The Priorities Are To Be Changed Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

The priorities are to be changed, 44 Chelsham Rd, Clapham London (UK), 6 August 1985. Now My stay in England is completing its 12th year and that is the reason I wanted to talk to you people about Sahaja Yoga. How far it has gone and where are we lacking. The greatest thing that has happened is that we have established our religion: Nirmala Dharma as we call it, the Vishwa Nirmala Dharma. And you know the meanings of the words, vishwa means universal, nirmala means pure and dharma means religion. This has been established in America. And we have to register it here in England. Now it is very important that, when we belong to a religion, we have to know what are the commandments of that religion is. And so far we have not drafted anything. It cannot be a thing made suitable to people or suitable to human beings. It cannot be. And it cannot compromise with your suitability. Like in Russia, as I told you the story, I went there and I said, “I would like to see a church.” So they took me down to a church, which was the Orthodox Greek Church, and My husband was also there where we were VIPs, so the head of the church came down and took us to lunch; and he said that today, these days, they are fasting so he cannot take any meat.  We said, “Alright.” We all sat down, but he went on drinking, drinking, Read More …

11th Day of Navaratri: Put me in your Heart Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

“Put me in your heart,” Farewell Talk. Chelsham Rd, London (UK), 5 October 1984 Shri Mataji: Please sit down. All right. Sahaja Yogi: Because today we are saying farewell to our Mother for some time and also to our respected brother from Australia, Dr Waren, who has worked tirelessly while he is being here. On our Mother’s behalf and our behalf, and done tremendous work behind the scenes to help things work out in this country. And we want make this a special occasion of just letting him know that we love him very dearly and he is, whatever he may say to us, it does our heart good. Thank you.[Applause] Dr Warren: Shri Mataji, this really is a surprise to me.Sahaja Yogini: Your coat is on fire.Dr Warren: My coat is on fire?[Laughter]Shri Mataji: You move it further, now it’s all right. You move it further, a little bit here, it’s better.Dr Warren: A bit further?Shri Mataji: That’s all.Dr Warren: It was quite a dramatic start. [Warren speaks about 16 mn]I think the most important thing I can say that how much I am enjoying being here. It’s very, very important that we all come to the heart, we all have to circulate and I feel a tremendous joy whenever I know that I come up here. Because I don’t feel it in a way that I am doing anything. When you are in presence of Shri Mataji, as many of you feel, it’s such an expression of dedication. Read More …

Shri Yogeshwara Puja: God of Yoga Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Shri Yogeshwara Puja. Chelsham Road, London (UK), 15 August 1982. Today is a great day for all of us to be jubilant that the primordial being Himself incarnated on this earth as “Shri Krishna” So many aspects of His being have been described in so many of my lectures to you ; but the greatest and greatest of all the aspects of this primordial being was that He was the Yogeshwara. He was the  “God of Yoga” – Yogeshwara. He was the Lord of our Union with the Divine. Without His permission and without His sanction we cannot be Sahaja Yogis. He was Yogeshwara and a real Yogi is a person who gets this Yogeshwara awakened within him. The word “Yoga” that we understand is the union of our attention with the Divine. But still we do not realise the implications – what does it mean? What should have happened to us? Of course, you get powers. As soon as you become the spirit, you get powers. One of the powers you get is of “collective consciousness”, that is also the gift of Shri Krishna and that you start feeling the collectivity. Your ego and superego are sucked in, so you get rid of your karmas and your conditionings and a new sprouting of the new life of the new age starts. But still what is the speciality, the greatness of Yogeshwara? Because He is Ishwara for you. He is the Ishwara of all the Yogis and what is His Read More …

Havan With 108 Names Of Shri Vishnu Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Shri Mataji: [Marathi?] Today is the combination of Shri Krishna, this one (is) his face and this is his dress. Ah, I think someone should go and find out from… Joan [Mother calls a Yogi]. Her sweater, her sweater is with … she said she has given to Olympia her blue sweater. Light blue Child: Light blue Shri Mataji: What are the words, Vishnu’s names, in English. Better take it in English, better. (Mother talks to a baby-child [Marathi?]. Ah, better take her. Take the names. In English they are easy to take I think. Only the first, one should take them. Ah, does somebody has a shawl, [Marathi?] Ne, it’s alright. Actually we should have Rasaali (?) playing with that, it would be nice, it doesn’t matter. These are the names of Vishnu, because Vishnu only achieved the status of Shri Krishna who in his own life time expresses his complete form of Virata. Complete form of Virata. And this is a very good understanding, if you know that you are also, start the dharma, establish your Dharma and then you become a witness, and then you become part and parcel of the whole, the Virata. The same pattern takes place in you also, in the evolutionary process. Now lets have (the names). Yogis: Om Shri Ganesha, Shri Kalki sakshat, Shri Ganesha Shri sakshat, Shri Parvati sakshat, Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namah. Yogi: Om Krishna Swaha Yogis: Om Swaha Yogi: Krishna means the Universe. Om Shri Vishnu Read More …

Shri Rama Navami Puja Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Shri Ram Navami, Chelsham Road, London, England, 2nd April 1982. (Shri Mataji is explaining how to talk to new people and havans) So first of all, you should start talking about energies: that these energies are moving within us and how they activate. Then you talk of the third energy which is the One which has evolved us, and that’s how we are here. And you talk about your Self, the controlling part, which is controlling you, the Spirit. So, if you go on an abstract line, it would be very appealing, these energies. Then afterwards, once you have talked about energies, this, that, once the people – that is within you, – sort of they’ll feel ego, “Oh, we have these energies. We can utilise these energies, do this, do that.” And then you bring them down to Sahaja Yoga, later on. But to begin with let us talk of abstract. Because Indians are different, I mean Western people are different. They are fed up of religion, they are fed up of all this. So, if you talk of religion it gives, creates, a problem. That’s why in the beginning, Vedas, when they were written down, they didn’t talk of God or Deities at all. They talked about God, God the Creator, but just about Brahmadeva. Throughout:  Hiranyagarbha, Brahmadeva, Right Side, they talked. And the whole thing is said, mantra, is like, “bhur, bhuvah, swaha” – three things. Now, Bhur is actually the Mooladhara, is the Earth according to me, Read More …

Birthday Puja Talk: I have to learn Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Birthday Puja. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 21 March 1982. Nice to see today so many Sahaja yogis looking like beautiful lotus flowers, as the blossom time is filled with the fragrance of your beauty. It is such a pleasure for Me to be your Mother and to be able to communicate the Divine, the powers of Divine, the beauty of Divine to you. It was never possible before, as you know. Everyone tried their level best but nobody could achieve it, to communicate that beauty.As you know, Sahaja Yoga, or this Mahayoga is a very unique system, it never existed before. It has come into existence, of course, I should say that because the Parabrahma decided to take a form, but you also all decided to come on this earth to receive the blessings. It cannot be possible to do anything with one hand. The beauty of Sahaja Yoga is great, no doubt, which I am sure very soon people will realize that this is the only way. All lost people will come back to Sahaja Yog, I’m sure, and they will achieve what they are due. You don’t have to do anything about Sahaja Yoga, you just walk in and you can get Realization. In India there was a gentleman who came to see Me and he told Me a big story about his woes, he told Me he’s under debt, he has so many problems, his wife is like this, his children are like this, and he Read More …

New Year’s Eve Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

New Year’s Eve. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 31 December 1981. So the New Year is coming, ’82’, expected to be a very dynamic year for Sahaja Yoga and Sahaja Yogis. Everything new becomes stale and never becomes new again, so whatever has gone has gone – ‘let bygones, be bygones’ [forget the past]. There have been very sweet memories sometimes, sometimes rather unhappy also but, on the whole, we are growing, all of us are realizing, coming up. We’ve done a good job of building up ourselves into a new way. New Sahaja Yogis have come up, I think, now, who have got rid of their lethargy and their petty-mindedness, their jealousies, their slyness, their slumber and narrow-mindedness. All these things have to be buried in the past. They are of no use to us. It’s a load we carry for nothing at all. Today, it happens that I read a very nice letter which was lying with Me which I didn’t read, which was sent by Gregoire to Warren. It really touched my heart. He was concerned about the jealousies that people suffer and the way he said there that this jealousy is the most sticky stuff and most ugly thing and it comes up as something as a challenge to your love, challenge to your understanding or something like that, and then he started explaining it. This explanation is all rational. In Sahaja Yoga there is nothing like jealousy. It doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist in the Read More …

Christmas Puja: You Have To Be Peaceful Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Christmas puja. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 25 December 1981. [TAPE BEGINS WITH CHRISTMAS CAROLS SUNG BY THE YOGIS] I wanted to be with you people on a Christmas day, but it never happened before. It has so chanced that I have to be here with you today and on the New Year. Something good has to happen I hope next year, some good luck has to come. Christ’s work was very unique. The whole thing was a very unique thing, was planned in such a manner that He was to be born in a place which was very humble, very humble place. Because He came to teach us humility. The word ‘teaching’ in English language means telling about it, talking about it. But when I say ‘teach’ I mean create, to activate this humility. Actually, He came on this earth first of all to create a space within us, at the Agnya chakra, by removing the hurdles of the ego, hurdles of the ego. He had to talk of humility that time, because Romans were ruling and they were very arrogant, very crude, uncouth, underdeveloped, we should say, not at all evolved. Like, you can say some of the animals, which came into being and were thrown out of the evolutionary process later on because they were useless, too aggressive or too big for their size or some sort of a thing like that. In the same way, Romans were. If you see their body, even now, painted sometimes, Read More …

Diwali Puja: Powers of the Gruha Lakshmi Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Diwali Puja. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK) – November 1, 1981. Today I told you about the importance of Lakshmi principle within us and the three processes through which we pass. First is the Gruhalakshmi. Actually, this is celebrated mostly on the thirteenth day of the moon, where they say that the housewife has to be given some present. And the best thing she can have is a some sort of an utensil. So people give her some utensils, actually it’s a very mutual thing, because if you give an utensil, she is supposed to cook for you. It’s a very sweet way of suggesting that you cook something for us. Then the fourteenth day is very important, because that is the day the Goddess as a power, as a power, because it was Kartikeya who killed Narakasura, the devil. And he was one of the worst of all, could not be killed. So, Shiva and Parvati were married for this special purpose to produce this powerful Shaktiputra, means the son of the Shakti, known as Kartikeya. And He was just born to kill this horrible devil, called as Narakasura. And He killed. That is the day, fourteenth day. It is something like Halloween, that day. Because that is the day they opened the gates of hell and put all the devils into hell. And that’s why that day one has to rest in the morning time as long as possible. So, that let all the devils be put in Read More …

Marriages Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Marriages – Chelsham Road Ashram, London (United Kingdom), September 8th, 1981 (INAUDIBLE) Hopefully Gregore?! G:”Yes Mother”, you better announce (INAUDIBLE) G: Yes, G: “The brides come in to wash the boys, and every body who is not…” Stand the brides, stand facing. G:”Each bride, if she can recognize her future husband…(INAUDIBLE) please try to make no mistake… Please move in, move in the circle, all the brides… All right? And now, just place them, and now, you see and now say that, `Would you like to marry them?’ Everybody should say, `Yes’, come along. Rub it here in a way that you can collect it. G:”Rub it in such a way that you can collect it to keep it afterwards.” Oh Ruth, this dress is going inside that. Don’t put it out with fingers. No no, not that. See, it is not that in India. Now anybody who does not want to have marriage after this can decide then. That’s the chance. You could have brought the children. I think we should have two, two rows. can’t just fit there. Can we have two rows of boys? Can you take their photograph? It is called as`Jaimaal’ (garland). Alright, now the second one. Lift her, lift her veil. You have to lift her veil! Now lift her veil, not that, that’s alright. You put it back and lift her veil, no, let it be in (INAUDIBLE), Let it be. Good, very good. Now, which is (INAUDINBLE) Good. Now kiss her. Now Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Establishing your Marriage Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Talk to yogis. Chelsham ashram, London (UK), 9 August 1981. God is so kind, Who is bliss, Who is joy, Who has created this whole universe so beautifully. They miss completely because they do not know what is auspiciousness is. Auspiciousness comes from pure heart. With your pure heart, then it works faster that’s why I asked for these children forward. You can sit with them along. Then auspiciousness also comes from surrendering, who are surrendered. Those who are surrendered to the power of Sahaja Yoga, Sahaja Yoga is a system by which you really suck in God’s grace. That you know for definite. So for the people who are surrendered absolutely, through their body, their mind and their intellect, they are the people who bring in the auspiciousness, those who try to stand out with their illusions – the so called – are [obstructed ?]. If you realize the importance of auspiciousness in married life – in Sahaja Yoga, you would have respect for that married life, praise for that married life – in relation to Sahaja Yoga, of course, no doubt. So after marriage one has to know that you have been married in My place. It’s something so [great ?] – very [great ?], I mean, out of question for you anyone who has done no punyas [– good deeds – ed.], a special place, I think so that it could happen that such a marriage could happen. All right. But with all that understanding, we have Read More …

Guru Purnima Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Guru Purnima, (Guru Puja), Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 19 July 1981. Put your heart into it [Sahaja Yogis were singing Jerusalem]. And then you must say “Amen” after that. You see, it shows how William Blake* thought of you people; and he represents that hope for England in this poem that I had about you people. As I had told you that: England is the heart; and the heart has to be first of all established, otherwise Sahaja Yoga is not going to be established. Now the people who live in this country are least believing, I think, in William Blake as you all do. (Inaudible) [This poem shows] Very clearly what hopes William Blake had. He could see the vision very clearly and he said that England has to become the Jerusalem. In Sanskrit language it’s called as “tirtha”. Tirtha means a pilgrimage place, a place where pilgrims come in. And this indication here, of this poem, which is so beautifully written by William Blake, shows that he saw the vision of Sahaja Yoga prospering in England in this beautiful manner. But, as it is, this heart is so materially bound. There’s so much of materialism that has come into our veins even. And we have to realize that we have to get it out of our mind, out of our body. It has gone into us so much, the materialistic approach towards life, that we have to really take a strong action against it. It’s so much Read More …

Subconscious, Supraconscious and Our Correct Ideals Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

“Subconscious, Supraconscious” Chelsham Road, Clapham, London (UK) 24 May 1981 …these people saw it and thought [they are] kind of mad people. All kinds of things that are possible. And the new theory is that mind can’t do anything. People say you better do something which is uncontrollable by your mind, you see. But there’s a simple answer to that; I say let’s see, what’s the simple answer? Let’s see. Sahaja Yogis… from the brain trust? What is the simple answer? They say that, you see, mind is limited all right, so whatever the mind does is limited. So if there are any deliberations by which you come to the control of our mind, whatever we do, is the mind’s doing. So if something is done like that, it is spontaneous according to them, “This is spontaneous!” So let somebody else do it. I mean it’s something [as if the] Divine is doing it to you.” Let’s have all the intellectuals down there! What do you answer to that? Did you hear that Linda [Williams (Pearce)]? The question is very simple. The question is this: that they were saying that the mind is limited. All right? Hello. Is Maria here? I was thinking of her. Where is she? I don’t see her. Hello! I was thinking of you today, somehow, to meet. I’m very happy you could come. Now the question is this, a simple question, that they are saying that – through our mind whatever we do, and through Read More …

The Power of Kundalini Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

The Power of Kundalini, Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), May 17th,1981 Today I told you about Kundalini, and that Kundalini is the Pure Desire within us, that manifests or is awakened to give us our Self-realization. Means the desire is only fulfilled when you get your Self-realization, otherwise it is not manifested – it is just dormant; it is still residual. It has created the whole universe, but until and unless you get Self-realization, unless and until you become one with your Spirit, you have not achieved the manifestation of this power, which will go on making you run and run and run, thinking that you have not yet achieved, or you have not found out your meaning. It will be there, all the time, sleeping, but giving you a feeling of vacuum, you see. So this power must be made to manifest, but when it manifests… [Shri Mataji pauses to comfort an infant: “What’s it? What happened? Well, let it be, let him sit down, come. What happened? Come along. What’s happening? Eh? It’s alright.” (Shri Mataji kisses the child) “All right. All right?” (The baby: “Yes”) “Good. (Laughter) Now one has to keep quiet, all right?” (Shri Mataji kisses the child.)] Then, this power has got certain qualities. The first quality it has got, this is ungrahavati, means it goes against the gravity. It goes against the gravity. You see, a thing rises, it doesn’t go down. So a person who has to be Read More …

Organisation of Sahaja Yoga Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

“Organisation of Sahaja Yoga in England” Chelsham Road, 10th May 1981 …A personality that everybody wants to follow, to become, to love. This would be very selfish to say that, “I am enjoying!” It’s something very funny. You see, some people are like that: self-certificated; again I call them. “Oh, I’m enjoying myself, I have no problems, you see, why should you worry?” This is all nonsense, absolute nonsense it is. It is that you are enjoying your ego then. But to enjoy yourself means you are enjoying everyone and everybody’s enjoying you; everybody likes you. You are not extreme neither too ritualistic. You are so flexible. You are adjustable. That’s like water, whatever you mix it with, it takes the colour. However you put it, it washes. If it appears in the eyes it makes you look beautiful. It’s like that. That’s the spiritual quality of a person. They have to be adjustable. In whatever way you are, people enjoy you and love you. Vibrations have improved. Alright? Don’t blame anyone for anything, not yourself [or] anyone. Enjoy! This is the time for enjoyment, not for blaming others, sitting down, sulking. No it’s for enjoyment. Good. Beautiful! Are you alright now? Good. Now put your hand towards me. Alright? Put your hands towards me straight. Be alert! Some people need alertness. Be alert! Look at children, how alert they are. When there’s an aeroplane going, they’ll all come and, “Bye-bye aeroplane, bye-bye aeroplane!” Now the aeroplane is gone, so Read More …

Talk before Sahasrara Puja Day: Heart must be kept absolutely clean Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Sahasrara Puja – Chelsham Road, London (UK), 4 May 1981 …Such a pleasure to come back to you all.  I was looking forward to it.  I received all your letter and greeting and all that you told.  It was so loving and so encouraging to know about your progress here and when I was really working very, very, very, very hard, I used to think of you and I would put this idea into my mind that a day will come when the prophecy of William Blake* must come. I went to Australia and I was amazed the way miracles took place in that country.  It is said that in the Puranas there was a saint called Thrissanku, who committed some mistake, little mistake and he was sent as the Southern Cross hanging in the air and was told that you must create your own heaven.  And really Australia is heaven, no doubt, but it’s Mooladhara.  It is Mooladhara.  The people are of course getting all the ideas, over read, as we are here.  We have accepted all these also wrong ideas quite a lot.  But somehow I feel it still in the heart of heart, they feel that this may not be correct way of life and they still feel that some off the things we do is not absolutely perfect or is not the thing that we really [unclear]. There are all sorts of gurus in Australia, all sorts of people who have got it.  But basically they Read More …

Advice, Marriage and Collectivity Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

“Marriage and Collectivity”, advice at Chelsham Rd. London (UK), 5 December 1980. ….Marriage where you marry and next day you are running away with another man. It should be genuinely done. That means you must respect but genuineness should be there, there should be no deception nothing. You are partners for life. Now one more point I want to tell you, that always I have seen in Sahaja Yoga marriages fail on one point, which is very important, is the point where collectivity clashes. When there is a clash of collectivity, Sahaja Yoga marriages fail. Now you are marrying under Sahaja Yoga you are not marrying in a way that others marry. And that’s why one must understand that collectivity comes first. But you must love each other, you must understand each other, be sweet to each other, be kind, considerate, be conscious and aware that you have a wife or a husband. But first thing is collectivity. Now I have specially given presents to Jane and to Linda because they have produced two Sahaja Yogis of a very high value. In the same way I am going to give you presents when you do that. But, but this is a beginning from the child that you develop you must learn (?)…it’s not that my child, my husband, my house what should I do about this house, my house, my children, my house, my children. You have got a child to expand, the love that you get for your child Read More …

Lethargy Most Anti-God Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

“Lethargy Most Anti-God”. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 27 September 1980. …and he talked about the tour, how successful it was, I wish you could have heard it before I started this lecture of Mine today. But yesterday I was talking about two things, which we have to do in England, which one should understand, you see. Because every country has its own problems and we do absorb the problems. [Shri Mataji speaks aside in Hindi sounds like “Left hamari aur kar. Left hand, ha.] [In Hindi: Point your left hand towards Me, point your right hand outwards]. Now the thing is our work is spreading very fast and people are taking to it. In Europe I find the land is much more fertile, surprisingly and once people get realization they become fantastic, I mean they think it’s something that they have been expecting and they understand Sahaj Yoga much better than we understand here. Though your Kundalinis rise very high, I’ve seen that, but the progress is not that all right. Now Ray has been to India, he’ll tell you how, what sort of people we have in India and how they have progressed themselves. Now as I said the main problem of our country is lethargy and lethargy is something we have to overcome somehow and this lethargy is a, actually a satanic force. It’s not lethargy only of the matter that comes from material domination on the Spirit, but it is really satanic because it stops your Read More …

Advice to Ashram on Prayer Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

Advice to yogis. Chelsham ashram, London (UK), 26 September 1980. Now, first I want to tell you what happened where I went, and how we got lots of Sahaja Yogis all over. That’s very good news.The first thing was, I went to Lille, where you know Cathy is doing the organizing. She is a very sensible person, and her father is somehow [a] little bit opposed to Sahaja Yoga, but mother is not. And she called Me to her place for lunch.Shri Mataji : [Aside] What are you doing now?Please keep it. All right. And when I went to her house the mother had- was suffering from arthritis and things like that, and I cured her, and she got Realization. That convinced her mother very much, and she was very happy.Then in the evening, she had booked a hall in Lille and to our amazement, we had lots ofpeople. We were surprised that how about sixty people or sixty-five people were there in thehall. And among them were some very, very nice people.One of the friends of Cathy, her mother came and they got their Realization so fast in Lille that I was surprised.And there, we met husband and wife who had been with TM. Very sensible people, both of them were really very sensible. When I explained to them what was Sahaja Yoga, they didn’t get their Realization but they understood that there was something great about it.So they said, “All right, we are coming with you to Paris.” And one lady Read More …

How To Know Where You Are Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

How To Know Where You Are, Advice at Chelsham Rd Ashram, Clapham, London (UK), 7 September 1980. …vibrations on the photographs, that’s very important. How to know where you are, as far as God is concerned. That’s the main thing, isn’t it? We are here for that: to be one with God, to be [in] union with His Power, to be his instruments. And how our connections get loose, and how we can to correct it, we should try to understand that. First of all, we must realise that you are not to think about it. If you start thinking too much about it, then you have seen that you do something funny which you should not have done. Do not plan out too much about it, also, because, in this country, if people start planning out, they’ll get all the planning done. For example, they have to go for a walk: then they must have proper shoes, they must have proper sticks, they must have this, they must have that, and they must have gloves, and they must have everything, and they never go out! They are so exhausted with the planning itself. (laughter) In the same way, it happens with Sahaja Yoga. It very much happens the same way with Sahaja Yoga, I have seen that though I have told you not to plan it out, not to think about it, still you go on doing it and that is how you get into problems; that by thinking Read More …