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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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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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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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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 …

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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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 …