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You all have your divinity intact Escola Nacional de Música da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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Public Program, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17-10-1992 Shri Mataji: I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot transform it, change it, and even think about it; unfortunately at this human awareness, we cannot even feel it. You have been already told about the subtle system we have within ourselves. This subtle system works out your ascent. Whatever I am telling you today you need not accept blindfold. But if it is proved, treat it as a hypothesis and if it is true then you have to accept it as honestly. Because it is for the benevolence of you and for the benevolence of the country and for the benevolence of this world. It is the last breakthrough of our evolution into a new awareness that we become the spirit. The first thing you should know that we are not this body, this mind, this ego, these conditionings, but we are the pure spirit. And the another truth is that there is this all pervading power of divine love which does all the living work. You see these beautiful flowers, its a miracle. And you see (with) your own eyes, what a camera! And this brain, what a computer. But we take everything for granted. If you ask doctor who runs our heart he will say it’s a autonomous nervous system. But who is this auto. There is a power, which is a living power, Read More …

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Talk to Yogis after TV Programme (poor sound) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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Talk to Yogis after TV Programme, Brasil, 1992-10-15 Shri Mataji: The very basic [UNCLEAR] all is here. Yogi: I think you went [UNCLEAR somewhere so long too]. Shri Mataji: It means that. Have you seen the racist? [UNCLEAR Adam]. Yogi: I’ve heard of the same. Shri Mataji: The racist. He delivered Me, with Me. And then there was the minister. [UNCLEAR] the minister. Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: He was…  Yogi: [UNCLEAR]. Shri Mataji: So, in any case… we have told about that. Yogi: [UNCLEAR] have cooked Shri Mataji. [UNCLEAR] Yogi: He would care Shri Mataji for some people to come to the program. Shri Mataji: So that’s all. Yogi: That’s the good point about it, because thousands of, millions [UNCLEAR]…  Another Yogi: Thank God I did not have my machine gun, Shri Mataji. I should have taken it from Switzerland. Yogini: He wished he had. Yogi: Machine gun. He was going to destroy [UNCLEAR everyone].  Another Yogi: I was very close too! Shri Mataji, I ask for forgiveness for all the media, because they are stupid people. Shri Mataji: There’s no problem with that. They think they are great. But the Muslim people is… How would they write to the Christian? Yogi: But you see, I mean, your face came very beautifully on the television.  Shri Mataji: Really? Yogi: No, this, it was very short, but it was really tremendous. It was because Shri Mataji, Nirmala Devi, Sahaja yoga. And then you could see your face, and it Read More …

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TV programme Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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TV Programme Brasil, 15-10-1992 In a hotel room: [inaudible, Shri Mataji speaks with yoguis inside hotel room] [inaudible, Shri Mataji takes a car with yoguis, recorded from inside hotel room] [yoguis watching TV Programm] [in the TV Programm [yoguini translating Shri Mataji’s interview]: Presenter:—What is Sahaja Yoga? Shri Mataji:—Sahaja Yoga is a spontaneous happening within us, which is the last breakthrough of our evolution, by which you ascend into a new awareness, that you become the Spirit. Presenter:—And how one practices Sahaja Yoga? Is it like the commom Yoga ? Shri Mataji:—No, it is not. It is something internal. There is a power within us. It germinates, and gives you this connection with this all-pervading Divine power.It is the Yoga. Presenter:—…a connection with a power that exists within us, which is Divine, isn’t it? And how can we get in contact with this power? Shri Mataji:—It is just like a living process. Like we plant a seed in the Mother Earth and it sprouts. In the same way, it just happens.You have to come to My programm and it will all work out. [laughs around with unkown reason… Shri Mataji looks at Her side for a few seconds] Shri Mataji:—Yesterday we had about two thousand people in Brasilia and everybody turned their hands up that they had felt this cool breeze of the Holy Ghost.They have got this Connection. Presenter[staring at Shri Mataji’s bindi]:—What is it in Her forehead? Shri Mataji:—This is a sign of a married lady in India. Read More …

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Shri Mahalakshmi Puja: Keep your Mahalakshmi principle intact Barcelona, Can Mas-casa de colónies (Spain)

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Shri Mahalakshmi Puja. Barcelona (Spain) 30 September 1992. Today we have gathered here to do Mahalakshmi Puja. Mahalakshmi principle is a very important principle within us. When in the countries or in the families or in individual lives, we find- (Somebody must translate, I think better because they don’t understand). So this Mahalakshmi principle is the most important thing for our ascent. This principle is within us but is not awakened before we have achieved a certain amount of situation where we find that we are not yet satisfied with our life. Like in the West now, you had blessings of the Laxmi principle, in the sense there is affluence, people are alright, everybody has food and are sufficient in their every day to day life. But countries which are very poverty stricken or who are in very bad shape, like you can say now Yugoslavia these days is like that, in a very bad shape, or a country, Somalia, which is very, so poor and they have no spiritual background either. So for them, this life is just meant for somehow or other to survive, just to survive. Like this is a life of crisis they have, they have still to exist in their lives, you see, so it’s a crisis for them. But in the affluent countries, it so happens that people start feeling that now, we have got this money, we’ve got all the comfort of life, but still it’s not giving us the joy of life. Read More …

Boddhisatva Bangkok (Thailand)

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Public Programme Bangkok, Thailand March 11, 1992 Can you hear me there? At the back? It’s alright? But one must know that you cannot change the truth and you cannot transform it, unfortunately also at human awareness, you cannot know the truth. So, you have to get enlightenment. You have to get ‘Bodha’ as Buddha has got it. You have to have your self-realization, your selfhood. Without that, you cannot know the truth. Now, whatever I am going to tell you, you need not believe with your blind faith. But if it is proved, then you have to accept as honest people because this is for your benevolence and benevolence of the whole world. You see we have ecological problems, economic problems, political problems, family problems, personal problems, but if you see it is only because of human beings. So, the human beings have to be transformed to overcome these problems. And inside you is placed this subtle body to transform you. Even there are religious problems and spiritual problems. You may follow any religion. You may be a Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian but anyone can commit any sin. Nothing to stop them. You have seen how people have been killing each other in the name of God. Also, those who have been following Buddhism have been quite violent. And the Christians, Muslims all of them just the same. Same with Hindus, nobody is an exception. So, we have missed the point and that is that we are not yet Read More …

Guided meditation in the Palace/How to work on the chakras on the head Palazzo Doria, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Guided meditation in the Palace (note of a yogi). Cabella Ligure (Italy), 21-22 September 1991. Shri Mataji started by using the left hand with the right hand open on the lap, saying that it’s like giving yourself balance, if you are catching on the left, you work with the right. She started at the Vishuddhi, which begins just above the Agyna, using the Vishuddhi finger and pressing it slowly upwards to the point where the hairline begins, then slowly bringing it back down a little, and moving it a little way across the forehead and back, like a cross: ‘If you are catching here at Vishuddhi, it means you are uncollective.’ The Agyna was catching. She asked us to say silently, ‘Matreya, You are Matreya’. (which is on the left side of the Ekadasha Rudra, which itself if just below the Vishuddhi and between the Agyna and the Vishuddhi on the forehead,) Also, to press the Agyna chakra a little. ‘Working back and up from the Vishuddhi is the Right Nabhi, then the Sahasrara with the Left and Right Heart on either side of it, but reversed, the left on the right side and the Right on the left.’ Then work on the left nabhi: ‘You can feel when it’s caught, it’s hard heavy stuff.’ Further back, at each side of the Back Agyna, which here Shri Mataji referred to as the Mooladhara, are the Left and right Swadishthans, also reversed. Shri Mataji worked for two or three minutes, then Read More …

Talk to Russian and Ukrainian Sahaja Yogis Dacha in Rastorguyevo, Moscow (Russia)

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Talk to Russian and Ukrainian sahaja yogis, Dacha in Rastorguyevo, Moscow (Russia), 20 August 1991 Galyna: [leader of Ukraine] [Offers a gift to Shri Mataji and says in Russian]. This is an ancient ritual vessel with live water which symbolizes Kyiv.Dr. Bohdan Shehovych: [leader of the USSR]. What is it?Galyna: It’s a Ram.Dr. Bohdan: It’s a sheep, Shri Mataji, it’s a symbol which carried the living water, and this is the symbol of Kyiv.Shri Mataji: You can put vibrated water.Dr. Bohdan: And it is the head of a lion, Shri Mataji.Galyna: Planet Sun. The Ram (zodiac sign). Sun, sun planet.Dr. Bohdan: Agni.Galyna: Agni.Dr. Bohdan: It’s the sun planet.Galyna: Agni.Shri Mataji: Agni?Galyna: Yes.Shri Mataji: Agni is fire.Galyna: This is Rus. Ancient Rus.Dr. Bohdan: This is the old Russia, old Rus, Shri Mataji, was based in Kyiv and then spread to become Russia, Ukraine, all these together. Shri Mataji: Really?Dr. Bohdan: Yes. Kyiv was the center of the old Empire, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Oh, I see. Thank you very much. Oh! This is the thing you have brought for me.A Sahaja Yogini: From Novosibirsk.Shri Mataji: Oh, such a heart, thank you. You know, beautiful. This one I need one, now what to do?Yogini: Kyiv, Kyiv.Shri Mataji: This is from Kyiv.Dr. Bohdan: This is the poetry for You, Shri Mataji. It was done by the yogis, it’s in Russian, Shri Mataji.Galyna: She wrote it herself. Dr. Bohdan: Written by her. Shri Mataji: Written by whom?Dr. Bohdan: By her, Shri Mataji.Galyna: A part was Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Vienna (Austria)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Vienna, Austria, 1991-08-04 Shri Mataji: It was really very, very nice of all of you to come to the airport. And all the sadness that I had when I left Belgium has disappeared. It is a very creditable thing that Sahaja Yoga has taken such dimensions in Vienna.  Vienna is a very great, important place in Europe, as you know, a long time back. But Marie Antoinette moved here from Prussia with her [unclear] and her administrative powers. For Me also, Vienna is something very important. And spiritually, we can say it is the spiritual part of Germany. And the great sense about it is that if Germans can take to it, anything can be germinated as they say.  And that’s what it is, such a great thing to see. Such a blessing upon this Earth that you people have taken to Sahaja Yoga. It is not an easy thing to tell you – Sahaja Yoga, normally. People who are so much in the modern world, professing [unclear] and so-called well educated and that is how [unclear]. In [unclear] I should say.  But despite all that, here suddenly you find so many people who have not only understood Sahaja Yoga, but it’s gone to their hearts, their lives and they feel it is so important. Also, you have all taken the responsibility. Because it is now spreading through you to Hungary, and also to Czechoslovakia. Something so remarkable that you have been able to achieve. This Read More …

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Dance and Talk Newcastle (Australia)

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Dance and Talk Shri Mataji: Such talents, such mastery of Mrs Kanan on what we call the “bhawas” means the emotions, the way she expressed her emotions …She is really a master if she was in India people would have really knew that such a great artist is being sent to NewZealand.It should not have been done 🙂And a little girl I must say for a rage, she is so dynamic, so rhythmic and so perfect. All these dances I know very well because I have been seen dancing from the very childhood of mine I should say…The perfection they have achieved is really remarkable …I don’t know how far you have understood the different moods have shown if in one after the other …How she has gone from one mood to another mood. It’s very difficult If you see the expressions on the face hands everything…It’s a very difficult dance and also the dance that you saw of “Jattiswaram” Also is a very vigorous dance. All these are extremely beautifully manifested and I haven’t seen such a group of mother and daughter doing such good work so far …May God Bless them. I am so very happy to be here to see all this. Moreover, I would say that all the Sahaja yogis should try to learn from them …That such a little girl how she has dedicated herself to her mother’s rt and how she has learnt from her… And how both of them are so dedicated …Let Read More …

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Bhajans and Talk about Children and Indian School (Evening) Ashram of Pichini, Rome (Italy)

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Transcript, Talk About Children and Indian School, 1991-02-14 or 1986-05-04 [note for 1986-05-04 date – I would suggest that the date of the talk would be later than that attributed to it as the children are already in India when Shri Mataji is speaking, and I think they first went to India a little later than this] I wanted to tell you about our schools in India and what is our idea is about those schools. It is better to understand why we took this measure. It was felt by so many Sahaja Yogis that in the West there is no proper atmosphere for children and they should go to India. And in the beginning, I must say, in the beginning when the children came they were very funny and very troublesome to the teachers. They didn’t have proper respect; they didn’t have proper understanding and very bad manners also. Of course, Guido had worked very hard on them but as soon as they went to India they found that the teachers were rather very mild with them and kind to them, so they started really torturing the teachers. So one month they were so fed up they wanted to give up. Now you have to talk to your children and tell them that, ‘…your work is much more, you are not going to waste your life, you are sahaja yogis, you are born for a special cause, as our life was wasted, because we didn’t have proper guidance, we Read More …

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Recording in Railway station India (Location Unknown)

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Recording in a railway station, location still unknown, India, Sahaja Yogi: Gregoire said opposite.Sahaja Yogi: Gregoire explained to me [unclear]. As long as you explain a little the meditation, then, Yogi Mahajan [cut in the video]Shri Mataji: [Hindi]You will just take this part or go around?Cameraman: Just above like this.Shri Mataji: It’s all right. It’s all right. But you can remove this table.Cameraman: OK.Interviewer: Your students, you try to address them well, not that they don’t seem to have time, they are quite good people.Shri Mataji: Yes. So [unclear].Interviewer: So we will need their response. So, if you have any idea, I don’t know.Shri Mataji: What?Interviewer: If there is a reason for them because they will, may be better students and better people [unclear].Shri Mataji: Then for 5 minutesInterviewer: As long as you want but 10 minutes it’s OK.Shri Mataji: All right.Sahaja Yogi: We’re quite greedy Mother, we’ll take whatever.[Laughter]. Interviewer: Everyone please be quiet now. Let’s just go ahead.Cameraman: OK. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Truth is something which cannot be changed. It cannot be challenged. It cannot be imagined. One has to feel the truth on your central nervous system. What is the truth? The truth is that you are not this body, you are not this mind, you are not this intelligence, you are not these conditionings or your ego, but you are pure Spirit. This is one truth.The second one is that this whole universe is covered with a very subtle energy which Read More …

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Press Conference Circuit house, Kolhapur (India)

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Press conference, Kolaphur, India, 20-12-1990 From an ancient time, there is the power of Kundalini has been described in our country. Now let me tell you how many books it’s given now since we have not read Sanskrit we don’t know about it. Page 427 Take this book now. There is a lot. Hans Upadesh Now Yoga Chuda Mani, written by Adi Shankaracharya, What he wrote in that book Yoga Chuda Mani, in which he has given Tatwik (Real and truth) and ideological discussion, there was a Dharmamartand named Sharma., he gave him hard time, then he let off that and wrote a booked named Saundarya Lahari, then Trishik Brahmani(not clear the word), Dhyan Bindu, then Yog Kundalini Upadesh, means Kundalini, Many Upanishads, Devi Bhagwat, Ling Purana, Agni Purana, then Shankaracharya’s Saundrya Lahari Apart from him Markandeya from Maharashtra, Markandeya where he was from .now we don’t know. What we have in Maharashtra, I am going to tell you now what we have in Maharashtra . The three and a half Peethas, which are in Maharashtra that was written in our Scriptures Now this is Kaylan means Welfare, Auspicious written in Hindi, it’s a vast study We know everything in Marathi but these people have done a lot of work in Hindi. Not much work has been done in Marathi. Now there are three and a half Shakti Peethas in Maharashtra Which are in Omkar form. One of them is Matar Gad which we call Mahurgad. We have heard that Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Greece)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Greece, 23-06-1990 Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Tomorrow again my tour starts. A very nice rest here. So I am here again, going on my tour. [UNCLEAR] was such a nice relief to come here and rest and enjoy your company. May God bless you all. But you all have to now move out to other countries and try to see that you establish Sahaja Yoga properly. Be kind to them, be nice to them and also there are a positions from other people, no doubt. You have to be very patient with them and try to tell them that you haven’t found anything so far, why don’t you find out what is the truth. Why don’t you find it out? If you are kind to them they might accept your invitation so I hope all of you will take it, responsibly as such to go down and help people. And especially women I think because they are much more free than men are. Men are working. Those who are free can go down and really spread Sahaja Yoga. In any case I’m going back from Ganesha Puja which I hope this time you will have all your acquired reading, all your music readiness, everything in a big way. And you are very good puja at Ganesha Puja this time. I feel one thing about Sahaja Yogis that there are some Sahaja Yogis who are very active and I find some Sahaja Yogis only come Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis and Workshop Applecross ashram in Perth, Perth (Australia)

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Talk to Yogis ……better. just relax. Not to feel guilty at all, not to feel guilty. [unclear]. You don’t think, don’t think anything to think. This works…did you do TR or something, transcendental meditation or something? Never. [sahajayogi speaks]. It’s the same thing. Ha. [unclear]. You better now? More than one chakras are catching there. do you feel anything? The swadishthana and the mooladhara, [unclear]. Did you have something to eat here? Now just watch, just watch my red spot. Now better, one more time. [Shri Mataji asks for something]. I think now you are a grownup man, have you. what about your photographs. [unclear]. [sahajayogi speaks]. You are so good. Just like [unclear word]. Beautiful photographs he has. What was the camera you used at that time? It was the normal camera I used Shri Mataji. Quite ordinary? the same one, different film though. beautiful, some of them are so remarkable, one is here. [hmmm]. Now you have taken to television or? [sahajayogi speaks]. But not on the camera side. [ he says no]. forgive yourself, forgive, don’t blame. How are you feeling now? Better? The flow of cool breeze, has it increased. You are not feeling any breeze. [ slightly]. it is better now. [Shri Mataji speaks to sahajayogi]. Now don’t be serious. there’s nothing to be serious. [unclear]. Did you come by car? [mother gives advice]. We have, you know its due to some possessions. This is the theory on which you work and it works out. Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis after Arrival Applecross ashram in Perth, Perth (Australia)

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1990-0301Talk to Sahaja Yogis Applecross ashram in Perth, Perth (Australia) Thursday, March 1st, 1990 The conversation starts midway. … But this time 3 / 4 came for the program from there. And when I arrived at the airport there were about 25 to 30 people. I was so surprised you know. Such a surprise. And they did a trick. They came all the way from Malaysia by plane so they were inside the airport so they didn’t have to come inside. Just I was there. So no problem. It’s spreading very fast. I don’t know. They say 1990 is a very good year for Sahaj Yoga. It’s going to jump. Bur Russia is the thing… (inaudible) it’s unimaginable. You won’t believe it. (Name inaudible) was telling me in England there’ll all waiting for human rising. How can they wait for me? Can’t understand. They don’t believe in God, they don’t believe in any religion nothing. So, they’re just waiting. And when we went there the first day, we went through Helsinki. First of all, that’s near. And they had a big hall of 2000 people. Of course, you see you have to buy tickets. It’s not for me but Govt has it. 2000 people were sitting outside and 2000 were inside when I went there. I gave them a lecture. I was so surprised. They were so dedicated. They wanted to touch the platform on which I was sitting. With their foreheads. So amazed. How can you develop this idea Read More …

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Devi Puja talk: About the Indian Sages Aurangabad (India)

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Talk to yogis (India tour). Aurangabad (India), 18 December 1989. So now most of you are here and it’s a nice place for all of you to be here from different countries. Aurangabad has a special significance in My own life because My forefathers came from a place very near from here called as Paithan but originally known as Prathisthan. I think about two years back we were there. And this is the place where Valmiki, who wrote the great epic of Ramayana, lived here and when Sita was taken away from Her house and when She was pregnant, there was another ashram of his in Nepal where She stayed and then She was brought here. That’s why you see a kind of a culture of Maharashtra going to the hills and also to Nepal through Her and Her children who went down – one to Russia and another to China. The name of one who went to Russia was Lav and the one who went to China was Kush. So they are called as slavs and was mostly called as lave. And those who went to China are called as Kusha. So they lived here from their birth, till they became about say twelve years of age when Valmiki composed Ramayana and taught them how to sing that song of Ramayana. So then they went to Ayodhya and there they started singing the song. With that singing, Shri Rama was very much touched. They challenged Him in a way Read More …

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Visiting the Shores of Ganapatipule Ganapatipule (India)

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Yogini Interview Nick: Okay, get the fact’s clear in your head. Don’t worry about it. It sounds very good, it’s a very good story so Mother specifically said we should have a word with you so… Are you ready? Okay, so please give me your name and where you’re from and how long you’ve been in Sahaja Yoga. Rachael: My name’s Rachael Hall. I’ve been in Sahaja Yoga for almost three years. I’m from England. Nick: So what difference did Sahaja Yoga bring to your life? Rachael: Sahaja Yoga made an immense difference to my life because when I came along I’d been ill for two years with an illness that the doctors at the time couldn’t understand or didn’t have any knowledge about. I developed the illness due to my lifestyle which was very extreme. I was pushing myself to the limits all the time, completely exhausted, not eating and taking drugs. I was very, very thin, very pushed completely to the point of no return almost. And I developed an illness that came in the form of allergies to almost every food. I could eat only three or four foods and I was very, very tired, no energy, very weak. Splitting headaches all of the time. I would just have headaches and not be able to sleep at night. I find it very, very difficult to sleep. In fact, my whole life came to a halt. I had no social life or anything. Nick: So what did you Read More …

The International Situation (Location Unknown)

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The International Situation 1989-0901 [A Talk given in response to a request from a Sahaja Yogi.  Location unknown.  Possibly UK] The state of our planet, or Mother Earth, is very precarious.  On one side we see signs of great destruction at the hands of human beings and which are therefore our own creation. The potent idea of destruction is at work within human beings, but it creates destructions on the outside.  This destructiveness is not necessarily deliberate, but blind and uncontrollable.  It is this blindness and ignorance that have to be enlightened. According to the ancient Puranas of India it is precisely these dark days of Kali Yuga or modern times that are the times for en masse Self-Realization or the Age of enlightenment. But, we still have many problems from our past or our history that have to be solved beforehand.  These have a bearing on the international situation, so first let us see which problem or problems have to be solved. In international relations, there have been a number of fundamental problems in recent years.  In the post-World War the most important political development has been the conflict between communism and the democratic idea.  There was a fundamental cleavage between these forms of political thoughts and government, and this has resulted in a lot of constant tensions between East and West.  This became one of the very crucial issues of our times for the future of humanity. In recent years, however, there was a major change initiated, first in Read More …

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A space between the thoughts Vienna (Austria)

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1989-07-25 or 26th Public Program Day 2 in Vienna I bow to all the seekers of truth. I asked them to play this music, because the thoughts were too much [in the minds?] And this music has no words, it doesn’t give you thoughts. And that’s how thoughts can be removed very easily. One thought rises and falls off. Another thought rises and falls off. And we are jumping on the cusp of the thought. Either we are thinking about the past or about the future. But we cannot be in the present. When one thought rises and falls off, and before another rises, there is a space in between and that is the present. So when this Kundalini rises, it makes this thought smaller. And this central area of silence expands. That is the time we become thoughtlessly aware. When we look at a beautiful carpet, all kinds of thoughts start coming in our head. If this is my carpet, then I am worried about the insurance. But if it is somebody else’s carpet, then I start thinking, where will I get such a beautiful carpet, how much I’ll have to pay? I cannot enjoy the creation of beauty and joy, that the artist has tried to pour into it. So when I see this carpet, and I am in thoughtless awareness, all the joy of it’s creation starts flowing, like a river Ganges, cool vibrations start flowing and you feel completely relaxed. So the first step we have to Read More …

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What is the truth beyond this mundane life? Athens, Hotel Grande Bretagne (Greece)

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Public Program Day 1, Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens (Greece) 500 years before Christ, the great master Socrates [UNCLEAR in your country] told the whole world that we have to know ourselves. And he was wisdom personified. But he was killed. He didn’t do any harm. He just told everyone for their benevolence. He didn’t live for himself. And he lived for others. He did not take any money from anyone for his knowledge nor did he punish anyone but he was punished. 500 years later Christ came in. He said also, “Know thyself”. Every scripture is saying that “Know thyself.” Like Buddha did not even talk of God because he did not want to put attention of people away so he said, “First know thyself.” Maybe they were not given any chance to tell how to know themselves. But the time has come now. We can say that on the tree of life there were one or two flowers in the beginning but today it is the blossom time and so many are seeking the truth. Socrates could not have got so many people to listen to him in Greece. But today is the time that human awareness has evolved to that state that it wants to know the truth beyond this mundane life. Maybe one can say the situation is such today because we are waiting for a kind of a shock of our destruction or maybe we are confused and that we want to know the absolute. This Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: We Are Here For Our Ascent Pune (India)

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We Are Here For Our Ascent, Pune You have come for your ascent, for a pilgrimage, and certain things have to be borne in mind — that we have to see that our thinking has to go down first. I don’t mind suffering, but my suffering doesn’t help you much. So I have to request you not to say, “I thought.” Then I’ve seen people go on lingering about. There’s no movement, very lethargic movement, very slow movement, as if they have taken some sort of an opium or some sort of a drug. You should see, all the Indians are alert, especially in Maharashtra. They’re very alert people. And the alertness you have to achieve — not to just roam about here, roam about there, stand there. Everybody has to go and call. We are doing no work here at all. They are doing all the work. I’m sorry I have to say that. They are the ones who are working out the thing. We have just to move from places to places. But there also the movement is so slow sometimes that it is impossible how to get round you, like small children to call this one, call that one for anything. It has to be a fast movement, it has to be a quick movement. You have to work it out in a very quick manner. Everything has to be done in a very smart way, as they call it. But on the contrary, I find that Read More …

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Devi Puja: Attention on Quality Rahuri (India)

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1987-1220 Puja: Attention on Quality, Rahuri, India [English translation from Marathi] (Sound cloud – Sahaja Library – 1987-1220 Talk 1 at Rahuri (Marathi)) Does having a namesakes, caste and creed have any meaning? Today I am telling you all plainly that you should not (live on) freebies (“फुकटखोरी”). Sahaja yoga is not for such people who are looking for freebies, if you want freebies, you should take another path. Those who want to stay in Sahaja Yoga have to live with self-esteem (“आत्मसम्मान”) and have to show the world that we are self-respecting people. Why take contributions, means what? Should Shri Mataji pay for you all? I have paid for the food for people in Pune. This kind of begging attitude will not work and such beggars are not required in Sahaja Yoga and those people who cannot (use their hands to) work should leave Sahaja Yoga. Your collective state can never improve because the vibrations flow through your hands. When you use your hands to work only then your collective state will improve. Today you have built a temple, tomorrow you will build something else, there you need to use your hands to build them. How many of you came to Pune to work with me? You need to use your hands to work. You need to use hands for hard work. The big people who have come from UN Agriculture (department) have taken shovel and spades in their hands to do the work, but no one came from Read More …

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Interview (Italy)

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1987-10-26 Interview, Italy DP-RAW Interviewer: In this dangerous period how can you say that is the blossom time because there is no peace in the world. You said that is the blossom time.  Shri Mataji: Blossom time, yes, blossom time because human beings have evolved to a point where they have to become the fruit.  Interviewer: This is fruit is becoming is realizing… Shri Mataji: Yes, that’s it – Enlightenment Interviewer: How does it start sahaja yoga? How did you discover that you have the power of awaking the Kundalini? Shri Mataji: I had this from my childhood. But I developed a method by which I could give a mass realization. In 1970 I started.  Interviewer: What does he think your husband about going always around the world, teaching sahaja yoga? Shri Mataji: He travels much more than me, he has always travelled much more than me even before I started my work. So now he understands that one has to do the important work.  Interviewer: So, your husband is following sahaja yoga? Shri Mataji: Of course, not only, he is supporting me in everywhere.  Interviewer: How can you manage then your private life with the Sahaja yoga  Shri Mataji: It’s the best because you become so dynamic, and you understand each other much better. Interviewer: The image that you have of the guru, is the guru is always praying in savior, why that you are always joyful and happy. Shri Mataji: If there is a real guru, he should Read More …

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Baptisms in Shudy Camps Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Baptisms, Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England), July 13th, 1987 [Children and Sahaja Yogis are waiting for Shri Mataji] 5:29 Cannon singing, “Mataji, Mataji”. “Sat chit ananda rupam, Shivo ham”. “Mother we adore you” [10:20 Shri Mataji arrives.] Shri Mataji: Hello, Prity! May God bless you. Ah, let’s take a chair. [12:00 Conversation starts.] Shri Mataji: Can you bring the children who are to be baptised. One by one. That’s all right, now keep it down. Keep it down, OK, keep it down, all right? You can put that in the cars, I think you can give it to him. Sahaja Yogi: Can we have the children who wish to be baptised, children who haven’t been, here, now, one by one, please? [Shri Mataji holds a baby] Shri Mataji: Ah, ah. What’s her name? Did you give any name? Sahaja Yogi: Naïm. Shri Mataji: Naya? Sahaja Yogi: Naïm. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. May God bless you. [The baby cries.] No, no, no. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi to the mother] Sahaja Yogini: Nayan. Shri Mataji: Nayana. Naina Devi, I think. You can call it- her as Naina, it’s better. Naina Devi is the sadhu place for Goddess in the Himalaya. You could name – [conversation in Hindi] Ramdas swami… Even the guru of Shivaji. Ramdas swami was the guru of Shivaji, she knows. Now, who else is there? Now, how you called him? Sahaja Yogini: Simon. Shri Mataji: Hum? Sahaja Yogini: Simon. Shri Mataji: Read More …

Conversation with Dr. Talwar Mumbai (India)

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English translation of Shri Mataji’s talk in Hindi. Conversation with Dr. Talwar and other Sahaja Yoga leaders on February 26 and 27 1987 on the occasion of Shivaratri puja in Mumbai. Sahaja Yoga was known to me all along. It is a unique knowledge with which I was born. It was not so easy to reveal it and I wanted to find out how to reveal it. First of all, I thought that the seventh chakra must be opened, which I did, on 05th may 1970. It is a secret in a way. Formerly, the brahmachaitanaya was avyakta. It was not manifested. It was not expressed by itself, and so the people who managed to reach brahmachaitanya somehow, by attaining ‘Realisation’ said, “It was nirakar ka guna. You are like a drop that gets dissolved in the ocean.” No one could say, explain or tell people anything more about it. The great incarnations also who came out of this great ocean of brahma-chaitanya, tried their best to share it with the best available followers (which were very few) and introduce them to this Brahma-chaitanya. But because the brahma-chaitanya was not in a vyakta form, these incarnations got dissolved in it. Like gyaneshwara took his samadhi. People said that he cannot talk. It has to be experienced. So very few people got to swallow it. Nobody could actualise the experience by feeling on their fingertips, or feel it on their senses, or on their minds, or even understand it with their Read More …

Pre-Christmas Talk Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Christmas puja, Shudy Camp, England, 12/12/1986 (Probably the correct date is 1987.11.12 or 1988.11.12) Christmas puja, Shudy Camp, England, 12/12/1986 (Probably the correct date is 1987.11.12 or 1988.11.12)  Still there some room here, let’s spread something, back, alright? All of you could come here, this side. Yes, that’s nice about meeting every one can sit together. Alright just move to this side a little bit. Alright? Get some forward, sit forward, some people can come there, some people als o.Still there’s some room here.[Cut in the audio]… The day of our coming or Today I was unclear() something like Sahaja Yoga, first we were coming towards Shudy Camps, then we are going back. Then again, we are coming back. We are moving, you see. Then I just felt, ultimately, we have to find our goal, ultimately, we have to reach that place, that maturity, that life is very different. That is the life of sahaj, when we are one with the Living Force of God’s love. I know it was very depressing, the way one newspaper publish something, or something happens like that, doesn’t matter. These are all temporally things, there are stupid people they don’t know what work they are doing. In a way it’s good that we are going to have a comity to go and talk to these people and tell them. They should come and see us all. We are all thousand times better people than they are.They say that their personalities change, of course, it Read More …

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Public Program Kolkata (India)

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Public Program, Kolkata, India, 13.10.1986 Translation from Hindi: I bow to all the seekers of the Spirit. I don’t understand how to tell that I don’t go or come anywhere, I am always with you. But with the thought that you people think that I will go away, I feel bad too. In the entire world there are many Sahaja Yogis, when I leave one, I think of all of them. And wherever I am going, there people are enthusiastically and joyfully waiting for Me. This is a dilemma. But this coming and going is the way of life. What we achieved in that is only important. And the most important is to achieve your Spirit. One person asked Me today, “I did not understand what the benefit of doing Sahaja Yoga is. So you please make me understand in simple language”. I told him everything, but if you want to understand, I’ll make you understand with a simple analogy. Like how a car is, think of our life also the same way and God gave us this life. There is an accelerator and a break in the car. We don’t yet know how to drive the vehicle. So if we suddenly apply the break, the vehicle stops immediately and if we accelerate, don’t know in which pot hole we will land up in. Slowly we learn how to balance it and in balancing we learn how to drive the vehicle. When we learn this balancing completely, and when we Read More …