Last Saturday, we had a beautiful Shri Adi Shakti Puja at Seberang Jaya, north of Malaysia, about 4 hours drive from KL. Everything was really good, but unfortunately, I didn't charge the battery of my camera, so I didn't take any photos.
I would like to share a speech made by Babamama, Shri Mataji's brother, which has really opened my heart, answered some of my questions. It is really a wonderful talk.
The following is a beautiful talk by Baba Mama, Shri Mataji's beloved brother who brought the creative arts, especially music, to the forefront in the Sahaj family. He encouraged and inspired Sahaj Yogis to greater and greater creative heights. One can say he was the embodiment of music in Sahaja Yoga.
Expectations
(Chaitaya Mela, Maharashtra Sahaja Yoga Seminar, Nagpur 1999)
You believe that God is omnipresent, omnipotent and all-pervading. In fact, you believe that He is in every atom. As natural corollary of this belief you must also know that God knows what you want or what your need is. If the first proposition is true, then second proposition has to be true. It would follow, therefore, that those who know that God is omnipotent and all-pervading are bound to accept that God is all-knowledgeable and therefore is aware of all your problems.
In spite of this fact, we always go to God with certain expectations. Expectations can be of various types, but are basically self-centered or are pertaining to people or relations you are attached to, and then you pray to God tha t He should grant you a particular relief, or a job promotion, or some benefit to you or your near ones, etc. When you go with this frame of mind, then most of the time you are disappointed. Hypothetically speaking, if your expectations are symolized in A and what you get is, let us say, B; then A minus B is your disappointment. And then you have to attribute this disappointment to someone. The pessimists will attribute it to their bad luck and will always curse themselves for not being worthy of God's favor. The optimists will straight away blame God Himself, and they say that this God is not good and that we should shift to some other God. In this way you keep on shifting from God to God, but disappointment is always there. This may even make you anti-God and an atheist, ultimately. Now take a case where you do not go to God with any expectations. Therefore, the expectations are zero, and let us say that you get B as the reward. Therefore, B minus zero is B which is always surplus.
You should also distinguish between your expectations and desires and pure desires. Pure desire is always for the benefit of the other, and therefore you are entitled to carry pure desires to the Divinity. I once remember, I was traveling with Shri Mataji from Sydney to Canberra and it was very hot and the air conditioning of the car was thoroughly inadequate. Shri Mataji was sweating and I was fanning Her with a newspaper, but I somehow felt that the heat was oppressive and that the weather should give some respite to Her. Reading my mind, She asked me a question as to what I was thinking, to which I told Her frankly that I was unable to see Her suffer because of heat. So She told me that I should make a pure desire and the weather would change. So I closed my eyes and made a Pure desire that the weather should change. Within five minutes, dark clouds gathere d from nowhere and it started raining, and the intensity of heat was thus reduced and Shri Mataji said, "See, if you make a pure desire then it will always be fulfilled."
Coming back to expectations, I may mention here that once you are connected to your divinity through your Self Realization, you should feel assured that you have been admitted into the Kingdom of God, that you are His subject and therefore He is duty-bound to look after you, irrespective of what you expect of Him. So please do not expect when you are in Sahaja. Only pray to Shri Mataji that She should make you what She wants you to be.
With all my blessings,
Baba Mama
I would like to share a speech made by Babamama, Shri Mataji's brother, which has really opened my heart, answered some of my questions. It is really a wonderful talk.
The following is a beautiful talk by Baba Mama, Shri Mataji's beloved brother who brought the creative arts, especially music, to the forefront in the Sahaj family. He encouraged and inspired Sahaj Yogis to greater and greater creative heights. One can say he was the embodiment of music in Sahaja Yoga.
Expectations
(Chaitaya Mela, Maharashtra Sahaja Yoga Seminar, Nagpur 1999)
You believe that God is omnipresent, omnipotent and all-pervading. In fact, you believe that He is in every atom. As natural corollary of this belief you must also know that God knows what you want or what your need is. If the first proposition is true, then second proposition has to be true. It would follow, therefore, that those who know that God is omnipotent and all-pervading are bound to accept that God is all-knowledgeable and therefore is aware of all your problems.
In spite of this fact, we always go to God with certain expectations. Expectations can be of various types, but are basically self-centered or are pertaining to people or relations you are attached to, and then you pray to God tha t He should grant you a particular relief, or a job promotion, or some benefit to you or your near ones, etc. When you go with this frame of mind, then most of the time you are disappointed. Hypothetically speaking, if your expectations are symolized in A and what you get is, let us say, B; then A minus B is your disappointment. And then you have to attribute this disappointment to someone. The pessimists will attribute it to their bad luck and will always curse themselves for not being worthy of God's favor. The optimists will straight away blame God Himself, and they say that this God is not good and that we should shift to some other God. In this way you keep on shifting from God to God, but disappointment is always there. This may even make you anti-God and an atheist, ultimately. Now take a case where you do not go to God with any expectations. Therefore, the expectations are zero, and let us say that you get B as the reward. Therefore, B minus zero is B which is always surplus.
You should also distinguish between your expectations and desires and pure desires. Pure desire is always for the benefit of the other, and therefore you are entitled to carry pure desires to the Divinity. I once remember, I was traveling with Shri Mataji from Sydney to Canberra and it was very hot and the air conditioning of the car was thoroughly inadequate. Shri Mataji was sweating and I was fanning Her with a newspaper, but I somehow felt that the heat was oppressive and that the weather should give some respite to Her. Reading my mind, She asked me a question as to what I was thinking, to which I told Her frankly that I was unable to see Her suffer because of heat. So She told me that I should make a pure desire and the weather would change. So I closed my eyes and made a Pure desire that the weather should change. Within five minutes, dark clouds gathere d from nowhere and it started raining, and the intensity of heat was thus reduced and Shri Mataji said, "See, if you make a pure desire then it will always be fulfilled."
Coming back to expectations, I may mention here that once you are connected to your divinity through your Self Realization, you should feel assured that you have been admitted into the Kingdom of God, that you are His subject and therefore He is duty-bound to look after you, irrespective of what you expect of Him. So please do not expect when you are in Sahaja. Only pray to Shri Mataji that She should make you what She wants you to be.
With all my blessings,
Baba Mama
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