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Kathak by Pratap Pawar, Guru Puja Seminar Gmunden (Austria)

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Kathak by Pratap Pawar, Guru Puja Seminar, Gmunden, Austria 06/07/1986 Today we had a very nice session of puja in the morning, and to celebrate that session in an artistic way, we have arranged this beautiful program of Kathak dancing for you. Now Kathak word, as you know, comes from the word Katha. Katha means the story. It means the story. My God bless you. And the story is to be told, and this is a very, very ancient style of dancing, which was practiced in the northern part of India, and then part of it also went to the south, and they used it in a different way. Now Kathak is so ancient and so traditional, that it has gone various changes and various aspects, have been expressed in this style of dancing. To begin with, it was originally done to express the stories about the gods and goddesses, and their different way of dealing with human beings. Then gradually it became subtler and subtler. Then they started performing also the dances about the Parabrahma Shakti and all those things. Later on when the Muslims came to north India, they introduced their delicate style to this style of dancing, and one of the Nawabs of Lucknow was very much fond of Kathak dancing, and he himself introduced so many ideas in this. So also the romanticism, not the variety of western style, but the last is the relationship between the power and its deity, and all those were performed Read More …

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Guru Puja: Cosmic Consciousness Gmunden (Austria)

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Guru Puja. Gmunden (Austria), 6 July 1986. Please be seated. I’m spell-bound to see all this beautiful expression of your love. Such attention and creativity. I must be the luckiest guru to get the outside nature reproduced here so beautifully. After seeing this, no guru can escape complete melting of his heart. Actually, My disciples are very clever people. They can neutralize any guru. So that guru’s staff which is used for disciplining the disciple also melts away into a lotus. Every time it’s such a beautiful surprise to see how Sahaja yogis are getting one with the Divine. The expression of their joy, the conception of the Divine you can see very clearly. This is how I want you all to sit in the Kingdom of God as I am sitting today. We have to realise that we are now the part and parcel of that cosmic consciousness itself – the Brahma. The One that creates, which coordinates, which plans into all the details and the One that loves through its creation, through its expression is that cosmic consciousness. We are not only in it, but we can handle it. We can regulate it, we can use it, we can work it out. This is the state when we are in we are the guru. Guru means a thing which is higher than the gravity of the earth, or stronger than the gravity of the earth. What is the gravity of the earth? Superficially when we see that we Read More …

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Evening Program Eve of Guru Puja, Talk: We have to be very organized Gmunden (Austria)

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Evening before Guru Puja. Gmunden (Austria), 5 July 1986. Shri Mataji: …who has seen the Sahaja Yogis dancing and singing the praise has seen Me in the villages of India. It is very clearly described in that. You can have a look at it how they saw the real picture of truth. And the second one, we’ll read it out to you about the great poet in India, called Rabindranath Tagore, what he saw at Ganapatipule. Where you might see the word called Bharat. Bharat is the real word of India. India was given the name to us by Alexander (ed: the Great), but actually the real name of India is Bharat. Because there was a great king called Bharat. From there this word comes – Bharat. All right. So first they will read out the part which is about the vision he saw. Which is so clear cut. Those who have been to India have been dancing on the streets of India in villages, Indian villages. We remember exactly what it is how he saw you right there. Sahaja Yogi: So this is an excerpt from a book by C.S. Lewis, called ‘The Great Divorce’. Shri Mataji: C.S. Lewis from – Lewis means he is a welsh by birth, welsh people have something to do with Maharashtra, I must say, because they called Bombay as Mumbai, still. They don’t call it Bombay. And that means they must have been going to India much before the English reached there. Sahaja Read More …

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Welcome Address: Sahaja Yoga that has obliged us Gmunden (Austria)

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(Sahaja Yogis singing) Shri Mataji: Beautiful! Now, we should have one joyous song also, after the victory of Christ. (Sahaja Yogis singing) Shri Mataji: May God bless you! I find it difficult to express My joy and gratitude for all of you to come down here specially to express the thankfulness towards Austrians, who have arranged this beautiful spot for all of you to come for this puja. One thing is that Austria has never given Me any problem. Like in the center, always standing in the right path, taking to wisdom, helping every way possible to solve the problems of other nations. As I said that it is standing between the two extremes in geography, in the same way, it is very much so, as if it was fed up with the aggressiveness on one side and the depressiveness on the other side. (Shri Mataji laughing) It has never caused any problem of – any one of them going to the right or to the left too much. No member has done that, it’s remarkable, so give them a hand. (Applause) Now, the word Austria, I don’t know from where it comes, but Astra in the Sanskrit language means the weapon. And if the weapon has to give you problem – then how are you going to fight? How are you going to use? It has to keep its balance and its blade clear. Every other country and the members of those countries must try to understand how Austrians Read More …