Readers of this blog is getting lesser and lesser. The last few posts, only 6-7 readers and that's probably include me. I understand that the writing is getting less informative, which of course most people who came to this page were looking for. But it's OK. It's not like I have created this blog to attract readers. I just wanted to share about my spiritual life and whatever else that came along with it. Most of the time, it is just ramblings.
Today I want to share about Simplicity. Before I insert Shri Mataji's words, let me share about simplicity in my life. There is none.
Until I met my husband and learned that I am in fact a very sophisticated and complicated person. Everything needs to be prim and proper, otherwise, I get confused or felt like things won't be good, etc. In another words, everything has to be difficult and nothing is easy, in my world. That's when I realised that simplicity is missing in my life and I needed some of it back.
"All that simplicity is not with us anymore; we are sophisticated, you see. I wouldn't be surprised, you see, next time, we might find people devising some technique of eating food, which is a simple thing. And if you see that everybody’s life has become nothing but a bundle of techniques, it’s such a problem I tell you. Unnecessarily we are so confused, so upset and so worried. The tension is mounting up. We are planning something and none of the plans come through. Now see, in our country we have had five-year plans, three of them. The result is everything has gone to waste. In this country I need not say anything. We plan out something and end up with a war or end up with some sort of a violence. The trouble with us, we cannot become simple people. We think to be simple is to be silly. But simple people have a sharp intelligence, extremely subtle intelligence and they reach the point much faster than a complicated one, naturally, because he goes straight while the other goes round, round, round, round, round."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from Public Program 'We are all one', Caxton Hall, 1980.
Recently, there's too much rules and regulations put into place and I was wishing to go back to those times when things were simpler. Maybe it will take a simple person to influence those complicated ones. So, how do we become simple?
"The arrogance is not a child-like quality. We have to be like children. And even when you were not, you were given realisation alright. But now you are sitting with the Devas. Even higher than them. So what is our decoration ? It is humility. It is simplicity. Not cleverness, arrogance, putting others down, showing-off, but a complete surrender, surrendering all your egoistical qualities."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from Navaratri Puja, Hamstead, 1982.
"A simple personality can only create beautiful things. A simple heart can only create nice things, because simplicity at the simple level is so simple. Like you are made of seven chakras, seven chakras, then the permutations of these seven chakras, that’s all. But supposing you start from outside then you’ll have to go to medical science or you’ll have to go to another complicated thing. But basically, fundamentally, it’s too simple. That’s why Sahaja Yoga is very simple, because we are dealing with the fundamental things. So fundamentally, if you are simple then everything that you do is just a combination and permutation of all these things, and all these things when they are put together they make such beautiful things."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from Talk in Pratishthan, 1990.
But, one also need to be balance in simplicity. Not too much, not too little. Here's why.
"Now, there can be people who are extremely simple-hearted. But the simplicity goes to this limit that they cannot recognize the reality. You have to be in the centre. Otherwise you can become a simpleton. And that simpleton-ness can really be very killing."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from When in Darkness, Doris Hill, 1979
"Some people are so simple that anybody says anything, they just believe them, but that’s not so. A ‘twice born’ has to be collectively conscious person and a twice born has to give you the power of your Spirit and that when you become twice born, you should be able to do that to others."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from The Creative Power, Brighton 1982.
Shri Mataji had mentioned many times that Shri Ganesha has the qualities of innocence, purity and simplicity.
"There are so many qualities fo Shri Ganesha, one of them is that he is a child and he is very humble. He is very playful and very interesting. Despite his size, he is very light weight because he can sit on a small little mouse. He doesn't try to show off. His Vahana is very simple, the smallest creature, a mouse. With this mouse he expresses his own power that he doesn't need any other vehicle. His vehicle is his simplicity, he penetrates and affects the lives of people through very simple sweet methods. In Sahaj Yoga we have to realize how to impress others. In Sahaj Yoga nobody will be impressed of you have a very great car or if you have a wealthy expression of your life. What impresses people is the simple expression of your love through certain gestures, presents, and behaviours.
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from Shri Ganesha Puja, Berlin 1993.
So, are we simple or complicated? Let's introspect and find out. Let's get to doubtless awareness.
"You can say a seed becoming a fruit and maturing, or you can say a flower becoming a fruit and then the fruit maturing. In this way, first you get your Self-Realization and you get your thoughtless-awareness. And then you get your doubtless awareness. But people who are not complicated so much, uncomplicated people, simple people with proper life, not extremist, not crazy about anything, such simple people can get doubtless awareness at the first shot. They get both things together."
- Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Extract from Public Program, Caxton Hall, 1980.
Disclaimer : The extracts are only extracts and do not contained the full message of Shri Mataji. To read more, please go to www.amruta.org to get the full speech.
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