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The Experience of Truth (Part II) Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstead (England)

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Public Program, “The Experience of Truth”. Hampstead Town Hall, London (UK), 2 July 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. The other day I talked to you about the experience of truth. That the truth has to be felt through your central nervous system. If anything has to happen to your evolution you have to feel it through your central nervous system otherwise it is just a projection of your mind which falls off and you are surprised at yourself. Like we call somebody as a friend, a dear friend, and one day we find there is no friendship. Maybe one day the friend will try to murder you or you may try to murder that person. You just don’t understand what happened to that love. Same thing about all of our projections, we find it has no basis, it’s so superficial.When we realise that all is so superficial, it has no basis, we just get frustrated and we start thinking, what is all this, we are playing games. One can’t be sincere. What has happened to us? Why are we so frivolous? Why are we so superficial? We may start taking interest in things which look superficially very great, but ultimately we find that it doesn’t have any depth in it and suddenly to our horror we discover that everything seems to be relative in this world, nothing is absolute. So the experience of the truth has to be absolute. Means everybody should feel that way, if Read More …

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The Experience of Truth (Part I) South Bank University, London (England)

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Public Program, “The Experience of Truth”. South Bank Polytechnic, London (England), 22 June 1984. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. There are in those modern times, many seekers of Truth [that] are born. It’s a special category of people born in these modern times. Perhaps we are not aware that, in every country, [a] lot of people are born with the seeking. They are a special category which sees beyond, tries to find something beyond what they can perceive through their sense organs. The Truth as we see, is through our sense organs. For example something we see as white, we call it ‘white’, something we feel cool, we call it ‘cool’; [similarly] something as hot. Means, whatever we perceive through our sense organs and whatever is communicated to us through our central nervous system we accept as Truth. And we should accept that only as Truth and not something that is told to us, not something that we have read in the books, not something that we can project our mind to and can think about. That doesn’t mean that I deny any one of the scriptures. That doesn’t mean that I deny anything that you have known so far. But, to begin with, let us start from scratch as they call it or on a clean slate. Let us see what is the Truth. Now in every religion Truth has been described as I can see it. Everybody cannot see it. That’s why this problem. That’s Read More …

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Easter Puja: Forgiveness Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead (England)

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Easter puja. Temple of all Faiths, London (UK), 22 April 1984. Today we are celebrating the resurrection of Christ [and] with it we also have to celebrate the resurrection of human beings, of Sahaja Yogis who have been resurrected as realised souls. With that we have to understand that we enter into a new awareness. There was no need for Christ to enter into any new awareness, He had to come down and again to show to this world that you are the eternal life, that you lead a life that is spiritual, which never perishes. You have to rise into that new realm which is the realm of God Almighty, what you call ‘The Kingdom of God’. And He said it very clearly to Nicodemus that, “You have to be born again,” and when he asked, “Am I to enter back into my mother’s womb to be born again?” And He said it so clearly! It’s so clear. Those who don’t want to see can remain blind! But he said it very very clearly that, “No,” that is, “whatever is born of the flesh is the flesh, but whatever is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.” I mean nothing could be more clear than that, that it has to be born of the Spirit. Of course, human beings have a special capacity to twist everything around. For them Spirit could be a book, could be some words, could be an organisation, a church, or some sort of a Read More …

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The tradition of Seeking Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Porchester Hall, London (UK), 10 April 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. So very happy to see so many Sahaja Yogis as well as so many seekers today here to know about themselves. First of all we have to realize that when we use the word “I”, when we say “I like it, I want it”, we do not know this “I” at all. This “I” is unknown to us .What part of us likes it, what part of us dislikes it and what part of us is the reality? We know what we can see with our eyes, with these human eyes, with the human awareness that is available to us. We can at least as human being have a conception, have an idea that there has to be something more to this life. It’s not that we are just to be born on this earth, worry about material things of life and then die worrying about them again. That’s not the life we are here. We are human beings specially created, delicately, beautifully looked after, for what purpose? Why are we here? We have to understand that there has to be some higher purpose of our life. But it’s definite that we have not yet felt it and so many of you have felt it too. Seeker is that special category as I have told you who is aware that you have to seek something more than material well-being or the power or Read More …

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Pre-Christmas Evening Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

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Pre-Christmas Evening. Surbiton (UK), 21 November 1983. Sorry for this delay but today there is something great luck for us. A gentleman has come from Delhi with the plans of our ashram in Delhi and within two-three days we could make another plan. A much better plan for Delhi people and he came to see us this evening and I had to discuss it with him and I am sure he will manage it very well and he is invited Allen to go to India and he is going to look after the Allen there and he is going to make him stay in India where Allen is going to work out the whole thing. So, let’s give a hand to Allen. (Everyone applauses for Allen). It’s very god sent we must understand again the Ritambhara Pragnya is working out (Shri Mataji talking to a Sahaja yogi – let him be seated somewhere, there’s a guest we have can you give a room somewhere. Where is he sitting?).  So, it was pointed out by Warren that he’ll have to work here for two years, he cannot practice as an architect and he has to put so much to money to insure and all kinds of problems are here. Suddenly, today we find somebody who is willing to take him up in India and send him abroad and all those things are there. So, you can imagine how things work out for him but there should be dedication and understanding about Read More …

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Diwali Puja: Become The Ideals Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead (England)

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Diwali Puja, “Becoming the ideals”. “Temple of all faiths”, Hampstead, London (UK), 6 November 1983. With today’s vibrations, you can see, when you are prepared for a puja, how much you get. Today you can feel it. So the Divine is very anxious to act, only thing you have to prepare yourself. And all these preparations are going to help you tremendously. As we are now Sahaja Yogis we have to know that we have become something different from what we were. We are Yogis, we are higher people than others. And as such we have to understand one thing, that we are not like other human beings who say something and do something, who can live with hypocrisy. That’s why all the problems have arisen out of all the religions. A person who says he’s a Christian he is absolutely anti-Christ; who says who is Islamic, he is absolutely anti-Mohammed; who says who is a Hindu is absolutely anti Shri Krishna. This is the main reason why all the religions have failed so far, because human beings talk big of ideals. They all say that we have this ideal, that ideal, but they are not those ideals, they cannot live with those ideals. The ideals are not in their lives, they are outside. But they go about saying that these are our ideals, they become fanatics, but they are not the ideals. By Sahaja Yoga now you have the method, you have the possibility, that you can become the Read More …

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Evening Program eve of Diwali Puja: Pt Debu Chaudhary (Sitar) and Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Money, Sleep, Bhoots, Lethargy Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

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Talk in ashram, Bonfire Night with Mother at Diwali. Surbiton (UK), 5 November 1983. I’ve had a very hectic, strenuous journey through America and it was much beyond my expectation, it worked out very well and I am very happy about it. All the Americans are very thankful to the Sahaja Yogis of England and other countries who have contributed to this tour and specially to people who travelled across and went around and helped them to organize. So they have been extremely grateful I tell you, but for you people it would not have been possible. It was a very strenuous journey no doubt, and strenuous tour and everything was bit too much after the tour of Europe. But the way people went from here and you helped them and you sent money, there was much less strain on them and they could manage it very well and as you know we have done very well as far as our sowing the seed of Sahaja Yoga is concerned. So the seed of Sahaja Yoga I think is now sown and it may take a big flight I am sure because Americans have I know they are very, people who are uprooted type and quite shallow people and one can say that also that they go on changing their gurus every third day and their cars every fourth day and their wives fifth day. But they have changed so many of them that it is easier to bring them round Read More …

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What is the Purpose of Our Life? Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstead (England)

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Public Program. Hampstead Town Hall, London (UK), 1 November 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. As doctor Reeves has told you, you have to become something. What do we have to become? We are born as human beings, and we take it for granted that we are human beings. [Shri Mataji smiles] We have to ask a question to ourselves : why are we human beings? What is the purpose of our life.Is it that the whole evolution is purposeless, that there is no Divine play in it? And why it was done with such care, and why we have become human beings?So first, we have to come to right conclusions – that is the counseling you can call it – we have come, we have to understand, that we have not become what we are supposed to be. That’s why we are in confusion. We do not have answers for these fundamental questions. Some believe in God, some don’t believe in God. Some believe in Christ, some believe in Mohammed. Some believe in Krishna, some say that it’s all science. We are so confused, and there is no answer to it. The reason is we are not that what we have to be.Supposing an instrument is given to you, and you don’t know anything about that. Then you don’t know what is the purpose of that instrument, and for which it was created, and to what use it has to be put. Thus, there’s a confusion, Read More …

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Havan for America Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

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Jai Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi namo namah. Shri Mataji: America Moksh Pradayani Yogies: Aum Ttwamey sakshat Shri America Moksh Pradayani sakshat Shri Aadi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi namo namah Yogi: Americashwari  Shri Mataji: Hmm Yogi: Americashwari bolun? [Translation-Should I say Americashewari]  Yogies: Aum Twamey Shakshat Shri Americashwari sakshat Shri Aadi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Namo Namah Shri Mataji: Sakshat America Sakshat Vishuddhi chakra sakshat shri Krishna sakshat Yogies: Aum twamevy Sakshat America sakshat Shri Vishuddhi Chakra Swamini sakshat Shri Krishana Sakshat Shri Aadi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Namo Namah. Hmm Yogi: Okay Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Now before starting you all should pray that Sahaja Yoga fits there in America and in Cannada with a greater speed and that people should have established in sahaja yoga, with all your heart. All the Americans must get realization and it should be established also in Canada. For all the seekers must find mother, get realization to get established as sahaja yogis this year, when mother visits America. Pray to the Fire and pray to the fire that burn away all that is negative in America, in United States of America and also in Canada. Hmm and Sahaja yoga should be victorious. All the rakshas in America should be exposed and should be neutralized, pray from your heart. All of you should pray from your heart, because they must be saved. Shri Mataji: Ahh, Come, is ko dye do. [Translation- Give it to him] Yogi: Mataji, Ye sab saman? Read More …

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Mother Earth and Mahalakshmi Puja Surbiton Ashram, London, Surbiton (England)

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Mother Earth and Mahalakshmi Puja, Surbiton Ashram (England), 21 August 1983. Some of you who cannot sit on the ground can bring some chairs from inside. You can get a chair for yourself. If you people cannot sit on the ground, go and get some chairs for yourselves. Sit down. (Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi) Shri Mataji: Today, we have to know something about the connection of Sahaja Yoga with this Mother Earth. It is very important, that we must understand the value of the Mother Earth. She has been very kind to all of you. She has been sucking your vibrations. She has been, otherwise also, She has given you everything that you see around. So today, we have to understand the connection and the symbolic expression of the Mother Earth within ourselves. I’ve told you before also that Kundalini, which is in three and a half coils is placed within the triangular bone. Now this abode of the Kundalini is called as Mooladhara and is represented in the universe as this Mother Earth or in the puja it is represented as the Kumbha. I don’t know if you have made the Kumbha or not? Sahaja Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Have you? The Kumbha is sitting here So far, in the movement of our consciousness, we have been trying to understand the God Almighty and all other five elements that we call as important. Shri Mataji: What is it? Sahaja Yogi: I think the mic is not Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: On Journalism London (England)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, London, England, 16-08-1983 or 1982 Version 1 [Partially transcribed – It has 1 hour and 35 minutes of transcription. Total video is 2 hours 47 minutes] Shri Mataji: I was amazed, how did you manage that. Write and show. These are the katoris (bowls) they sent you from India? These ones? You bought them here. But they have given them some plates, I think. (Mother talks to a baby) Hello! Come come. How are you now. Are you fine? Are you Alright? (touches baby’s hands). very cold, hands are very cold… Lets go, sit down (kisses the baby) Now get me some water. Alright? What is this, Am I going to lecture now? What am I supposed to do, I have got to consult about this…Journalism.. Hmmm.. I think, while you should come here and see what the agenda is and how we are going to work it out. Now let us say, how are we going to work it out. What should we do? First, my suggestions are these. Well, you may give your suggestions. I personally think this way, that we should have a formal body, formal, with the people who will be with the journalistic side. Call it by any name. You are calling them in America, by the name of “Golden-Age-International”. So you have a formal body. You must have for that a proper card -shield, and a kind of a appeal “a letter of introduction”. It’s a very “Krishna’ work”, a Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Surbiton ashram July 25th 1983 How did you like my lectures for Guru Puja? I was rather boastful, I should say. But it’s very simple; Sahaj Yoga is very simple. It seems you don’t have to go to Himalayas, you don’t have to do anything, er, you don’t have to stand on your heads or break your necks. If you read your Patanjali sometimes you’d be amazed how much they have agreed (unclear)that you lead a life of complete brahmacharya; no entanglements, anything else, they had to stay in a very secluded place with their guru, they were not supposed to see anyone, meet anyone, talk to anyone, because that would take away their attention, and, er, they told me there were very few people who could do such a thing. Can you translate to me? (Marie Rouger is there, speaks) French? You understand French? (He’s Spanish but he understands English. )(Various exchanges) (Spanish people don’t understand French)Who is the Spanish who doesn’t understand? He understands English all right. (Only one Spanish understands French). But you understand English all right? Both of you don’t? (‘No very very little) I didn’t know about that. So, now, what you can do is, to when I say ‘You tell them’, and, er, she can tell them, also those who don’t understand come later (unclear phrase). (Warren ‘All the French sit near Marie’). Better. Otherwise everyone understands English, isn’t it? Italian? All right you can translate. How are you? All Read More …

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Havan after Guru Puja Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Havan after Guru Puja Shri Mataji: First we are going to have the “Namaz”. We have to learn how to do “Namaz” today, because it’s a Guru’s Day. Now where is…? – Come along! All of you who are here should learn how to do “Namaz”. Now stand here. Facing Me. Come along! Gregoire: I would like that everybody sit down, so that everybody can see. Shri Mataji: No, you have to stand up, because you have to do accordingly. Djamel: I was thinking you all stand up and stand in rows. You have to leave a space in front of you, there has to be a certain space so that you bow down. Shri Mataji: May I have some water to drink. Gregoire: We should all stand in a circle, leaving space between each circle around Shri Mataji, so that we can bow. So everybody stands in three or four circles, with one meter at least between the two circles Shri Mataji: Where are you going to have lunch? Sahaja Yogini: We are going to bring it here Mother. Shri Mataji: All right, that’s all right. Are you all listening now? Just move it backwards. Saha Yogi: Mother I will put this over here which will shade you a little. Shri Mataji: Sorry. Sahaja Yogi: I think I did it a little too far. Shri Mataji: Its because its coming up, all right,doesen’t matter. Sahaja Yogi: But I’m afraid Shri Mataji: All right. Alright, let’s – ah? Now let’s Read More …

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Guru Puja: Awakening the Principle of Guru Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Guru Puja, “Awakening the Principle of Guru”. Lodge Hill (UK), 24 July 1983. Today you all have gathered here to do the Guru Puja. Your Guru is a Mother first and then a Guru and that has given Me a greater help. We have had before also many Guru Pujas, mostly in England. And you should wonder why Mother always somehow is doing Guru Puja in London. The time falls in such a way that it is in Guru Puja, I am here, during that time I have to be in London. So many years we have been doing Guru Puja in England. All things happen if according to Ritambhara Pragnya then there must be some reason why Mother is here in England for a Guru Puja. It is stated in the Puranas that the Adi Guru Datattreya worshipped Mother along the banks of the river Tamasa. Tamasa is the same as your Thames and He himself came and worshipped here. And the druids, those who had the manifestation of the Stonehenge and all that, are originated from that time in this great country of Shiva, of the Spirit. So, the Spirit resides here as in the heart of human beings, and the Sahasrara is in the Himalayas where Sadashiva exists at the Kailasha. This is the great secret of we having so many Guru Pujas here. To culminate it today and to this special type of Guru Puja in the year of the sixtieth birthday of your Mother is, Read More …

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Dance Program Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough, (England), July 23rd, 1983 [Shri Mataji is inviting journalists to come closer to watch the show.]Shri Mataji: The journalist from Ruth and the journalist from Mulhouse.From Brighton also? Who else is there?There’s a sit there, come and sit. And she can move these flowers here, wait, just a second. Now you can come here, come sit down.[Name unclear] you can come sit on the ground?Pull, pull, pull it forward.Just [Unclear], yes, sit here. [No sound]Where is the journalist? [Unclear]Sahaja Yogi: From Brighton?Shri Mataji: From Brighton.Sahaja Yogi: Is there a journalist from Brighton here?Shri Mataji: Yes, the one who is doing the picture and all that.Sahaja Yogi: That is John Noyce.Sahaja Yogis: Oh John, John Noyce, John Noyce.Gregoire: Is John Noyce in the room?Another Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Shri Mataji: Senior people should come forward. You see, the young people should not sit on the chairs.Gregoire: You are John Noyce, please, have a seat.Shri Mataji: Let the senior people sit down and children should sit in front.Gregoire: There is still a seat here.Another Sahaja Yogi: John, come here!Shri Mataji: You must understand, you must respect the elderly, all right.Come, are you an elder or younger?Gregoire: Sahaja Yoga –Shri Mataji: Those who think themselves to be elders can come forward. [Shri Mataji is smiling]Gregoire: Sahaja Yoga, being also educating good manners, it is suggested that the first rows are reserved for elder people. [Sahaja Yogi speaking aside about the sound] Shri Mataji: ‘Guest, should not sit in front. That’s not Read More …

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Guru Purnima Seminar Part 2: Assume your position Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Ritambhara prAgnya – part II, Guru Purnima Seminar of Lodge Hill (UK), 23rd of July, 1983. Sahaja Yogis sing (Marthi 4) Bhaiya kay. taya to Shri Mataji Bhaya kāy. tayā prabhu jyāchā re           (x4) When we belong to God, what is there to fear? Sarv. visarali prabhu may. zhāli              (x2) We forget everything in the Divinity Purna jayāchi vāchā re                             (x2) And we become completely lost in God Bhaya kāy. tayā prabhu jyāchā re         (x4) When we belong to God, what is there to fear? Jagat. vichare up.kār’āstav.                     (x2) The world is grateful to Him for His blessings Pari nach. zo jagatāchā re                        (x2) But He doesn’t belong to the world because he is completely detached Bhaya kāy. tayā prabhu jyāchā re         (x4) When we belong to God what is there to fear? Iti nirdhan. parasr. zyāchā               (x2) You may be without any outward wealth: Sarv. dhanāchā sāchā re                           (x2) The real treasure of wealth is inside yourself Bhaya kāy. tayā prabhu jyātzā re          (x4) When we belong to God, what is there to fear? Ādhi vyādhi maranā varati                       (x2) All the diseases and problems get completely dissolved Pāy. ashā purushāchā re                           (x2) Where the Feet of God reside Bhaya kāy. tayā prabhu jyātzā re          (x4) When we belong to God, what is there to fear? Thank you very much! Somebody will translate me? Yogini: No. We would like you to translate it for us, please! Shri Read More …

Guru Purnima Seminar Part 1: Rutumbhara Pradnya Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

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Rutumbhara Pradnya part I, Guru Puja seminar, Lodge Hill (UK), 23 July 1983. It is my immense joy to see all of you here from various parts of this world. When your heart is so full the words are too poor to carry the intensity. I wish you could understand that intensity, through your heart. It’s all been arranged, I think, by the Divine, that we should meet here all of us in such a wonderful surrounding, in the Nature. That something great should happen to all of us. That we should achieve really something great this time. Now as the time is short, I will tell you, first of all, a few things about meditation now, then we’ll have two more talks, I hope so. ‘Meditation’ is a very general word. It is not a word that explains all the three steps one has to take for meditating. But in Sanskrit language they have very clearly said how you have to move in your meditation. First is called as dhyan, and second is called as dharana, and the third is called as samadhi. Luckily Sahaja Yoga is a, such a thing that you get everything in a bundle. You avoided everything else and you got the samadhi part. That’s the beauty of it. Firstly the dhyana: First, when you have seeking, you put your attention towards the object of your worship. That’s called as ‘dhyana’. And the dharana is the one in which you put all your effort, concentrate all Read More …

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Devi Puja: God’s Blessing upon Sahaja Yogis (Surbiton ashram inauguration) Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

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Surbiton ashram inauguration. Surbiton (UK), 17 July 1983. Shri Mataji: What a blessing.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother, is. Shri Mataji:  Ah, come along. What a place! Is it going to be a big Puja here or a small one? Yes, I wanted to have a very small one. All right, please be seated. So how are you? The ladies, come along, sit down here. It is such a blessing to have such a nice place, where we all can meet, and do the work of God. Sahaja Yogis have to remember that you are here to do God’s work. And whatever blessings you get, these are just guidelines to know that God is pleased with you. I think the London Sahaja Yogis are real, really blessed ones, real blessed ones, the way they got one after another beautiful places to live in. And, we all should be very, very thankful for what God has been very kindly suggesting to us.I came here in the afternoon just to see the place, and I looked at these trees and this garden and the flowers. All of them are here specially, very specially, to tell you that God is pleased with you. We have to learn a lot with them, how they grow, how they expose themselves maximum to the rays of the sun, how they suck their nourishment, all this, is a great training for all of us. They are absolutely entirely surrendered to God, and to human beings, who are the epitome Read More …

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The Attitude Has To Be Earnest Porchester Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Porchester Hall, London (UK), 13 June 1983. Shri Mataji: Is it for the loudspeaker? Yes. We can wait for some time more to organize. It is so unfortunate that it was not published in the newspaper properly, that day – it’s very unfortunate. Yogi: Excuse me Mother, I think to get this microphone a little closer to you. Shri Mataji: Eh? Yogi: Do You want to get this a little closer to You? Shri Mataji: [The microphone] I’ll have it in My hand. Yogi: You’ll take this in Your hand? Shri Mataji: Yes. [Yogi: Okay.] Then that won’t slip out, you know. Yogi: Ah, okay. That’s ok, this. This is the one… Shri Mataji: When we say in the newspaper or in an advertisement that you come to such and such hall for your Self-realization, I don’t know what people think about it. Perhaps they think that it is another hocus-pocus or some sort of a cult or some money-making proposition. But there are some who may not think that way, but they want to have their Self-realization and they come here. But one must understand that the attitude we should have towards our Self has to be really very earnest. To raise your Kundalini is not so difficult and to give you so-called realization also not difficult, in the sense that you can feel the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost coming out of the fontanel bone area, you can get your baptism. But I call it Read More …

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The Essence of Sahaja Yoga Holborn Library, London (England)

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Public Program, “The Essence of Sahaja Yoga”. Holborn Library, London (UK), 6 June 1983. First time that I have come to this area.Now, the essence of Sahaja Yoga, I am sure Mr. Gavin Brown must have explained to you, what it is. And so many of you are from Sahaja Yoga itself. So I need not explain to you all the details. But today we have to understand one thing: that it’s a very serious time we are born into, extremely serious. And when we look at life we do not understand that if we miss this chance of our evolution, not only that we’ll miss it for ourselves, not only that we’ll miss it for England, or only for one country, but we’ll miss it for the whole creation. The trouble is, in the name of God, in the name of evolution, in the name of higher life, so many spurious people have come up that it has become impossible to convince anyone that there is something like Truth left in it. Under these circumstances, one has to talk about Truth. And talking about Truth doesn’t give you the experience of the Truth at all. Discussing about it will not give you, it’s a different realm in which one has to go into, it’s a new awareness which you have to get, to understand the Truth. For which I don’t know how many are prepared, and how many would like to know, and even if they like to know, Read More …

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Kundalini – the most ancient science of spiritual life Hindu Centre, London (England)

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  1983-06-05 Public Program, Hindu Centre, London,  Sahaja Yoghin: …of India, in the Constituent Assembly of India. Mataji, before She took up this message of spreading Hindu philosophy and Hindu thoughts, She was married in a very intellectually, prominent family and She was married to Shri C.P. Shrivastava. [Those of you] who know the post freedom leadership, among the IAS community, very well-known some of the names, and Shri C.P. Shrivastava’s name was one of the most prominent names. He had the distinction of being the principal private secretary to Shastriji, Shri Lal Bhahadur Shastri. And only now, after seeing his name, I remember Mataji. When I was a secretary Government Teachers’ Foundation and we had a conference in Delhi, when we were invited to Shastriji’s house, it was Shrivastavaji who conducted the guests to the, to the house of Shastriji. And I have great pleasure that God creates situations, that we meet different people at different situation, just to prove that the world is so small. Shrivastavaji, after serving as a distinguished person with Shastriji, then he was transferred to the, to the to the Shipping Corporation of India, where he was the secretary, and later on he was with the United Nation Agency, in the form of International Maritime Agency. Now this is the background of this intellectual family. As the holders of important positions in the government of India and in the International Assembly at the UNO, they must be coming in contact with highly prominent international personalities. Read More …

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Going Against God’s Will Hampstead Town Hall Centre, Hampstead (England)

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“Going against God’s will”, Public Programme, Hampstead, London (England), 31 May 1983. From the very outset, I would like to apologise for being so late today, but I realised that when something is very important, from God’s point of view, all the negative forces work out their plans, how to delay, how to put obstructions, how to bring hindrances, how to deviate. It’s very surprising. And, today I think would be best if I tell you about God’s will and how we human beings try to go against it all the time. God’s will is extremely simple. He is Divine Love. He is Compassion. He’s Ocean of Mercy, and in His Mercy and in Compassion He created this world, and then created human beings just to give them the highest thing in life – joy; joy which is [a] single thing, it does not have duality, like sorrow and happiness, like day and night. But how we are anti-joy and anti-God and why it happens, we’ll have to see that. Our awareness, as you know, grows through our brain, downward. And whatever starts growing downward makes us away from God, in a way. Ultimately, we have to achieve God but first we go little bit away from that awareness, of being one with God, just to understand that freedom has to be used properly. Without that training, without that education, [it’s] no use giving freedom to human beings. You have seen the free countries, what have they achieved? In their Read More …

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

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

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

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

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

Radio Interview Brighton (England)

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

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Evening Talk Brighton Ashram, Brighton (England)

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

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

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

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Lord Buddha Brighton (England)

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

Fulfilment of Seeking Lewes Town Hall, Lewes (England)

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“Fulfilment of Seeking”, Public Programme, Lewes, Sussex, (UK), 25 May 1983. That’s all I should say are the ways of God and His own and His dharma the way He wants to use. We have been working in Brighton for quite some time and it has done lot of good to many people because I always felt that Brighton is a place where there are many seekers and they are seeking the truth very earnestly. Their seeking has tremendous power behind it, but somehow or other they are misled. Like I have found so many lost in so many cults; if not the cults, then the drugs and all such things. These are all signs that they are seekers. They are seeking something beyond – nothing wrong with them because there was no alternative. They might have done some mistakes, they might have gone to a wrong thing but I tell you they are seeking the truth. They’ll find it. That’s what it is. Now we have to understand that within us there is a power, which can fulfil our seeking. We are created for that. We are not seeking because just it’s a fashion or just because we see some important people in the society are seeking, because there are some books which are writing about seeking. But the time is such that you have to seek. Also this time is so important that so many seekers have taken birth because this is the time you are going to Read More …

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Knowledge of the Roots, Talk to Students University of Sussex, Falmer (England)

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Public Program, University of Sussex, Falmer near Brighton, United Kingdom, 1983-0525 Public Program, University of Sussex, Falmer near Brighton, United Kingdom, 1983-0525 I was really very happy to learn that Sussex University Sahaja Yoga centre has been very kind to invite me to speak to them. It’s such a pleasure to talk to the students because they are the ones who have always been, in any country, been responsible for any new step, whether it was political, economic or social, which was to be taken boldly. Students are the people who have their idealism intact still and when they are studying, they don’t get biased easily. They keep their minds open to every knowledge because they are new to it, but those who become experts can become very biased, very conditioned by what they read or they think to be right. But the students can also be very much vulnerable, because they do not know whether whatever new comes to them is the truth or some sort of falsehood. So, at this life, when you are a student, you have to be very careful to understand that if you have to seek the truth, you have to be alert about it. First and foremost thing, as students we enter into university. It’s a beautiful name ‘University’ meaning that you get all the knowledge of the universe and when you enter into university, you come with an open mind and with an understanding that whatever you have to learn in the Read More …

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To All Seekers of Truth Caxton Hall, London (England)

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To All Seekers of Truth, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 May 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. We are seeking truth, reality, not hallucinations, not imagination, not our own mental projections. We have not being yet able, many of us who are seeking, to understand that reality is what it is. It will be the same. It has been the same. We cannot coin it for ourselves. We cannot organise it, and we cannot think about it. We cannot put a mental projection of our own as to, “This is the reality and this is not the reality.” Today only I was reading with great surprise an article about sniffing the glue that people are doing. I mean, now this is the last they are sniffing now, and then petrol, all sorts of things. Well, why? Why are they doing it? Because for some sensation. But they said that when you do that, what happens is that you start believing that whatever you are doing is right. That exactly is the point today. Without sniffing also there are many who believe like that, that whatever their ideas are about God or about Spirit, about seeking, is the right thing and they don’t want to see what reality is. They just want to project their ego, their imagination, to believe that this is the reality, and then they just are convinced that they know everything. With such people, what to do? How to tell them that reality is Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: How to talk to New People Hampstead Friends Meeting House, Hampstead (England)

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 “How to talk to New People”, Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath St, Hampstead, London NW3 1DR (UK), 12 May 1983. So I bow to all the Sahaja Yogis, and all the seekers of truth, may God bless you all.  Is such a great thing to be back home with all of you and to see you here blooming with joy and happiness. That’s the fate of a Mother who has so many children, that she goes from places to places leaving some children behind but looking forward to meeting others. Somehow that compensates for the separation. Today I think we should start on a very subtler ideas about Sahaja Yoga, because you people have understood it on the other plane of mechanism that works it out, the Kundalini, the chakras and all those things. But we have to see what is the problem that faces actually human beings and why we make such mistakes in our seeking. Is a very important thing to understand, because unless and until we understand why we really make mistakes or others make mistakes we can never forgive them, and we might have a kind of a high handed attitude towards others who are now coming to Sahaja Yoga, thinking that, why did they do like that, and why did they commit this mistake and they could have done better. But I personally think that if you look at yourself you will know that you also committed mistakes. Everybody has committed mistakes. Some have committed Read More …

Newspaper Interview before the up-coming USA Tour with Stan Bostock published in Zireus on May 1983 London (England)

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Newspaper Interview before the up-coming USA Tour with Stan Bostock published in Zireus on May 1983 The aim was to talk to Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi about her forthcoming North American tour. What happened was something that is only now, a week later, starting to make sense. I telephoned the number Shri Mataji’s followers in New York had given me, and found myself, an hour later, knocking on the carved door of a five storied terraced house in London’s classy Knightsbridge district. The door was opened by a young Indian who ushered me into a reception room as ornate and rich as a jewel box. Furniture covered with rose silk, tables inlaid with ivory, carved and gilded wooden screens, pale pink crystal chandeliers. I heard Shri Mataji before I saw her.“How are you? How is America?” Then the lady appeared, short, plump, with long dark hair falling free, and a smile that chips away all the defenses. Tea was ordered and I was asked to sit down. Before I could get the first question into gear Shri Mataji asked, “Do you know what the chakras are?” I mumbled something about subtle energy centers along the spine. “That’s right,” she said, and tapped the base of her neck with her index finger. “This one is called the vishuddhi. In the universe the vishuddhi is North America. Australia is the lowest chakra, the mooladhara. India is the kundalini. which can link all the chakras together,” she traced a line from the base Read More …

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What you can do Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“What you can do” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 26 November 1982 Shri Mataji: Not even a comb.Sahaja Yogini: Yes.Shri Mataji: Conditions are horrid.How are you Pat?Pat: Very well Mother, thank you.Shri Mataji: I put my shawl there, I think they do. Sit down, please be seated.People from Brighton have come? Has Gill come? No.Sahaja Yogi: They have evening class over there.Shri Mataji: I beg your pardon?Sahaja Yogi: They have evening class over there.Shri Mataji: [Laughing] But today they could have come from the evening class.Gavin, just come here for one minute. This ventilator is so strong. [Laughing] I just can’t bear it, it’s too much. If you don’t mind, I find it is too much, you see … after all.Gavin: [unclear]Shri Mataji: I know there are some extreme cases, but…Gavin: It’s better to say it now.Shri Mataji: [Laughing] It’s too much I personally think. There are, of course, extreme cases as I said, but still. [Shri Mataji reads a letter]Sahaja Yogi: Could the new people please, sit with the palms upward toward. The palms, the hands with the palms placed upwards, as if you were asking for a gift.Shri Mataji: [Laughing] I am myself going through austerities all the time. I don’t take any lunch, breakfast, nothing like, very little.[Very low voice, inaudible. Some children…]I’ve received such letters from India also and they said the same. Some of them are really – I just don’t know why it happens like that.Like, Gill said that it took six months for her Read More …

Diwali Puja: Wealth & Generosity Nirmala Palace - Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (England)

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Diwali puja, London (UK), 14 November 1982. Today we are here, all of us, to celebrate a four day festival called as Diwali. Diwali, it comes from the word ‘dipali’; ‘dipali’ in Sanskrit. The word ‘dipa’ means ‘the lights’, and ‘ali’ means the ‘line’, the ‘rows’. Now, there are many things that have happened during these four days and that’s how it is celebrated with such a great enthusiasm. The first thing is the day of the Lakshmi’s birth. That is the thirteenth day of the moon, “dhanteras’ they call it. [Which] is the real day when Lakshmi was born out of the sea; that’s why She is called as Miriam or Maryam. The word ‘Marie’ or ‘Marine’, also comes from the word ‘sea’. So, She’s born out of the sea. She’s created out of the sea. And the wealth of the sea, so far, thank God, human beings have not yet exploited. But they may, one day, start doing that also. And a lot of wealth is still there, so when people start getting worried about exhausting the Mother Earth, you must know that sea is much more than the Earth is, so nothing is exhausted. Still there is such a lot in reserve for you, and one should not worry [apart, “Thank you”] as to the supply of wealth that can come from the sea. Now, this Lakshmi is the goddess who stands on the lotus. She represents all the well-being, the wealth; the glory of wealth, the Read More …

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Guru Nanak’s Birthday Nirmala Palace - Nightingale Lane Ashram, London (England)

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Guru Nanak’s Birthday, “Every Sahaja Yogi has to become a Guru”. Nirmala Palace (Nightingale Lane ashram), London (UK), 1 November 1982. Today is the famous, great, full moon, called as Sharada Indu. Sharada Indu – that’s the name of the Goddess also, Sharada Indu. The moon on the autumn season. This is the biggest moon, and – of course not in England – but in India that day the moon is giving the greatest light, see? And it’s such a great thing that Guru Nanaka was born on such a date. As you know in India, people celebrate birthdays according to the dates of the moon, called as stithi, not as the dates we have here according to the sun. They follow… Rustom: Jaram, Shri Mataji. I’m going together with them. Shri Mataji: Sure. [Shri Mataji and Yogi converse briefly in Hindi.] And this great personality was born in Punjab where people were unaware of God’s ways. He was always bothered about the Dharma in all his lives, because as you know He was the Primal Master, and the Primal Master is always placed in looking after our Void, in sustaining us, and giving us a model of an ideal master. And He always took birth either in the most difficult places like hills and dales and mountains, or they took places which are even more difficult things, among people who were horrid, and who needed their help. So in India, that time, somehow, Punjab was regarded as the place Read More …

Radio Falmer Interview University of Sussex, Falmer (England)

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Radio Falmer Interview. University of Sussex, Falmer, near Brighton (UK), 25 October 1982. Phil Ward: Sahaja Yoga Program for Radio Falmer to be broadcast on the 25th of October 1982. Five, four, three, two, one… And this is Phil Ward presenting a look at Sahaja Yoga, a new method of natural meditation through awakening a spiritual energy laid into within each of us called Kundalini. Some quite astonishing claims have been made for this yoga and the effects it has on people’s lives. People have eligibly been cured of various illnesses and addictions and some pretty miraculous seeming transformations have been wrought. The University Sahaja Yoga Society will be holding its inaugural meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, 26th of October, at seven o’clock, in Refactory, level one. And there you can find out for yourself whether its claims are true. Apparently they’ll be giving realization at that meeting and it’s all free. I went to London to interview the leader of Sahaja Yoga, Mataji Nirmala Devi, and we’ll be presenting that interview later in the program. Meanwhile, I talked to the organizer of Sahaja Yoga on campus, Jason Copeland, to find out how Sahaja Yoga had affected him and to get an idea of what it’s all about. Jason, you are a mature student, studying international relations in [?] in, during your…? Jason Copeland: …first year… Phil Ward: …your first year. Tell me, did you have any religious inclinations before you came to Sahaja Yoga? Jason Copeland: None whatsoever. I was brought Read More …

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The Miracle Of Your Second Birth Exeter (England)

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Public Program, Exeter, England, 21. October, 1982. They are transformed. Exeter has a speciality I don’t know why with this kind and I’m really amazed that I’ve been here three times and people have not taken up life seriously. They are not taken up the purpose for which they are born.It is a sad thing I feel, but again I wanted to try that maybe you people will be able to realize how important it is to get your self-realization. Already they must have told you about your Kundalini, the power that works out this miracle of your second birth It is already being done by God.He is put everything down there it is all there. You are just ready for it. But you must have the desire. You must have an ardent desire.There can not be any realization for a person or any development for a person if the person doesn’t desire it. Your desire is the most important thing. And you will be amazed that even the Kundalini about which we are talking is nothing but your primal desire the power of your primal desire because all other desires are transitory – are absolutely temporary – and they fizzle out.You want to have a house? Alright, you can have a house, then you want to have something else and then something else.Economic wants are never sessiable, So you go on asking for this and that, then you go to politics for power, you try to have some emotional Read More …

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TV Interview BBC South West, Plymouth (England)

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TV Interview October 21st, 1982 Plymouth, UK Reporter: Her followers see Her as a great spiritual leader, capable of curing all ills, even cancer. Well, these are the sort of claims you’ve probably heard before from many so-called gurus, but for Her fast expanding group of disciples Mataji Nirmala Devi is different. Tonight She brings Her message to a public meeting in Exeter. Mataji, the world of healing and gurus is full of frauds and charlatans. Do you accept that many people might be skeptical about Your claims?Shri Mataji: Of course they should be. Why they are not I don’t understand, you see. You must use your brains and reach right conclusions. Why are you seeking, what are you seeking and whom are you going to. Those people who charge you money and live like parasites on you cannot be your gurus, you see, they are people without any self-respect. Reporter: You don’t charge any money at all?Shri Mataji: Not at all. I mean, how can I charge money for this, is Love, Love of God. How can I charge money for that? Reporter: It’s claimed that even viewers of an interview such as this just by looking at Your picture on the television screen can receive some sort of physical manifestation of Your power. Now, how does that work?Shri Mataji: Yes. By, just if they put their hands towards Me like this even now, they can feel a cool breeze flowing into their hands. So many might feel, as Read More …

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Why we were made human beings? The Friends Meeting House in Bristol, Bristol (England)

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1982-10-20 Bristol Public Program Part 1, The Friends Meeting House in Bristol, Bristol (UK), 20 October 1982 Why not come in front? It’s better. Today again, I’m back. Here in Bristol, we had other programs also before. I feel people are not yet aware as to why they are on this earth and why there are so many problems with them, why this world is on the brink of destruction and what is their role as human beings to save it. There are seekers, I know; in Bristol also we have lots of seekers. Lots of them are seekers. If they were not, you would not have had so many false gurus, who made lot of money out of you, had Rolls-Royces and big things, and give you stories; it would not have been possible. And they must be genuine seekers, [UNCLEAR]. I think there are seekers who are very genuine, who are seeking something beyond that will give them the joy, the bliss, the Kingdom of Heaven as promised. But the problem is, we do not know what we have to seek, first of all. Secondly, why, why do we have to seek? Why do we feel that we have to seek something? We should pay attention to these two questions. And then you’ll be amazed that the time today is such — the modern times are such — that at this time anything can happen. The whole Creation can be destroyed. Now, why are we on this earth, Read More …

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1st Day of Navaratri: Innocence and Virginity Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead (England)

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Navaratri Puja, “Innocence and Virginity”. Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead, London (England), 17 October 1982. It’s a great thing today that we are celebrating the Virgin’s worship in England. As you know, according to Sahaja Yoga, England is the heart where resides the Spirit of Shiva. And that Virgin should be respected and revered and worshipped in England is a great honour, I think, for all the Sahaja Yogis.Now one has to think why such an importance is paid to a Virgin. Why a Virgin is respected to that extent. What are the powers of a Virgin?That She can bear a child of that magnitude that was Christ, that She could create Shri Ganesha out of Her own body, that She could protect innocent, dynamic force of Her children who are egoless, who have not known what is ego. So this great power and force resides in a person who has lots of “guru punyas” [guru virtues] who has done lots of good things in previous lives, who has always understood that Virginity is a power higher than any other power and would save the Virginity and Chastity with all her effort and care. As you know that within our body She is placed as Kundalini, means She is the Virgin. She is untouched, the desire to become Spirit is without any blemish “nirmal”. There is no blemish, its waiting is pure. There is no other desire but to be one with the Divine. All other desires are finished. It’s Read More …

Visiting Indian Family London (England)

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Visiting Indian family 1982-10-13 [SHRI MATAJI]: What experience!  It’s [UNCLEAR], so they had just [UNCLEAR] and started putting out something [UNCLEAR] and from somewhere three very hefty people came in, absolutely black in color, very hefty and tall [UNCLEAR] and they caught hold of them and they beat them but they never got hurt as such and brought them on the street and [UNCLEAR] and, “Go back to [UNCLEAR] and never come to this man,” so they kept [UNCLEAR] said, “Alright [UNCLEAR],” and said, “What kind of a kadak Devta you have?” Kadak means, a very strong. “Who is this Kadak devta you worship that they beat us like this.” So, what has happened you’re so…? [YOGI]: In my own case even, I would say [SHRI MATAJI]: Hmm? [YOGI]: I’ll tell You my own case [SHRI MATAJI]: Hmm [YOGI]: when I’ll say [SHRI MATAJI]: Hmm! [YOGI]: [UNCLEAR] [SHRI MATAJI]: Hmm! [YOGI]: I was being attacked by a group of tribesmen and they had wanted to kill me and they came with a sword to cut my head in two but instead of getting my head or my arteries here, they just got my ear. Twice he tried. Each time it’s really hard to get, then at that point I prayed.  I said, “If this is the time to go, then I’m prepared but, You know, I give my Spirit into Your hands,” and at that moment everything became very bright, I don’t know how and although they were 15 or Read More …

Conversation with Rustom on cold liver and horoscope London (England)

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Conversation with Rustom on Shri Mataji’s horoscope, cold liver, London, 1982-10-13 Shri Mataji [reading her horoscope]: I must say, the things they have written, if anybody reads. I mean, just, one sentence I must read it [Laughter; inaudible].He will be happy to know. I don’t know, so many complications of course, this and that, and that house in that and this one.Indians life of course … [incomprehensible][Laughter]Dr. Rustom I hope he saw that humour about You.Shri Mataji: He has proved little be of a [inaudible], it’s all right, but – Yes, something like Jupiter, you see. The trouble is, everything seems to be in his house you see. This, I can’t understand how it is happening. It’s like Lord is in the house, sort of thing is going on. The aspect of strong Jupiter lord of ten. From an Area sign on the intellectual planet Mercury. What does that mean? I don’t know.Lord and sub-lord of ‘lagna’ [moment of the sun’s entrance into a zodiacal sign]. ‘lagna’ is quite as ascendant.Dr. Rustom Ah. ‘lagna’ up to the Cancer. [Indian language]Shri Mataji: But Lord and sub-lord of ‘lagna’.Dr. Rustom He has a curious system. I know this charting called Krihsnamurti’s system. You divide each house into seven or nine parts. And each part is ruled by certain planet. So, if your ‘lagna’ – so, according to him your ‘lagna’ is in Methon I think according to him.Shri Mataji: Jupiter.Dr Rustom: And that part of Methon is ruled by Mercury. So, it’s Read More …

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

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

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Shri Ganesha Puja: Bestowing of Boons Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

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Shri Ganesha Puja, Maria’s house, Wellingborough, England, October the 12th, 1982 Shri Mataji: Shasti?Dr Rustom: Because full moon was on the 3rd. Today is the 6th. ShastiSahaja Yogi: Cancer Moon, is it? Yes, Cancer.Shri Mataji: Cancer?Sahaja Yogi: I think so, Mother. I think.Shri Mataji: [Hindi]Dr Rustom: [Hindi] Full moon was on the 3rd, Shri Mataji, at midnight on the third.Shri Mataji: [Hindi].Dr Rustom: Have you got a newspaper please?Sahaja Yogi: That’s true, the third.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi] Now we’ll read the Thalis again.Dr Rustom: Seventy thalis.Shri Mataji: Poor Harri.[Laughter] Dr Rustom: It’s possible- we can ask vibrations actually, what else.Shri Mataji: I think it might, [unclear] is a better day.[Hindi spoken]Dr Rustom: Shri Mataji is correct.Shri Mataji: Hmm.Dr Rustom: I said, You are correct.Shri Mataji: Vibrations came, eh?[Laughter] Dr Rustom: OM twame wa sakshat, Shri Ganesha sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji,Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha.Three Great Mantras.OM twame wa sakshat, Shri Mahalakshmi, Mahasarasvati, Mahakali, Tigunatmika Adi Kundalini sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Sakshat, Shri Bhagavati Mataji, Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha.Shri Mataji: This, can repeat? [Sahaja Yogis begins three Great Mantras as said before.] [Dr Rustom says the first names of Lord Vishnu.]Om Shri Keshava namahaOm Shri Narayana namahaOm Shri Madhava namahaOm Shri Govinda namaha[Repeats three times the first four names]Om Shri Vishnu namahaOm Shri Madhusudana namahaOm Shri Trivikrama namahaOm Shri Vamana namahaOm Shri Shridhara namahaOm Shri Samkarshana namahaOm Shri Vasudeva namahaOm Shri Pradyumna namahaOm Shri Aniruddha namahaOm Shri Purushottama namahaOm Shri Adhkshaja namahaOm Shri Narasimha namahaOm Shri Achyuta namahaOm Read More …

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Newspaper Interview Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

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Newspaper Interview October 8th, 1982 Wellington, UK Shri Mataji: How are you? Please, What’s your name? Reporter: My name is David [Cooper?], I am (inaudible) Can You tell me why You have come along to Northampton here this week? Shri Mataji: Why I have come here? Reporter: Why You have come along here were you invited by a…. Shri Mataji: It’s a sort of a… kind of a message I have, that a discovery has been made now of a method. Reporter: Is this the first time that You’ve come to Northampton? Shri Mataji: No, I’ve come before also. Reporter: And what sort of response did You get then? Shri Mataji: Response was, I wouldn’t say very good. No newspaper didn’t come at all. Yesterday also there was no one, it’s very surprising. Reporter: You found a lot of people were very skeptical, did You? Shri Mataji: I don’t know what they were like, because no-, nobody came, you see. Reporter: That was the Guild Hall as well? Shri Mataji: No, Guildhall yesterday we had lots of people, yesterday. But as far as the newspapers were concerned, We met some people here. But most of them came to see Me, when I came here first. They were sort of a labor class people. They were suffering from all kinds of maladies like possessions and things, and one gentleman just got up and started walking all around the places and talking like … it was a bit funny. Reporter: In fact, Read More …

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Radio Interview Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

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Radio Interview October 8th, 1982 Wellington, UK Reporter: This is Phil Malone for the County Show at the Victoria Centre in Park Road in Wellingborough. With me is Mataji, who teaches Sahaja Yoga. Now, Mataji, what exactly does this yoga involve? Shri Mataji: Sahaja means: “saha” means with, “ja” is born. So whatever is born with you means spontaneous. It is a living process of the living force, which is surrounding us, which is everywhere, which pulsates in everything. And this happening is the breakthrough, the ultimate breakthrough into our unconscious; can be described psychologically. Reporter: So some people call this self-realization. Shri Mataji: Same. Reporter: Now, Your background is from a Christian family in India. Shri Mataji: Yes. Reporter: Is Your teaching involved with Christianity or not? Shri Mataji: It is, of course, because Christ is very important for Sahaja Yoga, no doubt. But the way we understand Christ out of the text of Bible is very limited. We have to see to other texts about Him, and expand, and explain Him, what He meant, because Bible is not sufficient to explain Him. Reporter: So, is Your message one of peace and that’s, in that case, peace in the rest of the world or peace within people? Shri Mataji: Absolutely. Peace within will only bring the peace outside. Whatever we are inside is expressed outside. Reporter: Now, You have had some successes in curing people or healing people in the past. Is this because You work from the inside Read More …

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We don’t have to suffer University of Northampton, Northampton (England)

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Public Program. Northampton (UK), 8 October 1982. Shri Mataji: It’s quite. Sahaja Yogi: Still quite, some more people are coming. Few people are still coming. So, with Mataji’s permission, I will just say a few more words while people are still coming into the hall so that when She speaks that can be full attention. Because this is a subject where we have to really give our attention fully and not be distracted by what’s going on in the next seat or behind us. What has to happen is that our attention should go inside. It’s not an easy thing for people who are used to thinking, to stop thinking, and just watch what’s going on. Because we are so identified with our thoughts, we don’t realize that they’re not reality and they’re actually preventing us from experiencing reality which is absolutely the present time. So, please realize that if you have come here to get something, it’s something personal to you by which your relationship to others is very much purified and improved but which is for you and it’s for them also, but you don’t worry about them. Now one thing which will help this experience to take place, this happening to work out, is if you don’t mind to take out take off your shoes and just rest your stocking feet on the floor. It’s a very simple reason for doing this it’s like an earthing system. It’s just giving a contact with the Mother Earth. It’s Read More …