Day: 1989/07/10 (Monday)

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We need to ascend and know the Absolute Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel, Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 1. Paris (France), 10 July 1989. Till 7.13 yogis singing Uday ga ambe (Marathi devotional song) Thank you very much. 8.00 I bow to all the seekers of Truth. It is to be understood that Truth is what it is. We cannot conceptualise it. We cannot achieve it by our human efforts or mental projections. We have to reach into a higher state to know it. To know it. This song that they sung just now was written in the year in 1600 in India by a very famous poet, Namadeva was a tailor. Aside to Patrick: Loud. In the 16th century. And they’ve been singing this song in the villages of India with the same folk tune. It says that I will ask for Yoga, that is, the union with the Divine from Mother. ‘Aai’ is the mother. I’ll ask the Mother to give me the Yoga. And the ‘uday uday ambe’ means that ‘O Mother Kundalini! Please rise, uday uday! Please rise!’. So this knowledge of our roots was known to many people all over the world, especially in India to many saints. This Namadeva once went to meet another saint who was a potter, making things out of clay. His name was Gora. He saw him and then he says, in very beautiful couplet he describes this personality of a potter. He says I came here to see the formless that is this all-pervading power, but I see it in person, in form. And Read More …

Interview with “Afrique Magazine” Paris (France)

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Interview with the French “Afrique Magazine” Afrique Magazine: The Indians call her ‘The Great Mother’ and see her as a saint; At a very young age she used to write Mahatma Gandhi’s prayers. She’s been living in London since 1975 where her husband is general secretary of IMCO. She has founded yoga centres in India and in several countries in Europe: England, Switzerland, France, Italy.Shri Mataji Devi is what we usually call a ‘guru’ which is a rather rare status for a woman. People she says mainly would be more balanced and would have a better life if they could get connected with the supreme principle within each of us. How can we reach this spontaneous connection with the divine, this Self-realisation? Thanks to her method of course! A sort of meditation, regular but easy and accessible to everyone and which is supposed to purify the energies of the body and soothe mental activities: peace ‘coming from the heart’ would settle down this way because the divine has always been with us.Is it a daring claim and a simplistic method ? Or the strength of a faith which can only bear its fruits? In any case, the disciples of Sahaja Yoga seem more and more; there would be tens of thousands of them in Europe alone… In July 1989, Shri Mataji has held two lectures in Paris in front of several hundred people. But she has confided to us in private. Afrique Magazine: Do you think you were born with Read More …