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 …