We Have To Become The Self

“It has been said, practically in all the scriptures, that you have to seek your Self; you have to find your Self.

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And now, at this stage we are free to do what we like. Many people ask Me, “What was the need to give this freedom to human beings?”

It was very necessary. If you have to have the ultimate freedom you must know how to deal with it. You have to understand.
Of course, human beings have to make mistakes: to err is human. And we have to understand that this trial and error and trial and error business, has made us understand. Also, those who have not understood must understand, that there must be a wiser or surer way to achieve that goal of Self-realization, of Self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge, we do not have; we must admit it very humbly. We have had no system by which we could know ourselves.
But think of a computer that is a human being. As soon as you see me, you know I am there. You don’t have to go for programming, you don’t have to consult anything, you don’t have to use any kind of computer or some sort of a complicated machinery. Automatically, spontaneously, in a split of a second, you know that I’m standing before you and talking to you. Such a computer, we cannot create.

But the Divine has created such a great computer and that is the human being. And this human being is the only one who is going to achieve that higher state, which we call as the spiritual state of the Self.”

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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