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To All Seekers of Truth Caxton Hall, London (England)

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To All Seekers of Truth, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 May 1983. I bow to all the seekers of truth. We are seeking truth, reality, not hallucinations, not imagination, not our own mental projections. We have not being yet able, many of us who are seeking, to understand that reality is what it is. It will be the same. It has been the same. We cannot coin it for ourselves. We cannot organise it, and we cannot think about it. We cannot put a mental projection of our own as to, “This is the reality and this is not the reality.” Today only I was reading with great surprise an article about sniffing the glue that people are doing. I mean, now this is the last they are sniffing now, and then petrol, all sorts of things. Well, why? Why are they doing it? Because for some sensation. But they said that when you do that, what happens is that you start believing that whatever you are doing is right. That exactly is the point today. Without sniffing also there are many who believe like that, that whatever their ideas are about God or about Spirit, about seeking, is the right thing and they don’t want to see what reality is. They just want to project their ego, their imagination, to believe that this is the reality, and then they just are convinced that they know everything. With such people, what to do? How to tell them that reality is Read More …

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What you can do Caxton Hall, London (England)

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

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What we should expect from Self-realisation? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“What We Should Expect From Self-realisation”, Public Program, Caxton Hall, 13 September 1982 Gavin Brown: Mother, with your permission, I’d like to say one small message from the Sahaja Yogis. We have been very excited to hear today news that your brother has been appointed to the position of Minister of information for India. It’s such a great blessing for that country to have a man of such dharmic nature in that position of importance. I’d like to express our joy with this news. Shri Mataji: Last night, I was talking about Self-Realization, our ascent into the unconscious and what should we expect to be Self-realized. Self-Realization, as I told you the other day, has to be felt in your central nervous system. It’s an actualisation. It’s not a fantasy, it’s not a fantastic stuff that people talk of, that you went into a sort of ecstasy and you are floating in the clouds — that’s not Self-Realization. We have to give up our ideas of fantasy. We have to live with the truth and reality which is really beautiful and wonderful. So, first of all, we should be very honest about it, that Self-Realization has to be something that we should feel on our central nervous system. As we have felt our evolution, actually on our central nervous system, like we are human beings. If we are human beings, we feel all that is human on our central nervous system. It is not that we feel about it in Read More …

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A Solution to Come Caxton Hall, London (England)

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A Solution to Come, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 16 August 1982. These days, when you read newspapers or you meet people you get the feeling that everybody is waiting for a disaster or for some sort of a solution that has to come. This feeling that comes to us is also something very innate, something from our unconscious because the situation that we see around seems to be quite dangerous. Not that we get upset with the financial problems or with other mundane type of problems that we have had, but what upsets people is that human beings have become just like machines. They’re running mad. They’re running morning till evening. They have no time for each other. There is no feeling sometimes to understand each other, and [it’s] as if we are all becoming insensitive to each other’s problem. Apart from that, those people who are intelligent and loving people, feel that people at the helm of affairs do not feel responsible for the humanity at large. Then the poverty and the other problems, which are gross, still they bother us too much: [on] one side, the affluence; another side the poverty. [On] one side, the scientific approach to life; the other side what science has created – things like atomic bombs. All these create a kind of a confusion in our mind. Everybody seems to be confused. They don’t know whether whatever they are doing is right or wrong, whether they are going to the right Read More …

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You are all bound by one thread Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“You Are All Bound By One Thread”, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 14 June 1982. We all are expecting something great to happen and the happening that has to take place has been already described in all the scriptures. But somehow we are misled by other people who have a better way of manifesting their own style and we get so confused because this is the time of great confusion. Without the confusion evolution cannot take place. Unless and until people are confused they will never try to aspire for something higher. If you see in the animal stage also, there was a confusion for the fishes to come out, and that confusion made one or two to lead the rest of them and that’s how they could crawl onto this Mother Earth with confidence. So the areas started changing gradually, that, from Mother Earth then they started looking towards the sky. And the evolution went on like this till the human beings were created. Now, all these areas are within ourselves. These are all the elements into which we had to probe into: we had to find about them. And through this evolution we have been able to look into these, to fathom them, to find out their nature through our intelligence. So we reached this point where we could understand the elements, we could understand their use for our purpose. So far so good. But that’s not the end. That’s not the end of our evolution. If Read More …

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Understanding the Love of God Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Understanding the love of God”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 11 May 1982. For the last so many lectures we have been saying that you cannot pay for God’s love. It makes me laugh sometimes. Human beings can never understand His love because they live in a very limited sphere. His love is unlimited. His forgiveness is unlimited. Even this word ‘unlimited’ and ‘infinite’ we do not understand because we have not known anything like that. And to say that something is genuine is also like certifying something that is genuine. You don’t need a certificate. Even that human beings don’t understand. We live with artificiality. We try to find the Truth. Again we accept artificiality as Truth. Again we go on fighting. Then we think, “This is the Truth.” Again that turns out to be something artificial thing or some sort of a mental projection. All these limited endeavours of human beings and experiences they have made him so conditioned that it is not easy to understand God. He made all this Universe in His compassion and love. He created you as human beings, also, in His compassion and love. He doesn’t need anything. But He loves. And you can’t understand a person who loves beyond any reason, without any reward, just love because for love’s sake. We can’t think of one human being like that who can love only for love’s sake. Only after Realisation, as you grow more and more, you realise that loving is the greatest joy. Read More …

The Dawning of Realisation Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Dawning of Realisation. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 19 April 1982. [Last] time I talked to you about collectivity outside your own shell, how, after your Realisation, after your second birth, you become conscious that you are no more an egg but, now, you have become part and parcel of the whole. You realise it gradually. In the beginning only what you feel is nothing but cool breeze blowing into your hands or maybe little tingling sometimes or maybe some heaviness, to begin with. But then, gradually you realise it. Some people do realise it in a very quick way. But as the infrastructure within is not properly fixed, Realisation comes very, very slowly. I spoke to you about our infrastructure within. Now the faith in God or faith in anything that is Divine, also in the Divine Power, is not easy to achieve logically. Some people have faith in God because they have been taught from childhood that there is God. Maybe they think [that] by relying on something like God, somewhere in the air, they are doing better in life. There could be many reasons why people have faith in God. But actually, when you feel the presence of Divine Power within you and outside, it is hard to believe that it is the Divine Power. And even if you know all about it, it is difficult to assume it. It’s sometimes a surprise to many Sahaja Yogis, when they see around people who have got Realisation, who Read More …

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

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

Limitations of Divine Power Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Limitations of the Divine Power, Public Programme,  Caxton Hall, London, UK – 5 April 1982 …Divine to work out its working. Because Divine can go up to a point, that’s the trouble. It has no interest in your money, nor in your position or anything. It has only one interest: that you should take to Divine love. And if you go on accepting something that is stupid how can Divine help you? I have been thinking on these lines all through and I have talked to some of those who came to us that, “How is it [that] you never discovered that they were false gurus?” They said, “We could see. There was something in us that was saying that, ‘There’s something false about this gentleman.’” And still, why did you continue? They said, “Because we were walking in a dark alley and didn’t know whether we were walking forwards or backwards and they said, ‘Go on and on and on,’ promising us about the future.” And that’s the point: because you are futuristic, you are people who are futuristic, you do not want to believe that you can get your Realisation today. You just don’t want to believe it. You don’t want to listen to that person who says, “You can get your Realisation today.” You want to keep it for the future. Everything postponed for the future. And that’s why you go on living with it, till you are completely finished and wrecked, when Kundalini cannot rise, when Read More …

Reality is what it is Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Reality is what it is, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 22 March 1982. It’s not very easy to explain Sahaja Yoga to anyone, rationally, as you must have also faced the same difficulty. Not only that we are facing this difficulty but has been faced, faced by all the saints and all the incarnations including Christ, Blake, all of them. I’ve been reading Blake these days and Don wrote to me that he’s writing some sort of a thesis on Blake, friends, friends of sinners, written in his poems of such friends who are friends of sinners. But they could not communicate through human beings in that way as we could communicate because we can give Realization, we can make them feel the vibrations first of all. Like you can sprout the seed and we can show how the seed then gets developing. You see, this is an advantage we have and today the time, time has come definitely to us that what Blake has desired and asked for or pictured or visualized, we can prove it. Now when we explain Sahaja Yoga to someone we have to talk a little at the beginning because they haven’t found their absolute. It is, it can be quite difficult and frustrating in the beginning to talk about something that is such a living process of our evolution. We cannot explain how we evolved into a human being, and to explain how we are going to a newer dimension is also a Read More …

Futuristic Attitudes Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public program, ‘Futuristic Attitudes’, Caxton Hall, London (United Kingdom) It’s so beautiful to come back to London to meet all of you, again, after such a big gap, I felt. It’s a funny feeling one gets when you leave the country and you are away, and then you find other people same way when you leave them. You feel an ocean of compassion and love. We have been very successful in India. Indian climate is, I think, changing very fast and people are finding it easier to take to Sahaj Yog than before. Luckily, some people were cured by Sahaj Yog which made people think about it. Apart from that, they found out, as you found out about Blake, that a gentleman, a very famous seer known as Bhrugu, who wrote the prophecies about modern times two thousand years back, has talked about Sahaja Yoga very clearly and he says that, not so precise as Blake is but, in a way, about Sahaja Yoga, that the Kundalini Shakti will be awakened in a very Sahaja way. And that it’s a new system by which thousands will get realisation. According to his proportions, in one crore. Crore is how much Gavin? Hundred thousand? Ten million? Ten Million. Among ten million people, there will be one person who will get realisation. Then these people will start giving realisation to others and so many will get their Atmasakshatkar, means Self-realisation. Also he describes about vibrations and so many things, and what happens after Read More …

The Heart of the Universe Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Heart of the Universe, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 14 September 1981. It is so heartening to see so many of Sahaj yogis seated before my eyes which are really covered with tears of joy and tremendous happiness. You have been blessed by the grace of God to become the real baptised, the real Muslim, the real Jew, the real Christian, the real Hindu. It was to be that, in England, you had to establish Jerusalem. I need not tell you again and again how important is England in the play of Divine. Those who are Realised and have experienced know it that, this is the place, this is the country, which has to circulate the spiritual powers all over the world. Even when I have travelled in Europe and other places and I’ve seen so many seekers all over – in India we have thousandfold more – despite that,  [a] very special category of people are born in England, the Heart of Universe; where the heart has to love, has to radiate, has to circulate, carry all the dirt and filth to be cleared out again. It’s nice to see how you all love me, and how you have accepted my love, but I would like you to see that you have to love yourself, you have to respect yourself, you have to have self-esteem and not to be driven into crazy ideas of self-pity and guilt. The lethargy, what we call the ‘left-sidedness’, has to be Read More …

Seeking the Light Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Seeking the Light,” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 17 August 1981. I must thank Warren for such a nice speech that he has given and all the Australians the way they have taken to Sahaj Yoga. They are all westernised in every sense of the word but there’s something about them where I feel that they are very quick at knowing the truth. I don’t know how. They are not that adamant against the truth. This opening somehow I found. Seeking is everywhere very strong I feel: America, England, Europe. Everywhere the seeking is very strong no doubt, so there are seekers. Of course there is also a fashion of seeking apart from that. There are real seekers, no doubt about it. And as he said that ego-orientation is one of the characters in the West. That also, one would say, that it is more now in the developing countries because they are supposed to be developing. But the way these people have a special capacity to see the truth, to see the truth, is a very big thing. Even if you are a developing country or a developed country, if you cannot perceive the truth, you cannot assimilate it. That perception somehow, most surprisingly, I found in Australia: most surprising. Now for example in England I worked very hard, no doubt, for years together. People are hard nuts, you can say; and once they are cracked they are wonderful scholars. They know how to completely sort it out with their brains, Read More …

Spreading Sahaja Yoga Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 July 1981. There are some guests from Hong Kong now let them sit down. Sahaja Yoga is such a fantastic thing that, when people get their realisation, they can’t even believe that they have got it, first of all. The other day I had a minister from one of the countries, and his wife, and he’s suffering from some mental trouble. And when we raised his Kundalini he started feeling a tremendous cool breeze in the hand and cool breeze coming out of his head. He just couldn’t believe his eyes! He couldn’t believe it. He said, “What’s all this?” I said, “How are you feeling?” He said, “I am so relaxed that I can’t think of anything! Just I can’t think. I have never been like this. This is a new thing that has happened to me!” Now we have to understand also, logically, certain things about Sahaja Yog – this I am explaining for people, those who will be now going out, and speaking about Sahaja Yoga to other people – and how to deal with people who are intellectuals. It’s important to understand what are the hurdles they have, by which they do not want to receive the message of Sahaja Yoga and what are the barriers that really create a problem for them before and after. Now we’ll deal with people who are Western people, we can say. They can be also Indians, they can be Asians, they can Read More …

Where does the Truth lie? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Where does the truth lie?” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 6 July 1981. How many are new today? I am sure somebody must have spoken before, no? All right. You all have been seeking, and seeking the truth about yourself.  Where does the truth lie? When are we the most truthful people? Where, at what point, we cannot deceive, whatever we may try? When it is heartfelt. When it is our heart’s desire, then we always try to go ahead with it. But it has to be heart’s desire not the rationality, not the brain’s desire. Because you can make your brain understand. Your intelligence can be compromised. Whatever is heartfelt you want to do it. You cannot be satisfied without doing it. So, in the heart lies the truth. That is the Spirit that lies in your heart. But that is not in our conscious mind. We do not know how it manifests. We have heard that it is eternal, indestructible, is the source of joy and is the attention of God. That’s what we have heard. All such things which are preached may be regarded as hearsays. People might say, “What’s the proof that there is a Spirit in our heart?” Thank God, people have discovered the heart at least there, if not the Spirit! How are we to believe that there is Spirit – that we have a dimension which is beyond this human dimension, which is the dimension of the Spirit, the Spiritual dimension – by which Read More …

Conditioning Caxton Hall, London (England)

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1981-06-29, Conditioning, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 29 July 1981. The other day I talked to you about the left side power that we have by which we desire. In Sahaja Yoga language we call it as Mahakali power. And this power gives us the left side which is our subconscious. And the subconscious, it gives us the conditioning. Through our subconscious only we become conditioned. Now how does our subconscious take the conditioning? In between the thought there’s a very little space which we can call as the silence, as the present. But the thought, that comes to you, rises and falls off, stops for a while, and again another thought starts and falls off. The first thought that rises, we can see the rising of the thought, not the falling of it, and when it falls it goes into the subconscious. Another one also rises, it rises and again it falls [and] it goes into the subconscious. That’s how our subconscious starts building up. How do the thoughts come into us? Thought comes to us because human beings, when they look at a thing, they have a method of projecting their mind into it. If you have got a blackboard I can tell you how it happens. Can you wipe it off? I wanted to talk about this subject but it’s rather complicated. But we have to somehow or other face it sometimes in life. (Shri Mataji draws on a blackboard) This is the brain of a human (laughter). Read More …

The Mystery of God Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Mystery of God”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 8 June 1981. Yesterday you all enjoyed the music and I was very happy, at your enjoyment. Music plays a very dynamic role in human life, one has to understand that. One of the mysteries I was describing to you, last time, also, created by naad, they call it ‘naad’, you can say the logos or the first sound, the Om, the Brahma. The sound, first time, the sound that was created, when the Primordial Mother, or the Primordial Power, of Divine Love, the Power of God, separated from God Himself. God was the Witness; Witness of the Play of the Divine Power. There is no difference between the two. God Almighty, and His Power are just like the sun and his rays. For us, for human beings, this is impossible to conceive the mystery. Moreover, in our ego, we think that we can understand Him, is another mystery for me. But, to me it’s a very sweet thing to see human beings trying to comprehend the mystery of God. It’s like a little child trying to understand the table work of his father; or could be much more. But this sound, the first sound, which is described as also ‘logos’ I believe, is the sound of this Primordial Power, of this Divine Power, that has created the whole universe. Now one may say that, “How are we to believe that this sound exists?” Of course, one should not believe. But whether Read More …

The Time Of The Seekers Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Time Of The Seekers”, Caxton Hall, London (UK) … that so many seekers are born, so many of them, they are really seekers, that’s a category, a category of human beings who are seeking something beyond. It’s a fact, I mean there was never such a time before that so many seekers were born on this earth. This word was used sometimes for one single person or maybe about ten at the most but two thousand years back you could not find so many seekers on this earth. I mean they are seekers, why there is so much seeking and why people are seeking, why they have this temperament of seeking, what is the reason? There must be some reason for it and as we all know in Sahaja Yoga that the Last Judgement has started and the Last Judgement is going to work out through the Kundalini awakening and everybody is now trying to seek in some way or another, aah the whole pattern has worked out in such a way that the seekers are born at this time and they have a background too. They are not just seekers today. I mean you were as you know that, you were evolved, evolved from a unicellular animal and then now today you are a human being and there are people who are human beings otherwise also same way as you are but you are a category no doubt about it, there is a cateogry of people who are Read More …

The Right Side Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Right Side,” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 18 May 1981. I’ll talk to you about the Right Side, Right Side sympathetic nervous system, which is expressed by our subtle energy of Mahasaraswati, which gives us the power to act. By [the] Left Side we desire and by using the Right Side, the power of Pingala Nadi, we act. I was telling you about the Right Side the other day. Let us see how our Right Side is built up. I am sorry for people who have come for the first time but every time when I start the introduction to the subject, again it becomes the same but later on I’ll explain to you about Sahaj Yoga. Now this Right Side, Pingala Nadi, is a very, very important energy-giving energy which makes us act and activate. Now this one is made of all the five elements: you know all the five elements that have created our physical being and our mental being. That’s how it helps us to work out all our physical and mental problems, mental activities and mental and physical growth. Now this, being made by those five elements, when, first time, human beings started thinking of doing some action, about anything, say in India, they first thought, “Why not, somehow or other, reach to the principle of these elements, which is beyond physics, which is beyond chemistry?” And to reach to that point, they thought it would be better if we try to invoke or to awaken Read More …

Christ and Forgiveness Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Christ and Forgiveness, Caxton Hall (UK),” 11 May 1981. …to seek the truth about which all the scriptures have described. All the scriptures have said, “That you are to be born again.” You are to be born, not to read about it, not to just imagine that you are born again, not to just believe that you are born again or any artificial ritual that certifies that you are born again is to be accepted, but something definitely has to happen with us. Some experience of reality must take place within us. It’s not just an idea that it is so, “Yes, yes we are born again! Now we are the chosen ones, we are the best people.” But definitely there’s something evolutionary that should manifest within us [which] has been predicted by all the scriptures, no exception at all. Right from Hinduism up to the most modern personality, [which] we can say, is the new Guru Nanaka, is the one who wrote a scripture. In the Koran it is very clearly said that you have to become the pir, the one who has the knowledge. Vedas itself says that, “By reading the Vedas” – veda means, vida means, ‘to know’ – “if you do not know then it is useless.” In the first chapter in the first stanza. It’s so clearly said there that you have to know! Something has to happen to our awareness, which does not know. That means that we are, so far, away from the Read More …

You Are Part of the Divine Being Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“You Are Part of the Divine Being”. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 1 December 1980. I could not accommodate all of you in my house then I thought better to come here all of you would fit here! And today is the last day for our Sahaj Yogis (before Mother’s trip to India). We have to understand certain very, very important things about ourselves and our organisation that is divine. Now, in broad lines I can tell you, not individual problems and individual things because you are no more individuals now. You have become part and parcel of the Divine Being and you are awakened cells and so in a broad way we must understand what we have to do about it. First thing, we have to know that we are Realised souls, and that you have got Realisation and that you are saints; that you have all the powers that a saint could have. No saint ever had more powers than you have, as it is, which is manifesting. No saint had any knowledge that you have today. You’ll be amazed, none of the books which have been written so far have been able to tell you about the spiritual being that is within you as you have come to know through Sahaja Yoga. One has to accept it. It is so. Any one of them, whosoever has written any books – even, I would say, Adi Shankaracharya, he could not explain so many things which you know. But the Read More …

Are You Seekers? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Are You Seekers? Caxton Hall, London (UK), 24 November 1980. …that has to be first realised – what is your category. And if you are that category, of the category which is seeking beyond what you have and that you are not satisfied with what you have already, then you are the category of seekers who have been seeking something that is very subtle, that is not gross, not intelligible through your sensory organs. How it happens within us – it is very interesting to see. Within us, as I have told you, there are these subtle centres which have developed through the process of our evolution. Through the process of our evolution we have become human beings. While we were becoming human beings, all these centres have been also evolving within us. These centres are placed in the spinal cord, in the centre of the spinal cord, and they manifest outside grossly on [the] physical level, as plexuses. As they are evolving inside, also the outside, the gross plexuses are also evolving. For example, animals do not insure their lives, do they? They have fear. They know how to react to a fear but they do not know how to insure. After some time the animals forget their children. Animals can pass through any filth, any dirt, any untidiness. They don’t understand tidiness, neatness. Animals do not organise. Animals don’t plan. They do sometimes when they have to catch hold of a prey, but that too, not too far. Read More …

The Eternal Spirit Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Eternal Spirit, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 10 November 1980. (A yogi introduces Shri Mataji as well as Sir CP who is attending the program for the first time, having just been unanimously re-elected as Secretary General of the IMO.) Shri Mataji: Somebody has done some introduction, has someone done? Peter? Is he there? Peter, you have to talk to these people about what I told you. Today we are going to have a short session, because you are all invited today to a dinner after the programme. Thus, host is my husband who wants to invite you and he’ll be coming about 8:15 or 8:30. So, today we are going to think about our Spirit, which we have neglected throughout. We are not even conscious that we have a Spirit. Through Sahaj Yoga those who are now conscious, because they can feel it through their vibrations, they can also get lost and can forget it. The Spirit is the only eternal thing within us, all the rest are transitory and evolutionary. Everything goes into evolution and the better is the evolution, the higher the Spirit starts manifesting itself. Like the reflection on the stone of even the sun is zero. And the reflection of the sun on the lake is sometimes I think, is a reflection that is felt in the Sahaj Yogis, when they see it, feel it, it flows, they can feel the breeze in their hand. But still their attention is not fully enlightened. The Spirit Read More …

We Are All One Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“We Are All One”, Public Programme, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 3 November 1980. Today there are many new people I see again. It’s so heartening to see new flowers coming up every day to become the fruits. It’s so joy giving to know that I am here at the right time, when people are really seeking. They are really seeking to be transformed. They really believe that something has to happen to them. They are aware that there’s something lacking in the whole human personality, in the human race, that we cannot overcome the hurdles which look and appear absolutely absurd and illogical. So many problems we have individually, socially, politically, economically, appear very clearly: it is so evident to understand that the human fibre is lacking in something; that it’s the human beings who are responsible for this chaotic world, for all this modern confusion. For God has created a beautiful world, I assure you. It’s really a very beautiful world and He has created you also very beautifully. You all are very beautiful people, extremely beautiful. You cannot feel your beauty: then how can others feel your beauty? Because the light that shows your beauty is not there. You have fragrance, which is the fragrance of all the flowers put together. You are the essence of all the beauties of nature that is created; all the symphonies and all the music that you hear. All the art that you have created has come from you. That is your Read More …

What do we expect from Self-realisation? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What do we expect from Self-realisation? Caxton Hall, London (UK), 27 October 1980. The other day I was telling you about our growth within, after Self-realisation. The germination takes place very easily; the Kundalini rises very easily; also pierces the fontanelle bone area very easily. That is really, as you call it, ‘Sahaja’. It’s a tremendous happening. It takes thousands of years for people to get realisation. That’s also a fact. They had to be born again and again and very few selected got realisation. But today, as I said, the time has come for many flowers to become fruits. So this happening doesn’t take much time, it’s just [a] split of a second in many people. But about the growth I was talking last time, I ended up at Self-realisation, what is Self-realisation is and what do we expect from Self-realisation. The first thing that happens to you, as you know, when the Kundalini rises, [is] that you start feeling physically better; your health improves. Though the Kundalini rises from the centre most nadi, called as Brahmanadi, inside the Sushumna, in the central part. And first thing that happens is the physical being which is helped. That is not the innermost core of every centre. The innermost core of every centre is the Spiritual. But how is it [that] first the physical being is helped? Is very interesting to see. The Kundalini rises through many centres, passes through Agnya, pierces through fontanelle, and becomes one with the All-pervading Power. Read More …

The Way of Kundalini Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Way of Kundalini”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 20 October 1980. It is said that Sahaja Yoga is the culmination of all the yogas. But it is a very contradictory statement because Yoga means union with God. Then how can it be culminating? That means the first thing we have to know is the meaning of Yoga is the union with God. If union with God is the thing, then how can it be culminating? I mean that is what it is. So others are not yogas. They are maybe stepping stones. Till you have not met Me you have not met Me. Before that whatever you have done. For example you got into the car, then you got into the train. You came all over here. Still it is not Yoga. Till you have not received your Self-Realisation it is not Yoga. So all other yogas should not be called as yogas as far as union with God is concerned. So what is the meaning of word Yoga in other sense, like Raja Yoga they call it and other yogas they have got. Like Manana Yoga, means meditation Yoga. And other systems, many other systems they try to preach about. Like Hatha Yoga. Then I saw today some more names about it, Sanyasa Yoga. So Yoga has become sort of a tale for all the names that have something to do with God I believe. But it has no meaning. Because if the culmination is Sahaja Yoga, then other Read More …

The Dangers We Face Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Dangers We Face”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 8 September 1980 This has been the month of warnings somehow, because certain things I have been seeing in people, how it happens and how people get into problems. How our inner being is disturbed and why sometimes Sahaja Yoga fails within you. One must understand the dangers we face as human beings. No doubt, you are the highest of this Creation. No doubt. For you this Universe was created, for you this Earth was created, no doubt. And today you are at a situation where you have to get out of this illusion. The time has come. Everything is ripe. But on a tree, if you notice the most delicate stage is that of a flower. [The] flower is the most delicate thing. The roots are tough, extremely tough: they penetrate through the land, hardest possible land; they go through different rocks and find their ways. But when it comes to the flower stage, it’s a very, very, delicate stage. Though the whole Creation just waits for that time. The whole tree works it out. And the tree creates that beautiful flower. It’s waiting for that time, that blossom time, when the flowers have to become the fruit. Now that is the time. That precarious time. That beautiful time. That fantastic, dynamic time is here. But we do not know how delicate it is and that’s how we really play too much with ourselves. Before Realisation, you have seen people who Read More …

We Have To Get Our Yoga Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“We Have To Get Our Yoga,” Caxton Hall, London (UK), 1 September 1980. I have been always telling you that Sahaj Yoga is the sprouting of your seed within you. When the seed is dormant you cannot visualise the maps it has in it of all the creations it is going to create. Out of one seed, how many trees have grown, how many fruits have come out and how many seeds are coming out and how many they are going to produce. You cannot understand how dynamic it is. There has been talk about the Spirit within you. Many have said that the Spirit is to be brought into our conscious mind. We have to achieve our Spirit. We have to get our Yoga – the Union with God. When they said it, they meant it to be done, not to be just talked about. But as everything goes to waste much more than it is utilised, all these descriptions of the Self to be achieved – how, when – everything got lost because they started just talking about it. People like to intellectualise everything, they do not want to imbibe it. Just to talk big about something, their ego gets pampered, they’ll stand up and give big lectures on Gita and all those things, but they have no idea as to what Gita wants you to do: it wants you to find out the Truth, it wants you to get your Realisation, to have your yoga established. You Read More …

Raksha Bandhan Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Raksha Bandhan. London (UK), 26 August 1980. Today in India, we celebrate a special festival. It is called as ‘Raksha bandhan’. ‘Raksha’ means protection and ‘bandhan’ means the bondage, the bondage of protection. It’s a very nice, good, social custom to have this beautiful festival today. Today is the full moon day and this day what we do is to tie a band of threads around the person whom you want to protect. But it is done between brothers and sisters. The sisters tie this bondage to the wrist of the brothers, and when they do that, they are putting all their love around the wrist, [such] that it is the day for giving all their love, everything to their brother, as a protection, as a symbol of their protection, through that thread. It’s a very, very simple thread they use. And this has to be tied on the left-hand side. But people tie it on the right-hand side, which is a mistake. But it has to be tied on the left-hand side. In our Sahaj Yoga the significance of left wrist is that it is the Left Vishuddhi, Left Vishuddhi, which is here. And this is the Left Vishuddhi expressed here, you know that very well. Now, Left Vishuddhi is the place where our relationship of brothers and sisters exists. When they are disturbed within us, we start getting the problem of the Left Vishuddhi. In these modern times, the talk of pure relationship seems to be quite boring Read More …

The Dangers of Inertia Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Dangers of Inertia, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 18 August 1980. Sahaja Yoga is the synthesis of all the Yogas. Only thing [is] human beings have a wrong notion that they can do something about it. It’s all built in them. Like any good instrument it’s all built in and as soon as the Kundalini starts She starts working it out. And all these gadgets within us go into motion and they create that state within us by which the Kundalini rises within you. Perhaps, we take it for granted, Kundalini rising so much because we do not see all that’s happening within. (Talking to a mother with a child) Can you take him out? He’s so happy that I don’t feel [he’s] disturbing but everybody [else] is disturbed. Rising of the Kundalini is the easiest for Me. No problem. Even working out those gadgets as I called them – chakras and their different movements, constrictions and dilatation at a particular point when Kundalini is coming up – is not difficult. But there are two other channels within us, which you know very well, which act our sympathetic nervous system. Which can be quite in trouble because of various conditionings within us. For example, some people have, say, a small conditioning like going to a spiritualist. Take a position, a very simple thing like going to a spiritualist. Now you ask the person, “Have you been to a spiritualist?” Because if you find burning on the left Swadishthana and the heart Read More …

The Guru Principle Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Guru Principle”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 28 July 1980. Yesterday I told you about the Void, the dharma, which one has to establish. In modern times, people have used their freedom to such an extent, you see, they have moved so much to this extreme or to that extreme. They have left their central path and have accepted and identified themselves with such an extreme ideas about everything, that it is rather difficult to convince people that they have lost their way. All extremes are wrong. Moderation is the way we really solve the problem. But human race is such that everybody starts running very fast, you see, and there’s a competition set in: who goes first to hell. [Laughter, She laughs] It’s not only in one direction, you can take up any direction, but all these directions are linear. They move straightforward and coil back and go down – any movement of that kind. For example take our, say, industrial development. We started our industrial development without understanding the whole, the world as a whole, that the whole world was created by God, not a part, one country. Without understanding the relationship with the whole, when we start moving industrially, we created industries, and to pamper them we had to create other industries. Then also to keep the hungry machines working out, we had to feed them with something. And thus we created a horrible system of extracting things from the Mother Earth, using them. We have so Read More …

Auspiciousness Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Auspiciousness”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 21 July 1980. Hello! It’s good! How are you? It’s a good day. Today is an auspicious day because 21st is an auspicious day for us and today is Monday and the 7th month. All things combined together and it’s a very auspicious evening. So today I’ll talk to you about auspiciousness because most of you are Sahaj Yogis. Who has come for the first time? One, two, three, four, five…So we have for the first time! All right. (laughing) I am sure somebody has talked to them about introduction to Sahaja Yoga or something? And to make it short, the whole thing I don’t want to repeat as I was thinking of talking on a new subject to the Sahaja Yogis. As you know all of you, and you can see around also that there’s a very big en masse search for the Truth — there is. I mean, even in this hall you will be amazed there might be five [or] six halls like this where everybody is sitting in some hall and doing something about it. I mean there is no doubt a very big urge to seek the Truth. This urge has come through our own evolutionary understanding. When human beings have reached a certain stage of sagacity, you can call it, or a satisfaction, like when you have achieved a certain amount of material well-being or have seen something which doesn’t give you a complete answer; like Buddha, when he saw Read More …

Confusion – A Sign Of Modern Times Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Confusion, A Sign of Modern Times,” Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (GB), 14 July 1980. Today’s days in the modern times we are faced with confusions: that’s a sign of modern times. At the same time the en-masse urge to search the truth is manifesting. It’s not only one individual who feels like that, it’s not only eight or ten people who feel like that, but masses and masses and multitudes are feeling you have to search an answer; you have to find out why are you here; you have to know who you are; you have to find out your wholesomeness; you have to find out the whole. There is a big movement in a very subtle way that is moving masses towards this search. But we have no idea, perhaps, as to what is the atmosphere in which we are born, what is the situation, how the whole stage is laid. We have no idea. As we have taken ourselves for granted as human beings, we take everything for granted. We are born human beings through our evolution but we do not even want to think why we were evolved from amoeba to this stage. All the whys we just shut down. Whatever is there we want to see through these eyes, through these ears. Through these sensory organs we want to understand. But still the urge is there to know what is beyond. The atmosphere in which we are born cannot be understood without having the light Read More …

Is There Truth In God? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Is there truth in God?” Caxton Hall, London (UK) 7th July 1980 All kinds of organisation has suddenly started working out god [unclear]like mushrooms in the rainy season is suddenly appear.And we really get lost  to find out if there is anything truthful about his heavenly power .We even doubt if Christ was great ,we doubt ourself many times as well .There is no way of finding out whether our scriptures have any meaning or not because we have also lost something in a modern times .Our sensitivity to spirituality is being  completely dumped,stunt and  various kind of pseudo-efforts by intellectuals ,you can say the psychologists ,spiritualist all sudge evch people who are entering into the realm of religion and god and trying to propagate their own theories .At this juncture even today the situation is such that w get confused ,even about our own confusion .At this time it is my luck to present to you something really sensitive . So the task is tremendous. But you must  find out the ways and methods to judge even the credibility of the person who talks about the god through our reasoning .You have to go with  the beyond with thoughts . But even they accept something ,we use our rationality .And if ,if you are to be [unclear blindly] then there are many people who are following things ,absolutely blindly ,without  thinking about it . Both things are equally the same When you start denying to think about it ,to Read More …

What is Happening In Other Lokas? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What is happening in other Lokas? Caxton Hall, London, England. 30 June 1980. Today, I don’t mind to tell you about what’s happening in the other lokas, which we don’t see, of which we are not aware. It may frighten you a little bit, but the time has come for us to know how are we placed in relation to the Whole, what are the plans of the Divine, and how are we going to fulfil them. Now most of you are here Realised souls. Some of you have come first time; you will also get your realisation. But the common point is that you are all seekers, seekers of God, seekers of peace, seekers of love, that’s a common thing. But this seeking has come to you not for your own sake, for an individual ascent or for some achievements of a place from where there is no return, but this is the Last Judgement that all the human beings have to face. They have to go through it and to achieve their last, achieve their place in the kingdom of God. Today you are sitting before Me, you have been with Me before and much before. But today especially when you are with Me, you have come here to face up to it and to see for yourself that you are able to bear the Truth, the love, the blessings of God. That you can enter into the Kingdom of God and abide there, in His reign, with all Read More …

Guru Tattwa Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Essence Within: Innocence, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 23 June 1980. Public Program (short) and talk to Sahaja Yogis. It’s a fact. It’s a thing you can see. It’s an actualisation. And we are so much lost in our own imaginations, in our own hallucinations and misguidance, that we cannot believe that there could be something factual about God. But if God is a fact, then even this happening has to happen within us, otherwise He doesn’t exist. If somebody’s an atheist it’s better in a way. Because he has not accepted anything blindfolded. But if somebody has accepted God with an open mind and has not followed some conjectures, is even better. But if you follow any conjecture like that, that there must be God – some people told me, “Yes Mother. God helps me a lot.” I said, “Really? How does He help you?” So the lady tells me “I got up in the morning and I prayed to God, ‘O God, look after my son!’, ” that’s all she could think of! That God should be only busy looking after her son, [as if] He has no other job! “So then, what happened?” “Then my son was coming by plane and there was some trouble in the plane, but he was saved. God helped me there! There is God.” But if something had happened to the boy, then what she would have said, I don’t know. So, to say that you are getting help from God, that Read More …

The Subtlety Within Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Subtlety Within”, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 9 June 1980. [The other] day in the ashram I was telling you about our subtleties, the subtleties we have already within us which we do not understand. Could be from our sub-conscious mind, could be from our supra-conscious mind, could be from anywhere that is unknown to us; but the subtleties that lead us to our universal being is the one we should bother about. We have sometimes heard about people who get a hunch. Like somebody says, “I must buy this house, I get a hunch that I should buy it.” Or sometimes people say that, “I always hear something, somebody tells me that this should not be done.” But all such suggestions must be judged that they come to you to tell you about something of the beyond or something that concerns the mundane life, like buying a house. God is not interested, very much, in what house you buy, or how much money you make in a race: He is not! Because it is not important to God. One can understand that, isn’t it. Also that God is not interested in telling you against someone in the ear that, “Beware of this man, he is a dangerous guy!” For, if somebody is going to harm you physically, maybe to some part, we can say that God wants to preserve your body; but this body is also not so important to God, because He can create it again! The most Read More …

Being Born Again Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Being Born Again, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London (England), 12 May 1980. I think those who have come for the first time should be on the first row. It will be better for Me. All those who have come for the first time, please [sit down here.] Yes, good. You may take out your cloth – it’s very warm – if you think so, or it’s all right whatever you wear. It is said that in us lies the power to be reborn. In all the Scriptures it has been said very clearly that you have to be born again, that you have to be baptized, that you have to become a pir, you have to become a brahmin. All these descriptions have come to us from all the great Scriptures. It is very easy to say that we don’t believe in God, we don’t believe in any incarnations, we don’t believe in Jesus, we don’t believe in any religion, we don’t believe in anything. It is very easy to say. Even it is easy to say that we believe in them; we believe in God, we believe in Christ, we believe in incarnations, we believe in Krishna, Rama, all that. Both things are equally the same. When you believe in God, you believe in darkness and ignorance. And when you do not believe in Him, also you are in ignorance. By believing into Him, you close your eyes, accept the faith and go along with it. Of course, it Read More …

What is Second Birth? Caxton Hall, London (England)

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What is Second Birth? Caxton Hall, London, England. 21 April 1980. I again see today some new faces, who have come here, and I have to explain again today, for the first time to them, what is Sahaja Yog, which has been promised in various scriptures that you have to get your second birth. You have to be born again. It is said. Christ has said too, the same thing. But people have not been able to ponder on this subject: what is that mean – our second birth? Are we not already born as human beings? We are born but the human beings, which are born, are told that you are to be born again. Now what are we going to do? So they asked, “Are we to enter into our mothers’ womb again? Am I to be born again.” He said, “You’ll be born of the Holy Ghost, of the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Ghost that He talked about is the Kundalini within us. She is the part of the Holy Ghost, or you can say the reflection of the Holy Ghost, which exists as all-pervading power. Actually, the all-pervading power of divine love is the love of Holy Ghost or Her aura. This is reflected within us as the power of desire as shown in the picture in the triangular bone of sacrum and coils itself in three and a half rounds. This force, which is called residual force, is the desire of God which resides within us Read More …

Who is the other? (incomplete) Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public Program – incomplete “ (…essly) and she puts another sari or a good dress and all that and then she locks up herself in the room and enjoys herself [laughter]. So it shows the essence of it is the sharing and the maximum of it should be achieved because the joy of it comes through sharing : is wisdom. So we have our education which should teach us to share, which should teach us to help others. Somebody falls down? Just try to help that person. That should be the education. Somebody is knocked down? As if you are knocked down, the collectivity of it. It’s part of you is knocked down. Somebody is drowning, you try to save that person. Actually you are saving that person because that person is within you which is getting drown and you are just trying to help yourself. It’s the essence of all good work we do for others – is just your own being you are trying to save and help – nobody else is being helped. Who is the ‘else’? Who is the other? Is all your own self after all whatever is our world is that we know of. So who is the other? There’s none. All that is there is yourself and the education should be such that we should understand the essence of our collective being which is present within us – which is manifesting all the time. Only after Sahaja Yoga it becomes evident. It becomes Read More …

The Egg and Rebirth Caxton Hall, London (England)

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The Egg and Rebirth, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 10 April 1980. The other day at the ashram I spoke to you about Easter, about the birth of Christ and His resurrection and the message of Christianity that is resurrection. An egg is a very significant thing and it is written in one of the ancient scriptures in India why Easter should be celebrated with an egg. Is most surprising. It’s very clear there if one can see how Christ is symbolized as an egg. Now what is an egg? In Sanskrit language, a Brahmin is called as dwijaha. Dwihi jayeti means the one who is born twice. And a bird is also called, any bird, is called as a dwija, means twice born. Because first the bird is born as an egg and then reborn as a bird. In the same way a human being is born as an egg and then is born as a realized soul. Now see how significant it is that both are called by the same name. No other animal is called as dwija unless and until it has an egg-form first and then it comes out as a… another thing. For example no mammals, none of the mammals, are called as dwija except for human beings. It is remarkable in the zoology if you read that mammals do not lay their eggs, they give birth directly to their children. And we are also mammals. But despite that, human beings are called as dwijaha just Read More …

The Meaning of Reality Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Meaning of Reality”, Public Programme, Caxton Hall, London, England. 24 March 1980. How many of you are new people? I would like to know. So first of all I’ll have to tell you something about Sahaj Yog and also about how people get mixed up with other things. The first and foremost thing one must know [is] that, if there is something genuine, people do tend to create something fake out of it. It is a fact of life. One has to accept it. If you have real flowers then you find all kinds of plastic plants, all kinds of copies of that. In art it is a very good thing to copy what God has created and also to add to it your own feelings and your own angles about a particular scene. An artist sees much more than a normal man can see. A normal impression of any material thing is quite gross. But [an] artist being subtler because of his temperament and because of his own sensitivities he sees much more and deeper things. And he reproduces that which is created by God in a better way; because he exposes those subtleties which a normal human eye cannot see or perceive. As far as material things are concerned, it’s a very good attempt. And one should do it. That can really give people a subtler understanding of God’s Creation. But as far as the real religion is concerned, you cannot play about with it. You cannot Read More …

The Meaning of Sahaja Yoga Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Caxton Hall, London (UK), 13 March 1980 . Many of you here are Sahaja Yogis, means you have known Sahaja Yoga. Also many of you are realized souls and many of you have achieved a great height within yourself. And many of you have assumed the divine grace, its working, its maneuvering and its manifestation very well. It was to be so; it had to work out that way. Human beings have to evolve. They have to evolve, it’s God’s plan, slow, no doubt, because it’s a living process. It’s nothing artificial. It has to happen within you. Today only as I told you that even if you may know about Sahaja Yoga, you may know a lot about it, but you have to become, becoming is the problem. Because there are many Sahaja Yogis today and very few new people, first I will of course tell something about Sahaj Yog and then I would like to tell you how to become, that is very important. New phase must start in Sahaja Yoga. The first thing is what is Sahaj Yoga is. Sahaja Yoga means ‘born with you’. ‘Saha’ means with, ‘ja’ means born. This right to unite with God is born with you. As soon as you are born a human being this right you have. And that is why human beings are seeking. They are somehow aware of that right. Now we have many books. We can call them the holy scriptures, those who have talked Read More …

Christmas And Its Relationship To Lord Jesus Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Christmas And Its Relationship To Lord Jesus, Caxton Hall, LONDON (UK), 10 December 1979. …this day for us to remember that Christ was born on this earth. As a human being, He came on this earth. And the task that was before Him was to enlighten human awareness with the sense of understanding, but we can say it is actualization, within the awareness of human beings, that they are not this body but they are the spirit. The message of Christ is His resurrection. That is you are your spirit an’ not your body. And He showed by His resurrection, how He ascended into the realm of spirit – which He was, because He was Pranava, He was Brahma, He was Mahavishnu – as I have told you about His birth. And when He came on this earth, in a body, like a human being, He wanted to show another thing that spirit has nothing to do with money, has nothing to do with power. It is all powerful, all pervading, but He’s born in a stable, not in a palace or to a king but He was born to a very ordinary person, a carpenter. Because if you are the king, as we say in Hindi language, Badshah then nothing is greater than you, isn’t it? It means simply that. Nothing is higher than you, neither anything can decorate you, because whatever you are, you are at the highest. All the worldly things so called, are just like dry Read More …

Realisation is not of the Intellect Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Realisation is not of the Intellect”, Public Programme. Caxton Hall, London, England. 3 December 1979. Thanks for the nice talk he gave. And also I thank all of you for coming down here. In his frantic effort of explaining to you that you have to get something here, is the expression of his own experiences about himself. He had problems of the same style as you had. And he knows that if you go on analysing things with your brain and with your intellect then you are going to delay. And because he knows what mistakes one may commit, and he has also seen so many doing that, that’s why he’s trying to tell you that, “At least if we have committed mistakes you be cautioned and you learn from our mistakes and try to come up fast and listen to it and take it.” Now the seekers are there, as you know, but, as he says, they have labelled themselves as seekers: “We are seekers”. And they are so proud of seeking, that he himself has told me, that now they do not want to give up seeking even if they find it. It’s a very funny situation and I said, “Why is it so, that?” He says “No, you form a sort of a habit. Then you don’t want to give up the habit because you’ll go into sort of a funny situation if you give up the habit. And that’s why they just want to continue with Read More …

How to get to the Spirit that lies within Caxton Hall, London (England)

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Public Program. Caxton Hall, London, England. 26 November 1979. …and how it resides within us and how we are lost in the curtains of Maya. Today I am going to tell you how we get to that Spirit. There are two types of methods people employ in finding out that Spirit. One is called as anuvopai, and another one is called as shaktopai. ‘Anu’ means a molecule. When we are lost in the Maya, as I had told you last time, actually the Spirit is eternal, It is all-powerful. It never loses Its power whether we are old, young, whatever condition we may be, the Spirit has Its own power, all the time. But, the reflection of the Spirit in us, the light of the Spirit in us, depends on the quality of our reflector, how we are. And because of the quality being so poor sometimes, darkness is created within us and in that darkness, we do not know sometimes, even to that extent, that there is something beyond. So the first style of seeking is anuvopai as you call it, which is depending on separating molecules after molecules. Because under these circumstances, when you are surrounded by darkness, you see Spirit just as a molecule or you can say a spark or a flicker. Sometimes you just get a flicker of it. As you know the thoughts arise within us and fade away. We see the thoughts rising and fading away. And there are many thoughts all around Read More …

Seeking in The West Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Seeking in The West”, Public program, Caxton Hall, London, England. 21 November 1979. I’m really thankful to Gavin, the way he has explained to you. His method is very meditative by which he permeates. I think he articulates better for the understanding of the Western mind. Now, I have been here in this country for so many years, and I have been working on Western people, and what I find is that there is a great seeking, no doubt. People are not satisfied with their life, with their mundane life. They think it is very routinous, they are bored, they think something has to happen. Then there are some people who think that if these great books of scriptures have described that there is something Divine, there is something higher, and there is something like what we call the All-pervading Power which is ruling this universe, and if one has to enter into the Kingdom of God, then there must be some way out, and we must find it. From inside, they don’t feel happy about themselves. They’re insecure, because they think they haven’t got what they have been seeking. So there are markets open for such things, and when the demand comes in there is a supply from everywhere. Also from our great country that is India, we have supply of people coming down. Today I was talking to the people who have advertised and this and that, and they said that the market people have used all these Read More …

Knowledge of the Divine Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“Knowledge of the Divine,” Public Programme, Caxton Hall, London (UK), 28 October 1979. Every time I face the new people, I have to give an introductory talk and Sahaj Yogis get sometimes impatient about it. But we have to understand that this is the knowledge of the Divine and those who have not known about it are to be told. And those who have known should know that there are many things they have not known, which they have to know. Still there is a lot to be known. Supposing I tell you all about it and you do not get your Realisation, you do not get your yoga, you do not get your connection with the Divine then it is useless. Talk will remain talk. You may verify it; you may find it the same written in many scriptures. Many saints have told you the same thing [but] it has no use. The knowledge, gyana, is useless without yoga, without the union with the Divine. When you get the yoga, also, when you are realised, you get your Realisation, and I do not give you the knowledge, then your Realisation is also useless. I have seen in this great country many realised-souls are born. They live as realised-souls, they don’t know what are they; they act as spiritualists, they call themselves, whatever people call them. But they are not aware that they are realised-souls! They commit mistakes, they go onto wrong paths, get confused about their Realisation. So, it is Read More …

The Problem of Ego Caxton Hall, London (England)

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“The Problem of Ego,” Caxton Hall, London (UK) – 22 October 1979. From next time I’ll start the series because those who are not here, I mean, sort of lots of people will be coming when you will be advertising. Cooly (Tony Paniotou) did you advertise for today or for next time? He’s also not here? Not yet, so we’ll start it from next time, the series, like that. Would be better for people to follow.  Those who have come for the first time should sit in front, is better. You see, I can look after you better. All right? Just put your hands like this. Today I was thinking of telling you about the ego problem, because I think everybody feels that that’s the biggest problem they all have; and there’s a big ego trip one gets into, and they don’t know what to do with it. So first part I will tell you how the ego rises and what it does to us and the second how to understand it, how to tackle the position of ego and put it in its own aspect. As you see in the map here, the yellow stuff that you see on top is the ego. The balloon that is yellow is the ego. You see down below it starts from the Swadishthana. This is the colour of the bile within us. And this Swadishthana Chakra which is for our creativity is directly connected to that ego there. And when it starts rotating Read More …

How realisation should be allowed to develop Caxton Hall, London (England)

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How Realisation should be allowed to develop, Public Program. Caxton Hall, London, England. 15 October 1979. Most of you are Sahaj Yogis here. Now those who have got Realisation, those who have felt the vibrations, must know that they are now developing into another being. The germination has started, and you must allow the germination to work out its own way. But normally, when we get Realisation also, we do not realise that it is a tremendous thing that has happened within us. That this triggering, which is an impossibility, has taken place within us, and it has to work out slowly. It has to develop, and evolve us into that, and because we do not feel it, we do not take it that seriously as we should, our Realisation. Moreover, they are surrounded by people who have not felt the vibrations, they do not know this area; they have never seen it. As Guru Nanak has called it, it is alakshya (आलक्ष्य: unobservable). They have not seen it, they don’t know about it, they don’t know there is a power of God that exists, which understands, coordinates, cooperates with you, which is working in the collective being, which makes aware, you aware of that collective being and of others also. This alakshya, or we can call it paroksha (परोक्ष:invisible), which is not seen by any one, which no one knows about, they talk about it. They talk about the Kingdom of God, they talk about God’s Powers, Divine Power. Read More …