Amazing Story about 'How Puja Started in Sahaja Yoga - Shri Mataji says that Navaratri was the 1st Puja'. HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation. "You'll be surprised for the first four years I didn't even allow them to have any puja whatsoever. Even they said, "You are our guru, so you should allow us to have guru puja." I said, "Nothing doing. I will not." Then first, after four years, on the Navaratri day they wanted to have one puja. I said, "All right. You can have it, but very few people." And then they found that that puja gave them so much of vibrations, so much of elated spirituality and they touched so many dimensions suddenly that then they started requesting Me, "Mother, you must give me a puja." (HH Shri Mataji Ganapatipule Jan 7 1990) "I remember the first incident when we went to Nargol where I had opened the Sahasrara, the first person who got realization was a Gujarati, and a jeweler. Immediately all the other - there were hardly about thirty-five people - they started saying that: "Of course he is a rich man, he is a jeweler. So Mother has given him realization". I think it was the first and the last time I really got angry: I started shouting at them, I said: "You are good for nothing, useless people you can never take to Divinity and I have really thought to stop it now. Then I should take another life, another time where you will understand what is Sahaja Yoga". But after that, suddenly people started feeling the cool breeze in their hands, immediately after My shouting, imagine! And they said: "Mother, you know, it is working, it is working in us, it is working out of us". Thus we got twelve people, and one lady whom I had given before also. She was the fourteenth. Thus first we had only these fourteen Sahaja yogis for whom it was something out of the blue. They were all flabbergasted, they did not know what it was and then surprisingly, in one of our programs, a lady who was possessed by some brahmin came and started saying: "Jagadamba, Jagadamba". They could not understand. I never told them what I was. Never. I never told otherwise also. So then, she recited a poem from Saundarya Lahari in Sanskrit language, and she was just a maid servant and in a man's voice. So everybody was shocked that the bhoot should say all these things and then she went away. After that these people started probing into it, and they wanted to have My puja first time in My house itself. Still people were not very sure they were doing the right thing. Even the brahmins they called, they said: "This Saptashakti (Saptashati) is a very difficult Puja and something will happen to us". But after the puja they said: "Nothing happened. We are so much better". They all felt the cool breeze and the entire atmosphere changed." (HH Shri Mataji Birthday 1993) http://youtu.be/KwhJPrcyFrM "Then it happened that I had started it after the Sahasrara was broken. And you know the story of how I broke the Sahasrara. And how, from one person, I started giving Realization. But from America I got very disappointed. I was thinking: "How will it grow? How will it work out?" We had about 25 people who were Realised Souls by then, in India. But they realised what they had got by Realization. They realised that they had become 'very' good people. They had given up all bad habits, and they were wanting to worship Me. I said: "No, no. Don't worship Me, because people will not understand". But one day they forced Me. So on the terrace of the house they came and worshiped Me, because somebody had told them: "This is the Goddess!" So, what had happened was that after the program, one maidservant came up who was possessed. And she came and she started calling Me by the name of 'Goddess'. So people said: "What are you saying?" She was a women but talking like a man. So she said: "I am telling you the truth, She is the Goddess who has come to save us." Her language was not that of a maidservant, but of a very well-educated Brahmin who would say all Adi Shankaracharya's stotras. It was very surprising! So they asked her several questions and then she just fainted. So I told them: "Just don't listen to her, it's no use." But they would not agree, and they said: "Mother, we have to worship you." So somehow I agreed to that and they got hold of seven Brahmins to do that. They were afraid because to do that Puja, it is very dangerous and it could harm you if it is not the Truth. But on the contrary, when they were doing the Puja, they got their Realisation! And they just said: "Now, this is the Truth!" They felt the cool breeze in their hands. All the symptoms told about a Realised Soul started." (HH Shri Mataji Sahasrara 2001) http://youtu.be/370ZSaJC3HM History https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33D98BBF2785957E (playlist) Navaratri http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL391B5651D1805358 (playlist) http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/navaratri-with-shri-mataji.html

• published: 09 Oct 2013
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