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Arrival and Talk To Sahaja Yogis Madras (India)
Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Madras 17-01-1994 [Transcript Scanned from Divine Cool Breeze] I’m so very happy that there are so many people that are interested in Sahaja Yoga in Madras. I’ve been coming here quite often and I felt that if people from Madras once understand Sahaj Yog they will realise that all these years whatever they have been seeking, whatever they have been doing, in the name of God, in the name of religion, now is the time for them to get the results. The people in Madras I know are very religious, but they are religious in a way that’s just as Adi Shankaracharya has said it Shabad Jalam. That we are lost in Shabad Jalam. We say mantras, we read books, there are Shaivaites and also there are people who are Vaishnavities. All these things to us have been important also because we thought by following these methods, we will achieve our moksha, we’ll achieve our last goal. This way I must say that Indians are very alert and basically spiritually minded. They also know what is wrong and what is good. They also know what is dharma and what is not Dharma They will do wrong things. They may take to things which are absolutely against their spiritual life, but in their heart of hearts they all know that this is wrong, but they can’t help it. Now we have to understand that we are specially blessed by people who were our forefathers who were great Read More …
Confusion and the ordinary householders Madras (India)
Public Program Day 2. Madras (India), 7 December 1991. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday at the very outset, I told you that truth is what it is. If we have not found the truth we should be humble and honest about it, because truth is for our benevolence, for the benevolence of our city, of our society, of our country and of the whole universe. This is a very special time you are all born, where people have to get their Self-realization. This is the Resurrection Time as described in the Bible, it’s the time of Kiyama as described by Mohammed Sahib. This is a very special time when Nala, as you know, Nala damayanthi akhyan – Nala was faced with Kali. He got very angry with Kali and said that “You have destroyed my family, you have destroyed my peace, and you put people into bhram, into illusions, so I’d better kill you.” He challenged Kali that “You should be finished forever.” Then Kali said, “All right, let me tell you my mahatmyam. Let me tell you why I should be there. If I convince you then you can stop killing me, but if I do not, you can kill me.” So he told that “Today all those who are seeking the truth, seeking their Self-realization, Atma sakshatkara, those who are going into giri and kandharas, into the mountains and in the valleys, searching God all over the world; these people will be born as Read More …
Shri Raja Rajeshwari Puja: The Queen of all the Queens Madras (India)
Shri Raja Rajeshwari Puja. Madras (India), 6 December 1991. Today we’ll be having Shri Ganesha Puja, followed by Raja Rajeshwari.So many names have been described of the Goddess: specially Adi Shankaracharya called Her Raja Rajeshwari, meaning She’s the Queen of all the Queens. Also for Mother Mary they have used this title in the West. These ideas have come from the pagan religion, as I have told you before, and that they didn’t come by the description of Mother Mary in the Bible. That shows that there has been lot of changes into the script of holy Bible. Also there has been lot of changes in the script of Indian scriptures, even Gita. And that’s how the derailment in every religion started. And the intellectuals took advantage of it and started projecting their own idea, saying things, describing things which were absolutely against divine Power. You are all very fortunate people on this Earth that you have discovered the reality, and you see that all these things which were mythological are true; all the things that are intellectual is not true; also whatever are used for the purpose of dividing people from each other are not true. Because we believe in all the religions, that’s why every religious person, so-called, is against us; because you are supposed to believe only in one religion and fight all the rest.If you believe in all religions, that means you are absolutely not religious – this is the concept. And that shocked them, that Read More …
Have you got the ultimate reality? Madras (India)
Public Program Day 1. Madras (India). 6 December 1991. I bow to all the seekers of truth. If we are the real seekers of truth, we have to be honest about it and sincere, so that we are sincere to ourselves, and we have justified our own existence in this world. There are so many sadhakas, morning till evening they are working out some sort of a ritual, some sort of a meditation, some sort of a bhakti, some sort of reading. But one has to understand, what have we achieved? Where are we? As a Mother I would say, “My child, you have done so much in your seeking, but what have you found? Have you got the ultimate reality? Have you got what is described in the scriptures?” For this song which is sung today is in Marathi – I wish they had sung something in Sanskrit, they are very good at Sanskrit singing also of Adi Shankaracharya and all that. Tomorrow they’ll do it. This song itself was written by Namadeva in the twelfth century [ie 1200s]; a poet who went later on to Punjab, where Nanak Sahib respected him very much and asked him that he should write in Punjabi language. [ed.: there is a confusion here with a later Namdev, a Maratha brahmin who was a contemporary of Nanak (1470-1530)]. He studied Punjabi language and has written such a thick book, and in the “Granth Sahib” there are many verses from there. He was an Read More …
Opening Talk and Vina Music Madras (India)
H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi speaking to the western Sahaja yogis. Madras (Chennai), India. Followed by classical vina music recital by E.Gayathri.(1991-1204) Shri Mataji: Germans have come! I could hear all the Germans outside…Hello! I could hear you outside …The Germans are coming I said! Wonderful it was really…So fast …Real fast number …Enjoying yourself! [Shri Mataji says to the child nearby] So how are you all right … Thank you all …Marble is good! May God bless you! (Mother gives blessings to her children and the children offer flowers to her). [Everybody settles down after offering flowers to mother] So Welcome! to all the Sahaja yogis from abroad. I hope you are enjoying the climate & the hospitality of the Madras Sahaja Yogis. It is a new venture we have started,& if there are any problems you should let us know…The people in Madras are surprised to see so many foreigners wearing saris, putting ‘bindi’ and all that And they are really asking about Sahaja Yoga It has created a kind of curiosity among the residents of Madras city Where I have been trying for so many years. But your coming has helped a lot I think. And we will have some audience now for our programs. The whole thing was organised by all the Madras Sahaja yogis and also we have to thank so many of them for creating such nice, beautiful arrangements for all of you. They are very simple, straight forward, good dharmic people…And they appreciate you Read More …
Talk to Sahaja Yogis and Evening Program Madras (India)
TALK TO SAHAJA YOGIS AND MUSIC PROGRAM (Madras, India, 27 jan 1986) Mr.Murthi, also call Kaushi and her husband and this gentleman. All right. Call also kaushi and her husband will be more of south Indians should be here, this kamala. You also come along here. You also come along. Sit down (to a sahaja yogi) put your left hand towards me and right hand on the mother earth. It will be good. Him his right hand towards me and left hand like this. .yours.. yours right hand towards me left hand up, right towards me left up. You are all right. Those who have right side problems should put right hand towards me and put left up like that. Those who have left side problems should put left hand towards me and right hand on the mother earth. That’s all. Simple as that. It works out. And if both hands are all right you should keep both the hands towards me. That’s how it will work out. So the right hand towards me for those who have right side problems. So we have to understand now unless and until the sahaja yogis in Madras become established we cannot achieve much results. That is one thing. This is the foundation. The foundation has to be very strong. Otherwise we cannot save other people because if we are ourselves not rooted down we will ourselves get uprooted. So we should ourselves be in such a position that we become absolutely beyond Read More …
The roots are in India Madras (India)
1986-01-28 Public Program, Madras India I bow to all the seekers of truth. In this Kaliyuga it is so very difficult to find people who are seeking the truth. As I told you the other day as described by Shri Krisna, awareness is moving towards adhogati(descent) as he has said that the tree of awareness has got its roots in the brain but when we do not have the vurdhvagati(ascent) we move towards adhogati. Without knowing we are moving towards adhogati and the whole world doesn’t understand why this confusion is there. We can say in the west the growth that is taken place is like the tree growing downwards. And as I said the other day the roots are in this country. While we Indians have taken the western education to such a limit that we have forgotten the great past of our country. Because of that I do not understand who is going to save this world. The main problem today is that nobody even thinks that he must, or she must have urdhvagati that the whole personality has changed system of going upward. The whole movement of the whole society is going downward. And you can see it expressed in so many ways. In the same context one can say that this Kaliyuga have brought forth a kind of a seeking in every true intelligent man. If you are purely intelligent not egoistical then you find that there must be some remedy to this kind of complete Read More …
Grand Vena Recital Chitti Babu Madras (India)
Grand Vena Recital Chitti Babu, 27-01-1986 Actually, the music is divine and you feel you are in paradise, the way it was rendered. The Adivadaya is played before you. I have no words to describe My joy. I’m only sorry that people have no sense of understanding this great music that is in our country. If they listen to this music, they’ll have no diseases, no heart attacks, nothing. This is absolutely divine and people should take to it in such a way that it’s a blessing of God that we have such great artists in our country existing. My heart binds to see such great artists not being properly recognized, appreciated and worshipped. I’m sure one day they will come and they will go all over the world and play this beautiful praise of Saraswati. You must know that the only way we can keep healthy is through our music, our talas, our dancing. This is the blessing of our ancient gurus and we should not try to go to these Adogati people of the West and spoil ourselves. On the contrary, they will appreciate it thousand times more than we can appreciate. May God bless them all and bless you all that you are appreciating. It’s tremendous. I have no words to express. The greatest joy I have felt today with this beautiful music rendering. May God bless you all.
Get to your Atma bodha Madras (India)
1986-0126 Public Program, Madras, India [Introduction by Yogi] Friends, aspirants, seekers and fellows Sahaja Yogis, it is my great privilege today, coming to this meeting, and present our divine Mother to you. Shri Mataji is not new to Madras, as you all know. But at our persistent request, Mother has been kind enough to visit Madras last year, a couple of times; and the year before, in the month of October, Mother was [UNCLEAR] Madras to public meetings. But these public meetings were held in the southern part of the city, and there was a claim from the seekers, the seekers friends of mine, and those [UNCLEAR] in Sahaja yoga, that I am giving the opportunity only to the people of the South to hear our Mother and not those in the North or in the other parts of Madras. So, this time, I requested your kind president, Mrs. Kulbari, to give me the opportunity of using this hall. So in spite of the earlier bookings, and grateful to you, for having agreed to spare this hall. But I assure you, that now that our divine Mother has agreed to [UNCLEAR] as well for this hall and the further bookings, will be immense and the prosperity which we’re expecting to [UNCLEAR] out of this hall, to clear even our standing, if I may say so, need not be worried about at all. [UNCLEAR] Now, coming that [UNCLEAR] program, many people have asked me, because the past two, three years, when we Read More …
Interview Madras (India)
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW MADRAS INDIA 25-01-1986 [Audio recording. Inaudible for the first minute]. Interview: ..Monthly magazine running to about fifty pages. February issue we have brought out running to fifty-six pages. Shri Mataji: That is very good. Interviewer: It is appearing in the Tamil language. Shri Mataji: That is also necessary you know, you have people from. Interviewer: And we have circulation about one lakh. We have one lakh. Shri Mataji: Now you have to ask me questions because I do not know what to tell. We are from the same. Interviewer: This is our advertising agent gave, who organised this speech. And one Mr Mani. Interviewers and Sahaja Yogis: Mr Mani from “Ganapati”. Famous Tamil weekly. Rajadivasthi. Shri Mataji: Rajadi? Interviewers: Rajadivasthi, patron. He has written about Ramayana, Mahabharata and all other religious matters in our weekly magazine. We have a circulation of about eighty thousand. Sahaja Yogi: The name of the magazine, Mother is “Kalaki”. Shri Mataji: “Kalaki”. Good, good, very good. Now, but this is published from where? Interviewers and Sahaja Yogis: From Dindi. Madras, here itself. It is a Tamil weekly appearing from Madras. Shri Mataji: That is also absolutely Tamil. Someone: There is also a ladies-only magazine, “Mangaya Mala” devoted for ladies. And we have got another magazine for children, “Gokulam”. So we have got three magazines we are bringing out. Shri Mataji: You see, these are all the ways to bring, should be for “janahita” ( public good). Everything should be for “janahita”. See, Read More …
Devi Puja Madras (India)
Devi Puja in Madras (Chennai) 25th January 1986 Please be seated.Madras is known for perfect rituals about puja and that is how, in the growth of our awareness, even towards God and towards the rituals, we have moved from reality.As they say the tree of awareness grows downward. So in the West it grew towards materialism, grew towards something that was filthy; went down and down. But as Shri Krishna has said the roots are in your head.But in the Hindu religion it didn’t go that bad. In other religions it did, but not in Hindu religion, that bad. But what happened in the Hindu religion [is] that it went to the left or to the right. So when it went to the right it went towards the elements, of worshipping of elements. That’s how they started Vedas. Vedas are like srutis, and srutis are made to master the elements, to master the elements.Now, how do you master the elements? You can ask the breeze to blow in. Now you need some breeze, all right have it. You can do the Sun miracles of every kind. You can get the rain if you want. All these things could have been done through the Vedas. But the first and foremost thing in the Vedas, is that it should be vida. ‘Vida’ is the word, ‘vida’ is the main word. Now vida means bodha.‘Bodha’ means the experience of the central nervous system. It doesn’t mean that I give you a big lecture Read More …