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Understanding the Love of God Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Understanding the love of God”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 11 May 1982. For the last so many lectures we have been saying that you cannot pay for God’s love. It makes me laugh sometimes. Human beings can never understand His love because they live in a very limited sphere. His love is unlimited. His forgiveness is unlimited. Even this word ‘unlimited’ and ‘infinite’ we do not understand because we have not known anything like that. And to say that something is genuine is also like certifying something that is genuine. You don’t need a certificate. Even that human beings don’t understand. We live with artificiality. We try to find the Truth. Again we accept artificiality as Truth. Again we go on fighting. Then we think, “This is the Truth.” Again that turns out to be something artificial thing or some sort of a mental projection. All these limited endeavours of human beings and experiences they have made him so conditioned that it is not easy to understand God. He made all this Universe in His compassion and love. He created you as human beings, also, in His compassion and love. He doesn’t need anything. But He loves. And you can’t understand a person who loves beyond any reason, without any reward, just love because for love’s sake. We can’t think of one human being like that who can love only for love’s sake. Only after Realisation, as you grow more and more, you realise that loving is the greatest joy. Read More …

The Dawning of Realisation Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Dawning of Realisation. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 19 April 1982. [Last] time I talked to you about collectivity outside your own shell, how, after your Realisation, after your second birth, you become conscious that you are no more an egg but, now, you have become part and parcel of the whole. You realise it gradually. In the beginning only what you feel is nothing but cool breeze blowing into your hands or maybe little tingling sometimes or maybe some heaviness, to begin with. But then, gradually you realise it. Some people do realise it in a very quick way. But as the infrastructure within is not properly fixed, Realisation comes very, very slowly. I spoke to you about our infrastructure within. Now the faith in God or faith in anything that is Divine, also in the Divine Power, is not easy to achieve logically. Some people have faith in God because they have been taught from childhood that there is God. Maybe they think [that] by relying on something like God, somewhere in the air, they are doing better in life. There could be many reasons why people have faith in God. But actually, when you feel the presence of Divine Power within you and outside, it is hard to believe that it is the Divine Power. And even if you know all about it, it is difficult to assume it. It’s sometimes a surprise to many Sahaja Yogis, when they see around people who have got Realisation, who Read More …

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What is the need for Sahaja Yoga? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What is the need for Sahaja Yoga? Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 14 April 1982. The other day, on the radio, they asked a very nice question, which I think I should handle first. The question was ‘What is the difference between other sects and Sahaja Yoga?’ It’s a very good question because it gives you a relative idea as to what is reality, and what is not. First of all, we should see what is the need of Sahaja Yoga. ‘Sahaja’, as you know, is ‘Saha’, means ‘with’, ‘Ja’ means ‘born’; is born with you. Means is spontaneous, it is with you. What is with you is the right to be united with the Divine, that’s, to be in yoga, to be united with God. Now, there are people who just don’t believe in God, either – is quite possible, they are frightened to hear the name of God, because of various experiences they have had, the various ideologies that have prevailed. But God exists, no doubt, whether you like it or not. But unless and until you have felt the existence of God, to believe in God is difficult; one can understand that. Now, what is Sahaja Yoga? In Sahaja Yoga what actually happens to a personality is this: that the sleeping power, or we can say un-awakened power within you, which is your germinating power, rises, passes through the various subtle centers within you, and pierces through this fontanel area, and, what we call it, as Read More …

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Easter Puja and Havan, The Creation of Lord Jesus Nirmala Palace - Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (England)

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Easter Puja, “The Creation of Lord Jesus”. Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (UK), 11 April 1982. I’ll talk before and then at the time you can just tell me what time it is. The radio is off? You can keep it till eight o’clock and… So happy to wait on you [Shri Mataji smiles to the sahaja yogis and does namasté]. Today we are celebrating a day which is a very, very important, absolutely the most important, we can say, day, when such a great happening took place. And it had to take place that way – it was all in a way destined. In my last lectures I have told you how Christ was created first in the heavens. In the Devi Mahatmya, if you read that, He was created as Mahavishnu and is mentioned very clearly, that first He was created as an egg. It is written in this book, which perhaps was written about 14,000 years back. It’s a book that predicts about Christ, and that is why people in the West, specially, offer an egg to each other as a friend. The first existence came on this Earth as an egg, that was Christ, and part of it was kept in that state and the rest of it was used by the Holy Ghost, by Mahalakshmi, to create Christ out of it. In that ancient book He was called as Mahavishnu; means the greater form of Vishnu. But actually Vishnu is the father and He is the Read More …

Shri Mataji’s Wedding Anniversary Nirmala Palace - Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (England)

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Mother’s Wedding Anniversary, Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (UK). 7 April 1982. [INAUDIBLE]…To the Divine, for providing us such a beautiful place. As a name is Nightingale. I didn’t expect it to be that…really that big and so beautifully done. It’s all provided for…for the saints who have to live here, for the people who are chosen by God in this country to do His work. We are doing God’s work and it is God’s desire that we are to be looked after, we are to be blessed, we should have no worry of mundane things like a house…we can say of a…what you call a shelter and food, money…we should have no such worry. Because we have to do so many other things now, that if we go on spending our energies on these useless pursuits who is going to do the great work of God…that is the emancipation of human beings. At this juncture when we know the crisis…great crisis…is facing us in this Kaliyuga, we have to realize that the divine is working with great understanding of this precarious time, and the dynamism of that divine power is so smooth and so powerful that’s working out everything for your comfort, for your peace, for your blessings, and for your powers by which you can give realization to people. You can assume all the powers that are promised to the saints. In the same way, it is essential for sahajayogis to know that they have to do a lot Read More …

Limitations of Divine Power Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Limitations of the Divine Power, Public Programme,  Caxton Hall, London, UK – 5 April 1982 …Divine to work out its working. Because Divine can go up to a point, that’s the trouble. It has no interest in your money, nor in your position or anything. It has only one interest: that you should take to Divine love. And if you go on accepting something that is stupid how can Divine help you? I have been thinking on these lines all through and I have talked to some of those who came to us that, “How is it [that] you never discovered that they were false gurus?” They said, “We could see. There was something in us that was saying that, ‘There’s something false about this gentleman.’” And still, why did you continue? They said, “Because we were walking in a dark alley and didn’t know whether we were walking forwards or backwards and they said, ‘Go on and on and on,’ promising us about the future.” And that’s the point: because you are futuristic, you are people who are futuristic, you do not want to believe that you can get your Realisation today. You just don’t want to believe it. You don’t want to listen to that person who says, “You can get your Realisation today.” You want to keep it for the future. Everything postponed for the future. And that’s why you go on living with it, till you are completely finished and wrecked, when Kundalini cannot rise, when Read More …

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

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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 …

Reality is what it is Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Reality is what it is, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 22 March 1982. It’s not very easy to explain Sahaja Yoga to anyone, rationally, as you must have also faced the same difficulty. Not only that we are facing this difficulty but has been faced, faced by all the saints and all the incarnations including Christ, Blake, all of them. I’ve been reading Blake these days and Don wrote to me that he’s writing some sort of a thesis on Blake, friends, friends of sinners, written in his poems of such friends who are friends of sinners. But they could not communicate through human beings in that way as we could communicate because we can give Realization, we can make them feel the vibrations first of all. Like you can sprout the seed and we can show how the seed then gets developing. You see, this is an advantage we have and today the time, time has come definitely to us that what Blake has desired and asked for or pictured or visualized, we can prove it. Now when we explain Sahaja Yoga to someone we have to talk a little at the beginning because they haven’t found their absolute. It is, it can be quite difficult and frustrating in the beginning to talk about something that is such a living process of our evolution. We cannot explain how we evolved into a human being, and to explain how we are going to a newer dimension is also a Read More …

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

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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 …

Futuristic Attitudes Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public program, ‘Futuristic Attitudes’, Caxton Hall, London (United Kingdom) It’s so beautiful to come back to London to meet all of you, again, after such a big gap, I felt. It’s a funny feeling one gets when you leave the country and you are away, and then you find other people same way when you leave them. You feel an ocean of compassion and love. We have been very successful in India. Indian climate is, I think, changing very fast and people are finding it easier to take to Sahaj Yog than before. Luckily, some people were cured by Sahaj Yog which made people think about it. Apart from that, they found out, as you found out about Blake, that a gentleman, a very famous seer known as Bhrugu, who wrote the prophecies about modern times two thousand years back, has talked about Sahaja Yoga very clearly and he says that, not so precise as Blake is but, in a way, about Sahaja Yoga, that the Kundalini Shakti will be awakened in a very Sahaja way. And that it’s a new system by which thousands will get realisation. According to his proportions, in one crore. Crore is how much Gavin? Hundred thousand? Ten million? Ten Million. Among ten million people, there will be one person who will get realisation. Then these people will start giving realisation to others and so many will get their Atmasakshatkar, means Self-realisation. Also he describes about vibrations and so many things, and what happens after Read More …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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Conversation in Shri Mataji’s house Brompton Square House, London (England)

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Shri Mataji’s house in Brompton Square, London (UK), 1981 Shri Mataji: I think these people might have taken it….Ask them Yogi: I have asked them Mother, I just asked them…..And he say No…I cant physically get hold of them searching it Shri Mataji:….must be somewhere Yogi: ..You said you saw it in the morning in the..Y1: Yes in the Mother’s room…Y2: Grazyna was tidying up…she could have put it in Plastic bag also Shri Mataji: if its in My room.. Yogi: Is Grazyna there? Shri Mataji: May be something like here Yogi: See I can get it Yogi: Grazyna! Shri Mataji: Fergy! Fergy: Yes, Mother Shri Mataji: Chop it off now Fergy: There is no material now Shri Mataji: No but chopping off Fergy: Noone needs chopping off Shri Mataji: No material? What do you want? Fergy: We need some light lights Shri Mataji: Alright as soon as it comes here Shri Mataji: where is it? Fergy: Ah Nick ! Nick and Verana are…. Shri Mataji:..inaudible Fergy: They are downstairs Shri Mataji:….if you want to do something up there.. Yogi: we have to know exactly where the door is Shri Mataji: The door is here Yogi: Let me just push it in one inch..Hold the frame Yogi:…We don’t have any frame Shri Mataji: This frame is there. You have frame. Frame is there. This will hold. It will hold the… here.. Shri Mataji: We have another one. Not this one. We have another one. Very simple one. That’s just for Read More …

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House Warming Puja Brompton Square House, London (England)

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Brompton Square Ashram, London (UK), 7 December 1981 House Warming Puja, Brompton Square, London (UK), 7 December 1981. [Shri Mataji after Her arrival holds a statue of Shri Ganesha: “May God bless you. For the Portuguese. All right?”.] So today is a day of celebrating a very different type of thing, is the House of your Mother, which is called as the Mooladhara itself, no doubt. And it’s the Gauri, you see, who has to enter and stay there till you get your realisation. To come to England itself was really very well chased up and exciting, because this is the heart, where I had to come and work it out. And at this stage, when we see so many of you who are the cells, cells of this heart, who are awakened, who are so united, who know each other, who understand each other, work together, pump the blood of love, it’s really the most happiness-giving, you can say joy-giving, are the greatest fulfilment of My desire. I see you here working like small children, playing about, joyous, happy, giggling. Helping each other, learning how to be one with each other – I really feel the blessings of God have come down on this earth. You know that heart is the most important organ in the personality of the universe. And the human beings have to become aware of that point, who live here. That we have to live together, work together. If in the heart, even if there Read More …

You must grow fast Bramham Gardens, London (England)

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“You must grow fast”, Brahman Gardens Hotel, Brahman Gardens, London (England), 3 November 1981. I said certain things that day, [about] how to meditate. That is important: how to meditate. And that day I… did you hear my tape about it? How to meditate? Marie: I have not translated it to them yet because the tape was running, but I have the tape. Shri Mataji: All right. Is it hard to translate? Marie, [French translator]: No, it’s not, to say, very hard. It’s just, that was a video, you can’t just stop it. There are too many things also. Shri Mataji: But you took the tapes with you? Marie: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: So, you tell them how to meditate, it’s important, you know. And quieten yourself within. That is very important is to first of all quieten yourself, your thoughts. So how through breathing, a Sahaja Yogi can stop his thoughts through controlling the breathing.Now the thing is, one has to know that now you are Realised souls. This is the thing one has to actually believe into. And if you are that, then there are many things which must change. And the one thing we have to believe, with full confidence, is that we are now transformed. Now translate it to them. Now, if you become aware of it, then you will know that you have got power to transform yourself as well as transform others. So, you must have faith. Now faith doesn’t mean blind faith, but Read More …

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

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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 …

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Practical session, Guided meditation on Prana and Mana Bramham Gardens, London (England)

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Practical session with Sahaja yogis, Bramham Court Ashram, Brahmam Gardens, London, UK, 29th October 1981. Shri Mataji: All right? Good, good. How are you? How is the Baby? YOGINI: It feels good. SHRTI MATAJI: [Shri Mataji laughs] Hmm. Yeah. How to keep the [INDIST.]. Hallo! We give a Bandhan. Really I have forgotten. What was that about? Hmm? [to the Baby:] No, no, no, nolu, nolu, hoho. Hoho, oh ho. [all laugh] Oh. Oh. Oh. Haha. Haha. [all laugh] Aha. Haa? Aha, haa … BABY: Hm. [all laugh] Shri Mataji: He like it. [Baby breezes loudly]Yesterday’s picture upset Me so much, I couldn’t sleep the whole night. Horrifying – in one city there are three thousand children on the list who are battered and out of which every week six are killed. Can you imagine? Six are killed every week – I mean shame-full it is, I tell you. I used to think in the whole of England. It is only in one city. In Birmingham I think it was. Three-thousand children on the list and every week six are killed. Yogi: Now what use to work for the NSPCC Mother? The national, that is the national society for the prevention of cruelty to children. Shri Mataji: Ah, where? Yogi: And my wife used to work for them and …. Shri Mataji: Where was that? YOGINI: In London but it [INDIST.] country. Shri Mataji: Ah? YOGINI: [INDIST.] here to London [INDIST.] Shri Mataji: In London it is a? Yogi: Yes. Read More …

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Diwali Puja Talk: Lakshmi Principle Bramham Gardens, London (England)

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Diwali Talk, Lakshmi Principle (Shri Mataji holds a baby in Her lap) You are very happy (Mother laughs) What’s that? What is happening to you? You are very happy. All the joy. Really. All are catching here, all they (baby is sucking left Vishuddhi finger). Left Vishuddhi. Ah, all right, take him. Have they come? (Asks about some people if they have come) and we have to wait for Gavin also. (…) Come along. Hallo. How is Magda? He’s come? Good, good. May God bless you. You are all looking so nice, eh? Both of you really looking very nice. Not very cold outside, is it? No. since I’ve come I think the temperature has come up. It was very cold, was there? (…) Very happy. You can take him now. Better come. Better come. How are you, all of you? Happy? Magda? Yogini: Very happy to be here, Mother. America was difficult, not so simple, I knew that. But we’ve done it, I mean we’ve got centres now in New York, got centres in – what’s that place, is … Santa Cruz, then one, maybe in Santa Monica we might get one, and one in Los Angeles, one in…Maybe Vancouver, I don’t know, maybe they are about to have it one there, eh?. Like that. The only place we didn’t do was San Francisco. Oh this sari, looking so nice. This is all the spring colours are there, this sari. [Shri Mataji talks with yogis about saris and people Read More …

Diwali Letter London (England)

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H.H. SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI, Diwali Letter, London (UK), October 27th, 1981 Dear Sahaja Yogis, My Dear Children, May this Diwali light the lamp of love within all of you. You yourselves are like those lamps whose glow spreads far and wide, and this glow cannot be diminished by trying to cover it up. In fact, trying to conceal them makes these lamps even more powerful. This is the inherent wealth of these lamps. But sometimes negativity causes these lamps to shake and waver. What is the reason for these lamps to shake and waver? All of you please think about this. Don’t you possess a kavach (protection) to keep you from shaking and wavering? Have you forgotten your Mother’s love, and is that why you shake and waver? My love will always protect you in the same manner in which a glass covering provides protection to a lamp. But the glass has to be kept clean. In what words can I explain this to you? Will I have to say like Shri Krishna said -“Give up all other duties and surrender only to me,” or like Jesus Christ said, “I am the path and I am the entrance.” What I want to tell you is that “I am your final aim”. But will you all accept this? Will this message of mine enter your hearts? Sometimes whatever I say is distorted and twisted. But the truth is the truth. You cannot change the truth. If you try to change Read More …

The Heart of the Universe Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Heart of the Universe, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 14 September 1981. It is so heartening to see so many of Sahaj yogis seated before my eyes which are really covered with tears of joy and tremendous happiness. You have been blessed by the grace of God to become the real baptised, the real Muslim, the real Jew, the real Christian, the real Hindu. It was to be that, in England, you had to establish Jerusalem. I need not tell you again and again how important is England in the play of Divine. Those who are Realised and have experienced know it that, this is the place, this is the country, which has to circulate the spiritual powers all over the world. Even when I have travelled in Europe and other places and I’ve seen so many seekers all over – in India we have thousandfold more – despite that,  [a] very special category of people are born in England, the Heart of Universe; where the heart has to love, has to radiate, has to circulate, carry all the dirt and filth to be cleared out again. It’s nice to see how you all love me, and how you have accepted my love, but I would like you to see that you have to love yourself, you have to respect yourself, you have to have self-esteem and not to be driven into crazy ideas of self-pity and guilt. The lethargy, what we call the ‘left-sidedness’, has to be Read More …

Advice on Ekadasha Rudra Bramham Gardens, London (England)

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Advice on Ekadasha Rudra. London (UK), 4 September 1981. … In your heart, behold you there, in your heart. That, “Come and seat in the lotus feet – lotus of our heart”. Now the problem is towards this heaviness. Best thing is to clear this, for anyone.I’ll show you. Gavin, come! [Unclear] at my back. Push the photograph like this, all right?Here, somebody can help him. Ready now?[Unclear]Lethargy. It’s your heart. At your heart is your Mother’s love, the power of her love. Ah! Did you feel that? Keep your eyes open. [Inaudible]Come forward. Now if you have Left Agnya, that means there’s a possession on us, somehow. That means all of you have got something of that kind, already you’re caught up. You’re not clean. Still they are there? See now. What is the mantra for this, Gavin, for the Back Agnya?Gavin: Mahavira.Shri Mataji: No,no.Sahaja Yogi: Mahaganesha.Shri Mataji: Mahaganesha, Mahaganesha, Mahabhairava, correct. Now see, in the brain, we have got all these seats of the Gods. And they are the seats because they are the causal of these.So the first, the causal is created and then the Deities are created. So, for example, causal of the Mother Earth is fragrance, all right? So from fragrance comes the Mother Earth. In the same way, the causal of Brahmadeva is Hiranyagarbha, all right? He’s called as Hiranyagarbha. He’s the causal of Brahmadeva. Where does he stay in the brain? In the brain of the Virata, whatever Deities live, are the causal. Read More …

Seeking the Light Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Seeking the Light,” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 17 August 1981. I must thank Warren for such a nice speech that he has given and all the Australians the way they have taken to Sahaj Yoga. They are all westernised in every sense of the word but there’s something about them where I feel that they are very quick at knowing the truth. I don’t know how. They are not that adamant against the truth. This opening somehow I found. Seeking is everywhere very strong I feel: America, England, Europe. Everywhere the seeking is very strong no doubt, so there are seekers. Of course there is also a fashion of seeking apart from that. There are real seekers, no doubt about it. And as he said that ego-orientation is one of the characters in the West. That also, one would say, that it is more now in the developing countries because they are supposed to be developing. But the way these people have a special capacity to see the truth, to see the truth, is a very big thing. Even if you are a developing country or a developed country, if you cannot perceive the truth, you cannot assimilate it. That perception somehow, most surprisingly, I found in Australia: most surprising. Now for example in England I worked very hard, no doubt, for years together. People are hard nuts, you can say; and once they are cracked they are wonderful scholars. They know how to completely sort it out with their brains, Read More …

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Marriages Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

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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)

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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 …

Spreading Sahaja Yoga Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 July 1981. There are some guests from Hong Kong now let them sit down. Sahaja Yoga is such a fantastic thing that, when people get their realisation, they can’t even believe that they have got it, first of all. The other day I had a minister from one of the countries, and his wife, and he’s suffering from some mental trouble. And when we raised his Kundalini he started feeling a tremendous cool breeze in the hand and cool breeze coming out of his head. He just couldn’t believe his eyes! He couldn’t believe it. He said, “What’s all this?” I said, “How are you feeling?” He said, “I am so relaxed that I can’t think of anything! Just I can’t think. I have never been like this. This is a new thing that has happened to me!” Now we have to understand also, logically, certain things about Sahaja Yog – this I am explaining for people, those who will be now going out, and speaking about Sahaja Yoga to other people – and how to deal with people who are intellectuals. It’s important to understand what are the hurdles they have, by which they do not want to receive the message of Sahaja Yoga and what are the barriers that really create a problem for them before and after. Now we’ll deal with people who are Western people, we can say. They can be also Indians, they can be Asians, they can Read More …

Guru Purnima Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

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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 …

Where does the Truth lie? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Where does the truth lie?” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 6 July 1981. How many are new today? I am sure somebody must have spoken before, no? All right. You all have been seeking, and seeking the truth about yourself.  Where does the truth lie? When are we the most truthful people? Where, at what point, we cannot deceive, whatever we may try? When it is heartfelt. When it is our heart’s desire, then we always try to go ahead with it. But it has to be heart’s desire not the rationality, not the brain’s desire. Because you can make your brain understand. Your intelligence can be compromised. Whatever is heartfelt you want to do it. You cannot be satisfied without doing it. So, in the heart lies the truth. That is the Spirit that lies in your heart. But that is not in our conscious mind. We do not know how it manifests. We have heard that it is eternal, indestructible, is the source of joy and is the attention of God. That’s what we have heard. All such things which are preached may be regarded as hearsays. People might say, “What’s the proof that there is a Spirit in our heart?” Thank God, people have discovered the heart at least there, if not the Spirit! How are we to believe that there is Spirit – that we have a dimension which is beyond this human dimension, which is the dimension of the Spirit, the Spiritual dimension – by which Read More …

Conditioning Caxton Hall, London (England)

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1981-06-29, Conditioning, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 29 July 1981. The other day I talked to you about the left side power that we have by which we desire. In Sahaja Yoga language we call it as Mahakali power. And this power gives us the left side which is our subconscious. And the subconscious, it gives us the conditioning. Through our subconscious only we become conditioned. Now how does our subconscious take the conditioning? In between the thought there’s a very little space which we can call as the silence, as the present. But the thought, that comes to you, rises and falls off, stops for a while, and again another thought starts and falls off. The first thought that rises, we can see the rising of the thought, not the falling of it, and when it falls it goes into the subconscious. Another one also rises, it rises and again it falls [and] it goes into the subconscious. That’s how our subconscious starts building up. How do the thoughts come into us? Thought comes to us because human beings, when they look at a thing, they have a method of projecting their mind into it. If you have got a blackboard I can tell you how it happens. Can you wipe it off? I wanted to talk about this subject but it’s rather complicated. But we have to somehow or other face it sometimes in life. (Shri Mataji draws on a blackboard) This is the brain of a human (laughter). Read More …

The Mystery of God Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Mystery of God”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 8 June 1981. Yesterday you all enjoyed the music and I was very happy, at your enjoyment. Music plays a very dynamic role in human life, one has to understand that. One of the mysteries I was describing to you, last time, also, created by naad, they call it ‘naad’, you can say the logos or the first sound, the Om, the Brahma. The sound, first time, the sound that was created, when the Primordial Mother, or the Primordial Power, of Divine Love, the Power of God, separated from God Himself. God was the Witness; Witness of the Play of the Divine Power. There is no difference between the two. God Almighty, and His Power are just like the sun and his rays. For us, for human beings, this is impossible to conceive the mystery. Moreover, in our ego, we think that we can understand Him, is another mystery for me. But, to me it’s a very sweet thing to see human beings trying to comprehend the mystery of God. It’s like a little child trying to understand the table work of his father; or could be much more. But this sound, the first sound, which is described as also ‘logos’ I believe, is the sound of this Primordial Power, of this Divine Power, that has created the whole universe. Now one may say that, “How are we to believe that this sound exists?” Of course, one should not believe. But whether Read More …

The Time Of The Seekers Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Time Of The Seekers”, Caxton Hall, London (UK) … that so many seekers are born, so many of them, they are really seekers, that’s a category, a category of human beings who are seeking something beyond. It’s a fact, I mean there was never such a time before that so many seekers were born on this earth. This word was used sometimes for one single person or maybe about ten at the most but two thousand years back you could not find so many seekers on this earth. I mean they are seekers, why there is so much seeking and why people are seeking, why they have this temperament of seeking, what is the reason? There must be some reason for it and as we all know in Sahaja Yoga that the Last Judgement has started and the Last Judgement is going to work out through the Kundalini awakening and everybody is now trying to seek in some way or another, aah the whole pattern has worked out in such a way that the seekers are born at this time and they have a background too. They are not just seekers today. I mean you were as you know that, you were evolved, evolved from a unicellular animal and then now today you are a human being and there are people who are human beings otherwise also same way as you are but you are a category no doubt about it, there is a cateogry of people who are Read More …

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

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“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 …

Real baptism Selfridges, London (England)

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Public Program at Selfridges (department store, organized by a yogini who worked there). London (UK), 20 May 1981. The scriptures they have talked about our second birth, that you have to be born again. And it is a vague talk one doesn’t know what’s that mean, to be born again. For example Christians say you should be baptized. And Hindus say you have to be twice born. Muslims say you have to become a [pink / PIR ?] but nobody knows what is that mean, at least they haven’t been able to explain it very clearly. But if it is written in all these scriptures either they were all wrong or false or there is some truth about it. If there is some truth, it has to be revealed sometime. Now the time has come that the truth has to be revealed. And it’s such a precarious time that if the truth is not revealed we are out for a complete destruction of this universe. If the humanity has to be saved, if this creation has to be saved then God Himself has to do something about it. Because He would not like His creation to be destroyed. And the most beautiful thing that God has created is the human beings, perhaps you won’t believe it, and you think it is not true because our experience may not tell us that but it is the fact. It is the most delicate, most sensitive and the most alert being created by Read More …

The Right Side Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Right Side,” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 18 May 1981. I’ll talk to you about the Right Side, Right Side sympathetic nervous system, which is expressed by our subtle energy of Mahasaraswati, which gives us the power to act. By [the] Left Side we desire and by using the Right Side, the power of Pingala Nadi, we act. I was telling you about the Right Side the other day. Let us see how our Right Side is built up. I am sorry for people who have come for the first time but every time when I start the introduction to the subject, again it becomes the same but later on I’ll explain to you about Sahaj Yoga. Now this Right Side, Pingala Nadi, is a very, very important energy-giving energy which makes us act and activate. Now this one is made of all the five elements: you know all the five elements that have created our physical being and our mental being. That’s how it helps us to work out all our physical and mental problems, mental activities and mental and physical growth. Now this, being made by those five elements, when, first time, human beings started thinking of doing some action, about anything, say in India, they first thought, “Why not, somehow or other, reach to the principle of these elements, which is beyond physics, which is beyond chemistry?” And to reach to that point, they thought it would be better if we try to invoke or to awaken Read More …

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

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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 …

Christ and Forgiveness Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Christ and Forgiveness, Caxton Hall (UK),” 11 May 1981. …to seek the truth about which all the scriptures have described. All the scriptures have said, “That you are to be born again.” You are to be born, not to read about it, not to just imagine that you are born again, not to just believe that you are born again or any artificial ritual that certifies that you are born again is to be accepted, but something definitely has to happen with us. Some experience of reality must take place within us. It’s not just an idea that it is so, “Yes, yes we are born again! Now we are the chosen ones, we are the best people.” But definitely there’s something evolutionary that should manifest within us [which] has been predicted by all the scriptures, no exception at all. Right from Hinduism up to the most modern personality, [which] we can say, is the new Guru Nanaka, is the one who wrote a scripture. In the Koran it is very clearly said that you have to become the pir, the one who has the knowledge. Vedas itself says that, “By reading the Vedas” – veda means, vida means, ‘to know’ – “if you do not know then it is useless.” In the first chapter in the first stanza. It’s so clearly said there that you have to know! Something has to happen to our awareness, which does not know. That means that we are, so far, away from the Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis London (England)

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1981-0510 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, London, UK Today I think we should first of all talk about organizing Sahaja Yoga in England. How we can do it and lets have it in a very informal way. How do we propose to spread Sahaja Yoga in England? That is important. I have been here now two, three, four months and I would like to have your ideas about it. But before we start that you have to see that what Australia has done, how they have worked it out it’s better to see because their performance has been really good and we have to learn from them, Australia is the land of Shri Ganesh and Shri Ganesha’s miraculous powers are working perhaps because so many things have happened so suddenly and so beautifully there that you can say that you are amazed at it you see and it starts with a miracle always. I have seen something happens. These people went back and say they wanted to have an ashram so that this miracle. They have no house for so long they can’t get any house here. It’s such a big house . It’s very difficult nobody is willing to give us on rent. So we have to take a house on a frustrating sort of a thing. When we start half of the money you pay now and part later on. It’s very expensive to do that way. So somehow I told her that she was so frantic I said, Read More …

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

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“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)

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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)

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“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 …

You Are Part of the Divine Being Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“You Are Part of the Divine Being”. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 1 December 1980. I could not accommodate all of you in my house then I thought better to come here all of you would fit here! And today is the last day for our Sahaj Yogis (before Mother’s trip to India). We have to understand certain very, very important things about ourselves and our organisation that is divine. Now, in broad lines I can tell you, not individual problems and individual things because you are no more individuals now. You have become part and parcel of the Divine Being and you are awakened cells and so in a broad way we must understand what we have to do about it. First thing, we have to know that we are Realised souls, and that you have got Realisation and that you are saints; that you have all the powers that a saint could have. No saint ever had more powers than you have, as it is, which is manifesting. No saint had any knowledge that you have today. You’ll be amazed, none of the books which have been written so far have been able to tell you about the spiritual being that is within you as you have come to know through Sahaja Yoga. One has to accept it. It is so. Any one of them, whosoever has written any books – even, I would say, Adi Shankaracharya, he could not explain so many things which you know. But the Read More …

Are You Seekers? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Are You Seekers? Caxton Hall, London (UK), 24 November 1980. …that has to be first realised – what is your category. And if you are that category, of the category which is seeking beyond what you have and that you are not satisfied with what you have already, then you are the category of seekers who have been seeking something that is very subtle, that is not gross, not intelligible through your sensory organs. How it happens within us – it is very interesting to see. Within us, as I have told you, there are these subtle centres which have developed through the process of our evolution. Through the process of our evolution we have become human beings. While we were becoming human beings, all these centres have been also evolving within us. These centres are placed in the spinal cord, in the centre of the spinal cord, and they manifest outside grossly on [the] physical level, as plexuses. As they are evolving inside, also the outside, the gross plexuses are also evolving. For example, animals do not insure their lives, do they? They have fear. They know how to react to a fear but they do not know how to insure. After some time the animals forget their children. Animals can pass through any filth, any dirt, any untidiness. They don’t understand tidiness, neatness. Animals do not organise. Animals don’t plan. They do sometimes when they have to catch hold of a prey, but that too, not too far. Read More …

Spirit is the purpose of life Stratford, London (England)

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Public Program, “The purpose of life,Spirit is the purpose of life”. Stratford (UK), 13 November 1980. She [Maureen] has already told you, how it works out. Now what are we living for? You have to think about. Is it just for earning money, earning more, putting some money in the bank, or for the insurance? Are we working for that? If money was everything, then you would have been the happiest people here because even if you are not working, you can get money in England, no problem. But that’s not the last thing. Those people who have less money could be much happier than the people who have money. Sometimes money can give you a headache, you see, and a kind of a intoxication. Then what is it that makes human beings happy? When I walk on the streets, say, in the West End if I walk, I find the people in West End are not at all happy, while in East End they are happier people, no doubt, because perhaps they know how to live with little less than what is required. And all the West End people want to always have more and more than what they require. Perhaps, they are more worried how to get more things. East End I’ve been always visiting and somehow, I have a great faith that here in East End, one day it will come that lots of seekers will be born in this part. As it is, I feel that Read More …

The Eternal Spirit Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Eternal Spirit, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 10 November 1980. (A yogi introduces Shri Mataji as well as Sir CP who is attending the program for the first time, having just been unanimously re-elected as Secretary General of the IMO.) Shri Mataji: Somebody has done some introduction, has someone done? Peter? Is he there? Peter, you have to talk to these people about what I told you. Today we are going to have a short session, because you are all invited today to a dinner after the programme. Thus, host is my husband who wants to invite you and he’ll be coming about 8:15 or 8:30. So, today we are going to think about our Spirit, which we have neglected throughout. We are not even conscious that we have a Spirit. Through Sahaj Yoga those who are now conscious, because they can feel it through their vibrations, they can also get lost and can forget it. The Spirit is the only eternal thing within us, all the rest are transitory and evolutionary. Everything goes into evolution and the better is the evolution, the higher the Spirit starts manifesting itself. Like the reflection on the stone of even the sun is zero. And the reflection of the sun on the lake is sometimes I think, is a reflection that is felt in the Sahaj Yogis, when they see it, feel it, it flows, they can feel the breeze in their hand. But still their attention is not fully enlightened. The Spirit Read More …

All the seekers Lambeth College Vauxhall Centre, London (England)

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Public Program, “All are Seekers”. Vauxhall Centre, London (UK), 6 November 1980. You are seekers. And that’s a category of human beings. Everybody do it from choice. That’s one thing I have discovered. Some are Seekers who are argument seekers, generally speaking. Some are just sort of fashions which are there; they are because they see everybody seeking so they must have the fashion of seeking. And there are another category also who are not seeking God but are seeking something else and find God. They are special cases, somehow. In any case this seeking has given them sensation as only the manifestation of the seeeking has been changing. At the start with the amoeba we had a seeking of self. You were just seeking food. You were worried about food and nothing else. Here is the centre of seeking within us which is called as Nabhi Chakra which is the green centre in the picture. There is the Nabhi Chakra which is for our seeking. This centre is a subtle centre. All these centres that you see here are subtle centres. You cannot see that with naked eye unless und until you have your Kundalini union which is settled down in the triangular bone there. Now this Kundalini is very well settled in human beings that as amoeba your seeking was very limited. Like the seed sprouts you started developing new seed. When you became a human being you started seeking power. The first people who were human being Read More …

We Are All One Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“We Are All One”, Public Programme, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 3 November 1980. Today there are many new people I see again. It’s so heartening to see new flowers coming up every day to become the fruits. It’s so joy giving to know that I am here at the right time, when people are really seeking. They are really seeking to be transformed. They really believe that something has to happen to them. They are aware that there’s something lacking in the whole human personality, in the human race, that we cannot overcome the hurdles which look and appear absolutely absurd and illogical. So many problems we have individually, socially, politically, economically, appear very clearly: it is so evident to understand that the human fibre is lacking in something; that it’s the human beings who are responsible for this chaotic world, for all this modern confusion. For God has created a beautiful world, I assure you. It’s really a very beautiful world and He has created you also very beautifully. You all are very beautiful people, extremely beautiful. You cannot feel your beauty: then how can others feel your beauty? Because the light that shows your beauty is not there. You have fragrance, which is the fragrance of all the flowers put together. You are the essence of all the beauties of nature that is created; all the symphonies and all the music that you hear. All the art that you have created has come from you. That is your Read More …

What do we expect from Self-realisation? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What do we expect from Self-realisation? Caxton Hall, London (UK), 27 October 1980. The other day I was telling you about our growth within, after Self-realisation. The germination takes place very easily; the Kundalini rises very easily; also pierces the fontanelle bone area very easily. That is really, as you call it, ‘Sahaja’. It’s a tremendous happening. It takes thousands of years for people to get realisation. That’s also a fact. They had to be born again and again and very few selected got realisation. But today, as I said, the time has come for many flowers to become fruits. So this happening doesn’t take much time, it’s just [a] split of a second in many people. But about the growth I was talking last time, I ended up at Self-realisation, what is Self-realisation is and what do we expect from Self-realisation. The first thing that happens to you, as you know, when the Kundalini rises, [is] that you start feeling physically better; your health improves. Though the Kundalini rises from the centre most nadi, called as Brahmanadi, inside the Sushumna, in the central part. And first thing that happens is the physical being which is helped. That is not the innermost core of every centre. The innermost core of every centre is the Spiritual. But how is it [that] first the physical being is helped? Is very interesting to see. The Kundalini rises through many centres, passes through Agnya, pierces through fontanelle, and becomes one with the All-pervading Power. Read More …

The Way of Kundalini Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Way of Kundalini”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 October 1980. It is said that Sahaja Yoga is the culmination of all the yogas. But it is a very contradictory statement because Yoga means union with God. Then how can it be culminating? That means the first thing we have to know is the meaning of Yoga is the union with God. If union with God is the thing, then how can it be culminating? I mean that is what it is. So others are not yogas. They are maybe stepping stones. Till you have not met Me you have not met Me. Before that whatever you have done. For example you got into the car, then you got into the train. You came all over here. Still it is not Yoga. Till you have not received your Self-Realisation it is not Yoga. So all other yogas should not be called as yogas as far as union with God is concerned. So what is the meaning of word Yoga in other sense, like Raja Yoga they call it and other yogas they have got. Like Manana Yoga, means meditation Yoga. And other systems, many other systems they try to preach about. Like Hatha Yoga. Then I saw today some more names about it, Sanyasa Yoga. So Yoga has become sort of a tale for all the names that have something to do with God I believe. But it has no meaning. Because if the culmination is Sahaja Yoga, then other Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Spreading Sahaja Yoga in Europe London (England)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Spreading Sahaja Yoga in Europe So today I called this meeting because, you see, big announcement of Gregoire getting married. He’s been very sweet to his bride. I liked it. He was very gentle and nice and really took it in the proper sense. I know Rajesh also came with his fiance. He is getting married in August 12th. And the another thing is about how to develop England and Europe together. In England a very substantial force is there no doubt. But we have to think about how to propagate. Now I have thought of one or two things which are lacking in Sahaja Yoga in here, I think. One of them is we have no publicity done. We have not been able to get people for publicity. Now this Times fellow; before I leave, we have to do something about it. You can take it, note it down, it would be better. Note it. (Sahaja yogis talking) [NOT CLEAR] better be written down some points, will be better. Behind Me, paper and pencil, you take. (Sahaja yogis talking) So what is that you’re taking? It’s better to write it down in short. Agnya? Alright. Everybody is catching left Agnya. Look at her, with the hands she is trying to… I mean cover her feet or if you have socks, better. It is getting blue with that. Hmm…it’s cold. o, first this gentleman, what was his name? Mascar or whatever it was, to be contacted. Read More …

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

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“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)

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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 …