Birthday of Shri Buddha
Thursday 7th May 2020
Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
On the 7th of May, we celebrate the birthday of Shri Buddha!
Let us all worship Shri Mataji as Shri Buddha tomorrow as part pf our morning meditation. Here is a suggested Shri Buddha Puja Talk from 1992:
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Shri Buddha Puja Talk from 1992 Shudy Camps, UK
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On this day we completely surrender our egos and all our actions to You Shri Mataji in Your form of Shri Buddha, the Maitreya, the One who grants us complete enlightened consciousness. Shri Mataji You are the doer of all the deeds that have been done and will be done. We do nothing.
Prayer to Shrī Buddha
Aum Shri Mataji, salutations to Thee again and again.
Shri Mataji, may all aspects of the bodhi-chitta, the enlightened consciousness, be awakened at Thy command.
May all bodhisattvas perform Thy arti. May Thy grace prevail! Amen.
May Amogha-siddhi, the all-accomplishing wisdom of becoming be awakened at Thy command.
May Ratna-sama-bhava, who maintains balance in all things be awakened at Thy command.
May Akshobhya, the wisdom of the all-reflecting mirror be awakened at Thy command.
May Amit’ābha, who upholds the eternal light of discrimination be awakened at Thy command.
May Vairochana, the universal harmony of the cosmos be awakened at Thy command.
And may Avalokit’eshwara, displaying the thousand arms of acting compassion be awakened at Thy command. Aum. Amen.
Lots of Love
Lyn & Andre on behalf of the Australian Council
“So just see how they have shown the compensation of Buddha, the one who is the controller of our right side, …”
“Now, how can you not have open heart in Sahaja Yoga? That’s the first place where the spirit exists and it emits its light, and when it emits its light that’s the first place where you see the life of a person who is full of love. So how can it be, there is this problem that “I can’t open my heart”? This must be coming because you have only ego but no self-esteem. So, Buddha is the one who is the killer of ego. He’s the killer of ego. He is, as you have seen it, He is moving on your Pingala Nadi and comes and then settles down on this side, the left side. He’s the one who is the controller of our ego, and how He has tried to compensate this right side. First of all, you must have seen the laughing Buddha. He’s very fat; and a person who’s right-sided is very thin. He’s never laughing, never smiles even – even if you tickle, he may not! So they have shown Buddha as a person, and He’ll have many children sitting on His stomach, all over His body and everywhere, and He’ll be laughing. So just see how they have shown the compensation of Buddha, the one who is the controller of our right side. So, how He controls our right side, just laughs out of it. He makes fun of Himself, He makes fun of everything, anything they see. For example now, as He said, “Don’t see any drama.” All right. I say, “You see every drama.” But in that you see with your enlightened consciousness, you can see the stupidity of it and enjoy the stupidity.”
Shri Mataji 31 May 1992 Shri Buddha Puja: The Search for the Absolute
“And this is what we have to see, that we have to accept what we are, and we are the spirit. If we are the spirit, then we have to live and enjoy and do whatever is necessary. But there are four things which Buddha has said very nicely, which all of you should say every morning, I think, to understand. So first He says, “Buddham sharanam gacchami” – “I surrender myself to Buddha”: means “I surrender myself to my awakened attention, to my awakened consciousness. Buddham sharanam gacchami.” Is very important to know that He said it again and again.
Then He said, “Dhammam sharanam gacchami.” That is, “I surrender myself to my dharma.” Dharma is not what is outside – these religions which are mythical and which are gone into some sort of a perversions – but the religion within myself, the innate religion. I surrender myself to that: which is righteousness, which you know very well what are the real things within us, which gives us all the value system.
Then the third thing He has said, “Sangham sharanam gacchami.” “I surrender myself to collective.” You have to meet. I’m trying My level best to get some place where you can all meet, even in the name of a picnic or anything, at least once a month. “Sangham sharanam gacchami” is very important, because then you’ll know that you are part and parcel of the whole; that a microcosm has become the macrocosm; that you are a part and parcel of the Virat – that you become aware of it. And that is how things work out very fast, that is how we help each other. That is how we discover a person who is negative, that’s how we discover who is not. We discover a person who is egoist, who is not egoist. That’s how we discover the people who are not at all Sahaja yogis, claim themselves to be Sahaja yogis, and we just give them up, we understand.
Without coming to the collective, without being collective, you can never understand the value of collectivity. It is so great. It gives you so many powers, it gives you so much satisfaction and joy that one must in Sahaja Yoga first pay attention to collectivity. Even supposing there’s something missing, doesn’t matter; you just become collective. While coming to collective you don’t have to criticise others, you don’t have to call names of others, you don’t find faults with them. But you introspect yourself and know that “Why, when everybody is enjoying themselves, why am I the one sitting down and trying to find faults? Must be something wrong with me.”
If you can just pay attention to yourself as far as the defects are concerned, then I am sure you will become much more collective than when you start seeing the defects in other people. And no use, I mean no use seeing. Supposing I have a spot on My sari, I better clean it. But if you have a spot on your sari, what’s the use of looking at it? I cannot clean it; you have to do it yourself. Is a simple thing, it’s a very practical thing, and this kind of a practical … (Can you hear Me, all of you?) It’s such a practical thing has to be done to understand that Sahaja Yoga is the most practical, is the most practical, because it is absolute reality.
So with all these powers, with all these understandings, with all this compassionate love, you have to be sure about yourself, and know that you are all the time protected, guided, looked after, nourished, and helped to grow by this divine Power, which is all-pervading.
May God bless you all.”
Shri Mataji 31 May 1992 Shri Buddha Puja: The Search for the Absolute
