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The true master will tell you that you have to seek your Self Musée social, Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 2, Musée social, Paris, France, 1985 [Introduction to Sahaja Yoga in French by Patrick. Short resume to Shri Mataji about what he said.] [Talk starts at 23:35 on video.] I bow to all the seekers of truth. The day before, I told you, that eventually, one has to understand what a seeker has to find out. He has to find out himself, his own Spirit, the idea of having some sort of a new venture into the style of seeking comes because people want to make money out of you. But the one who is the true master or the Satguru will tell you that you have to seek your Self. He has no interest in what you are nor he has any interest in what you can give him! Because he stands on the giving end, and he cannot receive even if he wants to, he cannot receive by his own nature and so, also, he does not want because by his nature he is compelled, just to give! Even if you try to please such a guru, by giving him something, he will say: ”I’m sorry, you’d better have it to yourself”. We had a very great saint in Maharashtra called Tukaram. And we had a very enlighten king called Shivaji. And when he heard about Tukaram and found out about him he took lots of ornaments for his wife and things for his children and for his household and went to see him. So Read More …

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This is the Last Judgment. You are judged by yourself Universite Paris Diderot Paris 7, Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 1, Paris, 1985-04-22 [Patrick is introducing Sahaja yoga] Shri Mataji: I’ll stand, it will be better. Better take out my shoes. I bow to all the seekers of truth. These are exceptional times. There are thousands and thousands people born on this earth who have been seeking the truth for many lives. It is a very special category of personality. As a result of this, people started the seeking in various ways of the unknown. But whatever is unknown is not the truth. This is the problem in the West, that we are not knowledgeable about the roots on which we stand. The knowledge is in the West is that of the tree and not of the roots. And that is why many people have taken full advantage of this naivety. From 1970 I’ve been speaking very loudly against all such people who have come to the West to delude you, how they have tried to loot you and to give you diseases and troubles of incorrigible nature. In the beginning when I talked against them, people here were protesting vehemently and they were so badly mesmerized that I could not rescue them. Such people, we can say, form real cults. But the truth has to be in the line of evolutionary process. It has to have the bases. It cannot just come from somewhere and people say, “This is a method,” or, “This is a way it is to be done.” As you know, in the Read More …

Seminar, Mahamaya Shakti, Morning University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England)

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Mahamaya Shakti. Seminar in Birmingham (UK), 20 April 1985. I knew English were the most intelligent people, but I must say they have also very sharp and pure intelligence to get to the right point.It is said that at Sahasrara the Goddess incarnates as Mahamaya. Because the job She has to do is of a very different nature. At the heart chakra, Anahata, She has to just defend, just defend the seekers from the clutches of the evil forces which are also not so subtle. They are very gross like forms, human forms. And it’s easy to fight and have a war with them, kill them.But at the point of Sahasrara, the work is very complicated. First of all, the Sahasrara of the human beings is itself a very complicated thing.First of all, it’s not that the time is very precarious, but also every country has its own complication to add to Sahasrara. Apart from that, you know, in Sahasrara we have got the seats of all the centres, not only the seven centres we are dealing with. And so many nadis are worked out through Sahasrara. So, the chakras, where the Deities have to work, have to deal with much less complications than the Deity at the Sahasrara where there are so many centres and so many nadis, and it has to act on the Sahasraras of the seekers. Say, for the Deity at the heart or at the Vishuddhi, the people are not so complicated, they have not Read More …

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Birthday Puja New Delhi (India)

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Birthday Puja, Sahaj Temple, New Delhi, 26/3/1985, translation from Hindi [English translation from Hindi] Today, you are all celebrating my birthday. This is a matter of great satisfaction as in this time of Kaliyuga, who celebrates the birthday of a mother? This shows that even though you are born in this Kaliyuga, you don’t just know about your duty towards the mother (Matru Dharma), but you also follow it. To celebrate birthdays in this age, a year is getting deducted every year and there are so many tasks still to be done. I can see many incomplete tasks. We will have to work hard and pay attention to them. Only then can they be completed fully. Like I said yesterday, in Delhi, we should pay attention to our culture. We should sort out our cultural state. The third very important thing is our spiritual ascent. We should pay attention to it like a martyr who is ready to sacrifice his life for his cause. We should have the same fervour for Sahaja Yoga. Until we have this sentiment in us, Sahaja Yoga is going to be only for our benefit. I keep hearing about the happiness and benefits people have got from it. Whatever we have benefited from it, whatever good has happened, is only because of one reason – that you have found your spirit. But when the light has come in you, you have become the lamp, then you can’t hide the lamp. You should bring your lamp Read More …

Chaitra Navaratri Puja New Delhi (India)

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1985-03-25 Chaitra Navaratri Puja, Delhi [English Translation from Hindi] I wish you on this auspicious day of Navratri. There is no doubt that the उत्कण्ठा , love and respect you people have for Sahaj is appreciable, because we find that the our heritage in North India are somewhat lost. Our past has been lost to a great extent and after independence after 300 years of slavery, we are entangled in our new environment which is intriguing but destructive too. As if we have been uprooted from our basic elements. These elements were never nurtured that is true but we also were interested in superficial things.The North had been a kind of curse on India. I think that the way Washerman behaved with Sitaji (Devi Sita of Ramayan) the rule of washer man have started in Uttar Pradesh. When you travel across Uttar Pradesh, it is sad to see that people have become superficial, incomplete, without faith, without respects etc that it does not appear that Sahaj can flourish there. Secondly, it is seen that everywhere be it Punjab, Bihar we call ourselves hindu or Indians but we are unaware of our culture/heritage.We do not know our roots? On which root we are standing steady? We cannot prosper by seeding the roots of others in ourselves. And our roots are so very important that the roots of entire world will evolve and exalt from it. But the man here is in strange environment he is on never side, and when I Read More …

Address to Leaders Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Address to Leaders. Melbourne (Australia), 18 March 1985. Shri Mataji: Better teach them how to manage this. But we have experienced now your wife should not be in charge. No woman should be in charge. If you want an assistance take another gentleman but not any woman whatsoever. While I think they don’t understand. If they go in administration they go off their heads. So best is to have another assistant, if you want somebody, ask your leader here or someone and then arrange. Have somebody to assist you. But, be careful, always be careful that he does not become dominant and does not try to spoil the scope. Take always all opportunities to create joyous moments. Like say this people have come, the young people have come married, should ask them to go out and have some nice time and give them some nice time, or something. All the joyous moments must be an advantage for the people to feel happier. You see this must be done. And now, those who are married now also you must say that you are married, you see that you build up the atmosphere so that they feel the importance of marriage. I think that is not in the west but we have it. You all the times say the ripples which you see to please them, do this, do that, and then they see and then they build it up within their hearts, but that’s not here, no interest. You show interest Read More …

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Mahashivaratri Puja New Delhi (India)

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Mahashivaratri Puja Date: 17th February 1985 Place Delhi Туре Puja Speech Language Hindi  On this auspicious occasion of Shivaratri, we have gathered, and it’s significant that every time Shivaratri happens, I’m usually in Delhi. The most important thing in all our bodies, minds, intellects, egos, and everything else is the soul, and everything else depends on it externally. In the soul, we see the reflection of our Father, the Lord. Yesterday, I told you about the soul. That same soul is of the form of Shiva. Shiva signifies that which does not change, that which does not manifest that which remains fully integrated in its own place, which is described as immovable, unbroken, infinite. Today, we are worshiping that Shiva within ourselves. He is reflected within us. Through the awakening of Kundalini, we have come to know Him, and the more His light shines, the more illuminated our consciousness becomes. But it is very necessary to pay attention to this Shiva. To be completely open towards Shiva, to be fully taken in His direction. It is essential for us to understand what preparation is required for Him. Just like you put a flame in a lamp, but if the lamp is not capable of containing that flame within itself, then all is in vain, all the effort will be futile. If something comes within us that we cannot bear, then we will be the ones at fault. We are still very inexperienced about this that its brilliance, its beauty, affects Read More …

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Public Program Day 5, Sahasrar, Atma New Delhi (India)

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ATMA – DAY 5 DELHI 16.2.1985 I bow to all the  seekers of truth.   Today’s melodious music program is very much associated with today’s topic for which I thank Debu Choudhury.  All the arrangements happen spontaneously and in today’s music the play of 12 sounds you witnessed, that same beautiful music can be created inside us.  The eight chakras of Kundalini you are seeing here, which is Mooladhara  Chakra, Mooladhara, Swadishthan, Nabhi, Heart, Vishuddhi, Agnya and Sahasrara.  Apart from this, there are Sun and Moon  Chakras also inside us.  Like this there are three more chakras which start working after the piercing of fontanelle bone area, which we call Ardha Bindu, Bindu and Valay.  All these are vowels (sounds) inside us.  Like if we start from Sa, then seven vowels, Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Ni ends in Sahasrara.  Like this, there are planets also which give energy to these chakras.  For example, in Mooladhara  Mars, Swadishthan Mercury, in Nabhi Jupiter, in Heart Chakra Venus, in Vishuddhi Saturn, in Agnya Sun and in Sahasrara Moon (Monday), which is Shiva’s or Devi’s,  Adishakti’s abode.  Like this, our nine planets also reside in these chakras.  It means whatever OMKAR is manifested from Shri Ganesh, all these  integrate completely in one Sound and one rhythm for music which God has created inside us.  To penetrate this only Kundalini starts working.  When Kundalini starts rising and penetrates all these chakras and reaches the Fontanelle bone area,  from its ascent, lot of Read More …

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We have to be very honest people Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstead (England)

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Public program, Hampstead Town Hall, London, 22-11-1984 I bow to all the seekers of truth. These are the days of great confusion. Especially in the fields of seeking, there is so much confusion that it is hard for people to know what to seek, where to seek and what to expect. Apart from that, we have a special category of people who are seekers and who are so many in number. And there are so many in the market who are selling [inaudible] So, it is even more confusing for people to know what is to seek. But formally, I think, when philosophy was the main object of research, that time people used to think at a very different level than what they are seeking today. There was not so much of confusion. And there were people who were really very evolved, of a very high order, who discussed and talked about things, which were not to exploit the seekers, not to mislead them, but to bring them to proper logic.Now in the realm of the religion, we are the most confused these days. So, we start seeing the point that, whatever you preach, or whatever you try to establish as religion, it always goes to extremes and goes to such a rigidity that it becomes a fanatic instrument and destructive element. Naturally, people started thinking about it in the modern times, “What is the use of having a religion? If the religion means this nonsense, better not have the Read More …

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Whatever is our genuine faith, why doesn’t it manifest in our life? Paris (France)

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Public Program. Paris (France), 29 September 1984. [About the mike] Just have to test it a bit. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Now, we talk of truth, we have heard about it, and so many of us think that we know the truth. But truth is only known on your central nervous system. Supposing, sitting down in London, I believe that Paris is like this or like that, I do not see the truth. So, I have to experience, I have to come here, and see for Myself. But whatever I do in My imagination is of no value. And if we are honest, if we are really seeking, if we really want to know the truth about ourselves, we have to have an experience. Now, if somebody says, that: “I give you the experience”, or he says that: “I am God” or: “I am something great”, must you believe that person? Many people have believed in all religions. Hindus have believed in religion, Muslims have believed, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, all have believed in something. But this belief did not transform you, did not give you power to follow the religion. We can take the case of Christians, where it was said by Christ, that: “In the Ten Commandment, it is written that: ‘Thou shall not commit adultery’, but I say unto you: ‘Thou shall not have adulterous eyes.’” But those who believe in Christ, or believe in church, have they got pure eyes? Have they got Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: The Time of Destruction Milan (Italy)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Italy, 1984, September, the 18th Shri Mataji: Fumes. Like Fumes. Sahaja Yogi: “Fumo”. Shri Mataji: And it is such an absurd place. And there is, also very surprising that, every 28 minutes, in a place, water comes out of the Mother Earth, every 28 minutes. It shoots off, exactly after 28 minutes. It’s a very funny place and lot of sulphur, lot of sulphur there. Sulphur just bubbling out of, you find suddenly from somewhere there’s a hot water coming out like just pouring out water. Can you imagine such a place? Now, Andes is another site. Andes is a kind that will give tremors, earthquakes. It will give lots of earthquakes and it has lots of gold also because it’s a right-sided, lot of gold and it will be giving lots of earthquakes. When it will come to destruction, it will be used as earthquakes. They will, it will act as earthquakes. America is that whole portion, it is all Andes from top to bottom. And all that will be shattered by. So, these two forces will act more at the time of destruction. So, one has to be careful about it. Because, you see, Bolivia, say Peru and all these places, these people went from here. They killed so many of these people. So many of these races were killed completely. Then dead bodies were there. Killing is very bad because when you kill a person, that person cannot take birth and hangs in Read More …

Milan/Rome Events, Conversations, Interview Rome (Italy)

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1984-09-17, Milan/Rome Events, Conversations 1 Shri Mataji: “Now, it’s too loud”. Yogi: “Shri Mataji take to Milan Her message. This is the title, the great….”. Shri Mataji: “I didn’t hear, again;” Yogi: Shri Mataji take to Milan Her message, and the title, the big title is – “The Great Mother leads to discover the seed of the Spirit”. Shri Mataji: The seat of the… Yogi: The seed, Seed, seed. Second Yogi: The seed. Shri Mataji: The seed…lead, lead. Yogi: is leading? Is leading us to discover the seed of the Spirit. This is fundamentally a call for a man of today, because he has to discover the Spirit within, and this mostly is the message of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, that She gave to the person She met. And also She has a great disponibility on helping him to reach the Self-Realization and teaching him the way to enter in connection with the Divine. And get from that the vital energy. And yesterday She brought Her message to the people in Milan, in that meeting in the “Sala de Congressi”, of the Provincia. The rationality has led the men too far away and he forgot his own inner spirituality and his natural tendency for the ascent, that’s what Shri Mataji said. But the most of all in the Western World, we have always neglected the knowledge of the roots and we gave the privilege of the knowledge of the trees. And this has grown too far, and risk to get Read More …

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When we are seeking the truth, we have to know also what is the truth Milan (Italy)

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Public Programme, Milan, 17 September 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. It gives Me tremendous pleasure to be among the people of Milan, which means the middle, the middle path. The people who are in the middle path are the best suited for their ascent because those who go to extremes go away from reality. But those who lead a moderate life, a balanced life, a sensible life are very well suited for their ascent. Now when we are seeking the truth, we have to know also what is the truth. The truth is that we are the Spirit. We are not this body, this physical being, this mental being, but we are the Spirit, the spiritual being. In the process of our evolutionary ascent we have come to this stage where we are called as human beings. But we have not found yet our absolute. We live in a very relative world. That is why we are so restless, there are problems of wars, there are problems of disintegration. Now whatever I’m going to tell you is the knowledge of the roots. We know the tree but not the roots. Italy is a country of traditions. In the same way India is a country of tradition but traditions of spirituality. There have been people seeking in that country since ages, and they have been able to find out something so great about ourselves. But there is no doubt there are many fake people who have come Read More …

Talk at Gregoire’s House Vienna (Austria)

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Talk at Gregoire’s house. Vienna (Austria), 6 September 1984. …and in the center of it, you see, so it doesn’t touch the sand at all – sand has nothing to do, only the water. After the minimum level we find out, what is the minimum level, it goes on – and we put it there. Now what happens, that the water is collected, it is sucked in through here, see. We don’t suck in any sand also. There’s a way of doing it by which we take it in the center of the river. Sahaja Yogi: So we can use this part of the river for rice – for growing rice? Shri Mataji: We can do a lot on this side – we can do a lot on this side. But this one is taken into the depth of the river. Because you see this much is, what is it, it’s just a pipe, that’s all. That’s not much of an expense, this pipeline, not much of an expense, from where the water is sucked in through this. So that’s not much of a thing for us – pipeline. Only this thing should be taken into the center. And then this area can be used for making some plants, something we can use, which are growing on the water – watermelons, lotuses, watermelons, all these things we can do. But lotus doesn’t grow on the river. It grows on the lake. So like that we can have watermelons and other Read More …

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Christian Tradition and Christ Vienna (Austria)

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Public Program Day 1. Vienna (Austria), 5 September 1984. Shri Mataji: I bow to all the seekers of truth. It is so enamouring to see so many seekers in Vienna who have come to receive their Realization. Sahaja Yoga is not a new thing. In the tradition of spirituality it is mentioned about 14.000 years back by Markandeya. That ultimately it is the force within you of the Holy Ghost, which is called as Kundalini residing in the triangular bone has to give the Realization. But for that happening human being had to be prepared. People had to be balanced. And that is how many prophets came on this earth after that in the same tradition to prepare people to have that balance. Right from Abraham, Moses we see them, follow them up, up to Raja Janaka who was the father-in-law of Rama. And later on we had so many others like Mohammed Sahib, Nanak Sahib on this earth to tell us about having a balance in live. They taught us moderation and not to go to extremes. You can see within ourselves we have two sides – one is the left, another is the right side. But the human nature is that that whatever one may try they make extreme of everything – they can do it. Like when they talked about God they went to the extreme of thinking they where God themselves or they thought that now God can be organized by human beings. Because of this Read More …

Do not seek the Truth through mental projections Geneva (Switzerland)

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Public Programme Day 1. Geneva (Switzerland), 28 August 1984. At The Human Level We Try To Seek Truth Through Our Mental Projection I bow to all the seekers of Truth. I’m sorry, I could not come yesterday and I hope today we’ll be able to do something for ourselves. When we talk of Truth, we have to know that at the human level we try to seek Truth through our mental projection or through our emotional understanding. The other day I met the president of the Jungian Society in America and he told Me that he was sitting on a cut trunk of a tree and he just thought that, “I should try to know the roots and thus I will know the sap.” I said, “How will you know the roots when you have just mental capacity?” He said, “With mental capacity you can go down into the subtler side and go down and you can understand the roots.” I said, “By your mental projection it’s all imaginary knowledge you have.” So to get to the roots you have to become a subtler personality. So one must know that Truth is much subtler than our gross understanding and to know the Truth we have to be subtler personality. At this gross level we understand what our ego tells us, or our mental projection tells us, or our conditioning tells us. And so when we read too much about the subtler life, we think we know what subtle life is. Read More …

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The awareness of the Kingdom of God Cambridge (England)

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The awareness of the Kingdom of God, Public Program. Cambridge (England), 13 August 1984. Will You sit down Mother or stand up? – Have you finished or not?– Yes, Mother.– Please continue.– No, no they’re very anxiously waiting for You, Mother.– Oh, I see. They all see and I’ll get up and talk. I’ll stand up. Please be seated.  I bow to all the seekers of truth. We came on this earth without knowing why are we here and when we grew up, we felt, we are here for various things to enjoy our physical being, our mental being, our material side, our powers, our possessions, our friendships and our limited love. We worked very hard with it to achieve some sort of a joy out of all that. But the other day I was watching one film very funny and a very – a grotesque type of a film it was, lot of hard truths were there – showing a man trying to achieve some goal of marrying a particular lady, for that trying to get some money. The picture was presented in a very, I should say, in a very, very violent way which was really repulsive to My mind but it proved that all these pursuits are good for nothing. They lead you nowhere, you’re left high and dry as you were – much worse than what you, you were born. Your innocence is lost, your sense of love is lost, your value system is lost and Read More …

Raksha Bandhan and Maryadas Montague Hall, Hounslow (England)

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Raksha Bandhan and maryadas. Hounslow, London (UK), 11 August 1984. After the great tour of UK I feel very confident that Sahaja Yoga is taking its roots, and you can see some of the plants coming up. It’s surprising, when I declared that it may be the last tour I’ll be doing of UK that things have started working out. Everywhere we went it was very good and successful, specially certain places it was very miraculous. You must have heard about the lady who would not go out of her house, was suffering from agoraphobia, and the press challenged us that she should be cured because she can’t go out of the house. And only on her photograph and treatment she got cured, and now she’s walking about, and they have given a big report saying that ‘The Guru fulfills Her promise’. This is one of them and there are many things have happened of this kind, of which you should get the report. I must say I found all the sahaja yogis very cooperative, very alert, very helpful and extremely progressive. And I was happy that they are trying to come up and improve themselves, build themselves up, and are doing much better than what I had expected, really. I was very, very enamored by all of them, and I hope that by the time it is 12 years, we’ll be all absolutely top class sahaja yogis of the world. Now today is a very great day of Raksha Read More …

Radio Derby Interview BBC Radio Derby, Derby (England)

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Radio Interview Interview: You feel it on your hands. You feel it emitting from the top of the head. You feel it flowing over the body but that’s not the only thing. This is an outer experience because your central nervous system becomes enlightened by these vibrations but inwardly you start to feel a very joyful person. You start to feel the silence. You know that what is happening inside you is transforming all the things that were negative or undesirable within yourself into something positive and what’s more, you can give it to others. And that’s the most beautiful part. Shri Mataji, you were at the Guild Hall in Derby last night for a meeting there. How did that meeting go? Shri Mataji: Oh very well. I never had such a nice meeting before in Derbyshire. It was wonderful. People were very beautiful. I think certainly awareness is showing in England which is very promising. I have been here for 10 years and I’ve been struggling to work it out because I think England is very important, it’s the spiritual field. It is the heart of the universe and people have to understand it. And I found this year, it has suddenly taken a new turn in the awareness of people, they are started looking at it from another angle whereas maybe the controversy that is on about the miracles of Christ’s life and I’m here to prove that all the miracles were true. Absolutely true. I mean you Read More …

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The Work of the Divine Guildhall Theatre, Derby (England)

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Public Program. Guild Hall, Derby (UK), 1 August 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. It’s a great pleasure to come to Derby, and I must extend My apologies for getting late as the train was late from London. We are here today to know about the truth, about what we are, about what we are going to be. All these questions relate to the unknown knowledge of our roots. Whatever we know from science or from any other mental projection is the knowledge of the tree. This is the knowledge of the roots which nourishes us, which gives us growth, which gives us desire, which works out all our actions, physical and mental, and which evolves us. The problem is when we are dealing with the tree as in the West we seldom forget that the tree has to be related to the growth of the root. When in the West the tree was growing was so fast, in the East, in India, people were understanding, trying to meditate, about the roots. As the East has to learn scientific ways from the West, the Western people have to learn about the roots. There’s nothing to think that something is higher than lower. The roots have no meaning without the tree and tree has no existence without the roots. Whether you are born in the East, West, North or South, all of us have got a human body and human body is a very special thing that God Read More …

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Understand The Meaning Of Life Teesside University, Middlesbrough (England)

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Public Program, Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough (England), 31 July 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. First of all, we have to know what truth means. We want to seek truth, there’s an urge within us that we have to seek the truth. Because of this seeking only we all have become human beings. Now after human beings’ stage, what is going to happen to us? As it is, you find there is so much of confusion in this world, so much of confusion, so many ideas, so many thoughts, so many ideologies, so many religions. All kinds of things have come up and a simple human starts looking at it and he gets quite puzzled, “What sort of thing this world is?” It’s a very confused world, first of all. The confusion gives you a greater urge to seek, because you find, “What’s this going on?” Secondly, I went round your city today just to vibrate the whole place and I felt the place has got a kind of a feeling of dullness and I asked the person who was driving Me, I said, “Why the people here are looking very dull?” He said, “The people are now without any jobs,” so, I said that should happen to any country which is so industrially developed. When we are industrially developed, you see, all our industrial wants are over perhaps, then we start seeking more because we think now we’ve got everything, we’ve got proper dress to wear, we’ve Read More …

Radio Interview Brighton (England)

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Radio Interview. Brighton (UK), 26 July 1984. Interviewer: This time show. Now nowadays there are many people who reach a state of depression, unsure which way they should turn, often taking drugs to compensate, looking to religious or alternative lifestyles to shed a new light on their lives when now apparently a silent revolution has been growing, led by a spiritual leader, Shri Mataji. I am pleased to welcome Her to the studio now. Hello, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Hello. Interviewer: Now, first of all, let’s talk about the thing that you, the process you are involved in. It’s called Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Yes. Interviewer: First of all, let’s ascertain what exactly yoga is. Shri Mataji: Yoga means, there are two meanings to word yoga. The first meaning is the union with the Divine that your attention becomes one with the Divine, or you can say that you become one with the Spirit. Second meaning of yoga is depthness. Or you can as call it technique, depthness of the divine laws. But unless and until you get united with the Divine you cannot use the technique. Interviewer: Right, now… Shri Mataji: Sahaja means, “saha” means with, “ja” means born, means it is spontaneous. It is a living process of evolutionary ascent, the last breakthrough. Interviewer: Right. Now, taking it one step further, how do you go about, what is this? Is it, it’s the Self-realization. Is this the same thing? Shri Mataji: Yes, it is Self-realization. It is the Read More …

Talk to doctors: the fourth dimension and the parasympathetic Brighton (England)

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Conversation: Shri Mataji talks to doctors. Brighton (UK), 26 July 1984. Shri Mataji: The fourth dimension that they mentioned about, what do they mean by that? That is the thing. Warren: They call that transcendental state. Shri Mataji: But what? Warren: They can’t describe it. (Here Mother says again “What?” while Warren is saying the word “describe”) Shri Mataji: They can’t describe it, you see. Supposing somebody has a low heartbeat, low pulse rate or has a low consumption of oxygen or anything. Warren: That’s not transcendental state. Shri Mataji: That is not transcendental state, because you are still in the state, where your attention is on your body. So, it is not a transcendental, you will have to transcend. Transcendental means you have to jump onto the parasympathetic. See, we have four dimensions we can say. One is the dimension of the left sympathetic, another is of the right sympathetic, then we have got the central nervous system, which is our conscious mind and the fourth one is the parasympathetic. Does he jump on the parasympathetic? Warren: We do. Shri Mataji: Yes. In Sahaja Yoga you jump onto the parasympathetic; means your attention starts controlling the parasympathetic nervous system. Then how do we prove it that we become the fourth dimension? First thing is, that the person, who becomes the controller of the parasympathetic, becomes the “Auto”. He can do things. He can do things, like she can tell that another person is suffering on these centers without going Read More …

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The Experience of Truth (Part IV) Chiswick Town Hall, London (England)

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Public Program, “The Experience of Truth”  (IV part) Chiswick Town Hall, London (UK), 10 July 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. We have had three lectures before this, about the experience of truth and today is the fourth one and the last on the subject of experience of truth. In the first lecture I described what is truth, how to recognise truth and that’s how we proceeded till today, and today we have to get to the finale, that is the enjoyment of the bliss of truth. The first one was as I told you, before was the experience of truth which one has to feel on the central nervous system. Into a new collective consciousness, was the second one and the third one we talked about the transformation that takes place. But the final is the nature of Divine. People say divine is purity, divine is blissful, divine is compassion, divine is love, it is described by many words, but I don’t think it can be described. It has to be experienced. You can go on describing, writing books after books, stories after stories, poems after poems, divine is so unlimited that you cannot describe it in it’s full extent, nor in it’s depth, but as it is being described that the spirit is the truth. So the first three lectures I covered the subject of truth within us, that we have to feel it in our evolutionary process; the truth on our central nervous system. Read More …

The Experience of Truth (Part III) Ilford Town Hall, London (England)

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Public Program at Ilford Town Hall. Ilford (England), 8 July 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. In the previous two lectures I told you how to understand the experience of truth. In the first one, we came to the conclusion that if we have to feel the truth, it’s not our only mental acceptance that it is truth, or our mental projection that it is truth, but you have to feel it on your central nervous system. In the second lecture I told you that when you feel the truth through your central nervous system in your evolutionary process, then you become something. You become, you become is the point. Is not that you think you are like this or like that, but you really become something. Like a flower becomes a fruit or an egg becomes a chick. You have to become something in your awareness, and this new awareness is the awareness of collective consciousness. Where you can feel yourself, what’s the problem with you and you can feel others, on your fingertips. This is a very good English idiom they use, on your fingertips. I mean somebody must have thought of Sahaja Yoga when they formed this I am sure. To use this, you should know it on your fingertips. Now what does that mean? We have never thought of it, we always say so, we should know them on our fingertips, but actually you feel them on your fingertips. The different centres within Read More …

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The Experience of Truth (Part II) Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstead (England)

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Public Program, “The Experience of Truth”. Hampstead Town Hall, London (UK), 2 July 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. The other day I talked to you about the experience of truth. That the truth has to be felt through your central nervous system. If anything has to happen to your evolution you have to feel it through your central nervous system otherwise it is just a projection of your mind which falls off and you are surprised at yourself. Like we call somebody as a friend, a dear friend, and one day we find there is no friendship. Maybe one day the friend will try to murder you or you may try to murder that person. You just don’t understand what happened to that love. Same thing about all of our projections, we find it has no basis, it’s so superficial.When we realise that all is so superficial, it has no basis, we just get frustrated and we start thinking, what is all this, we are playing games. One can’t be sincere. What has happened to us? Why are we so frivolous? Why are we so superficial? We may start taking interest in things which look superficially very great, but ultimately we find that it doesn’t have any depth in it and suddenly to our horror we discover that everything seems to be relative in this world, nothing is absolute. So the experience of the truth has to be absolute. Means everybody should feel that way, if Read More …

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The Experience of Truth (Part I) South Bank University, London (England)

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Public Program, “The Experience of Truth”. South Bank Polytechnic, London (England), 22 June 1984. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. There are in those modern times, many seekers of Truth [that] are born. It’s a special category of people born in these modern times. Perhaps we are not aware that, in every country, [a] lot of people are born with the seeking. They are a special category which sees beyond, tries to find something beyond what they can perceive through their sense organs. The Truth as we see, is through our sense organs. For example something we see as white, we call it ‘white’, something we feel cool, we call it ‘cool’; [similarly] something as hot. Means, whatever we perceive through our sense organs and whatever is communicated to us through our central nervous system we accept as Truth. And we should accept that only as Truth and not something that is told to us, not something that we have read in the books, not something that we can project our mind to and can think about. That doesn’t mean that I deny any one of the scriptures. That doesn’t mean that I deny anything that you have known so far. But, to begin with, let us start from scratch as they call it or on a clean slate. Let us see what is the Truth. Now in every religion Truth has been described as I can see it. Everybody cannot see it. That’s why this problem. That’s Read More …

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The tradition of Seeking Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Porchester Hall, London (UK), 10 April 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. So very happy to see so many Sahaja Yogis as well as so many seekers today here to know about themselves. First of all we have to realize that when we use the word “I”, when we say “I like it, I want it”, we do not know this “I” at all. This “I” is unknown to us .What part of us likes it, what part of us dislikes it and what part of us is the reality? We know what we can see with our eyes, with these human eyes, with the human awareness that is available to us. We can at least as human being have a conception, have an idea that there has to be something more to this life. It’s not that we are just to be born on this earth, worry about material things of life and then die worrying about them again. That’s not the life we are here. We are human beings specially created, delicately, beautifully looked after, for what purpose? Why are we here? We have to understand that there has to be some higher purpose of our life. But it’s definite that we have not yet felt it and so many of you have felt it too. Seeker is that special category as I have told you who is aware that you have to seek something more than material well-being or the power or Read More …

Birthday Felicitations New Delhi (India)

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Talk at the Birthday Felicitation , Delhi , India. 20-03-1984 On this occasion I bow to all my children, to all the well-wishers, friends who have come here to express their kind feelings towards me. Thank you very much. In such circumstances the words cannot express, the deep feeling of gratitude for all of you who have so kindly come down here. It is very important for us to realize one thing that the time has come for all of us to transform ourselves, all the possibilities of transformation is possible.  We all have to transform ourselves. We must raise our level from this human level to the higher level of spirit. Otherwise those who will not will not enter into the kingdom of god and may be destroyed. The time is very precarious and precious and the most opportune time. Today is the day they have put a Sahasrara here, many one thousand petalled lotus surrounding the limbic area in our head. The coconut is called  as Shriphala which represents something like our brain and the inside of the coconut is the limbic area. In the same way we have got in our brain this limbic area on which many scientists have done a lot of research but they cannot go very far with it because they are doing everything from outside, it is only through Sahaja yoga you can understand what lies in that brain. All the seven centres about which I have told you in the previous Read More …

Talk to the English Sahaja Yogis, Day prior to Marriages Bordi (India)

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Talk to the English Sahaja Yogis, Day prior to Weddings, Bordi (India), Tuesday, February 14th, 1984 Shri Mataji: [Hindi]Did he get the set? Please have a look. This is for the commissary.Sahaja Yogini: Yes.Shri Mataji: if there is a mistake, that they will know.[Packing things]Yes, that’s a good quality.Sahaja Yogi: We‘ve got a message, it’s closing time on Friday.Sahaja Yogini: On Thursday, in fact… [Chat between Yoginis]Shri Mataji: That’s it, that’s it. Oh, beautiful! Very beautiful, excellent.[Conversation with a Yogini about a recipe for a cake.]And thank you very much. I am very happy, I’ve solved my embarrassment.[Laughter]You see what I told him, I did not know what to say because when to him, I just told him that, you see, [Unclear] I said: “I’m not going to take any sweet” he said: “Why?”Because[Laughter]It’s a lie but must not be a complete lie. Shri Mataji: This man has an extremely […..inaudible]You see, because unless and until you are an agriculturist, you cannot get in agriculture at all. And we are not, I mean, as far as the-Sahaja Yogi: Technically.Shri Mataji: Technically we are not agriculturalists, you see. So he asked the question, also we had to say how many agriculturalists are there and this and that [unsure]. So we worked it out. He said: “Put some of the names and we’ll do very fine, he said, “put some other name also with it so that there’s no harm in putting it” [Laughter].I said: “All right, we have so many agriculture, Read More …

Talk to Ladies Pimpri, Pune (India)

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Talk to Ladies. Pimpri, Pune (India), 10 February 1984. [Shri Mataji speaks in Marathi] For your good luck, you should say let us say for your good luck, SoubhAgnya for your good luck. Is given to the ladies, always given to the ladies. Because in India the women are regarded as the Shakti and women who lead a married life and who have been mothers, who have been daughters and also wives and things like that are respected very much as only it is believed that only the respectable women when they exist in any country the Gods also reside there. If they are not respectable the Gods don’t reside there. See the glamour is not very much respected in India. The glamorous nature is regarded as something like a sophisticated prostitution [not sure]. In India, glamour is a sign of a effect or a kind of inferiority complex in a women or maybe a cunning to be glamorous. See so its not very much respected in this country. If they find any women getting very glamorous then she’s little bit pulled down in the society and people try to pass remarks on her and make fun of her or sort of she’s brought down. [Its?] not regarded as a very great thing but a traditional… a women has to be traditionally dressed up. As a married women she has to wear a certain ornaments. She has to wear certain things as a married women. She has to wear certain Read More …

Spontaneous Talk Vaitarna (India)

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1984-0118 Spontaneous Talk, Vaitarna (…unclear…) so anybody does like that, remind it, that’s the problem is this is a very different style of life they’ll never, have you ever heard any Indian shouting at you? See it’s a very different style of life, try to understand that, they have to say then they will just go and tell them, whisper in the ears that please don’t talk and they will keep quiet. But then if you shout anyone, if you shout, shouting is not Indian style have you heard anybody shouting, that’s what it is, I’ve seen that like French also they really quarrel all the time, when they talk to each other …the feel is like ho ho ho ho going on and I used to say how can it be ! They said we talk like that Mother. Nobody minds it. They used to this kind of thing one talks with pretension another talks disputation. So one has to understand the system is good in this country is not (..unclear…). As far as possible to keep your temper within control, your tongue within control, your vishuddhi – especially the right vishuddhi should be kept in proper control. Now, this sweetness and the mildness and a very soothing behaviour is an expression of love. As you go deep down within yourself into a subtler being, you’ll find a smooth movement of your SAP of the Kundalini which is nourishing. It’s not volcanic, it is not traumatic, it doesn’t come Read More …

New Year Puja: Who Is A Sahaja Yogi? New Delhi (India)

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Nav Varsh Pooja Talk – (Sahajayogi ki Pahechan), New Year Puja,  Date: 03 January 1984, Place: Delhi, India, Type: Pooja, Speech language: Hindi [English Translation from Hindi] Every year comes a new year, and the last year gets completed. For Sahaja yogis every moment is a new year because they stay in the present. They stay neither in the future, nor in the past. Every moment for them is a new year, a new hope, a new wave. Just like while swimming in the ocean, every moment you are lifted by the love of the ocean. In the same manner, every Sahaja yogi is constantly feeling the bubbling of joy, love and peace. But the actual point is whether we have learnt to swim or not. In Sahaja Yoga, whoever has learnt how to swim, he will always swim in joy, will swim in the ocean of joy. If there is any shortcoming or flaw in Sahaja Yoga, it is that after Realisation, you have to become. Without achieving your becoming, you cannot achieve Sahaja Yoga. Mother has put you in the water, but even after becoming a swimmer, you have to learn how to make others swim, how you can save others, how you can teach others to swim. You have to become that completely. If this is one flaw, it is in Sahaja Yoga, but it covers many flaws. Like in the past, gurus did not arrange straight away for your peace and joy. Earlier, they used to Read More …

CBC Radio Interview “The Planet” Vancouver (Canada)

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CBC Radio Interview “The Planet” Presenter: [Missing part] come to Vancouver. But unlike some others this one is not after your money. As a matter of fact, She brands those gurus or teachers that are after your money as fakes. Shri Mataji Devi lives in London with Her husband, the United Nations diplomat. As a child in India She knew She was different, and Her character trait Mahatma Gandhi also recognized when he asked Her to stay and worked with him. In 1970 Shri Mataji began Her mission in bringing peace and enlightenment to the world’s people and She is here in Vancouver, this week. You don’t take money or ask for it? Shri Mataji: (Laughes) No, no. You can’t pay for it. It is God’s love. How can you pay? How much do you have to pay for it? Presenter: How do you finance Your projects? Shri Mataji: You see, I travel by Myself because My husband can afford it. And the people who have their own centers, they manage their own, because they live there. They pay for the rent and they manage their own. I don’t take any money from them at all for My own maintenance or anything. Sometimes they do pay Me for My travels. Sometimes. Not to Me but to the, I should say, to the travel agent. Presenter: So they pay Your travelling expenses. Shri Mataji: Sometimes. Very rarely. Presenter: Gurus that do ask for money then, You say, are automatically fakes. Shri Read More …

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Kazu Radio Interview Kennolyn Camps, Santa Cruz (United States)

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Kazu Radio Interview. Santa Cruz, California (USA), 1 October 1983. (Aarti ending.) Shri Mataji: Beautiful! Sahaja Yogi: Bolo Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki! Jai! Shri Mataji: Who is the gentleman who met Me in Kamini Kadam’s house? Sahaja Yogi: Are right there. Shri Mataji: Hello, how do you do? Very nice to meet you. Both of you were there? Gentleman: Yes. Shri Mataji: All right. May God bless you. Shri Mataji: How are you sleeping? Gentleman: Fine, thank You. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Nice to meet you again. Sahaja Yogi: Mother, a lady from Kazu Radio actually who is coming as a seeker but has also arranged that, if an interview is possible. Shri Mataji: All right. Sahaja Yogi: Barbara! This is Barbara. Shri Mataji: Yes. So today we should have questioning only will be good idea. All right? Barbara: Thank you, Mother. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Barbara: Before we begin, I would like to introduce myself to those of you in the room. My name is Barbara Schuler and I do a radio program on a station from Monterrey called Discovery, which is usually on Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30, and is going to be now on Thursdays to 11:30 to 1 o’clock. And it’s my privilege to be here to do a taped interview for my listeners. So for the listeners I would like to say that we are at Kennolyn Campgrounds in Santa Cruz and this is an interview with Read More …

Radio KFI Interview Los Angeles (United States)

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Interview Radio KFI, Los Angeles (USA), 25 September 1983. Broadcaster: Good morning. We hear a lot about gurus and various spiritual leaders these days, and a lot of times it’s hard to tell real ones from phony ones. And recently there was a segment on a news program – Sixty Minutes – talking about some false guru and today, to talk about that and a lot of other things, we have a woman who has many names – and You’ll have to let me know which – what You prefer to be called. But You’ve been called Holy Mother, Founder of the Sahaja Yogi Movement – is that the right way to say it? Anyway, You’ve also been called a faith healer, a saint, a Goddess – so many different names! Anyway, I’d like to welcome Shri Mataji. I’m not very good at Indian names. But anyway, You were born in India, were active in India’s struggle for independence from England, and personally knew … Shri Mataji: No, not from England, in India only. Broadcaster: OK. And personally knew Mahatma Gandhi and now You’re a grandmother and married to a United Nations diplomat in London – so many different roles. Welcome to Los Angeles. Shri Mataji: Thank you. Broadcaster: I can’t wait to hear a little bit more about what You’re doing and how You feel about things. Well, with so many descriptions of Yourself, how do You prefer to be known to Americans? Do You have a … particularly, Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Birthday of Shri Ganesha Tivoli (Italy)

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Shri Ganesha puja. Tivoli (Italy) 11th September 1983. Today we are celebrating the Birthday of Shri Ganesha, because it is a very important thing for all of us that we should celebrate His Birthday; and yesterday we did the Havana. But yesterday we had many new people so I could not talk to you very clearly about Shri Ganesha’s deeper manifestations. You know that He resides within us.[Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi]Now we have a very great asset within us that we know about Shri Ganesha, and that we can excite His powers.Shri Mataji [to an Italian Yogini]: Please translate.To manifest Shri Ganesha, we have to do certain amount of Tapasya – penance. First we have to say, when we sit for meditation, that: “I am going to be worthy of Your appreciation. Make me humble, so that I am appreciated by You, and my only desire is to please You.” Then you sit down in complete preparedness, meditating over your Mooladhara, putting your attention to it with absolute purity. Now you have my photograph before you and you tell the photograph that, “Mother, You are Shri Ganesha. You give me wisdom and discretion”. So, attention at the Mooladhara chakra, which is actually below the sacrum bone. You put your right hand towards the photograph and left hand on the Mother Earth. Now this wilI tell you that your mind, or your brain which is full of confusion, which has no discretion, which is complicated, which does the same mistakes Read More …

Talk To New People Tivoli (Italy)

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Talk to new people, Tivoli, Italy, 1983-09-10 We go to the essence of things to the roots. Now if there is a disease on the knees, you cannot cross the knee They have to go to the roots to find out how the disease is showing. So we have to go to the roots now because we have to understand that we are much more subtler than what we know about ourselves. So we go to the subtler side of …Not only we are bothered about the outside things that we see but we have to know about the inside of us. What causes all the outcome. So when we are…as the person who comes with the for us to give us Salvation we go to the essence to find out to who He is. It is said in the Bible that he is the Alpha and the Omega, means He is the first and the last.But to explain it there is nothing in the Bible. But we have other books, other scriptures UNCLEAR where He is described, and he is called as Maha Vishnu in one of the books and the essence of Him is innocence. All to emit innocence. But before he was born.. UNCLEAR .So  Primordial mother first to give image of Christ which was to come on this earth and this is called as Shri Ganesha in the scriptures. There is a very interesting story as to how Shri Ganesha was created by the Primordial mother. Read More …

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Talk about Christ Sala Borromini, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome (Italy)

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Second Public Program, Day 2, “Talk about Christ”. Rome (Italy), 9 September 1983. I bow to all the seekers of reality. To know the reality is only possible if you’re connected with your spirit. Without that, whatever you know is all on human level. Now, somebody asked Me a question, that if you just say, “’Hail Mary’ or if you say Lord’s Prayer, then will it not also allow the plants to grow?” Now it is our experience that it did not do anything by saying, “Hail Mary” or Lord’s Prayer, so far. By chance, something has happened, but it was not definite, that it will happen, when you said all these things. It is very simple to understand, that without the connection with the Divine, how can we communicate? For example, if this instrument is made, it also has got with it, the wire, to connect itself to the mains. So, if you do not connect this instrument to the mains, it doesn’t work, the instrument is artificial. So when you say “Hail Mary” or you say Lord’s Prayer, you are telephoning to God without the connection within. This has given two kinds of reactions to people. First of all, to say that there must be something wrong with us. So God did not listen to us or to say that there is no God and this is all not true. It is today, at this time, the whole world is on the brink of giving up the faith Read More …

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Whatever is the truth is to be known through the light of your Spirit Sala Borromini, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome (Italy)

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Public Program Day 1. Rome (Italy), 8 September 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Today is a great auspicious day where I’m here on the birthday of Mother Mary, but today I am going to talk to you about reality and about truth. Whatever is the truth is to be known through the light of your Spirit. You can see in this world, in these modern times, we have developed so many sorts of things which proclaim that they know the truth. There are institutions who say that they are the ones who are agencies of truth, but we must understand that truth is something that has to be known through your consciousness. You must know it through your central nervous system. When we evolve to be a human being whatever we could know through our central nervous system is the real truth, and once you know the truth, you reach the source of joy that is your Spirit. Now, to know the truth, people have gone to various type of enterprises, and also to feel joy they have tried all kind of alternatives which now so many realize was not alright because they have landed now in a very precarious position; any day it might explode to ruin this world. For example, first man thought that if he was a powerful country, or a powerful human being he can overpower others and can grab them and by that can enjoy the power, but somehow at present Read More …

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Human consciousness is a product of a living process Geneva (Switzerland)

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Public Program Day 1, 29 August 1983, Geneva, Switzerland I bow to all the seekers of truth. Every moment has got a past and a future. Everything has got a history and a future that is going to follow. Today we are here at this moment and we have to look at every problem in relation to this time. The understanding of consciousness has to be understood in all its aspect, and at this period of complete integration it is easy to relate it to every movement of our mind. The evolutionary process has created a human consciousness within us, and this human consciousness is a product of a living process, and a living process is to be understood in its own nature. I was very happy to see the picture of these trees on these flags, because they denote or express the living process. To understand the living process we can look at the trees. A seed sprouts into a plant by a living process. If we want to do it, we cannot do it. The leaves burst out into flowers later, and the flowers become the fruits because of the living force that is acting in it. We human beings cannot do anything like that. We can’t even produce one living leaf, but we take everything for granted, as we are taking our human consciousness also for granted, but the living process, whatever it does, is spontaneous and cannot be done by us, the human beings who are Read More …

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God’s Love Part 2 Lausanne (Switzerland)

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God’s Love Part 2, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983-08-26 Shri Mataji: Yesterday we started talking about God’s Love. How He has worked within us. We see all this great universe created; beautiful, around us. Out of that, the special thing that He created is this Mother Earth. She nourishes us and She has given us the power to be a human being. In result, what have we done to God? What have we given Him in return? Even to our Mother Earth, what have we given? We have exhausted Her completely. She is fed up with human beings. Now, if you see any modern world, you will find people are so confused. I went to South America and people asked Me a question, “What has Christ done for us? We become so poor after following Him for so many years ardently. Now is He going to crucify us?” Perhaps we are not aware, sitting down here – that in every corner of the world, we have tried to ruin the image of God. We are not even aware as to how He has given us so many blessings. As I told you yesterday, that in the realm of consciousness, we have to rise higher to understand God. And so far, all our development has been extrovert, outside. We have been growing outside. Without any limitations, without any understanding, without any coordination with the whole. Which I call the masculine development. That development was very important. To make the complete consciousness ready to Read More …

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God’s Love Part 1 Lausanne (Switzerland)

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Public Program Day 1   25.8.1983 Shri Mataji: You want to speak through… It’s rather hot. Sahaja Yogini: Should I come to the other side? Shri Mataji: I think so. Better be here. [Yogini translates into Italian or French] I bow to all the seekers of Truth. I have to ask for your attention, to the understanding that so far whatever we have been doing, whatever we have achieved, whatever we think is the development, thinking the whole world as one, we have gone away, deviated from our goal. Now when I have chance of meeting people, I find they even are against God Almighty. Some people who are not so much blessed in life think that it is the fault of God, and some people, who are really blessed, have forgotten Him completely. Today I am going to talk to you about His Love, what He has done for us. Sahaja Yoga is the blessing of God Almighty, specially meant for people who are seeking something higher, something nobler, something greater than they have had so far. This opportunity is available to everyone, whether you are rich or poor, educated, uneducated, developed, underdeveloped. Everyone has the chance. He has made it possible that people who are really seeking, because you have to knock at the door, will be blessed with something so great that it will fulfil all that is incomplete within them. So, all that is incomplete will be fulfilled. That all the problems of this relative world Read More …

Radio Interview Geneva (Switzerland)

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Shri Mataji: [? but] important that we still linger on with other trips, like [? ego trips)]. So if somebody talks big we believe him. These people are money-oriented and they have lots of money and they can put in advertisements and we get impressed by [unclear]. Recently, to My surprise, I discovered that in England they have something called “chequebook journalism”.  Sahaja Yogi (to Swiss translator): It means that the journalist – I don’t know if it’s true – that there is payment made to journalists for reporting according to what they personally want.  Shri Mataji: That’s the phrase they use, chequebook journalism.  Swiss translator (to Shri Mataji): He (a man speaking French) asks – in Geneva it is the first time that he saw such a publicity for a personality like You. All the advertisements, papers in the [letterbox] and very big posters all over the place, and he said: “This cost lots of money.”  Shri Mataji: No, it did not. What happened [was] that we did not pay to anyone. Luckily, the authorities allowed us to quickly [unclear]. But we didn’t give anybody under the table any money.  Sahaja Yogi: Printing costs [unclear]. Shri Mataji: Also there are so many Sahaja Yogis all over the world, for example these people from Australia were sending some posters for America.  But I will tell you about how the gurus work. You see what they do, they [? get to] some journalist, give them a large amount of money, to Read More …

Guru Purnima Seminar Part 1: Rutumbhara Pradnya Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Rutumbhara Pradnya part I, Guru Puja seminar, Lodge Hill (UK), 23 July 1983. It is my immense joy to see all of you here from various parts of this world. When your heart is so full the words are too poor to carry the intensity. I wish you could understand that intensity, through your heart. It’s all been arranged, I think, by the Divine, that we should meet here all of us in such a wonderful surrounding, in the Nature. That something great should happen to all of us. That we should achieve really something great this time. Now as the time is short, I will tell you, first of all, a few things about meditation now, then we’ll have two more talks, I hope so. ‘Meditation’ is a very general word. It is not a word that explains all the three steps one has to take for meditating. But in Sanskrit language they have very clearly said how you have to move in your meditation. First is called as dhyan, and second is called as dharana, and the third is called as samadhi. Luckily Sahaja Yoga is a, such a thing that you get everything in a bundle. You avoided everything else and you got the samadhi part. That’s the beauty of it. Firstly the dhyana: First, when you have seeking, you put your attention towards the object of your worship. That’s called as ‘dhyana’. And the dharana is the one in which you put all your effort, concentrate all Read More …

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Joy has no duality Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, Paris (France)

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Public Program, Paris (France), 16 June 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Since ancient times man has been searching the truth. He tried to search the truth in various forms of happiness and he discarded many-a-times because he found that happiness was not permanent. For a short time he felt happy with something and then he found it also gave him great unhappiness. Like a lady, she had no child so she used to weep and cry; and she had a child who later on disowned her. Then human beings started seeking happiness by enjoying the power, the power over other men, the power over other countries, that also they were not very much satisfied. Their children started feeling guilty about what their forefathers did. Then the movement started seeking something subtler – was in the art and music. That also had limitations. It could not give that permanent joy to people. It is promised that one day you all have to have this permanent joy. And then they started challenging all such people who had prophesized and who have been promising that such a day will come. So many reached the conclusion that there is nothing like joy, the life is all the time two sides of the waves. Like two faces of a coin, they thought happiness is always combined with unhappiness, like day and night. Despite all these conclusions human beings did not give up their search. They were seeking still, they indulged into Read More …

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The Attitude Has To Be Earnest Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Porchester Hall, London (UK), 13 June 1983. Shri Mataji: Is it for the loudspeaker? Yes. We can wait for some time more to organize. It is so unfortunate that it was not published in the newspaper properly, that day – it’s very unfortunate. Yogi: Excuse me Mother, I think to get this microphone a little closer to you. Shri Mataji: Eh? Yogi: Do You want to get this a little closer to You? Shri Mataji: [The microphone] I’ll have it in My hand. Yogi: You’ll take this in Your hand? Shri Mataji: Yes. [Yogi: Okay.] Then that won’t slip out, you know. Yogi: Ah, okay. That’s ok, this. This is the one… Shri Mataji: When we say in the newspaper or in an advertisement that you come to such and such hall for your Self-realization, I don’t know what people think about it. Perhaps they think that it is another hocus-pocus or some sort of a cult or some money-making proposition. But there are some who may not think that way, but they want to have their Self-realization and they come here. But one must understand that the attitude we should have towards our Self has to be really very earnest. To raise your Kundalini is not so difficult and to give you so-called realization also not difficult, in the sense that you can feel the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost coming out of the fontanel bone area, you can get your baptism. But I call it Read More …