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Shri Mahalakshmi Puja: The pangs of materialism Kalwa (India)

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Mahalakshmi Puja in Kalwa, 1993-12-31, India Tour [Translated from Hindi] In today’s world we are facing so many difficulties and while facing all these difficulties, we are thinking that one day all the human race will disappear. It will not. And to think like that is quite normal as we are facing natural calamities all around. In Maharashtra, there was a very big earthquake and people were so afraid of that. Since last three years, I was telling them why they are drinking alcohol in front of Shri Ganesha, dancing dirty, misbehaving, etc. Shri Ganesha is very wrathful. I do not know why He tolerated this for three years. I told them very clearly that if you go on like this, you would face earthquake in Maharashtra. However, nobody listened to me and carried on with their misbehavior in front of Lord Ganesha. Alcohol is available everywhere in Maharashtra. Now, I see that there are two types of people in Maharashtra, one is alcoholic (mlechas) and other are pure and clean like Sahaj community. If you want to save your children and to give them good environment, then try to bring them in Sahaj culture and to accept it yourself. I am receiving everyday ten to fifteen letters from Sahaja Yogis how their difficulties disappeared, their children are behaving good, were saved from accidents, etc. So, I think that the benefits of Sahaja Yoga must reach to others also who are not Sahaja Yogis. Nowadays, many kind of people come Read More …

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Sufi Qawwalis Ganapatipule (India)

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This is a very…I should say, whatIt is very symbolic song, written by Amīr Khusrau, which I heard (read) it a long time back.And it is very beautiful, and it says that:I have lost myself, by just looking at you.And it is very beautiful song, And it is a song, Which is being sung for years together.But people don´t understand the meaning.It looks romantic, but it means the, what should we say, the sufi style of saying things, the way they love God and that they love divinity.Very beautiful.

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Weddings and Advice to Brides and Grooms Ganapatipule (India)

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Advice to Brides and Bridegrooms in Ganapatipule (India). 28 December 1993. Advice to Bridegrooms This time we have the maximum number of people who are getting married. Still I don’t know the final number. At the last moment some people come to me that I should tie their dhotis. Different thing in Sahaja Yoga doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, There is one thing I would first again ask. Those who don’t want to get married with the people whom we have selected and you accepted should immediately tell me today. Now there’s still time. If you have any doubts, any one. The purpose of these marriages is this, that we should have international understanding about human beings that after coming to Sahaja Yoga we transcend all the barriers, all the barriers of race, religion, ?? and nationality. We have to create this homogenous world and make it peaceful by removing this disease of national identification or racial identification. We are all created by God Almighty. Our differences are only skin deep. Culturally we are different little bit here and there but basically in ourselves we are all spiritual. And the religion that you have is innate built in within us which is an part and parcel of us. By these marriages we want to achieve a very happy and a very enjoyable married life. In the marriage one has to know, nobody should dominate anyone… that’s a wrong idea. But we have two wheels of the chariot, one is big Read More …

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Evening Program and Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Taking care of children Ganapatipule (India)

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“Taking care of children”, India Tour, Ganapatipule (India), 27 December 1993. Today I am feeling rather sad [that] had to say something, hard things yesterday and you know [a] mother is like that (Mother is referring to a lecture in Marathi the previous day). You have to correct your children, you have to tell them something, but you don’t like it and you have to really put up yourself to that point, that you can say something to your children. And the effect was good they said, but I didn’t want them to cry or weep. I want them to be corrected, to understand the responsibility that they have. We have to understand that we have a responsibility towards Sahaja Yoga; and that is, if you understand the first responsibility, is that you have to be very good Sahaja Yogis to begin with; that’s the greatest. I have seen some very little girls also are very show-offs: they’ll be the first to sit further, they’ll be attracting my attention, doing these things. So they have to be told to behave themselves. There are so many things like that which are to be told to your children also. Like today so many leaders came and they also told me what is happening in India now, specially in Maharashtra – but I think it is all over – that they are taking to Western life, sitting before the mirror, all the time dressing up, thinking about their beauty, this, that. I mean, Read More …

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Evening Program, after Christmas puja talk, tribute to Kabira Ganapatipule (India)

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Musical Program after Christmas puja, Ganapatipule (India), December 25rd, 1993 Three extracts put together: Pandit Arun Apte. Pandit Subramanian. Qawwali. PANDIT ARUN APTE sings with the group NIRMAL SANGEET SARITA [At 04:23]Babamama: Now a favourite of Shri Mataji. It’s a song sung in the drama, Marathi drama. It’s in two moods, in fact, brought out in two different ragas. And you can see the difference in the way of rendering, in the way of singing, and also in the tempo. Shri Mataji: It’s a description of a seeker, that’s why I love it. And he says that it’s a – I don’t know- [Marathi]Babamama: Beetle.Shri Mataji: The beetle. The black beetle, he is singing and singing all the time and he is just enjoying his own music and he’s searching the honey ‘makaranda’. So, he’s searching the honey and then he gets into the lotus to get the honey. And there the Lotus closes him down completely. Still, he is singing and enjoying that lotus, honey, like that. He’s like a seeker, you know, he is lost. But the whole thing is full of alliteration, ‘dunde, mande, lai’, that, you see. So, you like it that way also. And it is a description of seekers.May God bless you. Babamama: It’s this description of you Sahaja Yogis.Shri Mataji: Before Realization.Babamama: Before Realization.Those who are seeking, those. And those who were trying to find the honey, now they have found the honey.Shri Mataji: And they are lost. [Music][Applause] Babamama: It was a Read More …

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Christmas Puja: Rationality can never make you understand Divinity Ganapatipule (India)

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Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule, India, 25 December 1993 Today we are going to celebrate the Birth of Christ. At a very crucial time we are doing that, because there are some anti-Christ who have become in charge of the Christian religion and are talking against the birth of Christ. They have no authority, they are not realized souls, they have no idea of the Divine, nothing, and they are saying that it is all falsehood that She was not a virgin and that Christ was not born that way. Who told them? Did Gabriel come and told them? What right they have got to talk these things? So because they are anti-Christ now they have become in charge of Christianity. Even Pope is like that. So in Satya Yuga they will be all exposed, have to be exposed. But some people who are here, can write to this man to ask, “What is your authority to say? Have you felt the all-pervading power of God’s love? Have you any divinity in you to challenge Christ like that?” There must be some incarnations of Paul, perhaps. They cannot understand Divine. They don’t know what Divine can do. They have no idea, at all, how miraculous it is. You all have felt the blessings of the Divine. You all know that it is a miracle. Every time there’s a miracle produced. I will narrate one simple example. In the Navaratri Puja we had some photographs. And behind the photograph some sort of a Read More …

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Evening Program and Talk About Marriages Ganapatipule (India)

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1993-12-24 India Tour: Talk About Marriages – After Music Program I was very happy to learn that this morning the meditation was done very well collectively. My attention was there on you. We are now going to announce the marriages, the remaining ones today. Before that, I’ve to say the same thing which I’ve said many times, that there is no compulsion for anyone, not at all, to marry a particular person who we have suggested. If you want, you can say no, completely, or you can say “Mother, change it”. Whatever you say we’ll try to do. We have big problems of hights, of education, of culture, and some people say: “We don’t want to marry indians”, or “we don’t want to marry a foreigner”, like that. Whatever it was, we have tried to comply with your desires. But of course we could not get all of you married because there were no proper matches for you, but in any case I’m sure by tomorrow we might be able to organize many more. So there is no compulsion about it, absolutely not, till the end. Till the marriages are being performed you have every right to say no, so I don’t want you to get married now and later on create problems. Whatever it is, if you think I have done anything for you, or Sahaja Yoga has done for you, then please don’t trouble us by thinking about it later on that “We don’t want to marry, we Read More …

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Evening Program, Blake and other seers Ganapatipule (India)

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Musical Program, Ganapatipule (India), December 23rd, 1993 VIDEO Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji, I have a small Vishudhi catch, you have to excuse my voice, it seems to be going around I think.This is Jerusalem chapter 4: I see thy Form, O lovely, mild Jerusalem! Wing’d with Six WingsIn the opacous Bosom of the Sleeper, lovely, threefoldIn Head and Heart and Reins, three Universes of love and beauty.Thy forehead bright, Holiness to the Lord! with gates of pearlReflects Eternity beneath thy azure wings of feathery down,Ribb’d, delicate, and cloth’d with feather’d gold and azure and purple,From thy white shoulders shadowing purity in holiness;Thence, feather’d with soft crimson of the ruby, bright as fire,Spreading into the azure wings which, like a canopy,Bends over thy immortal Head in which Eternity dwells.Albion! belovèd Land, I see thy mountains and thy hillsAnd valleys, and thy pleasant Cities, Holiness to the Lord!I see the Spectres of thy Dead, O Emanation of Albion!Thy Bosom white, translucent, cover’d with immortal gems,A sublime ornament not obscuring the outlines of beauty,Terrible to behold, for thy extreme beauty and perfection:Twelvefold here all the Tribes of Israel I beholdUpon the Holy Land: I see the River of Life and Tree of Life;I see the New Jerusalem descending out of HeavenBetween thy Wings of gold and silver, feather’d immortal,Clear as the rainbow, as the cloud of the Sun’s tabernacle.Thy Reins cover’d with Wings translucent, sometimes coveringAnd sometimes spread abroad, reveal the flames of holinessWhich like a robe covers, and like a Veil of Read More …

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Weddings Announcements Pune (India)

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Transcription of Wedding announcement program; 1993-1220, Pune, India (…) are unidentified words. Live music playing in the presence of H.H. Shree Mataji. 24:47 Crowd clapping.. 25:30 H.H. Shree Mataji speaks; 25: 27 “ Welcome to India. “ 25:37 “And welcome to Pratishtan” 26:13 “ I hope you enjoyed your sleep” 26:15 Crowd clapping. 26:28 “….., Gujrat because Shri Krishna was the ruler or the king of that place. While the Gujratis are not in Sahaja Yoga.” 26: 43 “And I was happy to know there was 1000 people for the program and the program was quite successful but somehow rather gujratis are not so much in Sahaja Yoga and there have been calamities there.” 27:03 “So I thought if you all saints go there, it might help them …. their evolution.” 27:22 “Actually I wanted you to sit in the hall so that it would be cooler than this place but they said we have made this for you. I hope you are comfortable.” 27:57 “ Our trains are so much funny also. They take so much time. Sometimes they are 16 hours late. You had lots of problems because it was your own train but still because of traffic on the way.” 28:19 “On the whole,  ( Mother speaks Hindi or marathi and is asking for something.) 28:50 “So the Pune people are going to give you a treat and the cooks have been there for the whole night working very hard, I don’t know. Only always be careful about water, I’ve told you, you Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: All people are one Birthplace - Shrine Chhindwara, Chhindwara (India)

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Shri Ganesha Puja. Chhindwara (India), 18 December 1993. English Talk I’m sorry I was delayed. We’re supposed to see the collector and the  thaisindar [tax officer?] as they call him. They have done so much for us, so much they have organized, all the way in the – officially they have done so well that I had to wait for them to thank them very much. I think it’s not very much hot for you. See the wind is blowing, can you imagine and, if you see, there’s no leaves – leaves are not moving. (Applause.) You always used to go and sit in the sun, so now here it is. You better have some of it. I hope you all enjoyed your stay in Jabalpur and the visit to Jabalpur. It was quite interesting. Some people have not yet arrived. I’m sorry to say they haven’t been able to arrive from Bombay. I think they are more Bombayites, not from the foreign countries, but otherwise I think all of you are here. It’s very unusual thing to happen like this, you see. This – My father built this house about eighty years back. He was very imaginative and fond of guests, so he also put up guest bedrooms and guest bathrooms, such, and it was a hill station. Now, of course, because of crowdedness , very cold and hill station, so people used to come. His friends used to come from Nagpur, so he had made arrangements for them. There Read More …

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Public Program Galat Guru evam paise ka chakkar Dehradun (India)

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Public Program Galat Guru evam paise ka chakkar, Dehradun (India) Date: 12 December 1993 Place: Dehradun, (India) Type: Public Program Speech language: English, Hindi Sahaja Yogis in background in chorus are saying ‘Shri Mataji ki Jai’.   Sahaja Yogi announcing in background: Now Sri Arun Goyal will offer garlands to Her Holiness Shri Mataji on behalf of all the Sahaja Yogis of the world. (Claps in the background). Shri Mataji talking in Hindi in background: The light is so bright that it is not clearly seen. 01.06 secs (Youtube) Have you brought the water? [English translation from Hindi] If all of you sit down, it will be very nice.  I bow down to all the seekers of truth. In this world we seek happiness, we seek joy and we do not know what the source of joy is. The truth is that this body, wisdom, ego, feelings and sacraments, are not all these titles. We are pure form of spirit. This is one truth, and the other truth is like what you see here is the decoration of beautiful flowers, I don’t know how many you have kept. These flowers are also a miracle that one seed you sow in this Earth such beautiful varieties of flowers bloom. We consider it as a miracle. If you ask the Doctor that ‘who works on our heart’, then he will say ‘it is an autonomous nervous system’, ‘self-driven.’ But what is this self-driven force? They cannot answer this question. You can go Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: River Yamuna and Shri Krishna’s life Yamunanagar (India)

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Shri Krishna puja. Yamuna Nagar (India), 11 December 1993. Today we are going to have the puja of Shri Krishna. In Shri Krishna’s life the river Yamuna has played a very great role. Yamuna River is a very deep river and the water has a blue colour, which they say Shri Krishna also had. While the River Ganges flows faster and much shallower than this. Next year, maybe, we might go to Allahabad, might be able to see the two rivers meet. The whole of Haryana has been a very, very historical, mythological place. You must have known about it that Pandavas and Khauravas fought in Kurukshetra and also, all this area has been used, since long, for meditation. Markandeya, whose name you have heard many a times, meditated in this area. First he was in Maharashtra, where you have seen the Saptashringi and, after that, he came down here and meditated and wrote his treatises. Everywhere you find a place of a pir [saint]. Also they are realised souls who have been respected till today. To begin with, we have to say that this is the area of great spirituality, because Shri Krishna lived here. And in those days there were no cars, not this transport, so He has vibrated all this land so beautifully. Very fond of playing near the river Yamuna. Of course, His childhood was not spent here, but later on, when He became the king, He used to visit this place many a times. We Read More …

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Talk Before Evening Program: Enjoy the bliss of God eve of Shri Krishna Puja Yamunanagar (India)

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“Enjoy The Bliss Of God”, India Tour 1993, Yamuna Nagar, India I am sure you are all enjoying the cold of this place! You are not missing your country at all! I think you all have been enjoying the food. In Delhi I was enquiring and I was happy to know that you all were happy with the food and all the arrangements there. (applause) For the second part, it’s going to be not so cold. But in Dehradun maybe, it may be colder. Let’s see. So you can see this country has a varied type of climate, varied type of people, different languages. So many things are here and so many people have been accepted in this country: so many different cultures, so many different languages. But one thing is common is that they are dharmic people, they know what dharma is. I always praised you in Hindi language, that you didn’t know so many things about dharma, but the way you have taken to Sahaj is very remarkable, is very, very remarkable, and cannot be really explained. Because Sahaj dharma, in a way, was known to Indians better. But the way you have taken to it and so deep you have gone into it, they themselves are surprised, “Mother, how it has been achieved?” I have only one explanation to give: that in last life you have done lots of good things, many good things, and that’s why all those punyas that you have earned, you are cashing Read More …

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Public Program: Parmatma ki Science Kurushetra (India)

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PARMATAMA KI SCIENCE-PUBLIC PROGRAMME KURUKSHETRA: DEC 8, 1993 [Translation from Hindi to English] Sahaja yogi (Anchor):    My first request to you that we will run the programme as long as you wish. if you say half an hour it will be half an hour. if you wish for one hour, it will be one hour or afterwards. While Shri Mataji tells about Sahaja Yoga, if it’s continuity breaks, she does not like it.  The second request is for the brothers who have come to listen only, should sit with love. And people who have come as spectator only. Then its of no use. They will disturb others also. They are requested to go out. They may listen from outside. But, if they are standing inside the pandal, then they are requested to sit down.  All my foreign brothers and sisters, I would like to explain little constraints  in Kurukshetra. But straight away, I beg your pardon for two small mistakes that young boys did here. One- by mistake they issued some vouchers for which I am very sorry because this was a mistake. These boys, young boys who are managing the program here, are very young. Below 24 years of age. It was the duty of the Yamunanagar and Karnal Sahaj Yogis to come and help them here but for some reason they had to go to Hathini Kund, and they could not come here. I am sure that you will excuse us for this small mistake. And I Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: He is the manifestation of the invisible Param Chaitanya New Delhi (India)

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Shri Ganesha Puja. Delhi (India), 5 December 1993. [Translation from Hindi to English] Today we are going to perform Puja to Shri Ganesha.  We are starting the tour, and it is important to begin it with a Puja to Shri Ganesha.  Especially in Delhi, Ganesha Puja is very necessary.  Though we know very little about Shri Ganesha,  in Maharashtra there are eight Ganeshas (Ashta Vinayaka), and there is Maha Ganesha in Ganapatiphule.  And that is why they worship Shri Ganesha a lot.  But what is his essential existence; and who exactly is Shri Ganesha – very few people know this. Now, whatever I am going to tell you about Shri Ganesha, being Sahaja Yogis, you will understand.  But other people cannot understand.    The rest of the world, especially intellectuals who claim to be wise and intelligent, can perceive Sahaja Yoga, but the fact that the Gods and Goddesses are involved in actualising Sahaja Yoga, they are not prepared to accept.  Even they cannot comprehend Param Chaitanya; and try to explain it by calling it Cosmic Energy.  But whether they understand this or not; whether they accept this or not; in the beginning, even before this world came into existence, Paramatma (the God Almighty) and Adi Shakti felt that first, purity and auspiciousness should be established.  If holiness is put into the creation first, and it spreads all over the Cosmos, then only Chaitanya (vibrations) will start to flow.  For example, if Chaitanya spreads all over the creation, it will become Read More …

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Sitar and Qawwali Concert, Evening Program, Eve of Shri Ganesha Puja New Delhi (India)

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1993-12-04 Sitar Concert – Debu Chaudhuri, New Delhi, India, Shri Mataji: They are all Sahaja Yogis …You can see that Music is something like[unclear 00:54]. It transcends all barriers, all conditionings, all these egos…And you feel that oneness. In the way the people from all over the country on Cabella of all the caste community creed and religions, and you know how to appreciate it. Not only by the musicians but also by the audience…But the musicians appreciated the audience they say they have never seen such good accord & such enjoyment. Especially Prateek one of them there, who was so many happy he has said I am feeling free, and extremely happy in this atmosphere…Ok ..And he was really very great [unclear 01:56/just play well ]. And he really plays very well …Please tell the raga which you are playing to them as well (in Hindi to artists ).[Shri Mataji enjoys the music and at last, appreciates the music ]Sir C.P – Done amazing! Wah Wah! Shri Mataji: what a passion? (Shri Mataji gave the presents to them )Now you people also open your hands …And then see (Shri Mataji gave a lot of blessings to them)…Today people were joyous in their extremes… Sahaj Yogi: I must confess, that whatever we have played, Its not us(who have played ) but it is the Mother (who has played …)(Then JAyakara )Why I am saying that …We played in Siri Fort …Sadhna didi was also there …Sadha didi has felt on Read More …

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Public Program Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi (India)

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India Tour, Public Program in Kidwai Nagar, 1993-12-03 Shri Mataji: [In Hindi]: My greetings to all the seekers of Truth! I’ve been told like this, that first speak in English and then speak in Hindi. Do you all agree with this? [English part; From 13:59 to 38:30] I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know what is the truth and what are we seeking why this seeking has started in these recent years. We have science by which we have overgrown outwardly. We have different devices by which our life has become more comfortable, maybe. But science cannot answer many questions. But science cannot answer many questions. And one of the questions it cannot answer, is, “Why are we here on this Earth?” Also science is amoral. It does not give you any line of action that will benefit you and that will nourish you. Of course, there’s nothing against science as such, but it is very incomplete and takes people into imbalances. There are so many defects which I I’m not going to describe today. But main thing is that it does not give you the idea of reality. It does not give you the totality. Also, it does not give you any ascent in your spiritual life.So much in the West, also in India, not to that extent but, yes quite a lot, we have progressed in science in every way. What do we find? There’s a decline in the Read More …

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Public Program: Paise Ka Mul Nahin Gurgaon (India)

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1993-1129 Public Program, Paise Ka Mul Nahin [There is no value for money], Gurgaon, India I feel so overwhelmed. You have decorated so beautifully. You have done such a lot of work. Don’t know how much money you may have spent – A Mother gets only such thoughts. And I think, within one year how so much of change has come about in Gurgaon? And people got awakened that we should attain the truth. Everyone wants to attain the truth. Everyone thinks that we should attain truth. Because without the truth, there is no meaning of this life. In the darkness whatever we search or see, in that we go into illusions. This is the specialty of Kaliyuga. In Kaliyuga, people go into illusion. They are unable to have faith in anything. Because weird people, taking the name of God, talk of great things, talk of spirituality and put people in wrong belief. So what is the truth? How do we know the truth? But those who are searching, they get hurt. Those who are searching from their heart, having a lot of faith, they get entangled in wrong path. That’s why I said that in Haryana we should definitely start. Because people here are simple. It’s possible that here also they must’ve got entangled with gurus. Where there is simplicity, there gurus definitely go. They are not gurus, they are agurus [false gurus]. Some of them are bad rakshasas. They call themselves gurus and do all such work that Read More …

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Weddings Moscow (Russia)

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Weddings in Moscow (Russia). 14 November 1993. [Applause] Thank you very much. [Applause] I don’t know how to thank you, Sir, for saying such beautiful things. [Applause] We have some scientists with us but they were never very sure that scientists will ever think of Sahaja Yoga. One scientist started writing a book for the science with the quantum theory and everything. So he said without transformation the scientist will not understand Sahaja Yoga. Just on a mundane level as human beings they cannot crossover, to crossover the mind. After meeting him now I feel so confident. A gentleman of his caliber, if he can understand Sahaja Yoga and also understands the necessity of transformation, I think My job is done now. Because scientists are like Gods in every country. Especially in developing countries, they are regarded as the last word. But the way he has understood Sahaja Yoga and the necessity to have Sahaja Yoga for the betterment of the world is so remarkable, so joy giving. I have no words, you see, to tell you how I feel now. Of course, we have very highly placed people who have accepted Sahaja Yoga. But no scientists of this caliber, and this will really give us such a help that I cannot explain. Especially people think that those who are not scientists are scatterbrains. And in India some people said that this is all blind faith. There’s nothing like Kundalini, there’s nothing like transformation. And, they threw stones at us Read More …

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Diwali Puja: Lakshmi Principle Moscow (Russia)

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Diwali Puja. Moscow (Russia), 12 November 1993. It is so very gratifying to see so many people from all over the world have come to Russia to worship the Goddess Lakshmi. When you cannot explain everything intellectually then you take course to arts to express yourself; and then you take to symbols to express what you cannot say verbally or cannot express rationally. This is what an artist does, also a poet does that he extends his imagination to such an extent that he creates a symbol. But this mind is limited and it can only go up to a point and when it is not substantiated by truth and reality, after some time it falls. The whole linear movement falls down and there is a decline. That is what we find in every area today specially that everything which was sublime has declined. This decline takes place and people start accepting it. But after Self Realization when you have become the Spirit, your imagination touches the reality. Then the symbols which were perverted, which was misrepresented, drop out. And you touch the reality of the symbols. This is exactly what has happened everywhere. For example, we had in India the Goddess of wealth as Lakshmi, and this symbol of Lakshmi was described by saints and seers in reality. But later on people did not understand the symbol and the reality behind it. And they thought that the symbol of Lakshmi is money, is wealth, gold, silver, diamonds, riches. And Read More …

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Evening eve of Diwali, Second day of Diwali, Announcement of Marriages Moscow (Russia)

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Talk Before Diwali, Announcement of Marriages I’ve come here to wish you a very Happy Diwali. See, actually this is celebrated always with the family and see, My family is so big. So, I’ve come here to celebrate this Diwali with you. They told Me it’s going to be very cold here but in this cold see the warmth that you have shown – warmth of love. It is such a fortunate thing for Me to be with you at this time because you are passing through a crisis. You all should support democracy. I’m not a politician but I know for one thing: that if I have to come here it has to be democratic country. But don’t think that wherever there is democracy there is all peace and joy and happiness. It’s full of violence, all kinds of immorality, diseases. Today, according to the calendar, is the day when a devil called Narakasura was killed by the Goddess. And that’s why we have to know that what is Narakasura in these modern times. It’s the devil that takes you to hell because he is the king of devils who reside in hell. So, we have to understand what takes us to hell. Everything that is destructive is responsible for our decline. Anything that goes against our awareness is responsible for our destruction. There’s a special blessing of this puja will be that you will all become prosperous. Prosperity has to be balanced otherwise you will become like other Read More …

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9th Day of Navaratri, Reintrospect Yourself Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Navaratri Puja. Cabella (Italy), 24 October 1993. Today we have gathered here to do the puja of the Devi. The Devi has many forms, but is the embodiment of the Shakti. Adi Shakti gives Shakti to all these embodiments and so there are many Goddesses we have. At different times they came on this Earth and did all that was necessary for the ascent of people who were seekers. Especially the one we know of, Jagadamba, the Durga. She was trying to protect all the seekers of Truth and to destroy all evil forces, because without the ascent of human beings they do not know the Truth, and that’s why whatever they try to do is a mental projection, and this mental projection, if it is not substantiated by Truth, by dharma, it declines. In Sanskrit they call it glani. When this glani takes  place, then incarnations are born – to solve the problem. In all incarnation of the Goddess there have been very much incarnated the satanic forces, they had incarnated, and She had to fight with them and destroy them. But this destruction was not for the destruction’s sake that the evil forces are to be destroyed, but evil forces always try to put down the seekers, put down the Saints, try to harm them, sometimes even destroy [them]. All these destructive forces do not come at the same time, normally. At different times, is easy to handle. But the aim of the incarnation is to save, to Read More …

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Energy Centers are our foundation New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York City (United States)

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Public Program, New York (USA), 16 October 1993. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot transform it, and you cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level with your awareness, you also cannot know it. There’s something more has to happen to us to know the truth. In the evolutionary process, we have come to this stage where we are human beings, and whatever we have got in our evolutionary process, we can know it on our central nervous system. For example, this beautiful hall, when we are here, we can understand the beauty but a dog or a horse, cannot. A dog and a horse can always pass through a dirty lane, but human beings cannot. Thus, we have to understand that there are many things we have come to know through our central nervous system in our evolutionary process. You’ve been already told about this subtle system that exists within you. Whatever I am going to tell you today, please do not take it for granted, nor you should believe me blindfolded. We have already done these things, and we have suffered. But if it can be proved, then as honest people, you have to accept it because it is for the benevolence of your being, for the benevolence of your country, and for the benevolence of the whole world. It is to be accepted, that Read More …

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Why are we on this Earth? Philadelphia (United States)

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Public Program, Philadelphia (USA), 15 October 1993. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. This song that you are listening to has been written by a poet called Namadeva, about sixteenth century, and what he’s singing there is, “Oh, Mother, give me my yoga.” Yoga means the union with the Divine. I said I bow to you all because you’re seekers of Truth. At the very outset, one has to know that Truth is what it is. You cannot change it. You cannot transform it. You cannot conceptualize it. And, unfortunately, at this human awareness, you cannot know it, whatever you may try. If once we humbly understand this, that we can go up to our mental projections and not beyond that, Truth has to be known on your central nervous system. In the evolutionary process, whatever we have known, we have known it on our central nervous system. For example, if you bring a dog or a horse and he sees this beautiful hall, he won’t understand. If you take him through a dirty lane, he won’t understand. He can just pass through. But, while we human beings have developed a kind of a sensitivity, sensitivity to so many things. Also, we should have developed sensitivity to spirituality, but sometimes we miss the point. Now, whatever I am going to tell should be taken as a hypothesis, but you should have an open mind of a scientist. If it is true, you should accept it, if you are Read More …

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The Feminine Power Within Us National Institutes of Health, Washington D.C. (United States)

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Public Program at National Institute of Health, Washington, D.C. (USA). 14 October 1993. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot conceptualize it, and unfortunately at this human awareness you cannot know it. Another thing, whatever I’m going to tell you today, please do not accept it blind-folded. We have accepted many things blind-folded and we have suffered. But keep your mind open as scientists and if this hypothesis is proved, then you have to accept it as honest people. First of all, I’ll tell you what is the truth, you are all seekers, but you must know what is the truth you are seeking. The first truth is that you are not this body, this mind, this ego; these conditionings but you are the pure spirit. You always say this is “my” body, “my” conditionings, “my” mind, my… When you say “my”, who is this “I” to which all these belong? The second truth is that there is a All Pervading Power of Divine Love; which does all the living work. You see beautiful flowers and beautiful trees, they are all miracles, but we take these miracles for granted. Who runs our heart? If you ask the Doctors, they will say its “autonomous nervous system”, but who is the “auto”? Who runs our heart? Look at our eyes, which is such a wonderful camera, and this brain, which is such a perfect computer. Who has made this Read More …

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How are we to know who is the master and who is not? Los Angeles (United States)

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Public Program in Los Angeles 11-10-1993 Mother speaking in English: I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know, that truth is what it is, we cannot change it, we cannot transform it, we cannot conceptualize it, unfortunately at this human awareness, we cannot know it also. Whatever I am going to tell you today; please do not accept it blindfolded, we have harmed ourselves very much by accepting everything blindfolded. But if it is proved, then as honest people you have to accept. The truth is, that you are not this body, this mind, this ego, these conditionings, emotions, but you are a pure spirit and the second truth is, there is a all-pervading power of divine love which is called by many names which does all the living work. For example, you see these flowers here, they are so beautiful, but it’s a miracle, the way our heart runs we never ask who runs our heat, but if you ask the doctors, they will say it is autonomous nervous system, but who is this auto. We accept everything for granted. Also, if you see all the problems of this world, most of them come from human beings most of them.So, we ask, what to do to solve these problems of human beings. All these problems come from these centres, which are placed within us, these centres, if they go into jeopardy, then we have problem of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual Read More …

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TV Interview, Reel Women, Part 1 & 2 Los Angeles (United States)

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TV Interview, “real women”, part 1, Los Angeles (United States), October 11, 1993 Part 1 [Voice off]: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the most important spiritual figure in the world today. Please join us on a special program of “Audrey Hope’s real women” Interviewer: My name is Audrey Hopes and welcome to ‘Real women”. It is a great honour to be in the presence of the most important spiritual figure in the world today, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. Shri Mataji is a world leader and has travelled the globe many times over to give Self Realization to thousands.Self Realization is the pure connexion with our spiritual nature and is the only hope for a stable society. Today is that day prophesized by the saints.Once you may have needed to travel to the Himalayas or to meditate on a mountain for twenty years, but now, through the grace of Shri Mataji, there is a simple way to achieve that connexion and that is through Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji founded Sahaja Yoga as a method for human beings to experience the truth within and to become your own master. Shri Mataji is a mother and a grandmother, a true role model for all human beings.Shri Mataji was a spiritual guide for Mahatma Gandhi. She accepts no money for Realization and she says the truth cannot be paid for.She joins us after her fourth visit to the United Nations and before her journey to Washington DC.Shri Mataji is known all over the world. She Read More …

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Shri Virata and Viratangana Puja: I have to have 16,000 children YMCA Camp Whittle, Fawnskin (United States)

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Shri Virata Viratangana Puja. Los Angeles (USA), 10 October 1993 Today, we are going to celebrate the puja of Virat and Viratangana. North America and South America, as you know is Shri Krishna’s centre of Vishuddhi. And it is very important to know also that all the communications, all the relationships with the whole creation has to be established through this centre of Vishuddhi. Vishuddhi, as you know is the most important centre in your ascent, in a way. Because Sahaja Yoga is not only meant for your ascent but for the ascent of the whole world, and only through Vishuddhi you can achieve it. Even if you get your Self-realization and you get all the powers, unless and until you use your Vishuddhi, it won’t work out. Look at My Vishuddhi also, talking, talking everywhere, keeping communications, Vishuddhi goes out. Also, this Vishuddhi chakra being so important, it is under attack. Attack of the negative force. Today we are going to worship Virat and Viratangana. Virat is the ultimate, the complete development of the Vishuddhi chakra is Virat. And as you know the chakra is here, here at this point (at forhead, above Bindi, at hairline). If this chakra is not alright, you are not collective. You behave in a manner that is not collective. You cannot communicate with other Sahaja yogis. You cannot be friendly, loving and one with other Sahaja yogis, unless and until this center here, Vishuddhi is alright. And it‘s part of the Ekadesha. Vishuddhi Read More …

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Public Program Los Angeles (United States)

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Public Program, Los Angeles (United States), October 10th, 1993 [Starts at 13:45] Sahaja Yogi: You would try?Shri Mataji: Doctor Wells for a while.Sahaja Yogi: All right.Shri Mataji: I am requesting doctor Wells to- not working?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Shri Mataji: I am requesting him to say a few words about Sahaja Yoga because he has done a lot in the research and he is in charge of seven hospitals in London. I hope there re some doctors here so it would be interesting for the doctors to know the value of Sahaja Yoga from the medical point of view. Sahaja Yogi: Doctor Wells is a clinical psychologist working in London.[Applause] Doctor Wells: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Actually, I am not a clinical psychologist, I am a psychiatrist. But I forgive my brother. It is not an unsusual mistake.… Thank you Shri Mataji.[Applause] [Shri Mataji’s talk starts at 24:35] I bow to all the Seekers of truth. The truth is that we cannot [problems in the mike] that you cannot change it. You cannot transform it and you cannot conceptualize it. Also, at this human awareness, you cannot know it. In the evolutionary process, we have come to this stage as human beings. But as we see the problems of the world, we realize that most of the problems are coming from human beings. And all these problems, if you analyse them, come from the problems of these centres which are within us, because these centres cater to your physical, mental, emotional, Read More …

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Qiyamah is the Resurrection Los Angeles (United States)

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1993-10-09 Persian Public Program, Los Angeles (USA) I bow to all the seekers of truth. I’m very, very happy to meet you people from Iran. Because the first country I visited was Iran at the time of Shah (King) and I found there were many people who were seeking the truth and they had freedom to do that and we had very few people because I was staying with my brother and we didn’t have a program like this. But at least 20 people came to my brother’s place and got their Realization.After that, you know what happened in Iran and I lost completely contact with them. But even now there are some people who are in Iran and who have got their Realization. So, I think Iran is a very old country of great culture and before it becomes Islamic, it had Zoroastrians living there who had great philosophy also. Then these Islamic people also took to Islam in a very serious way. I don’t know but before Islam came the people used to make art with human figures and after that, they started making things of describing were there were only flowers or cubes or geometrical drawings. It happened that I went to Shiraz and I went to Metropolis also. So all the places is full of Divine vibrations. That means there have been even before Mohammad five times Zoroaster came and then came Hazrat Mohammad who did such a lot of work for all of us. But Read More …

You Are To Be Connected Toronto (Canada)

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Public Program. Toronto (Canada), 5 October 1993. [Tape began in mid-sentence] You cannot change it, you cannot transform it, you cannot conceptualize it, unfortunately, at this human state you cannot know it. Whatever today I’m going to tell you, you have to listen to it, please don’t believe blindfolded. Keep your mind open as a scientist. If it is proved, then as honest people you have to believe, because it is for your benevolence, it is for the benevolence of your country, it is for the benevolence of the whole world. So, what is the truth? The truth is that you are not this body, you are not this mind, you are not this ego and you are not these conditionings. Because you always say this is my, mine, it is my body, my conditionings, my ego. Who is this my, who is this I, who owns all these things? So the truth is you are not these things but you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is an All Pervading Power of divine love which does all these miraculous things like creating these flowers, out of one seed. All the living work is done by this All Pervading Power of Divine love. In Sanskrit we call it as Paramchaitanya, Bramachitana, in the Koran it is described as Ruh. In every religion it is describe that there is the All Pervading Power of Divine Love. We have never felt it in our human awareness. We have Read More …

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What is the goal of your life? United Nations Headquarters, New York City (United States)

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Public Program at United Nations Meeting, New York (USA). 4 October 1993. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it. We cannot transform it. We cannot conceptualize it. Truth is to be felt as you can feel hot and cold. Whatever we have had so far through our evolutionary process, at this human awareness, we have known it on our central nervous system. So, we have to know the truth on our central nervous system. Otherwise, it is either emotional idea or a mental idea, which has limitations. We think of science as if we have achieved a lot. In one area we might say we have, in the sense, we have explored many things about matter. We have knowledge about the outside world quite a lot, but we don’t know ourselves at all. We haven’t got the knowledge of inner being. So much of science has created such a big civilization around, but it does not know its own roots. This is the reason why today we find that there is no solution for many things which we are facing. We have big organizations; we have conferences, arguments, discussions – everything, at mental level. But the whole thing is not result oriented. If you see the human problems, we cannot say why are we here. What’s the purpose of our life? That’s why many people try to find their identity, which Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: Ritualism is not innocence Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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“Ritualism Is Not Innocence.” Shri Ganesha Puja. Cabella (Italy), 19 September, 1993. Today we have gathered here to do Shri Ganesha Puja. The first Deity that was created by the Adi Shakti was Shri Ganesh because it was necessary first to create the Deity of principles. The Deity of principles in the sense that whatever is created, whatever is there as called bhava – whatever has been so far created up to human level, everything – had to be through the implanted mechanism of energy, otherwise nothing could have been created. If you go into the matter, say sulphur dioxide, then sulphur and oxide—go on deep into it till you reach the state when it is a molecule—then you see these atoms of sulphur and oxygen, they oscillate. They oscillate with a frequency. There are three types of frequencies they use. Now imagine in the molecule – think of it – in the molecule of a substance, there is an energy which is acting. Now one may say that, “Why should [it] be [that] in matter there is energy?” One can ask a question why there should be energy in matter. If there was no energy in the matter, how can you have all chemical compounds? Who pushes them? Say you have sodium chloride. Sodium and chloride are attached to each other. But if the chloride has to go to some other atom, then who does that? There has to be some energy which is absolutely inbuilt into matter. Now, Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja Evening Program: Sitar Concert by Prateek Chaudhuri Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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1993-09-17 Sitar Concert – Prateek Chaudhuri, Cabella, Italy, Both of them are still …I think not adults I don’t know …So we have here Prateek, Prateek means a symbol…Prateek Chaudhuri, He is the son of the great renowned Sahaja yogi, Sitar player, Debu Chaudhuri. He is so young but so gifted …I must say for him to live in Delhi and to practice the sitar is an impossible situation. The boys of his age group are busy with discos and all kinds of nonsense, I know them very well. And it’s very difficult to avoid their company…But the way he has taken so seriously to this practising of Sitar, Which is a real divine instrument…in the style of his father of a special Gharana And the way he has mastered it I am really amazed. We are very lucky that on a Ganesha Puja we have such a small artist but a very great player before us to entertain. Also, I need not introduce Dhananjay who is known to you before …I think he is the youngest artist who has visited Cabella. These are prodigies I think from their past lives. In this new resurrection time When there is going to be the last judgement all these great musicians are taking birth. I have seen my self from 2 years to 10-year-old children singing so well as if some big ‘ustad’ is singing and they don’t know how they do it. I have also met some …You must have also Read More …

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You Have To Get Your Enlightenment Építők székháza, Budapest (Hungary)

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Public Program, Budapest, 10-09-1993 I bow to all the seekers of truth (Shri Mataji folds her hands and bows to the audience) At the very outset, you have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human awareness you cannot know it also. That’s why it is said that you have to get your enlightenment. Whatever I am going to tell you today, you don’t have to accept it blindfolded, but keep your minds open like scientist. And if it is proved then you have to accept it as honest people. Because it is benevolence for, it is for your benevolence, for the benevolence of your country and for the benevolence of the whole world. They have already told you about the subtle system which is within us. There is this power, your own power, in your sacrum bone, which awakens and connects you to this all-pervading power of divine love. So the truth is that you are not this body, this mind, these conditionings and this ego but you are the pure spirit. That means when you say this is my body, this is my, these are my emotions, this is my ego, you go on saying my, my, my but who is this my? Who runs your heart? The doctor said its autonomous nervous system. But who is this auto? (Shri Mataji repeats for the translator)Who runs your heart? The doctor says autonomous nervous system but who Read More …