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Kundalini: The Feminine Divine Power is within you Royal Albert Hall, London (England)

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1994-0605 Public Program Royal Albert Hall, London UK – H.H Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Hello! [Taps mic]  Alright? “I bow to all the seekers of truth” At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot describe it and you cannot say you know the truth. Unless and until you now it, it is not truth. It is a very big problem that people believe they know the truth, they know the truth which they have understood through their mental capacity, but if [Shri Mataji clears throat] the truth was known to everyone there would be no problems, no quarrels, no discussions no arguments and no wars! We have to know the absolute truth, when we know the absolute truth there is no question of getting into discussion or taking another point of view. I am sitting her before you, you all know I am sitting before you, nobody can say I am not sitting before you because you can see it, but the absolute truth is to be felt on your central nervous system. [Shri Mataji clears throat] This knowledge has been known in our country, in your country and every country – but by very few people. The knowledge, which is earned through your evolutionary process, is the knowledge. When you evolve to a human state you have not yet completed your evolution is visible the way you are fighting, quarreling and behaving in the worst manner that Read More …

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Experience the Truth on your Centres Royal Albert Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Royal Albert Hall, London (UK), 24 June 1993. Shri Mataji: It’s all right. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot conceptualize it, with this human awareness. We have to be in another state where we can understand it, know it, on our central nervous system. Whatever we have achieved in our evolutionary process we can feel it on our central nervous system. In the same way we have to feel the truth, the absolute, on our finger tips. It has to be tangible. It’s not a make belief, it’s not a blind faith, but one has to experience it, on the central nervous system. But the problem is that so far, those who achieved something also of this nature, were singled out and they were never respected. A great poet, Kabir, says that, “How am I to explain anything? The people are so blind.” Even William Blake* was treated as a lunatic in this country. It was impossible for these seers, these prophets, to explain, to talk about the Divine. But, till they lived, nobody understood them and followed them. And then when they were no more, people built mosques, temples, churches. And when we see the mess of these religions we are surprised, how can it be. How can people kill each other in the name of God? How can they make money, the way they Read More …

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The last judgement is here now and the kundalini is going to judge you Royal Albert Hall, London (England)

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Public Program Day 2, Royal Albert Hall, London (UK) June 12th 1992 I bow to all the seekers of truth.I’ve already told you that truth is what it is, we cannot change it, we cannot conceptualise it. With this human perspective, we cannot know it. If this is the case, then we have to understand that in our evolutionary process that something more has to happen. Because as we see, take case of religions. You may be Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh anyone, you can be branded as anything when you are born into any family, but you are capable of doing any sin. Any sin can be committed. There is nothing to debar you. So as if this religion that we are proclaiming is outside, it’s not within us, it’s not innate.Yesterday I told you about science (unclear). That it is (unclear), it does not relate to your spirit, to your soul, it does not give you any human dimension. For science, you are not a human being, you are a robot. Same with modern psychology, you are not a human being but you are a sex point. With medical science, as I told you yesterday, the advent of this theory of DNA, they will just tell you what is your origin but they cannot tell you what is your future, and the future is so great, which we have to know. We don’t have to go to our past. There’s a gentleman, a muslim gentleman, I’m happy he asked Read More …

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The Inner Force is Teaching Us Royal Albert Hall, London (England)

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Public Program Day 1. Royal Albert Hall, London (UK), 11 June 1992. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it. We cannot conceptualize it. We have to know it. For example, today science has become our God. But you can’t know truth through science. It may solve some problems, one by one, but it is not conclusive. It doesn’t reach you anywhere. It has created this problem, as you know, the conference in New York from where the Goddess [sounds like a person’s name] has come just now. [?] was telling Me the story that they don’t know what to do, how to solve the problem. Then the violence. It cannot stop violence because it is amoral. It has no morality in it. It doesn’t tell you how to transcend. It doesn’t tell you that you are a spirit. He doesn’t know we can say it does not know what the soul is. It does work out in a way, but I must say Sahaja Yoga works out much faster, in a much simpler way. And if you take to Sahaja Yoga you’ll be convinced, despite all your conditionings and cynicism, that Sahaja Yoga is the Meta Science, is above science, above. With Sahaja Yoga, once you get your realization automatically you get cured, automatically. This Kundalini which is your Mother, individual Mother, She rises, passes through these centers and these centers Read More …

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Shri Buddha Puja Talk: The Search for the Absolute Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Shri Buddha Puja. Shudy Camps, near Cambridge (England). 31 May 1992. Today we have assembled here to do Shri Buddha Puja. I don’t know how many of you have read of Buddha’s life, and how ultimately He achieved His enlightenment. I don’t know how many of you have really seen the Buddhists or have met them, those who call themselves Buddhist. As in every religion, all of them got lost into some sort of a fundamentalism, because none of them got realisation. And that’s why everybody established their own style of religion, even you can say that Tao of Lao Tse also, or Zen of Bodhidharma, all of them are off-shoots of the same. We have to see how He first felt that one has to seek something beyond life, once we are very much satisfied with whatever we have. Because He was a king’s son, He had a very nice wife, He had a son, and naturally anybody in that position would be quite satisfied. But He saw a very sick man one day, He saw a beggar and also He saw a dead man, and everybody crying for that dead person. He couldn’t understand how this misery has come and what is the need to have this misery. So He gave up His family, He gave up His luxuries of life, everything He gave up and went in search of the truth, as many of you have done. He would have been lost also, I would say, because Read More …

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First we must feel the reality Hammersmith Town Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Hammersmith Town Hall, London (UK), 14 September 1990. I bow to all the seekers of truth.At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot organize it, we cannot mold it. Also we cannot know it at the stage when we are human beings, with human awareness we cannot know it. So we have to become a super human being, a higher personality. What is said that you have to be the Spirit, you have to be the Self. In all the scriptures, in all the religions it has been said that you have to be the Spirit. I mean we see the turmoil and the problems of the world that are completely show us clearly that there is so much of a mess and most of them are the problems created by human beings. We have to do some introspection and some soul searching and we have to find out, after all, why we human beings have created all these problems for ourselves. We have had philosophies, we have ideologies, we have so many kinds of enterprises but despite that there are so many differences and the differences are having larger and larger gaps. If it is the truth, it has to be the truth for everyone. Everyone has to say: “This is The Truth”. But it has to be the Absolute Truth. If it is not the Absolute Truth then what we believe into is not the reality. And this Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: Awakening of Shri Krishna Within Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England)

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Shri Krishna Puja. (UK), 19 August 1990. We have arranged this Puja specially in England so that many more can come and work out the awakening of Shri Krishna. Gita was written long time back, and it has been translated into so many languages, and lots of commentaries and criticism has been there. So this bookish knowledge of Gita has ruined many people, and even today you find there are many people who are selling the books of Gita all over and making it into a bookish knowledge. I don’t think Krishna ever thought that His knowledge will be sold out like this to every Tom, Dick and Harry. As now, as you know, the Jehovah’s Witness, they also selling Bible. So it has become a marketing company for Shri Krishna’s Gita. There have been lots of horrible things against the real religion of ascent, and Krishna has said, “Whenever there is the decline of religion,” which is true today very much, “and whenever there is the saints being tortured, I come on this earth to save the saints, and to destroy all the negative forces and the devils,” as you call them, rakshasas. Pushtas they are called as, cruel people. So awakening of Krishna is very important, that within us He should arise and He should manifest His qualities within us. Then only the forces will work out. Krishna, as a child, killed so many rakshasas. Then He played with gopis just to open their Kundalini; He had the Read More …

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Sir CP Presentation and Shri Mataji short talk Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England)

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Sir CP Presentation and Shri Mataji short talk Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich,England,1990 [Starts at 12:12] Shri Mataji: I must say mister Srivastava’s speech was so embarrassing that I got frozen into the chair. [Big laughter] I don’t know what is the program now is, but I would like to know how many are going back this evening to the airport? Hardly very few. Of course, you see, what I was thinking that you all could have your lunch and then we could come for the puja. The puja is going to last for about three hours, at least two and a half hours, so you’ll be free at about five o’clock if you don’t mind. [Laughter. Applause] So I have not consulted doctor Spiro but I’d better ask him. [Laughter] It’s one thirty already, you see, thanks to the sahaj method of the nature, the rain starts a long time. Alright, doesn’t matter, now it has stopped and everything is fine but still, I would say, let them have their lunch and then we can have the puja later on. There are hardly three, four people who are going this evening. So, it’s nice we can spend more time together. [Laughter. Applause] There’s a – one thing is that we are beyond time, “kalatit”: we are beyond time and we adjust everything according to our own rhythm, we are not bothered about this Swiss watch. I hope it’s Swiss. [Laughter] Mine always is out of order, so it’s alright. [Laughter] Read More …

Shri Krishna Havan Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England)

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Shri Krishna Havan, 1990-08-18 So we have today a special day for America and Canada this Havan I was thinking we should specially dedicate to the awakening of American and Canadian people. On one side all modernism has given us so many things for Sahaja yoga for example, this loudspeaker, this one, then we have little planes that I can travel, at the time of Christ nobody could think of that. Then we have television and one can give Realization on television. So many things there are. So, the quality of communication which is the quality of Virata of the Vishuddhi Chakra is being manifested and we are using it and is of a great help to Sahaja yoga. This is on one side.               On the other side I find there are certain recognitions which we have got from America which we could not get anywhere. For example, we have got these procession of a church, which is the highest as a religion in America. That we could not have got anywhere else. I mean, in England you cannot even think of it. In England only there is only one religion and that is [unclear text] and the situation is on the other side now. So, the freedom which we have used has given us lots of benefits and also whatever things we have used which have come out of their communication advancement has helped us a lot. But these things are also used by other people so there is Read More …

Speeches in Honor of Sir C. P. Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England)

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1990-08-18 Speeches in Honor of Sir C.P. Transcript of Speeches in Honor of Sir C.P. 1990-08-18Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England) Shri Mataji: I said, “How?” They said, “See now, it’s a natural thing. Handmade”.  [Sahaja Yogis laughing]. “And the grass? Is God made or man-made?”  He said, “See we put the grass and do some [UNCLEAR]”.  [Laughter] I mean, I thought some birds would come and pick it up and make it into a nest for themselves. Or you might find in the night, if you put the hat to one side, there is a little bird right there – little, little birdies saying something. [Laughter]. See, this is – I mean, it sounds so idiotic to you but is done as a craze you see. And a craze is a good word to suggest. “This is a craze, you see”. It is madness. But they do it. And so our attention is ruined all the time, all the time. So we go to a higher level you see. We start an anti-culture business. “No, this is not good. This is not good”.  So, the other day, walking in America I was surprised. Most of them had their pants all torn, especially in this part. [UNCLEAR]. They were all torn. Such big, big openings. I was wondering what was the matter. And they were made, specially made – it’s called stonewash – and cut, cut like that. Imagine. Worse than beggars. I mean people do not have respect for themselves. Do Read More …

Pre-Shri Krishna Puja Talk and 2nd Evening Talk Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Ipswich (England)

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Evening before Shri Krishna Puja. Ipswich (UK), 17 August 1990. On the day of Sri Krishna Puja, I’m going to tell you about Sri Krishna. But before that, we should know how the whole thing evolved from Sri Vishnu’s evolutionary process. So, as you know there were ten Avataras, ten incarnations of Sri Vishnu. Now Vishnu is the one which grows to be the Virat, to be the macrocosm as they call it, and this Vishnu principle is very well established within us. As a result of that only, we also seek and we seek money, power, love, families, children, all kinds of things we seek. That is only through- because of the Vishnu principle within us. But the biggest thing about the Vishnu principle is that it gave us evolution by which we evolve. Also, we evolved in the social structure, the political structure, the economic structure. We also evolved. India, I mean, I would say, India was once upon a time, you see, a slave country. Then democracy came in, and the English had to give up India, because they learned that if they have to make a majority rule in India, then there are more Indians than English. So they had to give up in any case. So, wisdom came over and they gave up, you see. So, what happens, that we learned gradually when we start facing the problems that we ourselves have created. When we start seeing what are the problems are, then we get Read More …

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Easter Puja: You Have To Grow Vertically Eastbourne (England)

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“You have to grow vertically,” Easter Puja, Eastbourne (UK), 22 April 1990. Today we are here to worship the resurrection of Christ; and also to thank Him for giving us an ideal life of a saint who has to work for the benevolence of the whole world. We talk of Christ, we sing of Shri Ganesha, we say we believe in Him, specially Sahaj Yogis feel He is the eldest brother that they have. And a tremendous surrender I find, among Western Sahaj Yogis specially, for Christ; because they were born in Christian religion perhaps, maybe; or maybe that they found Christ’s life a very special one. But to Sahaj Yoga He has to be much more than that, and to you Sahaj Yogis. Many people believe in many deities. Like some believe in Shri Krishna, some in Shri Rama, some in Buddha, some in Mahavira and some in Christ; all over the world, they do believe in some higher being. But this belief is without the connection, to begin with, and becomes a kind of a falsehood that they think that Christ belongs to them, Rama belongs to them or Shri Krishna belongs to them, that they are the possessors of all these deities because they have obliged of believing into it. And that is how most of the faiths have come.  And, though they ardently believe in Christ, all these faiths have failed because when they believed in Christ, they believed that, through Christ, they can get their Read More …

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A new jump has to be taken, Talk, Eve Of Easter Puja Eastbourne (England)

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“A New Jump Has To Be Taken”, Evening before Easter puja. Eastbourne (UK), 21 April 1990. Very nice to see you all here for Easter Puja. Very nice! Such a pleasure, such a joy. As if I feel, the resurrection working fast.  The year 1990 has come now, as a special year for all of us. Sahaj Yoga is going to spread very fast, no doubt; everywhere, all over the world, I know that. It has to spread. And also I told you that a new jump has to be taken by all the Sahaj Yogis. To explain it we’ll say that Sahaj Yoga is spreading in a horizontal manner, the plane is horizontal, and you are responsible for that work. You are working it out no doubt. Because of you it has spread. Some of you have gone all out to work it out, to spread it to villages, to surrounding places, different countries. Also the events, world events, have helped us a lot and Sahaj Yoga has worked in a very big way. Maybe it will be difficult for us to really balance it out.  But when we move horizontally we must also know that we have to move vertically. Otherwise, what will happen is that we’ll lose in quality. Quantity may be quite a lot but we’ll lack in quality. And if the quality goes down then you will see many will fritter away.  So we have to look after our vertical ascent which is very important. Read More …

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Interview London (England)

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Interview, London, UK, 1989-12-06 Interviewer: So are you ready, just to… Shri Mataji you started Sahaja Yoga in India in 1970. Could you please tell us about those days? Shri Mataji: First I thought that better start from one person. And I tried to give realisation to one lady. Cameraman: I’m sorry. Shri Mataji: At that time – Interviewer: Okay, thank you. This is just a test. Cameraman: I’m sorry Shri Mataji we just have to test the noise. So now we can go. Shri Mataji: It’s all right, no no, then again I said… Cameraman: Now we can go so. Shri Mataji: All right. Interviewer: Oh no, it’s come undone (background decoration). Is there more tape there? Where’s that tape? Shri Mataji: Is Paul having some tape? Interviewer: Where’s it gone? Technician: Pause it, Nick. That paused. Cameraman: Okay, time Her in. Ten seconds, Nick. Interviewer: Ten seconds, okay. Cameraman: Okay, go. Interviewer: Shri Mataji you started Sahaja Yoga in India in 1970. Could you please tell us about those days? Shri Mataji: First I had to discover it Myself, how I will be able to give amass realisation, that was one problem. But when I worked it out then I thought first let us try with one person and there was a very nice lady, very pure personality. I tried on her gradually by clearing every centre and she got it! Then I said it has clicked. Then I taught people who were coming… Cameraman: I am sorry, Read More …

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Shri Mataji leaving UK after 16 yrs residence Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Farewell Talk. Shudy Camps (England), 3 December 1989. Have you got that album also? Just to read. I have to thank you all for giving money for the presents for Indians. From the Indian side I would like to thank you all for doing that. And I hope you all have done it. Indians are waiting for Sahaja Yogis and they are regretting that some of you are not coming. And we’ll be celebrating Christmas in Puna in a big way. And I hope you all will celebrate Christmas, if you want you can come here and celebrate the way you want to do it. Now you know that Mr. Srivastava has retired. As a result of that I also won’t be staying here for longer periods, come here for short periods, may be for at the most month or so. Now it is your responsibility to spread Sahaja Yoga. Each person can do a lot. In every country it has worked this way. We’ll be having about three Ashrams established, but every house is an Ashram and I was happy that also in Harrow they are having some program. I hope he is here, is he here – Malcolm? He wrote to Me that he wants to start a program in Harrow. In the same way in whatever locality you live you can advertise to begin with – gradually it will move. You know that Sahaja Yoga started with one person. So you shouldn’t mind, in the beginning they Read More …

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10th Day of Navaratri, Depth and Contentment Butlins Grand Hotel, Margate (England)

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Navaratri Puja, “Destroy the demons inside yourselves”. Margate (UK), 8 October 1989. It was very spontaneously decided that we should have the Devi Puja in England. And this is the place where really Devi Puja should be, because it’s the place of Sadashiva and where Adi Shakti should be worshipped. We have to today understand that why do we do Devi Puja? What is the reason for this Devi Puja? What do we get out of it? What are we supposed to achieve in our contents within ourselves? The first thing is that Kundalini is the Devi. She’s the reflection of the Adi Shakti. So when you worship Devi, first you worship also your own Kundalini by giving Her credit because She has given you this realization. It’s much deeper understanding than normally people have about the Devi Puja because they are not realized souls. Their Kundalini not is awakened. So normally when they do Devi Puja it’s for the purpose of getting realization so that the Devi should be pleased – prasanna – and should give them realization, or must get our chance to get to somebody who will give them realization. But you are at a different level now. So it’s more of a thanksgiving to your own Kundalini and to Adi Shakti, glorifying that whatever has happened so miraculously is because of the Kundalini which was within you, which was reflected by the Adi Shakti. But one has to know that only we are realized souls is Read More …

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8th Day of Navaratri, Talk to English Yogis on Style and Content Butlins Grand Hotel, Margate (England)

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Talk to English Yogis, 8th day of Navaratri, Margate, 6th October 1989 Today is the eighth day of the Devi puja and, on this day, the power of Kali acts and She is the one called as Samhara Kali, meaning the one who destroys all the evil forces. So it is a very good day, that we have a puja here, in England. I am very happy about it.  My spectacles? In my purse, I think. Where is she? She’s got it? Now, I was thinking that I should talk to the UK Sahaj Yogis, because very important.  I’ll be completing now sixteen years of my stay in UK and I have really found such love and such goodness about you people. Now next year, I will not be staying here because my husband is going to be transferred and of course and I’ll be coming back and for a month or so, I could be with you, maybe much more closer than I have been so far. But there’s something that I think I should warn you people, because now I’m receiving lots of letters about Gavin [Brown] asking, “Why Gavin has become like that? What’s gone wrong with him?” Perhaps everybody seems to quite frightened to see these things happening and to some other Sahaj Yogis also.  Because in other countries, when the Sahaj Yogis go out of Sahaj Yoga, they don’t get after me, or they don’t get after Sahaj Yoga or Sahaj Yogis. But they think Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: They have to come back again and again Saffron Walden (England)

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Shri Krishna Puja. Saffron Walden (England), 14 August 1989. Today we have gathered here to worship Shri Krishna’s incarnation. As you know that Shri Krishna is the incarnation of Narayana, of Shri Vishnu. So in every incarnation they carry all their qualities, all their powers and all their nature with them. So when He incarnated He had all the qualities of Narayana and then that of Rama, but every incarnation tries to rectify whatever in their previous life has been misunderstood and have been carried to the extremes. That’s why they have to come back again and again. So as Shri Vishnu, when He thought of taking His incarnation, because He is the one who is the preserver. He’s the preserver of this creation and also the preserver of dharma. So when He took His incarnation He had to see that people keep to their dharma. By keeping the dharma all right only, you could get your realization. So the job was quite difficult one, I should say, to keep people in the central path of Mahalakshmi. So by first incarnation, you can say that, He tried to create a benevolent king, as Shri Rama. Socrates has described a benevolent king. But as a result of that, people started thinking if they have become queen and king, born in the family of royalty, then they are gods. Shri Rama was the Purushottama – means He was the best among all the human beings. That means He incarnated as a human Read More …

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First Know thyself Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program Day 2, Porchester Hall, London (UK), 1 August 1989. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to understand that truth is what it is. We cannot conceptualize it. We cannot organize it. And we cannot use it for our own purposes. Moreover, with the blinkers on both the sides like a horse, with all our conditionings, we cannot find the truth. We have to be free people. We have to be open minded people, like scientists, to see for ourselves what is the truth. If somebody preaches something, professes something, says something, is not to be accepted blindfolded. As I told you yesterday, that the essence of all the religions is to find the eternal and to treat the transitory in its own understanding and in its own limitations. That’s why we have lost our balance. If we are really the people who want to know the truth, we have to know that at human awareness we cannot know it. It becomes a concept. You have to have the spiritual awareness, but spiritual awareness is a state of your being, where you become the spirit. Again the word I’ll say – “become.” It’s not artificially certifying somebody that now you have become a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim, you become anything. Because you may be a Muslim, Christian, Hindu, anything, you can commit any sin. You can do anything that is wrong. Nothing from inside is going to stop Read More …

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Spiritual music cleanse the limbic area Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public program, Porchester hall, England, 1989-31-07 [Talk starts at 10:52] I bow to all the seekers of truth. Just now you were listening to a folk song which was written by a great saint called Nama Deva about 1200 century. This great poet has written in this poem about asking the Mother for the yoga, is the union with the Divine power. In many ways he has promised that he will give up all the bad relationships he has had with greed, lust, with hatred and with all other – these destroying qualities which cling to human beings and make him subservient. It is very beautifully written but the last one is so beautiful that he says that, “I would like to have the complete ‘bodha’”. Now this ‘bodha’ word is coming as you have heard about Buddha. Bodha. ‘Bodh’ means that you have to feel this All-pervading power on your central nervous system. It is not just a mental protection. It is not a certificate. It is not following any cult or sect or religion outwardly. But something happening on your central nervous system is bodha. And from there, there is another word which we call as ‘vidha’ which means- from where Veda has come. Veda means also to know your central nervous system. So, it is not just a mental projection that, “I believe in it, I believe in that; I believe”. But who are you? First of all, find out who you are. What are you believing? Read More …

Radio interview, A question of Belief L B C, London (England)

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Radio interview, A question of Belief, L B C, London (England) July 30th, 1989 Interviewer: For many years now there’s been a growing interest in this country what are commonly known as the Eastern Mystical Religions and they aren’t very well understood, today in the studio with me is Her Holiness Shri Mataji: Nirmala Devi, now she is the leader of the Sahaja Yoga movement. Mataji, welcome to the studio, let’s take off by looking at the beliefs of the Sahaja Yoga movement. Shri Mataji: Sahaja Yoga is a system by which you get spontaneously your Self-realisation, your self-knowledge by a happening that is within you. In a triangular bone called as sacrum, meaning “sacred”, lies a power which rises and pierces through your fontanel bone area which was a soft bone in your childhood. And then on your central nervous system, you can feel the Collective Consciousness. A new dimension is manifested. Interviewer: So, this starts by happening at birth, which is when people have the soft head as it were. Shri Mataji: No, it in a dormant state and like a seed as in dormant state, a tree, but when the seed is planted into the Mother Earth, spontaneously it sprouts because a living process and evolution is also a living process, so spontaneously it happens when it gets congenial atmosphere. Interviewer: What then is the congenial atmosphere, when a person actually accepts the teachings? Shri Mataji: They don’t have to accept anything blindfolded, because by blindfold you Read More …

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Shri Hanumana Puja: You Are All Angels Butlins Grand Hotel, Margate (England)

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Shri Hanumana Puja. Margate (UK), 23 April 1989. It is such a joy today, and the whole atmosphere seems to be bubbling with it, as if the angels are singing.  And the speciality of Hanumana was that He was an angel. Angels are born like angels.  They are angels, and they are not human beings.  They’re born with the angelic qualities. But now, you all have become angels from the human beings. It’s a very great achievement of Sahaja Yoga. The qualities that are born with the angels are seen from their very childhood. So in the left side we have ganas, on the right side we have angels. And translated in Sanskrit language or in any Indian language as devdhoot – means they are the ambassadors of gods. So now you are the same, you are all angels now. Only thing you are not aware that you are angels while they were aware from their childhood. If you know that you are angels, all your qualities will start shining through, and you’ll be amazed that the quality of standing by the truth at any cost is so easily managed for you, because you have been given the right, you have been given the special blessings, the special protection from the Divine that if you stand for the right, and if you stand for the righteous, and if you stand for the truth, all kinds of help to protect you will be given. Angels are aware of this, they’re sure Read More …

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Evening Program before Shri Hanumana Puja Margate (England)

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1989-04-22 Eve before Hanumana Puja, Margate, UK Shri Mataji :Welcome to you all to U.K…and today is the first day I think in the history of Sahaja Yoga that we are celebrating the birthday of Shri Hanumana. And I know our Sahaja yogi children are very fond of him. They all love him very much and that they are going to give you a very beautiful program just to celebrate his birthday His dedication to Shri Rama is to be really understood very well and tomorrow I will tell you about him in the puja what sort of a personality he had. I think you all are anxious to see the Rama and I am also very anxious to see Rama by the children …So you should request them to give us the pleasure of their acting and their drama…All of them are looking so nice …I hope you all will enjoy it. Thank you very much for all of you to come down Actually I was overwhelmed at the station I just don’t know what to say just It was too much could not even describe in any poetic language It was too much…So may God bless you all…Just read it out …so somebody has to read this sequence …Somebody has to read the sequence …You have got it …Alright, Thank you Alright, Thankyou! [ After the performances :]Sir C.P:I have been given the privilege to say a few words to thank the artists in the evening. It’s not Read More …

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Diwali Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Diwali Puja, Shudy Camps (UK), 13 November 1988. Today we are here, all of us, to celebrate the Diwali, that is dipavali, meaning the rows of lights. In the darkness of Kali Yuga when you find from every place confusion of the worst type creating the darkness which cannot be penetrate into, and which looks like a solid mountain around us, and which can never be covered, as we feel, by the grace of God. And even with the grace of God it would never melt. In that darkness, in that hopeless state, when the creation is on the verge of its destruction, the light of Sahaja Yoga has arrived. And you are the lights, you are the dipas, you are the little, little lights, which were waiting to be enlightened, to be enlightened to see for yourself what’s wrong within your own lamp, what’s missing in your own lamp. Now, in the lamp you have three things, as you see. One is the container. Container is this body, container is this mind and the container is this intellect. And the container contains within us itself, is the oil. In Sanskrit language it’s called as snigdha or sneha, means the love. Is the love that is within your mind, within your body, within your existence itself. But this love is now limited, it is in a dormant state. It doesn’t express itself, it can spill out in wrong directions, it may spoil some things, which are beautiful. This love, when Read More …

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About Forthcoming India Tour Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Talk about Forthcoming India Tour. Shudy Camps (UK), 13 November 1988. It’s a nice occasion that we could all meet together on this auspicious day. And actually today is the day of the brothers and sisters. It’s also very nice that you are all meeting your brothers and sisters here and enjoying this Diwali function. We had a very nice function in India and it was celebrated in Bombay and they all send you their good wishes and Happy Diwali to all of you. They all remembered you very much. Now, today I am not going to give you a speech but I have to tell you certain things about the Indian Tour that we are going to have because I don’t think I’ll be able to talk to you about it later on. So first of all I wanted to know the girls who are engaged in India. Can you get up and – anyone of them are here? Those girls who were engaged in India. They are not here, none of them? So I hope the leaders know who were the girls engaged in their areas, isn’t it? Now you have to see that the boys and the girls who were engaged. Are there boys who were engaged in your area? Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Shri Mataji: Anybody? From Graz? Sahaja Yogi: Thomas [Voltrum]. Shri Mataji: Two boys from Graz. Sahaja Yogi: Yes. And Thomas Voltrum to, he’s engaged to the daughter of [Tumal]. And. Shri Mataji: Ah. But Read More …

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Departure Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Departure, Shudy Camps, England 21-08-1988 Shri Mataji: ..One of them. This we have, this we have. This we have, this we have. Where [inaudible that one there] or this one, this one. Now you have understood, all right. You can take one, two or three. You could take this one also. Yogi: (Fergy/Derek Ferguson)which one? Shri Mataji: All right. Oh you have got here some cocks and hen? Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Ah they are very nice, eh. The [UNCLEAR roads], what you call it? So [unclear (a childs name)] come away from them. May God bless you. I didn’t know you were all up. [Laughter] [UNCLEAR].. especially the children should be sleeping. All right, May God bless you all. Thank you. [UNCLEAR Oh its the sun]….[inaudible] Yogini: You should come and see me, please. Shri Mataji: All right, Monday morning, all right. I would like you to [UNCLEAR]. Yogi: Yeah but… Shri Mataji: Huh? Yogi: Yes, thank you Mother. Shri Mataji: Give My love to your Mother. Yogi: Yes, she was here. Yogis asks where Antonio is. Shri Mataji opens the car door. Shri Mataji: Where’s Antonio? Yogi: He’s coming, Mother. He’s coming. Yogi: He’s here.

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Shri Vishnumaya Puja: Cure That Left Vishuddhi Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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“Cure that Left Vishuddhi” Shri Vishnumaya puja. Shudy Camps (England), 20 August 1988. This was least expected that we’ll have a Puja here or we’ll have any program of this kind. But I think something was left out of the whole program of such a fast one as you know I had to do, going from London to Frankfurt to America to Bogota, to be back, then Andorra and all these places still, I thought, now it is finished. And I came here in London I learned that there was one Puja was not done it is left Vishuddhi, and that coincides with this Raksha Bandhan because it is the sister relationship and brother relationship. So in the history, if you go, Shri Krishna was born the day his sister was born, and this Vishnumaya was transferred from, transformed I should say, into a lightning later on, but She was the one who announced the existence of Shri Krishna at that time – that He is born and He is living, He is in the present. This is the job of the left Vishuddhi, of the lightning, and you have seen that whenever I am going to any place, or I will be giving a program or something, just before that, the lightning, the thunder, all this appears in the sky, you see, to show that announcement. So it is one of the things that is used for announcement. To make it more practical and understanding is that we use Read More …

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Seminar Day 2, The Role of Women Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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“The Role of Women”, Seminar day 2, 19 June 1988, Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, UK Yesterday, we have had a nice meditation, and we all felt the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost, and I told you that we have to understand that this is the greatest moment in the history, while you are born, and you are doing the highest work, that is of God, here. And you are specially chosen for it and how you must know that you are a saint. Apart from this, all the blessings that you have, you also get lost sometimes in your blessings and start behaving in a manner which doesn’t behove a saintly person. Now after so many years, I have agreed or I agreed to have Ekadesha Rudra puja, which was, I know was a dangerous thing to do, because I know still so many Sahaja Yogis are half-baked, some are just taking advantage of Sahaja Yoga, and making money out of it, or getting some power out of it, or fame, or something. So, this was let loose now, this power, and is a very, very dangerous power in a way, and you have to be very careful. It, of course, protects you from the people who attack you and try to destroy you, from all negativity. It wants to work out all kinds of protection that is possible for you. But if you start misbehaving, also it can act upon you. I’ll give you a story about something happened Read More …

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Seminar Day 1, Introspection and Meditation Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Advice, “Introspection and Meditation”. Shudy Camps (UK), 18 June 1988. This year we won’t be having I think, public programs in UK, because also there are certain circumstances. But whenever there is a circumstance which, somehow or other, changes our programs, we must immediately know that there is a purpose behind all that change, and we must immediately accept it with an open heart that Divine wants us to change. Supposing I am going on a road and people say, “You are lost your way Mother.” That’s all right. I am never lost because I am with myself! (Laughter.) I had to go by that particular road, is the point. I had to do it, and that’s why I have, supposed to be not on that road and I have lost my way. If you have that kind of a understanding, and if you have that satisfaction in your heart, then you’ll find life is worth much more than what you think it to be. Now, as it is, what was the reason, I thought, that we have decided to have public programs this year definitely, and we could not have public programs? So, the reason is that we have to consolidate. In the growth of a tree, which is a living tree, it happens that it moves in a particular direction up to a point till it has to change, because there is no sun coming that side, maybe there is no water levels arriving, so they start changing. In the same Read More …

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Easter Puja: You have to be strong like Christ Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Easter Puja. Shudy Camps (England), April 3 1988. I’m sorry for being late but I have been working, I tell you, since morning. Now, today we are here to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Resurrection of Christ has the greatest significance for all the Sahaj Yogis. And we have to understand that He resurrected Himself so that we could resurrect ourselves.  The message of His life is His resurrection and not His cross. He bore the cross for us and we don’t have to bear anymore. I see lots of people having this drama going on: they are carrying the cross across to show as if we are going to do the job for Christ! As if He has left some work to be done by these people who play a drama. But all this drama is to deceive yourself and to deceive others. There’s no sense in playing such useless things to show how Christ suffered. To make you weep and to make you cry, Christ did not suffer. He suffered that you should enjoy, that you should be happy, that you should lead a life of complete bliss and gratitude to the Almighty who has created you. He would never like you to be unhappy. Which father would like his son to be unhappy? So we have to understand that His message of His life, why He came on this Earth to do the greatest job is that of resurrection. If He had not resurrected Himself, I could Read More …

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Evening Program, Tabla (Zakir Hussain), Harmonium And Santoor, Eve Of Easter Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Talk on arrival at Shudy Camps. Shudy Camps (England), 2 April 1988. Shri Mataji: I have no words, really, to thank these great masters of music. They have given us tremendous joy. And I could feel all your hearts jumping and dancing with it and also your vibrations beautifully weaving beautiful themes around it. I always told you that Indian music is something very divine, but these personalities seem to be divine themselves. (Laughter) The way they created this beautiful atmosphere where we do not have to think anything, just we become meditative. That ascent, the rapport between you and them was so beautifully established – like a Mother, what should I say? I was so enamored and so proud of them, that at such young age they have achieved such great heights. I bless them from My heart. I bless them for their music – for the way they have been dedicated themselves to this great art of our country. I hope again and again you’ll have chances to listen to such great music. Now, for Zakir Hussain Kanzaev, I must say, he is such a very great artist and though he’s so much younger to Me, but I think he’s quite a big elderly gentleman as far as tabla is concerned. (Shri Mataji laughing & applause) As I told you, I’ve heard the guru of Ravi Shankarji also. And he used to play Mrudang. And when he started playing this tabla, I felt that he is here, just Read More …

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Arrival and Talk: Importance Of Sahaja Yogis Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Shri Mataji speaking with yogis. 1988 04 02 EasterPuja Shudy Camps The Importance of Sahaja Yogis It was such a fortunate thing that I could come for this Easter puja here to see you all meet you and see the growth of Sahaja Yoga within you. I can see in your faces. I can see in your eyes the light which is so benevolent and so balming. When I came to this place long time back and looked at it everyone told me that this should not be bought, at all, at any cost. I did a very long puja especially to my husband who said I may not touch it with a barge pole. …………………. but I got my way and I knew the potential of this place. Then the second time when I came to this place where you are standing was even worse than what I had seen.(laughter)……………………….I.talked to people quite surprised……………and when I said something very strongly the thing started changing. I first felt that I was rather strong but I think it helped started changing and changing and now you see a beautiful hall here, beautiful place for relaxing. So same thing with Sahaja Yogis are here you have the potential no doubt otherwise you wouldn’t have come to Sahajio. You see I was reading the predictions that were made about 16000 years back about Sahaja Yoga and so much clearly indicates exactly what is going to happen. Firstly it says that in the beginning Read More …

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You have To Find Your Self Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program, Porchester Hall, London (UK), 16 November 1987. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. When we are seeking the Truth we have to know we have to be honest about it. Because it is benevolent for us, not for others. We are seeking the Truth for ourselves, not for others. The another thing we have to remember, very humbly, that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot organise it, we cannot manoeuvre it. It is what has been and will be. And what is the Truth? The truth is that you are the Spirit. You are not this body, you are not this mind, you are not this ego, and you are not this conditioning. You are the Spirit. But so far you have been a human being. But to be human being itself is a very great thing. Is the greatest thing to be a human being.Perhaps we have not realised the value of our life because we do not know what we are. The way we waste our time, waste our energies, waste our attention on things, which are senseless, because we still have to understand the greatness of our being. Human beings are made with such care, so beautifully, such delicate working of the Divine from amoeba to this stage passing through various stages, such a beautiful thing has been created as a human being. But first, we must have this attention to our Self that there must be something. Read More …

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Baptisms in Shudy Camps Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Baptisms, Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England), July 13th, 1987 [Children and Sahaja Yogis are waiting for Shri Mataji] 5:29 Cannon singing, “Mataji, Mataji”. “Sat chit ananda rupam, Shivo ham”. “Mother we adore you” [10:20 Shri Mataji arrives.] Shri Mataji: Hello, Prity! May God bless you. Ah, let’s take a chair. [12:00 Conversation starts.] Shri Mataji: Can you bring the children who are to be baptised. One by one. That’s all right, now keep it down. Keep it down, OK, keep it down, all right? You can put that in the cars, I think you can give it to him. Sahaja Yogi: Can we have the children who wish to be baptised, children who haven’t been, here, now, one by one, please? [Shri Mataji holds a baby] Shri Mataji: Ah, ah. What’s her name? Did you give any name? Sahaja Yogi: Naïm. Shri Mataji: Naya? Sahaja Yogi: Naïm. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. May God bless you. [The baby cries.] No, no, no. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi to the mother] Sahaja Yogini: Nayan. Shri Mataji: Nayana. Naina Devi, I think. You can call it- her as Naina, it’s better. Naina Devi is the sadhu place for Goddess in the Himalaya. You could name – [conversation in Hindi] Ramdas swami… Even the guru of Shivaji. Ramdas swami was the guru of Shivaji, she knows. Now, who else is there? Now, how you called him? Sahaja Yogini: Simon. Shri Mataji: Hum? Sahaja Yogini: Simon. Shri Mataji: Read More …

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Evening after Guru Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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1987-07-12 Evening after Guru Puja, Shudy Camps, UK[After the concert – 1:45:57 ]  Shri Mataji: We have to thank all of us, Debu Chaudhary who is one of us, who has played such divine music for the entertainment of our spirit.  I wish from here many of you take inspiration and go deep down into the arts that you know and develop beautiful things for the entertainment of our spirit.  May God bless him and may God bless Subhash who is such a good player and will come up very fast I am sure.  He has very delicate finger touches and I am sure he will have other dimensions to this instrument of tabla.  We have many types of tabla players, and everybody has some speciality and this one I am sure will play certain modes as they call it in the tabla, like “Chakardar” and “Dhirkat” and all that…  He is very good at all that.  May God bless him for that. And professor Chaudhary – I shouldn’t call him professor; he is just Debu to Me.  But his speciality, I feel is more of composition, which he should take to – composition – because he really makes such beautiful compositions that I haven’t heard anybody making that beautiful compositions.  And if he can do those compositions one day all over the world, he will be known very well for all that because it touches your heart, the way he does his compositions.  They have asked Me to give Read More …

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Guru Puja: Sankhya & Yoga Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Guru Puja. Shudy Camps (UK), 12 July 1987. Today, it’s a great day that you are here to worship your Guru in the realm of the Heart of the Universe. If we can do that in our domain of the heart, we don’t have to do anything else. Today, also, I feel I have to tell you about Sahaja Yoga and its value, which is related to other Yogas which were accepted in the olden days all over the world. They called it, one, as the Yoga – not Sahaja Yoga, Yoga. It started with various types of practices of ‘Ashtanga’ [Sanskrit/Hindi meaning ‘having eight stages/parts’] Yogas – eightfold yogas – with a Guru. And one had to go through lots of hardships. Nobody who was married was allowed into that Ashtanga Yoga, and they had to give up their families, give up their relationships. They had to become absolutely without any attachments, to go to a Guru. All their property, all their possessions were given up. Not to the Guru as is done in modern times, but given away. And this was called as Yoga. The another style was called as Sankhya. Sankhya is where all your life you have to gather things with detachment, and then to distribute them completely and take to a Guru, in a way completely surrendered, and then get realization. Sankhya was the left-sided behavior. And the Yoga was the right-sided. Where the Gayatri Mantra was used was the Sankhya. Because they were left-sided, Read More …

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Evening Program: The New Jerusalem and Talk, Eve of Guru Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Talk day before Guru Puja (Evening Program), Shudy Camps (UK), 11 July 1987. Today, I bow to all the Sahaja Yogis of the world. First, I used to bow to all the seekers of the Truth and today, all those seekers of Truth have shown that truth is love, and love is truth. With the power of love, you have been able to establish a beautiful place for Sahaja Yoga in England. I must congratulate you all for fulfilling your desire so beautifully, working it out together and the collectivity which you have achieved – not only in England, but all over the world. All of you feel so responsible that Shudy Camps should be a perfect piece of art, the perfect piece of love, perfect piece of peaceful atmosphere. There’s dedication, no doubt, but apart from dedication, the collective oneness, the integration of your feelings is beautifully demonstrated. Even Indians wanted to send you something for Shudy Camps and it was not ready before I left, so they were saying that they will be able to give you when you come there for your tours. Every country wanted to express their love. They say love begets love; I loved you, no doubt, but in so many faces, when you see the reflection of that Divine Love, it is multiplied beyond My expectation. I cannot describe My joy: you can sing, dance, jump, say “Jai” – I also feel like saying your “Jai”, and singing like … This is the Read More …

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Evening with Sahaja Yogis: You have to support each other St. Martin's Lane Ashram, London (England)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, with questions/answers, St.Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, London (UK), 8 April 1987. Some of you can come in front, Come along there’s room… (laughs) Come along, there’s room here. Come in …there’s room here (looks at prasad)… all full of sweets. Oh God… I didn’t see all that (laughs). [From now on video and verified transcript begins] I’ll have some water… Thank you (indistinct… and bring My purse here.) I’m just watching all the beauty (She laughs). You looked so beautiful at the airport. Such a joy for me to see you in that shape. It’s a rare occasion sometimes that you feel oneness with the whole universe, absolutely oneness with the whole universe, when you feel the love that exists between all of you. It’s the love between you, oneness between you, the way you all have opened your heart to each other as good human beings, as realized souls, as saints – it’s the most fulfilling and satisfying thing for Me. When a saint used to meet another saint, say in India, what would happen? There was a saint in Maharashtra who was a tailor, but he was a saint. Saint is a saint whether he’s a tailor or he could be anything. And there was another saint who was a potter, who used to make pots, and things like that, out of clay. So this saint, Namadeva, went to see this potter who was making some pots out of clay. And he looked at him. Read More …

Pre-Christmas Talk Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Christmas puja, Shudy Camp, England, 12/12/1986 (Probably the correct date is 1987.11.12 or 1988.11.12) Christmas puja, Shudy Camp, England, 12/12/1986 (Probably the correct date is 1987.11.12 or 1988.11.12)  Still there some room here, let’s spread something, back, alright? All of you could come here, this side. Yes, that’s nice about meeting every one can sit together. Alright just move to this side a little bit. Alright? Get some forward, sit forward, some people can come there, some people als o.Still there’s some room here.[Cut in the audio]… The day of our coming or Today I was unclear() something like Sahaja Yoga, first we were coming towards Shudy Camps, then we are going back. Then again, we are coming back. We are moving, you see. Then I just felt, ultimately, we have to find our goal, ultimately, we have to reach that place, that maturity, that life is very different. That is the life of sahaj, when we are one with the Living Force of God’s love. I know it was very depressing, the way one newspaper publish something, or something happens like that, doesn’t matter. These are all temporally things, there are stupid people they don’t know what work they are doing. In a way it’s good that we are going to have a comity to go and talk to these people and tell them. They should come and see us all. We are all thousand times better people than they are.They say that their personalities change, of course, it Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: The Attitudes London (England)

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Talk To Sahaja Yogis: The Attitudes, London, England 30-09-1986 Pelham Primary School, Southey Road, Wimbledon London. Please be seated. I will be going to India for a puja, as you know, because they say in the West most of the pujas take place and they never have a chance. That’s why I’m going to India. And Navaratri starts from the 4th.  I hope in these nine days we’ll clear out so many of your chakras. Of course, I’ll be working on them but you have to also cooperate, watch yourself, find out what’s wrong with you, why the different chakras are catching. Now the attitude that we have towards ourselves and towards others has to be now changed in these new circumstances and in this transformation. The Sahaja Yoga lifestyle is not a system. You know that. We don’t want to create any systems, any norms in Sahaja Yoga. But what we do here is to transform ourselves into Selfhood, into the Spirit state. By that we change our attitudes. If our attitudes are not changed then we have not achieved much in Sahaja Yoga.  The attitude first should be that we have to know that we are on the giving end not on the receiving end. If that happens to you automatically, spontaneously then you have achieved it. But supposing it does not happen, then you have to be on the watch out. First of all you must feel the joy of being in the Sahaja Yoga. If you cannot feel Read More …

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Raksha Bandhan Address Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead (England)

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Raksha Bandhan Address So today is a very happy and a very very auspicious day for all of us. That we have to offer a just a thread to our brothers for their protection. I’ve already told you the story of Alexander the Great. How many of you have not heard it? Raise our hands. Look at that! Ha ha ha ha. Can’t be! All right. So I’ll tell you the story of Alexander. Ha ha ha. You’re very clever, I know. Ha ha ha. All right. So the story of Alexander is like this. That Alexander the Great invaded India, you know, much before Buddha was born. Or we can say… No, we can say after Buddha was born. And he went with the idea of conquering the whole of India. He was very powerful man. But God did not want that perhaps, so he was once defeated and one king called Puru arrested him. Alexander had married an Indian lady. And when he was under the arrest of this king, that was the day of this Raksha Bandhan. Same day. So, she was a clever lady, she put one thread like this in a small little plate and covered it nicely with some nice cloth and sent it to the king Puru in his court. When he took it to the court, somebody, and gave it to him, he had to wear it. Because that was the day of Raksha Bandhan. And that day anybody who sends you Read More …

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Shri Bhumi Devi Puja Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Shri Bhumi Puja, Shudy Camps (UK), 3 August 1986. Today we have assembled here to do the puja of the Mother Earth. We call it as the ‘Bhoomi Puja’, ‘Shri Dhara Puja’. She’s called as ‘Dhara’. As you know, ‘dha’ means ‘sustain’. Ra-dha – the one who sustains the energy is Radha. And Dhara, which is the one which is sustenance itself, She sustains us. On Her we live. As you know this Mother Earth is revolving with a tremendous speed, and but for Her gravity we would not have existed here. Apart from that, there is so much atmospheric pressure on Her. She understands, thinks, coordinates and creates. This only you can find out when you are a Realised-soul. You have seen how she sucks in your negativity when you are standing on Her with bare feet, respecting Her, requesting Her to suck your negativity; with a light in front of you, in front of My photograph. She knows Me, because She’s My Mother. She’s your Grandmother, we can say. That’s why she nourishes you. She looks after you. Early in the morning when we get up, when we put our foot on Her we have to say, “Oh Mother, please forgive us because we are touching you with our feet.” But it doesn’t matter – children can touch the mother with the feet or with the hands, makes no difference. But she is the creator of the body of Shri Ganesh. She is the one who is represented Read More …

Evening Program Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Evening Program, Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England) Shri Mataji: This is for the description of [unclear/Annapurna ] which is the power of Sadashiv that is the primordial mother and she is the one who is the giver of food and it is said that the “Vishweshwara” means Sadashiv has manifested itself in Kashi …in Banaras and she is the power ” Annapurna “.(who is the giver of food), food and everything, spiritual food, physical food, mental food, all kinds of foods … It is shown with the [unclear/level ]in her hand. Annapurna, this is the description of Annapurna when we are eating the food. Better listen to it …There is a complete description ….Now this one the last:Now he is asking for everything …He is not saying that gives me, but just praising that you are the giver of moksha, you are the giver of this you are the giver of that & now do not take too much time and please give me the “Bhiksha” –What I am asking for…And he says …He asks for 2 things: (that’s very surprising)Give me meditation (“Dhyan”) another is (“VairAgnya “) Detachment …Isn’t it surprising?At the end of everything, it comes with a: He says that you open the Sahasrara, everything ….Despite the powers and things …Ultimately he asks for the meditation “Dhyan” and “VairAgnya”…It’s all in the description …Now you see in this country only [unclear /4 year’s back]….a poet …Now you read the poem …Sahaja yogi: Shri Mataji! (Speech by Read More …

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Shudy Camps Ashram Inauguration Shudy Camps Park, Shudy Camps (England)

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Talk to yogis on Shudy Camp Ashram Inauguration. Shudy Camps (England), 2 August 1986. It’s so very joyous to see you all here assembled together. I’ve to thank you very much for getting such a nice place as this Shudy Camp; I’ve given it a new name, Shoody Camp meaning cleansing camp which is such an ancient building. It has gone through various stages of history and has kept the mark of all these times and now you have to build up the future on this land, on this spot, in this building. Also I’m thankful to you for buying such a nice comfortable car for Me. I thought I was supposed to buy but everybody said, “No, we are supposed to buy it for You, Mother.” This is the first house that is in My name, first house I own and this is the first car I have owned in My name. I’m so proud that My children have bought it for Me. They have, with their love and affection have bought this huge big place as well as the car for My dwelling as well as for My comfort. When we come on this earth, when the incarnations descend they don’t need a building at all; they have a dwelling that’s face the sky and the clouds are the curtains and grass is their bed and all the directions are the worms. But when they reside in the heart of their children, in the heart of their bhaktas, Read More …