“Then you start enjoying each other’s company so much that even in the house you enjoy, outside also enjoy. So you can be together inside the house, also outside. The interests are the same, because the interest becomes the same. Like the flowers who fall on the Mother Earth make the Mother Earth fragrant and then we can say that Mother Earth is fragrant. As beautiful as that.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way

“So first of all you have to cleanse yourself and accept your own problems, your own misgivings. These are to be faced. And challenge yourself. What are you doing? You are a Sahaja Yogi, how can you hate someone? How can you trouble someone? How can you torture someone? This is the beginning of introspection, and it’s very important.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sandra_sunnyday

“It’s a very subtle thing which we should understand when we make friendship with others, what do we enjoy in the friendship, what do we see in that friendship, as realised soul, how your friendship should be. The friendship should be pure — nirvaj. That is, you are friendly with somebody because just you enjoy the pure friendship, where there’s no sense of possession or also the sense of destruction. Such a friendship is a Sahaj friendship.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @banafsheh_dinerzi

“…if you want to ask anything from God then you must ask for the Supreme and what is the Supreme? The Supreme is to know Him. Unless and until you know your Self, you are not going to know Him. He has placed within you that instrument by which you first know your Self. Once you know your Self, through your Self you know Him.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @madhavahuet

“So you have Adi Shakti with you, whose power is all this Divine. So you are at such an advantageous position. But first you must realize.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, artwork by Aida Furnica

“Now if you try to develop a state of witness, then you are in meditation – just a state of witness. Whatever you see, just watch it. Just watching is the best way, and then you’ll be surprised that you will find that you are in another world, and these people are only in another world.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @priyadg