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Look East BBC TV Interview Cambridge (England)

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TV Interview, Cambridge (UK) 13 August 1984. Interviewer: She is here over the last few years who according to their followers have the one true message. Well, the latest to visit the Eastern counties, 62-year-old Indian woman Shri Mataji who lays claim to the title of India’s greatest saint but her brand of yoga doesn’t only lead to a serenity that can transform people’s lives. It even produces a cool soothing wind out of thin air. Rather sceptical, Julia Booth caught up with Shri Mataji in Cambridge. This man was a drug addict. His life in tatters at the mercy of LSD. He met Shri Mataji, learnt her Sahaja Yoga as it’s called in a few minutes and now he’s prosperous and happy. It isn’t physical yoga, it’s based around something called Kundalini, which is a sort of inner energy, which when released can apparently give you serenity and cure illnesses. The great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi met her when she was a child. He recognized her gift and invited her to live and learn with his household. Her teachings follow no specific religion and are imparted in minutes. Receiving physical proof, apparently, a cool breeze can be felt from the head when you’re enlightened. Shri Mataji: It comes up here and pierces through this area called the fontanel bone area and you start feeling a cool breeze coming out of your head and that is the time we should say it’s a real baptism because that’s the time when Read More …

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The awareness of the Kingdom of God Cambridge (England)

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The awareness of the Kingdom of God, Public Program. Cambridge (England), 13 August 1984. Will You sit down Mother or stand up? – Have you finished or not?– Yes, Mother.– Please continue.– No, no they’re very anxiously waiting for You, Mother.– Oh, I see. They all see and I’ll get up and talk. I’ll stand up. Please be seated.  I bow to all the seekers of truth. We came on this earth without knowing why are we here and when we grew up, we felt, we are here for various things to enjoy our physical being, our mental being, our material side, our powers, our possessions, our friendships and our limited love. We worked very hard with it to achieve some sort of a joy out of all that. But the other day I was watching one film very funny and a very – a grotesque type of a film it was, lot of hard truths were there – showing a man trying to achieve some goal of marrying a particular lady, for that trying to get some money. The picture was presented in a very, I should say, in a very, very violent way which was really repulsive to My mind but it proved that all these pursuits are good for nothing. They lead you nowhere, you’re left high and dry as you were – much worse than what you, you were born. Your innocence is lost, your sense of love is lost, your value system is lost and Read More …

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It is you who has to enjoy it Cambridge (England)

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“It is you who has to enjoy it”, Public Programme, Cambridge (GB), 9 October 1982 I bow to all the seekers of Truth.When we say we are seeking, we must know that we are a special category of people.People were seeking before also. They were seeking power, money, possessions, affluence, every sort of thing.Still they are not satisfied, those who have got it. And so those who are seeking the truth are the highest, highest of all in the evolution.They are the ones who are going to jump into that higher state which is called as Self-realization.If you are not seeking, then nobody can force seeking on you. It cannot be done. Even by force, if you take somebody to the beautiful lake of nectar of God’s love, and even if you force the person to drink it, it is you who has to enjoy it. And unless and until you have the seeking, you will not have the sensitivity to enjoy that nectar.And truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot organize it, we cannot transform it. It is, it has been, it will be.And what is the truth? The truth is that God loves us, that His divine power of love is all-pervading, is everywhere, that this power is active, all the time – it’s the living power of living God – and that this power does all the things that we call as living works of God.A flower is transformed into a fruit by Read More …

Meeting with French Yogis Cambridge (England)

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Conversation, songs, with Shri Mataji, Cambridge, England, 24/03/1982 FIRST AUDIO Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Beautiful. So, you hurried up too much. Will you have something to eat or not? Sahaja Yogi: No, Mother. Shri Mataji: You had your breakfast? Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: Sure? So, I wanted to talk to you about France, the programs. Oh God! What is it here? It’s a tree! It’s a tree, is it? Sahaja Yogi: A very small tree. Sahaja Yogi: The tape recorder, Mother. Shri Mataji: For what? [Laughter] Sahaja Yogi: William was very anxious just to hear you Mother; William who came back to France is anxious to know what- Shri Mataji: You must get some tapes from Gavin, copy of tapes from Rustom are wonderful tapes there. Five tapes. Sahaja Yogi: Rustom? I have. Shri Mataji: Rustom. You’ve got? There are wonderful. Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: All about Christ and his place and all that, it’s very good. They have sent Me these tapes about Christ and really, I was verifying [unsure] , I must say, as I couldn’t bear these people having the thing called United Church. They are uniting all kinds of bhoots and mesmeric people, all sorts! They had all kinds of false gurus, fake gurus, this, that in the name of church. I mean, this is even worse than having a church, isn’t it? If there is only one bhoot, you can make it run away. But this kind of a Read More …

Guru Puja: Detachment And Sharing Cambridge (England)

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Puja. Cambridge (UK), 5 July 1981. Many now, many of us are there and we are increasing in number. And we are going to increase more and more, no doubt about it. You have to realize that you have become something. Not that an organization is developing but every person inside this has got something, something very great that has a transformation power. And hence it is necessary for us to know that we have entered into the kingdom of God. And the laws of kingdom of God are very different from what we know of. They operate in a different way. Unless and until you really understand the operation of these laws, you cannot grow properly, you have to grow. All of you have to grow. If you cannot grow in sahaja yoga, you will be wasted. So it is very important that we should try to understand the divine laws, how they operate. And whatever we have been doing so far has been responsible for our non-growth. So we have to give up so many things which have been detrimental to our progress. A small thing like comfort and sharing. In sahaja yoga I have found people they worry too much about comfort even after realization. They want to find their own comforts. They want to have their own individualities and they want to show that they are different. They are not the same as others are. If comfort becomes more important for some people you can never Read More …

The Search for Truth Cambridge (England)

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Public Program. Cambridge (UK), 3 July 1981. All the seekers of truth, I am very much thankful to you for giving Me this opportunity to meet you all over here .You are here because you are seeking and the seeking is so innately expressing itself that you cannot get over this feeling of seeking even if you want to. But perhaps I do not know if you know what you are seeking; why you are not happy; what is the expectation you have about your seeking. All of you must have had some background of seeking. Because seekers are a special category; every person on the street is not a seeker. Every person we come across is not a seeker. It’s a special category. I have seen there are seekers who are real seekers and there are also fake as we have in everything, because it’s a fashion to seek, because nice to talk of seeking. In everything I can understand the fakeness but in seeking I cannot, because you are the gainer, you are the one who has to gain. So you should not fake it. Better try to awaken your sincerity and to get that which is real because human beings have reached such a stage of evolution that they cannot exist any more now, unless and until they find out the truth about themselves, unless and until they face the reality, unless and until they know why are they here for; they cannot go on like this, Read More …

The Wonderful Message Cambridge (England)

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Public program. Cambridge (England) 15 July 1980. Don has already spoken so authentically about Self-realization, that some of you must be wondering what sort of a gimmick we are up to. But one has to understand that only a person who is there can talk that authentically, or a person who is a complete hoax. It has to be two extremes. A person, who says maybe, may not be, perhaps, it is so or somebody who sings about his separation and his pains are definitely not there, because if you have met the truth, if you have seen the reality then you speak like Christ, “I am the light, I am the path”. You speak like Shri Krishna, “Sarva Dharman parityajya maam ekam sharanam vraja?” Means “Give up all the religions, religions means outside seeking and follow me”.  The authenticity comes from the feeling, or we can say the feeling of authenticity itself. Unless and until you have achieved it, you do not speak like that – your language is different. Like, many poets and many even devotees of God have sung the song, “Oh God, when are you going to meet us?” As long as they are singing such songs, then you should know they are not Realized souls. But we have lots of poets, you too have Blake. We had a poet like Kabir. Many poets like this have sung the song where they said, “This is it. You better come up and have it”. And all such Read More …