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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Importance of Chastity Brighton Friends Meeting House, Brighton (England)

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Shri Ganesha Puja: The Importance of Chastity 04-08-1985Brighton Friends Meeting House, Brighton (England) Today we have gathered here on the right occasion and very auspicious day to worship Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the first Deity that was created so that the whole Universe is filled with auspiciousness, with peace, bliss, and spirituality. He is the source. He’s the source of spirituality. As a result of that all other things follow. Like when it rains and is windy you feel a coolness in the atmosphere. In the same way when Shri Ganesha emits His Power, we feel all these three things within and without. But it has been so unfortunate, especially in the West, that the most important fundamental Deity has been completely not only neglected, but insulted and crucified. So today though I did not want to say anything to upset you people, but I must tell you that worshiping Shri Ganesha means there has to be a thorough cleansing within you. When you worship Shri Ganesha keep your mind clean, keep your heart clean, keep your being clean – no thoughts of lust and greed should come up. Actually, when the Kundalini rises Ganesha had to be awakened within us, the innocence has to come up – which obliterates all such degrading ideas within us. If ascent has to be achieved, we have to understand that we have to mature. People are sick now. All over the western life one feels they are sick. Sick because they have Read More …

Radio Interview Brighton (England)

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Radio Interview. Brighton (UK), 26 July 1984. Interviewer: This time show. Now nowadays there are many people who reach a state of depression, unsure which way they should turn, often taking drugs to compensate, looking to religious or alternative lifestyles to shed a new light on their lives when now apparently a silent revolution has been growing, led by a spiritual leader, Shri Mataji. I am pleased to welcome Her to the studio now. Hello, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Hello. Interviewer: Now, first of all, let’s talk about the thing that you, the process you are involved in. It’s called Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Yes. Interviewer: First of all, let’s ascertain what exactly yoga is. Shri Mataji: Yoga means, there are two meanings to word yoga. The first meaning is the union with the Divine that your attention becomes one with the Divine, or you can say that you become one with the Spirit. Second meaning of yoga is depthness. Or you can as call it technique, depthness of the divine laws. But unless and until you get united with the Divine you cannot use the technique. Interviewer: Right, now… Shri Mataji: Sahaja means, “saha” means with, “ja” means born, means it is spontaneous. It is a living process of evolutionary ascent, the last breakthrough. Interviewer: Right. Now, taking it one step further, how do you go about, what is this? Is it, it’s the Self-realization. Is this the same thing? Shri Mataji: Yes, it is Self-realization. It is the Read More …

Talk to doctors: the fourth dimension and the parasympathetic Brighton (England)

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Conversation: Shri Mataji talks to doctors. Brighton (UK), 26 July 1984. Shri Mataji: The fourth dimension that they mentioned about, what do they mean by that? That is the thing. Warren: They call that transcendental state. Shri Mataji: But what? Warren: They can’t describe it. (Here Mother says again “What?” while Warren is saying the word “describe”) Shri Mataji: They can’t describe it, you see. Supposing somebody has a low heartbeat, low pulse rate or has a low consumption of oxygen or anything. Warren: That’s not transcendental state. Shri Mataji: That is not transcendental state, because you are still in the state, where your attention is on your body. So, it is not a transcendental, you will have to transcend. Transcendental means you have to jump onto the parasympathetic. See, we have four dimensions we can say. One is the dimension of the left sympathetic, another is of the right sympathetic, then we have got the central nervous system, which is our conscious mind and the fourth one is the parasympathetic. Does he jump on the parasympathetic? Warren: We do. Shri Mataji: Yes. In Sahaja Yoga you jump onto the parasympathetic; means your attention starts controlling the parasympathetic nervous system. Then how do we prove it that we become the fourth dimension? First thing is, that the person, who becomes the controller of the parasympathetic, becomes the “Auto”. He can do things. He can do things, like she can tell that another person is suffering on these centers without going Read More …

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You have to take to it little seriously, Workshop Brighton (England)

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1984-07-24 You have to take to it little seriously, Brighton, England, DP-RAW I don’t know how she {unclear}, I said alright, we just pray and give her a bandhan. Now the prayers work. Because when they go home, they find the mother is in a different mood, father in a different mood in a very loving manner. You can change people and we are surprised (of) how they start liking you, they are quite amazed. You are so much {unclear: eased} You give-up your habits completely because your own master. Nobody, no habit can dominate you. Your habits just drop off. We had an experience here in Brighton, there was a gentleman who came and shouted at me because he was drunk. Next day he came and now, he is a beautiful person. We have so many experiences like that. When they were drunk or drugged or something they came and shouted at me and then they are alright. There are people who came from groups and things, and they were mocking at me making fun at me and today they are sitting here. Because this is the love, the power of love that acts, it acts. And that is what it is called now that the Kaliyuga the worst part of the modern times is over. Now the Krutayuga has started. And in this Krutayuga, in this new age, it will be done, perfected and completed. Kruta means that done, perfected and completed. And that’s what is going to Read More …

Talk to New People after Meeting Brighton (England)

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1983-0527: Talk to New People after Meeting, Brighton, England [This section comes from the audio sent by Derek Ferguson from the UK.]Shri Mataji: Hello! Freedom of the world, isn’t? I told you it is more like it. A lot of people did not come today.Sahaja Yogi: … and she is from Rottingdean along the coast [a little way]Shri Mataji: Is it? How far?Sahaja Yogi: A couple of miles,Shri Mataji: That’s all?Sahaja Yogi: That’s allShri Mataji: Did you feel anything yesterday?Lady: Not very much.Shri Mataji: Not very much, all right. [AUDIO 2 STARTS HERE]Shri Mataji: How are you?Lady: Very well.Shri Mataji: Now, all right. Did you say it thirty-two times?[Laughter][AUDIO 1 STARTS HERE]Shri Mataji: It should be sixty-four.You see, it is a reaction. You see, it is a very funny thing, but when we smoke, you see, we feel guilty as well with it always, because we are doing wrong to ourselves. And that guilt builds up again. So, again you’ll smoke; again that guilt builds up. So, it goes on building up, you see. But you’ll give up, no time; it takes little time. I’ve seen if the young people [let’s/ like], say, him or someone who gets realization, they drop all their habits overnight, absolutely overnight, but for older people because the habit is now gone too much in the system and also the willpower is little bit [less], so they take little time. But it works out. So don’t you worry and don’t feel guilty about it. Seeker: Read More …

We can get Self-realization so easily Brighton (England)

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Public Program I went to your radio broadcasting and people told Me that, “It is very difficult to believe, that we can get Self-realization so easily.” Also that, “The whole thing sounds so fantastic, so great and how can we human-beings get our realization so fast.” We must know that we have not created ourselves and we cannot create ourselves either; We can destroy but we have not created ourselves. Some energy, some force – call it God, call it anything – has created us and the way we have become human-beings, one can see very clearly, there has to be some purpose. If so, then we have to find out that purpose. Logically, we reach a conclusion, that whatever we know today about ourselves and our being and our purpose, is not sufficient to convince us of our importance, of our glory and the need for this force to create us. To understand what it is, why are we here, why are we made human-beings – are we able to find out with this human instrument we have got? With our human awareness can we find out why are we here, why are we made or is there anything else provided within us that can give us the ideas, the knowledge about ourselves. One thing is definite, we must understand that in these modern times, there are many people born, who do not accept life as it is. They perhaps do not know for what purpose but they want Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Call it the Life Eternal Brighton Ashram, Brighton (England)

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, “You need to have big ideas”, ashram in Brighton, UK, 1980 (lunch time) Shri Mataji: But they don’t know cooking they said.Sahaja Yogi: They know a little bit. Ricardo knows a little bit of it.Shri Mataji: Does he know you are his side?Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes, he knows.Shri Mataji: Then that really is very, very, they are very much playing there.[About the baby] Now, she’s singing. We should not show that we are paying attention to her, otherwise becomes self-conscious.You didn’t think that that can please children, very little things there. Then I saw Portugal is like that, I felt maybe the over-industrialized countries may become like that only.Sahaja Yogi: All alike.Shri Mataji: You see, this unemployment, and these are not very good signs for any country. That’s how it starts. It started the same way in Portugal. People got unemployed, and they’ve got out of their country. Now out of the, I don’t know, six million people in Portugal there’s only one million people they only think about, left. All the rest are out. And the proportion is much more, I think.Sahaja Yogi: In Brasilia, in Sao Paolo or Brasilia, that is a city from Brazil, there are more Portuguese than in our whole country.Shri Mataji: That’s it.Sahaja Yogi: More than in Portugal and in France too. They don’t want Portuguese anymore. No one, nobody wants Portuguese. That reputation we have, very bad. In France they hate, they hate us, and in Brazil, they make Read More …

Radio Interview Brighton (England)

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Radio Interview, Brighton (England), Friday, May 27th, 1983 Weeks ago on Gioanna’s program and Gionna was actually here, Jillian Copeland came in to discuss a new, well new to us, anyway, yoga, called “Sahaja” I think that is the correct pronunciation. Well at that time Jillian wanted to know if it is possible for her to bring Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi back, I think I‘ve pronounced all that correctly. And we suggest we would be delighted, well, we are delighted because both Jillian and Mataji are with us. Jillian first welcomes and thank you for coming back. [Jillian: Thank you] And now maybe you could give us some information about Mataji. Jillian: Shri Mataji is the wife of the very prominent gentleman in the Maritime Organization and she has spent quite a lot of her time giving Self-Realization to people who wanted. And for your people who are listening, I would ask them, as an experiment, if they could please put their hand’s palm outwards while Shri Mataji is talking and see if you can feel a cool breeze on your hands. If you can then I would urge you to come on to our meeting in Brighton centre this evening at 7:30 p.m. and find out what it is you are feeling. Interviewer: That sounds very interesting may I turn to you and say welcome and Is it a new ..it seems more meditation than actual yoga which I would always believe was exercise? Shri Mataji: Actually in the Read More …

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Evening Talk Brighton Ashram, Brighton (England)

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Evening Talk For the flowers? This is mummy has done for you? It’s very sweet one. This one is? Wood. No, no, no, it started now. You see a little bit of… Just the thing that we feed. See these flowers. Are they nice? The flowers… Are they nice flowers? Such a smiling baby. Such a sweet baby. Such a nice baby. You must smile. You must smile. Are they still like a nervous person? And… What’s the Mishon’s daughter’s name is? Marina. Marina. Marina, ha. She also looses a little bit of her balance, with aarti. Yeah. Very good. You are feeling sleepy. Very quiet, ah? She’s very good Mother. She’s very quiet. Even Pauline’s daughter has improved a lot. Good. Very much better now, very much better. William’s [apetite is] very much by this.. I think that work would suit him the best. He did a very good job in our house, you see… And C.P. liked his things that he had cooked and made Me happy.. I had such a problem, I didn’t know what to do because you see it’s, C.P. won’t eat anything and I thought now to give up and go away. But who told Me was [Pray]. She said, “William is a very good cook, if he can help there.” I thought, “If he’s working, how will he do it?” But he did it very well. You see, Mr. Srivastava eats very little, but if it is good, tasty food then he’ll eat, Read More …

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Shri Buddha Puja: Birthday Puja of Lord Buddha Brighton (England)

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Shri Buddha Puja, 37 Stanmer Park Road, Brighton (UK), 26th of May, 1983. This time when – there was no rain, so we went to the sea in Melbourne. I told that would be great if we go to Melbourne, and we went to the sea and I made a Ganesha and they made a Shiva there and they worshipped Me. Sahaja Yogi: Do we have some towel for Mother? For Mother’s hands. So, and they made a Kundalini also there. See, and then they prayed. And it rained and rained and rained, it poured, you know, poured in buckets, poured in buckets, it was – – I have never seen such rain before, like buckets were pouring. And in one day, four inches of rain in that Sydney can you believe it? And the puja was on inside and outside on My birthday. Buckets and buckets of water. And it was a drought, you know,they were so frightened. Sahaja Yogi: We heard that the whole tent fell, Mother, because of so much rain. Robert was telling us, Mother. Shri Mataji: And the, you see the Sahaja Yogis enjoyed it so much, how they are playing the trick. And then the river got flooded and it entered into all the pubs and all and washed off everything, you know, brought it, you see, as if went inside, washed the bottles, everything, and all the bottles were, some of the empty ones you see, were floating, these plastic ones were floating Read More …

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Lord Buddha Brighton (England)

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1983-0526 Public Programme, Brighton, UK Today it’s such a pleasure to be here again, in Brighton; and, slowly and steadily, I find Sahaja Yoga is settling down in this place. When I first came to Brighton just to visit, I felt there must be many seekers in this place, who might have been lost and always had a great hope that one day they will be able to come to reality. Today specially is a very great day because today is the birthday of Lord Buddha. And in the morning, I talked to Sahaja Yogis about His great incarnation, and how He came on this earth and He got His realization, and then how He tried to spread the message of realizations to others. Many people believe and think that Christ was an atheist … Buddha was an atheist, while Christ was a person, believer in God. And some people prefer Buddha to Jesus Christ. It’s something very amazing is that … that when the people are born in the particular circumstances, they have to talk about things which are very, very important at that point of time. At the time when Buddha came on this earth in India, we had too many ritualism of Brahmanism and conditioning of the teachings of those money-makers and commercializers who wanted to make money in the name of God and in the name of religion. So, to neutralize all that, He decided not to talk at all, at all about God, about any Read More …

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Havan after Shri Lalita Puja Gillian's House, Brighton (England)

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1982, May 15th – Havan after Shri Lalita Puja [UNCLEAR exchange between Shri Mataji and yogis] So this should go to the… Thank you very much. [UNCLEAR]. I can use for all the … Keep it. This one you should give to Bai. [UNCLEAR], I never vibrated it. That is from where? Alfa Libra, the name of this. Alfa Libra, Bombay. Can you imagine? Give it to Bai. [Shri Mataji comments on giving and taking prasad] Take it with the right hand, you have to give. Now you can give half of it because it is too big. You can hold it, you can, with the right hand. Somebody has to [UNCLEAR]. [UNCLEAR] combination? Did you read the article that Sunday has put about this prediction? Or something like that. John, who has got? Have you got that, the article with you, have you got it? Alright. Where it is? Alright, Just see if you have. [UNCLEAR] predictions, no good.[UNCLEAR] With the right hand, with the right hand, not with the left, take it with the right hand. [Mother speaks aside in Hindi or Marathi.] Very nice. We have more chana in the house or is it finished? I must give you a silver one. [pointing to Her drinking glass] What is missing now In the puja? He wanted a small one for the … But the [min 5:41 UNCLEAR, referring to small bowl?] the small one that is to [UNCLEAR] actually. Do you have the [UNCLEAR]? It is mine. Read More …

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Shri Lalita Puja: Understand your own importance Gillian's House, Brighton (England)

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Shri Lalita Puja. Hove, Brighton (UK), 15 May 1982. I am really a proud Mother to see so many sahaja yogis. And one must understand that even if you get few people as newcomers, they may be few, but one has to realize that each one of you is now a realized soul. Each one of you have grown so much that you can create a nucleus yourself. And after growing in a collective way together, now individually the seedlings have become strong shoots now, and they can definitely be transferred into different places and work it out, because each one of you is a prophet. I wonder if you realize it or not. Of course you have got the joy of realization, the bliss, everything you have got; you have grown up to that. Slow and steady you have achieved it, and as you have grown as a tree now, every one of you is so important and so powerful. I know that few people come in, in a collective way, and you find it difficult in the beginning how to deal with them; because they are still not grown enough, they are still not up to the point where they really realize their own importance. But you should all understand your own importance and your own quality that you have achieved. In any other so-called fake organizations – for example, say, take the church – there’s only one priest. In the whole locality there is one priest, though Read More …

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The Creative Power, Central Channel Brighton Pavilion, Brighton (England)

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Public Program day 3. Brighton (UK), 15 May 1982. I am sure Phil must have explained to you the mechanism of our evolution. As you see before youself that therea re different centres at the different level of the body and all these centres denote or different stages of our evolution. These centres cannot be seen. There are subtle centres placed in the medulla oblongata, means in the spinal cord, and also in the brain.As I told you yesterday that God has created us that purpose and the whole thing has been done very beautifully, with freat compassion, care. Is done very delicately and all these centres denote within us the kind of the growth that has been manifesting one after another. But at the human stage we are still in the transition stage because we do not know the meaning of our life.The meaning of our life will only be known when we become connected with that power which has created us. The power that desired for our creation, that activated for our creation and the one that evolved us. These three powers are indicated in those three lines. The left side is the power of desire, the sub-conscious and the collective sub-conscious, and the another one which activates is on the right side which looks after the action, the activation, the creation up to a stage when life started taking its form.Then comes in the carbon atom. Carbon atom is a very important pivotal element that was created Read More …

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Advice on Right Side Brighton Pavilion, Brighton (England)

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Public Program Day 2. Brighton (UK), 14 May 1982. Shri Mataji: Oh, I would suggest that first let them ask questions today. So I keep myself there…If you have any questions, it’s better to ask me first. So that your mind is at rest. I’m glad to stand…better to see people better. Am I better here or on the ground? Now, first of all it’s better to ask the questions because yesterday when we started this question session people got little deviated. It’s better to ask questions now, what you have, because you are all seekers. You are all seekers and you have been seeking so is best is to ask questions now so I’ll be able to put the answer in between My lecture. No questions? That means Sahaja Yogis have become quite capable of explaining Sahaja Yoga and I’m very proud of them. When I went to Australia the newspaper people asked Me, “Mother, are all Your disciples scholars?” I said, “No, they are very common people. They have to be very common and normal people.” But they said, “The way they know things, surprisingly we feel they are all scholars.” I said, “All scholarship is within yourself.” All the knowledge is within yourself. If you only can get light there, you can see all that knowledge is within you. You don’t have to go anywhere for your knowledge. It’s all inside, everything is built in. You are built in so beautifully to become your Spirit that I Read More …

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The Left Side Problems of Subconscious Christchurch House, Brighton (England)

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Public Program Day 1, “The Left Side: Problems of Subconscious”. Hove, near Brighton, UK, 13 May 1982. [First three minutes are without sound]But as I told you there could be good conditionings. In the way, in the same way, you can have good habits and bad habits. If habits inhibit or obstruct your ascent, they also can help to stabilize you. The conditioning comes to you from the matter with which we are dealing every day. When a human being sees the matter, he aggresses it and he wants to use that matter for his own purpose. He changes the forms of the matter for his own purpose. He starts getting used to matter as comfort, or as a help or a guide in life. The more you start depending on matter, the more your spontaneity is finished, because you’re dealing with the dead. Matter, when it is dead, then only we deal with it. When it is living we are not so much bothered about it. So the deadness of that matter settles within us when we start using that matter for our purpose. But how are we to otherwise exist, is the question people can ask. If God has given us this material things and this matter to be used, are we not supposed to use them? And are we not supposed to enjoy them? But we don’t enjoy really.. Before realization you cannot enjoy any matter. You can only form a habit and may become a slave Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Brighton (England)

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Talk to sahaja yogis. Brighton (UK), 12 May 1982. And first you have this background, that they are seekers, they are misled, they are your brothers and sisters, and they are been really taken into the clutches of negativity. You have to move very, very carefully about it, very carefully. First of all they must feel your love and concern. That is very important. So instead losing temper with them or getting angry with them you should really have compassion, because they are so unfortunate. They are so unfortunate. Those who are not coming to Sahaja Yoga and are going the wrong way; are so unfortunate people, they are lost people. Whatever they may say, but they are lost, and you know that. They are lost people. And with this myth that they are living, they are going towards hell, actually. And they have lost all chances for Realization if they don’t understand Sahaja Yoga, see? You have to talk to them like that, that, “How do you recognize him as your guru? What has he done for you? What powers has he given you? You can be your own guru”. Don’t start talking about Me, first of all. No, not much. You should say, “She does nothing. She just makes us our own guru, and we know what is our problem is, we know your problem. You can work it out. That’s not difficult. But after all,  if you are seekers, what have you found out so far?” I Read More …

Shri Krishna Puja: Increasing Collectivity Gillian's House, Brighton (England)

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Shri Krishna Puja. Increasing Collectivity,  Gillian’s House, 11 Vallance Road Hove (Brighton),  UK, 12 July 1981. For attention, two centers, which is very important for Sahaja yogis and also as the situation is, one is of left Vishuddhi and one of heart itself. Just now when I was coming, I knew there were lots of left Vishuddhis everywhere and in the car also I felt the same thing. I did not know what to do. Because there were people who were thinking, “I wish we had done this and that,” and I was just waiting for a chance to break it, you see. And then suddenly I got a chance and I made a fun of the whole thing. The combination between left Vishuddhi and joy is quite a lot. Left Vishuddhi is also of two types. One is where people do not feel guilty. Indians will never feel guilty. Seldom will you find an Indian feeling guilty. Seldom, that’s not in their character. I mean they are adamantly not feeling guilty. Can you believe it! Even if they have done wrong, they will go on shamelessly. You’ll tell them, then they will take another course. Then you tell them something, they will go in another course, but they will never change. They are very adamant, extremely adamant people. Only thing is if, somehow or other, you manage to break their adamant nature, then they will come around. Otherwise they go on. The another thing is the western left Vishuddhi. Whatever Read More …

The Four Dimensions Within Brighton (England)

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Public Program. Brighton (UK), 11 July 1981. Yesterday I told you about the organized way we are inside ourselves. How God has it organized within us our system by which we get our realization spontaneously, automatically. Today I’m going to describe the mechanism that lies within us. As I told you before, you should not have blind faith about it, but you should not also be people with closed minds. That’s not being scientific. If you’re scientific people, then you must keep your mind open. Because whatever is known to human being, is all limited, because their brain is limited, intelligence is limited. And I’m talking of something unlimited. And that is why one has to understand that there must be something lacking in human awareness that we have not been able to feel, to understand, to be. To be is the main point – that awareness by which we could know something of beyond. Now, as I told you, whatever is of beyond is not divine. We have within us at least four clear-cut dimensions. On the left hand side of the human being is the subconscious, and beyond it is the collective subconscious. On the right hand side we have our supra conscious, is our future. And beyond it, is collective supra-conscious. Below us is the dead, we can say, or the hell as they call it. Above it is the super-consciousness which is boundless, unlimited. So when you get any experience from anyone of these dimensions, you Read More …

Radio Interview Brighton (England)

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Radio Interview, Brighton (UK), 10 July 1981. Broadcaster: Now, a little while ago with John Gribbin, we were being conducted on a whistle-stop tour of the external universe, but now we hope to probe a little deeper.  A spiritual leader, who believes that every country in the world is linked to a particular part of the body, but who scorns religious gurus, who preaches that the essence of life lies within the [??SOUNDS LIKE evidual/Ovidual. Does he mean ‘individual’?] awakening yet [not sure here if the ‘comma’ comes before the “yet” or after, as meaning not clear] is extremely rich and married to a United Nations official.  Well, I dare say I am about to be told that these apparent contradictions are of my own making, but I am very pleased to welcome to the sounding studio The Mataji Nirmala Devi, together with a local practitioner of Sahaja Yoga She espouses – Ray Harris.  Now, he’s a Brighton geologist so we’ve got both sides of the spectrum and we’re very pleased to welcome you both to the studio. Now, perhaps I could start with You, Mother Mataji.  You’re an Indian, now what kind of following do You have at home? Shri Mataji: There are lots of people in the villages of India.  I work in the villages of India, not so much in the cities, and the villages are not yet touched by the superficialities and the pretensions of life so much.  People are very simple and it’s easy to Read More …

The System Within Brighton (England)

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The System Within, Public Programmme, Brighton UK, 1981-0710 I must thank Kingsley [Flint] for giving such a nice introduction. When I went to Australia, people asked me, are your disciples all scholars? I said, they come from all walks of life, there are very few who could really be called scholars but I think after getting realisation, you being the complete knowledge, new venues open within you. You start knowing so many things, like when you enter in this room and it is absolutely dark, you can’t see anything. You don’t know much about it, you don’t know how to walk, where to walk, you may just stumble down, but if there is light, you know so many things suddenly and you are amazed at yourself that you have come to know so many things. Now this knowledge that you have, is not the knowledge that we read in the books. If I put my finger to this flame here, it will burn. Anybody who puts the finger to the flame, it will burn. Now this knowledge that the finger has to burn has come to us through our experience and is built within us. Everybody gets it without paying for it, without making any effort for it, it is built in within us. In the same way, we are so organised within ourselves, we are made within ourselves so well that if this happening which he told you about, the awakening of the Kundalini, if it takes place, it Read More …

The Force That Lies Within Brighton (England)

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“The Force That Lies Within,” Public Program, Brighton, UK Only you can feel your Spirit.This energy has been placed in the triangular bone at the base of the spinal cord, has been there for ages, for many lives, has been following us. She is our Mother and She’s born with us every life, every time, waiting for an opportunity where somebody who is authorised to awaken Her. She takes birth with us again and again on this Earth. She is the reflection of the desire of God, His desire that we should know Him, that we should become one with Him, that we should enter into the Kingdom of God, so that we become the citizen of His kingdom and enjoy, enjoy the bountiful bliss of our Father. He is a father who is compassion and love and He wants to give you this love – His love, His power of love to you, like any good father would like to give his possessions to His own children. The one who is the essence of fatherhood waits for you in His kingdom to bestow this great power of Divine love through your Spirit. Spirit resides in the heart. Spirit is the reflection of God Almighty. But the hearts which are filled with hatred, which are filled with evil, which are filled with domination of others and torture of others, cannot reflect the Divine. Only like a flicker, I give the analogy of a gas light: As in the gas light Read More …

The Meaning of Puja Pamela Bromley's house, Brighton (England)

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“The Meaning of Puja”. Brighton (England), 19 July 1980. Now for puja, one has to understand that without Realisation, puja has no meaning, because you are not ananya. Is, you have to become aware of your whole. Krishna’s description of Bhakti is ananya. He says, “I will give you ananya bhakti”, He wants ananya bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realised.   Otherwise He says “Pushpam, phalam toyum” (Bhagavad Gita verse 26)  “A flower, a fruit and a water: whatever you give me I accept” But when it comes to giving, He says, “You have to come to Me with  ananya bhakti,” means: when you have become one with Me, then you should have the devotion, not before that. Before that, you are not connected.   Now puja is the left hand side projection. It’s the neutralisation of the right side, very much. Specially for people who are very right handed, atmosphere which is very right handed, puja is ideal for them. Is the bhakti, is the devotion…that you project.   Now what happens actually when you project this puja?   It has been found out, and now as I am telling you, that first you have to awaken within you the Deities that are still asleep, by worshipping them. But as these Deities, Primordial Deities, are with Me, you worship Me, and every Deity in Me is awakened, by which your Deities are awakened. So first, your vibrations must improve, to receive. If Read More …

The Light of Truth Brighton (England)

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The Light of Truth, Public Program. Brighton (UK), 18 July 1980. Last time when I spoke to you I told you about the power that resides within us is this triangular bone called the sacrum which is called as Kundalini and which is responsible for giving us our second birth. In modern times the search for truth is so widespread that it had to happen. It was all as if planned out that in modern times only the people who are seeking, who are seeking the truth, in various lives have to attain that awareness which will grant them the light of truth. The search is on, for example, a human being may be searching his joy in money, in power, in possessions, in seeking security for oneself but the search of the seekers is on and they have to find it and that is possible in this modern times. It has to work out but perhaps people are not aware that as the modern times are best suited for this seeking for this enlightenment, also the modern times are the worst times. The reason is modern times are the times of confusion. Everything that we do we are confused about it. We are not sure as to what we are doing is correct or incorrect whether we do it in money, in power, or about seeking because this is the time where your wisdom is tested. If you are wise then you will choose wisely and that’s why a Read More …

What is Seeking? Brighton Pavilion, Brighton (England)

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What is Seeking? Brighton Pavilion, Brighton (UK), 31 March 1980. I told you yesterday how you feel your seeking, why you feel your seeking, what is in us that works out this seeking. And this yoga is spontaneous. There is no other way you can get your Realisation. Because if you have to germinate a seed it has to have germination! In the same way, if you are to be germinated into your new awareness, it has to be through your awakening of Kundalini, because that is what it is there for. If you have to plug in this one (microphone) to the mains, you have to use the chord, there’s no other way about it. As I told you yesterday that this beautiful instrument is made, all the effort has been put. You have passed through — how much, much we calculated for thirty-five crores? Yogi: Three hundred and fifty million. Shri Mataji: Three hundred and fifty-million types of lives. And now you have become a human being. So, after all, there must be some meaning to this beautiful human structure, this instrument [and] why it was created. There must be some reason for it.  And, as you have got your human Realisation, as you have got your human body, if you have to get to a more evolved personality it has to be spontaneous, you cannot work it out. Should be a simple logic. You have done nothing to be a human being and you are not to Read More …

Seeking the Spirit Brighton (England)

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Seeking the Spirit, Public Program. Brighton (UK), 30 March 1980. …again, to Brighton. I always had a feeling there are lots of great souls in this place who are sincerely seeking. And long time back I had wished that sometime I may be able to come to this place to meet them, and I’m so happy to be here. We have heard and learnt and read that we are not this body, that we are not this mind, we are not this ego or superego but transcending all this is the Spirit, is the Atma, which human beings have to seek. But even when you have not read these things, some of you when you are born, you start feeling that there is something that we have to seek. You are not satisfied with what you have. You have a feeling of inadequacy, that you are not yet fulfilled, that you have not found your meaning. There is something much more one has to get. This feeling is very strong and today it is much stronger than it was ever before. What are we seeking? We do not know. Actually, we have no idea what are we seeking as such, because that’s an unknown thing, that is unknown to us. But we have a feeling, one definite feeling, that whatever we have is not complete, is not satisfy. It is not full with joy and bliss. We start wondering about our lives that why are we on this Earth? Why Read More …

The Significance of Brighton Brighton (England)

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Public Program, “The Significance of Brighton”. Brighton (UK), 15 November 1979. The name itself is so beautiful – Brighton. It has to brighten the whole country. I have been here twice before also, and I always felt that if a chance is given to Me in this place, we can really start Sahaja Yoga in a big way and can one day this become a pilgrimage. There are mixed vibrations in Brighton. You have the sea. Also, the mother earth here has a special significance, but when something Divine starts emitting itself, the evil comes in a disguise and accumulates in that place, and starts fighting, fighting the Divine, and that’s how it’s a very mixed vibrations I felt in Brighton. But on the whole it is a very good place where Sahaja Yoga can prosper. They must have told you about Sahaja Yoga. ‘Saha’ is ‘with’, ‘ja’ is ‘born with you’. This is the Yoga, this is the Union that you are seeking with the Divine, is born with you. It is within you. Everybody has said, “You seek Him within yourself [your Self]”. Even Christ said, “You seek Him within yourself,” that means you have to seek, it is your freedom which cannot be challenged. You have to ask for it. For example, if God could at this stage of human awareness transform you to higher awareness without you coming into that play, your freedom coming into that play, He would have done it long time back. But Read More …