Day: 1986/01/25 (Saturday)

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Interview Madras (India)

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 TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW MADRAS INDIA 25-01-1986 [Audio recording. Inaudible for the first minute]. Interview: ..Monthly magazine running to about fifty pages. February issue we have brought out running to fifty-six pages.  Shri Mataji: That is very good. Interviewer: It is appearing in the Tamil language. Shri Mataji: That is also necessary you know, you have people from. Interviewer: And we have circulation about one lakh. We have one lakh. Shri Mataji: Now you have to ask me questions because I do not know what to tell. We are from the same. Interviewer: This is our advertising agent gave, who organised this speech. And one Mr Mani.  Interviewers and Sahaja Yogis: Mr Mani from “Ganapati”. Famous Tamil weekly. Rajadivasthi. Shri Mataji: Rajadi? Interviewers: Rajadivasthi, patron. He has written about Ramayana, Mahabharata and all other religious matters in our weekly magazine. We have a circulation of about eighty thousand. Sahaja Yogi: The name of the magazine, Mother is “Kalaki”. Shri Mataji: “Kalaki”. Good, good, very good. Now, but this is published from where? Interviewers and Sahaja Yogis: From Dindi. Madras, here itself. It is a Tamil weekly appearing from Madras. Shri Mataji: That is also absolutely Tamil. Someone: There is also a ladies-only magazine, “Mangaya Mala” devoted for ladies. And we have got another magazine for children, “Gokulam”. So we have got three magazines we are bringing out. Shri Mataji: You see, these are all the ways to bring, should be for “janahita” ( public good). Everything should be for “janahita”. See, Read More …

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Devi Puja Madras (India)

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Devi Puja in Madras (Chennai) 25th January 1986 Please be seated.Madras is known for perfect rituals about puja and that is how, in the growth of our awareness, even towards God and towards the rituals, we have moved from reality.As they say the tree of awareness grows downward. So in the West it grew towards materialism, grew towards something that was filthy; went down and down. But as Shri Krishna has said the roots are in your head.But in the Hindu religion it didn’t go that bad. In other religions it did, but not in Hindu religion, that bad. But what happened in the Hindu religion [is] that it went to the left or to the right. So when it went to the right it went towards the elements, of worshipping of elements. That’s how they started Vedas. Vedas are like srutis, and srutis are made to master the elements, to master the elements.Now, how do you master the elements? You can ask the breeze to blow in. Now you need some breeze, all right have it. You can do the Sun miracles of every kind. You can get the rain if you want. All these things could have been done through the Vedas. But the first and foremost thing in the Vedas, is that it should be vida. ‘Vida’ is the word, ‘vida’ is the main word. Now vida means bodha.‘Bodha’ means the experience of the central nervous system. It doesn’t mean that I give you a big lecture Read More …