“Now we must know what is joy is: as it is described in all the scriptures of the world, joy is a state of mind which does not have duality. Like day and night, like happiness and sorrow – it does not have that. It’s a state in which you feel you are beyond all the waves of thought, all the waves of identification, and you start enjoying yourself. This joy that we talk of doesn’t come from matter, nor does it come from your mind; it comes from the Spirit, which is in your heart.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @shantikumai

“Detachment gives you the movement of your love, circulation of it.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @avyayaya

“Fragrance, fragrance is the causal essence of Mother Earth. And fragrance has the capacity of magnetism. And that’s why the Mother Earth has got the magnet.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way

“The whole rhythm of everything he (Shiva) gives; the rhythm of life that we have, we are not aware of it. See a child is born exactly after nine months and so-many days – who keeps this rhythm? Then we get, say, certain flowers at such-and-such time, then we get in the nature all kinds of seasons. Who keeps the rhythm? He is the one who is nothing but rhythm! And that rhythm is kept up, in the nature, in everything there is a rhythm. And a rhythmic person is the one who has a very large heart.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, artwork by Vira Punya

“The Spirit is the only eternal thing within us, all the rest are transitory and evolutionary. Everything goes into evolution and the better is the evolution, the higher the Spirit starts manifesting itself.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

“So you have to be like a sea to receive everything and you have to be at the height. As I told you the other day, the same way, that very close to the sea there should be a personality which is above everything else. Such a beautiful personality you should have, is the depth of the sea and the height of the Kailasha.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way