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What is the purpose and meaning of yoga? National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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1996-0707 Public Program, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria 17.13 onwards I (Shri Mataji) bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it, we cannot describe it. It is the experience of the truth. I am very much thankful to this association of yoga which has invited me very kindly to talk on sahaja yoga. And in a place so far away from India that there is an association I was really quiet surprised. Now we have to understand that why do we do yoga. What is the purpose of yoga and what is the meaning of the yoga. The meaning of the yoga is that you have to unite with the all pervading power of the divine love. In sanskrit it is called as brahmachaitanya, in the quran it is called as Rooh/ruh. Also in the bible it is described as the cool breeze of the holy ghost. And what has to happen to us is our evolutionary breakthrough, the last breakthrough. All kinds of yoga we started in India according to different times. First of all we had three types of seeking. One created vedas. But the first stanza of vedas says that by reading all this if you do not get self knowledge, it is useless. People have been seeking the truth so they took to another , which we call as the bhakti marga. Now this Read More …

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How to Solve Ecological Problems Centre of Hygiene, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program. Sofia (Bulgaria), 26 July 1995. I bow to all of you, who have come to know, how to save humanity.It is not our problem only of Bulgaria, but of the whole World. Everyday all over the world there is awareness about ecological problems. But means that are adopted are not sufficient enough to stop our deterioration. Now I am here to tell you about some truths, which if we achieve, we can solve our ecological problem in a much better way. Outwardly we understand that we have to reduce the machinery. The industrialisation, the way it has gone out of proportion, has created lots of problems. If we go back about say 50 years in India, we were having our struggle for independence. Then Mahatma Gandhi suggested, “why not we use hand made things, handmade clothes, hand woven clothes, handmade things from the villages”. And it worked because we could stop the machinery of Manchester, who were selling us all these clothes from England. In the West, there is a big urge to use hand made things, is more expensive. I was surprised that Bulgaria is so much full of artists, there are so many artists, very beautiful. They do not only make, you can say, pictures and paintings but also they are very good hand at making things, which are functional with hand. Now to out rate the growth of industry, we have to take something simple life, by which, we do not use too many things. Read More …

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To get rid of the confusion you have to become the spirit National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program I bow to all the seekers of the truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is . You cannot change it, you cannot transform it and you cannot pay for it. We are all seekers of truth. What are we seeking perhaps you do not know. Whatever I am going to tell you today you should not accept it blind folded. But you must keep your mind open like scientist and if it is proved then you better accept as honest people. Because it is for the benevolence of yourself, your family, your country and the whole world. We have become human beings at this level but still little more has to happen to us. In the evolutionary process we have to jump little more. All the problems of modern times are because we are confused. To get rid of the confusion you have to become the spirit. Christ has said “know thyself”. Also Mohammad Sahib has said “the one who does not know himself is still at an animal stage”. All these great incarnations and prophets has said “you have to be born again”. But that doesn’t mean you just say that you are born again and put a sort of a sign board. Born again means actualisation of this experience firstly. Or else not only that but you have powers of your own which are manifested. We say that this is my house, this is my head, this is Read More …

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Talk to Representatives of ECO-Forum and the Vice-minister of Health Sofia (Bulgaria)

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1995-07-24 Talk to Representatives of ECO-Forum and the Vice-minister of Health [Bulgarain Vice-Minister of Health speaking in Bulgarian, consequential translation in English] … the private interest is dominating the interest as mankind as a whole. This is the reason and the pretext that in the latest conferences of Ecoforum on the problems of peace we addressed the United Nations Organization requesting the UN to make a Committe all over the world to preserve life on the Earth. With this respect we would be very glad and satisfied to have the support of Mrs. Srivastava. Besides these principle issues I’m glad to express my joy and my respect to Mrs. Srivastava for the fact that She came to Bulgaria and is on Bulgarian soil and I hope that we could arrange a cooperation regarding that global issue. I’d like to present my friends and collaborators, the leadership of Ecoforum for Peace: Mr. Prof. Alexander Alexandrov, he is a member of Board of Directors of Ecoforum and not untill recently was he the Minister of Environment of Bulgaria, Mr. Trifonov – he is chief coordinator of Ecoforum for peace, Mr. Marinov is responsible for section culture in Ecoforum for Peace. Of course the Ecoforum board consist of members all over the world. So I introduced only these members of the board who live in Bulgaria. – Very nice to meet all of them. I would like to emphasise that Mr.[UNCLEAR ?Fati Sindhau Getwood] from of India was a member of the international Read More …

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We have to turn inward for our enlightenment Universiada Hall, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know the truth is what it is. We cannot cheat it and we cannot conceptualize it. Also unfortunately at this human awareness we cannot know it. There is something more that has to happen to our awareness. Whatever I am telling you today you need not accept it blindfoldedly But you should keep your minds open like scientist. Treat it as a hypothesis and if proved you have to accept it as truth. Because it is for your benevolence and for the benevolence of your country and also for the benevolence of the whole world. The truth is that you are not this body, ind, your conditionings, your ego. But you are pure spirit. Yo say my mind, my body, my ego, so who is this my ?who runs your heart. The doctors say its autonomous nervous system. But who is this auto. We never think take, notice about it. You see all the beautiful flowers, they are the miracles. But we don’t think about it. In the same way we have to become ?? Is miracle. As you see in this world there are so many problems. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and worst is moral. These problems are mostly caused by human beings. And all human problems come to earth from our subtle centres about which we have shown. If this centres could be put right all these problems can be solved. Read More …

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Shri Mahalakshmi Puja: You have come to Sahaja Yoga to ascend National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Shri Mahalakshmi puja. Sofia (Bulgaria), 8 September 1993. Today is a great day when we are celebrating Mahalakshmi’s Puja. You must be knowing that today is the day of Mary, mother of Christ, who was Mahalakshmi. Mahalakshmi’s incarnation is very important for Sahaja Yoga. First She establishes our dharma by which we become righteous, we become religious in the real sense. After the light of realisation we cannot do anything that is not dharma. As you know what is dharma is, and the maryadas, the boundaries of our behavior. This transformation takes place automatically. I don’t have to tell you, “Don’t do this, don’t do this,” like ten commandments. You, yourself, establish your dharma and you enjoy your virtues. This happens, as you know – already has happened to all of you – with the grace of Mahalakshmi. Then She starts bestowing blessings on you. First, the blessing is of physical well-being by which your parasympathetic nervous system gets into proper shape and a balance is established, as if the Mahalakshmi principle holds the reins and you cannot cross the limits, you cannot go too much to the left or to the right. By this principle you realise what is wrong with the outside religions, you realise also that inside all the religions are born like flowers on the same of tree of spirituality. And automatically you start worshipping all the prophets right from Abraham, Moses, Confucius, Lao Tse, Mohammed Sahib, Nanak. You worship them! It is not that you Read More …

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You have to be honestly seekers of truth Zala Festivalna, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program. Sofia (Bulgaria), 23 July 1992. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it, but you have to experience it. This is the time specially for you to get that state in which you can feel the truth, the reality. These are the most confusing times and in these times only you will find the truth. But you have to be honestly seekers of truth, because it is for your benevolence and for the benevolence of the whole world. We have come up to a state… Sorry…We have come up to a state, which is a human but is not absolute, it’s a relative awareness we have. We do not know what is truth, what is reality. We do not know why are we on this earth. Every human being whatever country he may belong to is born with a faith within himself. This faith is in the Divinity or any such thing which is higher that is above human awareness. All of you have got this Divinity potentially and nothing can change it. It is only clouded because of conditionings. This faith is challenged. There are so many things that challenges the faith. First we go to religions. Then we find that one may follow any religion, they are capable of doing anything wrong, anything sinful. So the religion is also mental. Moreover the religion Read More …

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Press Conference Sheraraton Hotel Balkan, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Press Conference. Sofia (Bulgaria), 25 July 1990. Shri Mataji: They have to ask the questions, then I’ll answer, is that the way we are? Translator: Just a few words about your life, your teaching, then they will ask the questions. Shri Mataji: All right. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday, in the hall I felt that in Bulgaria there are people who are very depressed about life. I think I’ve come here at the right time, when you have got your freedom, to tell you that only political freedom is not enough. So far I visited many countries who are supposed to be free. Sitting down here you should not think that all the roads are paved with gold. There are dominations of a different kind in those countries. The first is racialism. For example the English came to India and ruled us for 300 years. And they plundered us absolutely and they tortured us. My father was in jail, My mother was in jail, they took away all our properties, everything. And now, when there are people from India who had to go to there because they had West British passports they treat us like emigrants and trouble them a lot, while in India we have more Britishers settled down then in English land the Indians. Even in America there’s such a lot of racialism. And recently there was a Mayor of Washington who was implicated into a drug case, because he was black, that’s all. Read More …

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How to go beyond all mental ideas about reality? Akademik Stadium, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program Day 2 [NOTE – 26.53-lectures starts followed by bhajan] Yesterday I told you that we cannot know the truth at our human awareness. You have to become the spirit. You become the spirit. You are in contact with the all pervading power of love. And then only you can know the absolute truth. This is the power of God’s love. We have not used the power of love before. We have only used the power of hatred. Now there are so many seekers of truth in this world. In the beginning in the ancient times there were very few. Once you all get your self realization this energy of power of lover will start flowing through you. It will nourish you, it will cure you and take you beyond all mental ideas about reality. This power is within you which is called as kundalini in triangular bone. It is in the sacrum bone that means the Greeks knew that it is sacred bone. This power all of you have got. It is the germinating power within us. And when it is awakened it passes through six subtle centres and pierces through your fontanelle bone area. Though the seed of the spirit is fontanelle bone area, spirit itself resides in your heart. All this mechanism is within you. You are already built in that way. Like a small seed, all the maps of all the trees, you have this power within you. Though it is a living process, process Read More …

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Without Self Realization you cannot understand how to be free Universiada Hall, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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Public Program Day 1. Sofia (Bulgaria), 24 July 1990. I bow to all the seekers of truth. We have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot organize it, we cannot conceptualize it and we cannot know it with our human awareness. All this growth outside of our civilization is like a big tree but we have to know our roots how to be found out and they are within the human being. Whatever you have been told about the roots within ourselves, has to be understood with an open mind and if it works then you have to accept it as the truth, as honest people. Now the truth is that there is the All Pervading Power of Love, which is a certain pure power, which we have never felt before. But the time has come now, that we can feel that All Pervading Power. Second truth is that you are not this body, you are not this mind, you are not your conditionings but you are pure Spirit. When you become the Spirit you can experience the All Pervading Power of Love, as cool breeze on your fingertips. These are special times when there are so many seekers of truth. I call it as a “blossom time”, where many flowers have to become the fruits. Unless and until we know the absolute truth, there will be many opinions and many ideologies and everyone thinking that they are the best and the correct. That’s why there are Read More …