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Shri Ganesha Puja: Prepare Yourself for Puja Kennolyn Camps, Santa Cruz (United States)

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Shri Ganesha Puja During 3 Day Seminar for new People, Seminar Day 2, Santa Cruz, California (USA). 2 October 1983. [Part 1] When you are all meditative and inside I also find it difficult to be outside. So today you have arranged to have this puja here. Just before that you have to prepare yourself physically and mentally. Physically you must give yourself a bandhan and a bandhan is nothing but, that you give yourself a protection to your aura. How you do it is very simple which I will tell you just now how to do it and then you sit down for your puja. Then mentally you have to put yourself right. First of all, you should not feel guilty at all. If you are guilty, you cannot do my puja. So you should be absolutely above that. There should be no tension in your mind. You are not guilty; you are in the present. See like flowers, you are looking. How can flowers be guilty? First get out of that guilt business. You should not feel guilty or tensed up. Everything that is done is the best. You shouldn’t worry about it. It’s not your responsibility even to arrange it. Just think that everything is done sahaj. Gradually when you’ll move in Sahaja Yoga, you’ll be surprised to see how things are arranged just beautifully. When these people just were finding out a place there was no place for less than $250 each. They said this is Read More …

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Kazu Radio Interview Kennolyn Camps, Santa Cruz (United States)

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Kazu Radio Interview. Santa Cruz, California (USA), 1 October 1983. (Aarti ending.) Shri Mataji: Beautiful! Sahaja Yogi: Bolo Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ki! Jai! Shri Mataji: Who is the gentleman who met Me in Kamini Kadam’s house? Sahaja Yogi: Are right there. Shri Mataji: Hello, how do you do? Very nice to meet you. Both of you were there? Gentleman: Yes. Shri Mataji: All right. May God bless you. Shri Mataji: How are you sleeping? Gentleman: Fine, thank You. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Nice to meet you again. Sahaja Yogi: Mother, a lady from Kazu Radio actually who is coming as a seeker but has also arranged that, if an interview is possible. Shri Mataji: All right. Sahaja Yogi: Barbara! This is Barbara. Shri Mataji: Yes. So today we should have questioning only will be good idea. All right? Barbara: Thank you, Mother. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Barbara: Before we begin, I would like to introduce myself to those of you in the room. My name is Barbara Schuler and I do a radio program on a station from Monterrey called Discovery, which is usually on Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30, and is going to be now on Thursdays to 11:30 to 1 o’clock. And it’s my privilege to be here to do a taped interview for my listeners. So for the listeners I would like to say that we are at Kennolyn Campgrounds in Santa Cruz and this is an interview with Read More …

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The Significance of Puja Sausalito, San Francisco (United States)

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The Significance of Puja, San Francisco, United States, 29-09-1983 Today I just thought that there are quite a lot of people who have come for the first time. And I should tell them about the significance of Puja. Because, as the western style of life is, that they’re meant to be like this. To seek something outside, to go outside, find out new ways and methods to grow outside. Now this is the knowledge of your roots. Knowledge, through which you receive your nourishment, is not known to you before. This knowledge was not known to you before and was not deliberately told because you are supposed to grow outside. Now when you have to go inside then you have to understand the divine laws and divine methods, how it works out. The Puja has a significance from ancient times, the saints described them. Because in India, the whole climate is such that you can live under a tree, live in a forest no problem, you can eat fruits and very happily you could be in a forest. There is no need to have bed or anything; it is so warm and nice, and then always enjoy the bliss of a forest. And thus many people went into the forest and started thinking, looking at whole world from that solitude, what is the problem with human being? Why are we here? What should we do? What is the purpose of this human life? Why God has given us this beautiful Read More …

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The Truth that we are seeking has to manifest in our consciousness Ramada Inn - Ramada Houston Intercontinental Airport South, Houston (United States)

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1983-0921 Public Program Day 2, Ramada Inn Houston Sahaja Yogi: …know that we understand our meaning. Is a tremendous seeking all over the world, especially here in North America, so strong. And of course lots of people are taking advantage of that, and exploited it for making money. The one thing that’s obvious is that none of the previous stages of our evolution we had to do any effort or pay any money. It’s just nature working out its process. Shri Mataji: Is it all right this way? They can hear Me better like this? All right? I bow to all the seekers of Truth. The Truth that we are seeking has to manifest in our consciousness. It is not a mental projection. It’s not our imagination. It has to express itself actually on our central nervous system. That is what the Truth is. For example, you come to this room and you see these things, and you see them with your own eyes. Through your central nervous system you know what it is. If you feel this is aluminium here, you can feel it whether it is cold or hot. On your central nervous system, on your nerves, you have to feel the Truth. But we live with mental projections. All are mental projections I find. We have conceptions about everything which can be completely mythical, absolutely wrong. We have been building them up one by one; like that we have built up, so many different varieties of conceptions Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: He has to be prasanna Los Angeles (United States)

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Shri Krishna Puja, “He has to be prasanna” Los Angeles (United States), September 18th, 1983 First time when I came to United States, I came to Los Angeles first. Because it’s a place of angels. Actually, I thought that it must be a very holy place to come down first of all in this great land of United States. Now, as you know that United States — or America, the whole of it — is the Vishuddhi Chakra. Out of which, we have three sides to the Vishuddhi Chakra. So, the central part of the Vishuddhi Chakra is United States. The central part of the Vishuddhi Chakra is governed by Shri Krishna. And His power is Radha. Ra-dha. “Ra” means “energy”, “dha” is the one who has sustained the energy. Ra-dha. Dha-re-ti-sa (?). So She is the one who has sustained the energy, and so She is called as Radha. She is the power of Shri Krishna. The word Krishna comes from the word krishi, means “the ploughing”, or you can say, agriculture is called as krishi. The one who ploughs and puts the seed in the soil is doing the krishi. And that’s why He is called as Krishna. Now, the seed that He has sown is the seed of spirituality. It is Shri Krishna who said, in Sanskrit: “Nainam chhindanti shastrani nainam dahati pavakah na chainam kledayantyapo na shoshayati marutah” (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, Verse 23), meaning it cannot be — means the spiritual life, or you can Read More …

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Shri Krishna Puja: The Ultimate Of The Fatherhood Tannay Ashram, Tannay (Switzerland)

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Shri Krishna Puja, Tannay (Switzerland), 28 August 1983. Today we are celebrating here, in this holy land the birthday of Shri Krishna. Shri Krishna is the ultimate of the fatherhood that I described you before, who came on this Earth and illustrated the ultimate of that. So, on this Earth, the highest fatherhood is Shri Krishna’s awareness. But in the Kingdom of God, we can say in the Heavens, or even above everything else, resides Sadashiva who does not take incarnations. He is one of the aspects, Shri Krishna is one of the aspects of Sadashiva which is the Father. And the Adi Shakti or the Holy Ghost is the other aspect of Sadashiva which is His power. So, when Shri Krishna incarnated on this Earth, an aspect of this Adi Shakti came on this Earth as Radha. She is the same who came as the Mother of Christ, and She gave the name of Christ as the surname of Shri Krishna, as if it is Krishna’s name, from Krishna. He’s called as “Krisht” in Indian languages, Krisht.  And I have told you before why he was called as Yeshu or Jesu. So, today we are going to see to the two aspects of Shri Krishna, which were the manifestation of His divine birth. In Rama’s life they showed a man; a Purushottama, the best of the father in worldly affairs. And in Shri Krishna’s life they showed Him the highest fatherhood as in Yogeshwara or in divine work. So, Read More …

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

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

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Havan Before the Puja to the Devi: Importance of Puja and Havan Ashram in Le Raincy, Le Raincy (France)

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“Importance of Puja and Havan”. Paris (France), 18 June 1983 [Starts at 9:04]Shri Mataji: Hello, so we were waiting for you to come here. So, I think, I’ll get my sweater. Hello, we were waiting for you to come, for Christopher to come here. How is he? Very good. What’s happened to his head?Marie-Amélia: Changing of milk, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: So, Christopher you are back, here? Oh, oh, oh…You must cover his head. It’s very cold still.All right. All right. All right. What’s the matter?He is in meditation. [Baby complains] No, no, no, no, no.[Shri Mataji rocks the baby]You must keep him close, all the time. Better cover him more. All right, you’ll get something more from inside. I think you also wear your sweater or something. It’s rather cold outside.Marie-Amélia: Thank you, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Just cover him much more on the head.Gregoire: This is a present from the Austrian Sahaja Yogis, Austrian Sahaja Yogis to the French Sahaja Yogis.Shri Mataji: Ah! It’s beautiful.Gregoire reads the word on the poster: “And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse”. Shri Mataji: Translate it in French.At last I was to bring My sweater. Geneviève can bring.Gregoire: Sweater for Shri Mataji. Michel C.: Mother I have a gift, two gifts for you.Shri Mataji: I beg your pardon?Michel C.: First is from Rouen we offer You the cushion where your feet are settled. It’s from Rouen. And the “armours” [city coat of arms] of the town.Shri Mataji: Oh, I see. What’s Read More …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lord Buddha Brighton (England)

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

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Birthday Puja: Try to save as many as possible & Havan Mumbai (India)

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Celebration of Shri Mataji’s Birthday. Bombay (India), 30 March 1983. First Bhajan, “Bbhay kaya taya Prabhu Jyachare,” was sung. Shri Mataji remarked, “That was My father’s favorite song”. Many people have always asked me that why God created this Universe. Of course, we are not supposed to ask questions to God. It’s easy to ask questions to Mataji when She is giving a lecture. But God is a person who is beyond questions. And why He created Universe is something like why I wore all these ornaments. As I am not habituated of wearing ornaments, but I have to do it. I have to do it just to please you people, or we can say that God created this earth, just to please His own children, just to make them happy, just to make them enter into the Kingdom of God, to give all that what He has got. So He had to create this creation in such a way that He could create His own image, reflect it and make it enjoy itself. It’s a very mutual appreciation, as we call it, andolan. Whatever He does for us, is for His own pleasures. But the beauty of it is that your pleasure is His pleasure. And the other way round is, His pleasure should be your pleasure, too. Once that becomes the fact that the pleasure of God becomes your pleasure, you enter into that beautiful arena of heavenly joy, swargiya anand. Only if it is one-sided enterprise or Read More …

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Birthday Puja: Overcoming The Six Enemies Sydney (Australia)

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Birthday Puja, “Overcoming The Six Enemies”. Sydney (Australia) 21 March 1983. It is so great to be with you people today on this auspicious day; to be with Australians who have proved to be very good Sahaja yogis and who have progressed in a very speedy manner in their spiritual life. It gives me greatest pleasure to be with my children here. As you know I have so many children all over the world apart from the ones whom I actually physically gave birth. We have to think of all those today who are away from us, thousands of miles, praying to God Almighty for their spiritual ascent. One has to only pray for the spiritual ascent. Because as you ascend you get all the rest of it. Because you do not ascend you do not get what is needed. That’s why there are problems. And even today I had to solve some problems before I could come to puja. But if you decide that we have to ascend spiritually within us then everything that you have to receive, all the blessings that God wants to shower upon you, to make you the citizen of His great Kingdom, where you are no more judged, you are no more chastised, you are no more put to any test, of where you reside in eternal love of God and in His glory. I could not believe about ten years back, that within ten years I’ll be able to achieve this result. We Read More …

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Your own guru within yourself — is your Spirit Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (Australia)

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Public Program Day 3. Melbourne (Australia), 10 March 1983. Introduction by Dr. Warren: Again, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you again Mataji Nirmala Devi. For those of you who have been coming regularly to the series these last two nights and tonight, I think many of you will have experienced Self-realization. For those of you who haven’t, don’t despair, because it can be worked out in everyone. Not everyone keeps that gift of Self-realization, because, very foolishly, when we touch it, we let it go, we squander it, or perhaps we don’t develop it in a way in which that seeking that lies within us would desire. But whatever it is, most of us who get this experience of Self-realization come to a point where logically they reach the conclusion that there must be something that has happened within me, which has taken me into this new dimension of awareness. In my own case, when I experienced Self-realization … it was a very remarkable experience because I gained my experience from Mataji, in Her presence, in India. But the events that led up to that were quite interesting. Because, as practicing professional in health care, looking after lots of patients, I was able to watch a lot of those patients who were going to India, going to America, going to various places of Spiritual pilgrimage all over the world. And many of them were coming back — quite curiously to me at that time — quite damaged Read More …

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Tantrism is a system in which people do anti-God activity Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (Australia)

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First Public Program Day 1. Melbourne (Australia), 8 March 1983. Bill: Mother is one being on this earth who can actually give that Self-realization, who can actually give you that enlightenment. No sitting in little rooms doing strange positions for months on end, to purify yourself and get yourself to some higher plain, no sitting down, repeating mantras endlessly on the hope that maybe one day you will reach some other state of consciousness, or some other higher stage of development, evolution. Mataji can give you that realization this evening. The only prerequisite is the desire for it and humility within yourself to be able to ask Her for it. I’ll explain a little bit about this picture. As you’ll see there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven different major centers marked in the diagram. They represent what we call chakras, which are energy centers within the spinal column. Now they are not things that you can carve open a spine and see within them, they are subtle energy centers, in the same way that you can’t pull a television set apart and see the picture. They’re there, they exist, they affect our behaviour, our behaviour affects them, too, just as importantly. They have been with us all the time, they are part of our absolute, inner structure, they are part of our absolute being. When a person is in the presence of a Realized soul, such as Mataji Nirmala Devi, a process can occur, whereby the Kundalini, Read More …

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I have come here to give you Adelaide (Australia)

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Public Program Day 2, Adeliade, Australia 1983-03-07 1983-0307 Public Program Day 2, Adelaide, Australia. We have to be the true seekers of truth, which is a rare quality people think, but I have found out that in this world there are many seekers who are honestly and earnestly seeking. They are seeking the truth; they are trying to find out what is within them. They are trying to find out what is being prophesized about them. It has been prophesized that the Day of Judgement will come. This is the Day of Judgement when you are going to be judged. You are not going to be put into any scales or there is no other measure by which you are going to be judged, but by knowing how far truthful you are about your seeking and how far you can gain something about it. Today I had a chance to be with some media people, and yesterday also. I feel some of them just want to bring some controversy, to make it more interesting perhaps. Whatever it is, as a Mother I have to tell you that I have to take nothing from you. I have come here to give you. If you’re identified with any organisation, or you think you can fight for an organisation, it would be very much better that you should not disturb us who are the people who are real seekers sitting down here. It would be very civil of you to be away from Read More …

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Workshop in the Park, Mother Are You The Holy Ghost? Adelaide (Australia)

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Workshop in the Park, Adelaide, Australia, March 5th, 1983. Shri Mataji: This centre what we call as “left Vishuddhi”. Now have you told them about left Vishuddhi? Sahaja Yogi: No, not the specific sides, just the general things of it. Shri Mataji: All right. Now, this left Vishuddhi comes to you if you have said mantras wrongly. You see, the mantras are to be said only when there is a realised soul who knows what mantras are to be said. And if you do not know about it, you accept the mantras. Anybody who tells you, “Say this mantra”, you just start saying it, without understanding, whether it is given by an authority or not. Also you don’t know whether it is meant for you or not. Maybe it is not required for some. Any particular mantra may not be required. And some of the mantras are absolutely absurd things. So mantras also, it’s a very big science. And just now I am feeling the left Vishuddhi. Also one feels it, even if you have not taken mantras, if you have been feeling guilty. Like, you see, if you are used to confessions and things like that, if you are used to a situation where you feel that “I’m guilty for this”. You know, the norms of today’s modern life are so funny, that even for small thing you have to feel guilty. For example if you put the fork in a wrong way, you feel guilty: “Oh God, I Read More …

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God Has Created Us With A Purpose Perth (Australia)

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Public Program. Perth (Australia), 3 March 1983. Sahaja Yogini: … which is the point of evolution for all of us. And it gives great pleasure to Sahaja Yogis to see so many other people coming along to get their realization. Because the experience, once you achieve it, makes you collectively conscious and puts you in touch, in a very real way, with the vibrations of other people and with your own vibrations, of course so that you’re able to feel the exact condition of your subtle body, and your spirit, and your chakras, which are these. these coloured circles here represent the subtle transformers of energy that are placed within us along the sympathetic nervous system. And in the centre there, between the yellow and blue lines, is the area in which the Kundalini energy rises when it’s awakened by the presence of another being who already has that awakened within him and is emitting the vibrations that are the same as the universal Kundalini energy. Kundalini in Christian terms is called the Holy Spirit, and it’s the same energy that’s described in the New Testament as the “cool wind”. In Indian scriptures it’s described as the Chaitanya, as cool vibrations, and in Muslim scriptures it is called the Ruh, and also described as cool vibrations. And these cool vibrations that you feel once you receive the awakening are the vibrations of absolute truth. Once you develop this awareness, you’re able to ask any absolute question, and, by holding your Read More …

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The attention can be enlightened by the Spirit Dalkeith (Australia)

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Public Program in Dalkeith. Perth (Australia), 2 March 1983. …the Hindu Scriptures, the experiences described in more detail than in Christian Scriptures. And we are told that you should be able to feel vibrations emitting from the crown of your head once you have the awakening, like a cool wind, and you should also feel them on your hands. And in Muslim Scriptures it’s described as the Ruh. And Mohammed said, “I believe that at this time people would become enlightened and their hands would speak”. And once you have the experience of the awakening, your fingers become sensitive to the vibrations in yourself and in other people and you can tell exactly what the condition of each person is and how their chakras are working or if there is a problem there. And because the vibrations flow through, through our hands and through our body and emit through our head, and if you sit with your hands in this position, you’ll probably start to feel the awakening coming while Mother’s talking. And it’s something that takes you beyond thought. You won’t, you don’t have to think about it or have a great intellectual understanding, to appreciate it. In fact children probably appreciate it more than rest of us and always at first and because it is such a true experience. So if you would just be receptive and not try and think of, worry about any words that seem a little bit different to what you are used to Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: He is the tremendous purifying power Perth (Australia)

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Shri Ganesha Puja. Perth (Australia), 1 March 1983. I think it is the quality of wisdom which is still lingering, or is manifesting in many Australians, wisdom part, which many have lost because they have taken to the gross side of materialism. Shri Ganesha is a tremendous purifying power, tremendous purifying power, because it cannot be contaminated by anyone. Whatever you may try, it cannot be contaminated. Only thing is, it may recede back. It may not manifest. But wherever it is, it is in its absolute form. If you know how to use it, you can purify everyone—you and yours, everyone. So the responsibility of Australians, one must understand, is very great because they are living in a country which is ruled by Shri Ganesh. So first they have to maintain their purity. Purity of their being. Many people sometimes think that purity is only limited to the gross side – that you lead a sensible sex life is sufficient. It is not so. That’s why Christ has said, “Thou shalt not have adulterous eyes.” Meaning, your eyes should be clean. And as you know, eyes represent your ego and superego both. So when He said that your eyes should be clean, He meant that your thoughts should be clean. Now, what is the generator of your power? We have to go deep into it and see how thoughts are generated. The brain of human beings, as you know, is like a pyramid. It’s elevated through a central point 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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Devi Puja: Keep Your Mother Pleased Vaitarna (India)

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“Keep Your Mother Pleased”, Devi Puja, Vaitarna (India), 21 January 1983. So now we are coming to the end of our first half tour. Now we have to look back upon ourselves and try to find out what have we achieved out of this. We must understand that Sahaja Yoga is not done through brain activities. Like many people think that if you just tell yourself, “You have to be like this”, it will work out. If you have to all the time inform yourself that, “Oh, you must get rid of a particular problem”, you’ll be all right. Or some people think that if they tell somebody, that “This is wrong with you and you should get well”, it will be all right. It is not so. Because Sahaja Yoga does not work on mental level. It works on spiritual level which is a much higher level than the mental level. So what you have to do is to understand how to correct your chakras. And you must understand how to work out your machines. Perhaps people still live on mental level and try to solve problems on mental level. And that’s why all the problems start coming out. Now, if you have a problem with any chakras or there is anything catching or you find that there’s something wrong with you, no use working it out on any other level but spiritual level. Some people believe that if they have dressed up like something or if they outwardly behave Read More …

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Christmas Puja: We have to imbibe all His qualities Pune (India)

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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 …

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What you can do Caxton Hall, London (England)

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

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TV Interview BBC South West, Plymouth (England)

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

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

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

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Newspaper Interview Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

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

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Radio Interview Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

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

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2nd TV Interview University of Northampton, Northampton (England)

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TV Interview October 7th, 1982 Northampton, UK … Her name is Mataji Nirmala Devi. She trained as a doctor in India and She is now married to a senior diplomat at the United Nations. She lives in London, but this week She’s holding a series of public meetings to publicize Her teachings. She believes that we all have a form of spiritual energy called Kundalini at the base of our spines, which can be awakened and sent flowing through the body. So I took my shoes off and went to meet Her in Northampton this morning. Shri Mataji: You are a person who is more active and tries to think too much, work too much… Reporter: I think too much? Nobody ever said that to me before. Right… Shri Mataji: And you work too much physically, you run about and you are more working outside. And left side is the emotional side, so left side — for emotional life. Well, that’s what is the imbalance in you is. Now for this we have to first give you a balance, all right? What I’ll do is to awaken your frozen side and bring it down so the grace comes over here to satisfy this side. So it is to be awakened, you see, the emotional side is awakened. And this side is given a sort of a soothing effect with the all-pervading Power from your right. So this is, this is how it moves, right? This is the way. Reporter: But Read More …

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1st TV Interview University of Northampton, Northampton (England)

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TV Interview October 7th, 1982 Northampton, UK … wife of a United Nations diplomat. She lives in London now but has thousands of followers around the world, who hail Her as India’s greatest living saint. She teaches a state of self-realization and happiness, and says that with a spiritual force She can cure the incurable. She’s speaking at public meetings in Bedford tonight and Northampton tomorrow, and today She gave Her first television interview in England. Our reporter is Rebecca (inaudible) . Her Holiness Mataji Nirmala Devi is known around the world for Her healing powers. Her followers look upon Her as Divine. Mother, as She is referred to, preaches a gospel of peace and has discovered a spiritual force called Kundalini, which is shown on this chart. She can release it in seekers, as She calls them, to give them complete awareness. She admits that many Westerners are sceptical of Her powers, but She scorns the idea of charging money for Her gifts. Her claims of success in curing and healing are remarkable. Alcoholics have been known to give up drink, drug-takers have been cured, but perhaps most extraordinary of all, She claims to have cured many cancer victims. Reporter: How many people have you managed to cure who have had cancer? Shri Mataji: Thousands… I don’t know… I should say… Reporter: Thousands? What do doctors think of what you’re saying? Shri Mataji: You see the trouble is I Myself I have done medicine and… the doctors are the Read More …

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Shri Durga Puja: Mind is just like a donkey Vienna (Austria)

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Shri Durga Puja. Vienna (Austria), 26 September 1982. All of you should take bandhan. It’s better before puja. Today is the first day we are having this puja in this country of Austria. This country is an historical country with different upheavals it has gone through to learn so many lessons in life. But human beings are such that they do not relate the calamities with their mistakes. That’s how they go on repeating the same mistakes again and again. The visit to Vienna was overdue and I came on a day when we had to celebrate the birthday of Machindranath (Ed. M. is a Sahaja Yogi baby). It’s very auspicious for all of you that he should be today complete his one year of life. I bless him with all the flowers, the choicest flowers, of beauty and bliss on him, and his family, all his relations and his family. There are so many things which have been done for the first time. I should say, for the first time I’ve come to Vienna, to Austria, and [the] the first time I’ve come to the birthday of a child, on his first birthday. And on an Ashtami, that is today, is the eighth day of the moon, of the moon which is increasing, Shukla Pakshi ; that first time all the weapons of the Goddess are to be worshipped. This was a great idea because these weapons who work all the time, not only to kill the evil but Read More …

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When Christ Will Come Temple de la Fusterie, Geneva (Switzerland)

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Public Program Day 2,  “When Christ Will Come”, Temple de la Fusterie, Geneva (Switzerland), 24 August 1982 Again, I bow today to the seekers of truth. From the very beginning, I have to say, that I would like to address to all those who are really seeking the truth. I am not going just to read something to you and give My own interpretation about it. All of you have got sufficient intelligence to read any book you like and to have your own interpretation. We have so many interpretations of the Holy Bible, that it is amazing, how people, do not understand, that when they have their own interpretation, it could be wrong. For example, our great leader in our country, Mahatma Gandhi, was once asked by a Christian to become a Christian. He said, “Why don’t you become officially a Christian?” And he laughed aloud and he said, “I would like to, but, please, tell me what should I become, should be a Catholic or a Protestant or I should to be another sect of Protestants”. Especially, the Protestants have so many sects, like Pentecostals. They have got Seventh Day Adventists. They have got Methodists. They have another one – what is that called as, Penta – I mean, so many like that. So he asked, “Which one should I join?” If you tell me exactly which one to join, I would like to join. And he had no answer to it. So, there is some sort of a gap Read More …

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Shri Ganesha Puja: Innocence & Joy House of Charles and Magda Mathys, Troinex (Switzerland)

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Shri Ganesha Puja. Troinex, (Geneva, Switzerland), 22 August 1982. Before the Talk: Call them, call the people. You can move in front and can sit at the back. Gregoire asks if there should be an explanation of Puja as there are some newcomers. Shri Mataji: Is there somebody here who can translate? You need two persons. You can sit here. Gregoire: I can also translate in Italian Shri Mataji: But has he not come? He should come for the puja, you know.Everybody should come in. When they are all here, then I will start. Now, come forward. There’s room here. Those who can sit on the ground can sit in front. Please come. (Mother aside to yogini) You like it? Colour is all right?Where is, who else will translate?All right, you can come. You do it in French and she can do it in Italian. Arnaut has not come?You are there. Who else?The children can sit in front – let the children sit in front. All the four children could come later on, when you start the puja.Has everybody come? Ah! Robotic motor-cars! Great!… Exactly, that’s what it is! Who is outside? [Here starts the transcript of the talk] All right. First, I would like to tell you about the meaning of Puja. There are two aspects. (5.02) One is the aspect that you have got your own deities within yourself. And these deities are to be awakened within you. Deities are the different aspects of one God. So, on Read More …

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Adi Shakti puja: Mother, make me such that I suck more of the Divine Cowley Manor, Cheltenham (England)

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Adishakti puja, Cowley Manor Seminar, Cowley, Cheltenham (UK), 1 August 1982. Shri Mataji: Have the Americans come, those who have done the puja, have they come? Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: Are they here? Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Shri Mataji: Oh, they are here. Then it’s all right. And in these new centres, have you started with puja anywhere? Sahaja Yogini: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: No, yours is all right. I’m asking about England. Warren: Any centres in Britain? Where there are new people. Shri Mataji: Cheltenham, for example. Where is Allan? Ask him. Warren: He’s just gone out for a moment. Any centres in Britain, any new people here, right now? Shri Mataji: If you have introduced them to puja, I don’t mind. But if they have never been introduced to puja, then you have to be careful. From their good point of view. I’m sorry I had to say this, because yesterday the load was too much, you know I couldn’t speak even, and lifting the Kundalini was like raising hundred donkeys on your head, it was too much. And all these half-baked people are such that they are like dog-in-the-manger, they won’t have it and they won’t allow others to have it. They’ll argue before the program, before the meeting starts, before the puja starts, specially. Because they don’t want you to enjoy the fruits of the puja; they’ll spoil your attention, they’ll argue, discuss. [Aside: “Please sit down”] What is there to argue in Sahaja Yoga? Read More …

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From Heart to Sahasrara Guildhall Theatre, Derby (England)

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“Heart, Vishuddhi, Agnya, Sahasrara – Becoming the Knowledge”,Public Programme, Derby (UK), 11 July 1982. I’m happy that Dr. Warren could explain to you those chakras about which I told you yesterday, because in one short lecture you can’t cover all these points. And if you get your Realization and you progress well, then you can listen to My tapes which are in hundreds, and you can understand the knowledge is vast like ocean. As I yesterday told you that when you get enlightenment, you become the knowledge. It’s a very confused statement; people don’t understand what does it mean to “become the knowledge.” The other day a gentleman came to Me and he told Me that “My guru has already given me the knowledge.” I said, “How?” “Because he told me, ‘I’ve given you the knowledge.’” I said, “But still, how is it, it is knowledge? How do you believe that he has given you the knowledge?” So he said, “No Mother, he touched me on my forehead and I saw a light.” I said, “Then still, you can see the light otherwise also. How is it you have got the knowledge?” So he started thinking about it. He said that “What should happen If I get the knowledge?” I said, “See, this is another person sitting next to you, he is a Sahaja Yogi. He knows what Kundalini is; also he knows how to raise your Kundalini. He knows what is your problem, what your chakras are catching. He Read More …

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When Are We to Grow? Hampstead Friends Meeting House, Hampstead (England)

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“When Are We to Grow,” Public Programme, Hampstead (United Kingdom) Nice to be back again in Hampstead. I always enjoyed Hampstead, because, as I have told, you in London, many people who were great, spiritual lived in this area; they preferred it to other places. So I believe that many people who live in this area must be also spiritual, must have taken their birth with the idea of achieving their Self-realisation. It’s a very important time, [in which] you are born. It’s the most important in the history of the universe. You are created a human being to become your Spirit. There’s nothing in between. If you have intelligence, pure intelligence, you can see through all that. You have to test your intelligence on this.  Whatever we think and whatever we conceive and whatever we try to organise ourselves into, mostly comes from our conditionings, not from the Spirit, because we have not touched the Spirit. But innately we have got a sense to know that these are very important times; that there must be something great in the atmosphere, that there are so many people who are seeking. It’s something remarkable. If this misses your attention, that means you are not alert. There are people of all types, all kinds. But seekers of this calibre have been very few.  Now, England has its own problems, and London has its own peculiarities. Despite the fact I have been in London for about now eight and a half years, I Read More …

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Shri Lalita Puja: Understand your own importance Gillian's House, Brighton (England)

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Shri Lalita Puja. Hove, Brighton (UK), 15 May 1982. I am really a proud Mother to see so many sahaja yogis. And one must understand that even if you get few people as newcomers, they may be few, but one has to realize that each one of you is now a realized soul. Each one of you have grown so much that you can create a nucleus yourself. And after growing in a collective way together, now individually the seedlings have become strong shoots now, and they can definitely be transferred into different places and work it out, because each one of you is a prophet. I wonder if you realize it or not. Of course you have got the joy of realization, the bliss, everything you have got; you have grown up to that. Slow and steady you have achieved it, and as you have grown as a tree now, every one of you is so important and so powerful. I know that few people come in, in a collective way, and you find it difficult in the beginning how to deal with them; because they are still not grown enough, they are still not up to the point where they really realize their own importance. But you should all understand your own importance and your own quality that you have achieved. In any other so-called fake organizations – for example, say, take the church – there’s only one priest. In the whole locality there is one priest, though Read More …

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Advice on Right Side Brighton Pavilion, Brighton (England)

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Public Program Day 2. Brighton (UK), 14 May 1982. Shri Mataji: Oh, I would suggest that first let them ask questions today. So I keep myself there…If you have any questions, it’s better to ask me first. So that your mind is at rest. I’m glad to stand…better to see people better. Am I better here or on the ground? Now, first of all it’s better to ask the questions because yesterday when we started this question session people got little deviated. It’s better to ask questions now, what you have, because you are all seekers. You are all seekers and you have been seeking so is best is to ask questions now so I’ll be able to put the answer in between My lecture. No questions? That means Sahaja Yogis have become quite capable of explaining Sahaja Yoga and I’m very proud of them. When I went to Australia the newspaper people asked Me, “Mother, are all Your disciples scholars?” I said, “No, they are very common people. They have to be very common and normal people.” But they said, “The way they know things, surprisingly we feel they are all scholars.” I said, “All scholarship is within yourself.” All the knowledge is within yourself. If you only can get light there, you can see all that knowledge is within you. You don’t have to go anywhere for your knowledge. It’s all inside, everything is built in. You are built in so beautifully to become your Spirit that I Read More …

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The Left Side Problems of Subconscious Christchurch House, Brighton (England)

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Public Program Day 1, “The Left Side: Problems of Subconscious”. Hove, near Brighton, UK, 13 May 1982. [First three minutes are without sound]But as I told you there could be good conditionings. In the way, in the same way, you can have good habits and bad habits. If habits inhibit or obstruct your ascent, they also can help to stabilize you. The conditioning comes to you from the matter with which we are dealing every day. When a human being sees the matter, he aggresses it and he wants to use that matter for his own purpose. He changes the forms of the matter for his own purpose. He starts getting used to matter as comfort, or as a help or a guide in life. The more you start depending on matter, the more your spontaneity is finished, because you’re dealing with the dead. Matter, when it is dead, then only we deal with it. When it is living we are not so much bothered about it. So the deadness of that matter settles within us when we start using that matter for our purpose. But how are we to otherwise exist, is the question people can ask. If God has given us this material things and this matter to be used, are we not supposed to use them? And are we not supposed to enjoy them? But we don’t enjoy really.. Before realization you cannot enjoy any matter. You can only form a habit and may become a slave Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Brighton (England)

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Talk to sahaja yogis. Brighton (UK), 12 May 1982. And first you have this background, that they are seekers, they are misled, they are your brothers and sisters, and they are been really taken into the clutches of negativity. You have to move very, very carefully about it, very carefully. First of all they must feel your love and concern. That is very important. So instead losing temper with them or getting angry with them you should really have compassion, because they are so unfortunate. They are so unfortunate. Those who are not coming to Sahaja Yoga and are going the wrong way; are so unfortunate people, they are lost people. Whatever they may say, but they are lost, and you know that. They are lost people. And with this myth that they are living, they are going towards hell, actually. And they have lost all chances for Realization if they don’t understand Sahaja Yoga, see? You have to talk to them like that, that, “How do you recognize him as your guru? What has he done for you? What powers has he given you? You can be your own guru”. Don’t start talking about Me, first of all. No, not much. You should say, “She does nothing. She just makes us our own guru, and we know what is our problem is, we know your problem. You can work it out. That’s not difficult. But after all,  if you are seekers, what have you found out so far?” I Read More …

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What is the need for Sahaja Yoga? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What is the need for Sahaja Yoga? Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 14 April 1982. The other day, on the radio, they asked a very nice question, which I think I should handle first. The question was ‘What is the difference between other sects and Sahaja Yoga?’ It’s a very good question because it gives you a relative idea as to what is reality, and what is not. First of all, we should see what is the need of Sahaja Yoga. ‘Sahaja’, as you know, is ‘Saha’, means ‘with’, ‘Ja’ means ‘born’; is born with you. Means is spontaneous, it is with you. What is with you is the right to be united with the Divine, that’s, to be in yoga, to be united with God. Now, there are people who just don’t believe in God, either – is quite possible, they are frightened to hear the name of God, because of various experiences they have had, the various ideologies that have prevailed. But God exists, no doubt, whether you like it or not. But unless and until you have felt the existence of God, to believe in God is difficult; one can understand that. Now, what is Sahaja Yoga? In Sahaja Yoga what actually happens to a personality is this: that the sleeping power, or we can say un-awakened power within you, which is your germinating power, rises, passes through the various subtle centers within you, and pierces through this fontanel area, and, what we call it, as 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 …

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Christmas Puja: You Have To Be Peaceful Chelsham Road Ashram, London (England)

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Christmas puja. Chelsham Road Ashram, London (UK), 25 December 1981. [TAPE BEGINS WITH CHRISTMAS CAROLS SUNG BY THE YOGIS] I wanted to be with you people on a Christmas day, but it never happened before. It has so chanced that I have to be here with you today and on the New Year. Something good has to happen I hope next year, some good luck has to come. Christ’s work was very unique. The whole thing was a very unique thing, was planned in such a manner that He was to be born in a place which was very humble, very humble place. Because He came to teach us humility. The word ‘teaching’ in English language means telling about it, talking about it. But when I say ‘teach’ I mean create, to activate this humility. Actually, He came on this earth first of all to create a space within us, at the Agnya chakra, by removing the hurdles of the ego, hurdles of the ego. He had to talk of humility that time, because Romans were ruling and they were very arrogant, very crude, uncouth, underdeveloped, we should say, not at all evolved. Like, you can say some of the animals, which came into being and were thrown out of the evolutionary process later on because they were useless, too aggressive or too big for their size or some sort of a thing like that. In the same way, Romans were. If you see their body, even now, painted sometimes, Read More …

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Diwali Puja Talk: Lakshmi Principle Bramham Gardens, London (England)

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Diwali Talk, Lakshmi Principle (Shri Mataji holds a baby in Her lap) You are very happy (Mother laughs) What’s that? What is happening to you? You are very happy. All the joy. Really. All are catching here, all they (baby is sucking left Vishuddhi finger). Left Vishuddhi. Ah, all right, take him. Have they come? (Asks about some people if they have come) and we have to wait for Gavin also. (…) Come along. Hallo. How is Magda? He’s come? Good, good. May God bless you. You are all looking so nice, eh? Both of you really looking very nice. Not very cold outside, is it? No. since I’ve come I think the temperature has come up. It was very cold, was there? (…) Very happy. You can take him now. Better come. Better come. How are you, all of you? Happy? Magda? Yogini: Very happy to be here, Mother. America was difficult, not so simple, I knew that. But we’ve done it, I mean we’ve got centres now in New York, got centres in – what’s that place, is … Santa Cruz, then one, maybe in Santa Monica we might get one, and one in Los Angeles, one in…Maybe Vancouver, I don’t know, maybe they are about to have it one there, eh?. Like that. The only place we didn’t do was San Francisco. Oh this sari, looking so nice. This is all the spring colours are there, this sari. [Shri Mataji talks with yogis about saris and people Read More …

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I am the Holy Ghost New York City (United States)

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Public Program Day 7 (Declaration: “I am the Holy Ghost”). New York (USA), 30 September 1981. Shri Mataji [to Warren]: … the attachments (microphone).Warren: The attachments, it’s all right.Shri Mataji: It’s all right?Warren: It’s good in here because it is very silent, then we don’t need any.Shri Mataji: Good. It’s beautiful.Warren: Is it Your first time in a church?Shri Mataji: No, many-a-times.Warren: Many-a-times.Shri Mataji: But to talk about Agnya in a church, is the first time.Warren: Very good. [Shri Mataji laughs] Yesterday, I told you about this chakra [Shri Mataji points at centre heart on chakra chart] which is a very fiery chakra, because this chakra is occupied by a very fiery deity called as Jagadamba, is the Mother of the Universe. She has to protect Her children who are trying to swim across the ocean of illusion and who are being always hampered by the people who are against God, who are anti-Christ, who are anti-God, who are devils, who are called as rakshasas. And so She has to protect them, and that’s why She is such a fiery Goddess, like a tigress. Actually, one of Her conveyances is a tiger, another is a lion. After that, now today we want to know about this chakra, which is the Vishuddhi chakra, Vishuddhi. America, in the map of the world, is this centre, is Vishuddhi chakra. That’s why it is important to understand what do we stand for, Americans. Now, this centre has got 16 sub-plexuses, and it manifests in Read More …

Attention London (England)

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Attention. Dollis Hill, London (England), 26 May 1980. Today I am going to talk to you about attention: what is attention, what is the movement of attention and what are the ways and methods of raising our attention. Keep it in broad ways. Alright? But when I am saying all these things you must know that I am talking to you individually – it’s not about others. Always the first thing human beings do is, when I am speaking to you, you try to find out about who Mataji is speaking! This is the best way of putting your attention onto something else. If you put your attention to yourself that, “This is for me and me and me alone,” then it will have an effect, because these [words of mine] are mantras. And that’s why it is wasted because whatever is given to you is thrown onto another person. So the attention, that you have, is the only way to know the reality. Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others! This must be clearly understood. If you understand this point that the whole thing is to be consumed by you, through your attention to raise yourself to a higher situation, it will work out. Otherwise, it is like giving food to you and going to another person who is getting nourished, while you are getting nothing. And that person also may not be able get nourished, because he doesn’t know that Read More …

Easter Puja: The Meaning of Easter London (England)

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Easter Puja, The Meaning of Easter, Dollis Hill Ashram, London (UK). April 6th, 1980 …Like today I was talking to a Muslim boy and he said that “Mohammad Sahib was not an incarnation.” “So what was He?” “He was a human being, but God has given Him special powers.” I said, “Very good way!” Because if you say that He was a human being [then] for human beings, it is very good to say that “He was just a human being, He came on this earth and we are at par with that.” Which you are not. So the awe and that shraddha as you call it, that doesn’t come in. One starts thinking that you are at par with Christ, at par with Mohammad Sahib, at par with all these people! And where are they? And where are we? Like, here, how people are playing around with Christ’s life! They call themselves Christians, and they show no respect to His life at all, because it is the becoming He talked about. He didn’t talk about all these nonsensical things. Secondly, we show no respect. There’s no awe in our hearts that He’s the one who has created universes after universes, and what are we, compared to Him? We sit down on Him like judges, judging Him. What ego human beings have! Like bubbles. Of course, He was made of the Brahma Tattwa itself, the Divine love itself, so He could not be killed. Moreover He had to be born after Krishna because Read More …