“Shiva’s greatest principle is to be innocent.”
The One, which is reflected within us, is the Shiva, which is the pure Spirit. This pure Spirit within us is the reflection of God Almighty, Sadashiva. It’s like the sun that falls in the water and gives a clear reflection. .. Thus the saintly people, they reflect God Almighty in the proper manner, in the sense that their own identification with wrong things is no more. When there is no such identification and when a person is absolutely the pure Spirit, then the reflection of God reflects into others.
Luckily you all have got your Self Realization. That means the reflection of God Almighty is already working into your attention….You can feel a person of that caliber, that he’s such a deep person, that he doesn’t want to aggress. He feels protected within himself.
So this protection we have to feel, not mentally but within ourselves, and once you have that gravity, that feeling, nobody can attack you. The attacking person himself is insecure; or maybe he is ill-bred; maybe he is not yet a Sahaja Yogi. So you have to just have a kind of a gracious view about the person. Like Shiva was. We should say Sadashiva’s character is known, that He is the one who used to forgive anyone…
So the whole play is like this, of three forces going on, just to show ultimately the truth prevails. First is the, Shiva’s compassion, His goodness, to one side. Then the play of Shri Krishna or say Shri Vishnu of neutralizing it; and the third is the play of Brahma who creates things and who produces things. All these three forces are playing, just to create an atmosphere for all of us to feel that there is something else is to be done to our human awareness. All they have evolved within us this desire to seek the truth.
Now on one side Shiva is extremely compassionate, very kind even to asuras, the rakshasas. But on the other side He can be extremely cruel. He can destroy the whole universe. If the people are so decadent, if the people do not take to spirituality, if their innocence is completely lost, if they do not get detached from all these wrong identifications which are creating problems in this world, He destroys the whole universe. So as it is He is the spectator of the work of Adi Shakti. He allows Her to do all this work, to create human beings, to give them Realization, do all this. But in case He finds Her children, people who have been saved by Her, are misbehaving or insulting or in any way destroying Her work, He might get into a temper by which He can destroy the whole universe….
In Sahaja Yoga there’s no question of suppression. You become innocent, just become innocent. That is the principle of Shiva. This Sahaj culture is in the centre. It has neither too much of licentiousness nor too much of suppression, but it is in the centre, which is the, Shiva’s greatest principle is to be innocent. And this innocence just shines in you, I have seen it…So going to one extreme is wrong, or to another is wrong. But to be in the centre, in the Sahaj is the best way to understand what is so important for life is morality. And that comes from your innocence. And that is the quality of, of course, Shri Ganesha, who is the Son of Shiva, but is emitted through the innocence of Shri Shiva….
To save humanity from all kinds of problems, Sahaja Yoga has come on this earth. So it is your responsibility to keep yourself in proper shape, as far as Sahaja Yoga is concerned, get rid of your left and get rid of your right, and then to spread Sahaja Yoga, not by bombastic words or aggressiveness, but with love and compassion.
H H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Mahashivaratri Puja 26 February 1995, Australia
