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4/23/2002

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You all have to become Sufis

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Public Program. Lütfi Kirdar Congress Palace, Istanbul (Turkey), 23 April 2002. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. I’m very happy to see you all here to know about the Truth.Whatever is told about your subtle being is not yet known, because in your awareness you don’t have yet that subtleness. That’s the last, your jump into your awareness of collectivity.I must tell you in this country, that is Turkey, you had so many Sufis. They called themselves Sufis because they were cleaned and they were spiritually empowered. They talked of Ruh (spirit) but nobody knew about Ruh and when they talked of Ruh, they did not know how to explain – they talked of Ruhani life, but they could not explain what is Ruhani (spiritual) life. Ruhani is the life when you are connected with the all-pervading power of Divine love. It’s a different area into which you enter. Because they could not explain, they wrote everything beautifully, describing it. But now the time has come for you to get to your Ruhani life. Which is a very important thing, because you are not connected to the divine power, whatever you may try, how so ever you may pray, how much you will read Qur'an, it won’t help.Human life is governed with jealousy, with temper, with all kinds of malignant things. And we can see all over the world the problems are just spreading. Once they will get into Ruhani life, they will realize that the whole world is one, there is a global existence. What happens is that you jump into the ocean of Love, of pure Love, no lust, no greed, nothing. That’s has to happen because if we are born as human beings, we must get Ruhani life, for which you cannot pay, you cannot read it, you cannot understand it with your human awareness. So, you have to enter into a new dimension of your awareness.Nobody understood those Sufis and they just tortured them, because they were so different, so much higher. Others could not bear it. And today, that is going on, people are fighting all over the world. So this is the life of pure Love; but not forced, not taught, is just, is within you, already existing. You do not know your worth, you do not know what you have. All the saints came here, incarnations came here, prophets came here, nobody understood them. They only killed them because majority of the people were not Ruhani. So, all such ignorant people couldn’t bear the knowledge, the divine knowledge of these great people.Now the time has come for the whole world to become one, and to jump into the sea of Love. Which is very, very simple, it is very easy. As told to you, we have already that power, placed in the triangular bone of sacrum within us by our Creator, which is to be awakened. And once it is awakened, it passes through your centers and clears them, enlightens them, and integrates them. And ultimately, this Kundalini connects you to the divine power. This is what is Miraj (ascension) as described in the Qur’an. And all of you can get this Miraj and once you get it you can experiment and get it on your finger tips the cool breeze… You can feel it on your finger tips. That is the proof. There is no false certificate about it. And ultimately, you can also get it out of your fontanel bone area. This is the last bone which was pulsating as a child, and then it closed. But when the Kundalini pierces through that, then only you can feel the connection as cool breeze coming out of your own being. You have shown so much faith in God, so much faith in Qur'an, so much faith in Islam, but you have to surrender, Islam means to surrender, and then you can achieve this awareness, this higher awareness of divinity within you. After getting these vibrations also, you can develop a power to know what is wrong with you, within, in your chakras. and also you can make out what is wrong with others. That is how your awareness expands, expands to the new dimension of Ruhani.You all have to become Sufis. But now do not write poetry, because people do not understand poetry. They misinterpret. I can also write poetry, but I don`t want because I want you to know directly what is the Truth.Now I must tell you one thing: you have a well-named country called France; among all the European countries, they are the most idiotic people I’ve seen. Extremely dirty, they like to have smelly food… and drink all the time. And they eat such varied cheese, I mean I don’t know how they could eat, even dogs do not. They talk of culture, and they are so immoral. There are 11 countries in the south Africa. Benin is one of them and they all have become Muslims. I asked them: “why did you become Muslims and not Christians like these?”. They said our rulers were these horrible people who were so dirty, so filthy and smelled.So many people tried to… there is a writer called Molière who told about them, made fun of them. And there is a beautiful booklet, novel, written by another writer, who has shown how stupid they are. They have to learn from you. You are so different, you are so capable. I mean I must say you are such a sensible, lovely people; but keep to your sense, keep to your intelligence. I am telling you about French because nowadays they are trying to influence you, also your television. Be careful. They do not know what Ruh is. God knows what sort of Christianity is that, just the opposite of Christ. So please try to keep to your own culture and to your understanding. And you can get your Realization in no time.I came to Turkey, because if you remember Christ’s Mother also came here. And I know why she came here; because the people here are extremely good and so many Sufis. It is such a joyful place. I think you all will get your Realization, no doubt. Those of course who do not want can go. This is a very simple thing.In the meanwhile, I would like you to ask me some questions. Interpreter: Rumi has a saying. Mevlana Rumi says, if I reveal the secret, either I will burn or people will burn, everyone will burn. Shri Mataji: That is true, that was the time that. What he said is truth because people don’t understand what is reality, they can’t believe like that, they can fight back, they tortured Muhammed Sahib, they tortured people. Interpreter: You said about love, he is thinking to love that you mean, he was just thanking you. Shri Mataji: All right. Thank you, thank you very much. I am not afraid. They can burn me, I don`t care. Interpreter: ………. for the purpose of… .. the French people…. You say it's not. Interpreter: What you said about the French people who acted against world peace, is this cover all French people? Shri Mataji: I cannot, there are exceptions, of course, there are many exceptions, no doubt, that`s how I came to normal. Interpreter: I will ask a question. I am in Reiki. I wonder if Sahaja Yoga has a connection with this? Thank you. Shri Mataji: Please, I would say, don’t do it. Interpreter: …… Why Sahaja Yoga doesn’t go together? Shri Mataji: Because I see people who do that, get sick, there is no science behind this, you must know what for you stand, not blind …. Interpreter: What is there after death, what about the life after death. Interpreter: Do you think about it. Shri Mataji: No Interpreter: What is the cause of lying, why do people lie? Shri Mataji: Because they don’t know the truth. Interpreter: What is the benefit of yoga, is yoga the power of thoughts. Shri Mataji: No, no, no. Beyond thinking you go, that will not be dangerous for you Interpreter: You will learn about it later on. Shri Mataji: You go beyond thinking. Interpreter: How we go beyond thinking Shri Mataji: With the Kundalini, it takes you there. Interpreter: Is it the power which awakens, the Kundalini, is it the power of thinking Shri Mataji: No, It is all pervading power, once you get your realization instead of talking this matter. Interpreter: Could you explain the meaning of bindi? Shri Mataji: It is in India, we put all married women, alright? Interpreter: We heard that people wash your feet and drink the water from your feet and why the people bow in front of you? Shri Mataji: All false. Interpreter: Is this a sect? Shri Mataji:… for what? Interpreter: People bow on you, is this a sect? Shri Mataji: Of course they bow on me, if the people wants to bow, what can I do? Interpreter: How can people understand your value, your worth? Shri Mataji: First you get your self-realization, you will know yourself then, you don’t yourself, how you can know me? Interpreter: For what reason you started that mission Shri Mataji: Don’t you think world is need peace? Interpreter: The question is, the Sufis don’t have realization from the prophet, where you get your realization and do you see yourself as a prophet? Shri Mataji: Don’t worry about me, Interpreter: I believe in Yoga and I want to know that, I believe that in the country where the yoga is most needed now is Israel. What do you think about this? Shri Mataji: You can’t help them, historically they are stupid. Interpreter: She is inviting you to Ankara next year. Shri Mataji: Very nice, thanks ….. Interpreter: What part affects the rise of Kundalini? Shri Mataji: They have an effect, no doubt but we can worked out, but you don’t have to worry about past, we have to think about present. Interpreter: we have some physical world problems and he is asking that it would be dangerous for them to keep Kundalini to rise, why there is this physical health problems. About cleaning the body, does he have to clean the body before the realization. Shri Mataji: Not necessarily, but people do it, good. Interpreter: He is asking if we can we self-realization? Shri Mataji: Of course. Interpreter: Just, there is one question, Shri Mataji: What problem ….one has to have realization. Interpreter: Every messenger has to face next goal, what do your next goal, do you see yourself as a prophet? Shri Mataji: You don’t have to find out about me, you have to find out yourself Interpreter: He is asking that do you think those Sufis had their Kundalini awaken Shri Mataji: Most of them had. Interpreter: and he says that most of them is not succeed to save the humans. They were tortured, how do you think you are going to succeed to save the humanity? Shri Mataji: People are so bad and so cruelly, and they always torture the good people. What is humanity now. Interpreter: What is the difference between Kundalini and Prana? Shri Mataji: You get your realization you will know. Do you want your realization? Interpreter: Do you want your self-realization? Interpreter: Can we shut down these (air conditioners) Shri Mataji: In Quran, Muhammed Sahap has said, at the time of resurrection, your hands will speak. This is the truth. If they don’t speak, something wrong. Please close your eyes, there is no mesmerizing that is going on. Don’t worry about me, worry about yourself. Put the hands to me like you do in Namaz. (Shri Mataji: blowing towards to microphone) Now see, there is cool breeze, it could be also hot. Doesn’t matter, it will cool down. Now put your right hand to top of your head, above the fontanelle bone area, … cool breeze, see for yourself. There is a cool breeze coming out if you have. ……???? If it is hot, doesn’t matter, but it should be cool but after sometime it becomes cool. ………. You have to teach how to do it. There are many saints luckily here. Again put your hands towards me, like this, like this. All those who have felt the cool breeze on the fingertips or on their palms or out of head, rise your hands. Interpreter: All of you. Shri Mataji: You don’t have to pay anything, gradually you will learn everything on your fingertips. If you have any problems ….. Thank you very much, I love you very much.

Public Program. Lütfi Kirdar Congress Palace, Istanbul (Turkey), 23 April 2002. I bow to all the seekers of Truth. I’m very happy to see you all here to know about the Truth.Whatever is told about your subtle being is not yet known, because in your awareness you don’t have yet that subtleness. That’s the last, your jump into your awareness of collectivity.I must tell you in this country, that is Turkey, you had so many Sufis. They called themselves Sufis because they were cleaned and they were spiritually empowered. They talked of Ruh (spirit) but nobody knew about Ruh and when they talked of Ruh, they did not know how to explain – they talked of Ruhani life, but they could not explain what is Ruhani (spiritual) life. Ruhani is the life when you are connected with the all-pervading power of Divine love. It’s a different area into which you enter. Because they could not explain, they wrote everything beautifully, describing it. But now the time has come for you to get to your Ruhani life. Which is a very important thing, because you are not connected to the divine power, whatever you may try, how so ever you may pray, how much you will read Qur'an, it won’t help.Human life is governed with jealousy, with temper, with all kinds of malignant things. And we can see all over the world the problems are just spreading. Once they will get into Ruhani life, they will realize that the whole world is one, there is a global existence. What happens is that you jump into the ocean of Love, of pure Love, no lust, no greed, nothing. That’s has to happen because if we are born as human beings, we must get Ruhani life, for which you cannot pay, you cannot read it, you cannot understand it with your human awareness. So, you have to enter into a new dimension of your awareness.Nobody understood those Sufis and they just tortured them, because they were so different, so much higher. Others could not bear it. And today, that is going on, people are fighting all over the world. So this is the life of pure Love; but not forced, not taught, is just, is within you, already existing. You do not know your worth, you do not know what you have. All the saints came here, incarnations came here, prophets came here, nobody understood them. They only killed them because majority of the people were not Ruhani. So, all such ignorant people couldn’t bear the knowledge, the divine knowledge of these great people.Now the time has come for the whole world to become one, and to jump into the sea of Love. Which is very, very simple, it is very easy. As told to you, we have already that power, placed in the triangular bone of sacrum within us by our Creator, which is to be awakened. And once it is awakened, it passes through your centers and clears them, enlightens them, and integrates them. And ultimately, this Kundalini connects you to the divine power. This is what is Miraj (ascension) as described in the Qur’an. And all of you can get this Miraj and once you get it you can experiment and get it on your finger tips the cool breeze… You can feel it on your finger tips. That is the proof. There is no false certificate about it. And ultimately, you can also get it out of your fontanel bone area. This is the last bone which was pulsating as a child, and then it closed. But when the Kundalini pierces through that, then only you can feel the connection as cool breeze coming out of your own being. You have shown so much faith in God, so much faith in Qur'an, so much faith in Islam, but you have to surrender, Islam means to surrender, and then you can achieve this awareness, this higher awareness of divinity within you. After getting these vibrations also, you can develop a power to know what is wrong with you, within, in your chakras. and also you can make out what is wrong with others. That is how your awareness expands, expands to the new dimension of Ruhani.You all have to become Sufis. But now do not write poetry, because people do not understand poetry. They misinterpret. I can also write poetry, but I don`t want because I want you to know directly what is the Truth.Now I must tell you one thing: you have a well-named country called France; among all the European countries, they are the most idiotic people I’ve seen. Extremely dirty, they like to have smelly food… and drink all the time. And they eat such varied cheese, I mean I don’t know how they could eat, even dogs do not. They talk of culture, and they are so immoral. There are 11 countries in the south Africa. Benin is one of them and they all have become Muslims. I asked them: “why did you become Muslims and not Christians like these?”. They said our rulers were these horrible people who were so dirty, so filthy and smelled.So many people tried to… there is a writer called Molière who told about them, made fun of them. And there is a beautiful booklet, novel, written by another writer, who has shown how stupid they are. They have to learn from you. You are so different, you are so capable. I mean I must say you are such a sensible, lovely people; but keep to your sense, keep to your intelligence. I am telling you about French because nowadays they are trying to influence you, also your television. Be careful. They do not know what Ruh is. God knows what sort of Christianity is that, just the opposite of Christ. So please try to keep to your own culture and to your understanding. And you can get your Realization in no time.I came to Turkey, because if you remember Christ’s Mother also came here. And I know why she came here; because the people here are extremely good and so many Sufis. It is such a joyful place. I think you all will get your Realization, no doubt. Those of course who do not want can go. This is a very simple thing.In the meanwhile, I would like you to ask me some questions. Interpreter: Rumi has a saying. Mevlana Rumi says, if I reveal the secret, either I will burn or people will burn, everyone will burn. Shri Mataji: That is true, that was the time that. What he said is truth because people don’t understand what is reality, they can’t believe like that, they can fight back, they tortured Muhammed Sahib, they tortured people. Interpreter: You said about love, he is thinking to love that you mean, he was just thanking you. Shri Mataji: All right. Thank you, thank you very much. I am not afraid. They can burn me, I don`t care. Interpreter: ………. for the purpose of… .. the French people…. You say it's not. Interpreter: What you said about the French people who acted against world peace, is this cover all French people? Shri Mataji: I cannot, there are exceptions, of course, there are many exceptions, no doubt, that`s how I came to normal. Interpreter: I will ask a question. I am in Reiki. I wonder if Sahaja Yoga has a connection with this? Thank you. Shri Mataji: Please, I would say, don’t do it. Interpreter: …… Why Sahaja Yoga doesn’t go together? Shri Mataji: Because I see people who do that, get sick, there is no science behind this, you must know what for you stand, not blind …. Interpreter: What is there after death, what about the life after death. Interpreter: Do you think about it. Shri Mataji: No Interpreter: What is the cause of lying, why do people lie? Shri Mataji: Because they don’t know the truth. Interpreter: What is the benefit of yoga, is yoga the power of thoughts. Shri Mataji: No, no, no. Beyond thinking you go, that will not be dangerous for you Interpreter: You will learn about it later on. Shri Mataji: You go beyond thinking. Interpreter: How we go beyond thinking Shri Mataji: With the Kundalini, it takes you there. Interpreter: Is it the power which awakens, the Kundalini, is it the power of thinking Shri Mataji: No, It is all pervading power, once you get your realization instead of talking this matter. Interpreter: Could you explain the meaning of bindi? Shri Mataji: It is in India, we put all married women, alright? Interpreter: We heard that people wash your feet and drink the water from your feet and why the people bow in front of you? Shri Mataji: All false. Interpreter: Is this a sect? Shri Mataji:… for what? Interpreter: People bow on you, is this a sect? Shri Mataji: Of course they bow on me, if the people wants to bow, what can I do? Interpreter: How can people understand your value, your worth? Shri Mataji: First you get your self-realization, you will know yourself then, you don’t yourself, how you can know me? Interpreter: For what reason you started that mission Shri Mataji: Don’t you think world is need peace? Interpreter: The question is, the Sufis don’t have realization from the prophet, where you get your realization and do you see yourself as a prophet? Shri Mataji: Don’t worry about me, Interpreter: I believe in Yoga and I want to know that, I believe that in the country where the yoga is most needed now is Israel. What do you think about this? Shri Mataji: You can’t help them, historically they are stupid. Interpreter: She is inviting you to Ankara next year. Shri Mataji: Very nice, thanks ….. Interpreter: What part affects the rise of Kundalini? Shri Mataji: They have an effect, no doubt but we can worked out, but you don’t have to worry about past, we have to think about present. Interpreter: we have some physical world problems and he is asking that it would be dangerous for them to keep Kundalini to rise, why there is this physical health problems. About cleaning the body, does he have to clean the body before the realization. Shri Mataji: Not necessarily, but people do it, good. Interpreter: He is asking if we can we self-realization? Shri Mataji: Of course. Interpreter: Just, there is one question, Shri Mataji: What problem ….one has to have realization. Interpreter: Every messenger has to face next goal, what do your next goal, do you see yourself as a prophet? Shri Mataji: You don’t have to find out about me, you have to find out yourself Interpreter: He is asking that do you think those Sufis had their Kundalini awaken Shri Mataji: Most of them had. Interpreter: and he says that most of them is not succeed to save the humans. They were tortured, how do you think you are going to succeed to save the humanity? Shri Mataji: People are so bad and so cruelly, and they always torture the good people. What is humanity now. Interpreter: What is the difference between Kundalini and Prana? Shri Mataji: You get your realization you will know. Do you want your realization? Interpreter: Do you want your self-realization? Interpreter: Can we shut down these (air conditioners) Shri Mataji: In Quran, Muhammed Sahap has said, at the time of resurrection, your hands will speak. This is the truth. If they don’t speak, something wrong. Please close your eyes, there is no mesmerizing that is going on. Don’t worry about me, worry about yourself. Put the hands to me like you do in Namaz. (Shri Mataji: blowing towards to microphone) Now see, there is cool breeze, it could be also hot. Doesn’t matter, it will cool down. Now put your right hand to top of your head, above the fontanelle bone area, … cool breeze, see for yourself. There is a cool breeze coming out if you have. ……???? If it is hot, doesn’t matter, but it should be cool but after sometime it becomes cool. ………. You have to teach how to do it. There are many saints luckily here. Again put your hands towards me, like this, like this. All those who have felt the cool breeze on the fingertips or on their palms or out of head, rise your hands. Interpreter: All of you. Shri Mataji: You don’t have to pay anything, gradually you will learn everything on your fingertips. If you have any problems ….. Thank you very much, I love you very much.

5/5/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=350

Sahasrara Puja:  first of all we have to correct our ego

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Sahasrara Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 5 May 2002. Today is a very great day I must say, to celebrate Sahasrara, the puja of Sahasrara. It’s a very unique thing that has happened that your Sahasraras were opened out. There were some very few people in this whole world; there were some Sufis, there were some saints, some other people also in China and all. But very few, very few got their Sahasrara opened out. So whatever they said, or [was] written, was never understood by the people; they actually tortured them, they crucified them and did all kinds of horrible things, because they couldn’t bear somebody getting this Realisation. So, it’s a very great day because collectively the Sahasrara has been opened. Every one of you have got it; also all over the world you have many people who have got their Sahasraras open; of course we need many more, for them to understand what is this great event of such a collective opening of Sahasrara. Some have grown very much after getting their Realisation; very much. They have understood Sahaj Yoga very well and they have developed their depth, and their consciousness is really a great awareness of oneness with the Divine. To be one with the Divine is the greatest blessing for human beings. So far they were human beings at a lower level of existence, and they had all the problems of that level: jealousies, hatred; all kinds of problems that are today - of fighting, of troubling others, destroying others and not loving others. All these problems existed because their Sahasrara was not opened. So our main problem is to open the Sahasrara of the people all over the world; which is very simple, which you can all do it, and it will work better if you do it collectively. If you are collective you can work it out very well. Like that in Sahaj Yoga so many people have come whose Sahasrara was completely opened and they felt their depth. Firstly, you must feel your depth. If you don’t feel your depth and you are not one with your personality which is so deep, then you cannot enjoy the Self-realisation. First of all you should understand yourself. If you don’t understand yourself, how can you understand other people? You cannot. So first this Sahasrara should be opened out fully: ‘fully’ means complete oneness with the Divine. That is not difficult. Only you have to meditate a little bit and then it will work out. It has worked out in many people I am very happy to see, and meet such people in Sahaj Yoga who have achieved such a lot of collectivity and also the awareness of a realised-soul. So what is the awareness of a realised-soul? That is what we have to understand today. It’s a very important day, as I said. The awareness is such that you should now know what is happening in this world, and how you can help it. How can you help people to get to this awareness? Unless you have this full, full knowledge about yourself, complete strength about yourself and the confidence, you cannot do it. Sahasrara Day is to be celebrated just to strengthen your bond with the Divine; so that your consciousness becomes absolutely enlightened, and you see the right point in everything. It has been in so many countries, I have seen, people have taken to it very, very fast: It’s surprising, in Africa [also] , which is not supposed to be very developed country. It’s good because thousands have got Realisation. Those who are developed have gone beyond the point of ascent, I think. That must be the point. They have to come back from that developed state to this state from where they can rise. And so the people who have, though got Realisation are not ascending so fast as the people who are not yet so much advanced and modernised. Still it has worked, it has worked in so many people, and so many have got this ascent very well. But I would say that when you are meditating, also outside, you should develop a state of witness. You should try to find out what is the matter: what’s wrong with you, what’s wrong with others, and how you can help it. Only with your vibrations you can correct so many things in your country, in your family, everywhere. And, as you see now, how Sahaj Yoga is growing, that there’s such a need and such a desire to get Self-realisation. But only thing, your approach should be full of love and full of understanding. They are coming from the darkness of ignorance and they have to go into the illumined nature of the Divine which can be very bright for them. So, slowly, slowly if you develop this passionate kindness and love for them, I’m sure you can do much more to raise them. No use getting angry with them, because they are so ignorant, they don’t know what they are doing, you see. As Christ has said that, “They don’t know what they are doing.” So what you have to do is to make them understand. Whatever they are doing, whatever they are understanding is still poor. It’s not so much yet expanded as it could have been if they were realised-souls. Even after Realisation I find people have a problem. They still have the problem of the past life which is finished and is dead; but they still carry on with that. And the consciousness, so much of illumination also doesn’t show what’s wrong with them. For example, take the case of ego: ego is so developed; in the Western countries where they are so developed the ego has also developed; and they have to find out what’s wrong with them. This ego comes from certain consciousness that: you have been something great, you are this, you are that, your parents have been great maybe, your property is great or maybe you are occupying a very big position, or anything. It can come from anything. And this consciousness is against your awareness because it’s not true. You are not anything being moulded by these outside things, but you are moulded by your own awareness within yourself. This awareness has to grow from where? Is to understand: how do we get this ego, from what point. Yesterday I felt there were lots of people who were having a lot of Right Side on them. This Right Side is of no help. It will create problems for you, sickness for you, and also no use having right-sided Sahaj Yogis. So the main thing is to understand the power of love: power of love is the highest and the greatest, and if you can manage somehow or other to give up your anger, give up your greed and also your ego; if you can do that, you can be in Sahasrara. Now just see the sport of ego. It stops your ascent further. At ego only people get lost, because at ego only they move to the left or to the right and they can go to too much of Right Side, or can go up to the Left Side. They can go to any extreme of these two. So first of all we have to correct our ego. For this ego, what should we do? For this ego we should watch ourselves and laugh at ourselves. What ego do we have, of what? We are human beings, now have become Divine. And with Divine within us, with this light within us we have to understand that we are a part and parcel of the Divine, just a drop in the ocean of love. If you can reduce your ego, if you can bring it to the actual sense of your being, then it will work out better. I find, in the West, this ego is very strong; very, very strong. And whatever they do wrong they think is correct, because ego can support you in every way. While, on the contrary, those people who are developing, the countries who are not yet developed, there the problem is not of ego but of superego. That can be corrected. But ego is your own enemy created by you. So you have to fight it, and see for yourself from where it is coming. It might be country-wise, it might be family-wise, it can be from anywhere. So first of all we must watch out for the ego, if it is Sahasrara [that] we have to enter into. When I was looking out for a collective happening of Sahasrar opening, I found it was the ego of people which was keeping me down; I had to fight the ego of people. Because I am a woman of a very simple habits, no pride, nothing, so people used to suppress me, say all kinds of things to me. But I understood them because they had ego problem. And once this ego evolves and tries to dominate, we can have Hitlers in this country, we can have all these horrible people all over the world. So the first thing you should understand: those who have ego, we should not ever subdue to them. Of course you shouldn’t start fighting, but you have faith in yourself that you are people who have got Self-realisation. You are much more powerful than they are. My powers only work out when you are realised-souls, you’ll be surprised. They work out many things which may not work out with people with ego. Like the other day I heard from Africa that people become invisible suddenly: there was [a] coup d’état and the President is a Sahaj Yogi; he became invisible, nobody could find him. Because they are very much surrendered: they are so much surrendered that they get advantage of my powers. You all should use my powers also, of protection. This protection power is very, very strong especially for people who are very much in Sahaj Yoga, who are very much there. So you must have, first of all, complete faith in yourself that you are Sahaj Yogi. But not the ego. “Sahaj Yogis” means you cannot have ego. This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea, what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you and all these wrong ideas which came to you. It can be from any source. I do not know how to name them because there’s a big list of these sources. People are mad sometimes with this ego. So main thing is how to watch and witness your ego: how it works, how it spoils your temperament, how it spoils your relationships, how it makes you stupid. Ego is, first thing it does is to make you very stupid, and you start behaving in such a manner that people start thinking that, “Oh, you are the great, stupidest person ever living!” But it is of no help because if they believe that you are a stupid person, what will happen? On the contrary if you have the wisdom, if you have that peace, if you have that special temperament of enjoying everything in life and also the collective temperament, it will work out and they will be impressed, because in that light they can see their own stupidity, own falsehood, everything, and they will realise that what they think is not true and, “This gentleman is much deeper than me. What he has got, I haven’t got it.” This is the main thing for all of us. In Sahaj Yoga we have people who are leaders. That doesn’t mean they become really leaders, but that means that they have a greater depth. If they don’t have, they get out. If they have the depth then they are leaders, in the sense [that] others see them and really enjoy, really enjoy their being there. So, in everything you can see for yourself, specially, I would say, for the leaders because people see them and they are the ideals for them. For me, they say that “Mother is after all Mother, what can we achieve from Her?” But from the leaders they learn a lesson, and they understand that this is wrong and this is not proper. First of all you should be a model, models of Sahaj Yoga. And that is what I have been always telling you that get rid of your ego. It’s the worst thing, because first of all it brings anger. You think you are something great and you can do this, you can do that because you are a Sahaj Yogi: it´s not true. On the contrary you become extremely humble, extremely humble, and you do right things. You do not become any more arrogant and also full of anger. Anger departs from you completely, completely. It gives you a balance, it gives you wisdom by which you see what is your job, why are you on this earth, why this energy has come to you, why you are a Divine personality. It’s a very, very great responsibility. You don’t have to look after yourself, no. The Divine will look after you, absolutely: it will protect you, it will look after you, it will do whatever is needed for you. But in case, in case you have this ego, you shut out yourself from the reality, from the truth, and you become a very hot-tempered and arrogant personality. This has to go away. Sahaj Yogis are saints; not saints but they are more than saints because they can express themselves better. They have powers in them which they can utilise, which they can show to other people that you are so powerful, that you can manage things much better than what you think. For example, say there’s a problem and the whole world is upset about it. Only thing if you know how to witness it, it will disappear, it will disappear in the whole world. It cannot remain there. So nowadays the world is full of turmoil as you see, full of nonsensical people coming up, full of quarrelsome people. Dominating people are overpowering. At this time if you just see this in the witness state, this will disappear. Because very powerful: you are, very powerful. But you must know first of all that you must have the equipment to use the power. If you have that equipment within you, you can do it. But with your ego you cannot. Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara. And to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise, but if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego. So against all this one has to understand that, watch yourself: Is he egoistical? What does he think about itself? Ego is very limited, it makes you limited, and you don’t see the purpose of your life: why have you become a realised-soul. You don’t understand. You just are involved in your own affairs, in your family, in your children, in your something like that, very low. But if you have if you have an egoless temperament then you are very effective, the whole power works. What I have seen: the power of Sahasrara is so great. In some people it has worked wonders, they have worked it greatly. But because of ego, so many people are still not of that level that we can say they are Sahaj Yogis. Now as it is I am here to tell you about it. And in those days when these saints came in, nobody was there to guide them, to tell them anything. On the contrary they were so much destroyed by the surroundings, and people never understood why they don’t have any ego, why they are so humble, so they misused. But now you have powers. You must know how to use your powers. But that should not give you by any chance any ego that you have powers. On the contrary, you should be humble. You have power to be humble, and if you can be humble and understand that: these people are not yet realised-souls, they are at a lower level. Still their ego is catching them and they are at a lower level, they have to come up. When you understand that, then you will have not only pity but also understanding about them and a kind of a help will come to you from the Divine that will solve your problems. I find most of you have problems of very low level sometimes. And then I am surprised, why are you bothered about these problems? You see, you are so powerful. So in Sahasrara you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand that: what’s the use of having ego, because you have such a lot of powers within you which you have not utilised, which [you] should use, but with the, because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage, and you can do a lot. So I would request all of you today to take a vow that, “We’ll have no more chances for our egos. We’ll give it up. We’ll give up our ego.” Because there’s no sense: that’s an obstruction between us. When the Sahasrara wants to work it cannot because of ego obstruction. So better not have ego of anything. You may be a good singer, you may be anything in life, may be some big man or anything what is so-called: [this] has no meaning. What we need today are people who are egoless and who have powers completely flowing in them. With the opening of Sahasrara all these powers should flow. If the Sahasrara is fully opened, all these powers of love should flow. You’ll be amazed, wherever I go, people just fall in love with me. I don’t know why, I don’t do anything to them; but just they feel my love. That’s what it should be, that people should feel your love and they should know that you are a lovable person. This is the thing [for which] you are made: a special people, very special, for this whole world’s emancipation. That’s your job, and not otherwise just collecting money and doing all kinds of nonsensical things. You are here for a very, very sensible job which is to raise the Kundalini of people and make them aware of their greatness. Human beings are not created only to war and fight, not created here to play politics and do all dirty tricks. They are not made here to lead a life which is very filthy and dirty. But in this world we are here to do such a great job of God who has created us. So this is possible if you are aware that your Sahasraras are being opened out, and that, in this Sahasrara resides the purity, not all these small little things about which you are worried. Some people try to take advantage of Sahaj Yoga, thinking that: oh, they can do better, they can have help of others. Nothing of the kind! You can be helped by yourself, you don’t need any help. On the contrary you have to help others. There is no need to expect any help from anyone. Look at me, I am an ordinary housewife otherwise, but how it has worked all over the world. By what? By just the power of love. Only trouble is that I can use my power of love, while you don’t know how to use; that’s the only problem. If you want to use your power of love, in meditation you can develop that power of love. With that you can capture people, with that you can understand. Their problems are that they are not Sahaj Yogis, they are not the people who are having all the blessings or the connection with the Divine. Imagine, you are connected with Divine! And Divine is such a great thing which has created this whole universe, created you, and has done all the great jobs. So what are you? You are a part and parcel of that Divine Power, so why not we use our Divine power fully within us with love and with understanding so that you develop this wisdom within you. This is what is to be told to yourself, that, “We are realised-souls.” This one is something, a special personality, very much special. In this world there are very few people who are realised-souls, but now we have so many, I can see them. But still some problems are there because of our ego. One should not have ego of anything. Everything is perishable, what is not perishable is Divine love, what is not perishable is Divine personality. All the time you see the saints and all that, though they are dead, people remember them. All their poetry is remembered. Though they could not do much of Sahasrar work, they couldn’t give Realisation to people still because of their personality they are still respected. And people know that these people have been doing marvellous things, miraculous things. In the same way you can see your own miracles, and you can see for yourself what you are capable of, because now you are connected with the Divine. This is one fact you should know. Whenever there is danger, whenever there is [a] problem you will say: you’ll be saved. Many have been saved out of you, no doubt, but that is not sufficient. You are saved for what? What is the value of your life? Why are you living? What is the matter? Why God has saved you, given you all this? Because there’s so much to be done for this world. You are the soldiers of truth, soldiers of goodness, and all that is to be done with great courage and understanding about yourself. So what you have to do is to have Self-knowledge. You have to know about yourself. You must have Self-knowledge: what you are. If that you don’t have, what’s the use of opening the Sahasrara? Self-knowledge doesn’t give you any pride, nothing, but gives you the duty [of] what you have to do, what you have to work out. It’s not only just for you, Sahaj Yoga, but you are for the whole world – please try to understand. Sometimes we think Sahaj Yoga is there for our betterment, for our good health, this, that - it’s not so. It is for the betterment of others. Your powers are there which you are not utilising. You are still busy I get letters saying that, “This is wrong with us, this is wrong with that.” I mean, why can’t you correct yourself? If you can’t correct yourself, how can you correct others? That’s what it is. I can see that there’s an understanding going into your understanding: that you are great and you’re not ordinary people. And this has to be practiced and to be used in a manner that will show that you are Sahaj Yogis. You are no less than any, any Sufi or any realised-soul or any saint, no less. But you have powers which they didn’t have, of which they were not conscious, while you have these powers. Try to understand what powers you have. But by understanding that, you should not have pride about it in anyway; but that’s your job, you have to do it. You are there. And you’ll enjoy it because it is not with ego but [is] egoless work. If you can manage that much, it will be very good. Now, ego has come down very much, I must say, very much. I hear from people that ego has come down. But sometimes they are still quite funny and fighting and this and that. But despite all that, I must say in this, whatever work has been done on these years, people have worked it out among themselves. So you have to watch yourself and see for yourself: what ego you have, why should you be egoistical. Some of the people have ego of their country. I mean it’s all mythical. It’s all mythical. What is there? You could have been born anywhere. So you are born in a particular country, you have that ego. And it is something one has to be ashamed of, because your country whatever it is, is not doing very well, is not spiritually equipped, so why should you be so proud of your country? When you will work it out and they will become spiritually equipped, then of course you can have pride in your country, but I don’t see that happening. And so you have to work it out. And I am also happy to see that so much of Sahaj Yoga is now spread out everywhere. It’s spreading very fast. In countries where I never expected, it’s spreading out. So there are people everywhere in the world who want to have it. They want to have their Realisation, and they want to know what is beyond this human life. They don’t want to waste their life anymore as human beings; but as super-human beings I should call them, as Sahaj Yogis. So our ego has to be seen, is to be watched in witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point, because that’s the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and your all problems will be solved, because these problems are so frivolous and has no meaning and they’ll go away in no time, as long as you work it out, your Sahasrara. It’s very nice that today is a very special day with all these three stars coming together, and its special blessing. If your powers increase, all these people who are very bad, who are trying to capture the society with their political nonsense and all that, they all will disappear. They have no powers, they’ll all disappear. So, first of all, your egoless nature will help, will help everyone. May God bless you all!

Sahasrara Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 5 May 2002. Today is a very great day I must say, to celebrate Sahasrara, the puja of Sahasrara. It’s a very unique thing that has happened that your Sahasraras were opened out. There were some very few people in this whole world; there were some Sufis, there were some saints, some other people also in China and all. But very few, very few got their Sahasrara opened out. So whatever they said, or [was] written, was never understood by the people; they actually tortured them, they crucified them and did all kinds of horrible things, because they couldn’t bear somebody getting this Realisation. So, it’s a very great day because collectively the Sahasrara has been opened. Every one of you have got it; also all over the world you have many people who have got their Sahasraras open; of course we need many more, for them to understand what is this great event of such a collective opening of Sahasrara. Some have grown very much after getting their Realisation; very much. They have understood Sahaj Yoga very well and they have developed their depth, and their consciousness is really a great awareness of oneness with the Divine. To be one with the Divine is the greatest blessing for human beings. So far they were human beings at a lower level of existence, and they had all the problems of that level: jealousies, hatred; all kinds of problems that are today - of fighting, of troubling others, destroying others and not loving others. All these problems existed because their Sahasrara was not opened. So our main problem is to open the Sahasrara of the people all over the world; which is very simple, which you can all do it, and it will work better if you do it collectively. If you are collective you can work it out very well. Like that in Sahaj Yoga so many people have come whose Sahasrara was completely opened and they felt their depth. Firstly, you must feel your depth. If you don’t feel your depth and you are not one with your personality which is so deep, then you cannot enjoy the Self-realisation. First of all you should understand yourself. If you don’t understand yourself, how can you understand other people? You cannot. So first this Sahasrara should be opened out fully: ‘fully’ means complete oneness with the Divine. That is not difficult. Only you have to meditate a little bit and then it will work out. It has worked out in many people I am very happy to see, and meet such people in Sahaj Yoga who have achieved such a lot of collectivity and also the awareness of a realised-soul. So what is the awareness of a realised-soul? That is what we have to understand today. It’s a very important day, as I said. The awareness is such that you should now know what is happening in this world, and how you can help it. How can you help people to get to this awareness? Unless you have this full, full knowledge about yourself, complete strength about yourself and the confidence, you cannot do it. Sahasrara Day is to be celebrated just to strengthen your bond with the Divine; so that your consciousness becomes absolutely enlightened, and you see the right point in everything. It has been in so many countries, I have seen, people have taken to it very, very fast: It’s surprising, in Africa [also] , which is not supposed to be very developed country. It’s good because thousands have got Realisation. Those who are developed have gone beyond the point of ascent, I think. That must be the point. They have to come back from that developed state to this state from where they can rise. And so the people who have, though got Realisation are not ascending so fast as the people who are not yet so much advanced and modernised. Still it has worked, it has worked in so many people, and so many have got this ascent very well. But I would say that when you are meditating, also outside, you should develop a state of witness. You should try to find out what is the matter: what’s wrong with you, what’s wrong with others, and how you can help it. Only with your vibrations you can correct so many things in your country, in your family, everywhere. And, as you see now, how Sahaj Yoga is growing, that there’s such a need and such a desire to get Self-realisation. But only thing, your approach should be full of love and full of understanding. They are coming from the darkness of ignorance and they have to go into the illumined nature of the Divine which can be very bright for them. So, slowly, slowly if you develop this passionate kindness and love for them, I’m sure you can do much more to raise them. No use getting angry with them, because they are so ignorant, they don’t know what they are doing, you see. As Christ has said that, “They don’t know what they are doing.” So what you have to do is to make them understand. Whatever they are doing, whatever they are understanding is still poor. It’s not so much yet expanded as it could have been if they were realised-souls. Even after Realisation I find people have a problem. They still have the problem of the past life which is finished and is dead; but they still carry on with that. And the consciousness, so much of illumination also doesn’t show what’s wrong with them. For example, take the case of ego: ego is so developed; in the Western countries where they are so developed the ego has also developed; and they have to find out what’s wrong with them. This ego comes from certain consciousness that: you have been something great, you are this, you are that, your parents have been great maybe, your property is great or maybe you are occupying a very big position, or anything. It can come from anything. And this consciousness is against your awareness because it’s not true. You are not anything being moulded by these outside things, but you are moulded by your own awareness within yourself. This awareness has to grow from where? Is to understand: how do we get this ego, from what point. Yesterday I felt there were lots of people who were having a lot of Right Side on them. This Right Side is of no help. It will create problems for you, sickness for you, and also no use having right-sided Sahaj Yogis. So the main thing is to understand the power of love: power of love is the highest and the greatest, and if you can manage somehow or other to give up your anger, give up your greed and also your ego; if you can do that, you can be in Sahasrara. Now just see the sport of ego. It stops your ascent further. At ego only people get lost, because at ego only they move to the left or to the right and they can go to too much of Right Side, or can go up to the Left Side. They can go to any extreme of these two. So first of all we have to correct our ego. For this ego, what should we do? For this ego we should watch ourselves and laugh at ourselves. What ego do we have, of what? We are human beings, now have become Divine. And with Divine within us, with this light within us we have to understand that we are a part and parcel of the Divine, just a drop in the ocean of love. If you can reduce your ego, if you can bring it to the actual sense of your being, then it will work out better. I find, in the West, this ego is very strong; very, very strong. And whatever they do wrong they think is correct, because ego can support you in every way. While, on the contrary, those people who are developing, the countries who are not yet developed, there the problem is not of ego but of superego. That can be corrected. But ego is your own enemy created by you. So you have to fight it, and see for yourself from where it is coming. It might be country-wise, it might be family-wise, it can be from anywhere. So first of all we must watch out for the ego, if it is Sahasrara [that] we have to enter into. When I was looking out for a collective happening of Sahasrar opening, I found it was the ego of people which was keeping me down; I had to fight the ego of people. Because I am a woman of a very simple habits, no pride, nothing, so people used to suppress me, say all kinds of things to me. But I understood them because they had ego problem. And once this ego evolves and tries to dominate, we can have Hitlers in this country, we can have all these horrible people all over the world. So the first thing you should understand: those who have ego, we should not ever subdue to them. Of course you shouldn’t start fighting, but you have faith in yourself that you are people who have got Self-realisation. You are much more powerful than they are. My powers only work out when you are realised-souls, you’ll be surprised. They work out many things which may not work out with people with ego. Like the other day I heard from Africa that people become invisible suddenly: there was [a] coup d’état and the President is a Sahaj Yogi; he became invisible, nobody could find him. Because they are very much surrendered: they are so much surrendered that they get advantage of my powers. You all should use my powers also, of protection. This protection power is very, very strong especially for people who are very much in Sahaj Yoga, who are very much there. So you must have, first of all, complete faith in yourself that you are Sahaj Yogi. But not the ego. “Sahaj Yogis” means you cannot have ego. This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea, what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you and all these wrong ideas which came to you. It can be from any source. I do not know how to name them because there’s a big list of these sources. People are mad sometimes with this ego. So main thing is how to watch and witness your ego: how it works, how it spoils your temperament, how it spoils your relationships, how it makes you stupid. Ego is, first thing it does is to make you very stupid, and you start behaving in such a manner that people start thinking that, “Oh, you are the great, stupidest person ever living!” But it is of no help because if they believe that you are a stupid person, what will happen? On the contrary if you have the wisdom, if you have that peace, if you have that special temperament of enjoying everything in life and also the collective temperament, it will work out and they will be impressed, because in that light they can see their own stupidity, own falsehood, everything, and they will realise that what they think is not true and, “This gentleman is much deeper than me. What he has got, I haven’t got it.” This is the main thing for all of us. In Sahaj Yoga we have people who are leaders. That doesn’t mean they become really leaders, but that means that they have a greater depth. If they don’t have, they get out. If they have the depth then they are leaders, in the sense [that] others see them and really enjoy, really enjoy their being there. So, in everything you can see for yourself, specially, I would say, for the leaders because people see them and they are the ideals for them. For me, they say that “Mother is after all Mother, what can we achieve from Her?” But from the leaders they learn a lesson, and they understand that this is wrong and this is not proper. First of all you should be a model, models of Sahaj Yoga. And that is what I have been always telling you that get rid of your ego. It’s the worst thing, because first of all it brings anger. You think you are something great and you can do this, you can do that because you are a Sahaj Yogi: it´s not true. On the contrary you become extremely humble, extremely humble, and you do right things. You do not become any more arrogant and also full of anger. Anger departs from you completely, completely. It gives you a balance, it gives you wisdom by which you see what is your job, why are you on this earth, why this energy has come to you, why you are a Divine personality. It’s a very, very great responsibility. You don’t have to look after yourself, no. The Divine will look after you, absolutely: it will protect you, it will look after you, it will do whatever is needed for you. But in case, in case you have this ego, you shut out yourself from the reality, from the truth, and you become a very hot-tempered and arrogant personality. This has to go away. Sahaj Yogis are saints; not saints but they are more than saints because they can express themselves better. They have powers in them which they can utilise, which they can show to other people that you are so powerful, that you can manage things much better than what you think. For example, say there’s a problem and the whole world is upset about it. Only thing if you know how to witness it, it will disappear, it will disappear in the whole world. It cannot remain there. So nowadays the world is full of turmoil as you see, full of nonsensical people coming up, full of quarrelsome people. Dominating people are overpowering. At this time if you just see this in the witness state, this will disappear. Because very powerful: you are, very powerful. But you must know first of all that you must have the equipment to use the power. If you have that equipment within you, you can do it. But with your ego you cannot. Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara. And to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise, but if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego. So against all this one has to understand that, watch yourself: Is he egoistical? What does he think about itself? Ego is very limited, it makes you limited, and you don’t see the purpose of your life: why have you become a realised-soul. You don’t understand. You just are involved in your own affairs, in your family, in your children, in your something like that, very low. But if you have if you have an egoless temperament then you are very effective, the whole power works. What I have seen: the power of Sahasrara is so great. In some people it has worked wonders, they have worked it greatly. But because of ego, so many people are still not of that level that we can say they are Sahaj Yogis. Now as it is I am here to tell you about it. And in those days when these saints came in, nobody was there to guide them, to tell them anything. On the contrary they were so much destroyed by the surroundings, and people never understood why they don’t have any ego, why they are so humble, so they misused. But now you have powers. You must know how to use your powers. But that should not give you by any chance any ego that you have powers. On the contrary, you should be humble. You have power to be humble, and if you can be humble and understand that: these people are not yet realised-souls, they are at a lower level. Still their ego is catching them and they are at a lower level, they have to come up. When you understand that, then you will have not only pity but also understanding about them and a kind of a help will come to you from the Divine that will solve your problems. I find most of you have problems of very low level sometimes. And then I am surprised, why are you bothered about these problems? You see, you are so powerful. So in Sahasrara you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand that: what’s the use of having ego, because you have such a lot of powers within you which you have not utilised, which [you] should use, but with the, because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage, and you can do a lot. So I would request all of you today to take a vow that, “We’ll have no more chances for our egos. We’ll give it up. We’ll give up our ego.” Because there’s no sense: that’s an obstruction between us. When the Sahasrara wants to work it cannot because of ego obstruction. So better not have ego of anything. You may be a good singer, you may be anything in life, may be some big man or anything what is so-called: [this] has no meaning. What we need today are people who are egoless and who have powers completely flowing in them. With the opening of Sahasrara all these powers should flow. If the Sahasrara is fully opened, all these powers of love should flow. You’ll be amazed, wherever I go, people just fall in love with me. I don’t know why, I don’t do anything to them; but just they feel my love. That’s what it should be, that people should feel your love and they should know that you are a lovable person. This is the thing [for which] you are made: a special people, very special, for this whole world’s emancipation. That’s your job, and not otherwise just collecting money and doing all kinds of nonsensical things. You are here for a very, very sensible job which is to raise the Kundalini of people and make them aware of their greatness. Human beings are not created only to war and fight, not created here to play politics and do all dirty tricks. They are not made here to lead a life which is very filthy and dirty. But in this world we are here to do such a great job of God who has created us. So this is possible if you are aware that your Sahasraras are being opened out, and that, in this Sahasrara resides the purity, not all these small little things about which you are worried. Some people try to take advantage of Sahaj Yoga, thinking that: oh, they can do better, they can have help of others. Nothing of the kind! You can be helped by yourself, you don’t need any help. On the contrary you have to help others. There is no need to expect any help from anyone. Look at me, I am an ordinary housewife otherwise, but how it has worked all over the world. By what? By just the power of love. Only trouble is that I can use my power of love, while you don’t know how to use; that’s the only problem. If you want to use your power of love, in meditation you can develop that power of love. With that you can capture people, with that you can understand. Their problems are that they are not Sahaj Yogis, they are not the people who are having all the blessings or the connection with the Divine. Imagine, you are connected with Divine! And Divine is such a great thing which has created this whole universe, created you, and has done all the great jobs. So what are you? You are a part and parcel of that Divine Power, so why not we use our Divine power fully within us with love and with understanding so that you develop this wisdom within you. This is what is to be told to yourself, that, “We are realised-souls.” This one is something, a special personality, very much special. In this world there are very few people who are realised-souls, but now we have so many, I can see them. But still some problems are there because of our ego. One should not have ego of anything. Everything is perishable, what is not perishable is Divine love, what is not perishable is Divine personality. All the time you see the saints and all that, though they are dead, people remember them. All their poetry is remembered. Though they could not do much of Sahasrar work, they couldn’t give Realisation to people still because of their personality they are still respected. And people know that these people have been doing marvellous things, miraculous things. In the same way you can see your own miracles, and you can see for yourself what you are capable of, because now you are connected with the Divine. This is one fact you should know. Whenever there is danger, whenever there is [a] problem you will say: you’ll be saved. Many have been saved out of you, no doubt, but that is not sufficient. You are saved for what? What is the value of your life? Why are you living? What is the matter? Why God has saved you, given you all this? Because there’s so much to be done for this world. You are the soldiers of truth, soldiers of goodness, and all that is to be done with great courage and understanding about yourself. So what you have to do is to have Self-knowledge. You have to know about yourself. You must have Self-knowledge: what you are. If that you don’t have, what’s the use of opening the Sahasrara? Self-knowledge doesn’t give you any pride, nothing, but gives you the duty [of] what you have to do, what you have to work out. It’s not only just for you, Sahaj Yoga, but you are for the whole world – please try to understand. Sometimes we think Sahaj Yoga is there for our betterment, for our good health, this, that - it’s not so. It is for the betterment of others. Your powers are there which you are not utilising. You are still busy I get letters saying that, “This is wrong with us, this is wrong with that.” I mean, why can’t you correct yourself? If you can’t correct yourself, how can you correct others? That’s what it is. I can see that there’s an understanding going into your understanding: that you are great and you’re not ordinary people. And this has to be practiced and to be used in a manner that will show that you are Sahaj Yogis. You are no less than any, any Sufi or any realised-soul or any saint, no less. But you have powers which they didn’t have, of which they were not conscious, while you have these powers. Try to understand what powers you have. But by understanding that, you should not have pride about it in anyway; but that’s your job, you have to do it. You are there. And you’ll enjoy it because it is not with ego but [is] egoless work. If you can manage that much, it will be very good. Now, ego has come down very much, I must say, very much. I hear from people that ego has come down. But sometimes they are still quite funny and fighting and this and that. But despite all that, I must say in this, whatever work has been done on these years, people have worked it out among themselves. So you have to watch yourself and see for yourself: what ego you have, why should you be egoistical. Some of the people have ego of their country. I mean it’s all mythical. It’s all mythical. What is there? You could have been born anywhere. So you are born in a particular country, you have that ego. And it is something one has to be ashamed of, because your country whatever it is, is not doing very well, is not spiritually equipped, so why should you be so proud of your country? When you will work it out and they will become spiritually equipped, then of course you can have pride in your country, but I don’t see that happening. And so you have to work it out. And I am also happy to see that so much of Sahaj Yoga is now spread out everywhere. It’s spreading very fast. In countries where I never expected, it’s spreading out. So there are people everywhere in the world who want to have it. They want to have their Realisation, and they want to know what is beyond this human life. They don’t want to waste their life anymore as human beings; but as super-human beings I should call them, as Sahaj Yogis. So our ego has to be seen, is to be watched in witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point, because that’s the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and your all problems will be solved, because these problems are so frivolous and has no meaning and they’ll go away in no time, as long as you work it out, your Sahasrara. It’s very nice that today is a very special day with all these three stars coming together, and its special blessing. If your powers increase, all these people who are very bad, who are trying to capture the society with their political nonsense and all that, they all will disappear. They have no powers, they’ll all disappear. So, first of all, your egoless nature will help, will help everyone. May God bless you all!

6/23/2002

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Adi Shakti Puja: Use Your Right Side For Giving Realization

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Adi Shakti Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 23 June 2002. Today it's a different day altogether for all of you because this is the puja of Adi Shakti, and Adi Shakti is a complete personality. It's not only the Left Side that you know. You all know only the Left Side, from Shri Ganesha through the ascent of different, different chakras on the Left Side. I didn't want to tell you about the Right Side to begin with, because those who have gone through the Right Side got just lost. They got Gayatri Mantra from the writings but they didn't know what it was about, they just used to learn it by heart. They didn't also know the real meaning of it, and that is how they moved on the Right Side and, I don't know, they landed up at the Agnya; and then they were trying for the Self-realisation. They were promised that, if you do this Right Side properly, you will reach to the ultimate goal of Self-realisation, but none of them reached it. Most of them got into a terrible temper, terrible temper of cursing others, of destroying others. All these things they learnt through their right-side movement. There was no Kundalini awakening, and they were made to go up to the, at the most, Agnya chakra, and then they collapsed into different places of complete ignorance. All these books were written without understanding that it's not easy to go via Right Side, but the best was to awaken your Kundalini. The Kundalini directly takes you up in the centre of all the chakras, up to the Agnya and crosses Agnya, and goes beyond Agnya into the Sahasrara, and then it pierces through the Sahasrara. Now, what is so important about the Brahmarandhra, from where it pierces? I never told you about it. But now I think for most of you the time has come. You see in the childhood the child has a talu, is the fontanelle bone area which is pulsating always. It is pulsating because the Spirit entered through that area, and when you close it, it settles in the heart. Now you have to become the Spirit-oriented person, but how to enter into the Sahasrara was the problem. The tantrikas who were there, they went through the Left Side, and they developed all the practices of black - we should say, the Left Side. So the right-sided became extremely hot-tempered, extremely hot-tempered, I should say, extremely ambitious, ferocious, and they started killing people on the basis of cursing, they were very good at cursing people, to be always forward, push back all the people, and override everybody's rights. They were regarded as the most ambitious and most powerful people. Now the brahmins and to some extent the kshatriyas, they then took to the Right Side. Because of the Right Side they became very powerful, no doubt. They got all the powers over the world and they were regarded as extremely powerful and majestic people, but they were not, because they were so hot-tempered. Hot-tempered people cannot be spiritual. So they were told, "You'll get your spirituality, don't worry, keep moving." And the seven chakras were described, on the Right Side. According to them there is bhuh, bhurvah. Bhuh is this prithivi, is this world, bhuh. Bhurvah is the complete cosmos, or we can call it antariksha. Swaha. Swaha is consumption at the Nabhi Chakra, and swadha is the, swadha is the consumption inside, is to absorption. Swaha, swadha. Then is the mind, heart - manah. After manaha came the Vishuddhi. The Vishuddhi is janah, collectivity, people, go to the people - janah. Then at the Agnya it is tapah. In tapaha we have Christ in the centre. Left side they had Jainism, Right Side Christianity. They were not actually ascending path, they were just side outlets, you can say (laughing), for the energy of people who were trying to seek the Truth. Now this happened for ages in India. All the gurus, all the sadhus, all the big tapasvis, all of them did this, but where did they reach? Tapasvis were the people who could give curses – kshu - sharp, to people. They could curse somebody. With the kataksha, is with the glance of the eye, they could kill somebody, they could burn something. All right-sided powers they had, and with these right-sided powers, where did they reach? To hell, I should say, in a way - if not, in the limbo, as you call it. There nobody got Self-realisation. You read the old books from India, but even otherwise the Greeks, and then we had Egyptians, English and all kinds of aggressive people. Germans. All of them were aggressive. Catholics, and also you had Romans, all of them were aggressive, and were taking the land and property of other countries. Extremely aggressive. They believed in the killing of the people. Extremely, insulting, hot-tempered people. So how to bring them to the normal, to the central path? One side was, as I told you, bhuh, bhurva, swaha, swadha, it's consumption - this was done by Guru Principle. Then we have manah, janah - that is collective. They became collective, no doubt, because they were so powerful that they had such a lot of people with them to fight for the oppressive. With their oppressive temperament they were fighting on people and were oppressing them. All this kind of generation came in the history, as you know, and then it disappeared. Wars were created, then so many people were killed. We had Hitler as the maximum of cruelty. They never cared for humanity. Then ultimately it came to the Agnya. Agnya also they killed Jesus Christ, they destroyed Jesus Christ. They destroyed so many great saints who were really saints through the central path; some were incarnations, and they destroyed them. All this happened since the time of Rama, all that has happened. And, one after another, so many rakshasas came, and they destroyed the peaceful culture of the world. Extremely arrogant show-offs, as we can call them. Very aggressive people. And this aggression came, came with such a great force, and followed one after another. It went up to a point. When people reacted, they were killed and were destroyed. So horrible people were created. All these people, as they were. Aggressive and destructive. This nature is still within us, some people, because they are right-sided. All right-side people had this problem: temper, aggression, controlling others. The growth stopped, and there was no spiritual growth. They wanted to have spirituality, but with this kind of behaviour they had developed, spirituality ran away. We had so many incarnations. They all were killed, crucified, or were finished. There was no possibility of saving human beings in general. One bad man came and he ruined the whole world. We had one Hitler who really hit all the people, all the countries, all the nations, and we were all finished. All this is because we have taken to right-sided movement which they thought was easier for spirituality, which was not. So they crossed all the limits, and they reached a stage that they became absolutely devils, rakshasas, without realising that human beings are rakshasas, that's what they become. Even their gurus were like that, and nothing but they tortured even the incarnations, all the incarnations were tortured by them. It was really, how they saved themselves is remarkable. But ultimately they couldn't produce any results. So the first thing I tried was to study about the Kundalini, that I should be able to raise the Kundalini. And I knew I had come for that, not for anything else, but only to raise the Kundalini of people so that they take to the central path, not to the right or to the left. But I told you the knowledge of the Left Side, plus raising your Kundalini. By raising your Kundalini you broke your Sahasrara, and you entered into the realm of real joy of reality. All these bad qualities started falling out. In the central path first the Mooladhara came. By the awakening of the Mooladhara and the central path, you became very pure people: your eyes became pure, your licentiousness went away, your cheapness went away and you became very, very - I think we should call them - the Holy People. Unless and until that happens you cannot be in Sahaja Yoga. You cannot be a licentious, you cannot be a flirtish, you cannot be a man who wants to grab money from others and all that, or anyone who is very aggressive could be in Sahaja Yoga. So all such people were thrown out. Once they were thrown out they were showing their teeth, I should say. They didn't like it that they were thrown out. But they understand now, some of them, that "We have made mistakes." So first thing is that you must develop your sense of chastity, respect it and enjoy it. That happened because of your Mooladhara being awakened. That's the first chakra on the Left Side, where you have Shri Ganesha. But on the Right Side also we have deities. On every chakra we have deities to compensate, but Shri Ganesha is in the centre, and that's how we were blessed by His powerful purity, and we started understanding the beauty of purity, the power of purity. That's how our Right Side we finished off. Right side was for fighting, for killing, anger. There was no peace for these people. The only thing they knew how to dominate others, and to be intolerable. So then they rose to a higher, higher level, of Swadishthan. In Swadishthana they rose, and the aggressiveness of the creative people to create something. Even now we have many: they create all kinds of nonsense, create all sorts of grotesque [artistic movement, creation of ugly things like Halloween masks] also very, very, I should say, dirty things to make a name. So this is the another thing we got it in Swadishthana, people who wanted to have a name, a position. That came from Right Swadishthana. Then the third chakra that was there was the Nabhi chakra. On the Nabhi chakra they went all out to make money, not Lakshmi but money. Money by any means, and they cheated the whole world. With this money that they got, they did all kinds of bad things. Either they cheated or they were aggressive. Cheating was very much in the left-side countries like India, and aggressiveness in the right-side countries. In the centre, what quality we have at the Swadishthana is the creativeness: creative of art, which is very beautiful, which is very deep, which is absolutely spiritual. That vanished, and people started showing even the incarnations full of dirty habits. All kinds of filth came in with that progress. Then, as I told you, there's Nabhi. In Nabhi people got after money. Left-sided people were making money, right-sided were aggressive with their money. If they were earning they thought they're on top of the world. If they had money they thought, "Nobody is better than us!" All this finished them off, it's finishing. It will come to that point where they will realise that money is not for destroying but for construction: constructing of the country, constructing of the human beings together to bring peace and love among them. For helping. For doing all kinds of good things. Then the same right-sided people went to the chakra of the Mother, and they were horrible mothers, tried to dominate their children, dominate everyone, and could not sacrifice anything for the children. We have had enough of these women who are aggressive with their husbands, are aggressive with their children. And even the motherhood among men is dead and finished. All that kind of lot when I came on this Earth I saw, and I was shocked, “What sort of human beings are those? What am I going to do with them? How will I awaken their Kundalini?” At the Nabhi Chakra only they were lost, but now it is the Mother's chakra. They had no fatherhood, no motherhood, they draw out their children. Very selfish, self-centred, dominating parents. This was at the Heart Chakra. Then came the collective chakra, what we call as the Vishuddhi. At the Vishuddhi Chakra they wanted to occupy the whole world. They wanted to occupy the whole world as their own to become emperors, and they formed empires and misbehaved to such an extent that it's not humanly possible to behave like that. They really were rakshasas, I should say, and those rakshas qualities are still there. In their behaviour, in everything you can see how they behave towards people, treating them like that. Creating people who are against spirituality, and those who are aggressive. Then this became like a two-sided world where there are people who are aggressive, and the people who are tortured. This two-sided world exists, even now, but is much less. Thanks to the collective understanding there are many good institutions that were established but they are not working out, they are not so successful, because the men at the head of it are controlling, but controlling what? Not themselves, controlling others. And all their behaviour has spoilt all the work of this chakra. Collectively we have, if you see around now today, everywhere there's war going on, fights going on, killing going on, destruction going on. How is it? There are so many spiritual people now on this world. So the reason is, the spiritual people have become very quiet, very much enjoying their spiritual life, have become very quiet and very peaceful people. But that doesn't bring peace! You have to be dynamic and you have to bring peace in the world. You have to do something about it. And we are very much satisfied with our progress, but we are not bothered as to see what is the progress others have done, how far they have gone, where can we meet them, what can we change them. At My level I can change many things, but at your level how many people have you changed? What have you done? That has to be seen. Still you live with your ego, on the Agnya, and you are very happy with your peace, with everything you have got through Sahaja Yoga. This is the biggest calamity that the world is facing today, that those who are all so spiritual, those who have achieved great heights are least bothered as to what good has to be done. What they are doing is to enjoy their own spirituality, come to the puja, have more and more of it. But they have done no collective work to change people. Some of them are working, one or two, bas! (hindi:that’s all) But the rest of them are having a good time enjoying themselves in such a manner that people accept them as great souls, good people, that's all. I would like you to now introspect and find out how much collective work you have done, how many people you have got - like that. With whom are you talking? How many people have you told about Sahaja Yoga? Only so many are there. Christ had only twelve disciples; they were much more dynamic than you are. So now you should take to the Right Side. And when you take to the Right Side we'll create dynamic people, not just some useless, patient, very quiet, peaceful people. This was not the aim of Sahaja Yoga. The aim of Sahaja Yoga is to change, change so many. And those who are doing that, all My blessings are with them. But those who are just keeping to themselves, it is not a very good thing. In your country how many people have got to Sahaja Yoga? Just find out. With how many people you have worked it out? So yours is not a complete yoga, yours is a partial yoga of the Left Side, where you are very loving, you are very kind, very this thing. I am not saying that you should become aggressive in any way. But even I have seen people want to be leaders, they want to be something great, but how many people have they given realisation? How many people have they talked about Sahaja Yoga? I have said even in the aeroplane also you go, you walk in the street, anywhere people talk about Sahaja Yoga. But here we are using Sahaja Yoga for our greatness, for our understanding of ourselves. This is not why Sahaja Yoga has been brought to you. It has been brought to you for giving realisations to many people. I request all the younger people, younger generation, not to waste their Sahaj energies on nonsense as the old people have done. You better go ahead and talk to people about Sahaja Yoga, and spread the Sahaja Yoga. They are more interested in running schools, in looking after the destitutes, doing this, doing that. That's not your job. Your job is to create more sahaja yogis, more sahaja yoginis. But that is not there, what I find is it's not there. The Right Side is missing. You should come to the Right Side. Go all ahead. Nothing will happen to you. Nobody can kill you, nobody can disturb you, nobody can arrest you. Take it from Me! You have powers but if you don't use them, you are like this. That is why we have come to the stagnated point that we should know we have to use our Right Side. Right side is very important. Next time I'll tell you about Right Side, what right-sided things you have. Now you cannot become left-sided whatever you may try. So you use your Right Side in the right direction with the right understanding. Not as some sort of, I should say, very arbitrary or very dominating, like Hitlers. We have had also Hitlers among sahaja yogis! But now (laughing) the time has come for you to do something more than what the saints have done before. To work it out that way. Not to keep to yourself that you have a family, you have very nice children, having, enjoying, all that. That's not [what] the Sahaja Yoga [is] for. Sahaja Yoga is for transforming the whole world. You have to think about it: What are you doing? Where are you? And what have you achieved out of Sahaja Yoga? Then we come to the Agnya. In Agnya what has happened is sahaja yogis are become, they have, they can bear anything, they can suffer anything - that's not [what] we want. What we want [is] to remove the sufferings of others, remove the aggression of others. So we don't, that kind of organisation we don't have, that kind of understanding we don't have. And if that works out, you will be different people. So we have become like saints, you see, sitting in their hermit halls, something like that, not more than that. So better try to do something positive without aggression. I know some of you are still very aggressive, are show-offs, I know that. But if you get into the mood of working out collectively then you will realise what mistakes you have, still what is lacking in your personality. That is very important. At Agnya Chakra many sahaja yogis falter, I don't know what happens to them. At Agnya I have told that you must forgive but that doesn't mean that you allow people to do wrong things. Because you want to forgive it's very easy not to fight, not to say anything, just keep out, just forgive - no! You go and talk to that person and tell him it is wrong. You have to face it. If you cannot face it then you are useless, just like any other people. What's the use of you people getting your realisation? So now we have to understand that it's not only that we have vibrations, that we are all right, that you can cure some people is the last word - no! You have to spread it, you have to go in the public, you have to be collective on this point and you have to spread Sahaja Yoga. With so many sahaja yogis all over the world we have not progressed much. So now it is you have to plan what you want to do, how you want to do it, and how you want to spread Sahaja Yoga. It's very important. Because you people are good at, say, talking about Sahaja Yoga, singing about Sahaja Yoga; all these things are useless unless and until you have concrete proof of getting many more people in Sahaja Yoga. In a small country like Turkey we have 25,000 sahaja yogis - what do you say? They are all Muslims, 25,000 Muslim becoming sahaja yogis, while you find that number is very small in any other country. They are not very rich, but they care for their Self-realisation and for giving Self-realisations to others. It's very surprising how it has worked out, how it has spread. So instead of thinking of your problems, of your enemies, of your powers, think of giving power to others and making them Sahaja Yoga. Is very important. If you are in Sahasrara then you have all the powers. In Sahasrara if you do not spread Sahaja Yoga, what's the use of getting realisation? Just for yourself? It's being very selfish. So I would say that instead of spreading your own glory, your own name, please, try to get more people to Sahaja Yoga. Go into a very dynamic force. So many people have complained to Me that sahaja yogis are nothing but dead people. Is that what you are? Only single person like Me has done so much work, so why not you people? In your country have you worked it out all over? Just think about it. And that's why, unless and until you don't do it you are not sampurna, you are not complete, and the Adi Shakti's powers you have not understood in its full form. That's why I'm telling you today it's a very important day that you worship Me as Adi Shakti. But you should know that Adi Shakti has to be a complete form. It cannot be only half Left-sided - no. If that doesn't work out, then what's the use? It's like any other getting any other realisation - that's not so important. Not only that you should spread, but also you should make them, and realise it. All My blessings, all My love, all My powers I give you but try to understand. Alright? Thank you very much.

Adi Shakti Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 23 June 2002. Today it's a different day altogether for all of you because this is the puja of Adi Shakti, and Adi Shakti is a complete personality. It's not only the Left Side that you know. You all know only the Left Side, from Shri Ganesha through the ascent of different, different chakras on the Left Side. I didn't want to tell you about the Right Side to begin with, because those who have gone through the Right Side got just lost. They got Gayatri Mantra from the writings but they didn't know what it was about, they just used to learn it by heart. They didn't also know the real meaning of it, and that is how they moved on the Right Side and, I don't know, they landed up at the Agnya; and then they were trying for the Self-realisation. They were promised that, if you do this Right Side properly, you will reach to the ultimate goal of Self-realisation, but none of them reached it. Most of them got into a terrible temper, terrible temper of cursing others, of destroying others. All these things they learnt through their right-side movement. There was no Kundalini awakening, and they were made to go up to the, at the most, Agnya chakra, and then they collapsed into different places of complete ignorance. All these books were written without understanding that it's not easy to go via Right Side, but the best was to awaken your Kundalini. The Kundalini directly takes you up in the centre of all the chakras, up to the Agnya and crosses Agnya, and goes beyond Agnya into the Sahasrara, and then it pierces through the Sahasrara. Now, what is so important about the Brahmarandhra, from where it pierces? I never told you about it. But now I think for most of you the time has come. You see in the childhood the child has a talu, is the fontanelle bone area which is pulsating always. It is pulsating because the Spirit entered through that area, and when you close it, it settles in the heart. Now you have to become the Spirit-oriented person, but how to enter into the Sahasrara was the problem. The tantrikas who were there, they went through the Left Side, and they developed all the practices of black - we should say, the Left Side. So the right-sided became extremely hot-tempered, extremely hot-tempered, I should say, extremely ambitious, ferocious, and they started killing people on the basis of cursing, they were very good at cursing people, to be always forward, push back all the people, and override everybody's rights. They were regarded as the most ambitious and most powerful people. Now the brahmins and to some extent the kshatriyas, they then took to the Right Side. Because of the Right Side they became very powerful, no doubt. They got all the powers over the world and they were regarded as extremely powerful and majestic people, but they were not, because they were so hot-tempered. Hot-tempered people cannot be spiritual. So they were told, "You'll get your spirituality, don't worry, keep moving." And the seven chakras were described, on the Right Side. According to them there is bhuh, bhurvah. Bhuh is this prithivi, is this world, bhuh. Bhurvah is the complete cosmos, or we can call it antariksha. Swaha. Swaha is consumption at the Nabhi Chakra, and swadha is the, swadha is the consumption inside, is to absorption. Swaha, swadha. Then is the mind, heart - manah. After manaha came the Vishuddhi. The Vishuddhi is janah, collectivity, people, go to the people - janah. Then at the Agnya it is tapah. In tapaha we have Christ in the centre. Left side they had Jainism, Right Side Christianity. They were not actually ascending path, they were just side outlets, you can say (laughing), for the energy of people who were trying to seek the Truth. Now this happened for ages in India. All the gurus, all the sadhus, all the big tapasvis, all of them did this, but where did they reach? Tapasvis were the people who could give curses – kshu - sharp, to people. They could curse somebody. With the kataksha, is with the glance of the eye, they could kill somebody, they could burn something. All right-sided powers they had, and with these right-sided powers, where did they reach? To hell, I should say, in a way - if not, in the limbo, as you call it. There nobody got Self-realisation. You read the old books from India, but even otherwise the Greeks, and then we had Egyptians, English and all kinds of aggressive people. Germans. All of them were aggressive. Catholics, and also you had Romans, all of them were aggressive, and were taking the land and property of other countries. Extremely aggressive. They believed in the killing of the people. Extremely, insulting, hot-tempered people. So how to bring them to the normal, to the central path? One side was, as I told you, bhuh, bhurva, swaha, swadha, it's consumption - this was done by Guru Principle. Then we have manah, janah - that is collective. They became collective, no doubt, because they were so powerful that they had such a lot of people with them to fight for the oppressive. With their oppressive temperament they were fighting on people and were oppressing them. All this kind of generation came in the history, as you know, and then it disappeared. Wars were created, then so many people were killed. We had Hitler as the maximum of cruelty. They never cared for humanity. Then ultimately it came to the Agnya. Agnya also they killed Jesus Christ, they destroyed Jesus Christ. They destroyed so many great saints who were really saints through the central path; some were incarnations, and they destroyed them. All this happened since the time of Rama, all that has happened. And, one after another, so many rakshasas came, and they destroyed the peaceful culture of the world. Extremely arrogant show-offs, as we can call them. Very aggressive people. And this aggression came, came with such a great force, and followed one after another. It went up to a point. When people reacted, they were killed and were destroyed. So horrible people were created. All these people, as they were. Aggressive and destructive. This nature is still within us, some people, because they are right-sided. All right-side people had this problem: temper, aggression, controlling others. The growth stopped, and there was no spiritual growth. They wanted to have spirituality, but with this kind of behaviour they had developed, spirituality ran away. We had so many incarnations. They all were killed, crucified, or were finished. There was no possibility of saving human beings in general. One bad man came and he ruined the whole world. We had one Hitler who really hit all the people, all the countries, all the nations, and we were all finished. All this is because we have taken to right-sided movement which they thought was easier for spirituality, which was not. So they crossed all the limits, and they reached a stage that they became absolutely devils, rakshasas, without realising that human beings are rakshasas, that's what they become. Even their gurus were like that, and nothing but they tortured even the incarnations, all the incarnations were tortured by them. It was really, how they saved themselves is remarkable. But ultimately they couldn't produce any results. So the first thing I tried was to study about the Kundalini, that I should be able to raise the Kundalini. And I knew I had come for that, not for anything else, but only to raise the Kundalini of people so that they take to the central path, not to the right or to the left. But I told you the knowledge of the Left Side, plus raising your Kundalini. By raising your Kundalini you broke your Sahasrara, and you entered into the realm of real joy of reality. All these bad qualities started falling out. In the central path first the Mooladhara came. By the awakening of the Mooladhara and the central path, you became very pure people: your eyes became pure, your licentiousness went away, your cheapness went away and you became very, very - I think we should call them - the Holy People. Unless and until that happens you cannot be in Sahaja Yoga. You cannot be a licentious, you cannot be a flirtish, you cannot be a man who wants to grab money from others and all that, or anyone who is very aggressive could be in Sahaja Yoga. So all such people were thrown out. Once they were thrown out they were showing their teeth, I should say. They didn't like it that they were thrown out. But they understand now, some of them, that "We have made mistakes." So first thing is that you must develop your sense of chastity, respect it and enjoy it. That happened because of your Mooladhara being awakened. That's the first chakra on the Left Side, where you have Shri Ganesha. But on the Right Side also we have deities. On every chakra we have deities to compensate, but Shri Ganesha is in the centre, and that's how we were blessed by His powerful purity, and we started understanding the beauty of purity, the power of purity. That's how our Right Side we finished off. Right side was for fighting, for killing, anger. There was no peace for these people. The only thing they knew how to dominate others, and to be intolerable. So then they rose to a higher, higher level, of Swadishthan. In Swadishthana they rose, and the aggressiveness of the creative people to create something. Even now we have many: they create all kinds of nonsense, create all sorts of grotesque [artistic movement, creation of ugly things like Halloween masks] also very, very, I should say, dirty things to make a name. So this is the another thing we got it in Swadishthana, people who wanted to have a name, a position. That came from Right Swadishthana. Then the third chakra that was there was the Nabhi chakra. On the Nabhi chakra they went all out to make money, not Lakshmi but money. Money by any means, and they cheated the whole world. With this money that they got, they did all kinds of bad things. Either they cheated or they were aggressive. Cheating was very much in the left-side countries like India, and aggressiveness in the right-side countries. In the centre, what quality we have at the Swadishthana is the creativeness: creative of art, which is very beautiful, which is very deep, which is absolutely spiritual. That vanished, and people started showing even the incarnations full of dirty habits. All kinds of filth came in with that progress. Then, as I told you, there's Nabhi. In Nabhi people got after money. Left-sided people were making money, right-sided were aggressive with their money. If they were earning they thought they're on top of the world. If they had money they thought, "Nobody is better than us!" All this finished them off, it's finishing. It will come to that point where they will realise that money is not for destroying but for construction: constructing of the country, constructing of the human beings together to bring peace and love among them. For helping. For doing all kinds of good things. Then the same right-sided people went to the chakra of the Mother, and they were horrible mothers, tried to dominate their children, dominate everyone, and could not sacrifice anything for the children. We have had enough of these women who are aggressive with their husbands, are aggressive with their children. And even the motherhood among men is dead and finished. All that kind of lot when I came on this Earth I saw, and I was shocked, “What sort of human beings are those? What am I going to do with them? How will I awaken their Kundalini?” At the Nabhi Chakra only they were lost, but now it is the Mother's chakra. They had no fatherhood, no motherhood, they draw out their children. Very selfish, self-centred, dominating parents. This was at the Heart Chakra. Then came the collective chakra, what we call as the Vishuddhi. At the Vishuddhi Chakra they wanted to occupy the whole world. They wanted to occupy the whole world as their own to become emperors, and they formed empires and misbehaved to such an extent that it's not humanly possible to behave like that. They really were rakshasas, I should say, and those rakshas qualities are still there. In their behaviour, in everything you can see how they behave towards people, treating them like that. Creating people who are against spirituality, and those who are aggressive. Then this became like a two-sided world where there are people who are aggressive, and the people who are tortured. This two-sided world exists, even now, but is much less. Thanks to the collective understanding there are many good institutions that were established but they are not working out, they are not so successful, because the men at the head of it are controlling, but controlling what? Not themselves, controlling others. And all their behaviour has spoilt all the work of this chakra. Collectively we have, if you see around now today, everywhere there's war going on, fights going on, killing going on, destruction going on. How is it? There are so many spiritual people now on this world. So the reason is, the spiritual people have become very quiet, very much enjoying their spiritual life, have become very quiet and very peaceful people. But that doesn't bring peace! You have to be dynamic and you have to bring peace in the world. You have to do something about it. And we are very much satisfied with our progress, but we are not bothered as to see what is the progress others have done, how far they have gone, where can we meet them, what can we change them. At My level I can change many things, but at your level how many people have you changed? What have you done? That has to be seen. Still you live with your ego, on the Agnya, and you are very happy with your peace, with everything you have got through Sahaja Yoga. This is the biggest calamity that the world is facing today, that those who are all so spiritual, those who have achieved great heights are least bothered as to what good has to be done. What they are doing is to enjoy their own spirituality, come to the puja, have more and more of it. But they have done no collective work to change people. Some of them are working, one or two, bas! (hindi:that’s all) But the rest of them are having a good time enjoying themselves in such a manner that people accept them as great souls, good people, that's all. I would like you to now introspect and find out how much collective work you have done, how many people you have got - like that. With whom are you talking? How many people have you told about Sahaja Yoga? Only so many are there. Christ had only twelve disciples; they were much more dynamic than you are. So now you should take to the Right Side. And when you take to the Right Side we'll create dynamic people, not just some useless, patient, very quiet, peaceful people. This was not the aim of Sahaja Yoga. The aim of Sahaja Yoga is to change, change so many. And those who are doing that, all My blessings are with them. But those who are just keeping to themselves, it is not a very good thing. In your country how many people have got to Sahaja Yoga? Just find out. With how many people you have worked it out? So yours is not a complete yoga, yours is a partial yoga of the Left Side, where you are very loving, you are very kind, very this thing. I am not saying that you should become aggressive in any way. But even I have seen people want to be leaders, they want to be something great, but how many people have they given realisation? How many people have they talked about Sahaja Yoga? I have said even in the aeroplane also you go, you walk in the street, anywhere people talk about Sahaja Yoga. But here we are using Sahaja Yoga for our greatness, for our understanding of ourselves. This is not why Sahaja Yoga has been brought to you. It has been brought to you for giving realisations to many people. I request all the younger people, younger generation, not to waste their Sahaj energies on nonsense as the old people have done. You better go ahead and talk to people about Sahaja Yoga, and spread the Sahaja Yoga. They are more interested in running schools, in looking after the destitutes, doing this, doing that. That's not your job. Your job is to create more sahaja yogis, more sahaja yoginis. But that is not there, what I find is it's not there. The Right Side is missing. You should come to the Right Side. Go all ahead. Nothing will happen to you. Nobody can kill you, nobody can disturb you, nobody can arrest you. Take it from Me! You have powers but if you don't use them, you are like this. That is why we have come to the stagnated point that we should know we have to use our Right Side. Right side is very important. Next time I'll tell you about Right Side, what right-sided things you have. Now you cannot become left-sided whatever you may try. So you use your Right Side in the right direction with the right understanding. Not as some sort of, I should say, very arbitrary or very dominating, like Hitlers. We have had also Hitlers among sahaja yogis! But now (laughing) the time has come for you to do something more than what the saints have done before. To work it out that way. Not to keep to yourself that you have a family, you have very nice children, having, enjoying, all that. That's not [what] the Sahaja Yoga [is] for. Sahaja Yoga is for transforming the whole world. You have to think about it: What are you doing? Where are you? And what have you achieved out of Sahaja Yoga? Then we come to the Agnya. In Agnya what has happened is sahaja yogis are become, they have, they can bear anything, they can suffer anything - that's not [what] we want. What we want [is] to remove the sufferings of others, remove the aggression of others. So we don't, that kind of organisation we don't have, that kind of understanding we don't have. And if that works out, you will be different people. So we have become like saints, you see, sitting in their hermit halls, something like that, not more than that. So better try to do something positive without aggression. I know some of you are still very aggressive, are show-offs, I know that. But if you get into the mood of working out collectively then you will realise what mistakes you have, still what is lacking in your personality. That is very important. At Agnya Chakra many sahaja yogis falter, I don't know what happens to them. At Agnya I have told that you must forgive but that doesn't mean that you allow people to do wrong things. Because you want to forgive it's very easy not to fight, not to say anything, just keep out, just forgive - no! You go and talk to that person and tell him it is wrong. You have to face it. If you cannot face it then you are useless, just like any other people. What's the use of you people getting your realisation? So now we have to understand that it's not only that we have vibrations, that we are all right, that you can cure some people is the last word - no! You have to spread it, you have to go in the public, you have to be collective on this point and you have to spread Sahaja Yoga. With so many sahaja yogis all over the world we have not progressed much. So now it is you have to plan what you want to do, how you want to do it, and how you want to spread Sahaja Yoga. It's very important. Because you people are good at, say, talking about Sahaja Yoga, singing about Sahaja Yoga; all these things are useless unless and until you have concrete proof of getting many more people in Sahaja Yoga. In a small country like Turkey we have 25,000 sahaja yogis - what do you say? They are all Muslims, 25,000 Muslim becoming sahaja yogis, while you find that number is very small in any other country. They are not very rich, but they care for their Self-realisation and for giving Self-realisations to others. It's very surprising how it has worked out, how it has spread. So instead of thinking of your problems, of your enemies, of your powers, think of giving power to others and making them Sahaja Yoga. Is very important. If you are in Sahasrara then you have all the powers. In Sahasrara if you do not spread Sahaja Yoga, what's the use of getting realisation? Just for yourself? It's being very selfish. So I would say that instead of spreading your own glory, your own name, please, try to get more people to Sahaja Yoga. Go into a very dynamic force. So many people have complained to Me that sahaja yogis are nothing but dead people. Is that what you are? Only single person like Me has done so much work, so why not you people? In your country have you worked it out all over? Just think about it. And that's why, unless and until you don't do it you are not sampurna, you are not complete, and the Adi Shakti's powers you have not understood in its full form. That's why I'm telling you today it's a very important day that you worship Me as Adi Shakti. But you should know that Adi Shakti has to be a complete form. It cannot be only half Left-sided - no. If that doesn't work out, then what's the use? It's like any other getting any other realisation - that's not so important. Not only that you should spread, but also you should make them, and realise it. All My blessings, all My love, all My powers I give you but try to understand. Alright? Thank you very much.

7/20/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=10019

Evening Program, The Betrayed Prophet, Eve of Guru Puja

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2002-07-20 Talk after Evening Program of the play: The Betrayed Prophet (Eve of Guru Puja) My heart is so full, because in this great drama you have really shown the beauty of Mohammed life; how people have misused and troubled all the world around; and now, they are in trouble. He never wanted that but how human beings misunderstand such a great prophet like him. I must congratulate Guido and the all of you for acting so well and what a drama it was! The synchronization and all that also technique things you... I don’t know what to say... in every way it was a very, very beautiful drama. It has touched My heart because Mohammed is not understood by His followers, not the ones who opposed Him; such a great man of compassion, such a great man of spirituality has been so much misunderstood and Islamic world, so called, and non-Islamic, so called, they never understood the greatness of Mohammed Sahib. I mean, I was really very much touched by this because he was my loveliest son and I worshipped Him. May God bless His soul and all of you who followed Him in spirit. Spread the news, get more people into Sahaja Yoga; very easy to get Mohammed’s disciples into Sahaja Yoga if they are really His disciples. It’s not difficult to get them into Sahaja Yoga because He has already described, described that at the time of resurrection your hands will speak. He has already said so precisely. Nobody has said that, nobody has said that so far; so that shows how great He was. All the qualities of these great prophets have been misused, have been really misinterpreted, creating all kinds of problems; while they came here to solve our problems, while what we have done is to create problems. I have such a feeling for them, for all of them. Today I learned about Pales, Palestinians that they are absolutely fed up now and that’s why they are killing themselves; because they have no place to live, they have no homes, no, nothing, they have no prospects. But also we must tell the Jews to understand them; it is both ways: one has to have a balance and understanding of each other. God has not created this world to get destroyed; so, nobody has the right to destroy this world. So, I think we should have a very balanced look at all these things and also if we get them realized, anywhere, whether they are in Islamic religion or they are non Islamic, anywhere… they will realize what is the truth is. Unless and until you know the truth how can you fight and for what, what are you fighting for? So, I am very happy in a way that Sahaja yogis have understood it and this great man has been brought to the stage and that you all have appreciated it. So, now have compassion, as He said, and Love for God. That’s very important; though they are misled as Christians have been misled. All these stupid people who follow the religion, so called, have mislead the whole world, But the Sahaja Yogis must take to the truth. And they don’t have to fight much; they can manage very easily, need not have swords or anything, just they can manage with their Love, with their compassion and with their wisdom, which is very important for Sahaja Yogis, that they should have that wisdom. I want to again congratulate Guido and Company who have brought such a beautiful thing about Mohammed Sahib. I have tremendous respect for him because he has got the talent of a great dramatist; I mean, just imagine the synchronization and everything, the acting. Apart from you people being very great actors and actresses, he also is a great organizer and such a big drama has been done. I don’t know if any television would like to show this drama because, I don’t know, their style is different, their ways are different, and they have to grow still but whatever it is it’s a beautiful drama I’ve ever seen. May God bless you all, and specially Mr. Guido, the great!

2002-07-20 Talk after Evening Program of the play: The Betrayed Prophet (Eve of Guru Puja) My heart is so full, because in this great drama you have really shown the beauty of Mohammed life; how people have misused and troubled all the world around; and now, they are in trouble. He never wanted that but how human beings misunderstand such a great prophet like him. I must congratulate Guido and the all of you for acting so well and what a drama it was! The synchronization and all that also technique things you... I don’t know what to say... in every way it was a very, very beautiful drama. It has touched My heart because Mohammed is not understood by His followers, not the ones who opposed Him; such a great man of compassion, such a great man of spirituality has been so much misunderstood and Islamic world, so called, and non-Islamic, so called, they never understood the greatness of Mohammed Sahib. I mean, I was really very much touched by this because he was my loveliest son and I worshipped Him. May God bless His soul and all of you who followed Him in spirit. Spread the news, get more people into Sahaja Yoga; very easy to get Mohammed’s disciples into Sahaja Yoga if they are really His disciples. It’s not difficult to get them into Sahaja Yoga because He has already described, described that at the time of resurrection your hands will speak. He has already said so precisely. Nobody has said that, nobody has said that so far; so that shows how great He was. All the qualities of these great prophets have been misused, have been really misinterpreted, creating all kinds of problems; while they came here to solve our problems, while what we have done is to create problems. I have such a feeling for them, for all of them. Today I learned about Pales, Palestinians that they are absolutely fed up now and that’s why they are killing themselves; because they have no place to live, they have no homes, no, nothing, they have no prospects. But also we must tell the Jews to understand them; it is both ways: one has to have a balance and understanding of each other. God has not created this world to get destroyed; so, nobody has the right to destroy this world. So, I think we should have a very balanced look at all these things and also if we get them realized, anywhere, whether they are in Islamic religion or they are non Islamic, anywhere… they will realize what is the truth is. Unless and until you know the truth how can you fight and for what, what are you fighting for? So, I am very happy in a way that Sahaja yogis have understood it and this great man has been brought to the stage and that you all have appreciated it. So, now have compassion, as He said, and Love for God. That’s very important; though they are misled as Christians have been misled. All these stupid people who follow the religion, so called, have mislead the whole world, But the Sahaja Yogis must take to the truth. And they don’t have to fight much; they can manage very easily, need not have swords or anything, just they can manage with their Love, with their compassion and with their wisdom, which is very important for Sahaja Yogis, that they should have that wisdom. I want to again congratulate Guido and Company who have brought such a beautiful thing about Mohammed Sahib. I have tremendous respect for him because he has got the talent of a great dramatist; I mean, just imagine the synchronization and everything, the acting. Apart from you people being very great actors and actresses, he also is a great organizer and such a big drama has been done. I don’t know if any television would like to show this drama because, I don’t know, their style is different, their ways are different, and they have to grow still but whatever it is it’s a beautiful drama I’ve ever seen. May God bless you all, and specially Mr. Guido, the great!

7/21/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=2170

Guru Puja: first you must have development of your left side

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Guru Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 21 July 2002. (A loud thunder-clap followed by applause) In India they were all waiting for the monsoons and they are so much worried because the rain did not come. So, I was giving bandhan to the rain and it came here (applause and Mother laughs). And now also they have told, on the television, that it is going to rain in India. But first in Italy! (laughter) I was told that in Italy you needed rain very much and the first rain you had, few days back, and now this is the second one. Because all the understanding of the problems of our farmers is there. And the rain, you see, is so kind that it works at the right time. I am surprised at the quick behaviour and obedience of the rain. Today is a great day, for all of us, because we are celebrating the Guru Puja and remembering all the great Gurus who came on this earth to teach the world about the truth. So many of them were [there]. And they tried their level best to explain to humanity what is spirituality. But it’s such a disparity that people never understood that spirituality is the most important thing we need. That we have to be one with the Divine Power. All their endeavour have been in the wrong direction. First of course they were very intelligent, more than animals, and started seeking, not the truth, but some sort of a self-emancipation I should say, or, I don’t know what to say, call it - self-progress. And in that they lost that they have to first seek spirituality, which is the most important thing. But, we had two types of journeys: one is through the left side or another through the right side. In India, I don’t know why, we had lots of people who went into the jungles and became saints but they were doing right side tapasya. That is, going into the five elements one after another; and mastering the five elements. Of course there is truth in it, no doubt. You have seen how a candle... (loud thunder clap and Mother pauses to smile)...how a candle tells you as to what is your position inside: if you are possessed or if you are not, a candle can tell you - can you imagine? Candle is so much knowledgable. Supposing you have a heart, heart trouble - the candle will show. And if you treat yourself with the candle, you can cure yourself. So, it is so sensitive not [only] that it can cure, but also so competent, not [only] that it shows you that you are sick and you have problems but that it is competent to cure you. Thats why, in India, Agni was worshipped, this light was worshipped, the fire was worshipped, that was worshipped first. They must have discovered that the fire knows everything, so the inner, inner awareness of all these elements, they knew about it and thats why they worshipped those elements. So before the Puja they used to call all the Deities who belonged to those elements to witness their Puja. But that turned out to be right sided movement. Without the left side, right side is very dangerous. If you don’t have right side of course it’s a big dangerous thing also. But first you must have development of your left side. That is what, to begin with, we had in Sahaja Yoga. Left side is compassion, is love, universal feeling, or we can say it’s the blessings of the Devi which are described, you know it, in the Devi Mahatmyam, that the Goddess resides within you as so many things. She resides within you as shraddha, as, She resides in you as sleep, She resides in you as illusion, bhranti. All kinds of things are there on the left-hand side, which are already described. And when I told you about Sahaja Yoga, I wanted to make your left side very strong. Those who, people who, took to right side became very aggressive people, and they had mastered the essence of these five elements, that's alright. But. They were extremely hot-tempered, so much so that they used to curse people, curse them. They used to say things which were not kind; and they didn't believe in the universality. It was such a dangerous thing that they took [to]. In Indian shastras you can see many incidents where people gave a curse, sharp, very common. All these gurus used to curse a person, because they had no compassion, no love, nothing but they had powers of the right side. But we have seen now that those people who have right side, who go only on the right side without the bhakti, without the blessings of the Divine, can become rakshasas actually, can become a great danger for humanity. This is a very serious thing. Through your intelligence, through your thinking power, your ego can go to any limit and create problems within you. Now the ultimate of this problem is, we have seen is, are many diseases, which are absolutely incurable. Even some people, right-sided, some people, can get a kind of a cancer called blood cancer. And this blood cancer, now we have cured it, but even if it is cured you can go back to that kind of aggressiveness, thinking that you are very right. Such people always try to find faults with others, that such and such person is not good, he's doing harm, or any way they can find faults with others, not with themselves. Their attention is outside, not on themselves. They never see what's wrong with them, but they always see what's wrong with others. By doing that, you see, they are climbing the ladder of a horrible right side, which can give you horrible diseases. As I've told you, first is the blood cancer. If you get rid of the blood cancer then you can get into another problems. Nowadays there's a very famous disease called Alzheimers. This is also the side of the right side; because if you don't have that bhakti, that humility, that blessings of the Goddess, you can develop all such horrible diseases which are not only fatal, but also very injurious to others. So by being right-sided you do not progress. You can become a big ascetic, they call it, who can curse others, who can put them into troubles, think that that is a great power - it is not. It is not at all. Because, though you are not suppressed by other powers, negative powers, but your own power takes your life. So Kundalini, when it is arisen, the best thing is to go to the left side, not criticising others, not talking ill of others, but seeing within you, what's wrong. Find out what is the matter with you. First it starts with self-importance, that "I am a very important person," and with this self-importance you go on troubling everyone and torturing everyone, and all that. But because of your right-side movement, you can become very successful. Hitler was the climax of that. And that's how people start taking to very, very cruel things. Nowadays, I think that some people are ruling everywhere with their right side. We do not have people who are using their left side. And whenever they use their left side they are called as saints. Now you all have the powers of the left side. Some of you do have little bit right side also, doesn't matter. Now I would say that you have achieved your left side mastery: Kundalini awakening is there, you are one with the Divine. Now you can come to the right side and know about right side, and try to express your right side. You can express it, not by dominating others, but dominating yourself. By self-examination. By understanding what's wrong with you. Why do you behave like that? Why do you trouble others? Why do you overpower others? Such people will always, I have seen, organise and arrange, and do this and do that. Instead of organising themselves they'll organise others. These things complicate. But if you have love and if you have bhakti, you can very, very easily dominate others in a very different manner. It is not that you dominate by cruelty, by oppression, but you dominate with your love. And you don't want to dominate, but easily people get very much succumbed to love and to magnanimity, to generosity. So all these qualities you must first develop within yourself: is the left-side problem, that - you should be very peaceful, you should give love to others, you should be generous, you should be kind, and see how much it pays. I've seen some people who are extremely rude, they can be rude to anyone, that's their nature, which they should overcome with the left side. Rudeness is not the sign of a saint. A saint is extremely peaceful, and never gets rude with others. So the introspection should work first of all, "Where are we wrong? What wrong things we are doing? What is our style?" Once you discover that your style is already left-side, then you should take to right side and possess the power of right side. What are the powers of right side now, which are achieved through the left-side perfection? We have some very great Gurus on this line. One of them was Raja Janaka. He was a ruler of a country, and a very well-known ruler and everything; but still, still, though He was so generous and good and everything, but at the same time He was a great monarch, great king of those days, very much known for His impartiality, for His statesmanship and all kinds of beautiful things He did for His subjects. That is there, is Raja Janaka. He could not get disturbed with anything. And people never understood why the greatest of greatest saints used to bow to Him. What was so great? Though He was a king, He was living so lavishly and He had so many of ornaments and also conveyances and all that; because nothing was above Him, He was so detached with everything. He had everything, but He was so detached. That's a very good example of a person who had mastered His left, and now who was the king, Raja Janaka, was there. Like that we had many people later on also, one after another, who were extremely, extremely rich, extremely, I should say, powerful as kings, but inside they were absolutely like divine personality. Nothing disturbed them, nothing made them feel greater or happier. No position, no power was to them great. This is a complete emancipation of human beings, that you are realised soul. You should be fully equipped with compassion, love and understanding. But at the same time, it should be expressed in the right way. For example, we can say Christ, He's another example. Though He was an Incarnation, still the amount of forgiveness and love He has for people is tremendous. But at the same time, He used to go on the mountains and preach about spirituality. Those were not very safe times, because people didn't like anybody talking like that. They hated Him because He talked about God. And what they did to Him you know very well. Doesn't matter. Though they crucified Him, still we all respect Him as a great personality. Reason is, He was, He was no doubt an Incarnation, but still He went all out to give His achievements or, I can say, whatever powers He had, to others. He went all over the places, He had no facilities, but still He went out to many people and tried to save them. This was the right-side movement. That means Sahaja Yogis can also become right-sided, but like Christ. Otherwise if they are right-sided they'll organise, they'll do all kinds of things, and have problems of the right side. That's why I want you to avoid the right side. But once you are fully a left-sided master of Sahaja Yoga, then it's very, very much needed to be a complete personality of spirituality, that you should take to right-side movement. And what is the right-side movement is the collectivity. Should not be satisfied with what you have got. It's very easy to feel, "Oh, now we have got realisation, now what is there? We are on top of the world!" That's not so. You have to go out, talk to people. They will insult you, they'll trouble you, they'll do all kinds of things. But you are already a person, already a realised soul. You can listen to them, what they are saying; you will not ask for anything, but you'd like to do good to them. This is also a compassion, that you don't want to keep your realisation to yourself, but you want to do it for others also so that they also get realisation, it's very important. If you do not feel that way, the pity for people who haven't got realisation, think of the times you were not realised. These people are also not realised and they are having a bad time, they can be in for any trouble. So now, it's not that if you have got realisation you settle down with it - no, that's not the way; but you should go all out to see that you give realisation to others, and save them. You all have got realisation not for your sake, it's not limited for you, but it is meant for others, that you have to give it to others. And as soon as you'll start giving it to others you'll be amazed, so many qualities in you will come out; because when you see others, you find that what is lacking in them, what do they need, what you have to give, how you have to give. You can become anything, you can become a poet, you can become a writer, you can, anything can you become, in case you face others. Then it comes as a reaction within you, all these qualities develop, and you become a very good, I should say, artist. This is only possible if you meet other people and talk to them about Sahaja Yoga, and tell them about your Self-realisation. I know there will be problems, I know. That is true. There will be people who will oppose you, say all kinds of things against you, and they'll try to stop your activities and do all kinds of harm, doesn't matter. But that's the thing you should achieve, is to meet people, talk to them and start telling them about Self-realisation; you have to save them. That's important. But first of all you should know that you should have no right-sided complications, otherwise they'll all run away. A person who is spiritual is supposed or accepted to be a very humble person. Of course because he is humble, people will take advantage of him, say all kinds of things, it's alright, is a part of the game. But, he doesn't mind, he doesn't mind anything. Anything that comes his way, he doesn't mind. But what is the main thing is that he has compassion. His compassion that he had before from the left side is now expanded, and he wants to save the people. People don't have food, is alright, it's a big complication; if people are starving is another; but if they do not get spirituality, what's the use of their human life, why did they evolve to this state? They are evolved from animal state, from the worst possible conditions, to a human state. And now if they do not get their realisation, that means this is worse than starving, worse than all kinds of poverty, worse than all kinds of diseases and troubles. So why not try to give them realisation? Why not see that you give them realisation? But first and foremost thing, as I said, that in the left you should be very strong. You shouldn't start doing it because you have got your realisation, you can give realisation. So you should not start doing it unless and until you have strengthened your left side. Such a person is extremely humble, extremely straight, doesn't grudge about anything, doesn't grumble about anything, and can adjust itself into any circumstance. It is not attached to anything. It's an automatic detachment, it doesn't have to detach. You may do anything for that person, you may try to get anything for that person, it's alright. That person will accept, no doubt, but without any attachment to anything. Such a detached person is the one who can work it out, all kinds of propagation of Sahaja Yoga. Today that is the greatest need of the world, that we have to have more Sahaja Yogis. Now, people are so shy to do that, it's very surprising. But I have seen people who don't have any truth, who have all kinds of bad gurus, get after others, try to spread their false ideas. But Sahaja Yogis, why should they feel, why should they feel shy, I don't understand. So, talk about this to everyone, bring them to Sahaja Yoga. Is a very important day, because as a Guru puja, they say that a guru cannot give anything to you. But I can give you the advice, and the advice that you enlarge your heart, you become humble, and try to spread Sahaja Yoga with humility, not with aggressiveness. That is extremely important. If you can do that, then you’ll do full justice to this life, which is a spiritual life. Without that you cannot achieve, you cannot achieve, the strength of spirituality. For that you have to understand that it's very, very important that you should give Sahaja Yoga a full chance, through your wisdom. What I receive [is] mostly the letters are that this person is troublesome, that person is troublesome, that person is doing like that. Forget it! All such persons are not important for Sahaja Yoga. But if you start on proper lines you will be amazed, you'll meet so many people who want peace of mind, peace of heart and a complete oneness with the Divine. They may not accept, they may not say, they might have gone to the wrong people also, possibly. But despite everything, they would like to have a real spiritual peace within themselves. Is a very common desire nowadays among people, but to approach that and to reach that, you have to take to a life of a very simple personality. You see, if you are so much interested in money, or if you are so much interested in your so-called powers or in your ambitions, then Sahaja Yoga cannot do anything. But if you are interested in your compassion and understanding about today's world, how it is in a turmoil: why? Because of the human beings being in the wrong. What we have to do is to pass them the knowledge of the Divine. That should be your desire, and that is what you'll feel very much comfortable with. All other desires, all other wants are, as you say, it's very transitory. One desire is to spread Sahaja Yoga, is so beautiful that you go on working on it, and every time you do that, you will be so joyous and happy, you'll have no problems of any kind. That's the sign of greatness of Sahaja Yoga, and I want you all to become like that. As today's day is great, because we are thinking of all the great saints who came on this earth and who tried to lead us. What they did, all of them tried to spread the truth all over the world. They suffered a lot, they had problems, so many problems, but they worked very hard in every way to spread Sahaja Yoga and talk about God and divinity. All that is what today you have to give Me, a promise, that whenever you get any other human being, you can tell them about Sahaja Yoga. Not that it's important but it’s absolutely immediate need of the world. If you understand this point, that at this time, why are you in this world and what is the need of the world, you will immediately start feeling the responsibility. Whether you are a man or a woman is not important. Go all out to preach, think, make people understand about Sahaja Yoga in every way that is possible, and I think, then, you will become complete as gurus. If Sahaja Yoga is just with you, you cannot be a guru. ‘Guru’ also doesn't mean that you go on preaching about Sahaja Yoga, talking about Sahaja Yoga, giving lectures about Sahaja Yoga, no! It means the one who gives realisations to others. How many people you give realisation is the thing, not to be counted, but to be felt within like the ripples, waves of the Ocean of Love in your heart. So beautiful it is to see that people get realisation and are immersed in the joy of spirituality. That's what I want you to do. That's why I am on this earth. I had to suffer also quite a lot, doesn't matter: so-called sufferings, I was watching it just like a drama. So it's ok. As long as you do not pay much attention to all these sufferings, what is so great? Now you have seen yesterday a beautiful drama about Mohammad Sahib. I always used to think, and it was such pain, about Him, that how people have misunderstood and have gone astray: why they are doing all wrong things? Now, I feel happy that at least you people have realised His greatness, and have understood and made such a beautiful drama out of it. I don't know how far we can propagate this, but it's a fact that Mohammad Sahib Himself was finished, then also His daughter, grand-children were finished, His son-in-law was finished. And after that, by finishing them, they started another horrible thing called Sunnis. Now, the Sunnah religion is not near the truth at all, it's some sort of a very aggressive and a very cruel religion, and that started spreading everywhere. In the real Islam religion of Mohammed Sahib [cruelty] was not there. Those people who killed Him started becoming ‘Islamic’. So this is also a very wrong thing, that a man who was so great and so much of spirituality was not just accepted, and somebody who killed Him is now accepted. It can happen in anything. But the worst it has happened in is Islamic world, which is very dangerous, and that’s we see that, in the name of God, how many bad things they are doing. So, try to understand that it is not the fate of Mohammad Sahib it has happened, it's not the fate of reality it has happened, but it's an eye-opener for all of us to see that the Truth is always challenged by untruth. And we should stand by the Truth, whatever may happen. And a day will come when people will realise that this was a wrong thing they were being, all the time been following, and have been doing all kinds of nonsensical things. All this will work out I am sure, very soon, if My desire is that powerful, I'm sure that they will realise that to be kind, to be nice, to be compassionate is the best way to feel happy, nothing more than that. May God bless you.

Guru Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 21 July 2002. (A loud thunder-clap followed by applause) In India they were all waiting for the monsoons and they are so much worried because the rain did not come. So, I was giving bandhan to the rain and it came here (applause and Mother laughs). And now also they have told, on the television, that it is going to rain in India. But first in Italy! (laughter) I was told that in Italy you needed rain very much and the first rain you had, few days back, and now this is the second one. Because all the understanding of the problems of our farmers is there. And the rain, you see, is so kind that it works at the right time. I am surprised at the quick behaviour and obedience of the rain. Today is a great day, for all of us, because we are celebrating the Guru Puja and remembering all the great Gurus who came on this earth to teach the world about the truth. So many of them were [there]. And they tried their level best to explain to humanity what is spirituality. But it’s such a disparity that people never understood that spirituality is the most important thing we need. That we have to be one with the Divine Power. All their endeavour have been in the wrong direction. First of course they were very intelligent, more than animals, and started seeking, not the truth, but some sort of a self-emancipation I should say, or, I don’t know what to say, call it - self-progress. And in that they lost that they have to first seek spirituality, which is the most important thing. But, we had two types of journeys: one is through the left side or another through the right side. In India, I don’t know why, we had lots of people who went into the jungles and became saints but they were doing right side tapasya. That is, going into the five elements one after another; and mastering the five elements. Of course there is truth in it, no doubt. You have seen how a candle... (loud thunder clap and Mother pauses to smile)...how a candle tells you as to what is your position inside: if you are possessed or if you are not, a candle can tell you - can you imagine? Candle is so much knowledgable. Supposing you have a heart, heart trouble - the candle will show. And if you treat yourself with the candle, you can cure yourself. So, it is so sensitive not [only] that it can cure, but also so competent, not [only] that it shows you that you are sick and you have problems but that it is competent to cure you. Thats why, in India, Agni was worshipped, this light was worshipped, the fire was worshipped, that was worshipped first. They must have discovered that the fire knows everything, so the inner, inner awareness of all these elements, they knew about it and thats why they worshipped those elements. So before the Puja they used to call all the Deities who belonged to those elements to witness their Puja. But that turned out to be right sided movement. Without the left side, right side is very dangerous. If you don’t have right side of course it’s a big dangerous thing also. But first you must have development of your left side. That is what, to begin with, we had in Sahaja Yoga. Left side is compassion, is love, universal feeling, or we can say it’s the blessings of the Devi which are described, you know it, in the Devi Mahatmyam, that the Goddess resides within you as so many things. She resides within you as shraddha, as, She resides in you as sleep, She resides in you as illusion, bhranti. All kinds of things are there on the left-hand side, which are already described. And when I told you about Sahaja Yoga, I wanted to make your left side very strong. Those who, people who, took to right side became very aggressive people, and they had mastered the essence of these five elements, that's alright. But. They were extremely hot-tempered, so much so that they used to curse people, curse them. They used to say things which were not kind; and they didn't believe in the universality. It was such a dangerous thing that they took [to]. In Indian shastras you can see many incidents where people gave a curse, sharp, very common. All these gurus used to curse a person, because they had no compassion, no love, nothing but they had powers of the right side. But we have seen now that those people who have right side, who go only on the right side without the bhakti, without the blessings of the Divine, can become rakshasas actually, can become a great danger for humanity. This is a very serious thing. Through your intelligence, through your thinking power, your ego can go to any limit and create problems within you. Now the ultimate of this problem is, we have seen is, are many diseases, which are absolutely incurable. Even some people, right-sided, some people, can get a kind of a cancer called blood cancer. And this blood cancer, now we have cured it, but even if it is cured you can go back to that kind of aggressiveness, thinking that you are very right. Such people always try to find faults with others, that such and such person is not good, he's doing harm, or any way they can find faults with others, not with themselves. Their attention is outside, not on themselves. They never see what's wrong with them, but they always see what's wrong with others. By doing that, you see, they are climbing the ladder of a horrible right side, which can give you horrible diseases. As I've told you, first is the blood cancer. If you get rid of the blood cancer then you can get into another problems. Nowadays there's a very famous disease called Alzheimers. This is also the side of the right side; because if you don't have that bhakti, that humility, that blessings of the Goddess, you can develop all such horrible diseases which are not only fatal, but also very injurious to others. So by being right-sided you do not progress. You can become a big ascetic, they call it, who can curse others, who can put them into troubles, think that that is a great power - it is not. It is not at all. Because, though you are not suppressed by other powers, negative powers, but your own power takes your life. So Kundalini, when it is arisen, the best thing is to go to the left side, not criticising others, not talking ill of others, but seeing within you, what's wrong. Find out what is the matter with you. First it starts with self-importance, that "I am a very important person," and with this self-importance you go on troubling everyone and torturing everyone, and all that. But because of your right-side movement, you can become very successful. Hitler was the climax of that. And that's how people start taking to very, very cruel things. Nowadays, I think that some people are ruling everywhere with their right side. We do not have people who are using their left side. And whenever they use their left side they are called as saints. Now you all have the powers of the left side. Some of you do have little bit right side also, doesn't matter. Now I would say that you have achieved your left side mastery: Kundalini awakening is there, you are one with the Divine. Now you can come to the right side and know about right side, and try to express your right side. You can express it, not by dominating others, but dominating yourself. By self-examination. By understanding what's wrong with you. Why do you behave like that? Why do you trouble others? Why do you overpower others? Such people will always, I have seen, organise and arrange, and do this and do that. Instead of organising themselves they'll organise others. These things complicate. But if you have love and if you have bhakti, you can very, very easily dominate others in a very different manner. It is not that you dominate by cruelty, by oppression, but you dominate with your love. And you don't want to dominate, but easily people get very much succumbed to love and to magnanimity, to generosity. So all these qualities you must first develop within yourself: is the left-side problem, that - you should be very peaceful, you should give love to others, you should be generous, you should be kind, and see how much it pays. I've seen some people who are extremely rude, they can be rude to anyone, that's their nature, which they should overcome with the left side. Rudeness is not the sign of a saint. A saint is extremely peaceful, and never gets rude with others. So the introspection should work first of all, "Where are we wrong? What wrong things we are doing? What is our style?" Once you discover that your style is already left-side, then you should take to right side and possess the power of right side. What are the powers of right side now, which are achieved through the left-side perfection? We have some very great Gurus on this line. One of them was Raja Janaka. He was a ruler of a country, and a very well-known ruler and everything; but still, still, though He was so generous and good and everything, but at the same time He was a great monarch, great king of those days, very much known for His impartiality, for His statesmanship and all kinds of beautiful things He did for His subjects. That is there, is Raja Janaka. He could not get disturbed with anything. And people never understood why the greatest of greatest saints used to bow to Him. What was so great? Though He was a king, He was living so lavishly and He had so many of ornaments and also conveyances and all that; because nothing was above Him, He was so detached with everything. He had everything, but He was so detached. That's a very good example of a person who had mastered His left, and now who was the king, Raja Janaka, was there. Like that we had many people later on also, one after another, who were extremely, extremely rich, extremely, I should say, powerful as kings, but inside they were absolutely like divine personality. Nothing disturbed them, nothing made them feel greater or happier. No position, no power was to them great. This is a complete emancipation of human beings, that you are realised soul. You should be fully equipped with compassion, love and understanding. But at the same time, it should be expressed in the right way. For example, we can say Christ, He's another example. Though He was an Incarnation, still the amount of forgiveness and love He has for people is tremendous. But at the same time, He used to go on the mountains and preach about spirituality. Those were not very safe times, because people didn't like anybody talking like that. They hated Him because He talked about God. And what they did to Him you know very well. Doesn't matter. Though they crucified Him, still we all respect Him as a great personality. Reason is, He was, He was no doubt an Incarnation, but still He went all out to give His achievements or, I can say, whatever powers He had, to others. He went all over the places, He had no facilities, but still He went out to many people and tried to save them. This was the right-side movement. That means Sahaja Yogis can also become right-sided, but like Christ. Otherwise if they are right-sided they'll organise, they'll do all kinds of things, and have problems of the right side. That's why I want you to avoid the right side. But once you are fully a left-sided master of Sahaja Yoga, then it's very, very much needed to be a complete personality of spirituality, that you should take to right-side movement. And what is the right-side movement is the collectivity. Should not be satisfied with what you have got. It's very easy to feel, "Oh, now we have got realisation, now what is there? We are on top of the world!" That's not so. You have to go out, talk to people. They will insult you, they'll trouble you, they'll do all kinds of things. But you are already a person, already a realised soul. You can listen to them, what they are saying; you will not ask for anything, but you'd like to do good to them. This is also a compassion, that you don't want to keep your realisation to yourself, but you want to do it for others also so that they also get realisation, it's very important. If you do not feel that way, the pity for people who haven't got realisation, think of the times you were not realised. These people are also not realised and they are having a bad time, they can be in for any trouble. So now, it's not that if you have got realisation you settle down with it - no, that's not the way; but you should go all out to see that you give realisation to others, and save them. You all have got realisation not for your sake, it's not limited for you, but it is meant for others, that you have to give it to others. And as soon as you'll start giving it to others you'll be amazed, so many qualities in you will come out; because when you see others, you find that what is lacking in them, what do they need, what you have to give, how you have to give. You can become anything, you can become a poet, you can become a writer, you can, anything can you become, in case you face others. Then it comes as a reaction within you, all these qualities develop, and you become a very good, I should say, artist. This is only possible if you meet other people and talk to them about Sahaja Yoga, and tell them about your Self-realisation. I know there will be problems, I know. That is true. There will be people who will oppose you, say all kinds of things against you, and they'll try to stop your activities and do all kinds of harm, doesn't matter. But that's the thing you should achieve, is to meet people, talk to them and start telling them about Self-realisation; you have to save them. That's important. But first of all you should know that you should have no right-sided complications, otherwise they'll all run away. A person who is spiritual is supposed or accepted to be a very humble person. Of course because he is humble, people will take advantage of him, say all kinds of things, it's alright, is a part of the game. But, he doesn't mind, he doesn't mind anything. Anything that comes his way, he doesn't mind. But what is the main thing is that he has compassion. His compassion that he had before from the left side is now expanded, and he wants to save the people. People don't have food, is alright, it's a big complication; if people are starving is another; but if they do not get spirituality, what's the use of their human life, why did they evolve to this state? They are evolved from animal state, from the worst possible conditions, to a human state. And now if they do not get their realisation, that means this is worse than starving, worse than all kinds of poverty, worse than all kinds of diseases and troubles. So why not try to give them realisation? Why not see that you give them realisation? But first and foremost thing, as I said, that in the left you should be very strong. You shouldn't start doing it because you have got your realisation, you can give realisation. So you should not start doing it unless and until you have strengthened your left side. Such a person is extremely humble, extremely straight, doesn't grudge about anything, doesn't grumble about anything, and can adjust itself into any circumstance. It is not attached to anything. It's an automatic detachment, it doesn't have to detach. You may do anything for that person, you may try to get anything for that person, it's alright. That person will accept, no doubt, but without any attachment to anything. Such a detached person is the one who can work it out, all kinds of propagation of Sahaja Yoga. Today that is the greatest need of the world, that we have to have more Sahaja Yogis. Now, people are so shy to do that, it's very surprising. But I have seen people who don't have any truth, who have all kinds of bad gurus, get after others, try to spread their false ideas. But Sahaja Yogis, why should they feel, why should they feel shy, I don't understand. So, talk about this to everyone, bring them to Sahaja Yoga. Is a very important day, because as a Guru puja, they say that a guru cannot give anything to you. But I can give you the advice, and the advice that you enlarge your heart, you become humble, and try to spread Sahaja Yoga with humility, not with aggressiveness. That is extremely important. If you can do that, then you’ll do full justice to this life, which is a spiritual life. Without that you cannot achieve, you cannot achieve, the strength of spirituality. For that you have to understand that it's very, very important that you should give Sahaja Yoga a full chance, through your wisdom. What I receive [is] mostly the letters are that this person is troublesome, that person is troublesome, that person is doing like that. Forget it! All such persons are not important for Sahaja Yoga. But if you start on proper lines you will be amazed, you'll meet so many people who want peace of mind, peace of heart and a complete oneness with the Divine. They may not accept, they may not say, they might have gone to the wrong people also, possibly. But despite everything, they would like to have a real spiritual peace within themselves. Is a very common desire nowadays among people, but to approach that and to reach that, you have to take to a life of a very simple personality. You see, if you are so much interested in money, or if you are so much interested in your so-called powers or in your ambitions, then Sahaja Yoga cannot do anything. But if you are interested in your compassion and understanding about today's world, how it is in a turmoil: why? Because of the human beings being in the wrong. What we have to do is to pass them the knowledge of the Divine. That should be your desire, and that is what you'll feel very much comfortable with. All other desires, all other wants are, as you say, it's very transitory. One desire is to spread Sahaja Yoga, is so beautiful that you go on working on it, and every time you do that, you will be so joyous and happy, you'll have no problems of any kind. That's the sign of greatness of Sahaja Yoga, and I want you all to become like that. As today's day is great, because we are thinking of all the great saints who came on this earth and who tried to lead us. What they did, all of them tried to spread the truth all over the world. They suffered a lot, they had problems, so many problems, but they worked very hard in every way to spread Sahaja Yoga and talk about God and divinity. All that is what today you have to give Me, a promise, that whenever you get any other human being, you can tell them about Sahaja Yoga. Not that it's important but it’s absolutely immediate need of the world. If you understand this point, that at this time, why are you in this world and what is the need of the world, you will immediately start feeling the responsibility. Whether you are a man or a woman is not important. Go all out to preach, think, make people understand about Sahaja Yoga in every way that is possible, and I think, then, you will become complete as gurus. If Sahaja Yoga is just with you, you cannot be a guru. ‘Guru’ also doesn't mean that you go on preaching about Sahaja Yoga, talking about Sahaja Yoga, giving lectures about Sahaja Yoga, no! It means the one who gives realisations to others. How many people you give realisation is the thing, not to be counted, but to be felt within like the ripples, waves of the Ocean of Love in your heart. So beautiful it is to see that people get realisation and are immersed in the joy of spirituality. That's what I want you to do. That's why I am on this earth. I had to suffer also quite a lot, doesn't matter: so-called sufferings, I was watching it just like a drama. So it's ok. As long as you do not pay much attention to all these sufferings, what is so great? Now you have seen yesterday a beautiful drama about Mohammad Sahib. I always used to think, and it was such pain, about Him, that how people have misunderstood and have gone astray: why they are doing all wrong things? Now, I feel happy that at least you people have realised His greatness, and have understood and made such a beautiful drama out of it. I don't know how far we can propagate this, but it's a fact that Mohammad Sahib Himself was finished, then also His daughter, grand-children were finished, His son-in-law was finished. And after that, by finishing them, they started another horrible thing called Sunnis. Now, the Sunnah religion is not near the truth at all, it's some sort of a very aggressive and a very cruel religion, and that started spreading everywhere. In the real Islam religion of Mohammed Sahib [cruelty] was not there. Those people who killed Him started becoming ‘Islamic’. So this is also a very wrong thing, that a man who was so great and so much of spirituality was not just accepted, and somebody who killed Him is now accepted. It can happen in anything. But the worst it has happened in is Islamic world, which is very dangerous, and that’s we see that, in the name of God, how many bad things they are doing. So, try to understand that it is not the fate of Mohammad Sahib it has happened, it's not the fate of reality it has happened, but it's an eye-opener for all of us to see that the Truth is always challenged by untruth. And we should stand by the Truth, whatever may happen. And a day will come when people will realise that this was a wrong thing they were being, all the time been following, and have been doing all kinds of nonsensical things. All this will work out I am sure, very soon, if My desire is that powerful, I'm sure that they will realise that to be kind, to be nice, to be compassionate is the best way to feel happy, nothing more than that. May God bless you.

7/24/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=2483

Guru Purnima Puja: What is our duty?

Italy

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Guru Purnima Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 24 July 2002. Guru Purnima Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 24 July 2002. It’s very interesting the way you’ve found out. Today is the real Guru Purnima. The Purnima is the day when the moon is full. I knew this, but for Sahaja Yogis which we have to arrange Saturday, Sunday, Monday – Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Whenever it is, whether it is on that date or not, we have to arrange it. So in that case, this time it was a day, I think two days before we arranged it, so it doesn’t matter. After all, moon is there for us and we are for moon, so it cannot be something that would have very wrong in it.I have already told you such a lot about the Guru principle. In the Guru principle, we have seen people who came on this Earth. They were all mostly all born realised actually, and they never gave realisation to anyone to – a very big difference. They were all born as realised souls and they became as Sufis and they’re called by different names, but they were not given Self Realisation, they had it, and because of their Self Realisation, as they had, they have so much of knowledge and that is what they try to impart to people.They knew all about Chakras – everything they knew, somehow, must be in their last lives achievements that they knew it, perhaps some of them were disciples of other very great people. I don’t know how they had full ideas to what is Self Realisation is and what do we achieve after Self Realisation.Now the only person, I think, Mohammad Sahib, is the one who has talked about Miraj. Miraj is the ascent through our Kundalini. Of course in India they did talk about it, but in any other country, they didn’t say so clearly that there is something called Miraj. And, not only that He talked of Miraj but also he talked of the resurrection time when your hands will speak. Two things He said. First is “your hands will speak when you will get your Realisation”. It’s a very great thing to say, because that is how you can ascertain and you can be sure that you have got your Realisation. That’s the sign He gave. And the second thing He talked about Miraj and the white horse He said, was nothing but the Kundalini, But He didn’t used the word Kundalini but He said it’s a white horse. So He is the one who knew what should happen to people when they get Realisation. That is a great revelation to all of you and of such a help to Sahaja Yoga. You are all realised souls because you can feel the vibrations – one thing, and secondly how you have become, He explained very clearly.We have so many saints in India, so many of them, one better than the other and whatever they talked, whatever they say, is so remarkable, is so remarkable that – actually we, human beings, I think we are very dumb, that they never realised it, that we have so many saints here. Even in Turkey we had Sufis where it’s a Sunni religion, there too, we had so many Sufis. All over the world we had realised souls. They were not incarnations, but they were born realised souls. So you see, their explanation and everything is very good because they were human beings and whatever they said was very much good for human beings to understand.Because an incarnation said something, it is something from the beyond and this new, I should say, advance of the people who were really human beings and had become realised souls and how they have talked about various things is very remarkable.Firstly most of them were poets. And this, we had Kabir in India, we don’t know how he was born, where he was born, who were his parents and elder, it’s absolutely not known, despite that you can only make out from his poetry that he was a great, great Sahaj Yogi, and how he has described things very interesting. And he brought forth so many fundamental truths in his poetry and he talked about it. He didn’t belong to any religion as such. When he died there was a fight between Hindus and Muslims: what should we do with his body? And they say when they had lifted the sheet that was covering him, they found flowers, two types of flowers, one for the Hindus and one for the Muslims. So that’s how he solved the problem of this stupid fight people were having.In Sahaj Yoga we are not belonging to any such stupid religions, we belong to one religion: is Vishwa Nirmal Dharma. And all the stupidity of all these religions we should really throw away. Because, what you just see now today, everywhere, every religious group is fighting each other, beating each other, finishing each other. I mean, it’s not the way a religious person should be like that, but they are killing each other. I mean, all kinds of horrible things they are doing, unbelievable how they can do that, such cruelty. And first thing is, for a yogi, or for a saint, cruelty is absolutely not there. They’ll sacrifice their lives, they’ll do anything, but they will not be cruel to any other person. Now, those who in the name of God and religion are cruel are actually not at all by any chance, are religious people. So this is what the perversion of religion is, and we all should understand, if we belong to Sahaj Yoga then for us kindness, sweetness, compassion, love is the main quality we should have and if you don’t have that, then we are not Sahaj Yogis.So we are a different clan, I should say, a different personalities, who are really realised souls, who are above all these nonsensical ideas and who have vibrations. But, as I’ve said, that now you must spread it, because I have come on this Earth just for people to get their emancipation, their realisation and unless and until all the people who believe in their emancipation get it, I won’t be happy. There are many who do believe, but not yet got their realisation, so you have to work and you’ll be amazed you’ll find people who are very anxious to get their realisation. It will work out on this Guru Purnima day, is a very auspicious day. I bless you with a special powers that you can give realisations to other. Don’t get involved into your own problems, that’s not important, that will all be solved.Mostly what I get, letters about is this, that, all personal problems or some sort of other problems. What you should do is to see what is your problem within, what is happening within you, why we are having a problem within, what is our duty, why we have got self realisation, why we have got this wealth of spirituality and what should we do with it.I tell you, if you really think about it every day, even for half an hour, you will realise that you are very well equipped people. Saints have done so much, they have written so many things, they have fought the people, they did everything. You don’t have to do anything like that. But one thing is: you must spread Sahaja Yoga.Even now Sahaj Yoga is not so much accepted everywhere, people don’t know about it, it’s surprising, while all other kinds of horrible gurus are very well known. So we have to do it by our behaviour, by our understanding, by our whole life, people should say that these are something rare people and different people.I am happy today is another day of Guru Purnima which is a very auspicious day and to be regarded as a very big blessing for you because this gives you, I mean this is a certificate, that you all are capable of being Gurus. You have to become that, becoming is important, in Sahaj Yoga becoming is important, all other things are really of no use. You have to become, specially ladies are very shy I think. They can do a lot and they should work it out, they are shy for nothing at all, what is the need to be shy? They are very shy ladies and they just don’t get into the whole working of Sahaj Yoga. You should. If the ladies start talking about it, I think it will work much faster.And I bless you all to do this work, which was left half done by the Saints. It is your duty to complete it.May God Bless You.

Guru Purnima Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 24 July 2002. Guru Purnima Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 24 July 2002. It’s very interesting the way you’ve found out. Today is the real Guru Purnima. The Purnima is the day when the moon is full. I knew this, but for Sahaja Yogis which we have to arrange Saturday, Sunday, Monday – Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Whenever it is, whether it is on that date or not, we have to arrange it. So in that case, this time it was a day, I think two days before we arranged it, so it doesn’t matter. After all, moon is there for us and we are for moon, so it cannot be something that would have very wrong in it.I have already told you such a lot about the Guru principle. In the Guru principle, we have seen people who came on this Earth. They were all mostly all born realised actually, and they never gave realisation to anyone to – a very big difference. They were all born as realised souls and they became as Sufis and they’re called by different names, but they were not given Self Realisation, they had it, and because of their Self Realisation, as they had, they have so much of knowledge and that is what they try to impart to people.They knew all about Chakras – everything they knew, somehow, must be in their last lives achievements that they knew it, perhaps some of them were disciples of other very great people. I don’t know how they had full ideas to what is Self Realisation is and what do we achieve after Self Realisation.Now the only person, I think, Mohammad Sahib, is the one who has talked about Miraj. Miraj is the ascent through our Kundalini. Of course in India they did talk about it, but in any other country, they didn’t say so clearly that there is something called Miraj. And, not only that He talked of Miraj but also he talked of the resurrection time when your hands will speak. Two things He said. First is “your hands will speak when you will get your Realisation”. It’s a very great thing to say, because that is how you can ascertain and you can be sure that you have got your Realisation. That’s the sign He gave. And the second thing He talked about Miraj and the white horse He said, was nothing but the Kundalini, But He didn’t used the word Kundalini but He said it’s a white horse. So He is the one who knew what should happen to people when they get Realisation. That is a great revelation to all of you and of such a help to Sahaja Yoga. You are all realised souls because you can feel the vibrations – one thing, and secondly how you have become, He explained very clearly.We have so many saints in India, so many of them, one better than the other and whatever they talked, whatever they say, is so remarkable, is so remarkable that – actually we, human beings, I think we are very dumb, that they never realised it, that we have so many saints here. Even in Turkey we had Sufis where it’s a Sunni religion, there too, we had so many Sufis. All over the world we had realised souls. They were not incarnations, but they were born realised souls. So you see, their explanation and everything is very good because they were human beings and whatever they said was very much good for human beings to understand.Because an incarnation said something, it is something from the beyond and this new, I should say, advance of the people who were really human beings and had become realised souls and how they have talked about various things is very remarkable.Firstly most of them were poets. And this, we had Kabir in India, we don’t know how he was born, where he was born, who were his parents and elder, it’s absolutely not known, despite that you can only make out from his poetry that he was a great, great Sahaj Yogi, and how he has described things very interesting. And he brought forth so many fundamental truths in his poetry and he talked about it. He didn’t belong to any religion as such. When he died there was a fight between Hindus and Muslims: what should we do with his body? And they say when they had lifted the sheet that was covering him, they found flowers, two types of flowers, one for the Hindus and one for the Muslims. So that’s how he solved the problem of this stupid fight people were having.In Sahaj Yoga we are not belonging to any such stupid religions, we belong to one religion: is Vishwa Nirmal Dharma. And all the stupidity of all these religions we should really throw away. Because, what you just see now today, everywhere, every religious group is fighting each other, beating each other, finishing each other. I mean, it’s not the way a religious person should be like that, but they are killing each other. I mean, all kinds of horrible things they are doing, unbelievable how they can do that, such cruelty. And first thing is, for a yogi, or for a saint, cruelty is absolutely not there. They’ll sacrifice their lives, they’ll do anything, but they will not be cruel to any other person. Now, those who in the name of God and religion are cruel are actually not at all by any chance, are religious people. So this is what the perversion of religion is, and we all should understand, if we belong to Sahaj Yoga then for us kindness, sweetness, compassion, love is the main quality we should have and if you don’t have that, then we are not Sahaj Yogis.So we are a different clan, I should say, a different personalities, who are really realised souls, who are above all these nonsensical ideas and who have vibrations. But, as I’ve said, that now you must spread it, because I have come on this Earth just for people to get their emancipation, their realisation and unless and until all the people who believe in their emancipation get it, I won’t be happy. There are many who do believe, but not yet got their realisation, so you have to work and you’ll be amazed you’ll find people who are very anxious to get their realisation. It will work out on this Guru Purnima day, is a very auspicious day. I bless you with a special powers that you can give realisations to other. Don’t get involved into your own problems, that’s not important, that will all be solved.Mostly what I get, letters about is this, that, all personal problems or some sort of other problems. What you should do is to see what is your problem within, what is happening within you, why we are having a problem within, what is our duty, why we have got self realisation, why we have got this wealth of spirituality and what should we do with it.I tell you, if you really think about it every day, even for half an hour, you will realise that you are very well equipped people. Saints have done so much, they have written so many things, they have fought the people, they did everything. You don’t have to do anything like that. But one thing is: you must spread Sahaja Yoga.Even now Sahaj Yoga is not so much accepted everywhere, people don’t know about it, it’s surprising, while all other kinds of horrible gurus are very well known. So we have to do it by our behaviour, by our understanding, by our whole life, people should say that these are something rare people and different people.I am happy today is another day of Guru Purnima which is a very auspicious day and to be regarded as a very big blessing for you because this gives you, I mean this is a certificate, that you all are capable of being Gurus. You have to become that, becoming is important, in Sahaj Yoga becoming is important, all other things are really of no use. You have to become, specially ladies are very shy I think. They can do a lot and they should work it out, they are shy for nothing at all, what is the need to be shy? They are very shy ladies and they just don’t get into the whole working of Sahaj Yoga. You should. If the ladies start talking about it, I think it will work much faster.And I bless you all to do this work, which was left half done by the Saints. It is your duty to complete it.May God Bless You.

8/1/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=6241

VOA ITV Interview with Shri Mataji

United States

New Jersey

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VOA ITV Interview in New Jersey (USA). 1 August 2002. Interviewer: ... also She was promoted even by Bhrigumuni, the ancient astrologer, in Nadi Granth. And that's what Mataji talks about all the time: how to get Self Realization, how to get the absolute knowledge and the absolute truth. Sahaja Yoga, as we know, is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the Divine Power through the awakening of our Kundalini which many times remains dormant in our system. Mataji, it's a pleasure to talk to You right in Your home turf, in New Jersey, and tell us ... I know last four years ago I met You. It was a great experience, and I want to tell our viewers again what it is all that You've been doing, promoting Sahaja Yoga for the last thirty years now all over the world. Tell us again briefly for viewers who don't know what Sahaja Yoga really means and signifies. What does it do and how do we get that absolute knowledge through this discipline? Shri Mataji: Saha means with. Ja means born. Is born with you the right to get this yoga, is the union with the Divine. So this is your birthright. All human beings have this right to get the awakening of their Kundalini by which they become one with the Divine Power. This is the real yoga. Interviewer: Right, and as I said, even the ancient sages and astrologers, Bhrigumuni talks about it and You've written in Your book also, Meta Modern Era ... Shri Mataji: They all have talked about it, but in those days they used to work on, I would say, thousands of people. Then select one of them. Then cleanse them. And then they used to give them Realization. Now the difference of this modern Sahaja Yoga, you can call it, is this: that you first give them awakening. Let them see for themselves what's wrong with them. All right. Once they find out, let them correct themselves. And then it's perfect. Because if you try like this, then it will take thousands of years to give Realization to many people. With this method you can give collectively to thousands of people Realization. Now we have to change the world, and how can we do it on individual basis if you go? This is the best way now; thousands are getting Realization all over. And now they are telling Me it's in eighty-six countries working out. So we are going to have a global race, you can call it, a global awakening. Which is very important. And without this awakening, we cannot get transformed. This is to transform you, to completely change you. Now as you know we have, they say there are six enemies we have within us. In Sanskrit you know them. Now all these enemies, which are lust and greed, and things like that - jealousies, and all. All these can be completely destroyed by Kundalini awakening. You become a different person. You become the Spirit. Now in all the scriptures it is written "Know thyself." And that should happen to you, that you should know yourself. Otherwise, all gimmicks are going on. All kinds of gimmicks as I told you last time also. They are of no value. And they're not going to give you any results. What you should do is to get your Self Realization. It's not difficult. It's free. Why not? Interviewer: But Mataji, how is Your discipline, how is Sahaj Yoga different and unique from other yoga techniques for Self Realization? Shri Mataji: Others ... you see out of them Raja Yoga is called, one Raja Yoga. Now Raaj Yoga actually happens within. What happens, when the Kundalini rises, She closes the chakras. That's called as kumbha. But you can't do it from outside, you see? Now supposing you move one wheel of the car. Will the car move? In the same way, your energy has to be awakened. Now there's Hatha Yoga which was thousands of years back they were practicing the same way - first cleansing - this, that - but ultimately, they said the same thing what I do. That they said you reach a stage which we call as thoughtless awareness and then doubtless awareness. But in Sanskrit it is thoughtless awareness they have divided in two - Savichar and Nirvichar And in this thing - Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa. They have divided. But we say you become thoughtlessly aware to begin with. As Jung has said about it. And then beyond that is Nirvikalpa and you have no doubts about yourself. You know yourself, you know everything, when your knowledge is perfect. Interviewer: But, Mataji, now You said it's a spontaneous, and we've both said, it's a spontaneous union of our inner consciousness along with the Divine Power. But that's only for that brief, few seconds that you get that Kundalini awakening ... Shri Mataji: No, no. Interviewer: But then we have to keep practicing. Shri Mataji: No, no. You have to grow. Interviewer: That's what I want to ask You. Shri Mataji: You see, you have to grow because it's like a primule in the seed, you see, which sprouts first. Then it has to grow into the tree. And for that, hardly one month, you have to attend our programs four times or five times. You can become masters. Nothing much to be done. Because they'll tell you the absolute knowledge. Now supposing on the hands, I told you that time also ... Interviewer: Vibrations. Shri Mataji: ... that you can feel the different centers. Now, how to correct them? What are they? All this knowledge has to go to you and that takes hardly any time. Interviewer: Now, of course You say just like the thumb is creativity and this finger is, you know, being collective and then there is wisdom over here, the integration in the middle. Shri Mataji: Innocence. Interviewer: Yes, innocence Shri Mataji: And wisdom. Interviewer: Now, but the thing is, you get that Cool Breeze for that brief period of time. But then how does one ... You said, you know, you practice for one month. That means we all become realized souls? But there are people like sages and saints in the Himalayas trying to find the absolute truth, and here we do it in one split second. Shri Mataji: That's how. Because the times are such. This is Ghor Kali Yuga. At this time it has to happen. It has to happen that way. Of course, I must say that I did study human beings, their permutations and combinations. And when I was forty-seven years of age, then I found out the real way of crossing it. And then I started working out with others. Interviewer: So You tried other disciplines as well? Shri Mataji: First of all I had to find out what's wrong with these human beings. Because I was born on a different level. So I used to study everyone: Why are they not becoming realized souls? Then I found out they had problems. Then I found out only how these combinations can be worked out and all of them can get Realization. That's how it has become collective. Any discovery, if it is not collective, it is useless. Interviewer: Right. Shri Mataji: All the saints have suffered. Everybody has suffered. If they had people like Me who would have said, "No, all the people should get it," then it's not so difficult. Though there are people who are little bit go against Me because I say they are false. That's it. Interviewer: We have to know the good from the wrong, and right from wrong. Shri Mataji: Of course. We must find out. So many people are lost like that. Interviewer: But then You said that you have to practice. Do You think that those people who have practiced Sahaja Yoga have totally transformed their lives or are they going back to their same selfish selves or does the transformation really become a permanent thing in their life? Shri Mataji: Ninety-nine-point-nine percent are. Maybe little bit might be some person, may not. But what is My experience is that they become absolutely, absolutely all right. Interviewer: Now, You have kind of modified it for the modern day times. Shri Mataji: Ah, yes. Interviewer: Now You tell me the ancient Sahaj Yoga technique ... Shri Mataji: Ancient Sahaja Yoga I told you is in Patanjali Yoga they have written down. They have ashtangas, out of which these acrobats are only wee part of one of them. So all that you do, and this and that and then the guru finds it out. He might even beat you. He might even hang you on the well, do all kinds of things just to put down the ego. Sahaja Yoga is the other way round, first you get your Realization and then know what's wrong with you, yourself. Like people will come and say, "Mother, please help me, my Agnya is caught." This chakra. Means he has ego. Nobody would say that to anyone that "I have got ego," will they say? Interviewer: Right, right, right. So they can actually figure out themselves what the ... Shri Mataji: You become introspective. You see inside yourself that this is wrong. Take it out. Interviewer: How long does one have to practice every day - keep the minimum time. How many hours one should practice to be introspective and get that Realization continuously coming to them. Shri Mataji: I told you, one month. Interviewer: No, after that. Shri Mataji: After that, in the morning if you do about five minutes meditation. Interviewer: That's it? Shri Mataji: That's all, and evening about ten minutes. Interviewer: A lot of people say do two hours, you know, ten percent of your time. Shri Mataji: These are modern times, I know that. (laughs) Interviewer: I know You feel that in Kali Yuga this is the only ... But they say also, Mataji, in Kali Yuga, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Path is the right way. Shri Mataji: Now see. On that, bhakti yog is there. Shri Krishna has talked about it. He said, "Either you do bhakti." You see, He was very intelligent and He knew that human beings are stupid. So He tried to play with them. He said, "You do bhakti. You can give Me water, flower, everything, it's good. But Ananya Bhakti you do - when you are not the other." Without Realization, you are other. See how He played on the words? Now people are doing bhakti after bhakti. Nothing they get. Secondly, He said that you do Karma Yoga ananya. That whatever work you do you put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. Now people, many people, say that yes Mother, whatever we do, we put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. Even if we murder somebody you put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. What He was meaning that is not possible. As long as you have ego, you cannot put it at the Lotus Feet of the God. So, you get rid of your ego, that's what He was meaning, means Sahaja Yoga. The first thing that He preached is Gyana Yoga. Ours is gyana yoga. By you being sthitaprati, realized soul, ours is Gyana Yoga by in you get all the knowledge. Interviewer: Even when you say when you bow down that's why there you're saying, you know, I am giving my ego away, sacrificing - that's exactly you do when you bow. Shri Mataji: That is it. That is it. Interviewer: Now how does it emotionally, psychologically, physiologically change the person? Shri Mataji: All right, now we have seven centers within us - the lowest center, the first one, is for our morality and innocence. Interviewer: Mooladhara, right? Shri Mataji: Mooladhara. Then the second one and third one, and fourth, fifth, sixth. All of them are responsible for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being. So when the Kundalini passes through them, She integrates them together. One thing. She enlightens them. She enriches them. And then She connects them to the All Pervading Power. So the problem is solved because all these problems are because of the chakras, of the centers which are in problem. Interviewer: But a lot of people say, "Why don't we start with the seventh chakra? Let's go to the top chakra and start to enlighten that chakra without going to the Kundalini." A lot of people say bypass the Kundalini and let's go to the ... Shri Mataji: You can't. Interviewer: ... seventh chakra and move on. Forget the other chakras. Shri Mataji: You shouldn't, you see, decide something like that. Actually, after Realization you, yourself, will know which chakra is catching. And then you will try to completely correct it. You have to be honest with yourself, you know? Once you know that, you do that. What's the use of just somebody says do like that? Theories after theories. That's not going to help. What is actually there, because this is the actualization of becoming. It's not just talking and trying all tricks, you know? Interviewer: Does, does sometimes the Kundalini may not rise in all the seven chakras. It may get stuck somewhere in the middle. That's another ... a lot of people say. Shri Mataji: Some do. Agreed. Some do get. But you can clear it out. It's not difficult. Interviewer: Is it easy to clear it out? Shri Mataji: You see others are there to help. Those who are now all right then they can remove that obstruction. Take it away. Interviewer: I see. And I believe, Mataji, recently only at the National Institute of Medicine in Washington D.C. they demonstrated the technique of Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Oh, they were very much impressed and forty doctors came forward. But then they wanted to test a girl ... how far ... because I say that on these things (Shri Mataji looks at Her fingertips) you can make out your chakra. So they asked a girl, one doctor asked, "What's wrong with me?" (S)he said, "Heart." And he had a bypass surgery two months back. They were all amazed. I said, "Don't have to do all the rigamarole of the diagnosis, just on your fingertips you can say." Interviewer: Would You display the technique of Sahaj Yoga for our viewers, Mataji? Shri Mataji: This first? Interviewer: The technique of Sahaja Yoga ... how to ... if a person who wants to be initiated into this technique, what they have to do. If You can demonstrate it for us? Shri Mataji: Yes. That's why you have to spend about one month knowing about it, not continuously. I think they have four sessions or five sessions. Immediately you are there. But the American mind is different. I must tell you this. That first they said, "We should have course. Now there cannot be a course. But these boys tried to make it "First chakra, second chakra," like that. Seven courses. Then they said what next? Now this is a stupid question, because if you become a master then you don't say, "What next?" You are a master, you teach. It's given all free. Why? Because you have to give it to others. You have to change the whole world, isn't it? Interviewer: So, how do you get it. If you can explain to our viewers how. If you can show it to our viewers - the technique. Shri Mataji: Just like this, you see. Can you take out your shoes? (Silence) You're getting it. Getting cool breeze. In this hand also. See on your head. Interviewer: That's it? Shri Mataji: You got it. That's it. Interviewer: Oh. That's simple. That's like you put your hands and then you put the Cool Breeze over there. Now what if I don't get the Cool Breeze? Shri Mataji: Then I'll have to work it out. Interviewer: Then You have to work it. Then, Mataji, You have to come everywhere to each person. Shri Mataji: No, no, no. You see in a collective them come, in a program. I have My Sahaj Yogis with Me. If there's someone who doesn't get, I said, "All right. Look after them." They come to the stage and they get it. Interviewer: But does one have to always get that Cool Breeze over the head? Shri Mataji: Of course. That's the sign that your nerves are passing that All Pervading Power, you see. Interviewer: You mean the Ida, and the Pingala and the Sushumna Nadi all are in sync together. Shri Mataji: Yes they are in balance. And from the Sushumna this has gone up. You see, and then when you are in balance, you get perfectly all right. Interviewer: Then how does one discover the problems that they may have inside ... Shri Mataji: On your fingertips, here ... Interviewer: Oh, through the fingertips. Shri Mataji: You can make it out. Interviewer: Whether it's hot or cold. Shri Mataji: Because these are five, six and seven. Five, six and seven. And now this is for the left side (Shri Mataji touches the interviewer's left hand), is for your emotional side. And this is for your mental side and also for physical side (Shri Mataji touches the interviewer's right hand). So that's how you decide. Interviewer: Oh, so you know which side is giving me the problem. Shri Mataji: Where is the thing, where is the problem is and what chakra is catching in particular. Interviewer: Oh, so you can even know from the chakra? Shri Mataji: Ya, you can know. Interviewer: Let's say I have a problem coming in from the middle, middle finger - meaning like I feel as heat over here. Shri Mataji: This is left Nabhi. This could be when you have diabetes or could be when something wrong with your mother, your relationship with your mother. Interviewer: I see, that's how one determines it. So, each finger will tell you what is the problem. Shri Mataji: Yes, what is the problem. Interviewer: Oh, I generally get heat over here. (Interviewer points at left palm - Sahasrara) Shri Mataji: Here You get? Here is My, this is Myself here. Interviewer: Okay, so I've got You here. Interviewer: Mataji tell us, I know You come here touring all the time, tell us, if this is the way to go for Self Realization, what would be Your message to our viewers. Shri Mataji: Now, the message is like this, now, because this is the Last Judgment, and in this judgment, if you don't get your Realization, you'll be lost. So all of the people should take their Realization. This is the Last Judgment time has come. This is very important to understand. You cannot go on - there are people - there's a rat race of seeking going on. From one guru - guru shopping, guru shopping, like that. Stop it. And also we Indians are going to the temple, this thing, that thing. Stop it now. There's nothing wrong in it, but first you get your Self Realization. Interviewer: Now do You have centers all over USA, do You have one in Manhattan as well they can come to? Shri Mataji: I don't know, all over quite a lot, and also I've been to Canada. Yes, we also have disciples in the South America we have here and also in Canada. Also, here we have thirty-five centers. Interviewer: Thirty-five centers. So they can just come to any center, say, "I'd like to learn about this technique" and it's free of charge. Shri Mataji: Absolutely free they have to just come, give some time and work it out. If they want this, it's very easy. Interviewer: Right. Okay. And is there a number that they can call if they want to ...? Shri Mataji: Ya, ya, there is a number, but I must tell you, very unfortunate in America that mostly the Americans come, Indians are few. I don't know where are they. Interviewer: Yeah, it's funny sometimes we take it as our birthright but we never really practice it. And we go away from our roots and then non-Indians come in and when they adopt everything: Maybe this is the right way to go. And it's a very sad way of ... Shri Mataji: A sad way. You see, for you people it should be the easiest. You being Indians, it should be the easiest. I don't know where are they lost. Very few, very few Indians come. Interviewer: From this program I guess they will understand that they can... Shri Mataji: Now I am finished with all My programs and I'll be going back very soon. But when I come next, I would like your listeners, who are mostly Indians, to tell them, "Now don't lose your time, why don't you get it? It's all free." It's better to warn them. Interviewer: Right. Now you said, Mataji, very quickly, You said that you know the problem, can one then fix the problem, like, you know, treat that problem through Sahaja Yoga itself? Shri Mataji: Of course. You can also fix your problem once you are at that level. Others can fix it for you. Interviewer: Right, so they've got to be little bit more ... Shri Mataji: You treat yourself. I mean, with your own energy. This energy is your own Mother. Your individual Mother, you see. She looks after you. She'll do everything. She'll suggest to you. I mean, tremendous things. Interviewer: So we are actually keeping in touch with our inner dharma. Shri Mataji: Of course. Interviewer: Our inner state of righteousness. Shri Mataji: Inner dharma builts in. You cannot be adharmi after this. You cannot. If you become, your hands will start burning. You cannot. And people give up everything. You know now they are going to ... they have offered us that we should do something for the drug addicts. So many drug addicts have been cured. Ah, drinking, drunkards, everything. Interviewer: All addictions and compulsive disorders. Shri Mataji: Ya. Interviewer: I see. Shri Mataji: Very, very, you see, important thing is that you have to become your Self. Interviewer: But also the important thing is once they have gotten that Realization, they have to continue practicing every day. Shri Mataji: A little bit grow. And then you give it to others, then you understand it much better. You want to do it because you become so compassionate. See, you become so compassionate, you want to do it. Interviewer: Do they get some sort of an experience also, like a spiritual experience once they get Realized? Like, You know, when they say when you are meditating you through some sort of enlightened kind of path and you get these spiritual experiences. This is not that way. Shri Mataji: No. No. You become absolutely silent. And experiences are like there are lights you see around Me and photographs like that, miraculous. Lots of photographs are there. So the Paramachaitanya is trying to convince people that now take your Realization from Me. Interviewer: Right. So that itself You've come to know that you are the soul, you know, Atma, Paramatma, the relationship. Shri Mataji: Yes. Yes. I knew it from the day I was born. As you know you were a human being, I knew this. But you have to have humility. To do this work you cannot show off and make a big band out of it. It has to be very humble work. And that's why I think the people were not so much impressed because here you see a big show, people do all kinds of things. What's the use? All this is all absolutely I think is duggery. That's not the way. Interviewer: You've kept that path of humility ... Shri Mataji: Ya. Of course. Interviewer: ... and brought so much of Self-realization to people. Shri Mataji: That's the thing you should have. People talk of Self-realization. There was one fellow who met Me, he said, "I was trying something for twelve years for Self-realization." I said, "Now, all your search has going to be finished here." Interviewer: So, no mantras, nothing just ... Shri Mataji: Nothing. Interviewer: ... be yourself. Shri Mataji: Later on. Later on for a chakra, you might need a mantra, but you will know, yourself, what mantra to be used. Interviewer: I see, the Realization comes from within you. Shri Mataji: Yes, yes, no. I mean this chakra is like this, that chakra is like this. Now, so who's the deity, accordingly you do. Interviewer: That's great, Mataji. Well, I wish you all the very ... all the big success that You've been having in all the centers, and when I say success I hope all our Indian viewers also join in Your Sahaja Yoga technique. Shri Mataji: And now you see also so many diseases we have cured - cancer, everything. Except for AIDS and this Alzheimer's. Not that we cannot cure, we have cured. But they're extremely rude people, specially these Alzheimer's people are. They abuse you, say all kinds of things. And the other ones think they're martyrs. AIDS people think they're martyrs. Now what to do with them? Unless and until they realize there's something wrong in it. It's difficult. Interviewer: So, you've treated people with cancer even in the state of remission, when the disease is in remission or when it's full blown? Shri Mataji: Quite.. I mean one we have cured at, absolutely at the galloping state. Interviewer: Is that right? I see. Shri Mataji: Can be. But we are not doctors, we don't want to do that. But it can be cured. We have a hospital, also, in India, a very big hospital in Vashi, very near Bombay. And also we are doing other social work like destitute women. Then also we are working for the ... we have an academy of music and all kinds of things. So we are also socialistic that way because we want to give it to everybody - the peace, the joy of life. Interviewer: Thank You very much, Mataji. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Interviewer: It was a pleasure to talk to You. Shri Mataji: Thank you. Interviewer: Our guest in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, in Her ashram, Mataji Nirmala Deviji talking about the path of Self-realization using the central nervous system to awaken the power of Kundalini. And using Sahaja Yoga to become enlightened and treating yourself and becoming free of disease. I'm Rita Lobo. Thank you for watching.

VOA ITV Interview in New Jersey (USA). 1 August 2002. Interviewer: ... also She was promoted even by Bhrigumuni, the ancient astrologer, in Nadi Granth. And that's what Mataji talks about all the time: how to get Self Realization, how to get the absolute knowledge and the absolute truth. Sahaja Yoga, as we know, is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the Divine Power through the awakening of our Kundalini which many times remains dormant in our system. Mataji, it's a pleasure to talk to You right in Your home turf, in New Jersey, and tell us ... I know last four years ago I met You. It was a great experience, and I want to tell our viewers again what it is all that You've been doing, promoting Sahaja Yoga for the last thirty years now all over the world. Tell us again briefly for viewers who don't know what Sahaja Yoga really means and signifies. What does it do and how do we get that absolute knowledge through this discipline? Shri Mataji: Saha means with. Ja means born. Is born with you the right to get this yoga, is the union with the Divine. So this is your birthright. All human beings have this right to get the awakening of their Kundalini by which they become one with the Divine Power. This is the real yoga. Interviewer: Right, and as I said, even the ancient sages and astrologers, Bhrigumuni talks about it and You've written in Your book also, Meta Modern Era ... Shri Mataji: They all have talked about it, but in those days they used to work on, I would say, thousands of people. Then select one of them. Then cleanse them. And then they used to give them Realization. Now the difference of this modern Sahaja Yoga, you can call it, is this: that you first give them awakening. Let them see for themselves what's wrong with them. All right. Once they find out, let them correct themselves. And then it's perfect. Because if you try like this, then it will take thousands of years to give Realization to many people. With this method you can give collectively to thousands of people Realization. Now we have to change the world, and how can we do it on individual basis if you go? This is the best way now; thousands are getting Realization all over. And now they are telling Me it's in eighty-six countries working out. So we are going to have a global race, you can call it, a global awakening. Which is very important. And without this awakening, we cannot get transformed. This is to transform you, to completely change you. Now as you know we have, they say there are six enemies we have within us. In Sanskrit you know them. Now all these enemies, which are lust and greed, and things like that - jealousies, and all. All these can be completely destroyed by Kundalini awakening. You become a different person. You become the Spirit. Now in all the scriptures it is written "Know thyself." And that should happen to you, that you should know yourself. Otherwise, all gimmicks are going on. All kinds of gimmicks as I told you last time also. They are of no value. And they're not going to give you any results. What you should do is to get your Self Realization. It's not difficult. It's free. Why not? Interviewer: But Mataji, how is Your discipline, how is Sahaj Yoga different and unique from other yoga techniques for Self Realization? Shri Mataji: Others ... you see out of them Raja Yoga is called, one Raja Yoga. Now Raaj Yoga actually happens within. What happens, when the Kundalini rises, She closes the chakras. That's called as kumbha. But you can't do it from outside, you see? Now supposing you move one wheel of the car. Will the car move? In the same way, your energy has to be awakened. Now there's Hatha Yoga which was thousands of years back they were practicing the same way - first cleansing - this, that - but ultimately, they said the same thing what I do. That they said you reach a stage which we call as thoughtless awareness and then doubtless awareness. But in Sanskrit it is thoughtless awareness they have divided in two - Savichar and Nirvichar And in this thing - Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa. They have divided. But we say you become thoughtlessly aware to begin with. As Jung has said about it. And then beyond that is Nirvikalpa and you have no doubts about yourself. You know yourself, you know everything, when your knowledge is perfect. Interviewer: But, Mataji, now You said it's a spontaneous, and we've both said, it's a spontaneous union of our inner consciousness along with the Divine Power. But that's only for that brief, few seconds that you get that Kundalini awakening ... Shri Mataji: No, no. Interviewer: But then we have to keep practicing. Shri Mataji: No, no. You have to grow. Interviewer: That's what I want to ask You. Shri Mataji: You see, you have to grow because it's like a primule in the seed, you see, which sprouts first. Then it has to grow into the tree. And for that, hardly one month, you have to attend our programs four times or five times. You can become masters. Nothing much to be done. Because they'll tell you the absolute knowledge. Now supposing on the hands, I told you that time also ... Interviewer: Vibrations. Shri Mataji: ... that you can feel the different centers. Now, how to correct them? What are they? All this knowledge has to go to you and that takes hardly any time. Interviewer: Now, of course You say just like the thumb is creativity and this finger is, you know, being collective and then there is wisdom over here, the integration in the middle. Shri Mataji: Innocence. Interviewer: Yes, innocence Shri Mataji: And wisdom. Interviewer: Now, but the thing is, you get that Cool Breeze for that brief period of time. But then how does one ... You said, you know, you practice for one month. That means we all become realized souls? But there are people like sages and saints in the Himalayas trying to find the absolute truth, and here we do it in one split second. Shri Mataji: That's how. Because the times are such. This is Ghor Kali Yuga. At this time it has to happen. It has to happen that way. Of course, I must say that I did study human beings, their permutations and combinations. And when I was forty-seven years of age, then I found out the real way of crossing it. And then I started working out with others. Interviewer: So You tried other disciplines as well? Shri Mataji: First of all I had to find out what's wrong with these human beings. Because I was born on a different level. So I used to study everyone: Why are they not becoming realized souls? Then I found out they had problems. Then I found out only how these combinations can be worked out and all of them can get Realization. That's how it has become collective. Any discovery, if it is not collective, it is useless. Interviewer: Right. Shri Mataji: All the saints have suffered. Everybody has suffered. If they had people like Me who would have said, "No, all the people should get it," then it's not so difficult. Though there are people who are little bit go against Me because I say they are false. That's it. Interviewer: We have to know the good from the wrong, and right from wrong. Shri Mataji: Of course. We must find out. So many people are lost like that. Interviewer: But then You said that you have to practice. Do You think that those people who have practiced Sahaja Yoga have totally transformed their lives or are they going back to their same selfish selves or does the transformation really become a permanent thing in their life? Shri Mataji: Ninety-nine-point-nine percent are. Maybe little bit might be some person, may not. But what is My experience is that they become absolutely, absolutely all right. Interviewer: Now, You have kind of modified it for the modern day times. Shri Mataji: Ah, yes. Interviewer: Now You tell me the ancient Sahaj Yoga technique ... Shri Mataji: Ancient Sahaja Yoga I told you is in Patanjali Yoga they have written down. They have ashtangas, out of which these acrobats are only wee part of one of them. So all that you do, and this and that and then the guru finds it out. He might even beat you. He might even hang you on the well, do all kinds of things just to put down the ego. Sahaja Yoga is the other way round, first you get your Realization and then know what's wrong with you, yourself. Like people will come and say, "Mother, please help me, my Agnya is caught." This chakra. Means he has ego. Nobody would say that to anyone that "I have got ego," will they say? Interviewer: Right, right, right. So they can actually figure out themselves what the ... Shri Mataji: You become introspective. You see inside yourself that this is wrong. Take it out. Interviewer: How long does one have to practice every day - keep the minimum time. How many hours one should practice to be introspective and get that Realization continuously coming to them. Shri Mataji: I told you, one month. Interviewer: No, after that. Shri Mataji: After that, in the morning if you do about five minutes meditation. Interviewer: That's it? Shri Mataji: That's all, and evening about ten minutes. Interviewer: A lot of people say do two hours, you know, ten percent of your time. Shri Mataji: These are modern times, I know that. (laughs) Interviewer: I know You feel that in Kali Yuga this is the only ... But they say also, Mataji, in Kali Yuga, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Path is the right way. Shri Mataji: Now see. On that, bhakti yog is there. Shri Krishna has talked about it. He said, "Either you do bhakti." You see, He was very intelligent and He knew that human beings are stupid. So He tried to play with them. He said, "You do bhakti. You can give Me water, flower, everything, it's good. But Ananya Bhakti you do - when you are not the other." Without Realization, you are other. See how He played on the words? Now people are doing bhakti after bhakti. Nothing they get. Secondly, He said that you do Karma Yoga ananya. That whatever work you do you put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. Now people, many people, say that yes Mother, whatever we do, we put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. Even if we murder somebody you put at the Lotus Feet of the Lord. What He was meaning that is not possible. As long as you have ego, you cannot put it at the Lotus Feet of the God. So, you get rid of your ego, that's what He was meaning, means Sahaja Yoga. The first thing that He preached is Gyana Yoga. Ours is gyana yoga. By you being sthitaprati, realized soul, ours is Gyana Yoga by in you get all the knowledge. Interviewer: Even when you say when you bow down that's why there you're saying, you know, I am giving my ego away, sacrificing - that's exactly you do when you bow. Shri Mataji: That is it. That is it. Interviewer: Now how does it emotionally, psychologically, physiologically change the person? Shri Mataji: All right, now we have seven centers within us - the lowest center, the first one, is for our morality and innocence. Interviewer: Mooladhara, right? Shri Mataji: Mooladhara. Then the second one and third one, and fourth, fifth, sixth. All of them are responsible for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being. So when the Kundalini passes through them, She integrates them together. One thing. She enlightens them. She enriches them. And then She connects them to the All Pervading Power. So the problem is solved because all these problems are because of the chakras, of the centers which are in problem. Interviewer: But a lot of people say, "Why don't we start with the seventh chakra? Let's go to the top chakra and start to enlighten that chakra without going to the Kundalini." A lot of people say bypass the Kundalini and let's go to the ... Shri Mataji: You can't. Interviewer: ... seventh chakra and move on. Forget the other chakras. Shri Mataji: You shouldn't, you see, decide something like that. Actually, after Realization you, yourself, will know which chakra is catching. And then you will try to completely correct it. You have to be honest with yourself, you know? Once you know that, you do that. What's the use of just somebody says do like that? Theories after theories. That's not going to help. What is actually there, because this is the actualization of becoming. It's not just talking and trying all tricks, you know? Interviewer: Does, does sometimes the Kundalini may not rise in all the seven chakras. It may get stuck somewhere in the middle. That's another ... a lot of people say. Shri Mataji: Some do. Agreed. Some do get. But you can clear it out. It's not difficult. Interviewer: Is it easy to clear it out? Shri Mataji: You see others are there to help. Those who are now all right then they can remove that obstruction. Take it away. Interviewer: I see. And I believe, Mataji, recently only at the National Institute of Medicine in Washington D.C. they demonstrated the technique of Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Oh, they were very much impressed and forty doctors came forward. But then they wanted to test a girl ... how far ... because I say that on these things (Shri Mataji looks at Her fingertips) you can make out your chakra. So they asked a girl, one doctor asked, "What's wrong with me?" (S)he said, "Heart." And he had a bypass surgery two months back. They were all amazed. I said, "Don't have to do all the rigamarole of the diagnosis, just on your fingertips you can say." Interviewer: Would You display the technique of Sahaj Yoga for our viewers, Mataji? Shri Mataji: This first? Interviewer: The technique of Sahaja Yoga ... how to ... if a person who wants to be initiated into this technique, what they have to do. If You can demonstrate it for us? Shri Mataji: Yes. That's why you have to spend about one month knowing about it, not continuously. I think they have four sessions or five sessions. Immediately you are there. But the American mind is different. I must tell you this. That first they said, "We should have course. Now there cannot be a course. But these boys tried to make it "First chakra, second chakra," like that. Seven courses. Then they said what next? Now this is a stupid question, because if you become a master then you don't say, "What next?" You are a master, you teach. It's given all free. Why? Because you have to give it to others. You have to change the whole world, isn't it? Interviewer: So, how do you get it. If you can explain to our viewers how. If you can show it to our viewers - the technique. Shri Mataji: Just like this, you see. Can you take out your shoes? (Silence) You're getting it. Getting cool breeze. In this hand also. See on your head. Interviewer: That's it? Shri Mataji: You got it. That's it. Interviewer: Oh. That's simple. That's like you put your hands and then you put the Cool Breeze over there. Now what if I don't get the Cool Breeze? Shri Mataji: Then I'll have to work it out. Interviewer: Then You have to work it. Then, Mataji, You have to come everywhere to each person. Shri Mataji: No, no, no. You see in a collective them come, in a program. I have My Sahaj Yogis with Me. If there's someone who doesn't get, I said, "All right. Look after them." They come to the stage and they get it. Interviewer: But does one have to always get that Cool Breeze over the head? Shri Mataji: Of course. That's the sign that your nerves are passing that All Pervading Power, you see. Interviewer: You mean the Ida, and the Pingala and the Sushumna Nadi all are in sync together. Shri Mataji: Yes they are in balance. And from the Sushumna this has gone up. You see, and then when you are in balance, you get perfectly all right. Interviewer: Then how does one discover the problems that they may have inside ... Shri Mataji: On your fingertips, here ... Interviewer: Oh, through the fingertips. Shri Mataji: You can make it out. Interviewer: Whether it's hot or cold. Shri Mataji: Because these are five, six and seven. Five, six and seven. And now this is for the left side (Shri Mataji touches the interviewer's left hand), is for your emotional side. And this is for your mental side and also for physical side (Shri Mataji touches the interviewer's right hand). So that's how you decide. Interviewer: Oh, so you know which side is giving me the problem. Shri Mataji: Where is the thing, where is the problem is and what chakra is catching in particular. Interviewer: Oh, so you can even know from the chakra? Shri Mataji: Ya, you can know. Interviewer: Let's say I have a problem coming in from the middle, middle finger - meaning like I feel as heat over here. Shri Mataji: This is left Nabhi. This could be when you have diabetes or could be when something wrong with your mother, your relationship with your mother. Interviewer: I see, that's how one determines it. So, each finger will tell you what is the problem. Shri Mataji: Yes, what is the problem. Interviewer: Oh, I generally get heat over here. (Interviewer points at left palm - Sahasrara) Shri Mataji: Here You get? Here is My, this is Myself here. Interviewer: Okay, so I've got You here. Interviewer: Mataji tell us, I know You come here touring all the time, tell us, if this is the way to go for Self Realization, what would be Your message to our viewers. Shri Mataji: Now, the message is like this, now, because this is the Last Judgment, and in this judgment, if you don't get your Realization, you'll be lost. So all of the people should take their Realization. This is the Last Judgment time has come. This is very important to understand. You cannot go on - there are people - there's a rat race of seeking going on. From one guru - guru shopping, guru shopping, like that. Stop it. And also we Indians are going to the temple, this thing, that thing. Stop it now. There's nothing wrong in it, but first you get your Self Realization. Interviewer: Now do You have centers all over USA, do You have one in Manhattan as well they can come to? Shri Mataji: I don't know, all over quite a lot, and also I've been to Canada. Yes, we also have disciples in the South America we have here and also in Canada. Also, here we have thirty-five centers. Interviewer: Thirty-five centers. So they can just come to any center, say, "I'd like to learn about this technique" and it's free of charge. Shri Mataji: Absolutely free they have to just come, give some time and work it out. If they want this, it's very easy. Interviewer: Right. Okay. And is there a number that they can call if they want to ...? Shri Mataji: Ya, ya, there is a number, but I must tell you, very unfortunate in America that mostly the Americans come, Indians are few. I don't know where are they. Interviewer: Yeah, it's funny sometimes we take it as our birthright but we never really practice it. And we go away from our roots and then non-Indians come in and when they adopt everything: Maybe this is the right way to go. And it's a very sad way of ... Shri Mataji: A sad way. You see, for you people it should be the easiest. You being Indians, it should be the easiest. I don't know where are they lost. Very few, very few Indians come. Interviewer: From this program I guess they will understand that they can... Shri Mataji: Now I am finished with all My programs and I'll be going back very soon. But when I come next, I would like your listeners, who are mostly Indians, to tell them, "Now don't lose your time, why don't you get it? It's all free." It's better to warn them. Interviewer: Right. Now you said, Mataji, very quickly, You said that you know the problem, can one then fix the problem, like, you know, treat that problem through Sahaja Yoga itself? Shri Mataji: Of course. You can also fix your problem once you are at that level. Others can fix it for you. Interviewer: Right, so they've got to be little bit more ... Shri Mataji: You treat yourself. I mean, with your own energy. This energy is your own Mother. Your individual Mother, you see. She looks after you. She'll do everything. She'll suggest to you. I mean, tremendous things. Interviewer: So we are actually keeping in touch with our inner dharma. Shri Mataji: Of course. Interviewer: Our inner state of righteousness. Shri Mataji: Inner dharma builts in. You cannot be adharmi after this. You cannot. If you become, your hands will start burning. You cannot. And people give up everything. You know now they are going to ... they have offered us that we should do something for the drug addicts. So many drug addicts have been cured. Ah, drinking, drunkards, everything. Interviewer: All addictions and compulsive disorders. Shri Mataji: Ya. Interviewer: I see. Shri Mataji: Very, very, you see, important thing is that you have to become your Self. Interviewer: But also the important thing is once they have gotten that Realization, they have to continue practicing every day. Shri Mataji: A little bit grow. And then you give it to others, then you understand it much better. You want to do it because you become so compassionate. See, you become so compassionate, you want to do it. Interviewer: Do they get some sort of an experience also, like a spiritual experience once they get Realized? Like, You know, when they say when you are meditating you through some sort of enlightened kind of path and you get these spiritual experiences. This is not that way. Shri Mataji: No. No. You become absolutely silent. And experiences are like there are lights you see around Me and photographs like that, miraculous. Lots of photographs are there. So the Paramachaitanya is trying to convince people that now take your Realization from Me. Interviewer: Right. So that itself You've come to know that you are the soul, you know, Atma, Paramatma, the relationship. Shri Mataji: Yes. Yes. I knew it from the day I was born. As you know you were a human being, I knew this. But you have to have humility. To do this work you cannot show off and make a big band out of it. It has to be very humble work. And that's why I think the people were not so much impressed because here you see a big show, people do all kinds of things. What's the use? All this is all absolutely I think is duggery. That's not the way. Interviewer: You've kept that path of humility ... Shri Mataji: Ya. Of course. Interviewer: ... and brought so much of Self-realization to people. Shri Mataji: That's the thing you should have. People talk of Self-realization. There was one fellow who met Me, he said, "I was trying something for twelve years for Self-realization." I said, "Now, all your search has going to be finished here." Interviewer: So, no mantras, nothing just ... Shri Mataji: Nothing. Interviewer: ... be yourself. Shri Mataji: Later on. Later on for a chakra, you might need a mantra, but you will know, yourself, what mantra to be used. Interviewer: I see, the Realization comes from within you. Shri Mataji: Yes, yes, no. I mean this chakra is like this, that chakra is like this. Now, so who's the deity, accordingly you do. Interviewer: That's great, Mataji. Well, I wish you all the very ... all the big success that You've been having in all the centers, and when I say success I hope all our Indian viewers also join in Your Sahaja Yoga technique. Shri Mataji: And now you see also so many diseases we have cured - cancer, everything. Except for AIDS and this Alzheimer's. Not that we cannot cure, we have cured. But they're extremely rude people, specially these Alzheimer's people are. They abuse you, say all kinds of things. And the other ones think they're martyrs. AIDS people think they're martyrs. Now what to do with them? Unless and until they realize there's something wrong in it. It's difficult. Interviewer: So, you've treated people with cancer even in the state of remission, when the disease is in remission or when it's full blown? Shri Mataji: Quite.. I mean one we have cured at, absolutely at the galloping state. Interviewer: Is that right? I see. Shri Mataji: Can be. But we are not doctors, we don't want to do that. But it can be cured. We have a hospital, also, in India, a very big hospital in Vashi, very near Bombay. And also we are doing other social work like destitute women. Then also we are working for the ... we have an academy of music and all kinds of things. So we are also socialistic that way because we want to give it to everybody - the peace, the joy of life. Interviewer: Thank You very much, Mataji. Shri Mataji: May God bless you. Interviewer: It was a pleasure to talk to You. Shri Mataji: Thank you. Interviewer: Our guest in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, in Her ashram, Mataji Nirmala Deviji talking about the path of Self-realization using the central nervous system to awaken the power of Kundalini. And using Sahaja Yoga to become enlightened and treating yourself and becoming free of disease. I'm Rita Lobo. Thank you for watching.

8/18/2002

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Shri Kubera Puja Talk: Give up from your heart

United States

Canajoharie

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Krishna

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Shri Kubera Puja. Canajoharie (USA), 18 August 2002. Today we are going to worship Shri Krishna as a very great personality and you know why He came on this Earth to establish, this is the new form of, not Virat, not Virata, but a form by which this country became so prosperous. And by His advent only He created a beautiful mentality among the people, how to develop this culture with dharma and you had very great leaders, who followed Him and who worshipped Him in a way and created a new world of this America. But, unfortunately, as the time passed on, His form vanished from the minds of the people. The reason was Krishna was represented here by very, very wrong type of people, who had no idea about Shri Krishna, that He was a great master of wealth, that he knew how to use the wealth and how to create the wealth with dharma, not with adharma. They all forgot about it, completely and gradually started using maneuvering powers, all kinds of, all kinds of adharmic things, cheating, grabbing money, spending their money in absolutely useless things. He’s Kubera. He doesn’t need any money, of course. He achieves money and not only that, He is lived He lived in money. They said that He created a golden house for Him, absolutely made with gold in Dwarika, but it’s submerged in the water, in the sea and nobody believed that it is true, but now they have found out His house under the waters, very deep waters. So all their conjecture about Him was wrong, all false, that He was definitely a man who made lots of money by dharma. Also He was a son of a king and He built this Dwarika out of gold. It is still there and people have found it but under the sea. Thousands of years have passed but still existed. Only because perhaps we belong to Shri Krishna, it is still existing. That’s what it is because He was the one was for satya, for truth. He was for truth and He worked out everything on the principle of truth. Whatever was not truth, He tried to finish it off. Whatever was destructive, He tried to remove that and He established Himself through truth only. He’s the one who represents the truth, absolute truth and how the truth can prevail in everything.I’m just the opposite of Him because I don’t understand money at all, but He’s looking after that part in My life. I’m so hopelessly bad. I don’t understand banking. I don’t understand money. I can’t even count money. Now what can you say to that? But He’s there to look after and I never (have) a dearth of money, never a dearth of any wealth. It’s all full of it. Also it comes through your sense of satisfaction. If you have that sense of satisfaction, you don’t look for money. What happened in your country that some people got money. If you got little money, then you get the taste of money. They’re not satisfied people, so, like mad, they went on spending on nonsensical things. It is something very much human. After human evolution, after you have reached a certain state of enlightenment, then all these demeaning things like greed all disappear from your character. You don’t have that greed in you any more and you become extremely a satisfied person. To you, money is there, all right, but it’s not so important. It is just that you think don’t need it and you get it all done by Shri Krishna all over. Can you imagine? He’s doing all this looking after you and helping you with money. I started Sahaja Yoga without a single pai. I never had any problem. So one thing, as Kubera He’s the supplier of wealth. He looks after people who don’t have money. He gives money to people who stand by truth, who enjoy the life of truth. It is His work that people enjoy wealth, otherwise they don’t. They have this much. They want to have more. That means they don’t enjoy the wealth. They have a little they want to get much more why, because, they are not enjoying whatever they have. But after self-realization, you will see that you enjoy whatever you have. You enjoy it fully, absolutely and you don’t hanker after something, which is not there. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have. Many a times, people have asked Me, “Mother, why not we have a Puja of Krishna as Kubera?” I said, “All right.” Just now, everybody’s trying to become Kubera. Let them learn a lesson. And then we’ll have the Puja of Kubera and that’s why today, I’ve agreed to have this Puja. Because now you have seen what happens if you have greed. You go on committing all kinds of sins, all kinds of wrong things, which can destroy your country. Such a rich country has now become a poor country! Where is that money gone? They’re very clever! Somebody told Me today that his money with the insurance. “My God,” I said; the law is such that you can’t get out that money. Secondly they said that it is in offshore and all that. I said, ‘But see now, they were never afraid that they’ll be caught up and they continued for so many years, but I’m sure one day they’ll all be exposed by Kubera Himself. So, today, by worshipping Kubera, what we are doing we are [to] establish, establish the truth of money. What lies behind the money? What is the point of having money? This country had money. As a result, so many good people came here to work and you had so many complementary things. You had lots of people who have complemented because, I think, in certain things Americans were a little less, not in intelligence, but in brilliance I think they were a little bit lacking. So they got very brilliant people from abroad. And also they were very focused people, so they worked it out very well. Also they respected people who came with brains. So this is what happens when you forget that truth is the main point. If you don’t have the truth, no use having money because what you did was to go around with this thing, that thing, I mean all kinds of things to just get money.The other day I was traveling through Las Vegas […?] and when we stopped at that airport, so many people walked into the aero plane and they all were looking as somebody’s dead in their family, ‘What has happened?’ First I couldn’t understand. Then said, ‘Mother, they have lost all their money.’ So when they have money, they are jumping. Next moment they are crying because they have lost the money. What’s the use of such a money, which is so temporary, which is so useless. But that is human nature to run after maya and this is the quality of money, that it gives you maya, maya like this, that they get a little money somehow. With that little money, they buy something, then they think money is very important. So you can buy lots of things. You can buy cars. You can buy aero planes, this, that. So there is where maya plays on you and you start running after that mad money, which makes you mad. It’s nice that at this juncture they have discovered the falsehood of this maya money, and I am so happy that they were all handcuffed and all their power of money was finished. So this Kubera is working out all these tricks. Krishna is a very tricky, extremely tricky personality. He puts the tricks, every action after every action. Now money matters, He first befools you, that you run after it and then you just discover that it was stupidity. We have a story in our land, country, called Sheikh Chilli. He got little money and he got into the grab of this maya, so he thought I can do very well, so he started dreaming as to what he should do. So he went and bought lots of eggs and he said, ‘Now these eggs will have little, little chicks, which will grow, which I’ll sell and I’ll have so much money’ like that he was talking. And while thinking about it in his mind, went off to sleep and then in his sleep he fell on the eggs and all the eggs broke, so the maya was over. This should happen early, but if it doesn’t happen, then you end up in the jail or something like that. Sahaja Yoga is one thing, which gives you a complete vision, complete vision of the destruction that can follow this maya business. It is something such insight that you don’t have to do anything with it. I am different I told you I don’t understand it at all, but even if you understand the value of money, even if you understand that money can bring lots of things to you, despite that, you don’t look at it, just turn your face. That is the sign of a real Sahaja Yogi. To him it doesn’t matter, temperamentally. It’s not that he does something for that or tells ‘is mine’ nothing. Temperamentally, he doesn’t care for money just because he is above it. The one who is above money is a real Sahaja Yogi.The one who is engulfed in the nonsense and the maya of money is not a Sahaja Yogi. Of course, I have seen most of the Sahaja Yogis are extremely honest, especially in the West. But in India there’s a disease. As you have here some viruses, we have certain viruses in India also, so they still go on running after money. To them money is important. But in the evolutionary process, if you reach a certain stage where you rise above your Nabhi Chakra, rise your Nabhi Chakra, then money is not so important is not so important.To Me, I find, I cannot buy things unless it is others. Of course, I mean, there are so many unnecessary things they had because here people give me presents, this, that. But Myself, you will be amazed, I’m so nervous or, I should say, hesitant or you may call it, absolutely absent from the sport where they are doing any business, any purchasing.Come here and fix it please [referring to the microphone] it falls down so I am holding on. Correct. Now all right. In the same way, Sahaja Yogis have to fix their mind to their spirit and enjoy the powers of pure spirit, your own. That enjoyment, once you get it, you don’t fall to your greed. This is something very, very simple, but sometimes you don’t do it. You get enamored by something, maybe a car, maybe aero plane. I don’t know what, whatever it is. It’s a headache to have too many cars, isn’t it? But people have. They think, by that people are impressed and they think no end of themselves or not. Nothing. If they’re impressed, what is the use to us? What do you get out of it? Sahaja Yogi has his own spirit to enjoy. More than anything else, he doesn’t want to possess anything. It’s a headache to possess things also. The other side of it is a Mahalakshmi. If that principle is within you, Mahalakshmi principle, you’ll have never a problem of money. On the contrary, you’ll know how to stop it. So far, as I am concerned, I get fed up of My Mahalakshmi principle because I don’t know from where it works out, how it works out without any effort. But the temperamentally, I have no interest at all, temperamental. But it is the I don’t know what is the cause of this effect. Now supposing I buy some small thing, just like that, it will sell at least ten times more. It will be of value at least ten times more. I don’t know how. It’s very surprising. Automatically, I’ll buy something very small and I find it’s very expensive. How it works, that must be miracles of Mahalakshmi, I think.So what I have to tell you is this, that you should not worry about your financial situations at all. Do not go on calculating. Do not see how much money you have in the bank, what you have to do with your money, where you should invest. I have seen people going mad, planning the whole thing. There’s no need to do that once you are a Sahaja Yogi. It all works automatically. The greed is within you, just like any other disease. As you have diseases, greed is also there. As your diseases can get cured with Sahaja Yoga, your diseases, as much as your greed is, it vanishes. Don’t know what is greed is. The only way to counter-balance is to become extremely generous. If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. That may be another way of doing it. Supposing you get something in your house and you think it is too much. Not to get rid of it, but just to think it’s too much, you should give it to someone. You just start thinking whom can you give and immediately you’ll remember, “Oh, that person doesn’t have this. Let me give him this.” And if you give him, he will be so thankful, so thankful and he’ll say all kinds of nice things to you, which normally nobody would say to you, nobody. And it’s surprising how joy giving it is, how people like your generosity. So you have to be generous, just generous, not with yourself, but with others. As much as possible be generous. Generosity is very love giving, one of the expressions of your love. Many a times it has happened with Me that I saw somebody needed something and kept it in My mind and I bought that thing and gave it to that person and the amount of love that person gave Me was thousand time more than what I would have got joy out of buying it, buy that thing. It was so insipid for Me, but for him it was, he told so many people, “Mother gave me this. Mother gave me.” I was surprised. Then they asked me, “Mother, how did you give him?” I said, “Just out of love.” Many people took to Sahaja Yoga, thinking what a generosity is, so to be generous is the best way to live in this world. After all, it’s a headache to have too many things. Better to get rid of them, but out of love. If you do that, you’ll be know how much they will be appreciative of you. Another thing is to get rid of greed; you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. Supposing you go to some place where lots of poor people are there, I tell you, your greed will just drop. Be amazed how these people are living, in what conditions. Why do I care for all the wealth and everything? That will be just shocking. Sometimes, you see, you see people, in India also, in a very bad condition. Once I went to Calcutta and I was so, somehow or other, you see, by chance, I happened to be in places where people were in very great poverty, even the children, and you’ll be amazed, for days together I wouldn’t eat My food. I was crying and not eating My food. I just didn’t know what to do because I felt, “What is this? Why these people are so poor?” And I was helpless so I was crying that one day I should try to do something for them.It is really remarkable at a very young age of Mine, I started a leper home, I started infirmary, refugee home, all kinds of things and I never even thought that whatever money I have, if I give to these people, I may have to give up some things. I also sold some of My things because so pleasure giving, I tell you, so pleasure giving, so joy-giving to be generous. It is so [pain] in every way that you should be generous. That is the quality of Kubera. He’s an extremely generous personality and that’s what personality you should be. I’ve seen that Sahaja Yogis are very generous. So far, nobody has told Me that somebody is a miserly fellow, so far, so far. But [I’m] sure one day will come when we’ll have people of very high quality. In Sahaja Yoga, we don’t say, like other cults say, that you give up your clothes, you give up your family, you stay in a forest or in a hut or anything, nothing of that. Don’t give up anything. You have to give up from your heart. Just it should happen in your personality. Don’t have to give up. And if you have that well built in spirituality, you’ll not even think of grabbing someone. On the contrary, you will like to give up everything. My father was even worse than Me, I should say. He always used to leave the house open, all doors open. He said no thief will come if you [don’t] keep the doors close. So one day a thief came and he took away his gramophone. In the old times, these big horn ones, he took away. The next day My father was sitting very sad. So My mother asked, “Why are you sad? Because of the gramophone?”“No, I’m only sad because seems a recognizer of music has taken the gramophone, but no records.” So My mother said, “All right, what should we do? Should we advertise in the newspaper that you take away your records?”I mean such a beauty that even after so many years, I am telling you and you are enjoying. What a beautiful character it was of generosity, but if you force it through religion, through any such ideas that you give up that, don’t have to give up. You give up from within. If you are not attached to it, you have given up. That should be there and if you all enjoy your generosity and charity, nothing like it. I have known people who are very rich and all that, but they lack generosity. That is another quality of Kubera. He perhaps understands banking, perhaps. That time, there were no banks, but I think must be because the way He manages banks, you know, it seems to Me that he’s sitting on top of them and that’s why still in the banks there is no problem. I don’t know, but he is a very clever person, very intelligent, very alert, which is important if you have to deal with money. Though He was absolutely detached from money, and just see His life, what He did. He lived in childhood with His guru and He used to take, what do you call, the cows and herds outside in the jungles. That is how He lived in His childhood and later on He was playing with the boys who were looking after the cows in a very, I mean, ordinary family. He never hankered after money. He used to steal the butter because these ladies used to sell this to Kamsas military people. So He used to eat that, so that this lady should not give it to them. Just imagine such a little boy like Him. So actually how He was teaching them a lesson, those ladies were greedy, wanted to give that to these horrible soldiers and He would eat all that butter Himself. In everything that He did, what you see is extreme generosity, extreme generosity. With all His intelligence, He was so good. And He killed His own uncle, I should say. For Him, it was not important. So-called relations were not important. But what you see in our India especially, that relations are very important. The father is a thief. His son is thief. His grandson is a thief. All of them are thieves. Can you imagine? I haven’t seen in a family, if there’s one person who is a thief, any one [of] his progeny are honest. It’s a very funny thing, but such greed crawls into their minds, that they don’t think is important. They just think that stealing is the only way one can live, though in India there are people who are extremely honest. I’ve seen our servants. They never steal, nothing, never. I don’t know, they have no reasoning for it. It’s a matter of fact. They never steal anything, very surprising. Why? Why don’t they steal? They’re happy with their lives. They don’t want to change it. They don’t want to have these horrible things that can put them in jail. But they don’t know. They don’t even think about it. Just, they just don’t do it. Why? Because they have a sense of shame. In the poorer people, sense of shame is very, very developed. In that society, they have a great respect for people who are honest and they’re all honest. One of them may be not, but they have no respect for such a person because they think self-respect is the biggest thing. Can you imagine these poor people? They have food once a day, but to them their self-respect is above everything. So the third solution for this kind of a nonsensical greed is your self-respect. Why should you steal? Why should you have anything that is stolen or why should you have anything that belongs to another person? If you have that self-respect within you, you won’t touch anything that is not yours. When the servants can do that, why not people who are not that badly off. It is a temperament of a higher level, I think, which they develop, where their self-respect is much more important than all kinds of other things that may satisfy their greed. One thing about greed is it is never satisfied. It is never satisfied. I’ve seen people who were very rich once upon a time; became very, very poor. So, to them, life has become hell. They can’t live without their great, I should say, pomp and show. But they don’t understand that it was false. They just go on feeling extremely downtrodden when they lose their money. Then there are people who want to have money. They’ll do anything but get money. It’s a very funny thing, but also power is the same as that. If you have your own powers, you don’t hanker after these powers. But they want to have power because they want to have money and they get power with money. Can you imagine? Where are human beings? At what level? At what level of evolution they are? They are going round and round the circle of this money. This is Nabhi Chakra, which has to be improved, which gives you satisfaction. If your Nabhi Chakra is satisfied, you have achieved the state of Kubera. That’s very important to see that your Nabhi should be satisfied.There are so many other kinds of things we have, but I think now the worst is this greed and this, if it is managed somehow or other, brought to its own level, then I think world will improve very much.May God bless you.

Shri Kubera Puja. Canajoharie (USA), 18 August 2002. Today we are going to worship Shri Krishna as a very great personality and you know why He came on this Earth to establish, this is the new form of, not Virat, not Virata, but a form by which this country became so prosperous. And by His advent only He created a beautiful mentality among the people, how to develop this culture with dharma and you had very great leaders, who followed Him and who worshipped Him in a way and created a new world of this America. But, unfortunately, as the time passed on, His form vanished from the minds of the people. The reason was Krishna was represented here by very, very wrong type of people, who had no idea about Shri Krishna, that He was a great master of wealth, that he knew how to use the wealth and how to create the wealth with dharma, not with adharma. They all forgot about it, completely and gradually started using maneuvering powers, all kinds of, all kinds of adharmic things, cheating, grabbing money, spending their money in absolutely useless things. He’s Kubera. He doesn’t need any money, of course. He achieves money and not only that, He is lived He lived in money. They said that He created a golden house for Him, absolutely made with gold in Dwarika, but it’s submerged in the water, in the sea and nobody believed that it is true, but now they have found out His house under the waters, very deep waters. So all their conjecture about Him was wrong, all false, that He was definitely a man who made lots of money by dharma. Also He was a son of a king and He built this Dwarika out of gold. It is still there and people have found it but under the sea. Thousands of years have passed but still existed. Only because perhaps we belong to Shri Krishna, it is still existing. That’s what it is because He was the one was for satya, for truth. He was for truth and He worked out everything on the principle of truth. Whatever was not truth, He tried to finish it off. Whatever was destructive, He tried to remove that and He established Himself through truth only. He’s the one who represents the truth, absolute truth and how the truth can prevail in everything.I’m just the opposite of Him because I don’t understand money at all, but He’s looking after that part in My life. I’m so hopelessly bad. I don’t understand banking. I don’t understand money. I can’t even count money. Now what can you say to that? But He’s there to look after and I never (have) a dearth of money, never a dearth of any wealth. It’s all full of it. Also it comes through your sense of satisfaction. If you have that sense of satisfaction, you don’t look for money. What happened in your country that some people got money. If you got little money, then you get the taste of money. They’re not satisfied people, so, like mad, they went on spending on nonsensical things. It is something very much human. After human evolution, after you have reached a certain state of enlightenment, then all these demeaning things like greed all disappear from your character. You don’t have that greed in you any more and you become extremely a satisfied person. To you, money is there, all right, but it’s not so important. It is just that you think don’t need it and you get it all done by Shri Krishna all over. Can you imagine? He’s doing all this looking after you and helping you with money. I started Sahaja Yoga without a single pai. I never had any problem. So one thing, as Kubera He’s the supplier of wealth. He looks after people who don’t have money. He gives money to people who stand by truth, who enjoy the life of truth. It is His work that people enjoy wealth, otherwise they don’t. They have this much. They want to have more. That means they don’t enjoy the wealth. They have a little they want to get much more why, because, they are not enjoying whatever they have. But after self-realization, you will see that you enjoy whatever you have. You enjoy it fully, absolutely and you don’t hanker after something, which is not there. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have. Many a times, people have asked Me, “Mother, why not we have a Puja of Krishna as Kubera?” I said, “All right.” Just now, everybody’s trying to become Kubera. Let them learn a lesson. And then we’ll have the Puja of Kubera and that’s why today, I’ve agreed to have this Puja. Because now you have seen what happens if you have greed. You go on committing all kinds of sins, all kinds of wrong things, which can destroy your country. Such a rich country has now become a poor country! Where is that money gone? They’re very clever! Somebody told Me today that his money with the insurance. “My God,” I said; the law is such that you can’t get out that money. Secondly they said that it is in offshore and all that. I said, ‘But see now, they were never afraid that they’ll be caught up and they continued for so many years, but I’m sure one day they’ll all be exposed by Kubera Himself. So, today, by worshipping Kubera, what we are doing we are [to] establish, establish the truth of money. What lies behind the money? What is the point of having money? This country had money. As a result, so many good people came here to work and you had so many complementary things. You had lots of people who have complemented because, I think, in certain things Americans were a little less, not in intelligence, but in brilliance I think they were a little bit lacking. So they got very brilliant people from abroad. And also they were very focused people, so they worked it out very well. Also they respected people who came with brains. So this is what happens when you forget that truth is the main point. If you don’t have the truth, no use having money because what you did was to go around with this thing, that thing, I mean all kinds of things to just get money.The other day I was traveling through Las Vegas […?] and when we stopped at that airport, so many people walked into the aero plane and they all were looking as somebody’s dead in their family, ‘What has happened?’ First I couldn’t understand. Then said, ‘Mother, they have lost all their money.’ So when they have money, they are jumping. Next moment they are crying because they have lost the money. What’s the use of such a money, which is so temporary, which is so useless. But that is human nature to run after maya and this is the quality of money, that it gives you maya, maya like this, that they get a little money somehow. With that little money, they buy something, then they think money is very important. So you can buy lots of things. You can buy cars. You can buy aero planes, this, that. So there is where maya plays on you and you start running after that mad money, which makes you mad. It’s nice that at this juncture they have discovered the falsehood of this maya money, and I am so happy that they were all handcuffed and all their power of money was finished. So this Kubera is working out all these tricks. Krishna is a very tricky, extremely tricky personality. He puts the tricks, every action after every action. Now money matters, He first befools you, that you run after it and then you just discover that it was stupidity. We have a story in our land, country, called Sheikh Chilli. He got little money and he got into the grab of this maya, so he thought I can do very well, so he started dreaming as to what he should do. So he went and bought lots of eggs and he said, ‘Now these eggs will have little, little chicks, which will grow, which I’ll sell and I’ll have so much money’ like that he was talking. And while thinking about it in his mind, went off to sleep and then in his sleep he fell on the eggs and all the eggs broke, so the maya was over. This should happen early, but if it doesn’t happen, then you end up in the jail or something like that. Sahaja Yoga is one thing, which gives you a complete vision, complete vision of the destruction that can follow this maya business. It is something such insight that you don’t have to do anything with it. I am different I told you I don’t understand it at all, but even if you understand the value of money, even if you understand that money can bring lots of things to you, despite that, you don’t look at it, just turn your face. That is the sign of a real Sahaja Yogi. To him it doesn’t matter, temperamentally. It’s not that he does something for that or tells ‘is mine’ nothing. Temperamentally, he doesn’t care for money just because he is above it. The one who is above money is a real Sahaja Yogi.The one who is engulfed in the nonsense and the maya of money is not a Sahaja Yogi. Of course, I have seen most of the Sahaja Yogis are extremely honest, especially in the West. But in India there’s a disease. As you have here some viruses, we have certain viruses in India also, so they still go on running after money. To them money is important. But in the evolutionary process, if you reach a certain stage where you rise above your Nabhi Chakra, rise your Nabhi Chakra, then money is not so important is not so important.To Me, I find, I cannot buy things unless it is others. Of course, I mean, there are so many unnecessary things they had because here people give me presents, this, that. But Myself, you will be amazed, I’m so nervous or, I should say, hesitant or you may call it, absolutely absent from the sport where they are doing any business, any purchasing.Come here and fix it please [referring to the microphone] it falls down so I am holding on. Correct. Now all right. In the same way, Sahaja Yogis have to fix their mind to their spirit and enjoy the powers of pure spirit, your own. That enjoyment, once you get it, you don’t fall to your greed. This is something very, very simple, but sometimes you don’t do it. You get enamored by something, maybe a car, maybe aero plane. I don’t know what, whatever it is. It’s a headache to have too many cars, isn’t it? But people have. They think, by that people are impressed and they think no end of themselves or not. Nothing. If they’re impressed, what is the use to us? What do you get out of it? Sahaja Yogi has his own spirit to enjoy. More than anything else, he doesn’t want to possess anything. It’s a headache to possess things also. The other side of it is a Mahalakshmi. If that principle is within you, Mahalakshmi principle, you’ll have never a problem of money. On the contrary, you’ll know how to stop it. So far, as I am concerned, I get fed up of My Mahalakshmi principle because I don’t know from where it works out, how it works out without any effort. But the temperamentally, I have no interest at all, temperamental. But it is the I don’t know what is the cause of this effect. Now supposing I buy some small thing, just like that, it will sell at least ten times more. It will be of value at least ten times more. I don’t know how. It’s very surprising. Automatically, I’ll buy something very small and I find it’s very expensive. How it works, that must be miracles of Mahalakshmi, I think.So what I have to tell you is this, that you should not worry about your financial situations at all. Do not go on calculating. Do not see how much money you have in the bank, what you have to do with your money, where you should invest. I have seen people going mad, planning the whole thing. There’s no need to do that once you are a Sahaja Yogi. It all works automatically. The greed is within you, just like any other disease. As you have diseases, greed is also there. As your diseases can get cured with Sahaja Yoga, your diseases, as much as your greed is, it vanishes. Don’t know what is greed is. The only way to counter-balance is to become extremely generous. If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. That may be another way of doing it. Supposing you get something in your house and you think it is too much. Not to get rid of it, but just to think it’s too much, you should give it to someone. You just start thinking whom can you give and immediately you’ll remember, “Oh, that person doesn’t have this. Let me give him this.” And if you give him, he will be so thankful, so thankful and he’ll say all kinds of nice things to you, which normally nobody would say to you, nobody. And it’s surprising how joy giving it is, how people like your generosity. So you have to be generous, just generous, not with yourself, but with others. As much as possible be generous. Generosity is very love giving, one of the expressions of your love. Many a times it has happened with Me that I saw somebody needed something and kept it in My mind and I bought that thing and gave it to that person and the amount of love that person gave Me was thousand time more than what I would have got joy out of buying it, buy that thing. It was so insipid for Me, but for him it was, he told so many people, “Mother gave me this. Mother gave me.” I was surprised. Then they asked me, “Mother, how did you give him?” I said, “Just out of love.” Many people took to Sahaja Yoga, thinking what a generosity is, so to be generous is the best way to live in this world. After all, it’s a headache to have too many things. Better to get rid of them, but out of love. If you do that, you’ll be know how much they will be appreciative of you. Another thing is to get rid of greed; you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. Supposing you go to some place where lots of poor people are there, I tell you, your greed will just drop. Be amazed how these people are living, in what conditions. Why do I care for all the wealth and everything? That will be just shocking. Sometimes, you see, you see people, in India also, in a very bad condition. Once I went to Calcutta and I was so, somehow or other, you see, by chance, I happened to be in places where people were in very great poverty, even the children, and you’ll be amazed, for days together I wouldn’t eat My food. I was crying and not eating My food. I just didn’t know what to do because I felt, “What is this? Why these people are so poor?” And I was helpless so I was crying that one day I should try to do something for them.It is really remarkable at a very young age of Mine, I started a leper home, I started infirmary, refugee home, all kinds of things and I never even thought that whatever money I have, if I give to these people, I may have to give up some things. I also sold some of My things because so pleasure giving, I tell you, so pleasure giving, so joy-giving to be generous. It is so [pain] in every way that you should be generous. That is the quality of Kubera. He’s an extremely generous personality and that’s what personality you should be. I’ve seen that Sahaja Yogis are very generous. So far, nobody has told Me that somebody is a miserly fellow, so far, so far. But [I’m] sure one day will come when we’ll have people of very high quality. In Sahaja Yoga, we don’t say, like other cults say, that you give up your clothes, you give up your family, you stay in a forest or in a hut or anything, nothing of that. Don’t give up anything. You have to give up from your heart. Just it should happen in your personality. Don’t have to give up. And if you have that well built in spirituality, you’ll not even think of grabbing someone. On the contrary, you will like to give up everything. My father was even worse than Me, I should say. He always used to leave the house open, all doors open. He said no thief will come if you [don’t] keep the doors close. So one day a thief came and he took away his gramophone. In the old times, these big horn ones, he took away. The next day My father was sitting very sad. So My mother asked, “Why are you sad? Because of the gramophone?”“No, I’m only sad because seems a recognizer of music has taken the gramophone, but no records.” So My mother said, “All right, what should we do? Should we advertise in the newspaper that you take away your records?”I mean such a beauty that even after so many years, I am telling you and you are enjoying. What a beautiful character it was of generosity, but if you force it through religion, through any such ideas that you give up that, don’t have to give up. You give up from within. If you are not attached to it, you have given up. That should be there and if you all enjoy your generosity and charity, nothing like it. I have known people who are very rich and all that, but they lack generosity. That is another quality of Kubera. He perhaps understands banking, perhaps. That time, there were no banks, but I think must be because the way He manages banks, you know, it seems to Me that he’s sitting on top of them and that’s why still in the banks there is no problem. I don’t know, but he is a very clever person, very intelligent, very alert, which is important if you have to deal with money. Though He was absolutely detached from money, and just see His life, what He did. He lived in childhood with His guru and He used to take, what do you call, the cows and herds outside in the jungles. That is how He lived in His childhood and later on He was playing with the boys who were looking after the cows in a very, I mean, ordinary family. He never hankered after money. He used to steal the butter because these ladies used to sell this to Kamsas military people. So He used to eat that, so that this lady should not give it to them. Just imagine such a little boy like Him. So actually how He was teaching them a lesson, those ladies were greedy, wanted to give that to these horrible soldiers and He would eat all that butter Himself. In everything that He did, what you see is extreme generosity, extreme generosity. With all His intelligence, He was so good. And He killed His own uncle, I should say. For Him, it was not important. So-called relations were not important. But what you see in our India especially, that relations are very important. The father is a thief. His son is thief. His grandson is a thief. All of them are thieves. Can you imagine? I haven’t seen in a family, if there’s one person who is a thief, any one [of] his progeny are honest. It’s a very funny thing, but such greed crawls into their minds, that they don’t think is important. They just think that stealing is the only way one can live, though in India there are people who are extremely honest. I’ve seen our servants. They never steal, nothing, never. I don’t know, they have no reasoning for it. It’s a matter of fact. They never steal anything, very surprising. Why? Why don’t they steal? They’re happy with their lives. They don’t want to change it. They don’t want to have these horrible things that can put them in jail. But they don’t know. They don’t even think about it. Just, they just don’t do it. Why? Because they have a sense of shame. In the poorer people, sense of shame is very, very developed. In that society, they have a great respect for people who are honest and they’re all honest. One of them may be not, but they have no respect for such a person because they think self-respect is the biggest thing. Can you imagine these poor people? They have food once a day, but to them their self-respect is above everything. So the third solution for this kind of a nonsensical greed is your self-respect. Why should you steal? Why should you have anything that is stolen or why should you have anything that belongs to another person? If you have that self-respect within you, you won’t touch anything that is not yours. When the servants can do that, why not people who are not that badly off. It is a temperament of a higher level, I think, which they develop, where their self-respect is much more important than all kinds of other things that may satisfy their greed. One thing about greed is it is never satisfied. It is never satisfied. I’ve seen people who were very rich once upon a time; became very, very poor. So, to them, life has become hell. They can’t live without their great, I should say, pomp and show. But they don’t understand that it was false. They just go on feeling extremely downtrodden when they lose their money. Then there are people who want to have money. They’ll do anything but get money. It’s a very funny thing, but also power is the same as that. If you have your own powers, you don’t hanker after these powers. But they want to have power because they want to have money and they get power with money. Can you imagine? Where are human beings? At what level? At what level of evolution they are? They are going round and round the circle of this money. This is Nabhi Chakra, which has to be improved, which gives you satisfaction. If your Nabhi Chakra is satisfied, you have achieved the state of Kubera. That’s very important to see that your Nabhi should be satisfied.There are so many other kinds of things we have, but I think now the worst is this greed and this, if it is managed somehow or other, brought to its own level, then I think world will improve very much.May God bless you.

8/22/2002

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Public Program. New York (USA), 22 August 2002. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Actually we are all seeking the truth. So many of us, but so far, so many couldn't find and they are lost. But what is the truth? What is the truth about yourself? The truth is that you are not this body, you are not these emotions but what are you? You are the spirit. All the great saints and incarnations have said that you are the spirit and what we are trying to find out is our selfhood. We are after that research about ourselves. We've done lots of mistakes also by misguided people but I must say that there is a built-in arrangement within us, every one of you, which will take you to that selfhood, which will give you that self-realization. It's very surprising that they have not talked about Kundalini so far. There is a power within all of you which is the Kundalini, which is three and a half coiled energy in your, I should say, behind your triangular bone, or it is inside it and is waiting for that moment when it can be awakened and it can pass through the different centers piercing through your fontanel bone area. And that's how you get your self-realization, that you feel cool breeze coming out of your fontanel bone area. It's an actualization. It is not My lecture or reading or anything. It's actualization which has to take place. If you don't get it, doesn't matter. Next time you can get it, but most of them do get it in a collective way. It's very surprising that it took so much, so many years for people to come to this state where they are asking for the real thing. This is your own. This power is your own. And it is just waiting there to be awakened. Any amount of lecturing, any amount of reading, nothing can help you. What is needed is just a quiet mind and it works. It works under every circumstances. It's very surprising, this was the time perhaps, was meant to be this way. I've been to this country many a times before also. First time when I came, I was so surprised how people were running after falsehood. So I gave it up. After nine years I came, thinking that what's the matter with these people? Why can't they understand what they have to achieve? What they have to get? Whatever is written and said by all the saints, by all the incarnations. I couldn't understand why they were satisfied with all kinds of nonsense. And somehow they came to America and prospered here with all their untruth. It's very sad that we have lost so many beautiful seekers in their pursuit. Now I have to tell you one thing, simple thing, that you must know that you have every right to know yourself, to become self-realized, every one of you. Nobody can force it and nobody can deny it. It is your fundamental right by which you can get your self-realization. If you are a human being that's sufficient, whether you belong to America, or to India or to any other place, everyone has this right, to get your self-realization. As a result of self-realization what happens, that's the point. Firstly, you start feeling the Divine vibrations on your fingertips. Divine vibrations like cool breeze and it starts flowing through your hands. You'll be amazed when it first happens, you start doubting. I know people who went and closed their doors and windows, wanted to test and find out if they had those cool breeze. You have it. It's a sign of yourself emitting these pure vibrations. As a result of that so many other things can happen. But the most important thing is that you become a very peaceful person. You become a very balanced person and you become that witness about which all the religions have talked. You get to the state of that witness. And once you become the witness, you see the whole picture, the whole world in a very different manner. You become the witness. It's a state in which, watch everything. You do not react but you watch and your presence itself will help people. I know America nowadays is in a very difficult state and people are quite frightened type. If they were realized souls they would never have been. The power of realization is so great, not that it enlightens you but it enlightens others, it enlightens the atmosphere. So it’s very important that you get your last breakthrough of your evolution and get to that state which we call as self-realization. It is a entry into the Divine powers and this spiritual realm of life which is very, very surprisingly, very much surprisingly is very difficult to understand otherwise. But once you become a realized soul automatically you know what it is. You become so sensitive, at the same time you are so well protected. You can solve many problems. You can do so many things which you could never have been able to do. The reason is, now you have become empowered by the Divine force. This is what you all are seeking, nothing else. This is what you want, nothing else. And this is what you should get it. No use going into blind place and trying to find out something which you do not know. With this, your health will improve, your wealth will improve, your temperament will improve and you'll become such a compassionate, such a beautiful person that people will be amazed how you have achieved this state. You become so collective. So very collective. I am surprised how this collective temperament has come into all the Sahaja yogis, how they work it out. It's very beautiful and surprisingly you may belong to any, any country, far away from each other, where the people don't know each other and such love and such understanding. This is beyond Me sometimes, you see, how beautifully they blend together, mix together and learn from each other. Such love, such compassion and such power is then your own, your own. You don't have to pay for it. You don't have to do anything of the kind; just you have to get your Kundalini awakened. which is very, very easy to do and it works out. The time has come, I think, for en-mass awakening, the time has come and that's why, well we have to work it out. It's not something miraculous, I think. If you see our evolution: from what stage to what stage to what stage. Now at a human stage what do we have to achieve? Why are we human beings? What is the part we have to play? Because you are a spiritual personality. You have to become that spiritual personality. It's not by reading books or doing all kinds of rituals that you will achieve it. It’s just within yourself where the Kundalini rises, passes through these various centers and gets you connected to the Divine power which is all pervading, which is everywhere. Then you can learn what is this, how it works, how it helps you, how it educates you, and how it gives you knowledge. It's really remarkable and it works in every country. It's very surprising that people told me that in America it will never work. I said, "Why?" "Because they are only after gurus and would take money and make big things". I said, "All right. After all they are human beings. And as human beings all their ideas will change. And they will seek their peace and joy". I must say that today in America it has worked out wonders. In all the cities here, we have people who are following Sahaja Yoga. Everyone who has come to Me is just the same as any other Sahaja yogi who is from any other country. Can you believe it? There's no difference at all in their expression, in their love, in their compassion. All of them are so good and so beautiful. It is hard to believe that they've forgotten all the differences. And how have they mixed up together and are in such a loving state and enjoyable state. It's a very different area into which you have to enter and you enter into it, without doing anything whatsoever, only your Kundalini rises and gives your self-realization. It is effortless. Don't have to make any efforts, not standing on your head or anything. Just wherever you are sitting, you get your self-realization. And once you get it, you grow into it. You grow into it so well. You become so empowered. You are amazed sometimes. You see people who were never poets; they've suddenly become poets. There are people who never could do anything on the stage, were so frightened, have become great speakers. There are musicians who said, "Mother, we didn't know how to sing". So all kinds of creativity comes into it. How it comes and how suddenly it has started they don't know. You become extremely creative and you start appreciating in a very subtle way the creativity of others. Then, this stupid thing called greed, which has captured your country now, also, is like this: that when people get some money, the taste of that money makes them greedy. As simple as that. Now what happens with Sahaja Yoga, you don't have any greed. The greed finishes. You are a satisfied soul. Why will you ask for so many cars, so many aeroplanes? Not needed. Because you become a wise person, become, becoming is the point. You become so wise that you don't hanker after things. You are extremely satisfied. But as a result of that you are completely, fully blessed with a very beautiful life and everything that you want is there. This is the blessings of the Divine and so many miracles. So many miracles that you are amazed how are you blessed. What have you done to deserve this? You are now the spirit. These are the blessings of the spirit. People get completely cured, no doubt, but also they become very compassionate, extremely compassionate. And they don't understand from where did they get this compassion, very compassionate people. Thirdly, they become thoughtlessly aware. That means complete silence within. You see something and you become silent. You don't react, just you see. So enjoyable to see something clearly. But when you see something, your vibrations act. It's a very powerful personality that when you see something your vibrations act and they work it out. They can solve all kinds of problems. These vibrations can tell you what's wrong with the other person, what's wrong with certain countries. And also you should know how to correct it. If you can find out how you can correct this, problem is solved. And it's so gentle and so sweet that you don't have to fight with this, it just works. You're all capable of becoming that powerful person, of that compassion, of that love and understanding and you just develop this thoughtless awareness, which is a very important state, which you don't feel bored, you don't get upset, you're absolutely silently watching everything and you become such a congenial personality that those who come in contact with you also become very, very congenial. You can give realizations to others. You yourself can do it. It's not only that you get your realization but you can give realization. It's very surprising that you become so powerful. You can change the atmosphere. You can work out so many things just with turning of your mind and all the bad things like, we should say, all the things that are very destructive, you just don't like it, just give up like that. And also you protect yourself. You are completely protected from all the evil doers. So is important that you become that powerful personality which I call as the spiritual person. People have been talking about it, saying all kinds of things. They read all kinds of stories. Now the time has come for the actualization. And this is so important, so very important for you, that you get it. The time has come. It's your right, it's your fundamental right, I say, to get to that state where you become absolutely a personality which is spiritual, which is empowered and which knows how to, how to use this power, how to work it out. It's very surprising how the more advanced we are, the less chances there are, because we are lost, lost in the forest of advancement. But despite all that, people find it so difficult to exist in such busy atmosphere, they come to Sahaj and they get completely peaceful. Whatever it is, whatever kind of life it is, they are absolutely peaceful. And you give peace to others. I have spoken for thousands of times all over the world and I think it works. It does work. They wanted Me to allow you to ask some questions. I don't mind you asking Me questions but the problem is, this questioning also can be quite stupid sometimes. If you want to waste sometime on certain amount of stupidity, you can ask Me, I don't mind. [Audience laughs] So, if somebody wants to ask Me questions? [Shri Mataji laughs, audience applauds]. So have you got some people who want to ask questions? [Audience laughs] No. [Shri Mataji laughs] All right. So now, we'll have the session for self-realization. It's very simple. What you have to do is to put both your hands like this towards Me. [Hindi] All right. Now, please close your eyes. Please all of you close your eyes. There's no mesmerism. So please close your eyes. First put your left hand towards Me and right hand on top of your head on the fontanel bone area, left hand towards Me. Now, put the right hand towards Me and put the left hand on top of your head not touching the head, above. Not both the hands, one on top of your head, only one. Keep your eyes shut. Now, all those who are feeling cool breeze in your hand try to see that it comes on top of your hand, not below. If it is coming below just push it up. You can open your eyes and see [Shri Mataji shows how it is to be done]. First, put both your hands towards Me again, see, if you are feeling a cool breeze in your hands or you are feeling a cool breeze coming out of your head. Could be hot, could be hot. If it is hot, try to forgive people. Could be hot but doesn't matter. All those who have felt cool or hot breeze coming into their hands or out of their fontanel bone area, please raise your hands, both your hands. Don't be afraid. Most of you, most of you have felt it. May God bless you. How many of you have not felt, please raise your hands. Hardly any. Very surprising. Very happy to see that most of you have felt the cool breeze. May God bless you. Thank you very much.

Public Program. New York (USA), 22 August 2002. I bow to all the seekers of truth. Actually we are all seeking the truth. So many of us, but so far, so many couldn't find and they are lost. But what is the truth? What is the truth about yourself? The truth is that you are not this body, you are not these emotions but what are you? You are the spirit. All the great saints and incarnations have said that you are the spirit and what we are trying to find out is our selfhood. We are after that research about ourselves. We've done lots of mistakes also by misguided people but I must say that there is a built-in arrangement within us, every one of you, which will take you to that selfhood, which will give you that self-realization. It's very surprising that they have not talked about Kundalini so far. There is a power within all of you which is the Kundalini, which is three and a half coiled energy in your, I should say, behind your triangular bone, or it is inside it and is waiting for that moment when it can be awakened and it can pass through the different centers piercing through your fontanel bone area. And that's how you get your self-realization, that you feel cool breeze coming out of your fontanel bone area. It's an actualization. It is not My lecture or reading or anything. It's actualization which has to take place. If you don't get it, doesn't matter. Next time you can get it, but most of them do get it in a collective way. It's very surprising that it took so much, so many years for people to come to this state where they are asking for the real thing. This is your own. This power is your own. And it is just waiting there to be awakened. Any amount of lecturing, any amount of reading, nothing can help you. What is needed is just a quiet mind and it works. It works under every circumstances. It's very surprising, this was the time perhaps, was meant to be this way. I've been to this country many a times before also. First time when I came, I was so surprised how people were running after falsehood. So I gave it up. After nine years I came, thinking that what's the matter with these people? Why can't they understand what they have to achieve? What they have to get? Whatever is written and said by all the saints, by all the incarnations. I couldn't understand why they were satisfied with all kinds of nonsense. And somehow they came to America and prospered here with all their untruth. It's very sad that we have lost so many beautiful seekers in their pursuit. Now I have to tell you one thing, simple thing, that you must know that you have every right to know yourself, to become self-realized, every one of you. Nobody can force it and nobody can deny it. It is your fundamental right by which you can get your self-realization. If you are a human being that's sufficient, whether you belong to America, or to India or to any other place, everyone has this right, to get your self-realization. As a result of self-realization what happens, that's the point. Firstly, you start feeling the Divine vibrations on your fingertips. Divine vibrations like cool breeze and it starts flowing through your hands. You'll be amazed when it first happens, you start doubting. I know people who went and closed their doors and windows, wanted to test and find out if they had those cool breeze. You have it. It's a sign of yourself emitting these pure vibrations. As a result of that so many other things can happen. But the most important thing is that you become a very peaceful person. You become a very balanced person and you become that witness about which all the religions have talked. You get to the state of that witness. And once you become the witness, you see the whole picture, the whole world in a very different manner. You become the witness. It's a state in which, watch everything. You do not react but you watch and your presence itself will help people. I know America nowadays is in a very difficult state and people are quite frightened type. If they were realized souls they would never have been. The power of realization is so great, not that it enlightens you but it enlightens others, it enlightens the atmosphere. So it’s very important that you get your last breakthrough of your evolution and get to that state which we call as self-realization. It is a entry into the Divine powers and this spiritual realm of life which is very, very surprisingly, very much surprisingly is very difficult to understand otherwise. But once you become a realized soul automatically you know what it is. You become so sensitive, at the same time you are so well protected. You can solve many problems. You can do so many things which you could never have been able to do. The reason is, now you have become empowered by the Divine force. This is what you all are seeking, nothing else. This is what you want, nothing else. And this is what you should get it. No use going into blind place and trying to find out something which you do not know. With this, your health will improve, your wealth will improve, your temperament will improve and you'll become such a compassionate, such a beautiful person that people will be amazed how you have achieved this state. You become so collective. So very collective. I am surprised how this collective temperament has come into all the Sahaja yogis, how they work it out. It's very beautiful and surprisingly you may belong to any, any country, far away from each other, where the people don't know each other and such love and such understanding. This is beyond Me sometimes, you see, how beautifully they blend together, mix together and learn from each other. Such love, such compassion and such power is then your own, your own. You don't have to pay for it. You don't have to do anything of the kind; just you have to get your Kundalini awakened. which is very, very easy to do and it works out. The time has come, I think, for en-mass awakening, the time has come and that's why, well we have to work it out. It's not something miraculous, I think. If you see our evolution: from what stage to what stage to what stage. Now at a human stage what do we have to achieve? Why are we human beings? What is the part we have to play? Because you are a spiritual personality. You have to become that spiritual personality. It's not by reading books or doing all kinds of rituals that you will achieve it. It’s just within yourself where the Kundalini rises, passes through these various centers and gets you connected to the Divine power which is all pervading, which is everywhere. Then you can learn what is this, how it works, how it helps you, how it educates you, and how it gives you knowledge. It's really remarkable and it works in every country. It's very surprising that people told me that in America it will never work. I said, "Why?" "Because they are only after gurus and would take money and make big things". I said, "All right. After all they are human beings. And as human beings all their ideas will change. And they will seek their peace and joy". I must say that today in America it has worked out wonders. In all the cities here, we have people who are following Sahaja Yoga. Everyone who has come to Me is just the same as any other Sahaja yogi who is from any other country. Can you believe it? There's no difference at all in their expression, in their love, in their compassion. All of them are so good and so beautiful. It is hard to believe that they've forgotten all the differences. And how have they mixed up together and are in such a loving state and enjoyable state. It's a very different area into which you have to enter and you enter into it, without doing anything whatsoever, only your Kundalini rises and gives your self-realization. It is effortless. Don't have to make any efforts, not standing on your head or anything. Just wherever you are sitting, you get your self-realization. And once you get it, you grow into it. You grow into it so well. You become so empowered. You are amazed sometimes. You see people who were never poets; they've suddenly become poets. There are people who never could do anything on the stage, were so frightened, have become great speakers. There are musicians who said, "Mother, we didn't know how to sing". So all kinds of creativity comes into it. How it comes and how suddenly it has started they don't know. You become extremely creative and you start appreciating in a very subtle way the creativity of others. Then, this stupid thing called greed, which has captured your country now, also, is like this: that when people get some money, the taste of that money makes them greedy. As simple as that. Now what happens with Sahaja Yoga, you don't have any greed. The greed finishes. You are a satisfied soul. Why will you ask for so many cars, so many aeroplanes? Not needed. Because you become a wise person, become, becoming is the point. You become so wise that you don't hanker after things. You are extremely satisfied. But as a result of that you are completely, fully blessed with a very beautiful life and everything that you want is there. This is the blessings of the Divine and so many miracles. So many miracles that you are amazed how are you blessed. What have you done to deserve this? You are now the spirit. These are the blessings of the spirit. People get completely cured, no doubt, but also they become very compassionate, extremely compassionate. And they don't understand from where did they get this compassion, very compassionate people. Thirdly, they become thoughtlessly aware. That means complete silence within. You see something and you become silent. You don't react, just you see. So enjoyable to see something clearly. But when you see something, your vibrations act. It's a very powerful personality that when you see something your vibrations act and they work it out. They can solve all kinds of problems. These vibrations can tell you what's wrong with the other person, what's wrong with certain countries. And also you should know how to correct it. If you can find out how you can correct this, problem is solved. And it's so gentle and so sweet that you don't have to fight with this, it just works. You're all capable of becoming that powerful person, of that compassion, of that love and understanding and you just develop this thoughtless awareness, which is a very important state, which you don't feel bored, you don't get upset, you're absolutely silently watching everything and you become such a congenial personality that those who come in contact with you also become very, very congenial. You can give realizations to others. You yourself can do it. It's not only that you get your realization but you can give realization. It's very surprising that you become so powerful. You can change the atmosphere. You can work out so many things just with turning of your mind and all the bad things like, we should say, all the things that are very destructive, you just don't like it, just give up like that. And also you protect yourself. You are completely protected from all the evil doers. So is important that you become that powerful personality which I call as the spiritual person. People have been talking about it, saying all kinds of things. They read all kinds of stories. Now the time has come for the actualization. And this is so important, so very important for you, that you get it. The time has come. It's your right, it's your fundamental right, I say, to get to that state where you become absolutely a personality which is spiritual, which is empowered and which knows how to, how to use this power, how to work it out. It's very surprising how the more advanced we are, the less chances there are, because we are lost, lost in the forest of advancement. But despite all that, people find it so difficult to exist in such busy atmosphere, they come to Sahaj and they get completely peaceful. Whatever it is, whatever kind of life it is, they are absolutely peaceful. And you give peace to others. I have spoken for thousands of times all over the world and I think it works. It does work. They wanted Me to allow you to ask some questions. I don't mind you asking Me questions but the problem is, this questioning also can be quite stupid sometimes. If you want to waste sometime on certain amount of stupidity, you can ask Me, I don't mind. [Audience laughs] So, if somebody wants to ask Me questions? [Shri Mataji laughs, audience applauds]. So have you got some people who want to ask questions? [Audience laughs] No. [Shri Mataji laughs] All right. So now, we'll have the session for self-realization. It's very simple. What you have to do is to put both your hands like this towards Me. [Hindi] All right. Now, please close your eyes. Please all of you close your eyes. There's no mesmerism. So please close your eyes. First put your left hand towards Me and right hand on top of your head on the fontanel bone area, left hand towards Me. Now, put the right hand towards Me and put the left hand on top of your head not touching the head, above. Not both the hands, one on top of your head, only one. Keep your eyes shut. Now, all those who are feeling cool breeze in your hand try to see that it comes on top of your hand, not below. If it is coming below just push it up. You can open your eyes and see [Shri Mataji shows how it is to be done]. First, put both your hands towards Me again, see, if you are feeling a cool breeze in your hands or you are feeling a cool breeze coming out of your head. Could be hot, could be hot. If it is hot, try to forgive people. Could be hot but doesn't matter. All those who have felt cool or hot breeze coming into their hands or out of their fontanel bone area, please raise your hands, both your hands. Don't be afraid. Most of you, most of you have felt it. May God bless you. How many of you have not felt, please raise your hands. Hardly any. Very surprising. Very happy to see that most of you have felt the cool breeze. May God bless you. Thank you very much.

8/30/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=12940

Devi Puja: The heart is closed, which has to open out

England

London

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Puja in Ealing Ashram, London (UK) 30th August 2002 I don’t know what to say! (laughter) You are living in this house now and it was very nice because Sahaja Yogis were living here and they enjoyed my stay here. But we have to change and progress - that’s the point is. With every change you must progress otherwise it has no meaning, the change has no meaning. So now they are thinking that I should now be in the house here. I think it’s a good idea. Derek Lee: Marvellous news for us Mother. Shri Mataji we’d like to thank you for coming to live here in Ealing and in this house for so long. And we know that, from this house, all kinds of blessings have come out for us. And I wanted to say it was a little bit symbolic Shri Mataji when you came here this house was in complete degradation and ruin and now you have built it up and reconstructed it, renovated it, into the palace that it is. And we hope Shri Mataji you can achieve the same marvellous transformation with us because it’s symbolic. (laughter) Shri Mataji: But have I not done that? I have already. You see, it is your doing, your accepting is the one that has worked. And I mean I must say there are so many. Very happy. I have no complaints about Sahaja Yogis here, they are very good. But what we should [do is] expand now, this joy, this peace. This can be done very easily if you can get hold of Sahaja Yogis, it will be very nice. But, as I told you, have some picnics. With the newcomers, you can have some picnics, along the river or Serpentine or somewhere close by, where they can come easily. They did this in Australia when I told them and it has…I mean of course Australia has such a big Sahaja Yoga there. Then you will become collective the more you meet, ask everyone who you are, seeing more, sort of thing. Derek Lee: It will work here Mother when they get over their cynicism. So much cynicism in the people. Shri Mataji: Cynicism is there, I agree, but that they can only get over if they get Realisation. It’s a thing like that. If they get Realisation they’ll be alright. So for that, first of all, what we have to do is to humble down. Once they are Realised-souls then it’s much better to talk to them to do all these things. The thing is that they are not Realised-souls, that’s the main point is. When they come, now they are getting Realisation and so many are coming so our hopes are that it will expand. Once they’ll get into the sea of Realisation they’ll be alright. No problem. I am sure that, if you work it out, you see, once they are Realised-souls they are different people and it will work out, I am sure about it. We have to just meet them, have collective parties and things like that. They’ll enjoy. I mean that cynicism was old, age-old, now finished! [It’s] not in the young people, isn’t it. Derek Lee: Not so much. Particularly the tiny ones. They are seeing how can they give Realisation in the streets, the younger children just take it immediately. Shri Mataji: Younger ones? Derek Lee: Yes. And teenagers, young teenagers. Shri Mataji: And also, you see, once they grow in it they can spread it also. Drinking is too much in this country; that’s the thing one has to control. There’s no need to drink. I don’t understand there’s any need. But sort of it’s a tradition and children also take to all kinds of drinking. I think maximum is not here perhaps. Maybe in America. But here also it’s quite a lot. Once they get Realisation I think they’ll be alright. Suddenly they become aware of themselves then they are alright, better. First they must get their Realisation. Derek Lee: They are beginning to go out into the schools, the Sahaja Yogis are going into the schools, the primary schools, to teach or to show them Kathak dancing and to sing, and so the children are getting Realisation. Shri Mataji: No but the only thing is that here the parents might have an objection. Derek Lee: They don’t really talk about Sahaja Yoga directly, just to get them to feel it. And it’s in the dance and the music Mother. Shri Mataji: Best is to go to little grown up people. It’s better to spend money on them, time on them, than on children. It’s a problematic thing here. You see if someone starts, they’ll all join together and go against us. So better be careful. It’s a very funny country you know. I don’t know what to describe it. Heart, heart is closed. The heart is closed, which has to open out. It circulates, the ideas circulate from here, but in this matter, in spiritual matters, they are very poor. Like, Bush has felt it. But Tony Blair I think is a Labour or what? I don’t know. Derek Lee: He’s a Catholic I think. Or is his wife a Catholic? Yogis: His wife’s a Catholic. Shri Mataji: Wife may be a Catholic but so many Catholics have come to Sahaja Yoga. In Italy they are all Catholics but they don’t care! Derek Lee: We’ll try to talk to him Mother. Shri Mataji: Who? Derek Lee: Tony Blair. Shri Mataji: I don’t know. You can give him my book to read, maybe. He has no time. Derek Lee: He’s very busy. Shri Mataji: Busy with nonsense! So many Muslims are coming to your country. We saw so many Saudis coming to this country! I mean, Saudis, if they come, they are the worst Muslims! So many Saudis! They have money, alright, but I don’t know their plans. And they look after these people who try to bring about all the problems - the Saudis. They are the ones who supply money, isn’t it, and all those things. In India they are running these madrasas. And they don’t believe in Mohammed Sahib! They don’t believe even in Koran! I must say Mohammed Sahib was very great, because he’s the only one who has talked about the ascent - miraj. He’s the only one, he said that, “After Realisation your hands will speak.” He’s the only one who has said it! None of these incarnations, nobody, has said this. The Koran also, I don’t know if it is written by him, because the language is very harsh. But the main essence is there. Language is very harsh. I mean if you read it you would think that, “How could he say such things?” Because after all he was a great incarnation. But he didn’t say all this. It was really re-written by those people who were very cruel. But the thought, the contents, are correct. Also he did not know how to write. But he was such a great prophet I think. He was such a great man. Muslims can never understand him because he is beyond their conception. Can never understand him. Even the Christians have not understood Christ. They have made such a mess out of his life. I don’t know how human beings do that. Anybody who is great, who is something sensible, if he says anything, you make a mess of that. That’s human behaviour. But he said, “I’m not a prophet. I am nothing.” That’s what he said. I also said the same thing in the beginning. Because if they know somebody is saying that they will kill him. It’s very difficult. In the beginning Sahaja Yoga was very difficult, but now it’s better. But still in your country they have horrible people; they are all those horrible Swiss, they have come here and working it out. Even they went into our bank to find out the money and everything. I don’t know why the media here is so fond of them because they give something funny about Sahaja Yoga. But Saudis coming here is very dangerous. They are settling down in London, specially in London. It’s very dangerous, because they are moneyed people and they don’t believe in The Prophet or anything. They have their own thinking. How will it be be useful? But how they are given visas - is the best part. Aisa? (meaning: It’s like that?) Zafar Rashid: Ji Shri Mataji. If you have money then it’s very easy to come to this country. Shri Mataji: Yes it’s true. Because they said this house is sold out. I said, “I hope not to a Saudi?” Because they are buying everywhere. I think it would be difficult for a Saudi to live here! (laughing) Let’s have it! So we have to try it. And I think you will get more people now. Younger people of course you will get because they have no way to work it out.

Puja in Ealing Ashram, London (UK) 30th August 2002 I don’t know what to say! (laughter) You are living in this house now and it was very nice because Sahaja Yogis were living here and they enjoyed my stay here. But we have to change and progress - that’s the point is. With every change you must progress otherwise it has no meaning, the change has no meaning. So now they are thinking that I should now be in the house here. I think it’s a good idea. Derek Lee: Marvellous news for us Mother. Shri Mataji we’d like to thank you for coming to live here in Ealing and in this house for so long. And we know that, from this house, all kinds of blessings have come out for us. And I wanted to say it was a little bit symbolic Shri Mataji when you came here this house was in complete degradation and ruin and now you have built it up and reconstructed it, renovated it, into the palace that it is. And we hope Shri Mataji you can achieve the same marvellous transformation with us because it’s symbolic. (laughter) Shri Mataji: But have I not done that? I have already. You see, it is your doing, your accepting is the one that has worked. And I mean I must say there are so many. Very happy. I have no complaints about Sahaja Yogis here, they are very good. But what we should [do is] expand now, this joy, this peace. This can be done very easily if you can get hold of Sahaja Yogis, it will be very nice. But, as I told you, have some picnics. With the newcomers, you can have some picnics, along the river or Serpentine or somewhere close by, where they can come easily. They did this in Australia when I told them and it has…I mean of course Australia has such a big Sahaja Yoga there. Then you will become collective the more you meet, ask everyone who you are, seeing more, sort of thing. Derek Lee: It will work here Mother when they get over their cynicism. So much cynicism in the people. Shri Mataji: Cynicism is there, I agree, but that they can only get over if they get Realisation. It’s a thing like that. If they get Realisation they’ll be alright. So for that, first of all, what we have to do is to humble down. Once they are Realised-souls then it’s much better to talk to them to do all these things. The thing is that they are not Realised-souls, that’s the main point is. When they come, now they are getting Realisation and so many are coming so our hopes are that it will expand. Once they’ll get into the sea of Realisation they’ll be alright. No problem. I am sure that, if you work it out, you see, once they are Realised-souls they are different people and it will work out, I am sure about it. We have to just meet them, have collective parties and things like that. They’ll enjoy. I mean that cynicism was old, age-old, now finished! [It’s] not in the young people, isn’t it. Derek Lee: Not so much. Particularly the tiny ones. They are seeing how can they give Realisation in the streets, the younger children just take it immediately. Shri Mataji: Younger ones? Derek Lee: Yes. And teenagers, young teenagers. Shri Mataji: And also, you see, once they grow in it they can spread it also. Drinking is too much in this country; that’s the thing one has to control. There’s no need to drink. I don’t understand there’s any need. But sort of it’s a tradition and children also take to all kinds of drinking. I think maximum is not here perhaps. Maybe in America. But here also it’s quite a lot. Once they get Realisation I think they’ll be alright. Suddenly they become aware of themselves then they are alright, better. First they must get their Realisation. Derek Lee: They are beginning to go out into the schools, the Sahaja Yogis are going into the schools, the primary schools, to teach or to show them Kathak dancing and to sing, and so the children are getting Realisation. Shri Mataji: No but the only thing is that here the parents might have an objection. Derek Lee: They don’t really talk about Sahaja Yoga directly, just to get them to feel it. And it’s in the dance and the music Mother. Shri Mataji: Best is to go to little grown up people. It’s better to spend money on them, time on them, than on children. It’s a problematic thing here. You see if someone starts, they’ll all join together and go against us. So better be careful. It’s a very funny country you know. I don’t know what to describe it. Heart, heart is closed. The heart is closed, which has to open out. It circulates, the ideas circulate from here, but in this matter, in spiritual matters, they are very poor. Like, Bush has felt it. But Tony Blair I think is a Labour or what? I don’t know. Derek Lee: He’s a Catholic I think. Or is his wife a Catholic? Yogis: His wife’s a Catholic. Shri Mataji: Wife may be a Catholic but so many Catholics have come to Sahaja Yoga. In Italy they are all Catholics but they don’t care! Derek Lee: We’ll try to talk to him Mother. Shri Mataji: Who? Derek Lee: Tony Blair. Shri Mataji: I don’t know. You can give him my book to read, maybe. He has no time. Derek Lee: He’s very busy. Shri Mataji: Busy with nonsense! So many Muslims are coming to your country. We saw so many Saudis coming to this country! I mean, Saudis, if they come, they are the worst Muslims! So many Saudis! They have money, alright, but I don’t know their plans. And they look after these people who try to bring about all the problems - the Saudis. They are the ones who supply money, isn’t it, and all those things. In India they are running these madrasas. And they don’t believe in Mohammed Sahib! They don’t believe even in Koran! I must say Mohammed Sahib was very great, because he’s the only one who has talked about the ascent - miraj. He’s the only one, he said that, “After Realisation your hands will speak.” He’s the only one who has said it! None of these incarnations, nobody, has said this. The Koran also, I don’t know if it is written by him, because the language is very harsh. But the main essence is there. Language is very harsh. I mean if you read it you would think that, “How could he say such things?” Because after all he was a great incarnation. But he didn’t say all this. It was really re-written by those people who were very cruel. But the thought, the contents, are correct. Also he did not know how to write. But he was such a great prophet I think. He was such a great man. Muslims can never understand him because he is beyond their conception. Can never understand him. Even the Christians have not understood Christ. They have made such a mess out of his life. I don’t know how human beings do that. Anybody who is great, who is something sensible, if he says anything, you make a mess of that. That’s human behaviour. But he said, “I’m not a prophet. I am nothing.” That’s what he said. I also said the same thing in the beginning. Because if they know somebody is saying that they will kill him. It’s very difficult. In the beginning Sahaja Yoga was very difficult, but now it’s better. But still in your country they have horrible people; they are all those horrible Swiss, they have come here and working it out. Even they went into our bank to find out the money and everything. I don’t know why the media here is so fond of them because they give something funny about Sahaja Yoga. But Saudis coming here is very dangerous. They are settling down in London, specially in London. It’s very dangerous, because they are moneyed people and they don’t believe in The Prophet or anything. They have their own thinking. How will it be be useful? But how they are given visas - is the best part. Aisa? (meaning: It’s like that?) Zafar Rashid: Ji Shri Mataji. If you have money then it’s very easy to come to this country. Shri Mataji: Yes it’s true. Because they said this house is sold out. I said, “I hope not to a Saudi?” Because they are buying everywhere. I think it would be difficult for a Saudi to live here! (laughing) Let’s have it! So we have to try it. And I think you will get more people now. Younger people of course you will get because they have no way to work it out.

9/14/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=1468

Shri Ganesha Puja: You Should Be Joyous And Give Joy To Others

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Ganesha

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Shri Ganesha Puja: You Should Be Joyous and Give Joy to Others Shri Ganesha Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 14 September 2002. Today we have gathered here to worship Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the Deity of innocence. When we are born as children, it is Shri Ganesha who is acting, and we are very innocent. And it is such a powerful thing, that with this innocence children survive under many circumstances. And we love them because they are innocent. We enjoy them because they are innocent.Once we start growing, our Sahasrara also gets closed and we develop all kinds of funny things that enters into us and doesn’t go out. It’s just there. It doesn’t go out.Innocence has a great effect on our character and on our sense of chastity. Actually, when you are innocent, you don’t know what is not chastity, what is being unchaste, what is being cunning. You are innocent and you are looked after by Shri Ganesha Himself. Anybody who tries to harm an innocent person, Shri Ganesha looks after you and manages you. Many people who are innocent in this world – of course there are very few – but they become so detached from all worldly problems, like lust and greed and many others, because they are so pure that nothing can spoil them and malign them. This is such a great blessing we have, that innocence is actually created in us. And it was created much before—all the innocence, everything was created much, much before—we were created. It’s such a great quality for us to become innocent. The greatest quality of Shri Ganesha is joy. It gives you joy, as small children [do]: they may not speak even, but they give us so much joy. Joy-giving quality comes from Shri Ganesha. Even after coming to Sahaja Yoga, I’ve seen people are not full of joy. They’re very serious, they don’t know how to laugh, how to enjoy anything. That’s the sign that they are still lacking in innocence. So, it’s important to understand that if you are Sahaja Yogis, you should be joyous and give joy to others, just like children, how sweet they are. They may be newly born, but how much joy they give you. But supposing you do not have that capacity to enjoy the innocence of children, then nobody can help you. Ganesha cannot help you. Because that’s the innate quality human beings have, and if you don’t have that quality, no use having any other sense. Like some people like food, they like colours, they like all other things. But if you don’t have Shri Ganesh, you cannot purely enjoy anything.So it is only Shri Ganesha’s blessings that we really enjoy everything in its full measure. Otherwise, we start judging it, we start criticizing it; people raise so many things, questions. If you see something and it gives you joy, then you are supposed to give the explanation for that, as we have many critics in this world. And they are all the time criticizing one another. Now the critics are criticizing critics, that’s the biggest problem. That’s their job. Because Ganesha is not there. And they go on criticizing others, never criticizing themselves, and thinking no end of themselves. And with that, they create a very bad kind of a community, which is actually very harmful. It’s very dangerous. It’s like having some sort of a boil, or some sort of a septic thing in your body, in your being. So, if you cannot appreciate it, and if you cannot enjoy it, then Shri Ganesha is missing from you. You should be able to enjoy everything, and to enjoy your children, enjoy the children of other people. That’s the sign of your being completely blessed by Shri Ganesh.Now the beauty of Shri Ganesha is this, that it looks after your Kundalini. It guards your Kundalini. It guides your Kundalini. And throughout on all the chakras, He had to bless you. If you don’t have the blessings of Shri Ganesh, you’ll be a completely useless fellow as a Sahaja Yogi, because all the time you are seeing the bad points of others. All the time you are devoiding, I should say, you are getting into a problem by which you cannot enjoy anything. By temperament you think you are very serious, you are very matured, you are very developed – but you are not innocent. Such a person gives such a headache to everyone. If there’s one like that in the family, people want to get rid of him. So, you should have the quality of Shri Ganesha, which is of giving joy to others. Depends on how much joy you can give it to others. It doesn’t want anything. Such a person won’t say that, “I must get this, I must have this position, I should be leader, I should be this and that.” No. He just enjoys giving joy, joy to others, and being humorous and kind, and never, never tries to insult anyone and hurt anyone. If such a person hurts, by mistake also, he goes on repenting about it. And hundred times he’ll beg your pardon if he has hurt you. Such a happy person is a real Sahaja Yogi. That’s the one we want to have all around. Those who have no hatred for anyone, no malice for anyone, and not finding faults with another, but trying to find what is the good point of that person, what is so special about that person. He’s not bothered as to what colour you are, whether you are black or white, whether you are tall or short – it makes no difference. Because it is absolute. Absolute joy. And for this absolute joy, you don’t criticize, and you don’t try to find faults with others. Now the problem is that people are getting very much advanced in this modern era, very advanced, and they are very much more advanced in criticizing others, I think. That’s the maxim they have, is to criticize others. And also they have another very bad quality: to identify themselves with the country in which they live or with the family which they are. I have seen it creates such a problem. Also, they identify themselves with the different religions they follow. Imagine, from this, how many problems have come out – that you start differentiating between one and another. For example, now supposing who is born, say, in one place, so he says he’s the best, his country is the best, his people are the best, and there’s nothing wrong with them. On the contrary, if a person is a real Sahaja Yogi, who has Ganesha within him enlightened, then he sees it and enjoys the humour behind it—the humour of all these people, what they are mad after, how they behave. I mean, the way he understands the jokes behind it, jokes which is avoiding reality. And reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy. Otherwise, all the time you find something wrong, something upsetting, so something disturbs you. But if you see the humour behind everything, then you are perfectly all right.For example, I would say that I have had many such experiences, that people have told Me, “Mother, such and such fellow is like that, such and such fellow is like that.” So, I would ask that person, “Are you like that?” Direct. [The person] said, “No, we are – I am not like that.”“But,” I said, “Why everybody sees that in you?”“Must be wrong!”“All of them must be wrong, or you are wrong?” Then he would say, “Maybe, myself.”And that’s how, you see, you can mold also such people who think that they are correct and the rest of the world is all bad and they have every right to hate them and to think in the wrong direction. What happens with that is that you lose the essence of joy. The essence of joy is in seeing in everything, seeing in everything the source of joy. Supposing you see something here: now if it is odd, it should give you also a great sense of humour. If it is beautiful, it should give you another sense, of appreciation. But I can’t understand people who go on harping on some sort of a thing that has no meaning in their lives nor in the lives of others.I would say My father had a great capacity to do that. Once, I went home, so I said this . . . “My brother was praising this man for his music; what do you think?” His Friend. He said, “He is a musician, no doubt, but he is very courageous.” I said, “Why?” “Because you he may go on singing anything, he never feels bad about it. Everybody might be nervous, or everybody might be laughing at it, but he is not at all bothered. He goes on singing is his own ways.”So, that is the beauty of understanding every defect in a person can be enjoyed. Is very much a sense, I should say, a very subtle sense, by which you can enjoy every person. If he has defects, then you enjoy them as a humorous thing, and if he has something very good, then also you can enjoy. So why do you shun people? Why should you get out of people, criticize them for nothing at all?Now under this, people have built up big organizations, you see. For examples, the Catholics will help the Protestants, the Protestants will help also – I mean not “help”; I’m saying they will also, sort of, hate the people who are Catholic. What’s the use of that? What’s the use of hating each other, from that point, that somebody is a Protestant or somebody is a Catholic? Just see yourself. See what is wrong with you. Why do you think like that? Why do you look at those things and always think that another person, something wrong with him? And then you form groups and then you fight. You can have even wars with this kind of an idea that another person is not all right and you are absolutely perfect.This is also with the country, I have seen. For example, even in Sahaja Yoga I have seen if somebody is coming, say, from India or from another country anywhere, the leader will be anxious that he should or she should put her candidate before Me. It’s such an identification which they are not still conscious of it. But then I play My tricks, you see. All such things when they do, when they try to support one party, one type of people, from one – we should say not “religion” now, but the countries. So, this country identification is so much still in Sahaja Yoga, that you come from one country, then you want to support that man from that country. You’ll never appreciate that whosoever is good, coming from any country, is a Sahaja Yogi. We are a global community. We are not to be identified with one country: that our people should be married, that we should get our people there. All this kind of things I have noticed, and I feel very sorry that you have not understood the nature of Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is a global thing. Absolutely global. It has nothing to do with one country or with one person. It’s such a global thing that if you see the subtle side of it, it’s very joy-giving.God Almighty has created this world as one. They might have United Nations, they might have this, they might have that, but still they are so much identified with their country that they cannot correct also that country. Now, for example, something is wrong with your country, they cannot. For them, everything is all right, first, because they were born in that particular country. Or they appreciate some other country, so they’ll go on praising that country, to such an extent that they are destroyed and their ideas also destroy people.So the best thing is to see the joke behind being identified with one country. There’s a big joke about it. I enjoy it very much. Among Sahaja Yogis also I’ve seen it’s very common that they are identified with one country. If you are identified, then you should try to correct that country. Should try to correct those countrymen who are following a particular type of ideologies. They never see that, because they are so much involved with them that they don’t see what’s wrong with them. They’ll always see what’s wrong with others.But I’ve seen those who are real Sahaja Yogis are very good. They tell Me what’s wrong in their own country. What’s going wrong in their own country. What’s the trouble in their own country. How the countrymen are. You see, very surprising! I was surprised how people told Me that how some people who are in their country are so misidentified, and they are so against Sahaja Yoga in a subtle manner. I was surprised, how they felt it that way. They said, “Mother, see, they are not at all global.” Once you become global, all your problems of provinces and things are finished. But that doesn’t come into their head, that we have to be global. We are Sahaja Yogis, we cannot identify ourselves with one country or another country. If we do that, then we are still lacking in our universal personality. And this universal personality comes to us from Shri Ganesh. He’s a universal personality, whether He is in India, whether He is in Italy or in England. What is that personality? Is innocence. Very innocence, very much innocent. And not only that, but He is a joy-giving personality.All such people who are joy-giving are recognized. It’s not that the world doesn’t recognize; they may not be knowing that they are global, but those who are global people, they write books on global ways, thinking about global things. And they can criticize also people of their own country, they can criticize people of their own clan, they can go on like that. But they can be slavish also to some other country and try to praise them too much. So, you are not to be slavish. You have to not to be identified. But you should be identified with your Self. And whatever your Self enjoys, that should be expressed. That is the sign that your Ganesha is there and that Ganesha is working out.It’s very important for leaders to understand this. Because I’ve seen the way they are identified with their countrymen is sometimes shocking to Me. I’m really shocked, how could they be. They are not belonging to any country. They are no more. They are in the country of Shri Ganesha, which is the country of love and joy. If you cannot give joy and love, then there’s something wrong with you. With this only, His quality, people become chaste. Because chastity is a very joy-giving thing, very joy-giving. It is not a thing that you have to tell somebody, or to force somebody, or to restrict somebody, but it is to enjoy it. To enjoy yourself and enjoy the chastity of another person. Is such a great blessing of Shri Ganesha, such a great blessing that you enjoy your own chastity. You are not bothered about another person, [if] he’s chaste or not, if he’s doing bad things, if he’s a ruined person – doesn’t matter. You don’t get spoilt with that. You have your own chastity, your own life of very chaste moments.It is nowadays that such a modern style of thinking there’s a flowing towards unchaste life and all kinds of wrong ideas about chastity. If somebody now talks of chastity, people think: “This must be mad, how can that be?” Everything is done these days, if you see, all the fashions are there. Now once the fashion starts, it goes on spreading. Then everybody will dress up in the same manner. They have no personality of their own. Everybody will be going round in the same manner. Especially the women have lost their sense of chastity. They have lost their sense of chastity, because the way they dress up sometimes, shocks Me. What is the need to dress up like this? Why can’t you dress up properly? But it is just . . . shows that they have no character of their own. Actually, they may say, “I am this, I am that,” but they are not, they are nothing. Because they take to all kinds of forces that run around.But look at the children. Children are not like that. They do not have all these funny ideas of impressing people with their unchaste life. None of them. On the contrary, children are very conscious, and they want to become very chaste people. This has an effect on the eyes, I must say. Shri Ganesha acts through your eyes. How you look at a person is very important. I have seen people losing complete control over their eyes: they’ll go on looking at this person, looking at another person, looking at another person, just for nothing at all. But it’s a matter of no Ganesha control. And with this, the eyes are spoilt. Spoilt means that you cannot look at anything concentratedly. Then how can you penetrate into anything? Any penetration is possible only if you can really adjust your eyes in such a manner that you see something at that time for that time, and not go on shifting your eyes from one to another.It can mean anything; it can come from anything. That means Ganesha is the one who is a detector of our faults. For example, people have greed. So, they will start seeing who’s wearing what clothes, what clothes they should wear. If they have greed, then they’ll see somebody has a nice house: “I should also have a nice house.” But they never see the beauty of that house. They never see the actual essence of that house. But just they go on seeing that, “I should have this house, this kind, I should have that.” They have no sense of beauty, I should say, they have only sense of possession. And that is such a bad thing to say, because sense of beauty is something so deep, and sense of possession is so grotesque, so aggressive.So, one should look at things from Ganesha’s angle: How will He do it, how will He use it?You will learn from children, how they watch things, and how they work it out, how they think. You will be amazed how sensible they are, and the very sensible things they talk.Like I met a child, so the child told Me, “I love the moon.” I said, “All right. Now, what’s wrong with the moon?”“Nothing, but it hides itself under the clouds all the time.” So, I said “Why does he do that?”“Because he walks too much. So, he’s tired and he has to rest, all right. And that’s why he does it. So if he doesn’t walk so much, if he keeps steady, he won’t have to do it.”Just imagine! A little child watching all these things. And, I mean, I was amazed how the little child knows what is right, what is wrong, what, how to behave, how to understand the proper way of doing things. They are not taught anything, they are not conditioned, nothing. But they know how to behave. And they are always looked after by the Divine. I have known children who have fallen from great heights. Nothing happened to them. And also, no snakes and all these things don’t bite children. Even, they say, that tigers never try to eat children. What is it? What is so powerful about it, that children are so safe and allowed to grow? But then they grow into such horrible creatures who are unchaste, who are running after women or women running after men – is a common play these days. And it is unbelievable how can people who are even Sahaja Yogis do this. Of course, they don’t. But some of them, they are still in this kind of a mess.So, when you have your Ganesha already established . . . Just before creating the whole Universe, the Mother created Shri Ganesha. If He’s there, then life is very easy. Such a society is very easy to live. Such a friendship also is so easy. Because there’s nothing that is possessiveness, or any kind of a, you can call, perversity. When you have bad eyes for women, bad eyes for money, bad eyes for possessions, Ganesha is spoilt.He just knows how to enjoy. Enjoy everything. If it belongs to you, doesn’t matter. It belongs to me, it doesn’t matter. But you should know how to enjoy the beauty of it. And that enjoyment when you have within yourself, you don’t grow old, because all the time you are enjoying. What is there to grow old? But normally, it doesn’t happen. You are very critical, you are very, I should say, selfish and stupid sometimes, very much stupid. All that, you lose all that grip over your Self, which is joy. What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy! A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous. And never degrading anyone. In every small thing it sees a beauty. And nature of every creation is so beautiful. I’m really surprised, how is it that poetry comes to very few people. Because they go on describing love affairs, this, that, all nonsensical things, and what things make you unhappy. Unhappy is not the sign of a person who is a realized soul. So, if you have that problem of unhappiness, just be on the watch out and see why: Why have you developed this kind of a funny attitude towards everything? Why can’t you enjoy everything? You go on watching this person, that person – you never enjoy. While if you watch the children, it’s very interesting. They look at . . . like I saw one joke. There was a joke about a child. They had a guest in their house for food, and he was eating. So, this child saw that man eating. He said, “Mama, he doesn’t eat like a horse. You said he eats like a horse.” So, that’s what they are: very simple, very simple-hearted, and that’s how they correct people. Correct.What you should talk to children, what you should tell them about is very important because if you tell them something: “Don’t do it,” so they will do it in such a manner that it will be ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And they are so obedient to begin with, they think that, “We are children, we should obey.” And this obedience comes out of their simple nature. But we should not try to tell them too many things, and we shouldn’t like to control them with: “Don’t do this, don’t do that.” All the time if you do it like that, the children won’t understand. You don’t have to tell them. But if they are chaste children, if they are brought up in a chaste society – that’s why I always say, “Baba, send your children to our school.” Because children have to be chaste. They must understand the value of chastity. And these modern societies, in the Western area especially, are very [much] destroying our children’s innocence.We should have learned so much from the children, how innocent they are, how simple they are. They are very generous, and children will give away everything that they have. Everything. They don’t understand possession of things. Just imagine. If somebody likes something, all right, have it. And they’ll keep something for a person who likes something, you know. They are wonderful people. And we have to learn a lot from children. And their smiling faces and their joy should teach us how to behave. Because Ganesha shines through them very clearly. All the intelligence, all the beautiful things they say, I would say you should all write it down – what your children talk, say. Because it would be such a book of interesting episodes. Instead of writing about wars and horrible things that they have done in this world, better write what good things there are, which children can tell you.Children don’t believe in all this kind of a mass nonsense of a fashion. They don’t. See, they are properly dressed always, they are not bothered about behaving in the mass way. So That means they are very independent, on their own. They are not slaves of any society. And they do not want to follow anything that is just generally followed. No. They follow their own pattern and live in very dignified manner. They are extremely dignified, and their sense of chastity is very well developed. They would not wear something that will expose their body or will show that there’s something wrong with them. Sometimes we neglect our children very much. Because of money problems, maybe, or I don’t know what husband-wife problems there are, and the children are neglected. And once they are neglected, anything can happen to them. And I think it’s a very great sin on the part of people to produce children and to neglect them. Children should be given the first, the primary place in the household, in the family. And they should be looked after by everyone. They are the most important thing, not somebody: he’s the head of the family, he can shout at the children and – nothing of the kind.Moreover, I have seen that the way we take to all odd things and bad habits, children never take. They know that it is bad, it should not be done. By their innocence they know it should not be done. They may sometimes, you know, play with fire, do something like that. But once they are bitten by it, they’ll never touch it. They are extremely fast in learning, because that is the age they are, they’re growing. But actually, what is needed now is that the elders must grow. The children are growing, they learn; what about the elders? They have to learn also how to be nice and kind to everyone. And to be compassionate with all the rest of them.This idea of criticism comes from where, I don’t know. But like they’ll go anywhere, they’ll start criticizing. Children never criticize. They never see these things, never. They’ll just get into that house, or any place, and just enjoy it and see the good points of that house. Always I have seen they’ll come and tell, “See, they had one very nice Shri Ganesha’s this thing.” The house may be dirty, there might be a smell, anything – doesn’t matter. See, so their eyes are towards nice things and good things. They don’t, sort of, take to all these things.Then, also, because of modern life, children have developed a kind of a funny character, when they grow up: “I don’t like this, I don’t like that,” and they fall into funny, funny, I should say, ideas about life, which we must try to guard. Because these days the society is growing so fast. There are televisions, there are so many, I should say, propagating things which are not good for children, and they should not see them also. And if the children are realized souls, they don’t like to see. They don’t like to see violence. They don’t like to see nonsense. I have seen it. They don’t like. But the parents are sitting and enjoying nonsense, so they are also sitting. Gradually, it might crawl into their heads. But normally, children don’t like any violence, any beating, any kind of thing.So, we have to learn a lot from them, because they are innocent, because they have the quality of innocence, so they are to be respected. I don’t like people beating their children or hitting them and fulfilling their ambitions through the children. It’s very, very wrong. You should leave them alone—they are perfect. Only thing is, they should be given proper ideas at a time, appreciation for their chastity, for their well behaviour. That should be done. But [they] should not be given a kind of idea of the society in which they live, where the children get spoilt. And I was surprised that, I met one child the other day, and the child said, “I want to have a car.”“Which car?”“Mercedes.”I said, “Why don’t you go for Ferrari?”So, you see, this money orientation also comes from childhood. From childhood if you talk of all these things, money orientation, children also know this, and they talk like that. There are many other things for children we should just avoid. Don’t allow them to go near all such things which are creating money orientation, because that is the problem of today, that everywhere you find people who have made money, illegally. So much money has been made. And there is no need to do that. But still, you see, they go; this money orientation is funny thing. It’s a greed, it’s madness, I tell you, real madness. A person wants to have, say, twenty-five cars. Is he going to sit in the twenty-five cars? He wants to have twenty-five aeroplanes; what is he going to do with them? For that, he is cheating everyone, troubling everyone, taking the money of others. It is better to be poor than to be like that.So, this is what is happening today is that people have gone – the track is wrong. Is the right-side track, right-side track. I should say, we start our Sahaja Yoga from Shri Ganesha, who is on the left side. Not on the right side. First, you developed your left side, then you come to the right, you are all right. That’s why we have our Sahaja Yoga completely built in on Shri Ganesh. Once He’s there, you are completely all right and no problem. There’s no lack of wisdom. Once you are with Shri Ganesh, you see the point, absolutely clearly, how to behave, how to live, and you don’t take to stupid things like lust, greed, and nonsense.But people are mad, you know. They take to any kind of thing when they grow up. But as children, if they have an influence, very beautiful influence of proper family life, proper school life, proper guidance, proper love, and help in every way in their growth, then children become extremely, extremely good. Beautiful. And I bless all the Sahaja Yogis to have children of that nature, and to look after your children. That’s very important, because they are tomorrow’s Sahaja Yogis. And they should be a better quality. Because you are coming from another lot. They are coming from the innocence, so they are very pure, and their purity must be respected and must be guarded. Maybe that we’ll understand the importance of children and develop Ganesha qualities in them.Thank you very much.

Shri Ganesha Puja: You Should Be Joyous and Give Joy to Others Shri Ganesha Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 14 September 2002. Today we have gathered here to worship Shri Ganesha. Shri Ganesha is the Deity of innocence. When we are born as children, it is Shri Ganesha who is acting, and we are very innocent. And it is such a powerful thing, that with this innocence children survive under many circumstances. And we love them because they are innocent. We enjoy them because they are innocent.Once we start growing, our Sahasrara also gets closed and we develop all kinds of funny things that enters into us and doesn’t go out. It’s just there. It doesn’t go out.Innocence has a great effect on our character and on our sense of chastity. Actually, when you are innocent, you don’t know what is not chastity, what is being unchaste, what is being cunning. You are innocent and you are looked after by Shri Ganesha Himself. Anybody who tries to harm an innocent person, Shri Ganesha looks after you and manages you. Many people who are innocent in this world – of course there are very few – but they become so detached from all worldly problems, like lust and greed and many others, because they are so pure that nothing can spoil them and malign them. This is such a great blessing we have, that innocence is actually created in us. And it was created much before—all the innocence, everything was created much, much before—we were created. It’s such a great quality for us to become innocent. The greatest quality of Shri Ganesha is joy. It gives you joy, as small children [do]: they may not speak even, but they give us so much joy. Joy-giving quality comes from Shri Ganesha. Even after coming to Sahaja Yoga, I’ve seen people are not full of joy. They’re very serious, they don’t know how to laugh, how to enjoy anything. That’s the sign that they are still lacking in innocence. So, it’s important to understand that if you are Sahaja Yogis, you should be joyous and give joy to others, just like children, how sweet they are. They may be newly born, but how much joy they give you. But supposing you do not have that capacity to enjoy the innocence of children, then nobody can help you. Ganesha cannot help you. Because that’s the innate quality human beings have, and if you don’t have that quality, no use having any other sense. Like some people like food, they like colours, they like all other things. But if you don’t have Shri Ganesh, you cannot purely enjoy anything.So it is only Shri Ganesha’s blessings that we really enjoy everything in its full measure. Otherwise, we start judging it, we start criticizing it; people raise so many things, questions. If you see something and it gives you joy, then you are supposed to give the explanation for that, as we have many critics in this world. And they are all the time criticizing one another. Now the critics are criticizing critics, that’s the biggest problem. That’s their job. Because Ganesha is not there. And they go on criticizing others, never criticizing themselves, and thinking no end of themselves. And with that, they create a very bad kind of a community, which is actually very harmful. It’s very dangerous. It’s like having some sort of a boil, or some sort of a septic thing in your body, in your being. So, if you cannot appreciate it, and if you cannot enjoy it, then Shri Ganesha is missing from you. You should be able to enjoy everything, and to enjoy your children, enjoy the children of other people. That’s the sign of your being completely blessed by Shri Ganesh.Now the beauty of Shri Ganesha is this, that it looks after your Kundalini. It guards your Kundalini. It guides your Kundalini. And throughout on all the chakras, He had to bless you. If you don’t have the blessings of Shri Ganesh, you’ll be a completely useless fellow as a Sahaja Yogi, because all the time you are seeing the bad points of others. All the time you are devoiding, I should say, you are getting into a problem by which you cannot enjoy anything. By temperament you think you are very serious, you are very matured, you are very developed – but you are not innocent. Such a person gives such a headache to everyone. If there’s one like that in the family, people want to get rid of him. So, you should have the quality of Shri Ganesha, which is of giving joy to others. Depends on how much joy you can give it to others. It doesn’t want anything. Such a person won’t say that, “I must get this, I must have this position, I should be leader, I should be this and that.” No. He just enjoys giving joy, joy to others, and being humorous and kind, and never, never tries to insult anyone and hurt anyone. If such a person hurts, by mistake also, he goes on repenting about it. And hundred times he’ll beg your pardon if he has hurt you. Such a happy person is a real Sahaja Yogi. That’s the one we want to have all around. Those who have no hatred for anyone, no malice for anyone, and not finding faults with another, but trying to find what is the good point of that person, what is so special about that person. He’s not bothered as to what colour you are, whether you are black or white, whether you are tall or short – it makes no difference. Because it is absolute. Absolute joy. And for this absolute joy, you don’t criticize, and you don’t try to find faults with others. Now the problem is that people are getting very much advanced in this modern era, very advanced, and they are very much more advanced in criticizing others, I think. That’s the maxim they have, is to criticize others. And also they have another very bad quality: to identify themselves with the country in which they live or with the family which they are. I have seen it creates such a problem. Also, they identify themselves with the different religions they follow. Imagine, from this, how many problems have come out – that you start differentiating between one and another. For example, now supposing who is born, say, in one place, so he says he’s the best, his country is the best, his people are the best, and there’s nothing wrong with them. On the contrary, if a person is a real Sahaja Yogi, who has Ganesha within him enlightened, then he sees it and enjoys the humour behind it—the humour of all these people, what they are mad after, how they behave. I mean, the way he understands the jokes behind it, jokes which is avoiding reality. And reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy. Otherwise, all the time you find something wrong, something upsetting, so something disturbs you. But if you see the humour behind everything, then you are perfectly all right.For example, I would say that I have had many such experiences, that people have told Me, “Mother, such and such fellow is like that, such and such fellow is like that.” So, I would ask that person, “Are you like that?” Direct. [The person] said, “No, we are – I am not like that.”“But,” I said, “Why everybody sees that in you?”“Must be wrong!”“All of them must be wrong, or you are wrong?” Then he would say, “Maybe, myself.”And that’s how, you see, you can mold also such people who think that they are correct and the rest of the world is all bad and they have every right to hate them and to think in the wrong direction. What happens with that is that you lose the essence of joy. The essence of joy is in seeing in everything, seeing in everything the source of joy. Supposing you see something here: now if it is odd, it should give you also a great sense of humour. If it is beautiful, it should give you another sense, of appreciation. But I can’t understand people who go on harping on some sort of a thing that has no meaning in their lives nor in the lives of others.I would say My father had a great capacity to do that. Once, I went home, so I said this . . . “My brother was praising this man for his music; what do you think?” His Friend. He said, “He is a musician, no doubt, but he is very courageous.” I said, “Why?” “Because you he may go on singing anything, he never feels bad about it. Everybody might be nervous, or everybody might be laughing at it, but he is not at all bothered. He goes on singing is his own ways.”So, that is the beauty of understanding every defect in a person can be enjoyed. Is very much a sense, I should say, a very subtle sense, by which you can enjoy every person. If he has defects, then you enjoy them as a humorous thing, and if he has something very good, then also you can enjoy. So why do you shun people? Why should you get out of people, criticize them for nothing at all?Now under this, people have built up big organizations, you see. For examples, the Catholics will help the Protestants, the Protestants will help also – I mean not “help”; I’m saying they will also, sort of, hate the people who are Catholic. What’s the use of that? What’s the use of hating each other, from that point, that somebody is a Protestant or somebody is a Catholic? Just see yourself. See what is wrong with you. Why do you think like that? Why do you look at those things and always think that another person, something wrong with him? And then you form groups and then you fight. You can have even wars with this kind of an idea that another person is not all right and you are absolutely perfect.This is also with the country, I have seen. For example, even in Sahaja Yoga I have seen if somebody is coming, say, from India or from another country anywhere, the leader will be anxious that he should or she should put her candidate before Me. It’s such an identification which they are not still conscious of it. But then I play My tricks, you see. All such things when they do, when they try to support one party, one type of people, from one – we should say not “religion” now, but the countries. So, this country identification is so much still in Sahaja Yoga, that you come from one country, then you want to support that man from that country. You’ll never appreciate that whosoever is good, coming from any country, is a Sahaja Yogi. We are a global community. We are not to be identified with one country: that our people should be married, that we should get our people there. All this kind of things I have noticed, and I feel very sorry that you have not understood the nature of Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is a global thing. Absolutely global. It has nothing to do with one country or with one person. It’s such a global thing that if you see the subtle side of it, it’s very joy-giving.God Almighty has created this world as one. They might have United Nations, they might have this, they might have that, but still they are so much identified with their country that they cannot correct also that country. Now, for example, something is wrong with your country, they cannot. For them, everything is all right, first, because they were born in that particular country. Or they appreciate some other country, so they’ll go on praising that country, to such an extent that they are destroyed and their ideas also destroy people.So the best thing is to see the joke behind being identified with one country. There’s a big joke about it. I enjoy it very much. Among Sahaja Yogis also I’ve seen it’s very common that they are identified with one country. If you are identified, then you should try to correct that country. Should try to correct those countrymen who are following a particular type of ideologies. They never see that, because they are so much involved with them that they don’t see what’s wrong with them. They’ll always see what’s wrong with others.But I’ve seen those who are real Sahaja Yogis are very good. They tell Me what’s wrong in their own country. What’s going wrong in their own country. What’s the trouble in their own country. How the countrymen are. You see, very surprising! I was surprised how people told Me that how some people who are in their country are so misidentified, and they are so against Sahaja Yoga in a subtle manner. I was surprised, how they felt it that way. They said, “Mother, see, they are not at all global.” Once you become global, all your problems of provinces and things are finished. But that doesn’t come into their head, that we have to be global. We are Sahaja Yogis, we cannot identify ourselves with one country or another country. If we do that, then we are still lacking in our universal personality. And this universal personality comes to us from Shri Ganesh. He’s a universal personality, whether He is in India, whether He is in Italy or in England. What is that personality? Is innocence. Very innocence, very much innocent. And not only that, but He is a joy-giving personality.All such people who are joy-giving are recognized. It’s not that the world doesn’t recognize; they may not be knowing that they are global, but those who are global people, they write books on global ways, thinking about global things. And they can criticize also people of their own country, they can criticize people of their own clan, they can go on like that. But they can be slavish also to some other country and try to praise them too much. So, you are not to be slavish. You have to not to be identified. But you should be identified with your Self. And whatever your Self enjoys, that should be expressed. That is the sign that your Ganesha is there and that Ganesha is working out.It’s very important for leaders to understand this. Because I’ve seen the way they are identified with their countrymen is sometimes shocking to Me. I’m really shocked, how could they be. They are not belonging to any country. They are no more. They are in the country of Shri Ganesha, which is the country of love and joy. If you cannot give joy and love, then there’s something wrong with you. With this only, His quality, people become chaste. Because chastity is a very joy-giving thing, very joy-giving. It is not a thing that you have to tell somebody, or to force somebody, or to restrict somebody, but it is to enjoy it. To enjoy yourself and enjoy the chastity of another person. Is such a great blessing of Shri Ganesha, such a great blessing that you enjoy your own chastity. You are not bothered about another person, [if] he’s chaste or not, if he’s doing bad things, if he’s a ruined person – doesn’t matter. You don’t get spoilt with that. You have your own chastity, your own life of very chaste moments.It is nowadays that such a modern style of thinking there’s a flowing towards unchaste life and all kinds of wrong ideas about chastity. If somebody now talks of chastity, people think: “This must be mad, how can that be?” Everything is done these days, if you see, all the fashions are there. Now once the fashion starts, it goes on spreading. Then everybody will dress up in the same manner. They have no personality of their own. Everybody will be going round in the same manner. Especially the women have lost their sense of chastity. They have lost their sense of chastity, because the way they dress up sometimes, shocks Me. What is the need to dress up like this? Why can’t you dress up properly? But it is just . . . shows that they have no character of their own. Actually, they may say, “I am this, I am that,” but they are not, they are nothing. Because they take to all kinds of forces that run around.But look at the children. Children are not like that. They do not have all these funny ideas of impressing people with their unchaste life. None of them. On the contrary, children are very conscious, and they want to become very chaste people. This has an effect on the eyes, I must say. Shri Ganesha acts through your eyes. How you look at a person is very important. I have seen people losing complete control over their eyes: they’ll go on looking at this person, looking at another person, looking at another person, just for nothing at all. But it’s a matter of no Ganesha control. And with this, the eyes are spoilt. Spoilt means that you cannot look at anything concentratedly. Then how can you penetrate into anything? Any penetration is possible only if you can really adjust your eyes in such a manner that you see something at that time for that time, and not go on shifting your eyes from one to another.It can mean anything; it can come from anything. That means Ganesha is the one who is a detector of our faults. For example, people have greed. So, they will start seeing who’s wearing what clothes, what clothes they should wear. If they have greed, then they’ll see somebody has a nice house: “I should also have a nice house.” But they never see the beauty of that house. They never see the actual essence of that house. But just they go on seeing that, “I should have this house, this kind, I should have that.” They have no sense of beauty, I should say, they have only sense of possession. And that is such a bad thing to say, because sense of beauty is something so deep, and sense of possession is so grotesque, so aggressive.So, one should look at things from Ganesha’s angle: How will He do it, how will He use it?You will learn from children, how they watch things, and how they work it out, how they think. You will be amazed how sensible they are, and the very sensible things they talk.Like I met a child, so the child told Me, “I love the moon.” I said, “All right. Now, what’s wrong with the moon?”“Nothing, but it hides itself under the clouds all the time.” So, I said “Why does he do that?”“Because he walks too much. So, he’s tired and he has to rest, all right. And that’s why he does it. So if he doesn’t walk so much, if he keeps steady, he won’t have to do it.”Just imagine! A little child watching all these things. And, I mean, I was amazed how the little child knows what is right, what is wrong, what, how to behave, how to understand the proper way of doing things. They are not taught anything, they are not conditioned, nothing. But they know how to behave. And they are always looked after by the Divine. I have known children who have fallen from great heights. Nothing happened to them. And also, no snakes and all these things don’t bite children. Even, they say, that tigers never try to eat children. What is it? What is so powerful about it, that children are so safe and allowed to grow? But then they grow into such horrible creatures who are unchaste, who are running after women or women running after men – is a common play these days. And it is unbelievable how can people who are even Sahaja Yogis do this. Of course, they don’t. But some of them, they are still in this kind of a mess.So, when you have your Ganesha already established . . . Just before creating the whole Universe, the Mother created Shri Ganesha. If He’s there, then life is very easy. Such a society is very easy to live. Such a friendship also is so easy. Because there’s nothing that is possessiveness, or any kind of a, you can call, perversity. When you have bad eyes for women, bad eyes for money, bad eyes for possessions, Ganesha is spoilt.He just knows how to enjoy. Enjoy everything. If it belongs to you, doesn’t matter. It belongs to me, it doesn’t matter. But you should know how to enjoy the beauty of it. And that enjoyment when you have within yourself, you don’t grow old, because all the time you are enjoying. What is there to grow old? But normally, it doesn’t happen. You are very critical, you are very, I should say, selfish and stupid sometimes, very much stupid. All that, you lose all that grip over your Self, which is joy. What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy! A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous. And never degrading anyone. In every small thing it sees a beauty. And nature of every creation is so beautiful. I’m really surprised, how is it that poetry comes to very few people. Because they go on describing love affairs, this, that, all nonsensical things, and what things make you unhappy. Unhappy is not the sign of a person who is a realized soul. So, if you have that problem of unhappiness, just be on the watch out and see why: Why have you developed this kind of a funny attitude towards everything? Why can’t you enjoy everything? You go on watching this person, that person – you never enjoy. While if you watch the children, it’s very interesting. They look at . . . like I saw one joke. There was a joke about a child. They had a guest in their house for food, and he was eating. So, this child saw that man eating. He said, “Mama, he doesn’t eat like a horse. You said he eats like a horse.” So, that’s what they are: very simple, very simple-hearted, and that’s how they correct people. Correct.What you should talk to children, what you should tell them about is very important because if you tell them something: “Don’t do it,” so they will do it in such a manner that it will be ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And they are so obedient to begin with, they think that, “We are children, we should obey.” And this obedience comes out of their simple nature. But we should not try to tell them too many things, and we shouldn’t like to control them with: “Don’t do this, don’t do that.” All the time if you do it like that, the children won’t understand. You don’t have to tell them. But if they are chaste children, if they are brought up in a chaste society – that’s why I always say, “Baba, send your children to our school.” Because children have to be chaste. They must understand the value of chastity. And these modern societies, in the Western area especially, are very [much] destroying our children’s innocence.We should have learned so much from the children, how innocent they are, how simple they are. They are very generous, and children will give away everything that they have. Everything. They don’t understand possession of things. Just imagine. If somebody likes something, all right, have it. And they’ll keep something for a person who likes something, you know. They are wonderful people. And we have to learn a lot from children. And their smiling faces and their joy should teach us how to behave. Because Ganesha shines through them very clearly. All the intelligence, all the beautiful things they say, I would say you should all write it down – what your children talk, say. Because it would be such a book of interesting episodes. Instead of writing about wars and horrible things that they have done in this world, better write what good things there are, which children can tell you.Children don’t believe in all this kind of a mass nonsense of a fashion. They don’t. See, they are properly dressed always, they are not bothered about behaving in the mass way. So That means they are very independent, on their own. They are not slaves of any society. And they do not want to follow anything that is just generally followed. No. They follow their own pattern and live in very dignified manner. They are extremely dignified, and their sense of chastity is very well developed. They would not wear something that will expose their body or will show that there’s something wrong with them. Sometimes we neglect our children very much. Because of money problems, maybe, or I don’t know what husband-wife problems there are, and the children are neglected. And once they are neglected, anything can happen to them. And I think it’s a very great sin on the part of people to produce children and to neglect them. Children should be given the first, the primary place in the household, in the family. And they should be looked after by everyone. They are the most important thing, not somebody: he’s the head of the family, he can shout at the children and – nothing of the kind.Moreover, I have seen that the way we take to all odd things and bad habits, children never take. They know that it is bad, it should not be done. By their innocence they know it should not be done. They may sometimes, you know, play with fire, do something like that. But once they are bitten by it, they’ll never touch it. They are extremely fast in learning, because that is the age they are, they’re growing. But actually, what is needed now is that the elders must grow. The children are growing, they learn; what about the elders? They have to learn also how to be nice and kind to everyone. And to be compassionate with all the rest of them.This idea of criticism comes from where, I don’t know. But like they’ll go anywhere, they’ll start criticizing. Children never criticize. They never see these things, never. They’ll just get into that house, or any place, and just enjoy it and see the good points of that house. Always I have seen they’ll come and tell, “See, they had one very nice Shri Ganesha’s this thing.” The house may be dirty, there might be a smell, anything – doesn’t matter. See, so their eyes are towards nice things and good things. They don’t, sort of, take to all these things.Then, also, because of modern life, children have developed a kind of a funny character, when they grow up: “I don’t like this, I don’t like that,” and they fall into funny, funny, I should say, ideas about life, which we must try to guard. Because these days the society is growing so fast. There are televisions, there are so many, I should say, propagating things which are not good for children, and they should not see them also. And if the children are realized souls, they don’t like to see. They don’t like to see violence. They don’t like to see nonsense. I have seen it. They don’t like. But the parents are sitting and enjoying nonsense, so they are also sitting. Gradually, it might crawl into their heads. But normally, children don’t like any violence, any beating, any kind of thing.So, we have to learn a lot from them, because they are innocent, because they have the quality of innocence, so they are to be respected. I don’t like people beating their children or hitting them and fulfilling their ambitions through the children. It’s very, very wrong. You should leave them alone—they are perfect. Only thing is, they should be given proper ideas at a time, appreciation for their chastity, for their well behaviour. That should be done. But [they] should not be given a kind of idea of the society in which they live, where the children get spoilt. And I was surprised that, I met one child the other day, and the child said, “I want to have a car.”“Which car?”“Mercedes.”I said, “Why don’t you go for Ferrari?”So, you see, this money orientation also comes from childhood. From childhood if you talk of all these things, money orientation, children also know this, and they talk like that. There are many other things for children we should just avoid. Don’t allow them to go near all such things which are creating money orientation, because that is the problem of today, that everywhere you find people who have made money, illegally. So much money has been made. And there is no need to do that. But still, you see, they go; this money orientation is funny thing. It’s a greed, it’s madness, I tell you, real madness. A person wants to have, say, twenty-five cars. Is he going to sit in the twenty-five cars? He wants to have twenty-five aeroplanes; what is he going to do with them? For that, he is cheating everyone, troubling everyone, taking the money of others. It is better to be poor than to be like that.So, this is what is happening today is that people have gone – the track is wrong. Is the right-side track, right-side track. I should say, we start our Sahaja Yoga from Shri Ganesha, who is on the left side. Not on the right side. First, you developed your left side, then you come to the right, you are all right. That’s why we have our Sahaja Yoga completely built in on Shri Ganesh. Once He’s there, you are completely all right and no problem. There’s no lack of wisdom. Once you are with Shri Ganesh, you see the point, absolutely clearly, how to behave, how to live, and you don’t take to stupid things like lust, greed, and nonsense.But people are mad, you know. They take to any kind of thing when they grow up. But as children, if they have an influence, very beautiful influence of proper family life, proper school life, proper guidance, proper love, and help in every way in their growth, then children become extremely, extremely good. Beautiful. And I bless all the Sahaja Yogis to have children of that nature, and to look after your children. That’s very important, because they are tomorrow’s Sahaja Yogis. And they should be a better quality. Because you are coming from another lot. They are coming from the innocence, so they are very pure, and their purity must be respected and must be guarded. Maybe that we’ll understand the importance of children and develop Ganesha qualities in them.Thank you very much.

9/15/2002

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Talk and Marriages

Italy

Cabella Ligure

Reviewed

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Wedding

English

Talk to Bridegrooms I’m very happy that you all have decided to marry in Sahaja Yoga, but there are certain responsibilities which you must have. It’s not like other marriages – that today you marry, tomorrow you divorce, then you do this, do that. Nothing of the kind. You are marrying in Sahaja Yoga because we want to strengthen Sahaja Yoga.You’ll have wife, she’ll look after you, she’ll be kind to you, she’ll be loving you because she is a Sahaja Yogini. And you should also be very kind to her. Don’t try to dominate, don’t try to pass her to your ideas. See what she wants. You must know how to love your wife, otherwise marriages are not possible. But once you divorce in Sahaja Yoga we will never marry you again – this we have decided now. Or in any way, if you desert your wife or leave her or do something irresponsible about your marriage, in Sahaja Yoga you have no place.So, once for all, now only you decide that you are marrying it’s a very, very big responsibility. We want Sahaja Yoga marriages to be very successful and all of you should enjoy a very happy married life. No use dominating, no use controlling, but enjoying each other’s company. Because your wife is also Sahaja Yogini, you are also Sahaja Yogi. And we don’t marry you unless and until you are Sahaja Yogis. The reason is: we are enlightened people, we are of higher awareness. We have our spiritual life. We have to show in our lives how you behave very much differently from others who are stupid people, who go on fighting, spoiling, everything.So that you will have nice children, you have to look after your children, look after your family, that’s your first thing. Of course, some of you will be very busy with your work. It’s all right, but loving the wife, looking after her, looking after children is very important. Otherwise you should become bachelor, you should not marry. But if you are marrying, you are taking the responsibility of the wife. She is the daughter of somebody and the father is giving the daughter to you. So, so far boys have behaved very well, I must say, in Sahaja Yoga and so now you should also have wisdom and understanding that you are here to produce Sahaja Yogi children, to help in Sahaja Yoga, because we have to change the world. It’s to be emancipated. If you have very lower level of understanding of marriage it won’t work out. So I’ve to make a very great respect, with great respect I have to make a very humble, I should say, request to you that – please, please – if you are entering into a married life in Sahaja Yoga, you have to understand your responsibility, it’s a very great responsibility. It’s a responsibility for the whole world, because we have to change the whole world. And if you behave like other husbands of your country or of other countries then what’s the use of marrying in Sahaja Yoga? You can go and have a nice marriage outside. But if you are marrying in Sahaja Yoga you have to know it’s a big battle against evil, against injustice and also against all kind of mismanagements. We want to make a beautiful world and to make a beautiful world we need people who are beautiful, who themselves respect everyone. So, I have to make again and again same request to you that you be very good, humble and respecting husbands. Don’t follow others, because I’ve had funny things and I was surprised how could these people become like this in marriages in Sahaja Yoga. But we found out they were all mad, lunatics, and they behaved in a lunatic manner. So aggression and all these things are not allowed. You are marrying these girls specially for the benefit of the whole world. Not only yourself, not only your children, your family, but the whole world, before the whole world you have to show that you are a very sensible, wise and highly evolved person. This is not a marriage of a lower type of people. So it’s a responsibility with you to show that you are very matured and that you have that feeling of enlightenment within you. And you are enlightened people. And you can enlighten the whole world. Of course, because the wife is coming from another family, another country maybe, so there will be little difference of understanding. So you make her understand, you have to talk to her, you have to tell her, “All right, come along, sit down.” But no use losing temper and getting angry. Whatever explanation you may give for that is not good. It’s not going to help you. I want to see all of you how you show successfully that you are very nicely married to your wives. But I don’t say you spoil them, by no means, I’ve already told them. Don’t have to spoil them, but let them be also on the good lines of Sahaja Yoga. And become good volunteers of Sahaja Yoga. They’ll be very good mothers and they’ll create those children which we want now, who will completely change this world. So, I hope you agree with Me and if you agree well and good. If you don’t agree, even now you can leave and you can give up – I will not mind at all. But after marriage if you try to misbehave or if you try to divorce something, you have no place in Sahaja Yoga. We’ll not have you here. So, are you all accepting it? All right? Whosoever is not accepting raise your hand. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I’m very happy to know this. So, you have to be wiser and you have to explain to your wife, “See now, this is this, this is this.” And let them see that you are intellectually higher, not only that, but you are very wise. Spiritually you understand. And then they will listen to you. Be kind, be nice, they are leaving their parents, they are leaving their families, they are leaving their countries also, some of them. So be very kind and gentle with them and don’t get angry for anything at all. There’s no need to get angry at all. All My life I’ve never been angry. So that shows unnecessarily people are angry, there’s no need. Just keep quiet. If you don’t like something, keep quiet. But don’t show your temper or anger. You have to show that you’re wise, dignified people. I’ve seen some husbands throwing things, shouting, doing all kinds of things. Then how can the wife have respect for you unless and until you are respectable. You have to be respectable, you’ll be kind to her, nice to her. I’m not saying you spoil them, not at all. If you think something is wrong, then let her sit down, you sit down and explain to her that this won’t be good from Sahaja Yoga point of view. All right? So I wanted all of you to wait. And so all these years you have grown up now, you understand what is the purpose of your life. Thank you very much.May God bless you! So, you have to go down and you have to stand in proper line with numbering, because I don’t want you to be confused on that point, all right? So, they will make you stand in one line. You stand like that, and I’m sure it will work out. So far there has been never a confusion and you’re all sensible people, you understand. All right, thank you. I wanted to know from what countries you are coming. Can you tell – one by one? India, all right. [HINDI] You tell him. Who is number two? Ukraine, number two. [HINDI] Ukraine, Bulgaria. Romania, Russia. Now, who is next to that? You can stand up and say. [HINDI] Estonia, Germany - “Achha!”, Brazil - “Achha!”, Ukraine, Austria, Czech republic, Austria, Russia. They look the same! Nigeria. Ireland, Italy, [HINDI] France. Next. Italy. All right, very good. It’s a global…. it’s global. We are all global and we should show our sense of universal understanding how we understand and enjoy everyone from every place from every country. They are all our brothers and sisters. All right? Thank you very much! Thank you! Talk to Brides I’m very happy to see you all in such a beautiful dresses and also in a good mood to get married. You must keep up your attitude – all right. You should be happy people, and try to keep your husbands also happy. Your happiness can create happiness for the children. Now one thing I want to warn you: not to tell your husband about anything which was wrong in your past life. That’s not to be done, there’s no need, because you are now Sahaja Yogis. You are changed people and whatever has happened has happened, you need not talk about it or tell him anything about it, but talk of the future and the present – all right. So, be sensible! It’s your sensibility which is going to make a happy married life. If you become insensible, there’s no wisdom, then marriages will fail. Some girls, I’ve seen, dominate their husbands too much. There is no need to dominate. If you love the husband that’s how the domination is, is the best way is to love your husband, look after him, do whatever is needed, because no use showing off that you are from a better society or a better culture or a better family background. It’s only you who can show that you are really a good person and your goodness will win him over. So it’s only the wife who makes or spoils the marriage. And I have to tell you very frankly that if you still have some doubts about your marriage or if you are still thinking this was not a good match you should withdraw now. And later on you should not go on finding faults with your husband. See, men are men and women are women. Men cannot be women but, you can make them understand that women are to be respected. All right, and how – that you will have to see by your behaviour. If your behaviour is good, they’ll respect you. But if your behaviour is childish or if your behaviour is aggressive, no man can appreciate a woman who is aggressive and so you should not be aggressive. Whatever he says you should agree and listen to him. Fundamental things of course is there, but otherwise for small, small things, you should not try to dominate your husband. It’s not a sign of a Sahaja Yogini. Sahaja Yogini has to – with love and understanding and wisdom – has to win over the husband and not by domination. This is one thing we should understand that many marriages are broken because of domination. Second thing is, you’re naturally attached to your parents, attached to your family, attached to your country. But now, forget it! Be attached to your husband’s family, husband and things around. Because if you are attached to your family, you’ll still spoil the relationship. I’ve known many couples being broken because of this. There was a girl who was very much worried about her father, because he’d lost the business and she made the whole life miserable. So the husband disappeared and he wanted to do something else and she was left in the lurch and she had to go to her father and then she realized how difficult it is to live in father’s house.So, it’s your house, it’s your home, it’s your husband. All right, you don’t have to sort of go on searching another person or another woman who will help you. It’s you who can help yourself. All right, because now we have very bad experiences of some girls who have left their husband and come away to their families with their children. Is the family going to look after them all their lives? Who is going to look after them?So use your brain and don’t try to show off that you are something superior or something higher or you’re something more. Say something you should be humble. The humble you are the better it is. Otherwise arrogance doesn’t behove you. She doesn’t look nice, she looks like a horse sometimes and looks like – I don’t know like what. So it is better to be humble and to be kind and to be nice and to prove that you are a good natured person. All right! Second thing I have to tell you, because you are from the West. So western women are very much money-oriented, even Indians have become like that. They want a car, they want a house, they want this, they want that. You shouldn’t want anything. You are going to supply to your husband, to your family. You don’t need anything. That’s your beauty, that’s your decoration that will beautify you. But if you go on hankering after “I want this, I want that” there’s no end to it. Especially with western mind, they are very money-oriented and have created such problems that I don’t know what to say to them. So, second thing is that you should not be money-oriented, but you should be love-oriented. Express your love by different things. By making good food, by making a good bed for your husband, for organizing the house, keeping everything nice. Because if the housewife is untidy the house will remain untidy. It’s not the job of the husband to look after the house. You’ll enjoy a very beautiful house and a very beautiful room, if you keep it properly. So you should enjoy all that. Enjoy doing everything for the family. Especially for your husband. Little, little things can – you see – give him pleasure and happiness. Because he’s so tired working in the office. Coming home so tired and then you get after that person, is very wrong. So you must change that attitude that we don’t want anything. You have everything, you are Sahaja Yogis, you are absolutely satisfied. But if you go on demanding then going to be very difficult I can tell you this much. I’ve had very, very bad experiences of some girls. Say from Austria recently, three girls went away back to Austria, it’s shameful. Is there anybody from Austria here? No. Thank God! You are from Austria? Wa, Wa! Now, be careful! You see these, the three girls have come back with the children. And the husband is so dominated that he has to go to the father’s house every Saturday, Sunday. He’s spending all that money in going down. That doesn’t show any wisdom. You see, the housewife, not only makes the family grow, but bring good name and understanding. There’s nothing to suffer much, but understanding is required, you see. Supposing, if you are wise and if something happens, take a very wise attitude, balanced attitude, responsible attitude. Wife has to be much more responsible than man as far as the family is concerned, children are concerned. But if you are a hot tempered woman, God save you and save your husband. So, hot temper is not suitable at all for any woman. If you are hot tempered you’ll start looking old very soon. Very soon you will start looking old, and if you have ego, if you think too much of yourself also same thing will happen. So, best thing is to behave like a little girl who has come to husband’s house to love him, to look after him and to mother him. You have to think that you are his mother and he – sometimes they are foolish according to your judgement – doesn’t matter. So, look after them just like your baby and be nice and sweet to them. All right? And none of your family people are more important than your husband. That is very important. For you now the most important thing your husband. This is a Sahaja style of marriage. And you can have other marriages, you can have ten marriages – that’s different, not in Sahaja Yoga. And once you are divorced then we don’t marry you. We have given up, we tried that. Now we don’t do that. Because it becomes a habit of divorcing your husband. Once you are married you should be all married and if you want to divorce then know before this thing that we’ll have nothing to do with you. And you’ll be thrown away from Sahaja Yoga. We want to have very good marriages and very good children. Also the progeny, the future of children will be very good, if you are sensible, wise, good and kind mothers. I’ve told you sufficiently. I hope you understand that you are marrying in Sahaja Yoga. And you have to keep the prestige of Sahaja Yoga, all right? You all promise that? May God bless you!

Talk to Bridegrooms I’m very happy that you all have decided to marry in Sahaja Yoga, but there are certain responsibilities which you must have. It’s not like other marriages – that today you marry, tomorrow you divorce, then you do this, do that. Nothing of the kind. You are marrying in Sahaja Yoga because we want to strengthen Sahaja Yoga.You’ll have wife, she’ll look after you, she’ll be kind to you, she’ll be loving you because she is a Sahaja Yogini. And you should also be very kind to her. Don’t try to dominate, don’t try to pass her to your ideas. See what she wants. You must know how to love your wife, otherwise marriages are not possible. But once you divorce in Sahaja Yoga we will never marry you again – this we have decided now. Or in any way, if you desert your wife or leave her or do something irresponsible about your marriage, in Sahaja Yoga you have no place.So, once for all, now only you decide that you are marrying it’s a very, very big responsibility. We want Sahaja Yoga marriages to be very successful and all of you should enjoy a very happy married life. No use dominating, no use controlling, but enjoying each other’s company. Because your wife is also Sahaja Yogini, you are also Sahaja Yogi. And we don’t marry you unless and until you are Sahaja Yogis. The reason is: we are enlightened people, we are of higher awareness. We have our spiritual life. We have to show in our lives how you behave very much differently from others who are stupid people, who go on fighting, spoiling, everything.So that you will have nice children, you have to look after your children, look after your family, that’s your first thing. Of course, some of you will be very busy with your work. It’s all right, but loving the wife, looking after her, looking after children is very important. Otherwise you should become bachelor, you should not marry. But if you are marrying, you are taking the responsibility of the wife. She is the daughter of somebody and the father is giving the daughter to you. So, so far boys have behaved very well, I must say, in Sahaja Yoga and so now you should also have wisdom and understanding that you are here to produce Sahaja Yogi children, to help in Sahaja Yoga, because we have to change the world. It’s to be emancipated. If you have very lower level of understanding of marriage it won’t work out. So I’ve to make a very great respect, with great respect I have to make a very humble, I should say, request to you that – please, please – if you are entering into a married life in Sahaja Yoga, you have to understand your responsibility, it’s a very great responsibility. It’s a responsibility for the whole world, because we have to change the whole world. And if you behave like other husbands of your country or of other countries then what’s the use of marrying in Sahaja Yoga? You can go and have a nice marriage outside. But if you are marrying in Sahaja Yoga you have to know it’s a big battle against evil, against injustice and also against all kind of mismanagements. We want to make a beautiful world and to make a beautiful world we need people who are beautiful, who themselves respect everyone. So, I have to make again and again same request to you that you be very good, humble and respecting husbands. Don’t follow others, because I’ve had funny things and I was surprised how could these people become like this in marriages in Sahaja Yoga. But we found out they were all mad, lunatics, and they behaved in a lunatic manner. So aggression and all these things are not allowed. You are marrying these girls specially for the benefit of the whole world. Not only yourself, not only your children, your family, but the whole world, before the whole world you have to show that you are a very sensible, wise and highly evolved person. This is not a marriage of a lower type of people. So it’s a responsibility with you to show that you are very matured and that you have that feeling of enlightenment within you. And you are enlightened people. And you can enlighten the whole world. Of course, because the wife is coming from another family, another country maybe, so there will be little difference of understanding. So you make her understand, you have to talk to her, you have to tell her, “All right, come along, sit down.” But no use losing temper and getting angry. Whatever explanation you may give for that is not good. It’s not going to help you. I want to see all of you how you show successfully that you are very nicely married to your wives. But I don’t say you spoil them, by no means, I’ve already told them. Don’t have to spoil them, but let them be also on the good lines of Sahaja Yoga. And become good volunteers of Sahaja Yoga. They’ll be very good mothers and they’ll create those children which we want now, who will completely change this world. So, I hope you agree with Me and if you agree well and good. If you don’t agree, even now you can leave and you can give up – I will not mind at all. But after marriage if you try to misbehave or if you try to divorce something, you have no place in Sahaja Yoga. We’ll not have you here. So, are you all accepting it? All right? Whosoever is not accepting raise your hand. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I’m very happy to know this. So, you have to be wiser and you have to explain to your wife, “See now, this is this, this is this.” And let them see that you are intellectually higher, not only that, but you are very wise. Spiritually you understand. And then they will listen to you. Be kind, be nice, they are leaving their parents, they are leaving their families, they are leaving their countries also, some of them. So be very kind and gentle with them and don’t get angry for anything at all. There’s no need to get angry at all. All My life I’ve never been angry. So that shows unnecessarily people are angry, there’s no need. Just keep quiet. If you don’t like something, keep quiet. But don’t show your temper or anger. You have to show that you’re wise, dignified people. I’ve seen some husbands throwing things, shouting, doing all kinds of things. Then how can the wife have respect for you unless and until you are respectable. You have to be respectable, you’ll be kind to her, nice to her. I’m not saying you spoil them, not at all. If you think something is wrong, then let her sit down, you sit down and explain to her that this won’t be good from Sahaja Yoga point of view. All right? So I wanted all of you to wait. And so all these years you have grown up now, you understand what is the purpose of your life. Thank you very much.May God bless you! So, you have to go down and you have to stand in proper line with numbering, because I don’t want you to be confused on that point, all right? So, they will make you stand in one line. You stand like that, and I’m sure it will work out. So far there has been never a confusion and you’re all sensible people, you understand. All right, thank you. I wanted to know from what countries you are coming. Can you tell – one by one? India, all right. [HINDI] You tell him. Who is number two? Ukraine, number two. [HINDI] Ukraine, Bulgaria. Romania, Russia. Now, who is next to that? You can stand up and say. [HINDI] Estonia, Germany - “Achha!”, Brazil - “Achha!”, Ukraine, Austria, Czech republic, Austria, Russia. They look the same! Nigeria. Ireland, Italy, [HINDI] France. Next. Italy. All right, very good. It’s a global…. it’s global. We are all global and we should show our sense of universal understanding how we understand and enjoy everyone from every place from every country. They are all our brothers and sisters. All right? Thank you very much! Thank you! Talk to Brides I’m very happy to see you all in such a beautiful dresses and also in a good mood to get married. You must keep up your attitude – all right. You should be happy people, and try to keep your husbands also happy. Your happiness can create happiness for the children. Now one thing I want to warn you: not to tell your husband about anything which was wrong in your past life. That’s not to be done, there’s no need, because you are now Sahaja Yogis. You are changed people and whatever has happened has happened, you need not talk about it or tell him anything about it, but talk of the future and the present – all right. So, be sensible! It’s your sensibility which is going to make a happy married life. If you become insensible, there’s no wisdom, then marriages will fail. Some girls, I’ve seen, dominate their husbands too much. There is no need to dominate. If you love the husband that’s how the domination is, is the best way is to love your husband, look after him, do whatever is needed, because no use showing off that you are from a better society or a better culture or a better family background. It’s only you who can show that you are really a good person and your goodness will win him over. So it’s only the wife who makes or spoils the marriage. And I have to tell you very frankly that if you still have some doubts about your marriage or if you are still thinking this was not a good match you should withdraw now. And later on you should not go on finding faults with your husband. See, men are men and women are women. Men cannot be women but, you can make them understand that women are to be respected. All right, and how – that you will have to see by your behaviour. If your behaviour is good, they’ll respect you. But if your behaviour is childish or if your behaviour is aggressive, no man can appreciate a woman who is aggressive and so you should not be aggressive. Whatever he says you should agree and listen to him. Fundamental things of course is there, but otherwise for small, small things, you should not try to dominate your husband. It’s not a sign of a Sahaja Yogini. Sahaja Yogini has to – with love and understanding and wisdom – has to win over the husband and not by domination. This is one thing we should understand that many marriages are broken because of domination. Second thing is, you’re naturally attached to your parents, attached to your family, attached to your country. But now, forget it! Be attached to your husband’s family, husband and things around. Because if you are attached to your family, you’ll still spoil the relationship. I’ve known many couples being broken because of this. There was a girl who was very much worried about her father, because he’d lost the business and she made the whole life miserable. So the husband disappeared and he wanted to do something else and she was left in the lurch and she had to go to her father and then she realized how difficult it is to live in father’s house.So, it’s your house, it’s your home, it’s your husband. All right, you don’t have to sort of go on searching another person or another woman who will help you. It’s you who can help yourself. All right, because now we have very bad experiences of some girls who have left their husband and come away to their families with their children. Is the family going to look after them all their lives? Who is going to look after them?So use your brain and don’t try to show off that you are something superior or something higher or you’re something more. Say something you should be humble. The humble you are the better it is. Otherwise arrogance doesn’t behove you. She doesn’t look nice, she looks like a horse sometimes and looks like – I don’t know like what. So it is better to be humble and to be kind and to be nice and to prove that you are a good natured person. All right! Second thing I have to tell you, because you are from the West. So western women are very much money-oriented, even Indians have become like that. They want a car, they want a house, they want this, they want that. You shouldn’t want anything. You are going to supply to your husband, to your family. You don’t need anything. That’s your beauty, that’s your decoration that will beautify you. But if you go on hankering after “I want this, I want that” there’s no end to it. Especially with western mind, they are very money-oriented and have created such problems that I don’t know what to say to them. So, second thing is that you should not be money-oriented, but you should be love-oriented. Express your love by different things. By making good food, by making a good bed for your husband, for organizing the house, keeping everything nice. Because if the housewife is untidy the house will remain untidy. It’s not the job of the husband to look after the house. You’ll enjoy a very beautiful house and a very beautiful room, if you keep it properly. So you should enjoy all that. Enjoy doing everything for the family. Especially for your husband. Little, little things can – you see – give him pleasure and happiness. Because he’s so tired working in the office. Coming home so tired and then you get after that person, is very wrong. So you must change that attitude that we don’t want anything. You have everything, you are Sahaja Yogis, you are absolutely satisfied. But if you go on demanding then going to be very difficult I can tell you this much. I’ve had very, very bad experiences of some girls. Say from Austria recently, three girls went away back to Austria, it’s shameful. Is there anybody from Austria here? No. Thank God! You are from Austria? Wa, Wa! Now, be careful! You see these, the three girls have come back with the children. And the husband is so dominated that he has to go to the father’s house every Saturday, Sunday. He’s spending all that money in going down. That doesn’t show any wisdom. You see, the housewife, not only makes the family grow, but bring good name and understanding. There’s nothing to suffer much, but understanding is required, you see. Supposing, if you are wise and if something happens, take a very wise attitude, balanced attitude, responsible attitude. Wife has to be much more responsible than man as far as the family is concerned, children are concerned. But if you are a hot tempered woman, God save you and save your husband. So, hot temper is not suitable at all for any woman. If you are hot tempered you’ll start looking old very soon. Very soon you will start looking old, and if you have ego, if you think too much of yourself also same thing will happen. So, best thing is to behave like a little girl who has come to husband’s house to love him, to look after him and to mother him. You have to think that you are his mother and he – sometimes they are foolish according to your judgement – doesn’t matter. So, look after them just like your baby and be nice and sweet to them. All right? And none of your family people are more important than your husband. That is very important. For you now the most important thing your husband. This is a Sahaja style of marriage. And you can have other marriages, you can have ten marriages – that’s different, not in Sahaja Yoga. And once you are divorced then we don’t marry you. We have given up, we tried that. Now we don’t do that. Because it becomes a habit of divorcing your husband. Once you are married you should be all married and if you want to divorce then know before this thing that we’ll have nothing to do with you. And you’ll be thrown away from Sahaja Yoga. We want to have very good marriages and very good children. Also the progeny, the future of children will be very good, if you are sensible, wise, good and kind mothers. I’ve told you sufficiently. I hope you understand that you are marrying in Sahaja Yoga. And you have to keep the prestige of Sahaja Yoga, all right? You all promise that? May God bless you!

9/27/2002

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Shri Ganesha Puja: You are in the war with Me & Departure

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Shri Ganesha Puja, Frankfurt (Germany), 27 September 2002. It’s so nice to come back after such a long time. And whenever I came, you always had gathered in a very big hall. We met, and that’s how the Sahaja Yoga started growing. It’s very important for you people from specially from Germany, Austria. These are the people who were in the war. And now you are in the war with Me. We have to fight, fight the evil. You know how the world is. We have to fight them and we have to take them out of ignorance. You are such a support for this because we have to change human beings. They have to become good people very fast. Once they get their Self-realization, the change will start. Now in England and also in Italy, what they are doing is to give realization to people on the street. Giving on the street, thousands of people now have become realized souls. It’s a very big thing because once you get your realization, you become the Spirit and all the goodness should come to you. If there is anything evil, bad in you that will go away. It’s spreading so fast everywhere and should also spread in those countries who are there. There’s no need, no need for you to fight or quarrel because you have got the divine help. You have got all the help all the help from the Divine, and this is what is to be understood: that we are helped by the Divine to transform human beings into something greater. That’s what we are and we are here because I wanted to tell people that you must have a place, an ashram for Sahaja Yoga, and I don’t want anybody else, but only sahaja yogis there because you don’t know how dirty people are in this world. What things they do, you can’t imagine to what limit they can go and can really try to harm you because they are not only negative, but they are sometimes satanic and they’ll try to ruin your children, ruin your families, do all kinds of things. So you have nothing to do with them. Keep away. Keep aloof because now you all have been cleansed. Those who are cleansed people don’t mix up with people who are muddy, do they? And so must have this much of wisdom in your head to understand that at any cost you will not mix up Sahaja Yoga with other things. It’s very important to know. I have been trying to tell this since long that keep yourself aloof. But sometimes people don’t do it and then they suffer a lot. We have all kinds of devils around, all kinds of satanic forces acting as some sort of a cult, or I don’t know what they are doing, but they’ve done no good to people, no good at all. Just see what is going on in those days: is all kinds of fighting, quarrelling, killing. All this is going on, so you must know we are in the very, very bad type of Kali Yuga and we have to fight it out by collectivity. Look at the children, how collective they are. You all have to be collective and you must love all the people, all the sahaja yogis who are around. Don’t try to find faults with them. Don’t try to fight with them because it’s a very important work I am doing. What I’m trying to do is to transform people, to make them good people, nice people. It’s not to get anything out of them, but to give them something that they should become very good people. We have to have extremely good and nice people, people who don’t hate, people who don’t have greed. Like madness, people have greed. In countries where they could make money, they have cheated everyone and have made money, and that is how their children will suffer. They will suffer. So My attention is for all of you because you can help Me in this great war, war with the evil. These are evil people by temperament, and they want to ruin you. You must understand this. Don’t play into their hands and you become solid because you have not come on this Earth to collect things and all that, but you have come here to become sahaja yogis of a very great order. Another thing is, if you don’t feel your joy within yourself, if there is no joy with you, you will trouble others. So best thing is for you is to meditate, not to criticize, not to use your brain, but meditate. By meditation, you will know how to enjoy Sahaja Yoga, how to enjoy everything. This has to be there and this mental activity should go away. Don’t try to organize others. Don’t try to give lectures to others, but what you do is to yourself introspect. See for yourself what’s wrong with you and what wrong things you are doing. So not only being peaceful is everything, no. Not only being good is equal, all right, but you have to make others, you have to make others good people. You have to make them beautiful people. We have to make this world beautiful through your own help and through your attention. Now the problem is that people take to wrong things very easily even after Sahaj Yoga. Don’t support anyone like that. On the contrary, explain to that person that Sahaja Yoga is a collective activity. We cannot have our own anything. We have to be active. We have to be together all the time. Togetherness is very important and then to seek joy of that togetherness. If you can feel that joy of togetherness, you have achieved that aim of life because then you’ll gather other people also and give them this joy of being the Spirit. Once they become the Spirit, it starts changing. But if you are collective and if you are together and you do all the things, then also you grow very much. Now, those who talk of separating, having some sort of a mad idea – please don’t listen to them. You better check. Tell them, “We have to be together.” We cannot, we cannot separate. And anything like this will be destroyed. Because in this world, you see, how the world is, how the things are and how it is working out. So for you to understand the beauty of modern times, is that you are born in a time when you can be transformed. You are born in a time when you can become the Self, the Spirit. Everybody has tried this; nothing has worked out. Now, with the help of your Kundalini, we are working it out. You also know what is, what is to be done. You know how to give realization, how to see the vibrations, everything. And once you start seeing that, then you will realize that what you are doing is a great harm to humanity. Now I leave upon you, all of you – you are such sensible, good people who have come to Sahaja Yoga, and every time I came here, you were all here. I’m happy so many countries are here only just knowing that I am coming. How much you all love Me, I tell you. Really, it’s remarkable. All you people have shown your love. All of you have come here all the way, when I am here for such a short time. So may God bless you all and have sense. Have sense in your head that you are now responsible for transforming this world into a new world of very good people, spiritual people. So your responsibility is that, and as a result, what you have to do, you will know. You all have to be very responsible. Whatever country you may come, whatever place you may come, but you have to be very, very responsible, responsible people, and try to understand what you are doing for Sahaja Yoga. I can see so many new faces now. I’m happy to see them. Of course most of the Austrians I have met and Americans ,Germans I’ve met before, but I see also other people from other countries – very sweet of them to have come. So what is important is to surrender, which is a problem with people. They cannot surrender themselves to Sahaja Yoga. That’s what is your life. That is the beautiful river of goodness. So you should try and surrender and if you cannot surrender, then there’s something wrong with you. Please try to surrender and you’ll be surprised that with this surrendering only you can get complete joy, happiness and peace. That is very important and that’s what I have come to tell you that please try to surrender. And surrendering is – I cannot say how you force yourself, but you just go into thoughtless awareness. You meditate and into thoughtless awareness and then I’m sure, with all My love and with all My blessings, I’m sure you will surrender – not only surrender, but you will develop tremendous powers to convert others also, to transform others into this good work. You all have that and if you just develop and try to find out how many people you have helped really in life to change. Thank you very much.

Shri Ganesha Puja, Frankfurt (Germany), 27 September 2002. It’s so nice to come back after such a long time. And whenever I came, you always had gathered in a very big hall. We met, and that’s how the Sahaja Yoga started growing. It’s very important for you people from specially from Germany, Austria. These are the people who were in the war. And now you are in the war with Me. We have to fight, fight the evil. You know how the world is. We have to fight them and we have to take them out of ignorance. You are such a support for this because we have to change human beings. They have to become good people very fast. Once they get their Self-realization, the change will start. Now in England and also in Italy, what they are doing is to give realization to people on the street. Giving on the street, thousands of people now have become realized souls. It’s a very big thing because once you get your realization, you become the Spirit and all the goodness should come to you. If there is anything evil, bad in you that will go away. It’s spreading so fast everywhere and should also spread in those countries who are there. There’s no need, no need for you to fight or quarrel because you have got the divine help. You have got all the help all the help from the Divine, and this is what is to be understood: that we are helped by the Divine to transform human beings into something greater. That’s what we are and we are here because I wanted to tell people that you must have a place, an ashram for Sahaja Yoga, and I don’t want anybody else, but only sahaja yogis there because you don’t know how dirty people are in this world. What things they do, you can’t imagine to what limit they can go and can really try to harm you because they are not only negative, but they are sometimes satanic and they’ll try to ruin your children, ruin your families, do all kinds of things. So you have nothing to do with them. Keep away. Keep aloof because now you all have been cleansed. Those who are cleansed people don’t mix up with people who are muddy, do they? And so must have this much of wisdom in your head to understand that at any cost you will not mix up Sahaja Yoga with other things. It’s very important to know. I have been trying to tell this since long that keep yourself aloof. But sometimes people don’t do it and then they suffer a lot. We have all kinds of devils around, all kinds of satanic forces acting as some sort of a cult, or I don’t know what they are doing, but they’ve done no good to people, no good at all. Just see what is going on in those days: is all kinds of fighting, quarrelling, killing. All this is going on, so you must know we are in the very, very bad type of Kali Yuga and we have to fight it out by collectivity. Look at the children, how collective they are. You all have to be collective and you must love all the people, all the sahaja yogis who are around. Don’t try to find faults with them. Don’t try to fight with them because it’s a very important work I am doing. What I’m trying to do is to transform people, to make them good people, nice people. It’s not to get anything out of them, but to give them something that they should become very good people. We have to have extremely good and nice people, people who don’t hate, people who don’t have greed. Like madness, people have greed. In countries where they could make money, they have cheated everyone and have made money, and that is how their children will suffer. They will suffer. So My attention is for all of you because you can help Me in this great war, war with the evil. These are evil people by temperament, and they want to ruin you. You must understand this. Don’t play into their hands and you become solid because you have not come on this Earth to collect things and all that, but you have come here to become sahaja yogis of a very great order. Another thing is, if you don’t feel your joy within yourself, if there is no joy with you, you will trouble others. So best thing is for you is to meditate, not to criticize, not to use your brain, but meditate. By meditation, you will know how to enjoy Sahaja Yoga, how to enjoy everything. This has to be there and this mental activity should go away. Don’t try to organize others. Don’t try to give lectures to others, but what you do is to yourself introspect. See for yourself what’s wrong with you and what wrong things you are doing. So not only being peaceful is everything, no. Not only being good is equal, all right, but you have to make others, you have to make others good people. You have to make them beautiful people. We have to make this world beautiful through your own help and through your attention. Now the problem is that people take to wrong things very easily even after Sahaj Yoga. Don’t support anyone like that. On the contrary, explain to that person that Sahaja Yoga is a collective activity. We cannot have our own anything. We have to be active. We have to be together all the time. Togetherness is very important and then to seek joy of that togetherness. If you can feel that joy of togetherness, you have achieved that aim of life because then you’ll gather other people also and give them this joy of being the Spirit. Once they become the Spirit, it starts changing. But if you are collective and if you are together and you do all the things, then also you grow very much. Now, those who talk of separating, having some sort of a mad idea – please don’t listen to them. You better check. Tell them, “We have to be together.” We cannot, we cannot separate. And anything like this will be destroyed. Because in this world, you see, how the world is, how the things are and how it is working out. So for you to understand the beauty of modern times, is that you are born in a time when you can be transformed. You are born in a time when you can become the Self, the Spirit. Everybody has tried this; nothing has worked out. Now, with the help of your Kundalini, we are working it out. You also know what is, what is to be done. You know how to give realization, how to see the vibrations, everything. And once you start seeing that, then you will realize that what you are doing is a great harm to humanity. Now I leave upon you, all of you – you are such sensible, good people who have come to Sahaja Yoga, and every time I came here, you were all here. I’m happy so many countries are here only just knowing that I am coming. How much you all love Me, I tell you. Really, it’s remarkable. All you people have shown your love. All of you have come here all the way, when I am here for such a short time. So may God bless you all and have sense. Have sense in your head that you are now responsible for transforming this world into a new world of very good people, spiritual people. So your responsibility is that, and as a result, what you have to do, you will know. You all have to be very responsible. Whatever country you may come, whatever place you may come, but you have to be very, very responsible, responsible people, and try to understand what you are doing for Sahaja Yoga. I can see so many new faces now. I’m happy to see them. Of course most of the Austrians I have met and Americans ,Germans I’ve met before, but I see also other people from other countries – very sweet of them to have come. So what is important is to surrender, which is a problem with people. They cannot surrender themselves to Sahaja Yoga. That’s what is your life. That is the beautiful river of goodness. So you should try and surrender and if you cannot surrender, then there’s something wrong with you. Please try to surrender and you’ll be surprised that with this surrendering only you can get complete joy, happiness and peace. That is very important and that’s what I have come to tell you that please try to surrender. And surrendering is – I cannot say how you force yourself, but you just go into thoughtless awareness. You meditate and into thoughtless awareness and then I’m sure, with all My love and with all My blessings, I’m sure you will surrender – not only surrender, but you will develop tremendous powers to convert others also, to transform others into this good work. You all have that and if you just develop and try to find out how many people you have helped really in life to change. Thank you very much.

10/1/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=11546

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Interview, Los Angeles, date unknown Shri Mataji: „I find today in this country people are seeking, and they don’t know what they are seeking. It is a problem to them. They don’t understand why are they so restless, why can't they understand things, why can't they sleep. All kinds of problems are there, while they should be at peace with themselves. But there’s something going on within in the evolutionary process. In the evolution, we have reached up to the human awareness, but there is something beyond that. If so, it is a longing to know what it is, unknown, as to the reason of it, as to the understanding of it. So today I am just going to explain to you why people are seeking. People think they are not complete, they are not whole. They think, why you are dragged into so many things, for what purpose? For example some people are going to different countries, some are taking to drinking, some are taking to drugs; all these things are not convincing. And they think that, „We have to have something beyond in our awareness, our awareness is not complete.“ This is - can be said that, the nature itself is trying to work it out within us - that we have to evolve more to become complete. Also, it is that desire, that is so strong that we start getting imbalanced, getting into troubles, and taking to things which are not good for our evolution. So we have to evolve. That is the point of this seeking that people feel, „I am a seeker.“ But these things are not going to satisfy because you see, nobody has been satisfied by doing these things. So what is to be done? There‘s nothing to be done. You have to be silent about it, and take to the method of Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is a method by which our pure desire is fulfilled through an instrument we can say, or the energy called as Kundalini, which is in the triangular bone. All the time it is there. All the human beings have this energy in the triangular bone. Now, this power is placed in the triangular bone in every human being. Which is at the base of the spine, which is called as sacrum bone. That shows that people knew that it is a sacred bone, in Greece, and they called it sacrum bone. The knowledge about Kundalini was known to many people before also. But now how to awaken it it‘s possible to be understood through Sahaja Yoga. When this Kundalini rises she passes through 6 centres. The 7th centre guards the chastity of this Kundalini. And when she arises through this 6 centres she enlightens them and integrates them and then pierces through the 7th centre, which we call as the last centre of evolution. This centre is placed in the area which was a soft bone on top of your head, when you were born. This centre was closed during the growth of the child. And later on, when the Kundalini rises, she pierces through this centre emitting cool breeze out of your own head. Could be hot in the beginning, but later on it cools down. Also it starts emitting cool vibrations from your hands and fingers. This is not yet complete. You have to practice raising of the Kundalini, establishing it permanently till you achieve a state of Self-realization. The body is given birth by a body, but this is given by the spirit. And that’s why it‘s called as a spiritual energy, because it works out your spiritual development. No use seeking here and there, and going around about into places, only you have to come to Sahaja Yoga. We don't charge any money for Sahaja Yoga. We don't have to waste any time - without any compulsion, without any force, spontaneously this Kundalini rises and gives you Self-realization. It may not give realization in the beginning to some people. But most of the people get it en-masse. Thousands of people have got realization in one meeting. It‘s very surprising. The nature’s work is completed in this year - in these years of turmoil and trouble, that human beings receive the gift of peace, of joy within themselves. It is very important that this is the time you have to get it. Because people are so disturbed by the surroundings they have, and they start questioning themselves, “Why am I on this earth?” And then only this Kundalini works out. We have a complete subtle knowledge about ourselves. And you all can know that, perfecting yourself with your own experience and understanding. You don’t have to make any physical yoga or any mental yoga. It just works out spontaneously, if you are a true seeker. So no use going here and there and spoiling your path of Kundalini.“ Interviewer: „So, you say that they can feel this thing?“ [unclear] Shri Mataji: „Now, what do you do? You just put your hands towards Me like this. It might work out, even if I am not there. You can also use My photograph. But the best thing is to go to the collective and ask for realization. In the collective, that you get the realization is with a big force and the piercing of Kundalini is very easy. In any case, try on My photograph, put both your hands towards the photograph, and you will get this realization. After so many years of My working, we had to cancel some people who were hypocritical, who were making money out of us, who were trying to create problems, and we had to ask them to go out. They were so dissatisfied with us. They didn’t want to go out. So instead of correcting themselves they tried to criticize us. But you understand that whatever is your righteousness, your greatness, your spirit - you can get it in Sahaja Yoga. And for that you should not be vindictive, but surrendering to get that great height of your evolution.“

Interview, Los Angeles, date unknown Shri Mataji: „I find today in this country people are seeking, and they don’t know what they are seeking. It is a problem to them. They don’t understand why are they so restless, why can't they understand things, why can't they sleep. All kinds of problems are there, while they should be at peace with themselves. But there’s something going on within in the evolutionary process. In the evolution, we have reached up to the human awareness, but there is something beyond that. If so, it is a longing to know what it is, unknown, as to the reason of it, as to the understanding of it. So today I am just going to explain to you why people are seeking. People think they are not complete, they are not whole. They think, why you are dragged into so many things, for what purpose? For example some people are going to different countries, some are taking to drinking, some are taking to drugs; all these things are not convincing. And they think that, „We have to have something beyond in our awareness, our awareness is not complete.“ This is - can be said that, the nature itself is trying to work it out within us - that we have to evolve more to become complete. Also, it is that desire, that is so strong that we start getting imbalanced, getting into troubles, and taking to things which are not good for our evolution. So we have to evolve. That is the point of this seeking that people feel, „I am a seeker.“ But these things are not going to satisfy because you see, nobody has been satisfied by doing these things. So what is to be done? There‘s nothing to be done. You have to be silent about it, and take to the method of Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is a method by which our pure desire is fulfilled through an instrument we can say, or the energy called as Kundalini, which is in the triangular bone. All the time it is there. All the human beings have this energy in the triangular bone. Now, this power is placed in the triangular bone in every human being. Which is at the base of the spine, which is called as sacrum bone. That shows that people knew that it is a sacred bone, in Greece, and they called it sacrum bone. The knowledge about Kundalini was known to many people before also. But now how to awaken it it‘s possible to be understood through Sahaja Yoga. When this Kundalini rises she passes through 6 centres. The 7th centre guards the chastity of this Kundalini. And when she arises through this 6 centres she enlightens them and integrates them and then pierces through the 7th centre, which we call as the last centre of evolution. This centre is placed in the area which was a soft bone on top of your head, when you were born. This centre was closed during the growth of the child. And later on, when the Kundalini rises, she pierces through this centre emitting cool breeze out of your own head. Could be hot in the beginning, but later on it cools down. Also it starts emitting cool vibrations from your hands and fingers. This is not yet complete. You have to practice raising of the Kundalini, establishing it permanently till you achieve a state of Self-realization. The body is given birth by a body, but this is given by the spirit. And that’s why it‘s called as a spiritual energy, because it works out your spiritual development. No use seeking here and there, and going around about into places, only you have to come to Sahaja Yoga. We don't charge any money for Sahaja Yoga. We don't have to waste any time - without any compulsion, without any force, spontaneously this Kundalini rises and gives you Self-realization. It may not give realization in the beginning to some people. But most of the people get it en-masse. Thousands of people have got realization in one meeting. It‘s very surprising. The nature’s work is completed in this year - in these years of turmoil and trouble, that human beings receive the gift of peace, of joy within themselves. It is very important that this is the time you have to get it. Because people are so disturbed by the surroundings they have, and they start questioning themselves, “Why am I on this earth?” And then only this Kundalini works out. We have a complete subtle knowledge about ourselves. And you all can know that, perfecting yourself with your own experience and understanding. You don’t have to make any physical yoga or any mental yoga. It just works out spontaneously, if you are a true seeker. So no use going here and there and spoiling your path of Kundalini.“ Interviewer: „So, you say that they can feel this thing?“ [unclear] Shri Mataji: „Now, what do you do? You just put your hands towards Me like this. It might work out, even if I am not there. You can also use My photograph. But the best thing is to go to the collective and ask for realization. In the collective, that you get the realization is with a big force and the piercing of Kundalini is very easy. In any case, try on My photograph, put both your hands towards the photograph, and you will get this realization. After so many years of My working, we had to cancel some people who were hypocritical, who were making money out of us, who were trying to create problems, and we had to ask them to go out. They were so dissatisfied with us. They didn’t want to go out. So instead of correcting themselves they tried to criticize us. But you understand that whatever is your righteousness, your greatness, your spirit - you can get it in Sahaja Yoga. And for that you should not be vindictive, but surrendering to get that great height of your evolution.“

10/27/2002

http://amruta.org/?p=2680

Navaratri Puja: Develop Wisdom Through Meditation, Bhakti & Shraddha

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Los Angeles

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Navaratri Puja, Wisdom Through Meditation, Bhakti & Shraddha, Los Angeles (USA), 27 October 2002. Today, we are going to worship the Goddess. That’s the, first the left side programming is with Her, but later on, at Sahasrara, She's the Adi Shakti. And, on the left side, whatever She does is already written, as you must have seen, because She's the memory and She's the wisdom and, that She protects you, is shown when She uses Her power over the Ganas. There are Ganas that are, as we know, responsible for all kinds of corrections in you. These are the Ganas which act through the left side. As we know very well that cancer is caused by the problems of the Left side. And, on the left side are these Ganas, which are completely in unison with the Devi’s powers. She doesn’t have to tell them, She doesn’t have to guide them, they are already built up like that. And these Ganas are the ones which, I should say, target, they target the diseases and cure you. We have cured many cancer patients and many left-sided people through the Ganas. But Ganas won’t listen to anybody else. And Ganapati is their leader, their controlling power. So, if your Ganapati is alright then problems are less, but if the Ganapati is not alright, then all kinds of problems can come up and they can torture you. This is one of the things I am so particular about, that we must get our Ganeshas corrected. The other day I received a big envelope with letters saying that, “Mother, difficult to control Ganas,” but [it’s] difficult to control Ganapati Himself! So, what should we do when we get into traumas? A simple thing is, at such a point when you are in a trauma, and when you cannot overcome this defect of the Ganapati, then what you should do is to meditate. Meditation is the only way you can overcome Ganas. The first of all is the upbringing of the children and then the atmosphere as it exists. With these two important factors, you can do well with the Ganas but the problem is that human beings get lost and they don’t look after their Ganapati. So, as you worship the Goddess, you are also worshipping Shri Ganesha who is the power behind Her. But the greatest power that is belonging to the Mother is your protection, protection from all kinds of things. All the left hand side protections are there. They are described, as you must have learned, in the Devi Mahatmyam, what a protections She gives you. So tremendous is Her protecting power, and this protecting power gives you understanding: how kind She is and how very, very protective of you, extremely protective. She’ll guide you all the time that you should be protected, on the left side, and through Her Ganas She looks after you. But on the right side also, those who are on the right side, the Goddess puts Her powers to put you right, to bring you back to normal conditions, to humble you down and make you understand that you are a child of the Mother and you have to behave like a child. But, if you go to extremes, then you develop all kinds of complications of the right side also, as you develop on the left side. And the right side problems these days are very, very common, which I have seen people cannot get over. So many diseases like Alzheimer and other diseases come up, later on. First it starts with the liver. The liver is the main point, as we fall into the trap of the liver. If you are thinking too much, if you are futuristic, if you are aggressive, then the liver goes out because you use liver’s power to do all that. And when your liver power is over, you are finished with liver power, you can develop so many diseases, so many troubles that you cannot overcome it, it’s very difficult. Of course, with Sahaja Yoga, so many people’s liver has been cured; so many people. And it has been doing wonderful work as far as the liver is concerned, but one should humble down and try to keep the liver alright. So the protection is also built-in your body by Ganas on the left hand side and by reactions on the right hand side, but the greatest thing is the blessings of the Mother: the way She looks after you, the way She loves you and the way She cares for you - which you should never take it for granted! You must meditate, you must meditate, is very important, no question [that] without meditation you cannot keep yourself alright - it’s no question. Meditation is the most important thing which must be followed because that’s how you come close to Her vibrations, come to Her nature. Even animals are so sensitive to Mother, very sensitive to vibrations; animals are, but human beings have their own understanding, have their own freedom, have their so-called intelligence and they fall a trap to it; they follow things which they should not do. So what is necessary very much, in the country like America, is the devotion and bhakti. These two things are not there. Indians take to Sahaja Yoga and go deep down into it because they know what is bhakti, what is devotion. All this ego and all that melts away. But this bhakti is to be enjoyed. I don’t know how to create bhakti within you - that I can’t say. But I have seen people with bhakti, they have achieved great heights, though it’s a left side movement. With the left side movement they have achieved great heights. I don’t know how the bhakti (devotion) and shraddha (faith) has helped them so much. In this, I must say, Indians are the best because they have this power of bhakti and of shraddha. It's not madness, it’s not madness as they have here: I have seen people who get into some sort of a cult or something, they go mad. It’s not madness, bhakti is love, and love which is understanding, which understands what is bhakti and shraddha. Unless and until you develop that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise, you cannot rise above your problems, you cannot rise above your personality because bhakti is something you cannot impose on anyone, you cannot force on anybody. You can make somebody mad and say that he can do bhakti, but he cannot. You have to have all your qualities absolutely intact: you should be intelligent, you should be understanding - everything should be there, but at that time the joy of bhakti is within you. And this joy of bhakti when it starts flowing, the Goddess Herself enters into your being, I should say. I have seen people, bhaktas, many great saints in India who achieved a lot of height. They’ve gone too far into it. And if you read about them and, if you understand them, you are amazed how, without any help, without any guidance, how could they go that deep and worship Devi? Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything, but it’s the deep attention of your heart; I think it’s Spirit. If the Spirit is awakened within you, you develop the bhakti and drop out all nonsensical ideas, all different things that have crawled into your head, but you just develop the bhakti. Now all these qualities described, of the Devi [that] are left sided, are in the brain: memory, ‘smruti rupena sansthita’. Other things also - whatever are described - are in the brain. And then the bhakti reaches the state [where] it just neutralises everything. All the problems of the brain are neutralised and you become a wise person. So the greatest boon of the Devi is to give you wisdom. You can call it awareness, you can call it anything but it’s a kind of a wisdom by which you become absolutely a Divine personality. That wisdom you must reach through your bhakti. But, you see, we have people of all kinds: some are very much in the shraddha, in the bhakti, in the devotion but they are wrongly placed and they don’t understand to whom we should worship and where we should go. Now Sahaja Yoga is a actualisation, Sahaja Yoga is a Sakshat, is actualisation, in which you know whom to worship and whom to surrender, it’s not blind, in any way. Whatever is blind bhakti can take you to any kind of nonsense and that’s how many cults have come up, many [of] these things have come up, but that’s not a thing that sees, that knows, that understands. It should be understood by your intelligence, by all your qualities - what is your bhakti is like. Now we have, through Kundalini awakening, reached a very great height of understanding of bhakti, the power of bhakti. The greatest power of bhakti is that it protects you, it protects you. Those people who are suffering from any kind of trouble, any kind of problems, just get out of it because this bhakti of yours gives you the right type of understanding, the understanding of your Self; also the understanding of surroundings, understanding of the whole Universe, why people behave like this, why they are like this - all this can be solved through your bhakti. It should not be blind, it should not be blind, but it should be wise bhakti, wise with wisdom. Only possible through Sahaja Yoga, I think, otherwise, whatever bhakti people do like mad, that cannot be bhakti. You don’t become mad, you become a wise man, wise man as we had so many in the past. And the way they have talked about everything is surprising. How they have said things about human awareness, about your ascent is remarkable and sometimes I feel that they have really prepared a field for me, a proper area for me, to talk to people. Especially in India, I don’t know why, traditionally we are very, traditionally we are very much devoted people. In the same way all over it should happen. Because, in India of course there are mad people also, there are cults, there are all kinds of things, no doubt, but actually there we have saints who have guided us very well. Despite that you find in India people are going astray, doing wrong things and wrong type of worshipping. This is true, no doubt, but it is just a funny type of a madness, where there is no wisdom. What is [the difference] between a mad and a sane person is, that a mad person has no wisdom. And those who have also so-called wisdom, or so they say, that “we are very wise,” are sadly mistaken. Because the way they behave, the way they commit mistakes, the way their whole attention is, the whole working is, is sometimes surprising but [it’s] because they have no wisdom. First of all is, to test yourself you must see, “Am I wise? Am I wise? Do I do wise things or I’m not doing?” So many complaints come to me, about Sahaja Yogis also. I am surprised, why: why are they doing like that? I would say, still, they have not reached the state of bhakti. Bhakti and shraddha, these two things are missing in the Western life, I must say. We should come back, we should develop, we should grow. But, even in the Eastern life now it’s missing. For them the ideal is now the Western life. Once you take to Western life, that part is over because the whole thing is judged with ideas: what is beneficial, what is helpful in life. But bhakti and shraddha, according to them, is of no use, that doesn’t help. Most of the people nowadays think like that but you are very few who have understood what is bhakti and what is shraddha. So, I would say, the Goddess gives you bhakti and shraddha. By what? She gives you through your meditation; that you see so many miracles happening in your life and you are amazed. “How this has happened? We never expected this to happen. How it has happened, how it has worked out?” Also She corrects you. All the time, if you are aware, She corrects you and tells you, “Don’t go this way! You are going on the ego side.” Or She’ll tell you, “You are going on the left side.” She’s the one who corrects, throughout. We get into diseases and we are trapped into all kinds of things; it is because we don’t have bhakti. In the bhakti, you have to depend on the wisdom of the Mother, wisdom of the Shakti, that She looks after you, She finds you out the way and She will help you. If you start becoming on your own and thinking that, “I am alright, I can do this, I can do that,” you will find inevitably that you are wrong, that you had a very wrong idea about yourself and about the Divine. So, what is the most important point is surrendering. The word ‘Islam’ means surrender. But Mohammed Sahib has described what you should have before surrender is your Realisation. But, you have seen, even after Realisation people take time to settle down. But once you are settled down you understand that you are under a protection of the Goddess, that you see every day how it works and how it helps you. Many people who are in Sahaja Yoga, so-called, have great respect for me but are not fully there; then they suffer and they have problems and then they ask me, “Mother, how is it I have got this problem?” I don’t tell them, because you cant tell anything to human beings, you see, they are very aggressive. But, the fact is because you are not one with the Divine. And with the Divine if you are one, you’ll have nothing but compassion and love, nothing else. And everything you will do so smoothly, so nicely. People may not understand, like they crucified Christ, they did all kind of things -agreed. But now, you should ask for the protection of the Goddess because that is the greatest quality of the Goddess, that She protects you from all problems, from all troubles, from all kinds of nonsensical things that can happen. And there are so many things that happen. I tell you, I was told that one of the leaders of Sahaja Yogi was killed. I said, “Not possible!” And the fellow was in Rome, he was not killed. So, it’s not possible that a young man should be killed like that. Of course, if somebody is old you have to die, but that he was killed, was not a right thing. So it is the protection, not only physical, mental, emotional, but spiritual protection comes to you. Spiritual protection in that what you do is that you don’t do wrong things. You don’t kill anybody, you don’t torture anybody, you are not rude to anybody, that is the situation into which you all can enter because you are Sahaja Yogis. You can achieve it. You have a power to do it because you have so much shraddha and so much understanding that you have reached the certain state of protection, of growth of wisdom. Now first test your wisdom, you must test your wisdom, “If I am doing this, is this wise, is it good, why I am doing it?” First test your wisdom, then you’ll find out that many things you do which are wrong, which should not have been done. But first your wisdom must develop and you must see that your wisdom works and helps you. I have seen now, yesterday’s drama (evening programme play), you must have seen that girl she is very sensitive and she could see through her wisdom what was good. If you cannot find out what is good and what is bad that means the wisdom is lacking. If you cannot find out what should you do then the wisdom is lacking. But, if you have the wisdom, then you will immediately know that this is wrong. Apart from that, you’ll be saved from all kinds of problems; it’s a fact, I have seen with so many people like that, who have been saved, not only from death, but from all kinds of catastrophes, all kinds. And I was amazed how these Sahaja Yogis are helped by the Divine. Divine is a power, everywhere it exists. But it will only help the people who are Sahaj Yogis, who are divine - not the people who are not, it will never help you, on the contrary it might punish in a way that is never expected. So, one has to be careful to test oneself, what I call ‘introspection’: Have you been wise in dealing with certain problems? What has been your style? Is it money oriented or it is domination oriented. But what sort of a power it was that you were working under? You have to introspect to find out. And you will be amazed, very much amazed, that even in the name of God you can do wrong things. Lots of wrong things have been done in the name of God and that’s why today we have such a big chaos of so called ‘religions’, when nothing was religion with religion as such, and those religious people who talked about it - nothing wrong - but the way people absorbed it and the way people used it was wrong. Because [what] they lacked is wisdom. And the wisdom is the thing which really is not just assumption that, “I am very wise and all that,” but it asserts, it works out and it shows what is good and what is bad. Wisdom is the sign of a person who is really a realised soul of a very high level. If you don’t have wisdom whatever you may do, you might feel satisfied about it, but the wisdom part is very, very important. That is the most governing part within us and as you know, Ganesha is the giver of wisdom. That’s why Ganesha must be worshipped. With the proper upbringing Shri Ganesha is established, who is nothing but the giver of wisdom. And this wisdom is innate, you don’t have to judge it, it’s innate within us, grown up, just like any other qualities in us. It takes time with some people, it takes time, no doubt, but once it comes in, such a person becomes quiet, simple and absolutely truthful. He knows about it. And this is the thing one should develop is, “How far am I wise?” You see in this world people are protesting for this, protesting for that, fighting for this, doing all kinds of things. But if you have wisdom, then you don’t have to do anything of the kind! What happens is that automatically people understand that he’s a wise man. From ancient times everywhere a wise man has been praised. He’s not worried about his financial side, or emotional side, nothing! What he is worried is, “Have I been a wise person?” That is the first sign of the blessings of God. The one who has blessings of Divine is a wise person, he’s very wise and his wisdom is shown by his silence. And the Whole Power, the Divine Power, uses that person as a media and works tremendously. That man himself is surprised how it has helped him. A woman can have that, a man can have it, anybody can have that wisdom, that profoundness, that temperament which is so beautiful and so empowering. Such a person doesn’t curse anyone, doesn’t bother to curse anyone, but it works. He never gets angry with anyone, but it works. He doesn’t lose temper, no, but some temper works and harms you which you never expected. It is within us, within our power as human beings, to be wise. I have seen animals have such a sensitivity to vibrations, extremely sensitive. How? Because their wisdom is intact. It works in them, they are not conscious of it. The difference is, human beings are conscious of their wisdom, that’s the only difference. Animals have wisdom, but automatic, we should say, natural. But we have inculcated this, or we have developed this wisdom within us, through what? Through our meditation, through our understanding of bhakti and shraddha. So it’s very important to understand the value of bhakti within us. You cannot superficially touch it. Those who are superficial will never get it. Wisdom only comes through understanding what is wisdom is. You might find somebody extremely wise, he may be your servant, may be your driver, may be anyone, and you are amazed how such a person can be so wise. Because, maybe from his last life, he has got it within him, or he has gone into it and he found it. Is not the estate of one person, is not the property of one person but it can belong to many of them. So the Sahaj Yogi is the one who has to have that wisdom, “Why I am doing this? What is the need to do it?” They don’t have to ask any questions, they just don’t do wrong things. They just don’t do wrong things. They are always on the right path. That is the sign of a Sahaj Yogi, I believe, and which is the blessing of the Goddess.If there is the Power of the Goddess working in you, you will have the wisdom to work it out. Now you have seen many people coming to America, doing all kinds of things. They all have disappeared. There’s no support to them, where are they? They are finished. Because they were money oriented, or power oriented, I don’t know what they were oriented! And they have lost it. But for a person who is standing in his wisdom, is the sage as they call him, is the saint as they call it. But, this can be every Sahaja Yogi could be a saint, could be a sage, every Sahaja Yogi could be that. But if you lose your wisdom then you are no good. So, I have to tell you one thing: it’s your wisdom which will save you. Your wisdom will unconsciously help you. There was one gentleman, Sahaj Yogi, once he was going somewhere in the car and suddenly decided to go on to another road, suddenly. And what happened, that on that road there was a very big accident and he would have been in that accident. Like that there are many incidents people have told me, that, “Mother, how we were saved, how we were brought to the brink of death and then how we are just alive.” It is because the Divine needs you, Divine doesn’t want you to die, or to finish off, it needs you very much. It has to do its work and you are the instrument of that Divine. If you have wisdom you are the best instrument for the Divine to work it out. The Devi’s powers first of all existed in Her body only and She killed so many rakshasas and evil people - She did, kill it, actually. But now, there’s no need because you all are there and you are the instruments. And it will all work out in such a way that all those people who are trying to destroy the goodness, trying to destroy wise people, they will be killed, they’ll be finished, they’ll be destroyed. This is not to be done through any outside instrument or anything. It’s your wisdom, is the biggest instrument that will work it out. Do you know, when I came to America first, I saw such a horrible thing here: that people were running after some horrible ‘gurus’ and I never came [again], after nine years I came because I said, “These people are mad! How do they follow these horrible people? And why do they believe into it? They have no wisdom to understand what is the Truth is like.” And it works out, now, today, you can see there are so many people here. So, that is what is the wisdom part. And if this wisdom comes to Americans they’ll come to Sahaja Yoga. Not only come, but they will grow into it. But the wisdom will be, to see, “What are we going to do, what are we going to get, what is our aim?” All these things must be brought to them, which is not done normally. We must talk to them, and we must tell them that, “What is within you is the Spirit. You should become the Spirit, everyone of them has said so. So why not do that? And why not become the Spirit?” So, then they will themselves feel, “Yes, that’s true. It’s said that you should become the Spirit.” They’ll go to Church, they’ll go to temples, they’ll go here, there, not understanding why they are doing it? They need some sort of a protection, that’s why they go, but this protection comes from your spiritual status, where do you stand as far as the Spirit is concerned. Those who have enjoyed the Spirit, I have seen do not deviate from the right path. But those who haven’t, they may call themselves Sahaj Yogis, anything, but they can be very wrong. So, first of all, find out about yourself. If you are a real Sahaj Yogi, if you really want to be a instrument of This Power, then, what you have to do is to become full of bhakti and shraddha for that. And this bhakti and shraddha is very joy giving, I know that. It never makes you tired, it never troubles you, nothing! But it’s very nourishing and beautiful. But it should be at the right place with the right aims and right understanding. For all that what you need again is wisdom. And you should try to find out - are you wise enough? Are you wise, or are you not? It’s very difficult for every human being to find out whether you are right or wrong because, you see the effects of this wisdom all around. So, the bhakti and shraddha to the Goddess gives you, definitely gives you, wisdom. We have had some people in India who did lots of bhakti, so called, and showed lots of shraddha, but they were not, they were not. Just they were talking about it, or doing all kinds of things about it but they were not. So wisdom is something a very innate quality, very innate, its not superficial. You cannot just say that this person, is he wise or not. It shows, just like a power, it’s a power of understanding and is supported by the Power of the Goddess. So She is the giver of wisdom. This is the biggest quality of the Goddess, that She is the giver of wisdom. And wisdom comes as a part of the evolutionary process. Now She has brought about all the evolution so far, and to go further She is going to make you a very wise person. Even an ordinary sage in a village, in a far-fetched places is respected if he is a real sage. But, [if] he is a stupid fellow, what can you do? He may befool you, may do all kind of tricks and things like that. And then, does he get anything good for you? No, nothing. So first thing is: anybody who is supposed to be your guru or supposed to be the person who is guiding you, must have bhakti, bhakti of the Goddess. It’s very important to understand. Modern things have such, come to such a limit, that they have no respect for the Goddess, no, they don’t even talk about the Goddess and they just talk about something which cannot be explained and understood. If they talk about Christ they won’t talk about Him, that He is the one who said at the cross, “Behold the Mother”. What was the need to say that? Because He didn’t want His Mother to get into trouble, but He said, “Behold The Mother,” that means, “Look out for the Mother who is going to come.” They all have indicated and they have said so but still we are busy with our own ego and our own understanding and we run after things which are not real. First of all you must follow only thing that is real, not unreal things. For that also, again, you need wisdom. I think for that you need wisdom very much more. And that is something, whether you have the wisdom first, or you have the blessings of the Mother, is between the two. So I have to tell you one thing that: before you people start spreading Sahaja Yoga, please judge yourself. Just see if you are wise. Also see for yourself if you have the blessings of the Mother. Only the wise are the people who know whether they have the Mother’s blessings or not. For that we have so many ways of understanding. First and foremost thing is meditation and feeling your vibrations on the photograph and facing yourself clearly. If you are a realised soul, are you really a good realised soul or not? Are you deep or not? Are your vibrations working out or not? If you can see that then you will realise that greater than all ambitions, the greatest is to become a devoted, wise personality. That is the one that will give you the joy, joy for all kinds of things. Otherwise it is just a human being like others going about. Now the time has come for this to work out. It’s a special time, I should say. Although, quite a lot of struggle for me, no doubt, but doesn’t matter, I know, because I have landed myself in the area where things are not so simple, it doesn’t matter. But, on the whole, what I feel is you can support me very much, you can support my work very much, if you have that wisdom. And the wisdom is to judge yourself: how many people you love? How you love? How you talk to them? What do you want out of them? All this should come. Judge yourself - introspection. Through introspection you can see it. So, for a Sahaja Yogi is important is introspection. Second one is meditation. And third one is to take vibrations. It’s very important. What I find, some of them say, “Mother, we don’t do this, we don’t do that,” “But why? Why not do it?” “We do Sahaja Yoga!” Sahaja Yoga, which part? If you are not doing these basic things, how are you a Sahaja Yogi? And then lots of complications come out of them, they also suffer. I think one has to have again the wisdom to understand what is Sahaja Yoga is. No one understands that sometimes, and they go on forming a group of people who are not at all understanding what is Sahaja Yoga. It’s a very, very deep personality. Sahaja Yoga is not just by saying, “I am a Sahaja Yogi,” but it’s a very deep personality, and that deep personality has to be felt by others as the wise, very wise thing. Not that how much you talk or shout or give lectures is important; is with peace, the tranquillity, the capacity to love within you are important and that’s how people can judge whether you are really blessed by your Mother or not. So, this is one of the things very important when I’ve come to America just to protect America from problems, because suddenly this has grown into problems. And it was inevitable because they were blind here not to understand what’s going wrong with them and that blindness has brought them to this point that they start seeing their ego specially, which has ruined them - money orientation. All this has shown how stupid they have been to believe that they are very rich people and they can do anything they want to with their money and with overpowering of other countries and other people. First overpower yourself. You have to know yourself first of all. What’s the use of overpowering others? Those who do not know how to overpower themselves are always miserable, always in trouble because it reacts. If you try to overpower others, it reacts. For that you have to be absolutely introspecting, again and again I have been saying this that, “Introspect.” Of course, I must say, so many good Sahaj Yogis have come out now and they have worked it out, and they are very good, simple, wise people. It’s such a great hope for me, I never expected I will work it out that good, but it has worked out and always, always, you must know you have That Power within you and then must use that power and not fall a prey into nonsensical ideas. Thank you very much

Navaratri Puja, Wisdom Through Meditation, Bhakti & Shraddha, Los Angeles (USA), 27 October 2002. Today, we are going to worship the Goddess. That’s the, first the left side programming is with Her, but later on, at Sahasrara, She's the Adi Shakti. And, on the left side, whatever She does is already written, as you must have seen, because She's the memory and She's the wisdom and, that She protects you, is shown when She uses Her power over the Ganas. There are Ganas that are, as we know, responsible for all kinds of corrections in you. These are the Ganas which act through the left side. As we know very well that cancer is caused by the problems of the Left side. And, on the left side are these Ganas, which are completely in unison with the Devi’s powers. She doesn’t have to tell them, She doesn’t have to guide them, they are already built up like that. And these Ganas are the ones which, I should say, target, they target the diseases and cure you. We have cured many cancer patients and many left-sided people through the Ganas. But Ganas won’t listen to anybody else. And Ganapati is their leader, their controlling power. So, if your Ganapati is alright then problems are less, but if the Ganapati is not alright, then all kinds of problems can come up and they can torture you. This is one of the things I am so particular about, that we must get our Ganeshas corrected. The other day I received a big envelope with letters saying that, “Mother, difficult to control Ganas,” but [it’s] difficult to control Ganapati Himself! So, what should we do when we get into traumas? A simple thing is, at such a point when you are in a trauma, and when you cannot overcome this defect of the Ganapati, then what you should do is to meditate. Meditation is the only way you can overcome Ganas. The first of all is the upbringing of the children and then the atmosphere as it exists. With these two important factors, you can do well with the Ganas but the problem is that human beings get lost and they don’t look after their Ganapati. So, as you worship the Goddess, you are also worshipping Shri Ganesha who is the power behind Her. But the greatest power that is belonging to the Mother is your protection, protection from all kinds of things. All the left hand side protections are there. They are described, as you must have learned, in the Devi Mahatmyam, what a protections She gives you. So tremendous is Her protecting power, and this protecting power gives you understanding: how kind She is and how very, very protective of you, extremely protective. She’ll guide you all the time that you should be protected, on the left side, and through Her Ganas She looks after you. But on the right side also, those who are on the right side, the Goddess puts Her powers to put you right, to bring you back to normal conditions, to humble you down and make you understand that you are a child of the Mother and you have to behave like a child. But, if you go to extremes, then you develop all kinds of complications of the right side also, as you develop on the left side. And the right side problems these days are very, very common, which I have seen people cannot get over. So many diseases like Alzheimer and other diseases come up, later on. First it starts with the liver. The liver is the main point, as we fall into the trap of the liver. If you are thinking too much, if you are futuristic, if you are aggressive, then the liver goes out because you use liver’s power to do all that. And when your liver power is over, you are finished with liver power, you can develop so many diseases, so many troubles that you cannot overcome it, it’s very difficult. Of course, with Sahaja Yoga, so many people’s liver has been cured; so many people. And it has been doing wonderful work as far as the liver is concerned, but one should humble down and try to keep the liver alright. So the protection is also built-in your body by Ganas on the left hand side and by reactions on the right hand side, but the greatest thing is the blessings of the Mother: the way She looks after you, the way She loves you and the way She cares for you - which you should never take it for granted! You must meditate, you must meditate, is very important, no question [that] without meditation you cannot keep yourself alright - it’s no question. Meditation is the most important thing which must be followed because that’s how you come close to Her vibrations, come to Her nature. Even animals are so sensitive to Mother, very sensitive to vibrations; animals are, but human beings have their own understanding, have their own freedom, have their so-called intelligence and they fall a trap to it; they follow things which they should not do. So what is necessary very much, in the country like America, is the devotion and bhakti. These two things are not there. Indians take to Sahaja Yoga and go deep down into it because they know what is bhakti, what is devotion. All this ego and all that melts away. But this bhakti is to be enjoyed. I don’t know how to create bhakti within you - that I can’t say. But I have seen people with bhakti, they have achieved great heights, though it’s a left side movement. With the left side movement they have achieved great heights. I don’t know how the bhakti (devotion) and shraddha (faith) has helped them so much. In this, I must say, Indians are the best because they have this power of bhakti and of shraddha. It's not madness, it’s not madness as they have here: I have seen people who get into some sort of a cult or something, they go mad. It’s not madness, bhakti is love, and love which is understanding, which understands what is bhakti and shraddha. Unless and until you develop that bhakti and shraddha within you, you cannot rise, you cannot rise above your problems, you cannot rise above your personality because bhakti is something you cannot impose on anyone, you cannot force on anybody. You can make somebody mad and say that he can do bhakti, but he cannot. You have to have all your qualities absolutely intact: you should be intelligent, you should be understanding - everything should be there, but at that time the joy of bhakti is within you. And this joy of bhakti when it starts flowing, the Goddess Herself enters into your being, I should say. I have seen people, bhaktas, many great saints in India who achieved a lot of height. They’ve gone too far into it. And if you read about them and, if you understand them, you are amazed how, without any help, without any guidance, how could they go that deep and worship Devi? Worshipping is not just out of sheer reading or some sort of a chanting or anything, but it’s the deep attention of your heart; I think it’s Spirit. If the Spirit is awakened within you, you develop the bhakti and drop out all nonsensical ideas, all different things that have crawled into your head, but you just develop the bhakti. Now all these qualities described, of the Devi [that] are left sided, are in the brain: memory, ‘smruti rupena sansthita’. Other things also - whatever are described - are in the brain. And then the bhakti reaches the state [where] it just neutralises everything. All the problems of the brain are neutralised and you become a wise person. So the greatest boon of the Devi is to give you wisdom. You can call it awareness, you can call it anything but it’s a kind of a wisdom by which you become absolutely a Divine personality. That wisdom you must reach through your bhakti. But, you see, we have people of all kinds: some are very much in the shraddha, in the bhakti, in the devotion but they are wrongly placed and they don’t understand to whom we should worship and where we should go. Now Sahaja Yoga is a actualisation, Sahaja Yoga is a Sakshat, is actualisation, in which you know whom to worship and whom to surrender, it’s not blind, in any way. Whatever is blind bhakti can take you to any kind of nonsense and that’s how many cults have come up, many [of] these things have come up, but that’s not a thing that sees, that knows, that understands. It should be understood by your intelligence, by all your qualities - what is your bhakti is like. Now we have, through Kundalini awakening, reached a very great height of understanding of bhakti, the power of bhakti. The greatest power of bhakti is that it protects you, it protects you. Those people who are suffering from any kind of trouble, any kind of problems, just get out of it because this bhakti of yours gives you the right type of understanding, the understanding of your Self; also the understanding of surroundings, understanding of the whole Universe, why people behave like this, why they are like this - all this can be solved through your bhakti. It should not be blind, it should not be blind, but it should be wise bhakti, wise with wisdom. Only possible through Sahaja Yoga, I think, otherwise, whatever bhakti people do like mad, that cannot be bhakti. You don’t become mad, you become a wise man, wise man as we had so many in the past. And the way they have talked about everything is surprising. How they have said things about human awareness, about your ascent is remarkable and sometimes I feel that they have really prepared a field for me, a proper area for me, to talk to people. Especially in India, I don’t know why, traditionally we are very, traditionally we are very much devoted people. In the same way all over it should happen. Because, in India of course there are mad people also, there are cults, there are all kinds of things, no doubt, but actually there we have saints who have guided us very well. Despite that you find in India people are going astray, doing wrong things and wrong type of worshipping. This is true, no doubt, but it is just a funny type of a madness, where there is no wisdom. What is [the difference] between a mad and a sane person is, that a mad person has no wisdom. And those who have also so-called wisdom, or so they say, that “we are very wise,” are sadly mistaken. Because the way they behave, the way they commit mistakes, the way their whole attention is, the whole working is, is sometimes surprising but [it’s] because they have no wisdom. First of all is, to test yourself you must see, “Am I wise? Am I wise? Do I do wise things or I’m not doing?” So many complaints come to me, about Sahaja Yogis also. I am surprised, why: why are they doing like that? I would say, still, they have not reached the state of bhakti. Bhakti and shraddha, these two things are missing in the Western life, I must say. We should come back, we should develop, we should grow. But, even in the Eastern life now it’s missing. For them the ideal is now the Western life. Once you take to Western life, that part is over because the whole thing is judged with ideas: what is beneficial, what is helpful in life. But bhakti and shraddha, according to them, is of no use, that doesn’t help. Most of the people nowadays think like that but you are very few who have understood what is bhakti and what is shraddha. So, I would say, the Goddess gives you bhakti and shraddha. By what? She gives you through your meditation; that you see so many miracles happening in your life and you are amazed. “How this has happened? We never expected this to happen. How it has happened, how it has worked out?” Also She corrects you. All the time, if you are aware, She corrects you and tells you, “Don’t go this way! You are going on the ego side.” Or She’ll tell you, “You are going on the left side.” She’s the one who corrects, throughout. We get into diseases and we are trapped into all kinds of things; it is because we don’t have bhakti. In the bhakti, you have to depend on the wisdom of the Mother, wisdom of the Shakti, that She looks after you, She finds you out the way and She will help you. If you start becoming on your own and thinking that, “I am alright, I can do this, I can do that,” you will find inevitably that you are wrong, that you had a very wrong idea about yourself and about the Divine. So, what is the most important point is surrendering. The word ‘Islam’ means surrender. But Mohammed Sahib has described what you should have before surrender is your Realisation. But, you have seen, even after Realisation people take time to settle down. But once you are settled down you understand that you are under a protection of the Goddess, that you see every day how it works and how it helps you. Many people who are in Sahaja Yoga, so-called, have great respect for me but are not fully there; then they suffer and they have problems and then they ask me, “Mother, how is it I have got this problem?” I don’t tell them, because you cant tell anything to human beings, you see, they are very aggressive. But, the fact is because you are not one with the Divine. And with the Divine if you are one, you’ll have nothing but compassion and love, nothing else. And everything you will do so smoothly, so nicely. People may not understand, like they crucified Christ, they did all kind of things -agreed. But now, you should ask for the protection of the Goddess because that is the greatest quality of the Goddess, that She protects you from all problems, from all troubles, from all kinds of nonsensical things that can happen. And there are so many things that happen. I tell you, I was told that one of the leaders of Sahaja Yogi was killed. I said, “Not possible!” And the fellow was in Rome, he was not killed. So, it’s not possible that a young man should be killed like that. Of course, if somebody is old you have to die, but that he was killed, was not a right thing. So it is the protection, not only physical, mental, emotional, but spiritual protection comes to you. Spiritual protection in that what you do is that you don’t do wrong things. You don’t kill anybody, you don’t torture anybody, you are not rude to anybody, that is the situation into which you all can enter because you are Sahaja Yogis. You can achieve it. You have a power to do it because you have so much shraddha and so much understanding that you have reached the certain state of protection, of growth of wisdom. Now first test your wisdom, you must test your wisdom, “If I am doing this, is this wise, is it good, why I am doing it?” First test your wisdom, then you’ll find out that many things you do which are wrong, which should not have been done. But first your wisdom must develop and you must see that your wisdom works and helps you. I have seen now, yesterday’s drama (evening programme play), you must have seen that girl she is very sensitive and she could see through her wisdom what was good. If you cannot find out what is good and what is bad that means the wisdom is lacking. If you cannot find out what should you do then the wisdom is lacking. But, if you have the wisdom, then you will immediately know that this is wrong. Apart from that, you’ll be saved from all kinds of problems; it’s a fact, I have seen with so many people like that, who have been saved, not only from death, but from all kinds of catastrophes, all kinds. And I was amazed how these Sahaja Yogis are helped by the Divine. Divine is a power, everywhere it exists. But it will only help the people who are Sahaj Yogis, who are divine - not the people who are not, it will never help you, on the contrary it might punish in a way that is never expected. So, one has to be careful to test oneself, what I call ‘introspection’: Have you been wise in dealing with certain problems? What has been your style? Is it money oriented or it is domination oriented. But what sort of a power it was that you were working under? You have to introspect to find out. And you will be amazed, very much amazed, that even in the name of God you can do wrong things. Lots of wrong things have been done in the name of God and that’s why today we have such a big chaos of so called ‘religions’, when nothing was religion with religion as such, and those religious people who talked about it - nothing wrong - but the way people absorbed it and the way people used it was wrong. Because [what] they lacked is wisdom. And the wisdom is the thing which really is not just assumption that, “I am very wise and all that,” but it asserts, it works out and it shows what is good and what is bad. Wisdom is the sign of a person who is really a realised soul of a very high level. If you don’t have wisdom whatever you may do, you might feel satisfied about it, but the wisdom part is very, very important. That is the most governing part within us and as you know, Ganesha is the giver of wisdom. That’s why Ganesha must be worshipped. With the proper upbringing Shri Ganesha is established, who is nothing but the giver of wisdom. And this wisdom is innate, you don’t have to judge it, it’s innate within us, grown up, just like any other qualities in us. It takes time with some people, it takes time, no doubt, but once it comes in, such a person becomes quiet, simple and absolutely truthful. He knows about it. And this is the thing one should develop is, “How far am I wise?” You see in this world people are protesting for this, protesting for that, fighting for this, doing all kinds of things. But if you have wisdom, then you don’t have to do anything of the kind! What happens is that automatically people understand that he’s a wise man. From ancient times everywhere a wise man has been praised. He’s not worried about his financial side, or emotional side, nothing! What he is worried is, “Have I been a wise person?” That is the first sign of the blessings of God. The one who has blessings of Divine is a wise person, he’s very wise and his wisdom is shown by his silence. And the Whole Power, the Divine Power, uses that person as a media and works tremendously. That man himself is surprised how it has helped him. A woman can have that, a man can have it, anybody can have that wisdom, that profoundness, that temperament which is so beautiful and so empowering. Such a person doesn’t curse anyone, doesn’t bother to curse anyone, but it works. He never gets angry with anyone, but it works. He doesn’t lose temper, no, but some temper works and harms you which you never expected. It is within us, within our power as human beings, to be wise. I have seen animals have such a sensitivity to vibrations, extremely sensitive. How? Because their wisdom is intact. It works in them, they are not conscious of it. The difference is, human beings are conscious of their wisdom, that’s the only difference. Animals have wisdom, but automatic, we should say, natural. But we have inculcated this, or we have developed this wisdom within us, through what? Through our meditation, through our understanding of bhakti and shraddha. So it’s very important to understand the value of bhakti within us. You cannot superficially touch it. Those who are superficial will never get it. Wisdom only comes through understanding what is wisdom is. You might find somebody extremely wise, he may be your servant, may be your driver, may be anyone, and you are amazed how such a person can be so wise. Because, maybe from his last life, he has got it within him, or he has gone into it and he found it. Is not the estate of one person, is not the property of one person but it can belong to many of them. So the Sahaj Yogi is the one who has to have that wisdom, “Why I am doing this? What is the need to do it?” They don’t have to ask any questions, they just don’t do wrong things. They just don’t do wrong things. They are always on the right path. That is the sign of a Sahaj Yogi, I believe, and which is the blessing of the Goddess.If there is the Power of the Goddess working in you, you will have the wisdom to work it out. Now you have seen many people coming to America, doing all kinds of things. They all have disappeared. There’s no support to them, where are they? They are finished. Because they were money oriented, or power oriented, I don’t know what they were oriented! And they have lost it. But for a person who is standing in his wisdom, is the sage as they call him, is the saint as they call it. But, this can be every Sahaja Yogi could be a saint, could be a sage, every Sahaja Yogi could be that. But if you lose your wisdom then you are no good. So, I have to tell you one thing: it’s your wisdom which will save you. Your wisdom will unconsciously help you. There was one gentleman, Sahaj Yogi, once he was going somewhere in the car and suddenly decided to go on to another road, suddenly. And what happened, that on that road there was a very big accident and he would have been in that accident. Like that there are many incidents people have told me, that, “Mother, how we were saved, how we were brought to the brink of death and then how we are just alive.” It is because the Divine needs you, Divine doesn’t want you to die, or to finish off, it needs you very much. It has to do its work and you are the instrument of that Divine. If you have wisdom you are the best instrument for the Divine to work it out. The Devi’s powers first of all existed in Her body only and She killed so many rakshasas and evil people - She did, kill it, actually. But now, there’s no need because you all are there and you are the instruments. And it will all work out in such a way that all those people who are trying to destroy the goodness, trying to destroy wise people, they will be killed, they’ll be finished, they’ll be destroyed. This is not to be done through any outside instrument or anything. It’s your wisdom, is the biggest instrument that will work it out. Do you know, when I came to America first, I saw such a horrible thing here: that people were running after some horrible ‘gurus’ and I never came [again], after nine years I came because I said, “These people are mad! How do they follow these horrible people? And why do they believe into it? They have no wisdom to understand what is the Truth is like.” And it works out, now, today, you can see there are so many people here. So, that is what is the wisdom part. And if this wisdom comes to Americans they’ll come to Sahaja Yoga. Not only come, but they will grow into it. But the wisdom will be, to see, “What are we going to do, what are we going to get, what is our aim?” All these things must be brought to them, which is not done normally. We must talk to them, and we must tell them that, “What is within you is the Spirit. You should become the Spirit, everyone of them has said so. So why not do that? And why not become the Spirit?” So, then they will themselves feel, “Yes, that’s true. It’s said that you should become the Spirit.” They’ll go to Church, they’ll go to temples, they’ll go here, there, not understanding why they are doing it? They need some sort of a protection, that’s why they go, but this protection comes from your spiritual status, where do you stand as far as the Spirit is concerned. Those who have enjoyed the Spirit, I have seen do not deviate from the right path. But those who haven’t, they may call themselves Sahaj Yogis, anything, but they can be very wrong. So, first of all, find out about yourself. If you are a real Sahaj Yogi, if you really want to be a instrument of This Power, then, what you have to do is to become full of bhakti and shraddha for that. And this bhakti and shraddha is very joy giving, I know that. It never makes you tired, it never troubles you, nothing! But it’s very nourishing and beautiful. But it should be at the right place with the right aims and right understanding. For all that what you need again is wisdom. And you should try to find out - are you wise enough? Are you wise, or are you not? It’s very difficult for every human being to find out whether you are right or wrong because, you see the effects of this wisdom all around. So, the bhakti and shraddha to the Goddess gives you, definitely gives you, wisdom. We have had some people in India who did lots of bhakti, so called, and showed lots of shraddha, but they were not, they were not. Just they were talking about it, or doing all kinds of things about it but they were not. So wisdom is something a very innate quality, very innate, its not superficial. You cannot just say that this person, is he wise or not. It shows, just like a power, it’s a power of understanding and is supported by the Power of the Goddess. So She is the giver of wisdom. This is the biggest quality of the Goddess, that She is the giver of wisdom. And wisdom comes as a part of the evolutionary process. Now She has brought about all the evolution so far, and to go further She is going to make you a very wise person. Even an ordinary sage in a village, in a far-fetched places is respected if he is a real sage. But, [if] he is a stupid fellow, what can you do? He may befool you, may do all kind of tricks and things like that. And then, does he get anything good for you? No, nothing. So first thing is: anybody who is supposed to be your guru or supposed to be the person who is guiding you, must have bhakti, bhakti of the Goddess. It’s very important to understand. Modern things have such, come to such a limit, that they have no respect for the Goddess, no, they don’t even talk about the Goddess and they just talk about something which cannot be explained and understood. If they talk about Christ they won’t talk about Him, that He is the one who said at the cross, “Behold the Mother”. What was the need to say that? Because He didn’t want His Mother to get into trouble, but He said, “Behold The Mother,” that means, “Look out for the Mother who is going to come.” They all have indicated and they have said so but still we are busy with our own ego and our own understanding and we run after things which are not real. First of all you must follow only thing that is real, not unreal things. For that also, again, you need wisdom. I think for that you need wisdom very much more. And that is something, whether you have the wisdom first, or you have the blessings of the Mother, is between the two. So I have to tell you one thing that: before you people start spreading Sahaja Yoga, please judge yourself. Just see if you are wise. Also see for yourself if you have the blessings of the Mother. Only the wise are the people who know whether they have the Mother’s blessings or not. For that we have so many ways of understanding. First and foremost thing is meditation and feeling your vibrations on the photograph and facing yourself clearly. If you are a realised soul, are you really a good realised soul or not? Are you deep or not? Are your vibrations working out or not? If you can see that then you will realise that greater than all ambitions, the greatest is to become a devoted, wise personality. That is the one that will give you the joy, joy for all kinds of things. Otherwise it is just a human being like others going about. Now the time has come for this to work out. It’s a special time, I should say. Although, quite a lot of struggle for me, no doubt, but doesn’t matter, I know, because I have landed myself in the area where things are not so simple, it doesn’t matter. But, on the whole, what I feel is you can support me very much, you can support my work very much, if you have that wisdom. And the wisdom is to judge yourself: how many people you love? How you love? How you talk to them? What do you want out of them? All this should come. Judge yourself - introspection. Through introspection you can see it. So, for a Sahaja Yogi is important is introspection. Second one is meditation. And third one is to take vibrations. It’s very important. What I find, some of them say, “Mother, we don’t do this, we don’t do that,” “But why? Why not do it?” “We do Sahaja Yoga!” Sahaja Yoga, which part? If you are not doing these basic things, how are you a Sahaja Yogi? And then lots of complications come out of them, they also suffer. I think one has to have again the wisdom to understand what is Sahaja Yoga is. No one understands that sometimes, and they go on forming a group of people who are not at all understanding what is Sahaja Yoga. It’s a very, very deep personality. Sahaja Yoga is not just by saying, “I am a Sahaja Yogi,” but it’s a very deep personality, and that deep personality has to be felt by others as the wise, very wise thing. Not that how much you talk or shout or give lectures is important; is with peace, the tranquillity, the capacity to love within you are important and that’s how people can judge whether you are really blessed by your Mother or not. So, this is one of the things very important when I’ve come to America just to protect America from problems, because suddenly this has grown into problems. And it was inevitable because they were blind here not to understand what’s going wrong with them and that blindness has brought them to this point that they start seeing their ego specially, which has ruined them - money orientation. All this has shown how stupid they have been to believe that they are very rich people and they can do anything they want to with their money and with overpowering of other countries and other people. First overpower yourself. You have to know yourself first of all. What’s the use of overpowering others? Those who do not know how to overpower themselves are always miserable, always in trouble because it reacts. If you try to overpower others, it reacts. For that you have to be absolutely introspecting, again and again I have been saying this that, “Introspect.” Of course, I must say, so many good Sahaj Yogis have come out now and they have worked it out, and they are very good, simple, wise people. It’s such a great hope for me, I never expected I will work it out that good, but it has worked out and always, always, you must know you have That Power within you and then must use that power and not fall a prey into nonsensical ideas. Thank you very much

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Diwali Puja. Lake Piru, Los Angeles, (USA) - 3 November 2002. I wish you a very, very happy Diwali. To see all of you here, is itself such a joy for me that you all have taken to Sahaja Yoga in such a beautiful way. It’s your own, Self is your own, Spirit is your own, but to take to Self is difficult. It’s only your desires, I think, which is being fulfilled. And that’s how you have got your self-realisation. It cannot be forced, as you know very well. It has to work out only with your desire, only with your surrendering. No use talking about it. No use convincing about it. What works out is your desire, simple as that. The power of desire within you works it out. There are many, who are not here, who have got their realisation all over the world. I remember all of them, and all of you should remember them. Today is a nice day when we can think of all those who are enlightened in this world. That’s the real Diwali: the enlightenment of human beings. It’s not candle, it’s not some lamp, but it’s human beings. If they are enlightened, then there’s no problem any more left. The problems come with the people who are not enlightened, because they are in the darkness. They are groping in the darkness, and some of them are don’t know also that they are completely ignorant of realities. Once you come to Sahaja Yoga, and enlighten yourself, you see in that light, in that light, what’s is good and what is bad, to begin with. And then you grow into it, beautifully, just like these flowers who are all the time happy, all the time giving you joy. In the same way, when you are enlightened, with that light you don’t seek anything, you got everything within you. Keep the lights on. The another thing you can do is, with your light you can enlighten other people. Like we have done here, we had enlightened one candle, with that we have enlightened all of them. So you all can do it, because you have got that light within you. With that light you can enlighten others, and they can feel their joy of their Spirit. It’s something to be seen now, like so many lights you have put, in the same way, you are the lights for the whole world. It’s not sufficient that you have got the light, but also you have to give light to others, you have to enlighten others, just like these candles. Once you start doing that, you’ll realise what you have got, and then you’ll respect yourself, and you’ll behave in a (matter) manner that behoves a saint, could be a sage, without proclaiming anything. Inside your being, you just develop that beautiful, extremely beautiful temperament that is joy-giving. You don’t want to give any false ideas about yourself, because whatever is the truth is with you. There’s no need to tell something untruth about yourself. People will realise that you are realised souls, they will just feel your subtle nature, your reality, whether you come from India, or you come from England, or from America. You all have that ocean of love and knowledge within you. Be sure that it’s all there, only you first enjoy your own ocean of love. First you enjoy that, and then you can enjoy in others also. I don’t have to tell you that you love each other or anything. You just love, you just understand, you just spread your light among yourself. Sometimes you get frustrated with other people in your country, maybe in your city, maybe in your village, that the people who are not yet enlightened. But best thing is to work it out. You have to work it out. You know, I had first one lady, very old lady one, who got her realisation from me; and there, you are all here. In the same way, you all can also do the job of realisation. For that you don’t need any calculations, you don’t need any thanksgiving. It’s just there, and it works out. What do you do for a light? Just see, you just put near the candle and you get the light! In the same way it is. Your enlightenment is such, that it will give light to thousands and thousands of people all over the world. As you know, there are many countries who we have to still approach, but we will do that: just locate and find out where do you have to go, and where you have to work. Firstly, you are capable of giving realisation, you are! Have confidence that you can give realisation to people, for which you don’t need any help; single person can do it, thousands can do it. It’s very important for the Diwali of the whole world, that we should give realisation to people. Very important. Now, in Sahaja Yoga, many people are such who are little frustrated with themselves. Specially with their past. Forget the past. Past is not important, what is important is present. At this present moment, what have you to do? You don’t have to worry about the past, that ‘I’ve done this, I’ve done that.’ What’s done is finished, now you look out for the future, what can you do for the future. And somehow or other, with the light, you see your path, you get rid of all this darkness, and you know how far to go, how to meet people, and how to spread Sahaja Yoga. It’s something you have already within you, but you have to first of all establish your connection with it. If you have established your connection with that ocean that you have, you can definitely work it out, work it out in such a beautiful manner, and you’ll be amazed how you’ll be successful. The success that you get out of all this ignorance, you are amazed at it, but you have the light! With the light you do remove all the darkness, don’t have to think about it, just removes because you have it. But if you don’t have the light, then, no use talking about it, no use doing it because it doesn’t give any success. On the contrary, it’s a failure, failure of the worst type. And can be very dangerous for people. We have had very funny experiences also in the Sahaja Yoga. But I think they all are learning one by one that ‘this should not have been done, that was wrong.’ Now what blinds you we should find out. In this country, it’s such a money-oriented country, America is; which has spread all over the world. And being money-oriented, you do get enamoured, you do feel that you must make money out of Sahaja Yoga. There are some who do not think like that, but they are still running after making money. There is no need at all for you to make money, or to find for yourself a kind of a security in money. Your security is in-built within you. So all these outside things which are absolutely unnecessary, should not blind you. Now, if you have the light, you can see clearly. And this help of the Divine, you see that very clearly in your life. And you are surprised how the Divine has helped you at different points. I get letters from people who say, ‘Mother, thank you very much, I got rid of my problem, I got rid of my enemies, all kinds of thing.’ But I’ve done nothing! It’s your light which has removed the darkness. If you are ignorant, then only the light can remove the darkness of your ignorance, also. Actually, we don’t know how much there is the power of the light. As you can see here, every light is giving such a lot of, not only energy but also complete picture, so thus you can make out. For example, you can make out if somebody is a realised soul or not. It’s not necessary that you have to go near that person, or take any special care or anything. You will just know that this person is a realised soul or not. I’ve had many such experience where I found that people don’t know who is a realised soul, very surprising. If you know who is a realised soul, then half of your problem is over. Now the second one is the problem of how to convince that fellow what he is capable of doing. I find that problem also with Sahaja yogis. They are capable of very great work, all over the world. They can find out so many things which normally, normal people cannot find out. But Sahaja yogis can immediately find out what sort of a person they are facing. This is the difference, that means you know the truth. Truth about everyone, truth about the whole situation, truth about who is just boasting or just making up a story or some sort of a hypocrisy. It’s not difficult, because now you have the sight, you can see with your light what’s wrong or what’s good with others. Such a blessing it is for you that you cannot be cheated, because also you are looked after by the Divine, guided all the time by the Divine. Have faith in the Divine, have faith in the Divine, that’s very important. As you have faith in a candle, have faith that the Divine will give you light, will guide your path, will take you to the right place to do the right things. I mean so many have seen the experiences I’ve with you, I did not tell you how much people have written to me how they found things working out. Despite all that, we are collective, we are nice to each other, we don't tell lies, we don't try to destroy anyone. That means we are much above all human failings and this is only because of the light. You can see where you are faltering. It's just you see for yourself. For that, I think meditation is the most important thing as such. Every day you should do meditation. Those who do not do meditation are capable of falling down, because meditation is like putting oil into the lamp. Those who do not meditate, think they can do without it, are sadly mistaken. They have to meditate morning and evening. The problem is everything comes so handily, so simple that they don't understand that meditation is very important. Typical. Not you, but there are many I know who get realisation, who don't meditate. And their style is different. Their nature is different. Meditation is such a soothing thing, such a beautiful way of connection with the Divine, that all your problems get solved in that meditative mood. If you are not meditating, you are not following meditation, then maybe your light will go down. It won't give sufficient light. It's important, very important to find out about yourself, about others in the meditation. How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, to just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you’ve done your job, because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental. When you meditate, try not to make some sort of a function out of it, no. Meditation is something silencing yourself, silencing your thoughts and going to that deep ocean which is within you itself. But supposing you don't do that, if you don't meditate. I can make out immediately those who are meditating and those who are not. It's not difficult for me. Those who do not meditate are always hesitating. They are confused. They can't understand. And that's why meditation is the most important thing in Sahaja Yoga. Just like a light burns with the electricity flowing in it, you can see or buy because of the candles; in the same way meditation is a continuous availability of the Divine Force. That will reduce all your aspirations. Not only that, but takes out all the negative thoughts. It takes out all the discouraging things. And when you are meditating like that, thoughtless awareness, then you’ll be amazed how you are helped from within and without. It's a terrible power that works, this thoughtless awareness. So those who do not meditate cannot go very much far with the advantage of Sahaja Yoga. One should try to meditate, and go up to the point of thoughtless awareness. So what happens to you? If you are in thoughtless awareness, what happens to you is that you get the confidence, complete confidence of divinity. You know you have that. I’ve seen children coming from our school in Dharamsala, extremely confident, and extremely humble. And I asked them: “What do you do?” They said: “Mother, we meditate. We meditate in the school in the evening, and that meditation helps.” Imagine these small children can say that, so why not you also understand it, that meditation will give you security. It will give you real enlightenment and a complete connection with the Divine. Without the connection of the Divine, what's the use of doing Sahaja Yoga? I know the people who are meditating, who have gone down into their being, and who are very developed. Also I know people who are little superficial. Your depth is in thoughtless awareness. Is a very important point which you should reach. Looking at anything, if you are thoughtlessly aware, then you really become reflective about it. Just works out that way. I don’t know how far you can remain in that condition. But even for a second you can achieve it, you start achieving it more and more. I've talked so much about meditation before, but today when I see all these candles burning, I think they are all meditative. They are all in meditation and that's how they're burning. In the same way, Sahaja yogis who meditate, I know. And those who don't, I know. And if they have problems, I know why the problems are there. Main thing is your connection with the Divine, is only possible when you meditate and become thoughtlessly aware. That’s the point where Divine works, it helps you. It comes to your help in such way that you don’t know how you have achieved it. So thoughtless awareness is the first point all of you should achieve. Very important. After that, we can achieve something else, but the first step is thoughtless awareness. It's very important to become thoughtlessly aware because then there are no thoughts coming from the left or right, from the (past) or the future. Just in the present you are there. It's something you all have. It's not that I'm saying that to you, but all of you have this, but steady yourself. You have to steady yourself at thoughtless awareness. How long - that's not the point. The point is once you've touched it, you'll go on touching it. Many people meditate, but their thought process is going on. They are not thoughtlessly silent. Now this is the one point which is very important. If you have to grow, you should be absolutely in connection with the Divine, through thoughtless awareness. You don’t have to pray, you don’t have to call anyone, nothing; it just works because it is within you. All these thoughts are bombarding from both two sides in your mind. These thoughts that are coming to you, have no meaning with you. They do not substantiate you, yourself you are an ocean. And you have to get into that state of thoughtless awareness. It is always described in all the great books, but not so clearly as I am telling you. I don’t say that some of you do not get thoughtless awareness, so they are good for nothing - no. But please try. You can all get into that state of thoughtless awareness, even for a second, if you get it, it's a very good idea. Then you go on increasing that second. I think is a reflecting mind. When you look at something, you do become thoughtlessly aware, and then your mind reflects to the depth of what you see. That's how you all will become really very creative Sahaja yogis. What I find, that this state of thoughtless awareness is not established by many, which is not good. Today, on this day of Diwali, I would say that you enlighten yourself with thoughtless awareness. It is not difficult, it’s within you because thoughts are coming from this side and that side. And they are not the waves of your brain, no; just your own reactions. But in case you meditate in the real sense of the word, then you’ll get into that thoughtless awareness, which is a very important point. And all these nonsensical thoughts, which are of no use to you, will disappear. They won’t be there, and then your growth is possible and you’ll grow very well. Many people are here who will say, ‘Mother, we don't get that state.' Try. Try that. I don't believe you cannot get it. All of you can get that thought that 'I can get it.' And you will get it. In that, you don't have to discard anything, you don't have to see anything, just go into meditation, and you’ll be amazed how it will work out. Of course, you are very much there, most of you, but still, I would say, increase that thoughtless awareness, that area. Today is very important because of this day of Diwali. Diwali is supposed to be Enlightenment Day. But enlightenment within is: how much you are in thoughtless awareness. And everything works out, because you are the ocean of it. You have it within yourself. Only, you have to tap it. If you don’t tap it, then it doesn’t work out. You have to just tap it, and you’ll be amazed that you are a source of such joy, source of such happiness, I should say source of real enlightenment. So today's message is that while meditating, go into thoughtless awareness. No thought is important because it's your own creation. But if you have to become (one) with the divine creation, you have to get to that state of thoughtless awareness, minimum of minimum. What’s that comes to you gradually if you grow, and you'll be amazed how you'll be able to grow into Sahaja Yoga in a very big way. Thank you very much.

Diwali Puja. Lake Piru, Los Angeles, (USA) - 3 November 2002. I wish you a very, very happy Diwali. To see all of you here, is itself such a joy for me that you all have taken to Sahaja Yoga in such a beautiful way. It’s your own, Self is your own, Spirit is your own, but to take to Self is difficult. It’s only your desires, I think, which is being fulfilled. And that’s how you have got your self-realisation. It cannot be forced, as you know very well. It has to work out only with your desire, only with your surrendering. No use talking about it. No use convincing about it. What works out is your desire, simple as that. The power of desire within you works it out. There are many, who are not here, who have got their realisation all over the world. I remember all of them, and all of you should remember them. Today is a nice day when we can think of all those who are enlightened in this world. That’s the real Diwali: the enlightenment of human beings. It’s not candle, it’s not some lamp, but it’s human beings. If they are enlightened, then there’s no problem any more left. The problems come with the people who are not enlightened, because they are in the darkness. They are groping in the darkness, and some of them are don’t know also that they are completely ignorant of realities. Once you come to Sahaja Yoga, and enlighten yourself, you see in that light, in that light, what’s is good and what is bad, to begin with. And then you grow into it, beautifully, just like these flowers who are all the time happy, all the time giving you joy. In the same way, when you are enlightened, with that light you don’t seek anything, you got everything within you. Keep the lights on. The another thing you can do is, with your light you can enlighten other people. Like we have done here, we had enlightened one candle, with that we have enlightened all of them. So you all can do it, because you have got that light within you. With that light you can enlighten others, and they can feel their joy of their Spirit. It’s something to be seen now, like so many lights you have put, in the same way, you are the lights for the whole world. It’s not sufficient that you have got the light, but also you have to give light to others, you have to enlighten others, just like these candles. Once you start doing that, you’ll realise what you have got, and then you’ll respect yourself, and you’ll behave in a (matter) manner that behoves a saint, could be a sage, without proclaiming anything. Inside your being, you just develop that beautiful, extremely beautiful temperament that is joy-giving. You don’t want to give any false ideas about yourself, because whatever is the truth is with you. There’s no need to tell something untruth about yourself. People will realise that you are realised souls, they will just feel your subtle nature, your reality, whether you come from India, or you come from England, or from America. You all have that ocean of love and knowledge within you. Be sure that it’s all there, only you first enjoy your own ocean of love. First you enjoy that, and then you can enjoy in others also. I don’t have to tell you that you love each other or anything. You just love, you just understand, you just spread your light among yourself. Sometimes you get frustrated with other people in your country, maybe in your city, maybe in your village, that the people who are not yet enlightened. But best thing is to work it out. You have to work it out. You know, I had first one lady, very old lady one, who got her realisation from me; and there, you are all here. In the same way, you all can also do the job of realisation. For that you don’t need any calculations, you don’t need any thanksgiving. It’s just there, and it works out. What do you do for a light? Just see, you just put near the candle and you get the light! In the same way it is. Your enlightenment is such, that it will give light to thousands and thousands of people all over the world. As you know, there are many countries who we have to still approach, but we will do that: just locate and find out where do you have to go, and where you have to work. Firstly, you are capable of giving realisation, you are! Have confidence that you can give realisation to people, for which you don’t need any help; single person can do it, thousands can do it. It’s very important for the Diwali of the whole world, that we should give realisation to people. Very important. Now, in Sahaja Yoga, many people are such who are little frustrated with themselves. Specially with their past. Forget the past. Past is not important, what is important is present. At this present moment, what have you to do? You don’t have to worry about the past, that ‘I’ve done this, I’ve done that.’ What’s done is finished, now you look out for the future, what can you do for the future. And somehow or other, with the light, you see your path, you get rid of all this darkness, and you know how far to go, how to meet people, and how to spread Sahaja Yoga. It’s something you have already within you, but you have to first of all establish your connection with it. If you have established your connection with that ocean that you have, you can definitely work it out, work it out in such a beautiful manner, and you’ll be amazed how you’ll be successful. The success that you get out of all this ignorance, you are amazed at it, but you have the light! With the light you do remove all the darkness, don’t have to think about it, just removes because you have it. But if you don’t have the light, then, no use talking about it, no use doing it because it doesn’t give any success. On the contrary, it’s a failure, failure of the worst type. And can be very dangerous for people. We have had very funny experiences also in the Sahaja Yoga. But I think they all are learning one by one that ‘this should not have been done, that was wrong.’ Now what blinds you we should find out. In this country, it’s such a money-oriented country, America is; which has spread all over the world. And being money-oriented, you do get enamoured, you do feel that you must make money out of Sahaja Yoga. There are some who do not think like that, but they are still running after making money. There is no need at all for you to make money, or to find for yourself a kind of a security in money. Your security is in-built within you. So all these outside things which are absolutely unnecessary, should not blind you. Now, if you have the light, you can see clearly. And this help of the Divine, you see that very clearly in your life. And you are surprised how the Divine has helped you at different points. I get letters from people who say, ‘Mother, thank you very much, I got rid of my problem, I got rid of my enemies, all kinds of thing.’ But I’ve done nothing! It’s your light which has removed the darkness. If you are ignorant, then only the light can remove the darkness of your ignorance, also. Actually, we don’t know how much there is the power of the light. As you can see here, every light is giving such a lot of, not only energy but also complete picture, so thus you can make out. For example, you can make out if somebody is a realised soul or not. It’s not necessary that you have to go near that person, or take any special care or anything. You will just know that this person is a realised soul or not. I’ve had many such experience where I found that people don’t know who is a realised soul, very surprising. If you know who is a realised soul, then half of your problem is over. Now the second one is the problem of how to convince that fellow what he is capable of doing. I find that problem also with Sahaja yogis. They are capable of very great work, all over the world. They can find out so many things which normally, normal people cannot find out. But Sahaja yogis can immediately find out what sort of a person they are facing. This is the difference, that means you know the truth. Truth about everyone, truth about the whole situation, truth about who is just boasting or just making up a story or some sort of a hypocrisy. It’s not difficult, because now you have the sight, you can see with your light what’s wrong or what’s good with others. Such a blessing it is for you that you cannot be cheated, because also you are looked after by the Divine, guided all the time by the Divine. Have faith in the Divine, have faith in the Divine, that’s very important. As you have faith in a candle, have faith that the Divine will give you light, will guide your path, will take you to the right place to do the right things. I mean so many have seen the experiences I’ve with you, I did not tell you how much people have written to me how they found things working out. Despite all that, we are collective, we are nice to each other, we don't tell lies, we don't try to destroy anyone. That means we are much above all human failings and this is only because of the light. You can see where you are faltering. It's just you see for yourself. For that, I think meditation is the most important thing as such. Every day you should do meditation. Those who do not do meditation are capable of falling down, because meditation is like putting oil into the lamp. Those who do not meditate, think they can do without it, are sadly mistaken. They have to meditate morning and evening. The problem is everything comes so handily, so simple that they don't understand that meditation is very important. Typical. Not you, but there are many I know who get realisation, who don't meditate. And their style is different. Their nature is different. Meditation is such a soothing thing, such a beautiful way of connection with the Divine, that all your problems get solved in that meditative mood. If you are not meditating, you are not following meditation, then maybe your light will go down. It won't give sufficient light. It's important, very important to find out about yourself, about others in the meditation. How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, to just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you’ve done your job, because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental. When you meditate, try not to make some sort of a function out of it, no. Meditation is something silencing yourself, silencing your thoughts and going to that deep ocean which is within you itself. But supposing you don't do that, if you don't meditate. I can make out immediately those who are meditating and those who are not. It's not difficult for me. Those who do not meditate are always hesitating. They are confused. They can't understand. And that's why meditation is the most important thing in Sahaja Yoga. Just like a light burns with the electricity flowing in it, you can see or buy because of the candles; in the same way meditation is a continuous availability of the Divine Force. That will reduce all your aspirations. Not only that, but takes out all the negative thoughts. It takes out all the discouraging things. And when you are meditating like that, thoughtless awareness, then you’ll be amazed how you are helped from within and without. It's a terrible power that works, this thoughtless awareness. So those who do not meditate cannot go very much far with the advantage of Sahaja Yoga. One should try to meditate, and go up to the point of thoughtless awareness. So what happens to you? If you are in thoughtless awareness, what happens to you is that you get the confidence, complete confidence of divinity. You know you have that. I’ve seen children coming from our school in Dharamsala, extremely confident, and extremely humble. And I asked them: “What do you do?” They said: “Mother, we meditate. We meditate in the school in the evening, and that meditation helps.” Imagine these small children can say that, so why not you also understand it, that meditation will give you security. It will give you real enlightenment and a complete connection with the Divine. Without the connection of the Divine, what's the use of doing Sahaja Yoga? I know the people who are meditating, who have gone down into their being, and who are very developed. Also I know people who are little superficial. Your depth is in thoughtless awareness. Is a very important point which you should reach. Looking at anything, if you are thoughtlessly aware, then you really become reflective about it. Just works out that way. I don’t know how far you can remain in that condition. But even for a second you can achieve it, you start achieving it more and more. I've talked so much about meditation before, but today when I see all these candles burning, I think they are all meditative. They are all in meditation and that's how they're burning. In the same way, Sahaja yogis who meditate, I know. And those who don't, I know. And if they have problems, I know why the problems are there. Main thing is your connection with the Divine, is only possible when you meditate and become thoughtlessly aware. That’s the point where Divine works, it helps you. It comes to your help in such way that you don’t know how you have achieved it. So thoughtless awareness is the first point all of you should achieve. Very important. After that, we can achieve something else, but the first step is thoughtless awareness. It's very important to become thoughtlessly aware because then there are no thoughts coming from the left or right, from the (past) or the future. Just in the present you are there. It's something you all have. It's not that I'm saying that to you, but all of you have this, but steady yourself. You have to steady yourself at thoughtless awareness. How long - that's not the point. The point is once you've touched it, you'll go on touching it. Many people meditate, but their thought process is going on. They are not thoughtlessly silent. Now this is the one point which is very important. If you have to grow, you should be absolutely in connection with the Divine, through thoughtless awareness. You don’t have to pray, you don’t have to call anyone, nothing; it just works because it is within you. All these thoughts are bombarding from both two sides in your mind. These thoughts that are coming to you, have no meaning with you. They do not substantiate you, yourself you are an ocean. And you have to get into that state of thoughtless awareness. It is always described in all the great books, but not so clearly as I am telling you. I don’t say that some of you do not get thoughtless awareness, so they are good for nothing - no. But please try. You can all get into that state of thoughtless awareness, even for a second, if you get it, it's a very good idea. Then you go on increasing that second. I think is a reflecting mind. When you look at something, you do become thoughtlessly aware, and then your mind reflects to the depth of what you see. That's how you all will become really very creative Sahaja yogis. What I find, that this state of thoughtless awareness is not established by many, which is not good. Today, on this day of Diwali, I would say that you enlighten yourself with thoughtless awareness. It is not difficult, it’s within you because thoughts are coming from this side and that side. And they are not the waves of your brain, no; just your own reactions. But in case you meditate in the real sense of the word, then you’ll get into that thoughtless awareness, which is a very important point. And all these nonsensical thoughts, which are of no use to you, will disappear. They won’t be there, and then your growth is possible and you’ll grow very well. Many people are here who will say, ‘Mother, we don't get that state.' Try. Try that. I don't believe you cannot get it. All of you can get that thought that 'I can get it.' And you will get it. In that, you don't have to discard anything, you don't have to see anything, just go into meditation, and you’ll be amazed how it will work out. Of course, you are very much there, most of you, but still, I would say, increase that thoughtless awareness, that area. Today is very important because of this day of Diwali. Diwali is supposed to be Enlightenment Day. But enlightenment within is: how much you are in thoughtless awareness. And everything works out, because you are the ocean of it. You have it within yourself. Only, you have to tap it. If you don’t tap it, then it doesn’t work out. You have to just tap it, and you’ll be amazed that you are a source of such joy, source of such happiness, I should say source of real enlightenment. So today's message is that while meditating, go into thoughtless awareness. No thought is important because it's your own creation. But if you have to become (one) with the divine creation, you have to get to that state of thoughtless awareness, minimum of minimum. What’s that comes to you gradually if you grow, and you'll be amazed how you'll be able to grow into Sahaja Yoga in a very big way. Thank you very much.

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Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule (India), 25 December 2002. Merry Christmas to you all. According to Sahaja Yoga, Christ is settled on your Agnya Chakra. His whole life is depicting the qualities of a person who is a realised soul. What He has suggested in His own life is that you should not have any greed or lust. The way these days people are greedy all over the world is really shocking. Right from the childhood, our children also learn to ask for this or ask for that; only complete satisfaction in life can give you that equanimity, that balance by which you do not hanker after things. These days even India has become very much westernised in the sense they are also very much wanting to have this and that. Actually, now in America suddenly, with this happening, people are getting to spirituality. They come to spirituality because they think they have not found any satisfaction anywhere. But we have to see from His life, the great life of Christ. First He was born in a small little hut, as you saw many of them when you come round. Very much satisfied. And He was put in a cradle which was all covered with dry, very dry grass. Can you imagine? And then He sacrificed His life on the cross. Whole thing is a story of a sacrifice. Because He had a power, power of Spirit, that He could sacrifice anything, even sacrifice His own life, so you can understand the greatness of Christ, what’s coming from His great personality of spirituality. But the same Christ is worshipped all over the world, specially in the Western countries, and you’ll be amazed to know how they’re running after things. All their industries are running with big stories about what they make; and how people boast of their wealth. They will have a cross in their necks to show that they are Christians. First of all one should never wear that cross on which Christ was crucified. But they do make up by this hypocrisy, and they are the another extreme of Christ. Not only they, but even their wives and their children are all very greedy people. They should have this, they should have that…but now India is very much in the same run. And what do they ask for? They think by getting all these things around them they’ll be very comfortable – it’s not so. They’re all the time hankering, and they cannot even enjoy whatever they have achieved. It is something very surprising that in a country like America, where there was no corruption but there were people who were making big big big money, they are supposed to be disciples of Christ. It’s beyond me. India was once upon a time a real saintly country where saints were respected. But nowadays India has fallen down to such a low level of greed that it’s impossible to understand these people. We can say they had not such a great following of Christ, and those who followed Christ, also the Christians here, they are the worst! They are the ones who have taken to all kinds of Western life, of greed, and they call themselves Christians. But Christ has shown that you don’t need anything in this world. He’s such a great personality, such a great incarnation, respected all everywhere, why? Because His power of sacrificing was the highest. Not because He was owning a big car, or any big house, nothing! Only because He was such a humble man. His life is remarkable, and that today He governs the hearts of so many, despite the fact He was born a very very poor man, and He was crucified also as a very poor man. So those people who are running after money, are no way Christians, are nowhere near Christ. And so happy and joyous He was! And He helped the poor, He helped the needy, because He understood their problems, because He could feel them. He tried to help all kinds of diseased people, underprivileged, while today’s world has come to such a nonsense that they help countries to fight! They create Christianity to fight! What is Christianity doing in this country? It’s just to create a big power, of creating lots of Christians. I’ve heard from many places how they’re converting people to Christianity. Christ never converted even a single soul. He wanted to give transformation as you all have got it. But not changing the religion, or changing your birthmarks, no! And what did He achieve is this kind of a useless, third-rate people, who are running after lust and greed. I get worried sometimes about Myself, that I hope My disciples and My children won’t do things which are against Sahaj, which are against the principle of Sahaj. And one of the principles of Sahaj is that you have to help people, those who are downtrodden, those who are not yet realised, you have to give them realisation. It is not the way world is going on, that we give help to people who are ruined this world. If we have to save this country, if we have to save the whole world, then we have to become like Christ. Develop your sacrificing temperament! It should be very very powerful thing, because you are all realised souls. Try to develop that, a temperament of helping others. I’ve known some very great people in my life, who were always willing to give to people who haven’t got it. And they have been of such a big temperament, they were never, sort of, given any big award or anything. But very happy if they could help others. It’s very very sad today, in this country, where so many people have sacrificed their lives to achieve independence and freedom. And what is happening is now, today, same people - or maybe their children, maybe not the same – are supposed to be governing, supposed to be in charge, and are making money. Why this situation has come? In this country also we had many people who were extremely sacrificing. They were the leaders. But how many of you are like that? How many of you would like to give away some thing of yours to others? What would you do to help others? It’s very sad that the Christian nations have never followed Christ, and we also are becoming the same. I don’t say that we should not do business, or we should not make money. You can, but with all that, you must remember for whom are you doing it. What are you going to do with it? With this money, what are you going to do? Actually, we should find out at least, in one year have we given up one of our things to others? Not that I say you crucify yourself, no, that’d be too much. But can you at least sacrifice a little bit of your comfort for the people? Sahaj yogis have to be extremely kind, extremely kind and loving people. If you are not that, you are not Sahaj yogis. First thing you should be kind and loving, and understanding the problems around, and try to help as many people as you can. But that is not so, even Sahaj yogis do not understand what is the value of their life. They’re on the same path as Christ was, they’re realised souls, they must have that feeling, they must have that oneness with the rest of the people, and they should feel the sacrifice of Christ within themselves. How He sacrificed His life, is to improve our Agnya, to remove our ego, to fight our ego, but we are so egoistical….Whatever He has done is a waste, is something people don’t understand, and they do not imbibe His character and His life. It’s very bad. And for us He is a very great message for all the people who are realised souls, is a very great example. There are so many things to be done. We have, as you know, My mind is always with the needy, and I’ve started many such organisations. You know them anywhere. Recently I started something for the destitute women and orphans in Delhi. I paid most of the money. But at just the finishing, I said, ‘Why not ask Sahaj yogis to pay that little money to finish?’ And they did, they did pay; in Delhi I must congratulate them for showing the way to other Sahaj yogis. I was amazed how they could raise so much money for this big organisation. It is something we never see, how the women are suffering in our country, how the destitute women are suffering. They are left out by their husbands for no fault of theirs, no – just like that. For some whim they are left on the street with their children, more in the Muslim states worst. And I felt very much that I should try to do something, at least bring the attention of the people to their lot and to their problem, so that they come up into life and earn their living. I think is a duty of all the Sahaj yogis, to go and to see around who need your help; just don’t live for yourself, earning for yourself, making money for yourself, but try to help. Help those people who can really be helped, and they should say, ‘It’s the Sahaj yogis who have done all that.’ So many ideas I have of helping people, and I’m going to try them, with whatever money I have. But I wish you could decide to do something for others. Specially this country is divided into at least two parts, one is the rich and another is the very poor people. These very poor people just make my heart wrench, wrench with pain, I don’t know how to help them. It’s such a vast community. But if you people decide, you can go around…(Shri Mataji refers to someone: sit down!) You can go around, and you can find out ways and method of helping the people who are extremely poor. They need your help by all means, and you are capable, with the Mahalakshmi’s blessings, you are very equipped. Then try to help the poor, try to help the people who are in great trouble. I know they are not Sahaj yogis, don’t expect them to be Sahaj yogis – they cannot. At the time of Christ, how many people were there who were Sahaj yogis? How many there were who could understand the depth of human problems? But Christ did. And He sacrificed His life for the sins of the people, can you imagine? It’s a day to celebrate His birthday with very great joy. But what a birth, and what a life that He had to go through! Nobody would like to have that kind of a life, but the essence of it we must understand. Running after greed is madness, there’s no end to greed. Those who are greedy, are greedy all the time. They are asking for money, asking for this, asking for that…Why not see to others, what do they want? Because we are in collective consciousness, we should understand what do these people want, what can we do for the people. I know it’s very difficult in those modern times, with all the advertisements going on, but we are Sahaj yogis. We have to be normal people, we have to face it in the way that a saint has to face, and try to eradicate all these ills by your special powers. Today is a day of great joy to Me and to all of you. Also at the same time, when I see that the life of Christ, such a short life, how miserable it was! Not because of poverty, no. But because of hatred, and because of tortures he had to go through. He didn’t mind poverty, didn’t touch anything about it. What He felt bad was really the way things are wrong, and the way there were oppressed. And He took up all that agony onto Himself to solve the problem. He created the Christians, and what they are doing is nonsense. Just a nonsense. It has no meaning, it has no meaning to Christ’s life, and it has no meaning to the richness of His great work. So when we are celebrating His birthday, we should also celebrate His sacrificing capacity, His power of loving. Now Sahaj yogis have become very good people, very loving people, no doubt about it. But still I think the greed lingers on. There’s no end to greed. I must tell you, I’ve seen people who are so mad…Like in America they found out those people at the top of every organisation, corporators, who are so rich that they have twenty-five aeroplanes and about fifty, over fifty cars. Are they going to travel on their fifty cars? How are they going to travel, one foot in one car and another foot in another car? But they had it, all this kind of madness, and they said that…now they’ve nothing to say as such, but now that’s all confiscated. What will you do with all this kind of a temperament people have? Isn’t it madness to have twenty-five aeroplanes and about fifty motor cars? And they thought no end of themselves, stupid as they were! When they will die, all this will finish off. They are fighting about something in America, it’s such a funny place. Then you do understand where are we going with our greed. There’s one incident where a very young girl married a very very old man, very old. And when this old man died, he left all his money to this young lady, so the son came over and he made a case, that ‘I have been his son for so many years, and how can this lady get all the money?’ She got billions and billions, but still she wanted to have the whole; so she gave excuses, saying, ‘I’ve done so much for him, with this old man I’ve sacrificed so many things,’ and this and that. It’s a shameless thing the way people act, and they are not ashamed that they are asking for money, money, money, for comfort, comfort, comfort! It’s very very difficult to understand human beings. Once they’ve gone in a strange way, they can go to any extent. They don’t know how to sacrifice! When I’ve seen, when Gandhiji asked people to sacrifice, all the women gave away their ornaments. They gave away their lives, they went to jail, did all kinds of things to achieve independence. And what is the independence they got? Immediately all the thugs of the world became in charge, all the thieves of the world became in charge. What do you say to such a country where everything that is great and noble goes into waste? Have you been a noble person? Ask yourself. Have you been noble? Have you tried to help others? From the life of Christ, we have to know that He lived in poverty. He was King of kings, but He lived in poverty, with grace. And He did every thing for people who were sinful, who were in trouble, such a lot…One person! Now you are so many, so many of you. You all have to do something. Don’t live like these corporators, but try to know that you have to sacrifice something of your earnings, something of your luxuries for the sake of your country, because you’re Sahaj yogis, you’re not ordinary people, you’ve got your realisation! So what are you doing? Are you demanding money from everyone, or you are giving love to everyone? Let me hear the stories of Sahaj yogis who are giving love and compassion. I’m sorry today, on the day of His birthday, I have to tell about your (His) life, which was very very painful as a one. For us to understand that such a glorious personality, such a great Sahaj yogi, He had to go through so many troubles in His life, and His own people troubled Him. His own people tried to take advantage of Him. I too have this experience from Sahaj yogis who got well out of Sahaja Yoga, and they tried to trouble Me. They tried to make money out of Me. Everyone knows! They have such a bad value system that how can you say they are realised souls? So we have to think where we can help others. What we can do for others. This is one of the things one has to learn from the life of Christ. I was actually born in a Christian family, and what I found out about the Christians that extremely they were mean, dirty people. They’re planning against each other, and very money-oriented. When My father went to jail, they threw us out of church. To love your country is a sin, is it? They did it, and when he came back and he became the mayor of Bombay, of Nagpur, they were his greatest admirers, they take out on procession. So My father just smiled at it, and he said, ‘See these stupid people.’ This is complete stupidity, and this kind of greed, and this kind of stupidity must be stopped. They run after money, they run after positions, they run after also very bad things, some of the things. Not the Sahaj yogis, but they do. But even among Sahaj yogis, I’ve found people who are very money-oriented, and they have made money out of Sahaja Yoga. I’m such a useless person, I don’t understand money, so they could befool Me; all right, doesn’t matter. And for years together they were befooling Me, it’s all right. Now what to do, what do I need money for? That is the trouble. The trouble is if you’re not careful, if you are not very money-oriented, others can rob you. I say let them rob. Let them do what they like. But I cannot develop a temperament by which I can get after people for money – I cannot. I accept whatever account you give Me, I accept whatever you say. I know it is sinful, it is wrong, but if they are not aware of it I can’t help it. They all will be ruined all such people, I know that. But what to do if they don’t realise it themselves? Making money out of Sahaja Yoga, can you imagine? Such a stupid thing to do. Very common. Very bad. I want you all to be above money. Above all these worldly things. And you will never starve, you will never have problem, but do not get mixed up with this kind of nonsensical things. This is God’s work, and you shouldn’t make money out of it, in no way. So we have to learn a lot from the great life of Christ, who was born as a very humble man, and He did such great things. He tried to improve our Agnyas, and even now, if you think of Him, your Agnya will be all right. It will be finished. I know among Sahaja yogis also there are people who are very pushing, who are all the time pushing themselves. For what? What do you want? All the time they are pushing around. Just like all other stupid people. So to feel the satisfaction within yourself, just like Christ, you have to meditate, and introspect, and find out: are you satisfied people? You have to be very much satisfied in life, otherwise no use having Sahaja Yoga. No use getting your self-realisation. I bless you from My heart, that you take the character of Christ as a model for you, and to understand the problems of the world, from the whole world, as your own problems. May God bless you.

Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule (India), 25 December 2002. Merry Christmas to you all. According to Sahaja Yoga, Christ is settled on your Agnya Chakra. His whole life is depicting the qualities of a person who is a realised soul. What He has suggested in His own life is that you should not have any greed or lust. The way these days people are greedy all over the world is really shocking. Right from the childhood, our children also learn to ask for this or ask for that; only complete satisfaction in life can give you that equanimity, that balance by which you do not hanker after things. These days even India has become very much westernised in the sense they are also very much wanting to have this and that. Actually, now in America suddenly, with this happening, people are getting to spirituality. They come to spirituality because they think they have not found any satisfaction anywhere. But we have to see from His life, the great life of Christ. First He was born in a small little hut, as you saw many of them when you come round. Very much satisfied. And He was put in a cradle which was all covered with dry, very dry grass. Can you imagine? And then He sacrificed His life on the cross. Whole thing is a story of a sacrifice. Because He had a power, power of Spirit, that He could sacrifice anything, even sacrifice His own life, so you can understand the greatness of Christ, what’s coming from His great personality of spirituality. But the same Christ is worshipped all over the world, specially in the Western countries, and you’ll be amazed to know how they’re running after things. All their industries are running with big stories about what they make; and how people boast of their wealth. They will have a cross in their necks to show that they are Christians. First of all one should never wear that cross on which Christ was crucified. But they do make up by this hypocrisy, and they are the another extreme of Christ. Not only they, but even their wives and their children are all very greedy people. They should have this, they should have that…but now India is very much in the same run. And what do they ask for? They think by getting all these things around them they’ll be very comfortable – it’s not so. They’re all the time hankering, and they cannot even enjoy whatever they have achieved. It is something very surprising that in a country like America, where there was no corruption but there were people who were making big big big money, they are supposed to be disciples of Christ. It’s beyond me. India was once upon a time a real saintly country where saints were respected. But nowadays India has fallen down to such a low level of greed that it’s impossible to understand these people. We can say they had not such a great following of Christ, and those who followed Christ, also the Christians here, they are the worst! They are the ones who have taken to all kinds of Western life, of greed, and they call themselves Christians. But Christ has shown that you don’t need anything in this world. He’s such a great personality, such a great incarnation, respected all everywhere, why? Because His power of sacrificing was the highest. Not because He was owning a big car, or any big house, nothing! Only because He was such a humble man. His life is remarkable, and that today He governs the hearts of so many, despite the fact He was born a very very poor man, and He was crucified also as a very poor man. So those people who are running after money, are no way Christians, are nowhere near Christ. And so happy and joyous He was! And He helped the poor, He helped the needy, because He understood their problems, because He could feel them. He tried to help all kinds of diseased people, underprivileged, while today’s world has come to such a nonsense that they help countries to fight! They create Christianity to fight! What is Christianity doing in this country? It’s just to create a big power, of creating lots of Christians. I’ve heard from many places how they’re converting people to Christianity. Christ never converted even a single soul. He wanted to give transformation as you all have got it. But not changing the religion, or changing your birthmarks, no! And what did He achieve is this kind of a useless, third-rate people, who are running after lust and greed. I get worried sometimes about Myself, that I hope My disciples and My children won’t do things which are against Sahaj, which are against the principle of Sahaj. And one of the principles of Sahaj is that you have to help people, those who are downtrodden, those who are not yet realised, you have to give them realisation. It is not the way world is going on, that we give help to people who are ruined this world. If we have to save this country, if we have to save the whole world, then we have to become like Christ. Develop your sacrificing temperament! It should be very very powerful thing, because you are all realised souls. Try to develop that, a temperament of helping others. I’ve known some very great people in my life, who were always willing to give to people who haven’t got it. And they have been of such a big temperament, they were never, sort of, given any big award or anything. But very happy if they could help others. It’s very very sad today, in this country, where so many people have sacrificed their lives to achieve independence and freedom. And what is happening is now, today, same people - or maybe their children, maybe not the same – are supposed to be governing, supposed to be in charge, and are making money. Why this situation has come? In this country also we had many people who were extremely sacrificing. They were the leaders. But how many of you are like that? How many of you would like to give away some thing of yours to others? What would you do to help others? It’s very sad that the Christian nations have never followed Christ, and we also are becoming the same. I don’t say that we should not do business, or we should not make money. You can, but with all that, you must remember for whom are you doing it. What are you going to do with it? With this money, what are you going to do? Actually, we should find out at least, in one year have we given up one of our things to others? Not that I say you crucify yourself, no, that’d be too much. But can you at least sacrifice a little bit of your comfort for the people? Sahaj yogis have to be extremely kind, extremely kind and loving people. If you are not that, you are not Sahaj yogis. First thing you should be kind and loving, and understanding the problems around, and try to help as many people as you can. But that is not so, even Sahaj yogis do not understand what is the value of their life. They’re on the same path as Christ was, they’re realised souls, they must have that feeling, they must have that oneness with the rest of the people, and they should feel the sacrifice of Christ within themselves. How He sacrificed His life, is to improve our Agnya, to remove our ego, to fight our ego, but we are so egoistical….Whatever He has done is a waste, is something people don’t understand, and they do not imbibe His character and His life. It’s very bad. And for us He is a very great message for all the people who are realised souls, is a very great example. There are so many things to be done. We have, as you know, My mind is always with the needy, and I’ve started many such organisations. You know them anywhere. Recently I started something for the destitute women and orphans in Delhi. I paid most of the money. But at just the finishing, I said, ‘Why not ask Sahaj yogis to pay that little money to finish?’ And they did, they did pay; in Delhi I must congratulate them for showing the way to other Sahaj yogis. I was amazed how they could raise so much money for this big organisation. It is something we never see, how the women are suffering in our country, how the destitute women are suffering. They are left out by their husbands for no fault of theirs, no – just like that. For some whim they are left on the street with their children, more in the Muslim states worst. And I felt very much that I should try to do something, at least bring the attention of the people to their lot and to their problem, so that they come up into life and earn their living. I think is a duty of all the Sahaj yogis, to go and to see around who need your help; just don’t live for yourself, earning for yourself, making money for yourself, but try to help. Help those people who can really be helped, and they should say, ‘It’s the Sahaj yogis who have done all that.’ So many ideas I have of helping people, and I’m going to try them, with whatever money I have. But I wish you could decide to do something for others. Specially this country is divided into at least two parts, one is the rich and another is the very poor people. These very poor people just make my heart wrench, wrench with pain, I don’t know how to help them. It’s such a vast community. But if you people decide, you can go around…(Shri Mataji refers to someone: sit down!) You can go around, and you can find out ways and method of helping the people who are extremely poor. They need your help by all means, and you are capable, with the Mahalakshmi’s blessings, you are very equipped. Then try to help the poor, try to help the people who are in great trouble. I know they are not Sahaj yogis, don’t expect them to be Sahaj yogis – they cannot. At the time of Christ, how many people were there who were Sahaj yogis? How many there were who could understand the depth of human problems? But Christ did. And He sacrificed His life for the sins of the people, can you imagine? It’s a day to celebrate His birthday with very great joy. But what a birth, and what a life that He had to go through! Nobody would like to have that kind of a life, but the essence of it we must understand. Running after greed is madness, there’s no end to greed. Those who are greedy, are greedy all the time. They are asking for money, asking for this, asking for that…Why not see to others, what do they want? Because we are in collective consciousness, we should understand what do these people want, what can we do for the people. I know it’s very difficult in those modern times, with all the advertisements going on, but we are Sahaj yogis. We have to be normal people, we have to face it in the way that a saint has to face, and try to eradicate all these ills by your special powers. Today is a day of great joy to Me and to all of you. Also at the same time, when I see that the life of Christ, such a short life, how miserable it was! Not because of poverty, no. But because of hatred, and because of tortures he had to go through. He didn’t mind poverty, didn’t touch anything about it. What He felt bad was really the way things are wrong, and the way there were oppressed. And He took up all that agony onto Himself to solve the problem. He created the Christians, and what they are doing is nonsense. Just a nonsense. It has no meaning, it has no meaning to Christ’s life, and it has no meaning to the richness of His great work. So when we are celebrating His birthday, we should also celebrate His sacrificing capacity, His power of loving. Now Sahaj yogis have become very good people, very loving people, no doubt about it. But still I think the greed lingers on. There’s no end to greed. I must tell you, I’ve seen people who are so mad…Like in America they found out those people at the top of every organisation, corporators, who are so rich that they have twenty-five aeroplanes and about fifty, over fifty cars. Are they going to travel on their fifty cars? How are they going to travel, one foot in one car and another foot in another car? But they had it, all this kind of madness, and they said that…now they’ve nothing to say as such, but now that’s all confiscated. What will you do with all this kind of a temperament people have? Isn’t it madness to have twenty-five aeroplanes and about fifty motor cars? And they thought no end of themselves, stupid as they were! When they will die, all this will finish off. They are fighting about something in America, it’s such a funny place. Then you do understand where are we going with our greed. There’s one incident where a very young girl married a very very old man, very old. And when this old man died, he left all his money to this young lady, so the son came over and he made a case, that ‘I have been his son for so many years, and how can this lady get all the money?’ She got billions and billions, but still she wanted to have the whole; so she gave excuses, saying, ‘I’ve done so much for him, with this old man I’ve sacrificed so many things,’ and this and that. It’s a shameless thing the way people act, and they are not ashamed that they are asking for money, money, money, for comfort, comfort, comfort! It’s very very difficult to understand human beings. Once they’ve gone in a strange way, they can go to any extent. They don’t know how to sacrifice! When I’ve seen, when Gandhiji asked people to sacrifice, all the women gave away their ornaments. They gave away their lives, they went to jail, did all kinds of things to achieve independence. And what is the independence they got? Immediately all the thugs of the world became in charge, all the thieves of the world became in charge. What do you say to such a country where everything that is great and noble goes into waste? Have you been a noble person? Ask yourself. Have you been noble? Have you tried to help others? From the life of Christ, we have to know that He lived in poverty. He was King of kings, but He lived in poverty, with grace. And He did every thing for people who were sinful, who were in trouble, such a lot…One person! Now you are so many, so many of you. You all have to do something. Don’t live like these corporators, but try to know that you have to sacrifice something of your earnings, something of your luxuries for the sake of your country, because you’re Sahaj yogis, you’re not ordinary people, you’ve got your realisation! So what are you doing? Are you demanding money from everyone, or you are giving love to everyone? Let me hear the stories of Sahaj yogis who are giving love and compassion. I’m sorry today, on the day of His birthday, I have to tell about your (His) life, which was very very painful as a one. For us to understand that such a glorious personality, such a great Sahaj yogi, He had to go through so many troubles in His life, and His own people troubled Him. His own people tried to take advantage of Him. I too have this experience from Sahaj yogis who got well out of Sahaja Yoga, and they tried to trouble Me. They tried to make money out of Me. Everyone knows! They have such a bad value system that how can you say they are realised souls? So we have to think where we can help others. What we can do for others. This is one of the things one has to learn from the life of Christ. I was actually born in a Christian family, and what I found out about the Christians that extremely they were mean, dirty people. They’re planning against each other, and very money-oriented. When My father went to jail, they threw us out of church. To love your country is a sin, is it? They did it, and when he came back and he became the mayor of Bombay, of Nagpur, they were his greatest admirers, they take out on procession. So My father just smiled at it, and he said, ‘See these stupid people.’ This is complete stupidity, and this kind of greed, and this kind of stupidity must be stopped. They run after money, they run after positions, they run after also very bad things, some of the things. Not the Sahaj yogis, but they do. But even among Sahaj yogis, I’ve found people who are very money-oriented, and they have made money out of Sahaja Yoga. I’m such a useless person, I don’t understand money, so they could befool Me; all right, doesn’t matter. And for years together they were befooling Me, it’s all right. Now what to do, what do I need money for? That is the trouble. The trouble is if you’re not careful, if you are not very money-oriented, others can rob you. I say let them rob. Let them do what they like. But I cannot develop a temperament by which I can get after people for money – I cannot. I accept whatever account you give Me, I accept whatever you say. I know it is sinful, it is wrong, but if they are not aware of it I can’t help it. They all will be ruined all such people, I know that. But what to do if they don’t realise it themselves? Making money out of Sahaja Yoga, can you imagine? Such a stupid thing to do. Very common. Very bad. I want you all to be above money. Above all these worldly things. And you will never starve, you will never have problem, but do not get mixed up with this kind of nonsensical things. This is God’s work, and you shouldn’t make money out of it, in no way. So we have to learn a lot from the great life of Christ, who was born as a very humble man, and He did such great things. He tried to improve our Agnyas, and even now, if you think of Him, your Agnya will be all right. It will be finished. I know among Sahaja yogis also there are people who are very pushing, who are all the time pushing themselves. For what? What do you want? All the time they are pushing around. Just like all other stupid people. So to feel the satisfaction within yourself, just like Christ, you have to meditate, and introspect, and find out: are you satisfied people? You have to be very much satisfied in life, otherwise no use having Sahaja Yoga. No use getting your self-realisation. I bless you from My heart, that you take the character of Christ as a model for you, and to understand the problems of the world, from the whole world, as your own problems. May God bless you.

12/31/2002

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New Year’s Eve Puja. Music Academy of Vaitarna, Bombay (India), 31 December 2002. I am very, very happy to see so many of you coming down here for the program. Actually I bought this land at least at least twenty-five years back and couldn't do any thing about it, as they had lots of objections this and that. But then somehow I planned the whole thing & it all worked out. Happy to see you all here that with all those difficulties, ultimately now you find so many Sahaja Yogis attending this program of My Puja. I must remember My brother Baba who has worked very hard for the propagation of Indian music, classical music, all types of art, whatever he could do. It is a very sad thing that today he is not here to see you all. He has done so much work relentlessly without expecting any reward whatsoever. And I wish you could have him as your ideal and that’ll work it out everything, in that way. There is one thing about him I know – he never tried to show off anything. Very intelligent, educated man but he caught hold of all the people of ordinary living and he looked after them & he promoted their skill of music and art. With the same idea, I decided to have this place dedicated to his idea of propagating music & art. And I am happy to see, that, that idea has materialized. But I wish My brother was here to make you feel very happy about it. He was a very loving & a kind person. He never used to get angry with anyone, I have seen that. But he always gave me a very good picture of every person. You can't help it. [Marathi to English translation] 03:10 It is the speciality of Maharashtra – Fighting. Very good at fighting. Do anything for them but nothing enters into their head. They have no understanding, always ready to fight, even with swords. I am fed up with your quarrelling nature. This beautiful new building has been erected for our classical music. They fought even on this and many times I felt, why build it in Maharashtra? No point doing anything for these Maharashtrian people. They fight for some reason or the other, no shame, nothing. If they don’t find space here, what can we do? No maturity at all. I don’t know how there is music in these quarrelsome people and it has grown so much and I am fed up with it. Everybody is complaining about something. Have you not found peace in Sahaja Yoga? [So many] Great Saints & Sages have given so much knowledge to this land but it has had no effect, at removing our quarrelsome nature. They will fight even in their name, keep behaving foolishly. I don’t know when this foolishness is going to be removed from Maharashtra. They just don’t understand peaceful living and absorbing everything peacefully. They just start shouting all of a sudden. Our foreign Sahaja yogis say, Are they uncivilized people? No, No they are very well educated, but very quarrelsome, and why they fight? They alone know. At least please don’t fight in Sahaja yoga and be a bit peaceful. At least try, we want to change, isn’t it? Instead of seeing what is wrong with others, see what is wrong with yourself? Babamama has done a lot of work in Maharashtra, at Nagpur. People in Nagpur are very active and they helped him. But nobody understands that you must absorb Sahaja yoga & become a Saint (Sadhu). When you think in a very lowly manner of just making money somehow, run helter-skelter for it, how can you be a sahaja yogi. One must feel that I am a realized soul & Mother has worked so hard and so much for us, we must achieve some good state. So [all of you] resolve today to stop fighting and don’t be greedy for money. Greed for money has made things difficult for Sahaja yoga in Maharashtra. I have worked a lot in Maharashtra and have had all sorts of experiences in this land. Now please realize that you are a Sahaja yogi and live gracefully and be a proud of being a Sahaja yogi. What is there to fight in Sahaja yoga? Is this a political meeting, that you must complain about not being able to sit or not getting to see? I did not want to speak anything but I had no option when I saw you and I had to say. Now if anybody fights, he will be thrown out of Sahaja yoga. There is no other way to correct this. If you cannot have mutual love with one another then why are you in Sahaja yoga? Babamama never got angry with anybody and never complained about anybody. He would praise everybody. I used to think how can everybody have such a good state. But Baba brought people together with love, it may be just anybody. He was very selfless; he would never sit in my car, never come to my house. He was very understanding. He also belonged to this Maharashtra, but he was not so aggressive. You have joined the work of such a great personality so at least follow some of his good qualities. We have built this temple for music and other arts. Your children must progress in these fields. They must understand our music. These foreigners understand your music more than you do. Isn’t it shameful? We don’t understand that, just nothing. What’s the use? You must have knowledge about music even though you may not be a student of this place. Unless you know what Tala is this, what Raga is this, you cannot enjoy music. I request you all to leave aside your quarrelling nature and develop goodness within you. This is the work of Sahaja yoga, but I sometimes feel that you cannot reap anything if you sow seeds in unfertile land. But now things are better with many people coming to Sahaja yoga. So don’t just come to learn Music here. You must learn to behave in a sahaja way, understand the greatness of sahaja, or else it is useless. There are many ordinary Music schools around. By learning music from these if you are going to break heads of others, it is better you do not learn music. So I request you that please, with music bring the music of your life into your day-to-day behaviour. Without bringing that music this program will not achieve its end. Take a vow today, let anybody say anything. The second problem out here is about making money. It has become rather too much. I am fed up with it. People make money even in Sahaja yoga. Are you going to change or no? Most important thing is that there should be music in our lives. Instead of having rhythm and ragdari in our lives we just keep fighting, thinking bad for others and seeing only self interest …….is bad. Now forget what happened in the past. But henceforth only people with understanding, compassion will be brought forward, who will bring all people together. [Hindi to English translation] 16:17 Fortunately I also know Hindi language. Now if we take to music we ourselves should also be in rhythm. What does it mean? It means that the state of human beings is to be corrected and made rhythmic and organized. Unless it is done, it is of no use. What is the difference between you people and others? If you also keep fighting then what is the use. The most important thing is to develop and establish love, Shraddha and devotion in our hearts so that you become peaceful and others also become peaceful. Without peace, music has got no meaning. Today this beautiful building has been erected in the memory of Babamama and with this I wish that people will take to music within them and they also have a peaceful atmosphere. Today world needs only Peace. Everything else that we have today is worthless without peace. We have to see how peaceful we are. If this peace does not have an effect on our country then on which country it will the effect. Everybody says that India is the ambassador of peace. But I can’t see anything like it. There are quarrels all around. I don’t know from where it has come. So those who want to learn music must have music in their hearts also. Running after money, women and doing all sorts of wrong things is unbecoming of a musician. My eternal blessings that this organization flourishes and people coming here learn music and make their lives rhythmic and full of music. Hope you will fulfil my desires. Whenever you get angry, get annoyed or complain, tell yourself that ‘I am a sahaja yogi. I am different from others. Mother has transformed me into something else. If you understand this you will be glorious. But if you cannot achieve this then it is useless. Then making 50 such organizations also is of no use. Fighting for small, small things is unbecoming of a sahaja yogi. You are Saints now. You do not realize what heights have you achieved. You think that you are the same beggar on the street as you were before. .......... [Shri Mataji speaks in English] 20:38 Today I wanted to bless you that you become completely musical in temperament, rhythmic and entertaining to others and not quarrelsome. Now as you have seen that how the western music is taking to wrong side, to the wrong progress. I don’t want you to fall into that path. This will all disappear, I know because it is very destructive. But after coming to sahaja also if you have the same destructive ideas, how can anybody help you. So I hope you fulfill my ideal about. May God bless you

New Year’s Eve Puja. Music Academy of Vaitarna, Bombay (India), 31 December 2002. I am very, very happy to see so many of you coming down here for the program. Actually I bought this land at least at least twenty-five years back and couldn't do any thing about it, as they had lots of objections this and that. But then somehow I planned the whole thing & it all worked out. Happy to see you all here that with all those difficulties, ultimately now you find so many Sahaja Yogis attending this program of My Puja. I must remember My brother Baba who has worked very hard for the propagation of Indian music, classical music, all types of art, whatever he could do. It is a very sad thing that today he is not here to see you all. He has done so much work relentlessly without expecting any reward whatsoever. And I wish you could have him as your ideal and that’ll work it out everything, in that way. There is one thing about him I know – he never tried to show off anything. Very intelligent, educated man but he caught hold of all the people of ordinary living and he looked after them & he promoted their skill of music and art. With the same idea, I decided to have this place dedicated to his idea of propagating music & art. And I am happy to see, that, that idea has materialized. But I wish My brother was here to make you feel very happy about it. He was a very loving & a kind person. He never used to get angry with anyone, I have seen that. But he always gave me a very good picture of every person. You can't help it. [Marathi to English translation] 03:10 It is the speciality of Maharashtra – Fighting. Very good at fighting. Do anything for them but nothing enters into their head. They have no understanding, always ready to fight, even with swords. I am fed up with your quarrelling nature. This beautiful new building has been erected for our classical music. They fought even on this and many times I felt, why build it in Maharashtra? No point doing anything for these Maharashtrian people. They fight for some reason or the other, no shame, nothing. If they don’t find space here, what can we do? No maturity at all. I don’t know how there is music in these quarrelsome people and it has grown so much and I am fed up with it. Everybody is complaining about something. Have you not found peace in Sahaja Yoga? [So many] Great Saints & Sages have given so much knowledge to this land but it has had no effect, at removing our quarrelsome nature. They will fight even in their name, keep behaving foolishly. I don’t know when this foolishness is going to be removed from Maharashtra. They just don’t understand peaceful living and absorbing everything peacefully. They just start shouting all of a sudden. Our foreign Sahaja yogis say, Are they uncivilized people? No, No they are very well educated, but very quarrelsome, and why they fight? They alone know. At least please don’t fight in Sahaja yoga and be a bit peaceful. At least try, we want to change, isn’t it? Instead of seeing what is wrong with others, see what is wrong with yourself? Babamama has done a lot of work in Maharashtra, at Nagpur. People in Nagpur are very active and they helped him. But nobody understands that you must absorb Sahaja yoga & become a Saint (Sadhu). When you think in a very lowly manner of just making money somehow, run helter-skelter for it, how can you be a sahaja yogi. One must feel that I am a realized soul & Mother has worked so hard and so much for us, we must achieve some good state. So [all of you] resolve today to stop fighting and don’t be greedy for money. Greed for money has made things difficult for Sahaja yoga in Maharashtra. I have worked a lot in Maharashtra and have had all sorts of experiences in this land. Now please realize that you are a Sahaja yogi and live gracefully and be a proud of being a Sahaja yogi. What is there to fight in Sahaja yoga? Is this a political meeting, that you must complain about not being able to sit or not getting to see? I did not want to speak anything but I had no option when I saw you and I had to say. Now if anybody fights, he will be thrown out of Sahaja yoga. There is no other way to correct this. If you cannot have mutual love with one another then why are you in Sahaja yoga? Babamama never got angry with anybody and never complained about anybody. He would praise everybody. I used to think how can everybody have such a good state. But Baba brought people together with love, it may be just anybody. He was very selfless; he would never sit in my car, never come to my house. He was very understanding. He also belonged to this Maharashtra, but he was not so aggressive. You have joined the work of such a great personality so at least follow some of his good qualities. We have built this temple for music and other arts. Your children must progress in these fields. They must understand our music. These foreigners understand your music more than you do. Isn’t it shameful? We don’t understand that, just nothing. What’s the use? You must have knowledge about music even though you may not be a student of this place. Unless you know what Tala is this, what Raga is this, you cannot enjoy music. I request you all to leave aside your quarrelling nature and develop goodness within you. This is the work of Sahaja yoga, but I sometimes feel that you cannot reap anything if you sow seeds in unfertile land. But now things are better with many people coming to Sahaja yoga. So don’t just come to learn Music here. You must learn to behave in a sahaja way, understand the greatness of sahaja, or else it is useless. There are many ordinary Music schools around. By learning music from these if you are going to break heads of others, it is better you do not learn music. So I request you that please, with music bring the music of your life into your day-to-day behaviour. Without bringing that music this program will not achieve its end. Take a vow today, let anybody say anything. The second problem out here is about making money. It has become rather too much. I am fed up with it. People make money even in Sahaja yoga. Are you going to change or no? Most important thing is that there should be music in our lives. Instead of having rhythm and ragdari in our lives we just keep fighting, thinking bad for others and seeing only self interest …….is bad. Now forget what happened in the past. But henceforth only people with understanding, compassion will be brought forward, who will bring all people together. [Hindi to English translation] 16:17 Fortunately I also know Hindi language. Now if we take to music we ourselves should also be in rhythm. What does it mean? It means that the state of human beings is to be corrected and made rhythmic and organized. Unless it is done, it is of no use. What is the difference between you people and others? If you also keep fighting then what is the use. The most important thing is to develop and establish love, Shraddha and devotion in our hearts so that you become peaceful and others also become peaceful. Without peace, music has got no meaning. Today this beautiful building has been erected in the memory of Babamama and with this I wish that people will take to music within them and they also have a peaceful atmosphere. Today world needs only Peace. Everything else that we have today is worthless without peace. We have to see how peaceful we are. If this peace does not have an effect on our country then on which country it will the effect. Everybody says that India is the ambassador of peace. But I can’t see anything like it. There are quarrels all around. I don’t know from where it has come. So those who want to learn music must have music in their hearts also. Running after money, women and doing all sorts of wrong things is unbecoming of a musician. My eternal blessings that this organization flourishes and people coming here learn music and make their lives rhythmic and full of music. Hope you will fulfil my desires. Whenever you get angry, get annoyed or complain, tell yourself that ‘I am a sahaja yogi. I am different from others. Mother has transformed me into something else. If you understand this you will be glorious. But if you cannot achieve this then it is useless. Then making 50 such organizations also is of no use. Fighting for small, small things is unbecoming of a sahaja yogi. You are Saints now. You do not realize what heights have you achieved. You think that you are the same beggar on the street as you were before. .......... [Shri Mataji speaks in English] 20:38 Today I wanted to bless you that you become completely musical in temperament, rhythmic and entertaining to others and not quarrelsome. Now as you have seen that how the western music is taking to wrong side, to the wrong progress. I don’t want you to fall into that path. This will all disappear, I know because it is very destructive. But after coming to sahaja also if you have the same destructive ideas, how can anybody help you. So I hope you fulfill my ideal about. May God bless you

1/1/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=4341

Concert & Inauguration of Vaitarna Music Academy

India

Vaitarna

Draft

Draft

Draft

NEEDED

NEEDED

Y

Y

N

Evening Program

English, Hindi, Marathi

Inauguration speech for the opening of the new Music Academy (transcr. only English part). Vaitarna (India), 1 January 2003. I’m sorry I spoke in Hindi language, because to talk about My father in any other language is very difficult, though he was a master of English language and he used to read a lot. He had a big library of his own where I also learned English, because my medium of instruction was Marathi. I’d never studied Hindi or English. But because of his library, because I was very fond of reading, I picked up English, whatever it is, and also Hindi. Now they all say I speak very good English and very good Hindi, I am surprised, because to Me they were foreign languages. And when I did my matriculation also, I had a very small book of English, and for inter-science also I had a very small book. And in the medical college of course there was no question of any language, but because I used to read a lot. So I would suggest to all of you to read, read more. But don’t read nonsensical books, very good famous books you must read. That’s how I developed my language, and I had to do so well. By reading that, I could know also so much about the human failings. I didn’t know human beings have those failings, I didn’t know. I was absolutely beyond them. After reading everything, I came to know that there are human beings, mostly, who have some failings. Maybe because of ego or maybe because of some bad training, because of mother, maybe father, whatever it is, the family. And that’s how I understood human beings, as they are. Gradually, when I came to Sahaja Yoga, I met many like that, not one - all over, whether in India or outside I saw. But most of them, 99%, improved. One per cent are still there, hanging in there. The greatest problem of human beings is ego. If there is ego, you can’t do anything about it, because it thinks, “I’ve done something great that I have this ego”. And they cannot appreciate other people, leave alone loving anybody else. ‘Ego’ means you love yourself, think no end of yourself. So, India is full of it. Abroad also I’ve seen it’s quite a lot, but at least they know there is ego and they can face it. But this country, I don’t know what sort of things they do that they develop this ego, and they think they’re quite right. Every country has its own problems, but we have something very great with us is our music. Not musicians, but music. So the musicians should take to Sahaja Yoga. They should meditate. And if a musician is money-oriented, then you cannot help him. Either he should be music-oriented, and not money-oriented. When they are money-oriented, they never value themselves, I think. Because if you have music, the talent of music, why should you care for money? And whatever money you give them, they’ll be never satisfied. I have seen very great musicians who were never, never money-oriented, who didn’t care for power. But we have even now many musicians who I would not say are the last word in music. Those who are, are very humble. They’ll always tell you, “We have to still learn a lot. We have to understand a lot.” So I was very much touched, and I was very much enamoured, by the statue of Babamama and of my father being there. Not because they were my brother, or father, but they were very, very great people, and their greatness has touched me. Baba’s quality was that he was a loving man, extremely loving, and very forgiving person. Extremely unassuming and very loving. He never cared for publicity, or he never cared for what position he was occupying. His humble nature was natural, very natural, very sweet. And he has been with me since his very childhood, so I noticed him, he never had any malice against anyone. He never wanted to surpass anyone. Always wanted to be at a zero point. And if anybody troubled him, he used to make him go somewhere with his own tricks, he was very clever. And he had found out that ‘I am no good for these crooks,’ so he used to handle them very cleverly, and he used to see that they go arout. He knew who were the show-offs, and he used to tell me about them: “These people are very big show-offs, and they will try to dominate others, they don’t know anything.” But the best part of his heart is his poetry. He wrote beautiful poetry. Was horrible to begin with! I used to write his essays in the school. So his teachers used to say: “Can you write such good essays? And when it comes to exams, then why do you get a big zero?” So he didn’t tell her that I’m writing the essays. But then, suddenly, he developed an attitude for languages: for Marathi, for Hindi, for Urdu, also for English, very surprising. He was very good at mathematics, because my mother was a mathematician, but suddenly become equipped in languages. And I used to give him my poetry to correct, so good he was. And he knew Urdu words, Hindi words, English, and Marathi also. So he used to tell me: “The Marathi’s very good. If you want to find somebody’s faults, Marathi’s the best, and the way you can tell them.” And lots of words he told me, and so interesting, in Marathi. I said: “Baba, when did you study Marathi?” He said: “I’ve just come to know.” So his knowledge was all innate, and everybody loved him because of temperament, he never tried to show off. Never. Very simple man, very simple habits, and always he tried to imbibe in the people that they should lead such and such life. Without telling them, I don’t know how he managed it. So with his love and attention, now we have so many musicians, so many people here. I am thankful to him and thankful to my father, for whatever they have done for Sahaja Yoga. May God bless you all!

Inauguration speech for the opening of the new Music Academy (transcr. only English part). Vaitarna (India), 1 January 2003. I’m sorry I spoke in Hindi language, because to talk about My father in any other language is very difficult, though he was a master of English language and he used to read a lot. He had a big library of his own where I also learned English, because my medium of instruction was Marathi. I’d never studied Hindi or English. But because of his library, because I was very fond of reading, I picked up English, whatever it is, and also Hindi. Now they all say I speak very good English and very good Hindi, I am surprised, because to Me they were foreign languages. And when I did my matriculation also, I had a very small book of English, and for inter-science also I had a very small book. And in the medical college of course there was no question of any language, but because I used to read a lot. So I would suggest to all of you to read, read more. But don’t read nonsensical books, very good famous books you must read. That’s how I developed my language, and I had to do so well. By reading that, I could know also so much about the human failings. I didn’t know human beings have those failings, I didn’t know. I was absolutely beyond them. After reading everything, I came to know that there are human beings, mostly, who have some failings. Maybe because of ego or maybe because of some bad training, because of mother, maybe father, whatever it is, the family. And that’s how I understood human beings, as they are. Gradually, when I came to Sahaja Yoga, I met many like that, not one - all over, whether in India or outside I saw. But most of them, 99%, improved. One per cent are still there, hanging in there. The greatest problem of human beings is ego. If there is ego, you can’t do anything about it, because it thinks, “I’ve done something great that I have this ego”. And they cannot appreciate other people, leave alone loving anybody else. ‘Ego’ means you love yourself, think no end of yourself. So, India is full of it. Abroad also I’ve seen it’s quite a lot, but at least they know there is ego and they can face it. But this country, I don’t know what sort of things they do that they develop this ego, and they think they’re quite right. Every country has its own problems, but we have something very great with us is our music. Not musicians, but music. So the musicians should take to Sahaja Yoga. They should meditate. And if a musician is money-oriented, then you cannot help him. Either he should be music-oriented, and not money-oriented. When they are money-oriented, they never value themselves, I think. Because if you have music, the talent of music, why should you care for money? And whatever money you give them, they’ll be never satisfied. I have seen very great musicians who were never, never money-oriented, who didn’t care for power. But we have even now many musicians who I would not say are the last word in music. Those who are, are very humble. They’ll always tell you, “We have to still learn a lot. We have to understand a lot.” So I was very much touched, and I was very much enamoured, by the statue of Babamama and of my father being there. Not because they were my brother, or father, but they were very, very great people, and their greatness has touched me. Baba’s quality was that he was a loving man, extremely loving, and very forgiving person. Extremely unassuming and very loving. He never cared for publicity, or he never cared for what position he was occupying. His humble nature was natural, very natural, very sweet. And he has been with me since his very childhood, so I noticed him, he never had any malice against anyone. He never wanted to surpass anyone. Always wanted to be at a zero point. And if anybody troubled him, he used to make him go somewhere with his own tricks, he was very clever. And he had found out that ‘I am no good for these crooks,’ so he used to handle them very cleverly, and he used to see that they go arout. He knew who were the show-offs, and he used to tell me about them: “These people are very big show-offs, and they will try to dominate others, they don’t know anything.” But the best part of his heart is his poetry. He wrote beautiful poetry. Was horrible to begin with! I used to write his essays in the school. So his teachers used to say: “Can you write such good essays? And when it comes to exams, then why do you get a big zero?” So he didn’t tell her that I’m writing the essays. But then, suddenly, he developed an attitude for languages: for Marathi, for Hindi, for Urdu, also for English, very surprising. He was very good at mathematics, because my mother was a mathematician, but suddenly become equipped in languages. And I used to give him my poetry to correct, so good he was. And he knew Urdu words, Hindi words, English, and Marathi also. So he used to tell me: “The Marathi’s very good. If you want to find somebody’s faults, Marathi’s the best, and the way you can tell them.” And lots of words he told me, and so interesting, in Marathi. I said: “Baba, when did you study Marathi?” He said: “I’ve just come to know.” So his knowledge was all innate, and everybody loved him because of temperament, he never tried to show off. Never. Very simple man, very simple habits, and always he tried to imbibe in the people that they should lead such and such life. Without telling them, I don’t know how he managed it. So with his love and attention, now we have so many musicians, so many people here. I am thankful to him and thankful to my father, for whatever they have done for Sahaja Yoga. May God bless you all!

2/28/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=38043

Shivaratri Puja

India

Pune

In Progress, NEEDED

Draft, In Progress

Y

Y

N

Mahashivaratri

Hindi

Shivaratri Puja, Pune, India 28-02-2003 [English translation from Hindi] His biggest Quality is forgiveness. If he doesn’t forgive, then nothing will be spared. He is very forgiving and because of his forgiving nature, we are surviving. ….Such Mahadev we should ask him such qualities as forgiveness, his nature, powers, characters and despite such qualities he is full forgiveness, he takes into consideration that we are humans and he forgives. We should learn that. We cling to small petty things and fight. This is not Mahadev’s puja, if you follow him then forgive everyone. Everyone one has some faults instead of looking at their faults look at your own. There was time when there were many forgiving people but now don’t know people get angry easily and are non-forgiving and they are not ashamed of it. But if you worship Shiv and take him as your Guru then you have to be forgiving. He has such powers that he can destroy anyone yet he so forgiving. Many people worship him to seek forgiveness “ Oh! God Forgive us” but he is all-forgiving. His forgiveness has magnanimity. Those who cannot forgive cannot be Sahaj yogis.The proof of a Sahaj Yogi is in forgiveness from inside from heart, he does not calculate what wrong has been done to him. Forgiveness is like ocean and to take that ocean inside oneself then only Mahadev will be established inside us. But I see that we get angry first not forgiveness. If you do not know to forgive then you will not be able to live in this world, you may live but always angry with everyone and unhappy. Shivji lives in blessing. But when he sees someone is absolute Rakshas his one eye opens. He has so much powers and because he has so many powers that is why he can forgive and all the blessings in his powers are from forgiveness.Those who worship Shivji they have to judge how many we can forgive. But we are always filled with anger, we feel we should set this person right that person right. Who are you to set people right if Shivji is not punishing them then who are you to do that. It is not correct to imagine oneself in such roles. By forgiving our heart becomes magnanimous and we can ascend to high place. There are various things in life I think for a human to forgive is foremost because it is very difficult for him. He gets angry very soon. There is no point in becoming angry in this manner, there is no substance. Either you should have power of love to understand others and then you will get power of (Anand)pleasure/peace/happiness.I feel that the problem is that human is still on old level despite getting realization,vibrations and become fine in all aspects but yet not forgiving, if you get angry very easily. But not forgiving is not ok and get angry easily. This is not the feature of worshipper of Mahadev, such a person is calm and not angry. He has power of forgiveness, and there are many things you should not to get entangled in it as far as possible forgive. This is the substance of Mahadev’s life. Despite the fact that there have been many Avtarans and saints but even today the world believes in Shiv because he can forgive. We can achieve his powers if we learn to forgive. If we do not know to forgive then we are not even near his feet. People make mistake, but to trouble anyone is to give against Shiv. This is special in him. Shiv has forgiven many Rakshas and he learned power of love. …..( sound of vehicle..can’t hear)Forgiving people don’t get angry, you can see it on their face. They are uncomplicated and simple people. We have to measure how many we can forgive. There is an example of Christ he said to Mahadev to forgive people crucifying him as they don’t know what they are doing. They were doing such a big sin yet he was forgiving. This forgiveness is directly related to how magnanimous is our heart is. But I see that as time is passing this quality is decreasing. Mostly……. Somebody is angry. People take wrong path and call that Dharma.Where there is no Shiv there is no dharma. Today we have to promise that if we have complications or anger against anyone we must forgive. I understand that there are many sins that… but if you believe in Shiv you will be surprise that you will not find any sin/wrong against you so giant. your heart is full of Shiv and it will realize …so never insult anyone, who are we to insult others. Person does that in ego, and Shiv has no ego. He has such powers yet he never get angry, he is aware of his power that he can destroy anyone, so he stays in such controlled and forgiving. So we also have to decide today that we will not get angry on anyone, we will not look for shortcomings in others but ours. Getting angry on others it is sin because you are Sahaj Yogis. Hope now on you will become real follower of Shiv. Blessings.

Shivaratri Puja, Pune, India 28-02-2003 [English translation from Hindi] His biggest Quality is forgiveness. If he doesn’t forgive, then nothing will be spared. He is very forgiving and because of his forgiving nature, we are surviving. ….Such Mahadev we should ask him such qualities as forgiveness, his nature, powers, characters and despite such qualities he is full forgiveness, he takes into consideration that we are humans and he forgives. We should learn that. We cling to small petty things and fight. This is not Mahadev’s puja, if you follow him then forgive everyone. Everyone one has some faults instead of looking at their faults look at your own. There was time when there were many forgiving people but now don’t know people get angry easily and are non-forgiving and they are not ashamed of it. But if you worship Shiv and take him as your Guru then you have to be forgiving. He has such powers that he can destroy anyone yet he so forgiving. Many people worship him to seek forgiveness “ Oh! God Forgive us” but he is all-forgiving. His forgiveness has magnanimity. Those who cannot forgive cannot be Sahaj yogis.The proof of a Sahaj Yogi is in forgiveness from inside from heart, he does not calculate what wrong has been done to him. Forgiveness is like ocean and to take that ocean inside oneself then only Mahadev will be established inside us. But I see that we get angry first not forgiveness. If you do not know to forgive then you will not be able to live in this world, you may live but always angry with everyone and unhappy. Shivji lives in blessing. But when he sees someone is absolute Rakshas his one eye opens. He has so much powers and because he has so many powers that is why he can forgive and all the blessings in his powers are from forgiveness.Those who worship Shivji they have to judge how many we can forgive. But we are always filled with anger, we feel we should set this person right that person right. Who are you to set people right if Shivji is not punishing them then who are you to do that. It is not correct to imagine oneself in such roles. By forgiving our heart becomes magnanimous and we can ascend to high place. There are various things in life I think for a human to forgive is foremost because it is very difficult for him. He gets angry very soon. There is no point in becoming angry in this manner, there is no substance. Either you should have power of love to understand others and then you will get power of (Anand)pleasure/peace/happiness.I feel that the problem is that human is still on old level despite getting realization,vibrations and become fine in all aspects but yet not forgiving, if you get angry very easily. But not forgiving is not ok and get angry easily. This is not the feature of worshipper of Mahadev, such a person is calm and not angry. He has power of forgiveness, and there are many things you should not to get entangled in it as far as possible forgive. This is the substance of Mahadev’s life. Despite the fact that there have been many Avtarans and saints but even today the world believes in Shiv because he can forgive. We can achieve his powers if we learn to forgive. If we do not know to forgive then we are not even near his feet. People make mistake, but to trouble anyone is to give against Shiv. This is special in him. Shiv has forgiven many Rakshas and he learned power of love. …..( sound of vehicle..can’t hear)Forgiving people don’t get angry, you can see it on their face. They are uncomplicated and simple people. We have to measure how many we can forgive. There is an example of Christ he said to Mahadev to forgive people crucifying him as they don’t know what they are doing. They were doing such a big sin yet he was forgiving. This forgiveness is directly related to how magnanimous is our heart is. But I see that as time is passing this quality is decreasing. Mostly……. Somebody is angry. People take wrong path and call that Dharma.Where there is no Shiv there is no dharma. Today we have to promise that if we have complications or anger against anyone we must forgive. I understand that there are many sins that… but if you believe in Shiv you will be surprise that you will not find any sin/wrong against you so giant. your heart is full of Shiv and it will realize …so never insult anyone, who are we to insult others. Person does that in ego, and Shiv has no ego. He has such powers yet he never get angry, he is aware of his power that he can destroy anyone, so he stays in such controlled and forgiving. So we also have to decide today that we will not get angry on anyone, we will not look for shortcomings in others but ours. Getting angry on others it is sin because you are Sahaj Yogis. Hope now on you will become real follower of Shiv. Blessings.

3/16/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2814

Mahashivaratri Puja: He is forgiveness personified

India

Pune

Reviewed

Reviewed

Reviewed

Y

Y

Y

Mahashivaratri

English, Hindi

Shivaratri Puja, Pune (India), 16 March 2003. Today, we are going to worship, Shri Shiva, Sadashiva. His quality is that, he is forgiveness personified. The amount of forgiveness He has, has helped many of us to exist, Otherwise this world, would have perished. so many would have been finished, because you know what is the condition of human beings. They don't understand what is wrong, what is right. Apart from that, they cannot forgive. They go on making mistakes, doesn't matter, But they cannot forgive others. This is what we have to learn from Shri Sadashiva. [Translation from Hindi] Today we are going to worship Shri Sadashiva. His specific nature is that, His capacity to forgive is so much, that no human can compete with Him. He forgives all our mistakes. If He doesn't, the whole world could have come to an end. Because within him there is a power, with which He can destroy the whole creation. Though forgiveness is His inherent quality, this power of distruction within Him, is active and keeps growing. This same power, with which He forgives, when it matures or rather when it grows in abundance, He can destroy the whole world also. So first of all we need to acquire his quality of forgiveness. For small, insignificant and forgivable matters, We keep fighting. We fight over very petty, unimportant subjects. But He is forgiving to the extent that, He keeps forrgiving until, He reaches the point, From where, the distructive powers within him awakens. With this same power He can destroy himself also. He can destroy the whole of the univese. Whatever has been created by Him, can totally be destroyed. So we shouid remember, that in case we don't learn to forgive, and forgiveness is not established within us, then one day this destructive power will be awakened, in us. we will start destroying our own people. That's why we should always be alert, we should keep in mind, keep an eye towards self, that we are not getting angry with others in vain? That we are not being wicked to others without a reason. Under any circumstances, You do not have a right to be angry with anyone. When Shiva doesn't get angry, then why should you? But people get extremely angry, very often. Even animals do not get angry to this extent. Without a reason even animals do not harm. Similarly, when we, get angry over petty matters, then we should remember that, there is a power of Shiva, which is active within us. That is why, when we get upset with others for every thing, and get angry with them for everything, and can not forgive them at all, then, this kind of a person, what can he achieve? Wherever great wars have taken place, wherever people have faced hardship, In those places, the main reason has been that, the human race was oppressed, was destroyed. This power comes from the beginning. Without a reason one human starts destroying the other. everywhere. Why this attitude has come in human, and how it has come, we don't need to think about that. We just have to remember that we, in this kind of inferior and trivial matters, have never got involved. In our lives, if we could stay peaceful, and tackle all the problems peacefully, then we also would be equally peaceful. our lives would be peaceful too. But the point is that human, do not have control over himself. He is unable to control himself. His nature itself is such that, he gets carried away, and feels pleased to think, that "I have punished everyone very nicely, I shouted at everyone, I was angry with everyone". to such an extent that many countries have this issue. If a country gets annoyed with another country, or a single person gets angry with another , then the whole people from that country are behind him. For the benevolence no one will come forward, For the benevolence, none of the countries will come together, Only for fighting with one another, and getting upset, all will unite together. This is an amazing thing, If you tell someone that we have to work for emancipation, he will say "Okay, you do it, I will watch". But if a person in his hands, has some weapon to hit others, then he will say "give me the weapon, I want to hit him too". This nature of human is difficult to understand. To beat up someone and to trouble someone and to be angry with someone, what kind of pleasure a human being can get? But you just watch. While travelling, there is a crowd on the road. What happened? “Some quarrel is taking place”. “What are you doing there”? Some will say we are also part of it. some will say we are watching it. this very peculier nature which is within us, can be removed by only one God, and that is Shiv-Shankar. By adoring Him, by worshipping Him, and by recognising Him from the heart, the anger and aggression of human beings gets dissolved. It is very surprising that Krishna also, has said the biggest defect of human is anger. Krodhaat bi jayante. (sanskrit). along with anger all these negativities get awakened. Here people very proudly say that " I was very angry with him", " I got very upset with him" Atleast I don't see any humanity in this behaviour. But this is a very common thing to get angry, for every small matter, to find some or other excuse and get angry. And when this anger becomes collective, this colletive aggression can give rise to many troubles. wars may begin, many families get destroyed, many of the family systems get ruined. With every passing day I see that human anger, instead of reducing, is going on increasing. and people proclaim with pride that " we were very angry". "We are very aggresive people". [English] I know you want Me to speak in English language, only. But people who don't know English are outnumbering you. What I'm trying to say, that it's very important to understand when you are worshipping Shri Shiv Shankar that He is the complete embodiment of forgiveness. He forgives. He forgives everything very sweetly. As one would forgive all small children. He forgives. He doesn't get angry. He's not that easily perturbed. Also we have certain amount of prejudices. For example, a woman in India, if she speaks, then people don't like it. A woman should not speak, a man can speak. And a woman can never beat, a woman can never beat a man, even if the man kills the wife. That is the criteria of a good wife in India, or a good woman. So, you can imagine how men are getting towards their destruction. All this kind of concession that is given, is very dangerous, is the destructive of the whole community. Same I've seen abroad. There are people who go on beating their wives, killing their wives - I don't know all kinds of things. Because they have married somebody, they think they have every right to expect everything good from their wives, while they may not be at all good, and they go on torturing their wives. Not only that but in the school, the teachers, they ill-treat the students so badly, the students pick it up. And later on they carry on the tradition of beating others and troubling others. So every time you say, "I get very angry," tell yourself you are on the wrong path. I've told so many times, to so many of you that to boast of your anger is the worst thing because it is like boasting about your sins you are committing. These are the sins. I can understand some people who are drunkards, or some who are mad, or some who are out of their minds. But a mad person you'll find very, very sensible otherwise, can be very ferocious, can be very dangerous. It is difficult to say from where do you get these qualities, because none of the Divine Personalities had this kind of thing. For no rhyme and reason, they won't lose their temper and even if They do, it has to be a very strong reason up to the point of destruction. But I can understand Them, because They have to maintain this world and They have to look after the people who are supposed to be human beings. But sometimes I've seen human beings are even worse than animals. They get provoked for nothing at all. What is the reason? Why are you angry? They'll give you an excuse which is absolutely unreasonable. In this world you have come to enjoy peace and joy. Without peace, you can't have joy. If you cannot give peace to others, how can you have joy? And the way people treat others in such a contemptuous manner, it's very surprising, what do they think of themselves? Why should they think so low about other people? It's beyond understanding to see a man losing temper on small, small things. But actually they are cowards. If it comes to some facing some real problem in life, they recede back. Then they cannot come forward. This is the biggest tragedy of the whole thing. [Translation from Hindi] In our country also, people recognise hot-tempered persons. In the villages they call them as he is a nagger, he is an angry man, he is aggressive. These kind of nick names he gets. And people want to keep away from such person. Alright, if somebody has done something wrong, forgive him. If somebody has done something which he should not have done, forgive him also. because tomorrow you do the same mistake, then who will be responsible for you? and who is going to punish you. So you should understand that we Sahajayogis do not have a right, to punish anyone at all. And preach them in any way, I have seen many people who pressurise others minds. Whoever has recognised Shiv Ji, he is the true realised soul. Whoever has ShivJi's nature within him, he alone is realised. And for his protection also Shiv Ji is there. Those who are simple and straightforward by nature, he has no reason to be afraid of anything. Shri Shivshankar takes care of him, And He looks after him. So, this being the situation, why should you have any problem? Why do you get annoyed with anyone? It is very strange. A gentleman told me, I am very angry with this person. I asked what happened? He said, this man has taken all my father's money. And I did not get anything. I said, your father should have thought about it, now this person has taken the money then let it be. Why are you getting annoyed? He said, that person should have refused to take, and told this money should come to me. Would you have done that? Could you do any such thing? Then why do you expect that the other person Should say that " give this money back to him". You expect all the good qualities only from others. All the bad qualities which are there, You can not forgive that at all. And who ever does anything wrong, for them you start wishing that he should be destroyed completely. Until, human does not get realization, he can not see what he is from within. If he is a human or an animal, he does not understand that also. I would say, even an animal never gets angry unnecessarily. Unless they are provoked. They don't lose their tempers unnecessarily. They have plenty of Shiv Ji"s nature in them. But in human beings? In some human beings this is completely destroyed. They think that "we have a right to destroy thousands of people". One such person was Hitler Saheb. Who knows, how many people he murdered? He could not even give birth to one small child, and he killed so many people. Why did he? What did he think of himself? And those he killed, their families got destroyed, meaning the whole country fell apart, So did he think he was the big Lord? Atleast 2-3 of this kind exist anyway. But you should not take thier examples. It is correct for you, you are Sahaja Yogis, So you should forgive every one. People who have an open heart, they forgive. Because forgiveness is very powerful. And this is the quality which Shiv Shankar has, that is why He is considered the greatest God. He does not want anything for himself. He can wear anything, or He will apply ash over his body, He can live in any situation. He does not need anything. But, if a person troubles anyone extremely, then, at the end He destroys that person. He has as much power to forgive, as he has the power to destroy. What is the reason behind it? The reason is, the human being should see Him and understand, that if you torture anyone excessively, You will be taken to task. Now, where did all these people vanish? The so called warriors, (rathi-maharathi), who came here? They did so many things and then where did they go? They earned great fame, They killed many, destroyed many. Many of the countries also were destroyed. Where are they today? No one even wants to keep their photo? Forget about erecting their statues, People do not even want to see their faces. You should not become the owner of this kind of a charecter. For some time you assume that because of your aggressive nature, it is possible that people get scared of you. And, out of fear, do your work. But whatever work is done out of fear, where is the fun in that? What is so special about it? This is someting to think about, that how many people in this world, have you gained and how many people have you destroyed? With how many people have you picked up a fight? There are some people, for whom to fight is their religion. day in and day out they keep fighting They have a crave within themselves, to fight with one person in the morning, another in the noon and yet another in the evening Those who have this kind of a nature, are kept at a distance by other people. If they see him coming towards them, they change their direction. Love can not grow out of this. Sahaja yoga is completely a work of total love. and we have great examples to follow. Jesus christ, on the cross said, that "Oh Lord! forgive them for they know not what they are doing". Similarly, when this forgiveness will be established within us, Then we also will aquire, which can be said as, the true capabilities of Shri Shiva. We will obtain his qualities. To get angry, to be aggressive is not at all a great quality. So that is why, today, we all should consider, that, to what extent we dominate others, and want to destroy others. Perticularly in our country, men have tortured women to a great extent. And even now they are doing it. Sahaja Yogis should not get involved in this. This is a useless action, which has absolutely no meaning. Today, during the puja of Shri Shiva, all of you, take a vow in your mind that "we will never get angry". Under any circumstace, we will not get angry. When there is no use in showing anger, then why should you do so? your health gets spoilt in doing so. So today, let us all remember Shri Shiva, and try to aquire his qualities. May God bless you all.

Shivaratri Puja, Pune (India), 16 March 2003. Today, we are going to worship, Shri Shiva, Sadashiva. His quality is that, he is forgiveness personified. The amount of forgiveness He has, has helped many of us to exist, Otherwise this world, would have perished. so many would have been finished, because you know what is the condition of human beings. They don't understand what is wrong, what is right. Apart from that, they cannot forgive. They go on making mistakes, doesn't matter, But they cannot forgive others. This is what we have to learn from Shri Sadashiva. [Translation from Hindi] Today we are going to worship Shri Sadashiva. His specific nature is that, His capacity to forgive is so much, that no human can compete with Him. He forgives all our mistakes. If He doesn't, the whole world could have come to an end. Because within him there is a power, with which He can destroy the whole creation. Though forgiveness is His inherent quality, this power of distruction within Him, is active and keeps growing. This same power, with which He forgives, when it matures or rather when it grows in abundance, He can destroy the whole world also. So first of all we need to acquire his quality of forgiveness. For small, insignificant and forgivable matters, We keep fighting. We fight over very petty, unimportant subjects. But He is forgiving to the extent that, He keeps forrgiving until, He reaches the point, From where, the distructive powers within him awakens. With this same power He can destroy himself also. He can destroy the whole of the univese. Whatever has been created by Him, can totally be destroyed. So we shouid remember, that in case we don't learn to forgive, and forgiveness is not established within us, then one day this destructive power will be awakened, in us. we will start destroying our own people. That's why we should always be alert, we should keep in mind, keep an eye towards self, that we are not getting angry with others in vain? That we are not being wicked to others without a reason. Under any circumstances, You do not have a right to be angry with anyone. When Shiva doesn't get angry, then why should you? But people get extremely angry, very often. Even animals do not get angry to this extent. Without a reason even animals do not harm. Similarly, when we, get angry over petty matters, then we should remember that, there is a power of Shiva, which is active within us. That is why, when we get upset with others for every thing, and get angry with them for everything, and can not forgive them at all, then, this kind of a person, what can he achieve? Wherever great wars have taken place, wherever people have faced hardship, In those places, the main reason has been that, the human race was oppressed, was destroyed. This power comes from the beginning. Without a reason one human starts destroying the other. everywhere. Why this attitude has come in human, and how it has come, we don't need to think about that. We just have to remember that we, in this kind of inferior and trivial matters, have never got involved. In our lives, if we could stay peaceful, and tackle all the problems peacefully, then we also would be equally peaceful. our lives would be peaceful too. But the point is that human, do not have control over himself. He is unable to control himself. His nature itself is such that, he gets carried away, and feels pleased to think, that "I have punished everyone very nicely, I shouted at everyone, I was angry with everyone". to such an extent that many countries have this issue. If a country gets annoyed with another country, or a single person gets angry with another , then the whole people from that country are behind him. For the benevolence no one will come forward, For the benevolence, none of the countries will come together, Only for fighting with one another, and getting upset, all will unite together. This is an amazing thing, If you tell someone that we have to work for emancipation, he will say "Okay, you do it, I will watch". But if a person in his hands, has some weapon to hit others, then he will say "give me the weapon, I want to hit him too". This nature of human is difficult to understand. To beat up someone and to trouble someone and to be angry with someone, what kind of pleasure a human being can get? But you just watch. While travelling, there is a crowd on the road. What happened? “Some quarrel is taking place”. “What are you doing there”? Some will say we are also part of it. some will say we are watching it. this very peculier nature which is within us, can be removed by only one God, and that is Shiv-Shankar. By adoring Him, by worshipping Him, and by recognising Him from the heart, the anger and aggression of human beings gets dissolved. It is very surprising that Krishna also, has said the biggest defect of human is anger. Krodhaat bi jayante. (sanskrit). along with anger all these negativities get awakened. Here people very proudly say that " I was very angry with him", " I got very upset with him" Atleast I don't see any humanity in this behaviour. But this is a very common thing to get angry, for every small matter, to find some or other excuse and get angry. And when this anger becomes collective, this colletive aggression can give rise to many troubles. wars may begin, many families get destroyed, many of the family systems get ruined. With every passing day I see that human anger, instead of reducing, is going on increasing. and people proclaim with pride that " we were very angry". "We are very aggresive people". [English] I know you want Me to speak in English language, only. But people who don't know English are outnumbering you. What I'm trying to say, that it's very important to understand when you are worshipping Shri Shiv Shankar that He is the complete embodiment of forgiveness. He forgives. He forgives everything very sweetly. As one would forgive all small children. He forgives. He doesn't get angry. He's not that easily perturbed. Also we have certain amount of prejudices. For example, a woman in India, if she speaks, then people don't like it. A woman should not speak, a man can speak. And a woman can never beat, a woman can never beat a man, even if the man kills the wife. That is the criteria of a good wife in India, or a good woman. So, you can imagine how men are getting towards their destruction. All this kind of concession that is given, is very dangerous, is the destructive of the whole community. Same I've seen abroad. There are people who go on beating their wives, killing their wives - I don't know all kinds of things. Because they have married somebody, they think they have every right to expect everything good from their wives, while they may not be at all good, and they go on torturing their wives. Not only that but in the school, the teachers, they ill-treat the students so badly, the students pick it up. And later on they carry on the tradition of beating others and troubling others. So every time you say, "I get very angry," tell yourself you are on the wrong path. I've told so many times, to so many of you that to boast of your anger is the worst thing because it is like boasting about your sins you are committing. These are the sins. I can understand some people who are drunkards, or some who are mad, or some who are out of their minds. But a mad person you'll find very, very sensible otherwise, can be very ferocious, can be very dangerous. It is difficult to say from where do you get these qualities, because none of the Divine Personalities had this kind of thing. For no rhyme and reason, they won't lose their temper and even if They do, it has to be a very strong reason up to the point of destruction. But I can understand Them, because They have to maintain this world and They have to look after the people who are supposed to be human beings. But sometimes I've seen human beings are even worse than animals. They get provoked for nothing at all. What is the reason? Why are you angry? They'll give you an excuse which is absolutely unreasonable. In this world you have come to enjoy peace and joy. Without peace, you can't have joy. If you cannot give peace to others, how can you have joy? And the way people treat others in such a contemptuous manner, it's very surprising, what do they think of themselves? Why should they think so low about other people? It's beyond understanding to see a man losing temper on small, small things. But actually they are cowards. If it comes to some facing some real problem in life, they recede back. Then they cannot come forward. This is the biggest tragedy of the whole thing. [Translation from Hindi] In our country also, people recognise hot-tempered persons. In the villages they call them as he is a nagger, he is an angry man, he is aggressive. These kind of nick names he gets. And people want to keep away from such person. Alright, if somebody has done something wrong, forgive him. If somebody has done something which he should not have done, forgive him also. because tomorrow you do the same mistake, then who will be responsible for you? and who is going to punish you. So you should understand that we Sahajayogis do not have a right, to punish anyone at all. And preach them in any way, I have seen many people who pressurise others minds. Whoever has recognised Shiv Ji, he is the true realised soul. Whoever has ShivJi's nature within him, he alone is realised. And for his protection also Shiv Ji is there. Those who are simple and straightforward by nature, he has no reason to be afraid of anything. Shri Shivshankar takes care of him, And He looks after him. So, this being the situation, why should you have any problem? Why do you get annoyed with anyone? It is very strange. A gentleman told me, I am very angry with this person. I asked what happened? He said, this man has taken all my father's money. And I did not get anything. I said, your father should have thought about it, now this person has taken the money then let it be. Why are you getting annoyed? He said, that person should have refused to take, and told this money should come to me. Would you have done that? Could you do any such thing? Then why do you expect that the other person Should say that " give this money back to him". You expect all the good qualities only from others. All the bad qualities which are there, You can not forgive that at all. And who ever does anything wrong, for them you start wishing that he should be destroyed completely. Until, human does not get realization, he can not see what he is from within. If he is a human or an animal, he does not understand that also. I would say, even an animal never gets angry unnecessarily. Unless they are provoked. They don't lose their tempers unnecessarily. They have plenty of Shiv Ji"s nature in them. But in human beings? In some human beings this is completely destroyed. They think that "we have a right to destroy thousands of people". One such person was Hitler Saheb. Who knows, how many people he murdered? He could not even give birth to one small child, and he killed so many people. Why did he? What did he think of himself? And those he killed, their families got destroyed, meaning the whole country fell apart, So did he think he was the big Lord? Atleast 2-3 of this kind exist anyway. But you should not take thier examples. It is correct for you, you are Sahaja Yogis, So you should forgive every one. People who have an open heart, they forgive. Because forgiveness is very powerful. And this is the quality which Shiv Shankar has, that is why He is considered the greatest God. He does not want anything for himself. He can wear anything, or He will apply ash over his body, He can live in any situation. He does not need anything. But, if a person troubles anyone extremely, then, at the end He destroys that person. He has as much power to forgive, as he has the power to destroy. What is the reason behind it? The reason is, the human being should see Him and understand, that if you torture anyone excessively, You will be taken to task. Now, where did all these people vanish? The so called warriors, (rathi-maharathi), who came here? They did so many things and then where did they go? They earned great fame, They killed many, destroyed many. Many of the countries also were destroyed. Where are they today? No one even wants to keep their photo? Forget about erecting their statues, People do not even want to see their faces. You should not become the owner of this kind of a charecter. For some time you assume that because of your aggressive nature, it is possible that people get scared of you. And, out of fear, do your work. But whatever work is done out of fear, where is the fun in that? What is so special about it? This is someting to think about, that how many people in this world, have you gained and how many people have you destroyed? With how many people have you picked up a fight? There are some people, for whom to fight is their religion. day in and day out they keep fighting They have a crave within themselves, to fight with one person in the morning, another in the noon and yet another in the evening Those who have this kind of a nature, are kept at a distance by other people. If they see him coming towards them, they change their direction. Love can not grow out of this. Sahaja yoga is completely a work of total love. and we have great examples to follow. Jesus christ, on the cross said, that "Oh Lord! forgive them for they know not what they are doing". Similarly, when this forgiveness will be established within us, Then we also will aquire, which can be said as, the true capabilities of Shri Shiva. We will obtain his qualities. To get angry, to be aggressive is not at all a great quality. So that is why, today, we all should consider, that, to what extent we dominate others, and want to destroy others. Perticularly in our country, men have tortured women to a great extent. And even now they are doing it. Sahaja Yogis should not get involved in this. This is a useless action, which has absolutely no meaning. Today, during the puja of Shri Shiva, all of you, take a vow in your mind that "we will never get angry". Under any circumstace, we will not get angry. When there is no use in showing anger, then why should you do so? your health gets spoilt in doing so. So today, let us all remember Shri Shiva, and try to aquire his qualities. May God bless you all.

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Birthday Felicitations. Nirmal Dham, Delhi (India), 20 March 2003. Talk by Sir C. P. Shrivastava Madam Mayor, Shri Rahul Bajaj, Shri Debu Chaudhary, honored guests, dear Sahaj Yogis and Sahaj Yoginis Let me first clarify that we are celebrating only one birthday, and that is birthday of your Mataji. I am, you know statistically about fifteen million people living on this Earth must have been born on twenty-first of March. I'm one of them. Just doesn't matter whether I'm there or not, but we're celebrating today Her birthday and let's keep to that. What I wanted to say has been said already by many, but I want to mention to you that we are celebrating today a momentous event which happened eighty years ago, She was born with a mission. Her mission was to transform humanity. For the last thirty-three years, She has been at it almost day and night. She has traveled to villages in India on foot, in the bullock cart, in a car. She has traveled by plane. She has been to many parts of the world and it is because of that individual, personal endeavor that we see what we see today. She is an Incarnation, because I don't believe that any human being can transform a single other human being. It's easy to deal with the machinery [applause]. In my office, I try to improve someone, I fail miserably. She has transformed hundreds of thousands of people. And when I look at you, I feel today that this offering felicitations to your Mother, we can offer Her our love, our devotion, but felicitations only to you. Because you are here on this momentous occasion sharing the joy of Her eightieth birthday. So, my warmest felicitations to all of you here. To me, Sahaj Yogis and Sahaj Yoginis are like angels - I've said that before and I want to repeat. I think there's no other category of human being on this Earth who has all the qualities that She has given to you, which you have imbibed - quality of spirituality, quality of ethics, quality of morality, of truthfulness, of modesty, of helpfulness, of being brothers and sisters all over the world. There's no other category of person on this Earth that can compare with you - thanks to Her. [applause] And having served in the United Nations system for some time, I look at two worlds together - the world which you represent, which She has created; and the other world which is outside. And the other world others have said, but it's not only today because of war, the world has gone on from bad to worse. You look at business side, you look at political side - problems everywhere. And why are there problems? Because the Person to transform was not there until eighty years ago. Now She has come and She's beginning the process. I don't think the process is anywhere near complete. She has begun the process and we now have beautiful gathering of angels presided over by your Divine Mother. I want to recall that I mentioned three, four years ago that the world needs Sahaja Yoga. The world needs more and more of Sahaja Yogis. I tell you honestly without that we are heading towards absolute disaster, and you see that today - disaster because human beings have to become angels once again. And that is what the mission of your Mother is. So, three years ago I requested you please try and convert human beings above ordinary into Sahaja Yogis. If each one of you were to convert one more every year there would be many, many millions soon enough. Now I requested you three years ago to come today on Her eightieth birthday with a list of eighty million. I think you have made very good progress. As Guido was saying, there are many, many more today than there were three years ago. But the mission is not complete. So, I want to modify my proposal. I want to put it to you, I hope you will approve of it unanimously. And my proposal is this: that when twenty years from now She presides here with the same radiance which is on Her Face, you will come here with your children and present to Her a list of a hundred million, hundred million Sahaja Yogis. [applause] Shri Rahul Bajaj has made some loving confession. And I was very happy to hear that. I also want follow suit, and I want to tell you that but for your Mother I would not be alive today. Thank you. [applause] Talk by H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Today everybody is trying to talk to you in English language because I think they feel majority of you are speaking English. I wish I could tell you something new about life. Life goes on moving. Whether you are eighty or ninety makes no difference. Only thing is how much you have used the light that you have got it in Sahaja Yoga. All of you are now enlightened in Sahaja Yoga. All of your kundalinis are up and I think you know most of it. But despite that, it’s important how much time you devote for the emancipation of human beings, for helping them to come on. Instead of criticizing them, instead of condemning them, your duty is to put them on higher pedestal, so they respect themselves and respect their Self Realization. It’s very important because I met many Sahaja Yogis to begin with who were very much critical of their colleagues and all other things, but since they have got Realization, they think it’s a matter of duty for them, that is, that they should attend to the emancipation of human beings. Then there won’t be any problem of any kind – no political problem, no economic problem, nothing of the kind. All these problems are created by mind, which is not yet fully developed, I should say. And once it is developed, you are not bothered. You are bothered about others. You are bothered about emancipation of others. It’s automatic. I don’t have to say that. But you have seen in your lives how your attitudes have changed towards life and that is what is more important than anything else. Some of you are very successful people in politics, in business and this and that. But you are not satisfied till you give Realization to people, till you make them perfect like yourself. [I’m] so very happy to see so many people being helped by Sahaja Yoga. I never expected that in My lifetime only I’ll see this, but [it] has worked out – worked out so wonderfully. I’m really amazed how things grew so fast and how it has grown into so many countries, into the so many people’s heart and how they have taken to Sahaja Yoga. They’re working not only in their own country, but also outside. After all, I can’t go everywhere now. But, despite that, Sahaja Yoga is spreading, which is such a great thing for Me – so satisfying. You have no idea when I hear that Sahaja Yoga has gone to this country and gone to that country. Practically, they say, in forty-three countries Sahaja Yoga is settled down in a very large way and, in a smaller way, maybe it is in many more. But to hear this also, I never expected that it would work that fast. It’s all thanks to you, to you Sahaja Yogis who [have] achieved this miracle.I’m thankful to you all, from India and abroad, those who have taken up the flag of emancipation and are moving forward, instead of criticizing, instead of degrading some people. [It’s] very easy to do that. But what about you, yourself rising above all that and making others rise also? We can change the whole world and you start understanding the problems of the world and you can get rid of them with your kundalini awakening. Such a great thing is this kundalini, I tell you, that it makes human beings something superlative. It’s all described as sayings and this and that, but a Sahaja Yogi has a greater power and the greater power is that he can make others Sahaja Yogi[s]. He can give Realizations to others. They must use their powers and should try to change the whole world. That’s My desire. I don’t know in My lifetime I’ll achieve it or not. But you all should decide that way and I’m sure it will all work out. May God bless you! Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Birthday Felicitations. Nirmal Dham, Delhi (India), 20 March 2003. Talk by Sir C. P. Shrivastava Madam Mayor, Shri Rahul Bajaj, Shri Debu Chaudhary, honored guests, dear Sahaj Yogis and Sahaj Yoginis Let me first clarify that we are celebrating only one birthday, and that is birthday of your Mataji. I am, you know statistically about fifteen million people living on this Earth must have been born on twenty-first of March. I'm one of them. Just doesn't matter whether I'm there or not, but we're celebrating today Her birthday and let's keep to that. What I wanted to say has been said already by many, but I want to mention to you that we are celebrating today a momentous event which happened eighty years ago, She was born with a mission. Her mission was to transform humanity. For the last thirty-three years, She has been at it almost day and night. She has traveled to villages in India on foot, in the bullock cart, in a car. She has traveled by plane. She has been to many parts of the world and it is because of that individual, personal endeavor that we see what we see today. She is an Incarnation, because I don't believe that any human being can transform a single other human being. It's easy to deal with the machinery [applause]. In my office, I try to improve someone, I fail miserably. She has transformed hundreds of thousands of people. And when I look at you, I feel today that this offering felicitations to your Mother, we can offer Her our love, our devotion, but felicitations only to you. Because you are here on this momentous occasion sharing the joy of Her eightieth birthday. So, my warmest felicitations to all of you here. To me, Sahaj Yogis and Sahaj Yoginis are like angels - I've said that before and I want to repeat. I think there's no other category of human being on this Earth who has all the qualities that She has given to you, which you have imbibed - quality of spirituality, quality of ethics, quality of morality, of truthfulness, of modesty, of helpfulness, of being brothers and sisters all over the world. There's no other category of person on this Earth that can compare with you - thanks to Her. [applause] And having served in the United Nations system for some time, I look at two worlds together - the world which you represent, which She has created; and the other world which is outside. And the other world others have said, but it's not only today because of war, the world has gone on from bad to worse. You look at business side, you look at political side - problems everywhere. And why are there problems? Because the Person to transform was not there until eighty years ago. Now She has come and She's beginning the process. I don't think the process is anywhere near complete. She has begun the process and we now have beautiful gathering of angels presided over by your Divine Mother. I want to recall that I mentioned three, four years ago that the world needs Sahaja Yoga. The world needs more and more of Sahaja Yogis. I tell you honestly without that we are heading towards absolute disaster, and you see that today - disaster because human beings have to become angels once again. And that is what the mission of your Mother is. So, three years ago I requested you please try and convert human beings above ordinary into Sahaja Yogis. If each one of you were to convert one more every year there would be many, many millions soon enough. Now I requested you three years ago to come today on Her eightieth birthday with a list of eighty million. I think you have made very good progress. As Guido was saying, there are many, many more today than there were three years ago. But the mission is not complete. So, I want to modify my proposal. I want to put it to you, I hope you will approve of it unanimously. And my proposal is this: that when twenty years from now She presides here with the same radiance which is on Her Face, you will come here with your children and present to Her a list of a hundred million, hundred million Sahaja Yogis. [applause] Shri Rahul Bajaj has made some loving confession. And I was very happy to hear that. I also want follow suit, and I want to tell you that but for your Mother I would not be alive today. Thank you. [applause] Talk by H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Today everybody is trying to talk to you in English language because I think they feel majority of you are speaking English. I wish I could tell you something new about life. Life goes on moving. Whether you are eighty or ninety makes no difference. Only thing is how much you have used the light that you have got it in Sahaja Yoga. All of you are now enlightened in Sahaja Yoga. All of your kundalinis are up and I think you know most of it. But despite that, it’s important how much time you devote for the emancipation of human beings, for helping them to come on. Instead of criticizing them, instead of condemning them, your duty is to put them on higher pedestal, so they respect themselves and respect their Self Realization. It’s very important because I met many Sahaja Yogis to begin with who were very much critical of their colleagues and all other things, but since they have got Realization, they think it’s a matter of duty for them, that is, that they should attend to the emancipation of human beings. Then there won’t be any problem of any kind – no political problem, no economic problem, nothing of the kind. All these problems are created by mind, which is not yet fully developed, I should say. And once it is developed, you are not bothered. You are bothered about others. You are bothered about emancipation of others. It’s automatic. I don’t have to say that. But you have seen in your lives how your attitudes have changed towards life and that is what is more important than anything else. Some of you are very successful people in politics, in business and this and that. But you are not satisfied till you give Realization to people, till you make them perfect like yourself. [I’m] so very happy to see so many people being helped by Sahaja Yoga. I never expected that in My lifetime only I’ll see this, but [it] has worked out – worked out so wonderfully. I’m really amazed how things grew so fast and how it has grown into so many countries, into the so many people’s heart and how they have taken to Sahaja Yoga. They’re working not only in their own country, but also outside. After all, I can’t go everywhere now. But, despite that, Sahaja Yoga is spreading, which is such a great thing for Me – so satisfying. You have no idea when I hear that Sahaja Yoga has gone to this country and gone to that country. Practically, they say, in forty-three countries Sahaja Yoga is settled down in a very large way and, in a smaller way, maybe it is in many more. But to hear this also, I never expected that it would work that fast. It’s all thanks to you, to you Sahaja Yogis who [have] achieved this miracle.I’m thankful to you all, from India and abroad, those who have taken up the flag of emancipation and are moving forward, instead of criticizing, instead of degrading some people. [It’s] very easy to do that. But what about you, yourself rising above all that and making others rise also? We can change the whole world and you start understanding the problems of the world and you can get rid of them with your kundalini awakening. Such a great thing is this kundalini, I tell you, that it makes human beings something superlative. It’s all described as sayings and this and that, but a Sahaja Yogi has a greater power and the greater power is that he can make others Sahaja Yogi[s]. He can give Realizations to others. They must use their powers and should try to change the whole world. That’s My desire. I don’t know in My lifetime I’ll achieve it or not. But you all should decide that way and I’m sure it will all work out. May God bless you! Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

3/21/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2415

Birthday Puja: A very big challenge

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New Delhi

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Birthday Puja, Nirmal Dham, Delhi (India), 21 March 2003. (Hindi/English) (Translated from Hindi) Eternal blessings from Me to all the Sahaja Yogis. You all have gathered here today, in such a large number, to celebrate My birthday. How should I thank you? I just don’t understand. So many people have come from other countries also. And even from our country, so many people have gathered here. Seeing all this, My heart fills with joy. I don’t know what extraordinary task I have done that you all have gathered here to celebrate My birthday. You all have a very big heart that today you all have come to this far off place and have honoured Me. I don’t have words to tell you people how overjoyed this has made Me. (English speech) What I was telling them, the way you are celebrating My birthday, I’m overjoyed and I don’t know how to express that joy which is really overflowing. I really don’t know what have I done for you that you have come up with such enthusiasm, with such love. It’s your great heart which is appreciating My humble work. All over the world, Sahaja Yoga has spread and again spreading like fire. That showed it was the need of the world. It was the need of the people. That’s why they have taken to Sahaj Yog with such enthusiasm. I could understand in a country like India, where they have talked about Self Realization, but in a country which is not aware of a higher spiritual life, you all should appreciate, assimilate and enjoy Sahaja Yoga as a very great blessing of the times. These are special times. I think that you have fallen into this trap of love and enlightenment. I Myself was not very sure that you would appreciate the love that one can enjoy within yourself. What is a spiritual understanding? I didn’t know how you would appreciate and enjoy yourself. That means you are all very much capable of this tremendous love and this spiritual awakening. No doubt about it – how is it it has worked out so beautifully? Very surprising and also the way you have got your spiritual powers and the way you are using it is really beyond understanding, any human understanding. That’s why people don’t believe that there’s something like Sahaj Yog, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It’s something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves. I wonder how many of you also realize that whatever you have achieved is something great. It is the climax of human development, human growth and all the advancement we have made. This will change, definitely change the world and its understanding. I’m talking to you today at the time when the war of Iraq is on in a very big way. I don’t know what to say, how it is going to work out, but with all your efforts towards peace, it will get solved I’m sure and will bring peace everywhere. We don’t want to have wars, but we have to change human beings, otherwise you cannot trust them. This is a very big challenge to all of you. You have to work very hard to get to this idea of giving Realization to everyone, otherwise you cannot stop it just by giving them lectures or threatening them. The awakening is needed within, which, of course, I don’t know if everyone will try to have, but as many as can have it, please try to give them awakening because they are all human beings born at this time and so they deserve it. You have to just try meeting them, talking to them and giving them Self Realization. It’s not very difficult. Every one of you can do that. Every one of you have only ten to fifteen people and will change the world. That is our ambition, is to change the world to the new style of understanding that we have to live peacefully as human beings. Without any discretion of colour, without any discretion of nations, we all have to live together as human beings. This is the only difference between human beings and animals. As long as we are not spiritual, it’s all right. But if you can transform them into spiritual personalities, I’m sure everything will change. As we have seen now in Sahaja Yoga, it doesn’t bother a Sahaja Yogi to quarrel or to fight, but they are so peaceful and gentle with each other. So today we have to pray that Sahaja Yoga must spread all over the world and that everyone in the world should get realized. You have to promise that you will go out of the way and try to change the human beings who are just mislaid on their way somewhere. I’m sure once it starts working out, everybody will understand the value of peaceful life as Sahaja Yogis. We have to do intensive work because you can see human beings needed this. Today that is the need of the hour. At the right time, we are now ready to do Sahaj Yoga and spread it all over, as much as possible, wherever you will see the necessity. Of course, it will work, but otherwise also, whether there is necessity or not, there’s an urge in the human beings to rise, rise above all these human failures. I bless you from My heart, bless you very much, that you carry on your work of Sahaja Yoga, of spreading Sahaja Yoga, of giving Realization. You have got powers. You know you have. Only use that power and give Realization to people. That is one promise you have to make on My birthday. Thank you very much. (Translated from Hindi) Today, what I told these people in English and I don’t need to tell you because in this country everyone already knows how important a spiritual [aadhyatmik] life is and people want spiritual ascent [aadhyatmik unnati]. Many people are trying very hard. Some go to the Himalayas, Some go and sit near the sea, try for several hours, keep fasts. There is no need to do all this. The moment they come to Sahaja Yoga, they can get their Realization and they can get blessings. [You] explain [this] to people that there is no need to stand on your head. Sahaja Yoga can actually be had for a song. They won’t even believe how easy it is. And when they see this, one after another thousands of people will come to Sahaja Yoga in this country and I wish that Sahaja Yoga should be spreading a lot in this country. In this country our questions are too small and petty. For them, just getting Realization is very important. After that, nothing else needs to be done. So if people from India try, then they can get Sahaja Yoga very easily. They can give Realization to many others. That’s why you all have My eternal blessings. Each one of you should give Realization to at least one hundred people. As such, our number [of Sahaja Yogis] has not increased. Ours is not such a position [avagarh]. It’s a very simple thing and from this easy, simple thing we should understand that in our country the most simple and most sahaj thing is Sahaja Yoga. And everyone is ready for this. You go anywhere, go to any village, go to any city, everywhere people of Sahaja Yoga are truthful. That is why I want you people to try again to your fullest and next year double the number of people should come here. I thank you a lot for all the honour you have given Me. But as I desire that each one of you should give Realization to a hundred others. You need not try more that this. You [should] try. If there is a desire, then it is My promise that in a very sahaja and easy manner, you can give Realization to a hundred people in this year. Eternal blessings to everyone, eternal blessings that this task can be accomplished. Even those who do not understand this language are also doing this work, so what are the difficulties for you? For you, the basis is ready. All saints and sadhus have done a lot of work in this country. So much has not been done in any other country. That is why you should think about it that being an Indian, you have a lot of moral responsibility and how much more of this can you do? Eternal blessings from My heart to all of you, that all of you are successful. You become successful in this respect [task]. These are blessings from My heart and I wish that you all imbibe these blessings fully and give Realization to other people, whichever way it is possible. Eternal blessings to you all

Birthday Puja, Nirmal Dham, Delhi (India), 21 March 2003. (Hindi/English) (Translated from Hindi) Eternal blessings from Me to all the Sahaja Yogis. You all have gathered here today, in such a large number, to celebrate My birthday. How should I thank you? I just don’t understand. So many people have come from other countries also. And even from our country, so many people have gathered here. Seeing all this, My heart fills with joy. I don’t know what extraordinary task I have done that you all have gathered here to celebrate My birthday. You all have a very big heart that today you all have come to this far off place and have honoured Me. I don’t have words to tell you people how overjoyed this has made Me. (English speech) What I was telling them, the way you are celebrating My birthday, I’m overjoyed and I don’t know how to express that joy which is really overflowing. I really don’t know what have I done for you that you have come up with such enthusiasm, with such love. It’s your great heart which is appreciating My humble work. All over the world, Sahaja Yoga has spread and again spreading like fire. That showed it was the need of the world. It was the need of the people. That’s why they have taken to Sahaj Yog with such enthusiasm. I could understand in a country like India, where they have talked about Self Realization, but in a country which is not aware of a higher spiritual life, you all should appreciate, assimilate and enjoy Sahaja Yoga as a very great blessing of the times. These are special times. I think that you have fallen into this trap of love and enlightenment. I Myself was not very sure that you would appreciate the love that one can enjoy within yourself. What is a spiritual understanding? I didn’t know how you would appreciate and enjoy yourself. That means you are all very much capable of this tremendous love and this spiritual awakening. No doubt about it – how is it it has worked out so beautifully? Very surprising and also the way you have got your spiritual powers and the way you are using it is really beyond understanding, any human understanding. That’s why people don’t believe that there’s something like Sahaj Yog, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It’s something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves. I wonder how many of you also realize that whatever you have achieved is something great. It is the climax of human development, human growth and all the advancement we have made. This will change, definitely change the world and its understanding. I’m talking to you today at the time when the war of Iraq is on in a very big way. I don’t know what to say, how it is going to work out, but with all your efforts towards peace, it will get solved I’m sure and will bring peace everywhere. We don’t want to have wars, but we have to change human beings, otherwise you cannot trust them. This is a very big challenge to all of you. You have to work very hard to get to this idea of giving Realization to everyone, otherwise you cannot stop it just by giving them lectures or threatening them. The awakening is needed within, which, of course, I don’t know if everyone will try to have, but as many as can have it, please try to give them awakening because they are all human beings born at this time and so they deserve it. You have to just try meeting them, talking to them and giving them Self Realization. It’s not very difficult. Every one of you can do that. Every one of you have only ten to fifteen people and will change the world. That is our ambition, is to change the world to the new style of understanding that we have to live peacefully as human beings. Without any discretion of colour, without any discretion of nations, we all have to live together as human beings. This is the only difference between human beings and animals. As long as we are not spiritual, it’s all right. But if you can transform them into spiritual personalities, I’m sure everything will change. As we have seen now in Sahaja Yoga, it doesn’t bother a Sahaja Yogi to quarrel or to fight, but they are so peaceful and gentle with each other. So today we have to pray that Sahaja Yoga must spread all over the world and that everyone in the world should get realized. You have to promise that you will go out of the way and try to change the human beings who are just mislaid on their way somewhere. I’m sure once it starts working out, everybody will understand the value of peaceful life as Sahaja Yogis. We have to do intensive work because you can see human beings needed this. Today that is the need of the hour. At the right time, we are now ready to do Sahaj Yoga and spread it all over, as much as possible, wherever you will see the necessity. Of course, it will work, but otherwise also, whether there is necessity or not, there’s an urge in the human beings to rise, rise above all these human failures. I bless you from My heart, bless you very much, that you carry on your work of Sahaja Yoga, of spreading Sahaja Yoga, of giving Realization. You have got powers. You know you have. Only use that power and give Realization to people. That is one promise you have to make on My birthday. Thank you very much. (Translated from Hindi) Today, what I told these people in English and I don’t need to tell you because in this country everyone already knows how important a spiritual [aadhyatmik] life is and people want spiritual ascent [aadhyatmik unnati]. Many people are trying very hard. Some go to the Himalayas, Some go and sit near the sea, try for several hours, keep fasts. There is no need to do all this. The moment they come to Sahaja Yoga, they can get their Realization and they can get blessings. [You] explain [this] to people that there is no need to stand on your head. Sahaja Yoga can actually be had for a song. They won’t even believe how easy it is. And when they see this, one after another thousands of people will come to Sahaja Yoga in this country and I wish that Sahaja Yoga should be spreading a lot in this country. In this country our questions are too small and petty. For them, just getting Realization is very important. After that, nothing else needs to be done. So if people from India try, then they can get Sahaja Yoga very easily. They can give Realization to many others. That’s why you all have My eternal blessings. Each one of you should give Realization to at least one hundred people. As such, our number [of Sahaja Yogis] has not increased. Ours is not such a position [avagarh]. It’s a very simple thing and from this easy, simple thing we should understand that in our country the most simple and most sahaj thing is Sahaja Yoga. And everyone is ready for this. You go anywhere, go to any village, go to any city, everywhere people of Sahaja Yoga are truthful. That is why I want you people to try again to your fullest and next year double the number of people should come here. I thank you a lot for all the honour you have given Me. But as I desire that each one of you should give Realization to a hundred others. You need not try more that this. You [should] try. If there is a desire, then it is My promise that in a very sahaja and easy manner, you can give Realization to a hundred people in this year. Eternal blessings to everyone, eternal blessings that this task can be accomplished. Even those who do not understand this language are also doing this work, so what are the difficulties for you? For you, the basis is ready. All saints and sadhus have done a lot of work in this country. So much has not been done in any other country. That is why you should think about it that being an Indian, you have a lot of moral responsibility and how much more of this can you do? Eternal blessings from My heart to all of you, that all of you are successful. You become successful in this respect [task]. These are blessings from My heart and I wish that you all imbibe these blessings fully and give Realization to other people, whichever way it is possible. Eternal blessings to you all

3/24/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=10140

An Ideal Indian

India

New Delhi

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Hindi

2003-03-24 Public Program [English translation from Hindi] My heart is brimming with joy at receiving such welcome from you all! I cannot think what to say and what not to say! I am watching you all, seeing where all you have seated yourselves, maybe we have arrived in this stadium for the first time and you people are seated scattered away. On this occasion, I am wondering what to say to you people, what subject to speak on. Most of you people are SYs and those who are not, will become. This works out in the same fashion all the time! In the past times, receiving the gift of SY was considered extremely tough but now the times have changed. Now your kundalini can awaken in a rather lucidly and in SY itself, you can attain your spiritual place. It is said that it is within you, yourself, the Spirit resides. Hence, within you, a miraculous happening should occur so that you can get acquainted with your own Spirit. This spiritual pursuit was considered highly unattainable in the past eras. Penances worth a thousand years, roaming around in the jungles, offering one's services to the rishis-munis (hermits, sages), as an outcome of such noble acts, not all but extremely few people would attain this spiritual benefit (of kundalini awakening). But nowadays, the times have ripened to the extent that if human beings do not receive this gift (of kundalini awakening), wonder where he will land, what will happen to him! Perhaps in the pursuit of addressing this Divine predicament that SY is spreading so far and wide. Needless to say, you people have contributed openheartedly too! Now we have thousands of SY and all these people can really help you gain a certain spiritual acumen, such a major event has taken place! Was I really capable of achieving this feat on MY own! It is you people who have beautified this initiative and the elevated the cause of SY! And you people have worked hard to achieve this!Just how much do I thank you, I cannot decide! So many people across the world achieving a new spiritual dimension to their lives, feeling this enlightenment, are no mean feat! Nobody can comprehend or get convinced about the possibility of such a phenomenon but it has happened across castes, nationalities! Kundalini-awakening spans all castes, races, and cultures with no disparities whatsoever! The expansion of SY has to move even further among many more people! The problems of our country (India) will be resolved by SY. All the people who received the gift of SY, all their problems have been resolved. They achieved a new vision and it is quite a coincidence that those people are now busy spreading SY. All I know is that this phenomenon was preordained and it has taken place but the momentum this movement has gained, this I hadn't imagined! All those people who have achieved this gift, they must not keep this knowledge only to themselves but share it with others too, for it will only multiplies the joy by thousands, no doubt about it! This is not the kind of present you keep only to yourself but you have to share it with others. I hope you follow MY request. I have exerted MYSELF a lot across the globe for this very purpose. In order to eradicate the ignorance from this world in entirety, now you people have to follow MY suit. The world is plunged into a deep darkness, imbalances all around. To spin things the other way around, all you people need to ready yourselves for the furtherance of SY. Do not become complacent about this matter! No rules or regulations can withhold you from spreading SY! The entire power of SY will mechanize itself within you and nourish you more. I feel SY spreading in Delhi is a tremendous achievement! I still remember when I had stepped in Delhi. People had no understanding on this matter (SY). Gradually, they developed this understanding and struck balance within themselves. In their meditative experiences, they realized the weaknesses of the human anatomy their problem areas. They educated themselves on these matters, enriched themselves with the knowledge of SY. Delhiites have indeed become very knowledgeable! People ask ME, Mother, how have they absorbed so much knowledge? All from within, where else! It is nothing but an emergence, the manifestation of the reflection of the Spirit within us! It is what further enables you to recognize the truth, separate the wheat from the chaff! I have shared all MY knowledge with you people. I see people absorb this knowledge very conveniently. Even the villagers, whom we don't consider much qualified, have shown tremendous progress not just in their absorption of SY knowledge and it's teachings but the lucidity with which they explain SY to others, their expert mannerisms, it astonishes ME as well! Delihhites, for sure, have raised the bar! No disputes among themselves, no uncalled for tantrums, no personal grudges - such sorted folks! I spent as much time with them as I could, which is not possible now. I see how these people have smartened up! By the workings of their own hands, they have understood what SY signifies. With their enormous efforts, the movement of SY has risen to a crescendo, foraying into a new realm called, 'Mahayoga'!Such ordinary people, many of them are illiterate but their understanding of SY, their swiftness in mannerisms, astounds ME as well! Still, we have to march ahead for we have a long way to go. Encompassing every aspect, we must first speak of Patriotism - an integral ingredient in every Indian's heart. The historical events of this country as well as the enlightened people who sacrificed their supreme comforts for this country. You must know about these towering personalities and speak about them further. India's greatness is indescribable! Numerous enlightened souls have taken their births there but some very drastic misfortunes fell upon this land - intrusions and so on, that made it difficult to speak about the greatness of this land candidly. However, it has become increasingly necessary now that this greatness is talked about. In foreign lands too, people have openly spoken about the exploitation of India. It doesn't mean that Indians start despising or harming those people but sensitize themselves to how much pain and losses these intrusions have caused to the Indians, the trying circumstances in which they had to survive. Once you grasp this fact, you will understand how great this country is and the kinds of seasons it has weathered, each rougher than the next! Once you understand the tests and tribulations this country has gone through, you will, yourself, feel extremely proud to be belonging to this land! In addition, the culture of this country is quite elevated. No country can match the cultural depth present in this country. I have visited many countries across the globe but in our Indian culture, one observes there is love and respect for every person as well as the country, elevating oneself to adhere to many noble Indian beliefs, forgetting which will lead us to no benefit. We must spread such a value system to other countries of the world. In this way, all the misleading notions about India will automatically dissolve and we can candidly sing praises of this country. When our good qualities should come to the fore, people outside will understand the greatness of this country. It is my sincere request to you all, to develop a kind of devotion towards this country. And for all those souls who made major sacrifices for this country, stood on the path of truth and even offered their lives for the cause of truth, all those bravehearts' memories must be cherished. SY does not indicate that you only sing praises about the greatness of this country but develop a keen understanding of the Indian traditions as well and imbibe the Indian belief system. Nowadays the tide has turned and we have begun to prefer Western over Indian things (objects, values, lifestyles) and follow the western suit in our lives. Do we even understand the loss we have incurred, the troubles we invited upon ourselves, because of this attitude? The pride and greatness of this country should reflect in the lives of every Indian. The traditions are extremely benevolent! By discarding these belief systems, we are actually running away from the Truth. In our pursuit to stand on the path of Truth, we have had to withstand many a troubles, no doubt about that but the person who is a follower of Truth is actually, an eternal being. Such a persona is above the good or bad circumstances. What's worth mentioning is that such a persona is worthy of worship! Such personalities are very difficult to even emulate. The country has uncountable such personalities. Ironically, it is we Indians who turn a blind eye to the finesse of this country. Instead of becoming an asset to our country, we imitate the trends of the West. Such behavior is unacceptable for SYs. Looks like such people are not even SYs. But others must be made aware of this fact too, how the philosophy of our country maps the entire belief system of one's life. I feel this sensibility will gradually sink in. Now the amount of SYs has increased manifolds and I no longer have to tell these things to you people. Those SYs will themselves, imbibe this thought process. What I wish to stress on is, if you people call yourself SYs, your lifestyle should say it so - just like that of an ideal Indian spanning all castes or religions. What matters is that you are nothing but an Indian and by the virtue of being one, you must prove to be an asset to the country and stay absorbed in the 'indianness' of it!You must attentively cater to every aspect of the Indian culture - its music, arts, and knowledge of sculpting, handicrafts including branches of knowledge such as Architecture. All these belonged to a very high standard of finesse; nothing even matches to them today! Even if you cannot match those standards in the present times, at least you must see and acknowledge them. Every Indian must inculcate this 'homey' feeling within oneself, knowing what immense tasks have been performed on this land. And we, ourselves, should perform some commendable deeds that add to the glory of this soil. There are too many things/initiatives waiting for SYs to kickstart! Those who perform such tasks, their live have beautified a lot! They have earned people's praises for the same. It triggers their curiosities into wondering how do SYs live such satiating lives! First, you receive the blessings of your Spirit. Combine it with the subtle vision that helps you recognize the Truth. Till the time you don't mature up that vision, pls don't consider yourselves SYs. There are too matters to be stated but I am also thinking that among yourselves, there are a few who are yet to be acquainted to their Spirits. It is imperative that we hold an interactive session for such people. I can't even see among you all, where such people are seated. Now all those people among you, who are non-SYs, raise your hands. Ah…there are several! I'd like to ask such people to pave way and come forward, create such arrangements. Mr. Aggarwal, get all the non-SYs to sit in front. REALIZATION BEGINS (ADDRESS THE CROWD) All you people, open out your hands towards Me. Do not talk please. Maintain silence. Do close your eyes. Now ask, "Shri Mataji, please give us our Self-realization". Say it with sublimity, within..not for anyone outside. (Blows in the mike). Now keeping your eyes closed and check if you can feel any hot or cool breeze in your hands. If you feel either, bring your Right hand towards Me and with your Left hand on the head, check for the breeze again, hot or cool. Now bring your Left hand towards Me and with your Right hand on the head, check for the breeze again, hot or cool. Now bring your Right handtowards Me and check again from your head, in the fontanel bone area.Do not keep your hand on the head but slightly above it. Ah! You are feeling warm? Ok! Keep at it, you will feel cool too. It is indeed warm because coolness has not entered into your system yet. Move your Left hand towards Me, check with your Right hand, keep your eyes closed. Again move your Right hand towards Me. Switch over. Now, many can feel cool.Now bring both your hands towards Me and check with open eyes. Can you feel? (From the audience: Yes!) On both the hands? All those who feel it have recevied their Realization. Shower of blessings upon you all! Those who have not felt it, come to My ashram. You will achieve it there. All of you all can receive your Realization. It is commendable that so many of you felt it! Shower of blessings upon you all! A seeker gets up to ask questions.HH: Do you have any Guru?Seeker: YesHH: That's where the problem is. Who is it? Now there will be a bhajan, all of you all must clap.Mahamaya Mahakali..

2003-03-24 Public Program [English translation from Hindi] My heart is brimming with joy at receiving such welcome from you all! I cannot think what to say and what not to say! I am watching you all, seeing where all you have seated yourselves, maybe we have arrived in this stadium for the first time and you people are seated scattered away. On this occasion, I am wondering what to say to you people, what subject to speak on. Most of you people are SYs and those who are not, will become. This works out in the same fashion all the time! In the past times, receiving the gift of SY was considered extremely tough but now the times have changed. Now your kundalini can awaken in a rather lucidly and in SY itself, you can attain your spiritual place. It is said that it is within you, yourself, the Spirit resides. Hence, within you, a miraculous happening should occur so that you can get acquainted with your own Spirit. This spiritual pursuit was considered highly unattainable in the past eras. Penances worth a thousand years, roaming around in the jungles, offering one's services to the rishis-munis (hermits, sages), as an outcome of such noble acts, not all but extremely few people would attain this spiritual benefit (of kundalini awakening). But nowadays, the times have ripened to the extent that if human beings do not receive this gift (of kundalini awakening), wonder where he will land, what will happen to him! Perhaps in the pursuit of addressing this Divine predicament that SY is spreading so far and wide. Needless to say, you people have contributed openheartedly too! Now we have thousands of SY and all these people can really help you gain a certain spiritual acumen, such a major event has taken place! Was I really capable of achieving this feat on MY own! It is you people who have beautified this initiative and the elevated the cause of SY! And you people have worked hard to achieve this!Just how much do I thank you, I cannot decide! So many people across the world achieving a new spiritual dimension to their lives, feeling this enlightenment, are no mean feat! Nobody can comprehend or get convinced about the possibility of such a phenomenon but it has happened across castes, nationalities! Kundalini-awakening spans all castes, races, and cultures with no disparities whatsoever! The expansion of SY has to move even further among many more people! The problems of our country (India) will be resolved by SY. All the people who received the gift of SY, all their problems have been resolved. They achieved a new vision and it is quite a coincidence that those people are now busy spreading SY. All I know is that this phenomenon was preordained and it has taken place but the momentum this movement has gained, this I hadn't imagined! All those people who have achieved this gift, they must not keep this knowledge only to themselves but share it with others too, for it will only multiplies the joy by thousands, no doubt about it! This is not the kind of present you keep only to yourself but you have to share it with others. I hope you follow MY request. I have exerted MYSELF a lot across the globe for this very purpose. In order to eradicate the ignorance from this world in entirety, now you people have to follow MY suit. The world is plunged into a deep darkness, imbalances all around. To spin things the other way around, all you people need to ready yourselves for the furtherance of SY. Do not become complacent about this matter! No rules or regulations can withhold you from spreading SY! The entire power of SY will mechanize itself within you and nourish you more. I feel SY spreading in Delhi is a tremendous achievement! I still remember when I had stepped in Delhi. People had no understanding on this matter (SY). Gradually, they developed this understanding and struck balance within themselves. In their meditative experiences, they realized the weaknesses of the human anatomy their problem areas. They educated themselves on these matters, enriched themselves with the knowledge of SY. Delhiites have indeed become very knowledgeable! People ask ME, Mother, how have they absorbed so much knowledge? All from within, where else! It is nothing but an emergence, the manifestation of the reflection of the Spirit within us! It is what further enables you to recognize the truth, separate the wheat from the chaff! I have shared all MY knowledge with you people. I see people absorb this knowledge very conveniently. Even the villagers, whom we don't consider much qualified, have shown tremendous progress not just in their absorption of SY knowledge and it's teachings but the lucidity with which they explain SY to others, their expert mannerisms, it astonishes ME as well! Delihhites, for sure, have raised the bar! No disputes among themselves, no uncalled for tantrums, no personal grudges - such sorted folks! I spent as much time with them as I could, which is not possible now. I see how these people have smartened up! By the workings of their own hands, they have understood what SY signifies. With their enormous efforts, the movement of SY has risen to a crescendo, foraying into a new realm called, 'Mahayoga'!Such ordinary people, many of them are illiterate but their understanding of SY, their swiftness in mannerisms, astounds ME as well! Still, we have to march ahead for we have a long way to go. Encompassing every aspect, we must first speak of Patriotism - an integral ingredient in every Indian's heart. The historical events of this country as well as the enlightened people who sacrificed their supreme comforts for this country. You must know about these towering personalities and speak about them further. India's greatness is indescribable! Numerous enlightened souls have taken their births there but some very drastic misfortunes fell upon this land - intrusions and so on, that made it difficult to speak about the greatness of this land candidly. However, it has become increasingly necessary now that this greatness is talked about. In foreign lands too, people have openly spoken about the exploitation of India. It doesn't mean that Indians start despising or harming those people but sensitize themselves to how much pain and losses these intrusions have caused to the Indians, the trying circumstances in which they had to survive. Once you grasp this fact, you will understand how great this country is and the kinds of seasons it has weathered, each rougher than the next! Once you understand the tests and tribulations this country has gone through, you will, yourself, feel extremely proud to be belonging to this land! In addition, the culture of this country is quite elevated. No country can match the cultural depth present in this country. I have visited many countries across the globe but in our Indian culture, one observes there is love and respect for every person as well as the country, elevating oneself to adhere to many noble Indian beliefs, forgetting which will lead us to no benefit. We must spread such a value system to other countries of the world. In this way, all the misleading notions about India will automatically dissolve and we can candidly sing praises of this country. When our good qualities should come to the fore, people outside will understand the greatness of this country. It is my sincere request to you all, to develop a kind of devotion towards this country. And for all those souls who made major sacrifices for this country, stood on the path of truth and even offered their lives for the cause of truth, all those bravehearts' memories must be cherished. SY does not indicate that you only sing praises about the greatness of this country but develop a keen understanding of the Indian traditions as well and imbibe the Indian belief system. Nowadays the tide has turned and we have begun to prefer Western over Indian things (objects, values, lifestyles) and follow the western suit in our lives. Do we even understand the loss we have incurred, the troubles we invited upon ourselves, because of this attitude? The pride and greatness of this country should reflect in the lives of every Indian. The traditions are extremely benevolent! By discarding these belief systems, we are actually running away from the Truth. In our pursuit to stand on the path of Truth, we have had to withstand many a troubles, no doubt about that but the person who is a follower of Truth is actually, an eternal being. Such a persona is above the good or bad circumstances. What's worth mentioning is that such a persona is worthy of worship! Such personalities are very difficult to even emulate. The country has uncountable such personalities. Ironically, it is we Indians who turn a blind eye to the finesse of this country. Instead of becoming an asset to our country, we imitate the trends of the West. Such behavior is unacceptable for SYs. Looks like such people are not even SYs. But others must be made aware of this fact too, how the philosophy of our country maps the entire belief system of one's life. I feel this sensibility will gradually sink in. Now the amount of SYs has increased manifolds and I no longer have to tell these things to you people. Those SYs will themselves, imbibe this thought process. What I wish to stress on is, if you people call yourself SYs, your lifestyle should say it so - just like that of an ideal Indian spanning all castes or religions. What matters is that you are nothing but an Indian and by the virtue of being one, you must prove to be an asset to the country and stay absorbed in the 'indianness' of it!You must attentively cater to every aspect of the Indian culture - its music, arts, and knowledge of sculpting, handicrafts including branches of knowledge such as Architecture. All these belonged to a very high standard of finesse; nothing even matches to them today! Even if you cannot match those standards in the present times, at least you must see and acknowledge them. Every Indian must inculcate this 'homey' feeling within oneself, knowing what immense tasks have been performed on this land. And we, ourselves, should perform some commendable deeds that add to the glory of this soil. There are too many things/initiatives waiting for SYs to kickstart! Those who perform such tasks, their live have beautified a lot! They have earned people's praises for the same. It triggers their curiosities into wondering how do SYs live such satiating lives! First, you receive the blessings of your Spirit. Combine it with the subtle vision that helps you recognize the Truth. Till the time you don't mature up that vision, pls don't consider yourselves SYs. There are too matters to be stated but I am also thinking that among yourselves, there are a few who are yet to be acquainted to their Spirits. It is imperative that we hold an interactive session for such people. I can't even see among you all, where such people are seated. Now all those people among you, who are non-SYs, raise your hands. Ah…there are several! I'd like to ask such people to pave way and come forward, create such arrangements. Mr. Aggarwal, get all the non-SYs to sit in front. REALIZATION BEGINS (ADDRESS THE CROWD) All you people, open out your hands towards Me. Do not talk please. Maintain silence. Do close your eyes. Now ask, "Shri Mataji, please give us our Self-realization". Say it with sublimity, within..not for anyone outside. (Blows in the mike). Now keeping your eyes closed and check if you can feel any hot or cool breeze in your hands. If you feel either, bring your Right hand towards Me and with your Left hand on the head, check for the breeze again, hot or cool. Now bring your Left hand towards Me and with your Right hand on the head, check for the breeze again, hot or cool. Now bring your Right handtowards Me and check again from your head, in the fontanel bone area.Do not keep your hand on the head but slightly above it. Ah! You are feeling warm? Ok! Keep at it, you will feel cool too. It is indeed warm because coolness has not entered into your system yet. Move your Left hand towards Me, check with your Right hand, keep your eyes closed. Again move your Right hand towards Me. Switch over. Now, many can feel cool.Now bring both your hands towards Me and check with open eyes. Can you feel? (From the audience: Yes!) On both the hands? All those who feel it have recevied their Realization. Shower of blessings upon you all! Those who have not felt it, come to My ashram. You will achieve it there. All of you all can receive your Realization. It is commendable that so many of you felt it! Shower of blessings upon you all! A seeker gets up to ask questions.HH: Do you have any Guru?Seeker: YesHH: That's where the problem is. Who is it? Now there will be a bhajan, all of you all must clap.Mahamaya Mahakali..

3/27/2003

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Inauguration Of Vishwa Nirmal Prem Ashram

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Noida

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis

Hindi

Inauguration (from Hindi). Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India), 27 March 2003. You must allow me today to speak in Hindi Language. In our country there are many problems. One of the biggest problems is that here men and women are seen from different angles or different points of view. I don’t know how this happened because it is not written so in our Shastras (Holy Books). It is written in the Shastras that “Yatra pujyante nari” (Sanskrit) meaning that where women are worshipped, “Tatra ramante devata” : there reside the Gods. So I do not know how it is that in our country such a situation has culminated where there is no respect toward women, especially here in U.P.(Uttar Pradesh). I was married in UP and I was surprised to see that in UP housewives do not have any status. There is no difference between them and the domestic servants. How this happened and why is this still happening?? – Because the people are not awakened toward this. Sometimes I feel like crying seeing how they have taken advantage of women. They have thrown them out of home, without any reason ! Just like that, thrown out of house!! And I have had so many experiences in my life which deeply aggrieved me. I did not understand why they are maltreating women? And there are no arrangements to house them! And when they are thrown out of their house there is nobody to take care of them. Poor women!, they were thrown out alongwith children. They (women) themselves become shelterless but children as well are so cruelly thrown out (of house). How this situation can be changed?? Is there a cure for it or not?? I thought so many times that I should write about it. But writing only does not help. I thought that for this something had to be done, some arrangement had to be made in an organized manner. My heart used to ache at seeing so many women begging in the streets. Many people said what a good way to make money by begging! I said if you had to go begging then you will realise! I felt like crying upon seeing such insensitivity toward women’s problems in our country. And because of this I had decided that something had to be done to house them, to feed them and to do something for these poor women. They beg in the streets, do all kinds of works. I called them to my home and talked to them. I could not find any particular reason. Husband liked some other woman so threw her out. Make any excuse and throw her out of house. Don’t know why? Woman is a great life-giver. The whole world is because of her. It is because of her that thousands of children are born in this country. But such a disrespect is shown toward them that any woman would become lunatic tolerating all this. But no, she lives very courageously because she has to take care of her children. But what can she do? She doesn’t have any means to have food. There is no way out! Where should she go? Where to beg? Nobody lets them come even near to their doors! I did not see any cure for this. So, I thought a lot about it and decided that if any substantive work is to be done, it is to build some shelter for them. I thought that after coming here they will learn something, learn to do some work or other. They can learn to do massage. Besides, they can run some small hotel restaurant. But they need some help, some place to learn this and they need somebody to teach them. Keeping this in view, I have made this Ashram and have beckoned to everybody’s love, I have beckoned to the whole world’s love that everybody sees this with love that these women have not committed any crime if they are begging at our doors. It is the responsibility of our society. I felt very aggrieved and being a woman I felt like crying at seeing all this. When the construction of this Ashram started, I said that would be good if somehow it gets completed fast. I worked very hard. I designed this Ashram. And special about this is that the white colour that you see will never get spoiled. It is made with a special technique. I learnt this in Italy. And I learnt in Italy that one could make such a colour which never fades, and I know this technique and see how beautiful this white colour has come out by using this technique and will never got spoiled. No matter how much water pours, whatever happens, it never gets spoiled. I have done this as an experiment. But this is really a very good thing. (...somebody adjusts microphone. She says thanks).And it is not difficult to make this. I said to so many people that you should use this thing. But they all thought who would make effort’ , who would take trouble? But there is no trouble, no efforts. In our country there is this bad habit developed that if you do one thing in a way then you keep on doing it the same way. So what to say ! There have been so many great sages one after the other. So many pandits of sanskrit. They diffused so much knowledge. But people do not realise this at all. They don’t know and don’t realise that they are born in such a great nation and there is so much pure knowledge in this country. But they do not respect women. They keep them like beggars. Husband will drink alcohol and beat his wife! Even if he does not beat her up, there is no comfort for her, no easy life for her. She somehow lives her life. Yes, if she is from a rich family then it is alright, otherwise she is maltreated a lot. And in this way so many women have suffered. Some of them got fed up and left their homes and started begging and there are many who keep on suffering and rotting at home and somehow carry on with their lives. I don’t know why there is no attention paid to this aspect of our society. Especially here, here in UP. In Maharashtra one thing good happened. There have been 2-3 social reformers and these social reformers worked a lot and because of them universities were established and women got very good education and people started to see that women also have many good qualities. Now we have built this school and there is only this request to you that you should tell us what else we could do here? What education we can diffuse here? We have already thought about lots of things but still you should tell us what else we could do for these women. Abroad I have seen that there nobody can maltreat a woman. Here they are subjected to such cruelty. It is specially in our country that women are so much mistreated. I have lived abroad for so many years. I keep on going there. I see this big difference and feel it a lot. I see that here there is no value of a woman. It is she who creates children and takes care of them. And an Indian woman is anyway so beautiful, so docile, very dextrous and full of love. Mothers of this country are famous. But here we do not have any love or respect for them. I don’t know why it is like this? Yes, abroad it is definitely like this that women themselves have created a forum for themselves. They have established themselves as a force. But in our country nobody cares for women. With this view, I have built this small Ashram where women or girls who come here if they are given some “knowledge” to be self-reliant along with the knowledge of Sahaj Yoga. If they can grasp this then they can live their life with great dignity and self-respect. In this ashram we can build lots of industry. Can make lot of different kind of eatables, and also can give higher education. This we will see that how many women will have this kind of capacity (to absorb higher education). How many will come up? Sometimes I have seen that from the very same places where the women have been crushed (suppressed) so much, there come up such great women. But we will have to help them, look after them. Because what is happening is very destructive for our society and it is a sign of cruelty. And we have not put any attention to this aspect. I don’t know why! It is very necessary to put our attention to it. And I must say this that the Shraddha that we should have in our hearts toward women is not there, not at all there. And we mistreat them, beat them up. I know so many such stories that if I recount them to you, you will start crying. I have already cried a lot . Now I want that we should find out some way and in this direction I have made this small effort. We can enlarge this later and the women who will leave this Ashram, let us say that the women who will leave this ashram matured, they will definitely do something in their lives. Not only they can take care of themselves, but also of their children and can live a dignified life. It is very necessary, whatever education you give them if they are not respected at home then what will the poor thing do? If her education is not respected then what will she do? Here we have to try that these women are made able and they have the education so that they can live their life in a dignified way. They also are human beings. They are not animals. And to give them status of human beings is very very necessary. We should understand this. First let us start from our home. See from there itself what is happening. I have seen it all from a very close range myself and I did not see a way out but for crying for them. ( .... microphone being adjusted. You can’t listen anything. Who can’t hear please raise hand. Everybody can listen! ) I am deliberately talking in hindi because how can I talk bad about women of our country before these foreigners(... Clapping). They respect our country so much. Whenever they come here, they first bow down and touch the earth with their foreheads, and they respect our country so much that I can not even describe it to you. I have never asked them anything to do so. But do not know how they from their own Shraddha in their hearts they do it. They feel that it is “Nandanvan”- the garden of paradise. But they do not know about the bad condition of our country. So I do not want that they be told all this. What use is it to criticise our country. But it is necessary to root out the evil if it is there in our country. It must be absolutely cleaned up. This is what I am telling all of you. There is no special reason that the women abroad get respect., but the laws there developed in such a way that no woman , whether she is educated or not, can be insulted. So, we should also understand that it is a very great thing that we should respect our women and we should have Shraddha towards them. I have seen so many terrible things that I can not believe that any human being can mistreat, be cruel and torture another human being in such a way. It is a strange sort of slavery. We got rid of the slavery from the English but it is very necessary to get rid of this kind of slavery in our society. The women of our country, I think, constitute 70 % of the population . and rest are men. Even after this the men are so arrogant. Don’t know what they think of themselves! And they think that they can do whatever they like and it will be alright. But it is not so. A woman is also an important part of the society. If you commit any sort of excesses on her, you and your children will have to pay for it. Now we see that now our children are also getting spoiled. Because who controls them? Mother does not have any right and father does not have any time. So who will take care of their children. This is now becoming a story of each and every home. I have seen that in UP the college going boys, in broad daylight, after finishing their classes board any train and misbehave with women in train. What can their mothers do? They can not say anything. Nobody listens to them. This we should change. And we have to put our attention to improve the social status of our women at home. If we improve in our homes, then it will improve outside also. And I feel troubled for this. You know that my nature is so that I could not tolerate all this. When this building was projected I said that I will pay whatever you want but get this building constructed fast somehow. And now that it is ready I am very happy. At least something has come up through which attention will get drawn up to the situation of women and people will treat them with at least some love and respect. I do not have to tell you once again about the bad situation of women. But you should see in your individual life that what is the situation of women in your homes. What is the condition of your mother, your sister. And then look around yourself in the society. If you can set it right, your country will really progress a lot and will rise very high. Where a woman guides and takes care of things, great people are born there. But the way it is happening here through our small effort (of opening this ashram), I hope that something will definitely improve and for what I longed for so many years and was craving to attract the attention of everybody to this aspect of women’s situation. In Sahaj Yoga you get to know the Atma. It is alright. But you should have compassion within you towards everybody. If after attaining Atma, you do not have compassion then what is the use? You should have compassion and when you see in the light of compassion then you will really feel pained that these mothers and sisters are stuck up in such a vicious circle. For this I request you that you look around yourself, in your home, outside home and try to see that the situation of women improves. I have just made this very small effort but you people can do a lot more and for this I request you all that the way you love me, same way you love your mothers and sisters. I bless you infinitely.

Inauguration (from Hindi). Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India), 27 March 2003. You must allow me today to speak in Hindi Language. In our country there are many problems. One of the biggest problems is that here men and women are seen from different angles or different points of view. I don’t know how this happened because it is not written so in our Shastras (Holy Books). It is written in the Shastras that “Yatra pujyante nari” (Sanskrit) meaning that where women are worshipped, “Tatra ramante devata” : there reside the Gods. So I do not know how it is that in our country such a situation has culminated where there is no respect toward women, especially here in U.P.(Uttar Pradesh). I was married in UP and I was surprised to see that in UP housewives do not have any status. There is no difference between them and the domestic servants. How this happened and why is this still happening?? – Because the people are not awakened toward this. Sometimes I feel like crying seeing how they have taken advantage of women. They have thrown them out of home, without any reason ! Just like that, thrown out of house!! And I have had so many experiences in my life which deeply aggrieved me. I did not understand why they are maltreating women? And there are no arrangements to house them! And when they are thrown out of their house there is nobody to take care of them. Poor women!, they were thrown out alongwith children. They (women) themselves become shelterless but children as well are so cruelly thrown out (of house). How this situation can be changed?? Is there a cure for it or not?? I thought so many times that I should write about it. But writing only does not help. I thought that for this something had to be done, some arrangement had to be made in an organized manner. My heart used to ache at seeing so many women begging in the streets. Many people said what a good way to make money by begging! I said if you had to go begging then you will realise! I felt like crying upon seeing such insensitivity toward women’s problems in our country. And because of this I had decided that something had to be done to house them, to feed them and to do something for these poor women. They beg in the streets, do all kinds of works. I called them to my home and talked to them. I could not find any particular reason. Husband liked some other woman so threw her out. Make any excuse and throw her out of house. Don’t know why? Woman is a great life-giver. The whole world is because of her. It is because of her that thousands of children are born in this country. But such a disrespect is shown toward them that any woman would become lunatic tolerating all this. But no, she lives very courageously because she has to take care of her children. But what can she do? She doesn’t have any means to have food. There is no way out! Where should she go? Where to beg? Nobody lets them come even near to their doors! I did not see any cure for this. So, I thought a lot about it and decided that if any substantive work is to be done, it is to build some shelter for them. I thought that after coming here they will learn something, learn to do some work or other. They can learn to do massage. Besides, they can run some small hotel restaurant. But they need some help, some place to learn this and they need somebody to teach them. Keeping this in view, I have made this Ashram and have beckoned to everybody’s love, I have beckoned to the whole world’s love that everybody sees this with love that these women have not committed any crime if they are begging at our doors. It is the responsibility of our society. I felt very aggrieved and being a woman I felt like crying at seeing all this. When the construction of this Ashram started, I said that would be good if somehow it gets completed fast. I worked very hard. I designed this Ashram. And special about this is that the white colour that you see will never get spoiled. It is made with a special technique. I learnt this in Italy. And I learnt in Italy that one could make such a colour which never fades, and I know this technique and see how beautiful this white colour has come out by using this technique and will never got spoiled. No matter how much water pours, whatever happens, it never gets spoiled. I have done this as an experiment. But this is really a very good thing. (...somebody adjusts microphone. She says thanks).And it is not difficult to make this. I said to so many people that you should use this thing. But they all thought who would make effort’ , who would take trouble? But there is no trouble, no efforts. In our country there is this bad habit developed that if you do one thing in a way then you keep on doing it the same way. So what to say ! There have been so many great sages one after the other. So many pandits of sanskrit. They diffused so much knowledge. But people do not realise this at all. They don’t know and don’t realise that they are born in such a great nation and there is so much pure knowledge in this country. But they do not respect women. They keep them like beggars. Husband will drink alcohol and beat his wife! Even if he does not beat her up, there is no comfort for her, no easy life for her. She somehow lives her life. Yes, if she is from a rich family then it is alright, otherwise she is maltreated a lot. And in this way so many women have suffered. Some of them got fed up and left their homes and started begging and there are many who keep on suffering and rotting at home and somehow carry on with their lives. I don’t know why there is no attention paid to this aspect of our society. Especially here, here in UP. In Maharashtra one thing good happened. There have been 2-3 social reformers and these social reformers worked a lot and because of them universities were established and women got very good education and people started to see that women also have many good qualities. Now we have built this school and there is only this request to you that you should tell us what else we could do here? What education we can diffuse here? We have already thought about lots of things but still you should tell us what else we could do for these women. Abroad I have seen that there nobody can maltreat a woman. Here they are subjected to such cruelty. It is specially in our country that women are so much mistreated. I have lived abroad for so many years. I keep on going there. I see this big difference and feel it a lot. I see that here there is no value of a woman. It is she who creates children and takes care of them. And an Indian woman is anyway so beautiful, so docile, very dextrous and full of love. Mothers of this country are famous. But here we do not have any love or respect for them. I don’t know why it is like this? Yes, abroad it is definitely like this that women themselves have created a forum for themselves. They have established themselves as a force. But in our country nobody cares for women. With this view, I have built this small Ashram where women or girls who come here if they are given some “knowledge” to be self-reliant along with the knowledge of Sahaj Yoga. If they can grasp this then they can live their life with great dignity and self-respect. In this ashram we can build lots of industry. Can make lot of different kind of eatables, and also can give higher education. This we will see that how many women will have this kind of capacity (to absorb higher education). How many will come up? Sometimes I have seen that from the very same places where the women have been crushed (suppressed) so much, there come up such great women. But we will have to help them, look after them. Because what is happening is very destructive for our society and it is a sign of cruelty. And we have not put any attention to this aspect. I don’t know why! It is very necessary to put our attention to it. And I must say this that the Shraddha that we should have in our hearts toward women is not there, not at all there. And we mistreat them, beat them up. I know so many such stories that if I recount them to you, you will start crying. I have already cried a lot . Now I want that we should find out some way and in this direction I have made this small effort. We can enlarge this later and the women who will leave this Ashram, let us say that the women who will leave this ashram matured, they will definitely do something in their lives. Not only they can take care of themselves, but also of their children and can live a dignified life. It is very necessary, whatever education you give them if they are not respected at home then what will the poor thing do? If her education is not respected then what will she do? Here we have to try that these women are made able and they have the education so that they can live their life in a dignified way. They also are human beings. They are not animals. And to give them status of human beings is very very necessary. We should understand this. First let us start from our home. See from there itself what is happening. I have seen it all from a very close range myself and I did not see a way out but for crying for them. ( .... microphone being adjusted. You can’t listen anything. Who can’t hear please raise hand. Everybody can listen! ) I am deliberately talking in hindi because how can I talk bad about women of our country before these foreigners(... Clapping). They respect our country so much. Whenever they come here, they first bow down and touch the earth with their foreheads, and they respect our country so much that I can not even describe it to you. I have never asked them anything to do so. But do not know how they from their own Shraddha in their hearts they do it. They feel that it is “Nandanvan”- the garden of paradise. But they do not know about the bad condition of our country. So I do not want that they be told all this. What use is it to criticise our country. But it is necessary to root out the evil if it is there in our country. It must be absolutely cleaned up. This is what I am telling all of you. There is no special reason that the women abroad get respect., but the laws there developed in such a way that no woman , whether she is educated or not, can be insulted. So, we should also understand that it is a very great thing that we should respect our women and we should have Shraddha towards them. I have seen so many terrible things that I can not believe that any human being can mistreat, be cruel and torture another human being in such a way. It is a strange sort of slavery. We got rid of the slavery from the English but it is very necessary to get rid of this kind of slavery in our society. The women of our country, I think, constitute 70 % of the population . and rest are men. Even after this the men are so arrogant. Don’t know what they think of themselves! And they think that they can do whatever they like and it will be alright. But it is not so. A woman is also an important part of the society. If you commit any sort of excesses on her, you and your children will have to pay for it. Now we see that now our children are also getting spoiled. Because who controls them? Mother does not have any right and father does not have any time. So who will take care of their children. This is now becoming a story of each and every home. I have seen that in UP the college going boys, in broad daylight, after finishing their classes board any train and misbehave with women in train. What can their mothers do? They can not say anything. Nobody listens to them. This we should change. And we have to put our attention to improve the social status of our women at home. If we improve in our homes, then it will improve outside also. And I feel troubled for this. You know that my nature is so that I could not tolerate all this. When this building was projected I said that I will pay whatever you want but get this building constructed fast somehow. And now that it is ready I am very happy. At least something has come up through which attention will get drawn up to the situation of women and people will treat them with at least some love and respect. I do not have to tell you once again about the bad situation of women. But you should see in your individual life that what is the situation of women in your homes. What is the condition of your mother, your sister. And then look around yourself in the society. If you can set it right, your country will really progress a lot and will rise very high. Where a woman guides and takes care of things, great people are born there. But the way it is happening here through our small effort (of opening this ashram), I hope that something will definitely improve and for what I longed for so many years and was craving to attract the attention of everybody to this aspect of women’s situation. In Sahaj Yoga you get to know the Atma. It is alright. But you should have compassion within you towards everybody. If after attaining Atma, you do not have compassion then what is the use? You should have compassion and when you see in the light of compassion then you will really feel pained that these mothers and sisters are stuck up in such a vicious circle. For this I request you that you look around yourself, in your home, outside home and try to see that the situation of women improves. I have just made this very small effort but you people can do a lot more and for this I request you all that the way you love me, same way you love your mothers and sisters. I bless you infinitely.

6/15/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=1565

Adi Shakti Puja: We are the singers of Shri Mataji

Italy

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Adi Shakti

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After the Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 15 June 2003. After the short Puja it was sung with great joy the bhajan "Gondari". In the end, Shri Mataji said: I am very happy all of you are here singing the song of Gondari. Perhaps you do not know the meaning. That is ‘We are the singers of Shri Mataji’. And these are the songs sung by people who are villagers and they are singing this song that ‘We are singing the song of our Mother, with all our love for Her’. And all that singing has come to you – is very, very happy for Me because these are only ordinary villagers and how you have accepted such a nice mood and songs from them. May God bless you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

After the Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 15 June 2003. After the short Puja it was sung with great joy the bhajan "Gondari". In the end, Shri Mataji said: I am very happy all of you are here singing the song of Gondari. Perhaps you do not know the meaning. That is ‘We are the singers of Shri Mataji’. And these are the songs sung by people who are villagers and they are singing this song that ‘We are singing the song of our Mother, with all our love for Her’. And all that singing has come to you – is very, very happy for Me because these are only ordinary villagers and how you have accepted such a nice mood and songs from them. May God bless you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

7/13/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2176

Guru Puja: A very big responsibility

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Guru

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Guru Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 13 July 2003. Today’s Puja is a very great Puja for me, because I suddenly find that my granddaughter is missing, and I got upset with it very much. Look at me, supposed to be Adi Shakti, and why should I get so upset about my granddaughter missing. It was just a human nature which I realised all of us have. If we have some responsibility and we are not there we get upset. Thank God there are very few children here, most of them have gone, but we are all children the way we worry, the way we are anxious. Today I would like all of you to say that a new year has come, and in this new year we all should have a new proposal about ourselves and that proposal is very difficult for people to make out, that we are not responsible for anyone. We are our own and we live with ourselves. It’s very difficult. Of course those who have no children are very happy people that way, but those who have, those who have certain responsibilities and commitments they are still hanging in the air, they are nowhere near Sahaja Yoga I must say. Our main responsibility is ourselves, is to know ourselves and to depend on ourselves. It is a very big responsibility because now as we will be having big functions and we might feel that we are lost in it. Please try to remember that you have to remember yourself, you have to know that you are there, that’s the message I wanted to give you, I hope you’ll think it over. May God bless you all

Guru Puja. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 13 July 2003. Today’s Puja is a very great Puja for me, because I suddenly find that my granddaughter is missing, and I got upset with it very much. Look at me, supposed to be Adi Shakti, and why should I get so upset about my granddaughter missing. It was just a human nature which I realised all of us have. If we have some responsibility and we are not there we get upset. Thank God there are very few children here, most of them have gone, but we are all children the way we worry, the way we are anxious. Today I would like all of you to say that a new year has come, and in this new year we all should have a new proposal about ourselves and that proposal is very difficult for people to make out, that we are not responsible for anyone. We are our own and we live with ourselves. It’s very difficult. Of course those who have no children are very happy people that way, but those who have, those who have certain responsibilities and commitments they are still hanging in the air, they are nowhere near Sahaja Yoga I must say. Our main responsibility is ourselves, is to know ourselves and to depend on ourselves. It is a very big responsibility because now as we will be having big functions and we might feel that we are lost in it. Please try to remember that you have to remember yourself, you have to know that you are there, that’s the message I wanted to give you, I hope you’ll think it over. May God bless you all

8/10/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2530

Shri Krishna Puja: Look Inside

India

Pune

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Krishna

Hindi, Marathi

Shri Krishna Puja (Hindi). Pune (India), 9 August 2003. [Translation from Hindi to English] Now we have to realize that Sahaja Yoga has spread a lot and in all corners of the world people respect Sahaja Yoga, but until and unless Sahaja Yoga is completely manifested within us, the people who respect Sahaja Yoga will not continue to do so. That is why it is essential that we look inside of us. The nature of Shri Krishna is that we look inside of us and see what are the things that put us in trouble. We should find that out. We should look towards ourselves, within ourselves and that is not such a difficult thing.When we want to see our face, we look in the mirror. Similarly, when we need to see our spirit, we should find out how to see it within us. Many Sahaja Yogis have asked Me, “Mother, how do we see what is within us and how we are doing?.” For that it is necessary that we ourselves should become very humble. If we lack humility, we will be clouded by our own thoughts. So in the life of Shri Krishna, first it was shown that he was just like a small child. Absolutely like an infant. Not knowing anything. He did not think anything of himself. He had his mother and he wanted to grow with the support of his mother. We should also look inside of ourselves and realize that we are like a small child as well. Shri Krishna has said this repeatedly. Also, Jesus Christ has said the same thing that we should become like small children. We should see the comforting shade of the sweet nature of a child. Do we talk like a child? What is the quality within us that we become like a child? Now child means purity, innocence. With this innocence we have to look towards ourselves and cover ourselves with it. This innocence is very lovable. If you look at children and the love you feel towards them is because they are innocent. They don’t know cleverness; don’t feel their importance, nothing at all. What do they know? They know that all these people are related to us. They are our brothers, sisters and everything. But how do they know this. That is the question. In the same way that these children know, we have forgotten that we are like an innocent child and that we have innocence within us. There are many Sahaja Yogis who come and think that they will show their cleverness and prove themselves to Mother. What is the need to prove anything to Me? I already know everything. So what you should do is look towards yourself and recognize your innocence. Where is it and how is it doing? And we should think how joyful it is.Now the thing about Shri Krishna is this only. He was absolutely simple as a child and when He grew up He explained The Gita, which is very deep. How did it happen that the human beings grew in it? In the same way we can grow in Sahaja Yoga. We have found it but still have not progressed in it. And to progress we need to leave the bad things behind. First of all we need to have a childlike temperament. Now if we say to somebody that you should become childlike, it is a very difficult thing to do. We cannot just leave whatever we are and become childlike. But living with children, having respect for them, listening to how they talk, can make a big difference and we change all the things within us.So first of all we have to know that within us, as we grew up, a lot of bad things have gone in. How should we remove those bad things? What are the kinds of bad things that have gotten into us? If we think about it and put attention on it, then we can correct it. We have to put attention on things like, when we talk to somebody aggressively, or we want to scold someone or we keep thinking about how to correct somebody else. When our attention goes on other people then we get removed from our own self, because we have to ourselves be all right. That is why it is no use thinking about other people. So, first of all we should look at ourselves only, we should see ourselves. But all of that is happening, I have told about it and it is happening in Sahaja Yogis, because inside the kundalini awakens and shows all the paths.Now the remaining thing is the dirt that is within, how to fix that. First and foremost the way we look at the defects of others should be changed because the same defects exist within us also. So instead of looking at the defects of others, we should see what are the defects within us. If we can learn to see this, then a lot of things would become all right automatically. The thing with saints and sages is that they see their own defects and they think about how they became like that. They think, “Why do I say such harsh things? Why do I lie like this?” So this is a flow of watching oneself. Most of the time we do not flow with that. We think we are separate from that. But it is not like that. If we understand that there is this flow within us that takes us to such paths where we cannot even recognize ourselves, then a human being can turn inwards. Now just to say that you go within yourself, meditate, take out these things from within, is very easy. But that will not do. That is why we have to meditate and constantly work towards it. And we have ways that we know. Like to meditate on Shri Krishna. By meditating on Shri Krishna we get cleansed from within. But when we meditate on Shri Krishna we think about the defects of others. If we want to look at the defects of Shri Krishna we can see that also, but we cannot see our own defects. This is too much that we cannot see our own defects but are able to see the defects of Shri Krishna. I have seen a lot of people who have written books about what were the defects in Shri Krishna. What wrong things did he do? How he should have lived? And they don’t know about themselves. But even when they think about themselves, and look at themselves, it is never in a way that this defect exists within and it should go away. They can keep on discussing about the defects of others. The only thing we have to see is what are the defects that we have within ourselves. I do not believe that there is a greater yogi than Shri Krishna, because he showed us the way to look at the mistakes within ourselves, the defects within ourselves. This is a very big thing. He said it, but people who actually do it are very less in number. Mostly we look at the defects of others, because everyone remembers them, everyone knows them. But very few people are able to understand their own defects. That is why those people will never be all right. We have to be familiar with our own defects and laugh at ourselves and think that “look at me, what kind of defects I am having within myself”. We should think about this. This attention is never on the self but on the defects of others. This causes us to be unsettled and we fail to understand that these are our own defects. Why are we looking at the defects of others? By doing this, is it going to fix our defects? They can never be fixed like this. Slowly, as this point is understood, man will stop focusing on the defects of others. Looking at his own defects will amaze him and realizing how many devils he has harbored within himself. Within our mind we keep thinking such dirty things. When this cleansing starts, man, in a way, assumes a special form. He gets special powers and with those powers he can do many things. This happens not to boost his ego, but so that he gets cleansed. When we start getting cleansed like this, we have achieved our goal. Therefore, by looking at our own defects, we start cleansing ourselves and leave the defects behind.Now how to do this? Because, seeing the defect is not a hard thing, but to let go of it, is the hard part. That is why the way to see the defect has to be subtle and minute, and our attention should be towards it. A lot can be cleansed like this. The message of today’s festival is that we should look within ourselves and see. This is what Shri Krishna has said. But people find this hard to do. It doesn’t happen. What is the reason that we are not able to see ourselves? What is this veil in between? The veil is of bad things like ego etc. They stand up and we are unable to see the defects that we should see. To see these defects is very essential.I am very happy that you kept today’s puja. Shri Krishna’s puja will take place and a lot of people will get cleansed from within because this is a special blessing of Shri Krishna. He will do it Himself, but you have to show a little interest, an inclination that you want to be completely cleansed from within. You don’t know how profound this question is. To fix this we have to work very hard. Earlier, people would do many physical exercises; listen to the orders of their guru. They would do a lot of things but they would never achieve the depth. But you are Sahaja Yogis. It should not be difficult for you. So now I will only say that you should learn to look into yourselves. It will be a lot of fun. Till now, it is alright, but I do not know what you have started doing. You keep a watch on yourself. You will see how this whole thing works and you will be enjoying it and start laughing at yourself and exclaim ‘what to say?’ When this happens, you will start manifesting innocence within you. This is the Bala Leela (Childlike playfulness) of Shri Krishna. Once you get bathed in this innocence your eyes will become very steady. On your own you will start understanding yourself. Actually, the defect lies within us only. Looking at the defects of others, how can we fix our own defects? A very simple straightforward question is “If something falls on our sari and we do not remove it, and if we abuse or blame someone else, it won’t just go away, will it? This much intelligence we all have. But we don’t use that intelligence. And for this you should all use this intelligence. If anyone has not understood this you can ask questions, in Marathi also. At least you should ask some questions. Now see, the attention is going inside and we are pushing it farther but it should happen spontaneously. The attention should have the habit of going inwards by itself. I know that you have many questions to ask. We have a lot of confusion within us, there is no doubt about it. But the questions are very subtle. There is no end to it. Always, there is a question of rising above all this. Now, people say, ‘Mother, how can we rise above all this?’ Meditation. What to say about meditation? You have to meditate on your own selves. You have to see your own selves, that, where is your brain going? And where are you going? Slowly you will get cleansed. Today is of great importance. The incarnation of Shri Krishna has done a great deal of cleansing for us and He has helped us a lot. His coming on the earth made a lot of difference. The awakening of Kundalini has also gone smoothly on account of His blessings. Please try to look at yourselves. You should not be annoyed with yourselves and you should not be annoyed with others either. It will be very joyous. This is the Krishna Puja.If you have any other questions, alright, you can ask Me…. What to say.... Comment from Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is in nirvichar. Shri Mataji: Any other questions?……. What’s the question?……Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is sitting in nirvichar.Shri Mataji: Come closer.Sahaja Yogi: How do you attain nirchvichar(thoughtlessness) in meditation? Shri Mataji: In meditation? There is no vichar (thoughts) during meditation. Why should thoughts come in meditation? You are not to seek anything during meditation. It is only to be felt within. It is you who have to discriminate whether you have realised this or not during meditation. In meditation, first you will come to know your own mistakes, where you were wrong, and where you were right. When you start realising your own mistakes, then you are on the right track. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see yourself. What is the use of seeing others? The trouble with us is, we always like to see others in the mirror. Then how will you identify your own faults if you start to see others in the mirror? Sahaja Yogi: How do we protect ourselves from the clutches of the false gurus? Shri Mataji: Why did you have to go to a false guru?(Shri Mataji laughs)You tell me first, why did you go to a false guru?What attracted you to go to the false guru? How did you go there? You must ask yourself this first. Then you will realise that you ignored the evils of that false guru. That is what you didn’t protect yourself from. Now, in the past I have already given lectures on false gurus where I have clearly talked about their evildoings and how they take one for a ride. It is their business to entrap you all. There are different types of business which they adopt. Out of that, gurus also have a business to entrap you and you are trapped. From this, one must realise which trap we have fallen into. We have filled our brains with the badhas (negativities) of the false gurus. Now if you can tell me any of those badhas, then I can tell you….. Shri Mataji: Now if you know one or two of these badhas, you let me know. The false gurus’ badhas. Now what do these badhas actually do? First they focus their attention on your pocket. (laughter)Isn’t it? As they start doing this, then you must understand that their intentions are different. But it is all on the gross level. On the subtler level, in fact, there are many who wouldn’t want to entrap you, but they would try to project their own imortance. And for this reason they become gurus. It is like this, that one projects his importance. So you must watch all this and be critical about it. Then it will forsake you. But most of the people absorb their badhas, their ego, their anger, their physical health and many more aspects that you absorb from the guru. Like these gurus, when they fall sick, their shadow starts reflecting within you. For this reason, you must analyse yourself and look at yourself, that, what have I received from this guru? This is very important. Then when there is a cleansing of yourself, you will see that it benefits you to a great extent. Why did you go to a guru when you were seeking for your own spiritual ascent? You went to a guru to know him but you were in turn entrapped. This guru is such a guru,and you yourself should know how to protect yourself from him. You should stay away from them. I had been to many such gurus just to see them and what they do, and how they tempt and attract people. And with what they entrap people. So the first thing I saw was that these people find your own weaknesses, that what weakness you have. If this doesn’t work then they put badhas into you. The badhas are of various types. Out of these badhas you must first learn to detect what type of badhas he has put into you that you are unable to get rid of. The greatest badha that they put into you is FEAR. It keeps on frightening you, that ‘if you leave me, such and such thing will happen to you.’ This type of fear creeps within you. It doesn’t have much strength in it. But it keeps on frightening you. When this fear comes,you must say to it, ‘yes, I know it’. With this fear the human beings keep on going round and round the guru. For that Shri Krishna is there, Who drives out this fear from everyone. Is it over, or do you have any other questions? Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is in nirvichar (thoughtlessness)Shri Mataji: Saying that everyone is in vichar (thoughts) now we have to go beyond vichar (thoughts).Sahaja Yogi reaffirms: No Mother it’s nirvichar (thoughtlessness)Shri Mataji: Nirvichar. How did that happen?You have organised such a nice puja that I also keep wondering. How is the environment? Is it OK?...Yes, it is peaceful and calm..... peaceful.....Now better. A person who can witness himself laughing, that is perfect. One who laughs at others, his attention is in another direction. Again, one who can witness and laugh at himself, and his own environment and aspect, he is perfect.Endless blessings.

Shri Krishna Puja (Hindi). Pune (India), 9 August 2003. [Translation from Hindi to English] Now we have to realize that Sahaja Yoga has spread a lot and in all corners of the world people respect Sahaja Yoga, but until and unless Sahaja Yoga is completely manifested within us, the people who respect Sahaja Yoga will not continue to do so. That is why it is essential that we look inside of us. The nature of Shri Krishna is that we look inside of us and see what are the things that put us in trouble. We should find that out. We should look towards ourselves, within ourselves and that is not such a difficult thing.When we want to see our face, we look in the mirror. Similarly, when we need to see our spirit, we should find out how to see it within us. Many Sahaja Yogis have asked Me, “Mother, how do we see what is within us and how we are doing?.” For that it is necessary that we ourselves should become very humble. If we lack humility, we will be clouded by our own thoughts. So in the life of Shri Krishna, first it was shown that he was just like a small child. Absolutely like an infant. Not knowing anything. He did not think anything of himself. He had his mother and he wanted to grow with the support of his mother. We should also look inside of ourselves and realize that we are like a small child as well. Shri Krishna has said this repeatedly. Also, Jesus Christ has said the same thing that we should become like small children. We should see the comforting shade of the sweet nature of a child. Do we talk like a child? What is the quality within us that we become like a child? Now child means purity, innocence. With this innocence we have to look towards ourselves and cover ourselves with it. This innocence is very lovable. If you look at children and the love you feel towards them is because they are innocent. They don’t know cleverness; don’t feel their importance, nothing at all. What do they know? They know that all these people are related to us. They are our brothers, sisters and everything. But how do they know this. That is the question. In the same way that these children know, we have forgotten that we are like an innocent child and that we have innocence within us. There are many Sahaja Yogis who come and think that they will show their cleverness and prove themselves to Mother. What is the need to prove anything to Me? I already know everything. So what you should do is look towards yourself and recognize your innocence. Where is it and how is it doing? And we should think how joyful it is.Now the thing about Shri Krishna is this only. He was absolutely simple as a child and when He grew up He explained The Gita, which is very deep. How did it happen that the human beings grew in it? In the same way we can grow in Sahaja Yoga. We have found it but still have not progressed in it. And to progress we need to leave the bad things behind. First of all we need to have a childlike temperament. Now if we say to somebody that you should become childlike, it is a very difficult thing to do. We cannot just leave whatever we are and become childlike. But living with children, having respect for them, listening to how they talk, can make a big difference and we change all the things within us.So first of all we have to know that within us, as we grew up, a lot of bad things have gone in. How should we remove those bad things? What are the kinds of bad things that have gotten into us? If we think about it and put attention on it, then we can correct it. We have to put attention on things like, when we talk to somebody aggressively, or we want to scold someone or we keep thinking about how to correct somebody else. When our attention goes on other people then we get removed from our own self, because we have to ourselves be all right. That is why it is no use thinking about other people. So, first of all we should look at ourselves only, we should see ourselves. But all of that is happening, I have told about it and it is happening in Sahaja Yogis, because inside the kundalini awakens and shows all the paths.Now the remaining thing is the dirt that is within, how to fix that. First and foremost the way we look at the defects of others should be changed because the same defects exist within us also. So instead of looking at the defects of others, we should see what are the defects within us. If we can learn to see this, then a lot of things would become all right automatically. The thing with saints and sages is that they see their own defects and they think about how they became like that. They think, “Why do I say such harsh things? Why do I lie like this?” So this is a flow of watching oneself. Most of the time we do not flow with that. We think we are separate from that. But it is not like that. If we understand that there is this flow within us that takes us to such paths where we cannot even recognize ourselves, then a human being can turn inwards. Now just to say that you go within yourself, meditate, take out these things from within, is very easy. But that will not do. That is why we have to meditate and constantly work towards it. And we have ways that we know. Like to meditate on Shri Krishna. By meditating on Shri Krishna we get cleansed from within. But when we meditate on Shri Krishna we think about the defects of others. If we want to look at the defects of Shri Krishna we can see that also, but we cannot see our own defects. This is too much that we cannot see our own defects but are able to see the defects of Shri Krishna. I have seen a lot of people who have written books about what were the defects in Shri Krishna. What wrong things did he do? How he should have lived? And they don’t know about themselves. But even when they think about themselves, and look at themselves, it is never in a way that this defect exists within and it should go away. They can keep on discussing about the defects of others. The only thing we have to see is what are the defects that we have within ourselves. I do not believe that there is a greater yogi than Shri Krishna, because he showed us the way to look at the mistakes within ourselves, the defects within ourselves. This is a very big thing. He said it, but people who actually do it are very less in number. Mostly we look at the defects of others, because everyone remembers them, everyone knows them. But very few people are able to understand their own defects. That is why those people will never be all right. We have to be familiar with our own defects and laugh at ourselves and think that “look at me, what kind of defects I am having within myself”. We should think about this. This attention is never on the self but on the defects of others. This causes us to be unsettled and we fail to understand that these are our own defects. Why are we looking at the defects of others? By doing this, is it going to fix our defects? They can never be fixed like this. Slowly, as this point is understood, man will stop focusing on the defects of others. Looking at his own defects will amaze him and realizing how many devils he has harbored within himself. Within our mind we keep thinking such dirty things. When this cleansing starts, man, in a way, assumes a special form. He gets special powers and with those powers he can do many things. This happens not to boost his ego, but so that he gets cleansed. When we start getting cleansed like this, we have achieved our goal. Therefore, by looking at our own defects, we start cleansing ourselves and leave the defects behind.Now how to do this? Because, seeing the defect is not a hard thing, but to let go of it, is the hard part. That is why the way to see the defect has to be subtle and minute, and our attention should be towards it. A lot can be cleansed like this. The message of today’s festival is that we should look within ourselves and see. This is what Shri Krishna has said. But people find this hard to do. It doesn’t happen. What is the reason that we are not able to see ourselves? What is this veil in between? The veil is of bad things like ego etc. They stand up and we are unable to see the defects that we should see. To see these defects is very essential.I am very happy that you kept today’s puja. Shri Krishna’s puja will take place and a lot of people will get cleansed from within because this is a special blessing of Shri Krishna. He will do it Himself, but you have to show a little interest, an inclination that you want to be completely cleansed from within. You don’t know how profound this question is. To fix this we have to work very hard. Earlier, people would do many physical exercises; listen to the orders of their guru. They would do a lot of things but they would never achieve the depth. But you are Sahaja Yogis. It should not be difficult for you. So now I will only say that you should learn to look into yourselves. It will be a lot of fun. Till now, it is alright, but I do not know what you have started doing. You keep a watch on yourself. You will see how this whole thing works and you will be enjoying it and start laughing at yourself and exclaim ‘what to say?’ When this happens, you will start manifesting innocence within you. This is the Bala Leela (Childlike playfulness) of Shri Krishna. Once you get bathed in this innocence your eyes will become very steady. On your own you will start understanding yourself. Actually, the defect lies within us only. Looking at the defects of others, how can we fix our own defects? A very simple straightforward question is “If something falls on our sari and we do not remove it, and if we abuse or blame someone else, it won’t just go away, will it? This much intelligence we all have. But we don’t use that intelligence. And for this you should all use this intelligence. If anyone has not understood this you can ask questions, in Marathi also. At least you should ask some questions. Now see, the attention is going inside and we are pushing it farther but it should happen spontaneously. The attention should have the habit of going inwards by itself. I know that you have many questions to ask. We have a lot of confusion within us, there is no doubt about it. But the questions are very subtle. There is no end to it. Always, there is a question of rising above all this. Now, people say, ‘Mother, how can we rise above all this?’ Meditation. What to say about meditation? You have to meditate on your own selves. You have to see your own selves, that, where is your brain going? And where are you going? Slowly you will get cleansed. Today is of great importance. The incarnation of Shri Krishna has done a great deal of cleansing for us and He has helped us a lot. His coming on the earth made a lot of difference. The awakening of Kundalini has also gone smoothly on account of His blessings. Please try to look at yourselves. You should not be annoyed with yourselves and you should not be annoyed with others either. It will be very joyous. This is the Krishna Puja.If you have any other questions, alright, you can ask Me…. What to say.... Comment from Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is in nirvichar. Shri Mataji: Any other questions?……. What’s the question?……Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is sitting in nirvichar.Shri Mataji: Come closer.Sahaja Yogi: How do you attain nirchvichar(thoughtlessness) in meditation? Shri Mataji: In meditation? There is no vichar (thoughts) during meditation. Why should thoughts come in meditation? You are not to seek anything during meditation. It is only to be felt within. It is you who have to discriminate whether you have realised this or not during meditation. In meditation, first you will come to know your own mistakes, where you were wrong, and where you were right. When you start realising your own mistakes, then you are on the right track. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see yourself. What is the use of seeing others? The trouble with us is, we always like to see others in the mirror. Then how will you identify your own faults if you start to see others in the mirror? Sahaja Yogi: How do we protect ourselves from the clutches of the false gurus? Shri Mataji: Why did you have to go to a false guru?(Shri Mataji laughs)You tell me first, why did you go to a false guru?What attracted you to go to the false guru? How did you go there? You must ask yourself this first. Then you will realise that you ignored the evils of that false guru. That is what you didn’t protect yourself from. Now, in the past I have already given lectures on false gurus where I have clearly talked about their evildoings and how they take one for a ride. It is their business to entrap you all. There are different types of business which they adopt. Out of that, gurus also have a business to entrap you and you are trapped. From this, one must realise which trap we have fallen into. We have filled our brains with the badhas (negativities) of the false gurus. Now if you can tell me any of those badhas, then I can tell you….. Shri Mataji: Now if you know one or two of these badhas, you let me know. The false gurus’ badhas. Now what do these badhas actually do? First they focus their attention on your pocket. (laughter)Isn’t it? As they start doing this, then you must understand that their intentions are different. But it is all on the gross level. On the subtler level, in fact, there are many who wouldn’t want to entrap you, but they would try to project their own imortance. And for this reason they become gurus. It is like this, that one projects his importance. So you must watch all this and be critical about it. Then it will forsake you. But most of the people absorb their badhas, their ego, their anger, their physical health and many more aspects that you absorb from the guru. Like these gurus, when they fall sick, their shadow starts reflecting within you. For this reason, you must analyse yourself and look at yourself, that, what have I received from this guru? This is very important. Then when there is a cleansing of yourself, you will see that it benefits you to a great extent. Why did you go to a guru when you were seeking for your own spiritual ascent? You went to a guru to know him but you were in turn entrapped. This guru is such a guru,and you yourself should know how to protect yourself from him. You should stay away from them. I had been to many such gurus just to see them and what they do, and how they tempt and attract people. And with what they entrap people. So the first thing I saw was that these people find your own weaknesses, that what weakness you have. If this doesn’t work then they put badhas into you. The badhas are of various types. Out of these badhas you must first learn to detect what type of badhas he has put into you that you are unable to get rid of. The greatest badha that they put into you is FEAR. It keeps on frightening you, that ‘if you leave me, such and such thing will happen to you.’ This type of fear creeps within you. It doesn’t have much strength in it. But it keeps on frightening you. When this fear comes,you must say to it, ‘yes, I know it’. With this fear the human beings keep on going round and round the guru. For that Shri Krishna is there, Who drives out this fear from everyone. Is it over, or do you have any other questions? Sahaja Yogi: Everyone is in nirvichar (thoughtlessness)Shri Mataji: Saying that everyone is in vichar (thoughts) now we have to go beyond vichar (thoughts).Sahaja Yogi reaffirms: No Mother it’s nirvichar (thoughtlessness)Shri Mataji: Nirvichar. How did that happen?You have organised such a nice puja that I also keep wondering. How is the environment? Is it OK?...Yes, it is peaceful and calm..... peaceful.....Now better. A person who can witness himself laughing, that is perfect. One who laughs at others, his attention is in another direction. Again, one who can witness and laugh at himself, and his own environment and aspect, he is perfect.Endless blessings.

9/13/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=1391

Shri Ganesha Puja: They Are All Incarnations

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Ganesha

English

Shri Ganesha Puja. Cabella (Italy), 13 September 2003 Now we are facing little children. They are the ones who are incarnations. They are the ones who are going to lead humanity into some great advancement. The humanity has to be looked after. They are tomorrow’s humanity. And we are today’s. And what are we giving to them, for them to follow? What is their aim in life? It is very, very difficult to say. But with Sahaja Yoga, they will all go in the proper way. They’ll behave in a proper way. And the whole thing will be a different mass of Sahaja Yogis coming up. But it is the duty of bigger Sahaja Yogis to look after them, to have better moral standards, to have better lives, so that they follow your life and become genuinely good Sahaja Yogis. It’s a very big responsibility – perhaps we don’t recognize it, we don’t understand – but all these are little creatures which are after the image of great souls, and they should be brought up in that way, respected in that manner, and loved with great care. This is to be understood. The problem with our elderly people is this: that we do not consider them [the children] to be considered, to be bothered about, to be understood about. We think we are too intelligent, too good, and we need not waste our energy with them. This is the trouble of the elderly people. But today when we are sitting here to worship Shri Ganesha, we should know they are all incarnations of Shri Ganesha, and they should be given proper attention, proper understanding about themselves. I find a certain amount of children who are very well-behaved, who are very sensible. And there are some who have no idea as to what they are doing. So, it is the duty of the elders to put ideas into their heads, to [give them] a proper understanding about themselves and the self-respect. I would say the same thing for the elder Sahaja Yogis, who have to look after their younger brothers and sisters. In this family of ours, which we call as Sahaja Yogis, there are all kinds of people, all types, all behaviours. Of course, they should not be regimented. There should not be uniformity, but in that variety there should be beauty. There should be a beautiful trend of being one with each other. For that, what should we do is the problem. What should the elders do to achieve that? What is our solid contribution to their lives? The first will be to tell them who is Shri Ganesha, and that what are the qualities of Ganesha, what does He represent. What does He represent, what qualities He has. And once they start understanding, that though being a little boy, He’s so generous, He’s so kind, He’s so forgiving, they’ll be amazed because they are also small and they’ll also take to that kind of life. I find some children very sensible, very good here. Some are naughty and some don’t understand what we are doing here. Whatever it is, they are, after all, children. And what you have to do is to look after them, respect them, and give them the full idea about Shri Ganesha. I think everybody must have a statue of Shri Ganesha in your house, so the children will see it and ask: “Who is He? What is He doing here?” And you’ll be amazed how they will understand Him, how they will understand His qualities, and how they will work it out. It is important for all of you to have at least one Shri Ganesha in your house so that you can tell your children that, “You all have to become like Him.” Now, what are the qualities of Shri Ganesh? They won’t understand chastity, they’re too small. They won’t understand all those qualities. But one quality they will understand is to be honest. Is to be honest. Gradually, you’ll find all difficult ones will go down. It will work out that way. Because, you see, they don’t understand My lecture. They don’t understand what I am saying. But one thing is there: if there are some oppositions within, they will show—show very well. Because they are so innocent and so simple, their innocence will help them to expose them to reality. I hope you all look after your children, guide them properly, and take them to a level of understanding that they understand what is their position, what qualities they should have, why they will be respected. You’ll be amazed that their behaviour will change the behaviour of all the other children. What I have to say is that nobody should think that you are very grown up because you can keep quiet, sit quietly, and all that. You are grown up only if you can imbibe the qualities of Shri Ganesha. I have seen people who are very grown up still do not have simple qualities of chastity, of honesty. They don’t have, and they can’t have, because they don’t think it is important. So, I leave it to you to find out Shri Ganesha within yourself. I enjoy their company because they’re so innocent and so simple-hearted, and I like them very, very much. So, you should not get afraid or frightened of their mischief. On the contrary, you should know they deserve much more love, much more understanding, and much more scope to grow. I hope by the time they will be of your age, they’ll be great Sahaja Yogis. They’ll understand what we are doing here. I had to face mountains of nonsense with the older people, but these [children] won’t have that. They’ll be very simple, very sweet, and they’ll understand love. So I would say we can allow these children to go out and play, and somebody can look after them so that you’ll be at peace. Who can take them out? You can give Me flowers. If you have got flowers, I’ll take them. Thank you. Thank you very much. What is it? Boy: Chocolate. Sahaja Yogi: Chocolate. Boy: Yes, chocolate. Sahaja Yogi: Chocolate. Shri Mataji: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Shri Ganesha Puja. Cabella (Italy), 13 September 2003 Now we are facing little children. They are the ones who are incarnations. They are the ones who are going to lead humanity into some great advancement. The humanity has to be looked after. They are tomorrow’s humanity. And we are today’s. And what are we giving to them, for them to follow? What is their aim in life? It is very, very difficult to say. But with Sahaja Yoga, they will all go in the proper way. They’ll behave in a proper way. And the whole thing will be a different mass of Sahaja Yogis coming up. But it is the duty of bigger Sahaja Yogis to look after them, to have better moral standards, to have better lives, so that they follow your life and become genuinely good Sahaja Yogis. It’s a very big responsibility – perhaps we don’t recognize it, we don’t understand – but all these are little creatures which are after the image of great souls, and they should be brought up in that way, respected in that manner, and loved with great care. This is to be understood. The problem with our elderly people is this: that we do not consider them [the children] to be considered, to be bothered about, to be understood about. We think we are too intelligent, too good, and we need not waste our energy with them. This is the trouble of the elderly people. But today when we are sitting here to worship Shri Ganesha, we should know they are all incarnations of Shri Ganesha, and they should be given proper attention, proper understanding about themselves. I find a certain amount of children who are very well-behaved, who are very sensible. And there are some who have no idea as to what they are doing. So, it is the duty of the elders to put ideas into their heads, to [give them] a proper understanding about themselves and the self-respect. I would say the same thing for the elder Sahaja Yogis, who have to look after their younger brothers and sisters. In this family of ours, which we call as Sahaja Yogis, there are all kinds of people, all types, all behaviours. Of course, they should not be regimented. There should not be uniformity, but in that variety there should be beauty. There should be a beautiful trend of being one with each other. For that, what should we do is the problem. What should the elders do to achieve that? What is our solid contribution to their lives? The first will be to tell them who is Shri Ganesha, and that what are the qualities of Ganesha, what does He represent. What does He represent, what qualities He has. And once they start understanding, that though being a little boy, He’s so generous, He’s so kind, He’s so forgiving, they’ll be amazed because they are also small and they’ll also take to that kind of life. I find some children very sensible, very good here. Some are naughty and some don’t understand what we are doing here. Whatever it is, they are, after all, children. And what you have to do is to look after them, respect them, and give them the full idea about Shri Ganesha. I think everybody must have a statue of Shri Ganesha in your house, so the children will see it and ask: “Who is He? What is He doing here?” And you’ll be amazed how they will understand Him, how they will understand His qualities, and how they will work it out. It is important for all of you to have at least one Shri Ganesha in your house so that you can tell your children that, “You all have to become like Him.” Now, what are the qualities of Shri Ganesh? They won’t understand chastity, they’re too small. They won’t understand all those qualities. But one quality they will understand is to be honest. Is to be honest. Gradually, you’ll find all difficult ones will go down. It will work out that way. Because, you see, they don’t understand My lecture. They don’t understand what I am saying. But one thing is there: if there are some oppositions within, they will show—show very well. Because they are so innocent and so simple, their innocence will help them to expose them to reality. I hope you all look after your children, guide them properly, and take them to a level of understanding that they understand what is their position, what qualities they should have, why they will be respected. You’ll be amazed that their behaviour will change the behaviour of all the other children. What I have to say is that nobody should think that you are very grown up because you can keep quiet, sit quietly, and all that. You are grown up only if you can imbibe the qualities of Shri Ganesha. I have seen people who are very grown up still do not have simple qualities of chastity, of honesty. They don’t have, and they can’t have, because they don’t think it is important. So, I leave it to you to find out Shri Ganesha within yourself. I enjoy their company because they’re so innocent and so simple-hearted, and I like them very, very much. So, you should not get afraid or frightened of their mischief. On the contrary, you should know they deserve much more love, much more understanding, and much more scope to grow. I hope by the time they will be of your age, they’ll be great Sahaja Yogis. They’ll understand what we are doing here. I had to face mountains of nonsense with the older people, but these [children] won’t have that. They’ll be very simple, very sweet, and they’ll understand love. So I would say we can allow these children to go out and play, and somebody can look after them so that you’ll be at peace. Who can take them out? You can give Me flowers. If you have got flowers, I’ll take them. Thank you. Thank you very much. What is it? Boy: Chocolate. Sahaja Yogi: Chocolate. Boy: Yes, chocolate. Sahaja Yogi: Chocolate. Shri Mataji: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

10/12/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2687

Navaratri Puja: Birthday of Shri Gauri

United States

Ellenville

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Navaratri

English

Navaratri Puja, Birthday of Shri Gauri, Ellenville, New York (USA), 12 October 2003. Today we are going to celebrate the puja of Gauri. She came on this earth many-a-times, to kill the people who were doing wrong things, who were trying to kill good people. She has done Her level (best) to do that, and today we are celebrating Her birthday. You all know so much about it, that I need not tell you, but what you have to know is that She came on this earth to save you from all kinds of troubles. For Her you were important, very important, because you were doing Devi puja and so we are celebrating today this Devi puja, with all our heart, because whatever ill people did to you, She came to destroy them. So today is a very great day for you to thank Her; thank Her for Her protection and for Her understanding as to what you have been tortured for. I’m happy you are all here to celebrate Her birthday, and to be surrendered to Her so that She can always, always protect you, and give you Her blessings. So may God bless you all, your children, your families, and that you bring great joy or protection. It’s very kind of you to have come today, so far away. I’m very happy to see you. Moreover, you have got tomorrow also that you can celebrate. Today we are not going to have any questions and solutions, we are just going to worship the Goddess, that’s all, and request Her to protect us from all kinds of problems that are facing us. Thank you very much

Navaratri Puja, Birthday of Shri Gauri, Ellenville, New York (USA), 12 October 2003. Today we are going to celebrate the puja of Gauri. She came on this earth many-a-times, to kill the people who were doing wrong things, who were trying to kill good people. She has done Her level (best) to do that, and today we are celebrating Her birthday. You all know so much about it, that I need not tell you, but what you have to know is that She came on this earth to save you from all kinds of troubles. For Her you were important, very important, because you were doing Devi puja and so we are celebrating today this Devi puja, with all our heart, because whatever ill people did to you, She came to destroy them. So today is a very great day for you to thank Her; thank Her for Her protection and for Her understanding as to what you have been tortured for. I’m happy you are all here to celebrate Her birthday, and to be surrendered to Her so that She can always, always protect you, and give you Her blessings. So may God bless you all, your children, your families, and that you bring great joy or protection. It’s very kind of you to have come today, so far away. I’m very happy to see you. Moreover, you have got tomorrow also that you can celebrate. Today we are not going to have any questions and solutions, we are just going to worship the Goddess, that’s all, and request Her to protect us from all kinds of problems that are facing us. Thank you very much

11/9/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=498

Diwali Puja: The Need for Sincerity

United States

Los Angeles

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Diwali

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Diwali Puja. Los Angeles (USA), 9 November 2003. Today is the great day of Diwali. That means today is the great day of putting up (?) lights, lights of your heart together to make a greater light for the world to move in a proper direction. It's a day of great joy, and those who join in this, are spreading also great joy. But the problems are there, as they say, but for us there is no problem because there is no darkness, we don't see any darkness anywhere, we see lights, and lights, and lights. Then what is the thing missing, missing is our sincerity. We have to be very sincere with ourselves, because it is not just a borrowed love or a borrowed joy, but it is from within the source, it's flowing, flowing and flowing. So that is to be awakened, and that love should flow, and our small petty things like jealousies and competitions and all those things which spoilus must be washed away. And it can be washed if your heart is full of love. Today is a day of spreading love, light of love, so that everybody feels enlightened and happy and forgets these petty problems. I am happy that you have been able to get some hall, it's all luck that we got it, people were so much worried about getting a hall. But it has just happened, so you should know also that our destiny is all also guided and looked after. You are already blessed people, there is no doubt about it. And we should not worry about small things and small matters. It will all work out very well, you will see, if you just leave it to your destiny, which is very high, very great - in this your own destiny you will go very far. This is the promise of Diwali to you all, that you will reach highest and the noblest way of life. Every word I say will be there to prove what I say is there. Whatever petty problems you have, they'll all be washed off. All these are the messages from the Divine, you don't have to worry about petty things, about money, about jobs, that's not your job. Your destiny will work it out. You have a promise that you'll be looked after. I hope you believe in that promise and are joyous in the highest way. I bless you all from my heart, all of you, for a very happy and prosperous Diwali. Thank you very much.

Diwali Puja. Los Angeles (USA), 9 November 2003. Today is the great day of Diwali. That means today is the great day of putting up (?) lights, lights of your heart together to make a greater light for the world to move in a proper direction. It's a day of great joy, and those who join in this, are spreading also great joy. But the problems are there, as they say, but for us there is no problem because there is no darkness, we don't see any darkness anywhere, we see lights, and lights, and lights. Then what is the thing missing, missing is our sincerity. We have to be very sincere with ourselves, because it is not just a borrowed love or a borrowed joy, but it is from within the source, it's flowing, flowing and flowing. So that is to be awakened, and that love should flow, and our small petty things like jealousies and competitions and all those things which spoilus must be washed away. And it can be washed if your heart is full of love. Today is a day of spreading love, light of love, so that everybody feels enlightened and happy and forgets these petty problems. I am happy that you have been able to get some hall, it's all luck that we got it, people were so much worried about getting a hall. But it has just happened, so you should know also that our destiny is all also guided and looked after. You are already blessed people, there is no doubt about it. And we should not worry about small things and small matters. It will all work out very well, you will see, if you just leave it to your destiny, which is very high, very great - in this your own destiny you will go very far. This is the promise of Diwali to you all, that you will reach highest and the noblest way of life. Every word I say will be there to prove what I say is there. Whatever petty problems you have, they'll all be washed off. All these are the messages from the Divine, you don't have to worry about petty things, about money, about jobs, that's not your job. Your destiny will work it out. You have a promise that you'll be looked after. I hope you believe in that promise and are joyous in the highest way. I bless you all from my heart, all of you, for a very happy and prosperous Diwali. Thank you very much.

12/25/2003

http://amruta.org/?p=2629

Christmas Puja

India

Ganapatipule

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Christmas

English, Hindi, Marathi

Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule (India), 25 December 2003. Today is a great day because we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. He was such a great spiritual personality, who had to suffer on the cross. This is what many people don’t understand, that why a man of his calibre, of his standing, of his spirituality, should have to go through so many ordeals in life. It is very easy to understand that he was born in a circumstances which was against him, which were against divine force. So to overcome that people tried to destroy Jesus Christ. And he did not feel the pain, he didn’t feel the absurdity of those people. On the contrary he went through all that ordeal with such courage and such dignity. So for us, what is there to see is that if you are divine and if you have powers of divinity, then you should have courage, and with that courage you can face all kinds of ordeals. On the whole, whenever you are on this earth there are problems of different types. You may belong to royal families, or maybe a poor person, there are always problems facing you. But Christ has shown by his life that, though he had to suffer so much, he was so patient and courageous. His life has given us an example, what we should be, how we should behave when we are facing problems because of ignorance of people. But today is a happy day because it is his birth date and we are all celebrating because he has shown us a new path of spirituality in which one has to suffer, because of the ignorance of many who are there, he suffered so much. But today it’s not so bad, people understand spirituality and divinity. And you are so many together now. In these sufferings Christ never cried or wept. He went through it in a very resolute manner. So what we have to learn from his life is that we should not be afraid. Whatever might be happening to us, we should not be afraid. But times have changed and people don’t torture anyone because of your spirituality. It’s not there, it’s finished. Christ wiped out all that from human minds, and people respect you for being spiritual. This is the message of Christ’s life, and we all should be very happy that he has shown us this path of ignorance. The message of Sahaja Yoga is the same: that you take your realisation, you take to spiritual life, and everything will work out because all the divine forces are with you. They are working out everything for you and you are so many who can say that you have witnessed it. So this kind of life that Christ had, you don’t have to go through, he has done for us. Your life will be very, very safe and peaceful and joyous. That is without my telling you, you must have experience. These days there are also very cruel people, very absurd and extremely aggressive, but still, no-one can harm you. Life has become very different. And we thank Christ that he has gone through all that to save us from those ordeals. (Translation from Hindi to English) Today is the birthday of Christ and we are all celebrating His birthday with great joy. And we also know that Jesus Christ took a lot of efforts, and we do not have such efforts as much as He has done. But how much Jesus Christ has suffered...we know this. But we do not have this kind of efforts, because the whole human community has changed. And in this changed human community, spiritual life is very, very important. From this spiritual life many obstacles have been removed, from this we can solve our physical problems, we can solve our mental problems, we can solve household problems, we can solve the problems of the whole world. In this way the life of the whole mankind can be changed into a spiritual life. This is very important for us to know, that on the one hand there was Jesus Christ who had gained a lot in spirituality, and on the other hand we have gained a small part of spirituality – and because of us the world is becoming silent. Many problems are getting solved and mankind has understood that it’s very important to take to spiritual life. This kind of changes are because of you people, I alone cannot do anything. I am in the same situation as Jesus. To what extent can I act? Now there are many people. Now we can see how the whole world has changed. Because of you, problems are getting solved, many changes have come, in the whole world people are knowing because of Sahaja Yoga. Many changes are coming, not only for one person, for thousands, for the whole world, in the whole community changes are coming. These things you are all doing, which is very important. (Translation from Marathi into English) Now to speak in Marathi, the life of Christ was very sad. But he did all this kind of things with love, because He was a very great soul - such a kind of person does not feel any kind of sadness. In this way we have taken to spiritual life, and now we have to give the spiritual life to everyone. People are watching our lives and they are stunned by seeing how happy we are. And when they understand that these things are happening in Sahaja Yoga, they also enter Sahaja Yoga. This is a very good thing and also you have got this blessing. And you have to keep this blessing very carefully. You have to work on it, and the most important thing is that you have to give this thing to everyone. You all are getting this kind of blessing – now let also other people have this kind of joy, and so all the Sahaja Yogis have to try to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone. In the whole world Sahaja yoga has spread but but it is very little. It should be spread much more. Jesus Christ had only twelve devotees, and these twelve devotees had spread Christianity – but there are many mistakes made. In this way you have to bear in mind that when we spread Sahaja Yoga we should not make any mistake. We should spread it in a very simple way. It is not so difficult. In this thing, Parameshwara has given you the Shakti and the brains, use it. I have full faith in you, that you can make many Sahaja Yogis and you should try to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone and only think day and night who to give Sahaja Yoga to. I am blessing you for this, so this is a very big responsibility on you. Since you took to Sahaja Yoga, you had this responsibility, that from today you have to bear in mind that you have to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone and should not keep this thing just within us. May God bless you

Christmas Puja, Ganapatipule (India), 25 December 2003. Today is a great day because we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. He was such a great spiritual personality, who had to suffer on the cross. This is what many people don’t understand, that why a man of his calibre, of his standing, of his spirituality, should have to go through so many ordeals in life. It is very easy to understand that he was born in a circumstances which was against him, which were against divine force. So to overcome that people tried to destroy Jesus Christ. And he did not feel the pain, he didn’t feel the absurdity of those people. On the contrary he went through all that ordeal with such courage and such dignity. So for us, what is there to see is that if you are divine and if you have powers of divinity, then you should have courage, and with that courage you can face all kinds of ordeals. On the whole, whenever you are on this earth there are problems of different types. You may belong to royal families, or maybe a poor person, there are always problems facing you. But Christ has shown by his life that, though he had to suffer so much, he was so patient and courageous. His life has given us an example, what we should be, how we should behave when we are facing problems because of ignorance of people. But today is a happy day because it is his birth date and we are all celebrating because he has shown us a new path of spirituality in which one has to suffer, because of the ignorance of many who are there, he suffered so much. But today it’s not so bad, people understand spirituality and divinity. And you are so many together now. In these sufferings Christ never cried or wept. He went through it in a very resolute manner. So what we have to learn from his life is that we should not be afraid. Whatever might be happening to us, we should not be afraid. But times have changed and people don’t torture anyone because of your spirituality. It’s not there, it’s finished. Christ wiped out all that from human minds, and people respect you for being spiritual. This is the message of Christ’s life, and we all should be very happy that he has shown us this path of ignorance. The message of Sahaja Yoga is the same: that you take your realisation, you take to spiritual life, and everything will work out because all the divine forces are with you. They are working out everything for you and you are so many who can say that you have witnessed it. So this kind of life that Christ had, you don’t have to go through, he has done for us. Your life will be very, very safe and peaceful and joyous. That is without my telling you, you must have experience. These days there are also very cruel people, very absurd and extremely aggressive, but still, no-one can harm you. Life has become very different. And we thank Christ that he has gone through all that to save us from those ordeals. (Translation from Hindi to English) Today is the birthday of Christ and we are all celebrating His birthday with great joy. And we also know that Jesus Christ took a lot of efforts, and we do not have such efforts as much as He has done. But how much Jesus Christ has suffered...we know this. But we do not have this kind of efforts, because the whole human community has changed. And in this changed human community, spiritual life is very, very important. From this spiritual life many obstacles have been removed, from this we can solve our physical problems, we can solve our mental problems, we can solve household problems, we can solve the problems of the whole world. In this way the life of the whole mankind can be changed into a spiritual life. This is very important for us to know, that on the one hand there was Jesus Christ who had gained a lot in spirituality, and on the other hand we have gained a small part of spirituality – and because of us the world is becoming silent. Many problems are getting solved and mankind has understood that it’s very important to take to spiritual life. This kind of changes are because of you people, I alone cannot do anything. I am in the same situation as Jesus. To what extent can I act? Now there are many people. Now we can see how the whole world has changed. Because of you, problems are getting solved, many changes have come, in the whole world people are knowing because of Sahaja Yoga. Many changes are coming, not only for one person, for thousands, for the whole world, in the whole community changes are coming. These things you are all doing, which is very important. (Translation from Marathi into English) Now to speak in Marathi, the life of Christ was very sad. But he did all this kind of things with love, because He was a very great soul - such a kind of person does not feel any kind of sadness. In this way we have taken to spiritual life, and now we have to give the spiritual life to everyone. People are watching our lives and they are stunned by seeing how happy we are. And when they understand that these things are happening in Sahaja Yoga, they also enter Sahaja Yoga. This is a very good thing and also you have got this blessing. And you have to keep this blessing very carefully. You have to work on it, and the most important thing is that you have to give this thing to everyone. You all are getting this kind of blessing – now let also other people have this kind of joy, and so all the Sahaja Yogis have to try to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone. In the whole world Sahaja yoga has spread but but it is very little. It should be spread much more. Jesus Christ had only twelve devotees, and these twelve devotees had spread Christianity – but there are many mistakes made. In this way you have to bear in mind that when we spread Sahaja Yoga we should not make any mistake. We should spread it in a very simple way. It is not so difficult. In this thing, Parameshwara has given you the Shakti and the brains, use it. I have full faith in you, that you can make many Sahaja Yogis and you should try to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone and only think day and night who to give Sahaja Yoga to. I am blessing you for this, so this is a very big responsibility on you. Since you took to Sahaja Yoga, you had this responsibility, that from today you have to bear in mind that you have to give Sahaja Yoga to everyone and should not keep this thing just within us. May God bless you

2/15/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=2805

Mahashivaratri Puja: Guru Pad

India

Pune

VERIFIED

Draft

Draft

Y

Y

N

Mahashivaratri

English, Hindi

Mahashivaratri Puja, Pune (India), 15 February 2004 [English to Hindi Translation] Today we are here to do the Guru’s puja The Guru is praised more than the Deities and the Gods Who is this Guru? In this, which is the most important shakti? The Guru tattwa is the Shiva. The form of the Shiva’s power we should consider as the Guru’s power. Because when we take the powers from the Guru’s shakti, and when the shaktis come within us then we ourselves become the Guru And with this, we are blessed for the whole life (Kalyan). The one who gets these powers, it seems he has got all the blessings (kalyan). “Kalyan” is a word which is very hard to explain in a few words. “Kalyan” means to get blessed from all the sides. the obtain joy from all the sides. When someone says that in the blessings you have got the Kalyan, what does it mean? What is Kalyan? Kalyan means Atma Sakshatkar, the Self-Realisation. Without the Self-Realisation, you cannot have the Kalyan. Nobody can understand without having it. All these things are in the Kalyan. Because of this a person gets all the joy, and he becomes radiant. To have this Kalyan, whatever you have to do you have done it all, whatever efforts you have to make it has all been made, the faith which you have to take, you have already taken it. But when you are all in the “Kalyanmarg” (Path of Kalyan), when he has given the mantra to have the Kalyan, what does it mean? It means that the most important thing inside you is samadhan (satisfaction). Afterwards you all don’t have to search for anything, you have all become the Gurus. You don’t have to take some great things in this moment, but the blessings of this samadhana you all can feel inside yourselves, you all can know inside yourselves you all can enjoy within yourselves. First of all you all can see that the physical diseases, the physical problems can be removed by this Kalyanmarg, all the problems which are coming within you that prevent you from blossoming, can be removed by this Kalyanmarg. When you all take to this, you get the Kalyan and you have the Self-Realisation. In this Shri Mahadeva is helping you. When the kundalini opens the Sahasrara, Shri Mahadeva is sitting over there. And because of this, we call Him Mahadeva. It means the God of all the Gods, Mahadeva. in this Kalyan there are many important aspects. The first thing is shanti (peace). Mental peace, physical peace and the peace in the family life. In the family life there are many problems, many obstacles, and all these can be solved by the Kalyanmarg. Afterwards we cannot even feel the presence of the obstacles. In this way we could see many people in the whole world getting blessings from this Kalyanmarg and meditating upon it and enjoying for the whole life. This is the Kalyan by which mankind can get the balances within themselves. And to obtain this balance, you have to go under the protection of the Guru. When you become the devotee of a Guru, you get the balance and you get everything. After this you do not need anything. In this way we get the balance and we obtain the power of love within ourselves. When mankind obtains this, this whole body rejoices. When you obtain this state, the shaktis (powers) destroy all the problems, the disturbances in the body and the physical state, and so many people try very hard to obtain this shakti. He can get the shakti only form a person that is self-realised and then he himself becomes in the God’s form. [English transcription] This is a subject which you can only explain in Hindi language. Which says that this Guru pad you get from somebody else. But that somebody else is itself, is endowed with, the power, the power of peace of mind, to begin with, and also the power to overcome all kinds of earthly problems, mental problems, physical problems. All these problems you can solve through your mental balance and mental blessings from your Guru. When you become the guru, you yourself have the power, to bless others. With your blessing power you can create a guru out of many. And once the guru is created and there is a guru, who has this power, it’s very satisfying and is very ennobling. The satisfaction is so much that you don’t want anything. This is the power of Shiva. You have seen Shiva doesn’t have much clothes. He doesn’t decorate Himself. He is just sitting in meditative mood, all the time. He doesn’t want anything. He’s so satisfied with Himself that He doesn’t want anything. And that is the power you get after the Self-realisation, if you have a Guru, and Guru of that level and calibre. One should not try to become a Guru: that’s very impractical. If you try to become, you will never. It has to come to you automatically, without any asking, without any effort. So the only way you can get to it is through dhyana. Dhyana is meditation. When you meditate – just meditate, and meditate. Do not ask for anything. Meditation itself gives you that instrument which can bear this great power of the Guru. And then you, automatically, you give this power to others. You don’t have to work it out, just in your presence people can get this power of complete satisfaction. And there is salvation for you and for others. So all the problems which are faced for the journey of ascent are finished and you are drenched in the bliss of heavenly peace and joy. That’s why it is called as kaiyvalya, means only, only the bliss. See, that means there is no other word to translate it, there’s no other way of explaining it. It’s a state, it’s a stithi. It’s a state. In that state you have to rise and you know that you are in that state. It’s a very remarkable thing that, once you reach that state, you don’t have to ask for anything; it’s all there, and you are so satisfied. I can go on talking about this special power but I think, whatever I have said, please meditate on that. And you are all capable of reaching that state. That state of complete peace and joy. May God bless you.

Mahashivaratri Puja, Pune (India), 15 February 2004 [English to Hindi Translation] Today we are here to do the Guru’s puja The Guru is praised more than the Deities and the Gods Who is this Guru? In this, which is the most important shakti? The Guru tattwa is the Shiva. The form of the Shiva’s power we should consider as the Guru’s power. Because when we take the powers from the Guru’s shakti, and when the shaktis come within us then we ourselves become the Guru And with this, we are blessed for the whole life (Kalyan). The one who gets these powers, it seems he has got all the blessings (kalyan). “Kalyan” is a word which is very hard to explain in a few words. “Kalyan” means to get blessed from all the sides. the obtain joy from all the sides. When someone says that in the blessings you have got the Kalyan, what does it mean? What is Kalyan? Kalyan means Atma Sakshatkar, the Self-Realisation. Without the Self-Realisation, you cannot have the Kalyan. Nobody can understand without having it. All these things are in the Kalyan. Because of this a person gets all the joy, and he becomes radiant. To have this Kalyan, whatever you have to do you have done it all, whatever efforts you have to make it has all been made, the faith which you have to take, you have already taken it. But when you are all in the “Kalyanmarg” (Path of Kalyan), when he has given the mantra to have the Kalyan, what does it mean? It means that the most important thing inside you is samadhan (satisfaction). Afterwards you all don’t have to search for anything, you have all become the Gurus. You don’t have to take some great things in this moment, but the blessings of this samadhana you all can feel inside yourselves, you all can know inside yourselves you all can enjoy within yourselves. First of all you all can see that the physical diseases, the physical problems can be removed by this Kalyanmarg, all the problems which are coming within you that prevent you from blossoming, can be removed by this Kalyanmarg. When you all take to this, you get the Kalyan and you have the Self-Realisation. In this Shri Mahadeva is helping you. When the kundalini opens the Sahasrara, Shri Mahadeva is sitting over there. And because of this, we call Him Mahadeva. It means the God of all the Gods, Mahadeva. in this Kalyan there are many important aspects. The first thing is shanti (peace). Mental peace, physical peace and the peace in the family life. In the family life there are many problems, many obstacles, and all these can be solved by the Kalyanmarg. Afterwards we cannot even feel the presence of the obstacles. In this way we could see many people in the whole world getting blessings from this Kalyanmarg and meditating upon it and enjoying for the whole life. This is the Kalyan by which mankind can get the balances within themselves. And to obtain this balance, you have to go under the protection of the Guru. When you become the devotee of a Guru, you get the balance and you get everything. After this you do not need anything. In this way we get the balance and we obtain the power of love within ourselves. When mankind obtains this, this whole body rejoices. When you obtain this state, the shaktis (powers) destroy all the problems, the disturbances in the body and the physical state, and so many people try very hard to obtain this shakti. He can get the shakti only form a person that is self-realised and then he himself becomes in the God’s form. [English transcription] This is a subject which you can only explain in Hindi language. Which says that this Guru pad you get from somebody else. But that somebody else is itself, is endowed with, the power, the power of peace of mind, to begin with, and also the power to overcome all kinds of earthly problems, mental problems, physical problems. All these problems you can solve through your mental balance and mental blessings from your Guru. When you become the guru, you yourself have the power, to bless others. With your blessing power you can create a guru out of many. And once the guru is created and there is a guru, who has this power, it’s very satisfying and is very ennobling. The satisfaction is so much that you don’t want anything. This is the power of Shiva. You have seen Shiva doesn’t have much clothes. He doesn’t decorate Himself. He is just sitting in meditative mood, all the time. He doesn’t want anything. He’s so satisfied with Himself that He doesn’t want anything. And that is the power you get after the Self-realisation, if you have a Guru, and Guru of that level and calibre. One should not try to become a Guru: that’s very impractical. If you try to become, you will never. It has to come to you automatically, without any asking, without any effort. So the only way you can get to it is through dhyana. Dhyana is meditation. When you meditate – just meditate, and meditate. Do not ask for anything. Meditation itself gives you that instrument which can bear this great power of the Guru. And then you, automatically, you give this power to others. You don’t have to work it out, just in your presence people can get this power of complete satisfaction. And there is salvation for you and for others. So all the problems which are faced for the journey of ascent are finished and you are drenched in the bliss of heavenly peace and joy. That’s why it is called as kaiyvalya, means only, only the bliss. See, that means there is no other word to translate it, there’s no other way of explaining it. It’s a state, it’s a stithi. It’s a state. In that state you have to rise and you know that you are in that state. It’s a very remarkable thing that, once you reach that state, you don’t have to ask for anything; it’s all there, and you are so satisfied. I can go on talking about this special power but I think, whatever I have said, please meditate on that. And you are all capable of reaching that state. That state of complete peace and joy. May God bless you.

3/20/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=8657

Birthday Felicitations

India

New Delhi

Draft

Y

Y

N

Birthday Felicitations

English

2004-03-20 Birthday Felicitations Program: Talk and Debu Chaudhari - Sitar So many of you have come, and it has given Me the greatest pleasure. I don’t know what is the felicitation you all want to do for, because after all I’m a Mother, and a Mother has to do Her job. There’s no felicitation with it. Just love, love for My children, and that is how i’ve worked and it has worked out. You can see for yourself how you have learnt to love each other. I wish all over the world people develop that love, that universal love for each other. All the our problems will be finished, no wars, no ill feeling, nothing, only there will be a beautiful wave of love among ourselves. All these things can happen, and we can reside in a very calm and collective way all the time. What is happening today is not of my liking, because to Me they are all one, and what is the need to have fights and to have differences? If they could just meditate, they will know that they are all one, there’s no difference at all. My only wish is that all of you should get your realization and that you meditate.May God bless you.Thank you!

2004-03-20 Birthday Felicitations Program: Talk and Debu Chaudhari - Sitar So many of you have come, and it has given Me the greatest pleasure. I don’t know what is the felicitation you all want to do for, because after all I’m a Mother, and a Mother has to do Her job. There’s no felicitation with it. Just love, love for My children, and that is how i’ve worked and it has worked out. You can see for yourself how you have learnt to love each other. I wish all over the world people develop that love, that universal love for each other. All the our problems will be finished, no wars, no ill feeling, nothing, only there will be a beautiful wave of love among ourselves. All these things can happen, and we can reside in a very calm and collective way all the time. What is happening today is not of my liking, because to Me they are all one, and what is the need to have fights and to have differences? If they could just meditate, they will know that they are all one, there’s no difference at all. My only wish is that all of you should get your realization and that you meditate.May God bless you.Thank you!

3/21/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=2419

Birthday Puja

India

New Delhi

Draft

NEEDED

Draft

Y

Y

N

Birthday

English, Hindi

Birthday Puja, New Delhi (India), 21 March 2004. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi:]I thank you all for giving Me this welcome. With such great love and respect you all have given this programme, I don’t know how much I have to thank you all, I don’t understand. [Shri Mataji speaks in English:]I wanted to thank you all for giving Me such a hearty welcome to Me today. I don’t know what words to use to thank you. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi:]Today in every moment I am enjoying it. I am very happy, what can I say to you all, I don’t understand. Your love and respect is beyond my strength, beyond my expectation. I don’t understand why you are all embarrassing Me, I don’t know what I have done for you all, the thing which you all wanted to have, you have got it. I haven’t done anything for you all. [Shri Mataji speaks in English:]I was overjoyed to see the way you all welcomed and you are singing songs of happiness and joy. I don’t know how to express Myself because I’m Myself very happy and I don’t know what to say in your praise, where you have taken to Sahaja Yoga so easily and have assimilated it.Whatever it is, it’s a very mutual admiration society, I should say, that we are enjoying each other.May God bless you all with this happiness and joy and complete oneness with the Divine.Thank you very much, thank you.[Applause]Thank you.[Applause]Now they have organised some music for your entertainment so I’ll ask them to take over…Thank you.

Birthday Puja, New Delhi (India), 21 March 2004. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi:]I thank you all for giving Me this welcome. With such great love and respect you all have given this programme, I don’t know how much I have to thank you all, I don’t understand. [Shri Mataji speaks in English:]I wanted to thank you all for giving Me such a hearty welcome to Me today. I don’t know what words to use to thank you. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi:]Today in every moment I am enjoying it. I am very happy, what can I say to you all, I don’t understand. Your love and respect is beyond my strength, beyond my expectation. I don’t understand why you are all embarrassing Me, I don’t know what I have done for you all, the thing which you all wanted to have, you have got it. I haven’t done anything for you all. [Shri Mataji speaks in English:]I was overjoyed to see the way you all welcomed and you are singing songs of happiness and joy. I don’t know how to express Myself because I’m Myself very happy and I don’t know what to say in your praise, where you have taken to Sahaja Yoga so easily and have assimilated it.Whatever it is, it’s a very mutual admiration society, I should say, that we are enjoying each other.May God bless you all with this happiness and joy and complete oneness with the Divine.Thank you very much, thank you.[Applause]Thank you.[Applause]Now they have organised some music for your entertainment so I’ll ask them to take over…Thank you.

5/9/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=354

Sahasrara Puja: Continue To Live A Life of Reality

Italy

Cabella Ligure

VERIFIED

Y

Y

Y

Sahasrara

English

Sahasrara puja, “Continue to live a life of Reality”,. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 9 May 2004. Today is a very important day in our lives as Sahaja Yogis. This is the day when Sahasrara was opened out, which was really a very charismatic thing that happened. I never expected that in my lifetime I will be able to work it out, but it has been. And so many of you have got your Sahasrara opened. Without that, you could never have known what is the truth. You were all lost, as everybody is. First of all, Sahasrara is the only way we can perceive, understand and know the reality. You have come to know as to what is the reality and you’re enjoying that state where you know what is the reality. It’s a great blessing that Sahasrara was opened out and all of you got your Realization. Otherwise, all talks are just talks, has no meaning, has no understanding and that’s why my first anxiety was to open Sahasrara. That worked out, worked out well and all of you have got your Sahasrara opened. It’s a remarkable thing. Nobody can believe that so many of you have got your Sahasrara open, but I can see now clearly the light on top of your heads. Whatever you have achieved is remarkable, no doubt. It is because of honest searching, honest searching, that you have got it. My doing is nothing because you were just there like a lamp and I just enlightened it, that’s all. It’s not such a big thing to do. As you people have achieved your state, state of enlightenment, that you got it because you were hankering after it, working it out and you did it! It’s very creditable. Credit doesn’t go to me, I think, because I had a open Sahasrara, but to achieve that in you people was so joy-giving for me. Now you will understand because if Sahasrara is not open, you can’t talk people, you can’t say anything to them. It’s just they don’t understand. With the Sahasrara open, your understanding improves so much. That is what has happened with all of you. And I’m so very happy that it’s so many people there are sitting here who have got their Sahasraras open and there are many who have not come. So it’s a big achievement for human beings to get it so much collectively, Sahasrara opened, by which you know the truth, absolute truth. Whatever you know after your Realization is the absolute truth. You don’t argue then, don’t question, you just know it and you accept it as a knowledge. It’s such a nice thing that it was all there, but it was not open. And when it opened out, how people have understood me and also the laws of the Divine. It’s such a blessing of the Divine that you have got your Sahasrara opened out, for which you may say, “We didn’t do anything, Mother.” It’s not so. Your search for truth was intense and definite. You wanted to know the truth. That’s why it has worked out. Otherwise no amount of money, no amount of effort, nothing would have helped. Sahasrara had to open by itself. It’s all your building up, I should say. It’s all your doing to yourself, that has brought forth such a beautiful happening. I do not take any credit for that – at all. Definitely, I must say, that I have made you understand that it’s important that your Sahasrara should be opened. No more arguments, no more suggestions, nothing, but have your own Sahasrara open, which tells you what is the truth is. In these beautiful circumstances, what could your Mother say? I can only say that continue to live a life of reality, of understanding. In everything you will find there is truth. And how do we use that truth is our own achievement. People are lost because they have no knowledge. Knowledge from the books is no knowledge. Their knowledge must come from within, from within themselves and that has happened because of Sahasrara opening. In all the countries it has happened, and it will be in the whole world; so many people will get Realization. But only thing, I feel that you people should have no emotional attachment to it – not emotional, but realistic attachment, that it is there, it has happened, it’s working out. Then you will be able to give Realizations to other, you’ll understand the importance of Realization. Unless and until you use it, you won’t know what is the power of Realization is. So you must learn how to use this power which is within you, which has started working out and which will give you such a immense capacity. My health is little bit gone down, after all, I am very old. But still I don’t feel tired in any way while addressing you. I feel so enamoured that there are so many Sahaja Yogis, so many whose Sahasrara is open and they’re enjoying their Sahasrara. Actually I would have liked you to ask me questions, but you can write questions and send me written ones. Then I’ll try to answer them some time, will be a much better idea. So thank you very much. May God bless you. Grow into Sahaj, grow into your being. May God bless you. All my blessings.

Sahasrara puja, “Continue to live a life of Reality”,. Cabella Ligure (Italy), 9 May 2004. Today is a very important day in our lives as Sahaja Yogis. This is the day when Sahasrara was opened out, which was really a very charismatic thing that happened. I never expected that in my lifetime I will be able to work it out, but it has been. And so many of you have got your Sahasrara opened. Without that, you could never have known what is the truth. You were all lost, as everybody is. First of all, Sahasrara is the only way we can perceive, understand and know the reality. You have come to know as to what is the reality and you’re enjoying that state where you know what is the reality. It’s a great blessing that Sahasrara was opened out and all of you got your Realization. Otherwise, all talks are just talks, has no meaning, has no understanding and that’s why my first anxiety was to open Sahasrara. That worked out, worked out well and all of you have got your Sahasrara opened. It’s a remarkable thing. Nobody can believe that so many of you have got your Sahasrara open, but I can see now clearly the light on top of your heads. Whatever you have achieved is remarkable, no doubt. It is because of honest searching, honest searching, that you have got it. My doing is nothing because you were just there like a lamp and I just enlightened it, that’s all. It’s not such a big thing to do. As you people have achieved your state, state of enlightenment, that you got it because you were hankering after it, working it out and you did it! It’s very creditable. Credit doesn’t go to me, I think, because I had a open Sahasrara, but to achieve that in you people was so joy-giving for me. Now you will understand because if Sahasrara is not open, you can’t talk people, you can’t say anything to them. It’s just they don’t understand. With the Sahasrara open, your understanding improves so much. That is what has happened with all of you. And I’m so very happy that it’s so many people there are sitting here who have got their Sahasraras open and there are many who have not come. So it’s a big achievement for human beings to get it so much collectively, Sahasrara opened, by which you know the truth, absolute truth. Whatever you know after your Realization is the absolute truth. You don’t argue then, don’t question, you just know it and you accept it as a knowledge. It’s such a nice thing that it was all there, but it was not open. And when it opened out, how people have understood me and also the laws of the Divine. It’s such a blessing of the Divine that you have got your Sahasrara opened out, for which you may say, “We didn’t do anything, Mother.” It’s not so. Your search for truth was intense and definite. You wanted to know the truth. That’s why it has worked out. Otherwise no amount of money, no amount of effort, nothing would have helped. Sahasrara had to open by itself. It’s all your building up, I should say. It’s all your doing to yourself, that has brought forth such a beautiful happening. I do not take any credit for that – at all. Definitely, I must say, that I have made you understand that it’s important that your Sahasrara should be opened. No more arguments, no more suggestions, nothing, but have your own Sahasrara open, which tells you what is the truth is. In these beautiful circumstances, what could your Mother say? I can only say that continue to live a life of reality, of understanding. In everything you will find there is truth. And how do we use that truth is our own achievement. People are lost because they have no knowledge. Knowledge from the books is no knowledge. Their knowledge must come from within, from within themselves and that has happened because of Sahasrara opening. In all the countries it has happened, and it will be in the whole world; so many people will get Realization. But only thing, I feel that you people should have no emotional attachment to it – not emotional, but realistic attachment, that it is there, it has happened, it’s working out. Then you will be able to give Realizations to other, you’ll understand the importance of Realization. Unless and until you use it, you won’t know what is the power of Realization is. So you must learn how to use this power which is within you, which has started working out and which will give you such a immense capacity. My health is little bit gone down, after all, I am very old. But still I don’t feel tired in any way while addressing you. I feel so enamoured that there are so many Sahaja Yogis, so many whose Sahasrara is open and they’re enjoying their Sahasrara. Actually I would have liked you to ask me questions, but you can write questions and send me written ones. Then I’ll try to answer them some time, will be a much better idea. So thank you very much. May God bless you. Grow into Sahaj, grow into your being. May God bless you. All my blessings.

6/6/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=1557

Adi Shakti Puja: Be One With Yourself First

Italy

Cabella Ligure

Draft

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Y

N

Adi Shakti

English

Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 6 June 2004. Today's meeting is very special. It’s a very, very special day also, extremely special and very blissful. The reason is it talks and sings and tells about the born order, born power, the original, the Adi, the primordial and this one is responsible for creating this great universe. Why this has started and how it works out is already you know, I need not talk about that. But today we have to talk about this Power which is hidden in your hearts by which you can do whatever you like to create a new world, a new family, a new standards, everything that is not known so far. That is quite possible .. that is quite possible and is being done. But, what is difficult is how to make people more adaptable, more in tune with each other, absolutely. It seems to be a difficult thing. They're alright among themselves, if - their own friends, their own style, their things. But to make them absolutely one, one with each other, in one tune, in one line is very, very difficult and it should not be done! That's not supposed to be, they’re not supposed to be like that. But it has to work out. Now the problem is, we have beautiful people, beautiful souls, but they do not become so one with each other as they should have. Now, how to solve this problem? Many people have asked me: “Mother, how to make that problem?” I just smiled. Because if you see the original idea why we started this x-ray, why we started this new kind of a .. understanding, new kind of penetration, because we wanted to find out the oneness, the newness in every person. And you should be very much thankful that you are all one, one inside, there's nothing second. It's only one and that one when it speaks and when it wants to administer something, then you'll be amazed that it’s all done the same way, it's the same thing and it works out the same way. There is no change, there’s no difference between the two. Despite that, despite that, our minds are roving, roving into some sort of a problem which has no significance in Sahaja Yoga. Now the main problem that we have is that we don't realize that we have no problem. We are without any problems. We think that there are problems and we should deal with problems, but there are none, none of these problems are there. I don't see any problem anywhere. Those who think they have problems, I've asked them to write it down and I'll try to answer them and tell them what sort of a problem it is. But before I could do anything, I would like to say that still our sahaja yogis are not come to that level to understand the oneness, the uniqueness in their hearts of their oneness. All this comes from within, not from without, so all efforts made outside is of no use. We have to be effortless and become what we are. There you’ll find that no, nothing’s missing. There is no need to have another meeting or any other coding something, no need, it's all there. Just you have to be that, to become that. This is rather difficult to understand for people who have different noses, different faces, different everything, to become the same. But you are; you are because you don't know that you are, that's why you are looking different. So I have to tell you one thing: that you are all one. One in the sense that your everything – impulse, every feeling, every understanding is the same. Only thing is that it arises at a long time, at different times, and it gives you a wrong impression that it is different, but actually it is not. It is only one, one relationship, and the relationship is with the Adi Shakti, that you are a part and parcel of Adi Shakti. That whatever one may try, one cannot get separated from Adi Shakti. You are born out of Her and you are guided by Her, you are looked after [by] Her. Everything seems to be one to me, while you people think that there’s a different line of a course, line of action, which is wrong. Whatever I may say it has to be proved, otherwise why should you accept such a ghastly statement. Myself I am one with you and I am always will remain the same with all of you. For me there is no difference, I don't see anything like that. It's outside it's only your clothes and your style, inside maybe what temperament you have, depends on your temperament. If that temperament changes a little bit you will see the oneness among all of you and the differences will be lost in no time. [Shri Mataji expresses misunderstandings that one may have] "Today I saw a very dangerous man, I thought he can kill me if he wants, he can do whatever he likes but no, it didn’t happen. Why? Because I never understood him. He was not like that, he just wanted to show his respect, he didn’t want to kill me, he didn’t want to do anything wrong." It's very surprising how you understand each other. Unless and until you have proper understanding of each other, you cannot achieve anything that is super [sober?], that is essential, that is right, that is the truth. So, the Truth started long time back, much before anybody could think of having a truth here. It's all went off with so many things which were not truthful and then the Truth went away. Like, I would say that the snake – snake was born out of ignorance. Then the other snakes started supporting. Snakes after snakes, they started growing up and filling the whole universe with dishonesty and with wrong ideas and believing in it, and started fighting, killing each other. But they were all snakes. So how much one should believe in their nonsense? How much one should follow their nonsense? How much anybody should accept their nonsense? It’s very difficult, but it is acceptable much more than the truth. The Truth is not so very easily accepted as the untruth is. Why? Because we are standing in untruth. Our own understanding is untruth and we have to change our understanding to Truth, which is not difficult because we are truth, we are the Truth. To become the Truth which we are, why should it be difficult? Should not, but it happens. So that means there is something wrong somewhere within us, which we should find out. And the thing that is wrong with us, within, is that we cannot face ourselves. We cannot face ourselves. We face others, not ourselves. We never see ourselves. We have no idea as to what our own situation is. And for that, is only you needed a Mother to show you. And that's how the Mother came on this earth to tell you what’s the problem with you, within. This one is to be accepted, this principle has to be practised. And you'll be amazed at yourself how much you have already knowledge about yourself and about all these surroundings. There's nothing so special, nothing so extraordinary, but only thing is you have to be acceptable to yourself. I think people are becoming sahaja yogis, but they are not. They are not sahaja yogis but they are trying to become. On the contrary, I think they should know that they are sahaja yogis and they don’t have to become anything. Then there’s no problem. But when you have accepted that there is Sahaja Yoga different, and Sahaja Yogis are different and you are different, then how can you become Sahaja Yogi? The thing is the ignorance, is the ignorance that we have, that we are behaving like strangers towards each other, it's complete ignorance; we have to know that we are all the same. There’s no need to have any ignorance of any kind. And when that happens, the problems of the whole world will be solved without any difficulty. Today’s Puja is a special one, because you are doing the Puja of something that would never went into any transformation, which was not changed at all. It was just the same, remained the same, born with the same and is still with the same. In such a Puja, what do I have to say? Why anyone has to say? Nothing. Just be one with yourself first, that’s the point we come to. That we have to be one with what ourselves and not to get it lost in the words or in the atmosphere or in the other, our movements of brain. Because this is the time when the brain starts moving and when it starts moving it loses its control over himself. Like a snake, unless and until it is in it’s own place, there’s no danger. But if it starts moving there’s a danger to him. In the same way, we have to know that our mind is very, very difficult and should not go into wrong direction. For that we have to do the Primordial Mother’s Puja because we should try to be on the line of Primordial Mother. We have to keep ourselves primordial. We have to work out our primordial Self and not to change ourselves for any rhyme or reason. This will be the best thing, if we can achieve it. I’m sure we can, not such a problem. Only thing is, that we are so conscious of being Indians, being English, European and all that, but we are not, we are just ourselves and that’s what we have to achieve – that oneness with ourselves. May God bless you all

Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 6 June 2004. Today's meeting is very special. It’s a very, very special day also, extremely special and very blissful. The reason is it talks and sings and tells about the born order, born power, the original, the Adi, the primordial and this one is responsible for creating this great universe. Why this has started and how it works out is already you know, I need not talk about that. But today we have to talk about this Power which is hidden in your hearts by which you can do whatever you like to create a new world, a new family, a new standards, everything that is not known so far. That is quite possible .. that is quite possible and is being done. But, what is difficult is how to make people more adaptable, more in tune with each other, absolutely. It seems to be a difficult thing. They're alright among themselves, if - their own friends, their own style, their things. But to make them absolutely one, one with each other, in one tune, in one line is very, very difficult and it should not be done! That's not supposed to be, they’re not supposed to be like that. But it has to work out. Now the problem is, we have beautiful people, beautiful souls, but they do not become so one with each other as they should have. Now, how to solve this problem? Many people have asked me: “Mother, how to make that problem?” I just smiled. Because if you see the original idea why we started this x-ray, why we started this new kind of a .. understanding, new kind of penetration, because we wanted to find out the oneness, the newness in every person. And you should be very much thankful that you are all one, one inside, there's nothing second. It's only one and that one when it speaks and when it wants to administer something, then you'll be amazed that it’s all done the same way, it's the same thing and it works out the same way. There is no change, there’s no difference between the two. Despite that, despite that, our minds are roving, roving into some sort of a problem which has no significance in Sahaja Yoga. Now the main problem that we have is that we don't realize that we have no problem. We are without any problems. We think that there are problems and we should deal with problems, but there are none, none of these problems are there. I don't see any problem anywhere. Those who think they have problems, I've asked them to write it down and I'll try to answer them and tell them what sort of a problem it is. But before I could do anything, I would like to say that still our sahaja yogis are not come to that level to understand the oneness, the uniqueness in their hearts of their oneness. All this comes from within, not from without, so all efforts made outside is of no use. We have to be effortless and become what we are. There you’ll find that no, nothing’s missing. There is no need to have another meeting or any other coding something, no need, it's all there. Just you have to be that, to become that. This is rather difficult to understand for people who have different noses, different faces, different everything, to become the same. But you are; you are because you don't know that you are, that's why you are looking different. So I have to tell you one thing: that you are all one. One in the sense that your everything – impulse, every feeling, every understanding is the same. Only thing is that it arises at a long time, at different times, and it gives you a wrong impression that it is different, but actually it is not. It is only one, one relationship, and the relationship is with the Adi Shakti, that you are a part and parcel of Adi Shakti. That whatever one may try, one cannot get separated from Adi Shakti. You are born out of Her and you are guided by Her, you are looked after [by] Her. Everything seems to be one to me, while you people think that there’s a different line of a course, line of action, which is wrong. Whatever I may say it has to be proved, otherwise why should you accept such a ghastly statement. Myself I am one with you and I am always will remain the same with all of you. For me there is no difference, I don't see anything like that. It's outside it's only your clothes and your style, inside maybe what temperament you have, depends on your temperament. If that temperament changes a little bit you will see the oneness among all of you and the differences will be lost in no time. [Shri Mataji expresses misunderstandings that one may have] "Today I saw a very dangerous man, I thought he can kill me if he wants, he can do whatever he likes but no, it didn’t happen. Why? Because I never understood him. He was not like that, he just wanted to show his respect, he didn’t want to kill me, he didn’t want to do anything wrong." It's very surprising how you understand each other. Unless and until you have proper understanding of each other, you cannot achieve anything that is super [sober?], that is essential, that is right, that is the truth. So, the Truth started long time back, much before anybody could think of having a truth here. It's all went off with so many things which were not truthful and then the Truth went away. Like, I would say that the snake – snake was born out of ignorance. Then the other snakes started supporting. Snakes after snakes, they started growing up and filling the whole universe with dishonesty and with wrong ideas and believing in it, and started fighting, killing each other. But they were all snakes. So how much one should believe in their nonsense? How much one should follow their nonsense? How much anybody should accept their nonsense? It’s very difficult, but it is acceptable much more than the truth. The Truth is not so very easily accepted as the untruth is. Why? Because we are standing in untruth. Our own understanding is untruth and we have to change our understanding to Truth, which is not difficult because we are truth, we are the Truth. To become the Truth which we are, why should it be difficult? Should not, but it happens. So that means there is something wrong somewhere within us, which we should find out. And the thing that is wrong with us, within, is that we cannot face ourselves. We cannot face ourselves. We face others, not ourselves. We never see ourselves. We have no idea as to what our own situation is. And for that, is only you needed a Mother to show you. And that's how the Mother came on this earth to tell you what’s the problem with you, within. This one is to be accepted, this principle has to be practised. And you'll be amazed at yourself how much you have already knowledge about yourself and about all these surroundings. There's nothing so special, nothing so extraordinary, but only thing is you have to be acceptable to yourself. I think people are becoming sahaja yogis, but they are not. They are not sahaja yogis but they are trying to become. On the contrary, I think they should know that they are sahaja yogis and they don’t have to become anything. Then there’s no problem. But when you have accepted that there is Sahaja Yoga different, and Sahaja Yogis are different and you are different, then how can you become Sahaja Yogi? The thing is the ignorance, is the ignorance that we have, that we are behaving like strangers towards each other, it's complete ignorance; we have to know that we are all the same. There’s no need to have any ignorance of any kind. And when that happens, the problems of the whole world will be solved without any difficulty. Today’s Puja is a special one, because you are doing the Puja of something that would never went into any transformation, which was not changed at all. It was just the same, remained the same, born with the same and is still with the same. In such a Puja, what do I have to say? Why anyone has to say? Nothing. Just be one with yourself first, that’s the point we come to. That we have to be one with what ourselves and not to get it lost in the words or in the atmosphere or in the other, our movements of brain. Because this is the time when the brain starts moving and when it starts moving it loses its control over himself. Like a snake, unless and until it is in it’s own place, there’s no danger. But if it starts moving there’s a danger to him. In the same way, we have to know that our mind is very, very difficult and should not go into wrong direction. For that we have to do the Primordial Mother’s Puja because we should try to be on the line of Primordial Mother. We have to keep ourselves primordial. We have to work out our primordial Self and not to change ourselves for any rhyme or reason. This will be the best thing, if we can achieve it. I’m sure we can, not such a problem. Only thing is, that we are so conscious of being Indians, being English, European and all that, but we are not, we are just ourselves and that’s what we have to achieve – that oneness with ourselves. May God bless you all

7/4/2004

http://amruta.org/?p=2465

Guru Puja: Follow My Message of Love

Italy

Cabella Ligure

VERIFIED

Y

Y

Y

Guru

English

Guru Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 4 July 2004 It is a great pleasure for me, greatest joy, to see so many Sahaja Yogis for the Guru puja. It's very gratifying to think that there are so many, so many of you, who are disciples. It was never expected that I'll have so many, so many people following me. It is being expected that you all will follow my message of love. I do not have to say anything for love. Love is [an] absolute gift, gift of just feeling others. There is no talking about it, discussing about it - nothing. Just you feel that love. To feel the love I would say one has to have a heart. But how can you have a heart? It is not your own doing, it's all there. So it is something is already gifted to you, you have it, that you can feel that love. It's so much joy-giving, peace-giving. Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but [it] understands within. It can feel within, which is very important. This is the most important part one has to realise, that love, you can only feel it. You cannot talk about it, you cannot show about it, but it is within and you can feel it. And that is why today is your celebration of the Guru. It’s the celebration where you can feel that love for your Guru. That feeling is within, and only within you can feel that. So we have to understand [that] it's not the show. It’s nothing else but just the feeling within that you know that you have love of the Divine. This you can have because it is just there. No one can give you. No one can sell it. No one can share it. It’s just there. And that love has to be felt and shared. It has nothing to do with others. Whether others love you or not makes no difference. It's within your Self only, [that] this feeling, this depth is there, which you enjoy. It is the capacity. Everyone has this, lots of it. Sometimes you feel you have lost it, sometimes you feel you have gained it, but it is there as much as an expanse of a sea. Sea, you cannot say, today is full, and tomorrow is not. It is eternal. In the same way the source of your love is eternal. You cannot measure it. It's difficult. But it's beyond all your human expressions and it shows your understanding, your understanding of love, which has no words, which cannot explain. But by itself you will know that, “I have this quality to love within myself and I can enjoy this love within myself.” This is a very unique gift which only very few human beings have. Among animals, also, you find people who have love. But that love is not deep, that love has no meaning. It has some purpose, maybe, but it is not human, so it lacks the beauty of human love. It lacks the understanding of human love. It is not easy to describe or explain love in human words. This you can only feel within yourself. That is what, once you start feeling, you can feel who is your guru, whom do you think you are being taught and persuaded and made to live in a particular manner. All that is possible, everything is possible, humanly possible, but, to love and to enjoy love is not so easy unless and until you are immersed in it. It's very gratifying, it is very lovable, to see how people love each other, and then this love spreads. Love begets love. If somebody has love it just spreads. He need not tell anyone, he need not confess it, but it will spread. And this is what one has to learn: how to see that love in [the] other person. Somehow we are here already in love because of sahaj happening. We all love and we enjoy love. It shows on our faces, that we are in love, in our characters, in our lives - that we are in love. What a thing, which is not very normal, becomes so normal and so easily available only. It is a very big blessing that you are human beings and that this source of love is there plus the feeling for love is there. It’s a very intricate situation which cannot be explained in words, only one can be in it and enjoy it. Now today is a day when we are celebrating the Guru Puja. The greatest Guru that we have is love, Sahaj love, is the Guru within us, which teaches us, which somehow or other leads us. We are led into that great line of understanding for which we don’t have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses like light. Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They have light and through that light they see the whole world, which is very innocent and simple for them. We have love for our children, naturally. We have love for our parents, naturally. We have love for some people but that love is different from what love I am telling you. That has some connections, some meanings, but this love which is - cannot be described in words, has to be felt within. Same when you talk of your Guru you should have that love within you. Why do you feel so much? The reason is Guru loves you and you love Guru. That's the only reason why should you love your Guru. Now there's no reason for that. Because love is love. That is how the Guru becomes very important in life. We have people who love their Guru and are very much in chaste understanding of their love. In this great opportunity of love that we are, we are here to enjoy each other fully from our heart. That there is this ocean within us. We have to just get submerged in that ocean. If we are lost in that ocean then we'll have no problems, no questions, everything will be our own, and we can manage everything without any argument, without any questioning. That is what is being Sahaj. The Sahaj way if you have, this love you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy everybody else, because it is Sahaj. Don’t have to make any efforts, don’t have to try anything, just it is there and it works. The feeling of love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there. It cannot express, because it is without expression. It is just to be felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things: you want to help everyone, you want to help yourself, you want to do good to others. So much has been done by great leaders of the world, because they had that love. They had nothing else but this love, which they could not contain them within themselves, so they tried to spread it and they are called now as our guru, as our masters. It’s that love within which approached people in that unique manner. That's a thing that we cannot possess, you cannot claim. It is there and it works. It works automatically. This is what we have to know that we are that love. That love is within us, we have to have knowledge, we have to have a complete knowledge that we are that love. That will solve our problem. Because you can explain everything, all your behaviour, all your failures. Everything you can explain when you know that you are endowed with that love. This is what is the Guru, is the love within you, which wants to share love with others, which wants to give love to others. This is what is peace and joy. I can go on talking on love, but to feel it within yourself is the biggest thing. Like water. If you are thirsty, we can give you water – but we cannot drink! You have to drink water and you have to feel the taste, feel the feeling, what it does, and all that is together, that's not separate. I don't think the subject was too subtle for you people. You all have reached a certain amount of understanding of that love. I hope it grows and you grow into it, all of you and enjoy it. May God bless you!

Guru Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 4 July 2004 It is a great pleasure for me, greatest joy, to see so many Sahaja Yogis for the Guru puja. It's very gratifying to think that there are so many, so many of you, who are disciples. It was never expected that I'll have so many, so many people following me. It is being expected that you all will follow my message of love. I do not have to say anything for love. Love is [an] absolute gift, gift of just feeling others. There is no talking about it, discussing about it - nothing. Just you feel that love. To feel the love I would say one has to have a heart. But how can you have a heart? It is not your own doing, it's all there. So it is something is already gifted to you, you have it, that you can feel that love. It's so much joy-giving, peace-giving. Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but [it] understands within. It can feel within, which is very important. This is the most important part one has to realise, that love, you can only feel it. You cannot talk about it, you cannot show about it, but it is within and you can feel it. And that is why today is your celebration of the Guru. It’s the celebration where you can feel that love for your Guru. That feeling is within, and only within you can feel that. So we have to understand [that] it's not the show. It’s nothing else but just the feeling within that you know that you have love of the Divine. This you can have because it is just there. No one can give you. No one can sell it. No one can share it. It’s just there. And that love has to be felt and shared. It has nothing to do with others. Whether others love you or not makes no difference. It's within your Self only, [that] this feeling, this depth is there, which you enjoy. It is the capacity. Everyone has this, lots of it. Sometimes you feel you have lost it, sometimes you feel you have gained it, but it is there as much as an expanse of a sea. Sea, you cannot say, today is full, and tomorrow is not. It is eternal. In the same way the source of your love is eternal. You cannot measure it. It's difficult. But it's beyond all your human expressions and it shows your understanding, your understanding of love, which has no words, which cannot explain. But by itself you will know that, “I have this quality to love within myself and I can enjoy this love within myself.” This is a very unique gift which only very few human beings have. Among animals, also, you find people who have love. But that love is not deep, that love has no meaning. It has some purpose, maybe, but it is not human, so it lacks the beauty of human love. It lacks the understanding of human love. It is not easy to describe or explain love in human words. This you can only feel within yourself. That is what, once you start feeling, you can feel who is your guru, whom do you think you are being taught and persuaded and made to live in a particular manner. All that is possible, everything is possible, humanly possible, but, to love and to enjoy love is not so easy unless and until you are immersed in it. It's very gratifying, it is very lovable, to see how people love each other, and then this love spreads. Love begets love. If somebody has love it just spreads. He need not tell anyone, he need not confess it, but it will spread. And this is what one has to learn: how to see that love in [the] other person. Somehow we are here already in love because of sahaj happening. We all love and we enjoy love. It shows on our faces, that we are in love, in our characters, in our lives - that we are in love. What a thing, which is not very normal, becomes so normal and so easily available only. It is a very big blessing that you are human beings and that this source of love is there plus the feeling for love is there. It’s a very intricate situation which cannot be explained in words, only one can be in it and enjoy it. Now today is a day when we are celebrating the Guru Puja. The greatest Guru that we have is love, Sahaj love, is the Guru within us, which teaches us, which somehow or other leads us. We are led into that great line of understanding for which we don’t have to go to any college, to any school for education. It is something so much within that it works and expresses itself, expresses like light. Such people we can make out because they are fully enlightened. They have light and through that light they see the whole world, which is very innocent and simple for them. We have love for our children, naturally. We have love for our parents, naturally. We have love for some people but that love is different from what love I am telling you. That has some connections, some meanings, but this love which is - cannot be described in words, has to be felt within. Same when you talk of your Guru you should have that love within you. Why do you feel so much? The reason is Guru loves you and you love Guru. That's the only reason why should you love your Guru. Now there's no reason for that. Because love is love. That is how the Guru becomes very important in life. We have people who love their Guru and are very much in chaste understanding of their love. In this great opportunity of love that we are, we are here to enjoy each other fully from our heart. That there is this ocean within us. We have to just get submerged in that ocean. If we are lost in that ocean then we'll have no problems, no questions, everything will be our own, and we can manage everything without any argument, without any questioning. That is what is being Sahaj. The Sahaj way if you have, this love you enjoy. You enjoy yourself and enjoy everybody else, because it is Sahaj. Don’t have to make any efforts, don’t have to try anything, just it is there and it works. The feeling of love has no way of expressing itself. It is just there. It cannot express, because it is without expression. It is just to be felt within yourself. Then you want to do so many things: you want to help everyone, you want to help yourself, you want to do good to others. So much has been done by great leaders of the world, because they had that love. They had nothing else but this love, which they could not contain them within themselves, so they tried to spread it and they are called now as our guru, as our masters. It’s that love within which approached people in that unique manner. That's a thing that we cannot possess, you cannot claim. It is there and it works. It works automatically. This is what we have to know that we are that love. That love is within us, we have to have knowledge, we have to have a complete knowledge that we are that love. That will solve our problem. Because you can explain everything, all your behaviour, all your failures. Everything you can explain when you know that you are endowed with that love. This is what is the Guru, is the love within you, which wants to share love with others, which wants to give love to others. This is what is peace and joy. I can go on talking on love, but to feel it within yourself is the biggest thing. Like water. If you are thirsty, we can give you water – but we cannot drink! You have to drink water and you have to feel the taste, feel the feeling, what it does, and all that is together, that's not separate. I don't think the subject was too subtle for you people. You all have reached a certain amount of understanding of that love. I hope it grows and you grow into it, all of you and enjoy it. May God bless you!

1/15/2005

http://amruta.org/?p=20024

Makar Sankranti Puja: In place of anger, there should be forgiveness

India

Pune

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Makar Sankranti

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Makar Sankranti Puja, translation from Hindi Today is considered to be very important in the Northern part of the earth because the Sun comes from South to the North. This happens on the same day every year. So if we try to see why every year the Sun does the same work, we consider it so important, why we are so happy that the sun comes in the North every year. The thing is that only from the Sun all our work is done. When it is dark and during the night, we are in the sleeping state. But when the sun rises, only after that all our works are carried out. So the thing that affects all the work is the Sun and when it comes to our vicinity, we give it a lot of importance. The biggest thing is that all other festivals are celebrated on the basis of the Moon, but only this festival is celebrated considering the Sun. Also, the people here believe in Surya Narayana and do many rituals on the river Ganges for Surya Narayana, i.e, the Sun. But this is the most important day. So now we have to decide what we shall do on this day, what work to do on this special day. We did Namaskar to the Sun, offered water (arghya) to the Sun and showed all our gratitude towards the Sun. But still what special thing can we do.. especially what Sahaja Yogis can do. Firstly, it is very important to clean the Agnya Chakra, because it is affected by the Sun. For this, what is the importance of Agnya Chakra is that what all planets are there on the Agnya Chakra, according to them, we use to get angry on other people with the Agnya Chakra and our behaviour with them is spoiled, we get angry, and show all kinds of temper. Agnya is a very important area which we must understand is the place of Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ emphasized only one thing, to Forgive everyone. To forgive is a very important thing. Now how to do this..? Many people say that they have forgiven, but it does not happen. To forgive, it is very important to have satisfaction inside. And one should think that what somebody has to do, is done, what do we have to do with it.. what somebody has said, he himself would be used in it.. why should we get involved in it. In this way, if one develops a desireless state and forgives everyone, then Agnya Chakra can be cleared out. By the clearance of Agnya Chakra, a very big obstacle which is there in our growth, which stops the Kundalini, gets cleared, so for this, we should know how to forgive. All the time we keep on thinking who has given what sorrow, what problem; instead of this we should think that we forgive, we forgive this, that, everyone, and you would be amazed that after forgiving, the Kundalini rises so quickly. We only have to raise our Kundalini, and so for it, we should have a clean Agnya. Human beings have a habit of getting angry; God does not have. That's why you should stop getting angry, and in place of anger, there should be forgiveness. By saying Kshama, Kshama 3 times, the Agnya Chakra becomes alright. May God bless you all.

Makar Sankranti Puja, translation from Hindi Today is considered to be very important in the Northern part of the earth because the Sun comes from South to the North. This happens on the same day every year. So if we try to see why every year the Sun does the same work, we consider it so important, why we are so happy that the sun comes in the North every year. The thing is that only from the Sun all our work is done. When it is dark and during the night, we are in the sleeping state. But when the sun rises, only after that all our works are carried out. So the thing that affects all the work is the Sun and when it comes to our vicinity, we give it a lot of importance. The biggest thing is that all other festivals are celebrated on the basis of the Moon, but only this festival is celebrated considering the Sun. Also, the people here believe in Surya Narayana and do many rituals on the river Ganges for Surya Narayana, i.e, the Sun. But this is the most important day. So now we have to decide what we shall do on this day, what work to do on this special day. We did Namaskar to the Sun, offered water (arghya) to the Sun and showed all our gratitude towards the Sun. But still what special thing can we do.. especially what Sahaja Yogis can do. Firstly, it is very important to clean the Agnya Chakra, because it is affected by the Sun. For this, what is the importance of Agnya Chakra is that what all planets are there on the Agnya Chakra, according to them, we use to get angry on other people with the Agnya Chakra and our behaviour with them is spoiled, we get angry, and show all kinds of temper. Agnya is a very important area which we must understand is the place of Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ emphasized only one thing, to Forgive everyone. To forgive is a very important thing. Now how to do this..? Many people say that they have forgiven, but it does not happen. To forgive, it is very important to have satisfaction inside. And one should think that what somebody has to do, is done, what do we have to do with it.. what somebody has said, he himself would be used in it.. why should we get involved in it. In this way, if one develops a desireless state and forgives everyone, then Agnya Chakra can be cleared out. By the clearance of Agnya Chakra, a very big obstacle which is there in our growth, which stops the Kundalini, gets cleared, so for this, we should know how to forgive. All the time we keep on thinking who has given what sorrow, what problem; instead of this we should think that we forgive, we forgive this, that, everyone, and you would be amazed that after forgiving, the Kundalini rises so quickly. We only have to raise our Kundalini, and so for it, we should have a clean Agnya. Human beings have a habit of getting angry; God does not have. That's why you should stop getting angry, and in place of anger, there should be forgiveness. By saying Kshama, Kshama 3 times, the Agnya Chakra becomes alright. May God bless you all.

8/2/2006

http://amruta.org/?p=10142

Talk to Sahaja Yogis: We are very close

England

London

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Address to Sahaja Yogis, Chiswick, London (United Kingdom), 2006-0802 Shri Mataji: We have to realize that we are very close, all of us.Sir CP: They are.Shri Mataji: We are very close.If that was realized, then finished! Then you don’t have to bother about anything else. [Applause from Sir CP] That is you are real brothers and sisters, that’s a different point, but this is- it means in Sahaja Yoga you are. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi to Sir CP]Sir CP: Hum? Nothing.Thanks to all. Thank you. (inaudible) workVery very clear. https://mothersarchive.sahajaworldfoundation.org/uk2006/story/35.html

Address to Sahaja Yogis, Chiswick, London (United Kingdom), 2006-0802 Shri Mataji: We have to realize that we are very close, all of us.Sir CP: They are.Shri Mataji: We are very close.If that was realized, then finished! Then you don’t have to bother about anything else. [Applause from Sir CP] That is you are real brothers and sisters, that’s a different point, but this is- it means in Sahaja Yoga you are. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi to Sir CP]Sir CP: Hum? Nothing.Thanks to all. Thank you. (inaudible) workVery very clear. https://mothersarchive.sahajaworldfoundation.org/uk2006/story/35.html

1/1/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=50105

Shri Mataji visit to Daglio

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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4/8/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=729

Easter Puja: Be Peaceful

India

Pune

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Easter

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HH Shri Mataji, Easter Puja. Pratishthan, Pune (India), 8 April 2007. Shri Mataji: Today is a very important day. [Mic is changed] Hello. Sahaja Yogis: Hello Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Better, is it? Sahaja Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji. I’m saying today is very important. This is a new starting for you, for you all. Try to understand that you have worked very hard so far and you wanted to do much more than you have been able to do. That was your desire and it will work out, definitely it will work out. If your desire is strong things will work out and you’ll get a great chance of helping people as you have helped yourself and you are happy about it, it’s better that you decide to help others. It’s important, they all should be blessed. You can do it. There lies your leadership that you have to give it to others. Most of you have got it for yourself but you have to give it to others. Let the others also gain in their spirituality. I know so many of you got your Realization and you are so much in it and you are all very happy. So be happy and cheerful, that is the first sign that you are Realized, that you have got the Realization. With this Realization you can give Realization to others. The speciality of today is that Christ came back to life just to do something for us. So, it’s a very important day for all of us. I would say that today you should understand that you have got this power to give Realization to others. You have got it but now you have to use. Those who have Self-realization should not waste their energy but try to give it. This world is full of chaos and quarrels and fighting still going on? So, your duty and your job will be to talk to them and tell them that first important is: Sahaja Yogis must become peaceful and they must enjoy the fruits of Sahaja Yoga. I’m sure everything will work out. It has worked out with so many of you and it will work out with others also. It’s not just a talk but there’s something happening so try to remember that you are all Sahaja Yogis and you deserve a very good help, very good help from Me and from God Almighty [Shri Mataji laughs]. There is nothing to be upset; these are all different tests which will work out the goodness in you and we’ll get the results. You’ll find Sahaja Yogis, special ones. It’s very nice to see so many of you who have tried to get Realization but who are really already Realized. There are many who want to have Realization but there are already many who are already Realized and who can do a lot for others who want their help. Today is a good day where you have to decide for your future. You have to decide that you are going to (?) , to help other Sahaja Yogis to get more Sahaja Yogis. We have to spread Sahaja Yoga. You see so many problems are there and the more we have as Sahaja Yogis, there’s no problem left, it will be all solved. So I wish you luck that please try to get your Realization proper and confirmed. I hope you don’t have doubts about it. If you have any doubts, you can write to Me. Now we have got some very nice good people who have come to Sahaja Yoga, so it is your duty to see that they become good Sahaja Yogis and enjoy their blessings. I’m very happy to see so many of you coming and today being a very good day also. In the life of Christ, very great thing happened that He became – He became or He was already a Sahaja Yogi and He tried to make many Sahaja Yogis if possible. But at that time the people were not so alert as you are. You are special people who are seeking and who have found out and you can give it to others. This is not for keeping with yourself. If you have got it, just don’t think that you have got the last chance but give chance to others. I’m all with you. Anyone of you has any personal or any other problem you should write to Me. I’m sorry I won’t be able to give anything for this special day. [Laughter & applause] Sahaja Yogis: Bolo Adi Shakti, Nirmala Mataji ki, Jai! May God bless you all. Once you have got Self-realization you have to give it to others and respect it, that is important to respect it. I am sure it will work out; and you all look so good to Me and I am sure that all of you will do it. I have not been able to finish anything I have started and I have to work hard to pull others out so they can see their value.

HH Shri Mataji, Easter Puja. Pratishthan, Pune (India), 8 April 2007. Shri Mataji: Today is a very important day. [Mic is changed] Hello. Sahaja Yogis: Hello Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Better, is it? Sahaja Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji. I’m saying today is very important. This is a new starting for you, for you all. Try to understand that you have worked very hard so far and you wanted to do much more than you have been able to do. That was your desire and it will work out, definitely it will work out. If your desire is strong things will work out and you’ll get a great chance of helping people as you have helped yourself and you are happy about it, it’s better that you decide to help others. It’s important, they all should be blessed. You can do it. There lies your leadership that you have to give it to others. Most of you have got it for yourself but you have to give it to others. Let the others also gain in their spirituality. I know so many of you got your Realization and you are so much in it and you are all very happy. So be happy and cheerful, that is the first sign that you are Realized, that you have got the Realization. With this Realization you can give Realization to others. The speciality of today is that Christ came back to life just to do something for us. So, it’s a very important day for all of us. I would say that today you should understand that you have got this power to give Realization to others. You have got it but now you have to use. Those who have Self-realization should not waste their energy but try to give it. This world is full of chaos and quarrels and fighting still going on? So, your duty and your job will be to talk to them and tell them that first important is: Sahaja Yogis must become peaceful and they must enjoy the fruits of Sahaja Yoga. I’m sure everything will work out. It has worked out with so many of you and it will work out with others also. It’s not just a talk but there’s something happening so try to remember that you are all Sahaja Yogis and you deserve a very good help, very good help from Me and from God Almighty [Shri Mataji laughs]. There is nothing to be upset; these are all different tests which will work out the goodness in you and we’ll get the results. You’ll find Sahaja Yogis, special ones. It’s very nice to see so many of you who have tried to get Realization but who are really already Realized. There are many who want to have Realization but there are already many who are already Realized and who can do a lot for others who want their help. Today is a good day where you have to decide for your future. You have to decide that you are going to (?) , to help other Sahaja Yogis to get more Sahaja Yogis. We have to spread Sahaja Yoga. You see so many problems are there and the more we have as Sahaja Yogis, there’s no problem left, it will be all solved. So I wish you luck that please try to get your Realization proper and confirmed. I hope you don’t have doubts about it. If you have any doubts, you can write to Me. Now we have got some very nice good people who have come to Sahaja Yoga, so it is your duty to see that they become good Sahaja Yogis and enjoy their blessings. I’m very happy to see so many of you coming and today being a very good day also. In the life of Christ, very great thing happened that He became – He became or He was already a Sahaja Yogi and He tried to make many Sahaja Yogis if possible. But at that time the people were not so alert as you are. You are special people who are seeking and who have found out and you can give it to others. This is not for keeping with yourself. If you have got it, just don’t think that you have got the last chance but give chance to others. I’m all with you. Anyone of you has any personal or any other problem you should write to Me. I’m sorry I won’t be able to give anything for this special day. [Laughter & applause] Sahaja Yogis: Bolo Adi Shakti, Nirmala Mataji ki, Jai! May God bless you all. Once you have got Self-realization you have to give it to others and respect it, that is important to respect it. I am sure it will work out; and you all look so good to Me and I am sure that all of you will do it. I have not been able to finish anything I have started and I have to work hard to pull others out so they can see their value.

6/24/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=1552

Adi Shakti Puja: You Have to Become Fragrant

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Adi Shakti

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Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 24 June 2007. It is very nice to see you all again here. I think this is the first Puja that we are having in this place and I hope you are all comfortable and convenient for you to come here. Today is really a very great day. It’s an Adi Shakti, to celebrate Adi Shakti and what is the origin of this Adi Shakti. I’ve never talked about it. This is the first time I’ll tell you that Adi Shakti is the Primordial Mother, is the power, power of God, that wanted to create this world. And She Herself managed to create this great world. (Can’t you all sit down? There’s no space for them or what? Please be seated. Why are they standing? There are chairs behind you. It’s alright you can sit on chairs. This is all falling down (refers to microphone). As far as possible be comfortable. Don’t strain yourselves unnecessarily. I hope you all find some place to be seated comfortably.) So today I’m going to tell you about Adi Shakti which is a very, very ancient subject. Adi Shakti is the power of God Himself and She created this world to bring His kingdom on this Earth. You can imagine it was, there was nothing but darkness and out of this darkness She had to create all these beautiful, picturous trees and all kinds of vegetation. That She did create. But what is the use having all these things which do not speak, do not understand? There’s no manifestation with them. Of course some of the trees and some of the flowers do receive beautiful vibrations and they grow very well, but not all, some of them. For example I must tell you that here flowers have no fragrance, all the flowers they have no fragrance. I’ve been going around to see if there were flowers of fragrance. But what they do is to grow them big; they’re very big, much bigger than you can find them anywhere. But there is no fragrance. While in a poor country like India, the flowers have tremendous fragrance. Even small flowers have tremendous fragrance. Now what is the speciality of the fragrance in India and nowhere else? Nowhere. Some flowers may be having little fragrance but there is no fragrance in the flowers that are grown so very beautifully, full of love and care. But lots of wild flowers also in India have got fragrance. What is the reason? They say that the soil of India has fragrance. How can you have fragrance in the soil? But it is a fact. What I’m saying is not just a story but is a fact that in India any flower that you grow mostly, has mostly, has fragrance. While here that’s not the case. Neither it is in any other country, you go to Norway or you go to Germany, any other country you go you won’t find any fragrance in the flowers. It is very shocking why there is no fragrance in flowers. When this world was created there was no fragrance but in some areas there was, specially areas which we call as India and otherwise. It is unbelievable that here or anywhere abroad there are no flowers with fragrance. So now you are born here, you have brought the fragrance, you are the people who are realised souls and you have got the fragrance to spread, so your responsibility - double I think - that you must spread fragrance. Fragrance is something very innate, even this soil which we should say is without fragrance, the people have fragrance in their character, in their behaviour, in their understanding and there is peace which they are aspiring. I don’t say they are peaceful but they are aspiring to have peace. This aspiration only suggests they are fragrant people, that they are very fragrant. What is a fragrance in a human being is, his nature, his temperament, how he is and how he behaves towards others. All the countries all over, still not aware that you have to become fragrant. If they were to be aware then all wars will end, everything will finish off and they will know we are all one. We do not belong to different countries or anything which we have made. God has not made France. We have made that this is your country, this is their country and country-wise we fight. This country belongs to no one. This belongs to God. But people stupidly fight on the countries, that this is our country, this is our country. Now I have travelled all over the world, I wouldn’t say any country as their own because if you own a country you should have fragrance, you should have temperament which will make other people feel that you come from countries of fragrance. Won’t have to argue. But one country fighting with another country. Everywhere it goes on, you read in the newspaper all the time you see this nonsense, that countries are fighting and the more they are developed better they are. In this development of theirs I hope they rise and become spiritual and they develop fragrance. But this fighting spirit of human beings has come from Satan I think. That they are killing themselves, killing others, destroying the whole world. You read newspaper you feel so ashamed how human beings are going on. So all the Sahaja Yogis should not support any kind of fight. They are not; they are here to bring fragrance to people, to bring happiness, to joy and not to fight. That is one of the first duties of Sahaja Yogis, not to join anything which hates, which fights, which creates problems. These fighting spirits have destroyed the fragrance of the soil. If people become loving and affectionate, this soil itself will become fragrant. First thing we must learn is to love each other and not to hate anyone. There are so many ways of hating, this also human quality. Animals do hate because they are animals. Human beings can’t be animals. We are human beings and as human beings what we should have is love, affection and no hatred of any kind. Now as you are Sahaja Yogis I would say that you should try to develop your loving capacity instead of fighting capacity or criticizing others. Very easy to criticize. But try to understand that our soil itself has no fragrance. How are we to bring fragrance to this soil? This is only if people live here have affection and love for each other. This is the most important thing. When creation took place it was only through affection, otherwise what was the need for nature to create all these things, all this is for what? To make you feel beautiful, all these trees are beautiful to make you feel good, to feel one with the nature. In that way we human beings have not contributed. Now I’m not saying Sahaja Yogis, they are rare and they are wonderful and they have done a good job because they consider love the highest. But you have to show to others also that you want to love them because they should love each other. The whole world is created because there was love, otherwise what was the need to waste energy on these continents and all these different countries? Was not to fight, was not to hate each other or to think no end of yourself but to love each other, to have more brothers and sisters, as in Sahaja Yoga you feel that way you have brothers and sisters all over. Today when I was coming I was so happy to see there were people from all over Europe and also from India. How is it possible? Because you have developed that love, because you have that love that innate love so wherever you go, wherever you meet people they should say that we have seen Sahaja Yogis who are nothing but love. They are not bothered as to what you are, what your position is or anything, they only know that you are a Sahaja Yogi and a Sahaja Yogi loves other Sahaja Yogis. This is a very big achievement; it was never there as there is no fragrance in the soil, no fragrance in the human beings. Now that has come. Now you have got the capacity to love each other and to help each other and to understand each other. Not to criticise and not to insult or in any way defame them. This I am saying because you are all rare people who are Sahaja Yogis. How many people there are Sahaja Yogis you see, very few. We have to have more Sahaja Yogis that they understand that we are all part and parcel of one country and that country is of love. This when it happens then we’ll say that Sahaja Yoga has worked out. Helping each other, understanding each other, that should be there and I think Sahaja Yogis do understand each other and they love each other, but still it should go more than their limits. Many people don’t understand that Sahaja Yoga is not for them only; it is for the whole world. You have to give it to others and you have to bring forth what you call unity of love. In love you don’t see wrong things. You just enjoy love and that is what is to be seen in this today’s Puja, is that do we bear any hatred for anyone, do we have ill feelings for anyone or for any country? We should try to examine yourself. If you are a real Sahaja Yogi you’ll hate no one, you’ll hate no one, but you’ll love and love as your own, love is the biggest thing that God has given human beings and that is what one has to try to develop it. I’m so happy here, now you have come all the way to celebrate this first day, first day of your growth as Sahaja Yoga, Sahaja Yogis. Now if the Sahaja Yogis spread out and become Sahaja Yogis and Sahaja Yogis, then your job is finished because then you are enjoying the joy of oneness, so one has to do it in a way that we all become one. There is nothing to criticize or to hate anyone but to love each other is the point and there I find there are so many Sahaja Yogis who have achieved that loving level and there are some still who are struggling, they haven’t come up to that level; some, not many. Sahaja Yoga means we are one, we are all Sahaja Yogis, but not separately, together. If one understands this fact you have celebrated today’s great day of Adi Shakti. Why did Adi Shakti create this world? Why did all this happen, why don’t we think why so much of love, so much of prosperity has been given to us? We never realise where are we and how much we have got. It’s not the money but the love and when you’ll understand you’ll really love each other and there is no hatred, there is no revenge, nothing but just love and love and love. This is what is the message of today. We all have to be loving each other. We have to have all kinds of rituals but it is only expression of our love, it’s not just a ritual, it is love, when you have love of the Mother how do you express? In the same way we have to know that today we have to promise that for us love is the most important. We should love. People don’t even love in their own families. I’m not talking to such people I know, they love their own families, their own village, their own surroundings, everywhere. But still the world is still going on with wars, fighting and all kinds of troubles. The whole world has to come up to love each other, there is no other solution but to love. And in that love there is no selfishness but enjoyment, and that enjoyment you should feel and give it to others. I am sure you all Sahaja yogis are doing that and you are seeing the mistakes of the others and not to get anybody into trouble. Love is the message of Adi shakti. Now you think about it. One Adi shakti created the whole world. How she must have done it. What she must have planned. How she must have organised. It is not a easy thing. Only because she loved. Love is the expression that you are all there. That is why to be one with Her one should learn to love. Of course in that you have to know that you should forgive. If you don’t know how to forgive and find mistakes of other people you won’t help. What is your now job is, is to see that you are loving, no hatred for anyone, you don’t think of hating anyone and hitting somebody. This has to work out. I am sure it will work out in all the European countries and Indian subcontinent. Those who are developed are fighting and those who are not developed are fighting. They have their own style of fighting. That is the only difference. But there is no love. If you want to have love then you feel sorry. Supposing I see some country, X country. Then it is very easy for me to criticize that this country is very bad, people are bad, this is bad, that is bad… but I think. Potentially they are all fine. Very good people. Some or other I should be able to make them understand. If they understand what is love and enjoy love there will be no problems of any kind. Only human beings know how to love, nobody else. Animals also love but their love is so limited. But human beings, their love is so beautiful. They look beautiful only when they love. So I have to tell you not to make cheap love but a love that you will enjoy and that another person will also enjoy. It’s something to be understood. The way people understand love is sometimes very ridiculous. So one has to first understand what is love and also to understand whether you love or not. If you really love the world, if you really love this creation of God, then there should be no hatred. There should be no fights but just to see the good points. As a motherwould see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful piece that God has created for you. This subject is so lengthy that I can talk to you for hours. But I have to just say that if you can understand, little bit of it is this: we all should have love for each other and we should have understanding. Look at the small children they love each other they haven’t learned yet how to hate. But if the children are not brought up well they can hate each other, they can be very ridiculously funny and so many countries today are like that. They are just fighting because they do not love. Now, so Sahaja yogis have a much greater job,much greater life that they have to show that love is a very great thing. It doesn’t matter whether you are Hindu, Christian, this, that nonsense. You are all human beings and we have a right to love and if you manage somehow to love people, I tell you Sahaja yoga will settle down. Sahaja yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. Try this. Try around your life and you ‘ll find that how love base itself. Not to be seen by how much you spend or what you do. It is not that you count all those things, it is just like a ocean floats everything around, you become like that a typical personality of Sahaja yoga. So all the Sahaja yogis must decide today that we are going to forgive all the people we hate and we are going to love all of them. Let us see if it works out. I am sure it will work out, because first of all, you are all realised souls and secondly love is the biggest, biggest boon on human beings, which, if utilised [?], there will be no problem of any kind. So, thank you very much.

Adi Shakti Puja, Cabella Ligure, 24 June 2007. It is very nice to see you all again here. I think this is the first Puja that we are having in this place and I hope you are all comfortable and convenient for you to come here. Today is really a very great day. It’s an Adi Shakti, to celebrate Adi Shakti and what is the origin of this Adi Shakti. I’ve never talked about it. This is the first time I’ll tell you that Adi Shakti is the Primordial Mother, is the power, power of God, that wanted to create this world. And She Herself managed to create this great world. (Can’t you all sit down? There’s no space for them or what? Please be seated. Why are they standing? There are chairs behind you. It’s alright you can sit on chairs. This is all falling down (refers to microphone). As far as possible be comfortable. Don’t strain yourselves unnecessarily. I hope you all find some place to be seated comfortably.) So today I’m going to tell you about Adi Shakti which is a very, very ancient subject. Adi Shakti is the power of God Himself and She created this world to bring His kingdom on this Earth. You can imagine it was, there was nothing but darkness and out of this darkness She had to create all these beautiful, picturous trees and all kinds of vegetation. That She did create. But what is the use having all these things which do not speak, do not understand? There’s no manifestation with them. Of course some of the trees and some of the flowers do receive beautiful vibrations and they grow very well, but not all, some of them. For example I must tell you that here flowers have no fragrance, all the flowers they have no fragrance. I’ve been going around to see if there were flowers of fragrance. But what they do is to grow them big; they’re very big, much bigger than you can find them anywhere. But there is no fragrance. While in a poor country like India, the flowers have tremendous fragrance. Even small flowers have tremendous fragrance. Now what is the speciality of the fragrance in India and nowhere else? Nowhere. Some flowers may be having little fragrance but there is no fragrance in the flowers that are grown so very beautifully, full of love and care. But lots of wild flowers also in India have got fragrance. What is the reason? They say that the soil of India has fragrance. How can you have fragrance in the soil? But it is a fact. What I’m saying is not just a story but is a fact that in India any flower that you grow mostly, has mostly, has fragrance. While here that’s not the case. Neither it is in any other country, you go to Norway or you go to Germany, any other country you go you won’t find any fragrance in the flowers. It is very shocking why there is no fragrance in flowers. When this world was created there was no fragrance but in some areas there was, specially areas which we call as India and otherwise. It is unbelievable that here or anywhere abroad there are no flowers with fragrance. So now you are born here, you have brought the fragrance, you are the people who are realised souls and you have got the fragrance to spread, so your responsibility - double I think - that you must spread fragrance. Fragrance is something very innate, even this soil which we should say is without fragrance, the people have fragrance in their character, in their behaviour, in their understanding and there is peace which they are aspiring. I don’t say they are peaceful but they are aspiring to have peace. This aspiration only suggests they are fragrant people, that they are very fragrant. What is a fragrance in a human being is, his nature, his temperament, how he is and how he behaves towards others. All the countries all over, still not aware that you have to become fragrant. If they were to be aware then all wars will end, everything will finish off and they will know we are all one. We do not belong to different countries or anything which we have made. God has not made France. We have made that this is your country, this is their country and country-wise we fight. This country belongs to no one. This belongs to God. But people stupidly fight on the countries, that this is our country, this is our country. Now I have travelled all over the world, I wouldn’t say any country as their own because if you own a country you should have fragrance, you should have temperament which will make other people feel that you come from countries of fragrance. Won’t have to argue. But one country fighting with another country. Everywhere it goes on, you read in the newspaper all the time you see this nonsense, that countries are fighting and the more they are developed better they are. In this development of theirs I hope they rise and become spiritual and they develop fragrance. But this fighting spirit of human beings has come from Satan I think. That they are killing themselves, killing others, destroying the whole world. You read newspaper you feel so ashamed how human beings are going on. So all the Sahaja Yogis should not support any kind of fight. They are not; they are here to bring fragrance to people, to bring happiness, to joy and not to fight. That is one of the first duties of Sahaja Yogis, not to join anything which hates, which fights, which creates problems. These fighting spirits have destroyed the fragrance of the soil. If people become loving and affectionate, this soil itself will become fragrant. First thing we must learn is to love each other and not to hate anyone. There are so many ways of hating, this also human quality. Animals do hate because they are animals. Human beings can’t be animals. We are human beings and as human beings what we should have is love, affection and no hatred of any kind. Now as you are Sahaja Yogis I would say that you should try to develop your loving capacity instead of fighting capacity or criticizing others. Very easy to criticize. But try to understand that our soil itself has no fragrance. How are we to bring fragrance to this soil? This is only if people live here have affection and love for each other. This is the most important thing. When creation took place it was only through affection, otherwise what was the need for nature to create all these things, all this is for what? To make you feel beautiful, all these trees are beautiful to make you feel good, to feel one with the nature. In that way we human beings have not contributed. Now I’m not saying Sahaja Yogis, they are rare and they are wonderful and they have done a good job because they consider love the highest. But you have to show to others also that you want to love them because they should love each other. The whole world is created because there was love, otherwise what was the need to waste energy on these continents and all these different countries? Was not to fight, was not to hate each other or to think no end of yourself but to love each other, to have more brothers and sisters, as in Sahaja Yoga you feel that way you have brothers and sisters all over. Today when I was coming I was so happy to see there were people from all over Europe and also from India. How is it possible? Because you have developed that love, because you have that love that innate love so wherever you go, wherever you meet people they should say that we have seen Sahaja Yogis who are nothing but love. They are not bothered as to what you are, what your position is or anything, they only know that you are a Sahaja Yogi and a Sahaja Yogi loves other Sahaja Yogis. This is a very big achievement; it was never there as there is no fragrance in the soil, no fragrance in the human beings. Now that has come. Now you have got the capacity to love each other and to help each other and to understand each other. Not to criticise and not to insult or in any way defame them. This I am saying because you are all rare people who are Sahaja Yogis. How many people there are Sahaja Yogis you see, very few. We have to have more Sahaja Yogis that they understand that we are all part and parcel of one country and that country is of love. This when it happens then we’ll say that Sahaja Yoga has worked out. Helping each other, understanding each other, that should be there and I think Sahaja Yogis do understand each other and they love each other, but still it should go more than their limits. Many people don’t understand that Sahaja Yoga is not for them only; it is for the whole world. You have to give it to others and you have to bring forth what you call unity of love. In love you don’t see wrong things. You just enjoy love and that is what is to be seen in this today’s Puja, is that do we bear any hatred for anyone, do we have ill feelings for anyone or for any country? We should try to examine yourself. If you are a real Sahaja Yogi you’ll hate no one, you’ll hate no one, but you’ll love and love as your own, love is the biggest thing that God has given human beings and that is what one has to try to develop it. I’m so happy here, now you have come all the way to celebrate this first day, first day of your growth as Sahaja Yoga, Sahaja Yogis. Now if the Sahaja Yogis spread out and become Sahaja Yogis and Sahaja Yogis, then your job is finished because then you are enjoying the joy of oneness, so one has to do it in a way that we all become one. There is nothing to criticize or to hate anyone but to love each other is the point and there I find there are so many Sahaja Yogis who have achieved that loving level and there are some still who are struggling, they haven’t come up to that level; some, not many. Sahaja Yoga means we are one, we are all Sahaja Yogis, but not separately, together. If one understands this fact you have celebrated today’s great day of Adi Shakti. Why did Adi Shakti create this world? Why did all this happen, why don’t we think why so much of love, so much of prosperity has been given to us? We never realise where are we and how much we have got. It’s not the money but the love and when you’ll understand you’ll really love each other and there is no hatred, there is no revenge, nothing but just love and love and love. This is what is the message of today. We all have to be loving each other. We have to have all kinds of rituals but it is only expression of our love, it’s not just a ritual, it is love, when you have love of the Mother how do you express? In the same way we have to know that today we have to promise that for us love is the most important. We should love. People don’t even love in their own families. I’m not talking to such people I know, they love their own families, their own village, their own surroundings, everywhere. But still the world is still going on with wars, fighting and all kinds of troubles. The whole world has to come up to love each other, there is no other solution but to love. And in that love there is no selfishness but enjoyment, and that enjoyment you should feel and give it to others. I am sure you all Sahaja yogis are doing that and you are seeing the mistakes of the others and not to get anybody into trouble. Love is the message of Adi shakti. Now you think about it. One Adi shakti created the whole world. How she must have done it. What she must have planned. How she must have organised. It is not a easy thing. Only because she loved. Love is the expression that you are all there. That is why to be one with Her one should learn to love. Of course in that you have to know that you should forgive. If you don’t know how to forgive and find mistakes of other people you won’t help. What is your now job is, is to see that you are loving, no hatred for anyone, you don’t think of hating anyone and hitting somebody. This has to work out. I am sure it will work out in all the European countries and Indian subcontinent. Those who are developed are fighting and those who are not developed are fighting. They have their own style of fighting. That is the only difference. But there is no love. If you want to have love then you feel sorry. Supposing I see some country, X country. Then it is very easy for me to criticize that this country is very bad, people are bad, this is bad, that is bad… but I think. Potentially they are all fine. Very good people. Some or other I should be able to make them understand. If they understand what is love and enjoy love there will be no problems of any kind. Only human beings know how to love, nobody else. Animals also love but their love is so limited. But human beings, their love is so beautiful. They look beautiful only when they love. So I have to tell you not to make cheap love but a love that you will enjoy and that another person will also enjoy. It’s something to be understood. The way people understand love is sometimes very ridiculous. So one has to first understand what is love and also to understand whether you love or not. If you really love the world, if you really love this creation of God, then there should be no hatred. There should be no fights but just to see the good points. As a motherwould see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful piece that God has created for you. This subject is so lengthy that I can talk to you for hours. But I have to just say that if you can understand, little bit of it is this: we all should have love for each other and we should have understanding. Look at the small children they love each other they haven’t learned yet how to hate. But if the children are not brought up well they can hate each other, they can be very ridiculously funny and so many countries today are like that. They are just fighting because they do not love. Now, so Sahaja yogis have a much greater job,much greater life that they have to show that love is a very great thing. It doesn’t matter whether you are Hindu, Christian, this, that nonsense. You are all human beings and we have a right to love and if you manage somehow to love people, I tell you Sahaja yoga will settle down. Sahaja yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water. Try this. Try around your life and you ‘ll find that how love base itself. Not to be seen by how much you spend or what you do. It is not that you count all those things, it is just like a ocean floats everything around, you become like that a typical personality of Sahaja yoga. So all the Sahaja yogis must decide today that we are going to forgive all the people we hate and we are going to love all of them. Let us see if it works out. I am sure it will work out, because first of all, you are all realised souls and secondly love is the biggest, biggest boon on human beings, which, if utilised [?], there will be no problem of any kind. So, thank you very much.

6/24/2007

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Lakshmi Basket before Adi Shakti Puja Shri Mataji: What may be brought? This is from which country? Yogi: Organizing country Shri Mataji: Colombo, Belgium, Spain, Yogini: Norway, Sweden Yogi: Finland and France, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This one? Yogi: Spain Shri Mataji: Thank You very much. Beautiful, Beautiful!. May God Bless you!. Very nice vibrations. Very beautiful. Yogi: Call the ladies Shri Mataji: From What Country? Yogini: Norway Shri Mataji: Norway!. Oh, very good. Yogi: Thank you! Shri Mataji: This is from what country Yogini and Yogi: Belgium Shri Mataji: Belgium, nice! Yogini: Spectacles. Shri Mataji: Trees Yogini: A Napkin Shri Mataji: Beautiful.So Many things Yogini: Lithuania Shri Mataji: Where? Yogi: Lithuania Shri Mataji.Lithuania. Near Russia. Baltic Countries. Shri Mataji: Beautiful. What is this, a Shawl? Yogi and Yogini: Table Cloth Shri Mataji: Table Cloth, hand-made. Thank you very much! Yogini: Lithuania Yogi: Ukraine? Yogi: Lithuania, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: See Rose. Is this rose from there? Yogini: No, No (and laughs) Yogi: From here, she has taken, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: what is this? Yogi: Is this Cream? Spray Another Yogi: Spray Shri Mataji. Green tea Spray. Perfume. Perfume, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Perfume, Is it? …. Very good. Very good. Excellent! Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Scandinavia Yogi: Scandinavian countries Shri Mataji. Scandinavian countries Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Beautiful. Beautiful! This cloth is from there? Yogini: Yes Shri Mataji: They make like this? Yogini: Yes, yes Shri Mataji: Very Good! Very Good to make that cloth. We make them in India (everyone laughs). Very nice. Thank you, Thank you very much. Yogi: Tell your country. Which country? Yogini: Spain. Yogi: Spain Shri Mataji: This is for eating. Yogi: Yes. Olive oil Yogini: Oil, Jam. Yogi: (repeats) Oil, Jam. Shri Mataji: Which oil is it? Olive? Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: And what is this? Yogi: Peach. It's a fruit, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Okay. Is it, its juice? Yogi: yes, yes Shri Mataji. Jam, Shri Mataji: From where? Yogi: Spain, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: what is this? Yogi: Jam, Jam Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Wonderful! These things are made there? Yogi: It is from Spain. In Spain, yes. Yogi: This is? This is also Spain Yogi: Saffron, Almonds. Shri Mataji: In Spain? Does Spain make Saffron? What flower does it come from? Yogi: This is Zafran. Small flower. Yogi: Small flower, Shri Mataji. It is a small flower. Shri Mataji: What's at the back? Yogi: Lentils Shri Mataji: Keep them at the table. Yogini: Holland Yogi: Holland Shri Mataji: From which country? Holland? Wow! This is made in Holland? Yogini: I think so, yes. Shri Mataji: This is very good! We make Like this in India also. (Everyone Laughs) Exactly. Thank you very much! Shri Mataji: What country is that? Yogini: These are from different countries. From France and other countries Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Perfume Yogi: This is Perfume, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Box Yogi: Some biscuits. From Holland. Holland, France, mixed. Shri Mataji: Holland, France and? Yogi: Integration! Yogi: This one is from? Shri Mataji: This is "Attar". Where is this from? Yogi: Where is this one from? Shri Mataji: Attar, perfume. It must be from France. Yogi: Yes. Is it from France? Yogi: This is from Turkey, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Turkey? Yogi: Integration, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Mixed up! Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Ah.Norway Yogi: Norway Shri Mataji: Its Made there? Yogini: This one is made from Norwegian flowers on the mountain. Norwegian mountain. Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Norwegian mountain flowers. Shri Mataji: Okay. I know, it is famous there. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: They are famous. What is this? Oh, God. There is a big line. Yogi: Jam Shri Mataji: Thank you!. Thank you very much. Yogi: Holland Shri Mataji: Holland. All Hand-made Yogini: I am sorry, I don't know. Shri Mataji: This is so beautiful. What is this? Yogini: It is for the oven. To put things in the oven Shri Mataji. Yogi: For Cooking. Yogi: To put in the oven. Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: For the oven. They are oven proof Yogini: Yes Shri Mataji: Thank you! …………So Many Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Norway. Yogi: Norway Shri Mataji. Sweets, Chocolates. These are chocolates Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: From Norway Yogi: Cream, Small wallet, Shri Mataji: Where are you going to keep it. Yogi: Shri Mataji, I will keep it here. Shri Mataji: Keep it nearby. Thank you very much Yogini: Belgium Yogi: Belgium Shri Mataji: Belgium Yogi: Crystal. It is of Crystal Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: In Belgium, they make crystal? This is beautiful. Yogini: Biscuits etc. Yogi: ok Shri Mataji: Marathi….. Shri Mataji: What country? Yogini: France. Shri Mataji: France. This is also France? Yogini: Sweden Yogi: Sweden Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Beautiful! France, what have they sent. Perfume Yogini: Perfume of roses Shri Mataji: Yogi: Yes, Yes Shri Mataji: This is there, France. Embroidery. Beautiful. What an idea. Yogi: Three at the time, please. Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Finland Shri Mataji: Finland. I have been to Finland Yogi: Cream, lotion, soap, Shri Mataji: Soap Yogini: Made in Finland Shri Mataji: This is? Beautiful. Yogi: Hand-made Shri Mataji. Hand-made Shri Mataji: Thank you! From where? Yogi: which country? Yogini: Spain Yogi: Spain, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This is from Spain? Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This is from Spain? This is Spanish. Such a Big one. Yogi: Artificial flower Shri Mataji: Artificial or Real. What is this? Yogini: Hungarian Perfume. Yogi: It is perfume Shri Mataji. Rose perfume. Shri Mataji: Where? Spain? Yogi: Can you tell, what is it? Yogi: This is from Bulgaria. These are dry flowers in a cloth to keep in the toilet. Shri Mataji: This is new. Every country has to give, Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: This one? Yogini: France Yogi: France Shri Mataji: France? You get it in France. I never saw these. Yogi: For cooking Shri Mataji: For cooking. All Hand-made. Wonderful. Yes, what is this? Very decorative. And you can put it in the kitchen and it will not look bad. We have it, what you have in India. Shri Mataji: What is this. For what? Yogini: tea Shri Mataji: Tea. A utensil for tea Yogini: Hand-Made Yogi: Hand-Made Shri Mataji: Oh is it. What is this? Yogini: Dry flower Yogi: Dry Flower Shri Mataji Yogini: For good smell. And oil. Yogi: From where? Yogini: I am from Finland. This is from France Shri Mataji: France. All this? Yogi: All this? Yogini: I think so. Its origin is from France. Shri Mataji: Thank you very much Yogini: Jai Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: From what country? Yogini: I am from Denmark Yogi: Denmark Shri Mataji: Denmark? Ok Yogini: And these things are from everybody Shri Mataji: Good work. What is this? Yogini: They are socks Yogi: For your socks. Warm socks. Shri Mataji: Ohhh! (Mother laughs) And what is this? Yogi: Massage oil. Oil Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: For what purpose. For eating? Yogi: No for Massage Yogini: Massage oil Shri Mataji: Massage Oil.hmm.. Yogi: Candle. Candle Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Nice for Hair. Isn't it? Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: Thank you. Thank you very much. Is it over? Yogi: Yes, Yes Mother Yogini: Should I remove your spectacles? Shri Mataji: leave it like that….. Too many things. Actually, even if I go to those countries, I can never purchase these things. I don't know where u get them….Especially France. You go to the market. These things you don't find. C.P. Srivastava: You will find Shri Mataji: If they come with me. Yogis: yes, yes Shri Mataji C.P. Srivastava: You go to the country. They will all go with you for shopping. Shri Mataji: They don't. will you go with me? Yogis: Of course. Of course mother Shri Mataji: Thank you very much, very kind of you. Thank you. Shri Mataji: what is this Yogi: For your Puja Shri Mataji: from which country Yogini: Made from Garden's flower, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Which flower. Yogini: Garden's Rose flower Shri Mataji: Oh! From our Garden Shri Mataji: This is a Maharashtrian Style. Okay, let's go…I think you people go ahead and I will come back. Yogi: Okay, everyone. Shri Mataji: They all look very nice in a saree Yogini: Mother shall I give a shawl to you? C.P. Srivastava: It would be cold. Shri Mataji: I don't need it. Yogini: It's a cold mother Shri Mataji: If I feel cold, then I will ask for it. Is it over? You go ahead, I will join you. Yogi: everybody, everybody should go Shri Mataji: who is this Yogi: Carlos Shri Mataji: And who is this? Yogi: Adi Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Avi? Yogi: Adi. Shri Mataji: Adi? Oh Wow, what a name. Why don't you go there and I will join you…. Where are they from? Yogi: Shri Mataji Switzerland Shri Mataji: We got stuff from Switzerland also. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: Dinner set Shri Mataji: Oh, is that from Switzerland. It has a design. Where are they from? Yogi: Austria? Shri Mataji: ok…. [To C.P. Srivastava]. For you, the car has come. To driver - You are going to drive? Yogini: you don't need a shawl

Lakshmi Basket before Adi Shakti Puja Shri Mataji: What may be brought? This is from which country? Yogi: Organizing country Shri Mataji: Colombo, Belgium, Spain, Yogini: Norway, Sweden Yogi: Finland and France, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This one? Yogi: Spain Shri Mataji: Thank You very much. Beautiful, Beautiful!. May God Bless you!. Very nice vibrations. Very beautiful. Yogi: Call the ladies Shri Mataji: From What Country? Yogini: Norway Shri Mataji: Norway!. Oh, very good. Yogi: Thank you! Shri Mataji: This is from what country Yogini and Yogi: Belgium Shri Mataji: Belgium, nice! Yogini: Spectacles. Shri Mataji: Trees Yogini: A Napkin Shri Mataji: Beautiful.So Many things Yogini: Lithuania Shri Mataji: Where? Yogi: Lithuania Shri Mataji.Lithuania. Near Russia. Baltic Countries. Shri Mataji: Beautiful. What is this, a Shawl? Yogi and Yogini: Table Cloth Shri Mataji: Table Cloth, hand-made. Thank you very much! Yogini: Lithuania Yogi: Ukraine? Yogi: Lithuania, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: See Rose. Is this rose from there? Yogini: No, No (and laughs) Yogi: From here, she has taken, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: what is this? Yogi: Is this Cream? Spray Another Yogi: Spray Shri Mataji. Green tea Spray. Perfume. Perfume, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Perfume, Is it? …. Very good. Very good. Excellent! Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Scandinavia Yogi: Scandinavian countries Shri Mataji. Scandinavian countries Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Beautiful. Beautiful! This cloth is from there? Yogini: Yes Shri Mataji: They make like this? Yogini: Yes, yes Shri Mataji: Very Good! Very Good to make that cloth. We make them in India (everyone laughs). Very nice. Thank you, Thank you very much. Yogi: Tell your country. Which country? Yogini: Spain. Yogi: Spain Shri Mataji: This is for eating. Yogi: Yes. Olive oil Yogini: Oil, Jam. Yogi: (repeats) Oil, Jam. Shri Mataji: Which oil is it? Olive? Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: And what is this? Yogi: Peach. It's a fruit, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Okay. Is it, its juice? Yogi: yes, yes Shri Mataji. Jam, Shri Mataji: From where? Yogi: Spain, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: what is this? Yogi: Jam, Jam Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Wonderful! These things are made there? Yogi: It is from Spain. In Spain, yes. Yogi: This is? This is also Spain Yogi: Saffron, Almonds. Shri Mataji: In Spain? Does Spain make Saffron? What flower does it come from? Yogi: This is Zafran. Small flower. Yogi: Small flower, Shri Mataji. It is a small flower. Shri Mataji: What's at the back? Yogi: Lentils Shri Mataji: Keep them at the table. Yogini: Holland Yogi: Holland Shri Mataji: From which country? Holland? Wow! This is made in Holland? Yogini: I think so, yes. Shri Mataji: This is very good! We make Like this in India also. (Everyone Laughs) Exactly. Thank you very much! Shri Mataji: What country is that? Yogini: These are from different countries. From France and other countries Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Perfume Yogi: This is Perfume, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Box Yogi: Some biscuits. From Holland. Holland, France, mixed. Shri Mataji: Holland, France and? Yogi: Integration! Yogi: This one is from? Shri Mataji: This is "Attar". Where is this from? Yogi: Where is this one from? Shri Mataji: Attar, perfume. It must be from France. Yogi: Yes. Is it from France? Yogi: This is from Turkey, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Turkey? Yogi: Integration, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Mixed up! Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Ah.Norway Yogi: Norway Shri Mataji: Its Made there? Yogini: This one is made from Norwegian flowers on the mountain. Norwegian mountain. Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Norwegian mountain flowers. Shri Mataji: Okay. I know, it is famous there. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: They are famous. What is this? Oh, God. There is a big line. Yogi: Jam Shri Mataji: Thank you!. Thank you very much. Yogi: Holland Shri Mataji: Holland. All Hand-made Yogini: I am sorry, I don't know. Shri Mataji: This is so beautiful. What is this? Yogini: It is for the oven. To put things in the oven Shri Mataji. Yogi: For Cooking. Yogi: To put in the oven. Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: For the oven. They are oven proof Yogini: Yes Shri Mataji: Thank you! …………So Many Yogi: Which country? Yogini: Norway. Yogi: Norway Shri Mataji. Sweets, Chocolates. These are chocolates Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: From Norway Yogi: Cream, Small wallet, Shri Mataji: Where are you going to keep it. Yogi: Shri Mataji, I will keep it here. Shri Mataji: Keep it nearby. Thank you very much Yogini: Belgium Yogi: Belgium Shri Mataji: Belgium Yogi: Crystal. It is of Crystal Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: In Belgium, they make crystal? This is beautiful. Yogini: Biscuits etc. Yogi: ok Shri Mataji: Marathi….. Shri Mataji: What country? Yogini: France. Shri Mataji: France. This is also France? Yogini: Sweden Yogi: Sweden Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Beautiful! France, what have they sent. Perfume Yogini: Perfume of roses Shri Mataji: Yogi: Yes, Yes Shri Mataji: This is there, France. Embroidery. Beautiful. What an idea. Yogi: Three at the time, please. Shri Mataji: What is this? Yogini: Finland Shri Mataji: Finland. I have been to Finland Yogi: Cream, lotion, soap, Shri Mataji: Soap Yogini: Made in Finland Shri Mataji: This is? Beautiful. Yogi: Hand-made Shri Mataji. Hand-made Shri Mataji: Thank you! From where? Yogi: which country? Yogini: Spain Yogi: Spain, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This is from Spain? Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: This is from Spain? This is Spanish. Such a Big one. Yogi: Artificial flower Shri Mataji: Artificial or Real. What is this? Yogini: Hungarian Perfume. Yogi: It is perfume Shri Mataji. Rose perfume. Shri Mataji: Where? Spain? Yogi: Can you tell, what is it? Yogi: This is from Bulgaria. These are dry flowers in a cloth to keep in the toilet. Shri Mataji: This is new. Every country has to give, Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: This one? Yogini: France Yogi: France Shri Mataji: France? You get it in France. I never saw these. Yogi: For cooking Shri Mataji: For cooking. All Hand-made. Wonderful. Yes, what is this? Very decorative. And you can put it in the kitchen and it will not look bad. We have it, what you have in India. Shri Mataji: What is this. For what? Yogini: tea Shri Mataji: Tea. A utensil for tea Yogini: Hand-Made Yogi: Hand-Made Shri Mataji: Oh is it. What is this? Yogini: Dry flower Yogi: Dry Flower Shri Mataji Yogini: For good smell. And oil. Yogi: From where? Yogini: I am from Finland. This is from France Shri Mataji: France. All this? Yogi: All this? Yogini: I think so. Its origin is from France. Shri Mataji: Thank you very much Yogini: Jai Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: From what country? Yogini: I am from Denmark Yogi: Denmark Shri Mataji: Denmark? Ok Yogini: And these things are from everybody Shri Mataji: Good work. What is this? Yogini: They are socks Yogi: For your socks. Warm socks. Shri Mataji: Ohhh! (Mother laughs) And what is this? Yogi: Massage oil. Oil Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: For what purpose. For eating? Yogi: No for Massage Yogini: Massage oil Shri Mataji: Massage Oil.hmm.. Yogi: Candle. Candle Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Nice for Hair. Isn't it? Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: Thank you. Thank you very much. Is it over? Yogi: Yes, Yes Mother Yogini: Should I remove your spectacles? Shri Mataji: leave it like that….. Too many things. Actually, even if I go to those countries, I can never purchase these things. I don't know where u get them….Especially France. You go to the market. These things you don't find. C.P. Srivastava: You will find Shri Mataji: If they come with me. Yogis: yes, yes Shri Mataji C.P. Srivastava: You go to the country. They will all go with you for shopping. Shri Mataji: They don't. will you go with me? Yogis: Of course. Of course mother Shri Mataji: Thank you very much, very kind of you. Thank you. Shri Mataji: what is this Yogi: For your Puja Shri Mataji: from which country Yogini: Made from Garden's flower, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Which flower. Yogini: Garden's Rose flower Shri Mataji: Oh! From our Garden Shri Mataji: This is a Maharashtrian Style. Okay, let's go…I think you people go ahead and I will come back. Yogi: Okay, everyone. Shri Mataji: They all look very nice in a saree Yogini: Mother shall I give a shawl to you? C.P. Srivastava: It would be cold. Shri Mataji: I don't need it. Yogini: It's a cold mother Shri Mataji: If I feel cold, then I will ask for it. Is it over? You go ahead, I will join you. Yogi: everybody, everybody should go Shri Mataji: who is this Yogi: Carlos Shri Mataji: And who is this? Yogi: Adi Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Avi? Yogi: Adi. Shri Mataji: Adi? Oh Wow, what a name. Why don't you go there and I will join you…. Where are they from? Yogi: Shri Mataji Switzerland Shri Mataji: We got stuff from Switzerland also. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji: Dinner set Shri Mataji: Oh, is that from Switzerland. It has a design. Where are they from? Yogi: Austria? Shri Mataji: ok…. [To C.P. Srivastava]. For you, the car has come. To driver - You are going to drive? Yogini: you don't need a shawl

8/4/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=2525

Talk after Evening Program the day before the Krishna Puja

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis

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Evening program the day before the Krishna Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 4 August 2007. I wanted to thank all of you for enjoying this wonderful music from different parts of America, and that shows Sahaja Yoga has a great chance - if it works out this way in America, it will work out everywhere. And it will give the peace and the joy of leading a spiritual life. I’m so very happy to see all of you here, and all of you enjoying this - very encouraging for Me and very supportive of Sahaja Yoga. I bless you all, all from America and all rest, so I’m told that you are from different countries, so all the people I bless you. We should know we are all one, there’s no need to fight, or no need to argue but let us enjoy the common thing as we enjoy this program tonight. I hope you are comfortable here – I don’t know, I haven’t seen, I had no chance to see how your things are placed, but if you have any complaints or any problem please let me know (laughter and applause). Thank you very much. Thank you.

Evening program the day before the Krishna Puja, Cabella Ligure (Italy), 4 August 2007. I wanted to thank all of you for enjoying this wonderful music from different parts of America, and that shows Sahaja Yoga has a great chance - if it works out this way in America, it will work out everywhere. And it will give the peace and the joy of leading a spiritual life. I’m so very happy to see all of you here, and all of you enjoying this - very encouraging for Me and very supportive of Sahaja Yoga. I bless you all, all from America and all rest, so I’m told that you are from different countries, so all the people I bless you. We should know we are all one, there’s no need to fight, or no need to argue but let us enjoy the common thing as we enjoy this program tonight. I hope you are comfortable here – I don’t know, I haven’t seen, I had no chance to see how your things are placed, but if you have any complaints or any problem please let me know (laughter and applause). Thank you very much. Thank you.

10/13/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=8879

2nd Day of Navaratri, Satisfy the Swadishthan

Australia

Sydney

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Navaratri

English

Second day of Navaratri, October 13, 2007, Sydney, Australia Come here also, come in, sit here, another one also (talking to people), come forward. There are people who could not sit. Can you go and see if every one is inside? Sorry, I didn’t know you were all here. Now she said. So, I said, "All right". Shri Mataji: You can hear Me there? Sahaja Yogis: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: All of you? Sahaja Yogis: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Those who can’t hear Me raise your hand! [laughter; applause] Shri Mataji: All right, thank you. [laughter] Want something? Come forward. Are you all right? So you'd better sing one song. I’m sorry they told me now there are people waiting. Very nice to see you all so happy here. Today is the second day and is a very important day from the point of evolution. As you know, that our second Chakra is very important, that’s why today is very important. So what is the second Chakra? Do you know what is the second Chakra? Ah! What did they say? Sahaja Yogi: Swadishthan. Shri Mataji: You must tell loudly! Swadishthan is the Chakra, is very important, because in this Kali Yuga, Swadishthana works the most. We have so many agents, [Shri Mataji smiles], to make it work and work very hard. You know what is in the second Chakra. In the second Chakra, what happens? That we are caught up by our ambition, and the ambition makes you run up and down, and I’ve seen many Sahaja Yogis also getting lost. So it’s a very important day for all of you. So second Chakra is important because, in modern times, it is very cosmic as well as active. We become very active, over-active and we start thinking about every one, which whom we are not concerned ! And bothering our heads. So today’s Chakra is important because it bothers your head. It troubles you a lot! And you start thinking about them. You start thinking: what have you said, what has happened, who is angry, all sorts of nonsense! You are all Sahaja Yogis! So you should not worry as to all these people what they say, what they are doing. You should just enjoy yourself. Second Chakra, you must enjoy. That’s the best way to enjoy Sahaja Yoga. When your Swadishthana is satisfied, nothing can destroy, or disturb you. At Swadishthana, you can really look after. Swadishthana Chakra is so much good for you because now you are all Sahaja Yogis and you can master it. That is one Chakra which upsets, specially in the West, people think too much, all the time thinking, thinking, thinking, that’s from Swadishthana. You get that problem from Swadishthana. To satisfy Swadishthana, you have to take to silence. You have to take to quiet hood (quietness), and look at yourself: what is bothering you ? What is troubling? What gives you ideas and thoughts ? It’s Swadishthana. And some people think so much! There may not be any problem, but they create their own problem with the Swadishthana and just go on bothering about the stuff [Shri Mataji smiles]. Swadishthan is very happy when you are just laughing and enjoying and not bothered about nonsense. How much time we waste on nonsense! We don’t need it, Sahaja Yogis don’t need it. It’s only those who are not yet Realised, must be suffering, they do suffer, and they might even trouble you, but just laugh at it, for you must pardon them, forgive them because they are doing this because they can’t help it! You see, this Swadishthana Chakra is bothering them, so they can’t help it. But you don’t have space, come forward, poor man. [laughter] I’m sorry [laughter]. You can come forward, here there is seat. Some people make room for them. Ah, good. And move forward, please. You bring your harmonium and you come forward. [Laughter from Shri Mataji also]. Are you going to dance? Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: Good. [laughter] So now, don’t allow your mind to bother about whatever nonsensical thoughts are coming, all kinds of, all kinds of nonsensical thoughts. You have nothing to do with them, but the thoughts are coming. Now, this is the work of Mister Swadishthana, he’s trying to distract you. You must get into silence. Once you get into silence, then he will go away and don’t bother you. My all attention is on your country, because you are very good Sahaja Yogis. We have had Sahaja Yogis all over the world, you know, in thousands there are, but nothing like Australians, I see. Because they are, some, more of them, are deeply touched and bothered about the world’s problems. So what you have to think now, not to have anything to do with Swadishthana. But what you have to become, is real Sahaja Yogis. And no Swadishthana should bother you. So there was- I never knew that you were all here. Now only, they told me that you are all here. They said only few people are there, I said all right [laughter] Ah ? How many? You have counted them? [laughter, Shri Mataji also] Now, very sweet. Australia is really great to have beautiful children like this! And people care for children. That is (the) first thing you must do is to care for children. That is fighting your Swadishthana. Anything bothers you? You worry about your own children, finished! You have to bother about them, and every thing will work out! Shri Mataji: to someone in the assembly What’s the matter, are you not all right? You are all right ? [Shri Mataji smiles]. You are definitely blessed, because you are not falling to the whims of your Swadishthana, definitely, and that is the chakra of your country also, so it makes you run up and down, and think, think, think! Specially all the Sahaja Yogis have this problem. So you should just think that you are sitting on Swadishthana and you have to ride it, not to be ridden by it, all right? [laughter] I’m so proud of you. People from this country have shown path to the rest of the world, how can you be united and to be one. It’s rather very surprising. In other countries, the problem is different, your country has the problem of Swadishthana, as I introduced it, but you people have conquered it. When I came first here, I found every body’s head moving with the Swadishthana. Then they became silent, and very peaceful. And now I see you all and I’m very happy, because that’s gone now, all that nonsense is finished, and there is nothing (that) bothers you. The route of all deceases is Swadishthana. It comes from there. So you should know not to play in the hands of Swadishthana and go into thinking, thinking, thinking. They go on thinking, I mean, (about) something that doesn’t exist! They go on thinking. So any such thought that is coming, you say: “we don’t want to think” Finished! I’m here to think for you [laughter]. You don’t think! If you have any problem you let me know, but you don't think! What you can do: you can write it down and send the problems to me. And I would like to see it. All right? Sahaja Yogis: Jai Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: And then, Swadishthana is Chakra of your country, that is the second Chakra and it’s here… And you’ll be amazed to know that Sahaja Yogis, they are from every country, but Australians have something special. They have very great faith in themselves. They do not go to wrong ideas. I’ve seen that, and I am very much thankful to you for that. So what others song you would like to sing, I want to hear. Sahaja Yogis sing "Mata oh Mata" May God bless you. [After dance] Woah! Wonderful, you’ve done so well! What is it? Very good, this is you? In this, you look a little grown-up. Sahaja Yogini: This is from all Ukraine. Shri Mataji: You are very good. My daughters used to learn Bharatanatyam, but they are very tall girls. So, they gave it up.

Second day of Navaratri, October 13, 2007, Sydney, Australia Come here also, come in, sit here, another one also (talking to people), come forward. There are people who could not sit. Can you go and see if every one is inside? Sorry, I didn’t know you were all here. Now she said. So, I said, "All right". Shri Mataji: You can hear Me there? Sahaja Yogis: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: All of you? Sahaja Yogis: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Those who can’t hear Me raise your hand! [laughter; applause] Shri Mataji: All right, thank you. [laughter] Want something? Come forward. Are you all right? So you'd better sing one song. I’m sorry they told me now there are people waiting. Very nice to see you all so happy here. Today is the second day and is a very important day from the point of evolution. As you know, that our second Chakra is very important, that’s why today is very important. So what is the second Chakra? Do you know what is the second Chakra? Ah! What did they say? Sahaja Yogi: Swadishthan. Shri Mataji: You must tell loudly! Swadishthan is the Chakra, is very important, because in this Kali Yuga, Swadishthana works the most. We have so many agents, [Shri Mataji smiles], to make it work and work very hard. You know what is in the second Chakra. In the second Chakra, what happens? That we are caught up by our ambition, and the ambition makes you run up and down, and I’ve seen many Sahaja Yogis also getting lost. So it’s a very important day for all of you. So second Chakra is important because, in modern times, it is very cosmic as well as active. We become very active, over-active and we start thinking about every one, which whom we are not concerned ! And bothering our heads. So today’s Chakra is important because it bothers your head. It troubles you a lot! And you start thinking about them. You start thinking: what have you said, what has happened, who is angry, all sorts of nonsense! You are all Sahaja Yogis! So you should not worry as to all these people what they say, what they are doing. You should just enjoy yourself. Second Chakra, you must enjoy. That’s the best way to enjoy Sahaja Yoga. When your Swadishthana is satisfied, nothing can destroy, or disturb you. At Swadishthana, you can really look after. Swadishthana Chakra is so much good for you because now you are all Sahaja Yogis and you can master it. That is one Chakra which upsets, specially in the West, people think too much, all the time thinking, thinking, thinking, that’s from Swadishthana. You get that problem from Swadishthana. To satisfy Swadishthana, you have to take to silence. You have to take to quiet hood (quietness), and look at yourself: what is bothering you ? What is troubling? What gives you ideas and thoughts ? It’s Swadishthana. And some people think so much! There may not be any problem, but they create their own problem with the Swadishthana and just go on bothering about the stuff [Shri Mataji smiles]. Swadishthan is very happy when you are just laughing and enjoying and not bothered about nonsense. How much time we waste on nonsense! We don’t need it, Sahaja Yogis don’t need it. It’s only those who are not yet Realised, must be suffering, they do suffer, and they might even trouble you, but just laugh at it, for you must pardon them, forgive them because they are doing this because they can’t help it! You see, this Swadishthana Chakra is bothering them, so they can’t help it. But you don’t have space, come forward, poor man. [laughter] I’m sorry [laughter]. You can come forward, here there is seat. Some people make room for them. Ah, good. And move forward, please. You bring your harmonium and you come forward. [Laughter from Shri Mataji also]. Are you going to dance? Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: Good. [laughter] So now, don’t allow your mind to bother about whatever nonsensical thoughts are coming, all kinds of, all kinds of nonsensical thoughts. You have nothing to do with them, but the thoughts are coming. Now, this is the work of Mister Swadishthana, he’s trying to distract you. You must get into silence. Once you get into silence, then he will go away and don’t bother you. My all attention is on your country, because you are very good Sahaja Yogis. We have had Sahaja Yogis all over the world, you know, in thousands there are, but nothing like Australians, I see. Because they are, some, more of them, are deeply touched and bothered about the world’s problems. So what you have to think now, not to have anything to do with Swadishthana. But what you have to become, is real Sahaja Yogis. And no Swadishthana should bother you. So there was- I never knew that you were all here. Now only, they told me that you are all here. They said only few people are there, I said all right [laughter] Ah ? How many? You have counted them? [laughter, Shri Mataji also] Now, very sweet. Australia is really great to have beautiful children like this! And people care for children. That is (the) first thing you must do is to care for children. That is fighting your Swadishthana. Anything bothers you? You worry about your own children, finished! You have to bother about them, and every thing will work out! Shri Mataji: to someone in the assembly What’s the matter, are you not all right? You are all right ? [Shri Mataji smiles]. You are definitely blessed, because you are not falling to the whims of your Swadishthana, definitely, and that is the chakra of your country also, so it makes you run up and down, and think, think, think! Specially all the Sahaja Yogis have this problem. So you should just think that you are sitting on Swadishthana and you have to ride it, not to be ridden by it, all right? [laughter] I’m so proud of you. People from this country have shown path to the rest of the world, how can you be united and to be one. It’s rather very surprising. In other countries, the problem is different, your country has the problem of Swadishthana, as I introduced it, but you people have conquered it. When I came first here, I found every body’s head moving with the Swadishthana. Then they became silent, and very peaceful. And now I see you all and I’m very happy, because that’s gone now, all that nonsense is finished, and there is nothing (that) bothers you. The route of all deceases is Swadishthana. It comes from there. So you should know not to play in the hands of Swadishthana and go into thinking, thinking, thinking. They go on thinking, I mean, (about) something that doesn’t exist! They go on thinking. So any such thought that is coming, you say: “we don’t want to think” Finished! I’m here to think for you [laughter]. You don’t think! If you have any problem you let me know, but you don't think! What you can do: you can write it down and send the problems to me. And I would like to see it. All right? Sahaja Yogis: Jai Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: And then, Swadishthana is Chakra of your country, that is the second Chakra and it’s here… And you’ll be amazed to know that Sahaja Yogis, they are from every country, but Australians have something special. They have very great faith in themselves. They do not go to wrong ideas. I’ve seen that, and I am very much thankful to you for that. So what others song you would like to sing, I want to hear. Sahaja Yogis sing "Mata oh Mata" May God bless you. [After dance] Woah! Wonderful, you’ve done so well! What is it? Very good, this is you? In this, you look a little grown-up. Sahaja Yogini: This is from all Ukraine. Shri Mataji: You are very good. My daughters used to learn Bharatanatyam, but they are very tall girls. So, they gave it up.

10/17/2007

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6th Day of Navaratri, On Drinking

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Sashti. Sixth night of Navaratri, Sydney (Australia), 17 October 2007. Shri Mataji: This is too small. (speaks in Hindi) You can get a good hall here, very easily. Actually I never knew that there’s a programme otherwise I would have told you. Here also, come along, there is room here. Can you hear me there? (Yogis ‘YES!’) Come forward, here put the piano that side in the corner? Why is she crying? What has she got, a cake? (laughter) What is this? Yogi: A gift, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Ah. Oh! Very beautiful, (Mother is shown a large decorated plate) Who’s done it? Yogi: Maria and Sue Shri Mataji: You did? Very good,very beautiful, absolutely good. Everything. What’s her name? Yogi: Sue Williams Shri Mataji: Thank you very much, very beautifully done. You can’t move further? Who is the leader here (laughter) He is the leader? So why couldn’t you get a bigger place? Yogi: Shri Mataji, we could find a bigger place but we did not want to have to transport you from here – less moving for you. Your comfort is our only desire Shri Mataji, so yogis are happy, so long as you’re comfortable. Shri Mataji: Ha! (laughter) You are all Sahaja Yogis, and there should not be controversy between you. You should all think of the same thing, isn’t it? I feel sorry so many standing outside. Come in, come in! Can you move the piano behind? Can you all hear me? (YES!) Those Como people are here? Como? Sir CP: They are not here. Shri Mataji: They are not here? Both of them are not ? (Speaks Hindi with Sir C.P.) Yogi: Giovanni and his wife are here. Shri Mataji: You are from Como? Giovanni: Yes. Shri Mataji: See! He could come! (laughter and applause) You can come here, there is space, make some space there. Why didn’t you get another hall? They are so many.... I’m happy to see all of you here. May God bless you. Today in the shop there was a lady. She came and she wanted to have her realisation, and she got it. Got it very well. See now it depends on... there are many who are searching. But you have to contact them, and bring them forward. Now, I don’t know, if you want to take a hall, you have to pay for it. But was this just to save money? You are so many. And you can afford to have a hall, all of you sitting there, and I feeling comfortable. After all, you are all Sahaja Yogis, all brothers and sisters, and you don’t mind any inconvenience, but if we can make something convenient, we should do it. With so many you could have got a hall... Yogi: Shri Mataji we have one big hall, in a place called Balmoral, it’s about one hour’s drive from here – everyone could fit inside the big hall. It’s a little distance from here, Shri Mataji, it’s about one hour’s drive. Everyone would fit there.) Sir CP (to Shri Mataji): It would require your travelling to that place. In order not to give you trouble to travel, they all came here -- Shri Mataji: No-no, I have no trouble, I have come all the way from India! (Laughter and applause) For My convenience you take no such a note. See, wherever you are, wherever you have the programme, I’ll go there. As long as possible I will definitely go. (Applause) These days, life is much more comfortable but when I was working in the villages I used to go on the bullock cart. You’ve got photograph, you can see – on the bullock cart, to go for miles together. I knew I had to do all that. If I have to get Sahaja Yogis, I have to work that way. And I was quite prepared. I never felt any exhaustion with it, never. On the contrary, after I meet you all I feel so happy. Now, is there somebody who has problems? Anybody. Who has problems? Yogi: You’ve blessed us all. We’re all blessed to be Sahaja Yogis. We don’t have any problems Shri Mataji. We’re with you, there are no problems. Shri Mataji: Ha ha. (laughter) Yogini: Shri Mataji, I have a problem. Shri Mataji: What did she say? Yogi: She said she has a problem. She has a problem, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: What is that? Yogi: What is your problem? Yogini: Alcohol is a big problem in my family. Yogi: She’s saying her family has a problem with alcohol. Shri Mataji: They are not in Sahaja Yoga? Yogi: No. Shri Mataji: Why not? You are the mother? Yogi: yes. Yogini: ...and my husband. Shri Mataji: How aboutthe children? Yogini: I have two children in – Yogi: The children are... are they Sahaja Yogis your children? Yogini: No the two older children, no Shri Mataji: How many children you have? Yogini: Four. Yogi: Four children, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Four children. They are not Sahaja Yogis? Yogini: Only my two young ones. Yogi: Two young children in Sahaja Yoga and the two older ones are not in Sahaja Yoga, and the husband is not in Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Surprising. But here the family system is good compared to, say, in England, where the family breaks after some time. At least here, is much better. Yogi (American accent): Shri Mataji, we in America have a problem, that the seekers don’t stay in Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Hah? Yogi: The seekers take their realisation in America, and they don’t stay in Sahaja Yoga. This is our problem. Shri Mataji: They don’t stay. Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Why? Yogi: I don’t know Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: It’s not complete. If they have a complete realisation, they will have to come. They are not complete. Just half way. They drink? Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: That’s the point. After coming to Sahaja Yoga you cannot drink. And that must be the reason they don’t want to come. But you give them bandhans. And beat them with shoes. (Shri Mataji chuckles) (Laughter) Who are those...your mother, father? Yogi: My mother, my father, yes. My good friends – they take realisation but they don’t stay as Sahaja Yogis. Shri Mataji: Because they drink. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: See now, all your countries have indulged into drinking. All over Europe, you see, and it’s a little fight, because for them drinking is their life. And they can’t get out of it. But we have ways. We have to give them bandhans. If you give them bandhans, all of you put together, then they cannot run away. Bandhan has to be given. All of you should give bandhan. That’s how they have worked out in India. And India is, you know how Sahaja Yoga is strong there. The reason is if they find parents are not coming, or maybe children are not coming or whatever it is, they all work it out by giving them bandhans. But first thing, you should regularly come to SahajaYoga. Regularly. It is not half way, like today you come and then you don’t come. That’s not proper. That’s – you cannot progress. You have to come to the programmes, all of you, regularly. Because you know, realisation is not easy thing. Nobody had it before. Now you have got it. So you have to maintain it and keep it up. Once you start developing that, the female (or family?) of the house also changes. Greatest problem of Europe is – real problem, that they drink. Drinking is the main problem. And that’s why they don’t want to come to Sahaja Yoga. But they can give their parents, but not Sahaja Yoga. This is the trouble with them. Parents can be given up, in case they do not take to Sahaja Yoga. You should show you don’t like it. Why don’t they want Sahaja Yoga? Yogi: Because they drink, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Hah? Yogi: Because they drink. Shri Mataji: They drink. Now this is the curse of Europe, that they all drink. And drinking is something very difficult. They can’t give it up, poor things, they are slaves. Slaves of drinking. So by your behaviour, and by your affection, I’m sure you can win them over. What’s the use – people who drink die so early. You must have heard that they die very fast. But despite that they don’t realise that one should not drink. Because it has become an open market now for people. This is the biggest problem of Europe. But do you know it is much worse in America. America’s problem is so funny, that people who do Sahaja Yoga cannot convince their parents. And they think they have freedom to do whatever they like. And some of the Sahaja Yogis have lost their parents at a very early age. Very early age. Also they have parents who had heart...heart attacks. All kinds of attacks. Not only heart but any other disease they get. It’s very funny, which they don’t understand how important it is to get your Realisation. So you should try to talk to them, that “what is the aim of your life.” You must ask them. “What is the aim of your life? You want to die or you want to live?” First question. If they say they want to die, let them die. You should say, “should we supply with some wines for you when you die?” (laughter) Make fun of it. Make a fun. So they will realise that they are stupid, who are drinking, and they are slaves. Slaves of drinking. They are not drinking because they are free people. Because they drink, they die. And die very fast. The complication of the society is so much. That I have seen people who were rich, who had nice children, but they have lost their parenthood. They have lost the children, and they have no money also. They are on the street. Drinking is the best way to waste all your money. They think then when you say “don’t drink”, you are interested in their money, maybe. God knows what they think because I don’t understand the psychology of people who drink. There are some bhoots I think who give them ideas like this. And they cannot give up drinking. Very wrong. Where - in what book, I mean like bible or any book is said, that drinking is good? Did Christ drink? They will follow Christianity. They will follow Christianity, and not follow Christ. (chuckles) It’s like that. Christ never drank. His parents didn’t drink. Now what makes them think that they have a right to drink? Specially for Christians. Stupid they are if they think that drinking is their right. And then they have problems with drinking. Perhaps you know what problems there are. You can find out what happens when people are drunk. What happens to them, where do they go, what is their position. You can find out their friends, where are they, what they are doing, how are they living?. You’ll be amazed, that they are already on their way out. If you show your wisdom to them, with assertion, they will be coming around. You have to tell them. There’s nothing to feel shy about it. You have to tell them what happens with drinking. What is so great about it? Europe problem is drinking – first. The second problem is parenthood. Parents don’t understand the responsibility of their children, that all their lives they are going to be children of yours. And you have to look after them. There is no way of getting it out. First of all why should you have children? And if you have children, you have to jolly well look after them. But I have seen that in Europe people are really stupid. They don’t understand this simple fact, that if we cannot look after ourselves, who will look after our children? Very irresponsible. Also the society is such, that in the society also, they just believe in drinking. All of them. Indians who do not drink in India, here they come and drink. When they come here, then they think it is something ideal, and they drink. I have known many like that, who came abroad and started drinking. So this is the big problem. You should openly talk about it, to everyone. That what is drinking, is stupidity -- to become stupid, by paying for it. Huh! You have to pay, and you have to become mad. Just imagine. If you make fun of it, and if you can tell them the truth, I am sure they are all with the intelligence, they will understand. But you should all the time tell them. The third problem is that here it is, till you are an adult you are away and free. But I can’t understand – you are born from your parents and how do you become free after eighteen years or whatever age it is. How can that be? It’s like a tree producing fruits, and the people take away their fruits and eat it. We are not trees. We are human beings. We can’t behave like trees, which do not show any interest in their children after certain cutting has happened. But it’s very surprising. See, for us Indians it’s absolutely surprising, that they can forget about their own children? How can they do it? You have got writers who have written stories, and they have written so many things here, that how can parents be stupid like that? Whatever may be – whatever may be your father or mother – they may be poor or rich, whatever it is – they are your parents! And parents are there to look after you. The stupid thing is that they make the child look after themselves. When he is eighteen years of old, he earns of his own, and the parents – “alright, go ahead.” They want to shirk all the responsibility. Never heard of such a thing. This is a very recent fashion. When Abraham Lincoln was there, did it happen like that? Did it happen with Christ, that Mother gave him up and said “alright, go ahead and get yourself crucified”? How can parents behave like this? They have no heart? That they have no love for their own children? India may not be that rich, but people are loving their children. Children also here do not listen to their parents, because parents don’t look after them. Can you imagine a society, religion, or whatever you may call -- people have no connection with each other. But in Sahaja Yoga we are all connected. We are all one. And we want to be together with all our so-called differences. We are Indians, we are Africans, we are English, but we are all Sahaja Yogis. And this is what you have to tell them, that what kind of friends you have? They just come here for drinking and go away. They’ll not even stand by you. But our friends are our dear friends. Sahaja Yogis sometimes make mistakes, doesn’t matter. But they are Sahaja Yogis, and they are one, and they help each other. See how many countries have come together in Sahaja Yoga, and they have such friendship with each other, that you may not have with the people who are born on the same side of the Earth. You won’t recognize each other. It’s horrible. I tell you I am sometimes surprised the way parents don’t think much of their parents. Parents do not think that they are parents, and the children don’t think that we are children of these parents. I don’t know what has done that. It’s the money as they say, it’s the money, money they earn. Alright, so what do you do with that money, make yourself miserable, and make everyone miserable? You don’t even respect money, because when you drink, how much money you waste? Does it go for any help? Then drinking, it’s – here, I was surprised, many have given up, luckily have given up, and are happy. It’s one thing, that in Europe, drinking is a big social event and everybody thinks they must drink, otherwise they are not human beings. They have to become mad, otherwise they are not. Now the parents will understand if you join together. You can bring them round, there are people who have done like that. All the Sahaja Yogis together have managed to bring the whole Johnnies to Sahaja Yoga. When they will see that you are happy, you don’t tell lies, and you are honest, and you are humble -- what more do you want? But they will go to church, call themselves Christians, and behave like Satan. See their behaviour. They don’t even care for their children because they have certain habits they have developed. “Why can’t you give up those bad habits?” -- this is the point you should ask your parents. “Why don’t you give up this dirty stuff which is just making you mad?” Drinking makes people mad, I tell you, and all their value system is lost. Whatever you may be, whatever your education, all is useless if you take to drinks. You have no personality after that. Nothing [unclear] ...the way you behave, and when people get drunk, do you see how they behave in a funny manner. So just detest it, and tell your parents you don’t like drinking. We don’t want you to drink, why do you drink? You can tell them! Why do you drink? Because by drinking they become mad ...it is better to get a certificate from mad house. You Sahaja Yogis now realize this is madness, and you have to tell them that we think that you are all mad who sit down and drink. What do you want? Drinking, what does it give you? First of all you must seek peace of your mind. That’s not possible if you drink, have you heard of somebody who has peace of mind because they drink? When he dies, maybe! So it is to be told to them frankly, why do you drink, what is the need, to waste all the money?, Mostly I have seen that they drink because they are so ignorant, that they don’t know there is a higher life and better life by which you can control your body, control everything. Once they come to know they will realize that this drinking makes you a slave, they are slaves you see, and when they tell you something you should say ‘we don’t want to listen to slaves, you are all slaves’ ...there’s no harm in telling like this. ‘You are slaves and we don’t want to listen to slaves’. You see in India I don’t know somehow we have solved the problem, people don’t drink so much, because from the very beginning there the drinking is regarded as a very bad thing. If a girl knows that the fellow drinks she will never marry. So society doesn’t accept drinking is a good thing, while your society is no society because there is no friendship, there is no understanding and they don’t think of improving the life. What do they think? They are very selfish and they think of themselves, selfishness in the sense that becoming mad is very great selfishness. They become mad, and go on becoming more mad and more mad and it is a sickness, you should tell them that this is sickness. ‘You are sick people already and we don’t want to follow you’ . Don’t be rude but you should tell them. Drinking is sickness, you say I said it. I don’t mind (laughter) Have you seen a man who is drunk? What do you think of them? They are more than mad people. People are mad because something gone wrong. But these are mad because they have been drinking, so you have to tell them ‘You are all mad. You are going to ruin your country’ So many things I have seen, what happens in the West, my own experience. See I am working in Maharastra, working in India in different places but there is no problem with them when they are realised souls, but here with realised souls also I find problems. There is no problem in India if there is realised souls, they are purely realised, and here there are problems even with the realised people. Here there are some Sahaja Yogis who made illegal money. They are Sahaja Yogis, I know for definite, but they have done like that, they have been saved, but not in the Heaven. They work it out, save themselves but everything happens. Some people say ‘Mother we drink very little’ but why? (laughter) Very common --‘very little we drink’ but why? Why do you want to drink and waste your money, first of all wasting your money. It’s very sad, that all people who are so well educated, so well off, become so mad -- Idon’t understand And if your parents are drinking they are mad. You have to treat them like mad people. Then they will realize, you should tell them off, that you want to waste all your money in drinking. In India we have that way very strong Sahaja Yogis. They break the bottles (Shri Mataji laughs) if they come in the house...or what they do they break the....anything! The parents become really funny because they can’t understand what is happening to these children. But they are Sahaja Yogis, so they don’t like it and they just throw them out. There is no humbleness needed with themad people. You have to see that they give up their drinking, very important, and not to feel shy about it. If you correct your parents you correct the whole nation. So you all have to work it out and discuss among yourselves and tell ‘Oh my Father drinks a lot’ So you ask your friend to come and put him right. You can make fun of them, they are mad! Do not take them seriously, they are mad, have pity on them, and work it out that way. You have so many friends together. Drinking is the curse in the West, and how it has come I think some satanic force has worked, they never used to drink so much before. No! Now I don’t know, you walk on the street and you find so many of them walking along. So Sahaja Yogis should see that they don’t drink themselves and don’t allow anybody to drink, your father, mother, brother...you have to tell them ‘You are all mad! Go to some mad house’ Once you tell them they will realize, it’s only you who can correct them. I may do anything but first of all these people should give up drinking, na?. You have lot of strength as Sahaja Yogis and you have to work out on your parents. How many of your parents are drinking? Raise your hands.... (looking surprised) Your parents also? Bah prai! [not clear] Just imagine. You should all oppose their drinking, openly. You should say I don’t like to talk to people whodrink. Like that. You go on and you’ll be surprised they’ll come round. It is absolutely depending on you. If your parents are drinking you have to take a very strong view. And you have so many other friends, also, to help you. Make fun of them. Somebody should copy as to how they behave after drinking, how they walk. You should not insult them but to copy them. Once they will know there is no respect and care for the parents they’ll be alright. But even if they drink you are not so much bothered – you are not bothered as to -- if they are drinking, but you should say that youare all mad, where will you be going? What will happen to you? You can talk like elderly people with them and also see that they don’t have friends who drink, if they have friends like that you’d better tell the friends. You see it’s not only you get responsibility when you get your realization but it is your absolute responsibility that you improve your parents and improve your brothers and sisters, you have to boss over them (Shri Mataji laughs) and you have to tell them, nothing to feel shy. Because they are mad, you know! Very important forSahaja Yogis. My experience is this, that there are Sahaja Yogis in the West who are born, who get realization, who are very good, who are excellent, I don’t have to say anything. But they are humble before their parents. You try to show that you don’t like it. If they are drinking don’t sit there, get out of that place. You should try to denounce the whole thing. There’s no harm. If somebody says harsh words you fight it back. But what about all these drunkards who are sitting and drinking? You have to tell them all.. It’s only you who can improve your society. I’m here to tell you, but you people are very subdued . How many of you fight with the parents, tell me, raise your hands..... Hardly any. (Shri Mataji laughs) You are afraid of them, these drunkards? They should be afraid of you and hide themselves somewhere. If there are bottles in the house you break them. Of course! You throw them away, break them. That’s how you have to fight them. How did we manage the British to go away from India? By protesting! (applause) By protesting their domination, that’s all! Simple! And they went away. Can you imagine, there was no war, nothing, and they all left us. Because they say it is cold that’s whywe drink. No need, there is no need to drink for that. I know so many Indians, so many of them, they don’t drink, they have never seen such a cold country. Now also many Russians they don’t drink. Very cold country, Russians, and they don’t allow their parents also to drink, you know, Russians. They are very brave, the way they fought. You know how Hitler was trying to dominate them but they got all the power. So the Russians are not so, I should say, fashionable (Yogi speaks) You are Russian, na? (Yogi replies “Ukraine leader”) Again, Russians are very very brave people and they have fought their parents and now in Russia we have such a lot of Sahaja Yogis. It will happen that Russia will become whole realised soul, while here the great people who think no end of themselves will be all ending up in the lunatic asylum. So today’s my lecture, remember that you have every right to oppose your parents if they are drinking. What they think that you want all the money, that’s why, but you should say “We don’t want your money”. So now if you are a leader and there are who are leading, you should remember if you are opposing your parents. What do you care? Russians are very brave, I must say, they have told their parents off, even authorities. Why? Because they are communists? Is it that? No. Because they are free-minded people. After all you are all Sahaja Yogis and what right they have got to dominate you. They have no right, they are drunkards how can they dominate you? You tell them ‘you are drunkards, don’t talk!’ No harm, you have to fight, you have to fight your parents, very important. I’m with you, May God bless you. They will fight for democracy, this, that. It’s all demonocracy, what is their democracy? When they drink what business they have got to dominate you? Who are they? Drunkards, put them down! You have to now fight, the time has come, too much time you have spent and tolerated them. What have they done? Nothing. I must say Russians are very clever, and very brave...yes. You know how they made Hitler run away, man like Hitler ran away from there. How did they manage? Because basically they are honest and brave. So we do not drink so why should we be cowards? Only the drunkards can be cowards. You are not drunkards so you should be brave and tell your parents and improve your family life. Here I find the family life is so horrible. Parents are funny, mothers are funny, how can they be? How can you be their children? You should say that we are ashamed to be the children of drunkards. They will realize. Russians have given up drinking -- those who are Sahaja Yogis, they have given up completely. I don’t know what has made them like that. They are neither interested in money or position or anything, Sahaja Yogis. The Indians have got a heritage but they also, they come to England they start drinking. They think people don’t drink because they are not free. What is the idea? If you are free you should be able to drink, you should become mad? That’s freedom, isn’t it? (Shri Mataji laughs) Now you can tell them ‘you are mad’; ‘You are drinking so you are mad’. Tell them I have said it. Alright now are you convinced? (general laughter) Now, everybody’s getting vibrations? Is there somebody who is not getting? Please raise your hand....See! How collective you are and how powerful. But I have seen that Sahaja Yogis are so afraid of their parents that they group together like two cowards, you should be brave and tell them off, you have got the power to do that.- If you can change your parents you have done a great job to them. What else can you do for them? If the parents are changed you have done a big job. (looks at a Sahaja Yogi) What do you say? You are too mild. You take two, three Sahaja Yogis and beat them nicely (Shri Mataji laughs) otherwise they beat in any case after drinking, with drinking they do! It’s very sad. You all are free country people but you have to fight, without the fight it won’t work out. So I want you all to meet each other and have complete sense, that you are Sahaja Yogis, that means you are being blessed by God and you are representative of God and you are not going to take to these dirty things. Respect yourselves, respect! You can tell your parents we cannot respect you for drink. Tell them, you can tell them I have said so. Look at Christ how he fought, what sort of Christians they are drinking, drinking, drinking. But in India why don’t they drink? They don’t drink. They just live without drinking, they are doing well. I think you take from me that courage to fight your parents. Next time when I come I don’t want to seeanybody saying that the parents don’t listen, (laughter and applause) When they are drunk you can hit them with the spoon. Even in Russia they drink quite a lot, but those who have got realisation don’t drink. [unclear]... they don’t drink. That’s why I think communism is good, because they have so much courage! With all this democracy you are all becoming demons, nothing but demons. So today I take your promise that you will manage your parents well. Thank you very much. Anybody has any problems you tell me. Yogi: Mother, in my school there are many students whose family, they drink and they’re all split up. They are very disturbed... Shri Mataji: I can’t hear him (another yogi repeats) When? When they have time free? Yogi: And they’re all disturbed, I can see, the students are all disturbed, Mother. Shri Mataji: They want what? Sir CP: The students, their parents drink and separate, there are lots of problems, and the young students are very upset about it. Shri Mataji: You break their bottles, you tell them I have told you. You break their bottles, you see the bottle and break it. Then you see. We have done that in India, you know when we were asking for independence? The children, they used to break their bottles. With the bottles in, you can never enjoy your freedom -- you break it! Any question? We shouldn’t insult them but you can break the bottles alright. (Yogi thanks Mother for having come there) May God bless you. (All yogis do namaskar) May God bless you. (Speaks to Yogini) You said you want to go to Kuwait? Yogini: Ukraine, Mother Shri Mataji: Ukraine. You want to go to Ukraine. (yogini explains she has studied dance in Madras but wants to go back to Ukraine to open a dance school) They are very good people, Ukraine people are very good. (yogi speaks in Hindi) Such a lot, beautiful, beautiful, thank you. LAKSHMI BASKETS ARE OFFERED AND YOGIS START SINGING ‘SARVAMANGALA’

Sashti. Sixth night of Navaratri, Sydney (Australia), 17 October 2007. Shri Mataji: This is too small. (speaks in Hindi) You can get a good hall here, very easily. Actually I never knew that there’s a programme otherwise I would have told you. Here also, come along, there is room here. Can you hear me there? (Yogis ‘YES!’) Come forward, here put the piano that side in the corner? Why is she crying? What has she got, a cake? (laughter) What is this? Yogi: A gift, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: Ah. Oh! Very beautiful, (Mother is shown a large decorated plate) Who’s done it? Yogi: Maria and Sue Shri Mataji: You did? Very good,very beautiful, absolutely good. Everything. What’s her name? Yogi: Sue Williams Shri Mataji: Thank you very much, very beautifully done. You can’t move further? Who is the leader here (laughter) He is the leader? So why couldn’t you get a bigger place? Yogi: Shri Mataji, we could find a bigger place but we did not want to have to transport you from here – less moving for you. Your comfort is our only desire Shri Mataji, so yogis are happy, so long as you’re comfortable. Shri Mataji: Ha! (laughter) You are all Sahaja Yogis, and there should not be controversy between you. You should all think of the same thing, isn’t it? I feel sorry so many standing outside. Come in, come in! Can you move the piano behind? Can you all hear me? (YES!) Those Como people are here? Como? Sir CP: They are not here. Shri Mataji: They are not here? Both of them are not ? (Speaks Hindi with Sir C.P.) Yogi: Giovanni and his wife are here. Shri Mataji: You are from Como? Giovanni: Yes. Shri Mataji: See! He could come! (laughter and applause) You can come here, there is space, make some space there. Why didn’t you get another hall? They are so many.... I’m happy to see all of you here. May God bless you. Today in the shop there was a lady. She came and she wanted to have her realisation, and she got it. Got it very well. See now it depends on... there are many who are searching. But you have to contact them, and bring them forward. Now, I don’t know, if you want to take a hall, you have to pay for it. But was this just to save money? You are so many. And you can afford to have a hall, all of you sitting there, and I feeling comfortable. After all, you are all Sahaja Yogis, all brothers and sisters, and you don’t mind any inconvenience, but if we can make something convenient, we should do it. With so many you could have got a hall... Yogi: Shri Mataji we have one big hall, in a place called Balmoral, it’s about one hour’s drive from here – everyone could fit inside the big hall. It’s a little distance from here, Shri Mataji, it’s about one hour’s drive. Everyone would fit there.) Sir CP (to Shri Mataji): It would require your travelling to that place. In order not to give you trouble to travel, they all came here -- Shri Mataji: No-no, I have no trouble, I have come all the way from India! (Laughter and applause) For My convenience you take no such a note. See, wherever you are, wherever you have the programme, I’ll go there. As long as possible I will definitely go. (Applause) These days, life is much more comfortable but when I was working in the villages I used to go on the bullock cart. You’ve got photograph, you can see – on the bullock cart, to go for miles together. I knew I had to do all that. If I have to get Sahaja Yogis, I have to work that way. And I was quite prepared. I never felt any exhaustion with it, never. On the contrary, after I meet you all I feel so happy. Now, is there somebody who has problems? Anybody. Who has problems? Yogi: You’ve blessed us all. We’re all blessed to be Sahaja Yogis. We don’t have any problems Shri Mataji. We’re with you, there are no problems. Shri Mataji: Ha ha. (laughter) Yogini: Shri Mataji, I have a problem. Shri Mataji: What did she say? Yogi: She said she has a problem. She has a problem, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: What is that? Yogi: What is your problem? Yogini: Alcohol is a big problem in my family. Yogi: She’s saying her family has a problem with alcohol. Shri Mataji: They are not in Sahaja Yoga? Yogi: No. Shri Mataji: Why not? You are the mother? Yogi: yes. Yogini: ...and my husband. Shri Mataji: How aboutthe children? Yogini: I have two children in – Yogi: The children are... are they Sahaja Yogis your children? Yogini: No the two older children, no Shri Mataji: How many children you have? Yogini: Four. Yogi: Four children, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Four children. They are not Sahaja Yogis? Yogini: Only my two young ones. Yogi: Two young children in Sahaja Yoga and the two older ones are not in Sahaja Yoga, and the husband is not in Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Surprising. But here the family system is good compared to, say, in England, where the family breaks after some time. At least here, is much better. Yogi (American accent): Shri Mataji, we in America have a problem, that the seekers don’t stay in Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji: Hah? Yogi: The seekers take their realisation in America, and they don’t stay in Sahaja Yoga. This is our problem. Shri Mataji: They don’t stay. Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Why? Yogi: I don’t know Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: It’s not complete. If they have a complete realisation, they will have to come. They are not complete. Just half way. They drink? Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji Shri Mataji: That’s the point. After coming to Sahaja Yoga you cannot drink. And that must be the reason they don’t want to come. But you give them bandhans. And beat them with shoes. (Shri Mataji chuckles) (Laughter) Who are those...your mother, father? Yogi: My mother, my father, yes. My good friends – they take realisation but they don’t stay as Sahaja Yogis. Shri Mataji: Because they drink. Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: See now, all your countries have indulged into drinking. All over Europe, you see, and it’s a little fight, because for them drinking is their life. And they can’t get out of it. But we have ways. We have to give them bandhans. If you give them bandhans, all of you put together, then they cannot run away. Bandhan has to be given. All of you should give bandhan. That’s how they have worked out in India. And India is, you know how Sahaja Yoga is strong there. The reason is if they find parents are not coming, or maybe children are not coming or whatever it is, they all work it out by giving them bandhans. But first thing, you should regularly come to SahajaYoga. Regularly. It is not half way, like today you come and then you don’t come. That’s not proper. That’s – you cannot progress. You have to come to the programmes, all of you, regularly. Because you know, realisation is not easy thing. Nobody had it before. Now you have got it. So you have to maintain it and keep it up. Once you start developing that, the female (or family?) of the house also changes. Greatest problem of Europe is – real problem, that they drink. Drinking is the main problem. And that’s why they don’t want to come to Sahaja Yoga. But they can give their parents, but not Sahaja Yoga. This is the trouble with them. Parents can be given up, in case they do not take to Sahaja Yoga. You should show you don’t like it. Why don’t they want Sahaja Yoga? Yogi: Because they drink, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Hah? Yogi: Because they drink. Shri Mataji: They drink. Now this is the curse of Europe, that they all drink. And drinking is something very difficult. They can’t give it up, poor things, they are slaves. Slaves of drinking. So by your behaviour, and by your affection, I’m sure you can win them over. What’s the use – people who drink die so early. You must have heard that they die very fast. But despite that they don’t realise that one should not drink. Because it has become an open market now for people. This is the biggest problem of Europe. But do you know it is much worse in America. America’s problem is so funny, that people who do Sahaja Yoga cannot convince their parents. And they think they have freedom to do whatever they like. And some of the Sahaja Yogis have lost their parents at a very early age. Very early age. Also they have parents who had heart...heart attacks. All kinds of attacks. Not only heart but any other disease they get. It’s very funny, which they don’t understand how important it is to get your Realisation. So you should try to talk to them, that “what is the aim of your life.” You must ask them. “What is the aim of your life? You want to die or you want to live?” First question. If they say they want to die, let them die. You should say, “should we supply with some wines for you when you die?” (laughter) Make fun of it. Make a fun. So they will realise that they are stupid, who are drinking, and they are slaves. Slaves of drinking. They are not drinking because they are free people. Because they drink, they die. And die very fast. The complication of the society is so much. That I have seen people who were rich, who had nice children, but they have lost their parenthood. They have lost the children, and they have no money also. They are on the street. Drinking is the best way to waste all your money. They think then when you say “don’t drink”, you are interested in their money, maybe. God knows what they think because I don’t understand the psychology of people who drink. There are some bhoots I think who give them ideas like this. And they cannot give up drinking. Very wrong. Where - in what book, I mean like bible or any book is said, that drinking is good? Did Christ drink? They will follow Christianity. They will follow Christianity, and not follow Christ. (chuckles) It’s like that. Christ never drank. His parents didn’t drink. Now what makes them think that they have a right to drink? Specially for Christians. Stupid they are if they think that drinking is their right. And then they have problems with drinking. Perhaps you know what problems there are. You can find out what happens when people are drunk. What happens to them, where do they go, what is their position. You can find out their friends, where are they, what they are doing, how are they living?. You’ll be amazed, that they are already on their way out. If you show your wisdom to them, with assertion, they will be coming around. You have to tell them. There’s nothing to feel shy about it. You have to tell them what happens with drinking. What is so great about it? Europe problem is drinking – first. The second problem is parenthood. Parents don’t understand the responsibility of their children, that all their lives they are going to be children of yours. And you have to look after them. There is no way of getting it out. First of all why should you have children? And if you have children, you have to jolly well look after them. But I have seen that in Europe people are really stupid. They don’t understand this simple fact, that if we cannot look after ourselves, who will look after our children? Very irresponsible. Also the society is such, that in the society also, they just believe in drinking. All of them. Indians who do not drink in India, here they come and drink. When they come here, then they think it is something ideal, and they drink. I have known many like that, who came abroad and started drinking. So this is the big problem. You should openly talk about it, to everyone. That what is drinking, is stupidity -- to become stupid, by paying for it. Huh! You have to pay, and you have to become mad. Just imagine. If you make fun of it, and if you can tell them the truth, I am sure they are all with the intelligence, they will understand. But you should all the time tell them. The third problem is that here it is, till you are an adult you are away and free. But I can’t understand – you are born from your parents and how do you become free after eighteen years or whatever age it is. How can that be? It’s like a tree producing fruits, and the people take away their fruits and eat it. We are not trees. We are human beings. We can’t behave like trees, which do not show any interest in their children after certain cutting has happened. But it’s very surprising. See, for us Indians it’s absolutely surprising, that they can forget about their own children? How can they do it? You have got writers who have written stories, and they have written so many things here, that how can parents be stupid like that? Whatever may be – whatever may be your father or mother – they may be poor or rich, whatever it is – they are your parents! And parents are there to look after you. The stupid thing is that they make the child look after themselves. When he is eighteen years of old, he earns of his own, and the parents – “alright, go ahead.” They want to shirk all the responsibility. Never heard of such a thing. This is a very recent fashion. When Abraham Lincoln was there, did it happen like that? Did it happen with Christ, that Mother gave him up and said “alright, go ahead and get yourself crucified”? How can parents behave like this? They have no heart? That they have no love for their own children? India may not be that rich, but people are loving their children. Children also here do not listen to their parents, because parents don’t look after them. Can you imagine a society, religion, or whatever you may call -- people have no connection with each other. But in Sahaja Yoga we are all connected. We are all one. And we want to be together with all our so-called differences. We are Indians, we are Africans, we are English, but we are all Sahaja Yogis. And this is what you have to tell them, that what kind of friends you have? They just come here for drinking and go away. They’ll not even stand by you. But our friends are our dear friends. Sahaja Yogis sometimes make mistakes, doesn’t matter. But they are Sahaja Yogis, and they are one, and they help each other. See how many countries have come together in Sahaja Yoga, and they have such friendship with each other, that you may not have with the people who are born on the same side of the Earth. You won’t recognize each other. It’s horrible. I tell you I am sometimes surprised the way parents don’t think much of their parents. Parents do not think that they are parents, and the children don’t think that we are children of these parents. I don’t know what has done that. It’s the money as they say, it’s the money, money they earn. Alright, so what do you do with that money, make yourself miserable, and make everyone miserable? You don’t even respect money, because when you drink, how much money you waste? Does it go for any help? Then drinking, it’s – here, I was surprised, many have given up, luckily have given up, and are happy. It’s one thing, that in Europe, drinking is a big social event and everybody thinks they must drink, otherwise they are not human beings. They have to become mad, otherwise they are not. Now the parents will understand if you join together. You can bring them round, there are people who have done like that. All the Sahaja Yogis together have managed to bring the whole Johnnies to Sahaja Yoga. When they will see that you are happy, you don’t tell lies, and you are honest, and you are humble -- what more do you want? But they will go to church, call themselves Christians, and behave like Satan. See their behaviour. They don’t even care for their children because they have certain habits they have developed. “Why can’t you give up those bad habits?” -- this is the point you should ask your parents. “Why don’t you give up this dirty stuff which is just making you mad?” Drinking makes people mad, I tell you, and all their value system is lost. Whatever you may be, whatever your education, all is useless if you take to drinks. You have no personality after that. Nothing [unclear] ...the way you behave, and when people get drunk, do you see how they behave in a funny manner. So just detest it, and tell your parents you don’t like drinking. We don’t want you to drink, why do you drink? You can tell them! Why do you drink? Because by drinking they become mad ...it is better to get a certificate from mad house. You Sahaja Yogis now realize this is madness, and you have to tell them that we think that you are all mad who sit down and drink. What do you want? Drinking, what does it give you? First of all you must seek peace of your mind. That’s not possible if you drink, have you heard of somebody who has peace of mind because they drink? When he dies, maybe! So it is to be told to them frankly, why do you drink, what is the need, to waste all the money?, Mostly I have seen that they drink because they are so ignorant, that they don’t know there is a higher life and better life by which you can control your body, control everything. Once they come to know they will realize that this drinking makes you a slave, they are slaves you see, and when they tell you something you should say ‘we don’t want to listen to slaves, you are all slaves’ ...there’s no harm in telling like this. ‘You are slaves and we don’t want to listen to slaves’. You see in India I don’t know somehow we have solved the problem, people don’t drink so much, because from the very beginning there the drinking is regarded as a very bad thing. If a girl knows that the fellow drinks she will never marry. So society doesn’t accept drinking is a good thing, while your society is no society because there is no friendship, there is no understanding and they don’t think of improving the life. What do they think? They are very selfish and they think of themselves, selfishness in the sense that becoming mad is very great selfishness. They become mad, and go on becoming more mad and more mad and it is a sickness, you should tell them that this is sickness. ‘You are sick people already and we don’t want to follow you’ . Don’t be rude but you should tell them. Drinking is sickness, you say I said it. I don’t mind (laughter) Have you seen a man who is drunk? What do you think of them? They are more than mad people. People are mad because something gone wrong. But these are mad because they have been drinking, so you have to tell them ‘You are all mad. You are going to ruin your country’ So many things I have seen, what happens in the West, my own experience. See I am working in Maharastra, working in India in different places but there is no problem with them when they are realised souls, but here with realised souls also I find problems. There is no problem in India if there is realised souls, they are purely realised, and here there are problems even with the realised people. Here there are some Sahaja Yogis who made illegal money. They are Sahaja Yogis, I know for definite, but they have done like that, they have been saved, but not in the Heaven. They work it out, save themselves but everything happens. Some people say ‘Mother we drink very little’ but why? (laughter) Very common --‘very little we drink’ but why? Why do you want to drink and waste your money, first of all wasting your money. It’s very sad, that all people who are so well educated, so well off, become so mad -- Idon’t understand And if your parents are drinking they are mad. You have to treat them like mad people. Then they will realize, you should tell them off, that you want to waste all your money in drinking. In India we have that way very strong Sahaja Yogis. They break the bottles (Shri Mataji laughs) if they come in the house...or what they do they break the....anything! The parents become really funny because they can’t understand what is happening to these children. But they are Sahaja Yogis, so they don’t like it and they just throw them out. There is no humbleness needed with themad people. You have to see that they give up their drinking, very important, and not to feel shy about it. If you correct your parents you correct the whole nation. So you all have to work it out and discuss among yourselves and tell ‘Oh my Father drinks a lot’ So you ask your friend to come and put him right. You can make fun of them, they are mad! Do not take them seriously, they are mad, have pity on them, and work it out that way. You have so many friends together. Drinking is the curse in the West, and how it has come I think some satanic force has worked, they never used to drink so much before. No! Now I don’t know, you walk on the street and you find so many of them walking along. So Sahaja Yogis should see that they don’t drink themselves and don’t allow anybody to drink, your father, mother, brother...you have to tell them ‘You are all mad! Go to some mad house’ Once you tell them they will realize, it’s only you who can correct them. I may do anything but first of all these people should give up drinking, na?. You have lot of strength as Sahaja Yogis and you have to work out on your parents. How many of your parents are drinking? Raise your hands.... (looking surprised) Your parents also? Bah prai! [not clear] Just imagine. You should all oppose their drinking, openly. You should say I don’t like to talk to people whodrink. Like that. You go on and you’ll be surprised they’ll come round. It is absolutely depending on you. If your parents are drinking you have to take a very strong view. And you have so many other friends, also, to help you. Make fun of them. Somebody should copy as to how they behave after drinking, how they walk. You should not insult them but to copy them. Once they will know there is no respect and care for the parents they’ll be alright. But even if they drink you are not so much bothered – you are not bothered as to -- if they are drinking, but you should say that youare all mad, where will you be going? What will happen to you? You can talk like elderly people with them and also see that they don’t have friends who drink, if they have friends like that you’d better tell the friends. You see it’s not only you get responsibility when you get your realization but it is your absolute responsibility that you improve your parents and improve your brothers and sisters, you have to boss over them (Shri Mataji laughs) and you have to tell them, nothing to feel shy. Because they are mad, you know! Very important forSahaja Yogis. My experience is this, that there are Sahaja Yogis in the West who are born, who get realization, who are very good, who are excellent, I don’t have to say anything. But they are humble before their parents. You try to show that you don’t like it. If they are drinking don’t sit there, get out of that place. You should try to denounce the whole thing. There’s no harm. If somebody says harsh words you fight it back. But what about all these drunkards who are sitting and drinking? You have to tell them all.. It’s only you who can improve your society. I’m here to tell you, but you people are very subdued . How many of you fight with the parents, tell me, raise your hands..... Hardly any. (Shri Mataji laughs) You are afraid of them, these drunkards? They should be afraid of you and hide themselves somewhere. If there are bottles in the house you break them. Of course! You throw them away, break them. That’s how you have to fight them. How did we manage the British to go away from India? By protesting! (applause) By protesting their domination, that’s all! Simple! And they went away. Can you imagine, there was no war, nothing, and they all left us. Because they say it is cold that’s whywe drink. No need, there is no need to drink for that. I know so many Indians, so many of them, they don’t drink, they have never seen such a cold country. Now also many Russians they don’t drink. Very cold country, Russians, and they don’t allow their parents also to drink, you know, Russians. They are very brave, the way they fought. You know how Hitler was trying to dominate them but they got all the power. So the Russians are not so, I should say, fashionable (Yogi speaks) You are Russian, na? (Yogi replies “Ukraine leader”) Again, Russians are very very brave people and they have fought their parents and now in Russia we have such a lot of Sahaja Yogis. It will happen that Russia will become whole realised soul, while here the great people who think no end of themselves will be all ending up in the lunatic asylum. So today’s my lecture, remember that you have every right to oppose your parents if they are drinking. What they think that you want all the money, that’s why, but you should say “We don’t want your money”. So now if you are a leader and there are who are leading, you should remember if you are opposing your parents. What do you care? Russians are very brave, I must say, they have told their parents off, even authorities. Why? Because they are communists? Is it that? No. Because they are free-minded people. After all you are all Sahaja Yogis and what right they have got to dominate you. They have no right, they are drunkards how can they dominate you? You tell them ‘you are drunkards, don’t talk!’ No harm, you have to fight, you have to fight your parents, very important. I’m with you, May God bless you. They will fight for democracy, this, that. It’s all demonocracy, what is their democracy? When they drink what business they have got to dominate you? Who are they? Drunkards, put them down! You have to now fight, the time has come, too much time you have spent and tolerated them. What have they done? Nothing. I must say Russians are very clever, and very brave...yes. You know how they made Hitler run away, man like Hitler ran away from there. How did they manage? Because basically they are honest and brave. So we do not drink so why should we be cowards? Only the drunkards can be cowards. You are not drunkards so you should be brave and tell your parents and improve your family life. Here I find the family life is so horrible. Parents are funny, mothers are funny, how can they be? How can you be their children? You should say that we are ashamed to be the children of drunkards. They will realize. Russians have given up drinking -- those who are Sahaja Yogis, they have given up completely. I don’t know what has made them like that. They are neither interested in money or position or anything, Sahaja Yogis. The Indians have got a heritage but they also, they come to England they start drinking. They think people don’t drink because they are not free. What is the idea? If you are free you should be able to drink, you should become mad? That’s freedom, isn’t it? (Shri Mataji laughs) Now you can tell them ‘you are mad’; ‘You are drinking so you are mad’. Tell them I have said it. Alright now are you convinced? (general laughter) Now, everybody’s getting vibrations? Is there somebody who is not getting? Please raise your hand....See! How collective you are and how powerful. But I have seen that Sahaja Yogis are so afraid of their parents that they group together like two cowards, you should be brave and tell them off, you have got the power to do that.- If you can change your parents you have done a great job to them. What else can you do for them? If the parents are changed you have done a big job. (looks at a Sahaja Yogi) What do you say? You are too mild. You take two, three Sahaja Yogis and beat them nicely (Shri Mataji laughs) otherwise they beat in any case after drinking, with drinking they do! It’s very sad. You all are free country people but you have to fight, without the fight it won’t work out. So I want you all to meet each other and have complete sense, that you are Sahaja Yogis, that means you are being blessed by God and you are representative of God and you are not going to take to these dirty things. Respect yourselves, respect! You can tell your parents we cannot respect you for drink. Tell them, you can tell them I have said so. Look at Christ how he fought, what sort of Christians they are drinking, drinking, drinking. But in India why don’t they drink? They don’t drink. They just live without drinking, they are doing well. I think you take from me that courage to fight your parents. Next time when I come I don’t want to seeanybody saying that the parents don’t listen, (laughter and applause) When they are drunk you can hit them with the spoon. Even in Russia they drink quite a lot, but those who have got realisation don’t drink. [unclear]... they don’t drink. That’s why I think communism is good, because they have so much courage! With all this democracy you are all becoming demons, nothing but demons. So today I take your promise that you will manage your parents well. Thank you very much. Anybody has any problems you tell me. Yogi: Mother, in my school there are many students whose family, they drink and they’re all split up. They are very disturbed... Shri Mataji: I can’t hear him (another yogi repeats) When? When they have time free? Yogi: And they’re all disturbed, I can see, the students are all disturbed, Mother. Shri Mataji: They want what? Sir CP: The students, their parents drink and separate, there are lots of problems, and the young students are very upset about it. Shri Mataji: You break their bottles, you tell them I have told you. You break their bottles, you see the bottle and break it. Then you see. We have done that in India, you know when we were asking for independence? The children, they used to break their bottles. With the bottles in, you can never enjoy your freedom -- you break it! Any question? We shouldn’t insult them but you can break the bottles alright. (Yogi thanks Mother for having come there) May God bless you. (All yogis do namaskar) May God bless you. (Speaks to Yogini) You said you want to go to Kuwait? Yogini: Ukraine, Mother Shri Mataji: Ukraine. You want to go to Ukraine. (yogini explains she has studied dance in Madras but wants to go back to Ukraine to open a dance school) They are very good people, Ukraine people are very good. (yogi speaks in Hindi) Such a lot, beautiful, beautiful, thank you. LAKSHMI BASKETS ARE OFFERED AND YOGIS START SINGING ‘SARVAMANGALA’

10/21/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=2702

10th Day of Navaratri, Dassehra Celebrations

Australia

Sydney

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Navaratri

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Dassehra. Tenth day of Navaratri, Sydney (Australia), 21 October 2007. Mother looks at yoginis, smiles and says ‘Very happy’. Please sit comfortably. Today is the (indistinct) great day , isn’t it (ji) Dassera. [Yogis organize a microphone for Shri Mataji] Is it coming? Working?.. So today is Dassera, is a very big day in India. They say on this day Ravana was killed. He was the worst enemy of human beings, and he was killed. But whatever it is then, as a memory of that great man, Shri Ram, they celebrate today Dassera. And on this day, they say, those who are dushtas, means bad people or we can say negative, they are killed. Can you imagine? (chuckles) So this day is regarded as a very important day in India, and they make a big statue of Ravana. You all know who was Ravana, (yogis: “Yes, Shri Mataji”) whom Shri Rama killed. He was a horrible fellow and he took away the wife of Shri Ram, Sita, by force. But she was such a chaste woman that he couldn’t touch her. He tried; he couldn’t touch her. He couldn’t achieve any power over her. On the contrary she was very powerful. So at that time, Shri Rama’s mother-in-law, I should say, who was the wife of Dasharata, she said …she used to..she’s like a big saadhuni, and she said “that from today two marriages are not allowed, only one”. So among Hindus there’s only one marriage. They don’t have two marriages and regard it as very sinful to have another woman, according to Indian culture. There are some people who do it, but it’s wrong. Is not Indian. The father-in-law passed the law, because he has, he suffered... he had two wives and one of them tried to send Shri Ram to the jungle. She was so cruel because she wanted her son to become the king, and as it was the mistake of the father that he had promised that he will give her a boon because she had saved him in war, and so now she asked him to send Shri Ram to the vanavas – to the jungle . By second one, she asked to give the kingdom to her son, who was Lakshmana, but when Lakshmana came he didn’t want. He said “I don’t want to take Shri Rama’s seat because it is his right.” So he went to Shri Ram in the jungle, requested him: “You must come, you must come to Ayodyah, to the capital city and you should be crowned.” Shri Ram said, “I can’t do it, I have to fulfill my father’s wish.” But at that moment the father said that in India nobody will have second marriage. Because of two wives the whole family suffered, so he said only we can have one wife and no two wives. Very surprising that even till today in India they believe that you should have only one wife. But what you find in another countries that people may not have another wife but they have affairs and they do not respect their wives. This is very sad and this makes the country suffering, because if the women are treated like that, the women suffer and if the mother suffers the children suffer. So he made a law that nobody will marry twice. Only Mohammed Sahib said “Alright, we can have four marriages” because there was so much killing and so few men were left -- many women and very few men. So he said that “alright, you can have four wives each, solve the problem”. (chuckles) It does not! It does not solve the problem. Even the Muslims now have this problem. They marry four times, no doubt, but if you see their family life they are very sad. We Indians should not learn anything from them. On the contrary we have to tell the whole world that, “don’t run after women – look after yourself”. Which is.... in the West people have no sense. They have one wife, of course they don’t have two wives, but they carry on with another woman. In Sahaja Yoga it’s banned to do these things, and if they do it like that I tell them that you divorce and then I arrange their marriages. But very sad because why should they, under the influence of western life, try to have another wife and make the whole thing so polluted. Their children suffer, mainly. If the morality of the place is not good the new generation, the children, they suffer. And what do we have? A sick country. English were, once upon a time, very proud and very sensible. But now they have become very unhappy because they don’t believe in one wife; they’ll have one wife at home and another wife somewhere else, and this is a very sad thing. In Sahaja Yoga we do not tolerate this. You have to have one wife and you have to live with one wife. Some women are obstinate -- alright, I say, you can leave Sahaja Yoga and some men are also very troublesome, so I tell them you leave Sahaja Yoga. If you want to have the advantage of being a Sahaja Yogi then you cannot marry another woman or another man. You have to lead a happy life with each other. If you can’t do it then you get out of Sahaja Yoga. But there are some people who had horrible times with their wives or husbands so what I have said, that alright those who are flirting and are not having a proper personality, they can’t be in Sahaja Yoga. We have to make very pure society, our duty is to show that we can live happily, without fighting and the Sahaja Yogis are known to be very sensible husbands. I’m very happy to see you all here. I know some of them, I married them, and they are very happy. So, I have to tell all of you, men and women, that we have to lead a dedicated life. If the husband is flirting let him go to hell or if the wife is flirting let her go to hell. We are Sahaja Yogis and we have to keep our characters good. If you have a good character, you enjoy life of your own. If you have a frivolous life you can never enjoy. You go on running after this one and that one. Such people can never be happy and they do all kinds of nonsense and waste their lives. But by the time they die their condition is so bad, very bad, such people suffer a lot. I have seen them suffering, suffering so badly. So we are husband and wife to enjoy each other and to lead a happy life; not to become miserable. All of you now married in Sahaj Yoga, maybe some of you haven’t tasted a good married life but what to do? That’s not the mistake with Sahaja Yoga, it’s the mistake with you, yourself, and mistake with your wife. So everybody must stand up on the right and lead a right life instead of wasting energy over quarrelling and fighting. Try to find out, why do you quarrel and why do you fight, on what points there are differences? There has to be difference, doesn’t matter. After all you are two persons, there has to be differences, but difference should not create problem. On the contrary you must enjoy the difference, as long as [here Shri Mataji evidently means unless] you are a dedicated wife and you have a dedicated husband you can never enjoy life. All the time you’ll be worried and upset. So all of you I thank you very much, that on such a great auspicious day all have come. And all look very happy. Thank you very much.

Dassehra. Tenth day of Navaratri, Sydney (Australia), 21 October 2007. Mother looks at yoginis, smiles and says ‘Very happy’. Please sit comfortably. Today is the (indistinct) great day , isn’t it (ji) Dassera. [Yogis organize a microphone for Shri Mataji] Is it coming? Working?.. So today is Dassera, is a very big day in India. They say on this day Ravana was killed. He was the worst enemy of human beings, and he was killed. But whatever it is then, as a memory of that great man, Shri Ram, they celebrate today Dassera. And on this day, they say, those who are dushtas, means bad people or we can say negative, they are killed. Can you imagine? (chuckles) So this day is regarded as a very important day in India, and they make a big statue of Ravana. You all know who was Ravana, (yogis: “Yes, Shri Mataji”) whom Shri Rama killed. He was a horrible fellow and he took away the wife of Shri Ram, Sita, by force. But she was such a chaste woman that he couldn’t touch her. He tried; he couldn’t touch her. He couldn’t achieve any power over her. On the contrary she was very powerful. So at that time, Shri Rama’s mother-in-law, I should say, who was the wife of Dasharata, she said …she used to..she’s like a big saadhuni, and she said “that from today two marriages are not allowed, only one”. So among Hindus there’s only one marriage. They don’t have two marriages and regard it as very sinful to have another woman, according to Indian culture. There are some people who do it, but it’s wrong. Is not Indian. The father-in-law passed the law, because he has, he suffered... he had two wives and one of them tried to send Shri Ram to the jungle. She was so cruel because she wanted her son to become the king, and as it was the mistake of the father that he had promised that he will give her a boon because she had saved him in war, and so now she asked him to send Shri Ram to the vanavas – to the jungle . By second one, she asked to give the kingdom to her son, who was Lakshmana, but when Lakshmana came he didn’t want. He said “I don’t want to take Shri Rama’s seat because it is his right.” So he went to Shri Ram in the jungle, requested him: “You must come, you must come to Ayodyah, to the capital city and you should be crowned.” Shri Ram said, “I can’t do it, I have to fulfill my father’s wish.” But at that moment the father said that in India nobody will have second marriage. Because of two wives the whole family suffered, so he said only we can have one wife and no two wives. Very surprising that even till today in India they believe that you should have only one wife. But what you find in another countries that people may not have another wife but they have affairs and they do not respect their wives. This is very sad and this makes the country suffering, because if the women are treated like that, the women suffer and if the mother suffers the children suffer. So he made a law that nobody will marry twice. Only Mohammed Sahib said “Alright, we can have four marriages” because there was so much killing and so few men were left -- many women and very few men. So he said that “alright, you can have four wives each, solve the problem”. (chuckles) It does not! It does not solve the problem. Even the Muslims now have this problem. They marry four times, no doubt, but if you see their family life they are very sad. We Indians should not learn anything from them. On the contrary we have to tell the whole world that, “don’t run after women – look after yourself”. Which is.... in the West people have no sense. They have one wife, of course they don’t have two wives, but they carry on with another woman. In Sahaja Yoga it’s banned to do these things, and if they do it like that I tell them that you divorce and then I arrange their marriages. But very sad because why should they, under the influence of western life, try to have another wife and make the whole thing so polluted. Their children suffer, mainly. If the morality of the place is not good the new generation, the children, they suffer. And what do we have? A sick country. English were, once upon a time, very proud and very sensible. But now they have become very unhappy because they don’t believe in one wife; they’ll have one wife at home and another wife somewhere else, and this is a very sad thing. In Sahaja Yoga we do not tolerate this. You have to have one wife and you have to live with one wife. Some women are obstinate -- alright, I say, you can leave Sahaja Yoga and some men are also very troublesome, so I tell them you leave Sahaja Yoga. If you want to have the advantage of being a Sahaja Yogi then you cannot marry another woman or another man. You have to lead a happy life with each other. If you can’t do it then you get out of Sahaja Yoga. But there are some people who had horrible times with their wives or husbands so what I have said, that alright those who are flirting and are not having a proper personality, they can’t be in Sahaja Yoga. We have to make very pure society, our duty is to show that we can live happily, without fighting and the Sahaja Yogis are known to be very sensible husbands. I’m very happy to see you all here. I know some of them, I married them, and they are very happy. So, I have to tell all of you, men and women, that we have to lead a dedicated life. If the husband is flirting let him go to hell or if the wife is flirting let her go to hell. We are Sahaja Yogis and we have to keep our characters good. If you have a good character, you enjoy life of your own. If you have a frivolous life you can never enjoy. You go on running after this one and that one. Such people can never be happy and they do all kinds of nonsense and waste their lives. But by the time they die their condition is so bad, very bad, such people suffer a lot. I have seen them suffering, suffering so badly. So we are husband and wife to enjoy each other and to lead a happy life; not to become miserable. All of you now married in Sahaj Yoga, maybe some of you haven’t tasted a good married life but what to do? That’s not the mistake with Sahaja Yoga, it’s the mistake with you, yourself, and mistake with your wife. So everybody must stand up on the right and lead a right life instead of wasting energy over quarrelling and fighting. Try to find out, why do you quarrel and why do you fight, on what points there are differences? There has to be difference, doesn’t matter. After all you are two persons, there has to be differences, but difference should not create problem. On the contrary you must enjoy the difference, as long as [here Shri Mataji evidently means unless] you are a dedicated wife and you have a dedicated husband you can never enjoy life. All the time you’ll be worried and upset. So all of you I thank you very much, that on such a great auspicious day all have come. And all look very happy. Thank you very much.

11/10/2007

http://amruta.org/?p=1966

Talk and Quawalli of the Evening, Eve of Diwali

India

Noida

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Diwali

Hindi

Talk of the Evening Eve of Diwali. Noida (India), 10 November 2007. (Translation from Hindi) Happy Diwali. I wish you all a very happy Diwali. You have seen these different types of dances; understand one thing from them, that whoever has written it or said it, they are all saying the same thing. The greatest thing that they said was that the Paramatma is One. They had incarnated in different forms, avatars, but the Paramatma is One. There were no disputes amongst them. They came in this world for the destruction of evil and killing the wicked people; and this is happening. I am seeing everywhere that these evil people are getting exposed, and now it is your duty, too, to see that all those who are evil, those who are working against the Paramatma and who are ready to do anything for the sake of earning money, all go to Hell. We do not know how many Hells there are! The place where you are all sitting now is very far away from Hell. There is no relation with Hell at all. But even staying here, if you perform unreligious deeds, do wrong things, then you, too, can go to Hell. There are many types of Hells, and the arrangements to go there are also very nicely done, because those who are going there do not even know where they are going. Those who remain behind go to Heaven. Nobody on this earthly abode even knows that they may go to Hell. Doing wrong deeds would land us in Hell. The meaning of Diwali itself is that the way the lamps are lit outside, you, too, should be lit within ‒ enlightened. In this dark world, you see, you are the lights, you are the lamps and you have to give the light. But if you are not internally enlightened enough, then how can you give out light? Realise this. So first of all, you Sahaja yogis should get properly enlightened internally, and maybe it is for this purpose alone that we have come into this world. Until Jesus Christ, nobody even spoke about this. At Agnya chakra He came and showed that he did not have any ego whatsoever. He was the Son of the Almighty; still, he had no ego. The people who had come before him revealed a little, but Christ only wanted that our Agnya chakra should be cleared. And that Agnya chakra seems to be very much caught up in your Delhi. What is the reason for this? The English people lived here before and they taught us to be egoistic. This is quite evident in your talk and behaviour. We have seen those days, too, when our country was not independent, but you people are liberated now. Now we are independent. And what is swatantra (independence)? Know the swa – oneself ‒ and the tantra – mechanism. Know the mechanism of oneself. Through Sahaja Yoga you have known yourself and you know the technique or the mechanism of knowing oneself. It can be seen that there has been a lot of development in Delhi. Outside Delhi, too, there has been a lot of development. You all know what the problem is with the people over here; I need not tell you. But now you have become independent. So you have to see that you don’t have these problems. The first problem is that your Agnya chakra is catching. Christ was crucified and killed, but still we have not yet learnt from it. On the contrary, people from the Christian countries are highly egoistic and they have influenced us also. But the worst thing here is that we have not yet recognized each other. There are fights and disputes everywhere. There are quarrels going on. There is no purity of mind. First of all, we should purify our minds. With Sahaja Yoga everything is possible and can take people to such great heights. It is not necessary for anyone to go and sit in the Himalayas. You can do this in the city of Delhi itself. But if you look around you will see egoistic people everywhere, and their Agnya chakra is caught up very severely. So it is very difficult. Now God has sent one new thing and that is cancer. If you get cancer and your Agnya chakra is not clear, then a big tragedy is ahead of you. So, one who has cancer should take to Sahaja Yoga and clear out his ego. Wherever there is government, there the people are very egoistic. We have got so many government servants here, and all of them have enough ego in them. The people who come from outside have much more than them, and on top of it they all drink liquor. You just analyse: they call themselves Christians and they all drink. By drinking liquor you are going against yourself. You are disobeying your Agnya chakra. You are not obeying it. The person whose Agnya chakra is clear cannot drink; he can never drink. Wherever you look, the people are drinking liquor, and they have no way of getting rid of it, because when they find they are unable to get rid of it, again they drink over it. So addiction of any sort puts us into slavery, of any kind. Here, there is addiction to paan, and they will add tobacco also to it. God has created you with so much affection and given you birth in this country so that you can become unique from the rest of the world. They can be so. They are Indians. But of late, I find that there are a couple of serious ailments. They are eating money in place of food. The roads by which we came now were not there earlier, but it was a pain for Me to see that the roads are in such bad shape that no one can say that they are new. Only Indians can do such things. I have not seen such shameless people in the whole world. And it is not necessary to be so. Here any time, any person who has the power can do this thing. First of all, we have to take a resolution today that we have to clear our Agnya. The greatest issue at the Agnya is that we think that we are very superior, and we start thinking that we can rule the whole world, and that we can correct the world. When you yourselves are not correct, then how can you correct this world? Now, you must have seen many people who think that they are very great, but do a lot of wrong things. In this country people take a lot of money. Tell me how will God forgive us for this? The greatest of all sins are stealing and corruption. The person who commits these types of sins, whatever he may try ‒ he may do poojas, chant mantras, read namaz, call out to Allah, anything ‒ he won’t be benefited in any way. So, today, is a New Year for you. I want you all to make a resolution: “From today onwards, I will not tell lies, never ever lie”. Indians are very famous worldwide as liars. I do not know how, but our country carries the stamp of being dishonest. Great saints and prophets have taken their birth here. How can people lie in a place where so many Sufis were born? So today, you have to promise that you will never tell lies, whatever may be the consequences. For that you need to have courage. Now that you are realized, what more courage is needed? As it is, you can’t lie at all. It’s only when you become like this, that the people will be able to have faith that you are really truthful people. So, the Sahaja yogis have to be truthful. Whatever may be one’s occupation, whatever he may do ‒ he may be an engineer laying roads, he may be a doctor treating people ‒ if in spite of all this, if you lie, then it would be Hell for you. That is because you are now transformed. You are now realized. So when realized people lie they cannot benefit from it at all. When I go abroad, and often hear people say that the people of our country are cheats, liars and corrupt, I feel very sad. Today it is a very auspicious day for you. Today let us all make a resolution that we will never lie, whatever happens. I myself am a woman, and an Indian. I have never told a lie. By telling lies it would be a loss for you; you will be put to loss by doing wrong deeds. By doing so, you may be earning more or cheating more, but you cannot go to Heaven; you will go to Hell. One thing that is very important to know is that we have a very bad reputation in the rest of the world. Why the bad reputation? Because, we are sthis type of people! When you come to know that someone is a liar, form an organization and make an enquiry into it. For example, if a road has been laid which is not good enough, then enquire about the amount spent in its laying, what was its sanctioned layout cost, and what he was supposed to do. The money that is made out of the road will only be used for drinking and liquor, which is our enemy. Why do you want to do it? You are all very well-to-do people. I have seen many countries where there are poor people, but they are very honest. So honesty should be the foremost quality in you. Today, make a decision that we will never be dishonest hereafter, and we will not remain in the company of dishonest people, and if anyone is dishonest we will expose him. Now people say, “Mother, in the Police Force, too, they are like this, and in other departments, too, they are like that,” but you are Sahaja yogis. Those who are Sahaja yogis are nothing less than any policeman or any person in power. They are all powerful, but all the powers are of Truth. Truthfulness should be there, and I am very glad that a lot of Sahaja yogis are truthful, but we still need more Sahaja yogis who are truthful. Truthfulness has to be there; otherwise your Agnya chakra will not be cleared. Agnya is where the ego resides. When a person becomes egoistic, then he commits all kinds of mistakes; he criticizes, harms, gets corrupt. All such people will go to Hell. I want to tell you very clearly that you should not take to corruption. You are not dying, that you have to go to that extent. What have you achieved by earning more? What are you doing? You must have put up a few more lights, kept a couple of more women; what more than that? Now, what will be your condition when you go to Hell? I am discussing all this on this day of Diwali because Diwali was celebrated on the occasion of Sitaji’s re-union with Rama. We can no longer be slaves once we embrace chastity. We are our own slaves and not the slaves of others. We shall not lie for any reason whatsoever. I have lived in Delhi for a long time and am quite surprised at how much they lie. They are not afraid of lying at all. By telling lies openly they might benefit here, they might earn more money, but it is not known that they will not go to Heaven. I want the Sahaja yogis to promise that they will not lie or support the people who lie. People say that our country is very corrupt. Yes, I have been to far-off places and I have seen that the Russians are the best amongst them. They are half like Sahaja yogis, and there are a lot of Sahaja yogis there. This year I was not able to go to Russia; next year I will definitely go. This means that we were not able to implement democracy well. We, too, should have been communist. There are no cases of robbery there, no lies, and everyone loves each other. They respect Me a lot. We have to understand where we are going. For the sake of earning more money, to what extent will we go? What are we going to get? So, honesty should be the foremost quality within you. Your dishonesty is going to create problems for your own people. People say that Indians are dishonest. I feel ashamed to hear this. So many great saints have taken birth over here, so many great prophets have been over here, and people of this place are great thieves, and they steal and criticize. Your Agnya has been scared of all this from the very beginning. They want to make huge money; in the end all these rich people will go to Hell. On this day of Diwali, I want to tell you all that the meaning of Diwali is that Hell is full of darkness, and you all are enlightened. You are expected to fight wherever there is darkness and let them know that they are doing wrong things. By doing this our country will improve, and you have to do this. We have been performing poojas and rituals, but the Shakti (Divine power) which is there within us, is there to oppose all that is not truthful. Many people do not know that making money is a sickness. They will go straight to Hell. I am telling you all this because no one has said it like this before. On the day of Diwali, I am telling you that we are going to light lamps and celebrate happiness in our hearts. By this we can see what kind of a person one is: is he a person who steals? As of now, too, I can see people fighting with each other. Quarrels amongst Hindus and Muslims are over now, but fighting with others has started. That is the second thing: we are quarrelsome, too. At least in the other countries there are not as many religions as we have. So whenever we get a chance, we start fighting; fighting is the priority. Fighting between husband and wife and then their children, and then if they have someone else with them they will fight with them, too. What is Sahaja Yoga? Sahaja Yoga is love and only love. Awaken the power of love which is within us. Today is a very auspicious day, and we have to light the lamps in our heart and take up the resolution that we may die but we won’t lie. We had great people over here, but still Indians are very ill-famed the world over as being very dishonest. Though I have never seen one of this kind, whenever I hear of it I feel very sad. India is such a holy place where such great saints have taken their birth. That didn’t happen anywhere else in the world. Sufis were born here, who became so great. All of them were born in India. So many great saints were not born anywhere else in the world. A couple of them must have been born there, but the ones who were born in India were very great saints, and after that whatever they had taught was given up. We have become notorious thieves. Whoever commits theft can never go to Heaven. You will have to spend a thousand times more in Hell than the life span spent here. Today I am talking about Hell because Hell means darkness, and we are seeing the spell of darkness everywhere ‒ that of Hell. Now that your lights are lit, try to see who are in Hell. You support the government by exposing the dishonest. You may be holding a junior or a senior position. Still you have to expose the one who is a thief and corrupt. Now you have got the powers, what are they for? You have been awakened now. What is it for? You have got enlightenment. You see yourself in its light. You have seen nothing in the darkness, but see in your light, what you are, and what you are going to achieve by telling lies. We are family people. We never lie ‒ never ‒ and we can’t even lie. Whenever the situation to lie arises, don’t forget that you have the powers. You are the lights, You see, you are the light in this darkness, and you need to keep the lights burning. We have to end this darkness. We have a bad reputation for our dishonesty. There is no country as great as ours; yet it is very sad to know that the people outside have misunderstood us. It is not known what these people achieve by their dishonesty. What they will get will be horrible! No one will be spared! Whoever is dishonest will be caught, and there are arrangements made for it. You have got realization because you are not dishonest. You love truthfulness and respect it. I want you all to stand for truth. The people who are throwing clutter in Jamunaji (River) are fools. Jamunaji goes straight down to Hell. But you will be saved from that Hell. You are realized souls. The one who is enlightened never falls. But if you really want to establish Sahaja Yoga fully within yourself then you have to first of all decide never to be dishonest in any way. Earning money is the only business left in this world. What happens with that? Nobody will even remember them. You have to be truthful if you love your country. Otherwise, who is going to believe in a liar’s love? It is a very tough situation for you when you see that your neighbour is of such a type and you think that you, too, should become like that. On the contrary, why don’t you think, “We are like this, and why shouldn’t that neighbour also be like us?” First of all, you should promise that you will never be dishonest or support any dishonest doers. It is not known that the thriving of liars is a curse of our country! There are many people who will tell at least ten lies from morning till evening; still it won’t be enough for them. Now that your poverty has perished, all is well. You have everything to eat and drink and you are not a beggar anymore. Then why do you have to lie? So on this day, take this resolution: “We are not going to lie, and if anyone is a liar then we are not going to support that person. We are not going to establish any connection with him”. There is a lot of peace and happiness in this. You know a liar will go to Hell, and you, too; if you support him, you will follow him. God has given you realization; you have been enlightened within. See, in that light, if there are other people like you, you should take a resolution that you will never tell lies ‒ let our heads be cut off, whatever it may be. In this matter the Indians are very much better, I know, but when I hear about them outside then I feel very sad about it. Now, the way these roads are made, are they roads in any sense? I felt as if we were going through some forests. You have an organization. So whenever you see such a thing, you can call for any enquiry. Who made such type of road? Why did he make it? Who ate up the money? All the Sahaja yogis should get united and try to drive this bhoot (possession) out of our country. Wherever we go people say, “Don’t believe the Indians.” How shameful this is! The people who should be trusted the most are we Indians. We have had such great leaders, great saints and great souls over here, but we don’t think of the name and fame they had, how much people respected them; and they respect you, too, but don’t support the thieves. If you know that a particular person is a thief, then you don’t go to his place to eat; this would become difficult for the thieves. I am telling you, you are the Police Force of the Divine, and you should try to keep a note of all the thieves whom you come across. Try to instill this courage in your children, too. Try to find out about the people who are wrongdoers and liars. This country of ours has been awakened by a number of saints, and you all are also saints. There is no need for you to tell lies. What will happen if you get food only once a day? No one dies if he doesn’t eat. We people are getting enough to eat and drink, but on the top of it we want to drink liquor. Secondly, on drinking liquor we can hardly walk even a step. On the contrary, we get destroyed. We cannot live well if we are addicted to liquor. Now, for example in America, they have taken out a new issue, that when a child turns sixteen years of age then he will earn for himself. This means that all are servants. They are given money for whatever work they do – washing vehicles. And when the child is sixteen they say, “Sir, you are sixteen years of age, and now you leave.” I have seen everywhere, these poor children who are sixteen years of age. He has just turned sixteen. Where will he go? What about education? He is sixteen years old! He is thrown out of his house. He is driven out of the house, both by his father and mother. How long this will continue with the Americans, you will see. They are getting ruined. By buying one or two aeroplanes, nobody becomes great. Where are you? What is your capacity? India is a country which can serve the whole world – the whole world. But for that, there should be truthfulness in it. Where is the need for falsehood? I can’t understand! Most of the people who are rich should first of all know that you are rich; sit quietly now and don’t think of earning more. I haven’t seen anyone who became happier through earning more. You are a Sahaja yogi and you have the light in you. You can see your path in this light, and the path is of truth. You may be a Muslim, may be a Hindu or may be a Christian ‒ it makes no difference. You are all human beings. And if human beings do not have honesty in them, then they are dishonest. He won’t be known to anyone. We have life beyond this, too. How would that be? There are many benefits of being honest. The greatest of all is that you have the blessing of God with you. You have the kind of blessings that you will be surprised to know. Without any efforts, all your things are set in order. But now in India, whatever the condition of the people – they may have, they may not have ‒ they all run after money. There are still many more poor people, and so there should also be Diwali celebrations for them today. They, too, should be happy. We live in the same country. But we deceive ourselves. We are very clever. By this we become egoistic inside. And by becoming egoistic nobody can save you in any way. Under the influence of your ego you can get cancer. Then you can’t save yourself. If you have cancer then you cannot save yourself. I, too, cannot save you. I am telling you the facts. Firstly, burn your ego in the fire. If you have an ego then you should be ashamed of it. For what are you having ego? In our country it is for everything. If someone has done a BA he gets egoistic and if he does something more than that, he gets a double ego. If someone has achieved something, if he becomes an engineer or a doctor, then he becomes egoistic. When his Agnya chakra gets caught up, where will it take you straight to? To Hell, and Hell is a very horrible place. God has given you intelligence, and now you have got your realization. And even after that, if you want to go to Hell you can go. Till today nobody has spoken of this. Today is an auspicious day because many things took place on this day. Sitaji returned during the period of Ramchandraji. Whatever great deeds were done during the period of Krishnaji were done by people who were realized souls. So the first thing that you decide for certain is that we won’t do any dishonest deed; at the same time, if anyone does, then we will expose him. But I am seeing in this country that the whites are fighting the blacks, someone is fighting with someone else. They want the country of India to be separated, which is not going to be beneficial at all. How can it be beneficial when you are honest and when you have a good character? Whatever we have learnt from the English people, there is nothing worth learning from them now. They are all in a very bad state. But we have to save our own country and save the whole world. It is a great responsibility. You have been given realization; you have been enlightened. Still, if you want to fall in the ditch then what can anyone do? Everyone should come together and try. I want the Sahaja yogis to form a committee, and if you come across any theft then it should be brought to the notice of the committee and then see what the committee does. In this way you will get fame and you will reach to a very high position. So the first thing would be that you should not be dishonest or let others be dishonest. This is very important. Your country has been blemished. In the oil there is adulteration; then in the ghee there is adulteration. Wherever we look, people are laughing at us. No one believes this, but actually the best of people are in India. The number of people who have got their realization is greater than anywhere else in the world. They have not earned any virtue. So it is better to earn virtue than to earn money. See the people who are very poor. So this day is a very auspicious day and also a very joyful day. Why joyful? Because today we have got Heaven and we want to stay in Heaven alone. But cowardly people cannot enter Heaven. There is no need to be afraid. If you get a couple of rupees more or less, what disaster is going to befall you? All have become rich, I have seen. I have been coming here for the past seventeen to eighteen years now. You have become richer than before. The situation is better than before. But from morning to evening there is dishonesty, dishonesty and dishonesty. So the path has been made. So, today just promise that we are not going to be dishonest, and if anybody is dishonest, then we will all oppose it. Why have you been given Sahaja Yoga? Why have you been given realization? So that you can spread light. If you have no light internally, then how can you spread light outside? And with that light you see, you are helping the dishonest. Nothing will happen if you earn a little less or more. If you are honest then God will help you! Why are so many people dying in our country? Nowhere else do so many of them die. The reason is that they have to go to Hell. So, you have to know this, that if you are dishonest then your first step to Hell is already over, and then the second step of telling lies will not be necessary. You tell the truth. The person who tells the truth would be a unique person. If he is a Sahaja yogi then it would be the best. The way people are remembering the Sufis, the same way people are going to remember you. You don’t have to do anything. Just catch hold of those who are dishonest. It is very much necessary. Here, people are fighting to stop the rubbish from being thrown into Jamunaji. This, too, needs to be told! I have been to so many countries. Nobody throws waste into the river. Why are you so lazy? There are so many facilities over here. You can give the waste to the Municipality to dispose of it somewhere, but if you yourself throw waste away, then what can one do? Today, all of you decide in your mind and take a resolution – it is a very auspicious day today, a very auspicious day ‒ that we won’t do any dishonest deed nor will we believe in dishonesty. I have seen people who were not dishonest and who did not go to the house of people who were dishonest. They had nothing to do with them because they were concerned not only about their own welfare but also the welfare of the whole country. You are a Sahaja yogi. So you need to make a promise that we are not going to do anything dishonest. You just recognize a person who is dishonest and then tell your inner soul that he is dishonest. And if Sahaja yogis ‒ even twelve Sahaja yogis ‒ come together, and if they come to know that he is dishonest, then the Divine will be there to support them. This country won’t benefit from a few rich people, but it will definitely benefit from honest people. The greatest stigma that has been put on us is that we are dishonest. Those who are Sahaja yogis can never be dishonest. We all have to be united, leaving aside all quarrels and assuming that we are honest people. India’s image is very much tarnished. Hence, take a vow today that from now onwards we shall not be dishonest, and if there are any dishonest people we shall all get after them. But this has increased too much. I am astonished at the level of dishonesty; dishonesty in everything, dishonesty in everything. Earlier, they used to cast out people for every minor issue and they used to separate them, even for very minor things. But our country was so honest; it had such nice qualities. Have we forgotten them? Where have they gone? I can see dishonesty everywhere, dishonesty at every step. We have to teach the children that they should not be dishonest. Yes, if they are dying with hunger, then arrangements can be made for that, too, but only if he is honest. If you are not honest then nobody can help you, not even God. He will get all kinds of diseases of the world. There are many such traditions in our country – they will drink liquor, drink wine. Tell me, have you come here to become a fool? And don’t be a friend of one who does it. Don’t help them. I have seen people who go to the houses of people who drink liquor. Then they, too, start taking liquor. But when you know that a person is of such a character, when you know that he is dishonest, then stop eating at his place. You have nothing to do with him. We have to work for the wellbeing of our country because God has given us light. See in that light. His power is tremendous. If you decide that those who are dishonest to the nation will be taken care of by God, then that alone is enough. But you are becoming deaf. You are not able to understand. Such a person can never do any good deed; nor can he ever give. I cannot understand how they live so shamelessly. So, that is why today’s message is that you have to take a vow that we are not going to be dishonest in any way, and if anyone is dishonest then we are not going to support him. That is enough. Many more realized souls will come to our country. But who would like to come to such a dishonest country? So today the only message is that you have light and if you walk in that light, it will give you strength. You can do whatever you want to do. Look, we have achieved our Swatantra. Swatantra is the mechanism of understanding oneself. Now I want a lot of realized children to be born. So learn that it is a very great day today. Take a vow today that we will not be dishonest, or support the dishonest, or even be afraid of them. God is not with them at all. God is with you. If you are good, then God is with you. The people have not taken birth on this land of India for the sake of fighting and dying amongst yourselves. Great fools! We are fighting, dying. There is no benefit in fighting. Tell the people, “Oh, why are you fighting? What do you want? After all, you have nice things to eat and drink. What more do you want?” But nowadays what is most prevalent is that we want such and such clothes, we want that type of house and we don’t have that; with all that we will only go to Hell. In those times there were many who were Sufis. Like them, you are all Sufis, because you are all cleansed. Now all of you write the poem of honesty. This dishonesty has got to go, that is the first thing, and secondly there are many issues which need to be corrected. But see, first of all don’t be dishonest. No one is so poor in India that we have to resort to dishonesty. I am saying that our country is tarnished. This needs to be wiped off. You are Sahaja yogis and you can do it. You have light. With this light you can spread the light everywhere and give courage to all, that it’s all right. Particularly those of you who are young, who are friends, have to think about all the honest deeds you can do. Now they have started, don’t throw rubbish into Jamunaji. That is all right, but it is not so important. What is important is to get rid of dishonesty. That is why this day is considered auspicious everywhere. Lamps are lit all around. In spite of everything, if we can’t do this then what is the benefit of Sahaja Yoga? The largest number of Sahaja yogis are in India. Then comes Russia. Now, the Russian people are very polite. They do not commit any robberies. I don’t know why. Maybe if communism comes to India then we, too, might become like them; but that is not a very great thing. If somebody does something out of compulsion then it is not good. Decide that we should be powerful ourselves. Today you decide ‒ today is a very auspicious day – that you will not be dishonest or let others be dishonest. Your country will then prosper a lot. I have seen what other countries are and how its people are ‒ all are useless people. But the people of our country are still religiously bent. Religiousness will perish in our country if these dishonest people become so powerful. So the only message is that we will not be dishonest nor will we allow others to be dishonest. But the people here are very tolerant in this matter. They tolerate; this is their greatest mistake. When you have got the light, why are you scared? What is the need for you to be afraid? That is why I am requesting you today: be courageous. And now one kind of liberation has been achieved. You will achieve swatantra; the tantra (mechanism) of swa (Oneself). You have achieved it, but make use of it. Today, you are so many people gathered here. I have never seen so many in Delhi. So, today you all decide within yourself that you are not going to believe any dishonest people, and all the devils take birth for this very reason that we have something in us which makes them think that we will believe them. Indians should never believe, and the ones who are realized should never at all. There is one great aspersion on our country everywhere which is not true. India has many people who are honest – many ‒ and this aspersion is not true. I have also seen people fight over land, that “This land is ours and that land is yours”. Whatever you have is swaraja, kingdom of oneself – one’s own kingdom. You will have a kingdom of your own when you become swatantra in the true sense. There is no need to fear anyone, and no need to tell anyone. I am surprised to see so many people. I have never seen so many people in Delhi. So, my only request to you on this auspicious day is that we should decide we should never be dishonest, even if we have to die. Our country has deteriorated in the last ten years. You are so many Sahaja yogis. What are you afraid of? What is the issue to be scared of? The Divine is there behind everyone. When the Sufis came to know that the Divine was there with them, they got rid of all unwanted things from this world. Not all Sufis, but a few did. So you all have to do it. So the message for today is that you should never be a thief yourself or support any thieves. But I am seeing people fighting on more and more issues, fighting on issues of caste and religion. Are you here to save the country or to get drowned? You have a great responsibility. You have been born in Kaliyuga. This Kaliyuga has to be changed, and that is why so many thousands of you are realized. So many people were never realized anywhere else in the world. That is why I am requesting you again and again to always stand on Truth, and I will be there with you. God is also with you. So the request to you all is to firmly decide within yourselves that we are not going to allow any theft or robberies, and wherever we find them we will fight it. But the people seem to be drunk, or what? What did they achieve from this light? Courage. Fight with courage. Whatever is wrong should be removed from this country. It is very tarnished. There are many more issues still, but the most important one is that if there is no honesty then how can God help you? Earning money is of no use to God. But getting your religion is, and that you have achieved. There are not so many Sahaja yogis in this world, and then Sahaja yogis don’t do such deeds. But I am telling you all this because the atmosphere here is very bad, and we people have such a bad name everywhere. You have everything to eat and drink, and enough clothes to wear. What else do you want? You watch movies; you do have that much money. But you should get rid of your addiction to money. I have full hope that you will heed my words. So we should take a vow that we will not be dishonest and we will oppose the people who are dishonest. Understand that the greatest thing that our country needs today is honesty. There is nothing greater than that. Honesty is your mother. So what if you have one shirt in the place of ten? Tell the ladies also the same thing. It will happen. It will take place. Today’s speech is a little different. It is unique, and it is very gracious of you all to have liked it. Thank you. A note from John Noyce: There is a false text in circulation, originating in the Ukraine, which purports to be a transcript of the Diwali 2007 Talk. It begins ‘All My inexhaustible Love will be the assistant for you…’

Talk of the Evening Eve of Diwali. Noida (India), 10 November 2007. (Translation from Hindi) Happy Diwali. I wish you all a very happy Diwali. You have seen these different types of dances; understand one thing from them, that whoever has written it or said it, they are all saying the same thing. The greatest thing that they said was that the Paramatma is One. They had incarnated in different forms, avatars, but the Paramatma is One. There were no disputes amongst them. They came in this world for the destruction of evil and killing the wicked people; and this is happening. I am seeing everywhere that these evil people are getting exposed, and now it is your duty, too, to see that all those who are evil, those who are working against the Paramatma and who are ready to do anything for the sake of earning money, all go to Hell. We do not know how many Hells there are! The place where you are all sitting now is very far away from Hell. There is no relation with Hell at all. But even staying here, if you perform unreligious deeds, do wrong things, then you, too, can go to Hell. There are many types of Hells, and the arrangements to go there are also very nicely done, because those who are going there do not even know where they are going. Those who remain behind go to Heaven. Nobody on this earthly abode even knows that they may go to Hell. Doing wrong deeds would land us in Hell. The meaning of Diwali itself is that the way the lamps are lit outside, you, too, should be lit within ‒ enlightened. In this dark world, you see, you are the lights, you are the lamps and you have to give the light. But if you are not internally enlightened enough, then how can you give out light? Realise this. So first of all, you Sahaja yogis should get properly enlightened internally, and maybe it is for this purpose alone that we have come into this world. Until Jesus Christ, nobody even spoke about this. At Agnya chakra He came and showed that he did not have any ego whatsoever. He was the Son of the Almighty; still, he had no ego. The people who had come before him revealed a little, but Christ only wanted that our Agnya chakra should be cleared. And that Agnya chakra seems to be very much caught up in your Delhi. What is the reason for this? The English people lived here before and they taught us to be egoistic. This is quite evident in your talk and behaviour. We have seen those days, too, when our country was not independent, but you people are liberated now. Now we are independent. And what is swatantra (independence)? Know the swa – oneself ‒ and the tantra – mechanism. Know the mechanism of oneself. Through Sahaja Yoga you have known yourself and you know the technique or the mechanism of knowing oneself. It can be seen that there has been a lot of development in Delhi. Outside Delhi, too, there has been a lot of development. You all know what the problem is with the people over here; I need not tell you. But now you have become independent. So you have to see that you don’t have these problems. The first problem is that your Agnya chakra is catching. Christ was crucified and killed, but still we have not yet learnt from it. On the contrary, people from the Christian countries are highly egoistic and they have influenced us also. But the worst thing here is that we have not yet recognized each other. There are fights and disputes everywhere. There are quarrels going on. There is no purity of mind. First of all, we should purify our minds. With Sahaja Yoga everything is possible and can take people to such great heights. It is not necessary for anyone to go and sit in the Himalayas. You can do this in the city of Delhi itself. But if you look around you will see egoistic people everywhere, and their Agnya chakra is caught up very severely. So it is very difficult. Now God has sent one new thing and that is cancer. If you get cancer and your Agnya chakra is not clear, then a big tragedy is ahead of you. So, one who has cancer should take to Sahaja Yoga and clear out his ego. Wherever there is government, there the people are very egoistic. We have got so many government servants here, and all of them have enough ego in them. The people who come from outside have much more than them, and on top of it they all drink liquor. You just analyse: they call themselves Christians and they all drink. By drinking liquor you are going against yourself. You are disobeying your Agnya chakra. You are not obeying it. The person whose Agnya chakra is clear cannot drink; he can never drink. Wherever you look, the people are drinking liquor, and they have no way of getting rid of it, because when they find they are unable to get rid of it, again they drink over it. So addiction of any sort puts us into slavery, of any kind. Here, there is addiction to paan, and they will add tobacco also to it. God has created you with so much affection and given you birth in this country so that you can become unique from the rest of the world. They can be so. They are Indians. But of late, I find that there are a couple of serious ailments. They are eating money in place of food. The roads by which we came now were not there earlier, but it was a pain for Me to see that the roads are in such bad shape that no one can say that they are new. Only Indians can do such things. I have not seen such shameless people in the whole world. And it is not necessary to be so. Here any time, any person who has the power can do this thing. First of all, we have to take a resolution today that we have to clear our Agnya. The greatest issue at the Agnya is that we think that we are very superior, and we start thinking that we can rule the whole world, and that we can correct the world. When you yourselves are not correct, then how can you correct this world? Now, you must have seen many people who think that they are very great, but do a lot of wrong things. In this country people take a lot of money. Tell me how will God forgive us for this? The greatest of all sins are stealing and corruption. The person who commits these types of sins, whatever he may try ‒ he may do poojas, chant mantras, read namaz, call out to Allah, anything ‒ he won’t be benefited in any way. So, today, is a New Year for you. I want you all to make a resolution: “From today onwards, I will not tell lies, never ever lie”. Indians are very famous worldwide as liars. I do not know how, but our country carries the stamp of being dishonest. Great saints and prophets have taken their birth here. How can people lie in a place where so many Sufis were born? So today, you have to promise that you will never tell lies, whatever may be the consequences. For that you need to have courage. Now that you are realized, what more courage is needed? As it is, you can’t lie at all. It’s only when you become like this, that the people will be able to have faith that you are really truthful people. So, the Sahaja yogis have to be truthful. Whatever may be one’s occupation, whatever he may do ‒ he may be an engineer laying roads, he may be a doctor treating people ‒ if in spite of all this, if you lie, then it would be Hell for you. That is because you are now transformed. You are now realized. So when realized people lie they cannot benefit from it at all. When I go abroad, and often hear people say that the people of our country are cheats, liars and corrupt, I feel very sad. Today it is a very auspicious day for you. Today let us all make a resolution that we will never lie, whatever happens. I myself am a woman, and an Indian. I have never told a lie. By telling lies it would be a loss for you; you will be put to loss by doing wrong deeds. By doing so, you may be earning more or cheating more, but you cannot go to Heaven; you will go to Hell. One thing that is very important to know is that we have a very bad reputation in the rest of the world. Why the bad reputation? Because, we are sthis type of people! When you come to know that someone is a liar, form an organization and make an enquiry into it. For example, if a road has been laid which is not good enough, then enquire about the amount spent in its laying, what was its sanctioned layout cost, and what he was supposed to do. The money that is made out of the road will only be used for drinking and liquor, which is our enemy. Why do you want to do it? You are all very well-to-do people. I have seen many countries where there are poor people, but they are very honest. So honesty should be the foremost quality in you. Today, make a decision that we will never be dishonest hereafter, and we will not remain in the company of dishonest people, and if anyone is dishonest we will expose him. Now people say, “Mother, in the Police Force, too, they are like this, and in other departments, too, they are like that,” but you are Sahaja yogis. Those who are Sahaja yogis are nothing less than any policeman or any person in power. They are all powerful, but all the powers are of Truth. Truthfulness should be there, and I am very glad that a lot of Sahaja yogis are truthful, but we still need more Sahaja yogis who are truthful. Truthfulness has to be there; otherwise your Agnya chakra will not be cleared. Agnya is where the ego resides. When a person becomes egoistic, then he commits all kinds of mistakes; he criticizes, harms, gets corrupt. All such people will go to Hell. I want to tell you very clearly that you should not take to corruption. You are not dying, that you have to go to that extent. What have you achieved by earning more? What are you doing? You must have put up a few more lights, kept a couple of more women; what more than that? Now, what will be your condition when you go to Hell? I am discussing all this on this day of Diwali because Diwali was celebrated on the occasion of Sitaji’s re-union with Rama. We can no longer be slaves once we embrace chastity. We are our own slaves and not the slaves of others. We shall not lie for any reason whatsoever. I have lived in Delhi for a long time and am quite surprised at how much they lie. They are not afraid of lying at all. By telling lies openly they might benefit here, they might earn more money, but it is not known that they will not go to Heaven. I want the Sahaja yogis to promise that they will not lie or support the people who lie. People say that our country is very corrupt. Yes, I have been to far-off places and I have seen that the Russians are the best amongst them. They are half like Sahaja yogis, and there are a lot of Sahaja yogis there. This year I was not able to go to Russia; next year I will definitely go. This means that we were not able to implement democracy well. We, too, should have been communist. There are no cases of robbery there, no lies, and everyone loves each other. They respect Me a lot. We have to understand where we are going. For the sake of earning more money, to what extent will we go? What are we going to get? So, honesty should be the foremost quality within you. Your dishonesty is going to create problems for your own people. People say that Indians are dishonest. I feel ashamed to hear this. So many great saints have taken birth over here, so many great prophets have been over here, and people of this place are great thieves, and they steal and criticize. Your Agnya has been scared of all this from the very beginning. They want to make huge money; in the end all these rich people will go to Hell. On this day of Diwali, I want to tell you all that the meaning of Diwali is that Hell is full of darkness, and you all are enlightened. You are expected to fight wherever there is darkness and let them know that they are doing wrong things. By doing this our country will improve, and you have to do this. We have been performing poojas and rituals, but the Shakti (Divine power) which is there within us, is there to oppose all that is not truthful. Many people do not know that making money is a sickness. They will go straight to Hell. I am telling you all this because no one has said it like this before. On the day of Diwali, I am telling you that we are going to light lamps and celebrate happiness in our hearts. By this we can see what kind of a person one is: is he a person who steals? As of now, too, I can see people fighting with each other. Quarrels amongst Hindus and Muslims are over now, but fighting with others has started. That is the second thing: we are quarrelsome, too. At least in the other countries there are not as many religions as we have. So whenever we get a chance, we start fighting; fighting is the priority. Fighting between husband and wife and then their children, and then if they have someone else with them they will fight with them, too. What is Sahaja Yoga? Sahaja Yoga is love and only love. Awaken the power of love which is within us. Today is a very auspicious day, and we have to light the lamps in our heart and take up the resolution that we may die but we won’t lie. We had great people over here, but still Indians are very ill-famed the world over as being very dishonest. Though I have never seen one of this kind, whenever I hear of it I feel very sad. India is such a holy place where such great saints have taken their birth. That didn’t happen anywhere else in the world. Sufis were born here, who became so great. All of them were born in India. So many great saints were not born anywhere else in the world. A couple of them must have been born there, but the ones who were born in India were very great saints, and after that whatever they had taught was given up. We have become notorious thieves. Whoever commits theft can never go to Heaven. You will have to spend a thousand times more in Hell than the life span spent here. Today I am talking about Hell because Hell means darkness, and we are seeing the spell of darkness everywhere ‒ that of Hell. Now that your lights are lit, try to see who are in Hell. You support the government by exposing the dishonest. You may be holding a junior or a senior position. Still you have to expose the one who is a thief and corrupt. Now you have got the powers, what are they for? You have been awakened now. What is it for? You have got enlightenment. You see yourself in its light. You have seen nothing in the darkness, but see in your light, what you are, and what you are going to achieve by telling lies. We are family people. We never lie ‒ never ‒ and we can’t even lie. Whenever the situation to lie arises, don’t forget that you have the powers. You are the lights, You see, you are the light in this darkness, and you need to keep the lights burning. We have to end this darkness. We have a bad reputation for our dishonesty. There is no country as great as ours; yet it is very sad to know that the people outside have misunderstood us. It is not known what these people achieve by their dishonesty. What they will get will be horrible! No one will be spared! Whoever is dishonest will be caught, and there are arrangements made for it. You have got realization because you are not dishonest. You love truthfulness and respect it. I want you all to stand for truth. The people who are throwing clutter in Jamunaji (River) are fools. Jamunaji goes straight down to Hell. But you will be saved from that Hell. You are realized souls. The one who is enlightened never falls. But if you really want to establish Sahaja Yoga fully within yourself then you have to first of all decide never to be dishonest in any way. Earning money is the only business left in this world. What happens with that? Nobody will even remember them. You have to be truthful if you love your country. Otherwise, who is going to believe in a liar’s love? It is a very tough situation for you when you see that your neighbour is of such a type and you think that you, too, should become like that. On the contrary, why don’t you think, “We are like this, and why shouldn’t that neighbour also be like us?” First of all, you should promise that you will never be dishonest or support any dishonest doers. It is not known that the thriving of liars is a curse of our country! There are many people who will tell at least ten lies from morning till evening; still it won’t be enough for them. Now that your poverty has perished, all is well. You have everything to eat and drink and you are not a beggar anymore. Then why do you have to lie? So on this day, take this resolution: “We are not going to lie, and if anyone is a liar then we are not going to support that person. We are not going to establish any connection with him”. There is a lot of peace and happiness in this. You know a liar will go to Hell, and you, too; if you support him, you will follow him. God has given you realization; you have been enlightened within. See, in that light, if there are other people like you, you should take a resolution that you will never tell lies ‒ let our heads be cut off, whatever it may be. In this matter the Indians are very much better, I know, but when I hear about them outside then I feel very sad about it. Now, the way these roads are made, are they roads in any sense? I felt as if we were going through some forests. You have an organization. So whenever you see such a thing, you can call for any enquiry. Who made such type of road? Why did he make it? Who ate up the money? All the Sahaja yogis should get united and try to drive this bhoot (possession) out of our country. Wherever we go people say, “Don’t believe the Indians.” How shameful this is! The people who should be trusted the most are we Indians. We have had such great leaders, great saints and great souls over here, but we don’t think of the name and fame they had, how much people respected them; and they respect you, too, but don’t support the thieves. If you know that a particular person is a thief, then you don’t go to his place to eat; this would become difficult for the thieves. I am telling you, you are the Police Force of the Divine, and you should try to keep a note of all the thieves whom you come across. Try to instill this courage in your children, too. Try to find out about the people who are wrongdoers and liars. This country of ours has been awakened by a number of saints, and you all are also saints. There is no need for you to tell lies. What will happen if you get food only once a day? No one dies if he doesn’t eat. We people are getting enough to eat and drink, but on the top of it we want to drink liquor. Secondly, on drinking liquor we can hardly walk even a step. On the contrary, we get destroyed. We cannot live well if we are addicted to liquor. Now, for example in America, they have taken out a new issue, that when a child turns sixteen years of age then he will earn for himself. This means that all are servants. They are given money for whatever work they do – washing vehicles. And when the child is sixteen they say, “Sir, you are sixteen years of age, and now you leave.” I have seen everywhere, these poor children who are sixteen years of age. He has just turned sixteen. Where will he go? What about education? He is sixteen years old! He is thrown out of his house. He is driven out of the house, both by his father and mother. How long this will continue with the Americans, you will see. They are getting ruined. By buying one or two aeroplanes, nobody becomes great. Where are you? What is your capacity? India is a country which can serve the whole world – the whole world. But for that, there should be truthfulness in it. Where is the need for falsehood? I can’t understand! Most of the people who are rich should first of all know that you are rich; sit quietly now and don’t think of earning more. I haven’t seen anyone who became happier through earning more. You are a Sahaja yogi and you have the light in you. You can see your path in this light, and the path is of truth. You may be a Muslim, may be a Hindu or may be a Christian ‒ it makes no difference. You are all human beings. And if human beings do not have honesty in them, then they are dishonest. He won’t be known to anyone. We have life beyond this, too. How would that be? There are many benefits of being honest. The greatest of all is that you have the blessing of God with you. You have the kind of blessings that you will be surprised to know. Without any efforts, all your things are set in order. But now in India, whatever the condition of the people – they may have, they may not have ‒ they all run after money. There are still many more poor people, and so there should also be Diwali celebrations for them today. They, too, should be happy. We live in the same country. But we deceive ourselves. We are very clever. By this we become egoistic inside. And by becoming egoistic nobody can save you in any way. Under the influence of your ego you can get cancer. Then you can’t save yourself. If you have cancer then you cannot save yourself. I, too, cannot save you. I am telling you the facts. Firstly, burn your ego in the fire. If you have an ego then you should be ashamed of it. For what are you having ego? In our country it is for everything. If someone has done a BA he gets egoistic and if he does something more than that, he gets a double ego. If someone has achieved something, if he becomes an engineer or a doctor, then he becomes egoistic. When his Agnya chakra gets caught up, where will it take you straight to? To Hell, and Hell is a very horrible place. God has given you intelligence, and now you have got your realization. And even after that, if you want to go to Hell you can go. Till today nobody has spoken of this. Today is an auspicious day because many things took place on this day. Sitaji returned during the period of Ramchandraji. Whatever great deeds were done during the period of Krishnaji were done by people who were realized souls. So the first thing that you decide for certain is that we won’t do any dishonest deed; at the same time, if anyone does, then we will expose him. But I am seeing in this country that the whites are fighting the blacks, someone is fighting with someone else. They want the country of India to be separated, which is not going to be beneficial at all. How can it be beneficial when you are honest and when you have a good character? Whatever we have learnt from the English people, there is nothing worth learning from them now. They are all in a very bad state. But we have to save our own country and save the whole world. It is a great responsibility. You have been given realization; you have been enlightened. Still, if you want to fall in the ditch then what can anyone do? Everyone should come together and try. I want the Sahaja yogis to form a committee, and if you come across any theft then it should be brought to the notice of the committee and then see what the committee does. In this way you will get fame and you will reach to a very high position. So the first thing would be that you should not be dishonest or let others be dishonest. This is very important. Your country has been blemished. In the oil there is adulteration; then in the ghee there is adulteration. Wherever we look, people are laughing at us. No one believes this, but actually the best of people are in India. The number of people who have got their realization is greater than anywhere else in the world. They have not earned any virtue. So it is better to earn virtue than to earn money. See the people who are very poor. So this day is a very auspicious day and also a very joyful day. Why joyful? Because today we have got Heaven and we want to stay in Heaven alone. But cowardly people cannot enter Heaven. There is no need to be afraid. If you get a couple of rupees more or less, what disaster is going to befall you? All have become rich, I have seen. I have been coming here for the past seventeen to eighteen years now. You have become richer than before. The situation is better than before. But from morning to evening there is dishonesty, dishonesty and dishonesty. So the path has been made. So, today just promise that we are not going to be dishonest, and if anybody is dishonest, then we will all oppose it. Why have you been given Sahaja Yoga? Why have you been given realization? So that you can spread light. If you have no light internally, then how can you spread light outside? And with that light you see, you are helping the dishonest. Nothing will happen if you earn a little less or more. If you are honest then God will help you! Why are so many people dying in our country? Nowhere else do so many of them die. The reason is that they have to go to Hell. So, you have to know this, that if you are dishonest then your first step to Hell is already over, and then the second step of telling lies will not be necessary. You tell the truth. The person who tells the truth would be a unique person. If he is a Sahaja yogi then it would be the best. The way people are remembering the Sufis, the same way people are going to remember you. You don’t have to do anything. Just catch hold of those who are dishonest. It is very much necessary. Here, people are fighting to stop the rubbish from being thrown into Jamunaji. This, too, needs to be told! I have been to so many countries. Nobody throws waste into the river. Why are you so lazy? There are so many facilities over here. You can give the waste to the Municipality to dispose of it somewhere, but if you yourself throw waste away, then what can one do? Today, all of you decide in your mind and take a resolution – it is a very auspicious day today, a very auspicious day ‒ that we won’t do any dishonest deed nor will we believe in dishonesty. I have seen people who were not dishonest and who did not go to the house of people who were dishonest. They had nothing to do with them because they were concerned not only about their own welfare but also the welfare of the whole country. You are a Sahaja yogi. So you need to make a promise that we are not going to do anything dishonest. You just recognize a person who is dishonest and then tell your inner soul that he is dishonest. And if Sahaja yogis ‒ even twelve Sahaja yogis ‒ come together, and if they come to know that he is dishonest, then the Divine will be there to support them. This country won’t benefit from a few rich people, but it will definitely benefit from honest people. The greatest stigma that has been put on us is that we are dishonest. Those who are Sahaja yogis can never be dishonest. We all have to be united, leaving aside all quarrels and assuming that we are honest people. India’s image is very much tarnished. Hence, take a vow today that from now onwards we shall not be dishonest, and if there are any dishonest people we shall all get after them. But this has increased too much. I am astonished at the level of dishonesty; dishonesty in everything, dishonesty in everything. Earlier, they used to cast out people for every minor issue and they used to separate them, even for very minor things. But our country was so honest; it had such nice qualities. Have we forgotten them? Where have they gone? I can see dishonesty everywhere, dishonesty at every step. We have to teach the children that they should not be dishonest. Yes, if they are dying with hunger, then arrangements can be made for that, too, but only if he is honest. If you are not honest then nobody can help you, not even God. He will get all kinds of diseases of the world. There are many such traditions in our country – they will drink liquor, drink wine. Tell me, have you come here to become a fool? And don’t be a friend of one who does it. Don’t help them. I have seen people who go to the houses of people who drink liquor. Then they, too, start taking liquor. But when you know that a person is of such a character, when you know that he is dishonest, then stop eating at his place. You have nothing to do with him. We have to work for the wellbeing of our country because God has given us light. See in that light. His power is tremendous. If you decide that those who are dishonest to the nation will be taken care of by God, then that alone is enough. But you are becoming deaf. You are not able to understand. Such a person can never do any good deed; nor can he ever give. I cannot understand how they live so shamelessly. So, that is why today’s message is that you have to take a vow that we are not going to be dishonest in any way, and if anyone is dishonest then we are not going to support him. That is enough. Many more realized souls will come to our country. But who would like to come to such a dishonest country? So today the only message is that you have light and if you walk in that light, it will give you strength. You can do whatever you want to do. Look, we have achieved our Swatantra. Swatantra is the mechanism of understanding oneself. Now I want a lot of realized children to be born. So learn that it is a very great day today. Take a vow today that we will not be dishonest, or support the dishonest, or even be afraid of them. God is not with them at all. God is with you. If you are good, then God is with you. The people have not taken birth on this land of India for the sake of fighting and dying amongst yourselves. Great fools! We are fighting, dying. There is no benefit in fighting. Tell the people, “Oh, why are you fighting? What do you want? After all, you have nice things to eat and drink. What more do you want?” But nowadays what is most prevalent is that we want such and such clothes, we want that type of house and we don’t have that; with all that we will only go to Hell. In those times there were many who were Sufis. Like them, you are all Sufis, because you are all cleansed. Now all of you write the poem of honesty. This dishonesty has got to go, that is the first thing, and secondly there are many issues which need to be corrected. But see, first of all don’t be dishonest. No one is so poor in India that we have to resort to dishonesty. I am saying that our country is tarnished. This needs to be wiped off. You are Sahaja yogis and you can do it. You have light. With this light you can spread the light everywhere and give courage to all, that it’s all right. Particularly those of you who are young, who are friends, have to think about all the honest deeds you can do. Now they have started, don’t throw rubbish into Jamunaji. That is all right, but it is not so important. What is important is to get rid of dishonesty. That is why this day is considered auspicious everywhere. Lamps are lit all around. In spite of everything, if we can’t do this then what is the benefit of Sahaja Yoga? The largest number of Sahaja yogis are in India. Then comes Russia. Now, the Russian people are very polite. They do not commit any robberies. I don’t know why. Maybe if communism comes to India then we, too, might become like them; but that is not a very great thing. If somebody does something out of compulsion then it is not good. Decide that we should be powerful ourselves. Today you decide ‒ today is a very auspicious day – that you will not be dishonest or let others be dishonest. Your country will then prosper a lot. I have seen what other countries are and how its people are ‒ all are useless people. But the people of our country are still religiously bent. Religiousness will perish in our country if these dishonest people become so powerful. So the only message is that we will not be dishonest nor will we allow others to be dishonest. But the people here are very tolerant in this matter. They tolerate; this is their greatest mistake. When you have got the light, why are you scared? What is the need for you to be afraid? That is why I am requesting you today: be courageous. And now one kind of liberation has been achieved. You will achieve swatantra; the tantra (mechanism) of swa (Oneself). You have achieved it, but make use of it. Today, you are so many people gathered here. I have never seen so many in Delhi. So, today you all decide within yourself that you are not going to believe any dishonest people, and all the devils take birth for this very reason that we have something in us which makes them think that we will believe them. Indians should never believe, and the ones who are realized should never at all. There is one great aspersion on our country everywhere which is not true. India has many people who are honest – many ‒ and this aspersion is not true. I have also seen people fight over land, that “This land is ours and that land is yours”. Whatever you have is swaraja, kingdom of oneself – one’s own kingdom. You will have a kingdom of your own when you become swatantra in the true sense. There is no need to fear anyone, and no need to tell anyone. I am surprised to see so many people. I have never seen so many people in Delhi. So, my only request to you on this auspicious day is that we should decide we should never be dishonest, even if we have to die. Our country has deteriorated in the last ten years. You are so many Sahaja yogis. What are you afraid of? What is the issue to be scared of? The Divine is there behind everyone. When the Sufis came to know that the Divine was there with them, they got rid of all unwanted things from this world. Not all Sufis, but a few did. So you all have to do it. So the message for today is that you should never be a thief yourself or support any thieves. But I am seeing people fighting on more and more issues, fighting on issues of caste and religion. Are you here to save the country or to get drowned? You have a great responsibility. You have been born in Kaliyuga. This Kaliyuga has to be changed, and that is why so many thousands of you are realized. So many people were never realized anywhere else in the world. That is why I am requesting you again and again to always stand on Truth, and I will be there with you. God is also with you. So the request to you all is to firmly decide within yourselves that we are not going to allow any theft or robberies, and wherever we find them we will fight it. But the people seem to be drunk, or what? What did they achieve from this light? Courage. Fight with courage. Whatever is wrong should be removed from this country. It is very tarnished. There are many more issues still, but the most important one is that if there is no honesty then how can God help you? Earning money is of no use to God. But getting your religion is, and that you have achieved. There are not so many Sahaja yogis in this world, and then Sahaja yogis don’t do such deeds. But I am telling you all this because the atmosphere here is very bad, and we people have such a bad name everywhere. You have everything to eat and drink, and enough clothes to wear. What else do you want? You watch movies; you do have that much money. But you should get rid of your addiction to money. I have full hope that you will heed my words. So we should take a vow that we will not be dishonest and we will oppose the people who are dishonest. Understand that the greatest thing that our country needs today is honesty. There is nothing greater than that. Honesty is your mother. So what if you have one shirt in the place of ten? Tell the ladies also the same thing. It will happen. It will take place. Today’s speech is a little different. It is unique, and it is very gracious of you all to have liked it. Thank you. A note from John Noyce: There is a false text in circulation, originating in the Ukraine, which purports to be a transcript of the Diwali 2007 Talk. It begins ‘All My inexhaustible Love will be the assistant for you…’

11/30/2007

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Shri Mataji in the Kitchen, 2007

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12/23/2007

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Visit to Belapur Health Centre

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1/17/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=2865

Makar Sankranti Puja

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Makar Sankranti

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Makar Sankranti, translated from Hindi, Pratishtan, (India), 2008. Today is Sankranti. Sankranti means that today something new is going to happen. Kundalini has awakened within you, and you have become a new person compared with what you were before. But on the day of Sankranti, you should know that you have to please the Goddess who is sitting within you. What should you do to make Her happy? You distribute sesame seeds and jaggery. That is for love. To increase the love between each other, we give sesame seeds and jaggery. Today the Sun has left its place and in its northward movement has come towards us. At this moment we should be very thankful to the Sun. It is by the grace of the Sun that so many things take place in our country. We have to do namaskar to the Sun today, and His power and His knowledge should come to us. All of you have become realized, and vibrations are flowing through you. Now you should make use of these vibrations, establish the shakti within you, establish the peace within you and show the world that this power is within us and we have to acquire it. We have to nurture this and improve it with your good qualities and truthful speech. Today is a very special day because the Sun is particularly benevolent towards us on this day, and we should thank Him for all this. You have received a lot. There is more to come, and you will get much more. We should increase it. All of you did so many pujas to me. I am surprised to know what you want from all these pujas. I wish you to become great Sahaja yogis and bring people to the right path in this world. Teach them good living and let them experience the energy which is flowing inside them. I am very happy to see you all. So can we go now?

Makar Sankranti, translated from Hindi, Pratishtan, (India), 2008. Today is Sankranti. Sankranti means that today something new is going to happen. Kundalini has awakened within you, and you have become a new person compared with what you were before. But on the day of Sankranti, you should know that you have to please the Goddess who is sitting within you. What should you do to make Her happy? You distribute sesame seeds and jaggery. That is for love. To increase the love between each other, we give sesame seeds and jaggery. Today the Sun has left its place and in its northward movement has come towards us. At this moment we should be very thankful to the Sun. It is by the grace of the Sun that so many things take place in our country. We have to do namaskar to the Sun today, and His power and His knowledge should come to us. All of you have become realized, and vibrations are flowing through you. Now you should make use of these vibrations, establish the shakti within you, establish the peace within you and show the world that this power is within us and we have to acquire it. We have to nurture this and improve it with your good qualities and truthful speech. Today is a very special day because the Sun is particularly benevolent towards us on this day, and we should thank Him for all this. You have received a lot. There is more to come, and you will get much more. We should increase it. All of you did so many pujas to me. I am surprised to know what you want from all these pujas. I wish you to become great Sahaja yogis and bring people to the right path in this world. Teach them good living and let them experience the energy which is flowing inside them. I am very happy to see you all. So can we go now?

1/26/2008

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59th Republic Day Celebration

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2/10/2008

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Shri Ganesha Puja on occasion of Shri Ganesha’s Birthday: He is the embodiment of purity

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[Hindi to English translation] Talk held in occasion of Shri Ganesha Jayanti. Pratishthan (India), 10 February 2008. Today is a very important day for all of us Sahaja Yogis, because Shri Ganesha was born on this day. We worship Shri Ganesha and you got your awakening because of Him. No matter how much you think of Him, until you know His special qualities, you cannot attain Him. His special quality is that He is the embodiment of purity [shuddha swaroop] and complete Master of the Universe. He is the incarnation of the Supreme, of Brahma. By coming into this world, He has created music [sangeet], rhythm [taal], and notes [sur]. By His Grace only, people become one with music [talleen]. A small boy came into the world and did such great work! He has given so many things to everyone, and even today He is active. No matter how much you worship Shri Ganesha, it is not enough. A lot of people say, “We don’t see Shri Ganesha, even after worshipping Him so much. We do not attain Him.” He is omniscient, omnipresent, and in every matter, but you cannot recognize Him unless you are realized. After your realization, you can recognize what Shri Ganesha is. Shri Ganesha is purity, the pure Spirit. He is the pure Spirit. When He is awakened within us, then we have no more problems. Then we achieve success in each and every task; every understanding gives success. And we find joy in everything we do. He is the embodiment of joy and gives joy to everyone. To serve Him is the ultimate righteousness/merit [param dharma]. To serve Him means what? To look after small children, to serve them, to protect them, to make sure there is no cruelty towards them. This pleases Him very much. Such an embodiment of love, such a simple-hearted Shri Ganesha, was born today. This is the importance of this day. Today, if you ask for any wish, then Shri Ganesha will fulfill it. It is His right to fulfill all your desires, because you are all realized. Ask Him from all your heart, and He will help you in every way, every moment, and every instant. Today is a very big day, because verily the pure Spirit itself has taken birth today. And He already had such a spiritual, eternal state that many people could not comprehend it or write about it. Many people didn’t tell anything; they wrote only what they could understand. But you can understand that just by Shri Ganesha’s name you get your realization. Just by taking His name, any disease or any pain will disappear. He is eternal. He is always present within us. When you get your realization, you can feel His presence. And if you are not realized, you cannot understand. That is why people get misled and do wrong things. But with Shri Ganesha’s blessings, you can do so many things, and you won’t feel lethargic nor have any problems, because He does all the work for you. He takes care of you. Though He is a little boy, He looks after you. It’s a tremendous power. By Shri Ganesha’s power, several works are manifested. For Me, He is the purest ever and My own. I trouble Him a lot. When somebody tries to trouble Me, I ask Him to handle this fellow and to make him all right. When this fellow is not manageable by Me, when there is a difficult person and it is not possible for Me to handle him, then He does the job. So today is very auspicious, as He was born this day. Secondly, today is Panchami [the fifth day). This Panchami is recognized because on this day we wear special clothes. Whatever we wear is so that our body is properly covered. The sense of chastity that our body has is because of Him: Lajja Rupena Samsthita [the one who resides in the form of bashful modesty]. So if you have any sense of chastity, it is because of Him. That will benefit you immensely. You cannot feel joyous until you worship Shri Ganesha. By worshipping Shri Ganesha, your joy increases. You become joyous, because He is the personification of joy [anand swaroop]. Because of this, we have both things today: His birthday and His help. We seek His help in any work we do. Such is our way. But we don’t see what we do to awaken Him. Our attention does not go in that direction. That we should also do something, that we should also develop our state, that we should have a state in which Shri Ganesha is awakened within us, through which we may never venture on the wrong path. Those who are rooted in Ganesha are special. They despise all the wrong things in this world, and they do not do anything wrong, because Shri Ganesha stops them. They cannot enjoy wrong activities. This is Shri Ganesha’s great blessing, that you have entered a new, joyous life. So today in His service, sing His praise and glory, so that He may be pleased. My eternal blessings to all of you.

[Hindi to English translation] Talk held in occasion of Shri Ganesha Jayanti. Pratishthan (India), 10 February 2008. Today is a very important day for all of us Sahaja Yogis, because Shri Ganesha was born on this day. We worship Shri Ganesha and you got your awakening because of Him. No matter how much you think of Him, until you know His special qualities, you cannot attain Him. His special quality is that He is the embodiment of purity [shuddha swaroop] and complete Master of the Universe. He is the incarnation of the Supreme, of Brahma. By coming into this world, He has created music [sangeet], rhythm [taal], and notes [sur]. By His Grace only, people become one with music [talleen]. A small boy came into the world and did such great work! He has given so many things to everyone, and even today He is active. No matter how much you worship Shri Ganesha, it is not enough. A lot of people say, “We don’t see Shri Ganesha, even after worshipping Him so much. We do not attain Him.” He is omniscient, omnipresent, and in every matter, but you cannot recognize Him unless you are realized. After your realization, you can recognize what Shri Ganesha is. Shri Ganesha is purity, the pure Spirit. He is the pure Spirit. When He is awakened within us, then we have no more problems. Then we achieve success in each and every task; every understanding gives success. And we find joy in everything we do. He is the embodiment of joy and gives joy to everyone. To serve Him is the ultimate righteousness/merit [param dharma]. To serve Him means what? To look after small children, to serve them, to protect them, to make sure there is no cruelty towards them. This pleases Him very much. Such an embodiment of love, such a simple-hearted Shri Ganesha, was born today. This is the importance of this day. Today, if you ask for any wish, then Shri Ganesha will fulfill it. It is His right to fulfill all your desires, because you are all realized. Ask Him from all your heart, and He will help you in every way, every moment, and every instant. Today is a very big day, because verily the pure Spirit itself has taken birth today. And He already had such a spiritual, eternal state that many people could not comprehend it or write about it. Many people didn’t tell anything; they wrote only what they could understand. But you can understand that just by Shri Ganesha’s name you get your realization. Just by taking His name, any disease or any pain will disappear. He is eternal. He is always present within us. When you get your realization, you can feel His presence. And if you are not realized, you cannot understand. That is why people get misled and do wrong things. But with Shri Ganesha’s blessings, you can do so many things, and you won’t feel lethargic nor have any problems, because He does all the work for you. He takes care of you. Though He is a little boy, He looks after you. It’s a tremendous power. By Shri Ganesha’s power, several works are manifested. For Me, He is the purest ever and My own. I trouble Him a lot. When somebody tries to trouble Me, I ask Him to handle this fellow and to make him all right. When this fellow is not manageable by Me, when there is a difficult person and it is not possible for Me to handle him, then He does the job. So today is very auspicious, as He was born this day. Secondly, today is Panchami [the fifth day). This Panchami is recognized because on this day we wear special clothes. Whatever we wear is so that our body is properly covered. The sense of chastity that our body has is because of Him: Lajja Rupena Samsthita [the one who resides in the form of bashful modesty]. So if you have any sense of chastity, it is because of Him. That will benefit you immensely. You cannot feel joyous until you worship Shri Ganesha. By worshipping Shri Ganesha, your joy increases. You become joyous, because He is the personification of joy [anand swaroop]. Because of this, we have both things today: His birthday and His help. We seek His help in any work we do. Such is our way. But we don’t see what we do to awaken Him. Our attention does not go in that direction. That we should also do something, that we should also develop our state, that we should have a state in which Shri Ganesha is awakened within us, through which we may never venture on the wrong path. Those who are rooted in Ganesha are special. They despise all the wrong things in this world, and they do not do anything wrong, because Shri Ganesha stops them. They cannot enjoy wrong activities. This is Shri Ganesha’s great blessing, that you have entered a new, joyous life. So today in His service, sing His praise and glory, so that He may be pleased. My eternal blessings to all of you.

3/23/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=721

Easter Puja: You must forgive

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Nagpur

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Easter Puja, "You must forgive", Hotel Pride, Nagpur (India), March 23th, 2008 I never expected all of you to be here present for the puja. I don’t know how you have managed to come (laughter and applause). Otherwise, it’s a very important day today for all of us because you know how Christ died. He was crucified. He was put on a cross and then He died. Wonderful the way he said about you people. He asked for forgiveness from God. What we have to learn from His life is the way He knew how to forgive all of us. We have to also forgive people. That seems to be very difficult for people to forgive and if they are angry, they are angry, they cannot forgive. Then you are no more sahaja yogis; sahaja yogis must forgive. Very important; because that is the power you have got from Christ, to forgive. Human beings make mistakes, that is a part of their lives. But at the same time, as sahaja yogis must remember that you have to forgive. That is much more important than getting angry. So to forgive people for doing something wrong according to you or according to God, you have to forgive. And you will be surprised that the forgiveness is such a great, satisfying quality. If you can forgive people, you will become extremely pure. Because the dirt or the anger that is within us goes out. So to forgive is the biggest blessings human beings have. Even Christ said the same thing that: "Forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing." So if Christ had to say - so what about you? We are ordinary human beings and if we have done mistakes, people can get angry and upset with you. But the best thing for you is to forgive. Forgive for doing something that should have not been done. This was the biggest quality of Christ, that He knew how to forgive. And he forgave people who had made horrible mistakes. Still He forgave them because He loved them. And that is what you should also forgive. Today is a special day for that - special day for forgiveness. And that is why I said whatever you may think is very late, but we’ll have a meeting because I didn’t want to miss the time. Forgiveness comes by people who are very generous, who are good-hearted. You, everybody makes mistakes and so we can also make mistakes. But that means we have a right to forgive and we have a heart to forgive. If you don’t have, then we are not sahaja yogis. You must learn to forgive and forgive without any remarks behind it. Today is a very special day, because that’s what Christ did, He was one of the most powerful deities or gods, as we can say, most powerful. He could do anything, He could punish them, all of them, for misbehaving. But what did he say? He said “I forgive” and he asked God also to forgive. So whatever may be your powers, whatever you might have achieved in life, whatever position you might be occupying, but you must learn the way to forgive, otherwise you are nowhere near Christ. You must learn to forgive. That‘s a very great quality: if you can forgive, all the time forgive. And that’s why today I wanted to meet you all, so I did. (laughter). I wanted to meet you all and tell you that today is the day to forgive. That doesn’t mean you sit down and think how many people you have to forgive (laughter). That would be absurd. But something that haunts your mind and you think you have been troubled and you have been put to trouble. Then just think that you don’t know how many powers you have and you can’t even forgive. When you have got all these powers; the greatest power you have got is to forgive. Today is the day for forgiving. Forgiving people whom you think they have done wrong to you or they have been unkind to you. Please try to remember how many you are still angry. Just forgive them. Then you have punished them. If you forgive them from your heart, then you have punished them. You have given them back whatever they wanted, they deserved. So, this is not a very difficult thing, to forgive, but people think it’s very difficult to forgive because they have certain great understandings about themselves. And then they think how can they forgive? I don’t know what things upset you, anything can upset you. After all, you are all realized souls, you have got your second birth and you are special people. So you should have special quality and the special quality is to forgive, to forgive. Not to go on remembering on what things you should be angry and you should be upset, but just to remember what things you have to forgive. Just forgive. For what? Is a practical thing, most practical. Supposing somebody slaps me, alright. If somebody slaps me, what should I do? I should slap him back? No. Then why, should I ask him, "Why did you slap me?" No. Then I should think he must be stupid fool to do like that? Even that won’t help. On the contrary, if you can just forgive, forgive that person who has done something wrong… For you it is important that you must forgive because has no effect. Once you forgive it will have no effect on you, your goodness, your righteousness. But I think human beings find it difficult to forgive - normally, normally. But you are all realized souls, you are not only human beings, that’s why I am requesting you that remember you have a power to forgive. To forgive everyone who hurts you, who tortures you, who troubles you. How far can you go? Just think of forgiving and you’ll be amazed, he will change. He will change and you will also enjoy yourself. It’s a difficult thing for people to understand, but just try. Just try what I’m saying. If somebody does any harm to you, just forgive that person and see the reaction, reaction in that person and in yourself; what happens? But if you want to carry the burden of his anger or of stupidity, whatever it is, then you are unnecessarily loaded with useless things. We should not waste our energy on deciding what’s wrong, what did he do and what you should do to him. That we should not. Just leave him alone and you just forgive. Say that: “I forgive”. Look at Christ. Such a powerful person, such a powerful god. And when He was crucified how He asked for forgiveness for them. Why did he do it? Because that has power. Saying: “I forgive”, it’s very powerful. You don’t lose your power, but on the contrary, you go higher in your power, you go higher in your personality. Just forgive. As simple as that. To say that “I forgive”, just like that. That’s how I live because people have their own whims and they do whatever they like, but I don’t get angry on that point and I'm not upset on that point, neither I’m concerned. I just say, “I forgive”, that’s all. And you’ll be amazed - within myself, it so helps so much. Really, very helpful. So this is a very big quality for which today is a special day. On the cross Christ said that, “Oh God, forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing”. On the cross when he was dying, He said this and what we have to learn is to forgive. For our sake, not for others. This helps us. If we forgive, this will help us very much within ourselves. This is the message for today and permanently. Permanently. Always, if you are angry with anyone, just say, “I forgive”. If you find somebody hurting you or troubling you or torturing you, how will you work on it? Just forgive, just forgive. This is the only way. Today that’s why is very important day for us and I’m so very happy there's wonderful site here and then I can speak to you. Thank you.

Easter Puja, "You must forgive", Hotel Pride, Nagpur (India), March 23th, 2008 I never expected all of you to be here present for the puja. I don’t know how you have managed to come (laughter and applause). Otherwise, it’s a very important day today for all of us because you know how Christ died. He was crucified. He was put on a cross and then He died. Wonderful the way he said about you people. He asked for forgiveness from God. What we have to learn from His life is the way He knew how to forgive all of us. We have to also forgive people. That seems to be very difficult for people to forgive and if they are angry, they are angry, they cannot forgive. Then you are no more sahaja yogis; sahaja yogis must forgive. Very important; because that is the power you have got from Christ, to forgive. Human beings make mistakes, that is a part of their lives. But at the same time, as sahaja yogis must remember that you have to forgive. That is much more important than getting angry. So to forgive people for doing something wrong according to you or according to God, you have to forgive. And you will be surprised that the forgiveness is such a great, satisfying quality. If you can forgive people, you will become extremely pure. Because the dirt or the anger that is within us goes out. So to forgive is the biggest blessings human beings have. Even Christ said the same thing that: "Forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing." So if Christ had to say - so what about you? We are ordinary human beings and if we have done mistakes, people can get angry and upset with you. But the best thing for you is to forgive. Forgive for doing something that should have not been done. This was the biggest quality of Christ, that He knew how to forgive. And he forgave people who had made horrible mistakes. Still He forgave them because He loved them. And that is what you should also forgive. Today is a special day for that - special day for forgiveness. And that is why I said whatever you may think is very late, but we’ll have a meeting because I didn’t want to miss the time. Forgiveness comes by people who are very generous, who are good-hearted. You, everybody makes mistakes and so we can also make mistakes. But that means we have a right to forgive and we have a heart to forgive. If you don’t have, then we are not sahaja yogis. You must learn to forgive and forgive without any remarks behind it. Today is a very special day, because that’s what Christ did, He was one of the most powerful deities or gods, as we can say, most powerful. He could do anything, He could punish them, all of them, for misbehaving. But what did he say? He said “I forgive” and he asked God also to forgive. So whatever may be your powers, whatever you might have achieved in life, whatever position you might be occupying, but you must learn the way to forgive, otherwise you are nowhere near Christ. You must learn to forgive. That‘s a very great quality: if you can forgive, all the time forgive. And that’s why today I wanted to meet you all, so I did. (laughter). I wanted to meet you all and tell you that today is the day to forgive. That doesn’t mean you sit down and think how many people you have to forgive (laughter). That would be absurd. But something that haunts your mind and you think you have been troubled and you have been put to trouble. Then just think that you don’t know how many powers you have and you can’t even forgive. When you have got all these powers; the greatest power you have got is to forgive. Today is the day for forgiving. Forgiving people whom you think they have done wrong to you or they have been unkind to you. Please try to remember how many you are still angry. Just forgive them. Then you have punished them. If you forgive them from your heart, then you have punished them. You have given them back whatever they wanted, they deserved. So, this is not a very difficult thing, to forgive, but people think it’s very difficult to forgive because they have certain great understandings about themselves. And then they think how can they forgive? I don’t know what things upset you, anything can upset you. After all, you are all realized souls, you have got your second birth and you are special people. So you should have special quality and the special quality is to forgive, to forgive. Not to go on remembering on what things you should be angry and you should be upset, but just to remember what things you have to forgive. Just forgive. For what? Is a practical thing, most practical. Supposing somebody slaps me, alright. If somebody slaps me, what should I do? I should slap him back? No. Then why, should I ask him, "Why did you slap me?" No. Then I should think he must be stupid fool to do like that? Even that won’t help. On the contrary, if you can just forgive, forgive that person who has done something wrong… For you it is important that you must forgive because has no effect. Once you forgive it will have no effect on you, your goodness, your righteousness. But I think human beings find it difficult to forgive - normally, normally. But you are all realized souls, you are not only human beings, that’s why I am requesting you that remember you have a power to forgive. To forgive everyone who hurts you, who tortures you, who troubles you. How far can you go? Just think of forgiving and you’ll be amazed, he will change. He will change and you will also enjoy yourself. It’s a difficult thing for people to understand, but just try. Just try what I’m saying. If somebody does any harm to you, just forgive that person and see the reaction, reaction in that person and in yourself; what happens? But if you want to carry the burden of his anger or of stupidity, whatever it is, then you are unnecessarily loaded with useless things. We should not waste our energy on deciding what’s wrong, what did he do and what you should do to him. That we should not. Just leave him alone and you just forgive. Say that: “I forgive”. Look at Christ. Such a powerful person, such a powerful god. And when He was crucified how He asked for forgiveness for them. Why did he do it? Because that has power. Saying: “I forgive”, it’s very powerful. You don’t lose your power, but on the contrary, you go higher in your power, you go higher in your personality. Just forgive. As simple as that. To say that “I forgive”, just like that. That’s how I live because people have their own whims and they do whatever they like, but I don’t get angry on that point and I'm not upset on that point, neither I’m concerned. I just say, “I forgive”, that’s all. And you’ll be amazed - within myself, it so helps so much. Really, very helpful. So this is a very big quality for which today is a special day. On the cross Christ said that, “Oh God, forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing”. On the cross when he was dying, He said this and what we have to learn is to forgive. For our sake, not for others. This helps us. If we forgive, this will help us very much within ourselves. This is the message for today and permanently. Permanently. Always, if you are angry with anyone, just say, “I forgive”. If you find somebody hurting you or troubling you or torturing you, how will you work on it? Just forgive, just forgive. This is the only way. Today that’s why is very important day for us and I’m so very happy there's wonderful site here and then I can speak to you. Thank you.

5/11/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=10735

Mother’s Day

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Visit

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7/20/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=8876

Guru Puja: How To Become A Guru

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Guru

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Guru Puja, "How to Become a Guru", Cabella Ligure, Italy, 20 July 2008 Today is a very great day for all the sahaja yogis. Because Sahasrara opened in you, you could feel the existence of God. By saying there is God that was not sufficient and to say that there is no God also was wrong, very wrong and people have suffered who have said like them. Only after getting realisation you know that there is God and there are vibrations. It’s a very big opening all over the world. Today I say that’s why is one of the greatest days for you. Many of you have felt the cool breeze on your hands and out of your brain. Some have grown in Sahaja Yoga, some have not. Some are still carrying on with old catches. But now I have to say that quite a lot of you can become gurus, means teachers, and you should act as teachers. To act as teacher you should know Sahaja Yoga, the theory and the practice of it, thoroughly well and then you can become a guru. It’s a very responsibility, lot of understanding for a guru. You should not have any ego, first; you should not have any of your chakras catching; you should be absolutely clear all the time and there the vibrations should be flowing in both the hands. If they are moving in one hand and not in another you cannot become guru. So you have to be a perfect sahaja yogi. Then only you can be a guru, and so many of you can be, but you have to ascertain first: are you capable of being a guru or not. With humbleness you'll understand. Those who think they can be guru should become gurus because now I can’t travel from places to places and you have to do my job, is to give realisation to people. But you have be able to give en-masse realisation, then only you can be a guru. If you can give en-masse realisation then you could be a guru. You can use my photograph but the realisation should not be from the photograph, but from you. Then only you can be a guru. There can be ladies or men, both can become gurus and spread Sahaja Yoga all over. In my whole touring business, Canada I have missed and I would request some of you to go to Canada because it’s a very beautiful place and we have very beautiful sahaja yogis there. You have to do now my work. I won’t be able to go all over, but you have to go to other countries and create new sahaja yogis. You can do it. To begin with you can use my photograph but later on you can only put the photograph there but use your own powers and give realisation. You can do it and that is how we can spread Sahaja Yoga all over the world. I have done my level best now but I don’t think now I can travel any more, so I’m telling you that you have to take over and work it out. That doesn’t mean you cancel me, no not at all. I am there with you and every place you work you put my photograph, but realisation you have to give and try to give mass realisation. If that doesn’t work out then you should know you are not a guru. If you can give mass realisation, then only you are a guru. Otherwise you are not. I said you can use my photograph but you have to give realisation to people. This is the sign of a guru. Then you already know what are different centres and what are the things missing in people. I’ve explained very clearly. In the same way you’ll find those who come for realisation, they’ll have some defects and you’ll find out what chakras they are catching. You know how to clear those chakras, so you have to tell them how to clear. Now you have mastered Sahaja Yoga so you should know what is to be done. If you think that you have mastered, if you believe that you have mastered, then you can become gurus. But first of all, you should ascertain and find out for yourself if you are a guru or not. It is your responsibility now to give realisation to people and you can give if you have vibrations as like a guru. Or ladies also, they're called as guruvis, not as gurus, but as guruvis, but they can be called as guru also. And they can also do this work very well. Solving the problems of people is not difficult then. Once they get realisation their problems will be solved. This is a big power you have got, you all should use. First of all, you can use a group if you want and afterwards, you should do it individually. Can you imagine all of you, if you become gurus, how many sahaja yogis we’ll have all over the world? Whatever you teach you must practice. When a person who drinks, cannot become a guru. A person who flirts and has a licentious life, cannot become a guru. So first examine yourself: are you clean or not? If there are many possessed people who try to become gurus, they cannot. Honesty, you should see on the photograph if you are possessed, then you cannot be guru. So now to become a guru is first to criticise yourself, to find out yourself fully, and then you can become a guru. I don’t want to tell anybody individually but you all can find out. Say four-five people can join together and they can find out from each other if they are all right or not, if there is missing, if they are catching. But if they say there you are alright then you can become gurus and you can preach Sahaja Yoga. This is your responsibility. This is how Sahaja Yoga will grow. Otherwise, after I’ll retire or I’ll don’t go anywhere, Sahaja Yoga will go into waste. So it is for you to carry the torch, the light. It's your responsibility now. You have got your realisation. I was born with the responsibility, I was born with all the understanding. And now you are also understanding yourself. Do not condemn yourself, as long as you start your own realisation, but be careful: don’t become egoistical. You have to be very humble, very humble with everyone. And work it out because if they are not realised souls you shouldn’t condemn them but tell them very patiently and sweetly that "you are not alright". Tell them how to meditate, how to improve. It’s now a very big responsibility. Actually, I have done this work and you can do this work also. So you all have to become a guru. This is the day of Guru Purnima and I bless you that you all become gurus. Whatever you have got now don’t waste it, don’t throw away but use it for the betterment of people. If you want, in the beginning, have four to five people together. Then you should separate. You have to give time to this. You have got your realisation but you have to give realisation otherwise, your state is not alright, is not normal. So today I want to tell you what are the qualities needed for a guru. First of all, he should be a detached person. That doesn’t mean you give up your family or anything but you should have a detached attitude that anybody from your family does wrong, you should go away from him or her. Secondly, through your realisation you can see that you can spread happiness and remove their problems. You have seen that whatever I have done you can do it. You have got power to do it but no hypocrisy. No hypocrisy, otherwise you’ll spoil the name of Sahaja Yoga. So if you are sure about yourself then only you should become gurus and carry the work of Sahaja Yoga. I think, I give you all my blessings and all my support that now you take over and become gurus. You can also have all the pujas and then you can use photograph. You have seen how one has to work it out and if somebody has some defect or some chakras are catching then you should tell that person how to correct it. On the photograph it is the best. And very humbly you should tell them what is to be done and you can save all the people. So now I am no more available in the sense I’ve done my best and I think I won’t be able to do this again. It is not my old age but I want to give you a complete freedom to spread Sahaja Yoga. You have got it free and you also have to give it to people free – not to charge them. On puja days only, be careful that don't put yourself on the puja till you are confirmed and you are sure that you have created at least hundred Sahaja Yogis, good Sahaja Yogis. Then they can do your puja also. But the best thing is to wait and see. You don't end into puja business till you are – you have done about thousand people each, then you have the right to have a puja. But you could have a puja with My photograph till you are completely all right. Now how confidence is the main thing. Do not condemn yourself. You are all realized souls, but those who can think they can become gurus, can become and try. You have to have patience with the seekers. You can't be angry and hot-tempered. Unless and until they try to trouble you, you shouldn't lose your temper. You should be quiet. Most of the gurus are very hot-tempered, or have been before, and that's why they were busy with their temper and they couldn't produce anything sensible, I think. They could never give Realization. So, I have to warn you - control your temper. Watch yourself if you get angry, then you cannot become a guru. Guru has to be a loving person, very loving and understanding. Then you have to be humble, not to abuse people, not to shout at people. If they misbehave, you can ask them to go out, but don't shout. If you think somebody is misbehaving, you can ask that person to get out, but you need not shout or get angry with that person. So it's a very big responsibility now. You've got your Realization and so four or five of you should join to form a Sahaja Yoga group, giving Realization to people. Try. Of course, My photograph will be there, but still you must try. Try to understand that now what is your responsibility. If a position is given, you have to always carry on with the responsibility of that position. In the same way, if you become a guru, you have a certain amount of responsibility, that your own behaviour should be very good to begin with. In the beginning, you cannot tell them, "Don't go to church," or "Don't do this, don't do that." You give them Realization and then you can talk to them. In the beginning, you shouldn't tell them or they'll just shun you. Accept them as they are. In the beginning, you should not also cure people if possible. You can use My photograph to begin with, but don't cure them. Later on if you are confident, then four, five together should treat that person. Curing people is not very easy and you may catch, so before acting on them you must take a bandhan. Bandhan is very good. You should, even when you are going out, you should take a bandhan. You should also make a very good speech, if possible. Now you know so many things and you can talk to them. It's a very big responsibility. Now I have been working from the year 1970 and today, so many years I have worked so hard, but I can't now do it. I have to go back and take some rest as everybody has said, and you will also agree. But you can tell about Me, if it is necessary, but use My photograph. Every time you have a meeting, use My photograph. Those who think they can be leaders and, as gurus, they should first see their own vibrations. Meditate on My photograph and find out. You have to be absolutely honest that you are hundred percent all right and there is no catch and then you can become a guru. You have to be. First you may get two people, then three people. I started with five. So you can imagine how one can go with it. Try first of all with two, three, five and more. You can also advertise afterwards, if you have given Realization to people, say about - you have given Realization to ten people - you can start your own organization, or whatever you may call, and can work it out. Now you have the power, you have the right, but you must have a temperament also. In the beginning, you have to be very patient and kind – very kind. Then gradually, you'll find that you can cure people. You can use My photograph for curing to begin with and later on you can see you can cure. First of all, on vibrations you'll see what chakras are catching, which are good, which are bad. And then you should correct them. If there's something wrong, you must correct it and then become guru. It's not just accepting that “I am guru” you become guru, but you have to be very, very – authority on yourself. You have to judge yourself. First of all, you should find out: can you become gurus? And then you can send Me your reports. I'd be very happy to know how many you have got now. And that is how Sahaja Yoga would spread, no doubt. It is - it cannot remain at this stage because I am withdrawing, but because now you are so many Sahaja Yogis, it will grow and work out. But I think now I can't travel, and I am going back. I won't be able to come back again – not possible. So you better work it out for yourself. You must write to Me if you have any difficulties, if somebody is catching or something, or you have problem. Now I don't think any newspaper will criticize you. They have done it for Me, but not for you. All of you promise Me that you'll try to become gurus. I didn't take any money from you, nothing from you. I just want that you should spread Sahaja Yoga. In the beginning, even in the pujas, don't take any presents or money. You can only take little money from them if you have need to have a hall or a big place, but that would be much later. First of all, try with few people. It will grow very well. Now, the another thing is, puja you should not allow them to do to you, to begin with. Till you have done three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can't ask them to do you puja. You can use My photograph for the puja, to begin with, but be very careful because you have powers now and it might pamper your ego, maybe you start thinking you are great – no. You have to save the world. All My work is that, and I would ask you to write to Me in India if there is any difficulty. Also write to Me how you are spreading Sahaja Yoga, what is happening, I would like to know. But I think you will understand that I must retire now. I can't travel. If you have any questions, ask Me. Those who are confident that they can become gurus, raise your hands. Oh, so many. Only one hand, not two. If anybody is making money, you should tell him not to do it and also write to Me. You cannot make money, to begin with, but when you have about three thousand people, you can celebrate all the worshipping days and worship. But you must make at least three thousand disciples, each. Then you can ask for a puja. There are some people who cannot become gurus, who are catching and they have problems. If you have problems, don't become guru, otherwise, it will affect you. But if you think you are clear and opened out, then you can become gurus. Is there any question? I am opening a centre for international Sahaja Yoga and when you have done with three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can ask them to do puja and take money. Before that, if you get any money, you can send it to that centre. There would be about eleven members in that centre and I'll declare it. If you have any questions, ask Me now. First three hundred people you don't take any money, except for the hall or except for other expenses. But you don't take any money for yourself. Now, can you raise again your hands how many would like to be gurus? May God bless you. Do you have any questions? You can take money on organization basis, that you have to have a hall, loudspeaker, and all those things. But you shouldn't take it for your individual use. You should be very careful till you have three hundred Sahaja Yogis. You can form a group of five to ten people and start your work. You'll enjoy it. Anyone has any problem, ask Me. I have to go to Canada - I have not been, but I'll try to find some time. First now I have to go to Russia, and then I can go to Canada. You have to work more in your country than outside to begin with, and then you can spread it all over. Again let us see how many want to be gurus? Oh! What a big number. Thank you very much, thank you, thank you all. (Applauses) (Conversation in Hindi:) Yogi: Should we do the Aarti? Shri Mataji: Yes, you may do, it went well. Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: From where are they all? (Conversation in Hindi:) Yogi: Are we permitted to do Aarti? Aarti? Shri Mataji: We should go… Yogi: Jai Shri Mataji! Shri Mataji: Do Aarti. Talk after Guru Puja, Cabella, Italy "I think now you take the responsibility. But you can contact me. You can write to me." Shri Mataji : You must form a central committee. Sahaji : Yes , yes.(jee, Jee) Shri Mataji : One central committee. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji – Maybe in London or maybe here. Sahaji : Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji : Wherever you feel right. One Central Committee. Sahaji – Yes. Shri Mataji : And then you can inform them what is happening, anything. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Yes Shri Mataji. Like the world council. We have a council Shri Mataji. Like the council. We have the council. Shri Mataji : You have to tell what is happening. Some Central Committee you should have ..about say, five people. Sahaji : Yes , communication, for communication. Shri Mataji : No, No. For Commuincation. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : Or in case any problem or anything. So you can attend. Isn’t it? Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. ( Sahajis discussing softly among themselves) Shri Mataji – What? Sahaji : They are saying we will form it here. Here. Here. In Cabela. Will form in Cabella. In Cabella. Shri Mataji : What? Sahaji : We will form a council. Committee , Committee. Shri Mataji : No , form it anywhere. Sahaji : Yes . Very well. Shri Mataji : Wherever you like. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Take from 4-5 countries. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Make one here, make ONE IN India. Sahaji : Ok, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : Isn’t it? Sahaji : Yes, yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : If there is any problem here, then you inform in India. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : In every detail. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji.Absolutely right. Absolutely right. (After some pause) Shri Mataji : Put some Kajal in your eyes ( Sahajis laughing loudly) Shri Mataji : Will look well. You need to wear. You eat a lot or what? Sahaji : Eat? Not so much. Not so much. Shri Mataji – What? Sahaji – Not so much. Shri Mataji – Your eyes are getting little spoilt. Sahaji : Yeah? ( After a little pause) Shri Mataji – Lets go. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji – Get the chair. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji.Bolo Shri Adishakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi ki Jai. All : Devi ki jai, Devi ki jai . Some Bhajan from 3.00 to 3.48 Shri Mataji : Anybody has come from Canada? Sahaji : They have come, they have come. Shri Mataji: Are they here? Where? Sahaji : four five people were there Shri Mataji. They had also brought presents. They had come. Shri Mataji : Is that so? Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : I did not see. Sahaji : Yes. There are lot of people, Shri Mataji. They had come. Five people had come. They were five of them. Shri Mataji : I wanted to speak with them. Sahaji : Yes. Lady Sahaji : There are a few things, will hand over these. Shri Mataji : Go get them. Sahaji : Yes. Sahaji : Thank you Shri Mataji Shri Mataji : You can start a central committee. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : They should approve. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Of about ten people. ( After some pause) Shri Mataji : See who all are there from Canada. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Will call them. Shri Mataji : Get them here. Sahaji : Yes, Yes. All Sahajis : Bolo shri Adi Guru Maata Shri Nirmala Devi Ki Jai. Sahaji : Jai Shri Mataji, Jai Shri Mataji.

Guru Puja, "How to Become a Guru", Cabella Ligure, Italy, 20 July 2008 Today is a very great day for all the sahaja yogis. Because Sahasrara opened in you, you could feel the existence of God. By saying there is God that was not sufficient and to say that there is no God also was wrong, very wrong and people have suffered who have said like them. Only after getting realisation you know that there is God and there are vibrations. It’s a very big opening all over the world. Today I say that’s why is one of the greatest days for you. Many of you have felt the cool breeze on your hands and out of your brain. Some have grown in Sahaja Yoga, some have not. Some are still carrying on with old catches. But now I have to say that quite a lot of you can become gurus, means teachers, and you should act as teachers. To act as teacher you should know Sahaja Yoga, the theory and the practice of it, thoroughly well and then you can become a guru. It’s a very responsibility, lot of understanding for a guru. You should not have any ego, first; you should not have any of your chakras catching; you should be absolutely clear all the time and there the vibrations should be flowing in both the hands. If they are moving in one hand and not in another you cannot become guru. So you have to be a perfect sahaja yogi. Then only you can be a guru, and so many of you can be, but you have to ascertain first: are you capable of being a guru or not. With humbleness you'll understand. Those who think they can be guru should become gurus because now I can’t travel from places to places and you have to do my job, is to give realisation to people. But you have be able to give en-masse realisation, then only you can be a guru. If you can give en-masse realisation then you could be a guru. You can use my photograph but the realisation should not be from the photograph, but from you. Then only you can be a guru. There can be ladies or men, both can become gurus and spread Sahaja Yoga all over. In my whole touring business, Canada I have missed and I would request some of you to go to Canada because it’s a very beautiful place and we have very beautiful sahaja yogis there. You have to do now my work. I won’t be able to go all over, but you have to go to other countries and create new sahaja yogis. You can do it. To begin with you can use my photograph but later on you can only put the photograph there but use your own powers and give realisation. You can do it and that is how we can spread Sahaja Yoga all over the world. I have done my level best now but I don’t think now I can travel any more, so I’m telling you that you have to take over and work it out. That doesn’t mean you cancel me, no not at all. I am there with you and every place you work you put my photograph, but realisation you have to give and try to give mass realisation. If that doesn’t work out then you should know you are not a guru. If you can give mass realisation, then only you are a guru. Otherwise you are not. I said you can use my photograph but you have to give realisation to people. This is the sign of a guru. Then you already know what are different centres and what are the things missing in people. I’ve explained very clearly. In the same way you’ll find those who come for realisation, they’ll have some defects and you’ll find out what chakras they are catching. You know how to clear those chakras, so you have to tell them how to clear. Now you have mastered Sahaja Yoga so you should know what is to be done. If you think that you have mastered, if you believe that you have mastered, then you can become gurus. But first of all, you should ascertain and find out for yourself if you are a guru or not. It is your responsibility now to give realisation to people and you can give if you have vibrations as like a guru. Or ladies also, they're called as guruvis, not as gurus, but as guruvis, but they can be called as guru also. And they can also do this work very well. Solving the problems of people is not difficult then. Once they get realisation their problems will be solved. This is a big power you have got, you all should use. First of all, you can use a group if you want and afterwards, you should do it individually. Can you imagine all of you, if you become gurus, how many sahaja yogis we’ll have all over the world? Whatever you teach you must practice. When a person who drinks, cannot become a guru. A person who flirts and has a licentious life, cannot become a guru. So first examine yourself: are you clean or not? If there are many possessed people who try to become gurus, they cannot. Honesty, you should see on the photograph if you are possessed, then you cannot be guru. So now to become a guru is first to criticise yourself, to find out yourself fully, and then you can become a guru. I don’t want to tell anybody individually but you all can find out. Say four-five people can join together and they can find out from each other if they are all right or not, if there is missing, if they are catching. But if they say there you are alright then you can become gurus and you can preach Sahaja Yoga. This is your responsibility. This is how Sahaja Yoga will grow. Otherwise, after I’ll retire or I’ll don’t go anywhere, Sahaja Yoga will go into waste. So it is for you to carry the torch, the light. It's your responsibility now. You have got your realisation. I was born with the responsibility, I was born with all the understanding. And now you are also understanding yourself. Do not condemn yourself, as long as you start your own realisation, but be careful: don’t become egoistical. You have to be very humble, very humble with everyone. And work it out because if they are not realised souls you shouldn’t condemn them but tell them very patiently and sweetly that "you are not alright". Tell them how to meditate, how to improve. It’s now a very big responsibility. Actually, I have done this work and you can do this work also. So you all have to become a guru. This is the day of Guru Purnima and I bless you that you all become gurus. Whatever you have got now don’t waste it, don’t throw away but use it for the betterment of people. If you want, in the beginning, have four to five people together. Then you should separate. You have to give time to this. You have got your realisation but you have to give realisation otherwise, your state is not alright, is not normal. So today I want to tell you what are the qualities needed for a guru. First of all, he should be a detached person. That doesn’t mean you give up your family or anything but you should have a detached attitude that anybody from your family does wrong, you should go away from him or her. Secondly, through your realisation you can see that you can spread happiness and remove their problems. You have seen that whatever I have done you can do it. You have got power to do it but no hypocrisy. No hypocrisy, otherwise you’ll spoil the name of Sahaja Yoga. So if you are sure about yourself then only you should become gurus and carry the work of Sahaja Yoga. I think, I give you all my blessings and all my support that now you take over and become gurus. You can also have all the pujas and then you can use photograph. You have seen how one has to work it out and if somebody has some defect or some chakras are catching then you should tell that person how to correct it. On the photograph it is the best. And very humbly you should tell them what is to be done and you can save all the people. So now I am no more available in the sense I’ve done my best and I think I won’t be able to do this again. It is not my old age but I want to give you a complete freedom to spread Sahaja Yoga. You have got it free and you also have to give it to people free – not to charge them. On puja days only, be careful that don't put yourself on the puja till you are confirmed and you are sure that you have created at least hundred Sahaja Yogis, good Sahaja Yogis. Then they can do your puja also. But the best thing is to wait and see. You don't end into puja business till you are – you have done about thousand people each, then you have the right to have a puja. But you could have a puja with My photograph till you are completely all right. Now how confidence is the main thing. Do not condemn yourself. You are all realized souls, but those who can think they can become gurus, can become and try. You have to have patience with the seekers. You can't be angry and hot-tempered. Unless and until they try to trouble you, you shouldn't lose your temper. You should be quiet. Most of the gurus are very hot-tempered, or have been before, and that's why they were busy with their temper and they couldn't produce anything sensible, I think. They could never give Realization. So, I have to warn you - control your temper. Watch yourself if you get angry, then you cannot become a guru. Guru has to be a loving person, very loving and understanding. Then you have to be humble, not to abuse people, not to shout at people. If they misbehave, you can ask them to go out, but don't shout. If you think somebody is misbehaving, you can ask that person to get out, but you need not shout or get angry with that person. So it's a very big responsibility now. You've got your Realization and so four or five of you should join to form a Sahaja Yoga group, giving Realization to people. Try. Of course, My photograph will be there, but still you must try. Try to understand that now what is your responsibility. If a position is given, you have to always carry on with the responsibility of that position. In the same way, if you become a guru, you have a certain amount of responsibility, that your own behaviour should be very good to begin with. In the beginning, you cannot tell them, "Don't go to church," or "Don't do this, don't do that." You give them Realization and then you can talk to them. In the beginning, you shouldn't tell them or they'll just shun you. Accept them as they are. In the beginning, you should not also cure people if possible. You can use My photograph to begin with, but don't cure them. Later on if you are confident, then four, five together should treat that person. Curing people is not very easy and you may catch, so before acting on them you must take a bandhan. Bandhan is very good. You should, even when you are going out, you should take a bandhan. You should also make a very good speech, if possible. Now you know so many things and you can talk to them. It's a very big responsibility. Now I have been working from the year 1970 and today, so many years I have worked so hard, but I can't now do it. I have to go back and take some rest as everybody has said, and you will also agree. But you can tell about Me, if it is necessary, but use My photograph. Every time you have a meeting, use My photograph. Those who think they can be leaders and, as gurus, they should first see their own vibrations. Meditate on My photograph and find out. You have to be absolutely honest that you are hundred percent all right and there is no catch and then you can become a guru. You have to be. First you may get two people, then three people. I started with five. So you can imagine how one can go with it. Try first of all with two, three, five and more. You can also advertise afterwards, if you have given Realization to people, say about - you have given Realization to ten people - you can start your own organization, or whatever you may call, and can work it out. Now you have the power, you have the right, but you must have a temperament also. In the beginning, you have to be very patient and kind – very kind. Then gradually, you'll find that you can cure people. You can use My photograph for curing to begin with and later on you can see you can cure. First of all, on vibrations you'll see what chakras are catching, which are good, which are bad. And then you should correct them. If there's something wrong, you must correct it and then become guru. It's not just accepting that “I am guru” you become guru, but you have to be very, very – authority on yourself. You have to judge yourself. First of all, you should find out: can you become gurus? And then you can send Me your reports. I'd be very happy to know how many you have got now. And that is how Sahaja Yoga would spread, no doubt. It is - it cannot remain at this stage because I am withdrawing, but because now you are so many Sahaja Yogis, it will grow and work out. But I think now I can't travel, and I am going back. I won't be able to come back again – not possible. So you better work it out for yourself. You must write to Me if you have any difficulties, if somebody is catching or something, or you have problem. Now I don't think any newspaper will criticize you. They have done it for Me, but not for you. All of you promise Me that you'll try to become gurus. I didn't take any money from you, nothing from you. I just want that you should spread Sahaja Yoga. In the beginning, even in the pujas, don't take any presents or money. You can only take little money from them if you have need to have a hall or a big place, but that would be much later. First of all, try with few people. It will grow very well. Now, the another thing is, puja you should not allow them to do to you, to begin with. Till you have done three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can't ask them to do you puja. You can use My photograph for the puja, to begin with, but be very careful because you have powers now and it might pamper your ego, maybe you start thinking you are great – no. You have to save the world. All My work is that, and I would ask you to write to Me in India if there is any difficulty. Also write to Me how you are spreading Sahaja Yoga, what is happening, I would like to know. But I think you will understand that I must retire now. I can't travel. If you have any questions, ask Me. Those who are confident that they can become gurus, raise your hands. Oh, so many. Only one hand, not two. If anybody is making money, you should tell him not to do it and also write to Me. You cannot make money, to begin with, but when you have about three thousand people, you can celebrate all the worshipping days and worship. But you must make at least three thousand disciples, each. Then you can ask for a puja. There are some people who cannot become gurus, who are catching and they have problems. If you have problems, don't become guru, otherwise, it will affect you. But if you think you are clear and opened out, then you can become gurus. Is there any question? I am opening a centre for international Sahaja Yoga and when you have done with three hundred Sahaja Yogis, you can ask them to do puja and take money. Before that, if you get any money, you can send it to that centre. There would be about eleven members in that centre and I'll declare it. If you have any questions, ask Me now. First three hundred people you don't take any money, except for the hall or except for other expenses. But you don't take any money for yourself. Now, can you raise again your hands how many would like to be gurus? May God bless you. Do you have any questions? You can take money on organization basis, that you have to have a hall, loudspeaker, and all those things. But you shouldn't take it for your individual use. You should be very careful till you have three hundred Sahaja Yogis. You can form a group of five to ten people and start your work. You'll enjoy it. Anyone has any problem, ask Me. I have to go to Canada - I have not been, but I'll try to find some time. First now I have to go to Russia, and then I can go to Canada. You have to work more in your country than outside to begin with, and then you can spread it all over. Again let us see how many want to be gurus? Oh! What a big number. Thank you very much, thank you, thank you all. (Applauses) (Conversation in Hindi:) Yogi: Should we do the Aarti? Shri Mataji: Yes, you may do, it went well. Yogi: Yes, Mother. Shri Mataji: From where are they all? (Conversation in Hindi:) Yogi: Are we permitted to do Aarti? Aarti? Shri Mataji: We should go… Yogi: Jai Shri Mataji! Shri Mataji: Do Aarti. Talk after Guru Puja, Cabella, Italy "I think now you take the responsibility. But you can contact me. You can write to me." Shri Mataji : You must form a central committee. Sahaji : Yes , yes.(jee, Jee) Shri Mataji : One central committee. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji – Maybe in London or maybe here. Sahaji : Yes, Shri Mataji Shri Mataji : Wherever you feel right. One Central Committee. Sahaji – Yes. Shri Mataji : And then you can inform them what is happening, anything. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Yes Shri Mataji. Like the world council. We have a council Shri Mataji. Like the council. We have the council. Shri Mataji : You have to tell what is happening. Some Central Committee you should have ..about say, five people. Sahaji : Yes , communication, for communication. Shri Mataji : No, No. For Commuincation. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : Or in case any problem or anything. So you can attend. Isn’t it? Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. ( Sahajis discussing softly among themselves) Shri Mataji – What? Sahaji : They are saying we will form it here. Here. Here. In Cabela. Will form in Cabella. In Cabella. Shri Mataji : What? Sahaji : We will form a council. Committee , Committee. Shri Mataji : No , form it anywhere. Sahaji : Yes . Very well. Shri Mataji : Wherever you like. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Take from 4-5 countries. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Make one here, make ONE IN India. Sahaji : Ok, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : Isn’t it? Sahaji : Yes, yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : If there is any problem here, then you inform in India. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji : In every detail. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji.Absolutely right. Absolutely right. (After some pause) Shri Mataji : Put some Kajal in your eyes ( Sahajis laughing loudly) Shri Mataji : Will look well. You need to wear. You eat a lot or what? Sahaji : Eat? Not so much. Not so much. Shri Mataji – What? Sahaji – Not so much. Shri Mataji – Your eyes are getting little spoilt. Sahaji : Yeah? ( After a little pause) Shri Mataji – Lets go. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Yes Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji – Get the chair. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji.Bolo Shri Adishakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi ki Jai. All : Devi ki jai, Devi ki jai . Some Bhajan from 3.00 to 3.48 Shri Mataji : Anybody has come from Canada? Sahaji : They have come, they have come. Shri Mataji: Are they here? Where? Sahaji : four five people were there Shri Mataji. They had also brought presents. They had come. Shri Mataji : Is that so? Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : I did not see. Sahaji : Yes. There are lot of people, Shri Mataji. They had come. Five people had come. They were five of them. Shri Mataji : I wanted to speak with them. Sahaji : Yes. Lady Sahaji : There are a few things, will hand over these. Shri Mataji : Go get them. Sahaji : Yes. Sahaji : Thank you Shri Mataji Shri Mataji : You can start a central committee. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : They should approve. Sahaji : Yes. Shri Mataji : Of about ten people. ( After some pause) Shri Mataji : See who all are there from Canada. Sahaji : Yes Shri Mataji. Will call them. Shri Mataji : Get them here. Sahaji : Yes, Yes. All Sahajis : Bolo shri Adi Guru Maata Shri Nirmala Devi Ki Jai. Sahaji : Jai Shri Mataji, Jai Shri Mataji.

7/28/2008

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Nirmal Sangeet Sarita Concert

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2008-07-28 Nirmal Sangeet Sarita Concert at Palazzo Doria, Italy Note: Ji means yes (in a respectful manner) 43:31Very nice …From where did you learn?Sahaja yogi: Shri Mataji! One month I was there in Vaitarna…Shri Mataji: Where?Sahaja yogi: One month …in your academy …Sir C.P: Academy … in Vaitarna AcademyShri Mataji: han?(yes)Sir C.P: Vaitarna Music Academy…In our P.K Salve Music Academy!Shri Mataji: Ok, There you stayed …Did you went there …Sahaja Yogi: Many children come there Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: How many?Sahaja yogi: Approximately 30 students are always there…Shri Mataji: Where is this academy?Sir C.P: Vaitarna.Shri Mataji: VaitarnaSir C.P: You have gone there …You inaugurated Vaitarna …Everybody teaches …Is it alright?Sahaja Yogi: Ji …Ji sirShri Mataji: Very …You have learnt from there …in VaitarnaSahaja Yogi: Ji …JiShri Mataji: Han Han … Lots of music is there in Vaitarna …When we went there, there was nothing …then started the beginning …So here also Vaitarna people came …She is from Vaitarna …(Sahaja yogini came forward )Sir C.P: Are you from vaitarna!Sahaja yogini: JiShri Mataji: She has learnt Marathi…Sahaja Yogini: JiShri Mataji: Did you learnt (Marathi)?Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji, I can understand Marathi but not able to speak…Shri Mataji: Where are you from?Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji,I am from Noida …Shri Mataji: NoidaSahaja Yogi: Ji…Shri Mataji: Who are the people from Noida …Raise your hands!Only 2…There are a lot of people from Noida … Sir C.P: There is a lot of work in Noida … There is a lot of Music and Sahaja yoga there…Sahaja Yogi: JiShri Mataji: In Noida, there are many people …Wah Wah …Shri Mataji: Where are you from? (Shri Mataji asking from another Sahaja yogi )Sahaja Yogi: America …AmericanShri Mataji: American …From where did you go?Sahaja Yogi: NagpurShri Mataji: Nagpur …Where do you live in America?Sahaja Yogi: Dallas, Texas …Sir C.P: DallasShri Mataji: So Glad …Sir C.P: Very beautiful with the performance …Shri Mataji: The way Baba has combined you… people have reached the heights …Sir CP: [unclear]Sahaja Yogi:" Apka ashirwad "…Your BlessingsPapa…Now he is giving music in the filmsSahaja yogi: (takes the name probably )Shri Mataji: Who? What?Sir C.P: [unclear]Shri Mataji: Yes I know …Used to sing since he was young…[unclear]Sir C.P: This is amazing!Shri Mataji : (in Marathi )Shri Mataji: Baba has done amazing work …So, you live in Noida …No Shri Mataji …Nowadays I am living in Austria. I have come to do the studies …Shri Mataji: You live in Austria …Sahaja Yoga: Ji (yes)Shri Mataji: Your father is living in Austria?Sir C.P: No to do studies ..,What do you study?Shri Mataji: Where is the father?Sahaj Yogi: He is also in Austria …Shri Mataji: Father is also there …Sir C.P: Which studies?Sahaja Yogi: Business ConsultancySir C.P: MBA?Sahaja Yoga: It's like an MBA…Shri Mataji: What?Sir C.P: Bussiness …BussinessShri Mataji : (In Marathi)Sahaja Yogi:[ Unclear ]Shri Mataji: Rahul is very common here…:)(Whole Conversation in Marathi )Sir C.P: That Bajaj is also there Rahul BajajShri Mataji: In Maharashtra, Rahul is a common name.You must see what they play …Whether they play or sing …and if not anything then leave it …(In Marathi)In Noida, We also have one house …Isn't it …Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji! Now I don't know Why there is so much Music in Noida …It is in abundance …Sir C.P : Lot of Sahaja (Sahaja Yoga)also.Shri Mataji: (In Marathi )(Shri Mataji is asking the name of Sahaja yogis…A kind of introduction is going on)Sahaja Yogi: VinChenso (Name of the Sahaja Yogi )Sir C.P: His name is Vin Chenso …He is Italian …Shri Mataji: There are so many Italians …That Its…I really don't know them …Now I must tell you one thing very interesting …that when I came here It took me about 2 months to get a permanent residence …But my daughter Sadhana …she came here and she got it in 5 minutes …They said if it is Mataji's Daughter come along…Her …Her husband her children… all …Can you imagine?We have become very popular in this country…And the house you are looking was very spoiled and broken earlier…So When I came …I thought Let's see …So he (Sir C.P) left angrily …(In Marathi )…Sir C.P: Who will make the house in such a bad condition. But she made it …Shri Mataji: Here I have made 3 houses and there is a lot of space in Italy for land …Because these houses were in the bad condition only and all the people were anxious that our house is like this like that…I have just ordered Paper from Nagpur and everything got changed …Now it has become the Palace …Sir C.P: Now the name is Palazzo Doria(palace) Shri Mataji: Now the name is Palazzo Doria …But earlier there was a dangerous situation…I have just seen this place and said I am buying this …And I got this very inexpensive …(cheap)(In Marathi… )Only in England, We don't have …and everywhere else…We saw the house and then improved it (or mend it)Now nobody can imagine…Its door and windows are the old one …Only the walls were spoiled …You know …But I say that I will buy this …My husband run away He wouldn't even come inside …:)And I got it very cheap …I don't know how many bedrooms there are …How many bedrooms?Sahaja Yogi: 14Shri Mataji: han … 14-bed rooms …No some of them I built on top…But still …Also in Pune, I have built one house …and in Noida also there is one house …Sahaja Yogi: [unclear] (in Marathi ) Shri Mataji : (In Marathi )Sahaja Yogi:(Sahajyogi Child offers something …)Shri Mataji: From Where are you?Sahaja yogi Child: Poland … Sir C.P: Brought for you …Shri Mataji: Good…(Sahaja Yogi shows the photograph of Brahmapuri )Shri Mataji: Oh!Sahaja yogi:(describes about the photographs)Shri Mataji: What is the price of silver?Sahaja Yogini: 23000Rs/KgGold -14000 Rs/Kg…(Other descriptions in Marathi )So you are teaching there "Dholaki"?Please teach them …Sahaja Yogi: Ji Shri MatajiShri Mataji: You play very well …you teach!Because here the Indian Music is less …In Austria …Please teach them …After learning they will appreciate one more time …From where you purchased this "Dholaki".Sahaja Yogi: From India …Shri Mataji: From India …Very nice …From where? Delhi?Sahaja Yoga: Ji, Shri Mataji …(Then Sahaja yogis offered some presents from the trust )Shri Mataji: Amazing!(Shri Mataji asks the name of their children near to them )Sahaja yogi : Sidhi and BharatShri Mataji: (In Marathi… )Who are you? What is your name? You are from what country? Sahaja yogis: From Holland …Austria Shri Mataji: Amazing!Where are you from?Sahaja yogi: Poland …Shri Mataji: Ok You are the same …We don't go to Poland …Sir C.P: Long time ago …Shri Mataji: I don't know..Sir C.P: When I was working …We went together …A long time ago …Child Sahaja yogi: I am from Poland …Sir C.P: You went to Worsow…Child: yes…(Conversation In Marathi by Shri Mataji) Shri Mataji :(Rahuri Photographs are seen by Shri Mataji)This is Brahma puri and here was the river …(Mother is displaying to Papaji )By crossing this …I remember all this … There are very good people …I think they are the best…Today you see…When I came here I waited for 2 months and they didn't do anything about me …and then I got the citizenship here …See…But my daughter, she never had the citizenship and today we receive news that they all have given free…I have never met anyone, nothing! Because there is a good system …Mayor [unclear] as that …Very Good People …6 or 7 mayors came to my house and they got all realisation so they say by putting the words If Shri Mataji Childrens is coming You have to give …My daughter is 60 they are no more children …They have children …:)So much Importance…Just say Mataji in no time …I didn't go there …They just sent word …And they got this thing …I have promised that I will start school for you in English …So you are from Italy…Sahaja yogini: AustralianShri Mataji: When did you come?Sahaja yogini: I cameShri Mataji: You got married?Shri Mataji: So you are in Australia!Sahaja yogini: Yes…Shri Mataji: Australia is wonderful …There were so many drinkers …And now there are only 10%.Sahaja yogini: yesShri Mataji: I don't know …this Maharashtrians can understand …That from childhood we have never drunk…(In Marathi …)There is one thing in Sahaja yoga that you don't have to drink alcohol …That's it! There are so innocent boys and girls …No bad habits …So Who is from Noida?Only two …What is this? (After some sweets are offered to mother )I don't eat that very much …:)

2008-07-28 Nirmal Sangeet Sarita Concert at Palazzo Doria, Italy Note: Ji means yes (in a respectful manner) 43:31Very nice …From where did you learn?Sahaja yogi: Shri Mataji! One month I was there in Vaitarna…Shri Mataji: Where?Sahaja yogi: One month …in your academy …Sir C.P: Academy … in Vaitarna AcademyShri Mataji: han?(yes)Sir C.P: Vaitarna Music Academy…In our P.K Salve Music Academy!Shri Mataji: Ok, There you stayed …Did you went there …Sahaja Yogi: Many children come there Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: How many?Sahaja yogi: Approximately 30 students are always there…Shri Mataji: Where is this academy?Sir C.P: Vaitarna.Shri Mataji: VaitarnaSir C.P: You have gone there …You inaugurated Vaitarna …Everybody teaches …Is it alright?Sahaja Yogi: Ji …Ji sirShri Mataji: Very …You have learnt from there …in VaitarnaSahaja Yogi: Ji …JiShri Mataji: Han Han … Lots of music is there in Vaitarna …When we went there, there was nothing …then started the beginning …So here also Vaitarna people came …She is from Vaitarna …(Sahaja yogini came forward )Sir C.P: Are you from vaitarna!Sahaja yogini: JiShri Mataji: She has learnt Marathi…Sahaja Yogini: JiShri Mataji: Did you learnt (Marathi)?Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji, I can understand Marathi but not able to speak…Shri Mataji: Where are you from?Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji,I am from Noida …Shri Mataji: NoidaSahaja Yogi: Ji…Shri Mataji: Who are the people from Noida …Raise your hands!Only 2…There are a lot of people from Noida … Sir C.P: There is a lot of work in Noida … There is a lot of Music and Sahaja yoga there…Sahaja Yogi: JiShri Mataji: In Noida, there are many people …Wah Wah …Shri Mataji: Where are you from? (Shri Mataji asking from another Sahaja yogi )Sahaja Yogi: America …AmericanShri Mataji: American …From where did you go?Sahaja Yogi: NagpurShri Mataji: Nagpur …Where do you live in America?Sahaja Yogi: Dallas, Texas …Sir C.P: DallasShri Mataji: So Glad …Sir C.P: Very beautiful with the performance …Shri Mataji: The way Baba has combined you… people have reached the heights …Sir CP: [unclear]Sahaja Yogi:" Apka ashirwad "…Your BlessingsPapa…Now he is giving music in the filmsSahaja yogi: (takes the name probably )Shri Mataji: Who? What?Sir C.P: [unclear]Shri Mataji: Yes I know …Used to sing since he was young…[unclear]Sir C.P: This is amazing!Shri Mataji : (in Marathi )Shri Mataji: Baba has done amazing work …So, you live in Noida …No Shri Mataji …Nowadays I am living in Austria. I have come to do the studies …Shri Mataji: You live in Austria …Sahaja Yoga: Ji (yes)Shri Mataji: Your father is living in Austria?Sir C.P: No to do studies ..,What do you study?Shri Mataji: Where is the father?Sahaj Yogi: He is also in Austria …Shri Mataji: Father is also there …Sir C.P: Which studies?Sahaja Yogi: Business ConsultancySir C.P: MBA?Sahaja Yoga: It's like an MBA…Shri Mataji: What?Sir C.P: Bussiness …BussinessShri Mataji : (In Marathi)Sahaja Yogi:[ Unclear ]Shri Mataji: Rahul is very common here…:)(Whole Conversation in Marathi )Sir C.P: That Bajaj is also there Rahul BajajShri Mataji: In Maharashtra, Rahul is a common name.You must see what they play …Whether they play or sing …and if not anything then leave it …(In Marathi)In Noida, We also have one house …Isn't it …Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji! Now I don't know Why there is so much Music in Noida …It is in abundance …Sir C.P : Lot of Sahaja (Sahaja Yoga)also.Shri Mataji: (In Marathi )(Shri Mataji is asking the name of Sahaja yogis…A kind of introduction is going on)Sahaja Yogi: VinChenso (Name of the Sahaja Yogi )Sir C.P: His name is Vin Chenso …He is Italian …Shri Mataji: There are so many Italians …That Its…I really don't know them …Now I must tell you one thing very interesting …that when I came here It took me about 2 months to get a permanent residence …But my daughter Sadhana …she came here and she got it in 5 minutes …They said if it is Mataji's Daughter come along…Her …Her husband her children… all …Can you imagine?We have become very popular in this country…And the house you are looking was very spoiled and broken earlier…So When I came …I thought Let's see …So he (Sir C.P) left angrily …(In Marathi )…Sir C.P: Who will make the house in such a bad condition. But she made it …Shri Mataji: Here I have made 3 houses and there is a lot of space in Italy for land …Because these houses were in the bad condition only and all the people were anxious that our house is like this like that…I have just ordered Paper from Nagpur and everything got changed …Now it has become the Palace …Sir C.P: Now the name is Palazzo Doria(palace) Shri Mataji: Now the name is Palazzo Doria …But earlier there was a dangerous situation…I have just seen this place and said I am buying this …And I got this very inexpensive …(cheap)(In Marathi… )Only in England, We don't have …and everywhere else…We saw the house and then improved it (or mend it)Now nobody can imagine…Its door and windows are the old one …Only the walls were spoiled …You know …But I say that I will buy this …My husband run away He wouldn't even come inside …:)And I got it very cheap …I don't know how many bedrooms there are …How many bedrooms?Sahaja Yogi: 14Shri Mataji: han … 14-bed rooms …No some of them I built on top…But still …Also in Pune, I have built one house …and in Noida also there is one house …Sahaja Yogi: [unclear] (in Marathi ) Shri Mataji : (In Marathi )Sahaja Yogi:(Sahajyogi Child offers something …)Shri Mataji: From Where are you?Sahaja yogi Child: Poland … Sir C.P: Brought for you …Shri Mataji: Good…(Sahaja Yogi shows the photograph of Brahmapuri )Shri Mataji: Oh!Sahaja yogi:(describes about the photographs)Shri Mataji: What is the price of silver?Sahaja Yogini: 23000Rs/KgGold -14000 Rs/Kg…(Other descriptions in Marathi )So you are teaching there "Dholaki"?Please teach them …Sahaja Yogi: Ji Shri MatajiShri Mataji: You play very well …you teach!Because here the Indian Music is less …In Austria …Please teach them …After learning they will appreciate one more time …From where you purchased this "Dholaki".Sahaja Yogi: From India …Shri Mataji: From India …Very nice …From where? Delhi?Sahaja Yoga: Ji, Shri Mataji …(Then Sahaja yogis offered some presents from the trust )Shri Mataji: Amazing!(Shri Mataji asks the name of their children near to them )Sahaja yogi : Sidhi and BharatShri Mataji: (In Marathi… )Who are you? What is your name? You are from what country? Sahaja yogis: From Holland …Austria Shri Mataji: Amazing!Where are you from?Sahaja yogi: Poland …Shri Mataji: Ok You are the same …We don't go to Poland …Sir C.P: Long time ago …Shri Mataji: I don't know..Sir C.P: When I was working …We went together …A long time ago …Child Sahaja yogi: I am from Poland …Sir C.P: You went to Worsow…Child: yes…(Conversation In Marathi by Shri Mataji) Shri Mataji :(Rahuri Photographs are seen by Shri Mataji)This is Brahma puri and here was the river …(Mother is displaying to Papaji )By crossing this …I remember all this … There are very good people …I think they are the best…Today you see…When I came here I waited for 2 months and they didn't do anything about me …and then I got the citizenship here …See…But my daughter, she never had the citizenship and today we receive news that they all have given free…I have never met anyone, nothing! Because there is a good system …Mayor [unclear] as that …Very Good People …6 or 7 mayors came to my house and they got all realisation so they say by putting the words If Shri Mataji Childrens is coming You have to give …My daughter is 60 they are no more children …They have children …:)So much Importance…Just say Mataji in no time …I didn't go there …They just sent word …And they got this thing …I have promised that I will start school for you in English …So you are from Italy…Sahaja yogini: AustralianShri Mataji: When did you come?Sahaja yogini: I cameShri Mataji: You got married?Shri Mataji: So you are in Australia!Sahaja yogini: Yes…Shri Mataji: Australia is wonderful …There were so many drinkers …And now there are only 10%.Sahaja yogini: yesShri Mataji: I don't know …this Maharashtrians can understand …That from childhood we have never drunk…(In Marathi …)There is one thing in Sahaja yoga that you don't have to drink alcohol …That's it! There are so innocent boys and girls …No bad habits …So Who is from Noida?Only two …What is this? (After some sweets are offered to mother )I don't eat that very much …:)

8/2/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=11025

Inauguration of Centrassi School

Italy

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Inauguration Centrassi School, Cabella International Sahaj School, Cabella Ligure (Italy) Shri Mataji: Very artistic. We can put cement in between.Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Pizza?Sahaja Yogi: Pizza, yes.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, to make Pizza. I really liked it]. I purchased it a long time back.Sahaja Yogi: You have a very, very good eye Shri Mataji for beautiful places.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, let's go. It is very good for children]Sahaja Yogi: Ji [yes].Shri Mataji: Ah, beautiful. And all this is with, with land; it's with it.Sahaja Yogi: For about twenty metres, it’s our land, twenty metres.Shri Mataji: Twenty metres is our land.Sir C.P: I see.Sadhana didi: Twenty metres, that’s a lot. Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, Romal felt very nice.]Sir C.P: Beautiful, very beautiful.Shri Mataji: What else, what river is that?Sahaja Yogi: It’s the Borbera.Shri Mataji: Borbera is here?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sadhana didi: Very nice, absolutely beautiful.Shri Mataji: Beautiful for children Sadhana didi: Oh! Beautiful!Sahaja Yogi: This is the dining room, Shri Mataji.This is where children eat, here.Shri Mataji: And it’s the Kitchen.Sahaja Yogi: Kitchen Shri Mataji, kitchen.Sadhana didi: It's all very new?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sadhana didi: Oh, my God!Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, the kitchen is nice]Sir C.P: Very good!Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, very nice.]Sir C.P: Excellent.Shri Mataji [In Hindi, this one is a Kitchen.]Sahaja Yogi: This one.Shri Mataji: Sadhana is happy. Very nice.Sir C.P: They maintained it very well. Poor damage.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, these are all the things of school.]Sadhana Didi: [In Hindi, very good.]Shri Mataji [In Hindi, there is no mess in it.] [Unsure]Sir C.P: From her, she's already there. Shri Mataji: I don’t know how many years back I have bought it.Sahaja Yogi: I think it was in 95 or something like this. Long-time back.Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, twelve, thirteen years ago.]Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, twelve years. Now see, this is very nice.]Sahaja Yogi: StoreroomSir C.P: Storeroom.Sahaja Yogi: Storeroom, for the food we get a big fridge.Sir C.P: Storeroom and very big fridge.[In Hindi, all things are very beautifully arranged.] [Unsure]Sir C.P: Very well arranged, very nice house. [Hindi] Only She could have done it.Sadhana didi: How many tables? Sir C.P: Only She could have done it. Shri Mataji: How can you go upstairs?Sahaja Yogi: We can go outside and we go up the ramp. And we can go up, there's a [inaudible]. We take up around. There's a way, Shri Mataji, yes.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, Ok. Let’s go.]We can get for small children?Sahaja Yogi: Of course, Mother.Shri Mataji: It’s better to get lower things and smaller thing and again this there.Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Lobby?Sahaja Yogi: Laundry, laundry.Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, purchased. Earlier it was not there. Now it has been put.]Sahaja Yogi: This is new, new.Sahaja Yogi: [In Hindi, washing machine. It’s new.] Shri Mataji: Wah! They will have to take for the small children. Robert: This is the garden.Shri Mataji: Let me see.Robert: Beyond the tree, after the fence, there is a big space for meditation. It's a nice, big area with many trees. And then there is a river.Sir C.P: All that is our land.Robert: Yes.So, we have a big, after the trees, we have a big area for meditation. And then we have a river. Shri Mataji: And how many rooms upstairs?Robert: We have four, well there're two storeys. And the top storey, we have bedrooms and we have four very big dormitories.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, this kind of house I have never seen. From here we will start a compound.]Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: For the children room.Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Or we can towards this.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes.Sahaja Yogi: The first [inaudible] is the top floor.Shri Mataji: We can [inaudible] this. Robert: This is garage, the garage for the car. Shri Mataji: We'll have to bring the children in a lorry.Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji. In a bus.Shri Mataji: A bus.Robert: Yes.Sahaja Yogi: No, Shri Mataji, this is just- no, only flowers. It's not a fountain.Shri Mataji: But we can make it work.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes, of course. Shri Mataji: Oh my God! This is the drawing-room?Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: And what is this small room?Sahaja Yogi: Bedroom.Shri Mataji: Bedroom.Robert: This is a mediation room, a meditation room for children.Shri Mataji: What?Sahaja Yogi: The children will meditate here and in themorning, they will come and meditate here.Shri Mataji: [Inaudible].Sahaja Yogi: Yes. It’s very strong.Shri Mataji: Very. Shri Mataji: And what about this here?Sir C.P: Same.Shri Mataji: Same?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sir C.P: Beautiful surrounding, beautiful, very good. You can’t take a more beautiful nature.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, this needs to be closed here.]Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, small kids will be there, won’t they?] They will be from five years, five, six years, there is no need.Sahaja Yogi: From 6 years, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, see, how beautiful are the fruits.]Sir C.P: Well safe, well safe, they won’t climb on the top.Sahaja Yogi: No.Shri Mataji: Well maintained. Shri Mataji: This is kitchen.Sahaja Yogi: It's a small kitchen, small kitchen. Just for tea, coffee.Shri Mataji: That one.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, this one, KitchenShri Mataji: Kitchen.This is bedroom.Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: Whose Bedroom? Not for children.Sahaja Yogi: Aunties. Aunties' bedroom.Shri Mataji: Only for the teachers.Sahaja Yogi: Ji Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: [Inaudible].Robert: Twelve, very good.Shri Mataji: You know, for boys who are staying nearby, we'll have a bus.Sir C.P: How many can be here?Robert: We can have forty children easily.Sir C.P: And where do they study?Robert: Downstairs, in the dining hall, they can study.Sadhana didi: And they will go to the local school.Sahaja Yogi: Ah, the school. The school is the local school. They go in the bus to the local school. and they will come here for their homework, for their sleeping, for their playing,for their sports.Shri Mataji: Where is the dining room?Sahaja Yogi: Downstairs, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Oh, downstairs.Sir C.P: Forty.Sahaja Yogi: Forty, yes. I think forty is very comfortable.Sadhana didi: Very niceShri Mataji: Look at these!Sir C.P: Beautiful. Congratulations!Shri Mataji: Thank you.Robert: Thank you Shri Mataji! Thank you.Sir C.P: Very clean, very cleanly kept. Shri Mataji: So, how many beds now?Robert: We have, I think, forty beds.Shri Mataji: Forty.Robert: Forty beds. Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, how did you like Sadhana?]Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, very beautiful Ma. Amazing! Wonderful!]Amazing! Wonderful!Shri Mataji: I have to get small tables and chairs.Robert: Yes, you are. Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji!Shri Mataji: Hello. May God bless you!Sahaja Yogi: Thank you Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: I was just now thinking about you.Sir C.P: What a beautiful house!Sahaja Yogi: Do you like the new arrangement?Shri Mataji: Wonderful!Sahaja Yogi: We arrange the-Shri Mataji: Very good for children.Sahaja Yogi: We spent many money but now the house for the children is very beautiful.Sir C.P: Perfect, perfect. Not to use it would be a crime, very beautiful property.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi]Sir C.P: Anyway, teacher, she wants the school to come.Sahaja Yogi: No, no, the important is to start it then we can manage it.Shri Mataji: What we can do is to have one Italian there.Sahaja Yogi: YesShri Mataji: But I want to start English here to prepare them to go to other schools.Sahaja Yogi: To go to Daglio?Robert: This here is, these are the toilettes for the girls.Sahaja Yogi: This is for boys.Sadhana didi: Ah, so you have two sets.Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Sahaja Yogi: This is the regulation of the school.Sir C.P: Yes, you're with it.Shri Mataji: [Inaudible] for children. All these chairs and all that, for small, for small, chairs and all.Sahaja Yogi: We will buy small chairs and tables.Shri Mataji: So, how many tables and small chairs you should buy now.Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji, I'll tell them.Shri Mataji: And how many tables.Robert: Yes. Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Because they'll be small. Up to five years, they'll come [short name for Sadhana]?Sadhana Didi: Five years, six, seven.Sahaja Yogi: Six to eleven.Shri Mataji: That’s why. So, we can get other chairs. Oh, I just purchase this, that's all.Sahaja Yogi: Our desire is to fulfil your, your desires and your will.Shri Mataji: This was my old idea to bring them to England because they want to learn English. And now we'll go and see the other big school library. See, you can make another bedroom here. So that two and two four. [In Hindi]That time I use to walk when I saw this.Sir C.P: Amazing. Amazing. Amazing is the word. Amazing.Robert: We are so lucky, Shri Mataji, to have you as our Mother. You look after us so well. We are so lucky.Shri Mataji: But I, I didn’t understand that, "Why people didn’t buy this?" I couldn’t understand. Because it is an institution, I think.Robert: I think the house was waiting for you.Shri Mataji: [Laughter] it must be. No, I just asked, so I bought it. No, in any case, you can put bars there.Robert: Yes.Shri Mataji: First, the decor, this is so beautiful.Robert: Yes.Shri Mataji: This is made in this country?Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji.Sir C.P: Really good.Shri Mataji: They make beautiful things.Sir C.P: Marvellous place, beautiful style.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, let's go]

Inauguration Centrassi School, Cabella International Sahaj School, Cabella Ligure (Italy) Shri Mataji: Very artistic. We can put cement in between.Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Pizza?Sahaja Yogi: Pizza, yes.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, to make Pizza. I really liked it]. I purchased it a long time back.Sahaja Yogi: You have a very, very good eye Shri Mataji for beautiful places.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, let's go. It is very good for children]Sahaja Yogi: Ji [yes].Shri Mataji: Ah, beautiful. And all this is with, with land; it's with it.Sahaja Yogi: For about twenty metres, it’s our land, twenty metres.Shri Mataji: Twenty metres is our land.Sir C.P: I see.Sadhana didi: Twenty metres, that’s a lot. Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, Romal felt very nice.]Sir C.P: Beautiful, very beautiful.Shri Mataji: What else, what river is that?Sahaja Yogi: It’s the Borbera.Shri Mataji: Borbera is here?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sadhana didi: Very nice, absolutely beautiful.Shri Mataji: Beautiful for children Sadhana didi: Oh! Beautiful!Sahaja Yogi: This is the dining room, Shri Mataji.This is where children eat, here.Shri Mataji: And it’s the Kitchen.Sahaja Yogi: Kitchen Shri Mataji, kitchen.Sadhana didi: It's all very new?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sadhana didi: Oh, my God!Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, the kitchen is nice]Sir C.P: Very good!Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, very nice.]Sir C.P: Excellent.Shri Mataji [In Hindi, this one is a Kitchen.]Sahaja Yogi: This one.Shri Mataji: Sadhana is happy. Very nice.Sir C.P: They maintained it very well. Poor damage.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, these are all the things of school.]Sadhana Didi: [In Hindi, very good.]Shri Mataji [In Hindi, there is no mess in it.] [Unsure]Sir C.P: From her, she's already there. Shri Mataji: I don’t know how many years back I have bought it.Sahaja Yogi: I think it was in 95 or something like this. Long-time back.Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, twelve, thirteen years ago.]Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, twelve years. Now see, this is very nice.]Sahaja Yogi: StoreroomSir C.P: Storeroom.Sahaja Yogi: Storeroom, for the food we get a big fridge.Sir C.P: Storeroom and very big fridge.[In Hindi, all things are very beautifully arranged.] [Unsure]Sir C.P: Very well arranged, very nice house. [Hindi] Only She could have done it.Sadhana didi: How many tables? Sir C.P: Only She could have done it. Shri Mataji: How can you go upstairs?Sahaja Yogi: We can go outside and we go up the ramp. And we can go up, there's a [inaudible]. We take up around. There's a way, Shri Mataji, yes.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, Ok. Let’s go.]We can get for small children?Sahaja Yogi: Of course, Mother.Shri Mataji: It’s better to get lower things and smaller thing and again this there.Sahaja Yogi: Ji, Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: Lobby?Sahaja Yogi: Laundry, laundry.Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, purchased. Earlier it was not there. Now it has been put.]Sahaja Yogi: This is new, new.Sahaja Yogi: [In Hindi, washing machine. It’s new.] Shri Mataji: Wah! They will have to take for the small children. Robert: This is the garden.Shri Mataji: Let me see.Robert: Beyond the tree, after the fence, there is a big space for meditation. It's a nice, big area with many trees. And then there is a river.Sir C.P: All that is our land.Robert: Yes.So, we have a big, after the trees, we have a big area for meditation. And then we have a river. Shri Mataji: And how many rooms upstairs?Robert: We have four, well there're two storeys. And the top storey, we have bedrooms and we have four very big dormitories.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, this kind of house I have never seen. From here we will start a compound.]Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: For the children room.Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Or we can towards this.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes.Sahaja Yogi: The first [inaudible] is the top floor.Shri Mataji: We can [inaudible] this. Robert: This is garage, the garage for the car. Shri Mataji: We'll have to bring the children in a lorry.Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji. In a bus.Shri Mataji: A bus.Robert: Yes.Sahaja Yogi: No, Shri Mataji, this is just- no, only flowers. It's not a fountain.Shri Mataji: But we can make it work.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, yes, of course. Shri Mataji: Oh my God! This is the drawing-room?Sahaja Yogi: Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: And what is this small room?Sahaja Yogi: Bedroom.Shri Mataji: Bedroom.Robert: This is a mediation room, a meditation room for children.Shri Mataji: What?Sahaja Yogi: The children will meditate here and in themorning, they will come and meditate here.Shri Mataji: [Inaudible].Sahaja Yogi: Yes. It’s very strong.Shri Mataji: Very. Shri Mataji: And what about this here?Sir C.P: Same.Shri Mataji: Same?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sir C.P: Beautiful surrounding, beautiful, very good. You can’t take a more beautiful nature.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, this needs to be closed here.]Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, small kids will be there, won’t they?] They will be from five years, five, six years, there is no need.Sahaja Yogi: From 6 years, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, see, how beautiful are the fruits.]Sir C.P: Well safe, well safe, they won’t climb on the top.Sahaja Yogi: No.Shri Mataji: Well maintained. Shri Mataji: This is kitchen.Sahaja Yogi: It's a small kitchen, small kitchen. Just for tea, coffee.Shri Mataji: That one.Sahaja Yogi: Yes, this one, KitchenShri Mataji: Kitchen.This is bedroom.Sahaja Yogi: Ji.Shri Mataji: Whose Bedroom? Not for children.Sahaja Yogi: Aunties. Aunties' bedroom.Shri Mataji: Only for the teachers.Sahaja Yogi: Ji Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji: [Inaudible].Robert: Twelve, very good.Shri Mataji: You know, for boys who are staying nearby, we'll have a bus.Sir C.P: How many can be here?Robert: We can have forty children easily.Sir C.P: And where do they study?Robert: Downstairs, in the dining hall, they can study.Sadhana didi: And they will go to the local school.Sahaja Yogi: Ah, the school. The school is the local school. They go in the bus to the local school. and they will come here for their homework, for their sleeping, for their playing,for their sports.Shri Mataji: Where is the dining room?Sahaja Yogi: Downstairs, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Oh, downstairs.Sir C.P: Forty.Sahaja Yogi: Forty, yes. I think forty is very comfortable.Sadhana didi: Very niceShri Mataji: Look at these!Sir C.P: Beautiful. Congratulations!Shri Mataji: Thank you.Robert: Thank you Shri Mataji! Thank you.Sir C.P: Very clean, very cleanly kept. Shri Mataji: So, how many beds now?Robert: We have, I think, forty beds.Shri Mataji: Forty.Robert: Forty beds. Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, how did you like Sadhana?]Sadhana didi: [In Hindi, very beautiful Ma. Amazing! Wonderful!]Amazing! Wonderful!Shri Mataji: I have to get small tables and chairs.Robert: Yes, you are. Sahaja Yogi: Shri Mataji!Shri Mataji: Hello. May God bless you!Sahaja Yogi: Thank you Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: I was just now thinking about you.Sir C.P: What a beautiful house!Sahaja Yogi: Do you like the new arrangement?Shri Mataji: Wonderful!Sahaja Yogi: We arrange the-Shri Mataji: Very good for children.Sahaja Yogi: We spent many money but now the house for the children is very beautiful.Sir C.P: Perfect, perfect. Not to use it would be a crime, very beautiful property.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi]Sir C.P: Anyway, teacher, she wants the school to come.Sahaja Yogi: No, no, the important is to start it then we can manage it.Shri Mataji: What we can do is to have one Italian there.Sahaja Yogi: YesShri Mataji: But I want to start English here to prepare them to go to other schools.Sahaja Yogi: To go to Daglio?Robert: This here is, these are the toilettes for the girls.Sahaja Yogi: This is for boys.Sadhana didi: Ah, so you have two sets.Sahaja Yogi: Yes. Sahaja Yogi: This is the regulation of the school.Sir C.P: Yes, you're with it.Shri Mataji: [Inaudible] for children. All these chairs and all that, for small, for small, chairs and all.Sahaja Yogi: We will buy small chairs and tables.Shri Mataji: So, how many tables and small chairs you should buy now.Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji, I'll tell them.Shri Mataji: And how many tables.Robert: Yes. Yes, Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: Because they'll be small. Up to five years, they'll come [short name for Sadhana]?Sadhana Didi: Five years, six, seven.Sahaja Yogi: Six to eleven.Shri Mataji: That’s why. So, we can get other chairs. Oh, I just purchase this, that's all.Sahaja Yogi: Our desire is to fulfil your, your desires and your will.Shri Mataji: This was my old idea to bring them to England because they want to learn English. And now we'll go and see the other big school library. See, you can make another bedroom here. So that two and two four. [In Hindi]That time I use to walk when I saw this.Sir C.P: Amazing. Amazing. Amazing is the word. Amazing.Robert: We are so lucky, Shri Mataji, to have you as our Mother. You look after us so well. We are so lucky.Shri Mataji: But I, I didn’t understand that, "Why people didn’t buy this?" I couldn’t understand. Because it is an institution, I think.Robert: I think the house was waiting for you.Shri Mataji: [Laughter] it must be. No, I just asked, so I bought it. No, in any case, you can put bars there.Robert: Yes.Shri Mataji: First, the decor, this is so beautiful.Robert: Yes.Shri Mataji: This is made in this country?Robert: Yes, Shri Mataji.Sir C.P: Really good.Shri Mataji: They make beautiful things.Sir C.P: Marvellous place, beautiful style.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, let's go]

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Diwali Puja, 1st Day, Dhanteras [English Translation from Hindi] It is wonderful that we have awakened our powers that had already settled down there and we are lost in our own thoughts. But we have a lot of powers within us and all these powers have been bestowed on us by God. All of say, “God, God,” and everybody knows that He is everywhere, resides everywhere, and witnesses everything. And He witnesses everything we do with great love. Now you have come into His Kingdom. I have to tell you that I felt overjoyed to know that for the past many years, Sahaj Yoga has gained in speed remarkably. It means that people of Delhi have tremendous faith and are very social as well. I have been to so many other places where we had so much publicity, but I can’t say that everywhere people have transformed as much. You have to understand Sahaj Yoga fully and then you will have full authority over its blessings. If you recognise Sahaj, Sahaj will recognise you. It knows you and your status and what should be given to you. Now I am going to tell you that I came to Delhi a long ago and thought that Sahaj Yoga would establish very well in Delhi. The reason was that the government was shifted here from Calcutta. What was Sahaj was that all the government servants came here, and the government has started functioning here. This arrangement was to make you collective, and if you go to any other place, you could not make so many people collective. The amount of work that has been done in Delhi cannot be done anywhere else. This is My experience, and I think that there is something special about Delhi that the number of people is getting multiplied. Everybody has transformed and everybody has understood fully what Sahaj Yoga is. You people don’t think about why this miracle took place in Delhi. This is your quality. Delhi administration is running in a Sahaj way. The people of Delhi have helped us a lot. I just can’t tell you that it has happened in such a Sahaj way that it is difficult to understand. The people of Delhi have understood it thoroughly and inculcated it in their lives, in their being, and it affected the people outwardly. Delhi has a great importance in the whole world. I can understand a lot, but I can’t understand how it is so in Delhi. Because in Delhi, there are government employees, and the government and the people have a particular thought process, but that is not the point. Here, many people have come because of God’s blessings. They have come to Delhi specially for this purpose, and so Sahaj Yoga has depth in Delhi. Just looking at a few Sahaj yogis in Delhi, I am surprised at how they have achieved this depth. In Delhi, government administration plays such a big role, that everywhere there were obstructions on account of it. But the people who joined Sahaj Yoga have done a wonderful job. Everywhere, the people are surprised at how it has spread so much in Delhi. They are government employees. They give importance to the government. How is it that they have accepted Mother? It is very surprising, and everybody has observed it. But there is nothing to be surprised at. Where there are God’s devotees, and where God is accepted in reality, only there Sahaj Yoga establishes itself, only there Sahaj Yoga spreads. Nothing can affect it. You should understand God, understand His powers, and His capacity to work. And it is very surprising how this work of God will be done with the help of you people. Here we have Sahaj yogis, one better than the other. It is beyond My understanding how it will transpire when they are in government jobs. And today is a great day that I am here, and it is considered a very auspicious day. I don’t know how it is celebrated in Delhi, but it is a very auspicious day, because it is a very special day for starting any new assignment. The fact is that in our country people know a lot. The greatest thing is that, on the basis of astrology and other parameters, people know which day is auspicious, and the significance of the days. This day is otherwise also very auspicious. And I am very happy that today I have come to meet you people. Today is a blissful day, especially blissful, and the special blessing is that your problems will be solved. You will be helped by God. I can’t say as much about any other place, as I come to know in Delhi about the greatness of God, and He knows that the people here are one better than the other. One more thing is that here He recognises all of you. Maybe He doesn’t know many of you ‒ it is quite possible ‒ but the God that resides within Me knows all of you, and they are very supportive of you. They have got a lot of faith and are confident that you will raise the status of India. If Sahaj Yoga establishes here, and if it spreads from here, it will be wonderful. Now I have been to every country, to Russia and so on, but the pure faith of the people of this place, and everybody’s desire is different, but you enjoy the blessings of faith. But I was so happy when they said that there will be a puja today. I agreed to it. I said it is OK. It is a good day. You know that today is the Puja of Shri Laxmi. Here nobody performs Laxmi Puja. So, it must be understood that today is a very important day. Laxmi gives you everything. She is Mother. She gives everything, all blessings, all comfort, and most important is that She enlightens your inner being. So somehow you recognise Laxmi. Laxmi doesn’t mean money. You have to understand that She is a Goddess, and you have to respect money like a Goddess. In our country, people do a lot for the sake of money; wrong things that are very bad. But you have got a responsibility to recognise Laxmi as Devi, and worship Her and understand that you cannot make fun of Laxmi. Laxmi blesses you and will go on blessing you. Such evil people are a few only, and you should be contented that Laxmi resides in your being and has accumulated many moments of joy and comfort for you. You are going to get all that and have already got it. Now, simply try to understand that My coming to this place today is a matter of chance. I didn’t have any such idea, nor was it in my knowledge. But I knew that I should come here regularly on this day, and it just happened like that. I have come here Myself. I know there are many Sahaj yogis now, and I know some of you could not come, but it doesn’t matter. I am talking about everyone, and I am sure that everyone will worship Laxmi, and in the Laxmi Puja one should understand all forms of Laxmi and what Her nature is. We cannot understand Her, and if we cannot understand Her, we will follow the wrong path. So it should be understood that She is Devi and that She is your Mother, and that She can do anything for you, because She is very powerful and very affectionate, She doesn’t give you any problem. If you get trapped somewhere, She will save you. Such is the blessing/greatness of Laxmi. Here, if people, especially Government workers, understand that this is the place where Laxmi resides, the whole business will work out. So, sometimes we feel that Laxmi should bless this country. It is not so. We make mistakes, not She. She is forgiving, and very kind to us, to all of us. But we torture our own selves, contradict ourselves. And if it is decided that we will not do anything wrong, I am sure that in the program that was organised in Delhi, in the Land of Laxmi, here on this day, nobody will insult Laxmi or try to belittle Her. She has raised the status of our country tremendously. So we have to worship Laxmi. We have to recognise Laxmi, and She is our Mother. We should respect Her completely. I am telling you this because you are Sahaj yogis, and you know that today Laxmi is worshipped, and She is a Mother who will not lead you astray, come what may. You only recognise Laxmi as your Mother if you have a clean heart. All such people will definitely join Sahaj Yoga, because it will have its effect on everybody. May all of you be blessed by Laxmi, and I know it will be so. Sahaj Yoga has spread widely here. To achieve that, if we had to do another type of struggle, it would have been done. And here we have to do some other type of work, too. You know, we have a lot of land, and the work is going on there. Everything is going on, on its own. I am not doing anything. It is happening by itself, and I know you don’t have to do anything; and secondly, whatever your desires are, they will be met here, and whatever you want to know, Laxmiji’s blessings will be with you. So today is the day of Laxmi Kripa. May God bless all of you!

Diwali Puja, 1st Day, Dhanteras [English Translation from Hindi] It is wonderful that we have awakened our powers that had already settled down there and we are lost in our own thoughts. But we have a lot of powers within us and all these powers have been bestowed on us by God. All of say, “God, God,” and everybody knows that He is everywhere, resides everywhere, and witnesses everything. And He witnesses everything we do with great love. Now you have come into His Kingdom. I have to tell you that I felt overjoyed to know that for the past many years, Sahaj Yoga has gained in speed remarkably. It means that people of Delhi have tremendous faith and are very social as well. I have been to so many other places where we had so much publicity, but I can’t say that everywhere people have transformed as much. You have to understand Sahaj Yoga fully and then you will have full authority over its blessings. If you recognise Sahaj, Sahaj will recognise you. It knows you and your status and what should be given to you. Now I am going to tell you that I came to Delhi a long ago and thought that Sahaj Yoga would establish very well in Delhi. The reason was that the government was shifted here from Calcutta. What was Sahaj was that all the government servants came here, and the government has started functioning here. This arrangement was to make you collective, and if you go to any other place, you could not make so many people collective. The amount of work that has been done in Delhi cannot be done anywhere else. This is My experience, and I think that there is something special about Delhi that the number of people is getting multiplied. Everybody has transformed and everybody has understood fully what Sahaj Yoga is. You people don’t think about why this miracle took place in Delhi. This is your quality. Delhi administration is running in a Sahaj way. The people of Delhi have helped us a lot. I just can’t tell you that it has happened in such a Sahaj way that it is difficult to understand. The people of Delhi have understood it thoroughly and inculcated it in their lives, in their being, and it affected the people outwardly. Delhi has a great importance in the whole world. I can understand a lot, but I can’t understand how it is so in Delhi. Because in Delhi, there are government employees, and the government and the people have a particular thought process, but that is not the point. Here, many people have come because of God’s blessings. They have come to Delhi specially for this purpose, and so Sahaj Yoga has depth in Delhi. Just looking at a few Sahaj yogis in Delhi, I am surprised at how they have achieved this depth. In Delhi, government administration plays such a big role, that everywhere there were obstructions on account of it. But the people who joined Sahaj Yoga have done a wonderful job. Everywhere, the people are surprised at how it has spread so much in Delhi. They are government employees. They give importance to the government. How is it that they have accepted Mother? It is very surprising, and everybody has observed it. But there is nothing to be surprised at. Where there are God’s devotees, and where God is accepted in reality, only there Sahaj Yoga establishes itself, only there Sahaj Yoga spreads. Nothing can affect it. You should understand God, understand His powers, and His capacity to work. And it is very surprising how this work of God will be done with the help of you people. Here we have Sahaj yogis, one better than the other. It is beyond My understanding how it will transpire when they are in government jobs. And today is a great day that I am here, and it is considered a very auspicious day. I don’t know how it is celebrated in Delhi, but it is a very auspicious day, because it is a very special day for starting any new assignment. The fact is that in our country people know a lot. The greatest thing is that, on the basis of astrology and other parameters, people know which day is auspicious, and the significance of the days. This day is otherwise also very auspicious. And I am very happy that today I have come to meet you people. Today is a blissful day, especially blissful, and the special blessing is that your problems will be solved. You will be helped by God. I can’t say as much about any other place, as I come to know in Delhi about the greatness of God, and He knows that the people here are one better than the other. One more thing is that here He recognises all of you. Maybe He doesn’t know many of you ‒ it is quite possible ‒ but the God that resides within Me knows all of you, and they are very supportive of you. They have got a lot of faith and are confident that you will raise the status of India. If Sahaj Yoga establishes here, and if it spreads from here, it will be wonderful. Now I have been to every country, to Russia and so on, but the pure faith of the people of this place, and everybody’s desire is different, but you enjoy the blessings of faith. But I was so happy when they said that there will be a puja today. I agreed to it. I said it is OK. It is a good day. You know that today is the Puja of Shri Laxmi. Here nobody performs Laxmi Puja. So, it must be understood that today is a very important day. Laxmi gives you everything. She is Mother. She gives everything, all blessings, all comfort, and most important is that She enlightens your inner being. So somehow you recognise Laxmi. Laxmi doesn’t mean money. You have to understand that She is a Goddess, and you have to respect money like a Goddess. In our country, people do a lot for the sake of money; wrong things that are very bad. But you have got a responsibility to recognise Laxmi as Devi, and worship Her and understand that you cannot make fun of Laxmi. Laxmi blesses you and will go on blessing you. Such evil people are a few only, and you should be contented that Laxmi resides in your being and has accumulated many moments of joy and comfort for you. You are going to get all that and have already got it. Now, simply try to understand that My coming to this place today is a matter of chance. I didn’t have any such idea, nor was it in my knowledge. But I knew that I should come here regularly on this day, and it just happened like that. I have come here Myself. I know there are many Sahaj yogis now, and I know some of you could not come, but it doesn’t matter. I am talking about everyone, and I am sure that everyone will worship Laxmi, and in the Laxmi Puja one should understand all forms of Laxmi and what Her nature is. We cannot understand Her, and if we cannot understand Her, we will follow the wrong path. So it should be understood that She is Devi and that She is your Mother, and that She can do anything for you, because She is very powerful and very affectionate, She doesn’t give you any problem. If you get trapped somewhere, She will save you. Such is the blessing/greatness of Laxmi. Here, if people, especially Government workers, understand that this is the place where Laxmi resides, the whole business will work out. So, sometimes we feel that Laxmi should bless this country. It is not so. We make mistakes, not She. She is forgiving, and very kind to us, to all of us. But we torture our own selves, contradict ourselves. And if it is decided that we will not do anything wrong, I am sure that in the program that was organised in Delhi, in the Land of Laxmi, here on this day, nobody will insult Laxmi or try to belittle Her. She has raised the status of our country tremendously. So we have to worship Laxmi. We have to recognise Laxmi, and She is our Mother. We should respect Her completely. I am telling you this because you are Sahaj yogis, and you know that today Laxmi is worshipped, and She is a Mother who will not lead you astray, come what may. You only recognise Laxmi as your Mother if you have a clean heart. All such people will definitely join Sahaj Yoga, because it will have its effect on everybody. May all of you be blessed by Laxmi, and I know it will be so. Sahaj Yoga has spread widely here. To achieve that, if we had to do another type of struggle, it would have been done. And here we have to do some other type of work, too. You know, we have a lot of land, and the work is going on there. Everything is going on, on its own. I am not doing anything. It is happening by itself, and I know you don’t have to do anything; and secondly, whatever your desires are, they will be met here, and whatever you want to know, Laxmiji’s blessings will be with you. So today is the day of Laxmi Kripa. May God bless all of you!

11/13/2008

http://amruta.org/?p=12258

Guru Nanaka Jayanti

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Guru Nanaka Jayanti, Noida residence, India, 13/11/2008 They didn’t talk of Kundalini, that is the only trouble. And they all, that time they were all fighting. Because of that fighting nature nobody had the patience to tell them: "Baba! You don’t fight now, it's a bouddism [unsure]." Because when there is fight going on, you can’t talk to them!But with Sahaj Yoga [cut in the video]And there was no fighting.Sahaj Yoga is given you a complete freedom but as Sahaja is a complete-Shri Mataji [to a girl]: Darling?Girl: Surein? Surein is not coming.Shri Mataji: Come here [inaudible. Hindi]Baba [Hindi] Ha.Girl: Surein?Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi] Shri Mataji: There have been very great gurus.Girl: Yes.Shri Mataji: Very great.But that time, everybody was quarelling. Nobody was listening and they were all fighting. [Hindi]So they never talked about basic, is the Kundalini. This is the trouble. And then, above all this, they were not friendly with each other. This is the problem, that's why they faught. And now, they didn't talk of Kundalini and Self-realization. They were all very eminent, but because of this gap, the problem became wider and wider. None of them talked of Kundalini, can you imagine? They said it is- some mentionned about it in Sanscrit language, but have not seen everything. So they all knew the same thing but they didn’t say. So, so many got separated. And there was a big rift within each other. Because the truth was, there is a Kundalini. And this was not said critically. [Hindi]Now we have started going to school. [Shri Mataji is smiling looking at children][Hindi: Please look out. we will tie up that NOT CLEAR and very wise very wise Their morning starts now. [Shri Mataji pointing to a child] and these grown-ups they always stand first in their class]And it's a very renowned school.[Hindi: But he always stands first. But one thing is, he comes rarely and so.Did you give a copy to Baba Mama?] [Shri Mataji is laughing]Boy: He's called the "biting puppy".Sahaja Yogi: This is called "biting puppy".Sir CP: What you call?Shri Mataji:What did he do?[Conversation] [Sir C.P speaks in Hindi to Shri Mataji]Sir C.P: I asked him something, "what is that?"So the man just said, "how it works?"Shri Mataji: Acha.Sir C.P: I said, "How do you know?" So he said: "I read it. I read about it in encyclopedia."Like this.I said: "How do you know encyclopedia?" He said: ".. with an encyclopedia for children that was given in ? It is all in encyclopedia."Like that, a kind of reputation. It's wonderful. The world in encyclopedia is incredible. Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi: How nice she is? Isn’t it?]Sir CP: What about you?Sahaja Yogini: It's very beautiful. Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi]By chance. [unclear]Shri Mataji: He was saying [unclear]Sahaja Yogi: It is Kunal’s kurta.Shri Mataji: Is it Kunal’s?You are having Kunal’s?Sahaja Yogi: I have borrowed it from him.He is my closest neighbours.Shri Mataji: It suits you.Sahaja Yogi: Thank you.Shri Mataji: He is very shy. (Talking about a child) Shri Mataji: He's a very shy fellow. It will break. very shy, very shy [unclear]Shri Mataji: Oh!Did you come from Bangalore again?Did she run away?”Sahaja Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: That is great!One came by morning flight.And one I can see now. Shri Mataji: Three types of……….very beautiful.Shri Mataji: One who is a white person. He is also from that area from Bangalore.Sir C.P: And it was very beautiful.Shri Mataji: Who is there?Sir C.P: Come in, come in.Shri Mataji: Who are you?Sahaja Yogi: Yuva ShaktiShri Mataji: From where?Yuva Shakti: From Delhi.Shri Mataji: [Unclear]Shri Mataji: Ok.Shri Mataji: Tell your name.Sahaja Yogini: AnshuShri Mataji: One by one.Sahaja Yogini: VandanaShri Mataji: What did she say?'Vandana’ (name of Vandana repeated )Shri Mataji [confirms her name]: Vandana.Shri Mataji: And you? Anshu, Anshu.Sir C.P repeats to Shri Mataji: Anshu. Another Yuva Shakti,”Anjali” SY repeats,”Anjali.”(as Shri Mataji cannot hear properly) Repeated again ‘Anjali.’ ShradhaShri Mataji: What? Sonia, SoniaShri Mataji: You come here. Shri Mataji: She is a great Sahaja Yogini.Sir C.P: She sings very nicely.Shri Mataji: She is a doctor.Shri Mataji: She is changing Maharashtrian...Shri Mataji: Will it be okay?Shri Mataji: [Unclear]Shri Mataji: They ……..Me today.” Laughter Shri Mataji,”Today all of them desired, so I said okay do it.” LaughterShri Mataji: Today, they got into the mood of painting.”[Laughter]Shri Mataji: Very beautiful.Shri Mataji: Is it from Rajasthan?Sahaja Yogi [in Hindi]: They are from Banaras.Shri Mataji: Banaras?I have never seen.[Hindi]She is our very old Sahaja Yogini.Annanya you come here. Now Sahaja Yogini offering kumkum to Shri Mataji’s feet and beautiful, because……. [Unclear]May God bless you. Sahaja Yogi: Today is Guru Nanak’s birthday. Shri Mataji: Today is Guru Nanak’s birthday.That is why this is the present of these people. You know, they've send it on the way from Bangalore. How did they send today? Sahaja Yogi: Today was puja, perhaps. Today was puja.Shri Mataji: Achaa.Sahaja Yogi: Today was Guru Nanak puja.Shri Mataji: Achaa.May God bless you all! Shri Mataji: [Unclear. In Hindi] First Canada, then Russia.Canada I have not been and they have been waiting and waiting. they sent six people to invite Me. But I just couldn’t go there. But I must go to Canada.Just about a week, I will stay there.[In Hindi] After that, where have I to go?Sir C.P: Russia.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, after that] Russia.Sir C.P: Russians are very keen, very, very keen.Shri Mataji : [In Hindi, So what we have to do?]Sir C.P: Russians are very very keen. They want very much. They have been praying to you to come to Russia.Shri Mataji: Yes! Yes Russians are! Russians are extremely keen, very keen. And they are great Sahaja Yogis. Now what is happening, it is a [unclear] nation there. They want to work out and have a way, not Communism. But I told them that: "Now your communism is internal. So every part of it is internal." They are all communists. But now the thing is, it has to bring Sahaja Yoga. After communism, they have to bring Sahaja Yoga because in communism if there are some extraordinary people, extra sensory people, you cannot- they cannot come out. But after they seek, they take to Sahaja Yoga, then all such people who are at midpoint, they'll come out.In every country, there are very remarkable people and very talented and great understanding. Every country has. But the only thing is, I have to meet all of them and I have to go to all these countries. So, now the only thing is that I cannot go to all the countries but I can do to two countries at least, ne?Sir C. P to Shri Mataji: You know, the President of Russia has- President of Russia, mister Medvedev has taken Self-realization from a Sahaja Yogi.Shri Mataji: Yes. End is Russia. First I will go to Canada. Canadians have been trying but somehow, I could not go. Canada is little far away. So, I couldn’t do that.But now I have to go to Canada at any cost, and then to Russia. That I cannot have now. But, there is some work here that has to be done.[Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi] Shri Mataji: She's a great organiser.Sir CP: And a great musician.Shri Mataji: She is very good at music. and she writes poems and she gives tunes to Varada. She is very capable. We have all kinds of experts and I know, they will come up and spread Sahaja Yoga. They can.Now there won’t be any mistake. Even Guru Nanak could not say much about Sahaja Yoga. In a way, he has spoken, but nothing clear. But now, you are clearer about it and you know what is Sahaj and how it can help the whole world, can solve the problems of the whole world.Of course, whatever problems you have, please write it down and give it to Me. I would like to attend to it. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi]Now will have to come to Delhi, specially will have to come that they should spread Sahaja Yoga. It has spread but they have to spread all the more.It has spread. There are so many Sahaja Yogis that I am surprised NOT CLEARSahaja Yogi: Yes.Shri Mataji: This is ………. It has spread. Where? Sahaja Yogi: Outside…… [inaudible] It is not good. I will get you better now. Just now you can take. Has any one bigger?[inaudible] will give you another.Sir C.P: At Noida.Shri Mataji: Who are in Noida? You are also from Noida?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sir C.P: I too from Noida.[Laughter]Sahaja Yogi: Greater Noida.Shri Mataji:Noida. And where is his brother?What do you do?Sahaja Yogi: Will You take food?Shri Mataji: What is he saying?Sahaja Yogi: Food.Sir C.P: Will you take food?Shri Mataji:No.Sing a song.Shri Mataji: There is no book?Very Good![…clapping]One more song! Is it on dolki? Is it on dolki?Sahaja Yogi: Yes, it is on dolki.Shri Mataji: Very Good! You go in for classical.Sahaja Yogi: This is the new book. [Unclear]Shri Mataji: Show it to everyone.Sir C.P : Darbari Rag, Darbari.Shri Mataji: Which one?[Unclear][Laughter][Unclear]Very Good.Now let the boys sing a song.Sahaja Yogi: Today is Guru Nanakaji’s birthday, would like to sing in Punjabi.Shri Mataji: Very Good!

Guru Nanaka Jayanti, Noida residence, India, 13/11/2008 They didn’t talk of Kundalini, that is the only trouble. And they all, that time they were all fighting. Because of that fighting nature nobody had the patience to tell them: "Baba! You don’t fight now, it's a bouddism [unsure]." Because when there is fight going on, you can’t talk to them!But with Sahaj Yoga [cut in the video]And there was no fighting.Sahaj Yoga is given you a complete freedom but as Sahaja is a complete-Shri Mataji [to a girl]: Darling?Girl: Surein? Surein is not coming.Shri Mataji: Come here [inaudible. Hindi]Baba [Hindi] Ha.Girl: Surein?Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi] Shri Mataji: There have been very great gurus.Girl: Yes.Shri Mataji: Very great.But that time, everybody was quarelling. Nobody was listening and they were all fighting. [Hindi]So they never talked about basic, is the Kundalini. This is the trouble. And then, above all this, they were not friendly with each other. This is the problem, that's why they faught. And now, they didn't talk of Kundalini and Self-realization. They were all very eminent, but because of this gap, the problem became wider and wider. None of them talked of Kundalini, can you imagine? They said it is- some mentionned about it in Sanscrit language, but have not seen everything. So they all knew the same thing but they didn’t say. So, so many got separated. And there was a big rift within each other. Because the truth was, there is a Kundalini. And this was not said critically. [Hindi]Now we have started going to school. [Shri Mataji is smiling looking at children][Hindi: Please look out. we will tie up that NOT CLEAR and very wise very wise Their morning starts now. [Shri Mataji pointing to a child] and these grown-ups they always stand first in their class]And it's a very renowned school.[Hindi: But he always stands first. But one thing is, he comes rarely and so.Did you give a copy to Baba Mama?] [Shri Mataji is laughing]Boy: He's called the "biting puppy".Sahaja Yogi: This is called "biting puppy".Sir CP: What you call?Shri Mataji:What did he do?[Conversation] [Sir C.P speaks in Hindi to Shri Mataji]Sir C.P: I asked him something, "what is that?"So the man just said, "how it works?"Shri Mataji: Acha.Sir C.P: I said, "How do you know?" So he said: "I read it. I read about it in encyclopedia."Like this.I said: "How do you know encyclopedia?" He said: ".. with an encyclopedia for children that was given in ? It is all in encyclopedia."Like that, a kind of reputation. It's wonderful. The world in encyclopedia is incredible. Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi: How nice she is? Isn’t it?]Sir CP: What about you?Sahaja Yogini: It's very beautiful. Shri Mataji: [Speaks in Hindi]By chance. [unclear]Shri Mataji: He was saying [unclear]Sahaja Yogi: It is Kunal’s kurta.Shri Mataji: Is it Kunal’s?You are having Kunal’s?Sahaja Yogi: I have borrowed it from him.He is my closest neighbours.Shri Mataji: It suits you.Sahaja Yogi: Thank you.Shri Mataji: He is very shy. (Talking about a child) Shri Mataji: He's a very shy fellow. It will break. very shy, very shy [unclear]Shri Mataji: Oh!Did you come from Bangalore again?Did she run away?”Sahaja Yogi: Yes Shri Mataji.Shri Mataji: That is great!One came by morning flight.And one I can see now. Shri Mataji: Three types of……….very beautiful.Shri Mataji: One who is a white person. He is also from that area from Bangalore.Sir C.P: And it was very beautiful.Shri Mataji: Who is there?Sir C.P: Come in, come in.Shri Mataji: Who are you?Sahaja Yogi: Yuva ShaktiShri Mataji: From where?Yuva Shakti: From Delhi.Shri Mataji: [Unclear]Shri Mataji: Ok.Shri Mataji: Tell your name.Sahaja Yogini: AnshuShri Mataji: One by one.Sahaja Yogini: VandanaShri Mataji: What did she say?'Vandana’ (name of Vandana repeated )Shri Mataji [confirms her name]: Vandana.Shri Mataji: And you? Anshu, Anshu.Sir C.P repeats to Shri Mataji: Anshu. Another Yuva Shakti,”Anjali” SY repeats,”Anjali.”(as Shri Mataji cannot hear properly) Repeated again ‘Anjali.’ ShradhaShri Mataji: What? Sonia, SoniaShri Mataji: You come here. Shri Mataji: She is a great Sahaja Yogini.Sir C.P: She sings very nicely.Shri Mataji: She is a doctor.Shri Mataji: She is changing Maharashtrian...Shri Mataji: Will it be okay?Shri Mataji: [Unclear]Shri Mataji: They ……..Me today.” Laughter Shri Mataji,”Today all of them desired, so I said okay do it.” LaughterShri Mataji: Today, they got into the mood of painting.”[Laughter]Shri Mataji: Very beautiful.Shri Mataji: Is it from Rajasthan?Sahaja Yogi [in Hindi]: They are from Banaras.Shri Mataji: Banaras?I have never seen.[Hindi]She is our very old Sahaja Yogini.Annanya you come here. Now Sahaja Yogini offering kumkum to Shri Mataji’s feet and beautiful, because……. [Unclear]May God bless you. Sahaja Yogi: Today is Guru Nanak’s birthday. Shri Mataji: Today is Guru Nanak’s birthday.That is why this is the present of these people. You know, they've send it on the way from Bangalore. How did they send today? Sahaja Yogi: Today was puja, perhaps. Today was puja.Shri Mataji: Achaa.Sahaja Yogi: Today was Guru Nanak puja.Shri Mataji: Achaa.May God bless you all! Shri Mataji: [Unclear. In Hindi] First Canada, then Russia.Canada I have not been and they have been waiting and waiting. they sent six people to invite Me. But I just couldn’t go there. But I must go to Canada.Just about a week, I will stay there.[In Hindi] After that, where have I to go?Sir C.P: Russia.Shri Mataji: [In Hindi, after that] Russia.Sir C.P: Russians are very keen, very, very keen.Shri Mataji : [In Hindi, So what we have to do?]Sir C.P: Russians are very very keen. They want very much. They have been praying to you to come to Russia.Shri Mataji: Yes! Yes Russians are! Russians are extremely keen, very keen. And they are great Sahaja Yogis. Now what is happening, it is a [unclear] nation there. They want to work out and have a way, not Communism. But I told them that: "Now your communism is internal. So every part of it is internal." They are all communists. But now the thing is, it has to bring Sahaja Yoga. After communism, they have to bring Sahaja Yoga because in communism if there are some extraordinary people, extra sensory people, you cannot- they cannot come out. But after they seek, they take to Sahaja Yoga, then all such people who are at midpoint, they'll come out.In every country, there are very remarkable people and very talented and great understanding. Every country has. But the only thing is, I have to meet all of them and I have to go to all these countries. So, now the only thing is that I cannot go to all the countries but I can do to two countries at least, ne?Sir C. P to Shri Mataji: You know, the President of Russia has- President of Russia, mister Medvedev has taken Self-realization from a Sahaja Yogi.Shri Mataji: Yes. End is Russia. First I will go to Canada. Canadians have been trying but somehow, I could not go. Canada is little far away. So, I couldn’t do that.But now I have to go to Canada at any cost, and then to Russia. That I cannot have now. But, there is some work here that has to be done.[Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi] Shri Mataji: She's a great organiser.Sir CP: And a great musician.Shri Mataji: She is very good at music. and she writes poems and she gives tunes to Varada. She is very capable. We have all kinds of experts and I know, they will come up and spread Sahaja Yoga. They can.Now there won’t be any mistake. Even Guru Nanak could not say much about Sahaja Yoga. In a way, he has spoken, but nothing clear. But now, you are clearer about it and you know what is Sahaj and how it can help the whole world, can solve the problems of the whole world.Of course, whatever problems you have, please write it down and give it to Me. I would like to attend to it. [Shri Mataji speaks in Hindi]Now will have to come to Delhi, specially will have to come that they should spread Sahaja Yoga. It has spread but they have to spread all the more.It has spread. There are so many Sahaja Yogis that I am surprised NOT CLEARSahaja Yogi: Yes.Shri Mataji: This is ………. It has spread. Where? Sahaja Yogi: Outside…… [inaudible] It is not good. I will get you better now. Just now you can take. Has any one bigger?[inaudible] will give you another.Sir C.P: At Noida.Shri Mataji: Who are in Noida? You are also from Noida?Sahaja Yogi: Yes.Sir C.P: I too from Noida.[Laughter]Sahaja Yogi: Greater Noida.Shri Mataji:Noida. And where is his brother?What do you do?Sahaja Yogi: Will You take food?Shri Mataji: What is he saying?Sahaja Yogi: Food.Sir C.P: Will you take food?Shri Mataji:No.Sing a song.Shri Mataji: There is no book?Very Good![…clapping]One more song! Is it on dolki? Is it on dolki?Sahaja Yogi: Yes, it is on dolki.Shri Mataji: Very Good! You go in for classical.Sahaja Yogi: This is the new book. [Unclear]Shri Mataji: Show it to everyone.Sir C.P : Darbari Rag, Darbari.Shri Mataji: Which one?[Unclear][Laughter][Unclear]Very Good.Now let the boys sing a song.Sahaja Yogi: Today is Guru Nanakaji’s birthday, would like to sing in Punjabi.Shri Mataji: Very Good!

11/18/2010

http://amruta.org/?p=10765

Music and Conversation on Sahaja Yoga School Project

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Jaipur

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4/20/2023

http://amruta.org/?p=64910

Teaching Binati Suniye

Italy

Cabella Ligure

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Talk to Sahaja Yogis

English