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How to be identified with Reality? New Delhi (India)

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1985-02-12 How to be identified with Reality? New Delhi, India DP-RAW I bow to all the seekers of Truth. Today I was saying that I’ll speak to you in Hindi language. But the problem is as I have to speak about the physical side of human beings it would be better if I use English language. I hope you will excuse me for that. First of all, we have to know that everything that was created before has a future. Every seed has all the map of all the trees that it is going to produce. It’s such a marvelous or we can say as a tremendous task to plant or to plan such a map into a little seed Unclear (). If you ever try to measure the greatness, the acuteness, the preciseness of this great planning you will be Unclear (never grasp) it. Your human brain cannot grasp it. How much this kind of work has been done, not about one seed but about many seeds. Thousands, billions, millions you cannot just count them. Same about human beings, if you see, that we are human beings, all of us are made different textures, color, complexion, temperaments the permutations and combinations of so many varieties of huge and colors that it is impossible to understand how we are made so beautifully Unclear (defect less/different). But we never think about ourselves. We take it for granted. Whatever we have got from the nature, we don’t want to see what sort Read More …

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Solving The Present Day Problems New Delhi (India)

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1985-02-11 Teachings of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi PP New Delhi, India. (Self-Realisation part is in Hindi) I bow to all the seekers of truth. It is very easy to believe that we are seeking the truth in life. Actually even when we are seeking the joy in material possessions or in emotional satisfactions, we are seeking the truth because truth is the giver of joy. It is the manifestation of the Spirit within us which gives us joy. There’s nothing else that can really give us joy because all other things have a duality. We feel happy and unhappy if our ego is buffered we feel happy. When it is hurt we feel unhappy. We are living in the confusion of the future and the past, and the future and the past is so quick that the moment we are thinking of the past, the second moment we are thinking of the future. There is no time, there’s no space in between these two thoughts and that’s how we have never felt that peace which is described or that peace which is essential for our spiritual growth.  Now the reason for this is that we developed from the [jaya], from the matter.  We have come out of carbon and carbon had to be evolved to this state of human awareness where we can think of something beyond. But still I would say at the present moment as we see the gross in the gross way the present is horrifying, absolutely Read More …

Birthday Felicitations New Delhi (India)

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Talk at the Birthday Felicitation , Delhi , India. 20-03-1984 On this occasion I bow to all my children, to all the well-wishers, friends who have come here to express their kind feelings towards me. Thank you very much. In such circumstances the words cannot express, the deep feeling of gratitude for all of you who have so kindly come down here. It is very important for us to realize one thing that the time has come for all of us to transform ourselves, all the possibilities of transformation is possible.  We all have to transform ourselves. We must raise our level from this human level to the higher level of spirit. Otherwise those who will not will not enter into the kingdom of god and may be destroyed. The time is very precarious and precious and the most opportune time. Today is the day they have put a Sahasrara here, many one thousand petalled lotus surrounding the limbic area in our head. The coconut is called  as Shriphala which represents something like our brain and the inside of the coconut is the limbic area. In the same way we have got in our brain this limbic area on which many scientists have done a lot of research but they cannot go very far with it because they are doing everything from outside, it is only through Sahaja yoga you can understand what lies in that brain. All the seven centres about which I have told you in the previous Read More …

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Agnya Chakra New Delhi (India)

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Agnya Chakra, Public Programme, Delhi (India), 17 March 1984. I bow to all the seekers of truth. I want to wish you happy Holi today. It’s a very joyous day for all of us and I told you about Vishuddhi chakra yesterday where resides Shri Krishna and why He started the festival of Holi. As I told you before this is the knowledge of the roots, while whatever knowledge we have in the colleges, medical college, colleges of psychology and other sciences which deal with human beings on scientific research and scientific data’s, is the knowledge of the tree. So to become the knowledge of the roots we have to become subtler people. With human awareness we cannot dive down into ourselves. For example, you’re all paying attention to Me but if I say that, “Take your attention inside” you cannot take it. You’ll say, “How to do it?” It doesn’t go inside. Our attention is spread outside. That is how we are made specially that we should put our attention outside and understand the value of our freedom. As human beings we are free to choose right and wrong. We have through traditions developed lot of correct ideas about right and wrong but there have been lots of saints and seers who have given us a complete idea about what is right and what is wrong. Despite that we find it difficult to be righteous, to be virtuous, to be what that we believe in. We see something, we Read More …

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Talk and Holi Celebrations New Delhi (India)

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Talk to yogis. Delhi (India), 16 March 1984. I wish you all happy Holi.This is a wonderful festival started by Shri Krishna long time back.After the advent of Rama, who was a very serious gentleman and who believed in a very sacrificing life of a benevolent king, when all these things were so much prevalent in the air that one has to be a benevolent person, one has to be charitable, one has to be sac-rificing, one has to be serious and like the king – the whole atmosphere of the society was very serious atmosphere. Anything extreme if we do, we go to the wrong side as you know. So the whole society became a very serious society. In that seriousness it started taking to lot of ritualism. And the rituals of the time that were very absurd and funny. Like you shouldn’t eat this food, you shouldn’t touch this water, somebody should not touch you, you must take your bath, and in that wet clothes you must cook. All sorts of absurd things they started of as the – what you call the dharma – they thought this was the dharma, the ritualism of the worst type started. So much so that the brahmins in those days were not realized souls. They started giving them lot of ideas that if you give a cow to the Brahmin you will get moksha, or you must give this to brahmin, you must do that to brahmin. [Unclear] was all become Read More …

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Heart and Vishuddhi Chakras Mavalankar Auditorium, New Delhi (India)

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1984-03-16 Public Program at Mavlankar Auditorium: Heart and Vishuddhi Chakras, Delhi I bow to all the seeker who are searching truth. I told you about our Nabhi chakra which is inside us gives maximum strength. We get Chena from it. As Krishna has said yoga chema bahamyaham. First there should have yoga. Then only Chema will occur. I had told that is why our country had no chema.  There should be yoga first then chyam. We did not search for yoga first that is why Chema did not happen in our Country.  I had told about Chema.   To think that a country which is civilized and has more money is  peaceful , they are more happy than us but that is a big misconception. I had gone to one place, Baarana nagar in Maharastra. There is one Corre Saheb. He had worked very hard and brought civilization there. There is big big departmental stores like in London, there are stores for the family,everything is found there.  There is all thing to be praised adorned, for women beauty material and aids etc . While going there You feel as if you are in some big  district of England.Corre saheb a very good religious peaceful pure simple  seeker truthful person.  He fell down on  my feet and started crying .  He said, “Mother, I did all this. But I have become so much disturbed and is at un peace..  I said, why, what’s the matter?  Due to you there is so much Read More …

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Nabhi Chakra New Delhi (India)

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Nabhi Chakra Date 15th March 1984 : Place Delhi : Public Program Type : Speech Language Hindi Our greetings to all the true seekers of God! Today, you have heard two types of songs. In the first song, a devotee calls out to God in separation. This is called inferior devotion, and when one finds God, as Kabir did, it is called superior devotion. Both are forms of devotion. Krishna called it ‘Ananya Bhakti’ – where there is no one else, where the Supreme God is present directly in front of oneself, at that time, what our devotion looks like to us, they called it superior devotion – Ananya Bhakti. However, when we remember God, when we recall them, then it becomes a habit for us. When a person becomes habituated to this thing, it takes a long time for them to break free from that habit. They are not ready to believe that their practice is about to end. And for this reason, devotees also did not recognize perspectives, saints, and ascetics. You know, throughout history, saints have always had to endure so many troubles. It’s not that everyone troubled them, but those who did were not stopped or taught that these are saints, these are ascetics. Now in our society, especially in cities, there are people with various beliefs. Some have faith in God in such a way that, like going to a temple and offering prayers, they believe that’s enough. Some say, “No, one should practice devotion Read More …

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The deeper movement is extremely essential Friends Colony House, New Delhi (India)

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Public Program. Delhi (India), 14 March 1984. There you should meet some people in a closer way because when we have programs is very difficult to have contacts so closely as that. Now today we have people here from abroad representing many countries; then we have people from the Government and we have other friends who are interested in yoga work. [INDIAN NAME?], can you hear Me? Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Shri Mataji: All right. Sahaja yogi: Mother…. (Transcriber’s Note: people are talking in the background.) Now, this kind of a group is very good to have an intimate knowledge about Sahaja Yoga. But the problem I face today is this: that there are people who are at different levels of Sahaj. Then people start receiving vibrations feeling the Cool Breeze in the hand, feeling the Cool Breeze coming out of their heads which is described by Adi Shankaracharya as the Chaitanya,- Saleelam, saleelam – the Cool Breeze, the Cool Breeze of the Holy Ghost. Then it is just an experience of achieving what is Vaid has said, Vid, that you know on your central nervous system that something is happening to you. But that’s just the beginning. It’s just started that you have started feeling it around you, coming out of your heads and then unless and until you develop a greater sensitivity of understanding how it works, how we have to maneuver it, how we have to work it out on ourselves and on others; the deeper movement is Read More …

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The construction of our being within ourselves Constitution Club of India, New Delhi (India)

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Public Program Day 2, Constitution Club of India, New Delhi (India) I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday, I told you, in short, what is Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja. Saha means with, ja means born. Yog means, union with the Divine, in simple words. Saha is with, ja is born. Is born with you. Something that is born with you, is the right to achieve the union with the Divine. This is Sahaja Yoga. How it happens? Why it happens? Is, to be seen. Howsoever, I may try to explain to it, explain it to you, it may be that, you may not, believe in it. But as I requested you yesterday, like, as a scientist, you have to keep your mind open, with pure scientific attitude. And see for yourself, if this hypnosis, I put before you, is true or not. But if you put a barrier in your mind. Like a student going to a medical college, has a barrier in his mind about medicine, cannot receive anything. In the same way, if you put a barrier in your head, against knowing about the roots, roots that nourishes this great tree of creation, you can never understand, what I’m talking about. Whatever I’m telling you today, has been written in our scriptures in this great land, of Yoga Bhoomi. This country, which we had taken for granted. As we have taken our, our human existence for granted. The greatest of greatest country, is India. Because spirituality, if Read More …

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Tremendous Moral Crisis New Delhi (India)

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1984-03-12; Public Program Delhi India Sahaja Yogi: Her Holiness Mataji Nirmala Devi, and my dear brothers and sisters, on behalf of the spiritual seekers of Delhi, I extend a very loving welcome to our Divine Mother who is the very embodiment of auspiciousness. I extend a very heartfelt welcome to the honourable minister for home affairs (his name), who has agreed to participate in today’s inaugural function, but has been delayed due to the exigencies of his high office by half an hour, and he’ll be joining us shortly.  I extend to you a very affectionate and cordial welcome to all the brothers and sisters assembled here, who have come to receive the blessings and grace of our Divine Mother. What does Sahaja Yoga and its founder Mataji Nirmala Devi (unclear), what does our Divine Mother have to offer to the individual and to mankind? Mataji has said Sahaja Yoga is the union of the individual with the Divinity within himself by the most spontaneous and natural method, by the grace and the divine love of Mother. The greatest sorrow of life is that you are not united with the beloved Divinity within you. The greatest joy of life is the union of the beloved Divine within you. These are the two important things most human beings are not aware [of]. The most important, the most exciting, the entire romance of life is your union with the Beloved within you, because this union will last in this birth and all Read More …

New Year Puja: Who Is A Sahaja Yogi? New Delhi (India)

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Nav Varsh Pooja Talk – (Sahajayogi ki Pahechan), New Year Puja,  Date: 03 January 1984, Place: Delhi, India, Type: Pooja, Speech language: Hindi [English Translation from Hindi] Every year comes a new year, and the last year gets completed. For Sahaja yogis every moment is a new year because they stay in the present. They stay neither in the future, nor in the past. Every moment for them is a new year, a new hope, a new wave. Just like while swimming in the ocean, every moment you are lifted by the love of the ocean. In the same manner, every Sahaja yogi is constantly feeling the bubbling of joy, love and peace. But the actual point is whether we have learnt to swim or not. In Sahaja Yoga, whoever has learnt how to swim, he will always swim in joy, will swim in the ocean of joy. If there is any shortcoming or flaw in Sahaja Yoga, it is that after Realisation, you have to become. Without achieving your becoming, you cannot achieve Sahaja Yoga. Mother has put you in the water, but even after becoming a swimmer, you have to learn how to make others swim, how you can save others, how you can teach others to swim. You have to become that completely. If this is one flaw, it is in Sahaja Yoga, but it covers many flaws. Like in the past, gurus did not arrange straight away for your peace and joy. Earlier, they used to Read More …

Parent’s day celebrations New Delhi (India)

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“The relationship of parents with children and teachers with students” (Hindi talk). Sahaja Temple, Delhi (India), 15 December 1983. What is Sahaja Yoga and what all one gets in it, you can know . But what I am going to tell you today is little about the relationship of parents with their children and how it is supposed to be. First of all , we develop two kind of relationship with our children, in that one is emotional and the other is responsibility . Emotions and responsibility remain two different things. Suppose there is one mother, and her child learns or does something wrong, still because of emotions she says, ” all right let him do it, nowadays all children are like this, what to say to child, everything is fine”. Another Mother is there who wants to make her children dutiful and responsible. For that she says to her children to get up early in the morning, be active, study hard, go to school in time, sit here, sit there, wear the clothes properly etc.. and she is always behind her child to correct him. Now I should tell you that this is not integrated. Today in Sahaj Yoga we have integration. Both the things ( emotion and responsibility) have to be integrated. There has to be integration, not combination. The difference between combination and integration comes because our emotions should be responsibility and responsibility should be our emotions. Like we love our children. Then we will say that Read More …

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Talk and Holi Celebrations New Delhi (India)

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Holi Celebrations, (Hindi), Delhi (India), 29 March 1983. On the auspicious occasion of Diwali- oh, yes, it’s Holi. I realized, I was saying something incorrect. But yesterday, I talked about Diwali that’s why this thought came, that on the auspicious occasion of Holi today, Diwali will be celebrated. As you know, on the day of Holi, Holika was burnt. Agni [the God of fire] had a very big blessing and task, because Agni Devata had given Holika a boon that in any circumstance, she will not burn, that death could come to her in any form, but not by fire. And after giving this boon, he regretted a lot because she took Holika in her lap and sat in the fire. And Agni Devata had a big dilemma, that “I have given this promise to her, that I will not burn her and how can I fulfil this promise? And Prahlad, is Himself innocence personified, He is himself an incarnation of Shri Ganesha and how can I burn Him? Nobody can burn him. And He is also beyond my powers. He is formed from my power.” So, he thought, “What is this ego?” that in front of such a great power what can I talk about my power? I have no such power which can face Him. His power is so great that I cannot burn him whatsoever I may try. But at this time I have a very big dilemma in front of me”. So, in between “duty” and Read More …

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Spirit is the only thing that is at the centre New Delhi (India)

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Public Program, New Delhi, March 28th, 1983 English Transcript [Talk on video starts at 56:47] I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I would like to thank referred Dr Nagen Singh Ji, who has been so kind to grace this occasion. Actually, I have always treated him like my ‘jyeshtha’, my ‘jaith’ (older brother-in-law). I find it difficult even how to express my gratitude the way he has been kind to get this time, come over and talk to you about me whom he has known for so many years. The day I knew him, I knew that he was a very great soul but as in the bureaucracy he is, you are not supposed to discuss religion, neither you are supposed to discuss anything that lies beyond your job. But when I was studying very minutely the various permutations and combinations of human problems, I was really always very much encouraged to know that there are people like him also. His greatness, you will know very soon and his sister, about whom he was saying, herself is a very great soul and the night I spent with her, I was really so much enamoured and encouraged to see such a learned personality. Like her brother, she knew so many beautiful things about God and beautiful things she said from Raghuvansha an Kalidasa. I found myself very lonely always where I could not talk of God and His greatness and His kindness for human beings, Read More …

Birthday Celebrations, Speech of Dr. S. Swaminathan in Marathi (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 25, Pages 36-38) New Delhi (India)

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Birthday Celebrations, Speech of Dr. S. Swaminathan (sister of Shri Mataji) in Marathi (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 25, Pages 36–38) Speech of Dr. S. Swaminathan Honourable guests, who have graced the occasion of my elder sister’s 60th birthday, my younger brothers and sisters and Sahaja Yogi brothers and sisters. This evening, I consider myself fortunate for getting this opportunity of saying a few words about Nirootai. We call her Nirootai* whom you know as Mataji Nirmala Devi. Nirootai and myself, we both grew up together and hence I had the privilege of being closely acquainted with her virtues and the dynamism of her personality. We were born when India was a slave country, yet, being born in an affluent and well-to-do family we did not suffer from any want or other problems of life. Our childhood days were spent happily and merrily. We were born at Chhindwara i.e. my elder brother Mr. Narendrakumar Salve,—who must be known to you all because today he is the Minister for Steel and Mines,—Nirootai, myself and my younger brother Mr. Balasaheb Salve, we four were born at Chhindwara; and the younger three brothers and sisters were born at Nagpur, because our father shifted to Nagpur in the year 1928. In the year 1930, which is supposed to be the most crucial year in the struggle for the Independece of our Nation, our life-style underwent a total change. Our father renounced his title of “Rao-Sahib” to join the Freedom movement. We were too young to Read More …

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Mahashivaratri Puja: Shiva Tattva Within Us New Delhi (India)

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Shivaratri Puja. Sahaja Yoga Temple, Delhi (India), 11 February 1983. I am happy that you all have adjusted yourselves in this small space. When there is love and understanding, little space can occupy many hearts. But when there is no large heart then whatever one may get is just never sufficient. Today, we are going to worship Shiva Tattwa within us, principle of Shiva. For all Sahaja Yogis it’s very important, because Shiva is the ultimate we have to achieve. Shiva is represented in our Spirit, so to become Shiva is the ultimate aim of everything else. The rest of it is all created, like Vishnu Tattwa and Brahmadeva, just to create human beings, to evolve them and then ultimately lead them to Shiva. That’s the ultimate. But human beings get so involved into the Brahmadeva’s Tattwas that even to get into Vishnu Tattwa is difficult. They get involved into the five elements which have created us. That is the outermost being within us. All the chakras have the outermost, we can say the, just the vessel, but the desire to be the Spirit is of primal importance in Sahaja Yoga. So, we have to see inward towards ourselves as Sahaja Yogis, “Do we have that desire entirely, or we have still many desires hanging around?” You see, the greatest problem is of the Nabhi chakra, whether it is in the East or the West. Some people still have hankering for the baser search of food, which is very surprising, Read More …

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Questions and Answers About America New Delhi (India)

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Questions and Answers About America, Delhi, India 1983-02-10 Yogi: We’ll be asking pretty much the same questions as we did the other day. We’ll need answers that are one or two minutes long.Shri Mataji: Two minutes only? That’s a large country like America.Yogi: If it’s too long then we can edit it. (Shri Mataji looks at the questions.)• What is the importance of self realization?• Why is it important to receive self realization?• What are vibrations?• What can the West learn from the Indians and Indians from the West? Shri Mataji: This India vs. West is too controversial. Learn from India nothing and India should learn nothing from you. They’re all in the same melting pot.Brian, did you hear me? Nothing to learn from the Indians on the gross level and nothing to learn from the west. Both are in the same melting pot. One is developed and one is developing. What do you say? Yogi: On the spiritual level, then, Mother? Shri Mataji: What do you think about Indians’ spiritual level? is zero? What is it? Yogi: Well the aspirations, what is still preserved in this country?Shri Mataji- If I have to talk to Americans, they’re ego oriented. They’ll feel hurt. Better not say India is anything greater than they have. Yogi: Mother, you’re being the diplomat of the diplomats. Shri Mataji: Our main object is to get them into Sahaja Yoga, isn’t it? Not to blast them. So let us avoid subjects which will challenge their ego. Why Read More …

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Sickness and its cure New Delhi (India)

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Sickness and its cure. Jangpura, New Delhi (India), 9 February 1983. I wanted first of all to tell you something about the sickness of the people which perhaps I have not elaborately told you about, how to cure people and how people suffer from different sicknesses. As we are now on the principle of the being, we must understand that sickness also comes if there is something wrong in the principle that builds up the human beings. So now basically there are two principles which affect the body, and the third principle affects the evolution. So the first principle of the left-sided Iccha shakti or the Desire Power is if in danger we develop lots of diseases due to lethargic organs. Left side is the tamasic [guna] side, is the side where darkness is affecting people. Those people who live in too much darkness, or in the past, or in a sly way, in a hidden way, who are introverts, we can say in short, who spend their life mostly in a very closed waters, or live with people who are extremely cautious and afraid of others, all people who do not talk much or who avoid meeting people, who shun people, all such people are left sided, have got in ‘tamas’. Such people, in their spiritual awareness or spiritual ascent, try to take to Bhakti [Devotion]. They take to Bhakti more. They worship God from their heart, from their emotions. They work through emotions. There are twenty-four types of relations Read More …

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Public Program and Debu Chaudhuri plays raag Kambhoji on sitar New Delhi (India)

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Debu Chaudhuri plays raag Kambhoji on sitar, in the presence of Shri Mataji in a public program in Delhi, Feb 8th 1983, (part 2)Followed by a Hindi talk given by Shri Mataji. The sitar represents the Sahasrara chakra. Sahaja Yogis want to give a cushion to Shri Mataji but She refuses.Then they want to garland Her and She asks them instead to garland the artist.Everybody applauds.But Debu Chaudhuri refuses to be garlanded in place of Shri Mataji so he puts the garland around the head of his student (who is playing tempura). Everybody laughs.A senior Sahaja Yogi makes a small speech: My dear brothers and sisters, music is the nearest thing to God on earth. Mataji has often said the way to please God and His devotees is through music sound of devotion…He introduces the tabla player, an equally renowned artist.Shri Mataji seems to explain to Debu Chaudhuri that it is not a puja but a spiritual event. Shri Mataji: Now, I must say, that artist himself being a Realized soul, I’m just working on your Kundalini, I need not speak much. It’s working out. So don’t get impatient, this is also, is a silent speech of God’s music. So you just don’t get impatient about it.I’am also enjoying very much.May God bless you.Since Kambhoji, he’s going to play just now. Debu Chaudhuri: Well, it is my great pleasure, in a way, I requested Mataji to give Her blessings to all of you, instead of playing. [Shri Mataji is laughing.] Read More …

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Be the Spirit, slavery and domination New Delhi (India)

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Conversation and questions, “Be the Spirit, slavery and domination”. Delhi, (India), 8 February 1983. Speaker: What we would like you to discuss is the difference in aims and aspirations between India and the developed countries, how they have progressed, the way history has taken them, and also what they have to offer each other.Shri Mataji: Aims and objects?Speaker: Yes, the aims, and objects – how they have taken their own courses.Shri Mataji: Apparently, India has the same aim as you had before. They are actually trying to follow you, apparently. In our political systems we are trying all your methods. In our economic development, we are trying all the paths that you have followed and faltered.In our approach to education, we are trying to follow you. In our mental development we are trying to follow the West. Even the young people of this country are now trying to follow you, even copy you, in every way. So, apparently this is the condition of this country. Whatever you did about, say, twenty years back, we are doing the same now and we are getting into a state where the decline might start very soon. Apparently, I’ve seen. But as far as myself is concerned, it was the other way round. I could see the future of the disaster of industrial development a long time back, and also where all such people were blindly following the West will got into.So, my whole search personally was to go towards the roots, towards the Read More …

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Public Program Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi (India)

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Public Program, New Delhi, 1983-02-07 Because many people have written about it (inaudible) and a lot of people have been thinking that something should be done in this matter of finding the truth. (Unclear) Now when human (inaudible) his condition would be such that he only believes this thing (inaudible) and he has no other means. Whatever have been the achievements of Science, we have seen only through the medium of intellect. But the intelligence that is, tells us only about what is visible in the world. It tells us nothing about what is invisible or can’t be seen. And can’t even tell what is the difference between the Truth and invisible. Then it should be thought first that when a person talks of the search for Truth then first of all he has to consider that whatever we have known through the intellect, have known nothing, even then we remained in illusion. What we have known through our intelligence, whatever we have known till now, that much has happened, we have known from what is visible (UNCLEAR) but have not known what is in the invisible or hidden. And could not even know that what we have to know from what is visible whether it is the Absolute Truth or not. Now when the achievement of Science is ours, then Science is on our heads, we have known a lot through Science. We have reached up to the atom and molecule. The activities that we have understood are also Read More …

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Marriages New Delhi (India)

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Marriage Ceremony 1983-0206 Delhi India Shri Mataji: Just tell these girls to open their veils. They don’t have their friend behind?Just bring it a little less. Yogi: Mother, would you like grooms on the left or the right? Shri Mataji: put it back, no no, take it out and put it here, but keep your neck down, so that the face can be seen. Yogi: Some are sitting on the left and some are sitting on the right. Shri Mataji: All of you should be seated like this, the boy should be on the right of the lady, the bride should be on the right of the bridegroom. The boy should be, bridegroom should be on the right of the lady. That is correct, that is correct, that is correct. Yogi: All bride to be towards you? Shri Mataji: No no right side of the boy. First right side later she will sit on( vaamang) left side. This is wrong, first, she has to sit on left, all right be careful, be careful. I think better than that outside. All right, (Shri Mataji is discussing with other yogis regarding the placing of bride and bridegroom and mantras.) Yogi: Mother do you need Coconut? Shri Mataji: Coconut is not required now, later. You do one thing you announce. The parents of the girls should come forward please, parents of the girls. The parents of the bride and the bridegroom and who else with you. To keep the sense of authority from Read More …

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Sahasrara Chakra, The essence of Sahasrara is integration New Delhi (India)

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Sahasrara Chakra. Hanuman Road, public program in New Delhi (India), 4 February 1983. Today is the last day in this pendal and today I’ll be telling you about the last centre of Sahasrara. They are all coming. If I come late it is better, I think [Laughing]. Still I was quite late I was thinking. Do you think this is needed on the eyes so much or are you not getting my picture just? This one if you could little bit push it the other way. This one is too much. That’s thank you. So, this last centre, the Sahasrara, is contained in the limbic area of the brain. Our head is like a coconut. The coconut has the hair, and then a hard nut and then a black covering and inside is white shell of coconut and inside is the space, the water. In the same way, our brain is made. That’s why coconut is called as shriphala, is the fruit of the power that is Shri. Shri Power is the right-side power and the left-side power is the Lalita Power. So, we have two chakras – left side, here, is the Lalita and right side, here, is the Shri Chakra. These two chakras are working out the right side Mahasaraswati’s power and left side Mahakali’s powers. Now, the central power is the Kundalini. That has to rise and penetrate through different chakras, enter into the limbic area and enlighten the seven “pithas” – seats of these seven chakras. Read More …

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Agnya Chakra, The door of heaven New Delhi (India)

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Agnya chakra. Delhi (India), 3 February 1983. Today we are going to understand the centre of Agnya. Agnya Chakra, which is placed on the crossing of the ‘optic chiasma.’ The nerves that supply the eyes go backwards in the opposite direction and wherever they cross, this subtle centre is situated. It has a continuous connection with the other centres through the ‘medulla oblongata.’ This centre has got two petals. And this subtle centre on one side acts through the eyes and at the back of the head where you have some protrusion. This is the physical side of this centre is. Now the people who talk of the third eye, this is the third eye. So that we have two eyes with which we see and there is a third eye which is a subtler eye through which we can see. If you see this eye, that means you are away from it. For example, if you can see your eyes that means you are seeing your reflection, not the reality. If you see anything that means you are looking at it. So those people who say they see an eye for example people who take LSD and all such things, they start seeing another eye. They just see this eye and they think their third eye has opened. Actually, you are very much away from the eye, that is why you can see it. You go to a supraconscious level on the right side and on the left side Read More …

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The Vishuddhi Chakra New Delhi (India)

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Vishuddhi Chakra, Delhi (India), Public Programme, 2 February 1983. The prophets are born and create a ripple in our consciousness, a new dimension to our understanding to religion, dharma; which has to be assimilated and has to be understood that, whatever the previous prophets have said, has to be culminated into something else. So, as we can say Mohammed Sahib has said that all these Prophets who have come on this earth have created a new ripple and also has sustained human beings with a newer evolution, a newer foliage opening into them. The idea of human beings of newness is that we have to give up all that is old and we have to become new. Or they think that newness means absolutely a juxtaposition condition in which one has to rise: and this is the cause of the folly of many people in the West as well as in the East. Whenever a new theme started. Like, we can say that, first of all a great saint came on this earth and he found that the people are following the idol worship in a very wrong way. Because it is said in The Bible that: whatever is created by Mother Earth should not be reproduced and worshipped. So they created another extreme religion out of it saying that nothing should be worshipped!! But it is said, ‘Whatever is reproduced by the Mother Earth.” So there are so many such things all over the world which are created by Read More …

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Heart: the Chakra of the Goddess New Delhi (India)

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HH Shri Mataji, Public Program: Lecture on Centre Heart – the Chakra of the Goddess and Fearlessness, New Delhi, India, 1 February 1983. HH Shri Mataji enters the Hall (12’16”)  Music performance (ends 21’30) Introduction by Sahaja Yogi (22’11”-34’22”) HH Shri Mataji lecture (35’12” – 1:40:45) Talk by Sahaja Yogi Shri Mother, brothers and sisters, (Shri Mataji: I think it has to be raised a little, sound is not reaching people.) Shri Mother, brothers and sisters, all seekers, people coming to Sahaja Yoga. I am from the west, from the country of Canada that is very close to the country of the United States of America. That country is the most powerful, the most with material wealth, the most materially wealthy in the world. And people of the United States of America are the most fearful and afraid people in the world. They are afraid to walk their own streets at night. They are afraid of an invasion from by another country. And they’re afraid of what’s inside themselves. I saw this with, with all of the western countries. America is the worst but all of the western countries and with all of the western people. And the western people are not simply those who live in the west but those who have embraced the values of the west. The values of the west are material values, placing the material over the spiritual. And in taking the material, grasping the material, we’ve also grasped that fear. We’re afraid of so Read More …

Choirs during Evening Program Ramdas Temple, New Delhi (India)

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Various choirs, India Tour, Delhi’s Old Temple, (India), February 1rst. 1983. Shri Mataji: This is the one you said.[Sahaja Yogis sing in French][Chez nous soyez reineNous sommes à vousRégnez en souveraineChez nous, chez nous.Soyez la MadoneQu’on prie à genouxQui sourit et pardonne,Chez nous, chez nous…]Shri Mataji: Very sweet. Very beautiful. Sahaja Yogi: Mother, it’s a little song about how to reach the places, the Kundalini.[Song in English] Shri Mataji: Beautiful. So great ! It’s really tremendous. Beautiful. Who wrote this ?Sahaja Yogi: Brian Bell.Shri Mataji: Ah, Brian ! [Laughter] Tremendous, tremendous. He’s not missed one point.[Laughter] Sahaja Yogi: One of the song, Mother, which is a dancing song which sees Christ as the Lord of the dance. To have the touch of Shiva and Mahavishnu.Shri Mataji: Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha dancing as Shri Jesus-Christ. Let him be happy. He suffered a lot. [First performance of the song ‘Lord of the dance’] Shri Mataji: May God bless you all.It’s such a beautiful one that I really don’t know how to praise it. It’s beautiful.May God bless you all. Beautiful music you have made. I hope you take the whole thing and we will use it later on for our programs and things. It’s a good idea. Very beautiful. You are really becoming professionals now. [Laughter]Towards perfection. You must get to some drums and things like that here. So that you know how to play the rhythm here. Beautiful.Sahaja Yogi: We don’t sing very well when we are rehearsing but we are Read More …

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Nabhi Chakra New Delhi (India)

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Nabhi Chakra. Delhi (India), 31 January 1983. The music was very fine and elevating to all of you. The effect of music in Sahaja Yoga is tremendous, and if a Sahaja Yogi sings the song, it’s so great that it acts like a mantra upon my being. So, I’m very thankful to Mrs. Venogopalan for singing such a beautiful song today. It stirred Me completely. Then Gavin Brown was very sweet. He’s an Englishman, very gentle and a very steady Sahaja Yogi. He’s one of the first Western Sahaja Yogis I met. Today I will tell you about the Nabhi Chakra which deals with this honesty of seeking. Nabhi Chakra is the center which controls or manifests outside in the gross as Solar Plexus. Nabhi Chakra has two sides: one is the left, another the right, and one in the center. So, on the left-hand side is the Gruha Lakshmi, on the right-hand side is the Raja Lakshmi or Gaja Lakshmi and in the center is the Lakshmi which ascends into Mahalakshmi. When the seeking starts, a human being first starts seeking food. Food is very important for all the animals. If they have no food then they cannot exist. So the seeking starts with food, and when the shelter is sought, they try to find the water. So, this center is made of water and in this center resides the Deity of Shri Vishnu or Narayana; and His power, as I told you, is Lakshmi and then Mahalakshmi. You Read More …

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Mooladhar, Swadishthan-Sakar Nirakar ka bhed New Delhi (India)

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Mooladhar, Swadishthan Sakar Nirakar ka bhed 1983/01/30 [Hindi to English translation]  Organizers: Please come  INDISTINCT CONVERSATION  Organizers: He will speak   Just set the mic for him, okay Organizer:   Stop the (UNCLEAR). Everybody sit down Organizer: Now later on, later on, brother, later on  Shri Mataji: Later on Presenter: Mr. Chugh and Sanatan Dharam Mandir would welcome Mataji on this occasion. He will deliver his few words in this regard. President: I will say, ‘Universal Mataji’ you all say ‘Jai ho’ . Slogans in praise of our Mother. Most Highly respected, Daily remembered and Devotional Form, Worshipable Mataji Shri Nirmala Deviji, Lord lovers, mothers and sisters, our religious texts tell us, that when the higher karmas of an individual shine, awaken, then we meet Such high grade, Trikaal darshi Personalities and       then we get an opportunity to listen to Them about God. We all are really fortunate. Mataji graciously gives us Her darshan every year, to be at Her feet and blesses us with Her Grace. The tongue doesn’t have the power to praise Her. Every word or rather golden word is spoken by Her I understand you all are very eager to hear her Pravachan, so I all the foreigners, who have graced on this occasion  I welcome on behalf of (UNCLEAR) and all those brothers who have come from here and come every year I will request Shri Mataji to bless us with her gracious pravachan(Sermon)   [APPLAUSE]   S.Yogi to President: Do you want Read More …

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False Gurus and Conditionings New Delhi (India)

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Public Program, Delhi (India), 29 Jauary 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I would like to thank the great artist Savita Devi who has given us the pleasure of listening to her beautiful exposition of God’s blessings and the desire of a seeker like Surdas. I am really thankful to her for setting a mood this program and bringing it to that melodious concord. What Dr. Warren has told you is very true, that susanskaras can be confused with kusanskaras. Actually anything that is done in extremes is against God. For example, before realization there is no ascent, there is no evolution of your being, of your awareness. In your human awareness whatever you have achieved is expressed in your central nervous system. As you know, an animal does not know, what is dirt, filth or beauty is. But a human being is aware of that. But the human being has to ascend into a new awareness, into new chetna. So, whatever has to happen has to happen in our awareness. The simple thing people do not understand. And that is why the reason why people go to extremes in everything is indulgence. For example, supposing somebody has said that better take Rama’s name, simple thing like that in our Indian Culture. That means you do not take bad names, do not say bad words, say a good word like Shri Rama. But when it comes to taking his name, one has to Read More …

The Shaktis Within Us New Delhi (India)

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Public Program. New Delhi (India), 28 January 1983. It’s such a great Sahaj Yogi, that he must have really blasted you all, with so many expositions, which normally, we resist, very much. So, I have to say one thing, that, this work is, of Mother’s Love, and Mother can never demand anything from you, least of all the reverence, that is, due to a mother, only thing she can do, is to love you, care for you, to guide you, to proper understanding. Sometimes suppose she has to take the cane in the hand, for a very short time, but this overpowering love cannot demand anything from you. Actually, sometimes I wonder, why should they at all think of giving anything to Me, because they do not know I’m so helpless, that I really cannot take anything, at all, it re bounce back, and, it is a very different phenomena with Me which have faced, sometimes with people when I tell them, that Love can only be returned in one way, that is only by assimilating it within yourself. Just by sucking it into your being, just by fulfilling yourself with it, to be, absolutely satisfied, to be transformed into a new being of joy and happiness. To be the Lotus of your being, to be the fragrant personality of this earth. If that happens to a Mother, is the biggest thing, She may be the most powerful or whatever you may call her by, her only joy is in Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Plans for India New Delhi (India)

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Talk To Sahaja Yogis: Plans For India, 28-01-1983, New Delhi, India [The conversations between Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yogis take place in English and Hindi. Hindi portions are translated into English]. Shri Mataji: Now, you see, the thing is, how many are already settled for marriage? Raise your hands. Sahaja Yogi: It’s Chandra and Martin. Shri Mataji: Not yet. Sahaja Yogi: Not yet? Shri Mataji: That’s not yet done. Sahaja Yogi: Robert… Shri Mataji: Because he still has a problem with [UNCLEAR]. I told him very frankly, unless and until you are fully sorted out, you are not to… Sahaja Yogi: OK. Shri Mataji: I don’t want him to lose his job. All right? Because he maintains] his job. If he has to resign and go away, that’s not proper. Sahaja Yogi: That’s right. Shri Mataji: Then what will he do? Sahaja Yogi: That’s very practical. Shri Mataji: That’s very practical. Sahaja Yogi: Robert and Nirmala are coming. They have been married by Arya Samaj yesterday. Patrick and Madhu Rai have been married, I think today, by Arya Samaj. They are coming up to Delhi in two days’ time. They drove Patricia, and are very happy to go ahead. Shri Mataji: Three of them. Sahaja Yogi: Guido and Isabel seek your blessings in the marriage. And that’s all that I have [UNCLEAR]. Shri Mataji: Four of them. I also want to meet [UNCLEAR].Sahaja Yogi: And five older people who want to remarry. Shri Mataji: So five and four we have? Read More …

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God Realization Aim of Human Life New Delhi (India)

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Public Program, Delhi (India), 27 January 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth.Today, the Sahaja Yogis from Delhi have given Me a particular subject on which they want Me to speak, and the subject is: “God Realization is the aim of human life”. It amuses Me to think of a subject which is so obvious to Me, that what other goals human beings are having, has no meaning at all, in My own opinion. But today in these modern times, I feel that God Realization is not a far-fetched aim or a later aim, but imminent, immediate aim of human beings. Some people might say, “Now we are young, so we can do this later on. Just now we are quite happy people.” Some of you may say that “We are doing a good work. We are not bad people. We are not dishonest. So what is the need to have this Self-Realization or this God Realization?”Moreover there’s a big market of many babajis and all kinds of false fake gurus, who have disillusioned specially the Indian seekers about God, about spiritual life, and about a guru. But to make the things worse is this: that so many seekers are born in this precarious time, first of all, and the situation of human existence itself is a thing of question.Under these circumstances, we have to get to the problem of finding out the solution; knowing why, despite all the effort of human beings to bring peace and joy Read More …

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Short Conversation on Marriages New Delhi (India)

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Short Conversation on Marriages, India, Dehli, December [Before 1985]. Dr Warren: (inaudible) (I think we just needa little more time?) Shri Mataji: Now, you see the thing is, how many are really settled for marriage? Raise your hand. Sahaja Yogi: It’s Chandra and Matti. Shri Mataji: Not yet. Sahaja Yogi: Not yet. Shri Mataji: Not yet. That’s not yet settled, because told you, if he has a problem, is a problem. I am telling you very frankly:  unless and until you fully sort it out, you are not to be married. Sorry, I don’t want him to loose his job, alright? Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Shri Mataji: You see, if he looses his job, if he has to resign and go away it’s not proper. Sahaja Yogi: That’s right. Shri Mataji: What will he do? Sahaja Yogi: That’s practical. Shri Mataji: That’s very practical. Sahaja Yogi: Robert and Nirmala are coming they’ve been married by Arian Samaj [unsure] yesterday. Shri Mataji: Hum. Shri Mataji: Patrick and Madhurai have been married, I think today by Arian Samaj. They’re coming up to Delhi in two days time. Pedro and Patricia are very happy to go ahead with the arrangement. Shri Mataji: Three of them no? Sahaja Yogi: And Guido and Isabelle who wish to seek your blessings for their marriage. Shri Mataji: Alright. Sahaja Yogi: And that’s all that I have [inaudible – apparently(?)] Shri Mataji: Four of them. I’d also want to be- Sahaja Yogi And five re-marriages. Shri Mataji: Hum? Sahaja Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Delhi, India 25-02-1982 Our respected chief justice Mr Mahajan, respected minister sahab, our beloved trustee Mr  [UNCLEAR],all the Sahaja Yogis who are blessed today specifically by God’s grace, i bow to you. I am so filled with gratitude, that I have no words to express the bounties and the beauties of the divine, we have struggled so much to get a piece of land and so far we have not  been successful, though our president has granted that [UNCLEAR]. It’s such a sad thing that we could not manage to lay our hands on any piece of land while the whole belongs to God Almighty and our trustees had given up all hope of getting anywhere near and they started saying that ‘Mother is a very impractical lady, she doesn’t understand modern times how to behave’. I wanted at least one place to be obtained keeping with the great principle for this great country and this is really God’s blessing that has proved that if you keep to your principal, things work out very easily. In the same way in England they were struggling to get a place and suddenly out of the blue they got  a beautiful ashram, this really proves that, if you keep to your principles and your love for God he  gives you your Kshema as Krishna has said ” YogaKshemam vahamyaham”  if you have taken yoga he will look after your Kshema , people may argue that ‘why is it taken so much Read More …

Sahaja Yoga Free Hall New Delhi (India)

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Sahaja Yoga Free Hall Shri Mataji: A hall has been dedicated for the work of Sahaja Yoga. It was a long-awaited blessing for the Delhi Sahaja Yogis. May God bless you all for that. Sahaja Yogi: Require Hindi main bhi bolo. Shri Mataji: (Badme bolenge, achcha. zarur.) It’s a gift of God, I should say, that you got this without paying anything for it, while all the people have been running up and down, when even the Government had allotted us a land because they have approved of our utility. Still through this, what you call, “Red tape” and all that, it was a big problem, and because I am little a queer person because I would not allow anybody to give any bribe or any such thing or to do anything irregular, things would not work out. And if such a thing can happen, I mean, after all this is God’s work. And God has to look after His work also and He has to arrange for things. But this reminds Me of one thing: in London same thing happened. And they were all running up and down for an ashram and they couldn’t find any place. It was impossible even to rent a place. Wherever they tried it failed somehow or other, and nobody would accept so many people living in one house. They thought that it is useless. They paid some money. They did all kinds of things. They did it in advance. Because they were so Read More …

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Mahashivaratri Puja: What makes Mother pleased? New Delhi (India)

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Mahashivaratri Puja, New Delhi, India, February, 22th, 1982 Today is the day when we celebrate Mahashivaratri. Is a great day, or we should say great night. This puja should have been in the night. Is a great night when Shiva was established on this earth. Because that way Shiva is eternal. So, one would say that, “Why Shiva?” like a birthday of Shiva you can say or something, “How can it be?”, because He is eternal, He is all the time there. So, what demarcates today’s celebration, is the establishment of Shiva on this earth. In the material self. Every matter has been created with a deity and that deity is established in that matter, as you know. So, when it was thought by Adi Shakti that first we must establish Shiva; without Shiva you cannot establish anything. First, He is to be established, because He is the absolute. So you have to establish Shiva. And now what should we do? How to establish Him? He is the God of Tamo Guna. He is the cold, He is the God of all that is not active. So first of all, this earth, when it receded from the sun, which was very hot, was taken very near to the moon. The moon is the brother-in-law of Shiva. So it was taken so close to moon that the whole earth got covered with ice. And it was then gradually moved towards the sun. When it was moved towards the sun, gradually, then Read More …

Once you get your Realization everything becomes logical Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi (India)

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Public Program Day 2 at Gandhi Bhavan, New Delhi, India, February 22nd, 19821982-02-22 […]The creation of Kailasha took place. We Indians worship Kailash as the residence of Shiva, Sadashiva, God Almighty who is eternal. First, the Parabrahma, the Nirakara, the One that is without forms was in a sleeping state. When it awakened, it is called as Sadashiva. At that stage, his Power became the Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother, we can call Her the Holy Ghost. This Primordial Mother created her creation to please the Sadashiva which was no more but a witness to this spectacle. He was the spectator. I will not go into the details of creation today but one has to remember that all that is created is a deliberation and is not an accident.Later on, Adi Shakti created three Powers out of Herself which you know: the Power of desire, the Power of action and the Power of evolution or dharma. These three Powers were created out of the pure desire that She had, to be one with her Lord, God Almighty Sadashiva.This desire resides within us as Kundalini, the fourth, fourth power within us – as the Kundalini- which is sleeping in the triangular bone.As Ghopal has told, recently, that people don’t know how to raise the Kundalini and don’t know how to guide it. Actually, Kundalini can only be risen by a person who is an authority, spiritual authority or could be through the Adi Kundalini itself. I told you yesterday how in Read More …

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Marriages New Delhi (India)

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1982-0221, Marraiges, Delhi, India. We are happy and the whole universe is to be bubbling with joy.(audience clapping sound)Last time we had only six marriages and this time we have doubled, we have twelve marriages.(audience clapping sound,,someone from the audience said,next year 24 ) I hope you will go on with this progression.(audience laugh sound) Marriage is a very important institution for Sahaj Yogis, we don’t accept  people who do not marry or who do not believe in marriages. Also, we do not accept people who are Sanyasis.So for us marriage is a very very important institution for various reasons because with the happy married life, the peace of the world will start presiding on this earth.Then by collective being within us , by your spirit. The marriages should be blessed by all the people who are around and the marriages should be such that it should make people happy.Now the responsibility of the husband and wife is to make their marriages (34:48)very successful.What is a very simple keynote is there, that you have married for Love. You just love a person. If you start loving a person, you will know all about that person and you will enjoy that love.You cannot enjoy married life without love. Love is the only way you can enjoy married life. In this country specially, marriages are very much supported by the society and everyone wants that marriages should be successful. The reason is they know that without a good married life, the children will be ruined.They will be Read More …

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There will be someone who will be able to raise the Kundalini without any difficulty Constitution Club of India, New Delhi (India)

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1982-0220 Public Program Day 2, Constitution Club, New Delhi, India Announcer (male): This program in Delhi and [unclear] and you are requested to join us in the Mataji’s Divine lectures [unclear] about 100 westerners from different countries, Australia, England, America, France, Switzerland etc. and one of them is Barbara. One very highly [unclear] Sahaja Yogini has visited [unclear] event. Announcer (female)/Barbara: How all the people, who would be working on the house would be called the golden builders and how they would be chiselling away at the house and this chiselling away at the house would be a symbolic chiselling away at building a new nation. Now all the people who were working on this house were Sahaja Yogis who were living in London who was working on mother’s house who were using lots and lots of gold paint for decorations inside the house and there they were, the golden builders. He spoke about the ashram that was first opened in London about two years ago, he said that the new Jerusalem the foundations for the new Jerusalem would be laid in the ruins of Lambeth vale. The ashram is in Lambeth vale and it is ruin because it was bombed during the last war and has never been quite repaired. So to find all this and to find that it all tally was extremely exciting for us and to find that where the tallying with the Bible comes in, it is absolutely true. We found that the teachings of Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Part 2 = 30 January 1982) New Delhi (India)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis [Missing part] After that she sat down at least. And then she said to Me, “Mother, I must say this Chaya, what must have she done in her last life to be married to a man like that?” After that she never took his side. Always she used to come and tell Me that, “Chaya told Me that he’s such a funny man.” She wants as soon as he comes in the room I should enter into the room. She says, “I feel shy.” I mean, [Hindi]. If they have no understanding then we [can’t, cannot] do anything. Do you feel shy? You shouldn’t do that. You really feel shy. I mean, there’s something like shyness. She said, “I find it impossible, you know, with this man. I feel very shy and I feel very embarrassed.” She wanted to, [see with/show] us some nice film, she wanted to see. So this fellow said, “No, you should only see it with me.” She said, “But you are not coming. If you come [then we’ll go together, I will not go out].” He couldn’t bear her going with other friends. Can you imagine? Such a jealous spot. [Hindi] I mean, we are not complicated. In the same way, get rid of your complications. Like who will now get married. I mean, they must have arguing. That’s important. And they come out fighting, both of them. No one can sleep there. In that Brompton Square, can you imagine, that Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis New Delhi (India)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, New Delhi, India, 20-02-1982 Just see the answer, because they have full faith in God, see they have full trust in [Unclear], so they are not worried about their wives what will happen to them or wives are not worried about them. The rest of it, you people worry about husbands, right?, you cannot conceive, doesn’t come into our heads. Sahaja Yogi: We will leave rest to Mataji. Sahaja Yogi: Everything. See na, see the innocence, can you see the innocence, can you understand that. Sahaja Yogi: Then nothing happens. See. Sahaja Yogi: Joyous and joyous. Nothing happens, there is joy, leave everything to Mother. Sahaja Yogi: Kahat kaabir aanda mayo (en – Kabeer says to be in joyous state) Now listen to that, So, simple they are, they are so simple they won’t understand this. It is not proper for me to say anything in their presence really, they still cannot see things you know, after all I have said it they are so simple they can’t see through the things, now these two ladies are sitting here where are their husbands? They have been sleeping in my room for the last three days. They have got their children, nothing they are doing, this is something I just can’t understand, all these things you have to learn in this lifetime. They have to learn from you some things, but you have to also learn some things. Look at the innocence, see them, nothing goes into their heads, like Read More …

Welcome Address by K. Subramanyam on the occasion of a Public Address by Shri Mataji (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 10, Pages 31–32) New Delhi (India)

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Welcome Address by K. Subramanyam on the occasion of a Public Address by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi at FICCI Hall (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 10, Pages 31–32) Respected Mother and Jaswant Singh Saheb, Today, spiritualism is in a big confusion. It means different things to different people. Anything that is beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man, anything that is strange to the common place of occurrence, passes off as spiritual. Even tricksters and jugglers are called spiritualists. There are no clear cut definitions or criteria for determining what is spiritual and what is not spiritual, what is genuine and what is fake, what is superior. The situation is assuming alarming proportions these days. As a reaction of the dehumanizing effects of the modern industrial civilization, a large mass of humanity is turning to spiritual pursuits for mental piece and happiness. A craze for spiritualism is razing all over the world. In fact, there is nothing wrong if Indian spiritualism spreads its benevolent wings all over the country and beyond. The troubled humanity of today badly needs a spiritual regeneration all over the world where the values of life are fast vanishing and life itself is becoming unbearably insignificant. But the question is whether there is really something spiritual in whatever goes in the name of spiritualism today. Some of them appear obviously unrighteous and even ludicrous and there is no dearth of cases where morality and human decency are outraged in the name of spiritualism. The situation Read More …

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Rotary International Speech New Delhi (India)

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Program in Rotary International Speech, Delhi, January 17, 1982 Our governor Jagdish Kapoor to present a bouquet to Mataji. I will now hand over the proceeding to our District governor Jagdishji. Jagdeesh Ji: we were all eagerly waiting for this moment. To sit before this great spiritual lady and the happy moment has come. I will now request Mr. (name unclear), to take the proceeding and introduce to you Mataji Nirmala Devi. Governor Jagdish, press, guests and fellow Rotarians. In a lifetime rarely one gets to meet such a great saint. Today is one of the most important days of my life where the god has given me this opportunity to introduce to you Mataji. I feel great honour. I am thankful to the governor for giving me this opportunity. We are very fortunate that today at this time Mataji is with us. The things have changed, the weather is changed. People have totally forgotten the importance of royalty. Yesterday, we had the privilege to meet doctor Colonel Singh. He also stressed the country which took pride in the values, the absolute (unclear) that we should maintain, those standards which our forefathers, which our saints, have bestowed upon us. Science and technology can give manpower but not (unclear). (unclear line). The misery in the world is not due to technology or due to a resource of nature but due to selfishness and ego of man. On this occasion, a number of saints have responded to the need of the hour Read More …

Welcome Address to Shri Mataji by K. Subramanyam (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 3, Pages 22–24) New Delhi (India)

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Welcome Address to Her Holineness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi by K. Subramanyam, Mavalankar Auditorium (from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 3, Pages 22–24) As the famous German philosopher Schelling remarked once : “ If God would appear to me with the truth in the right hand and the quest of the truth in the left, asking me to choose between the two, I would rush towards his left hand telling him : Oh God! keep the truth for yourself alone.” This is because the modern seeker is more interested in the game of truth seeking than in the Truth itself It would not have mattered if subject was only for academic discussion like the question whether God exists or whether re-birth is a fact or fiction. But it directly affects the life of a large mass of humanity today in the world. Millions of people have taken to one course or another under the name of spiritualism. They are all wandering in wilderness, treading the tracks which they believe will lead them to their goals. The spiritual guides in this country who show these tracks are called Gurus and Maharishis. They even usurp the attributes of God and call themselves Bhagwans. How to know who is a real Guru and who an imposter? In Indian thought, Gurus are held in high esteem. The tradition demands absolute faith from a follower and his complete surrender to the Guru. It shuts doors to the discerning eye and the discriminating mind. No surprise that shrewd Read More …

The Power of Brahma New Delhi (India)

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“The Power of Brahma”, Public Program,  Delhi (India), 11 March 1981. I have told you, the other day that these vibrations are nothing but the Brahmashakti , the power of Brahma. The power of Brahma is the power that creates, .that desires, that evolves and it gives the living force also. It is the power which is giving us the living force. Now, it is not easy to understand what is a dead force and what is a living force. Living force is very simple to understand. An animal, say a little worm, is a living force. It can turn itself the way it likes. It can save itself from danger. It may be a small little thing, but because it is living it can save itself. But something which is dead cannot move by itself. So, the “Self” part does not remain in it, as far as it is concerned. Now, being a living force we should try to find out, “Are we going to be the living force or the dead one”. Now, when we live in the world, we start thinking about our comforts; where we have to live, what we have to do. When we think of all these things, you see, we are thinking of the dead. But when we think of having a place or a house or an Ashram from the angle that you Will be doing some living work, then you are giving life to that place. That atmosphere should be created Read More …