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Advice from doctors at Medical Seminar Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Advice from doctors at Medical Seminar in Cabella August 2011 Medical Seminar 21 August 2011 – Cabella Ligure, Italy A Medical seminar in August 21, 2011 was enjoyed by a big audience with interest expressed in the form of questions and answers. The seminar was conducted by the Doctor Petekar – from Belapur who has a long experience linked to health problems of Sahaja yogis. She said during the seminar that the role of these treatments is to bring the patient into meditation because Kundalini is the power which cleans and heals. She said: If you cannot meditate, follow the treatment. The treatments are only to help you to meditate! The audience put their issues on paper and were read aloud by two Sahaja yoginis or handed to the doctor, who read the questions and gave answers. Since the questions were made more in the form of deficiency state findings of Sahaja yogi (Mrs.), they had no interrogative form. Q: *Excessive thinking*. A: Abandon your thoughts; put ice on right Swadishthan, liver and ego, footsoak twice a day. Then cool the right channel, with the left hand to the sky and say Shri Hanuman Chalisa at the same time. People with excessive thinking should sing, put the attention on Sahasrara and say the mantra for Shri Mahat Ahamkara. Q: *Children Problems*. A: Children do not have problems. Only parents have problems: Excessive heat in the body, ego, etc. Children absorb parent’s problem and that creates pressure on the child Anahath Read More …

Wedding Anniversary Mumbai (India)

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Wedding Anniversary I just want to thank you all from My heart for coming to celebrate this anniversary with your love. I can’t do more than to thank you really how you people have appreciated My humble work. Moreover, it’s a work of just love. Love is the greatest quality of human beings. And if you have developed that then you will forget all other things. Because love has its own reward and the reward is here, I can see it. I am nothing special except that I love everyone very much. And I don’t think anybody is to be condemned because I’ve seen people coming out of all their problems, their smaller minds into a bigger area in which they are capable of giving love. I must say that whatever was my [faith? UNCLEAR] has worked very well. And it is very, very nice things to see how many of you have understood My love and have spread love among yourselves. Our human problem is one, that is, we don’t know how to love each other. If we could understand that then we’ll enjoy all this love, we’ll really enjoy this love. You don’t have to sacrifice anything. Don’t have to give away anything. It’s all there and you enjoy. It’s reciprocal. You enjoy giving love to others. Maybe some of your experiences may not be that good but most of the people who are human beings [are/have] a special, special temperament of loving each other. And this is Read More …

TV Interview Noida (India)

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TV Interview (Hindi), Noida (India), 14 March 2003. Ques.The question is what is the main source of human ascent and well being? Shri Krishna has said ‘Yogakshema Vahamayam’ meaning the well being of human being is in achieving Yoga with the God Almighty. But with the technical advancement our new generation is going away from spiritualism. Shri Mataji:Yes, it’s correct that with the interest in technology, the interest in spiritualism could go down. But I am seeing that more and more people of technologically advanced countries are being drawn towards spiritualism because there is neither joy nor peace in technology. It does not give a solution to human problems.Therefore, those who have come into Sahaja Yoga belong to the technically advanced countries, besides from our own country, and they are very deep. These people from the advanced countries have gone beyond technology and they have derived conclusions that there is nothing special in technology. Their bent and seeking is extremely deep. It’s very easy (sahaja).All our gurus have said to search within. Nothing could be achieved without knowing the power within. The problem is that the people of our country talk about it, sing its songs, but do nothing practical. The people of developed countries know nothing about spiritualism, so they are keen seekers. Their seeking is so intense that in a country like Russia, where I thought spiritualism could not take up, there is a larger number of spiritual people. They are really wonderful because so many atrocities were Read More …

VOA ITV Interview with Sir C.P. New Jersey (United States)

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VOA ITV Interview with Sir C.P. Interviewer: … me Mr. Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, a retired IS officer who’s had a sterling career in the government of India, he’s been the Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister of India in ’64-’66, Chairman of the Shipping Corporation of India, also he was the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations and has won several accolades. He was knighted by the government of England and he’s won the Padma Bhushan, and has won several awards from different countries – Norway, Italy, Germany – for his service in the Maritime Organization as an administrative officer. Also, of course, above all he’s the husband of Shri Mataji Nirmala Deviji, whose name is synonymous with Sahaja Yoga these days, and he will tell us all about His journey, his transformation, from a skeptic to a believer in this discipline of Sahaja Yoga. Mr. Srivastava, it’s a pleasure to talk to you as well in the ashram in Ridgefield Park, in New Jersey, in Sahaja Yoga. Tell us – your wife, your consort, your spouse has been a proponent of this technique of Sahaja Yoga for over thirty years now and I believe, according to Her as well – because She told me, not on this interview but before that – that you were never really a big believer of this discipline. Tell us how this transformation took place, because I’m sure there are a lot of viewers who may relate to you Read More …

Holi Celebrations Palam Vihar, Gurgaon (India)

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Holi Celebrations, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Delhi, India, 29 March 2002. (translated from hindi) Holi was started during the time of Shri Krishna. Before Him in the time of Shri Rama …. He was very austere. Because of that the society became very peaceful but people were devoid of all joy. So He thought that there should be a way by which people should be able to laugh freely and be joyful. And like it happens to all such ventures it happened in the case of Holi also that it produced an opposite effect. They started playing Holi in a very wrong way. It brought a very bad name to this festival. And it deteriorated to such an extent that I said, I will never play Holi now. The story of how it started is like this. There was a demo ness called Holika. She was the sister of Prahlad and Prahlad’s father used to trouble him a lot. Holika had a boon that she would not be burnt by the fire. Prahlad’s father wanted to kill him and told Holika to take the child (Prahlad) and sit on the burning pyre thinking that she would not die. But it is surprising that she died and Prahlad was not hurt in the fire and came out of it unscathed. This is a very big happening which demonstrated that it is very wrong to be cruel and aggressive. She had the boon but still she got burnt. That’s why we have this Read More …

Makar Sankranti Puja Pune (India)

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Makar Sankranti Puja Talk (translated from Marathi). Pratishthan, Pune (India), 14 January 2002. The meaning of Makar Sankranti is “Sankram” [“transition” in Sankrit], i.e. the day that brings about some change. On this day the sun starts its movement towards the northern hemisphere. In India all the festivals are according to the position of the moon. That’s why their dates are different in different years. Makar Sankranti is based on the position of the sun and that is the reason this festival is celebrated every year on 14th January. Makar Sankranti indicates the day when the Sun becomes warmer. The heat of the sun is benevolent for the human race. It is because of this heat (of the sun) that we can walk, we can talk. The heat of the sun makes a human being angry. This is the reason why we take jaggery on this day so that we talk sweetly.The heat of the sun is responsible for all the vegetation and wealth of the earth. On this day we offer fruits and vegetables to the Devi and receive her blessings. With the blessings of Adishakti the earth element cools down and the human race progresses. The festival of Sankranti has a cultural significance. People all over India celebrate this festival very enthusiastically. In other countries also it is celebrated. But in India it is given special importance. In India we do not have extremes of temperatures, the climatic conditions are quite balanced. India is blessed by the Adishakti. Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Hong Kong (China)

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Advice to yogis. Hong Kong, 18 December 2001. I am so happy to hear all of you singing those… songs which are sung all over the world. Now you have become part and parcel of that whole. We have Sahaja Yogis everywhere. In America I was surprised to find that 300 Sahaja Yogis were saved in this crisis. That they had not a single Sahaja Yogi was lost. It is remarkable that how some of them were late, some of them ran down and some of them started running in the other direction. All of them are Sahaja Yogis. So many people have died in America, but none of them were Sahaja Yogis. It is remarkable how you are looked after and saved by the Divine.…that you should come all the way here, all of you, especially the Chinese. I feel that we can do a lot. They already have a tradition of Tao. I don’t know how many of you read Tao. Have you read Tao? Anyone? Actually he is – Tao is a Sahaja Yogi and he describes his mental conditions and all of the problems they have in such a beautiful manner that if you read it you will feel that you…very well described all this.Somehow or other Taoism was not practised and it has just become…books of controversy for all the scholars, that’s all. But now I think they are reviving. I was told that…Tao religion has been accepted now in China and they are practising Read More …

Talks to brides New York City (United States)

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Marriages. Canajoharie, New York (USA). 30 July 2001. It’s a great thing to see so many of you looking very happy and looking forward for a very happy married life.I’m to tell you that (it) is the woman who makes the marriage happy or unhappy. She should know how to handle the situation and to understand, because it’s a question of love. If you have love in your heart, you can win over anybody.So first you must think of showing, expressing in a very gentle manner your love for your husband and for his family and try to control yourself in a way that they do not get upset with you, he does not get upset with you.Sometimes you may not like some things. At that moment you should keep quiet and later on you can correct it, but the best thing is how you love your husband, how you look after him, how you suggest that you love him very much. This is not understood sometime. Sometimes the brides think that once you are married, “We can demand this, we can demand that.” There should be no demand at all, no demand of any kind, but only thing if you develop, the love will look after you and give all that is necessary that you want to have.You don’t have to open your mouth and ask, “Give me this, I want this.” No, there’s no need at all. It’s the love that you have shown or given will be Read More …

Republic Day Pratisthan (India)

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2001-0126 Republic Day Pratisthan Shree Mataji’s Republic Day Speech Pratisthan, Pune 26th January 2001 [Notes from Sahaja Yogis: Desired-media missing] A Republic Day that few of us are likely to forget in a hurry, if ever. Shri Mataji, dressed in a crisp white saree decided to have a small discussion with the Yuva Shakti members and the few senior Sahaja Yogis present in Pune. Flitting between 2001 and the strife- torn time of the freedom struggle, Shri Mataji recollected how her parents were jailed for long periods of time for being active freedom- fighters. Shri Mataji’s father spent considerable periods of time in cus- today even while local people rallied around in support of Shri Mataji’s family. Dwelling on the intense patriotism and idealism of those days for a few moments she came back to the pre- sent to remind us how devoid of national feeling this country had be- come. The people went from selfless devotion of the Deshmata to greed, indifference and rampant corruption. Deshmata occupies a position perhaps higher than that of the Mother, and Desh Bhakti forms the foundation of true Shraddha. One cannot hope to achieve union with the Divine when does not love one’s own nation. Devotion for the country will only develop from an intimate knowledge of all that is around us – the proud legacy of saints, realized souls, artists and freedom fighters; the most fragrant of flowers and the highest of mountains; the holiest of temples and the greatest exam- ples Read More …

Makar Sankranti Puja Pune (India)

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Sankranti Puja (excerpt). Pratishthan, Pune (India), 14 January 2001 . For India, today is a very important day because the Sun is coming from the South to the North side. The most important thing in Sahaja Yoga is that you have to change & that’s what you should do to the Goddess with changed heart, full of love, affection and kindness. Therefore, hope you will spread Sahaja Yoga. It is very important – because you know my vision is too big and you have to really work hard to fulfill my vision. And to give realization to people as many as possible.You have to think what is your mind doing. There are many people who are waiting to come in Sahaja Yoga. You should have the light of spirituality; you have to feel that you are spiritual, you have to grow it, and also make others grow. Sahaja Yoga is not limited with you. It’s not meant for one individual, not at all for one person but for the whole world. We have Sahaja Yogis all over the world, but they don’t spread Sahaja Yoga. They are satisfied with their own motives. This is not Sahaja Yoga. You must openly talk about and say about it. But Sahaja Yogis are very shy, they don’t talk about-Sahaja Yoga. They can do it, no doubt.The Sun changes its direction, everybody knows about it, everybody prays for it. People take bath in the river Ganges for purification. This is all right. Now it Read More …

Public Program Turin (Italy)

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Public Program, Teatro Regio, Turin, 12 September 2000. I bow to all the seekers of truth. All the scriptures and all the masters, real masters, have said that you have to know yourself. They have also said that if you don’t know yourself you cannot know God. But how to know yourself is the problem. Because they said your Spirit, your Self is within yourself. If it is within yourself, then how to enter inside is the problem. For which our Creator must have done some arrangement. And that arrangement is that in your triangular bone, known as sacrum, there is a power called as Kundalini. This is called Kundalini because Kundali means coils, because it’s coiled in three and a half coils, that’s why it is called as Kundalini. This Kundalini, if it is awakened, then it passes through six centres, subtle centres, and pierces through your fontanel bone area. Whatever faith you may follow, whatever religion you may follow, whatever country you come from, whatever may be your race, all of you have got this power within you very nicely (…). To awaken this, you don’t have to do anything. Anybody who is already enlightened and awakened, can awaken your Kundalini. This Kundalini is your Mother, She’s your individual Mother, your own. Not only that, but She knows each and every thing about you. She knows your past and she knows your aspirations. So, as you know, when you were born, your mother is the one who took Read More …

Message for Yuva Shakti Pune (India)

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Message for Yuva Shakti I am grateful for what all you have done for me. I would be glad if you all grow deeper into Sahajayoga. Many of you are good Sahajis. You must remember that you have to become ideal yogis because you have to transform the whole world. That is what your Mother expects from you, that is my only desire. Everything else is futile, of no value. Then only you enjoy being in the Kingdom of the Divine. You must meditate everyday, that is the only way to mature in Sahajyoga. You have to save all those unfortunate drug addicts also. Let your heart emit love, compassion and generosity. May God bless you all.

Press Conference Vancouver, Sutton Place Hotel (Canada)

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Press Conference. Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver (Canada), 27 June 1999. QUESTION: My first question to you is what is yoga? Shri Mataji: Yoga is actually it means that union with the Divine, with the Divine Power which surrounds us. We are not aware of it, but it is described in all the religions that there is an all-pervading power of Divine Love and that is what one has to get connected to. That is real yoga.The other yogas that people talk of Patanjali are for thousand s of years, long time back. He started to give this yoga when first the physical thing with this should come, one thing. Then mental fitness should come. Then emotional fitness should come. How to establish that was the point. And it used to take a lot of time and the tradition was that only one person needs to get the Self Realization. The reason may be, perhaps I think, they used to, first of all, evaluate the personality and then give Realization because if you give to anybody else and they might misuse i ÿt and try to exploit people. That would be another reason. Another thing was formerly people used to all torture all the saints. Any where in the world, if you see the history, saints are all tortured. Real saints, they are all tortured. So maybe they might be afraid that they should be so prepared, so equipped that they can bear all the torture. That might be the reason. Read More …

Shri Rama Puja Noida House (India)

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Shri Rama Navami Puja, Noida House (India), 5 April 1998. As compared to Maharashtra, Navaratri of Chaitra month of Shalivahana Shaka (dinasty) from Pratipada to Navami is celebrated with more grandeur in North India. In Maharashtra the birth of Shri Krishna (Shri Vitthala, i. e. Shri Krishna as a King) is celebrated with religious fervour as ‘Gokulashtami’ Shri Vitthala was the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He incarnated (was born) at 12:00 midnight. Shri Rama, the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu, was born at 12:00 noon on the ninth day of Chaitra month. This day is called as Ram Navami. Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi also incarnated on March 21, 1923 at 12:00 noon, like Shri Rama, in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. Chhindwara is situated in east-west and south-north directions where two lines meet. This date of birth is as per calendar based on solar months. But as per the calendar based on lunar months, Shri Mataji’s birthday was due on the first day of the first month i. e. Chaitra month of Shalivahana Shaka 1845. In Maharashtra the first day of Chaitra is known as Gudi Padwa. This happens to be the birthday of Shri Mataji as well as the day of coronation of King Shalivahana. Now Shalivahana Shaka 1920 commences from March 28, 1998 as Chaitra Pratipada, the first day of the first month. Shri Ram was the ideal husband where as Shri Sitaji was an ideal wife and the Children born to them, known as Lav and Kusha, were Read More …

Public Program Teatro Verdi, Genoa (Italy)

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Public Program. Teatro Verdi, Genoa (Italy), 18 June 1996. (Shri Mataji is greeted by an authority from Genoa, and receives books about Christopher Columbus as a present). I bow to all the seekers of Truth and Peace. When we talk of peace, we must know by talking we cannot create peace. At a human level, with this human awareness, we have so many complications. We have to evolve little more to achieve our selfhood. Every religion has talked about self-knowledge. If we do not know ourselves, how can we know anything else? For this, as you have been already told, there is a Power in the triangular bone, which is known as Sacrum. That means that Greeks knew that it was a sacred bone. In India we knew about it thousands of years back, no doubt. But it was kept a secret, and was given by one person to one person. Till the 12th century, nobody even talked about it to general public. Then in the 16th century there were many saints who talked about it. Even Mohammed Sahib has said that you have to know yourself if you want to know God. But self-knowledge is something which is not imaginary, it is not mental. We live in a mental world, and I must tell you very humbly that this so-called mind is a myth. It has been created by us through our conditionings and our ego. But beyond this mind is the realm of reality. Unless and until you Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Shri Saraswati Hall, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis in Malaysia. 14 March 1996. I’m so full of love and joy to see you all here again, to see it, the number of people came and you all have to look after them with care and concern. I never expected that such a lot of people will come and in one year they’ve grown such a lot. So we have to get them very much rooted in Sahaja Yoga; it will depend on your own handling or managing the whole thing. Like when I was in Hong Kong I was surprised we’ve very beautiful Chinese, mostly Chinese. The Yogis liked them very much and they informed Me two hundred people came for the follow-up very seriously, two hundred people, it’s something very gratifying. If they’re coming and if they settle down, we’ll have so many of them there in Hong Kong which is being managed by one boy from, Alex from Australia. He’s done very well, I must say and he might have to go back but he’s done his job very well and now there’re so many people there in that place which I never expected. Now what I find that just like something making noise little less, I find that just like Hong Kong also here the people are very active, over-active. The streets are filled with cars and so much more coming out and there’s so much pollution. This is not a good thing to have too much pollution so Sahaja Yogis Read More …

Public Program KDU University College Hall, Petaling Jaya (Malaysia)

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Public Program, Malaysia, March 12, 1996 I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. It has been, it is, it will be. You cannot change it; you cannot transform it. Whatever I’m going to tell you today, you also should not take it for granted, because we’ve had lots of problems with blind faith. If it proves, then this is like a hypothesis before you, then as scientists keep your mind open and if it works then you have to acccept it as honest people. Because it is for your benevolence, for the benevolence of your family and for the benevolence of the whole world. I’m talking here about the global transformation which is very much needed today because this is a special time, they call it as the Last Judgment or in Koran is described as Qiyamah. In the Resurrection time, I call it as the blossom time when many people have come on this earth to seek the truth. The first thing you have to know that you are not this body, this mind, these conditionings, this ego, your emotions but you are the pure spirit. In the evolutionary process you have become a human being; you have the human awareness but you don’t have the knowledge about the absolute truth. Everybody has a different idea and everybody propagates that idea. While doing that you can argue, discuss, find, quarrel and also we have Read More …

The Essence of Holi. The Spring Festival of Colour. New Delhi (India)

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Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, New Delhi, 17-3-1995. It is Holi today. Holi these days, is quite different from what it used to be. We must know the essence of Holi. By burning all the rubbish collected in us, we get a surge of love in a clean heart. Which makes everyone so joyful. Hence first of all we must bum all our negativites. There should not be any politics in Sahaja Yoga. The society is in a vice like political grip. Sahaja Yogis get affected by this situation. An immature Sahaja Yogi may say something to another Sahaja Yogi in the influence of his conditioning. That can affect the other Sahaja Yogi and he may in turn say this to someone else. This may give rise to a wave that can spread like the flu. This is a disease (politics) and it spreads far and wide. In the olden days, women folk used to do politicing and men folk used to fight but now it is the reverse which is happening. Anyone who desires his ascent, must not get trapped in such activities. It is a massive compassion. I watch everything but don’t speak. Sahajyogis should not have any animosity between each other. Like ’Narada sage’, Sahaja Yogis also increase rivalry by telling non-sensical things to each other. Increasing rivalry between Sahaja Yogis, the network of love breaks. We must love Sahaja Yoga, we must love Mother. Still, all this is less than what we used to be. Now people Read More …

Birthday Felicitations Talk Kolkata (India)

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Birthday Felicitations Talk So much has been said about me that I really start wondering what is all going on. Actually, I am not at all aware how things are working out. How Sahaja Yoga is spreading all over the world? How you people have come to Sahaja Yoga? It is a very special time. It is the blossom time and I was happy that in the beginning, the ‘Shuddha Vasanta’  was played, suggesting this is the blossom time. And in this blossom time, it is all organised that this should happen. I am just a medium I think and not aware as to how things are working out? Only thing, my heart was filled with such feeling of gratitude to you that you have taken to Sahaja Yoga. It’s very difficult because it’s a very subtle knowledge (Sookshma) and in this gross world where it has become worse during modern times (Kaliyuga) I never hoped that I will create even twelve Sahaja Yogis. I know this is the time but I didn’t know that it will be such a time that people all over the world will take to truth and truth will prevail. So much falsehood all around in every walk of life, in every dimension of our personality. We accept all kinds of illusions. In this condition of illusory expectations that there should be so many people who want to know the truth is the most remarkable thing. To me it’s a surprise. In Calcutta, first time Read More …

Public Program Day 1 Yubileyny Sports Palace, St. Petersburg (Russia)

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1993-0731 Public Program Day 1, Saint Petersburg, Russia I bow to all the seekers of Truth.At the very beginning we have to know that Truth is what it is. We cannot change it or we cannot also feel it at this human awareness. The time has come for all of us to know the Absolute Truth. Unless and until we know the Absolute Truth we cannot understand the different kinds of problems that are existing on this Earth. Whatever I am going to tell you, you have to listen to Me with an open mind of a scientist. You need not blindly accept whatever I say. But if it is proved then you have to accept it because it is for your benevolence. It is for the benevolence of your country and it is for the benevolence of the whole world. We believe in many things, but we have not yet established it as Truth. For example, Christ was the Son of God, but it is not proved. So, some people can say: “How do you say, he was Son of God?”So, the time has come to prove everything that is described in the scriptures and to understand that all the scriptures were written by great prophets, seers and incarnations. They said the same things. And once we know it as the truth, when we understand it perfectly well, then there is no difference at all. So at human awareness we still have not known’ the Absolute Truth as a Read More …

Advice on Gudi Padwa New Delhi (India)

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Advice Given By H. H. Shri Mataji, Gudi Padwa, March 24, 1993, New Delhi, India. Synopsis, translated from HindiFirst version:Today is the first day of Satya Yuga (Age of truth).Nature will tell you that Satya Yuga has started. Sahaja Yoga has brought forth Satya Yuga. You are self-Realized, you should have confidence and faith in yourself. You should have faith in the working of Sahaja Yoga. What work is being done in your enlightened faith? There should be complete faith. Look at me. I have spreadSahaja Yoga by Myself. Just have faith in ‘Param Chaitanya’. If you have any doubt, ask Me. Paramatma (the Supreme Spirit) is not here right now, however I am here to speak to you. Therefore, sahaj yogis should be doubt free now.1. The leaders should be very careful. They should be without ego. They are merely a medium to pass on the message just like to post a letter I have to put it into an envelope. They should beware of being master-like.2. While planning anything, our attention should be on the most important thing. Your priorities should be clear.3. If there is any negativity, tell Me and I will sort it out.4. Often, organisers start worrying about money. In Sahaj Yoga, money will always be available. But if you worry about it, then it will not be. Money is not that important.5. We should use our discretion for each other.6. You should not have any fear. This is only a play that is going Read More …

Advice given by Shri Mataji on Indian Spices and Ingredients Montfermeil Ashram, Montfermeil (France)

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Advice given by Shri Mataji on Indian Spices and Ingredients, At breakfast on August 26, 1992, Shri Mataji us with these instructions on the use of some Indian spices and ingredients.  1- Coriander: Seeds: teeth, liver. Leaves: act as a regulator of body flagrance.  2-Cumin: Teeth, liver (jira, coriander and ajwain prevent gases) 3-Tumeric: Skin, liver 4- Ginger: Liver 5- Garlic: High blood pressure, heart problems (garlic came from ambrosia: therefore it is good for the heart. On the other hand, it’s a perfect horror to bhoots and the like.) 6- Silver Leaf: (Shri Mataji gave us cardamon seeds, each rolled in silver leaf. Immediately the whole right half of our bodies colled down) 7- Cardamon seeds: Extremely cooling (the shell should not be eaten) Used a lot in combination with other hot species to give balance: like garam masala, curry, or with black tea (chai) etc.  8- White cheese:  (Fresh cheese like mozzarella, cottage cheese, panir, etc.) Very good and light.  It would be better for the liver if we could get used to these instead of our yellow cheeses.  (At that point Shri Mataji gave a bandhan that cheese like mozzarella be produced and brought to market in Austria, Germany and others countries. This is because, in most of European countries, we get only expensive imported Italian white cheese). 9- Yellow cheese: (Cheese like Emmenthal, gouda, Chester, etc but without fungus) alright, but take care with the liver.  10- Rotten cheese: (Things like camembert, gorgonzola, Roquefort, quargel, etc. Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Mr Ng's house, Petaling Jaya (Malaysia)

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Talk to Sahaja yogis in Malaysia, 15 March 1992. You really need now a very big place, if the people yesterday you saw was, more than six hundred people were there and you’ll have to, I don’t know, at least if hundred come that place I don’t know if you’ll be able to manage but he says they couldn’t get a hall. But I was also very happy that Sikhs have started coming because it’s a very stronghold for the Sikh people here. They’re very stronghold here, lots of Sikhs are here and they have a lot of hold with the government also, definitely. So if the Sikhs are coming to Sahaja Yoga they will be of a very great help, so you must look after them. Today I have called you for a special reason, couldn’t have the puja because of the, it was not properly prepared. So next year I hope we’ll manage everything and it will be done. And also suddenly Shyam Gupta had to, he got his ticket, so [INAUDIBLE]. Now so many people came, was miraculous thing has happened that so many people came and I think the maximum number here compared to other places like Hong Kong or Taiwan, Bangkok. There were people, about three hundred and fifty or so. But here I think they were saying it was more than six hundred, so it’s something remarkable it has happened and so now you people are the foundation of Sahaja Yoga. And you have Read More …

Final Talk Kalwa (India)

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Final Talk This is the culminating point of our tour, and the sweetest of all, extremely sweet. And the sweetness is flowing so much that I couldn’t help saying something about the children. They have really filled Me with such love and adoration for them. I wish our Sahaja Yogi children also become like this: so nimble, so vigorous, so concentrated, and achieving something that is My dream, I should say. So nicely, collectively they were dancing with such vigor, with such rhythm, with such understanding, while we were all just enjoying their sweetness. And here you remember that Christ has said, “You have to be like small children to enter into the Kingdom of God”; and that’s what Vaikuntha is different that way. I don’t know how to really thank Rajesh for bringing Sahaja Yoga to an industrial place like this. It’s something really very unique. I mean, you cannot imagine spirituality governing such an organization. Really it was meant to be only for saints sitting in the jungles, but here it is brought to this factory where people are living so happily together as Sahaja Yogis, and the children are so beautiful. I bless this factory. I bless all of them with all My Heart. And it shows how Sahaja Yoga can bring forth such beautiful results. Now, I know Rajesh has a little child also, and all his sweetness of childhood, and I could really experience, I should say, the whole thing, with these little, little children Read More …

Talk at end of Music Night Alibag (India)

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Talk at end of Music Night The Truth and Reality are like flowers surrounded by thorns. It’s not easy to accept the Truth- also very difficult to accept the Reality- before you smell the flower. And the flower is the Love, and the fragrance is the Joy. And that you could see the fragrance today. All the thorns have vanished, all the fear of Reality and Truth has vanished, and now the Reality, which is Truth, which is Love, which is Joy. May God bless you all. Tomorrow morning we have to go to Kalwa, where Rajesh Shah has invited you, and I’ve told him that some people may be staying till the seventh or so. He said, “That’s my pleasure. I will do my level best”. There’s one more thing, what Rajesh is, that he is the person who started Sahaja Yoga in the West, in a way, because he met Gregoire, and then Gregoire met somebody else. It went on like that. So it’s very sweet of him to have invited us there, at Kalwa, for a puja, and he’s arranged everything there for your stay. But he’s told Me already that you should not mind any inconvenience. But tomorrow he’s arranged a very beautiful music by a very famous lady called Kishori Amonkar. She’s a very great singer. She has one of the most melodious voices you could think of, but she’s a very egoistical person and very irritable. But when he told her My name, she Read More …

Talk During Music Night Alibag (India)

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Talk During Music Night You are all becoming now poets. I think the hearts are opening and expression is great, and these kind of songs should put a lot of vigor and courage in all of you. I am very happy that all of you are opening your heart and singing such nice songs, and reflecting My desires. May God bless you. These songs are like Namadeva’s Jogawa which is absolute Sahaja Yoga, nothing else but Sahaja Yoga. Every word is Sahaja Yoga, and this has been sung in our villages, in Indian villages, specially in Maharashtra, for thousands of years now, and still they didn’t understand what it was meaning. They didn’t know; they were just singing it, and sort of hoping for the thing. Like also Gyaneshwara has written- twelfth century [ie 1200s] – a beautiful poem about Sahaja Yoga, very beautiful. It’s regarded as the masterpiece of his work, and that is being read and re-read, and people are hoping for it. I hope you know that song [MARATHI. SOUNDS LIKE “ATTA VISHWATMA KE TO SHAVE TO SHUNI DYAVE”; NO?]. In that song he says that, “The Soul of the Universe (Vishwatma), the Spirit of the Universe, should feel satisfied with my yagna I have done with the language, with the vani, with my writings. He should be happy what I have written, or She should be happy what I have written, and She should now give us- [MARATHI. SOUNDS LIKE, “TO SHONI DYAVE PASAIT”]- and She Read More …

Talk after Fishermen’s Dance Alibag (India)

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Talk after Fishermen’s Dance …very simple folks, and they are just now singing that, “We are fishermen and we have to catch the fishes, and then the ladies have to take them to the market.” Now, the whole night the fishermen go on their boats and bring the fishes, and the ladies then, in the morning, are ready with all this kind of dress that they wear. They are all very nice-looking, healthy women because they live in the water, you see, of the sea. Water is very good. And then they go and sell these things (so the men are sleeping nicely after that; they come back home and sleep in) then they go back home by about ten o’clock. The fishing market is over; you can’t get any fishes. Only fresh fishes, if you have to go, you must go early in the morning from seven to eight or nine at the most, and all the fishes are over. Then they wash off everything and go away. So that is what they are describing that, “We have worked very hard and got these fishes for you; now you’d better go and sell them.” So they are saying, “We are working in the shores, near the shores of Bombay” (that’s Mumbai). You can understand why Christ chose the fishermen, because they are always having their foot-soaking, you know. Very simple people, and very nimble. You see them how they are not stiff at all, the way they are very, Read More …

Talk before Marriages Ganapatipule (India)

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Talk before Marriages. Ganapatipule (India), 27 December 1991. Today, the people from all over the world, forgetting their races, their caste, communities, religions, their nationalities, are singing together the praise of God, is My dream has come true today. We have to believe in the totality, in the universality. This universe is one. God has not made them separate. All religions are one; coming from the same Source. So we believe in every religion, we follow every religion; and the whole concept of nations is also mythical. The whole world was made one, with lots of rivers, mountains, and sea. We have divided them. We have made all these differences: higher, lower, east and west. Look at the Sun- It moves in all directions. Look at the Mother Earth- It revolves all the nations; it doesn’t revolve only one nation. It’s our myth, we should get out of our minds so that this dream of Mine will cover the whole universe one day. Today I’m feeling extremely happy to see all of you together to finish all the wars, all the violence, all the immorality, all the deceitfulness, all that is wrong against, is destructive to human beings; and to create complete benevolence in this world. May God bless you all. You go as messengers of peace, love, bliss; and tell them that there is an All-pervading Power. A All-pervading Power- [UNCLEAR] the All-pervading Power- which is everywhere, in every nation, in every person, in every human being, it can Read More …

Opening talk Ganapatipule (India)

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Opening talk at Ganapatipule, India. 23 December 1991. Welcome to all the people from all over the world. Again we are back here in Ganapatipule, and very surprising, tomorrow is the biggest day of Shri Ganesha’s Puja; that we should have the Puja tomorrow, it’s Angaraka tomorrow, is Angaraka Chaturthi. It has been now more than twenty-one years that Sahaja Yoga has started, and when you see the progress of Sahaja Yoga it’s amazing, absolutely amazing. We have to keep to this progressive attitude and spread Sahaja Yoga in every way possible. We have to of course be careful when we are spreading the Sahaja Yoga, that there might be some people who are quite negative, and may try to pose that they are some special type of Sahaja Yogis; I have known such people throughout: to tell people that I have given them some mantras, special mantras and that I’m, they’re very close to Me or sort of, all this kind of nonsense. And people do get impressed by such people who say that: “I’m something special”, and that: “Something special has been done to me”. It’s a very dangerous thing. Whatever is there is all open and for everyone. I have no favorites at all, I cannot have favorites. So anyone who talks like this, you must know that person must be mad and negative, and just shun such a company. Don’t go near anyone like that. Another thing I have to warn you, that by spreading Sahaja Read More …

Talk after Marriage Announcements Kolhapur (India)

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Talk after Marriage Announcements I would advise that you people should meet each other, talk to each other, find out; and really this is the time you can decide. We’re sorry because so many forms came very late, otherwise we would have declared it in Pune as usual. But this time the forms came till the last. Even here we were receiving some forms. So we couldn’t decide; unless and until you have all the forms for that. So whatever has been decided by us is not final at all. Your desire is the final. You can talk to each other, be kind. In the beginning there’s no need to fight; we have the whole life left! I must tell you, whatever is your first impression is the best. So need not be artificial but try to be nice to each other and see the good points of each other. Nobody’s perfect in this world. Now, those who really do not think that it’s all right for them should absolutely, without any hesitation, let Mr. Yogi and Mr. Guido know about it because they have done all this job; I haven’t done it. We must talk to each other and find for yourself. We had problems with the age; for the young girls we didn’t have young boys. And also we had problem with heights. Somewhere some people have written wrong heights. Might be, we might have done some mistakes, so that we’ll try to correct. May God bless you 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 …

Makeshwarashiva, talk Ganapatipule (India)

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Makeshwarashiva. Ganapatipule (India), 27 December 1990. Even in the Bible, in the , it is said that whatever is created by Mother Earth or by sky should not be reproduced by human beings and be worshipped. For example, even in Mecca, we have got Makeshwarashiva; in our puranas, he’s described as Makeshwarashiva itself. That’s why in Mecca we have a stone which was respected by Mohamad Sahib, you see, this subtle point should be seen; that it was a svayambhu one and it is a Makeshwarashiva itself was there. So He was respected. And every stone is not created by the Mother Earth; because the Mother Earth whatever it creates has got a coefficients which Mohamad Sahib, being an incarnation of Adi Guru or the Primordial Master could see and said that, “This is the stone, is to be kept here and go round that stone,” but didn’t explain much about it. As it is, He was tortured by people. They were all people who wouldn’t understand Him. But now here we have got Svayambhu Ganesha, and you see their vibrations coming from them. So the differentiation has to made; the svayambhu and the one which is just created for commercialization and things like that, reproductions. Even the photographs or the paintings which are created by people who are not realized souls will emit very bad vibrations. That’s why it was prohibited to have even the photographs, this was the situation. But if you go to Sistine Chapel you’ll find Read More …

Talk on Marriages Ganapatipule (India)

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Talk on Marriages About this I have to tell you last time we had this Christmas Puja and everybody became so left sided you see, I think they were missing their champagne or something. So I think this time we’ll just have Ganesha Puja, because singing carols immediately you think of champagne I think I don’t know. So they were very left sided and – we have to enjoy, these are your relations these are your brothers, these are your sisters. So must learn to enjoy them, but if you start becoming left sided for those people who are not our relations anymore, then is going to be difficult. Twenty-fifth is the Puja and twenty-eighth are the weddings, and twenty-ninth we all are leaving for Alibag. There’s one more thing I have to tell you all again, I may not be able to say this to you, that once you get married, you are not lost. You are still in Sahaja Yoga. No one consults us, they go so arbitrary in making passport visas this that’s that it’s bizarre sometimes, really bizarre, and some of the girls could not go. Specially England is very difficult, to England because of, this kind of an arbitrary behavior. So you all Indian girls, anyone should consult Yogi Mahajan because he’s in charge these days. If he comes in one piece. Everyday he is out with his file . Even if I’m going to the bathroom I come out I find him sitting with Read More …

Talk Unidentified (India)

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Talk Unidentified When there is opposition of any kind, or inconveniences, we start becoming subtler and subtler, as long as we accept it as a challenge. Every seed which is sprouted has a small little primule, out of which comes out the shoot and the root. And the root is so delicate and small. At the tip of the root, there is a very intelligent cell and this cell knows how to carry on its journey. So it gradually penetrates into soft muddy, land, but when it comes across any stone, then it encircles round it. Now, it could manage just avoiding it but no it encircles, so he uses that stone for future, support, of the tree. So intelligent it is, and that’s how it works out its way to the source. So you might start thinking that: “Look at this little cell that you can see through microscope. It has got a sense how to penetrate into the soil, also to go round the stones, also to go towards the, source of water. So what is the guiding factor? We never think about it. All the trees, all the animals, are in complete bandhan of God. Absolutely. They have no freedom of their own in a way. They are completely guided by God, and that guideline is, in that little cell. We have seen many birds flying out, thousands and thousands, all the way, Siberia to Australia. Who guides them? How do they know where is Australia which Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Singapore Changi Airport, Changi (Singapore)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Singapore Airport, February 28th, 1990 …Otherwise we have lots of people here. People are getting aware of it. I think Chinese will take to Sahaja Yoga very easily, you see, because they’re very wise people to begin with and they have such an ancient tradition. And all the traditional people take to Sahaja Yoga very fast, I’ve seen. Like in Egypt some people I met, they’ve been calling Me but I said, “Let there be some more, then I’ll come.” Also in Italy itself, Italy is doing very well. And China I think is such a wise country, you had such great philosophers and you had Lao Tze, such a great philosopher because he’s the one who came up with absolutely clearcut ideas about… , very clearcut ideas and what he has preached in the Zen system of religion is the same as Sahaja Yoga. Zen means dhyana, means dhyan, is the meditation. And Zen system is practised in the same manner as we practise Sahaja Yoga. But you have to have realized souls to practise it. So the last person I met, the head of the Zen and he was so sick, very sick and that’s how I met him because they called Me to cure him. So I asked him, “How do you follow Zen because you’re not a realized soul?” So he said the Zen system, they had only up to the twelfth century about twenty-six realized souls. They used to call them Read More …

Interview with “Afrique Magazine” Paris (France)

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

Importance of True Love, Shri Mataji’s Updesh Nagpur (India)

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Advice to Sahaja Yogis Nagpur, 5th March 1989 It is a special place when it is a village of our own Mother, old memories start to float just in front of my eyes. I always used to feel that Sahaja Yoga should spread in Nagpur city but people in their own homes stay away from mother, they do not see what is around them. The attention of human beings is easily drawn towards something which is far but they ignore what is near them and that is why the work of Sahaja Yoga began quite late in Nagpur.This land was already filled with vibrations because I stayed here in my childhood and quite a lot had already happened in subtle way. I knew that one day it will grow. My father used to go to various places for freedom struggle and used to meet many people. I met many people on these places.I was around 9 years old at that time. Ghandhiji used to call me ‘Nepali’ with love. Whatever vision and planning I used to present before him, he used to consider about it with great respect. In his ashram Bhajans were sung during prayers. There was an explanation of each and every chakra on the basis of kundalini in those Bhajans. I gave him proper order of bhajans to be sung, telling him right from the primordial principle to the stage of Christ , ‘Allah oh Akbar’ etc.,etc. were also part of it. He also used to have Read More …