Collectivity in Sahaja Yoga

Importance of Meditating collectively

When you collect together... something happens to you... if you sit at home, and do something ... nothing works out much. Anywhere when there are people sitting together in meditation, Sahaja Yoga itself manifests... because it is a collective phenomena. There is a mathematics about it... and Sahaja Yoga works out after actually there are more than seven people.

on talk about "attention", Bordi

When a person is collective or not collective

... who tries to find fault with someone all the time... who wants to run away, with his wife or with his hudband... and stay somewhere else.. who wants to get out ... is not a person who is collective. You have to be collective...and to be collective means ... at every collective program you should be there... you should always meet collectively... meditate collectively ... and find ways and methods of being collectively.

on Shri Khrisna Puja, Lac Noir

The Meaning of Collectivity

… Collectivity doesn’t mean that we all should be stuck together with some glue or something or we all become like Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar. No, it doesn’t mean that. It means wherever you are, you are connected. That is collectivity.

A collective doesn’t mean that you hate that person. No, your connective means you love that person, you’re concerned about that person. The connection, the connecting line is of love and not of hatred. So when you are connected with another person or persons, then you are in collectivity. But people will live together and everyday break each others’ heads. Some of them really give Me headaches, I tell you, sometimes because they are nowhere near the real growth of Sahaja Yoga.

So you may be in America, you may be in India, you may be anywhere. You are just connected. And you are concerned.

As soon as there’s a problem somewhere, into any part, any part, of the world, you are connected and you’re effective, you can manage. But if you are not connected and you are just glued together, it’s very inconvenient to live under such circumstances.

I think people don’t even understand the meaning of collectivity where there’s not the other, ananya (Sanskrit –> no other), where there’s not the other. There’s no other personality. These personalities are separated from you because of left and right or could be both. But you are yourself fully when you’re absolutely detached and your kundalini’s dancing. You’re alone and never alone.

This oneness with the whole gives you all the security that you want, all the joy you want and that’s why Kundalini Awakening means collectivity. Unless and until you want pure collectivity in your being, Kundalini won’t rise. …

on Shri Adi Kundalini Puja, Germany

11 August 1991

Spirit is the Collective Being

The Spirit is the collective being, is absolutely one with the collective.

on talk about "new age", Plaw Hatch Seminar

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

I am a lamb and Lord is my Shepherd

Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee,

Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?

Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee?

Little lamb, I’ll tell thee;
Little lamb, I’ll tell thee:

He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb,
We are called by His name.

Little lamb, God bless thee!
Little lamb, God bless thee!

from "Songs of Innocence: The Lamb" - William Blake

The Lord is my shepherd; how can I lack anything?
He gives me a resting-place where there is pasture,
and leads me out by cool waters,
to make me live a new.

As in honour pledged, by sure paths he leads me;
what though I walk with the shadow of death all around me?
Hurt I fear none, while thou art with me;
thy rod, thy crook are my comfort.

What though my enemies trouble me?
Full in their view thou does spread a banquet before me;
richly thou dost anoint my head with oil,
generous the cup that steals away my senses!

All my life thy goodnesss pursues me;
through the long years,
the Lord's house shall be my dwelling-place.

Psalm:23 - Knox's translation

Namaskar

"namaskar" originally comes from sanskrit language, and is derived from three words:

namah + om + kar = namaskar

• "namah" is actually derived from "na" and "ma". In sanskrit, "na" reflects a simple negation , and "ma" points to ego, referring "I" or "my". Thus, "nama" or "namah" literally means NOT ME or a negation to one's identity or one's ego or arrogance. The meaning "namah" can also be taken as bending, bowing, humbly submitting and becoming silent.
• "om" is the short form of "AUM", the primordial sound. It is believed that the whole universe/cosmos is generated from one primordial sound or word (see Upanishads from Hiduism and John 1:1 in New Testament).
• "kar" means "shape/form of" or "manifestation of" . Thus, "omkar" means manifestation of "om", that is the WHOLE universe/cosmos.
  
  

“Before typing you just say ‘namaskar’ to that work that you have to do, just like that. And then you start doing the work as if you are not doing it. You are just doing it - typing. You are just typing, that’s all. You’re not doing it. You’re not doing anything. Some people say, ‘Mother, you travel so much.’ I never travel. I’m sitting or I’m walking. Where do I travel? It is the plane that travels. I’m just sitting in the plane. I never travel like a Superman. I am sitting very nicely. Where do I travel? If I Start thinking, ‘I travel very much, I do this work, I do that work, “somebody would say, ‘Mother, you do so much work.’ I mean I don’t do anything. I tell you, really, I don’t do anything.“

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Hamsa Puja 1991