Nirananda

NIRANANDA IS THE ANANDA (JOY) OF THE DEITIES OF ALL CHAKRAS PUT TOGETHER

Question: “Can you explain Nirananda a little bit, Shri Mataji?” Can you talk about Nirananda?

Shri Mataji: “You see, you can only describe it, you cannot explain. Where there is complete joy, then there is no happiness and unhappiness. You don’t feel happiness or unhappiness; these are the qualities of the ego and superego.

In Sahaja Yoga, as you grow from one to another, there are different types of Anandas.

Like we can say, the spirit, when you see the spirit, you get an Anand, called Swananda. That means you feel your spirit yourself, and you feel very happy. Then you give realization to others, you get Parananda, joy of others. But when you get the enjoyment of well-being, in health and materially all right and everything all right, everything in “Santosha”, in complete satisfaction, then it’s Brahmananda. And like that you start feeling higher and higher joys within yourself. Because your nerves start opening to new dimensions.

So you can say that at the Krishna level, you get Krishnananda, where you get the sweetness, the Madhuria. And when you see your generosity, then you get Shivananda. And when you are with children, you get Ganeshananda. And that can be described, all those can be described, but Niranand cannot be described, because it’s Mahamayas’ joy. All these joys put together is Nirananda. So there is no place for ego and superego at all. The complete Sahasrara is opened out, and nothing but the complete rapport is established with the divine.

And there is a pouring of light all the time in the head and the light going back, that you have seen in my photograph. As if the Sahasrara becomes like a sucking child from the Universal Mother, sucking the joy inside, and it is again reflecting back. It would be like the waves reach the shores and then they are again repleted, they go back and then they form a pattern.

Now the joy out of that pattern, how can you describe? The only thing about Nirananda is, that you have Mahamaya so close and so far away, that’s the speciality.

Completely thoughtless, silence there, complete silence, you don’t think. Its just silence you cannot put into words any more, because the words break with the force of the Ananda. They cannot hold it.

All right? Now explain, how you are feeling, you better explain now.

Any other question, beautiful question?

So far, you see, at human level, one feels only the pains or pressures on the nerves, but never the ananda but after realization only, your nerves start feeling the joy. Alright?”
“Nirananda”. Vienna Ashram (Austria), 2 May 1985.