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The Innocence of a Child & purpose of Ganapatipule, Evening Program, Eve of Shri Mahaganesha Puja Ganapatipule (India)

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The innocence of a child, Ganpatipule (India), 31 December 1985. I had a special purpose in coming to Ganpatipule, apart from that it was a very beautiful place and very relaxing for all of you. The reason is – I found this place had vibrations which will clear you out very easily, first of all. But you have to desire it, really, ardently. You should have that desire otherwise the Kundalini may not rise. That is a very important point; that you have to desire your ascent, nothing else. It’s not a place you have come for a holiday or just for some sort of a relaxation or for some enjoyment or sleeping or anything, but you have come here for a penance, for a tapasya, to clear out yourself completely. This is a place of Shri Ganesha’s temple which is not very much frequented by people and it’s still very, very pure. And I thought that the Ganesh principle will be awakened in you which is the source of everything. Shri Ganesha’s principle, as you know, in a very large way or expansive way, we call it ‘the innocence’, but we do not know the intricacies and the details to which it can go and work it out. Shri Ganesha’s innocence has a tremendous power to purify people, to make you holy, to make you auspicious. A person who has got Shri Ganesha’s principle awakened is auspicious in his presence. Such a person, whenever he moves, things move in Read More …

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Musical Program (Afternoon) Ganapatipule (India)

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1985-1231 04:47 [Shri Mataji] Mr Dayal from Satara 04:54 [Sahaja Yogi] Mr Dayal from Satara please come along, if Mr Dayal is here then come on the stage. 05:30 [Shri Mataji] Dayal if you are present then come front 06:24 [Shri Mataji] James06:27 [Shri Mataji] Is Mr James here06:41 [Shri Mataji] Ray are you here08:09 [Shri Mataji] Now we will have a program presented by Delhi people, how long is that? 08:17 [Sahaja Yogini] Not long it is 45 minutes08:21 [Shri Mataji] Too many things to be done, alright, finish it up, fast, oh yes 45 minutes 08:31 <Song/Bhajan starts> 54:32 [Shri Mataji] Did all people from Pune sit, who were supposed to come today not earlier, Bhikule & others came? came now? 54:47 [Shri Mataji] Ok sit sit, I saw Dhumal  but others, ok55:07 [Shri Mataji] We have so many programs so let him sing later on 55:13 [Shri Mataji] One song let him sing  and then 55:24 [Shri Mataji] It’s not working, I think the55:55 [Shri Mataji] Sing now 55:59 <Song/Bhajan starts> 1:12:30 [Shri Mataji] This was Kabir dasa’s thing he told me before hand, but i wanted you to hear it and see for yourself what a great poet Kabir das was, what a great personality he was and he specially wanted to sing a Kabir dasas bhajan before me that’s what my brother told me and i am happy you all have enjoyed it very much  1:12:57 [Shri Mataji] We have certain functions to be done today, so the music will come later on after food i think that Read More …

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Evening Program Ganapatipule (India)

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Musical Program, Ganapatipule, India, December 30th, 1985 Babamama: And this raga is very close to Mataji also. I hope you’ll all enjoy it, thank you. 2:06:50 Shri Mataji: Now, you will hear the beautiful prophecy made by a great poet and a great saint Shri Dnyaneshwara of Maharashtra, about Sahaja Yoga. He says that: “Now, get up and walk.” The forester forest of the trees of good wishes or wishful feeling: “Kalpa taru sē lāpa.” [Unsure]. The second one he says that: “You are the talking seas and the oceans, talking oceans of amrusa.” Like that, he describes the Sahaja Yogis. So, they are forest and forester, oceans and oceans. The whole thing is so beautifully said that I think it is done in Nirmala Yoga and you must have read the translation. 2:15:09 I think now it is time for us to go. We have to thank all the artists. All the Sahaja Yogis who have been so kind to perform this beautiful evening’s program and also the people, the great artists who came from Nagpur, I don’t know whom to thank. It’s so great. From my heart, I bless all of you, I bless all the artists. May God give them more strength, more wisdom and creativity to create the new dimension of God’s realm on this earth. May God give you great wisdom to progress in your spirituality and your ascent, in a rhythmic musical manner. May God bless you.

Talk of Yogis, Dr. Rustom, Gregoire Ganapatipule (India)

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International Sahaja Yoga seminar in Ganapatipule Gregoire de Kalbermatten speaking on day one of the international Sahaja Yoga seminar in Ganapatipule, Maharashtra, India. [transcript missing] Dr.Rustom speaking on day one of the international Sahaja Yoga seminar in Ganapatipule, Maharashtra, India. You see, here we are in the seminar and we are all Sahaja Yogis and we are having a good time, we are cracking jokes, we’re discussing things, etc., etc. But, this is all very well, I mean, one can enjoy oneself, in fact one should enjoy oneself because the whole creation has been created in such a way that we should enjoy ourselves. From the dawn of the creation, the Shri Adi Shakti of the Universe has played out a drama using Her Deities, using all the powers that She created, to create a Universe so beautiful that it should be possible for us to live in it in complete joy and complete enjoyment of our existence. If one gives you an example… Yesterday we sat and we listened to ragas. These ragas themselves were inspired by the Shri Adi Shakti in realized souls those who gave them to the world. The whole thing has been created by Her in different aspects. So that we should enjoy ourselves and so that we should not be miserable. And why does She want us to be happy? Because it is when you are happy and relaxed than the power of God can work on you, to raise you to a great Read More …

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Talk Before Marriages: The sea must be worshipped Ganapatipule (India)

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Shri Mataji on the beach, Ganapatipule, India, 30 December 1985 Shri Mataji: It’s quite cold.Have you been there?Sahaja Yogini: Just going down to it Mother.Shri Mataji: All right, you go with him.Back voice: This the 30th of December, 1985 Shri Mataji: Come along.What about my chappals?Are these my chappals? Shri Mataji: You had your bath? Sea bath, you got it?Gregoire: I was going to go but Rustom took me by force in the canteen.Shri Mataji: It’s getting quite cold.Gregoire: Yes, Mother.Shri Mataji: I guess [inaudible]Gregoire: The dream, Shri Mataji, that we had last year of coming to Ganapatipule[Hindi conversation] Shri Mataji: You’ve come without any reputation. I got the balance with us [unsure][Cut in the video] Shri Mataji: She’s all right.Gregoire: She’s all right and she has, she has accepted. I think he was a little shorter than what she thought.Shri Mataji: She has three children what is she accepting?Gregoire: Yes, yes, yes.[Laughter]Shri Mataji: I just don’t understand with three children [still] this, that nonsense![Hindi]They should all go to U.K. marry the husbands and go back.Rustom: She’ll get some from Lucknow Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Lucknow![Hindi conversation]Shri Mataji: It’s such a nice woman. So, now.Sahaja Yogi: She said “no”. And we haven’t got any info from her since.Shri Mataji: John, John Noyce is here, what he is saying?Sahaja Yogi: He’s here but we haven’t got any word from him.Shri Mataji: No, no, why is he late?Sahaja Yogi: John Noyce is here?Shri Mataji: There are other [inaudible] if we can get him.Gregoire: Read More …

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Devi Puja Brahmapuri (India)

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Devi Puja. India Tour, Brahmapuri (India), 27 December 1985. Shri Mataji: Ask her. Nathalie, come here. Join hands with Danya. Are you all right, Ray, now? Put kumkum to everyone. Just take that, see, you can leave that here. All the ladies, put it on. [Cut in the video] Yesterday one boy stood up and asked Me a question, that: “When we are such a yoga bhoomi, we are such a holy country, why is it that all the discoveries in the science are made in the West?” “Very good question,” I said. I said: “That is the knowledge of the tree, as I have told you; that’s the knowledge of the tree. And what have they achieved is now the end of it, and now they want to know the knowledge of the roots. That’s why they are here.” So to know the knowledge of the roots, first of all, we must have humility about it. We have not known this knowledge yet, never known what is in the Kingdom of God. As Krishna has said, this tree grows downward and the roots are in the brain – clearly. So it is an ascent to go to the roots, it’s a different style. Kundalini has to rise upward to go to the roots, and to enter into the roots what we have to do is to know about it. Now all these things, like I said yesterday that you put on “bindi”. Now this is also – thank God, Read More …

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Evening Program on Christmas Day Brahmapuri (India)

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1985-12-25 Christmas Day, Brahamapuri, India. So today you are here in Brahmapuri which you all wanted to come very much and the river is not so good they said but if you go little further it’s very good that side.  So you have to walk a little bit more on the other side.  Today I think is a special day to tell you that Mr and Mrs [Kingaray]who have arranged this program. You know their father in law lives in [unclear] and he has been working very hard, but Mr and Mrs [Kingaray] they came here all the way to arrange this program for you. And what they told Me was very remarkable that exactly 25 years back on the Christmas Day they were married in Angapor here, and they were very much amazed and blessed that I am here on that day. After 25 ypatars it was a very big thing for us 25 years married and they brought some sweets for Me, saying that this had happened.  I was very happy to know that. So everything has great significance and as  God has blessed them [unclear] husband and wife. 18 years back, 25th  December, and they are very happy about it.  All right, so now one has to be in a mood of enjoyment and happiness. One should not be very moody. You see the trouble is it has become a fashion also with Western people, to be moody you see. They get into this mood or that Read More …

First Night, Christmas Carols Brahmapuri (India)

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1985-12-25 India Tour 1985/86: First Night in Brahmapuri [Recording of choir performance on December 25]. Shri Mataji: Thank you very much. Beautiful. (Applause). [Mother is conversing with Sahaja Yogis in Marathi and Hindi. Sahaja Yogis are inaudible]. Shri Mataji: Yes? Not that. I have not got any money. Is that so? Tell them we will get it to their home. Is he their brother? Whose? It is so, that nothing has been agreed about the money yet. Tell him we will come to their house and give it. How much? Sahaja Yogi: [Inaudible/Fifty thousand]. Shri Mataji: Fifty? That is too much.  [Other Sahaja Yogis have arrived]. Shri Mataji: Where is Nima? Come on, let everyone come. Call the wife, the mother, it has to be given to them. Sit, sit, but the dance (program) is over.  (To the dance performer): Come, nice, excellent. Very nicely performed. Keep growing in the future. Concentration is good. You are also good. Whom did you learn from?  Now, please accept these “phoole tar phoolachi pakli” (Marathi saying, “petals in lieu of a flower”, meaning a small token of appreciation). Such a beautiful program. Infinite Blessings to you. (Applause).  (Addressing all in Marathi and English): After this, should we have music program? Have you got your harmonium here or not? Then place a harmonium and tabla. Send them. So now, you people have to organise, I will be sitting here comfortably. You have to be on the stage. Country-wise, should we start it?  Sahaja Yogi: Read More …

India Tour: Jnanesvara Temple Dnyaneshwar Mauli Temple, Alandi (India)

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Visit to the Temple on the site of Jnanesvara’s Samadhi at Alandi, Pune. Gregoire: Dnyaneshwar was the foundation. Of course, what was meant at that time was to establish dharma above all, was not to give realisation, but establish dharma by expressing human values in the perspective of the spiritual absolute, so that should every human behaviour should be kept in check by the spiritual finality. Now, Saint Dnyaneshwar is an absolutely extraordinary person. He died at the age of about 21 years old and after having left behind him a book which is called Jnāneshvari, who is basically a commentary of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. He – I want to go quickly through the family story, but again, they were really treated as outcasts because his father had left his wife to take to Sanyaza and his guru sent him back to married life. So after that, the Brahmins didn’t want at all to have anything to do with a Brahmin who had gone back to family life. So they were treated like dirt by all the Brahmins, but they were, I don’t know, three brothers and two sisters, and they were all very highly realised souls, and actually his brother got his initiation and gave it to him. Now, there are many miracles in the life of Dnyaneshwar, which are famous. For instance, while he was arguing with a couple of learned pendants saying that God is everywhere and in everything, then they made a fool out Read More …

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Evening Program on Christmas Eve Pune (India)

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1985-12-24 India Tour 1985/86: Christmas Eve – with Music and Bhajans, Pune Sahaja Yogi: May we wish You, [Mother,] a Happy Christmas. For all the existent [unclear]. Shri Mataji: Same to you all. Happy Christmas and very happy New Year. Please be seated. Please be seated. [Mother speaks in Marathi.] Today it’s a great day for Me to celebrate the Christmas Eve in Poona. Poona is called as Punya Patanam in our ancient books. That means this is the place which is very holy, place of, we can say the, it is the city of holiness, and here to celebrate the birthday of Jesus is something so sensible, so correct, so proper because He was nothing but punya. He was nothing but holiness, and that His birthday should be celebrated here is absolutely so sahaja that I started feeling, going back in the history, if Christ was born in Poona, what [could/would] have happened? But then I thought, supposing He was born here, then people all over the world would not have accepted Him because He had to be crucified. If He was not crucified, the sadist won’t be happy. If they are not happy, they won’t allow Christianity to spread, in the real sense of the word, I mean the Christianity. With all understanding, He was born in Jerusalem. [Was/So] a humble place Jerusalem, very humble place, and He was born in a very humble place, in a, as you know, in the company of the cattle, around him. Read More …

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Puja: The Purity Inside Dr Sanghvi's House, Nashik (India)

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Puja in Dr. Sanghve’s Garden, Nasik (India), 17 December 1985. This place Nasik has a special significance. Long time back, say about eight thousands years back, when Shri Rama went away for his exile, he came to Maharashtra and he passed through various places and he settled down in Nasik, this place, with his wife. And here a lady who was actually the sister of Ravana, called Shurpanakha, she tried to entice Shri Rama. Now this quality of enticing men or enticing women are really demonic and that is how people call them ‘rakshasas’. Because those who are demonic people are people who are by nature aggressive, full of ego [and] want to overpower everyone. And they feel quite satisfied if their ego is satisfied. So all the people who were like that, were called as ‘rakshasas’ in this country. It was not a normal human behaviour, according to them. So these rakshasas were more living in the northern part, northernmost part of India and they have different categories as described. So those who run after women were called by some other name and where the women try to dominate them are called by some other name. Where the men try to become like women there’s another name. But they were never called as human beings. They were called as ‘rakshasas’ or ‘vetalas’ and all other names. But nowadays you find such a confusion that you don’t know whom to call what! (laughing) But the human beings in those days Read More …

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Shri Bhoomi Devi Puja: The Land of Yoga Vaitarna (India)

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Puja on the shores of Vaitarna river, India Tour, December 15th, 1985 English Transcript We have come to the land of Yoga and in Yoga one has to receive the blessings of peace and truth. So this land is the land where peace must reside. And you are the one who are going to create that atmosphere of peace, here and abroad. The nature in this land, or in any land, is very congenial to the divine happenings. First they told me that in this place it will be very cold and all of you will have to wear sweaters, but when I came here I was really perspiring. So how nature has also welcomed Me! In India, it being a very unsophisticated, simple and ancient country, the vibrations are felt with great ease and it has maintained its holiness. But the people from this country, who believed in the holiness of the atmosphere, by leading a holy life, have taken to many things which may not keep the same level of holiness. Never, in the history of this country also, so many saints have opted on this holy land.Today you all have come here to enjoy the gift, the warmth of the love of the Divine, and also to emit and manifest that love in your own country. I have to request you for one thing, that the culture of this country is bound by the spiritual consideration, by the consideration that ultimately, we have to ascend. Of course, now Read More …

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Public Program on William Blake’s Birthday Hammersmith Town Hall, London (England)

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Public Program: William Blake talk. Hammersmith Town Hall, London, 28 november 1985. It is such a honor for all of us to pay this homage to the great poet, printer and a prophet that was William Blake*.When I first came to England, they have been telling Me that England is a place of scholarship and you can see lots of museums and exhibitions and suddenly I told the Sahaja Yogis that I would like to go and see Tate Gallery for William Blake’s paintings. They were surprised because I seldom go to any one of them, specially the libraries and the books. And when I went there, I saw this great poet, this great personality, pouring out His heart with such concern, with such honesty, with such understanding and perception of the Divine to the people of England, to understand the great powers of Divinity. But to My surprise there were some funny people; they had brought some magnifying glasses and they were looking at the drawings and were watching the private parts of people. I said, ” Look at these wretched, absolutely baser people, who cannot see the sublime, the highest, which He wanted to paint,” and they were taking photographs. I was surprised the way people reacted and then I realized how tormented He must have been in His lifetime to live with such people, who have no sense of Divine. He must have cried in the wilderness; He must have wept; He could not have been accepted, Read More …

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Evening Program Hammersmith Town Hall, London (England)

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1985-11-25 Musical Program, Violin Flute Tabla, London, UK On behalf of all the Sahaja Yogis and all the guests present here I would like to thank the great artists from India Mr Dutta and Mr Kulkarni and Mr Kothari. All of them have been so much engrossed in creating a joyous atmosphere for you that I really got lost in today, the ecstasy of the beautiful melodies they play …I have no words really to express because after this nothing can be said any more …But just to be enjoyed as [unclear /name of someone ] has said that you have to go into a pensive mood to enjoy all these beautiful moments…that we have today witnessed …May God bless you all! I am very much thankful to him and it’s a very good beginning for our exhibition. Now I would little bit as we say in Marathi [unclear /its in Marathi ] I would like to present them with some little, very little whatever was possible by [unclear 1:37:26 ] I am sorry that the whole thing was arranged in such a short time that we couldn’t get all the Sahaja yogis here but in any case, you can hear the tapes and everything very well and you can enjoy the beautiful rendering of all these beautiful melodies. I wish some of you could learn something out of this and would one day show as the beautiful artistry of creating such melodies and such beautiful ecstasies out of these Read More …

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Diwali Puja: It’s only the Sahaja Yogis who can blacken or enlighten the Name of God Almighty Tivoli (Italy)

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Diwali Puja, Tivoli, Rome, 17 November 1985. Today we have assembled here to celebrate the Diwali, the Deepavali. Actually, only after Sahaja Yoga started, the real Diwali is taking shape. We had many beautiful lamps, and we had lot of oil to burn, but there was no spark, to enlighten the deepas. And the wick, as you call it – is called as bati in Hindi language- is like your Kundalini, so the Kundalini had to meet the spark. The beautiful lamps were all a waste, purposeless, pointless. And this is the great blessings in modern times, that so many lights are enlightened and we are having a Deepavali of human hearts. When you become the light, you don’t worry about the lamp, how it looks, how it is to be made, it’s all done. You just have to worry about the flame, about the oil, because it’s the oil that burns and gives light. In Sanskrit language – which is the language of the Gods – the oil is called as “snigdh”, ‘snigdha’; is something that is soft but is ‘snigdha’. And ‘sneha’ means ‘friendship of love.’ And the poets in other [Indian] languages have used this word, in different way calling it ‘neha’. They have sung the praise of this love. Every poet, every Saint has used this word in their beautiful poetry, whether they were in separation or they were in the meeting, in the yoga, in the union. This love is the thing that gives the Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Racism, Evening Program, Eve of Diwali Tivoli (Italy)

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Evening before Diwali, Tivoli, 16 November 1985. You see only I am understanding and we are understanding from Maharashtra and this is to be done by many people so it’s different type. But a here they are saying that you should surrender to the Mother, that you have been to Kolhapur to the temple of Mahalakshmi. And you know the Mahalakshmi is the central path of Sushumna and there they go and pray to the Kundalini Ambe. That now you have awakened in the Mahalakshmi Temple. They go and sing there. That’s the Mahalakshmi temple and there they praise the Kundalini because Mahalakshmi is there but in Mahalakshmi’s channel of the central path the Kundalini has to awaken. So today today it’s the Ambe. It’s surprising that in the Mahalakshmi Temple that they go and sing this song of Amba, isn’t it? But the reason is that they want that in the Temple of Mahalakshmi only the Kundalini can rise so they are addressing Amba. That’s the beauty of this song. You follow my point. You extend it. Today is the great day my joy knows no bounds.[To Gregoire] Translate it. [Laughter]Gregoire: In which language Shri Mataji? French? Italian?Shri Mataji: Italian. I do not know how to thank people of U.K. and some of them who took such a great lead to manifest this new collectivity. Of course, I do not want to name them because they will feel embarrassed.But the whole thing started on a very low note and Read More …

The Right Heart and the Qualities of Leadership by Dr. Rustom from Nirmala Yoga Vol.5 No. 30, Nov-Dec. 1985 (Location Unknown)

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„The Right Heart and the Qualities of Leadership” “The Lord God Almighty is Absolute Sovereign of the Universe”. Amen. The Movement in the unconscious is always from left to right to centre. The heart chakra in both left and centre represents divine protection and a sense of security, translated in human terms into protection by the parents. In the Right heart; this becomes protection of the Father and the King—or Leader in modern terms—And its ruling deity is the Lord Rama, as Incarnation of the Lord Vishnu, sustainer and pervader of the universe. It is well known that in all his incarnations, and in his unincarnated state the Lord Vishnu serves eternally the needs of the universe and his Mother the Shri Adi Shakti unstintingly and unselfishly. One can never find a single attempt at self glorification by the Lord; only unstinting devotion, service, surrender and submission to the Shri Adi Shakti and the Lord Absolute. He who is Lord of the power of wealth—the Lakshmi tattva—takes none for himself, but distributes all unselfishly throughout the universe. In total detachment he regulates the lines of the Universe, without any personal attachment. In the Sahasrara his Sahasrara is the Sahasrara of the Virata, in the Mooladhara likewise. In the Agnya he is Shri Mahavishnu, the Lord Christ, who disposes all things and matters within the Universe. The Lord Rama as king always served, and sought for himself neither wealth, nor glory, nor comfort, as Maryada Purushottama—he was an example to his Read More …

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Ego and its consequences, Talk to Sahaja Yogis New Jersey (United States)

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“Ego and its consequences,” Talk to yogis. New Jersey (USA), 27 October 1985. Nice, relaxed eh? Relaxed, with blessings. Everyone cleared out, I think. And no more one more thing, I must say it last, I’ve said it before but I have not said it here, no one is going to say that “bhoot did it” because such a person will be sent away to the bhoot [unclear: clan? Or clap] not to Sahaja Yoga, don’t put your responsibility on the bhoots, either you are a bhoot or you are a Sahaja Yogi. One of the two. You can’t be both. About Sahaja culture, alright. Sahaja culture I explained to you what is a Sahaja culture is, in which you have grow [this portion I would leave it out since it is an “aside” direction”: then last night, where’s Judy, she’s there, come in, come in, let them sit, now then last night I talked to you about ego. That how ego manifests itself and how it is difficult to get out of the ego. It’s easy to get out of the conditionings super egos, but very difficult to get out of ego because ego aggresses others, doesn’t trouble you at all, and you enjoy that aggression, see. Now, today I want to tell you about how ego has been historically, traditionally torturing people around. So you’ll see the manifestation of this ego, and then you will know that if you are playing anything any role with your ego, you Read More …

Seekers Radio Interview New York City (United States)

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1985-1026 Seekers Radio Interview, New York City, USA Interviewer: Your Holiness, as a young girl, you had a vision of a new Heaven and a new Earth. According to your view with man’s cooperation, can they exist simultaneously? Shri Mataji: Yes, of course, of course. It’s a beautiful question. It’s only they who make the heaven or the hell. So if they decide to have the hell, they’ll have it. Interviewer: Your Holiness, I understand that your father was a member of the Indian congress and that as a young girl you lived at Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram. Shri Mataji: Mm, and not only that, but I took a very active part in the struggle of independence and my hero was your president, Abraham Lincoln. I always appreciated the way he fought for the right and I took a very, very special part in my young age when I was about eighteen or nineteen years of age, in 1942, and a [UNCLEAR malicious], they tried to trouble me quite a lot. They put me on the electric shock, they put me on the ice and put me in all kinds of troubles. All right, one has to forgive them. Interviewer: Did either of these relationships with your father and with Mahatma Gandhi affect the development of your ideas or your world view?Shri Mataji: No, I was witness to their ways of life. I felt about Mahatma Gandhi that he was the type of man we needed to get out of the Read More …

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Sahaja Culture Bergenfield Ashram, New Jersey (United States)

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Talk to yogis. Ashram in New Jersey (USA), 26 October 1985. [All right. So. It’s rather warm. All right, as you please. Where do I keep this beautiful flower? (Indistinct conversation) What flowers, eh? (Yogi: “Yes”) Beautiful! Now. If you can get My handkerchief from My purse, would be good. And My spectacles] Today I was thinking of talking, telling you about the Sahaja Culture. Now we are formed in dharma, Vishwa Dharma. But it must have a culture. So far in all the religions there is no combination of religion and culture. No religion has. That’s why everywhere you find different cultures. Say in India, people who follow Hindu religion have different cultures in different places. They are living in Lucknow, or say in U.P., they have a Muslim culture. More Islamic style. They’ll eat in one plate, do all kinds of things which normally a South Indian won’t do, and the South Indians have a different culture from Maharashtrians. So even in a religion like Hindu religion where culture is important, very important, we find varieties. So the cultures get influenced by the neighbouring cultures or surrounding cultures, and that’s how people get lost. When you establish a religion like this, Vishwa Dharma, it’s not like any other religion. It’s the real religion within us, and this reality comes to us because now we are one with the Spirit. So when we talk of Sahaj Culture, it is the culture of the Spirit. Now what is a culture? Read More …

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Havan with new people Weggis (Switzerland)

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Havan, Weggis (Switzerland), October 20th, 1985 What a beautiful place, eh? You don’t have something like this in London or in England. Beautiful! I wonder if you have any cable cars. Will we have in England any able cars? Yogis: Scotland, in Scotland.  Shri Mataji: We have? Hello, how are you? Something like Bogota, so far. Best place for a honeymoon. Best place to come for a honeymoon. Beautiful. Yogi: Relax a little bit. I know. Gregoire: It’s working now. Shri Mataji: Is that our, our tent? Gregoire: This is our… Shri Mataji: Our tent? Shri Mataji: What a place to come to. Olympia, what a beautiful place, eh? Aren’t you enjoying? Have you been here before?  Girl: No. Shri Mataji: Not, have you been? Ah. Many of you might have come for the first time even. Gregoire: I was here, but I didn’t know I would come back with you. Shri Mataji: With Me. Yogi: Shri Mataji, you did everything, because the people in the hotel, they give us the [inaudible]. They give us the plates, they give us the ghee.  Shri Mataji: Really?! They are very nice people here. Germans are so nice, huh. They are becoming nice people.  [A yogi offering Shri Mataji help walking] I can manage, I can manage. I’m all right on the mountains. Gregoire: In Marathi?  Shri Mataji: In Marathi. Gregoire: Sha…sha…  Shri Mataji: Yes Shaila, Shailavati. Shaila is the peak, peak of the mountain. Born on the peak. Thank you, such a… Read More …

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6th Day of Navaratri, Complete dedication Weggis (Switzerland)

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Navaratri puja. Weggis (Switzerland), 19 October 1985. Today is a great day of Navaratri, we are sitting on the cusp of the sixth and the seventh. Sixth and the seventh is the day when Mahasaraswati finished Her work and the incarnation of the Shakti itself started. So, at twelve o’clock today the Devi takes the Shakti upon Herself. Of course, as you know, that Mahakali and Mahasaraswati, both are the powers of Shri Sadashiva. Adi Shakti first formed Herself into Mahakali, which is the Power of Desire. But all these powers are nothing but the power of God’s love. So, in the series of this great love of God, Adi Shakti had to first become the Power of Desire. In the same way, Sahaja Yogis who are bestowed with this power of love have to have full desire in their heart. Desire to love. That desire is very different from the other kinds of human love we have known. In other kinds of human love, when we have relations with others, we have expectations, and that’s why it is very disappointing. Our expectations always run higher than our understanding and realities. And so we suffer from disappointments and frustrations. And the love that has to be nourishing and fulfilling becomes a thankless job. So, when it reflects in the human beings, it is the desire to be loved by everyone, not to love others. Everyone should love you, but how far you love another is the point. Naturally everyone for Read More …

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Talk Before Shopping, You have to become Kingsley and Ruth Flint's flat, Strasbourg (France)

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Talk to yogis. Strasbourg (France), 10 October 1985. How many are the new Sahaja Yogis in Strasbourg please? Are there any new ones here? From Strasbourg. Yes, that’s true you are, I know that. Is there someone there? Good, it’s beautiful people. The responsibility on the new Sahaja Yogis is much more because the load of the truth they have to bear on one side, load of the truth they have to bear on one side to the Sahaja Yoga and another side to the other people. Because in the beginning we are related to other people, sometimes we get confused. We’re related on their own grounds, you see, that’s the problem is, not on our grounds. So one has to have a flexible personality in Sahaja Yoga, to bend down, to pull out people and to hold on to the truth. In the beginning you may find certain things so stunningly different, but stunningly doesn’t mean shockingly and maybe that others will start trying to tell you something that may, may hamper your progress, those who are not Sahaja Yogis. As if you’re in the intermediary state, just now say, for example, then what happens that you see the other people who are there and you see Sahaja Yogis who are there. Now the Sahaja Yogis who have not matured much come up to the same level, a sort of you get attacked by them or sort of interested in them and then you find them up to your Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Kingsley and Ruth Flint's flat, Strasbourg (France)

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Informal talk with Sahaja Yogis after Public Program , in Kingsley and Ruth Flint’s flat, Strasbourg (France), 1985, October 9th. [Sahaja Yogis say the three great mantras] Om twame wa sakshat Shri Mahalakshmi, Mahasarasvati, Mahakali,Trigunat mika Kundalini sakshatShri Adi Shakti MatajiShri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha Om twame wa sakshat Shri Kalki sakshatShri Adi Shakti MatajiShri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha Om twame wa sakshat Shri Kalki sakshatShri Sahasrara swamini moksha Pradahini MatajiShri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha Shri Mataji: May God bless you all.May God bless you all. Today’s program was very successful for us and I hope the same thing will happen in Frankfurt. It was a very successful program I must say, a lot of people they have got their Realization but the lecture was also very well done. So, it’s all nice, I’m very happy with today’s program.Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki!Sahaja Yogis: Jai!Shri Mataji: May God bless you.So good night everyone.Sahaja Yogis: Good night Shri Mataji. [Cut in the audio]Shri Mataji: Here, it’s the road which is about thirty feet wide [10 meters], which looks like a little line here.You can all see later on. Now, this road comes on this hill which is on top. And then from there, you see this valley, so big, you can’t walk it’s too big. From this side, flows a brook and there’s a river flowing from this side. And this river goes and meets Vaitarna. And the river Vaitarna word is used always in the “shastras”, in the Read More …

The knowledge of the roots has to be such that you get new enrichment to the nerves Strasbourg (France)

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Public Program, Strasbourg, France. 9 October, 1985. nb. no video exists due to technical problems. I bow to all the seekers of truth. You are the lovers of truth and you have been seeking in these modern times. It is a special category of human beings who are seeking, beyond materialism, beyond power, beyond emotional enterprises, because the times are such that we have reached the epitome of our evolution and the breakthrough has to be found. But the way we understand breakthrough in modern times is through our mental understanding because today the human beings are more mental. It analyzes, reflects and tries to understand the truth. But we do not realize that mental projections are always linear. They move on one line up to a point and then they recoil back, (back) upon us, like science has evolved to create hydrogen bombs.Everything ends up in self-destruction or in collective destruction. Even on political level when we talk of democracy we find it has become demonocracy and when we talk of communism it has become autocracy. So where did we go with all this? We have to reflect again to understand that there must have been some mistake.The truth that is known through our reading or through our thinking is a partial truth, because partial truth is more dangerous than ignorance. Like you see a land and you think that is the road and when you walk on that little land, you fall into a big ditch. So this Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Like a Drama (Arrival) Kingsley and Ruth Flint's flat, Strasbourg (France)

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Talk to yogis. Strasbourg (France), 9 October 1985. Like a drama it is that you have to reach a climax point, otherwise … I’m saying it is like a drama that it has to reach a climax point. And I see the game has started now this way creating an expectancy and little suspense, and then ultimately you arrive on the scene. Yesterday it was said that there’s no chance at all, so I wondered, “What’s happening now?” I said, “If there’s no chance, then how can I go?” Then I said, “I’ll have to sneak in somehow.” And it worked. It is becoming very interesting now, Sahaja Yoga. Formerly I remember that when you went to any place there would be a straightforward march, no problem. But without events it’s not interesting, and when there are certain events one should not get upset but to watch for the climax. For you also in your personal life and individual life and collective life you’ll find such things happening now, you’ll find this kind of happening in a very dramatic manner. And then they report it to Me that “How, Mother, dramatically the whole thing took place and how it all worked out so well.” But the biggest thing is that we are getting now such good Sahaja yogis who are so very matured. And it’s so encouraging that there are still so many sane people left in this mad world. And the madness is also of different varieties. I find Read More …

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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi sings for Shri Mataji London (England)

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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi sings for H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. London (UK), 30 September 1985. Comment 1 Now the one, the first one is going to singing Telekamor (?​). It says that instead of washing your body so clean if you cannot keep your heart clean. Everybody goes for pilgrimages but who, they do not see to cross the… cross the illusion, which you have crossed. You have crossed the illusion. The desires do not go up, go away, so how do/will they cross this ocean of illusion? [Hindi] Comment 2 A poem composed by Shri Namadeva, whom you know that very well, and he sang about the Pandarinat Shri Krishna who is in Pandanpur, which you have seen and Namadeva was a great poet. [Hindi] Comment 3 [Hindi] Keep the tea ready, all right? Please. This is here the Atulsi diasa(?) And asking for one boon from God singing all that, he comes to the position where he says that: „Oh Lord give me the blessings of devotion to God. All this (indistinct) … bhakti… [Woman speaks in hindi] That is your job to look after me, but give me the devotion. It is Gods job, no doubt, to look after you, but he is asking for the bhakti, the devotion, and just see the devotion is flowing, see? [Hindi] Comment 4 In this beautiful composition by the great Tukaram, he describes himself in a very beautiful way that: „I’m less than an atom and a molecule. But now I Read More …

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The English Are Scholars, Seminar Totley Hall Training College, Sheffield (England)

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“The English are scholars”, English Seminar, Sheffield (UK), 21 September 1985. As I said yesterday, this is the field; field where the light has to come. With so many lights the field has to be enlightened. And this field which is enlightened is enriched by nature, too. And when you were singing I felt the clouds were catching the notes, weaving them within themselves and when it would rain, the rain will sing the song again; as if the valleys were resounding so beautifully. And the echo was very gentle and filling the whole atmosphere. Perhaps you are not aware of the subtle of the Divine, how much It is anxious to work it out. But our trumpets and our flutes and our drums have to be alright. There has to be coordination, complete synchronising – then the melody is played in a beautiful way. Clouds only carry the purest water, the purest hymns. So, when we are spreading the message, we have to understand that it has to come from a pure source. Purity is very important. I’ve already talked about chastity part, which is the Mooladhara, which is so important today; you can see it clearly how important it is. But that’s not the end of it, that’s just the beginning – just the beginning. But what we have to see is something very innate built within us. And today as we are sitting in the heart of hearts that is Sheffield, where the steel is made – Read More …

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Public Program (Fragment) (England)

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Yogi: When Kundalini becomes with the spirit. A person becomes aware of that spirit as silence and as becomes the witness, it’s like when you’re been on the outside of a roundabout, in a kiddies playground whirling round and you feel ill. And somehow, you go to the center of the roundabout and you sit of the axis of the roundabout and then you can watch the whole thing but you don’t feel sick any more, you see it, you enjoy it but you don’t feel giddy. [UNCLEAR] ..even if you are falling off…hurt.  So you become the witness and you become silent and at peace. But more than that, you get the coolness of the holy spirit or is the coolness of vibrations… and this coolness is the thing which is the treatment [UNCLEAR] … which enables the Kundalini to rise. To recognise that there is a holiness and… Shri Mataji: We can’t hear you. Yogi: A purity. And that holiness, instance and purity of the Divine vibrations is what makes this Kundalini to rise. It’s the conditions which enable the seed within us to sprout. One can then become aware of the mechanism inside, and can be aware of vibrations so instead of just judging things on thoughts, or on feelings, on likes or dislikes that we’ve got from previous experiences. One can go on vibrations and going by vibrations means that if something is incorrect it is so because it is harmful to us. And it’s harmful Read More …

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The Holy Ghost Memorial Hall Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield (England)

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Public Program. Memorial Hall, Sheffield (UK), 20 September 1985. I bow to all the seekers of truth. It was a thing of great joy to Me to come to Sheffield again. Always this name Sheffield created a kind of a mystery in My mind. The word Sheffield could be the ‘She Field’ and She is the Mother energy, the energy within you which creates this field within you and is in the Gita. Shri Krishna has talked about the field that we all have a Pradesh – is the field but Desh means the field and the enlightened one is the Pradesh. And that same thing happens to us when this Kundalini rises within you. This Holy Ghost which is described in the bible, She is the Kundalini, She is the Mother. Actually people don’t know anything about Holy Ghost and we didn’t give Christ much chance to speak about it. He could only speak for three and a half years, is nothing. I can tell you three and a half years in this land anywhere in the whole world it’s so difficult even to convince four people that they have to seek the truth, it’s very difficult. Especially in the land where He was born. It was full of ignorance, complete ignorance. And in that ignorance to speak about realization, to speak about second birth, even to speak about God was so difficult. And He was just crucified for nothing at all, today we may have big organizations in Read More …

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Shri Vishnumaya Puja: Power Of The Sister Southlands College, London (England)

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Shri Vishnumaya Puja. Wimbledon, London (UK), 1 September 1985. Today’s Puja of Vishnumaya, who was the sister of Shri Krishna, was not scheduled as such in an international pujas that we do. But they say for the love of God when all the devotees assemble, God also has to break many rules, and that’s how this puja has been accepted to be done. At least once it should be done, I think, was a good idea. By your love and your devotion it was desired, and so this puja is going to be performed. It’s just spontaneous that I happened to be in England at this time, because this puja if ever had happened, would have happened in India. Because this is a puja of a deity, Vishnumaya, the seed of which is not easy to plant in the Western countries. Now the whole Shakti programming has been done in such a way that we have Mother as a Shakti first, the Primordial Mother. Then we have three shaktis coming out of Her, as you know – Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati. And then we have children from them: brothers and sisters. So before the power of what we call the wife or the spouse was created, is the power of the sister is created. So, as you know that Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha were born to these three Shaktis, and they all had sisters. And their sisters were married – like Vishnu’s sister is Parvati and She was married to Shiva. Is Read More …

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Public Program And Raksha Bandhan Seminar + unknown talk Southlands College, London (England)

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Public Program and Talk to Sahaja Yogis. Wimbledon, London (UK), 31 August 1985. …where example of the dearth of seeking in this country or may be there is some sort of lacking on the part of English Sahaja Yogis also. The way that, because I am here, people take things for granted or may be that there are few like Gavin and others are very anxious, trying to do their level best to do this. And I think on two points My being here failed. One point is that we all must know “What have we done for Sahaja Yoga?” Some people take two or three posters and post them then they think they have done everything. No. You have to do much more than anywhere else because you are placed in this important thing called the heart. Everybody has had an advantage of Sahaja Yoga, has been helped a lot. We have to think what have we done for Sahaja Yoga. It has done so much for us; what have we done for Sahaja Yoga. That’s very important. So then there should be, I think I was expressing that anxiety which the people, who are your leaders and those who are worried about Sahaja Yoga in England. And My lecture, the whole lecture has that tremendous concern; and then we have to think what have we done. We have houses, we have places, we have ashrams, we have families, we have wives, we have every thing and the Sahaja Read More …