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8th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)

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Eighth Day of Navaratri. Pune (India), 18 October 1988. In the ‘Mahalaxmi Strotum, why should we have all these. Because it is the Kundalini. The Mahalaxmi is the channel of the Kundalini, so there are ASHTA LAXMIS. Then Mahalaxmi and lastly the DAKSHA LAKSHMI. We have got one after another these powers within us which are expressed on the Mahalaxmi channel. Now, in the Mahalaxmi channel we have to talk about Gauri. Because Gauri is the one which is the Kundalini. So they have to talk thats why they say ‘Udai Udai hey Ambe. They say in the Mahalaxmi temple. Why because, in the Mahalaxmi temple only they have to say that now you rise, we are ready, we are prepared, we have got the Mahalaxmi principle within us and now you can rise,’ the Kundalini and that’s why the AAVAHANA.‘Palan’ means mothering or looking after the child. She is the one who looks after the whole world like a mother.Oh Devi! you are the only support of this world, because you are there as the mother earth and supporting the universe as the mother earth. Because of Mother Earth, the universe exists, because she, the Mother Earth was created out of the all the cosmos, the whole cosmos is supported by Mother earth. Like supposing you are building a house. The house is there but it is supported by the person who lives there. Otherwise it is meaningless like a bridegroom if he’s not in the marriage, what’s the Read More …

7th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)

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7th Day of Navaratri [Verses of ‘Devi Atharva Sheersha’ from ‘Durga Saptashati’ were read, where the Devi speaks for Herself. Shri Mataji clarifies and explain in between:]*When you give joy to someone. The source of joy has to be beyond joy.* I am the giver of knowledge.* Without the light of “Atma” without the light of the ‘Spirit’ how can you know anything?* You see the source is unborn, it can take birth because it is primordial, so it is unborn. Primordial is there it is absolute, but then absolute can take birth.* Why not get Realisation? Without that what’s the use of doing devi Puja. Without the knowledge of ‘Atma’, if you do any Puja, what is the use? You won’t get Divine Blessings already said Thousands of years back.* “Vaikhari” is the powers by which we speak.* Any God’s name you take, you ask are you this? ……. (Vibrations ……. ) Because the ‘Shakti’ of all those people is the essence of all those. Because I am that Shakti, that’s why you get the vibrations. Ask anybody’s name, even the saints, rishis, maharishis. ‘Hanh’ all of that is me. That is why that’s the point they are trying to make.* Beeja Mantra means say the “Vaikhari”. Vaikhari is the power of Speaking. This power of speaking is made into mantras by people who have power of Realisation. Now, so, for them to improve, supposing they want to improve their centre, or they want to improve their left or Read More …

4th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)

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“CHATURTHI”, the Fourth Day of Navaratri, October 13th, 1988, Pune (India) [The Kavach of the Devi, which was read partly on the third day, got completed today.] So, we have made it short. Now just take a ‘bandhan’, it is the same thing as Kavacha, you see. Realised souls, if they take bandhan, it’s the same thing. Whatever you have said here is done, yesterdays and todays, everything that has been said, all these Raksha Kari is done in one stroke.But now we should know how many of us take bandhan before going from the house, before sleeping or before doing something important. How many people take bandhan? Very seldom. You forget it. It’s very important. Going on a journey, going on a road, better take a bandhan. It’s not that, “We are all right, Mother is looking after us”, it’s not the point. You must take a bandhan before doing all these things. If you get an accident, then know that you have done some mistakes or something otherwise. Normally, there should be not an accident, means, there is something still lacking in you. [SHRI MATAJI, ABOUT THE KAVACH:]‘Which was promised long time back by Markendaya, now you have achieved it. This he had promised 14,000 years back that when Mahamaya will come, She will do this work. That it will happen. We must realise that we are getting all the promises fulfilled for us. Now, we have also certain promises to be made and we have to ask Read More …

3rd Day of Navaratri Pune (India)

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“TRITIYA”, the Third Day of Navaratri, October 13th, 1988, Pune (India) So, many powers Mother has to have to protect her children and to look after them. These powers are all there, working relentlessly all the time, twenty-four hours. So, anybody who surrenders to Mother, these powers express themselves and try to help you out of your problems. But first thing is surrendering. If you are not surrendered, if you are not in the kingdom of the God, then this is not the responsibility of the Mother. Then it might be that some negative force might take over and may destroy you.

The Story of Markandeya Vienna (Austria)

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Ashram of Vienna, (Austria), 9 June 1988. You know the story of Markandeya or not? I tell you the story of Markandeya. You see, his father had no children and the father and mother were unhappy. So they prayed to Shiva and they said that we want to have a son. Shiva said, “I’ll give you the son, but I will have to take him back after eight years. So he’ll only exist till he is about eight years of age.” So, they gave that boon to him plus this kind of a curse. The parents were very upset that “our child will die after eight years of age”, very upset. But they found the child very bright, brilliant and also shining and very religious. One day he asked his father, “Why do you always so worry, I mean, after all I am your son?” So they said that it is said so, eight years or sixteen years, something like that. “Now I will be losing you very soon. Who can surpass Shiva?” He said it, “So, I cannot think we can really ask anyone to neutralize the curse upon us. If you are not born to us we would not have been so attached to you. Now you are born to us, we are so much attached to you.” He was a very wise person, he said: “No, I know someone, I know Adi Shakti. And he went to this place where you got to Read More …

Birthday Puja (no sound) Mumbai (India)

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Birthday Puja, Mumbai (India), 21 March 1988. I have told them, in Marathi language because most of them are Maharashtrians here, that in every part of the country one has to work hard and one has to spread Sahaja Yoga with complete dedication and understanding. That today is the day for us to achieve that power, to absorb that power by which we are going to spread Sahaja Yoga all over the world. It’s you who can enlighten other people. It’s you who can show them the path and it’s you who can bring forth this new transformation which has been promised thousands of years back. That is going to happen and should happen in our country, much more than in any other country. But, what I find, it is working out better in other countries than in India. The reason, I try to find out why Indians can not get to Sahaja Yoga with that depth. They may be in numbers but not in that depth. What is the reason, why can’t they get into that depth and when I try to locate, I shouldn’t say this today but it is a very obvious thing that we had such great and great people like Shri Rama, Shri Krishna, great saints, people in our ancient times. Such ideals, very great kings that we have, ideals of the highest types before us. And when we started following them, we developed a very special type of character which is called as hypocrisy, Read More …

Mahashivaratri Puja Mumbai (India)

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Shivaratri Puja, Bombay (India), 14 February 1988. This part was spoken in Hindi Today we are all come together to celebrate the Shiva Tattwa Puja.  Nowadays, in Sahaja Yoga, what we have achieved is by the Grace of the Shiva Tattwa.  Shiva Tattwa is the ultimate goal (establishment, completion) of pure desire. When the Kundalini gets awakened in us, pure desire takes us near and keeps us at the Shiva Tattwa. Beyond Shiva Tattwa is the safe refuge of the Atma.  The new dimensions of the Spirit are slowly seen and start working out.  And when a man is fully engrossed (absorbed?) in the Shiva Tattwa, he gets surrendered without doing anything.  Kundalini Shakti is the reflection of Adi Shakti within us and Shiva Tattwa is the light of the almighty (Paramatma).  Like as there is a small twinkling light in the gas lamp, and when the gas comes into it then you can see the light.  But before you cannot notice the gas passing through.  For this it is necessary that the Kundalini should be awakened.  When we have the sensation of (can feel the?) Kundalini then the light shines out. For this it is necessary that within you there is Kundalini awakening and then this light is there. Today I have given a new example so that we could understand.  In its own place Kundalini can do no work.  Just like a gas, it cannot do anything on its own.  In this way the twinkling also cannot do Read More …

Talk at Rahuri Temple, India Tour Rahuri (India)

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Talk at Rahuri Temple, 20.12.87 (Tape 1 Side B) …must have been everywhere••.many other things, settling so many things in other places. That’s how the time passes on. It’s nice to have here in the night, you can see all the lights and all the beautiful silence around you. If you see know the sky like a….if you can have a look at the sky, is like a …. Now, I must tell you the history of this place, is that here one Rakshasa called Raho was to be killed by the Goddess, and she used a ….to kill him, that Rakshasa. And he in fear, he started screaming loudly and that scream is called as Aradh (?) and that’s-why we call this-place as Aradh. And when I came to this village I told them that “why do you want to remember, remember the scream of a rakshasa. You call it asARarkao. (?) meaning the foreign place of the Goddess, Arvana, the foreign place. So thcv agreed to it and now they have applied for that, and they have passed a regulation that this place should be called as Arvana. As it is something in the name also that this place was all resolute, and this barren, there was no water, people had a bad time, and very funny types of trees started growing here, which had very bio thorns and they were very fatal. So after this the whole thina started changing and transforming. They get a lot of Read More …

Tour Introductory Talk Alibag (India)

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Tour Introductory Talk. Alibag (India), 14 December 1987. We have to prepare ourselves properly for anything that we do in life, there is something called preparation, and that preparation has to be done religiously in the sense that you have to take a vow about it, because, so many people, so many times come to India and do not achieve much. They say that we have got a little bit of………, which has benefit, that’s all. So today you saw that how Indians got their realization without any problems, without any questions. And such a magnet life, one gentleman who was a district judge of the state, so very humble and soft and sweet person present My lectures, some of them and he pointed out what is interesting in the lectures and also said what is so special about Sahaja Yoga and then what is so special about it. It’s very remarkable how people are humble and for them it is important that if a saint is there, then there must be a [guest ?]. Because they were just sitting there, we have just come from the house directly and I was sitting there, people were coming and bowing to Me, and told him you can go in if he wants, because it will take some time. He said, “No, no I am perfectly all right, how can I go before you haven’t.” In that humility he was sitting there all the time. Now we have to understand that we Read More …

Conversation, Treatment of virus infections Pune (India)

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Conversation with yogis, Pune (India), 1 December 1987. So whatever we condition ourselves, becomes a kind of our subconscious. That we have been doing, say for example, all the time something, so it becomes our conditioning, because we have been doing it repeatedly for so many times it becomes a conditioning and is also, what you call, is the habit. And also the habits are also given by our subconscious. So this is the nearest to the present, you can say. Even sitting down here, supposing I take something which is very intoxicating and immediately be thrown into such a depth of subconscious, into the collective subconscious area, that immediately something will grip Me from collective subconscious and next time I must have it. That’s what happens with drugs. As soon as you take drugs once, you’ve had it. It throws you so much to that area that you just get under the grip of something, what we call as the bhoots. And then you have to… Now, in the collective subconscious, what we have got? In the evolutionary process there were many material things which came on this earth and were thrown into this collective subconscious as useless. Like in the modern times you are having now plastics. In the same way we had many things like that which were thrown out of the evolutionary process on one side kept. Then we have got another thing, what we call the plants. Like certain plants that we have, say tobacco. 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 …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Talk to Yogis, Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia), 14 March 1985. Late night, after public program. This is the best you can give to your friends, instead of giving them parties, dinners. That’s how you become permanent friends. So the children are enjoying themselves preparing the next occasion. Going to sit down with Modi today, and finalize the marriage program. All right? So I would like to have the names of the people who are getting married. Ah. And I hope, they have everything all right. Because I will have to check up on these things, isn’t it? Because day after tomorrow will be a puja and then we’ll have to prepare for the weddings, that is on Sunday. Puja will be in the evening? What we can do if you want to have a sort of a follow-up program, we can have it on in the morning time. Yogi: But Mother it will be too much for you. No, I’ll be out only for one hour at the most. That’s you see because I think the contacts are lost. If you don’t say I’m there, I’m not there, then they don’t come. So best is to have one day. I’ll just come for an hour outside that’s all. Keep it like that, we’ll manage somehow. Yes, last time did we cook? So many, we cannot. So they should be left out. See they should come here at the time about say ten o’clock and leave about twelve o’clock, so they Read More …

Parent’s day celebrations New Delhi (India)

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“The relationship of parents with children and teachers with students” (Hindi talk). Sahaja Temple, Delhi (India), 15 December 1983. What is Sahaja Yoga and what all one gets in it, you can know . But what I am going to tell you today is little about the relationship of parents with their children and how it is supposed to be. First of all , we develop two kind of relationship with our children, in that one is emotional and the other is responsibility . Emotions and responsibility remain two different things. Suppose there is one mother, and her child learns or does something wrong, still because of emotions she says, ” all right let him do it, nowadays all children are like this, what to say to child, everything is fine”. Another Mother is there who wants to make her children dutiful and responsible. For that she says to her children to get up early in the morning, be active, study hard, go to school in time, sit here, sit there, wear the clothes properly etc.. and she is always behind her child to correct him. Now I should tell you that this is not integrated. Today in Sahaj Yoga we have integration. Both the things ( emotion and responsibility) have to be integrated. There has to be integration, not combination. The difference between combination and integration comes because our emotions should be responsibility and responsibility should be our emotions. Like we love our children. Then we will say that Read More …

Speech at School Chowk (India)

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Speech delivered by Shri Mataji at the site of the proposed School at Chowk (near Khopoli) Maharashtra on Saturday, the 11th December, 1983. (Marathi advice translated by Sahaj yogi Shri T.Y. Chaudhari) In the past many great Saints and Sadhus were born in Maharashtra. They have shown the correct way to us. They taught about religion and of the practice of religion. They spread the knowledge of the soul and always emphasised that without realisation of the Self, everything in this life was unstable and unreal. Everyone of you have come to Sahaja Yoga and got your Self realisation. You are realised souls. You are Saints and Sadhus. The Saints and Sadhus of the by-gone days may not have assembled together as you have done here today. This land has been sanctified by your presence. On two sides of this land are the abodes of Shri Ganesha. In the front there is a temple of Shri Shankar known as Vaijnath, and at the back there is the abode of Shri Dattatreya. The thought of having a school in such beautiful surroundings has been engaging my attention since long. Now Shri Bharwani has graciously donated this land, I feel that the school project should come up at an early date. The Sahaja Yogis are industrious and hardworking. They cannot sit idle. They have to work for this school. Even in the Trust Deed (of the Life Eternal Trust) it has been mentioned that we shall establish and run schools. There is Read More …

Newspaper Interview before the up-coming USA Tour with Stan Bostock published in Zireus on May 1983 London (England)

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Newspaper Interview before the up-coming USA Tour with Stan Bostock published in Zireus on May 1983 The aim was to talk to Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi about her forthcoming North American tour. What happened was something that is only now, a week later, starting to make sense. I telephoned the number Shri Mataji’s followers in New York had given me, and found myself, an hour later, knocking on the carved door of a five storied terraced house in London’s classy Knightsbridge district. The door was opened by a young Indian who ushered me into a reception room as ornate and rich as a jewel box. Furniture covered with rose silk, tables inlaid with ivory, carved and gilded wooden screens, pale pink crystal chandeliers. I heard Shri Mataji before I saw her.“How are you? How is America?” Then the lady appeared, short, plump, with long dark hair falling free, and a smile that chips away all the defenses. Tea was ordered and I was asked to sit down. Before I could get the first question into gear Shri Mataji asked, “Do you know what the chakras are?” I mumbled something about subtle energy centers along the spine. “That’s right,” she said, and tapped the base of her neck with her index finger. “This one is called the vishuddhi. In the universe the vishuddhi is North America. Australia is the lowest chakra, the mooladhara. India is the kundalini. which can link all the chakras together,” she traced a line from the base Read More …

Public Program (media missing) Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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Public Programme, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 23rd, 1983 I bow to all the seekers of truth. I know what Dr. Warren has told you, was quite shocking, but I didn’t know how was going to announce it in Kuala Lumpur. It’s all right in Australia where I’ve been many a-times before and there people started asking very direct questions about Me, that, “How is it Mother can do such a thing?”   So far nobody has been able to do a thing of this kind where everyone gets self-realisation. We were so much pestered that ultimately I said, “All right in the last lecture you may tell them about Me.” And it so happened that we did felt an amazing feeling that people really were convinced because they were just at that point where they were wondering, “How can that be? How they have become so powerful? How they are manifesting their own powers? How is it they know that what is to be done?” It’s all written down and comes to you. They just could not believe it and they used to wonder how is it that what they have got has become so practical, so simple and so much in their own power. So far so many of them have been to other people, to other gurus, to other masters, to the churches, to other all kinds of people and what they said that, “Nothing was under our power, you see whatever they said we were doing under Read More …

Talkback Radio Interview 3UZ Melbourne (Australia)

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Talkback Radio Interview 3UZ, Mebourne (Australia), 10 March 1983. 3UZ TALKBACK RADIO with Barry Everingham (first quarter of an hour was not recorded) BE: Thank you George. Joan? Is Joan on the line. J: Yes.BE: Now you want to speak to the Mataji about the curing of alopecia?J: Yes I do.BE: We’ll, we’d better explain to the listeners what it is: it’s the falling out of hair in clumps. It’s not baldness.J: Well yes that’s…BE: Is that right?J: It’s areas of baldness.BE: Areas of baldness? In men and women? J: Yes.BE: Are you a sufferer of it?J: Yes I am.BE: Well here’s the Mataji now Joan. Shri Mataji: Hello. See there was one gentleman from Australia who had the same problem. He was cured. And you can come along and get your realisation. After realisation it will all work out. All right? J: What do I have to do? Shri Mataji: Nothing. You just come along and see me. J: Do I have to bring something along or come? Shri Mataji: Just come and see Me. J: Where was it again? BE: Now tomorrow night Joan, it’s at the Exhibition Building, do you know that, in Nicholson Street, Carlton. J: Yes. BE: At 7 o’clock.J: It’s a very big building. BE: Well whereabouts is the… Shri Mataji: It’s the main hall. BE: It’s the main hall. J: The main hall? BE: Yes. J: Yes. BE: That’s at seven o’clock tomorrow night. J: And there was a Sunday one? BE: Yes Read More …

Radio Interview 3DB Melbourne (Australia)

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Radio Interview 3DB, Melbourne (Australia), 10 March 1983. Q: … Right now. Actually to be more specific, She’s in the studio with me right now … Shri Mataji and we’re going to talk to her. Good morning. Shri Mataji: Good morning. Q: How do I address you, do I call you. Shri Mataji: Mother, you can call it, it is better to call Me Mother. Q: All right thank you, Mother. Mother, now you are India’s living saint, do I stand or do I sit, or … Shri Mataji: Yes that’s what they say Q: India’s greatest living saint, and founder of the worldwide Sahaja Yoga. Mostly when we think of spiritual leaders, we think of men, but, quite obviously you’re a woman. Shri Mataji: Yes I am. I think this work can only be done by the Motherly love and compassion and patience, and men can’t have that much patience. I think a Mother was more needed at this time. Q: Men don’t have patience, Shri Mataji? Shri Mataji: I think so, women have more patience, specially Indian women are known for their patience. I don’t know about the women here. If they are copying men then they may not be also having equal patience. Q: What makes Indian women so special where patience is concerned? Shri Mataji: They are brought up that way. They are told that you have to be the bearing power, you have to be like the Mother Earth, so they develop that from their Read More …

Public Program Day 2 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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Media missing. Public Program, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 24th, 1983 This morning when we met together, I told them how to come to right conclusion about the right guru because unless and until there is an enlightened personality you cannot be enlightened, that’s a fact. Also it doesn’t mean that there is nobody who can enlighten you. There are many, many fake gurus and many, many fake things. But we should come to right conclusions. I will repeat what I said this morning, how we come to right conclusions, first of all you must know that we must use our brains. You cannot be a brainless person when you try to come to God’s ways because we are human beings and God has given us a brain to come to logical conclusion and not to a rational conclusion. Now what is the logic? First of all we must know that God cannot charge you any money; first, they cannot charge you. That’s one first principle of God is, He doesn’t understand money. He doesn’t need your money. And the person who is godly or divine can never take any money from you for his or her maintenance. Of course it’s all right this hall, these people if they want to pay for the hall, all right, it’s they’ve paid for the hall but for realization or for anything because those who are living on your money are parasites. You’re retaining them, you are really retaining them by paying them and Read More …

Public Program Day 1 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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Media Missing. Public Program Day 1. Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 23 February 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. This is the time when so many seekers are born on this earth. This time has been predicted in all the ancient scriptures, perhaps we are not aware of it that this is the most important time in the history of creation. We are seekers of truth, that’s why we are dissatisfied in life, because we do not know the real meaning of our life. We do not know why we have come from amoeba stage and have become human beings. The scientists must ask this question to themselves: Why have you become a human being? What is the purpose of the nature, because they don’t like the word God, to make this beautiful thing called human beings. But such questions which cannot be answered, they cannot ask either. The truth is that within us lies the Spirit, the Self. Dr. Warren has mentioned about many great people but not about Buddha and I would like to tell you about Buddha also, because there’re lots of Buddhists in this area. Buddha Himself did not talk of God. The reason was that when He found the people who talked of God were just talking about Him. That was the second stage where one has to reach. Instead of that they were just talking about God, God Almighty, His creation, His kindness, His compassion, all these things. But it was nothing to Read More …

Conversation, These Are the Days of Confusion Freiburg (Germany)

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Conversation, These Are the Days of Confusion [Missing part] Shri Mataji: [Fraud] he is? Sahaja Yogi: Very, very, very, very. Sahaja Yogis: Devil. Devil. Shri Mataji: Devas. Sahaja Yogi: Devil. Shri Mataji: Oh, devil. He is a devil himself. Why should you work with him? He’s, he is Ravana, who had said to Sita that, “I’ll molest the chastity of women of India.” But he could not do it much. Sahaja Yogi: No. Sahaja Yogini: Mother, has the second one got the powers of Ravana as well? Shri Mataji: Aaaa? Sahaja Yogini: Has this second one got the powers of Ravana, or one of Ravana’s brothers he is? Shri Mataji: What’s it? Sahaja Yogini: The second. Sahaja Yogi: Rajneesh. Sahaja Yogini: Rajneesh. Has he got the power? Shri Mataji: I don’t know. These are stories I am telling you. I don’t know. I’m not bothered. Sahaja Yogini: Mother, as well is [one of] printed matter in India. One of Your disciples collected anything printed out [unclear]? Shri Mataji: No, I can ask. I can ask. So I am able to tell you all these things. Hmmm. See now, the story about him, another story, seem to be many stories. Another story they said is that Rajneesh was never shaved since he was a diabetic patient. And as a diabetic patient he used to eat a lot. That’s good. He got a neck problem, was not very seriously sick. But they took a certificate from a doctor saying that he’s very Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Part 2 = 30 January 1982) New Delhi (India)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis [Missing part] After that she sat down at least. And then she said to Me, “Mother, I must say this Chaya, what must have she done in her last life to be married to a man like that?” After that she never took his side. Always she used to come and tell Me that, “Chaya told Me that he’s such a funny man.” She wants as soon as he comes in the room I should enter into the room. She says, “I feel shy.” I mean, [Hindi]. If they have no understanding then we [can’t, cannot] do anything. Do you feel shy? You shouldn’t do that. You really feel shy. I mean, there’s something like shyness. She said, “I find it impossible, you know, with this man. I feel very shy and I feel very embarrassed.” She wanted to, [see with/show] us some nice film, she wanted to see. So this fellow said, “No, you should only see it with me.” She said, “But you are not coming. If you come [then we’ll go together, I will not go out].” He couldn’t bear her going with other friends. Can you imagine? Such a jealous spot. [Hindi] I mean, we are not complicated. In the same way, get rid of your complications. Like who will now get married. I mean, they must have arguing. That’s important. And they come out fighting, both of them. No one can sleep there. In that Brompton Square, can you imagine, that Read More …

Darshan at Ashram Part 1 & 2 Sydney (Australia)

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Darshan at Ashram Part 1&2 March 25th, 1981, Sydney (Australia) PART 1 Shri Mataji: So now some questions would be good idea. Yogi: Mother, they say that Lord Buddha died of eating excessive pork – is it true? Shri Mataji: Who says that? Yogi: I’ve heard this, I just wondered Warren: One of his disciplines was vegetarianism. Shri Mataji: They don’t eat pork now, the Chinese? Warren: They do, they do. Shri Mataji: They should not. You see pork, people who are dealing with the centre, I mean the void, have a little against the pork always. Like the reason was it is very heating giving. It gives a lot of heat, pork gives a lot of heat. So they were not for it because there is already fire in the void you see, and adding to that, say liver patients taking pork really is not so good. But I would say fish is just the same. Fish has so much of phosphorus, that it can create problems for the liver people.  Allergies to fish. I mean pork proteins, protein because that is pork – is… can cause lots of problems. Warren: It’s got a much higher parasitic action than most meats. Shri Mataji: But that could not have died because he is not such an eater. This is all their ideas. But he was not a person who did not eat meat. Neither was Mohammed. It was later on, see these people started all this nonsense of vegetarianism. Yogi: Read More …

Public Program Day 2 University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

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Media missing. Public Programme Day 2 at University of New South Wales. Sydney (Australia), 24 March 1981. It was very kind of you to have invited me here to speak to the university students. The word university is itself very suggestive, that you come here to become a universal being. Perhaps you may not have realized that when you joined the university. Many must have been to the university before and must have gone out of it. They might have been somewhere, in something, but if we ask them, “What have you gained through university education?” They can tell you that because of university education they have been able to get this job or maybe this special position in politics, maybe that they have gained lots of money, of business.Also, they may say that they have gotten knowledge. All these things, through this university. But not that they have become universal beings. And whatever is universal is now being analyzed. When you are not the universal being how can you analyze whatever is universal? For example, if you go to any university, same way as in this university, I found, there is a science section, there is a chemistry section, then the physics section, and sections and sections and sections. So an analytical method is developed. In a different ….. we put different people to tell us different aspects of life. Like human beings too, we study them as if they are different beings within themselves, like we may have Read More …

About self control, dedication and behaviour New Delhi (India)

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Advice to sahaja yogis, regarding self control, dedication and behavior. New Delhi (India), 11 March 1981. YOU SHOULD BE LIKE A KING SITTING ON HIS THRONE. INSTEAD, YOU ARE SITTING ON THE THRONE AND WEEPING AND BEGGING! WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO SUCH FOOLISH PEOPLE? You are a king and you should order your five organs that you have been tolerating them and now they should behave. When you command yourself like this, bring yourself under control like this, then only you have become a good sahaj yogi. Otherwise, your mind goes somewhere and you say, “ Mother, what to do, I control my mind so much but still it goes there” Then, what is mind? It is a living force, it will go. Our organs will be awakened and we will never like to wander there, and we will give up many things. AMONG ALL THE THINGS WE MUST REMEMBER ONLY ONE; KEEP OUR HEARTS CLEAN. THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE HEARTS ARE CLEAN HAVE VERY FEW PROBLEMS. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE THINKING OF BAD THINGS. CLEAN HEART MEANS DEDICATION. YOU CANNOT GROW IN SAHAJ YOGA, IF YOU LACK IN DEDICATION, OR IF YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE SOME SPECIAL KIND OF PERSON. THERE IS NO NEED FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL OR BEING SOME LEARNED PERSON. YOU SAY, “MOTHER, I HAVE NOT FELT ANYTHING, I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE”. ITS DUE TO YOUR FAULT AND NOT THAT OF SAHAJ YOGA.Sometimes, people talk to me as if I have taken some Read More …

Nirmala Vidya Rahuri (India)

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Nirmala Vidya (excerpt), Rahuri (India), 31 December 1980. It is the special power by which we do All Divine work, even forgiving. When you say, “Mother, forgive us “, the technique by which I forgive you is Nirmala Vidya. The technique by which I love you is also Nirmala Vidya. The technique by which all the Mantras are manifesting themselves and are effective is also Nirmala Vidya. ‘Nirmala’ means ‘pure’, ‘Vidya’ means ‘knowledge’. Nirmala Vidya is purest knowledge or the knowledge of this technique. It creates loops, the energy creates loops and creates also different formations by which it acts and [with?]draws all that is unwanted, impure, and fills it up with its power. It is a technique, a divine technique which I may not be able to explain to you fully because your instrument does not do that – you don’t have that instrument. But now you see, how subtle it is. Only by saying, “Nirmala Vidya”, you just invite that power, the whole thing, the whole technique to attend to you and it attends to you. You don’t have to worry. It never happens in any government or anywhere in the world. You just address the Government. and the whole thing goes into work, in the whole the entire universe, every creation. That technique is called Nirmala Vidya. That technique once mastered, by surrendering into it; it completely obeys, absolutely. But it is Ganesh Shakti, the Shakti of Innocence is the power called Innocence. The whole power because Read More …

Reception of Sir C.P. New Delhi (India)

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Talk by Sir C.P.: Mr. Subramanyam and dear Sahaja Yogis and Sahaja Yoginis of Delhi, May I say first of all, how very grateful I am to all of you for the honour, kindness and affection you have chosen to bestow upon me, this evening. For me it is an experience which is very wooling and I assure you, I will cherish it for a long time. Sahaj Yoga is now the very life of my wife, whom you call Mataji; who still remains my wife And as Sh. Subramanyamji said, she has played the role of a wife, a perfect wife, if I may say so, a perfect Mother and now a perfect Grandmother and what she is doing now for the Humanity is something which makes me particularly proud and most gratified. Perhaps, I may mention to you that years ago when our two daughters were still little children and they were growing up, we both agreed that our first responsibility as parents must be to bring them up properly, educate them and to see that they are properly married and settled in life and then she would be free to devote herself to the wider family of Humanity. She kept her word and I kept mine. My daughters grew up. Credit for bringing them up naturally goes to her, because I was really very busy with my official duties and she gave me tremendous support by looking after the children, and the house and taking over every Read More …

Atma and Paramatma New Delhi (India)

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“Atma and Paramatma”, translation of Hindi Lecture. Delhi (India), 18 August 1979. The sudden arrival is for various reasons. In Sahaja Yoga sudden arrival has a special significance.We must have seen many incidents in our lives, which have suddenly happened. They do not mean anything to us. If we try on intellectual level, we cannot understand why a particular incident has taken place in our life. It has been the way of human being, that he wants to understand everything through reasoning. This is correct on his part because his awareness is not yet awakened. When his awareness is limited and when he is searching the proof of everything through his intellect it is difficult for him to adopt some other means which are outside the scope of reasoning. You have heard a lot about Paramatma, Atma, Adi-shakti etc. You have also read about them in books. Every now and then, man talks about Atma and Paramatma. There have been many incarnations, who have told that you should first realise your Atma because man cannot reach Paramatma, without knowing his Atma. As you cannot identify colours without eyes in the same way, you cannot attain Paramatma unless you meet your Atma. You cannot intellectually understand Paramatma. It is only through Atma that you can understand Paramatma. So far, all saints have said “be alert in the observance of your Dharma, search your Atma, understand the Atma that is residing in you.” What is Atma? What work is it doing residing within Read More …

Interview feature, Evening News (THE LIFE ETERNAL, 1979 ISSUE) New Delhi (India)

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KUNDALINI YOGA INTERVIEW FEATURE WITH MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI BY VIDYUT MANEKLAL Evening News, New Delhi, Feb. 23, 1977 ‘’What is the purpose of life”, asked a press correspondent to Mataji Nirmala Devi, votary of Kundalini Yoga also known as Sahaja Yoga. “To realise the Divine and be his instrument” was the prompt reply. In the present turmoil filled world this question seemed natural. For the lives of most people are affected by dissatisfaction, frustration and bitterness leading to violent action on their part; others accept the situation and jog along with resignation, indifference marking their existence. Why was it so, we asked Mataji. “Human beings are filled with so many urges. They want love, wealth, power. Having savoured the fleeting joys springing from the physical material side of life, they get restless and bored since their existence is confined to the physical, mental and emotional planes. They seek a remedy for their boredom. They turn to ‘Gurus’ in the hope of finding some solace. If the Guru is truly enlightened, he may show them the correct path, but if it is otherwise, the individual or individuals fall a victim to the myths of the ‘Guru’ who may lead them astray, plunging them into the very depth of darkness”. Q. What is the remedy for this ? A. The remedy is within you and the Divine has provided an instrument in the form of the Kundalini, which is like a Germinating power that works out your sprouting. Sahaja Yoga means awakening Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis New Delhi (India)

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[This is the first recording in New Delhi.] Talk at New Delhi, 10 King George Avenue March 1975. When we say ‘spontaneous salvation’, it implies that salvation has to click by itself. The translation of word ‘spontaneous’ is ‘sahaj’. ‘Sahaj’ means: ‘saha’ means ‘with’, ‘ja’ means ‘born’. It is ‘born with[in] you’. That means the right of getting salvation is born with you; the mechanism by which you are going to get salvation is also born with you, and the opportunity of getting salvation is also born with you. But when I say it is born with you, it is spontaneous, it is within yourself, one starts wondering that many books have written like that. So many people have said that salvation has to be spontaneous, sahaj. All the great gurus, the real people, all the great incarnations have described that salvation is going to come to you spontaneously. Even rationally, if you understand that if salvation means an evolutionary process it has to be spontaneous. Till you have become a human being, the evolution from amoeba to this stage has taken place spontaneously, not with your effort, effortlessly. You cannot do anything about living process. So far man has not been able to do anything whatsoever. What he has done is just to transform the forms of dead matter into something else. But all the living processes have worked spontaneously, have clicked spontaneously. Even your salvation has to be spontaneous. The only difference between the evolving of human being Read More …