Quotations from Speeches in 1990 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Back to videos...
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 January 1990 - Return of the Sun
"Today is the day for us to celebrate in India, very much, because
the sun is now in Capricorn and from Capricorn it then comes to Tropic of Cancer. When the sun
comes back to this earth, then all the creativity of Mother Earth starts acting and she creates such beautiful
things like flowers, nice nourishing things and fulfilling things, like fruits, and she makes our eyes cool down with
the greenery she has and the way she blesses us is manifold, with the advent of the sun. In the same way now
that the sun of Sahaja Yoga is rising and is coming to the zenith and it has definitely shown you the result on
the first principle, that is your Mooladhar, and your creative power of that Mooladhar, which is the Kundalini,
has been rising and rising and opening your being and showing the results in your life. It has made your lives
very beautiful. It has made your life very joyous and very happy..."
[Editor - March 2016: Text here is not verbatim versus an audio recording. Improvement is needed.]
February 1990 - China and Zen
"And China, I think, is such a wise country. You had such great philosophers and you had Lao Tze, such a great
philosopher because he’s the one who came up with absolutely clear-cut ideas about - very clear-cut ideas and
what he has preached in the Zen system of religion is the same as Sahaja Yoga. Zen means dhyana, means
dhyan, is the meditation..."
March 1990 - Programme at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
Question: "I'm just wondering if you think there's a difference between the Eastern and Western psyche and if you do, what do
you think the differences are?"
Shri Mataji: "Yes. Now the Western movement has been outward. Like a tree, the whole
civilisation grew up. But it must seek its roots. To my eye there's not two things, East and West. The roots are
the same as the tree and if the tree does not find out its roots, it will be destroyed. Both are essential,
complementary to each other. But because, as I told you, the climate in India has been quite kind, they went
more into the search of themselves: 'Why are we here?' Instead of fighting the nature. But if you see the... I
mean in London, if you have to go out, you take at least fifteen minutes just to put on all your weapons to fight
the climate there. In our country you can just walk out, no problem. So we didn't have to fight the nature, so
that question was over. And it was a very beautiful country, full of fruits and things, so they could live in the
jungles very well. Even now, if you go at the foothills of Himalayas, you'll find all kinds of flowers, beautiful things
there are. Of course now it's destroyed because of civilisation. So the people indulged more in finding out what
is within us and that's how they did it.
So the search which is outside through science has to be substantiated
and nourished by spirituality. It's very important. So these are part and parcel of the same. God has made only
one world, one world. He didn't make many nations. We have done it. And sometimes, I feel, we move like
criminals with our number plate. You see, the passport number, this number, that number. God didn't make
that way. It's our idea because we laugh the same way, we smile the same way, we love the same way,
everything is the same. But he had to create a variety of faces, otherwise we would have been bored stiff!"
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