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Innately are we righteous? Canberra (Australia)

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Public Program. Canberra (Australia), 8 April 1994. I think you can go down, there lots of seats still vacant. I bow to all the seekers of truth.  At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is.  You cannot transform it, change it and unfortunately at this human awareness you cannot know it. Now whatever I am going to tell you today,  you need not believe blind folded,  you have already suffered a lot because of blind faith.  But if it is proved,  then as honest people you have to accept it.  Because it is for the benevolence of your being,  for the benevolence of your society,  your city,  your country and the world at large.   So one has to understand that we have not known so far the absolute truth.  If we had known the absolute truth,  there would not have been any problems whatsoever.  Because everybody would seethe same truth.  There cannot be so many types,  dogmas,  so many discussions, arguments whys and whats. If everybody sees the same point then who will fight? For example I am sitting before you,  you all see it clearly and you know it. You are not going to fight that I am here or not.  For that we need the last breakthrough of our evolution.  As human beings, still, we have freedom to think whatever we like but we haven’t got capacity to know the absolute truth.  If that is so and if there is a Read More …

Talk after Indian Dance Canberra (Australia)

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Talk after Indian Dance, Canberra Ashram, 13 February 1992. It was such an unexpected, joyous event for us, that Srimati Padma Menon has agreed to give this beautiful performance, and to again remind us what we saw in Madras. Actually her guru was there and we went to her, foundation, where there were fifty ladies who danced before Me. It was a great, pleasure to see you here, that in a foreign country, you are spreading the Art of our country. I am sure you must have understood most of her actions but, what you have to see is the, her mastery over rhythm, firstly. And secondly on the, Abhinaya, means the Maya. Such a master she is. And it’s a very vigorous vibrant dance. I’m seeing one better than the other as I would say. I saw lots of them in Madras and now here to see her, it was a great pleasure to Me. And to all of us, because we know a lot about Ramayana, we know lot about Mahabharata. But to weave it into such beautiful patterns, is something, of a great art, and a great talent. It’s not possible for everybody to dance like this. Neither, even if you practice you cannot dance like this. It’s something innate. Something inner force that works it out so well. For such a long she danced. I mean, one would feel completely exhausted. But with such vigor, with such power, she’s shown different expressions. One minute she is Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Red Hill Lookout Cafe & Bar, Canberra (Australia)

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Talk to Yogis at Red Hill Lookout. Canberra (Australia), 13 February 1992. So we are with the nature here. So beautiful. The way it is planned you can see how the person who’s planned it had the feel of the land, feel of the nature. How he is made up, by not destroying it . Whatever is there he used it, otherwise they would have put one bulldozer and finished it off. But the way it is planned shows he had feeling for the land and he could understand. The way we look at nature also, is our own. The way we are inside, that’s how we look at nature. Nature is our friend absolutely; it’s working for us all the time. And we don’t do much for it. Look at these trees. They give shade, they give fruits. Whatever is possible for them, they do it. And when they are old, use them for wood. All supportive to our life. But we must have feeling; otherwise, what’s happening today is this ecological problem. And this is because we do not have any feeling for the Mother Earth. No feeling for the nature. We are really plundering them and then the whole thing reacts. It’s a kind of an aggression that you want to have so many things at the same time. Like I have seen once, first when we went to England, we never served any drinks in our house in India, but in England nobody would come to Read More …

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Picnic Black Mountain Peninsula, Canberra (Australia)

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Picnic with Yogis at Black Mountain Peninsula. Canberra (Australia), 13 February 1992. Shri Mataji: Sometime I have to sit down and write. Yogi: Shri Mataji children who are born realized, still they pick on these bad behaviors, do they get it from their parents or their society? Shri Mataji: This is Kali Yuga. Anything is possible. I met some born realized people who are now in Sahaja Yoga, they were taking drugs. They were drinking. This is Kali Yuga. They forget what they are. And very egoistical. Because they know they are something better. In Vashi children are all born realized. In My Presence they are absolutely quiet. In My Presence. I don’t know what happens, just they are very different. But, the teachers are having a bad time. I think they’ll be all right by the time they are twelve years old. They are very attached, no doubt, very attached. The kind of thing that has happening now in the world, it’s only when there is Kali Yuga. I mean any sort of nonsense. In relationships, in, addictions, all kinds of immorality. Shameless, absolutely. And to break the moods of the mind down. You regard it as a big venture. Yogi: Will it all change one day, Shri Mataji? Shri Mataji: Of course I mean, if we have lots of Sahaja Yogis, it will happen. But you must also, all of you, mature. So that others when they see you they, are impressed. I told you now in the Read More …

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How to see things very clearly? Canberra Theatre, Canberra (Australia)

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Public Program. Canberra (Australia), 12 February 1992. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to understand [ASIDE – NOT ALL RIGHT. DO YOU THINK THEY CAN HEAR ME? ITS NOT SO GOOD.] I’ll give You another one Shri Mataji. Who’s responsible for [INAUDIBLE -THIS?]? Just try [UNCLEAR] I think you have to [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] in My hand One may ask a question – there have been so many saints, prophets, Incarnations on this earth and whatever they preached, whatever religion they started people would not keep to the teachings of these great people. All the teachings were absolutely to the point according to the time they were facing, according to the contemporary problems they were facing. But none of these have been able to keep the framework what they wanted to establish and all of them have deviated, without exception. Some are money oriented, some are power oriented, some are politics oriented, none of them are Spirit oriented – this very surprising. There came lots of philosophies, theories and deviations that people formed. Many religions out of one religion, many philosophies out of one. So people lost faith in religions also lost faith in God, lost faith in Divinity – they took to Science and what Science has given us, you know very well. It has given up physical slavery to Science – complete slavery. We can’t live without electricity, we can’t live without plastic – above all we have to live Read More …

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogis About Politics Canberra Ashram, Canberra (Australia)

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Conversation with yogis about current events and international politics, Canberra ashram (Australia), 12 February 1992. Yogi: But there is a room here with a bathroom attached! Shri Mataji: Would be better to be with you all! But in Melbourne I would like to stay in a hotel – would be better – just to show a little resentment at the way they are behaving. How many came for follow-on last [time], after my programme? Yogi: Fifty people. Shri Mataji: Fifty people? And then how many stayed? Yogi: Only three or four. Shri Mataji (Laughing): That’s just like it. I don’t know, there’s something missing. I don’t know what is missing. Like in Russia I don’t know how people settle down that fast. They have never heard of God. I think we have too much conditioning of all these things – God and, religion, this that – which has deviated. So we are between the two. Some people who believe in God, in a blind way, and are following something wrong, religions which are deviated; and there are some people, who are against it completely, they are atheist, intellectuals. So, we are lost in between. And that’s why it takes time here. And there is not much of introspection also. Bu,t I must say, Russians are very introspective and very humble people, very humble. Even the media is very humble. The media people who came to see me there, even like Pravda, which is a hardliner I should say, was very good. Read More …

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Compass ABC TV Interview Canberra (Australia)

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TV Interview, Canberra, Australia, April, the 15th, 1991 Shri Mataji: Yes, it’s not necessary [about the mike]. [Marathi] You can hear Me otherwise, can’t you? Sahaja Yogis: Yes, yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: I wanted to thank you all for coming to the airport. I know you would not stop coming whatever I may tell you. And everywhere is just the same but when I left the people in Canberra, I was sad because after a year, I’ll meet them but then to see you all here again, I felt all right. It always happens like that specially for children; They grow so much in one year and still they remember Me very well. You have to be careful about them and look after them well. They’re all very sweet and beautiful. I’m going to see this preschool year how it is working for small children. I know the atmosphere in Australia is not very congenial for children’s growth. Firstly, is this drug business, it’s too much. So, you’ve to be very careful with your children. You must talk to them, you must look after them, you must know what they are doing, where are they going. Keep company with them, make friends with them. You should find out what are their friends are like – not to curb down their freedom or their sense of self-respect should not be challenged. But you can tell them that you are Sahaja Yogis and you are great. Also, you should warn them about Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Innate Maryadas Canberra Ashram, Canberra (Australia)

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Shri Ganesha Puja. Canberra (Australia). 14 April 1991. This will be the fifth puja in Australia, and I thought that this is the land of Ganesha, [so] we should have the Ganesha Puja. It is very important also, very helpful. We all should have Ganesha Puja, it’s very important. And so today there will be Shri Ganesha Puja. Have you got the hundred and eight names of Shri Ganesha? So we have now requested John Fisher to be your leader in Canberra. And he has agreed. I don’t know what more to tell you about Shri Ganesh, because really it is so important that we have to know the importance of Mooladhara Chakra. If you read the newspaper, just on the first page you find people going amok as far as their moral sense is concerned, absolutely. I mean, to us it is something so shocking, and perhaps I think people are possessed on their Mooladhara Chakra. The way they behave, one feels that there’s something gone wrong with them completely and they have no control over themselves; and just like mad people they are behaving. And all these problems that are coming, of these perversions, are due to this kind of a possession on the Mooladhara Chakra. One has to be very, very careful and respectful about it. I have already told so many things [about] how to keep it clean, how to respect it, and how to behave yourself. As you know, Shri Ganesha was created at the Read More …

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Achieve the real state of being born again National Press Club of Australia, Canberra (Australia)

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Public Program. Canberra (Australia), 13 April 1991. I bow to all the seekers of truth.At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot organize it, we cannot conceptualize it; we also unfortunately cannot know it at this human awareness. That’s why in all scriptures it is said that you are to be born again. But it is not just a certificate one can take that “I’m born again.” It is something that is a real state within us, that gives you the right to say you are born again. At the very outset again I would like to say one more thing, that whatever I’m telling you here has to be understood as scientist. It’s a scientific outlook. Don’t accept everything that I am saying, blindfolded. But scientific attitude is such that if I am putting before you a hypothesis and if you find that it is working out, it is being proved, then as honest people you must accept, because it is for your emancipation and for the emancipation of the whole world. We have to realize that we are not at the point where we know the absolute truth and the absolute knowledge. “Absolute” means “when there is not the other.” If we had known the absolute we would never have had all these problems, these fightings and wars, different ideologies propounded all over the world, but we all would have felt the same thing, understood the same thing, and we Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Canberra (Australia)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis in Canberra, Australia, 20th March 1990 Shri Mataji: Let’s sit. So now, please be seated.Please remove this one, if you can take it out.Please, be seated. [Cut in the audio] We are all just the same, it’s one of the very important things we have to achieve, that we are all just the same, there’s no difference between us.Apart from that, from our mundane life, it’s better that we stay in the ashram because children are looked after, children become much more social, sensible and they understand mediation. And there’s a sort of discipline about it, meditation, people do meditation. In the house, they say: “Oh, I’m alright on my own” and this and that. I know there have been problems, I agreed, there has been very bad leaders, and they were Australians, what can I do? You are all Australians. I mean, I had to choose someone and the first who came to Sahaja Yoga, one after another. So they had to be appointed with. They turned out to be bad leaders, that’s-I don’t know- that’s the lack of Australia I think.[Shri Mataji laughs]Alright, but doesn’t matter. Yu should not rebel, you should stay in the ashram, that’s very bad to rebel or to create problems for collectivity, it’s sinful, and one has to pay for it. Those who create problems for collectivity are already paying through their noses,I know people, they develop- well, I don’t mean it at all, I don’t want it- they Read More …

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Press Interview with Canberra Times Canberra (Australia)

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Press Interview with “Canberra Times”, Canberra, Australia, 20 March 1990. Shri Mataji: You ask them to bring My spectacles. Lady interviewer: Yeah, I, I came along for about now last night Shri Mataji: Little loudly. Lady interviewer: Oh, sorry. I came along for that now last night. There were just a few things that I want to clarify with You. – Umm, this is Your fifth time here in Australia, is it right? Shri Mataji: No, no. This is, I think, fourth time. Lady interviewer: Fourth time. Right. Shri Mataji: Yes. Lady interviewer: And how did you find last night, how did it go? Shri Mataji: For Canberra it’s very good, I must say. [Shri Mataji laughs] Lady interviewer: Yeah. More people than you thought of. Shri Mataji: Everywhere else much more. I think we must have had about one thousand two hundred or so in Sydney. Lady interviewer: Right, right, okay. Just a few things like on the health aspect You talking about I wonder if you could define your Creative Yoga a bit more for me. Shri Mataji: A little louder. Lady interviewer: I wonder if you could define your Creative Yoga a bit more. I was talking to a few people afterwards that time. [unclear] forms of yoga. I wonder if You could explain for me because I didn’t quite understand Your, Your actual philosophy. Shri Mataji: See, Sahaja Yoga, ‘saha’ means with, ‘ja’ means born, ‘yoga’ means union with the Divine Power. So, born with you, Read More …

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A formless energy that looks after this universe Canberra (Australia)

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Public Program Day 1 I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that the truth cannot be manipulated, cannot be created, cannot be conceptualized by your mind or by your imagination. It is what it is and has been and will be. So the truth is very simple. Very simple thing it is. But you have to have very scientific outlook to keep your minds open because this the knowledge of the roots. What you see outside and what you know about it is the knowledge about the tree. And should accept whatever I am saying as a hypothesis and if it is proved then as honest people you have to accept it. The truth is very simple that all this universe, this cosmos is looked after, is nourished, is guided by all pervading divine power which is in Sanskrit language you can call it as paramachaitanya and in quran its called as rooh. In every great scriptures it is described as a formless energy that looks after guides everything that is living works out every balance of this universe , of this earth. Only at the level of human awareness we have freedom to choose because we have to rise to higher awareness of complete freedom. That is why we commit mistakes. Doesn’t matter. After all we are human being we are not Gods. So if we commit mistakes it makes it makes no difference whatsoever for your ascent to that Read More …