The Experience of Truth

By Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

In the summer of 1984, in a period of eighteen days, there were four Sahaja Yoga public programmes in London. In Lambeth, Hampstead, Ilford and Chiswick — the south, north, east and west — Shri Mataji spoke on four evenings in what could be considered to be the longest and most complete introduction to Sahaja Yoga. These four programmes, collectively known as “The Experience of Truth,” totalled more than five hours. She spoke, continuing from one lecture to the next, with the understanding that the same audience was in attendance. There was very little repetition, only recap. The description was in depth. The wisdom was unique. Questions were answered. Shri Mataji spoke about the truth within — truth known to us through our senses and the truth perceived through vibrations. She spoke about truth as an unchanging absolute and our ability to become that truth in a new collective consciousness. And finally she spoke to us about the enjoyment of that truth — the very nature of the Divine. “You become the joy,” she said, “the source of joy and the giver of joy. You enjoy yourself because your Self is glorious.” We could not have asked for more. It was a summer to remember.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781471640803

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THE EXPERIENCE OF TRUTH

This book was created from the words of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi spoken at four public events in 1984. Some of the text has been gently edited and may not be verbatim as spoken on the day. This has been done for clarity.

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INTRODUCTION

In the summer of 1984, in a period of eighteen days, there were four Sahaja Yoga public programmes in London.

In Lambeth, Hampstead, Ilford and Chiswick — the south, north, east and west — Shri Mataji spoke on four evenings in what could be considered to be the longest and most complete introduction to Sahaja Yoga.

These four programmes, collectively known as The Experience of Truth, totalled more than five hours. She spoke, continuing from one lecture to the next, with the understanding that the same audience was in attendance. There was very little repetition, only recap. The description was in depth. The wisdom was unique. Questions were answered.

Shri Mataji spoke about the truth within — truth known to us through our senses and the truth perceived through vibrations.

She spoke about truth as an unchanging absolute and our ability to become that truth in a new collective consciousness.

And finally she spoke to us about the enjoyment of that truth — the very nature of the Divine.

You become the joy, she said, the source of joy and the giver of joy.

You enjoy yourself because your Self is glorious.

We could not have asked for more. It was a summer to remember.

Shri Mataji Nirmal Devi

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was born to a Christian family on the day of the Spring equinox — March 21st, 1923 — in Chhindwara, near the geographical centre of India in the state of Madhya Pradesh. She knew from a very young age that she had a unique gift, which had to be made available to all people.

As a girl, Shri Mataji was a youth leader in Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement and Gandhi himself often consulted her on spiritual questions. Shri Mataji studied medicine in college in order better to understand Western medicine. She was later awarded a doctorate in medicine and philosophy by the Chancellor of Petrovasky University in Russia when she demonstrated at a medical conference the merits of Sahaja Yoga.

Shri Mataji explained that curing occurs in Sahaja Yoga as the Kundalini rises along the Sushumna channel, activating all the energy centres known as chakras (see illustration). Each chakra controls a certain part of the body. When activated, they correct ailments affecting the body. Shri Mataji advised people to meditate regularly to maintain good health.

Out of her infinite compassion, Shri Mataji opened the Sahasrara, the last and topmost chakra, on May 5th, 1970 at Nargol, near Mumbai, and then began teaching her techniques of Sahaja Yoga.

Shri Mataji devoted most of her life to communicating her spiritual knowledge and often kept a busy schedule travelling around the world, spreading this joyous and essential meditation to all who wanted it.

There is no charge for Self-realisation. Shri Mataji says, How can you pay for something, which is your own birthright? Can you pay for a seed to sprout or for the sun to shine? The Kundalini is a living force to which each human being has the right and the ability to experience, which is just like natural breathing.

Through Shri Mataji’s tireless efforts, Sahaja Yoga is now established in many countries.

Regular meditation is a must, she said. A few minutes is all that is required. While doing this, you are to lose your sense of rituals. It is a time to go beyond that and to achieve your evolution at the individual level. All these feelings are to be shared with others for transformation at a collective mass level which will lead to spiritual upliftment and positive change for the whole society.

PART ONE

Polytechnic of the South Bank, Lambeth, London, 22nd June 1984

I bow to all the seekers of truth.

There are, in those modern times, many seekers of truth who are born. It is a special category of people born in these modern times.

Perhaps we are not aware that, in every country, a lot of people are born with the seeking. They are a special category which sees beyond, tries to find something beyond what they can perceive through their sense organs.

The truth, as we see it, is through our sense organs. For example, something we see as white, we call it white. Something we feel as cool, we call it cool. This means whatever we perceive through our sense organs and whatever is communicated to us through our central nervous system, we accept as truth. And we should accept that only as truth and not something that is told to us, not something that we have read in books, not something that we can project our mind to and can think about. That does not mean that I deny any one of the scriptures. That does not mean that I deny anything that you have known so far. But, to begin with, let us start from scratch as they call it or on a clean slate. Let us see what is the truth.

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Now, in every religion, truth has been described, as I can see it. Everybody cannot see it. That is why there is this problem. That is why there is fanaticism. That is why there is this blindness. That is why there are these blind alleys where you end up arguing about things.

So there must be something that is missing within us, that we have not been able to really relate truth to our central nervous system. And what is that which is missing within us, we should find out. In all humility, we should know that there must be something within us. We have been arguing about so many things. We have been talking about so many things, reading so many books, going into all kinds of funny experiences right from alcohol to other drugs and gurus and this and that. But still, we have not felt anything on our central nervous system.

Secondly, we have no control over that truth so far, so what is the reason? Is it that something is missing in the human awareness? Is it that we are lacking something in our human awareness? All the books, all the scriptures which are true scriptures have said one thing: to know the truth, you are to be born again. That is not only in the Bible.

If you take Patanjali, which is a very ancient book, it is not that the Patanjali asked you to stand on your heads. That is wrong. It is just a wee bit of that. What Patanjali has written is that you have to achieve the truth on your central nervous system through your Atmasakshatkar. The word is different, meaning the experience of your Spirit.

Now the English language has an advantage and a disadvantage, that the Spirit can be the Atma, the spirit could be an alcohol or spirit could be a dead body. It could be a disadvantage because it is not so. They are three separate things, absolutely opposite to each other.

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So the Atma, the Spirit, has to be found out. It is said even by Mohammed-sahib. He said, "You have to become the Pir." It is said by Zoroaster. It is said by Lao Tsu. It is also said by Zen. Buddha has said it. Mahavira has said it. Every one of them has said it. So many religions have started in the name of God without going to the truth that you have to be born again.

Now you have to be born again does mean that you certify yourself I am born again. Self-certificate — you can go ahead. I am a born again. But you do not become that. What is so special if you are born again? What should be so?

The human awareness at