“The person who is a realized soul will give you joy. The joy starts coming on your head all the time like that, pouring down in your being, making you absolutely calm and beautiful. But the ego locks off your heart. It does not allow you to laugh and to enjoy. It makes you serious. But this is all the play, the leela of God, to be enjoyed in its complete purity.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

“Now, why we are suffering in this beautiful planet, because we do not respect what we have to respect the most. Mother Earth is to be respected, meaning what? Meaning that whatever is created on this earth, by the movement of the earth, by the sea, by all the elements, has to be respected.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way

“The state of being one with the reality, means that the whole of reality is at your feet, the whole of it works for you. Now once you even get a glimpse of that state, I tell you, you become so much peaceful within yourself.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @anastasiia_siberian

“You are part of the Whole. You’re all joined together. You all have to work in such a way that you feel that unity within yourself. This is what one does not realise that we cannot be on our own.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @minutkaite

“Sahaja Yoga means, Sahaj means spontaneous, Yoga means union with the Divine. That first thing should happen.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo unknown

“Tension comes because you have imbalances but when you are balanced and when you are connected to the mains and all the time the energy is flowing into you there is no question of tensions. We have no tensions and you are in a joyous condition because you become Self-Realized means you become the truth that is that you are the Spirit. You become the Spirit. And when you become the Spirit, the Spirit as it is said, it’s a fact that is the source, first of all of knowledge.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way, artwork by Etienne Loyson