110+ Nirmala Srivastava Quotes On Education, Marriage And Happiness

Nirmala Srivastava, also known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded the Sahaja Yoga meditation technique. She taught that the experience of Self-Realization was the birthright of every human being and could be achieved through a simple meditation practice. She traveled extensively throughout the world, giving public and private talks and workshops, and established Sahaja Yoga centers in many countries. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Nirmala Srivastava on life, education, love.

Top 10 Nirmala Srivastava Quotes

1. Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.
2. You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.
3. Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.
4. "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.
5. To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.
6. One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.
7. Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.
8. Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.
9. To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.
10. There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

Nirmala Srivastava Short Quotes

• You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
• I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
• A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.
• If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.
• Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.
• Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.
• The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
• By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
• Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
• The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

Nirmala Srivastava Quotes About Life

The enjoyment of life is only possible if the world could get connected to the spirit... you become the spirit as Christ has said in simple words that you have to be born again. — Nirmala Srivastava

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come. — Nirmala Srivastava

You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking? — Nirmala Srivastava

When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that's why the nature has gone into imbalance. — Nirmala Srivastava

The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. — Nirmala Srivastava

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that. — Nirmala Srivastava

Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine. — Nirmala Srivastava

Wisdom plays such a part in life that whatever may happen outside, whatever may be the trend, whatever may be the fashion, whatever may be the people are all changing into, you do not change. You change within. — Nirmala Srivastava

So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself. — Nirmala Srivastava

Nirmala Srivastava Quotes About Love

The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside. — Nirmala Srivastava

Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong. — Nirmala Srivastava

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love. — Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place. — Nirmala Srivastava

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work. — Nirmala Srivastava

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself. — Nirmala Srivastava

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. — Nirmala Srivastava

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

Nirmala Srivastava Quotes About Happiness

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular. — Nirmala Srivastava

When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something. — Nirmala Srivastava

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. — Nirmala Srivastava

Nirmala Srivastava Famous Quotes And Sayings

You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble. — Nirmala Srivastava

To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life. — Nirmala Srivastava

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith. — Nirmala Srivastava

Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level. — Nirmala Srivastava

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. — Nirmala Srivastava

In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social. — Nirmala Srivastava

So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve. — Nirmala Srivastava

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us. — Nirmala Srivastava

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws. — Nirmala Srivastava

Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act. — Nirmala Srivastava

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one. — Nirmala Srivastava

Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. — Nirmala Srivastava

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body. — Nirmala Srivastava

Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being. — Nirmala Srivastava

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava

We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result of our children, parents and families, getting influenced by the chaotic conditions of modern times. — Nirmala Srivastava

Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful. — Nirmala Srivastava

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist. — Nirmala Srivastava

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness. — Nirmala Srivastava

After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths. — Nirmala Srivastava

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft. — Nirmala Srivastava

God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place. — Nirmala Srivastava

People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves. — Nirmala Srivastava

Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart. — Nirmala Srivastava

Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge. — Nirmala Srivastava

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith. — Nirmala Srivastava

If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person. — Nirmala Srivastava

Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things. — Nirmala Srivastava

Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God. — Nirmala Srivastava

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system. — Nirmala Srivastava

Your spirit is to be connected with your attention. Your spirit which is in your heart has to come in your attention. So who does the connection is this power which we call in Sanskrit language as Kundalini. — Nirmala Srivastava

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity. — Nirmala Srivastava

You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness. — Nirmala Srivastava

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. — Nirmala Srivastava

An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself. — Nirmala Srivastava

When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself. — Nirmala Srivastava

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love. — Nirmala Srivastava

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening. — Nirmala Srivastava

Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love. — Nirmala Srivastava

Vibrations are nothing but Divine Love. — Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything because blindness will never give you reality. But you should be open like scientists are and whatever hypothesis I am putting before you, you have to feel it on your central nervous system. — Nirmala Srivastava

Your attention has to be on your Spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good. — Nirmala Srivastava

Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality. — Nirmala Srivastava

The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent. — Nirmala Srivastava

Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality. — Nirmala Srivastava

As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you. — Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. — Nirmala Srivastava

Absolute knowledge is only possible when you know the Absolute Truth and to have the Absolute Truth you have to go to the Absolute Being within you which is your Spirit. So, it gives you the truth, it gives you the collective consciousness. The main thing is that you become extremely peaceful personality, you become peace, you emit peace. — Nirmala Srivastava

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else. — Nirmala Srivastava

Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love, love, love. How much you love others is the main point. — Nirmala Srivastava

One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out. — Nirmala Srivastava

When the Kundalini crosses the Agnya, you become thoughtlessly aware. Thoughtlessly aware means, you are aware but there is no thought. You become silent. When it crosses the brahmarandra then the vibrations start flowing through you, and you get cool vibrations. — Nirmala Srivastava

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system. — Nirmala Srivastava

Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower. — Nirmala Srivastava

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine. — Nirmala Srivastava

What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth. — Nirmala Srivastava

This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization. — Nirmala Srivastava

Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise. — Nirmala Srivastava

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. — Nirmala Srivastava

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings. — Nirmala Srivastava

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never. — Nirmala Srivastava

A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right. — Nirmala Srivastava

Life Lessons by Nirmala Srivastava

1. Nirmala Srivastava taught that we should strive to become more conscious of our inner being and the divine within us.
2. She believed that we should strive to live in harmony with the world around us and to be open to the guidance of the divine.
3. She encouraged us to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, and to always strive to be the best versions of ourselves.