Talk to Sahaja Yogis: A New Age Burwood Ashram, Sydney (Australia)

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi talking to the Sahaja yogis at Burwood ashram after the public program. Sydney, Australia. [a Sahaja yogi reads Gyaneshwara’s Pasayadan in Marathi, and Shri Mataji comments on it in English] [Marathi] Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yogis: Aranava, forest, jungle.. Shri Mataji: Gyaneshawara. He describes Sahaja Yogis like this, beautifully. He first says, he’s requesting the God Almighty. [Marathi] Ata, he says, let the Spirit of the Universe be contented. He says now let it be contented. I have done my writing as the yagnya of my power of speaking [Marathi] And now with that. [Marathi] satisfaction, I mean, I mean God doesn’t have satisfaction but what you mean that now you are Prasanna, satisfied, then please give us the Pasaydan and Pasaydan, it means these vibrations, the blessings of the nectar of the milk of your joy, you give us that, that’s what he asks for, but the way he described the Sahaja Yogis, what will happen, you see the, what it will happen. [Marathi] So he says “So let’s walk, let’s go together. He describes you as the trees, the forest of the trees of fulfilling desires, you are the trees of fulfilling desires. Let us get together and march. [Marathi] Arava is the forest. [Marathi] Aranava, the oceans, you are the oceans, of talking ambrosa, of talking ambrosa, you are the oceans of ambrosa talking, or let us all move together, now we have the God, the Pasaydan, let’s give it to others. Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Children and Other Topics, Ashram Perth (Australia)

Talk to Sahaja Yogis on education, ashram of Perth, Australia, 2 March 1985.   [Tape 1] Shri Mataji: … or any sleeping of what? Sahaja Yogini: No, he has had. Shri Mataji: He? He must be tired, poor thing, you see, he’s been with Me for such a long time. I’m all right because I know how to manage, but for him it is too much marathon. Shri Mataji: The [inaudible] is at home. [Shri Mataji is laughing] Some I got for the Sahaja Yogis there, a glass, was very beautiful and quite cheap. And they like all those things. The tumblers and I brought some cups and saucers, they really like them. Because yet, we are not so good at crockery and it’s very expensive, whatever is very good is. You see, mostly, it is exported to Russia, so we don’t get good quality things available for general persons. Only very rich can buy. I mean, a good tea set would cost not less than fifty pounds, sixty pounds there. I mean and this, whatever you give is so good for them and they like it, unbreakable stuff that you bought. That was from France.   I bought the saris and everything from there and also these cups and saucers to be given to them. That’s the things they like the most. And they’ve got all these cups and saucers all intact and sometimes, they use it only for Me. I said: “It has been given for you, while Read More …

Shri Krishna Puja: Announcement of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma Nashik (India)

Shri Krishna Puja. Nasik (India), 19 January 1985. Yesterday, in the lecture, I gave a new announcement about Sahaja Yoga. But the whole lecture was in Marathi language and before it is translated I would like to tell you what was my announcement. There was a question that, in America and in England, no trust which is not a religion can be registered. Of course, Sahaja Yoga is the religion, no doubt, is the universal religion, is a religion that integrates all the religion, brings all the principles of religions together and shows the – shows the oneness. It integrates all the incarnations. It integrates all the scriptures. It’s a very integrating great religion which we can call as the universal religion and, in Hindi, it is called as Vishwa Dharma. Now to make it more particular, I thought that if you say universal religion then it may not be that particular because like the Buddhist, then we have got people who are called after Christ as Christians and after other people according to the incarnations. So this time the incarnation being Nirmala, I thought we can call it “The Religion which is Universal, in the name of Nirmala.” So to make it short, I thought we can call it “Universal Nirmala Religion”. What do you say to that? Now Nirmala, you’ll be all called as ‘Nirmalites’. Is the one who have been enlightened by Nirmala, it goes, light shabda (word) goes, the word light goes very well with you Read More …

Pre-Christmas Talk and Farewell Puja Montague Hall, Hounslow (England)

Pre-Christmas Talk and Farewell Puja. Montague Hall Hounslow (UK), 23 November 1984. So yesterday was a nice day for all of us, and I said something of a different level. We’ve been talking all the time about the mundane things and these things sometimes are very … are of so much importance, we think. But when I talked to you yesterday, I hope you all realized that we have to now jump into another realm of a subtler understanding of Sahaja Yoga. First we were worried about our families, our children, our households; then, our marriages. One after another all these questions came up, and we were concerned about all these things; little, little things. Then we also got concerned about the ashrams which we were running: the problems of the ashram, what we have been doing, how we have been facing the problems, how people are creating problems. That’s how our humanity started acquiring a subtler understanding. And then we also realized that we are blessed by God, that there’s something great that is always looking after us, some higher Force, some special Attention is there about ourselves. This is what we realized. Today I was explaining how it happens, that how we realize that God is helping us. Any problem is an effect of some sort of a cause – every problem. Like Mona wrote a letter that she was driving in a motorway and the car went out of control, and the brake would not act. And Read More …

The Channels Rome (Italy)

1984-09-20 Second Public Program in Rome [An Italian speaker (Guido) gives an introduction in Italian before the arrival of Shri Mataji.] Thank you, thank you [Shri Mataji thanks for the flowers received]. Sit down. What has he said, so far what has he talked about? He talked about what? Yogi: He’s been talking principally about the Mother. [Shri Mataji laughs] I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday I talked to you about the different centres, subtle centres within us, and also when a person reaches a higher state of awareness what happens to him. At the human level, when we exist as normal human beings, there are three channels which work within us automatically. They are called as autonomous nervous systems, but if you ask them who is this “auto” the medical science cannot say who is that. They just say that this is autonomous, [it’s] a name given, but they do not explain. But whatever we achieve in our evolutionary process is expressed in our central nervous system, as I told you yesterday. Now if you ask a dog to go through a dirty lane he can just walk through, he has no problems. But if you ask a human being to pass through a dirty lane he cannot do it, because in his awareness he has developed a sense of dirt, filth, colour, so many things, music. But for an animal, it is Greek and Latin. In the same way, a person who is not a Read More …

The Knowledge of the Roots St David's Hall, Cardiff (England)

Public Program, “The Knowledge of the Roots”. Cardiff (UK), 8 August 1984. St David’s Hall, Cardiff (England) I bow to all the seekers of truth. It gives Me immense pleasure to come to Cardiff again for this programme of Sahaja Yoga. They must have explained to you what is Sahaja Yoga. That is, ‘Saha’ is ‘with’ and ‘Ja’ is ‘born’. It is born with you, and all of us have a birthright to get this spontaneous yoga, that is the union with the Divine. Ascent to the Divine is our birthright. Only thing, we must reach that state of awareness where we become aware of a higher seeking within us. First as a human being we seek food, then protection, house, possessions, money, power, and then we find that all these things, even if you have achieved, you have not been able to achieve what you wanted – that is, the state of joy – and thus you start seeking furthermore to find out what should be that state in which you remain in complete joy. Many people have no idea as what to expect, and also, they are quite naive about the structure or the nature of this Tree of Life which is built within us. Now what I’m going to tell you is the Knowledge of the Roots. So far with our developments we only know the Knowledge of the Tree, but we have to know the Knowledge of the Roots which sustains this tree. If we do Read More …

Radio Derby Interview BBC Radio Derby, Derby (England)

Radio Interview Interview: You feel it on your hands. You feel it emitting from the top of the head. You feel it flowing over the body but that’s not the only thing. This is an outer experience because your central nervous system becomes enlightened by these vibrations but inwardly you start to feel a very joyful person. You start to feel the silence. You know that what is happening inside you is transforming all the things that were negative or undesirable within yourself into something positive and what’s more, you can give it to others. And that’s the most beautiful part. Shri Mataji, you were at the Guild Hall in Derby last night for a meeting there. How did that meeting go? Shri Mataji: Oh very well. I never had such a nice meeting before in Derbyshire. It was wonderful. People were very beautiful. I think certainly awareness is showing in England which is very promising. I have been here for 10 years and I’ve been struggling to work it out because I think England is very important, it’s the spiritual field. It is the heart of the universe and people have to understand it. And I found this year, it has suddenly taken a new turn in the awareness of people, they are started looking at it from another angle whereas maybe the controversy that is on about the miracles of Christ’s life and I’m here to prove that all the miracles were true. Absolutely true. I mean you Read More …

Talk to doctors: the fourth dimension and the parasympathetic Brighton (England)

Conversation: Shri Mataji talks to doctors. Brighton (UK), 26 July 1984. Shri Mataji: The fourth dimension that they mentioned about, what do they mean by that? That is the thing. Warren: They call that transcendental state. Shri Mataji: But what? Warren: They can’t describe it. (Here Mother says again “What?” while Warren is saying the word “describe”) Shri Mataji: They can’t describe it, you see. Supposing somebody has a low heartbeat, low pulse rate or has a low consumption of oxygen or anything. Warren: That’s not transcendental state. Shri Mataji: That is not transcendental state, because you are still in the state, where your attention is on your body. So, it is not a transcendental, you will have to transcend. Transcendental means you have to jump onto the parasympathetic. See, we have four dimensions we can say. One is the dimension of the left sympathetic, another is of the right sympathetic, then we have got the central nervous system, which is our conscious mind and the fourth one is the parasympathetic. Does he jump on the parasympathetic? Warren: We do. Shri Mataji: Yes. In Sahaja Yoga you jump onto the parasympathetic; means your attention starts controlling the parasympathetic nervous system. Then how do we prove it that we become the fourth dimension? First thing is, that the person, who becomes the controller of the parasympathetic, becomes the “Auto”. He can do things. He can do things, like she can tell that another person is suffering on these centers without going Read More …

Birthday Puja: Be Sweet, Loving and Peaceful Juhu, Mumbai (India)

Puja for the 61° Birthday (Be sweet, loving and peaceful), Juhu, Bombay (India), 22 March 1984. [Translation from Marathi] I bow to all Sahaja Yogis, saints. It is no longer a birthday after the age of sixty years, but but one should remember that the life is getting shorter day by day and hence the progress (in Sahaja Yoga) should also be correspondingly faster. It is a matter of joy that you have celebrated my birthday with so much enthusiasm. There was so much enthusiasiasm and love. I was overjoyed.Sahaja Yogis have to work (for Sahaja yoga) while leading the worldly lives. They have to look after their children, households, and parents while practicing Sahaja Yoga. I also do the same. I also take care of the world (as a family) while looking after my family, my brothers and sisters, all the relations and my husband. No one should be left aside. So, it is a very difficult task (to manage both). Women panic when a daughter or a son falls sick, something goes wrong somewhere, husband is bad etc. Similarly, men get jittery with a problem in jobs, reduction in salary, financial constraints etc. Also, various other incidents that bring pressure on the minds. However, in these very circumstances the Sahaja Yoga has to be established. If you are away from water and are thirsty, and say that you suppress your thirst, then there is nothing special in it. But you are real Sahaja Yogis when you are detached Read More …

Mahashivaratri Puja: Detachment & Enlightenment of Brain Pandharpur (India)

“Detachment & Enlightenment of Brain,” Mahashivaratri Puja, Pandharpur (India), February 29th, 1984 So now, we all have arrived, it’s all right. Now, this place has been chosen because they said that there are lot of horrible people the other way round. Still, we are having their problems. [Laughter] All right. You see, you must know these are modern times, and modern times have lots of complications. (Translation from Marathi: “Has everyone arrived? I will first speak in English, then in Marathi. As these people can’t understand anything otherwise, and that won’t be proper”.) In these modern times, a place which is supposed to be a holy place becomes the most unholy place. It’s such a topsy-turvy condition these days. And when we are trying to establish something very fundamental, it’s like a little seedling that has to come out of the stones, you see. It has to fight lots of things, so we have to keep our brains intact and be sensible about everything, and try to see what we can achieve through our patience and understanding – is very important. Today, I think is a very great day for all of us because this place is the place of Viraat, of Shri Vitthala. Is the place where Shri Vitthala appeared to a devoted son and when he asked Him that, “You better stand on a brick”, He stood there. And they say that He stood there waiting. Some people say that the statue that we see came out of Read More …

Pre-Christmas Evening Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

Pre-Christmas Evening. Surbiton (UK), 21 November 1983. Sorry for this delay but today there is something great luck for us. A gentleman has come from Delhi with the plans of our ashram in Delhi and within two-three days we could make another plan. A much better plan for Delhi people and he came to see us this evening and I had to discuss it with him and I am sure he will manage it very well and he is invited Allen to go to India and he is going to look after the Allen there and he is going to make him stay in India where Allen is going to work out the whole thing. So, let’s give a hand to Allen. (Everyone applauses for Allen). It’s very god sent we must understand again the Ritambhara Pragnya is working out (Shri Mataji talking to a Sahaja yogi – let him be seated somewhere, there’s a guest we have can you give a room somewhere. Where is he sitting?).  So, it was pointed out by Warren that he’ll have to work here for two years, he cannot practice as an architect and he has to put so much to money to insure and all kinds of problems are here. Suddenly, today we find somebody who is willing to take him up in India and send him abroad and all those things are there. So, you can imagine how things work out for him but there should be dedication and understanding about Read More …

What is love? Toronto (Canada)

Public Program Day, Toronto, Canada, October 7th, 1983 M.C.: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I welcome all of you to this most auspicious program that is being held for the first time in university. Shri Mataji: [Hindi words…] I cannot… M.C.: You have been seeking… Shri Mataji: Something wrong. Can’t hear. INTRODUCTION BY MC: You have been seeking in the wild for quite some time.Here, I have introduced Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi-ji, who is a mother, a housewife and a grandmother in an ideal way that is thought of in our Indian society. But the speciality is that She teaches all of us what is extra special within us. It is a great Divine creation that is within ourselves. How to feel that? How to enjoy that? How to learn that? From ourselves. That mastery Shri Mataji offers us time and [?]. If I have to narrate you a few experiences, well, 12 years back when Shri Mataji started teaching this subject, I was a senior manager in one of the public undertakings in India. And I was not happy with the management and the working etc.And when I approached Shri Mataji and I started learning this yoga. One day, Shri Mataji tells, why don’t you go into your own business of interior decoration and I laughed. As an executive in marketing, I never felt that what is wood? What are the qualities of timber? And Shri Mataji decide I should go into an interior decoration of Oriental style. I Read More …

Shri Ganesha Puja: He will be incarnated again as eleven Rudras Vancouver, West Vancouver ashram (Canada)

Shri Ganesha Puja, Vancouver (Canada), 6 October 1983. In the West, you have grown very big outside like a tree has grown very big. But it must find its roots.Otherwise the whole tree can fall off without nutrition. Soyou must know the knowledge of the roots. Without the knowledge of the roots the tree has no meaning. So this may be a little new thing for you to understand but you must know, to know the knowledge of the roots you have to become subtle. If you are not a subtle personality you cannot enter into your roots and you cannot understand what lies in there. So first of all, I said yesterday, you all should get your Realization, and after your Realization, you can understand this better than anything else. Christ came on this earth, but he was only allowed to preach and talk about three and a half years of his lifetime. And in three and a half year is nothing. In that, whatever was possible he said positively, he told about the future, all that was to happen. He didn’t talk much about the Holy Ghost. The reason was His Mother was the Holy Ghost at that time and He didn’t want to talk about Her because the attention of the people would be on Her and they would have killed Her. And then He has got eleven destroying powers. And He would have used those eleven-destroying power and everything would have been finished, the whole drama Read More …

CBC Radio Interview “The Planet” Vancouver (Canada)

CBC Radio Interview “The Planet” Presenter: [Missing part] come to Vancouver. But unlike some others this one is not after your money. As a matter of fact, She brands those gurus or teachers that are after your money as fakes. Shri Mataji Devi lives in London with Her husband, the United Nations diplomat. As a child in India She knew She was different, and Her character trait Mahatma Gandhi also recognized when he asked Her to stay and worked with him. In 1970 Shri Mataji began Her mission in bringing peace and enlightenment to the world’s people and She is here in Vancouver, this week. You don’t take money or ask for it? Shri Mataji: (Laughes) No, no. You can’t pay for it. It is God’s love. How can you pay? How much do you have to pay for it? Presenter: How do you finance Your projects? Shri Mataji: You see, I travel by Myself because My husband can afford it. And the people who have their own centers, they manage their own, because they live there. They pay for the rent and they manage their own. I don’t take any money from them at all for My own maintenance or anything. Sometimes they do pay Me for My travels. Sometimes. Not to Me but to the, I should say, to the travel agent. Presenter: So they pay Your travelling expenses. Shri Mataji: Sometimes. Very rarely. Presenter: Gurus that do ask for money then, You say, are automatically fakes. Shri Read More …

Seminar Day 1 Kennolyn Camps, Santa Cruz (United States)

Seminar in Santa Cruz, California (USA). 1 October 1983. I am really enamoured to see so many of my children. I have been able to find them back. It’s such a great thing to see them after such a long time. While I came here 10 years back and none of them could feel the importance of Mother’s love, and now such a tremendous thing has happened that it has worked, and that people are feeling that great thing called the subtle energy of Mother’s love. Now in these ten years I have been all over the world – Australia, Europe, England, India – but I must tell you my attention was in America all the time. I was longing for the day when I would feel like coming back to this country because I thought, ten years back, it was too early. They have to learn it, what truth is. They have to go through it. They had been too cocksure. Unless and until it works out that way, they are not going to accept Sahaja Yoga. What you accept in Sahaja Yoga is yourself, is your Spirit, is your power of Kundalini and by which the responsibility that, when you get this Realization, you have to settle down with it and know all about it. You have to become a guru, a pure sattwa and then the guru of others. In short, Sahaja Yoga is the epitome of our evolution. That is what we are made human beings Read More …

The Blessing of Modern Times San Francisco (United States)

1983-0928 Public Program Day 1, The Blessing of Modern Times, San Francisco (USA) I bow to all the seekers of Truth. For a mother, the greatest moment is that when she sees her children get all her qualities, all her wealth and all her power. There’s nothing more she wants. I’m so proud of Yogi that he has so steadily worked it out for so many great souls that have been seeking. As he says that seeking can be very much misleading if you do not know what you are seeking. But you’ll be amazed that those people who are also misled, have done all kinds of mistakes, have gone wrong, have taken to lives which can only be ended. They also, today, are to be saved. And they all can be saved. God’s love is abounding, is so great that I’m, Myself, surprised at its operation. The way it has forgiven. The forgiveness is so intense, the love so sweet and delicate, and the way it works out, the beautiful correction which you also do not feel how you are corrected, is such a blessing of these modern times. It was never so easy before and thus I have to just say that you are very fortunate seekers. Formerly the seekers had to go to Himalayas to cut themself off from the whole world, live with very strict gurus who would first beat them nicely to see if they were healthy enough; and then they would starve them to Read More …

When the spirit manifest within us, what should happen? Hollywood United Methodist Church, Los Angeles (United States)

Public Program Day 2,Hollywood United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, (USA), September, 26th,1983 I bow all the seekers of the Spirit.The seeking of Spirit has been described by so many people from ancient times. It is nothing new that I’m telling you, that a human awareness reaches a point where it starts seeing that there has to be something beyond. And at that time the seeking starts. And the person starts looking forward to something that will make that person the Spirit, as all the scriptures have described and talked about it. There is no amount of talking is going to improve on that because Spirit is within us it resides within us in our heart. Now as it is, you must have heard many people talking about it that, “You have to be Spirit that you have to get your Self-Realisation, you have to have self-knowledge, you have to know yourself”. But in Sahaja Yoga, today, what one has to do is to establish that to actualize that, make it an experience of your own. And this is a very big gift I think a very unique discovery that has come to us that we can actualize it. Now we have to understand one simple think that when this Spirit manifest within us, what should happen on the very gross level, what should happen? Firstly, it must be invigorated, means you must get more energy in the body, you must feel physically better. By going to any process or any Read More …

Shri Ekadasha Rudra Puja: We have to drop out many things Judy Gaddy's Apartment, New York City (United States)

Ekadasha Rudra Puja. New York City (USA), 17 September 1983. [FROM THE VIDEO] So today is a day, according to Indian calendar, called as ‘Parivartani Ekadashi’.  Now, today is the eleventh day of the moon. Eleventh day is ‘ekadashi’. Also, in Sahaja Yoga, you know about Ekadasha Rudra, which is here (forehead); which will ultimately destroy all those things which are not required anymore. That is Ekadasha here, that’s the eleventh.  But today is a special day where we are going to use the power of Ekadasha to do the ‘parivartan’ means ‘the transformation’. It’s not for destruction but for transformation. It’s such a day to be here in New York, where we use the destructive powers for the transformation of human beings. So, it’s a very great day today that we are going to transform people by the manifestation of the Ekadasha’s powers. And they are eleven placed over your forehead here, and you know how they work out. So, these ten come out of the destructive powers of the Void. The Void has got ten destructive powers also. Out of those ten, the destructive part settles down here (pointing to upper forehead). So when a person is on his destruction, say for example a cancer is set in, then you might feel a throb here, at the apex of your Void, the throb. And it doesn’t logically mean that if there’s a throb there’s a cancer, but if there’s a cancer there will be a throb in here going Read More …

Shri Ganesha Puja: The Birthday of Shri Ganesha Tivoli (Italy)

Shri Ganesha puja. Tivoli (Italy) 11th September 1983. Today we are celebrating the Birthday of Shri Ganesha, because it is a very important thing for all of us that we should celebrate His Birthday; and yesterday we did the Havana. But yesterday we had many new people so I could not talk to you very clearly about Shri Ganesha’s deeper manifestations. You know that He resides within us.[Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi]Now we have a very great asset within us that we know about Shri Ganesha, and that we can excite His powers.Shri Mataji [to an Italian Yogini]: Please translate.To manifest Shri Ganesha, we have to do certain amount of Tapasya – penance. First we have to say, when we sit for meditation, that: “I am going to be worthy of Your appreciation. Make me humble, so that I am appreciated by You, and my only desire is to please You.” Then you sit down in complete preparedness, meditating over your Mooladhara, putting your attention to it with absolute purity. Now you have my photograph before you and you tell the photograph that, “Mother, You are Shri Ganesha. You give me wisdom and discretion”. So, attention at the Mooladhara chakra, which is actually below the sacrum bone. You put your right hand towards the photograph and left hand on the Mother Earth. Now this wilI tell you that your mind, or your brain which is full of confusion, which has no discretion, which is complicated, which does the same mistakes Read More …

The roots of human beings Geneva (Switzerland)

Public Program Day 2. Geneva (Switzerland), 30 August 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Yesterday we saw the general aspect of Sahaja Yoga and how these modern times are connected to the future and to the past. Because if it is a living process of evolution then it is a continuous process intermittent with transformations. But we human beings believe that whatever we achieve through our mental projection is the transformation. For example, when we started to establish our kingdoms, we thought that monarchy will solve the problem and we adhered to it very much. Later on, we thought it’s better to have democracy, or some people thought we should have communism. Some people thought that Christianity would work out. Others thought that Islam might work out. Some thought it was Buddhism that is going to help us and some thought it is some other religion will help us, like Jainism or Zen. Now, if you really see all these human endeavors from a detached mind, you will find that there is something missing in them. There are psychologists who said that it is the sex energy which is important and we should not be conditioned. So, they used their ego to express themselves without any conditioning. And the others who believed that it is the will power that is important and you must develop your will power. But one should know that truth cannot be two. It has to be absolute. And the point at which Read More …

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

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 …

Radio 74 Interview Geneva (Switzerland)

1983-08-24 Radio 74 Interview (Geneva) Part 1 and 2. Lady interviewer:  Could you join me now in a very cordial and very special welcome to Shri Mataji.  A great welcome to You. Shri Mataji:  Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Lady interviewer:  In the.. in the country of India, I know that there is much talk of… the word ‘enlightenment’ is used in a way that perhaps we of this world don’t fully understand.   Would that be a place to start, that You talk to us a little bit about enlightenment and then go into Your own message? Shri Mataji:  Yes.  India has a special advantage over many other countries, as far as the nature is concerned, because the nature of our country is such that people don’t have to worry so much of combating the nature.  It’s warm country, and it has… it’s a very fertile country and it doesn’t require too much for you to exist in that place.  You can even exist under a tree.  It’s a …you can lead a very, very simple life in India and you need not have all the [elaborations] we  need here to fight the nature.  As a result of that, many people who were quite satisfied with their mundane lives took to deeper seeking – thousands of years back – in that country, where they wanted to find out the secrets of life, and they wanted to know why we are on this earth and why we Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Surbiton ashram July 25th 1983 How did you like my lectures for Guru Puja? I was rather boastful, I should say. But it’s very simple; Sahaj Yoga is very simple. It seems you don’t have to go to Himalayas, you don’t have to do anything, er, you don’t have to stand on your heads or break your necks. If you read your Patanjali sometimes you’d be amazed how much they have agreed (unclear)that you lead a life of complete brahmacharya; no entanglements, anything else, they had to stay in a very secluded place with their guru, they were not supposed to see anyone, meet anyone, talk to anyone, because that would take away their attention, and, er, they told me there were very few people who could do such a thing. Can you translate to me? (Marie Rouger is there, speaks) French? You understand French? (He’s Spanish but he understands English. )(Various exchanges) (Spanish people don’t understand French)Who is the Spanish who doesn’t understand? He understands English all right. (Only one Spanish understands French). But you understand English all right? Both of you don’t? (‘No very very little) I didn’t know about that. So, now, what you can do is, to when I say ‘You tell them’, and, er, she can tell them, also those who don’t understand come later (unclear phrase). (Warren ‘All the French sit near Marie’). Better. Otherwise everyone understands English, isn’t it? Italian? All right you can translate. How are you? All Read More …

Havan after Guru Puja Lodge Hill Centre, Pulborough (England)

Havan after Guru Puja Shri Mataji: First we are going to have the “Namaz”. We have to learn how to do “Namaz” today, because it’s a Guru’s Day. Now where is…? – Come along! All of you who are here should learn how to do “Namaz”. Now stand here. Facing Me. Come along! Gregoire: I would like that everybody sit down, so that everybody can see. Shri Mataji: No, you have to stand up, because you have to do accordingly. Djamel: I was thinking you all stand up and stand in rows. You have to leave a space in front of you, there has to be a certain space so that you bow down. Shri Mataji: May I have some water to drink. Gregoire: We should all stand in a circle, leaving space between each circle around Shri Mataji, so that we can bow. So everybody stands in three or four circles, with one meter at least between the two circles Shri Mataji: Where are you going to have lunch? Sahaja Yogini: We are going to bring it here Mother. Shri Mataji: All right, that’s all right. Are you all listening now? Just move it backwards. Saha Yogi: Mother I will put this over here which will shade you a little. Shri Mataji: Sorry. Sahaja Yogi: I think I did it a little too far. Shri Mataji: Its because its coming up, all right,doesen’t matter. Sahaja Yogi: But I’m afraid Shri Mataji: All right. Alright, let’s – ah? Now let’s Read More …

Devi Puja: God’s Blessing upon Sahaja Yogis (Surbiton ashram inauguration) Surbiton Ashram, Surbiton (England)

Surbiton ashram inauguration. Surbiton (UK), 17 July 1983. Shri Mataji: What a blessing.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother, is. Shri Mataji:  Ah, come along. What a place! Is it going to be a big Puja here or a small one? Yes, I wanted to have a very small one. All right, please be seated. So how are you? The ladies, come along, sit down here. It is such a blessing to have such a nice place, where we all can meet, and do the work of God. Sahaja Yogis have to remember that you are here to do God’s work. And whatever blessings you get, these are just guidelines to know that God is pleased with you. I think the London Sahaja Yogis are real, really blessed ones, real blessed ones, the way they got one after another beautiful places to live in. And, we all should be very, very thankful for what God has been very kindly suggesting to us.I came here in the afternoon just to see the place, and I looked at these trees and this garden and the flowers. All of them are here specially, very specially, to tell you that God is pleased with you. We have to learn a lot with them, how they grow, how they expose themselves maximum to the rays of the sun, how they suck their nourishment, all this, is a great training for all of us. They are absolutely entirely surrendered to God, and to human beings, who are the epitome Read More …

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

“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 …

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

  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 …

Evening Talk Brighton Ashram, Brighton (England)

Evening Talk For the flowers? This is mummy has done for you? It’s very sweet one. This one is? Wood. No, no, no, it started now. You see a little bit of… Just the thing that we feed. See these flowers. Are they nice? The flowers… Are they nice flowers? Such a smiling baby. Such a sweet baby. Such a nice baby. You must smile. You must smile. Are they still like a nervous person? And… What’s the Mishon’s daughter’s name is? Marina. Marina. Marina, ha. She also looses a little bit of her balance, with aarti. Yeah. Very good. You are feeling sleepy. Very quiet, ah? She’s very good Mother. She’s very quiet. Even Pauline’s daughter has improved a lot. Good. Very much better now, very much better. William’s [apetite is] very much by this.. I think that work would suit him the best. He did a very good job in our house, you see… And C.P. liked his things that he had cooked and made Me happy.. I had such a problem, I didn’t know what to do because you see it’s, C.P. won’t eat anything and I thought now to give up and go away. But who told Me was [Pray]. She said, “William is a very good cook, if he can help there.” I thought, “If he’s working, how will he do it?” But he did it very well. You see, Mr. Srivastava eats very little, but if it is good, tasty food then he’ll eat, Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: How to talk to New People Hampstead Friends Meeting House, Hampstead (England)

 “How to talk to New People”, Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath St, Hampstead, London NW3 1DR (UK), 12 May 1983. So I bow to all the Sahaja Yogis, and all the seekers of truth, may God bless you all.  Is such a great thing to be back home with all of you and to see you here blooming with joy and happiness. That’s the fate of a Mother who has so many children, that she goes from places to places leaving some children behind but looking forward to meeting others. Somehow that compensates for the separation. Today I think we should start on a very subtler ideas about Sahaja Yoga, because you people have understood it on the other plane of mechanism that works it out, the Kundalini, the chakras and all those things. But we have to see what is the problem that faces actually human beings and why we make such mistakes in our seeking. Is a very important thing to understand, because unless and until we understand why we really make mistakes or others make mistakes we can never forgive them, and we might have a kind of a high handed attitude towards others who are now coming to Sahaja Yoga, thinking that, why did they do like that, and why did they commit this mistake and they could have done better. But I personally think that if you look at yourself you will know that you also committed mistakes. Everybody has committed mistakes. Some have committed Read More …

Picnic, How To feed babies Lane Cove River Tourist Park, Sydney (Australia)

Advice to Sahaja Yogis in Lane Cove Park, Sydney (Australia). 19 March 1983. Shri Mataji: What a beautiful place you have! Warren: Let’s sing Mother’s mantra. Shri Mataji [to a baby]: Hello! Beautiful place. What a beautiful place, he? Beautiful place under the sun. Sahaja Yogini: It’s been in the flood and it’s muddy. Shri Mataji: Yes. It’s a nice shady place also. Shri Mataji [to a child]: You’re playing, did you go on the river? How can you all be sitting there, it’s so muddy. [Cut in the video] Is that a nest? Warren Reeves: No, that’s a dead branch Mother, just a dead branch hanging down. Shri Mataji: Hm. Warren: It’s a little bit like mistletoe. Sahaja Yogini: In this part, there are mistletoes all around. Shri Mataji: This is the eucalyptus. Sahaja Yogi: Yes. [conversation unclear] Sahaja Yogi: There are flowers and then they become nuts. Shri Mataji: The one we saw? These are the same? Warren: The same flowers that You saw in– where is it- in Adelaide. Shri Mataji: The ones which are like Ganesha’s flowers? Warren: Yes, yes, yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: The four petals? Warren: But it has a much bigger base. Shri Mataji: Let Me see. Warren: Much better base. There are all different shapes and sizes but the one we saw had definitely, had four sections on it. Shri Mataji: These are all different things that have eyes sorts of things. Is that the one? Warren: [Inaudible] Sahaja Yogi: That was Read More …

Why am I concerned is the point Maccabean Hall, Sydney (Australia)

Public Programme Day 4. Sydney (Australia), 18 March 1983. To all the seekers of truth I bow I must say Dr. Warren has done a good job. Perhaps you don’t understand that the situation is quite different in the western countries. I don’t have to have any introduction in India, nor anybody has to give any apologies all the time, you see trying to convince getting this that into the whole argument to prove that I’m the truth and that I’m genuine, that there’s no hanky panky about Me. It’s very embarrassing for Me to say and the background is like this: when I came to Australia this time from all over the world, all the Sahaja Yogis who are in the West, we have many in every country and they are known that this time Mother must say who She is, is important because the questions like this then how can You do it how can it be easy are You the one who is doing all kinds of questions coming and I just don’t help, please don’t do it, it’s not easy for a Western mind to accept it you see, they all come on you and you see and so I told you the same and it was accepted by many people because they felt the cool breeze they did feel the cool breeze coming out of their heads but some did not and because they did not feel it, they challenged and they were angry about Read More …

How can it be possible to have Realization so fast? Maccabean Hall, Sydney (Australia)

Public Program day 3. Sydney (Australia), 17 March 1983. To all the seekers of truth, I bow. Warren has said something today which I’ve been trying to avoid all these years because I thought it was not advisable at this time to talk so directly to human beings about it. Because as soon as somebody says such a thing a snake called ego comes up or else people try to harm the cause. They don’t want to hear about it. This has happened with all the great incarnations. And you have seen how Christ was crucified by people because He said that “I am the light, I am the path,” which He was. This was the truth, no doubt. But I realized that everything that is truth is not to be said. As He Himself has said that “Don’t throw your pearls.” Because those who do not understand the value of the pearls will destroy out of ignorance or out of aggression. I have to accept today that in Australia, today is a first moon day that what Warren has said is the truth, when people asked Me how can it be possible to have Realization so fast. In India it is not necessary to tell them. They just know. Because Adi Shankarcharya has written so many books about Me. And He said it is only She who will come and give en-mass Realization. Whatever you may try else, it’s of no use. And that is why, it is very Read More …

We have to understand that truth is not a mental action Maccabean Hall, Sydney (Australia)

Public Program day 1. Sydney (Australia), 15 March 1983. But before we come to right conclusion about our seeking, we have to understand that truth is not a mental action.If your mind says that “this is this”, it need not be that. It is our everyday experience in life, that mentally, when we try to establish something, we find after sometime, that we have not been absolutely correct about it.Whatever is known to us is already there. But whatever is unknown, even about that, if you have preconceived ideas, that “this is the unknown, this is God, this is Spirit”, then it could be that you are very much away from the truth. But scientifically, if you have to approach any subject, you have to keep your mind absolutely clean and open, that it has been said by many great Saints, many great gurus, that we are to be born again and that we are the Spirit. Are we to believe in them or not? Perhaps, we should reach at least this conclusion that they did not take any money from anyone and they could not have been fake people, they did not do it for money sake. So, if we have to be born again, to reach the right conclusion we should know what should happen to us. For example if you certify that I am a reborn again, then it is misleading. Supposing that I certify myself that I am the Prime minister of Australia, do I become? Read More …

Workshop Dalkeith (Australia)

Workshop in Perth (Australia), 2 March 1983. Sahaja Yogi: God the father, God the mother and if she recognizes you as God the mother is Sai Baba, this fellow in India God the father?Shri Mataji: No.Sahaja Yogi: But on the whole, is there, I meanSahaja Yogi: She answered your question.Sahaja Yogi: You do need a father.Shri Mataji: I’ll tell you how you should understand, all right, that’s better to see you [sounds like sa].Sahaja Yogi: Do you want to all come a little further.Shri Mataji: Come along, I will tell you, how to recognise, to see a right person.Sahaja Yogi: Before you ask a question, you kindly just come forward so that Mother can speak to you directly and so She can hear you.Shri Mataji: I hope you have explained to her about the center heart position.Sahaja Yogi: Just a little, I said this is the center…Shri Mataji: mother, She’s the Mother of the universe at that point, all right? In the center of – it’s all right, let her be comfortable – is the center heart, as you call, we call it center heart. But, is this center, this is a very subtle center within us which manifests the gross plexus, which is called as – thank you – which is called as the cardiac. There is any doctor here? This subtle center is bestowed upon by the deity of the Mother of the universe, all right, She is called as Jagadamba Now Her position is such, if you Read More …

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

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 …

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

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

Shri Ganesha Puja: What Are You Here For? Solapur (India)

Shri Ganesha Puja in Sholapur, (India), 4 January 1983. I’m sorry, I’ve not been able to, in a way, talk to you [Marathi] to talk to you directly about things and, though you know I’ve been looking after you very well. [Marathi] And I didn’t have so much time but you know, I have to work very hard and when you have only one program, I have three or four programs. And I’m working very hard for them. And you see, I’ve told you that Maharashtra is going to be very fast movement and we have to move very fast. Now what you have to understand is that you have come for this program of Maharashtra for what? Why have you come here? That people must understand. What I find that there is no understanding of this simple fact, with some people – some people are murmuring souls among you and they don’t understand why are they here. They are here to learn certain things for Sahaja Yoga. Now, especially if you do not have an ashram also there’s always a problem to learn how to live with others and in a way that we should move in a Spartan way, in a Spartan way. How to live in a Spartan way and how to be smart? Now see these people here, Maharashtrians are. Just look at them, you have to learn from them. How quick! I don’t have to tell them anything. See they are so self-disciplined within themselves. Read More …

Short Conversation on Marriages New Delhi (India)

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

Tales of Shivaji Maharaj Sajjangad - Ram Das Temple, Satara (India)

Conversation at Swami Ramdas Temple, Satara (India), 30 December 1982. In the music score, I must say the Western people have done so much better. What about the Indians? When are they going to take to music? I mean, there is no progress as far as music is concerned. We have great musicians in this Sahaja Yoga group like Mrs. Venugopalan and all that, but somehow or other, I find that the music is not coming up. What’s the reason? In Maharashtra, of course, we’ve so many people who can do something about it. They haven’t done anything. Better get these things translated. You can’t sing that fast in, I don’t think in Indian way. Beautiful, fantastic, is the word, I tell you. So now, we are ready for the war, is it? You play that very well eh? [Aside comments] Where should I keep it safe? [inaudible……]  Is everything safe? All these stones, are these stones [unclear]. If you could ever do that, is to go to a place called Bhilwara. There you find huge big marble stones. I feel this is not real marble. This is something like marble, but not real marble. But real marble, worked out in one big stone, the whole thing worked out like that and very beautiful. This is only one of them, you can see. But this is not real marble. Marble is on the sides. Sides are marble. All is marble, here down below. But all this is a kind of a stone which is being Read More …

Advice to visiting Sahaja Yogis Lonavala (India)

Advice to visiting Sahaja Yogis It’s good for Hamsa Chakra, it’s a, that’s why it’s good for Hamsa Chakra. for all of you not to catch cold and all that. It’s already very late and I think now we are proceeding towards Maharashtra in the real way because this was a seminar and today is a concluding day for you. I’ll be leaving early in the morning tomorrow there’s a program for Me fixed there. So, you know my… It’s not all right? No, it’s not switched on, Mother. Sorry. Excuse me, must take it back and… Take a seat. So, tomorrow I’ll be leaving for Poona. And you will be also leaving for Poona and from Poona then we’ll be going ahead. Now, so we are going into Maharashtra and Poona is supposed to be the holy door of Maharashtra. In Poona we’re going to have a program for seven days, I think. We’re going to stay there for seven days all together out of which, I think, two days you’re going to go outside in the villages, and five days we’ll have program in Poona. Now there we’ll try to arrange some conveyance for you to go to the program places. But if we are finding it difficult in that case I think, you will make it easy for yourself to go to the places where we have programs. That will be only five times. So that perhaps you may have to arrange. The rest of it is Read More …

The Miracle Of Your Second Birth Exeter (England)

Public Program, Exeter, England, 21. October, 1982. They are transformed. Exeter has a speciality I don’t know why with this kind and I’m really amazed that I’ve been here three times and people have not taken up life seriously. They are not taken up the purpose for which they are born.It is a sad thing I feel, but again I wanted to try that maybe you people will be able to realize how important it is to get your self-realization. Already they must have told you about your Kundalini, the power that works out this miracle of your second birth It is already being done by God.He is put everything down there it is all there. You are just ready for it. But you must have the desire. You must have an ardent desire.There can not be any realization for a person or any development for a person if the person doesn’t desire it. Your desire is the most important thing. And you will be amazed that even the Kundalini about which we are talking is nothing but your primal desire the power of your primal desire because all other desires are transitory – are absolutely temporary – and they fizzle out.You want to have a house? Alright, you can have a house, then you want to have something else and then something else.Economic wants are never sessiable, So you go on asking for this and that, then you go to politics for power, you try to have some emotional Read More …

It is you who has to enjoy it Cambridge (England)

“It is you who has to enjoy it”, Public Programme, Cambridge (GB), 9 October 1982 I bow to all the seekers of Truth.When we say we are seeking, we must know that we are a special category of people.People were seeking before also. They were seeking power, money, possessions, affluence, every sort of thing.Still they are not satisfied, those who have got it. And so those who are seeking the truth are the highest, highest of all in the evolution.They are the ones who are going to jump into that higher state which is called as Self-realization.If you are not seeking, then nobody can force seeking on you. It cannot be done. Even by force, if you take somebody to the beautiful lake of nectar of God’s love, and even if you force the person to drink it, it is you who has to enjoy it. And unless and until you have the seeking, you will not have the sensitivity to enjoy that nectar.And truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot organize it, we cannot transform it. It is, it has been, it will be.And what is the truth? The truth is that God loves us, that His divine power of love is all-pervading, is everywhere, that this power is active, all the time – it’s the living power of living God – and that this power does all the things that we call as living works of God.A flower is transformed into a fruit by Read More …

Shri Ganesha Puja: Bestowing of Boons Maria’s House, Wellingborough (England)

Shri Ganesha Puja, Maria’s house, Wellingborough, England, October the 12th, 1982 Shri Mataji: Shasti?Dr Rustom: Because full moon was on the 3rd. Today is the 6th. ShastiSahaja Yogi: Cancer Moon, is it? Yes, Cancer.Shri Mataji: Cancer?Sahaja Yogi: I think so, Mother. I think.Shri Mataji: [Hindi]Dr Rustom: [Hindi] Full moon was on the 3rd, Shri Mataji, at midnight on the third.Shri Mataji: [Hindi].Dr Rustom: Have you got a newspaper please?Sahaja Yogi: That’s true, the third.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi] Now we’ll read the Thalis again.Dr Rustom: Seventy thalis.Shri Mataji: Poor Harri.[Laughter] Dr Rustom: It’s possible- we can ask vibrations actually, what else.Shri Mataji: I think it might, [unclear] is a better day.[Hindi spoken]Dr Rustom: Shri Mataji is correct.Shri Mataji: Hmm.Dr Rustom: I said, You are correct.Shri Mataji: Vibrations came, eh?[Laughter] Dr Rustom: OM twame wa sakshat, Shri Ganesha sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Bhagavati Mataji,Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha.Three Great Mantras.OM twame wa sakshat, Shri Mahalakshmi, Mahasarasvati, Mahakali, Tigunatmika Adi Kundalini sakshat, Shri Adi Shakti Sakshat, Shri Bhagavati Mataji, Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namaha.Shri Mataji: This, can repeat? [Sahaja Yogis begins three Great Mantras as said before.] [Dr Rustom says the first names of Lord Vishnu.]Om Shri Keshava namahaOm Shri Narayana namahaOm Shri Madhava namahaOm Shri Govinda namaha[Repeats three times the first four names]Om Shri Vishnu namahaOm Shri Madhusudana namahaOm Shri Trivikrama namahaOm Shri Vamana namahaOm Shri Shridhara namahaOm Shri Samkarshana namahaOm Shri Vasudeva namahaOm Shri Pradyumna namahaOm Shri Aniruddha namahaOm Shri Purushottama namahaOm Shri Adhkshaja namahaOm Shri Narasimha namahaOm Shri Achyuta namahaOm Read More …

Spirit Resides Inside You Vienna (Austria)

First Public Program. Vienna (Austria), 26 September 1982. I bow to all the seekers of truth. [Can you hear her there – all the way? No. Stand here. Or you may use this. Better. I will just speak … All right.] I’m very grateful to the Sahaja yogis of Vienna, who have invited Me to this place, and this is My first visit to Vienna. This is the last state that I had to touch in Europe and so I must say, lot of work has been already done in Sahaja Yoga in other countries. Somehow it happened that I had to come to Vienna after such a long time. I’m really very happy to see there are so many seekers in Vienna. And they are the seekers of truth. But first of all, we have to understand what is truth. Whatever truth we have so far as human beings, has been known to us through our awareness, through our central nervous system. For example, if you see the flowers, the flowers are white; we can see they are there – this is the truth for us. I touch this steel and I know it is cold, so I know it is steel and I know it is cold – is a fact with My fingers. It is not any imagination or a mental projection to think that this is the flute of Shri Krishna. Because I can see, I can hear and I can feel that I know this Read More …

Devi Puja: Only through your hearts you can receive the blessings of this puja Patricia Deene’s House, Ghent (Belgium)

Devi Puja, Patricia Deene’s House Gent (Belgium) 22-9-1982 Starts at 31:25 or 21:00 (DP-RAW Version) This is the first time we are having a puja in Belgium. That’s very quick for a puja to be done like that.Normally we don’t allow people to come to puja unless and until they are established Sahaja yogis.Because sometimes if they are half-baked, it harms them more in the way that they start doubting and thinking about it. But in the puja you should stop thinking, do not doubt, do not think, then you have the best advantage out of it.As far as I’m concerned, my chakras start working sometimes with a great force. Say if [name yogi] does puja, he is such a great Sahaja yogi that the deities can start emitting lots of vibrations. But if you are not in the receiving mood, then it takes time for me to take out the vibrations in the atmosphere or in another awareness. So it becomes more difficult for me to have a puja, because sometimes I do suffer with overflowing vibrations which you cannot suck in.So today as we have ventured to have this puja for all of you, please try to receive, humble down yourselves in your hearts. Only through your hearts you can receive the blessings of this puja.It is a very higher state when you can do that, but it is alright with Sahaja yoga, they are aware, all the deities, that you are still children, you can make mistakes Read More …

Talk to Sahaja Yogis Ghent (Belgium)

Talk to Sahaja Yogis [Aside remarks] [inaudible] sense of smell because both left and right, because both smell bad – left and right – but one has a very sort of a smell of a very stagnated personality and another has a smell of a, say, jaise pasina (Hindi word: like sweat – ed.) – burning sharp smell, haan (Hindi word : Yes – ed.), sharp, pungent. [inaudible] like if you put the blanket, you see at the bottom, keep it hanging. It smells horrible, like that stagnated ammonia types. That’s all. But then this side all fragrance. This side on your vibrations, it’s better. That’s all right. So now the combinations of all the muscles because the muscles all [unclear] comes from Mooladhara. So this combinations would be, you see, which one [unclear]. For example, if Mooladhara, left Mooladhara is catching, left Nabhi, left Mooladhara, left Nabhi, left side, this is a very bad combination. Left Mooladhara, left Nabhi, left Swadishthana and heart is a bad combination. Because even if you have these three things, if your heart is all right, then the Spirit is right. So it can control all these things. But if you have in addition to that, even left Agnya, then definitely you’ll have one of those incurable diseases like mellitus. So for mellitus patients or for cancer patients, for all such incurable patients, you have left side problems. Cancer can be divided into various [unclear : sounds like – faces OR phases]. Like you Read More …

Advice to French Sahaja Yogis: Respect your dignity, preserve your Vishuddhi Geneviève's House, Grilly (France)

Advice to French Sahaja Yogis, respect your dignity, preserve your Vishuddhi, Grilly, (France), August 24th, 1982 I think that it is important that they must develop a behaviour which is very dignified. The whole culture, somehow or other, has created an atmosphere that people talk in a casual way. They are not guarding their words to see what they speak. And they speak just because they want to speak all the time and that’s also another way of aggressiveness that all the time, they want to see, speak, don’t allow others to speak. As if we have something very important always to tell while the others do not matter. It’s a very aggressive, egoistical style. But by doing this they develop a kind of casualness and a non-serene attitude. Also, the behaviour is extremely casual and not dignified. And it shows that they have no respect for themselves. If you have respect for yourself, then you will know that you have to speak something that will give you respect. So, you are careful as to what you speak because when you speak, you are manifesting your intelligence, your understanding, your love. It’s an expression, it’s a rapport with another person. But if it is not with dignity, with guarded words, with proper understanding as to what you are doing, it will just create a useless, frivolous talk and can also create a misunderstanding leading to a greater dislocation of Sahaja Yogis from each other. So, I would suggest that French Read More …

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

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 …

The feeling of seeking Friends Meeting House (1903) (Demolished), Cheltenham (England)

Public Program, Friends Meeting House, Cheltenham UK, 1 August 1982. Brian, you better be sitted. Let Brian be sitted first. So you are all right, Warren? Get up. Let him sit. He cannot see. Now, it’s all right. I know Chris has already informed you about the advent of Sahaja Yoga. As you know modern times, are great times, for spirituality. Never before, in the history, of this universe, there were so many seekers. Even if you go back, about say twenty five years, people never talked even about seeking. They didn’t know what it was like. But suddenly, this feeling of seeking, has become very strong all over the world. There must be some special reason for that. When the seeking is felt, not necessarily we know what we are seeking. It’s not necessary that we know what we have to seek. Also it is not necessary to understand how to seek. But a feeling of urge, a tremendous urge within us, makes us feel, that there is something beyond we have to seek also, that we don’t feel satisfied with what we have. There must be something more that we should know. Whatever we have known so far as human beings, we do not feel contented by that. All the countries who have had affluence, had this urge much more. than the countries who are still, aspiring for affluence, for a plastic development, you can call it. In the affluent countries only people are realizing more that the Read More …

Havan after Adi Shakti Puja: Understand the significance of Havan Cowley Manor, Cheltenham (England)

Havan after Adi Shakti Puja 1982-08-01 04:10 Shri Mataji: Now, let’s understand the significance, all right? Now, he said a word ‘Swaha’. ‘Swaha’ is the capacity of the Nabhi Chakra. That is – it burns everything. The capacity! You can say ‘the essence’. It burns up everything. Whatever you put of the fire, it burns up. That’s one. Second it purifies. Say, if you have got mixed up gold and you put it in the fire, it glances. It burn something, it does not burn something – discriminate. It has got discrimination. It has got brilliance. Fire also has another great capacity, that it goes against the gravity. And when it goes against the gravity, it suggests that there can be another energy that can go against the gravity and that is the Kundalini. Many people confused with Kundalini the Prana Shakti. They thought, because Prana Shakti is the child of fire. They could only related to Kundalini. They thought that Kundalini and Prana Shakti are the same, because Kundalini also goes against the gravity. Then it has capacity to give you brilliance. A person who do this fire can use it to polishing things into brilliant, to its brilliance. It has capacity to join by melt it. Like human beings are like steel, worse than that sometimes. Then it’s this part in a subtle way for heart, melts their heart and joins them. So the significance of fire is expressed here, and that’s why fire is worshipped. Fire has Read More …