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9th Day of Navaratri, On Agnya Pune (India)
Navami, ninth night of Navaratri, Pune (India), 19 October 1988. Today is the last day of Navaratri. This should be the culminating pint for all of us, as you see, within us, as you know, that there are seven chakras for you ascent and two above it. That should be your destiny. But if you people go only on the agnya move on agnya, you cannot rise any higher. People have been lost on that chakra. So, that is a very important chakra. Sixth-‘Sashti’ of the Goddess is regarded as a very important thing and they say that Goddess comes on a ‘naanv’, on a boat, Calcutta people believe it because the sixth day is very big to cross it. That is what today is the problem with all of us that we have this sixth day still sitting on our heads and we cannot get out it. So to come to the nineth stage, though we may do Puja, we may do anything, but we are still on the sixth. So it is just outwardly that we are doing Puja. Seventh day is the day, where I am there. But 7th and 8th and 9th has to be achieved by crossing your 6th. Today I am going to tell you about the 6th because is the most important of all of us to know, that what Goddess has done for the sixth day. Mahalaxmi incarnated as Mary and she brought Her son, who was Jesus Christ and She wanted Read More …
8th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)
Eighth Day of Navaratri. Pune (India), 18 October 1988. In the ‘Mahalaxmi Strotum, why should we have all these. Because it is the Kundalini. The Mahalaxmi is the channel of the Kundalini, so there are ASHTA LAXMIS. Then Mahalaxmi and lastly the DAKSHA LAKSHMI. We have got one after another these powers within us which are expressed on the Mahalaxmi channel. Now, in the Mahalaxmi channel we have to talk about Gauri. Because Gauri is the one which is the Kundalini. So they have to talk thats why they say ‘Udai Udai hey Ambe. They say in the Mahalaxmi temple. Why because, in the Mahalaxmi temple only they have to say that now you rise, we are ready, we are prepared, we have got the Mahalaxmi principle within us and now you can rise,’ the Kundalini and that’s why the AAVAHANA.‘Palan’ means mothering or looking after the child. She is the one who looks after the whole world like a mother.Oh Devi! you are the only support of this world, because you are there as the mother earth and supporting the universe as the mother earth. Because of Mother Earth, the universe exists, because she, the Mother Earth was created out of the all the cosmos, the whole cosmos is supported by Mother earth. Like supposing you are building a house. The house is there but it is supported by the person who lives there. Otherwise it is meaningless like a bridegroom if he’s not in the marriage, what’s the Read More …
7th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)
7th Day of Navaratri [Verses of ‘Devi Atharva Sheersha’ from ‘Durga Saptashati’ were read, where the Devi speaks for Herself. Shri Mataji clarifies and explain in between:]*When you give joy to someone. The source of joy has to be beyond joy.* I am the giver of knowledge.* Without the light of “Atma” without the light of the ‘Spirit’ how can you know anything?* You see the source is unborn, it can take birth because it is primordial, so it is unborn. Primordial is there it is absolute, but then absolute can take birth.* Why not get Realisation? Without that what’s the use of doing devi Puja. Without the knowledge of ‘Atma’, if you do any Puja, what is the use? You won’t get Divine Blessings already said Thousands of years back.* “Vaikhari” is the powers by which we speak.* Any God’s name you take, you ask are you this? ……. (Vibrations ……. ) Because the ‘Shakti’ of all those people is the essence of all those. Because I am that Shakti, that’s why you get the vibrations. Ask anybody’s name, even the saints, rishis, maharishis. ‘Hanh’ all of that is me. That is why that’s the point they are trying to make.* Beeja Mantra means say the “Vaikhari”. Vaikhari is the power of Speaking. This power of speaking is made into mantras by people who have power of Realisation. Now, so, for them to improve, supposing they want to improve their centre, or they want to improve their left or Read More …
6th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)
1988-10-16 Sixth Day of Navaratri 1988 Pune (Translated from a talk given in Hindi)This is a worship of the Shakti. Until now many saints, sages have known and revealed about this Shakti. Whatever they could not describe in prose, they trued to convey by poetry. Whatever description was not possible to put in words – they composed different names of the Devi and described. We know all this and many people also know the meaning of this. But one thing they perhaps do not know is that every human being has all these Shaktis “Powers” dormant in them and they can awaken them. These dormant powers are eternal and limitless.Besides the thirty three crores of ‘Devas’, there are many Shaktis. But we can say that this ‘Self-Realisation’ that we have achieved today, has been achieved through working of some Shakti or the other. Without this you could not have achieved the ‘Self-Realisation’.You have received your Self-Realisation in ‘Sahaj’ way. Now there are two meanings of Sahaj. One meaning is you have got it easily. The other meaning is, – like any living process this has happened on its own. You have received it on your own.But when one starts thinking about the living process, you will be surprised, – your brain will stop functioning. Suppose you are looking at a tree, what is the power that makes it grow up to that particular height? Which power has made it so, that it can have this particular appearance?, these looks. Most Read More …
5th Day of Navaratri, What is your destiny? Pune (India)
PANCHAMI, the fifth Day of Navaratri, 15th October 1988, Pune (India) Sant Eknath comes from Pratishthan. Pratishthan is called as Paithan. And he is the one, who has written this “Jogava”, means the Yoga and at that time he sang this in a very village language and it sung by so many people all over the Maharastra. You can imagine that this song was written so many years back. Now they have converted into a kind of a – I mean for Sahaja Yoga – and actually, it is precisely described what they wanted at that time. [Marathi] Now, in the beginning he says, the Goddess of Maharasthra was called as “Baya”. You will be amazed, in my childhood my name was “Baya”. They used to call me in my family as Baya. So, he is saying that, “I will ask Mother to give me the Yoga”. In the villages, this is said “Joga awa”. Again he says, “Bayecha Jogava” means the “jogawa” from the Goddess Baya and he is asking the “jogawa”. Now “Anadi nirguni” the one which is primordial. “Adi” beyond guna is the one which is without any gunas has manifested as “Bhawani” on this earth. And She has come to kill this Mahishasura. Also, she has come, “Prividh. Tapanzi Karavaya Zharani”. Five types of- [Marathi] Sahaja Yogi: Pains. Only devils. Shri Mataji: Heating pains. Three types of heating pains. “And now She is going to come for our Nirvana” that time, he had said. He says Read More …
4th Day of Navaratri Pune (India)
“CHATURTHI”, the Fourth Day of Navaratri, October 13th, 1988, Pune (India) [The Kavach of the Devi, which was read partly on the third day, got completed today.] So, we have made it short. Now just take a ‘bandhan’, it is the same thing as Kavacha, you see. Realised souls, if they take bandhan, it’s the same thing. Whatever you have said here is done, yesterdays and todays, everything that has been said, all these Raksha Kari is done in one stroke.But now we should know how many of us take bandhan before going from the house, before sleeping or before doing something important. How many people take bandhan? Very seldom. You forget it. It’s very important. Going on a journey, going on a road, better take a bandhan. It’s not that, “We are all right, Mother is looking after us”, it’s not the point. You must take a bandhan before doing all these things. If you get an accident, then know that you have done some mistakes or something otherwise. Normally, there should be not an accident, means, there is something still lacking in you. [SHRI MATAJI, ABOUT THE KAVACH:]‘Which was promised long time back by Markendaya, now you have achieved it. This he had promised 14,000 years back that when Mahamaya will come, She will do this work. That it will happen. We must realise that we are getting all the promises fulfilled for us. Now, we have also certain promises to be made and we have to ask Read More …
3rd Day of Navaratri Pune (India)
“TRITIYA”, the Third Day of Navaratri, October 13th, 1988, Pune (India) So, many powers Mother has to have to protect her children and to look after them. These powers are all there, working relentlessly all the time, twenty-four hours. So, anybody who surrenders to Mother, these powers express themselves and try to help you out of your problems. But first thing is surrendering. If you are not surrendered, if you are not in the kingdom of the God, then this is not the responsibility of the Mother. Then it might be that some negative force might take over and may destroy you.
Akshaya Tritiya Puja Talk: Pray and ask for that eternal love of God Pune (India)
[Hindi to English translation] From ancient times, on this auspicious day (Akshay Trutiya), people asked God for many things. For example, many people ask on this day that – God let it rain in Maharashtra so our farms will get good produce. Asking that is okay that farms should get good produce, that it should rain, people should get food. And beyond that? You did not ask for anything eternal. It will rain, and people will get food, but this is not something that is eternal, which cannot be bypassed, and that you will not have to see scarcity again here – nobody can say that. And what happens if it rains? Then they will again do things by which they will displease the Divine, and then again there will be no rainfall. The human mind is such; when asking God, they don’t think why such a situation has come, or what mistake have we committed. Now in Maharashtra, a lot of prosperity came, and sugar factories came up which started producing a lot of sugar. And after that, they started making alcohol. They did not think that by making alcohol, they will make money but they are acting against the Divine. And in this kali yuga…ever since the Kruta-yuga (age of action) has started, now these things will not be tolerated for long… They started making alcohol, in that they brought politics, and caused losses to the poor. Those who grew a lot of sugarcane became crazy – they started saying that Read More …
Christmas Puja: Reach Completion of Your Realization Pune (India)
Christmas Puja. Pune (India), 25 December 1987. [English Translation from Marathi – missing] [English Transcript] Today is the great day, when a great son of the Goddess was born, at least it is celebrated today. And you are all assembled here to celebrate the birthday of Christ. You already know how He came on this earth, and what was His great work. But we must see to the subtle side of Christ. What was His power? Christ’s power was, of course, Omkara. His power was Pranava. But the essence of Christ was tapasya, tapasvita. He is the incarnation of tapasya, and in that incarnation is a sinless personality. He’s sinless. Of course incarnations never commit sins. But apparently things that look like sins are also not in His life story. Like one can say that Shri Rama gave up His wife, so it is a sinful thing. Of course those who understand the subtleties of Shri Rama’s life will know that it’s stupid to say such a thing. Or Shri Krishna’s life, they might say He married so many women. But in Christ’s life you do not find anything that could be pointed out as a mistake, even a slightest mistake. It’s a very straightforward life, absolutely pure life and doing no commitments of ambiguous nature. But it’s very surprising that Christianity is just the opposite of what Christ wanted it to be. They painted Him so differently, brought Him out so differently and made a mess of His life. Read More …
Talk to Sahaja Yogis: We Are Here For Our Ascent Pune (India)
We Are Here For Our Ascent, Pune You have come for your ascent, for a pilgrimage, and certain things have to be borne in mind — that we have to see that our thinking has to go down first. I don’t mind suffering, but my suffering doesn’t help you much. So I have to request you not to say, “I thought.” Then I’ve seen people go on lingering about. There’s no movement, very lethargic movement, very slow movement, as if they have taken some sort of an opium or some sort of a drug. You should see, all the Indians are alert, especially in Maharashtra. They’re very alert people. And the alertness you have to achieve — not to just roam about here, roam about there, stand there. Everybody has to go and call. We are doing no work here at all. They are doing all the work. I’m sorry I have to say that. They are the ones who are working out the thing. We have just to move from places to places. But there also the movement is so slow sometimes that it is impossible how to get round you, like small children to call this one, call that one for anything. It has to be a fast movement, it has to be a quick movement. You have to work it out in a very quick manner. Everything has to be done in a very smart way, as they call it. But on the contrary, I find that Read More …
Conversation, Treatment of virus infections Pune (India)
Conversation with yogis, Pune (India), 1 December 1987. So whatever we condition ourselves, becomes a kind of our subconscious. That we have been doing, say for example, all the time something, so it becomes our conditioning, because we have been doing it repeatedly for so many times it becomes a conditioning and is also, what you call, is the habit. And also the habits are also given by our subconscious. So this is the nearest to the present, you can say. Even sitting down here, supposing I take something which is very intoxicating and immediately be thrown into such a depth of subconscious, into the collective subconscious area, that immediately something will grip Me from collective subconscious and next time I must have it. That’s what happens with drugs. As soon as you take drugs once, you’ve had it. It throws you so much to that area that you just get under the grip of something, what we call as the bhoots. And then you have to… Now, in the collective subconscious, what we have got? In the evolutionary process there were many material things which came on this earth and were thrown into this collective subconscious as useless. Like in the modern times you are having now plastics. In the same way we had many things like that which were thrown out of the evolutionary process on one side kept. Then we have got another thing, what we call the plants. Like certain plants that we have, say tobacco. Read More …
Akshaya Tritiya Puja Pune (India)
Akshaya Tritiya Puja Of course, as mature Sahaja Yogis you will pray: Shri Mataji, Iet us, and our families, and our collectivity, and our communities and our countries, and the entire universe, become channels of your divine love.
Evening Program after Christmas Puja Pune (India)
Evening Program after Christmas Puja, Pune, India, 25-12-1986 From there Angapuri you remember we have been near Brahmapuri and from there even you can walk down if you want to Brahmapuri. Your cars can go that side they can walk down. So Angapuri if you remember next to Brahmapuri you can walk back from there if you like and your buses can go ahead to Brahmapuri. So you get down at Angapur and let the buses go ahead only take out your torches and in any case you must keep one dress handy for yourself. So then it is easy because every time I don’t want you to get down with the luggage and again get ticked off you see. Now this time is going to be for three days in Brahmapuri this day so it would be much better. So they are saying after lunch if you leave you will be quite in time for the procession. I hope you like this place very much and also I think I brought down the temperature all right for you. It was quite quite cold but now it’s all right no wind is blowing. You see human mind is such I have seen that it always creates an objection, burocratic. Like you tell them one thing, they said “no, that is not possible” Then you tell them another, “that is not possible”, this solution “that is not possible”. One telling them they said “no, but is not possible, nothing is possible Read More …
Christmas Puja Pune (India)
Christmas Puja, Pune (India) 25 December 1986. [English Transcript] Today we have all been waiting to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. There’s so much significant that we are in a place here, the same type of a hut Jesus had when He was born, and the wind was blowing from all sides and it was difficult to keep the room very warm, though if it is correct He was not born in the month of December, in a warmer month, not so very cold, maybe this much as you see; so maybe that the climate of today is quite significant, with the climate that He must have felt. As for you people, you don’t feel any discomfort in this climate, nor in these surroundings nor in the Spartan living. He never felt any discomfort, nor His Mother. When our attention is on our Spirit, then we do not feel the discomfort of nature or of worldly things. This is the first sign when a Sahaja Yogi starts complaining about comforts, then the first sign is that he is not a Sahaja Yogi as yet. To begin with you just get absolutely acclimatized with the climate and enjoy the style, the speed, the way it is molding you. There’s no friction between the nature and the body because the Spirit which is synchronizer, helps you to become one with this nature and enjoy the best part of it. The way you are enjoying it shows that you are Read More …
Diwali Puja Pune (India)
Diwali Puja (Hindi/Marathi). Pune (India), 1 November 1986. Ask them to stop bursting the firecrackers, otherwise how can I talk? [English Translation from Hindi] On this auspicious occasion of Diwali, we have arrived here at this Punyapatnam (Pune). Since time immemorial, the festival of Diwali has been celebrated in our country. However, the ‘Deepavali’ (arrangement of lamps) of Diwali started with the beginning of Sahaja Yoga. The lamps that were lit during Diwali used to get extinguished in some time. The next year, Diwali would be celebrated by putting oil and a wick in a new lamp. In this manner, every year, new lamps used to be bought. The speciality of the lamp was that at first, it would be put in water and made completely wet and then dried so that the lamp does not absorb the oil in it. It then used to burn for a long time.But we have been celebrating the Diwali of the heart since Sahaja Yoga started. The heart is the lamp which has the wick and we light it by putting in the oil of love. But before putting in this oil, we have to cleanse the heart completely of all impurities and then decorate it beautifully. When this love is firmly established in our hearts, then the heart does not absorb it. When someone loves you, for example, at first your mother loves you, your father loves you and then some others also love you, you absorb that love within yourself. The Read More …
2nd Day of Navaratri, Shri Gauri Puja Pune (India)
1986-10-05 Navaratri, Shri Gauri Puja (Hindi/Marathi) First, I will talk in Hindi and then in Marathi language. All of you should try to learn Hindi as it is our national language. [Hindi Translation] The name of Pune is famous in the Vedas, Puranas and many other such places. It is called as Punyapatnam. The river which flows in this place is called as Mula river. It has been flowing here for thousands of years and is making this place full of punyas.We do not have a complete knowledge about punyas. Many people feel that if we give something to the poor, distribute some things, tell the truth or have certain desires then we get punyas. Maybe this collection of punyas takes place but it is like filling up a lake drop by drop. The meaning of punyas that is known is doing the work by which God is satisfied and becomes happy. We should do such works. A person who does this kind of work is really Punyavaan (one who has punyas) because when he pleases God, then God’s blessings fall upon him and he gets punyas. The powers of God which flow into such a person create something like a new consciousness or a new personality or a new status in him. This new status is such that when this person goes to any house, any country, any place, there the blessings of God start raining down. It is as if he has an umbrella and those who come Read More …
Public Program Day 1 Modern High School, Pune (India)
Public Program, Modern School, Marathi, Pune, India, 16-03-1986 [Translation from Hindi and Marathi, talk starts at 18 min] I bow to all the seekers of truth in Pune. Pune has got the name of Punya Patnam [place of virtue] in ancient Indian texts so that it should become meaningful. This fortune of pious deeds is in this place. This has been told by our ancestors, and those who have accumulated pious deeds from a hundred births, only those are born in Pune. This has also been told. But is it like that or not? Sometimes I have doubts about this because whatever was ours in the past, we have considered that gone is the time and gone is everything related to it. And now the thing we are hurriedly going after correction in that something must come in us and we should do something new. This is a tremendous desire of all people. But I see we have lost synchronisation in both these thoughts. 20:05 Tukaram said: “I will bring peace and happiness to the whole world.” Similarly, Marx said that we should establish such a state in which there are no police, and without any apprehension and fear people will be well-behaved. We should establish a state like this, but the question is how to do this? How to try this feat and how to achieve this? He didn’t shed any light on this. Similarly, Tukaram has said: “I will bring peace and happiness to the whole world.” But how Read More …
Mahashivaratri Puja Pune (India)
Mahashivaratri Puja (Marathi). Pune (India), 8 March 1986. This punya nagari is called as Pune but in our scriptures, it is known as Punyapatnam. The Punyas of the entire world are flowing through this Punya nagari and you all are the carriers of those punyas. It is a great divine coincidence that you are having the puja of Shri Shiva who is the source of Punyas in this place. Unless and until a person gets the Shiva Sthiti (state of Shiva), unless and until he gets his Self-Realization, he exists like a blind man. Any human belief is illusory like a shadow and man spends his entire life holding onto and following that belief. Until one attains the Atma Tattva, he cannot know the essence of the world. Not only that, he cannot know the essence of even his daily life and daily routine. This Shiva Tattva (Essence of Shiva) is reflected in the heart of every human in the form of the Spirit. Without knowing this reflection of the Spirit of the Universe which is in the heart, we cannot understand even the thread that binds the Creation. We keep walking in the dark and do not understand each other, do not recognize each other and do not have any understanding that is absolute. We are under illusions in that darkness. To get this Absolute Experience, we have to take to the Spirit. Only the Spirit can give us this experience in each and every nerve of our body. Read More …
Devi Puja Pune (India)
1986-0108 Devi Puja Talk, Marathi, Pune, India, DP [English translation from Marathi] We have all gathered here for the puja today and to have a puja in Pune is our Divine luck, because in Shastras (scriptures of Hinduism) this place is called Punya Pattanam. Punya Patanam means the…all the punyas(virtues),all the good deeds that they did in their previous lives are poured into this place in which we are staying at present. How much we are going to add to it would now be seen. We should take Sahaja Yoga very seriously. There is no seriousness about Sahaja Yoga. It’s a huge thing. To be Realized Soul is a rare and a special thing. Nobody understands as Realized Souls we are special people, such a big process has taken place within you, and we have received a great blessings and wealth. We should be serious of what we have achieved and should be proud of it. This is not seen here. As you have achieved this so easily, it is not valued. People don’t realize who is Mataji? As I am Mahamaya, it is not easy to recognise Me. But you can know Me from the photograph. There are so many instances from the photograph and a lot of examples that take place in your life. There are people who don’t take Sahaja yoga seriously, (Shri Mataji speaks aside – please tell them not to talk at the back) because of which I hear lot of frivolous things and I Read More …
Evening Program on Christmas Eve Pune (India)
1985-12-24 India Tour 1985/86: Christmas Eve – with Music and Bhajans, Pune Sahaja Yogi: May we wish You, [Mother,] a Happy Christmas. For all the existent [unclear]. Shri Mataji: Same to you all. Happy Christmas and very happy New Year. Please be seated. Please be seated. [Mother speaks in Marathi.] Today it’s a great day for Me to celebrate the Christmas Eve in Poona. Poona is called as Punya Patanam in our ancient books. That means this is the place which is very holy, place of, we can say the, it is the city of holiness, and here to celebrate the birthday of Jesus is something so sensible, so correct, so proper because He was nothing but punya. He was nothing but holiness, and that His birthday should be celebrated here is absolutely so sahaja that I started feeling, going back in the history, if Christ was born in Poona, what [could/would] have happened? But then I thought, supposing He was born here, then people all over the world would not have accepted Him because He had to be crucified. If He was not crucified, the sadist won’t be happy. If they are not happy, they won’t allow Christianity to spread, in the real sense of the word, I mean the Christianity. With all understanding, He was born in Jerusalem. [Was/So] a humble place Jerusalem, very humble place, and He was born in a very humble place, in a, as you know, in the company of the cattle, around him. Read More …
Shri Bhoomi Devi Puja: Sacrifice is very important Pune (India)
English Translation – Bhoomi Devi Puja Date 4th February 1985: Place Pune – Type Puja or 1985-0204 [English Translation from Marathi] (Starts at 12:48) So much preparation has been done by all you Sahaja Yogis. After seeing that, it feels that the decision to reside in Pune has to have some special reason of love. There are many reasons but the main reason I feel is the yearning for your immense love is why we decided to make Pune city our home. On the whole, getting the land and getting the work done here is certainly a special event. But the main reason is that Pune has a mould of immense virtue, abundance of good deeds and also has a mould of virtue. Here people can be transformed into virtuous beings. But a lot of nuisance has taken place here and will keep happening, because whenever people are transformed into virtuous beings, the negative forces are operational everywhere, ready to attack such beings. Especially at such places where some virtue is being created. So, you should achieve Sahaja Yoga more truthfully, with greater alertness and care. Pune is the soul of Maharashtra.. It is not only virtue but it is the soul. If we infuse vitality(Chaitanya) in this soul then its good effect will certainly be felt in the whole of Maharashtra. For this purpose I need help from all of you. First of all, one should remember that building a house is not really very important and it’s an easy Read More …
Devi Puja, Republic Day Pune (India)
Republic day puja, Devi puja, India tour, Pune, India, 26/01/1985 (English/Marathi) English Transcript Today we have arrived in a place which is regarded as he holiest of holy cities, in all the Shastras it is described as something very heavenly. So the people who are born here, must be people of great achievements and of great punyas. [Shri Mataji laughs]And to add to all the glory of this place, today is the day of our independence, the Republic day of India.Today the occasion is so great that on this day I should be worshipped because the essence of all the manifestation, all the material worlds of the world is India. India is the essence, the rest of it is all the manifestation of the essence.So, to celebrate the Independence of this country itself is great fortune of many people today, that they should worship me on this day. It’s a very deep rooted country, deep rooted into its traditions and its understanding of life. It’s one of the most ancient country where people have been searching the truth since long.The roots of all philosophies were born in this country That’s why most of the Incarnations took their birth in this country. Or ended up their life here like Moses and Christ. On spiritual life, I would say that time has taken its stone, we have had all kinds of sufferings and dominations because of the spiritual understanding and bearing power we have. That’s representative of what many saints have suffered Read More …
Morality preserves your health Pune (India)
Public Program, Pune, Indai Day 2 1984-1205 [A musical session and recital of popular Marathi songs have started before the address. Shri Mataji is seated on the dais]. [Sahaja Yogini sings a “bhaktigeet” (devotional poem, “Deva Bola Ho Mazhyashi” (Please God, talk to me)]. [First Verse, Chorus] “Deva Bola Ho Mazhyashi Tumhicha Mazvar Ruslyavarti Bolu Mi Konashi?” (Please God, talk to me, If you are offended with me, With whom can I talk?) [Second Verse] “Deha Vahila Tuncha Payi Jeeva Shiva Chi Asha Nahi Kani Padtil Bol Prabhuche Asha Hi Cha Urashi” (I have offered myself at Your feet, With no hope of life or my Spirit, That the words of the Lord fall on my ears, Is the only hope within me, Oh God). [Third Verse] “Tumhicha Mazhala Bol Shikavale Aaj Maun Ka Tumhi Ghetale Deva Bol Shikavuni Mai Abola Ghete Ka Pilashi?” (You taught me to speak, Then why are You silent today, Oh God?, After teaching them speech, Does a mother observe silence with her young ones?). [Fourth Verse] “Deva, Bolayache Nasel Jaraka Bolu Naka, Pun Ituke Aika Kamalakshatun Kataksha Feka Mazavarti Avinashi” (Oh God, If You do not wish to speak, Do not speak, but please just hear this, Throw away the sternness from Your lotus eyes, Towards me Forever). [The second song is a rendition of a popular Marathi “Narvar Krishna Saman” from a “natyasangeet” (musical), based on the marriage of Lord Krishna and his consort, Rukmini. Rukmini is describing to her friend how Lord Read More …
Public Program Day 1 Pune (India)
Public Program Day 1 [Translation from Hindi to English] Leader: Dear Sahaja yogis and all the seekers who have come here to know about Sahaja Yoga. Today is a very auspicious occasion, as today Shri Mataji Nirmala Deviji is with us here and will tell us about the Kundalini, and how its awakening happens. I know a few people who are sitting here are a bit uncomfortable, due to shortage of space. Please do forgive us. I am extremely sorry for the lack of space, but with the knowledge you will gain out of sessions with Shri Mataji, you will not feel the discomfort. This much I can assure you. I have no words to describe our merciful and loving Mother. I lack the words to express praise for Her. I don’t have words. From where should I start? How do I start Her praise? Shri Mataji is the source, the ocean of love and compassion, and is sitting amongst us today. Our sages and hermits of old, have told us that Kundalini awakening is a very, very difficult process, and is attained with lots of practice. Shri Mataji has made this awakening so simple. If you are really desirous to know about it in a true sense, if you are seekers, then I assure you that before you leave this place you will attain your Self-realization. I would now like to excuse myself and invite Shri Mataji to come on the stage and, with Her love and beautiful love-filled voice, Read More …
Talk to Sahaja Yogis Pune (India)
Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Pune, India, 01-03-1984 Shri Mataji:It’s very warm and by the time you arrive there it will be so hot that you will get sick before going home. Sahaja Yogi Audience:laughter Shri Mataji:That’s why I am very very anxious that you should leave early and that’s why we came last night just to leave early and we should not miss the point [UNCLEAR disappoint]. So here it is we have to leave and I am here to say goodbye to a [UNCLEAR]. At the time of parking words do not come to express yourself except for the tears. It was putrid and I enjoyed your company very much and all the people enjoyed you very much. I hope next year again we will venture again to have a trip. I hope all of you have gained something, as soon as you go back write down your experiences and small small things that interest you – all of you. It is a duty to you. Then send it over, one copy to London, so that I can see all of them – with your photographs. I don’t know how to say that we are parting because we are not, I am much closer to you then I was ever. May god bless you. Now who are the people going to UK? Raise your hand. When are you leaving? Sahaja Yogi Audience:responds Shri Mataji:Tomorrow evening. So you will be staying in some place and I will send you one Read More …
Talk to Ladies Pimpri, Pune (India)
Talk to Ladies. Pimpri, Pune (India), 10 February 1984. [Shri Mataji speaks in Marathi] For your good luck, you should say let us say for your good luck, SoubhAgnya for your good luck. Is given to the ladies, always given to the ladies. Because in India the women are regarded as the Shakti and women who lead a married life and who have been mothers, who have been daughters and also wives and things like that are respected very much as only it is believed that only the respectable women when they exist in any country the Gods also reside there. If they are not respectable the Gods don’t reside there. See the glamour is not very much respected in India. The glamorous nature is regarded as something like a sophisticated prostitution [not sure]. In India, glamour is a sign of a effect or a kind of inferiority complex in a women or maybe a cunning to be glamorous. See so its not very much respected in this country. If they find any women getting very glamorous then she’s little bit pulled down in the society and people try to pass remarks on her and make fun of her or sort of she’s brought down. [Its?] not regarded as a very great thing but a traditional… a women has to be traditionally dressed up. As a married women she has to wear a certain ornaments. She has to wear certain things as a married women. She has to wear certain Read More …
A vocal recital by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Pune (India)
With a vocal recital by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. Today is the day of thanksgiving and feelings are released of joy that we enjoy here in our state and of sadness that we have to leave all the great Sahaja Yogis of this place. At the very outset, I must say that Merodai, my son, no doubt out, but he has really done a great service to Sahaja Yoga in Pune. I’ve met many people who have been cured to Sahaja Yoga, many, many, many. But he is a living example of a person who took over Sahaja Yoga as a benevolent friend of the public. Who devoted his time to come down and work out for the people who are educated, who are more intellectuals, to see that they understand the value of Sahaja Yoga in every strata of existence. It’s not meant for only ordinary [UNCLEAR] or for scientists or for any political leaders. But it’s meant for everyone today and everyone has to take Sahaja Yoga so they understand their spirit and understand their creation. I’m very thankful to ayurvedic leader, [UNCLEAR], he was very kind to Me even before this, just at the beginning of Sahaja Yoga. He based your opinion and he has been such a support to me that I’m trying to read it from my heart for coming forward to help us out with the chronic problems of Sahaja Yoga. Then I must confess today that I’ve been a great admirer of a great Read More …
There is a universal unconscious within us Lion's Club, Pune (India)
Public Program. Pune (India), 26 December 1982. The organizers of Lion Club, the members of Lion Club, and the seekers of truth who are lions and otherwise. The name “lion” has come to us since long. In this country, lion has been respected as the King of the Forest. And this King of the Forest is the one who has that dignity, that sense of authority, and benevolence which is expected of a king like a lion. I’m very fortunate that you have given Me this chance to talk to so many lions today and I’m extremely grateful to all the organizers that they have found time for Me. I’ve been following the working of Lion Club, though I have not been a member of any club like that, to find out what are the principles on which this club has been formed. As it is, it is human nature to club together. Clubbing together comes to us from the unconscious force of which we are not aware. When the unconscious force, which tries to make us form groups, to form certain collective organizations, which work out for the good of the collective. So, person like Jung, who was a disciple of Freud to begin with and who revolted against him later on, said that “There is a universal unconscious within us.” And the universal unconscious, he tried to prove with the help of dreams. He found out that in the dreams, he get symbols which are of universal nature. Read More …
Christmas Puja: We have to imbibe all His qualities Pune (India)
1982-1225 Christmas Puja, Pune Today we are celebrating the birth of Christ, which was a very big event in the realm of human awareness. As you know that when he’s born in the Agnya chakra, he sucks the ego and superego that’s the conditioning within us and our ego. Such a great happening has taken place, about two thousand years back. But today is the time for us to use utilize that great advent on this Earth. To understand Christ, first of all we have to know that he was just nothing but Omkara. He was just made of vibrations. And that is why he was resurrected. And he was detached because of his very nature. And so we too, have to understand that we have to be detached, first from our thoughts and that as you know is achieved if you know how to forgive others. But there’s another very subtle attachment people have that, those who are born in the Christian religion think that Christ is their own and that he resides in their pocket. On the contrary it’s just the other way round: that he has nothing to do with them and he’s against them. As Christ has said, “You’ll be calling me ‘Christ, Christ’ and I will not know you.” So it is important that Christians should never think that Christ is our own and that he is ours, because all your life you have lived like Christians. Actually you have not; you have not lived Read More …
Workshop with Seekers Pune (India)
Workshop with Seekers 1982/12/24 Sahaja Yogi: Varicose veins SY: [MARATHI] SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: Hmm, [IN HINDI – What did you say?] Annh? SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: [MARATHI] SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: [MARATHI] SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: [MARATHI] SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: [HINDI – You do one work] Anyone. Anyone of the Sahaja yogis, please put your hand at her back, where she has a pain and put your right hand towards Me. [MARATHI] Another sahaja yogi, please come this side and put your left hand, left hand [MARATHI] [IN HINDI – Be happy, bless you] Just … Namastey..namastey [HINDI – You took so much trouble – annh? Hunh.] Now any other sahaja yogi who’s there, please come. Put your left hand on her back, wherever she has pain and right hand towards Me. SY: [MARATHI] Shri Mataji: [MARATHI] You come and put your hand on her left nabhi. SY: [HINDI – Mrs. C P has come and her friend] [IN HINDI – Namastey, come. I was not able to meet you. Where is Siddhu? Sit down for some time.] [IN HINDI – Okay, what problem do you have? Are you alright? Then sit here. Yes] Shri Mataji: [IN HINDI – Come. What problem do you have?] Another SY: [IN HINDI – I have some trouble of the heart] Shri Mataji: Heart Another SY: [IN HINDI – It happened in 1964 for the first time] Any sahaja yogi who’d like to help a polio patient. Sahaja yogi should not sit Read More …
Christmas Eve Talk: Christianity Pune (India)
Speech on Christmas Eve, Pune (India), 24 December 1982. Before we start, the celebrations of the birth of Christ, we have to little bit review what we have done after his Birth, so that we understand where we stand in relation to him. He was the son of a virgin, so that even the slightest blot on his name should not be created. Because he was to do the greatest job of creating for us Agnya awareness which would help us to suck in all our sins, all our conditionings and all our egos. And this great personality was created for such a great work within ourselves. But, unfortunately, we have spoilt both these institutions within us to such an extent that it’s the most difficult task to give realisation to Christians. On the one side we have too much conditioning, as you know, through Catholicism and other ideas about Christianity which created a horrible conditioning in our superego, which is just like a solid rock, I think, sometimes. And those who have been to Catholic churches still get stuck up with it. I mean, if they are facing me, I find their eyes are blinking and the Agnya is not straight. You have to give up all that conditioning completely if you have to really get to Sahaj Yog. To that extent we went that we tried to create institutions. Of course, we collected money, no doubt about it, lot of money, all kinds of drama, of a papal Read More …
Devi Puja Pune (India)
1982-01-19 Puja in Pune (Marathi and English) [Shri Mataji speaks in English] They are wearing the frocks of the cloth we brought in Australia. You would be happy to know, I had brought the cloth you remember which I sent to all these children here. And they are wearing that. It is a symbolic mother from Shri Ganesha No, they …Actually, the whole thing is about me only describing. The whole thing is very beautiful. You should get the translation of the poem they have recited… I am sorry I have to speak in this language because they don’t understand but you must understand the language of the heart. [Marathi to English translation] Maharashtra’s love is fathomless. My heart overflows with it. You have showered so much love on me that if the entire world gets immersed in it , then I cannot imagine how strongly the waves of happiness will flow. Its only for that love that these people, who do not even know your language, still come to Maharashtra from so far off, taking so much trouble. It is true that such love does not exist anywhere in the world. Marathi language is a little terse, a little rowdy, reverberates more. But the heart is full of love. The language does not have false hypocrisy. But overall, the definition of love can be done only in Marathi Language. Even if I search, I do not find equivalents for so many words outside as are available in Marathi Language. Read More …
Makar Sankranti Puja Pune (India)
Makar Sankranti Puja, Pune (India), January 1st, 1981 [Shri Mataji speaks first in Marathi; English starts at 24:51] I’m sorry I’ve not been able to speak to you in English language – and I’ve spoken some time. This special day today is the day of Sankranta. San, you know. ‘San’ means “good, holy” and ‘krant’ means the – [Shri Mataji speaks in Marathi] . When I speak Marathi I forget English. Sahaja Yogis: Revolution. Shri Mataji: Revolution. Holy revolution. Holy. And that’s what I’m telling them. What is the Holy Revolution is, that your own Dharma is established now through Sahaja Yoga, you know what is your dharma. Because if you don’t do your own dharmas you’ll be lost. Your vibrations will be lost. You’ll immediately know that in your seeking you have lost something. You’ll be affected and so you have to correct. That’s not so difficult.But to make it a Sankranta – the Holy Revolution – you have to take to new, new religion, new steps. First of all, your own steps should be enlightened, and then you have to establish new steps to go ahead. And these are the new steps which are different for the Westerners and different for the Easterners. Just now I told them about the Eastern style and then I’ll tell you later on about the Western. We have to have new ideals, new styles because we are the courageous people, we are the valiant people. We have to fight the war of love, Read More …
Public Program Pune (India)
1979-09-01, Public Program in Pune
Evening prior to departure for London, Importance of Meditation Pune (India)
Evening prior to Her departure for London (Marathi & Hindi). Pune, Maharashtra, India. 30 March 1979. [English Translation from Hindi and Marathi] Tell them to go. All of you sit with hands towards me like this. Like this, you hold your hands, sit, and be relaxed. Why don’t you sit on a chair? Why don’t you sit on a chair, there, there? Or in front is better. Sit like this. Simply sit like this and sit very relaxed. No need to take any special pose, sit completely relaxed, in Sahaja aasan (posture), with complete simplicity in which you have no pressure on yourself. You do not have to move your head up or down, nothing. No need to get any special expression on your face. And anything like, crying out loud or shouting, swaying hands or legs, breathe heavily, stand in between or breathe inflating nothing of this sort you need to do. It is Sahaja in a simple way and on its own, it takes place. Inside you, there is a seed of it. With much care, it is placed inside the triangular bone. For this, you do not need to do anything. Keep your eyes in this way, moving eyes frequently will also move your attention (Chitta). Keep your eyes this way. Do not move your attention. By moving eyes, attention also moves. Close your eyes, no problem in it, instead it is good, close your eyes. If your eyes are not able to close or your eyes Read More …