“You have seen how a flower shakes off all that is not needed, blooms out, pierces its head outwards, opens out just to give fragrance to others. If you want to give fragrance to others, how far is there fragrance within you? Is there fragrance within you that you are going to give fragrance to others?” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @kamalotus

“Then you have joy. Joy is something I cannot express in words but still joy, as I have told you many a times, it is singular. It is not happiness or unhappiness, it is just joy. Just you enjoy. You enjoy everything, enjoy every company, every incident, every scene, every happening in your life. You know how to enjoy everything. You see, just joy has a great capacity.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @angelinamaste

“Aesthetics are born in a person who is a realised soul. He starts seeing aesthetics in everything. The beauty of talking improves. The movements of the hands improve and your style also improves. You become a beautiful person. Aesthetics come in. You can become suddenly a great poet…You can also be a great painter if you are already a painter. You get new ideas about painting, new aesthetics.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, artwork by Etienne Loyson (http://art-and-spirituality.be)

“So if somebody is proved to be innocent, your innocence protects you. I have seen many a times in My life, because I’m so simple, I should say, that I had no problem, never, of anything. This is a kind of a very powerful vibrations that come from an innocent person, like from small children. Small children, if you see their vibrations, hundreds grown up Sahaja yogi’s may not have the vibrations of a little one, I can tell you this much.” Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @e_chizhova

“Of course, marriage I call it an auspicious thing, marriage should be there, there should be a collective sanction, everything, but for what? To adore the chastity within us.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, photo @sy_way

“So as a Mother to be a Guru is a very difficult thing. At the same time, for you to achieve heights is also difficult. Because you get lost when I love you so much and in that love you forget sometimes, that the progress in your being is very slow. It is important that in Sahaja Yoga you have to be strict with yourself. That’s why I said that you have to be your own guru, which people do not understand what it means. You have to be your own guru means you have to guide yourself; you have to treat yourself as your disciple and you have to trim yourself.” © Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi