“England has to become Jerusalem” Public Programme, Reading (England), 22 June 1982. It was very nice to come to Reading again, and to meet very nice people like your Mayor and another nice person who was interviewing me at the radio station. I am discovering new talents in this place which is really historically very important. But in the history of spirituality, England as a whole has to play a very, very important role, which perhaps English people don’t realise. William Blake* has said that, that England has to become Jerusalem. It has to become a Holy land and you all have to become holy people. He is not a liar, he wouldn’t tell you a lie. People can say that he was a visionary and he visualised things beyond his foresight. That’s not a fact, because about Sahaja Yoga he has written very vividly, clearly, as to where I’ll be staying since my arrival in England, where our ashram is going to be. It is so beautifully done that I feel this land has something special about it to produce, or to create, such great poets, such great seers. India of course is a country of yoga, no doubt. But there also we had a great poet, about the same time as Blake, maybe a little earlier, Gyaneshwara. He did write about Kundalini. He also described the times of Sahaja Yoga by saying that: at that time, the people who are in darkness, the people who are blind, will see Read More …