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Four types of Yoga Salle Hardouineau, Orléans (France)

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Public Program Day 2 So any questions please?Question: She would like to know exactly what the Sahaja Yoga means because she said I was explaining. She thinks it would apply to any Yoga.Shri Mataji: There are four types of Yoga described so far, by Shri Krishna, because he was a diplomat and He was very aware that people are stupid. He tried to befool them. Because they won’t accept anything straightforward. So the first one He said that is Gyana Yoga, means you achieve it and you become the knowledge. The second one, He says, is Karma Yoga, which means that whatever you do you leave it at the Lotus Feet of God. But that is not possible, is an absurd condition. You can’t just do it. Because as long as you have ego, you are just mentally thinking like that, but you are not really doing it. You have to do something; then you know you are doing it. Only when you get your Realization, then only you say it is going, is coming the energy. Then you don’t say, “I do”.See, for example you have a brother. You will say, “All right, I will try if I can give him realization.” Then he doesn’t get the realization, supposing. Then I can’t help it. He doesn’t need. It doesn’t work out. You talk the third case. That means you are not identified with “I”. You don’t say, “I did not do”. So without realization if you say that whatever Read More …

Hear the music of your Spirit Paris (France)

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Public Program, day 1, Paris (France), September the 9th, 1981 [Starts here]: Marie: … Que vous devenez, que vous devez devenir l’Esprit. […That you become, that you must become the Spirit.]Shri Mataji: Once that happens all these great people will be born here. People always are worried about Indian population. Where should they [the saints] be born? In this England? Where every week two children are killed by their parents, heartless? The poor Indians have to bear the load. The Last Judgment has now started. They are all to be born. There will be a flux of these Realized souls and also the devils to fight. Where should the devils take their place? Among the people who are not divine. If you don’t become divine the devils will be born of you. It is a very dangerous thing. So, there is a big gap [inaudible] between the Divine and the devil. But now, whatever work I’ve done in England, I’m quite happy and I think it has started taking its roots. In Paris, I hope things will work out. The Grace of God has to work it out.All of you who are here should know their responsibility. I give you all this information, you’d better use it. Then you will not blame Me that I did not tell you. Thank you very much. May God bless you. [Applause] Shri Mataji: If there are any questions, you can ask Me. Seeker: Oui, je voudrais savoir ce que pense Mataji de la Read More …

Seminar Day 2, how to use the Grace Domaine de Montrognon, Champagne-sur-Oise (France)

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Seminar, day 2, 4 Chemin de Montrognon, 95660 Champagne-sur-Oise, France, June 21th, 1981, how to use the Grace PART 1 Shri Mataji: …Yes, I hope today [we’ll] have something practical about love. Marie [in French]: Today, Mother would like to speak about something very practical about love. Shri Mataji: That we should understand when something happens to us what should we do about it. Say, if you are, this time you were tired, you feel tired then what is happening? We have on the right-hand side the “prana vayu“, it’s the prana, it’s the right-hand side, the major prana. So, the right side energy is exhausted too much. And when it gets exhausted it freezes the heart, you see. I mean, we do the more work through the right, so the left is frozen. So, we should put our hand on our heart, right hand, or put the left to the right when we are tired. Another way could be to put your left hand on your head, left side, and put right hand towards the photograph. Another very good idea is to get vibrations on the right-hand side if you are very tired or depressed, I should say when depressed. When you feel depressed, then you feel the heaviness here [Back Agnya] also. If it is too much on the back, then you put your right hand and the left hand towards the photograph. But mostly, you see, this energy of mana is Manashakti on the left-hand side. And Read More …

The Creation of the World Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 3, The Creation of the World Subject: This is, Human evolution and what is the situation today? The subject itself says that it is the evolution of man from amoeba to this stage of creation in one part and the second is what is going to happen to be him after. So what has happened from creation we shall hear today and what is going to happen after today. The part of it which I am going to tell you today maybe is not yet known to many people.The part of it which I am going to tell you later on is known to our science.But is not yet being felt at the subtler level what it has done to us. So the attitude should be about this is when I’m talking about something which is not yet known about creation and then about the future of your being, attitude should be of more listening to me. The attitude should be to see for yourself, like in science we have a very open mind. Whatever hypothesis is put before you, you should get it and see if it works your laws and then it is called as a law, then it is confirmed with experimentation. The subject is here [UNCLEAR] us of …. have such a very short time so I have to be very fast in it today, and the subject is also very serious.So to make yourself little bit lighter I would say that if Read More …

Evolution: certain number of people have to come out of the ignorance that they have Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 2. Paris (France), 28 November 1980. … now in this world in such a big number. What is the reason that such a seeking [is established?]? Suddenly a great number of people are seeking God? They are like I the evolutionary process anywhere. For example a certain number of fishes had to come out of the sea to become the reptile. In the same way in this process when we have to become something superior – super human beings – then certain number of people have to come out of the ignorance that they have. In our evolutionary process what has happened is nothing but that our awareness has been improved – evolved. In the same way the category of people as I’ve discussed yesterday who are seekers are the ones who are chosen to be the transformed people or the evolved people of the second stage. As I said last time that flowers have to become fruits. It’s only flowers who can become fruits the stage is that today that you are flowers and that you can become fruits. The leaves cannot grow like a flower grows. This transformation is the sign of something prophesized long time back. This is the Last Judgment that has started. Our idea about Last Judgment is sometimes very absurd. Actually God has made us in such a way that a time will come when we ourselves judge ourselves. For this purpose He has placed within us a power called Kundalini Read More …

Get transformed Lausanne (Switzerland)

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Public Programme. Lausanne (Switzerland), 5 October 1980. Get transformed You have to translate… You are all here to seek the truth, you are all the seekers of truth. But what is truth? For the truth to an ant is different from the truth to a human being! The way your consciousness expands, the truth reveals itself to you. Whatever we know through our sense organs we call it as truth, but the sense organs also develop gradually as we evolve to human level. We have done nothing to achieve our sensitivity as human being. It has happened absolutely spontaneously within us! But we think for growing higher in our consciousness we have to do something about it. But if you see that human beings have come out of amoeba without any effort, and if you understand that the effortlessness is the only way you have achieved this state, we have to accept that effort is not necessary.  “Sahaja”, as Gregoire has told you, means “spontaneous” – like a seed: it sprouts by itself and becomes a tree. In the same way we started like a seed and today we are at a human stage. But some human beings even think that by paying money you can improve in your consciousness. Because of this mythical idea there are many enterprises floating and they call themselves people who are going to give you some higher life if you pay them so much, so much.  You cannot pay for your Self-Realisation: it is Read More …

The Last Judgment has started Geneva (Switzerland)

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Geneva 2.10.80 The Last Judgement Sahaja Yogi: Mother I would not try to talk to You. May I ask You… Shri Mataji: They were very interested in your talk, [you know] [unclear]. Sahaja Yogi: I think I’ll carry on with translating. Shri Mataji: He spoke very well because you were so much interested; I could see that. Sahaja Yogi: I’m not translating this. Shri Mataji: And you could see from his heart, he feels so much for Switzerland… [French] Shri Mataji: I would say he is a real Swiss. He feels such concern about his fellow-being. Shri Mataji: We are all the seekers of truth. Today there is a big urge to seek the truth, because the Last Judgment has started. There were never so many seekers before. Very few used to seek and extremely few used to receive. But the blossom time has come and so many of them have to become the fruits. That is the plan of God Almighty. We have to see how Switzerland faces it. When we are seeking the truth we must know what we are and what we have to seek. The first premises must be that we are not yet there, where we should be. There is something missing. Now in a country like Switzerland where there is so much of affluence and people are very settled, still one finds that such a great rate of suicide exists in this country. Now every country has its own problems, but in that problem  Read More …

The manifestation of the Spirit Aston La Scala Nice, Nice (France)

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Public Program Day 2, Nice, France 1980-09-22 Yesterday I told you about the residual power within us which resides in the sacrum bone. This power is called as Kundalini. This is the power that ascends through these centres and gives us our Realization, our rebirth. I’ve also told you that in so many people you can see the pulsation of this Kundalini, clearly, with your naked eyes. You can also see its rising in the different centres, up to this point. You can also feel the pulsation on your head. And you can also — afterwards, when it breaks this area — you can feel the cool breeze flowing from your hand. This is the energy of your Spirit. We can say this is the manifestation of the Spirit. Thus you enter into a new realm of Collective Consciousness. You become collectively conscious. You start feeling others on your fingertips. Actually, all these five fingers — plus, six and seven, points — are the centres within us. You get enlightened — because you can feel them here and sometimes within also. Some people do not feel it on the hands, and some people did not feel it for some time yesterday. But they definitely felt on their head. Now, one has to know that this is the knowledge which is known through many Indians. Adi Shankaracharya, he has very elaborately written about Kundalini awakening and its manifestation. He has described all these centres. These centres are created within us during Read More …

We have to know what we have to become after the human stage Aston La Scala Nice, Nice (France)

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Public Program, day 1. Nice (France), 21 September 1980. I’m very sorry I do not know French language but Marie will be able to translate. Today we have assembled here to know about our evolution. We have to know what we have to become after the human stage. Human life is not the end of evolution. We have not yet found out our meaning. The scientists have to ask a question: why we have made human being from amoeba stage. In fact there is within us a great source by which the human seeking comes in. Sometimes we are not even sure as to what we are seeking. But it exists as a kind of a dissatisfaction within us. In the modern times there are so many seekers of truth. I find them in every country, in every race, in every so-called religion. They are not satisfied with themselves. If they are satisfied they are frivolous or naïve people. If they are not satisfied there is some reason which they do not know why they are not. Sometimes they reach a confusion thinking their existence is futile. It is absurd to think that way because if you follow your evolution you have been slowly, gradually evolving into something. After all everything in our body has a function. In the nature nothing is wasted. Then our process of evolution which is a living process must be having some purpose. Without purpose nature has not taken so much care, so many years Read More …

You cannot pay for God’s love Centre Charles Péguy, Orléans (France)

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Public Program I am sorry I cannot speak French and I have to use the English language. I hope to learn French sometime in life. Gregoire has already introduced you to Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja means Saha is with and Ja means born and Yoga means union. Union with the divine. It is the union with all-pervading power of God Almighty, It is a spontaneous happening. That is the meaning of Sahaja. that means you cannot work it out. You cannot put in any effort to do it. Like a small seed which sprouts by itself spontaneously, you are made in such a way that this happening has to take place spontaneously. you do not put in any effort for sprouting a seed. If you stand on your heads on your legs the seed will sprout, then it has to sprout. Every living process is spontaneous. You cannot say what time exactly a flower will become fruit. But from experience, you can say this is the time about for the flowers to bloom. And this is the blossom time of the seekers. The time has come for many seekers to become fruits. On the tree of life, there were very few flowers in the beginning. There were never so many seekers even up to the time of Christ. The human awareness has reached such a state where they are now in a blossoming state. And time for their transformation is now. It is now so heartening to see that in this Read More …

The belief that you have got through experiences is the real belief Paris (France)

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H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1980-0917 Public Program Talk Day 3, Paris, France Today is the last day in Paris and I’ll try to sum up the subject of Sahaja Yoga as far as possible. (Can you hear over there?) Yesterday I told you about the chakras within us, which are the subtle centres, which are existing. Before understanding the whole subject we must understand the attitude that is going to help us to understand this subtle subject. For example this is not a political lecture. It is neither a sermon to you but it is an exposition of a discovery, for which you should not deny because you do not know about it. The attitude should be that you still have to know. This subject has not been discussed or has not been told in these way that people could get an experience. Supposing I describe to you the art of one of the Indian temples? You have read something about it and I describe you something else then of course you can say that this is not so because you believe in one person and not in another. Most of your beliefs are blind beliefs and you stick on to them because maybe you have paid for it or you have read it. The belief that you have got through experiences is the real belief. That kind of a belief you should seek. Dealing with spirituality also there have been thousands and thousands of writers. Thank God I Read More …

Pure Intelligence Geneva (Switzerland)

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Pure Intelligence, Public Program, 1980-04-29, Genève, Switzerland “(…) Even by blindly accepting it you have not been able to solve your problems. If we could put our attention to this question that there must be some meaning to us and that there must be some arrangement within us to manifest that meaning: you are with Me. It is very easy to deny and defy everything intellectually and intelligence gives you a capacity to cheat yourself all the time. Not only that: a capacity to avoid if you are facing the Truth. It can provide any argument – which may be absurd if you see it later on – to convince you that reality is this, what you see with your gross attention. But the pure intelligence is that which sees the game of this intellect and that which sees the limited function of rationality. I am here talking to you about unlimited space. I am going to put forward before you a hypothesis, which, as good scientists or intelligent people you must keep your mind open and try to absorb it. If it is proved then you have to accept. There lies the real bravery of intellect. If intellect teaches you cowardice it is not intellect. So I have to put forward before you: what is within us, which resides as our subtle being? First of all, let us understand that we are made something like a spacecraft. You can also see how a seed sprouts: that from a seed the Read More …

Sahaja Yoga the force within Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne (Switzerland)

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Public Program. Lausanne (Switzerland), 27 April 1980.  [un-transcribed Q&A section]  Sorry, I do not know how to speak in French language. But Christine knows both the languages very well and I’m sure, she’ll be able to translate what I say very well. (Laughs…) Very shy, alright…I’m thankful to Grégoire for organising this program, and for the nice introductory lecture he gave. I think I could not follow the whole of it, but quiet [quite] a lot I could understand what he is saying.  I admire his bravery. I wish they [there] were such brave people at the time of Christ. But I am the only lucky person I think who has got such brave people around, who are not afraid to give the message of the truth. People don’t like the truth at all. We are so identified with our ignorance that anybody tries to tell something else, we just defy it. But that is the source of joy. That is the source of bliss. In ignorance we live in confusion and in turbulence of our emotions. When we face truth, and achieve it, and become it, then it becomes a beautiful blossoming for us.  The fear comes to us through our conditioning within us. We have been told many things which never came true. And sometimes the denial comes to us because we are very much identified with our ego. Ego actually delimits us. Because it thinks and we think that what we think that we are. If we Read More …

Demystification of False Gurus Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne (Switzerland)

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First of all, I’m very grateful to Gregoire’s family and him specially, for inviting Me to come to Switzerland to meet seekers of Truth. According to him, there are many, many seekers in this country, who are frightened of the fake gurus and are not venturing to find out much about God. Today he has selected a subject for Me to speak to you about the false gurus; how to find out who is false and who is true. It is very important because now the Judgement time, the Last Judgement has started already. This is the time it will be found out whether you have used your understanding wisely or not. We have to think that when somebody has to judge us, how will he organise the judgement. First of all, there will be good and bad placed before you. In your freedom, in human freedom, you have been seeking truth for many lives. But sometimes you are misled, you try to seek it in money or in power also, and sometimes also the romanticism of love. And every time you have made some mistakes also. Mistakes are not so important because those who are not yet there are, have to make mistakes. Moreover, if mistakes are committed by your spiritual naïveness, it is to be forgiven. After you have understood what is reality and when you have achieved reality, then only one can judge you whether you are all right or not. It would not be a fair Read More …

The Spiritual Evolution of Man Paris (France)

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The Spiritual Evolution of Man, Paris, France 19-04-1980 [Today, the subject] is spiritual evolution of man. In my last three lectures, I’ve already explained about the residual force called as Kundalini that resides in the triangular bone here. This residual force gives us the second birth. But how did we become human beings? Though known to us, we do not know why we became human beings. All the scientists must ask this question, “Why did we become human beings? Is there any meaning to this human life? Or are we born just to eat our food, produce children, keep money for them, and then die?” If you make any instrument – for example, this instrument [mike] – you always have a purpose behind it. I’ve read a very good book by a gentleman, who was a French gentleman, whose name was Du Noüy – maybe I am not good at pronunciation – who wrote that, “It is impossible to produce a human being in this short time since the Earth seceded from the Sun.” That means, if you use the law of chance, you cannot explain this fast movement of development of a small carbon atom into a human being in such a short time. According to him, there must be a juggler behind it to do this. As I’ve told you before that this I put forward before you as a hypothesis and you must keep your mind open as any scientific personality does. If it comes true, then Read More …

The power of the Divine Paris (France)

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1980-04-18 Public Program 3 in Paris 1980 Yesterday I talked to you about Kundalini awakening, how it is awakened, and why it refuses to be awakened within us. Those who have come for the first time I would like to tell them that we have a force, a germinating force, a residual force within us in this triangular bone which is called as the Kundalini. This is the force which helps us which gives us our second birth called as Self Realization. You can see this Kundalini pulsating in this triangular bone, called a sacrum, very clearly in anyone of the programs of Sahaja Yoga. When there is obstruction in any person you can see it much more clearly. You can also see the rising of Kundalini in the spinal chord. When She arrives at the end here – the fontanelle bone area – you can also hear the throbbing. When it stops then you get your Realization, your baptism. Then your awareness gets a new dimension into all-pervading Power of divine love – then your attention or your awareness – it gets into new dimension of divine Power which is all-pervading- the Kundalini connects you with the divine Power. Today the subject is : Divine Power and Innocence. There is a great deal of discussion already available for us in our scriptures about the All-Pervading Power of God. But is is not easy to believe that there is such a Power which can think, which can organize, which can Read More …

The description of the chakras and plexuses within Paris (France)

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1980-04-17 Public Program Day 2, Paris This is the first center called as Mooladhara center, is the subtle center which manifests outside, in the gross what we call as pelvic plexus. This has got four petals while in the same way the pelvic plexus also has got four sub plexuses. It looks after all our excretory functions. This is like a  lotus in the mud of excretion. It looks after the sex activity, but this is innocence. Innocent do not understand sex. This is enthroned by Shri Ganesha who has the trunk of a… elephant. You can see it clearly within your center. May be in the beginning of time people misunderstood the trunk for the Kundalini. This is the support of all the Holy Scriptures, but it is below the Kundalini because it looks after the protocol of the Kundalini that is His Mother. This is you as a child and this is your mother Kundalini. You have (are) the only child she has, and she is born again and again with you waiting to give you Self-Realisation. So one should understand that sex plays no part in the spiritual evolution. This one is the second center which arises from the third called as Nabhi Chakra which means the navel center. This has got ten petals, and this manifests outside as Solar Plexus. And the Solar plexus  also has got ten sub plexuses. This represents our seeking. Tomorrow I’ll tell you how we changed I mean we manifestate our Read More …

The description of the Subtle System Paris (France)

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Public Program Day 1, 16 April 1980, Paris, France This bone is called sacrum by Greeks. That means “sacred”. And this bone in medical profession is known that in the fire it never gets burnt. But you can see with your own eyes the pulsation in that bone and the pulsation going higher and higher in the backbone. And when it is awakened, you can also hear with the stethoscope the same sound as you hear… like the heart: lub-dub, lub-dub — till it comes to the fontanelle bone, here, in the fontanelle bone area, where the bone is very soft when you are a child; we call it as talu. When it pierces that bone, then you start feeling a cool breeze flowing from your head. Now, that time you feel absolutely blissful and tranquil. This is the baptism. This is the real baptism, not the artificial one that theological college students can do. (Laughs) That is… that is unauthorized, that is unauthorized. That… Now, in the medical terminology, you can understand that we’ve got left and right sympathetic nervous system within us. And in the centre is the parasympathetic. Now, they call it as autonomous nervous system. But who is this “auto”? Who works it out? Who works out the autonomous nervous system? These… out of these, the left and the right sympathetic come into play when we go into some emergency. Left and right sympathetic. Supposing you want to run. Then sympathetic will come into activity, and Read More …