1983 0526 3 Mantras to be said every day

“Buddham Sharanam Gachhami, Dhammam Sharanam Gachhami, Sangham Sharan am Gachhami, ”
Excerpt from a talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Place and Date: Brighton (UK), 1983 May 26th
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So it’s, I mean, in the name of God ridiculous things were done, ridiculous things were done! So He just thought: Better not talk about God. The first step is Self-Realization. He was a great Sahaja Yogi I must say. Because He said nothing doing, don’t talk about God or anything, first you get your Realization. That was the first condition, establish it. Unless and until you have established your Realization, - nothing doing.
So He just started His own method of propagating Buddhi Buddha’s knowledge or you can Buddhism you can say as they call it. Of course it became ‘ism’ later on.
So all that He started with the idea that people should first become Buddha. Buddha means realized, Buddha is ‘to know’. So “Buddha” means the person who has known, means the one who is a Realized soul. So what He says, “Buddham Sharanam Gachhami”, I bow, no I surrender - ‘sharanam’ means surrender, I surrender to the Buddhas - means to all the Sahaja Yogis. You are all Buddhas because you know. When you know, you are the Buddha.
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We would put it in a Sahaja Yoga way like this: First of all: “Dhammam Sharanam Gachhami”, “I surrender myself to my virtues”. All desires can be surrendered to a virtue.
“Is it virtuous to do like this?” You can, if you are brought up that way you’ll just not do it. You’ll have no desires to do something, that is not virtuous and righteous. You will just not do it. So, “Dhammam Sharanam Gachhami”.
Then you should say: “Buddham Sharanam Gachhami”, means: “I surrender myself to my enlightenment”. This is the second state, when you are ascended.
Surrender myself to enlightenment, enlightenment that I’ve got, to my Spirit. It’s the Spirit who is going to guide you. No more my physical, mental, emotional nonsensical temptations, but what? Is the Spirit.
And thirdly: “Sangham Sharanam Gachhami”, to the collectivity, to the whole, to the Virat. This is the way we have to work it out.
So ultimately He reached the same point, that: “let me start it from myself”. It’s from myself to others, not from others to myself. It’s like treating the tree from outside, not from the roots.
But Sahaja Yoga treats you from the roots. First you get your Realization, alright, then you learn how to surrender yourself to your Dharma. Then you become collectively conscious. Collectivity is a temperament, is a sense of enjoyment that you get in the collective living. Unless and until you have that you have not achieved your joy.
So Buddha has played a very great role in our lives and He is a very great powerful force within us.
I’m very happy that Buddha Jayanti has fallen here in England, because as we say the England is the Heart of the universe - it doesn’t matter if I say here, is any Arab here? I don’t want to displease any Arab people sitting here. Alright. And if it is the heart whatever you do here will circulate in the whole universe.
So if you can conquer your ego here, you can even conquer the ego of Mister Reagan and these Russians. You can manage that. But first start it here. It has to reverse back you see, now they have to learn from you and you don’t learn from them. When it will work out you’ll be amazed.
Ego is the only problem I always face reaching their hearts. If ego is removed everything will be alright. So for us the great mantra is “Buddham Sharanam Gachhami”. These three mantras you must say everyday I think, to get rid of this horrible ego.