Look East BBC TV Interview Cambridge (England)

TV Interview, Cambridge (UK) 13 August 1984. Interviewer: She is here over the last few years who according to their followers have the one true message. Well, the latest to visit the Eastern counties, 62-year-old Indian woman Shri Mataji who lays claim to the title of India’s greatest saint but her brand of yoga doesn’t only lead to a serenity that can transform people’s lives. It even produces a cool soothing wind out of thin air. Rather sceptical, Julia Booth caught up with Shri Mataji in Cambridge. This man was a drug addict. His life in tatters at the mercy of LSD. He met Shri Mataji, learnt her Sahaja Yoga as it’s called in a few minutes and now he’s prosperous and happy. It isn’t physical yoga, it’s based around something called Kundalini, which is a sort of inner energy, which when released can apparently give you serenity and cure illnesses. The great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi met her when she was a child. He recognized her gift and invited her to live and learn with his household. Her teachings follow no specific religion and are imparted in minutes. Receiving physical proof, apparently, a cool breeze can be felt from the head when you’re enlightened. Shri Mataji: It comes up here and pierces through this area called the fontanel bone area and you start feeling a cool breeze coming out of your head and that is the time we should say it’s a real baptism because that’s the time when Read More …

The awareness of the Kingdom of God Cambridge (England)

The awareness of the Kingdom of God, Public Program. Cambridge (England), 13 August 1984. Will You sit down Mother or stand up? – Have you finished or not?– Yes, Mother.– Please continue.– No, no they’re very anxiously waiting for You, Mother.– Oh, I see. They all see and I’ll get up and talk. I’ll stand up. Please be seated.  I bow to all the seekers of truth. We came on this earth without knowing why are we here and when we grew up, we felt, we are here for various things to enjoy our physical being, our mental being, our material side, our powers, our possessions, our friendships and our limited love. We worked very hard with it to achieve some sort of a joy out of all that. But the other day I was watching one film very funny and a very – a grotesque type of a film it was, lot of hard truths were there – showing a man trying to achieve some goal of marrying a particular lady, for that trying to get some money. The picture was presented in a very, I should say, in a very, very violent way which was really repulsive to My mind but it proved that all these pursuits are good for nothing. They lead you nowhere, you’re left high and dry as you were – much worse than what you, you were born. Your innocence is lost, your sense of love is lost, your value system is lost and Read More …