Conversation in Courtyard, The End of Miracles (afternoon) Barcelona (Spain)

Conversation in Courtyard, The End of Miracles (afternoon) Shri Mataji: … shop, little shop, to get these trinkets and he gave exactly the same amount as was needed. So many things are reported now, I mean, I’ve got letters and letters like that. So I’ll have to look into them also for you. Gregoire: Shri Mataji, one that You may not know because it’s quite recent. The United States, you know Andrea, she has a little girl? The other day, You were in her room and You had a red, I asked, “what is the color of the sari?” and You had a red sari. And so she was quite, kind of, impressed, and then the picture told her it’s all right. Your picture told her it’s all right that You are sitting in her room. So she ran away, I mean after some time. She doesn’t want to speak so much about it to us, but for three days she was talking to her parents and so on and so forth. She went in Mami’s room to tell her all about the story that Shri Mataji is here in her room. Come, come. And then you were gone. Shri Mataji: So where was I? Gregoire: In her room. Shri Mataji: In her room? Gregoire: Yes. Sitting down. Shri Mataji: She saw Me? Gregoire: Yes, she saw You. Shri Mataji: So, you asked Me on the phone or what, what sari I’m wearing? Gregoire: No, I asked her. I just Read More …

Shri Buddha Puja: Gautama, The Lord of the Ego (morning) Barcelona (Spain)

Shri Buddha Puja. Barcelona (Spain), 20 May 1989. So today we have gathered here to worship Buddha. Lord Buddha, as you know, was Gautama, the one who was born in a royal family, and then, He became an ascetic, because He was very much hurt to see three types of problems from which human beings suffer. And He came to conclusion [that] all these three types of problems are because we have desires. So He said that, “If you become desireless, then there will be no problem for you.” So He studied Vedas, He studied Upanishadas, He studies all kinds of things. He went to many saints and many people and He could not get His Realisation. Actually He was an Incarnation. The incarnation also has to reach a point of Realisation in a different way: like the whole potential has to open out. But the incarnation has tremendous potential, and that expresses itself once the door is opened outward. Buddha realised the greatest problem of human beings is his ego. In his ego he goes to the extremes: from one end to another. And so He worked throughout on the Pingala Nadi for us, and stationed Himself on our ego, to control it. If you see on the Agnya Chakra, if in the centre is Christ, you have on the left Buddha, and on the right is Mahavira. All of them are called as Lords, because They’re rulers of these three areas. Now this area of Agnya is the Read More …