SHRI MATAJI
AND THE ELEPHANTS
a story about attention
Hamsa Puja 1992
There is joy before Realization and after Realization, but before Realization there is no capacity to enjoy.
That capacity of joy comes to you after Realization and the
main thing that happens to you is the discretion. Then, like
the swan, you just take the milk of everything. Your attitude
towards everything becomes very different. You start seeing
things from a different angle.
Once we had to go to a very ancient temple to see some
art. I, My son-in-law and My daughter were walking about.
We had to walk for miles up the hill and then, when we were
very tired, we went into a temple and just lay down. They
were so tired.
At that time I said, “See these elephants here, how beautiful they are. Every one has a different type of a tail and a different type of a trunk. All the poses are different. So many of
them are like that.”
My son-in-law said, “We are so tired. How can we look at
these things?”
Because My attention didn’t go to My tiredness, but to
those beautiful things, same thing – you start sucking in the
milk. There is joy, but you cannot feel the joy because the
power – that subtle power of divine discretion – is not there.
Once that comes in, you start enjoying everything.
Things are just the same. Life is just the same. Nothing
has changed. Same house, same family, same city, same environment, but you start enjoying because the sensitivity of
your Hamsa chakra is now only for divine discretion and you
immediately know and then you don’t want to do anything
with the thorns. You only want to gather flowers and you
know how to gather flowers and you are in joy.
THE DIVINE COOL BREEZE
May
and
June 2007 • Volume 20 • Issue
number
3
Photograph Captions, Credits and other Notes
Front cover: Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Contents pages photograph: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Contents pages name: the 385th name of the Goddess from the Sri Lalita Sahasranama Contents page quote:
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 26 October 1985 Page 2: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Page 3: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Sahasrara Puja 2007 Page 6: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, S