Year: 1985

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Evening Program and Raksha Bandhan Ceremony Southlands College, London (England)

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Evening Program and Raksha Bandhan Ceremony, Southlands College, London (England), 1985-08-30 Today on this auspicious day of Rakhipurnima, we have to thank all the artists who have really created such a marvelous, beautiful dance drama in your presence, especially to Mr. Pawar, his wife, his daughter, you are very much obliged, plus the other artist, and so on. Shri Markandey Mishra, and also Baluji Shrivastava, all these people have shown very great artistic talent today, and it’s a very special day. On this day, we all, as brothers and sisters, are sitting here to watch something so beautifully expressed in the realm of brotherly and sisterly love. So whatever has gone wrong or is better, we all must learn to forgive, that’s important. And the sister always forgives, we all must forgive, and we should be extremely loving and protective, that is the Raksha for our artist who are in England. I feel sometimes that the people who have come from abroad and who are artists in England are to be looked after in the same way all the artists of the world must be looked after and must be encouraged and nourished and cherished so that they take to proper divine manifestation of divine music and drama, everything that is beautiful and pure. So on this day, I especially would like to bless all of them for a higher ascent and in a greater way to express themselves in full ecstasy, the joy of God’s blessings on them as Read More …

The Priorities Are To Be Changed Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

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The priorities are to be changed, 44 Chelsham Rd, Clapham London (UK), 6 August 1985. Now My stay in England is completing its 12th year and that is the reason I wanted to talk to you people about Sahaja Yoga. How far it has gone and where are we lacking. The greatest thing that has happened is that we have established our religion: Nirmala Dharma as we call it, the Vishwa Nirmala Dharma. And you know the meanings of the words, vishwa means universal, nirmala means pure and dharma means religion. This has been established in America. And we have to register it here in England. Now it is very important that, when we belong to a religion, we have to know what are the commandments of that religion is. And so far we have not drafted anything. It cannot be a thing made suitable to people or suitable to human beings. It cannot be. And it cannot compromise with your suitability. Like in Russia, as I told you the story, I went there and I said, “I would like to see a church.” So they took me down to a church, which was the Orthodox Greek Church, and My husband was also there where we were VIPs, so the head of the church came down and took us to lunch; and he said that today, these days, they are fasting so he cannot take any meat.  We said, “Alright.” We all sat down, but he went on drinking, drinking, Read More …

Shri Mataji comments on “Jesus, The Son of Man” Brompton Square House, London (England)

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Shri Mataji reads a part of the chapter 1 of “Jesus, The Son of Man” from Kahlil Gibran, 1985 “And were it not for sorrow in all of you I would not have stayed to weep.”“Who are you and what are you, Judas Iscariot? And why do you tempt me?”“Have you in truth weighed me in the scale and found me one to lead legions of pygmies? And to direct chariots of the shapeless against an enemy that encompass-that encamps only in your hatred and marches nowhere but in your fear?” Shri Mataji: “Marches nowhere but in your fear”, means you have enemies within yourself.“Too many are the worms that crawl about me feet, and I will give them no battle. They are worms! I am weary of the jest, and weary of pitying the creepers who deem me coward because I will not move among their guarded walls and towers. ““Pity it is that I must needs pity to the very end.”“Would that I could turn my steps towards a larger world where larger men dwell. But, how shall I?” Shri Mataji: And now he said about the future, he?“Your priest and your emperor would have my blood. They shall be satisfied ere” means before, “I go hence. I would not change the course of the law. And I would not govern folly”. Shri Mataji: Because, it’s because of the law that he was to be crucified.“Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.”“Let the Read More …

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Shri Gruha Lakshmi Puja: In your houses you must do Gruhalakshmis’ puja Brompton Square House, London (England)

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Shri Gruhalakshmi Puja, Brompton Square, London,  1985-0805 So, this is to thank you all for helping in building this house and making it so beautiful. All the thankfulness is from us, both of us [Shri Mataji and Sir CP].Today is a very interesting day when you are worshipping the Gruhalakshmi here, means the Gruhalakshmi of this house. In the same way in your family also, in your houses you must do Gruhalakshmis’ puja. The woman has to be the Gruhalakshmi herself and then she should be worshipped.“Yatya naria pujyante, tatra bhramante Devata.” Where the women are respected and worshipped there reside all the deities. But they should be respectable also. If they are not respectable then the deities won’t reside there. So, it’s a big responsibility on a Gruhalakshmi to be respectable so that all the deities are happy in the family. And once she is respected, she will try to be respectable also. So, the respect of the Gruhalakshmi is very important. Today we are having this little puja from all the builders who helped us here, with the blessings of Vishwakarma and Brahmadeva; those who have tried to make this house so beautiful. Also, as you know, Blake has described this house. It has a special significance and we have to now hand it over to somebody else, the one who will appreciate and respect this house; who will understand the value and worth of this house. And for that we have to pray that it will be Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Importance of Chastity Brighton Friends Meeting House, Brighton (England)

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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Importance of Chastity 04-08-1985Brighton Friends Meeting House, Brighton (England) Today we have gathered here on the right occasion and very auspicious day to worship Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the first Deity that was created so that the whole Universe is filled with auspiciousness, with peace, bliss, and spirituality. He is the source. He’s the source of spirituality. As a result of that all other things follow. Like when it rains and is windy you feel a coolness in the atmosphere. In the same way when Shri Ganesha emits His Power, we feel all these three things within and without. But it has been so unfortunate, especially in the West, that the most important fundamental Deity has been completely not only neglected, but insulted and crucified. So today though I did not want to say anything to upset you people, but I must tell you that worshiping Shri Ganesha means there has to be a thorough cleansing within you. When you worship Shri Ganesha keep your mind clean, keep your heart clean, keep your being clean – no thoughts of lust and greed should come up. Actually, when the Kundalini rises Ganesha had to be awakened within us, the innocence has to come up – which obliterates all such degrading ideas within us. If ascent has to be achieved, we have to understand that we have to mature. People are sick now. All over the western life one feels they are sick. Sick because they have Read More …

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Bhoomi Puja/Trigunatmika Puja: Holland is the Holy Land Huis Overvoorde, Rijswijk (Holland)

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Bhoomi Puja (known as Trigunatmika Puja), Overvoorde: Holland is the Holy Land. Overvoorde (Netherlands) 5 July 1985 Are, you can open the window a little bit, I think. It will be better. One window will do. They are all closed. One window you can. They are opened as much as they will, Shri Mataji. Really? That’s all that can be opened? They have all arrived, so we’ll wait for two minutes for them. Tell them to come from the other side. Can somebody go and tell? When you are taking photographs I’ll not have this. Better, then I’ll have it later. You must take the right angle and right time. I find, some people take exactly the wrong angle and the wrong time. Yes, where you get the vibrations, that’s the point you must click. That’s it. And because you just take it at a wrong time, photographs do not come out well for some people. Vibrations will tell you when to take. I took photographs of some people and their vibrations stated flowing. It’s all related. Come along, we’ve been waiting for you! [unclear] has not come? That’s o.k. Shri Mother. Actually we left her or otherwise we would have been too late. Oh, God ! But she will do a little Puja at home by herself, she said. S.M. – But where is she? Y – At home. And I had to go to fetch Warren in Gent and I learned the Puja was earlier… Why didn’t you Read More …

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The Guru Supermarket Huis Overvoorde, Rijswijk (Holland)

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Public Program day 2, Garden of Overvoorde mansion house, Overvoorde (Holland), 4 July 1985. Sri Mataji: Hello, please be seated. (To yogi giving introduction) Have you finished? Yogi: Shall I continue a little bit? Sri Mataji: You finish it, yes. (Yogi finishes the introduction in Dutch) I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday in My lecture and afterwards, the impression I got about Holland, I must tell you very frankly. And you shouldn’t mind, because I am a Holy Mother. I am your Mother and I will not tell you any lies, nor will I support anything wrong that you have been doing. If you are a mother, you will understand Me better. If the mother sees the child is doing wrong she will tell, whether the child likes it or not, because the child is yet not matured, is not grown up, he doesn’t understand. There is nothing to gain for Me; I have to just give you. So those who are real gurus, I’ll praise them; but who are not, I will say they’re “antichrist”. But if you are honest and if you understand My earnestness to save you, you must not mind that. You get identified with a person, for nothing at all. What did you get yourself? You must think, did you get your realization? Did you feel your collective consciousness? Can you talk like this, the way he’s talking? Do you know all that, what he knows? Or like sheep, you are following Read More …

Interview for “Het Binnenhof” Newspaper Conferentieoord Overvoorde, Rijswijk (Holland)

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Interview journalist; “Het Binnenhof” Newspaper, Overvoorde, The Hague, Holland, 4th July 1985 Shri Mataji: The man who was here. He has been to all these fake gurus. He has seen all that nonsense. He has seen everything. It is very easy for him to see me now, because you see if you have not been to all these then you start… you cannot understand it so well. So that’s a very big point about it. G: He said there is a book called Spiritual Superman. Shri Mataji: (Laughing.) Yes, he himself told me. G: We have to find out. (Short discussion about a book) Shri Mataji: So. Journalist: So well I may resemble a little bit to this colleague journalist of mine in this sense that I have also been searching and I have had a little bit of practice with transcendental meditation and I went to “Baghwan” in the United States and read the books of Krishnamurti and so on. Sri Mataji: So you are also alright! (Laughing) Ah, I saw it. That’s better. Then you can see the contrast. The reality is very different. Journalist: But I, up till now, I find some beauty in all of these movements. Shri Mataji: It’s a camouflage. Of course they have to beautify otherwise they can’t attract; very clever, very professional. Like in India, they wanted to smuggle whisky and they used Gita books. (Editor: The Bhagavad Gita – an Indian holy book.) They made Gita books, you see, beautiful Gita Read More …

Interview for “Trouw” Newspaper Conferentieoord Overvoorde, Rijswijk (Holland)

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Interview journalist; Dr. Kranenburg, “Trouw” Newspaper, Overvoorde, The Hague, Holland, 4th July 1985 Journalist: I received some books and papers from you and I heard you yesterday evening in that congress hall. Sri Mataji: Did you? Journalist: I was there yes. Sri Mataji: I hope I didn’t hurt anyone. Journalist: And I liked to read it and to see what it is because I am interested in such things. Sri Mataji: Yes, one should be. Very important! Journalist: And I sometimes write about it in the newspapers and… Sri Mataji: That’s it. Journalist: And they asked me to think about it first… (Interruption) I have many questions, I hope you… They are different kinds. Sri Mataji: Yes, yes I don’t mind. I don’t mind. Journalist: But first I was speaking here with some of your friends and I asked; what is the difference between your method and other methods…? Sri Mataji: Of yogas? Journalist: Yes Sri Mataji: No, there is no difference at all. But I don’t think anybody has studied the entire thing in modern times. I mean, it’s just a wee bit of it here and there, you see. So it shows no integration but it’s all integrated, something that Patanjali wrote himself. Patanjali wrote. Journalist: Patanjali. Sri Mataji: Now, I don’t know how many have read the real Patanjali. Maybe, it’s such a big book, Patanjali’s “Yoga Shastra”. And yoga means to be one with the divine. There is no other meaning to it. Also it means Read More …

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A new awareness: self-realisation Het Nederlands Congresgebouw (World Forum), The Hague (Holland)

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First Public Programme day 1 in Holland, Het Congressgebouw, The Hague, Holland, 3rd July 1985 I bow to all the seekers of truth. I’m very sorry for being late today because they miscalculated the time that it will take to reach this place. We are talking about truth. Truth that we know of cannot be conceptualised, cannot be mentally understood. We have to know that truth is beyond mental conception. If we believe that this piece is hot, or this piece is cold, (pointing to the microphone) it’s just our mental idea. But we have to feel it, experience it. The truth has to be known on your central nervous system. It should not be just a conception that; “I’m very happy. I’m very joyous. I’m very blissful. I have found the truth.”, because truth can only be found out through our evolutionary process. We cannot achieve it through our human awareness. Human awareness is limited and whatever we do through our human awareness is also limited. If we have to ascend higher, we have to have a higher awareness, a superior awareness. This has been described thousands of years back in India and all over the world. Many great incarnations, prophets, all over the world have been talking about this awareness; this new awareness that we call self-realisation. In the name of these prophets and incarnations many religions were formed, organised, but I think they all missed the point. They missed the point that you have to be something higher; you have Read More …

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Is there anything beyond the human awareness? University of Gent, Ghent (Belgium)

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Public Program in the Auditorium at the Faculty of Science (Faculteit Wetenschappen), Campus Ledeganck, University of Ghent, Karel Lodewijk Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Introduction by a Sahaja Yogi:It is my privilige to introduce Shri Mataji, a wonderful personality, who I hope you will all meet in a very deeper way in the program. Shri Mataji is the founder of Sahaja Yoga, in which the union with God becomes an actualization. Shri Mataji actually gives this deep experience and you should get it tonight. This is an actualization, it should happen, you should enter a silence. Depending on the clarity of your nervous system, you should enter a very deep and holy silence. At the very least you should be light(?) and relaxed at the end of it.Shri Mataji herself is the wife of a diplomat, the Secretary General of the United Nations International Maritime Organization. As such she travels the world and shakes the hands of presidents and prime-ministers. Does anyone here not understand English? I am sorry, because we were limited by Flemish.Anyone who does not speak English? Who does not understand English? Hands up? Who does not understand English.It is all right. You’ll get the experience, this is just a little [talk? unclear], you wait for the experience.(translate?) Shri Mataji herself is a very cultured, very educated lady, with medical training, hence my particular interest as well but behind this external role that she plays, as well as a housewife, she has the capacity to actualize Self Read More …

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At the spiritual point you become a seeker Auditorium Shell, Brussels (Belgium)

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Public Program 1985-0701, Brussels I bow to all the seekers of truth. First of all, I must apologise for the small place that we have. But it gives me tremendous joy to see so many seekers in Brussels. It is a special category of human beings who are seekers, as it is human beings are the epitome of evolution, but seekers are people gifted with a special awareness who know that there is something beyond. They may not have known about it may be, they do not have in their concept what they are seeking but there is an urge, a desire to go beyond. Now, one has to know that whatever is the truth has to be known on our central nervous system. It is not a mental conception or an emotional attachment but it is something that happens to our nerves. Like if there is a dog or a horse and we want to take it through a dirty lane it does not mind, but human beings find it impossible to pass through that dirty lane. So, in our human awareness we have developed lots of sensitivities within ourselves, but when the sensitivity is developed in such a manner that one realizes that the joy does not lie in whatever things we are doing so far or whatever our forefathers have been doing, we have to go beyond then they are called as sages and the seekers. Hundred years back William Blake* has said about such people, men Read More …

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Press Conference International Press Center, Brussels (Belgium)

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Press Conference, 1985-0701 Shri Mataji: How do we start, am I suppose to say something about Kundalini? Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji we would like to know Shri Mataji Hmm Yogi: By your voice something about Shri Mataji: You have told them already? I can I think they can ask me questions if you have already told them they know of the subject Journalists discussing something among themselves Shri Mataji: Beg your pardon Journalist: says something Shri Mataji: Me? Journalist: They would like to hear from you Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: I see, I don’t know how what he has told you, but I have come here to tell you about something that may be good for all our problems in the west. The western mind has grown just like a tree has grown outside, without going into the roots, so the outgrown tree has to know about the roots, and thus we are waiting for a shock. Recently I have been to America and I feel that the danger to America is not from outside but from inside. They have been indulging into things without knowing what relationship it has to the whole, so the need of today is to know why we have these maladies. Where are we going? I have been searching within human beings the problem in a different way, inside them, I did my medicine and just to talk to `doctors and through meditative methods penetrating, I tried to find out why human beings are diverted Read More …

Departure (to Belgium) Talk Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy-en-France (France)

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Departure Talk, Charles de Gaulle airport, Roissy-en-France (France)Monday, July 1st, 1985 [All the attempts that have been done to create a trade by Sahaja Yogis for Sahaja Yoga have failed, but the ones that exist before]…Established shop is alright, like she has, but otherwise. So everybody must take up a job and should go on working on his job, not to change, it’s ego, absolutely ego that: “I’ve given up my job.” It’s ego, 100% it’s ego. You see as if, you see, as if it’s side dish; it’s the main issue for us to maintain yourself. Of course, Sahaja Yogi is there. And we had one case like this long time back of Douglas. Douglas he used to every time come and boast: “I’m successfully unemployed.” And I could not understand because he had no money, nothing, he was just trying to boast. And with all that, he was on and on and on. Then one day, I told him that: “You are not to see My face if you give up this job.” And when I’ve said that, you see, you’ll be surprised today he has got his own car, his own home, he’s got his work, he’s doing very well, both of them. So now, you should understand that you should not give up your job. Now those who are making something, like they are making some herb thing – who’s making the one you ?Now, for you also, you see, it should be a side dish, Read More …

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Inauguration of The Advent Palais des Congrès de Versailles, Versailles (France)

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Inauguration of “The Advent”. Versailles (France), 30 June 1985. Sir C.P: My dear Sahaja Yogis, Sahaja Yoginis, my very dear friends. First of all I would like to express my profound gratitude by the great honor you have done me today by allowing me to participate in this beautiful function. [Excusez-moi. Je ne parle pas le Francais. Je parle l’Anglais]. It’s totally/wholly wrong to come to France and not to speak French but I do apologize. This is a very important occasion; very important occasion from many points of view. I look upon the function today in a certain historical perspective. First of all about the book itself, “The Advent”, and the author I have had the privilege of knowing the author, the very distinguished author, the very learned author, Mr. Gregoire, for a number of years now. Well, I tell you, I have known many young men but his sparkling brilliance, his mastery of history – history of ideas, history of movements, his analysis of the past, his comprehension of the present and his vision of the future ? these are unique and I admire them and I respect them. His book has a message for the world, a message which is so needed today, a very important message. The inspirer of the message is sitting to his right but the one who has used his strong pen, beautiful pen, powerful pen to convey the message to the world is sitting here, Mr. Gregoire. I am very happy that Read More …

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Guru Puja: You Have To Respect Your Guru Château de Chamarande, Chamarande (France)

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Guru Puja, Paris (France), 29 June 1985. (Gavin Brown reads out prayer to Shri Ganesha in English at beginning of puja) I believe you all say these things, and you listen to it, and you say it from your heart. Only the one who are united with God can worship Shri Ganesha. And Shri Ganesh worships your Mother. First of all, one must understand that there’s a combination of a Mother and a guru. Because guru is a very hard task master. He doesn’t allow any liberties to be taken, and Mother is very kindly. Well, you don’t have feelings for the Mother, do you? Is it all a lip service, that you listen, goes into your head and you think you have become the surrendered sahaja yogis? Like all Islam, people believe they’re surrendered to God, like Christians believe they’re surrendered to God. It’s just a lip service that you are this, you are that. How do you know what is said is a fact? Have you not seen the Sun in My hands? What more proof you want? Anybody who misleads you is of course is sinful, no doubt, but to fall a trap to such a person! If you had told a child that The Mother is coming, he would have fought, “I’m going!” Would have cried and wept. What about your vibrations? You don’t use your vibrations? You have come all the way from Guru Puja here, who is your Guru? Whom are you going to Read More …

Devi Puja: Ashtami Madrid (Spain)

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1985-06-27 Puja in Madrid Just rub on My Feet. Rub with both the hands. Rub your hands; rub your hands. Now, see yourself. Now see your vibrations, now see. Got it? All right! Now, let’s have the third, second, three persons. May God bless you! Yogi: The restaurant belongs to this lady. Shri Mataji: Yes,yes, I know. She came to Me, she was weeping.. Rub it now; rub it; rub it. See, just rub your hands, all right? Rub your hands. Rub it. Hard. Both the hands. Done. They are all right. They have got it. Now see. All right? Good. May God bless you! You did wash? You did wash, ah? All right. Those who are…, he here, he, and you come along. Who else? Yogi: He already washed Your feet before. Shri Mataji: Doesn’t matter, once more. Rub it, rub it,just rub it. Rub your hands that’s all. All right. Rub, rub your hands. Rub your hands, rub your hands now. Rub your hands, not the feet. Rub it hard. Hard, hard. I don’t feel bad. I don’t feel anything if you rub Me hard. Now rub your hands. See now. All right? Here! Rub it hard, hard. He’s married or not? He’s married? Ah! Rub hard. Rub it hard, here. You are all right. You got it. You are all right? Are you all right? Good. May God bless you! Rub it hard. Is better now, see. Now see. Ha! Better? Good. Who else is left? Come Read More …

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Prana Madrid, Colegio Mayor Chaminade (Spain)

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Public Program Day 2, Madrid, 1985-0627 I bow to all the seekers of truth. I am happy that you people have read something about seeking and about Indian thought. The climate in India is so good and congenial that people don’t have to worry about say from the cold, or dust and all those things which people have to face in other countries. You can live under a tree and you are all right. And so the people started seeking inside not outside, as in the west they went outside in the sense that they developed as a tree, not as a root. Luckily, they had great sages and incarnations to guide them properly to proper lines. And if you go to the traditional knowledge that has come out, that is what I am telling you today. But only about 100 years back, you see, some people wanted to sell it and they gathered something here, something here and they published books. Now I will tell you what is prana is. First of all, we were ‘jadas’ means matter. If you have seen periodic laws of chemistry, you will see that carbon is placed in the centre. So, the carbon that was created in the mother earth with the heat became the central point of all the chemicals that were there. Now carbon is placed within us on the first centre which has tetra valences. Because of its tetra valency, it started combining and we have organic chemistry, means living Read More …

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Holy Ghost is the mother, which gives you your second birth Madrid, Colegio Mayor Chaminade (Spain)

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Public Program Day 1, Colegio Mayor Chaminade, Madrid (Spain) Wednesday, June 26th, 1985 I bow to all the seekers of truth. When we say we are seeking the truth, we have to know that it is not a mental projection that we are seeking. Nor it is an emotional projection. Truth exists beyond emotional and mental projections. In the evolutionary process that we have become human beings, whatever we have known as truth, is expressed on our central nervous system. But there are many things which are unknown to us and we think it may be divine. But when the devin or the divine shines, then we get empowered with the powers of the spirit. For example, somebody sees the light, but he is not the light. If you have to become the light, then you will have the powers of the light within you. Now also, another problem with us is that we understand everything thru money. But, if it is the living process within us, how can we pay for it? We have become human beings from amoeba, what did we pay for that? Also, what did we do about it? So we have to know that whatever has to happen to us, has to happen in a living process, without paying for it or without any effort put into it. This is rather difficult for us human beings to accept. But it’s a fact that you can’t do anything about it. It is within you, the power, Read More …

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Farewell (Short) Puja Founex Ashram, Founex (Switzerland)

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Farewell Puja,  Founex,  Switzerland  14 June 1985 What’s it? Now, who is going to play that? That’s great. Sit down. Sit down. Ah, the roses have grown in sizes. Do you see that? Yogi: Huge, Mataji. They are huge. But they are growing in size. Your vibrations I think. All right. So now. I’m sorry we had to do this hurried up thing today. And with the situations one has to adjust, that is what is the situation is today. I may not be able to come back for Krishna Puja, but – Navaratri, sorry, Navaratri, may not be, may be, I can’t say. But whatever it is. We should have a little Puja. That’s what was the desire. So, we’ll do it now; only you have not much time. But you can say the mantras and somebody can just wash My Feet and then My hands. So it takes about five minutes to wash the feet. Yogi: Should we say Your hundred and eight names? There’s a translation in English. That will be. All right? If you think so – but I think better is to say mantras, it’s better, the mantras of the chakras, you see. It is better to say because that also is very important, to say the mantras of the chakras. Yogi: From the beginning? … from the end, yes. So you say one and then repeat, from one to another. Now, start it. We can start with Shri Ganesha. Yogi: Ganesha, Shri Ganesha. Three Read More …

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All great Incarnations are just one Geneva (Switzerland)

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Public Program. Geneva (Switzerland), 13 June 1985. I bow to all the seekers of truth. We are here to know about the truth. First through our mental understanding and then through our experience, to prove everything that you have heard so far. But the minds are very conditioned. Like in India, when you talk about Christ to Hindus, say that Christ is based and placed in the Agnya chakra, they think that I’m trying to spread Christianity, because I was born in a Christian family. But when people talk about the deities on the chakras, which is a fact, people in the West start thinking they are talking about Hindu philosophy. But one must know that are all related to each other. Christ Himself has said in the Bible that: “Those who are not against us are with us”. Who are those? Actually the most unfortunate thing is that Christ was not allowed to speak more than three and a half years. I’ve been coming to Switzerland for four years and I have been telling [UNCLEAR] before talking about the deities. Because I know the conditioning of the Western mind. They will never try to understand that there is something beyond what they know from the missionaries. It is a very difficult situation but I think the Sahaja Yogis feel the emergency. They feel that it is now necessary to start talking about the truth plainly to everyone. If they do not want to come in, all right. But at Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: it’s a very great fight I have started with the satanic forces and negativity Neuchatel (Switzerland)

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Neuchatel (Switzerland), 12 June 1985. Sahaja Yogi: Flowers, I am sure the weddings of last year worked out such tremendous… Shri Mataji: Effects. Sahaja Yogi: Size of flowers. Shri Mataji: I have been very anxious to meet you all together, all the Sahaja Yogis of Switzerland. Now the reason for that is, this time when I came I found so many beautiful people at the airport and some of them I’ve not met, I felt, before. Now those who I’ve not met I would like them to stand up and tell Me their names. Sahaja Yogi: Hello. [French] Shri Mataji: What’s the name? Sahaja Yogini: Renata. Sahaja Yogi: She was going to the United States in Washington. Shri Mataji: Really? Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Shri Mataji: We have already got there someone, somebody. Linda is her name and her husband’s name is [Curly]. He is going there and he is an engineer. Sahaja Yogi: She has a very high position in the work so… Shri Mataji: What, what is she doing there? Sahaja Yogi: She is speaking in English. Shri Mataji: Oh, I see. Sahaja Yogi: I am a General Manager for an American company that is involved in the beauty business. Shri Mataji: Oh, I see. I see. Sahaja Yogi: And I have just received a promotion as a senior vice-president of a very important division in America with the same company. Shri Mataji: Very good. Sahaja Yogi: And I will be based in Washington. Shri Mataji: It’s very good. Read More …

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The Truth Has Two Sides Geneva (Switzerland)

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Geneva Public programme 11th June 1985 ‘The Truth has Two Sides’  I bow to all the seekers of truth. But the truth has two sides: the illusion that we see can look like truth, and the essence of the illusion also may appear to be truth. But the other side is absolute and has to be felt, has to be experienced on your central nervous system. It’s not a mental projection that we can think of, nor emotional imagination, but truth is what it is, it cannot be changed. It cannot compromise. We have to humble down ourselves to know the truth. Now we have discovered so many things in the science, by humility that we have not known so far. But whatever is known outside, like the tree, must have roots, and these roots are not known if you are just looking at the tree. And when somebody talks about the roots, we get shaken up because we have had no knowledge of it before. Thus we are conditioned to only see the tree, and we cannot make our mind understand that there must be some roots to it. So we can say that people have advanced in science quite a lot, and have progressed and have become developed countries. But they do not know, if they do not seek their roots they will be completely destroyed. Now when I’m before you, one should not in any way feel that I’m here to offend you, but I’ve come here Read More …

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Become an instrument of the divine power  Founex (Switzerland)

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Public Program. Founex (Switzerland), 11 June 1985. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Today we have a new generation of people what we call the people who are seekers. These are some special category who are seeking something beyond. They are seeking the truth as they say. But what is the truth? What are you seeking? As I told yesterday in Geneva that whatever you are seeking has to be something sensible. It cannot be something nonsensical, that something new comes to you and you just accept it because it is new, but must evolve through that traditional understanding of seeking. Then we are on the right path. As I told you yesterday only one hundred years back new methods of seeking started, which has no relationship whatsoever to the old methods, to the tried out methods, to be traditionally practiced, no relationship at all. And so I have read books where it says that Kundalini awakening gives you problems, it gives you heat, you start jumping like a frog. Now, we are not going to now become frogs, are we? What urge we have of seeking is coming through our evolutionary process. It is a living process, which is within us, which has made us amoeba. Now if you have to become something higher, then we are not going to be like frogs by any chance. So we should see how in the scriptures, ancient scriptures of every religion it is described, and you can bring down Read More …

Interview Apollo Theater, New York City (United States)

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Shri Mataji Interview at the Apollo Theatre Harlem NYC 07-06-1985 Anchor–   What led you into a path to follow the spiritual pursuit to develop a yoga system. Shri Mataji:  Kundalini yoga is not a modern thing, it is a very ancient thing used to in India many a times to give realization to people. But at that time there were very few seekers of truth and very few people got self realization. Any discovery when it is not made collective it is of no use. And those people we call saints are those who have got spiritual powers, all who have got self- realization. So, I thought that in this modern times, people are in such a hurry and do not have time to sit down and meditate so find out a method by which people get a quick awakening of the kundalini. Anchor:  What is the difference between Yoga and Meditation. Shri Mataji There is no difference at all, because yoga means your union with the divine power which is all pervading. That’s real yoga other are just physical and things like that. The real yoga means that and the difference is that, the people who are doing any kind of other yoga must know one thing that everything is built in within you like in the car, unless and until you ignite the car and start it no use moving the wheels or moving the steering. In the same way, when there is no awakening of the Read More …

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You have to rise to the fourth dimension School for the Humanities, New York City (United States)

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Public Program Day 3, School for the Humanities. New York (USA), 5 June 1985. We are today here to know about the truth. Now the main problem as I told you with the East and West is this that in the Western mind it is the outward movement of the attention. And it was necessary to move outward, to grow outward. In the same way, it is necessary to grow inward. These both the things are part and parcel of one being. There’s no separate thing like East and West. God made only one world. We think that there is East, West, North, South. It’s not so. So when the tree has grown up too much we must find out the roots. And some people, as I told you, in India who were bothered and worried, started thinking about why are we on this earth. As a result of that, they reached a point where they started seeing that there is something beyond us. As I told you yesterday, there are ten valences within us. That means matter has eight and we have ten valencies. Now it is not yet complete. At the ten valences, we balance ourselves. That’s why all the great prophets came on this earth. Like Abraham, Mosses, Nanak, Janak to give us a balance. But then we asked, why the balance. Balance is for the ascent. With the balance, our attention gets properly distributed and in the centre concentrated to ascent. So after balancing, ascension is Read More …

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Unless and until you reach your spirit, you are not going to get the satisfaction of achieving anything School for the Humanities, New York City (United States)

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1985-06-04 Public Program, Day 2, School For The Humanities, West 18th St., New York, USA Yesterday I told you how self is more important than anything else at the present state of human awareness.  When you are at the human awareness first thing that should happen to you is to feel your self. As Shri Krishna has said, “Atmane atmane thushtaha.”  Unless and until you reach your Atma, your spirit, you are not going to get the satisfaction of achieving anything. Because Kundalini, which you see here seated in the triangular bone which we call as the sacrum that means, Greek knew about it.  Greek knew about the sacrum bone. Otherwise they would not have called it as sacrum, means sacred. Even when I went to Athens I was surprised that Athena the word ‘Atha’ comes from Sanskrit, means primordial.  And She had a snake like thing on… in Her hand with all the chakras. So the Greeks knew about it. And when I talked to them they told Me that it is a fact that Indians came much before Alexander. We had rapport with Indians much before Alexander and they told us about the primordial Mother and Her three powers.  It is very amazing how they knew all about it. And then it all got lost because of the extroversion, a moving out from reality. So this bone, sacrum bone contains or here resides the Kundalini in three and a half coil.  This is the power of our pure desire. Read More …

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A very ancient traditional understanding about the spirit School for the Humanities, New York City (United States)

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Public Program Day 1, 1985-06-03, New York City I bow to all seekers of truth.  But when we are seeking the truth we have to understand that truth is to be known through our accent and through our awareness that is our central nervous system.  Not through mental projections.  For example what just now has been described to you is the knowledge of the roots.  The west has developed and developed because of extroversion like a tree. It has reached its climax now.  But it must find out its roots.  If the tree is not sustained and nourished by the roots it is quite possible that it will topple down in no time.  So we have to learn I think from India so much about the tree.  But perhaps you have to learn something from us about the roots. When we are developing outside too much the biggest problem I face is that people take easily to something that is new.  They are charmed by anything that is out of the way and something new.  But in Sahaja yoga when you see it clearly you will understand that it is not a today’s thought.  It is not a 100 year thought but it’s a very ancient traditional understanding about the spirit.  While in west people get very much enamored by things which are absolutely new, for example hundred years back.  It’s very surprising how they do not see something beyond and they want to try everything that is new which Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: Play the melody of God Englewood Ashram, New Jersey (United States)

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Shri Krishna Puja. Englewood (USA), 2 June 1985. Today we are going to do the worship of Shri Krishna. Shri Krishna came at a time on this earth when in India the people were very much ritualistic. They had become slaves of the so-called Brahmins who had no idea about God at all because they started a theme that a Brahmin can have a Brahmin son. So, the birth determined the caste of a person. Before that, it was not that a Brahmin would have a Brahmin as his son. It’s also true that if you are a Realized soul, in the real sense, if you are a really Realized soul, then you must have a child which is a Realized soul. And that is how also if it was said that if the father is a Brahmin, is a Realized soul, his son also becomes a Brahmin. Because you are a Sahaja Yogi now you can understand that a Sahaja Yogi’s son normally becomes a Sahaja Yogi. So it was agreed that children of a Brahmin will be called as a Brahmin. Gradually, it amounted to this that any child born out of a Brahmin was called as Brahmin. Now, we have seen that many Sahaja Yogis also don’t have Realized souls as their children. Maybe their own karmas, maybe the child, anything it is, but even I have seen some Sahaja Yogis having horribly devilish children. So, it shows that it is not through your birth you can Read More …

Reaching People With Music Englewood Ashram, New Jersey (United States)

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1985-0602 Reaching People With Music Shri Mataji: Raise your hands! Haya! One two three four five six seven eight nine, nine ten. Yogi: Mother one more here. Shri Mataji: I saw him. Eleven twelve thirteen fourteen, good number fourteen. That’s a good number all right. Yogi: Let us make it a hundred and eight. Shri Mataji: You see if only in this group number is fourteen, I can tell you it would be a hundred and eight marriages. We have only fifty-four marriages. But I think it’s going to be a hundred and eight. All right let’s see what happens. But marrying them in India is better, is easier. We had it in what you call this place, Switzerland, very difficult, we married, we did it, very difficult and you don’t get some nice presents. Isn’t it you got lots of nice things. For a little amount that you pay we can manoeuvre something very good. You will be happy to know that Indians also pay lots of money, substantiated it. Of course, you people also paid some money there. And actually, if you see that the people who paid all together we calculated that for every couple, even the people who attended the wedding paid two dollars each. You cannot buy any present for two dollars each. But in a collective way it was so beautiful, worked out so well. It was such a time I tell you unforgettable as if we were in the Vrindavan, beautifully done. We Read More …

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The Role of Woman in the USA Englewood Ashram, New Jersey (United States)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, First Darshan, Englewood Ashram, NJ. 1985 – 06 – 01Formal Talk: Role of Women, Shakti Power, Women in America ​First of all, Sahaja Yogis have no business to feel guilty, especially when you are on the land of Shri Krishna. That’s an anti-Krishna activity. When Krishna is not awakened, then it is alright. But if he is awaken within us, then it’s not alright at all. Both things are wrong, to be guilty as well as make others guilty, to be guilty and to be aggressive, both things are wrong. For this, one must understand that all centers have got their own countries, and a country is called as “Desh” in Sanskrit language. And when it is enlightened, it is called as “Pradesh”. So if we have to make America a Pradesh, it’s not a very easy task. All kinds of anti-Krishna activities are done by people who live here. And so to make it a Pradesh, first we have to make it a Desh, and then we can make it a Pradesh. As I say that Canada is the left side of the Vishuddhi and also left- or the right, we can say, because all the minerals, all the earthly qualities of Canada are exploited by America. So whatever is their own, is like taking out of your flesh and eating it up, and feeling full. All kinds of aggressive qualities of the right side are done. Now to bring them to proper level, nature Read More …

Arrival Talk Brooklyn (United States)

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Arrival Talk, Brooklyn, United States, 01-06-1986 Like a child will accept (..inaudible word) if you tell a child do not put your figure in the plug (..inaudible word)….whatever you say everything (..inaudible word)….…..only few days back a Mexican fellow…..(..inaudible word) why you follow Freud so much?….because he gave something new you never gave anything new, what about plastic. It must come out of evolution from a living process a real flower not plastic flower and all these Gurus have come out of one book which I know now which was written 70-78 years back. (..inaudible word) (perhaps –“whole”)movement is only 100 years old of Theosophical society of Vivekananda. (..inaudible word) nothing. It should diverse, just opposite, justa-position with all Vedas, all ancient books everything (..inaudible word) nothing because it is new thing they wanted to (..inaudible word) they say they like tradition, they do not know what tradition is. For India 100 years is no tradition, or even 2000 years is no tradition, it is thousands of years, whatever in the growth of the tradition has fallen off, has gone off, like tantriks this- that, all of them came and went away. Khajaraho is that went away, nothing stayed off and only these people revived all that was filth in the tradition so far, like so called Kama, from where all these books come from, God only knows we have no idea. They were all forbidden laws, finished somewhere these people went and I do not know.(someone suggests that these Read More …

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Devi Puja: Steady Yourself San Diego (United States)

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Devi Puja. San Diego, California (USA), 31 May 1985. May God bless you.Please be seated. (Just to record, hmm?)It’s such a pleasure to be in the ashram in San Diego. And it’s such a beautiful place, so much expressing the love of God, the Divine, the way it wants to help you at every step. If you want to have an ashram, if you want to have a proper place, you want to look after your children well, you want to do God’s work, everything is looked after, everything has to be worked out. If it is not worked out, then how will you do your work? So, it all works out. And it’s so obvious, the way we have different ashrams, such comfortable places at a very reasonable amount that we can afford, that we can live happily together. This is the abode created by love for you. So, the first thing we have to remember, that among ourselves we should have complete love. [Marathi] We should not trust people who try to divide us, who try to give us wrong ideas. It’s very easy to make out a person who is a Sahaja yogi from the heart. It’s very easy to make out. You have to be a little more sensitive and you’ll find out such a person very easily. Whatever may be the cunning, it can be discovered. Nobody can act against God now, because everything will be discovered and will be found out. But we have Read More …

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Enjoying The Joy San Diego (United States)

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Public Program day 2 in San Diego (USA), 30 May 1985. I’m really sorry for getting so late. It happens and whatever happens one has to accept. That’s how the Divine works. Everything has some reasons. Now, Dave has been able to explain to you what centers we have within ourselves and he has told you what is the mechanism within ourselves. It is all built within us during the different periods of our evolution. Every center is built like that. Now, all this is built, like a pathway. By left and right you create the central path of your ascent. And when this pure energy of your desire ascends, is awakened, then it pierces through the last center what we call as Sahasrara, meaning the thousand petalled centre, which is the brain, we can say, or part of the brain which covers the limbic area. The Spirit is the reflection of God Almighty and it resides in our heart. When the Kundalini touches the Sahasrara, the seat of the Spirit, which is reflected in the heart, gets enlightened. That doesn’t mean the Spirit gets enlightened but the attention is like a sari, which is pushed in like this, and when it touches, it pierces through and the Spirit in the heart, which has the seat here, starts entering into our central nervous system. So the first feeling you get is a cool breeze on top of your head. That’s the first feeling. Second feeling you get is All-pervading Power Read More …

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Mental Projections give us Illusions San Diego (United States)

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Public Program day 1. San Diego (USA), 29 May 1985. I bow to all the seekers of truth. I came to San Diego long time back and I’m very happy to come back here. When we talk of truth we have to understand that truth is not what we understand through our mental projections. Mostly the mental projections give us illusions. There is no reality behind them. Truth is an experience of the central nervous system. For example if this is cold I can feel it, it is cold. Even if a child touches this, it can feel it, it is cold. If it is hot we can feel it on central nervous system, that it is hot. In the same way the truth is to be known on central nervous system, not through mental projections. While we live on mental projections some people come and talk about truth, we think he is the man standing on truth. He represents truth. Somebody talks about compassion – we believe he’s very compassionate he’s very peaceful. But compassion does not speak, it is silent, it acts, it works. So one has to understand that to get to truth, to get to reality one has to cross the barrier of mental activity. Unless and until you understand this simple point, is going to be difficult to give Realization to people. This is the basic trouble in the western countries that they think that they can conceive truth through their mental projections and that’s Read More …

Music and Conversation on Sainath of Shirdi Los Angeles (United States)

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Music and Conversation on Sainath of Shirdi [Somebody is playing guitar, a Marathi song] Shri Mataji: Hai, Mathe.  Sahaja Yogis: Hai, Mathe. [End of the song] Shri Mataji: Wow, beautiful, very beautiful, very, very beautiful, beautiful.  A Sahaja Yogi: Thank you, Mother. Shri Mataji: Hmm, just tremendous. How did you do it? Everybody’s laughing.  Shri Mataji: Marathi kaha se aa gaya?  Sahaja Yogi who was singing: Ma, English main likha hoga, translation Madhuri [unclear].  Shri Mataji: Marathi is a very difficult language to pronounce, but you did well.  Sahaja Yogi who was singing: Yes… I made a lot of mistakes at first. Shri Mataji: We have the most difficult language. Beautiful. But I feel Marathi is a very integrated language.  Sahaja Yogi who was singing: Yes.  Shri Mataji: It’s a very integrated language. It doesn’t have only one style or one type of things. It is very direct and very subtle, very, very integrated language. I mean, even the jokes and things, there is no vulgarity at all. Maharashtrians don’t know vulgarity. All the time they are laughing. And people can’t understand so why they are laughing. Every word, you see, has double meanings and this and that, very happy people. Very integrated language, I must say.  Like my husband who have come with Me, he used to come with me to see some Marathi places, and to translate it at that instant, I mean instantaneously, was so difficult for Me. I said, “This language has a big tradition behind it, history behind it. How to translate it that fast?” One day, it Read More …

About creation, problems of Americans Los Angeles (United States)

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About creation, problems of Americans So, we’ll not go too far with the creation, but we have to start it from some point, that first it was just Parabrahma, and when this energy Parabrahma was in silence, then nothing was there, just silence. From that [too] it was awakened that a human being can sleep, in the same way it was sleeping. Then the desire was awakened that there should be creation. So, the desire was emitted out, out of the being, all around, and so we have two powers created. The first one is the power of God Almighty what we call, is the power of desire of God Almighty and God Almighty Himself. So the first was the Adi Shakti, power of God’s desire. Now this Adi Shakti who is the power of God, was, was the Adi Maya, is the first one.  So, the Parabrahma became divided into two parts. One was the God Almighty, Sadashiva, and the Adi Shakti. So, the first power was created. Then the Adi Shakti was asked to create. And so, if you read My chapter on creation which I’ve written down, you’ll see how Omkara was created and all that. But we’ll go further with it. That it took three shapes. Before becoming the three shapes, Adi Shakti herself had to assume the ego, cause She had to create. With human beings is the other way round. When they do something, they develop ego. But God has to have ego to Read More …

Sahaj Behavior Los Angeles (United States)

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Sahaj Behavior, Seminar Part 1, Los Angeles (USA), 1985-05-28 So, that’s a very good stanza if you can remember it by heart, I’ll say it again: [Sanskrit stanza from Adi Shankaracharya] “Pratah smarami hridi samsphura ta twam Satchitsukham paramahansa gatim turiyam” The second part of it: “Yat swapna jagara sushupta mavaiti nityam Tad Brahma nishkalamaham na cha bhuta sanghaha.” So, the second part is – So, the first part, as I told you, is the Spirit which we must bow to, which is the “sat chit ananda”, the one which gives you truth, the enlightened attention and the joy and which takes you beyond the fourth dimension [turiya]. “Yat swapna jagara sushupta mavaiti nityam”: which is awake under the three conditions of our consciousness. There are three conditions of our state, of our consciousness. The first is the sleeping condition, when we are sleeping. Another is the awakened, and sushupti is beyond, beyond the sleep. In all these states of consciousness, it is awake, that Brahma, that All-pervading Power. I am that [prap] All-pervading Power that Brahma, not the combination of five elements. I’m not just the combination of five elements “bhuta sanghaha”. But I’m that All-pervading Power, that Atma which connects you to that All-pervading Power, and I’m not just this reflector which is the combination of five elements.  Just when you think like that, early in the morning, you just rise above and then you do not start with mundane ideas about life, but you start your ideas Read More …

Another Mozart, Lincoln, Gandhi? Los Angeles (United States)

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Another Mozart, Lincoln, Gandhi? Shri Mataji: Actually, in the West, I must say, it was unsolved, another unfortunate thing that you never had good kings. All horrible kings were there. And also, the people who came here, invaded Indians, and all those people were very cruel people. And that time aggressiveness was regarded as a very courageous thing. So, the aggression is still on. But we had people like Abraham Lincoln in this country. Think of it. And but for Abraham Lincoln you would not have been even knowing about freedom. But can we produce one Abraham Lincoln again? We can only have Reagan the actor.  Sahaja Yogis: Yes. Shri Mataji: [Hindi] So this is what we have to understand. We had Mahatma Gandhi in India. Can we produce another Mahatma Gandhi? We had Shivaji in Maharashtra. Can we produce another Shivaji? As if they are all legendary people. We had Maxim Gorki. Can we produce another one like him in Russia? Or even Lenin? We have had in England people like Shakespeare. Can we have another one to replace him?  Art. We had Michelangelo. Can we have another one nearer him?  Music. We had Mozart. Can you replace him today? Anybody can beat him? In the West, I am talking. We had Garibaldi. Can we have another Garibaldi? We cannot. So, the quality has gone down definitely. And no hope. So, this is the only hope we have, that we’ll create out of Sahaja Yogis all these great people again. All right? [Hindi] Let us Read More …

Miracles In Sahaja Yoga Los Angeles (United States)

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Miracles In Sahaja Yoga Please stop, we cannot [unsure]. That we had such miracles in India when I was doing up My house. I had made a staircase in India. We put up in the banisters that they call it banister, that’s the place I’ve measured and think about it, entirely thought. And we have one Sahaja Yogi, [Pradhan] who is a carpenter, who was trying to put it up. So, I said, ‘All right, I’m resting now, here, just try.” And when I got up after half an hour it was still unfit. I said, “What happened?” “Mother, it cannot be fitted. It’s too long. Otherwise how can I fit?” “It cannot be fitted?” “No. How to cut it? Because if we cut it the pattern is not. How we’ll manage?” “I said, “Very simple.” I asked him, “Just hold it, this way, that way, just hold it and cut it with it.” See the wisdom part how it has fitted.” I’ve got it paid in India and measurement was not that I’ve taken like that, I’ve made up, you see. Second thing that happened that we were, you see, we had to put some marble on the ground floor, the basement, and that can be of some sort of a style that cannot be put by anybody. And three, four Sahaja Yogis had come from Rome. And they said, “Mother, you must tell us something to be done. After all, everybody has worked and we want to do Read More …

The role of men and women in a couple, how to speak to new comers Los Angeles (United States)

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The role of men and women in a couple, how to speak to new comers Shri Mataji: The Anglo-Saxon’s brain won’t accept that you say you should not pay any money for Sahaja Yoga. I said, “For this high-level people there is no Sahaja Yoga.” They can’t understand that you can give Sahaja Yoga without paying any money. So I said, “Really? Then, you tell Me from your Anglo-Saxon’s brain how much should I charge them?” He said, “Millions.” I said, “Really? That’s it. Then you think millions will do compensating for what I give them?” Then he started thinking of it. That’s an ego trick going on, you see. They talk. I’ve seen them, in the other life of Mine, where I see in the parties and all that. “Oh, have you been to that guru?” “No, it’s rather expensive.” “Try. It’s good.” It’s like trying on a horse. Very superficial. Try something new, you see. New, new should be tried. A new wife, new clothes, new style, new everything, new cars, new things. You shouldn’t have anything of permanent nature. Everything should be tried new. Everything should become a junk within one year’s time. Sahaja Yogi: It’s terrible. Shri Mataji: How will they like something that is eternal, that is the Spirit? Changeless. The houses are built in these days, buildings are built in these days in such a manner that it is easy to dismantle that. That’s the basic. Sahaja Yogi: It’s prefabricated everything they have. When Read More …

Ganesha is a tapasyi London (England)

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Undated Talk at a UK Airport, possibly 27 May 1985. Today’s program, I am happy in a way we could manage, because you know, in Rome we have done wonders. We have really done wonders in Rome, no doubt about it. The press conference was just like a meeting of Sahaja Yogis and also the television was as if it was our own television, was a fine television. But there’s one credit must be given. To the Sahaja Yogis, they are very dedicated people. Not only that but they see to it that they keep themselves all right. And they work very hard, they get up everyday morning, clean themselves, live in a collective way. England, I’ve worked very hard because it’s the heart. But as the Sahaja Yogis go, I don’t know. We have some very good ones, but we have some horrid ones too. And that’s what we have to look after ourselves and not after others. Now, one thing you must know, if you have red faces that means you have Vishuddhi. That is the right Vishuddhi, and if you have white faces that means you have the left Vishuddhi. Now, if we have a problem with our Vishuddhis we cannot go further, and it comes out of a simple thing, that we are not collective enough. We are still individualistic. Then the habits will develop. Before coming to Sahaja Yoga. Now, the habits we developed, before coming to Sahaja Yoga, we have no will power to Read More …

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This is the most important time Venice (Italy)

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This is the most important time, Venice, Italy, 1985-05-22 I bow to all the seekers of truth. People told me that in Venice, there are many seekers. But I did not know that there are so many, I am very happy to meet you all. Now at this time we have to know, that this is the most important time for all the seekers; because this is the time when you have to get your seeking, yourself, your Spirit. In the history of seeking, we have never had so many seekers on this earth. The reason is, this is the special time that has come, where you have to get your blessings of your age old seeking. Whatever you have heard about the kundalini is the knowledge of the roots. The tree of the human civilization has grown too big and we must seek our roots, otherwise all this that is developed can be destroyed in no time. We have to ask ourselves a question, “ Why we are created from amoeba to this stage of a human being ?” The second question should be asked to ourselves, we see day the miracles of living force around us but we have never felt the existence of it. When you ask these two questions, the third question comes, to our mind, “ Why are we here? What are we doing here? What are we supposed to seek? What is the truth?” In our search we have become human beings, but beyond Read More …

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Two powers within Rome (Italy)

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From 30:27sec Shri Mataji speaks Shri Mataji:  I bow to all the seekers of truth. As I said yesterday the seekers of truth are a special category of people in the evolutionary process of human beings. Those who are seeking reality see clearly that whatever we have known so far is not the reality, but whatever is unknown is not reality also. Human beings have been made especially with great care, delicately to ascent to the highest state of the spirit and there are many things which are kept away absolutely from their awareness just to keep them peaceful.  For example, we do not know about our subconscious and about collective subconscious, also we do not know about Supra conscious area and the collective Supra conscious. They are manifested within us by two powers, as you see – one the power of Desire on the left hand side and one by the power of action on the right hand side.  The left hand side, which caters to our subconscious, manifests the emotions within us and all the conditioning that people talk about and beyond the subconscious lies the collective subconscious. On the right hand side of ours is manifested our futures, which is the Supra conscious mind and the right side channel what we call as the channel for action manifest the Supra conscious, beyond that lies the collective supra conscious, but the super consciousness is on the top of our head where we have to ascent, we are not Read More …

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Achieve the Absolute Rome (Italy)

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Public program, day 1, Rome, Italy, 20-05-1985 I bow to all seekers of Truth (Shri Mataji folds her hands and bow to the audience) First of all, we must know, what are we seeking. What is the Truth? The truth is very simple, that in our evolutionary process we have not yet completed our journey. We have become human beings, but we have to still get to a position which is absolute. A state where we’ll have joy, where we will be blissful and where we will become collectively conscious.When people are not satisfied with what they have, they start seeking the Truth and such people are of a special category. These are quite a lot in the modern times, while in the beginning of life there were very few who were seeking the Truth. In the beginning, men started seeking protection from Nature, and then he tried to find out possession, money, power and a state reached where he found that these things do not give you permanent satisfaction.We believe that a certain thing if we get, we will be very joyous and satisfied. Like somebody wants to have a car, then he is not satisfied. Then he wants to have a house, then he is not satisfied. Like that he is seeking about the pleasures of life, goes on and on and on, but he is never satisfied. Thus, the law of economics says that wants, in general, are never satiable in particular maybe but not in general. Read More …