Brother - Sister Relationship in Sahaja Yoga

... Today in India we celebrate a special festival it is

called as Raksha Bandhan. Raksha means protection,
and Bandhan means the bondage the bondage of
protection.
It is a very nice good social custom to have this
beautiful festival today.
Today is the full moon day, and this day what we do
is to tie a band of thread around the person, whom
you want to protect. It is done between brothers and
sisters. The sister ties this bondage to the wrist of the
brother, and when we do that, they are putting all
their love around the wrist. That it is the day for
giving all their love, everything to their brother, as a
protection, as a symbol of protection through that
thread.
It is very, very simple thread they use and this has to
be tied in the left hand side, but people tie it on the
right hand side which is a mistake but it has to be
tied on the left hand. In our Sahaja Yoga the
significance of the left wrist is that it is the Left
Vishuddhi.
Left Vishuddhi is here (Shri Mataji showing left side)
this the Left Vishuddhi expresses here (Shri Mataji is
showing the left wrist). This is the left wrist you know
that very well. Now left Vishuddhi is the place where
our relationship of brothers and sisters exists. When
they are disturbed within us we start getting the
problem of the left Vishuddhi....
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Raksha Bandhan, London, 1980
...And the saddest part is that in all the Western
countries Vishnumaya is sick, absolutely sick. I mean,
I have lost My hearing even, up to that point it has
come, on the left-hand side, because the sense of
chastity is completely lacking. We have to forget
about the people now who have no sense at all, but

now we are Sahaja yogis. So coming to the right point,

we have to say that, that many people have still some
lingering funny ideas, like "I have a good friendship
with that gentleman" or "I'm very friendly with such
and such gentleman" and all that. It's not a maryada
then. You cannot have friendship with - between men
and women, you cannot, it's absolutely absurd. In the
West the whole culture is funny; because if you go to
a dinner party you are supposed to sit with
somebody's husband on both the sides - horrible! But
in the East it's not done, because the Vishnumaya is
against these things. She will see to it that husband
and wife sit together....
...Now you might say that not to steal anybody else's
thing is also not proper, because it belongs to
somebody else. But who will tell you? Who is the one
that is going to tell you that this is wrong? Of course,
there is police, but who has told? The lawmakers.
Which part of the unconscious has played is the
Vishnumaya; because as soon as you steal something
you feel guilty. In the law also this word "guilty" is
used. And guilty comes from the left side, is
Vishnumaya....
...To add to the trouble, they smoke, they take all
kinds of things. In India they take what you call
tamakhu, is a kind of a - what leaves are these? tobacco leaves, and they think they have done no
wrong. But left Vishuddhi catches. Left Vishuddhi, in
a way, is the gateway to all kinds of problems for
yourself, so be careful not to feel guilty about
anything....
...A person who has right Vishuddhi will be arrogant,
but left Vishuddhi people have a very sly method of
giving answers back and explanation for everything.
Whatever You say, they will say, "No, Mother, this is
this, this is this." This is one thing. Not only, it doesn't
end there, it gives you sarcasm. That's why in the
West people never talk straightforward, it's always
sarcastic. To talk straightforward means they think
it's stupid, is unintelligent, if unless and until you talk
in a very sarcastic manner which sometimes, you
know, it's difficult to reach. That's how in a very

crooked way they talk. And that crookery comes

through this left Vishuddhi problem. If your left
Vishuddhi is so bad, you cannot achieve anything that
is sweet, that is beautiful, that's appreciative....
...Now this a very hidden power of Shri Ganesha.
What you call is the power of Ganesha is left
Vishuddhi acting like chastity. Ganesha's power are
all expressed through left Vishuddhi. So those who
believe in Ganesha, in pure innocence, must know
that in your everyday-to-day behavior, in everydayto-day action, there should be chastity. Ganesha is
expressed as flowers of chastity. And just see, in the
divine law if there's no chastity, how do you delimit
people, how do you make all right, how do you
cleanse them, how do you make them evolve?
Supposing a tree is growing and there's no limit in it,
it just grows like a wild thing, it has no limits, then
what will you get out of it? Nothing. So to make a
person higher and higher, you have to limit it....
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Shri Vishnumaya Puja, Wimbeldon, 01-09-1985

...In every person, whether you are born in America

or anywhere, that if the brother is doing the wrong
thing, if he is smoking, if he is doing wrong things,
more than the mother, the sister feels it, more than
the mother, the sister wants that it should be
corrected, and she goes all out, to fight it out....
...But supposing a sister does something wrong,
supposing a sister goes out of the family, she tries to
give up her family for somebody else, or she tries to
dominate her husband or to do something wrong in
the family, then the brother will go and tell her off,
what he thinks of her, and will try to correct her....
...In a society, where this relationship is very pure and
where societies are quite settled down, the question
doesn't arise, mostly, that the sisters do wrong. But
supposing a sister does something wrong, supposing
a sister goes out of the family, she tries to give up her
family for somebody else, or she tries to dominate
her husband or to do something wrong in the family,
then the brother will go and tell her off, what he
thinks of her, and will try to correct her.
So this right to correct between brother and sister
does exist, not because it is some sort of an outward
thing but innately from within ourselves. This is the
Ganesha Principle which acts, on Vishuddhi Chakra
where, whatever communications we have, we have a
sister's relationship and a mother's relationship.

Krishna also had a Foster Mother, as you know, and

the relationship with Him was exactly like Her Own
Son. So, if you call somebody as a mother, it has to be
absolutely pure relationships. So there are three
types of relationships with a woman, is one, is that of
a mother, another of a sister or a daughter, and
another is of a wife....
...Daughter cannot correct the father. Daughter has no
right to correct the father and she will not correct the
father. On the contrary, even if he does wrong, she'll
support him. She'll stand by him. Always. She will
even go against the mother to support father. It's
nature. It's natural. But the son will correct the father,
if he is doing something against the mother. It's a
natural thing. It's a male force supporting the
female's force or the female force correcting the male
force in such a manner that the society is kept clean
and there is proper growth.
Only among barbaric people, according to Shastras,
only the Rakshasas indulge into such impure
relationships all the time. Because there is no purity
in the society, it crawls up into our mind and
mentally we accept these things as norms. Otherwise,
there is no need to look at every woman with lust and
greed, at every man with some lust....

...this principle of Ganesha is ruined on your

Vishuddhi Chakra. It's very, very difficult in Sahaja
Yoga to keep such people going on....
... there should not be a particular interest in one
person. If somebody gets a particular interest in one
person, then it is wrong. But in general, we should be
free as brothers and sisters. I mean, we should be
very free. The suspicion should not come in, at that
time. Suspicion can only come in when one person is
interested only in one person and that is the time we
have to correct. Very important. Because, it's all right,
supposing somebody is a leader, you are looking after
the leader, is all right. If somebody is your Rakhi
Brother, is all right, you are looking after Rakhi
Brother. But if you go beyond a certain limit, then you
better correct yourself, it's wrong. And then if you
really want to deceive yourself and say, ' No, no, no,
nothing's wrong,' then know that this is not the way....
...So apart from ego and superego, the worst thing
that has happened to these modern societies is that,
that they have lost their innate understanding of
purity. That innate understanding in Sahaja Yoga now
you have got it. So try to develop it and flower it, so
the fragrance of that innocence will make each other
very happy and such a kind of a security. One feels so

secure. And that's why it is a Raksha Bandhan, that

the protection of a brother and a protection of a
sister. All the time you know, my brother is there,
after all, my sister is there. A kind of a very pure,
beautiful feeling, that I have somebody to protect me.
And this beautiful feeling, if it's nurtured, looked
after, in a wider way in Sahaja Yoga, then you feel
absolutely, absolutely secure....
... But in Sahaja Yoga we marry for our ascent. And we
have to respect our marriages and to respect our
chastities with our brothers and sisters. Those people
who try, to somehow or other ruin the purity of
collectivity, I assure you, will be in very great trouble,
henceforth. I think every sort of divine punishment
comes after every period. And now, I've started
feeling with My experience that any such absurd

manifestation of impurity, I need not say anything

about it. There is a divine punishment and of a very
horrible nature. Now I've got three to four]
experiences and I think it has already started. It's
nice, there is today is a day when I can talk to you
about it. I can't help it. I think periodically some new
ideas of punishments have been started by this divine
power. And for people who behave like this, I have
seen there are terrible things. So, please do your soulsearching. Find out if there are any impure feelings,
try to throw them away. And know that you are not
possessed by such funny ideas....
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Raksha Bandhan Puja, Los Angeles, 07-08-1990

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