Sahaja Yoga Arts

In the modern times when everything is moving very fast, it is very difficult for a single person to achieve anything without compromising with the trend of the world. Hence, it is absolutley essential that those artists who seek freedom and who believe that they have to play a vital role to further the cause of art, should give up their petty differences and jealousies and unite together. If such a group of artists decides to accept good in their personal, economic and social life, and pledge not to deviate from the straight path, then no power, however destructive, can lay hands on them. Unity of purpose can only grant them all security needed for the creation of their art… Artists have to raise the public eye to their standard of taste and not to stoop down to the cheap demand of the public and thus surrender their freedom.
From ‘Heralding a New Age of Joy and Spiritual Fulfillment’

A person who is a genius is a person who has those sensitivities. The mind which is covered with thoughts, which is thickened, which is gross, can be thinned out at certain points. For example, some people could be very sensitive to music. Some could be to art. Some could be to human beings. Some could be to other things which might make them of rare people. But these subtler things, which create your personality, always indicate in your being that there is something of the beyond, which are throwing in some images within you. Such people are conscious of them, that there are some images which are throwing these subtle ideas within you. They are erupting some new commotiom within you and, once you start seeing them, you’re compelled to put them down somewhere. That’s how the poets are created, musicians are created, great masters are created.
London 1980

Aesthetics are born in a person who is a realised soul. He starts seeing aesthetics in everything. The beauty of talking improves. The movements of the hands improve and your style also improves. You become a beautiful person. Aesthetics come in. You can become suddenly a great poet…You can also be a great painter if you are already a painter. You get new ideas about painting, new aesthetics.
Delhi 1977

When you cannot explain everything intellectually, then you take course to arts to express yourself and then you take to symbols to express what you cannot say verbally or cannot express rationally. This is what an artist does. Also a poet does, that he extends his imagination to such an extent that he creates a symbol… After Self Realisation, when you have become the spirit, your imagination touches reality. Then the symbols which were perverted, which were misrepresented, drop out and you touch the reality of the symbols.
Diwali 1993

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. (William Blake)

My hand is entirely the instrument of a more distant sphere (Paul Klee)

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos… (Paul Cezanne)

So when an artist creates he makes some such things that one accepts from the heart. All the works that we do of Saraswati [the Goddess of creativity] should be dedicated and surrendered to the Divine. If this happens then all such works will be immortal. All poems, music, songs, art forms which were offered in the name of God are still living today. Like today’s film music comes and dies down. But the songs of Kabir, Gyaneshwara are still remembered. Through their self-realisation they obtained the Maha Saraswati Shakti power [great power of creativity], and whatever they wrote or created, that light was of a unique kind. These were creations that united the world into one.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1992

An artist can serve the society through others by creating a deep impact on their minds. Such is the motivating force of an artist. They are the loveliest flowers of creation, sweetest dreams of the Creator, the dearest parts of human society. Perhaps, they do not know how they are loved, worshipped and followed by their spectators.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Artists have to raise the public eye to their standard of taste and not to stoop down to the cheap demand of the public and thus surrender their freedom.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi