Day: 1987/07/12 (Sunday)

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Evening after Guru Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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1987-07-12 Evening after Guru Puja, Shudy Camps, UK[After the concert – 1:45:57 ]  Shri Mataji: We have to thank all of us, Debu Chaudhary who is one of us, who has played such divine music for the entertainment of our spirit.  I wish from here many of you take inspiration and go deep down into the arts that you know and develop beautiful things for the entertainment of our spirit.  May God bless him and may God bless Subhash who is such a good player and will come up very fast I am sure.  He has very delicate finger touches and I am sure he will have other dimensions to this instrument of tabla.  We have many types of tabla players, and everybody has some speciality and this one I am sure will play certain modes as they call it in the tabla, like “Chakardar” and “Dhirkat” and all that…  He is very good at all that.  May God bless him for that. And professor Chaudhary – I shouldn’t call him professor; he is just Debu to Me.  But his speciality, I feel is more of composition, which he should take to – composition – because he really makes such beautiful compositions that I haven’t heard anybody making that beautiful compositions.  And if he can do those compositions one day all over the world, he will be known very well for all that because it touches your heart, the way he does his compositions.  They have asked Me to give Read More …

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Guru Puja: Sankhya & Yoga Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Guru Puja. Shudy Camps (UK), 12 July 1987. Today, it’s a great day that you are here to worship your Guru in the realm of the Heart of the Universe. If we can do that in our domain of the heart, we don’t have to do anything else. Today, also, I feel I have to tell you about Sahaja Yoga and its value, which is related to other Yogas which were accepted in the olden days all over the world. They called it, one, as the Yoga – not Sahaja Yoga, Yoga. It started with various types of practices of ‘Ashtanga’ [Sanskrit/Hindi meaning ‘having eight stages/parts’] Yogas – eightfold yogas – with a Guru. And one had to go through lots of hardships. Nobody who was married was allowed into that Ashtanga Yoga, and they had to give up their families, give up their relationships. They had to become absolutely without any attachments, to go to a Guru. All their property, all their possessions were given up. Not to the Guru as is done in modern times, but given away. And this was called as Yoga. The another style was called as Sankhya. Sankhya is where all your life you have to gather things with detachment, and then to distribute them completely and take to a Guru, in a way completely surrendered, and then get realization. Sankhya was the left-sided behavior. And the Yoga was the right-sided. Where the Gayatri Mantra was used was the Sankhya. Because they were left-sided, Read More …