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Shri Mataji als Virata
CREATION, ETERNAL PLAY OF THE DIVINE
"Creation is the eternal play of the Divine (Parabrahma, the Totality). Parabrahma has two cosmic states: to be awake or asleep. When Parabrahma is in the awakened state His manifestation into creation takes place; when in the state of sleep, all His activities are dissolved into absolute zero (Shoonya) and the creation ceases to exist. This is a state of no motion and complete entropy. In this state all that is created, matter and non-matter, gets dissolved into one abstract energy which is Parabrahma. It is a state of existence, of just being, but it is like an object devoid of any light to reflect it. All human, inhuman, superhuman and non-human elements dissolve into Parabrahrama when He stops the drama of creation being played uniquely for His enjoyment and amusement. In this way the cycle turns from the state of non-being of Parabrahma to His full manifestation as the creation itself." (p. 1)

"He [Parabrahma, Parameshwara] is the sustainer of the play because He is the only spectator. Actually the whole spectacle is played out just to please Him and to express Him. It is for His amusement only, so the moment He ceases to enjoy it, the play will be stopped by Him. He has the power to switch off His own projection." (p. 3)

"Without the creation, which is His reflection, God has no meaning or identity. The human mind is the only instrument created by the Divine Power capable of reflecting Him. Through His creation of human beings His identity is reflected and expressed in human awareness, and in that way God becomes aware of Himself. (...) The limitations of human expression can only describe Him in part and in His different aspects." (p. 5)
Shri Mataji: The Book of Adi Shakti, New Jersey, USA, Nirmala Vidya LLC,
2013

The human being is created as an image – "a reflection" – of God Almighty and he has to play the play that was designed for him: in full freedom of love and with his limitations. But he will be at the same time actor, observer and director (producer, régisseur) of his own play/life.

"Shri Krishna's one side was that He was that He was like a child and He wanted to create an atmosphere of mirth, of joy, because at the time of Shri Rama, after Him, the religion was taken very seriously and people started doing very serious type of religion. The same incarnation again reappeared - Shri Krishna - and Shri Krishna wanted to show that spirituality is not serious. It's leela. It's a game that you have to play and in His lifetime He showed. People don't understand Him at all, because from Shri Rama's concept they cannot condescend to come down to the - sometimes - to the level of Shri Krishna, which was, I think, was much higher because He had to show that all this, all this world is just a joke, is maya and, beyond that, is Joy."
Krishna Puja, Yamuna Nagar, India, 11.12.1993

"Now how Shri Krishna's advent changed it - when Shri Krishna came on this Earth, He said this is all a leela, it is just a play. Because you are involved into it, you cannot see the play. But if you ascend, if you are in the water, you are afraid of the water, but if you get into the boat, you can see the water and if you know how to swim, you can even save the people who are in the water. So He says that if you develop a witness state, [???], if you develop that state, then you see the whole thing as a drama, nothing affects you, nothing matters, you don't worry about anything. You see the problem [???] you are and you see the problem and because you're out of it, you can solve the problem."
Krishna Puja, Cabella, Italy, 16.08.1992



OUR LIMITED PLAY

Man is not only an actor – he has to play the drama of life – but also an observer, a witness of his own play ... ánd also the director that stages his own life through the law of action and reaction – of karma – through his different/many lives.



Shri Mataji about DEATH and KARMA:
"Yogi: The essence of this question, I think ,is: Shri Mother, at the separation at the time of death, at the separation of the spirit and the body, what happens? What happens to the spirit?

Shri Mataji: Again, you all seem to be quite infatuated by death I think.
You see when you are a realized soul, then what happens, you see that it is just another dress that you have to change. You never worry about death. Never, and those who have written about death, Kabir, has written beautifully. He says that, when my beloved left me, means my life, I didn't cry, I didn't say anything, I didn't fuss. I just asked my friend; I was nicely covered myself with a little sheet and I was lying down and just seeing my beloved left me. He said that all the doors were closed, but, I don't know, some window was opened, must be the Sahasrara was opened, because he was a realized soul, so the life went through that.

So you see the thing is, this problem is always haunt you when you are not a realized soul. Be so much worried about death, but after that you will know that death is just a change of life; it's just a change of life. Then whenever you want to take your birth, you can take if you are a realized soul, but if you are not, I have told you, you may possess someone, or you may hang in the limbo, I don't know whenever. Some people take birth just after thirteen fourteen days, again into another nonsensical place.

Whatever you'll earn now will show at the time of your death, but if you are not earn any good deeds, you call it punyas, then it will show at the time of your death whether you go to hell or to heaven. It is your choice, is your freedom. What do you what? You want to go to hell or to heaven is your own choice and your own discretion. That's very important."
Public Program, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1992


"Interviewer: Mother, what is the true nature of death? Is it possible that you can choose not to die? What's the purpose of death?

Shri Mataji: See, death is just like changing your clothes. So sometimes when you use too much of your clothes you get tired. You want to change it. Like that death is. Nobody dies, there's nothing that dies except that the part that is the Mother Earth and the part that is the water falls off, and you remain as you are. But if you are a realized soul, then you have a choice. If you want to be born again, you would like to be born. If you don't want to be born, you will not be born. But after Realization, it becomes your choice. If you want to die, you can die. If you don't want to die, you need not die. But you want because you think that:"Let us die and come back as new people again to help Mother."

KAZU Radio Interview with Barbara Schuler, Santa Cruz, California, USA, 1983


"Death does not exist in the divine language. Those who are dead can be reborn. But death sometimes could be used for punishing people, for destroying them, for taking them away from the scene. That's what the Mother Earth does sometimes. Her anger can be so great that pin-pointedly She can destroy thousands and thousands of miles of earth, destroying many people who have been extremely irreligious and un-collective."

Shri Bhoomi Devi Puja, Shudy Camps, UK, 1986 (0803)

"Q (Lady): Why do we human beings have fear of death?

Shri Mataji: Because you are in ignorance. Suddenly the lights go off, you will be frightened, you are ignorant. There's nothing like death. It's just transformation from one life to another. After this you are not afraid of anything. Nothing. And you are all the time protected. You can feel it. You are protected. Actually you feel it. It is absolutely miraculous the way things happen and people have written to me – how they were protected, how they were saved, they could not believe it, because all the angels are with you. But, if I tell you this, you won't believe in these modern things of science, but now many things are also discovered in science like quantum theory. You can't explain it."

Public Program, United Nations Meeting, New York, 1993


"Q: What do you believe happens after death?

Shri Mataji: You see, after death you would never die. Actually only there are five elements you are made of, out of which the earth element really falls off and the other four elements remain. And the water oozes out a little, little like that, and you become a small entity, which is the Soul. The Soul has got the Kundalini on top of the head and the Spirit on top of the head and all the four elements are there intact."

Australian Radio Broadcast 1, Sydney, Australia, 1981


"The collective subconscious receives a normal personality who has just accepted death as a transition. Actually, when we die we really do not die, only part of us, the earth element drops down. And part of the water element also. But the rest of the elements that form this body, the different koshas, like the Kundalina (?) that goes out and the Atma that rises, all that put together as soul you can call it, all that goes into the collective subconscious and starts going smaller and smaller. Into the area of that collective subconscious, where it is to be placed for getting smaller and smaller."

Normal Human Awareness, 1977



"Question: She would like to know if death is a result of our errors or a law of nature.

Shri Mataji: No, no, it is - anything that is born has to die. We just change our dress as we do every day. That's how we change this body."

Press Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 1990

CREATION
Creation takes place
when the Formless One
starts revealing Itself
in uncountable forms.
Creation takes place
when the Speechless One
provides each of these forms
with sonorous figures,
heard or unheard,
of the one and only
Primordial Sound:
aum ... aum ... aum ...
Creation takes place
when Chaitanya pervades
our Subtle Body and
brings order into the chaos
of past and future, pushes
us into the glorious Present
and transforms it into a temple
of everlasting, divine Joy.
Ridavindra

And the reverse side:
"Pralaya" is nowadays accepted by cosmologists. In the "Physical Review Letters" they postulate not only a "Big Bang" - the cosmic explosion that marked the genesis of the universe - but also a "Big Crunch", by which the universe turns into nothing (a dot ?), ànd a "Big Bounce", by which it begins a new life.
This expanding, shrinking and originating again could in this theory go on forever. In other words: creation would never stop.
That is what Shri Mataji calls the ETERNAL PLAY: creation will go on forever in the form of a staged play.

Our question will be: What do we do with Her creation ?

GdK: "In Kali Yuga (Sanskrit: "Dark Age"), people who are ethically rotten can be extremely good looking. In Satya Yuga the physical beauty will reflect the inner beauty (as it happens already in all of us after Pujas or in the realized children). As a corollary to this trend, perverted or negative people will look ugly. And this will be a sorry day for the devil: if Mephistopheles cannot look sexy, who will he still entice? With two horns coming out of his head, he might no longer be the prince of seducers. Faust will relax and Gretchen will sing a bhajan. When evil will be shown for what it is, it will be finished because it is intrinsically ugly. The crux of abolishing Kali Yuga is to restore aesthetics and beauty to dharma. Replacing flawed attractions and addictions by divine magnetism. This is what aesthetics is: an aspect of divine magnetism and it was always so, as we can see in the great masterpieces of the world's cultures."
Grégoire de Kalbermatten : Interview by "Hermes" 2001

Conclusion
If we do not stage our own egoistic or emotional play, but the play that was 'staged' at the creation by the Divine Creative Power, we might be able to live in peace with ourselves, with other people, with the world as it is, because we will understand that all what is happening in this Kali Yuga is part of the PLAY and will inevitably lead humanity to its Source. This will enable us not to create problems, but empower us with faith (Shraddha), trust, joy and bliss.
Nevertheless, we'll have to understand that the difficulties we still encounter, are created by ourselves since we are responsible for the development of our own KARMA. That means that we have prepared thίs life – with all the difficulties that might occur – through all our former lives and that WE are responsible for what is going on. Not fate, not some higher or lower force.
We will/shall have to accept what we "created" ourselves and we'll have to accept it with full surrendering capacity. Only "detachment" can bring us the smile of equanimity to support our own legacy...













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