Day: 1985/10/26 (Saturday)

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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 …