The Matraiya Shri Nirmala Devi (Ma is Mother and Traiya means Three)

Matraiya - The Three Mothers

"Buddha had also spoken of these three Powers: "I will send you Matraiya." Matraiya means "three types of Mothers" — Matain, Ekritya, Matraiya. People did not understand what Matraiya was and so called it Maitreya. Matraiya can only be in Adi Shakti simultaneously. 

Christ must have called this Shakti the Primordial Mother, but the one who edited the Bible called Her the Holy Ghost because he hated women and did not believe that a woman could do such a great work. So he described the Holy Ghost as a dove who will be the Messenger of Peace. Nowhere it is written that this dove or Holy Ghost is a woman. 

In the Indian Shastras She is described as Sahasrare Mahamaya, meaning that She will be in the form of Mahamaya. People will not recognize Her, and you have to get your Self-Realization to recognize Her."

Shri Maitryadi-vasana-labhya Shri Nirmala Devi
Easter Puja, Calcutta, India

(Maitryadi-vasana-labhya [570th]: Can be attained through good tendencies like ‘Maitri;’ ‘Maitri-Mudita- Karuna upeksanam Sukha-Dukkha-Punyapunya — Visayanam bhavanatachitta Prasadanam’ [Yoga-Sutras]. "Friendship with those who are happy without being envious, compassion with those who are suffering, gladness to see the righteous, overlooking or not mindful of the sinful. These four tendencies or Vasanas contribute to clarity of mind." It is only such a mind that can have God vision.)

'"So She has created all these things just for you to be created, and ultimately to get your Self Realisation, to have meaning to your life, to get connected to this all pervading power and to enter into the Kingdom of God.

All is Her work. So we can say that nine times She came, and the tenth time, She is supposed to give Realisation to all of you. But at the tenth Time, all these three powers [of Mahalaxshmi, Mahasaraswati and Mahakali] are joined together. That's why it's called 'Trigunatmika', which means 'three Mothers put together'.
That's why Buddha said that Maitreya means 'three Mothers put together'."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Cabella, Italy - 27 September, 1992


"Today we have gathered here to worship the Adi Kundalini and your own Kundalini, both of them, because your Kundalini is the reflection of the Adi Kundalini. We have understood a lot about Kundalini and also we know through Her awakening only, through Her ascent only, we have ascended into a very higher Realm of Consciousness. It's not only that we have risen to a very higher Realm of Consciousness, but that it granted us so many Powers that never before in the history of spirituality people had this Power for awakening of Kundalini. As soon as they got their awakening perhaps they went more on to the left or right, and tried to achieve Powers which were not so much for the benevolence of others.

Buddha has written clearly that when the Incarnation of this Buddha, that is, Matraiya — Three Mothers put Together — comes in that Time it will be used for the benevolence of people, one for the science of the people. Not only of Sahaja Yogis but of the people. So how can it be that unless and until those who are Buddhas, that means those who are Realized souls know the source of Kundalini. Those people who have very little Knowledge of Kundalini must have read in some scriptures, or somewhere it is being described, started misusing it. So they became tantrikas. But tantra, as you know very well, is the mechanism of Kundalini and yantra is the Kundalini itself, is the machine.

Today I think as we know so much about Kundalini — how it passes through different centres, how it rises, all those things as we should know — we should find out how we can nourish our Kundalini: That's very important to know. First of all there is a big difference between you people and other people who got their Realization. First big difference is that this Power you have achieved Sahaj, easily. Others had to go to Himalayas, stand in the cold there for days together. So many died, live in caves, eating fruits, sometimes nothing. Even Buddha's time they had to use only one piece of cloth to cover their body, and they had to ask for alms in the villages and somehow cook some food and eat it. Whether it was cold or hot, no comforts. 

On the contrary He taught them that they should give up all our comforts because you can live without comforts. But none of them got Realization and none of them could do the work of awakening the Kundalini. So the difference is too much.”

Shri Kaulamarga-tatparasevita Shri Nirmala Devi
Pure Love; The Loss Of Morality, Cabella, Italy — June 21, 1992

(Kaulamarga-tatparasevita [441st]: Worshipped by devotees of Kaula-Marga. This shows that Sri-Lalita is worshipped by Kaula or vamachara practices. These are universally condemned by all great spiritual leaders because they are likely to lead the beginner to the corruption of the flesh and spirit and are unnecessary to the advanced. So in any case they are disreputable and condemned by all. But since She is the Mother of all including Kaula this name stands.)  

"The foundation of Buddhism was not written but oral . . . Already during his lifetime, the sayings of Gotama were being memorized and repeated by his disciples . . . They differ widely not only in their content but in their literary form . . . Reducing all of this oral tradition to written form must have taken several centuries after the life of Gotama Buddha, and stabilizing the written versions of the many components of Buddhist scripture into a "canon" or actually into several canons, took even longer . . . the translators, having consulted all the available materials, have been obliged to confess that "even the combined benefit of the study of these sources could not always give us the enlightenment that we would have desired on some intricacies of our text and its commentary. In some cases at least, this could conceivably be due to 'corruption' in the process of transmission of the text in Sri Lanka." Even after all their research, moreover, they have found that "too many problems remain, and indeed some of the problems connected with the text are likely to remain unsolved, though it is hoped that future research may reduce their number." "

Jaroslav Pelikan, Buddhism:The Dhammapada
(J. Pelikan, Buddhism:The Dhammapada, The Oxford University Press, 1992.)

In those days, brethren, there will arise in the world an Exalted One named Metteya.
He will be an Arahant, Fully Awakened, abounding in wisdom and goodness, happy,
With knowledge of the worlds, unsurpassed as a guide to mortals willing to be led,
A teacher for gods and men, an Exalted One, a Buddha, even as I am now.
He, by himself, will thoroughly know and see, as it were face to face, this universe,  
With its worlds of the spirits, its Brahmas and its Maras, 
And its world of recluses and brahmins,
Of princes and peoples, even as I now, by myself, thoroughly know and see them.
The Law, lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress, lovely in its consummation,
Will he proclaim, both in the spirit and in the letter;
The higher life will he make known, in all its fullness and in all its purity, even as I do now.
He will be accompanied by a congregation of some thousands of brethren,
Even as I am now accompanied by a congregation of some hundreds of brethren.

  Dig Nikkei iii. 76, Chakkavatti Sihanada Suttanta  

Thus have I heard: At one time the Buddha was staying near Kapilavatthu
In the Banyan monastery on the bank of the river Ruhani.
Then the venerable Sariputta questioned the Lord about the future Conqueror,
The Hero that shall follow you, the Buddha — Of what sort will he be?
I want to hear of him in full. Let the Visioned One describe him.
When he heard the elder's speech the Lord spoke thus, 
I will tell you, Sariputta; listen to my speech.
In this auspicious aeon three leaders there have been: 
Kakusandha, Konagamana, and the leader Kassapa too.
I am now the perfect Buddha; And there will be Maitreya too,
Before this same auspicious aeon runs to the end of its years.

Anagata-vamsa

"Anagata-vamsa: The Maitreya (Pali: Metteya) is predicted to be the future Buddha in the scriptures of both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. In both traditions some consider him as the future Messiah who will usher in the new age of bliss and consummation."

World Scripture, International Religious Foundation
(World Scripture, IRF, Paragon House Publishing, 1995, p. 786.)  

"From the Diamond Sutra we learn that Gautama the Buddha claimed that after each twenty-five centuries there comes a radical change of consciousness on Earth with an accompanying period of intense chaos. Buddha moves the wheel of Dhamma once every two thousand five hundred years and it takes that length of time for the momentum to fade. The wheel that Buddha moved has finally come to rest and his Age dies. The wheel must then be started again for the Dhamma must be renewed. It breathes for twenty-five centuries and then fades away to be reborn totally and radically transformed. Buddha in his time said that at the next turning of the wheel, which is in our present epoch, humankind would enter a totally different stage in the transformation of man. Subhuti, his discipline, actually asked about age and Buddha answered and said he could see us with his precognitive senses, his Buddha eye, and that our transformation would be even greater than it was at his time."

Yatri, Unknown Man
(Yatri, Unknown Man, Simon and Schuster, 1988, p.242.)

The origin of the 1000 names attributed to the Great Primordial Mother were composed aeons ago. Her 565th. is Mitra-rupini: "Of the form of friend or sun" and Her 570th. is Maitryadi- vasana-labhya: "Can be obtained through good tendencies like "Maitri."

C. Suryanarayana Murthy informs in the Sri Lalita Sahasranama that Maitri-Mudita-Karuna Upeksanam Sukha-Dukha-Punyapunya means "Friendship with those who are happy without being envious, compassion with those who are suffering, gladness to see the righteous, overlooking or not mindful of the sinful. These four tendencies or Vasanas contribute to clarity of mind. It is only such a mind that can have God vision."

The Shri Lalita Sahasranama, the timeless Book of Enlightenment was composed by Shri Vagdevata (Goddess of speech) at the express command of Shri Lalita. Both these names mitra and Maitryadi were conferred on the Great Primordial Mother ages before Shri Buddha was born. Surely there is wisdom in this ancient Truth. 

Mai treya is Sanskrit for Three Mothers. The original Mai Treya (Three Mothers) was pronounced into Maitreya (friend) — which itself was derived from mitra (Friend) — as Buddhism sought to assume its own identity. Is it possible that Mai Treya, over the centuries of oral tradition, was finally written down as Maitreya to erase all traces of its Hindu origin?

Buddhist theologians say that Maitreya was derived from mitra. But this was arrived by apparently adulterating the structure — spelling, pronouncement and consonants — of mitra. How does one substitute mitra for Maitreya?

In the first place, Shri Buddha could have just said the future mitra will come, forestalling centuries of deceit and delusion. So why did Shri Buddha specifically mention Mai Treya?  

For some reason it did not matter to Buddhists scholars that the very word mitra or friend is just too mundane for the next incarnation of Shri Buddha. Perhaps mitra was the only sensible word in the Sanskrit dictionary to transform into Maitreya, and erase all traces of the 'Hindu' Mai Treya. 

The fact that all early teachings of the Buddha were passed by word of mouth, and not written, only made this very subtle change in pronouncement from Mai Treya to Maitreya all that easy. 

For ordinary humans there is a considerable difference between friend and Mother. One may have thousands of friends but only one mother. For seekers of Truth it will now be the difference between final liberation or endless samsara. It might not have mattered in the past as Mai Treya was yet to come, but now this precise translation and pronouncement of Maitreya should be of utmost importance. 

All Buddhists, after being provided the facts to this error, will have to decide if Shri Buddha said “Maitreya” or “Mai Treya” 2,500 years ago. The subtlest difference between the pronouncement of Maitreya and it contraction, Mai Treya, is today the difference between samsara and nirvana. It would be spiritual genocide if the mispronunciation of a single word prevent millions of Buddhists from attaining final liberation!