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“You have to work hard to cleanse yourself.” Excerpt from a talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi highlighted by Avdhut Pai. Original talk: __________________________ First and foremost is: time must be given for your development. Not to show me or not to show anyone! It is between you and yourself. You have to work hard to cleanse yourself. Easy to live comfortably with all the horrible chakras within us, but it is easier also and the best, most enjoyable is, to have very clean chakras. And it comes [by], first of all, is sincerity. First of all is complete sincerity. Are we sincere to ourselves? Sometimes it is misunderstood. People think if you have to be sincere to ourself we should deny Sahaj Yoga. Sahaj Yog is the union between you and God, and the sincerity must be full, must be complete. Any kind of insincerity which comes into you is extremely detrimental. So you must know that, as your Mother has sincerity about you, you must also have sincerity about yourself. Then you will start enjoying Sahaj Yoga. That is very important to create integration within you because if it is sincerity, it comes from your heart. If it is coming from your heart then your body, your mind, your intelligence, everything will work hard to fulfil it. But if it is not coming from your heart it is going to be a superficial thing. So you try to feel it from your heart. That’s what it means: sincerity. Do not depend on anyone – your wife, husband, children – nothing – mother, father. It’s your own. So you have to work in such a way that you get complete integration and the driving force towards integration is a very simple one: is sincerity. Thus you will know that automatically you are getting integrated. The another factor [which] is important is patience. You must have patience with others, because if you do not have patience your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must have patience and to get patience you must know what you have been so far and where are you. When you will know what you were, you will have patience with others, tremendous patience. And by having patience with others your sincerity will be all the time complete. By your sincerity you will be completely integrated. So we come to the point of sincerity. Now let us go deeper into it: how the sincerity is to be maintained. First of all we have to make some determinations, sankalpas (vows), of being sincere. Then we have to act by finding out how do we get insincere on what points. You are good at analysing [so] you can find it out: how do you get insincere, on what points you get insincere, what are the correcting points. Keep a control on your mind to see how does it become insincere. You’ll be amazed that it’s simple to be sincere than to be insincere. Is the easiest thing is to be sincere than to be deceiving because you don’t have to think. To be sincere you don’t have to think. If you have to be insincere you have to think, plan out and to find out methods, all the loopholes and escapes, by which you have to run away. If you have to be captive of your sincerity you don’t have to worry about anything and that sincerity itself is rewarding. This principle must be written down in your hearts that sincerity itself is rewarding. You don’t have to go to anybody else to ask for the reward of sincerity, sincerity itself rewards you. And that’s why you start enjoying your own sincerity. If you start seeing all these things as a witness, that how your sincerity has made you so beautiful, so dignified and how you have started rising in your self-esteem, you’ll be amazed how sincerity itself is a big force which will manifest its living dynamism in you and you’ll be a transformed person. This transformation within you is going to change the whole world. [...] The more alert you become the more Divine takes interest in you. But this alertness is nothing but the enlightenment of your sincerity. You’ll be amazed how sincerity is the thing. That means you are loyal to yourself. You have to be loyal and not disloyal. The loyalty to yourself is sincerity and that is how I have managed Sahaj Yoga. But sincerity is my nature, I don’t have to strive for it. I cannot get out of it. While, if I am your ideal you should try to imbibe my nature, within yourself. And then you will be amazed how you are connected with me. Then we all move like one wave, one being, one personality. That is the achievement of this Sahastrar Day. Sincerity of purpose brought in action, not theory and philosophy, but in action, active sincerity, in every way, and patience – all these things will bring forth the complete integration within. [...] If you can look at yourself as how privileged you are and understanding it, understanding what all Sahaj Yoga is, then you will understand [...] what reward for what you have done. How many lives have been completely rewarded by being here. [...]
