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Evening Program, Eve of Shri Krishna Puja New York City (United States)

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Day before Shri Krishna Puja, New Jersey (USA), 7 June 1997. Tomorrow I’m going to tell you about it, but today, I would say, music, dancing, art – every kind of creativity will definitely bring forth the spiritual aspect of American’s life. They have to come to this. Otherwise it’s not going to be appreciated, it won’t be an appeal, people won’t like such music. They’ll try some tricks otherwise – you know that in this country we have all kinds of people, all kinds of music, and sometimes extremely stupid. But, somehow they are gaining the idea that popularity now doesn’t remain with all kind of strand and stupid things. They have taken, I’m sure, by their own urge to search the reality a new type of a style, new type of a singing, in which there is a different tune, I feel, is coming up, suggesting that there’s something higher that we have to enjoy. The idea of enjoyment is change. Sometimes people feel that this country is not so ancient, it has no traditions, also people are from different cultures and so they are all mixed up, confused. But in that confusion only you are going to find the truth. And that’s why everywhere in America you go you find that there are people who are working some out sort of a search of their own. Maybe it’s not correct – it’s not all right. Like the music now, you see, you had such serene, deep music, Read More …

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Evening Program, Eve of Sahasrara Puja Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Talk at the end of Evening program, eve of Sahasrara Puja, Cabella Ligure, May 3rd 1997 Today’s program was really very, very joyful, very masterly. I must say credit goes to Germans as well as to the Austrians for doing everything so perfect. The first half we were amazed how people from the west can play so well on Indian instruments with Indian ragas. It’s an impossible task. I mean, in India, they spend at least ten to twelve years to reach that stage and in three months’ time they all have achieved so much. And Babamama was saying that it is due to their realisation perhaps, that they pick up all these things in three months’ time. I was surprised Myself in three months’ time how he could play so well. Then other programs also were very interesting, for example the way they showed about this music being conducted so well. I mean, you have to pay $50 to see this program! And has to be pin-drop silence, and must sit in your place sort of fixed, permanently as if… And this was so remarkable and so professional, so, so beautifully done, without one mistake anywhere, in such unison – also is that the blessing of Sahaja Yoga, I don’t know. No conflict, nothing; but sometimes you find, say you go to some big orchestra program or some sort of what they call it, where you find people are jealous, they are feeling angry, we can see from their Read More …

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Felicitation at Unity International Conference The Claridges, New Delhi (India)

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TRANSCRIPTION OF FELICITATION AT UNITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 1997-0406, NEW DELHI, INDIA Doctor U.C. Rai: 1984, I met Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. She was giving a talk usually in a hall, one of the halls [UNCLEAR] when She was there. And She said that Sahaja Yoga is considered, if you do not think it is possible, why don’t you do some research? And that was the beginning in 1984 of doing some research on Sahaja Yoga. I was a professor at that time. I asked one of my students to take this subject and he started doing it. And the first thing that came to my mind, that if I ask somebody to do this Yoga, then I must be very clear as to what are the advantages of this Yoga on his body. And therefore, the first thing before diseases are ready, I would like to tell you only a few. One was, that there was a change in the secretion of neurotransmitters. And these neurotransmitters, as doctors here will know, had an array. You see, these are usually produced when you are in a state of psychological stress. If there is a greater production of adrenalin the body, it can give rise to so many things. It produces anxiety, neurosis, it can produce hypertension, palpitation and so on. I thought that it is a very good thing. That, if by doing Sahaja Yoga for fifteen to twenty minutes, you can decrease the production of adrenalin, which is Read More …

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Easter Puja Evening Program Sahaj Temple, New Delhi (India)

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1997-03-30 Evening Program, Easter Puja, Sahaj Temple, Delhi, India, talk starts at 02:09:09 After the performance of Artists : Shri Mataji: You can see the creativity of this young gentleman.He is a born realized I could see…The way he was singing was so creative, so creative, so beautifully made.His father is a very well known musician I have heard him, on the …I think… twice I heard him from Delhi and once I think from Bombay television maybe and he is a long time back & his brother also …And their style was very unique no doubt. And in that style, I feel that there is a combination of every sort of permutations and combinations we use in music …Well, I don’t want to discuss them …that part of the music…But it’s very elevating…Elevating and for you people who are all Sahaja Yogis now, you should know that we have some more here sitting …Today is the great day of resurrection of Christ and resurrection of many if you take place now And I am surprised that even so many Muslims are now getting their realization, so easily. Muslims are the best, I think for realization because perhaps they follow the ‘Nirakara’, the formless. Also, Sikhs are very good …but `compared to Sikhs we have more Muslims because they have found out that with all these they have been doing They have to go beyond. They already described in the ‘Koran’ that you have to receive your resurrection.So there are Read More …

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Birthday Puja: Ego is the outcome of stupidity New Delhi (India)

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Birthday Puja. Delhi (India), 21 March 1997. [Hindi to English translation] Doctor sahab gave Me a pill to sleep and I slept off. But, you all were singing songs here, I thought some people who did not get the chance to sing, also got the chance. Everything is going on well. But, when the whole world sleeps, then a Sahaja Yogi is awake, and when the world is awake a Sahaja Yogi sleeps. It means that the things towards which Sahaja Yogis are inclined, other people are not inclined towards them. They are inclined towards other things. In some way or the other, they face away from the truth. Meaning, some are caught up with money, some are caught up with power. Human beings get caught up with one or the other hassle, and get completely lost. They get away from the truth, their attention does not go towards truth. Some will say this is the reason or that is the reason, some or other analysis they will do. However I think, it is ignorance. In ignorance, people do all kinds of things. A sort of darkness, dense darkness falls on them. For example, if this place is plunged into darkness, there might be a stampede. Some may get up and start running, then many people might get knocked down, get trampled over, get hurt, anything can happen. When we are in this darkness, then we are in a state of sleep. But when you are awakened, when your Kundalini Read More …

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Birthday Felicitations New Delhi (India)

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Evening Program, Tabla Kathak Qawalies, Tabla by Shafaat Ahmed Khan talk starts at 1:37:10 Please give a big hand to Baba Mama Baba Mama: Thank You very much! We will now begin the proceedings by the solo tabla recited by none other than the great Maestro of Tabla, Shafat Ahmed Khan. So I request him.Only yesterday Khan Sahib was saying how blessed he is that Shri Mataji …When he was not so well known Shri Mataji gave him the blessings and now I think he is definitely number one or equal to number one in India. A bigger applaud I think …So I would request you to please watch the [unclear 03:23 ] he plays with the left hand.The very difficult art …The way he plays you could hear music through it.(After performances) Sahaja yogi: Shri Mataji, Can we say Happy Birthday to you …It’s 12 o’clock.(Everyone wishes mother) Shri Mataji: Please be seated … Sahaja yogi: It is Sir C.P birthday so we will also sing for him … Shri Mataji: Please be seated …I don’t know what to say on the birthday but I was taken aback to see …At this time I never expected …You are so conscious of it …So aware of it! I don’t know you first ever done in India before to celebrate Birthday or anything like that …But of great man, they did.Now the purpose behind this is to remind the great person that now you are getting old …that you should do Read More …

700th Birthday of Shri Gyaneshwara Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune (India)

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Public Program on the 700th birthday of Shri Gyaneshwara. Pune (India), 25 November 1996. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know what is the truth. Whatever I am going to tell you, you should not believe it blindfolded. We have had enough trouble with the blind faiths. So I would just request you to keep your mind open to understand what is the truth. First of all, I am so enamoured to see so many people trying to understand divinity of Shri Gyaneshwara. He was too great. He was too subtle. And I don’t know how many people really could understand Him without being themselves Self-realized, without being knowing their Self. Even Mohammad Saheb has said that “If you do not know yourself, you cannot understand God almighty.” Everybody, even Christ. Christ has emphatically said it. I don’t want now to tell you how many people have said that “You have to know yourself.” Whether it is Jainism, Buddhism, any -isms that has sprouted but how many of them are trying to know the Self? The problems are coming in this country, or in all the countries, all over the world because of complete ignorance about themselves. We go on giving lectures: “Don’t have this. Don’t do that. Don’t have enemy. Don’t hate people.” All sorts of lectures are going on. That has been done many a times now. People can’t give it up. They will have some difficulty in giving Read More …

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Diwali Puja Sintra (Portugal)

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Diwali Puja. Lisbon (Portugal), 10 November 1996 Today, we are going to worship the Maha Lakshmi which I think is very much worshipped in this country where they worship Her as Maria and also there’s a swayambu of Maria, you must have seen. And also there was an apparition of Her. First I never believed that it could be, but then after feeling the vibrations, now I know it was true, that She did appear here in an apparition. She appeared before Me, also, you must have seen, in a photograph. This is the principle by which you have risen to this state. The central path of your ascent is created by Maha Lakshmi power for the Kundalini to rise. In the temple of Maha Lakshmi in Kholapur they always sing the song of “Ude, Ude, Ambe.” So I asked the people there, “Why do you sing Ambe’s song in Maha Lakshmi’s temple?” So they said that, “We don’t know why we do it, but is it wrong?” I said, “No, because only in the Maha Lakshmi channel Kundalini can rise and Kundalini is the Umba.” That’s how, you see, they understood and they were really amazed that I explained it very well ’cause from ancient times this song has been sung there and they never knew why this song is sung. Coming to the point of Maha Lakshmi, we have to understand what does it do, what it’s help is that this Maha Lakshmi channel or the Maha Lakshmi’s Read More …

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Talk to Austrian Sahaja Yogis about photos Cairo (Egypt)

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Talk to Austrian Sahaja Yogis, Cairo (Egypt) October 30th, 1996 Shri Mataji: I’m here only for 5 minutes more. How many photographs you have taken? I don’t see them. You see, so many take my photograph. Actually, I’m the greatest photographed person.[Laughter].But I don’t see those photographs. So, they should be sent to some –Sahaja Yogi: We send it to Joffrey [unclear].Shri Mataji: Somebody who can pass it on to me.Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji, Joffrey from England, he’s collecting all these negatives. We handed it over to him and he makes it out of CDs he said.Shri Mataji: He keeps all of them with himself. He never showed me.Sahaja Yogi: Hopefully not [Laughter]. I don’t think so.Shri Mataji: He came down to see me. He never showed me any photographs. I told this, “What is this you’re getting all the negatives and the rest? I have not seen the photographs”.Sahaja Yogi: He thought, he contacted me about two weeks ago. And I sent all my slides and negatives ahead to him to Cabella, to just go through them, put them into some system or so and he said then he will return it. But I can send you all the photographs and videos whatever it is there, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: No, no, but why should you lend negative, you can give photographs.Sahaja Yogi: OK.Shri Mataji: All right. Each one should take negative. We can make copies.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes, yes.Shri Mataji: He’s a nice Sahaja Yogi. He is a very Read More …

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Why We Do Not Follow A Religion? Cairo (Egypt)

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1996-1028 Public Program, Cairo, Egypt Gentleman:  I am Egyptian.  I am surprised that you are here and we are very happy you start here in Egypt.  And you are welcome anytime to visit here.  And I hope, we apologize because it’s not a lot of people in this meeting because we’re not preparing a long time before. But, I believe we will follow your way and we will like you very much.  And I hope you have a good friends in Egypt good, with sons here. Shri Mataji: Oh, very kind of you to say all that. Gentleman:  Really, It will be our pleasure with you once and twice and forever in our country. Shri Mataji:  I have great faith in the Egyptian people. Gentleman: Yes. Shri Mataji:  Definitely.  And I feel all the Islamic problem you can solve.  All over the world you find the Islamic people are so struggling, anyway. Gentleman:  Yes. Shri Mataji:  You know, for a person like me, every time I feel weak when I hear something horrible happening, so many people getting killed, this thing, like this.  And there is a solution for it.  If people like you who are open hearted  listen and understand, try to understand , what I’m saying. This is a very important thing we have to do at this moment.  This is a special time I call it as the Last Judgement.   It is the time you have to judge whether you want the truth or not.   Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Cairo (Egypt)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Cairo (Egypt), October 26th, 1996 … Some other languages apart from, in my country I know three, four. How many languages should I know? You tell me. [Laughter] They do not say, or course [unsure], isn’t it?In Russia, from Japan, all over you see so many languages. But this Philip told me in Japan, the one who is the leader, that they are not against us at all. They are against this ‘OM cult’ which was there. But as he said, “You are a family, you are not a cult”.They are not against us in Japan. They are very anxious. And also, they were saying, “You should build a temple here of Mother”. I was surprised. They want to make a temple. I am still living and they want to make a temple already. [Laughter] You see, everybody is fed up of all this nonsense.When I went to Japan first, ‘baba’ the whole was nothing but Geishas’ houses. Geishas. So, the people were there, from my husband’s office people, they said, “Where to take you? There are only Geishas’ houses”. So, I said, “Take me to Geishas’ houses”. “So, how can you go to Geishas ?”, they burst out. “If you can go, I can also. What’s wrong?”So, we went there, of course, they told us about them how they laugh and this and that. So, the Geisha – I had lots of bangles on me. So, she looked at them, she said, “It makes a Read More …

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Arrival In Egypt and Interview Cairo (Egypt)

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Interview at airport, at arrival, in 1996, Cairo, Egypt, October 26th, 1996 Shri Mataji: Thank you very much of inviting me.I am very happy. I’ve been here, before also, twice.Interviewer: In Egypt?Shri Mataji: In Egypt, yes.Much before.For this purpose also to meet your brothers and sisters.Shri Mataji: No, no, no, no. Just for a just for a visit.Interviewer: Just for a visit. You are welcome here in Egypt and we are very happy to know that this is not your first visit just for a just for a visit in this country and you-Shri Mataji: I came with my daughters here and my husband was that time, in the Shipping Corporation. So, we went by our ship and we went to Egypt.Interviewer: Yes, the last visit to Egypt was in which year?Shri Mataji: This is just a friendship then.Interviewer: When?Shri Mataji: It was, I think, 19- I, exactly, I don’t know. That should be about 60, 1960.Interviewer: 1960. So, since 30 years ago you didn’t come to Egypt. I think you are going to find Egypt changed for the best.Shri Mataji: Very much changed,Interviewer: Yes. You have any idea or following up the development here in Egypt?Shri Mataji: Yes, yes. I have been, I have been.Interviewer: Yes, the peace process and so?Shri Mataji: Ah, very much changed. That time, Shah was here, Shah.Interviewer: Shah, of Iran?Shri Mataji: The King was, what do we call?Sahaja Yogi: Farouk king.Interviewer: Farouk king, yes. It’s about 50 years agoShri Mataji: Yes, and he went Read More …

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Evening before Shri Krishna Puja Camp Vacamas NJ, New Jersey (United States)

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Evening Dance Shri Mataji: “Wa wa wa”. “Now. (Hindi) We are all sitting like a family sitting together.There should be a show there, eh?…Done very well. They’re from Vienna? …A composition which you yourself have made it into dance – … wa wa. Bring her to Cabella” (Shri Mataji laughs).Yogi: Yes.Yogini: Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Wa wa wa. Such a dancer, she is a teacher also.I’ll take your leave, and I’ll try to come to tomorrow’s program also]

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Your Hands Will Speak Los Angeles (United States)

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Persian Public Program, Los Angeles, 25 Sept. 1996 Shri Mataji: They all understand English? Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes. Shri Mataji: Is all right? [Good] Of course, I can’t speak American English [well]. I’m happy tonight you have been able to come back again and it’s a great pleasure for Me to see you here, because last time I was quite in a hurry, and same thing is happening today. The program was arranged actually day before but you had some festival. So it was postponed for today, and I am booked to go tonight to New York. So I’ll be quite short in my speech. So to begin with, I bow to all the seekers of truth. First of all, you must know that you are seekers, and seekers of truth and not of untruth. So one has to know what is the truth. Whatever I’m telling you, you don’t believe in Me. No! Because blind faith has really created great problems today. If people didn’t have the blind faith and if they were enlightened, there would have been no problem whatsoever.  So first of all, the truth is that you are not this body, this mind, these emotions, this ego, but you are the pure spirit. Is not only I’m saying! It’s said by Abraham, Moses, by Christ. Also it has been said by so many people who were saints in India. Apart from that, Mohammed Sahib has said very clearly that if you do not know yourself, you Read More …

How to achieve the higher state of consciousness? Los Angeles (United States)

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Public Program. Los Angeles (USA), 24 September 1996. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to tell you very frankly that truth is what it is. You cannot change it. you cannot transform it also you cannot describe it. At the most you can tell what it is. But whatever I am going to tell you here, you should not take it for granted, because as you know we have had lots of problems with the blind faith. So whatever I’m saying is proved, then, as honest people, you have to accept it. Because it is for your benevolence, it is for the benevolence of your family, of your country, and the whole world. What I am going to tell you is about the higher state of consciousness that you have to achieve through your evolution. So far with your evolution we have not paid anything, we’ve taken for granted. Don’t have to pay for it. That’s one thing one should understand that it is spontaneous, sahaja. Sah’ means “with”, ja is “born with you,” this right to be evolved, to be the Spirit. So what is the truth? The truth is that you are not this body, this mind, these emotions, this ego, but you are the pure Spirit of which you are not aware maybe. Now you see here – they have put it at My back, but you see – these beautiful flowers. We take them for granted; we never Read More …

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Awakened Kundalini integrates your personality Toronto, Convocation Hall (Canada)

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Public Program. Toronto (Canada), 19 September 1996. Unless and until you become the pure Spirit, you will not know the truth. Only through the purity of your Spirit you can know the truth. We see here beautiful flowers, [unclear: very] beautiful flowers, and we take them for granted. We never even think how miraculous it is that different kinds of flowers are grown by the Mother Earth and how she has created all these colors and how they maintain their heights, all the shrubs and trees. We never even think about it; we take it for granted, but there must be some superior power which is doing all these things that we take for granted. If you ask a doctor, “Who runs my heart?” he’ll say “it’s an autonomous nervous system” If you say, who’s this “auto”, that he’ll be very honest to say, he doesn’t know that one. They’re honest, but they don’t know. So the second truth is, that all these miraculous things are done by another very subtle power which we call as the All Pervading power of divine love. Some people call it as Paramchaitanya some people call it as Alakniranjana and some people call as Ruh. Whatever name you may give it’s the same thing they’re talking about that there is a power, power of divine love, which does all these beautiful things. So the truth we have to know first of all that you have to become the Spirit. English language as it is, Read More …

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Arrival Toronto, Toronto Pearson International Airport (Canada)

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Arrival at Airport Toronto, September 19th, 1996 [Yogis waiting for Shri Mataji] [Shri Mataji arrived] [Yogis giving flowers to Shri Mataji] Yogi: Shri Mataji, this is “Welcoming letter” from our prime minister Yogi: I am sure Shri Mataji you will get it peace award, we all pray for it Shri Mataji: They were really very open, and Mr.Shrivastava talked to them, that is what we want, all the superficiality is useless, Mr Shrivastava said to me nobody done work like you around the world. It was a big surprise for them that it could be achieved in a peaceful way. At the end of this month, it will be done; it showed on TV that peace award will be giving this month. There is another fellow, that Chinese boy, he tried to create a revolution, and in Hong Kong, many people reacted. That many young people can die. Even if you get democracy, how you can enjoy it? Yogi: Once you get a peace award, we will all have parties. Shri Mataji: It will be a good thing, because even now so many things going I really shocked, like Belgium, Holland. Now about priests, so many priests are stupid. One priest runs away in England, can’t understand this madness. It’s like a disease. The worst was I think Belgium, very bad. Small, small girl has been murdered. Politicians are really ashamed. First I was in Italy so they all got exposed, half of them are in jail, and in India, Read More …

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Evening Program, Eve Of Shri Krishna Puja Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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It’s a very Appealing and Educating Film for the People Who are Not Yet Realised Souls, Evening Program, Cabella Ligure, Italy, 30 August 1996 [Premiere of The Vision – American documentary on the life of Shri Mataji. These are quotes of Shri Mataji speaking, used within the film] ‘There’s a big inner revolution that is coming up. We must understand, we are delicately made, beautiful flowers of God.  We are human beings, and the time has come for us to become now the fruits. I think next century we’ll have beautiful people all around us. No… no troubles of wars. Very peaceful, we’ll be all sitting in the Kingdom of God. ‘ ‘I had such a good childhood with My parents; they taught us how to be sacrificing. My father was in jail for years, My mother went to jail five times, and from huge, big houses, we were living in huts. But we used to enjoy everything. The feeling that, whatever our parents are doing is for our country’s freedom, was so elevating, so elevating that we never even thought of little comforts that children ask for. We could sleep anywhere, eat anything, live anywhere and that has given Me the lesson that, if you have a big purity about your dedication and purity about what you have to do, you can achieve it. And as Ghandiji has said, you have to have first freedom. I saw the Union Jack coming down and I saw the Tricolour going up.  Read More …

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Talk and Departure to Ukraine Kurumoch International Airport, Samara (Russia)

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Departure To Ukraine, Kurumoch International Airport, Samara (Russia) Отъезд в Украину, Выступление Шри Матаджи в аэропорту «Курумоч», Самара (Россия) 20 июля 1996 г. Shri Mataji: I was telling to doctor that those who want to go for Ganapatipule can do it very easily from Samara. Yuri Vasiliev: Я говорила Богдану, что те, кто хотел бы ехать в Ганапатипуле, могут это сделать через Самару. Shri Mataji: Because they can do charter flights up to Delhi and we can arrange the train and then by bus. Yuri Vasiliev: Здесь есть чартерные рейсы, прямо до Дели, дальше мы можем организовать встречу и продолжить путь на поезде, а дальше на автобусе. Shri Mataji: Especially those who want to get married welcome! Yuri Vasiliev: Особенно те, которые хотят жениться или выйти замуж, должны поехать. Shri Mataji: It is not difficult from here, I think. I don’t know how many hours it takes to go there. Yuri Vasiliev: Это не очень сложно. Я не знаю, сколько будет миль до Дели и обратно. Shri Mataji: And then you can again come back from Delhi. Yuri Vasiliev: А потом вы можете опять вернуться назад из Дели. Shri Mataji: It can be organized. Yuri Vasiliev: Это все может быть организовано. Shri Mataji: We have made it half of the half – the very minimum. Bogdan: Мы сделали минимальную стоимость проживания в Ганапатипуле за счет западников, кажется £250 фунтов, все включено: транспорт, жилье, питание. Транспорт в Индии, а самолет другой (отдельно) Shri Mataji: To Delhi  and back. Bogdan: Из Дели Read More …

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Meeting with Mayor of Tolyatti Tolyatti (Russia)

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Meeting with the Mayor of Togliatti Jilkin S.F. Togliatti, Russia, 20 July 1996. Togliatti TV: Все сахаджа-йоги очень довольны, что первый мэр в России, первый мэр города, желает встретиться со Шри Матаджи. Это говорит о большой духовности нашего города и мэра города, и все сахаджа-йоги очень благодарны вам за это. Mayor (Jilkin): Спасибо за оценку моей духовности, а вот что вы сказали о духовности города – это на самом деле так. Наш город отличается от всех не потому, что я приехал лично выразить мое почтение Шри Матаджи, а потому что на самом деле несчитанное количество людей в нашем городе, которые взяли это учение как свое. Причем учение, я вот его не называю религией в моем понимании, – это на самом деле учеба, учение как можно жить людям на нашей земле, и этим учением заражены десятки тысяч людей в нашем городе, и я хочу выразить свое почтение по этому поводу Шри Матаджи, Ее подвижничеству, Ее удивительной энергии. Я думаю, что Она из тех, кто может назвать себя гражданином мира – тот человек, который озабочен глобальными проблемами, и не только озабочен, Она их решает. В меру сил своих у Нее это очень успешно получается. Togliatti TV: Шри Матаджи очень любит наш город. Вчера вот Она опять говорила о большой любви, и мы Ей выражали свою любовь. Она вот даже прослезилась от такой вот большой любви. И от того, что мы Ее так любим и Она нас, все проблемы будут решаться гораздо быстрее и лучше. Mayor (Jilkin): Да если вот на самом деле такая Read More …

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Evening Program Tolyatti (Russia)

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1996-07-19 Evening Program, Tolyatti, Russia Thank you very much …I am very happy to be with you all again …And you have gathered here in such a big group, so many of you!  Tolyatti has been a very great success of Sahaja yoga because so many centres have been established here. 26 meditation centres have been established inside and outside also 26. This is because of your genuine interest and genuine feeling for Sahaja yoga …Because You have felt that. It’s very important to change the world, to get peace & joy. Some other places, meditation centres are been going down in number. I just don’t understand why it is happening …It should not happen. Because once you discover the bliss of the divine then people go on distributing this joy to others. That shows that you people are very sensitive to spirituality…& you are not materialistic especially blessed people I must say…I have discovered that here is the direct flight from here to Delhi by your aeroplanes and I think you can come to Delhi. You are all welcome very much …and Indians are also grown like you…And they will be very happy to meet you all. Thank you very much!

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Arrival and Welcome Talk Kurumoch International Airport, Samara (Russia)

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Talk to Yogis: Arrival and Welcome, Love has no Bounds, 19 July 1996 [Yogis sing bhajans to welcome Shri Mataji and a Yogini introduces in Russian] Sahaja Yogini: Jai Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Are you all right? Thank you, thank you. [Sahaja Yogini continues speaking in Russian, which Dr. Bogdan translates for Shri Mataji] Dr. Bogdan: This is the filming lady. [translation] O great Mother of ours, all Sahaja Yogis in the city of Togliatti [inaudible]with love and thankfulness to meet You on our lands. Every one of Your comings here is a great blessing for us. Your energy and vibrations gives us so much power and energy. We are extremely thankful to You, Shri Mataji. Every one of Your comings here is a great blessing for us. May You do this for long and long and long, Shri Mataji. [last sentence not translated by Bogdan] Jai Shri Mataji! [Yogis: Jai Shri Mataji!] Shri Mataji: Thank you very much, thank you. [Yogis sing ‘Swagata Agata Swagatam’] Sahaja Yogini [translated by Dr. Bogdan]: This is a welcome, Shri Mataji with greatest love. [several sentences are inaudible in the translation from Russian] Dr. Bogdan: This is for the camera, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: I am very much [unclear] by your love, to come all the way from Togliatti just to greet Me here, with little, little sweet children whom I love very much. I know it’s raining, still you are all here; love has no bounds. It’s so enchanting. That’s how a Read More …

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Money Power and Land St. Petersburg (Russia)

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Public Porgram, Money Power and Land, Russia, St. Petersburg, 18-07-1996 I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot transform it, you cannot describe it. I’m very happy that so many of you have come here to know about the truth. I really apologise for the very small hall; it means you have to [unclear/ fix yourself somehow.] Next time, I’m sure we’ll organise in a better way.  So the truth is not known to us, but unconsciously we are seeking the truth. We want to solve the problem through our mind, but this mind is a myth. It’s created by ourselves – through our conditioning and our ego – so one has to go beyond to know the truth. Whatever I am telling you, you are not to believe in, but to experience it. The truth is you are not this mind, this body, these emotions, this ego, these conditionings but you are the pure Spirit. In all the scriptures it is described that, you should know yourself; you must have self-knowledge. People are seeking money, who are of low level of spirituality, then there are people who are seeking power – in the politics or something –and there are people who want to get hold of some lands and fighting for it. All these things are not going to give you the self-knowledge. Without getting the self-knowledge, you can Read More …

Talk on Marriage: The Basis of Society is a Family – You Have to Respect Your Women Very Much (date unknown) Moscow (Russia)

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Talk on Marriage, The Basis of Society is a Family – You Have to Respect Your Women Very Much Today we have come here to attend a wedding of our brothers and sisters – Sahaja Yogis. It’s important to understand that marriage is a very important thing in Sahaja Yoga because the basis of society is a family. And our society should have very good families. That’s why we are paying so much attention to these weddings, that they should make good family. But sometimes people are very conditioned and they don’t understand what is a Sahaja wedding. They try to find faults with the partners, and within two or three months they are again out of Sahaja Yoga. In the sense that they want to have their second chance, third chance, fourth chance, then I think that My attention I am just wasting for nothing at all for such people. If they don’t like our first choice they should have their own.  Why to bother us? They should not give us any more trouble. Very surprising things I have seen about the marriages that have been going on. One of them is they’re alright for two or three months, and suddenly god knows what bhoot catches them, one of them, that they just give up on a small excuse here and there. They don’t understand that how important is for them to have a good married life. They can go up to three months, four months – then I Read More …

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Go beyond your mind to know the reality Moscow (Russia)

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Public Program in Moscow (Russia), 15 July 1996. I bow to all the seekers of truth. I have to say that truth is what it is and it cannot be changed. It cannot be described. Unfortunately at this human awareness you cannot know the absolute truth. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problem of quarrelling, fighting, arguing. Because absolute truth is singular and I’m sitting before you. You all know I’m here, so you are not going to argue on that point. But when we argue we cannot see. We do not know who is sitting next to us. If there is some sort of a sound everybody will start running, helter-skelter, hurting each other. Maybe they might start fighting. But your eyes are open. When you are alert you know where you are. So what is the truth? The truth is that you are not this body, this mind, this ego, these emotions, but you are the pure spirit. That’s why all of them have said that you have to take your second birth. That means this birth is not the complete thing. In Sanskrit also we call a realized soul, a saint as Dwijaha, means born twice. Also bird is called as dwijaha, means born twice. And the bird is like a small egg. Till it grows and is broken by the mother it is not a bird, it doesn’t exists as a bird. And when it is matured then it comes Read More …

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Evening Program, Eve of Shri Mahalakshmi Puja Moscow (Russia)

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1996-07-15 Evening Program, Moscow, Russia Shri Mataji: Of Kundalini awakening like this …You are very talented … It is a real talent you people have I never knew …And she is telling me -You never use to dance and you were never on the stage before. And you have done so well. Nobody could believe it…We have a nice film now, We can show it around the whole world. I don’t know who envisage the whole thing, who saw the whole vision and Who organised it so well… Even the Hindi version was so, absolutely accurately done… I have no words to thank you but the whole thing has gone to my heart. It is really great that you people are coming up in such beautiful things to express about the Kundalini. Russians are special but in the whole world, it’s very difficult to talk about the higher life. And they will never believe but you people have not only accepted but have assimilated and have grown into such beautiful higher life of Sahaja Yoga… The whole world accepts for India I should say … People from Russia and also Belarus, Ukraine and Tatarstan (Tartarstan we know a little bit of it because Changez Khan came from there to India).People from all over have come here. (Russia, Ukraine,& Belarus ) All of them have come here and it’s so nice to see the unity & how you all have been really enjoying it and expressing it. It’s a really, the Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis: Religion has to come from within Hotel Sofitel Victoria Warszawa, Warsaw (Poland)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis, 1996-07-14, Hotel Sofitel Victoria Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland May God bless you. Please, be seated. Just allow it to be there [unsure; about the mike]So, now. I was so happy to see all of you there. I never expected so many of you there, really.I never knew Sahaja Yoga has grown so much. It is such a pleasure to see you all there in such a pretty [Inaudible].Now we have to know that we have to grow in Sahaja Yoga. For that, we must meditate.You see, some people say, “This is wrong with me, that is wrong with me”. Everything will disappear if you really meditate. That is the most important thing; we don’t understand sometimes. If you meditate and your problems are not solved, you can tell Me. But it should be done very regularly. It should be done very regularly. Need not have a fixed time, whenever you want, but every day. Then you will see your growth. How you go into spirituality in such a deep way. Very much, you need in this country. Yesterday, I saw some people suffering very much because they went for a Catholic church. And they’re just trembling before Me like this gesture. I don’t know what they do to you. I don’t understand what they do to you. But I think this religion is based on fear. And that makes you feel so guilty. And when you feel guilty, all problems start in a being. Christ never said Read More …

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She is Your individual Mother Teatr Komedia, Warsaw (Poland)

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Public Program, Teatr Komedia 14.07.1996 I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, you have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it. You cannot transform it. The only thing is you have to experience it. Unfortunately at this human awareness, you cannot know the truth. You have to evolve into a higher state of awareness to know the truth. Without knowing the truth, if you follow something then it’s a very wrong thing. Christ has said: -“you have to be born again”. That is not a false certificate that I’m born again but in the Sanskrit language, we call a Realised soul, a gnostic person, a vijaha, meaning “born again”, “born twice”. In the same way, they call a bird, that is supposed to be born twice because of its an egg and then it becomes a bird. [Shri Mataji repeats again for the translator] Now, So as human beings we are still at the stage where we do not know the absolute truth. Whatever someone tells us we believe in it. We start following it, accepting it. But you should not also accept whatever I’m saying. Till whatever I say is proved, you should not accept it. So what is the truth? The truth is that we are not this body, this mind, this ego, this conditionings but you are the pure spirit. But it’s happening, it is not just a lecture or a statement, but it is happening. It Read More …

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Talk and Treatment at Vienna Airport and Departure NH Vienna Airport Conference Center, Vienna (Austria)

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Talk at Vienna Airport. Austria, 10 July 1996. In Bucharest, there were equal number like you people are here, and I didn’t know how to take out My attention away from them, it was so much touching to see people so much full of love. It’s a very powerful centre we have I think, Bucharest is, because we have some very great musicians there, as you are here. Also, they have, they told Me twenty-one doctors who are practicing Sahaja Yoga. So many scientists, very open-minded people, very open-minded. And it has spread so fast, there were 6,000 people in the stadium, we could not have it in a hall, so stadium, and everyone got Realization. I was telling them the General of the military hospitals, he came to see Me personally, he got his Realization first, then he came to see Me. So humble he was, all the time he was worried how Sahaja Yoga will spread – “What are you going to do?” “How long will it take?” I mean such, sweet, sweet things he asked Me. I was amazed. This man was meeting Me only yesterday, he came to the program, got his Realization, today he is very anxious to do so much for Sahaja Yoga. So, I said, “Why don’t you come to Italy?” He said “All right, “If you call me I’ll come. I’ll come to Pune wherever You will say, to Bombay anyway”. Is very surprising, also in Bulgaria, where we went to Sofia, Read More …

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Mind is created by our conditionings and our ego Bucharest, Polyvalent Hall (Romania)

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Public Program, Bucharest (Romania), 1 July 1996. Arrival at the venue for the Public Program Two lady reporters interview Shri Mataji. Sahaja Yogi translates what the first reporter asks: Reporter: At Your birth it was something happened in the ward or in Your family or in the town You were born? Shri Mataji: I have so many things, so many. I have so many things that happened. Reporter: One example. Shri Mataji: You see, many people had said they saw signs. Also My mother, she saw in her dreams that a Lady in White is coming to save the world. My mother was a very intelligent woman. She was Masters of Mathematics and she was also very, very righteous person. Reporter: If You can tell them about some visionary experience You had, something to be useful for the mankind for our path to the truth. Shri Mataji: When I know everything, what is there to vision? When I know everything there’s no question of vision. Reporter: …some dream, some personal experience from Your childhood, from Your adolescence, from maturity You had – if it’s possible to unveil some visionary experience You had. Shri Mataji: I was never a visionary as such I must say, but I knew My job, I knew My mission from childhood. I was quite aware, Myself. Second Reporter: …about this country, about Romania… Shri Mataji: It’s a very beautiful country, and of such musicians that in India we call them gandharvas, means celestial musicians. Second Reporter: Read More …

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What is the purpose and meaning of yoga? National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria)

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1996-0707 Public Program, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria 17.13 onwards I (Shri Mataji) bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it, we cannot describe it. It is the experience of the truth. I am very much thankful to this association of yoga which has invited me very kindly to talk on sahaja yoga. And in a place so far away from India that there is an association I was really quiet surprised. Now we have to understand that why do we do yoga. What is the purpose of yoga and what is the meaning of the yoga. The meaning of the yoga is that you have to unite with the all pervading power of the divine love. In sanskrit it is called as brahmachaitanya, in the quran it is called as Rooh/ruh. Also in the bible it is described as the cool breeze of the holy ghost. And what has to happen to us is our evolutionary breakthrough, the last breakthrough. All kinds of yoga we started in India according to different times. First of all we had three types of seeking. One created vedas. But the first stanza of vedas says that by reading all this if you do not get self knowledge, it is useless. People have been seeking the truth so they took to another , which we call as the bhakti marga. Now this Read More …

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Myths are unreal Royal Albert Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Royal Albert Hall, London (UK), 28 June 1996. I bow to all the seekers of truth. It has to be understood that truth what we know through our mental capacity is not the truth, because mind itself is a myth. We have created it. As we have created computers. we have created our myth also through our conditioning and through our ego. Beyond it is the reality. So if you have to know the absolute truth something has to happen. We have to evolve into a higher realm of existence of consciousness. You have been already told about the subtle system that you have. You all have it. You are the owner of it and you have every right to achieve that state of consciousness which in the Zen system call it “Satori”.In every system they have something they call it some name, like the Islam calls it “Wali”, some called it “Sufi”. In the realm of reality, when we are not, we have problems, because we fight for unreal things, you think of unreal thing as real and accept. For example, when they English lost the match. I mean one party has to win, either this or that. But they were so much identified with it, which was falsehood. They were not playing, there were not players that they were English, alright. But there was no war going on. See the myth about it is this, that we get identified with things which are themselves not real. Read More …

Public Program Teatro Verdi, Genoa (Italy)

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Public Program. Teatro Verdi, Genoa (Italy), 18 June 1996. (Shri Mataji is greeted by an authority from Genoa, and receives books about Christopher Columbus as a present). I bow to all the seekers of Truth and Peace. When we talk of peace, we must know by talking we cannot create peace. At a human level, with this human awareness, we have so many complications. We have to evolve little more to achieve our selfhood. Every religion has talked about self-knowledge. If we do not know ourselves, how can we know anything else? For this, as you have been already told, there is a Power in the triangular bone, which is known as Sacrum. That means that Greeks knew that it was a sacred bone. In India we knew about it thousands of years back, no doubt. But it was kept a secret, and was given by one person to one person. Till the 12th century, nobody even talked about it to general public. Then in the 16th century there were many saints who talked about it. Even Mohammed Sahib has said that you have to know yourself if you want to know God. But self-knowledge is something which is not imaginary, it is not mental. We live in a mental world, and I must tell you very humbly that this so-called mind is a myth. It has been created by us through our conditionings and our ego. But beyond this mind is the realm of reality. Unless and until you Read More …

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Birthday Puja: Mind is a Myth New Delhi (India)

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Puja of the 73rd Birthday, “Mind is a myth”. Delhi (India), 21 March 1996. Translation from Hindi You are celebrating My birthday with so much love, reverence and respect.  Seeing this I think what have I done that you are showing so much love. Today I am going to tell you a very unusual fact, that this notion within us which we call as mind, is a myth.  The myth being, that when we are born, there is no such thing as mind within us.  As we gradually start performing actions, the outward reactions are of two kinds.  Either something becomes an impression or experience; or a consciousness of being the doer (ego) gets awakened within us.  Then from those come the tendencies which accumulate inside us like bubbles of thoughts, which create an artificial or bogus institution, which is so limited that they cannot comprehend the beauty, glory and expanse of reality.  All these things are created by us, and then we become slaves of it. For example we created the watch, and now we have become complete slaves of it.  In Sahaja Yoga you become Kaal-ateet, means you go beyond time.  Times moves along with you.  You do not run after time. Now people have started making computers, and they have become enslaved by it.  And in that enslavement, they have become so obsessed with it, that they are not able to realise that they are completely in its clutches.  Which is controlling them.  They are completely dependent Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Shri Saraswati Hall, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis in Malaysia. 14 March 1996. I’m so full of love and joy to see you all here again, to see it, the number of people came and you all have to look after them with care and concern. I never expected that such a lot of people will come and in one year they’ve grown such a lot. So we have to get them very much rooted in Sahaja Yoga; it will depend on your own handling or managing the whole thing. Like when I was in Hong Kong I was surprised we’ve very beautiful Chinese, mostly Chinese. The Yogis liked them very much and they informed Me two hundred people came for the follow-up very seriously, two hundred people, it’s something very gratifying. If they’re coming and if they settle down, we’ll have so many of them there in Hong Kong which is being managed by one boy from, Alex from Australia. He’s done very well, I must say and he might have to go back but he’s done his job very well and now there’re so many people there in that place which I never expected. Now what I find that just like something making noise little less, I find that just like Hong Kong also here the people are very active, over-active. The streets are filled with cars and so much more coming out and there’s so much pollution. This is not a good thing to have too much pollution so Sahaja Yogis Read More …

Public Program KDU University College Hall, Petaling Jaya (Malaysia)

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Public Program, Malaysia, March 12, 1996 I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. It has been, it is, it will be. You cannot change it; you cannot transform it. Whatever I’m going to tell you today, you also should not take it for granted, because we’ve had lots of problems with blind faith. If it proves, then this is like a hypothesis before you, then as scientists keep your mind open and if it works then you have to acccept it as honest people. Because it is for your benevolence, for the benevolence of your family and for the benevolence of the whole world. I’m talking here about the global transformation which is very much needed today because this is a special time, they call it as the Last Judgment or in Koran is described as Qiyamah. In the Resurrection time, I call it as the blossom time when many people have come on this earth to seek the truth. The first thing you have to know that you are not this body, this mind, these conditionings, this ego, your emotions but you are the pure spirit. In the evolutionary process you have become a human being; you have the human awareness but you don’t have the knowledge about the absolute truth. Everybody has a different idea and everybody propagates that idea. While doing that you can argue, discuss, find, quarrel and also we have Read More …

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis Hong Kong (China)

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis in Hong Kong, 10 March 1996. So many questions, you see… Now, most of the questions are coming from people who doubt. Can you translate it? In Sahaja Yoga best thing is to practice what is said and then see for yourself, but if they’re coming I would like to tell them about it. Now the first one is about vegetarianism, somebody’s asked. Who has asked about vegetarianism? Raise your hand. Ah, you, all right. Now, I said that there should be, there is no question of vegetarianism; whether you are a vegetarian or not makes no difference to your meditation. But for people, you see, the food is only important because supposing you’re Chinese, you eat too much of fish and all that. So to give it a balance, if you become a vegetarian more you’d be better. It’s a question of balancing, but those people who eat too much of, say, vegetarians, like in India, they should take more to non-veg, or to proteins; it’s a question of carbohydrates and proteins, it’s not question of vegetarianism. Now to say that Buddha was vegetarian is not true; it’s false. Because how Buddha died, you know? Buddha died when he went to a disciple who had killed a wild boar, and the wild boar is allowed to leave for some time and then you should eat the meat. But he was in a hurry, so they didn’t do that and he ate it and he died. Read More …

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How to receive the self-knowledge? Hong Kong (China)

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1996-03-09 Public Talk Hong Kong Shri Mataji: I bow to all the seekers of truth! At the very outset, We have to know that truth is, We cannot change it. You cannot transform it, and You cannot purchase it. You have to feel it in your Central Nervous System, Which is called in Sanskrit as ‘Bodh’ from where the word Buddha has come. The word they have used for the saints, on the Central Nervous System [unclear]. They are used for Veda…The Ancient Vedic Scriptures. Whatever I am going to tell you today …You need not accept it [unclear].Because We have suffered a lot, all because of this blind faith. Once it proves, it’s better to accept it as honest people because it is for your benevolence, for the benevolence of the country, for the benevolence of the whole world…Because this knowledge is coming from India, some people really don’t like it. But the other cultures of the western cultures, have [unclear/grown so ] big without going to its roots. If the Indians can learn science, from the west, Why not the science of the divine be learnt from the Indians. And this is the special time for seeking the truth…It’s all predicted. While people are misled, by the wrong type of marketing people. This is divine knowledge, can not be marketed. It is the knowledge of divine love. So, there is the power within you, already placed in the triangular bone called the Sacrum Bone. And the Greeks also Read More …

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Bring your attention beyond the mind Shih Chien Hall, Taipei (Taiwan)

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Public program, Taipei, Taiwan 06-03-1996 [1:03:50]  I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, you have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. But we have to feel the truth on our central nervous system. That means ‘Bodh’, in Sanskrit, from where the word ‘Buddha’ has come. Or ‘Vida’, means, from where the ‘Vedas’ have come, means, to feel it on your central nervous system. It is not just a mental feat, or a mental understanding about truth. Because you should not shock when I say that mind is a myth. By our reactions outside, through our conditioning, and our ego, we have made this mind. Which is nothing but bubbles of thoughts. Brain is the [light].  Now when we are at a mental level, we can create any ideas according to our conditioning or our ego. Like Hitler felt that he has to destroy all the Jews. And he did it. So this mind goes either to the right or to the left. That means it goes to the future or to your past. All the thoughts come to us from our future or the past. One thought rises, it falls down, another thought rises and falls down. And we are jumping on the cusp of these thoughts. But we are not in the present. And the present is the reality. In China, we had Laotse, who talked of nothing but Sahaja Yoga. Also, in Japan, Read More …

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How the mind is controlling us? Darling Harbour, Sydney (Australia)

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Public Program, Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 4 March 1996. [Till 3.38 yogis singing devotional song ‘Jai Shri Ganesha 4.40 to 9.45 devotional song ‘Mother’s Joy’ 10.12 to 33.55 Welcome address, background on Sahaj Yoga, introduction to Sahaj System and Chakras 34.00 to 42.12 yogis sing devotional song Sitting in the Heart of the Universe 43.20 to 50.25 yogis sing Sri Jagdambe 52.07 to 1.00.34 yogis sing Udaya Udaya 58.20 Shri Mataji comes in 1.01.20 to 1.03.58 Introduction of Mataji 1.04.30] I bow to all the seekers of Truth. At the very outset, I have to tell you that Truth is what it is. You cannot change it. You cannot describe it. You have to experience it. And you cannot pay for it. You can only discover it through the last breath of your evolutionary process which is a living process into a new awareness, into a new dimension. Now whatever I am telling you, please don’t accept blindfold. We have had enough problems with the blind faith. If you do experience, if you do get the results of whatever I am saying, you have to accept is as honest people, because it is for your good, for the good of the family, for the good of your country, for the good of the whole world. We talk of peace. Now where does this war come in? From where the ideas of fighting and quarrelling come in? It comes from your mind. Now look at this mind. What it Read More …

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Public Program National College Grounds, Bengaluru (India)

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1996-0130 Public Program, Bengaluru, India I bow to all the seekers of Truth. At the very outsaid, you have to know that Truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it, we cannot describe it. You have to experience the Truth. What we know about Truth is through our limited mind which is in itself in a confusion. Mind is actually something artificial. The real is the brain. But mind is artificial. And when we start projecting our mind, everybody does it in their own way. And then there is a conflict, there is a fight. Some says this is correct, another says that is correct and one does not know which one is to follow and what to do. We have science before us. We thought science will solve our problems but we must know that science is a-moral. It has no morality within it and it has such limitations that we cannot know the fundamentals about ourselves. For example, we cannot say why are we on this Earth. The science cannot explain why are we on this Earth. What is the purpose of our life. There are so many things we can ask scientists and they cannot answer the questions. So, we take to religion and to books which are written about God Almighty. There also we find the people who are in charge of religion are extremely power oriented or money oriented. They are not spirit oriented. So whatever religion they have created Read More …

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Disease and its cause Rotary Club of Pune Central, Pune (India)

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1996-0119 Public Program Rotary Club of Pune Central, Pune (India) [Announcement] Her Highness Mataji Nirmala Devi. May i request Charter President of rotary club Pune Center, past president S P Malhotra ji, may i also request general party chief of staff to please come on this side and garland mother. I request past president bhai Shri Malhotra to felicitate mother. May i request to please light this lamp. I request [UNCLEAR] to introduce Mataji. Dear fellow Rotarians members of the top management [UNCLEAR], chief guests ladies and gentlemen. I have been asked [UNCLEAR] introduce this mother, i can only say that she is most loving, most affectionate very kind hearted and a divine soul, because whatever i am saying i am saying from the core of my heart, from the inner depth because i am here today after fourteen year, i remember Mataji we met first time on 17th of January 1982 in Rotary district conference in Ashoka hall Delhi. There i went to say bye bye to my friends and colleagues over there since i was to go for my bypass surgery, it was all set and just to see that before finishing this pilgrimage i should meet all my near and dear ones and beg apologies for anything if i have done wrong to them and in that context before leaving for states at Houston where i was to go for my bypass surgery i attended the meeting of Rotary district conference in Delhi just to meet few more friends and there that i saw the program the Read More …

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Try to find out the truth Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi (India)

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Public Program (Hindi/English). Delhi (India), 3 December 1995. [Translation from Hindi] Those who are in search of the truth, my salutations to all those seekers. In India from time immemorial, there has been seeking for the truth. This can be understood by our scriptures. And by many other ways, we have been searching the truth. Our country is spiritual in a specific way. The reason behind this is, in our country many things are easily accessible. We do not know, how resourceful our country is, and how sacred it is. And how people here are very simple and unpolluted. We used to call all the foreigners as malecch (unclean). Because we used to see that the foreigners, who came here had their desires towards filth. In our days, now we have become old, it was observed that these people who have come from outside, were very superficial. Their whole Outlook was very shallow. There desires used to be very frivolous. Slowly, in our country also, the western culture has started influencing. The reason behind this was, for 300 years westerners have been on our head. And slowly we started thinking that these people are very great, who have come to our country to rule over us. In fact, these people made fool of everyone and got their work done. Secondly, because of the ritualisms, different types of wrong rituals came into practice in our society, because of which we started becoming cultureless. Our culture started disappearing. perticularly in north India, Read More …

Evening Program, eve of Diwali and Talk Nargol (India)

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After Concert Talk Nargol 10-28-1995 Shri Mataji (in Marathi): Today, all things have been delayed and we all know the reason why. However, in Sahaja Yoga, we do not look at the clock. And we also do not keep thinking whether some things are happening as per the planned time or not. Whatever happens “Sahaja” (with ease/without effort), only that gives true joy. Now these songs that were conducted earlier, they were in English, or I would say, in the Western style and you all like it. I found great satisfaction in that. Otherwise, there are a lot of music experts sitting here. And they will say, “Mataji, what is this that you have started here?”. However, we should listen to all forms of music. Obviously, I am not referring to just any kind of music, that is coming out these days. But all forms of music. I am very fond of Western classical music. I am also very fond of South Indian music. And of course, ours. We have to have an extensive vision. And I was very happy to see that you appreciated what the French people (Sahaja Yogis), presented to you, the songs. The lead singer among them, from Zaire, in Africa, he is a very famous singer. A very famous singer in France. And now he is in Sahaja Yoga. He teaches small children also and says all our mantras. So there is a very big revolution in the world. They worship Shri Ganesha and sing Read More …

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Public Program, stick to spirituality New York City (United States)

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Public program, New York, USA, October 16, 1995 Shri Mataji: Please be sited.{Aside] Can I have a glass of water. What did you say?Sahaja Yogi: Inaudible.Shri Mataji: All right. [About the mike] All right. It’s a little bit, it’s not steady.It’s better, it’s better now. Thank you. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it. You cannot transform it. It is to be known through your ascent. Unfortunately, at tis human awareness, we do not know the truth, the absolute truth. What we know is relative truth and that’s why all the problems there are between human beings between countries and the whole world. It’s very important that we have to realise that really we don’t know the absolute truth. America is a very fortunate country in a way that it has prosperity but as a result I have found that many people came to this country who thought there is a good market for marketing Spirituality. We must know we cannot market Spirituality. You cannot sell it in the market. You cannot have a kind of a prescription for it. So what is Spirituality? Now what do we have to gain and why should we be Spiritual. These are common questions one can ask. American lifestyle as you know has been that they want to enjoy every moment of their life, this way or that way. Their idea is such that Read More …

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Public Program Los Angeles (United States)

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Public Programme,10 October 1995, Los Angeles, United States of America Please be seated, all of you. Please be seated. I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, we have to know that truth is what it is. You cannot change it, you cannot describe it, and you cannot pay for it. The truth is that at this human awareness, we do not know the truth, the absolute truth, we only know the relative truth, because if you had known the absolute truth, there would have been no arguments, no fights and no wars. Because we don’t know that the truth has to be achieved.  You have to feel it on your central nervous system, which we call in Sanskrit language, a “bodh”, from where the word “Buddha” has come, enlightenment.  It means you should feel it on your central nervous system, that means in your evolutionary process, you have to rise to that state where you can feel the all-pervading Power of divine love. So the truth is that there is a power which is doing all the living work. We are not aware of it, we have never felt it. But we don’t think, see the beautiful flowers you have here, it’s a miracle how these beautiful flowers have come out of Mother Earth at different times, with different sizes, with different fragrance and shapes. Who has done this job? We never think. Now, if you ask a doctor, ‘who runs your heart’?  He will Read More …

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7th Day of Navaratri: You have to project and you don’t have to reflect Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Navaratri Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 1 October 1995. Yesterday you have seen how Durga used to protect all the seekers – sadhakas, and how she killed the people who have been troubling, torturing, killing the seekers of truth. Her whole advent was to protect them from all these evil forces. In those days that was the most important work. So that’s how the sadhakas came up to these modern times and now they are seekers of truth or they have found the truth. All these different passages have taught the sadhakas what is the use of their lives. They were frantically first trying to find the truth, frantically and they went into different, difficult places. They thought by going into some lonely places they’ll be able to settle their minds in peace and they’ll be able to find the truth. Also they sacrificed many things – their wealth, which was bothering them, their families, they thought were standing in the way of their search. All this went on, and there are still some people who believe that by becoming an ascetic one can find the truth. Buddha did the same, Mahavira did the same, their life was nothing but a great tapasia. Their tapasias are helping us today, in such a way that we now have got such a blessing that our personalities, as they are, can receive self-realization, for which people struggled and struggled. In such a way, that if you read that how they were suffering you might Read More …

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Evening Program, Eve of Navaratri Puja Campus, Cabella Ligure (Italy)

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Evening Program, Eve of Navaratri Puja She is from Calcutta, Bengali didi. Her name is Amita Dutt, I saw her dancing & something very celestial, I would say such a dancing of Kathak I have never seen so beautiful and the theme of ‘The Mother ‘ has been brought forth with such depth ness and understanding with the intricacies of expression that I was amazed at this lady. She is a very well educated lady, comes from a very good family and also has a very nice husband. All this is there but she has dedicated her life to dancing and the expression in Art. Very remarkable …A gentleman accompanies her, is  SaptShri Roy …Whom I have not seen before dancing but I mean I might have seen in the group that she had. So We are going to enjoy a very beautiful dancing – A life story we can say of the advent of the Goddess Mahakali. I don’t know how far she is going to go. But this shows great dedication, and creativity of this lady the way she has used Kathak for expression of a very beautiful theme. To be able to understand it you should not bother much about the intricacies & allow your heart to flow and I am sure you will understand her because She is very very vibrant at the same time She is extremely expressive, and you don’t need any language to understand it. I was so surprised for her talent and Read More …

Arrival in Ukraine and Talk Boryspil International Airport, Boryspil (Ukraine)

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Talk on arrival in Kyiv, Borispol Airport, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 24, 1995 I really don’t know how to thank you for this surprise. [Applause]It’s very kind. All and your children have come down here. I have a very great concern for Ukraine. [Applause and laughter]While coming in the plane, I was looking at your beautiful land near the river Dnieper. Aside: It’s good now.And I felt such a good land you have here and I also know that once upon a time, this was a very rich country where the wheat and all this produce were supplied to whole of Europe. So I was asking about, “What has happened to this country? It was very reach country just before separation. So they said that this land is now doesn’t belong to anybody and the government does all the [unclear] and agriculture. In the- in My country also, we had same problem that land produce was very little, because few people were doing only for themselves. But then they formed cooperatives and gave the land to people for cooperatives and it was called as the ‘Green Revolution’. And thus our problem was solved, our problem of food, everything. So, if Sahaja Yogis can ask for no war anymore, so they can help their government to solve the problem. Because Ukrainian Sahaja Yogis are very deep and are very good people. We had one problem because of this Chernobyl problem. But it seems you people look very much now all right and Read More …

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Airport conversation, departure for Ukraine Tolyatti (Russia)

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Conversation with Sahaja Yogi at Tolyatti (Togliatti) airport, (Russia), September 24th, 1995 [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi to Yogi Mahajan] Shri Mataji: Somebody should help him now, he’s alone.Dr Bogdan: He is, we have to wait there’s a special man who’s just come for the purpose of this flight and then I’ll take the baggage, Shri Mataji. An official has just come for the purpose.Shri Mataji: For us?Dr Bogdan: Yes. So, we have still much time, Shri Mataji. We have an hour and 20 minutes.Yogi Mahajan: An hour?Dr Bogdan: An hour and 20 minutes, yes. We got it quite fast still. Still an hour and 20 minutes, Shri Mataji. There is a house, a stadium of sport, Shri Mataji, which is close. They have a closed stadium with probably 5,000 seating, Shri Mataji, inSamara.Shri Mataji: That’s a good one. All right, next time, we should come here in August if there is a .Dr Bogdan: She is asking whether you would also like to come into Tatariya, that’s Sasha’s sister, whether you would like to visit Tatariya.Shri Mataji: How far it is?Dr Bogdan: It’s 500 km, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: To go by train or by plane?Dr Bogdan: They say there is an international airport there and planes go there also.Shri Mataji: All right.Dr Bogdan: From Moscow to Tolyatti. Shri Mataji: How many here are from Tatary?Dr Bogdan: Yes, Tatarstan, this is this is where- these were the- it was the Kazan Tatar Shri Mataji. Its special name Tattar is called Read More …