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“The knowledge of God Almighty is not mental. It starts from your heart and covers your brain. So your brain cannot deny it anymore.” Excerpt from a talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Original talk: ____________________________ And they don’t understand what is God is. But it’s not the understanding – in a way you understand this one little point, that it comes from your heart into your brain, not from brain to your heart. It comes as if the ambrosia of your bhakti covers your brain, absolutely. Say for example, Shankaracharya wrote a beautiful treatise called as “Viveka Chudamani” where he described what is God, this, that; and “viveka” means the conscience, and consciousness and all that he described quite a lot. But there was one horrible fellow called Sarma who started arguing with him and he got fed up, Shankaracharya. He said, “No use talking to them.” So he just wrote “Saundarya Lahari.” “Saundarya Lahari” is nothing but all the mantras praising the Mother. He said, “Why, I know Mother, now let me praise Her. Nothing doing – what’s the use of talking to these people? Stupid things, how will they understand?” He realized that “These people haven’t got that capacity, that sensitivity to understand what I know.” That’s the real knowledge, is to know what is God. And if that is God, then how can you suspect anything, how can you try to analyze anything? It’s God. It’s God Almighty, which knows everything, which does everything, which enjoys everything. That is the one you should say is the gyana, is the knowledge, is the true knowledge, the pure knowledge. It’s not the knowledge of chakras, not the knowledge of vibrations, not the knowledge of kundalini, but the knowledge of God Almighty. And the knowledge of God Almighty is not mental. Again I tell you, it starts from your heart and goes to your brain, something that comes out of your experience of joy and covers your brain. So your brain cannot deny it any more. Like the – sometimes when you have your mother, little mother, you know the love of your mother. But you cannot explain, it comes from your heart and you say, “No, that’s my mother, she won’t do like that. I know my mother very well.” The knowledge about your mother, the one who has given you birth; may not be, mother may not be very good or whatever it is. But knowledge about God, that He’s love, that He’s truth, that He knows everything, that just become part and parcel of your being, absolutely, and that’s the time we say is the nirvana. So it’s important, specially for the people of the West, now open your hearts, because it starts from the heart, not from your brain. Do not judge people on vibrations. Judge yourself, all the time. I had told that Shiva Puja means more explanation, more understanding, more this thing; because in other pujas we do all these mantras, this, that, but in this puja is to know the knowledge, it’s God. And to know that you know God itself is so great. Whatever it is – She may be Mahamaya, She may be anything, but I know Her. It cannot be described in one book, it cannot be described in hundred books. It cannot be described in words, but to know that’s God – after all, that’s God, God Almighty. And that gives you that beautiful surrender, where you just feel absolutely secured in that ocean of love. I wish you all to achieve that state. May God bless you.
