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The great religions are like branches
Of one spreading tree:
It is alone in its growth,
Although it has birthed many shoots.
And is it ever possible that branches
Would suddenly, in anger, hit each other?
Religions are the same as branches,
That grew from one big tree.
And these, Shri Mataji’s words, not without reason
All men with thankfulness accept.
It’s time to understand
That we are brothers,
Beyond the races, nationalities, and faiths,
And independent of our skin colors.
Because like branches
Just one root we have!
The Lord is one
Though there are many paths,
That lead to Him –
The goal is always one:
The mountain peak that pierces clouds.
The goal of life is union with God.
Let’s not forget Whose Image and Likeness we carry,
And we will understand to where we aspire.
Vladimir Mikhanovsky
Source: Mikhanovsky, Vladimir. Hope Faith Love: The Road to God. Pune, India: Nirmal Transformation, 2007.
- Mountains
I see a mountain from my window
Standing like an ancient sage
Desireless, full of love.
So many trees and so many flowers
They plunder the mountain all the time.
Its attention is not disturbed
And when the rain pours like
Many pitchers of clouds bursting
And it fills the mountain with greenery.
The storms may come soaring,
Filling the lake with compassion
And the rivers flow running down
Towards the calling sea.
The sun will create clouds and
Wind carries on its feathery wings
The rain on to the mountain.
This is the eternal play
The mountain sees
without desires.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
(Photograph: wikimediacommons)
The Cairns collective of Sahaja Yoga warmly invites you to attend our special pre-Christmas program to be held on Wednesday 3 December 2008. Please come along and enjoy the opportunity to experience a relaxing, calming meditation technique.
Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Venue: Cairns Regional Library Meeting Room, Abbott St, Cairns
Time: 7.30 pm
We would love to see you there!
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
It is an individual journey towards God. When you meditate and when you reach there, then you become collective. Before that it’s an absolute individual journey within. It’s absolutely individual journey!
You should be able to see this; that in this journey nobody is your relation. Nobody is your friend. You are absolutely alone. Absolutely alone. You have to move alone within yourself. Don’t hate anyone. Don’t be irresponsible, but in meditative mood you are alone. No one exists there. You alone.
And once you enter into that ocean then the whole world becomes your whole family. The whole world is your own manifestation. All the children become your children. And you treat all people with equal understanding. The whole expansion takes place when you enter inside your spirit and start seeing through eyes of the spirit.
There’s such calm, such peace, such bliss within you. You have to be ready for that journey. That journey is alone in your meditativeness.
Shri Mataji, 1983