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Conversation Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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TRANSCRIPT OF CONVERSATION AT KEW ASHRAM MELBOURNE, 1987-0512

Shri Mataji: Really?

Sahaja Yogi: [UNCLEAR/Yes].

Shri Mataji: The whole mind is conditioned.

Sahaja Yogi: I mean, absolutely. It is like a record. Like a gramophone record going on.

Shri Mataji: Yes. I have seen this in China when Mao was there. See, the girl used to tell us anything like a record. Just she was saying it, without even thinking about it. See then I felt that this is some sort a possession this girl has got. […]

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Interview Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Interview with Shri Mataji, Melbourne, Australia, 12-05-1987

Interviewer: Thank you for the invitation. This is an interview with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on the 12th of May, 1987. Interview begins 5 seconds from now. 

Interviewer: Shri Mataji, we’ve been told that there were three thousand people at your program in Sydney and the hundreds rushed forward after the program to speak to You and to shake You by the hand. This is a very unusual thing in Australia. […]

Address to Leaders Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Address to Leaders. Melbourne (Australia), 18 March 1985.
Shri Mataji: Better teach them how to manage this. But we have experienced now your wife should not be in charge. No woman should be in charge. If you want an assistance take another gentleman but not any woman whatsoever. While I think they don’t understand. If they go in administration they go off their heads. So best is to have another assistant, if you want somebody, ask your leader here or someone and then arrange. […]

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Farewell Talk Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Farewell Talk. Melbourne (Australia), 18 March 1985.
This is a real church. Not the ones I have seen before. There are some children to be blessed ……So, here the parting time has come, and I have to leave Australia. Australia has a special place, the first puja is always done in Australia. But, it is so sad that all my children are so much distributed. I wish a day should come when all of us live together. […]

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Public Program Day 3 and Workshop Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Public Program and Workshop 1985-03-17 Melbourne, Australia

Warren: [UNCLEAR] has really nothing to do with ultimately the process of Self-realization. It is a manifestation and it is that to tell our egos shut up. That’s the end of it. We needed some physical manifestation in our central nervous system consciously, to know that the process has started, so that, this rational thinking, mechanic, mechanistic brain would start to quieten down – start to quieten down. And then the process of continuing to quieten down, […]

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Birthday Puja: Our maryadas Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Birthday Puja. Melbourne (Australia), 17 March 1985.
I am very joyous today to see all of you celebrating my birthday as well as having the national programme same day. It’s a good combination we have in the month of March. It’s regarded as springtime in India – madhumas (मधुमास). That’s what you sing, madhumas. And as you know 21st March is the equinox, so it is a balance and also the centre of all the signs you have in the horoscope. […]

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Evening Program with Conversation After Marriages Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Talk After Marriages in Kew Ashram. Melbourne (Australia), 16 March 1985.
SRI MATAJI: Beautiful, beautiful, is really. It comes from the heart. The whole tune, everything so beautiful. Beautiful, absolutely. Is all the description, isn’t it? I don’t know what has happened to Christians now, where have they gone. Singing all these songs, feel so lost with them. It’s rather heavy, better take it out here.
DR. WARREN: No, no, I want to show you…
PETER COX: We wanted to show you Shri Mataji. […]

Marriages Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Marriages in Kew Ashram. Melbourne (Australia), 16 March 1985.
Shri Mataji: … ask all of them to stand at the back so all the people have to stand at the back so the girls can stand up. And bring their garlands and you have to … one garland to the boy.
[too much background noise to hear Shri Mataji]
They should all stand up and move back. All of you will have to stand this side. […]

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Talk to Sahaja yogis before Marriages Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Talk Before Marriages, Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia), 15 March 1985.
Tomorrow we have decided to have the weddings in the evening time so, there are, how many people are getting married? Can you give Me the list of people? Yes. So many people are getting married. Now tomorrow, as the time is very short, as we have, they’ll be arriving tomorrow morning and they’ll be all be sleeping off, all the brides and bridegrooms, and I don’t know… […]

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. […]

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Devi Puja: Dedication is so Joy-giving Kew Ashram, Melbourne (Australia)

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Dedication is so Joy-giving, puja at Ashram, Melbourne (Australia), 9 March 1983.

I congratulate all the Sahaja Yogis of Melbourne for doing such a wonderful job of this ashram and working it out with such dedication.

Dedication is a very great, rewarding effort. Nothing can be more rewarding than dedication. It’s so [much a] joy-giving and peace-giving and satisfying effort or work you can call it. When it comes from the heart, with love, when you try to do something, […]