1983 0121 Train your chakras and body (D8)

Excerpt of a talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Original talk: Excerpt highlighted by the US 21 meditation days (Day8). ST: Anaïc Lelouet. _____________________________________________ But first of all, people do not understand that you have to work it through your heart and not through your brain. When we have to work out things through our brain, we try to develop our brain, isn’t it? By memorizing, by practising something, teaching our brain how to think, how to go this way that way. We try to train our brain. Now, we have to train our heart in Sahaja Yoga. And to train our heart in Sahaja Yoga, one has to know, first of all, that it is enveloped either by ego or by superego. The limbic area actually represents the heart. And if there is ego, heart will always be so-called, it will not be the real heart that will be working, but it’s only mental, mental projection. And you will feel that, “I’m doing it from my heart.” But it’s not true. Now then, supposing, what should we do if we have ego? You might say, you should try to sort of tell yourself that, “That’s not good and this and that and all kinds of mental suggestions“ or autosuggestions or this – the way psychiatrists know that give you suggestions. That’s again mental. So, that’s not the way it is going to work out. We must understand that for that what we have to do is to raise the left side and put it to the right side. There’s no other way out. You have to just work it out with your hands, your hands are working it out and not your brain. So use your hands and the methods of Sahaja Yoga. Now, everyone must have a regular sitting in the water every day, that’s important. Every morning you must do your meditation. You have to know that Sahaja Yoga is to be worked out, it‘s not to be thought out. You just cannot think about it. Whatever you may try to do through your thought, you cannot achieve any results in Sahaja Yoga. You have to use your hands, you have to use your feet, you have to soak your feet in the water because water is the ocean. All these five chakras – or, say, six chakras which are — I say five because the… one is the Mooladhara Chakra, which is the seven and the topmost is the brain. So, in between five chakras which are there — are to be handled fully with the idea that they are basically made of matter. And these five elements constitute the body of these chakras. Now, these chakras, if they are to be corrected, we have to correct them by taking out all the problems of these chakras into the elements from which they’re coming. For example, a person who is a very right-sided person, so, he has to give a balance by the left-side. Of course, raising with the hand is all right. But what about the element? Right-sided person has all the elements which give heat: we can say, the light, we can say, the fire. So, for people who are right-sided, the light is not going to help much. Like, if you put the light before the photograph, and those who are ego-oriented people — if you just use the light, it’s not going to work out. So, what is going to work out is the Mother Earth and the water element, which is cooling. Even ice is very helpful to people who are right-sided. So, all cooling effects should be used for correcting your right-sidedness, so that you cool it down. Same about food. In food, those who are right-sided people should take to foods which are left-sided, that is carbohydrates, means they should become partly vegetarians, or quite a lot of vegetarians. And should eat things at the most like chicken, but not fishes, not seafoods because they are all hot. That’s how you treat your material side of your chakras. Now, the left-sided people should use, again, the “deepam“ is the light or the fire to correct their left-side. Also, in food such people should take more to nitrogenous, means protein and foods like that. They should take more proteins. Now, as far as Sahaja Yoga is concerned, the basic thing is Kundalini. And the Kundalini, as I have told you, is the pure desire. Again, listen to it carefully: pure desire. That means all other desires are impure. There’s only one pure desire. And that is to be one with the Divine, one with the Brahma, one with God — that’s the only pure desire. All other desires are impure.