Nirmala Quotes

If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have faith in God that is the main thing which people don't understand what it means to have faith in God . That He is almighty, He does everything, He looks after everything, why should we worry? This is a very good way of life, is not to worry. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

There are basically two movements of consciousness: love and fear. Love is allowing what is, and fear is resisting it. ~ Nirmala

Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Present is the reality. The past is finished, and the future doesn't exist. When the Kundalini rises She elongates those thoughts and establishes in the center where there is complete thoughtless awareness. And spiritually you grow in that thoughtless awareness which in Sanskrit we call as Nirvichaar Samadhi. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Yoga is a big misnomer in the west, people don't know what this yoga is. Yoga means union with the divine. When you become one with the divine, the divine starts flowing through you and you become part and parcel of the whole. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

It is important to learn that love is your life, love is spirituality. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You must have patience with others because, if you do not have patience, your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must have patience and to get patience you must know what you have been so far and where are you. When you will know what you were, you will have patience with others, tremendous patience. And by having patience with others, your sincerity will be all the time complete. By your sincerity, you will be completely integrated. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

He self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself? ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Creation is the eternal play of the Divine (Parabrahma, the Totality).

You cannot adequately describe the majesty of a tree by talking about a flower, a branch or the bark.
The source cannot be fully explained by describing its manifestations. ~ Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

But the quality of human beings is only one - and that is how much they love and forgive. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Open your hearts, open your hearts, then only you can enjoy yourself. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Sahasrara is your awareness. When it is enlightened, you get into the technique of the Divine. Now there are two techniques - the technique of the Divine and the technique that you follow. You cannot act as Divine but you can use the Divine power and maneuver it. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

I must feel this emotion
with my whole being
and as it sweeps me off my feet
enjoy the sensation of falling
falling endlessly into the arms
of no lover ~ Nirmala

Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power ... ~ Nirmala Srivastava

It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you! ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Your spirit is to be connected with your attention. Your spirit which is in your heart has to come in your attention. So who does the connection is this power which we call in Sanskrit language as Kundalini. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith ... ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that ? At that time if you are thinking say of your jobs and your other things which you have been thinking before, the transmission is poorer. Think of love. Think of the whole country, think of the whole world at that time. You are transmitters of these waves of love, and love will flow from you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life. When a person starts thinking, "Why am I doing such and such thing ? What is the effect of my doing ? What is the result of my behaviour ? Is it good for me or bad for me ? " , then wisdom comes. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

So to overcome the problems of personality the best thing is to witness, practice witnessing everything: before talking, practice witnessing, before giving any comments, just start witnessing. It's a very, very satisfying attitude. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Vibrations are nothing but Divine Love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The attention is to be kept pure. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

When the Kundalini crosses the Agnya, you become thoughtlessly aware. Thoughtlessly aware means, you are aware but there is no thought. You become silent. When it crosses the brahmarandra then the vibrations start flowing through you, and you get cool vibrations. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

After realization, the attention becomes enlightened. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy. ~ Nirmala Srivastava