Identity: Your True Self

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Identity: Your True Self
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Cabella Ligure, Italy, 21 June 1992 (Excerpt)

Nothing should control you. Then the kundalini moves for us, because you must have complete liberty. If you do not have complete liberty then the kundalini won’t move.

We have conditionings of our families, of our religion, of our country. These conditionings, as far as possible, is to be seen clearly that we have got it through our family. If you are born a Christian you’ll always be more attached to Christ. Christ you have not seen, you don’t know whether He existed or not, whether this Bible is true or not but you’ll be more attached to Bible. Now if you are a Hindu, you’ll be more attached to Gita or to Vedas or something. This creates imbalance, because we must have the same attitude towards all the religions, towards all the scriptures; that’s the sign of a saint.

So this conditioning has to go. In what country you are born is another conditioning which has to be fought out; very important it is. I don’t want to discuss the conditionings of different countries but you know very well. After realization when you rise higher than your society which is surrounding you, you start understanding and you start describing. I’ve come to know about the stupidity of all these countries through the people who belong to that country. For example a Frenchman will say, “Mother, this is typical French mind, he’s a French otherwise born.” Or a Hindu will say, “Mother, this is typically a Hindu man; he will do like this.” So then you understand that you are not typifying that country, you are a universal being and you are living like a universal being.

Once you become the universal being, then also you realize that this skin-deep complexion makes no difference in the world. So then you don’t start hating somebody who is darker than you or who is fairer than you; both ways it works. It’s not only the people who are fair hate the darker ones, but darkers also hate equally. And mutually they believe that they are all absolutely wrong.

If you ask a fanatic about another religion he’ll say, that’s the worst religion, his is the best. And you ask the another fanatic, he will say his is the best, the rest of it is the worst. That means all of them are the worst, in a general opinion. Everybody seems to be the worst, all the fanatics are the worst, if you take a general consensus, you see. Nobody will say that, “All right, my religion is all right and at least one another is all right;” nobody.

If you ask an Englishman he’ll say, “Mother, this is typically English, you can’t help it.” They get so angry. I’ve seen the English getting angry with the other English for misbehaving or doing something towards Me, but I don’t mind, because they are blind. So here the compassion should come within you, as a universal being, that, by God’s grace you have risen higher in the real sense of the word. It is not just you are certified, you are realized souls, no. You are realized souls, no doubt, you are: sakshat. So then, as it is now, you are absolutely certified by God that you are realized souls. Naturally, you must change everything. No use typifying yourself, identifying yourself with something that is now you have given up. For example, from the egg now you have become the birds. Now birds don’t identify themselves with the eggs and settle down in only one place; they fly. Now they have become birds, they are no more eggs. In the same way we should accept our position. We should accept ourselves as realized souls with self-esteem and understanding as to what is our purpose of life now; it is changed completely, entirely. Once you understand the purpose of your life, innately, not outside because I am saying, or is a mental process, but inside you feel responsible.

You have got realization to spread it all over the world and to emancipate the whole world. Once you realize this point then automatically you take up responsibilities and the kundalini will rise.

I know of many people who said, “Mother, we cannot speak, You know we have a stage fright.” All right, you just stand up, that’s all. And they started giving lectures; I had to stop them. There are many who said that, “We cannot write any poems, Mother, we are no good; we cannot sing.” I know of a girl who used to sing so horribly bad that people had to tell her that you— because she would always go out of tune and very loudly she would sing. Then they had to tell her, “Now you better keep at the back and don’t sing now any more.” Now she is the one who is sort of leading the group. So all these beautiful things start manifesting which you should accept that they have come to you, and give up all that you call as fear.