Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Journey Within

JOURNEY WITHIN

THE FINAL STEPS TO SELF REALIZATION

S H RI M A TAJI N I RMALA D EVI

CONTENTS

My life: Mahatma Gandhi, the Independence of India and the beginning of something new.

The fourth inquiry is the hunger for spirituality. There are people who are seeking the truth. They are discovering that all people are one. That is the destiny of human beings.

There are two categories of people. To those who are seekers, there is nothing as important as finding the truth. Until they find it, they are the lost children.

The truth is the light by which you can see. By going to the roots, you become enlightened and you see yourself. The confusion is finished.

Truth has brought us to where we are today and that truth is absolute and simple. It results in a true transformation.

Beyond seeing and understanding the truth is becoming the truth. When you become one with the whole, you enjoy the balance. It is real and perfect bliss.

The truth cannot be described, only experienced. You become enlightened and you become the joy. Your Self becomes glorious.

The essence of Sahaja Yoga is the right to be united with the Divine. Its yours.

Our enslavement to matter stops us from seeing the spirit. Spontaneity is the beauty of the spirit and Self-Realization is a natural and spontaneous process. It is the next step in our evolution.

Beyond your thinking and beyond your rationality can be found the true knowledge. It is to be found in the poetry of the Kundalini.

You are not this body, this mind, these emotions, this ego or conditionings. You are the pure spirit. And this power knows who you are.

To know the comfort of your spirit is to feel absolutely secured in the ocean of love. That is the state that can be achieved.

Self-Realization can happen here and now, as you read this book. It is the experience for which you have been seeking.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Meditation is a thoughtless state of balance. It is a silent joy.

Self-Realization is a part of our evolution. The key is desire.

With Realization, the depth you achieve within yourself will radiate to all around you.

PREFACE

There are, in these modern times, many seekers of truth. They are a special category of people. Perhaps we are not aware that in every country a lot of people are born with this seeking. They are a special category who see beyond, trying to find something beyond what they can perceive through their senses.

The truth is found through our sense organs.

For example, if we see something as white, we call it white. If we feel it as cold, we call it cold. If it is hot, we call it hot. This means whatever we perceive through our sense organs and whatever is communicated to us through our central nervous system, we accept as the truth. We should accept only that which we feel to be the truth and not something that is told to us, not something that we have read in books, not something that we can project from our mind.

There is no denial of any of the scriptures.

There is no denial of anything that we have known so far in this world, but to begin with, let us start from scratch, as they say, from a clean slate.

Let us see in this book what is the truth the truth of your experience.

CHAPTER ONE

TO FIND THE WAY

My father felt that I would do something great in this life.

I dont know if he dreamed it or simply understood it, but all the time he used to say, You have to find out the way of giving en masse Realization. By he was meaning the need for a deep, spiritual awakening in people.

He gave me a good education in different religions and also a good education about human beings: what are their problems, why do they act the way they do, why dont they take to God, why are they hypocritical. All kinds of things he told me.

I knew all about it from my very childhood. I was a very aware person, but I did not know who to talk to because people did not have the same awareness then. You could not talk to anyone just like that.

My mother was a very strict lady. She taught me so many things. Indeed all of my sisters and I are expert cooks and in each of our lives we are doing very well. We do not trouble anyone. All these things have come from our mother, who was a strict lady and she would not tolerate any nonsense. She would never tell a lie. If you told her, When this gentleman comes, you tell him that I am not in the house, she would say, Dont tell me to tell lies. Ill tell him that you told me to tell the lie. That is how she was and that is how she treated us. We lived with that, but we did not mind it because what she did was for our good. We knew that she was doing it for our good.

Even President Roosevelt once said that an Indian woman is like a magnolia in a forest. Even one flower in the forest may be hidden. You cannot see it, but you can smell it. The whole forest is fragrant. You cannot see it anywhere. The fragrance is only in one flower, but yet you know this magnolia very well. It has the greatest quality, that of love. Love is the most attractive thing in this world.