ever rises triumphant from the darkest pit of hell. There is need however to overcome the inertia of the material nature in response to human need, individually and by the nations not engrossed with the essentials of the situation. This shows signs of happening. There is no power on Earth which can prevent the advance of man towards his destined goal and no combination of powers can hold him back." ²

Arwinder also mentioned that he knew the Celestial Beings were Sahaja Yogis as were doing the same bandhans, saying the same mantras, and meditating the same way as those Sahaja Yogis who came to his father’s house every Sunday evening for collective meditation. To him there was hardly any difference between the Spirit Beings in the Kingdom of God and those Sahaja Yogis on Earth.

His father inquired how he knew that to be true. Arwinder replied that he once asked the Divine Beings this question, "Are you Sahaja Yogis?" The Heavenly Hosts replied that they were in fact Sahaja Yogis.

Arwinder then walked to Shri Mataji, who was sitting on the Throne nearby, and asked Her if they were really Sahaja Yogis. The Great Adi Shakti also replied that they were.

The father then asked Arwinder what was the need to ask Shri Mataji the same question again. After all, the Divine Beings had already told him that there were Sahaja Yogis. So why did he ask Shri Mataji the same question again?

Arwinder replied that he wanted to make sure. He thought that the Divine Beings "may be lying"!

On May 26, 1996 at 9:15 p.m. Arwinder’s father again questioned him about his spiritual journeys, specifically about the ground.

He replied that at Shri Mataji’s place the ground he walked on is "soft like a pillow" — that were his exact words! Again, this observation tallied with Kash's statement that in the Sahasrara the Spiritual Beings walk and sit on the clouds, just as humans sit on terra firma. One may surmise that spirit beings are practically weightless but earthly physical beings require much more solid ground.

On February 2, 1999, at 4.05 p.m. Kash was questioned how felt as a spirit being. According to him he was "as light as a feather" and "sometimes you feel you don’t even exist."

These experiences have their origins in all major traditions, especially those from the East. A better example is Taoism which is "based on the principles of cosmic and spiritual unity and symbioses. The religion wanted its devotees to develop an understanding of the body mind correlation and the earth universe correlation. Or in other words the microcosm-macrocosm unity. This was achieved by fully understanding the complexities and relationships within and between each of them.

The perfection of the microcosm of the individual begins with an understanding of the mind and its relationship to the body. It focuses on attaining a healthy mind through a healthy body. There are many different ways of cleansing the body so as to allow the mind to be at ease, therefore allowing it to be more receptive to the Tao. These would include but not be limited to; meditation practices, acupuncture, feng-shui, movement arts and nutritional sciences. By using these practices one actually creates a self-reciprocating effect of cleansing and becoming more receptive. however one must also cleanse ones mind through ethical and moral attitudes and behaviors. This allows young Taoist thinkers to be pure in mind so as to be able to better understand the macrocosm.

The macrocosm of the universe is the whole of the Tao, it is everything the the Tao is and it is ruled by the laws of the Tao. There are many ways of describing the creation of the macrocosm and its constituent parts and processes that we are a part of and the yin-yang doctrine of the universe explains and sums up the macrocosm. It explains the cyclical and continuously dynamic processes that affect the Tao. The yin-yang idea explains the changes in the universe and the dichotomy of it.

By understanding and cultivating the ideas of the Tao one will be able to transcend all bounds of space and time and become spiritually immortal." ³

QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

ADDITIONAL QUOTES

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"THEY ARE DIFFERENT PAPA."
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THE DIVINE UNITY
THE TABLA PLAYER
"I ALSO RODE ON THE TIGER"
DEVI: THE GREAT GODDESS
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