The Divine Cool Breeze 00 March April 2000 Volume : XII Issue: 3 & In thoughtless awareness nobody can touch you, that's your fortress. By meditation one must establish thoughtless awareness. That is the sign you are rising higher.... You have to see whether you have achieved your thoughtless awareness? Its the minimum of minimum. Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Ekadash Rudra Puja In this Issue: Invocation to Shri Adi Shakti 1 Shri Ganesha Puja 25.9.99 (Cabella) Navratri Puja 12 North American Tour 1999 21 Shri Mataji's Canadian Tour 1999 25 Reclaiming the Swastika 32 Sahaja Yoga World Centres 37 Edited by : Yogi Mahajan V.J. Nalgirkar 162, Munirka Vihar Published by : New Delhi-110 067 The Divine Cool Breeze March - April 2000 INVOCATION TO SHRI ADI SHAKTI O Mother Divine Out of the highest realm of Divinity You have come on this Earth only because of Your infinite love, compassion and benevolence. Your powers, which created all the universes. are insurmountable. Your completeness is such that everything that exists, that has existed, shall exist and also that exists for ever is contained in Your indescribable being. Despite that, O Supreme Mother, out of Your immeasurable love, You have assumed a form which is similar to ours, only to give us guidance, protection, salvation. In spite of being the Most Powerful, the Most Complete, the One Who contains everything, O Beloved Mother, You have granted to Your children the opportunity of offering Puja at Your Lotus Feet, only for our own benefit. On this auspicious occasion of your 77th Birthday we all the Sahaja children from the world most humbly and respectfully invite You to Delhi and shower your blessings on us. Humbly, Your children from the world. March April SHRI GANESHA PUJA. 1999 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA 25.9.99 (Cabella) Discourse by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi these problems, all such people, who suffer from the right side, should worship Shri Ganesha. For example these days, life is very much busy with all of you. You are extremely busy with your work and you are doing extra work, I should say, ODAY We have gathered here to worship Shri Ganesha. You äll know what a powerful deity He is. His power comes from his innocence. When we see small children we are automatically compelled towards them and also we want to love them, kiss them than normal. But you think you are doing a very great job of God. As a result Shri Ganesha is neglected and such a man can beceome either very dry or very self indulgent. One of the two things come up and he does not know where he is going. The only thing that keeps you in the middle, in Sahaja Yoga, is Shri Ganesha's Puja, Shri Ganesha's worship by which you can always be in the centre. All these diseases of the right side can be and be with them. And very innocent they are, extremely innocent, and when we worship Shri Ganesha we have to know if we have been really innocent or not. These days people have become extremely cunning, and they don't mind any amount of cunning. They play all kinds of cunning games on others who are innocent and simple. They can justify themselves always that whatever they are doing is the right thing in these modern times when everybody is so cunning. This cunningness can take you to the other Now there are various ways people extreme of right side, which is very much worship Shri Ganesha but there is a punishable, in the sense that some peoplesimple way to remember him and sit develop all kinds of problems, which are before his photograph and take vibrations physical, you can say. Like their hands from him. Thats the best way you can can get paralysed or their leg can get balance yourself. There are so many paralysed. AIso, they can have other worries, there are so many struggles you cured by Shri Ganesha's Puja. have. All these can be neutralised by Shri troubles with their liver treatments and Ganesha. Though innocent, He is extremely clever and when he comes to all that. All this comes up. Then to punish them a disease of psychosomatic nature might set in. At this time, when you have your help you are amazed. How he works SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze very difficult times. It is his style that he it out and how he removes all the hurdles manages things so weil because he is a Ganpati. Ganpati means the one who is the Lord of the Ganas. As I have told you Ganas exist within us. Very nicely settled down as these bodies, small, small bodies and all the worries from you. So this is the most important deity we have. Though its a very simple deity. This Mooladhar chakra is very very complicated. It is one of the most complicated, chakras I think, because it has many waves, it has many compartments. We can say which all the time are vibrating and oscillating. So to study down these you should try to be who report if there is any problem. They report to the brain that there is a problem and on the sternum bone is the residence or you can say the throne of the Goddess Durga. So whenever there is any problem absolutely dedicated to Shri Ganesha. we are found into some trouble, sternum bone starts vibrating and these bodies Shri Ganesha, as I told you, was which are Ganas get the information. incarnated as Jesus Christ, and Jesus was Antibodies they are called in the medical also a very innocent person. If he was not terminology. Then these Ganas attack. They can target also. They know how to innocent, He would not have been crucified, but he was not a cunning fellow target the troubles and attack it, one may think that only the people who are to see the cunning of others. His own disciple deceived him and still he knew suffering medically are helped by Ganas is not true. Also the people who are who it was, he never said who it was. If you see his life, its full of innocent beauty, mentally upset, who are mentally suffering are also helped by the Ganas. These is such a simple hearted personality, such a good personality and wherever he saw anything wrong done he is to go all out to fight it. Same is Shri Ganesha. Ganas are so good at targeting their problems that sometimes we are surprised how things are worked out. For example Shri Ganesha's blessings are very say something happens to someone, some important for all the people who are child, somewhere. Now his parents start specially proe to some sort of a hurdle crying for Mother and the Mother is the or 'Sankata as they call it'. He is called as Durga say, then what happens, that they Sankata Vimochan, the one who takes immediately rush to that place and you out of all the hurdles of life. So many miraculously they cure the boy. of you have experienced how he has miraculously they say. So many helped you in different troubles and miraculous thing that have happened in hurdles and also different type of very your life you cannot explain, but they are March April 2000 4 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 they brought out the boy and he was treated by the doctors also but also with vibrations and today that boy is perfectly alright, while the doctors had said he can all due to this Ganapati's Ganas. They are also small like him and they are very active and very alert. They never sleep. Anytime there is any trouble these Ganas will go and attack the problem and find out solution for him. It is something unbelievable how they act and how they never survive. If there is one chance of his surviving, he will be like a dead body, in a coma all the time. This boy, I have met him this time, when I went to America. So, like this, so many things inform. Ican give you so many examples that have happened like this. For example there was a boy who got drowned in one of our happen and people tell me that Mother its your 'kripa', your blessings that this has happened. ashrams in America in the swimming pool. They were all jumping in the In a way, it is very distantly, I should say, swimming pool, I didn't like the idea of but because of Shri Ganesha. Now Shri swimming pool very much because there Ganesha's another quality is that he is were children. So one boy fell down into extremely obedient to Mother. He does that and was inside for about 15 to 20 not recognize even Shiva, Vihnu, any one. minutes. Nobody knew he was there. So To him his Mother is everything. So he can fight with his father, Shiva, he can fight with anyone because to him is then they tried to find out the body of the boy and then they found out he was not there. Where has he gone? Then they discovered that he was in that swimming complete obedience and absolutely quick Tatpar', just quickly understands what is pool. After that they got so frightened and they said we just prayed to you, Mother to save this boy. Surprisingly, I never telephone to any Ashram, I didn't know even the address, but I asked to telephone to this number, on my own. I don't know the desire of the Mother and he works it out. His style is otherwise very innocent, simple, child like but His work is tremendous. Now these Ganas are also very innocent people, very innocent but when told that you have to attend to a particular problem, they are extremely quick and they are very fast. The another thing within is that he respects people who are chaste, who have chastity as the prime thing in their life. Chastity is very much anybody's numbers and, when I telephoned, one of the leaders came there and I told him I know the boy has fallen into the water and he will be saved. Nobody had told me anything. "Don't worry he will be perfectly alright." Then worshipped by him. Its not only in women March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze but also in men, he expects chastity to be present. After getting realisation you should be absolutely chaste people, you shouldn't have your eyes rolling around country, who are doing black magic, or who are doing fundamentalism and where people are also having very bad morals. He creates problems for them. What happens that He tells the Mother earth to every where and sort of what you can call create the earthquakes. Earthquake takes place in places where there is no respect of chastity, also where there are a very bad method of communicating with young women and young men and spoiling your chastity. Even your eyes should be cleaned, even your thoughts should be cleaned. For that you should introspect and see for yourself what mistakes you have committed and what kind of an unchaste behaviour you have. You have to correct yourself and ask Shri Ganesha to forgive you. If you ask for forgiveness, he can forgive anything. He is so innocent and beautiful that he fundamentalist and also where there are people who are worshipping the black magic. This kind of people are attacked by him through his Mother. So the Mother earth also understands. Now we have so many earthquakes, one in Turkey you know, one in Taiwan, but not a single Sahaja Yogi has died. So he protects them. He has discrimination and only such people, who are of this kind, he tries to destroy them, and he has destroyed many like this even before. Also, the Mother forgives you, but that is a very important thing. Our whole morality depends on our idea of chastity. We should be very chaste. So many religions have come and they have talked about chastity. But religions earth's powers he has got, is that he is magnetic, he attracts people towards have become so useless now, have himself, people take to him very easily as we take to children very easily. So that is become without any basis, without any proper execution, of what is written for them. They do all kinds of things and they magnetic power that he has got within himself. call themselves Hindus, Muslims, Now, you will be surprised this magnet exists also in the birds, also in many animals but specially in the birds. That's Christians, all kinds of religions. Actually the religions have failed completely and that's why Shri Ganesha gets after them. how they can follow direction where they have to go. They are flying from, say Siberia, all the way, flying to Australia. How do they fly? And again they come back to the same place. It also is in the Another thing about Shri Ganesh is that he is created out of the Mother earth. He is absolutely created out of the mother Earth. So if he doesn't like people of some March - April SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze 2000 Ganesha. So like that they were doing to fishes. Fishes also are found say in the waters which are coming from some hills, so they come to the plains for some time and again God knows how, they go back to their own place. So going back to the same place is only possible if there is a way of knowing the direction. But they know the direction, they have a sense of this one statue that they had and they were dancing before it. But when they put the statue in the water and they came back home, they got drunk and when they got drunk, they started dancing with that drinking and saying Jai Ganesha, Jai Ganesha. At that time the earth moved direction, also they are bound by their own qualities. For example a snake will be a snake, a dog will be a dog, and a lion will be a lion. But human beings have perhaps all the animals within them. So they could be anything, you can't say and they are too cunning to admit that they can be anything. And once they become anything like that you are amazed how these people can be of such a low level when they are human beings. But it is so because Ganesha has not been respected in their lives. So they can go to any level, and the earthquake took away all of them inside the earth itself. They all disappeared into earth. Apart from that there were many others also who were doing this kind of thing, were taken into the mother earth. And our Ashram was there, a kind of a centre and around the centre there was a very beautiful land but he did not touch that land. Around is about at least quite a long distance, a big gap came in and there was a opening in the mother earth all around the centre and nobody was harmed. They were all at home. They were all right. But this happened, that our any place. Ashram was not at all touched and this is Another example, I give you a very big how they saved the Ashram and not a earthquake we had in India, in Latur. In single Sahaja Yogi died. It is really very Latur this was the fourteenth day of Shri remarkable how the protection is given Ganesha where they take Shri Ganesha by Shri Ganesha and his Ganas. and put it in the sea or in the water of a So we must respect his Ganas, very river. So there, in Latur, these people have been having a nice statue of Shri Ganasha. important is to see that they are all around within us, they are acting within us. They Before the statue they dance and they have now started playing very dirty, very bad, music from some very funny films see us what sort of person you are, and in case you try to dislodge Shri Ganesha by your misbehaviour they try to see that or something. It's so bad that you just can't you again go back to normal. They give bear it. Very bad and that upsets Shri SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze not for worship. There is no photograph of real Shri Ganesha, no photograph. you a chance many a times. But even then you go on with your cunning and ideas about your ego, you are very badly hit by There are eight Shri Ganeshas who came out of mother earth. I have seen them. But in those places the pujaris, the people who are the priest are horrible, horrible people. I went to one of them and he said, "I am getting Asthama", "I am getting him and that is the biggest, I should say, calamity for you people. So you must worship Shri Ganesha but I always say don't worship every Shri Ganesha which is being created by those, we can say, artisans. Because God knows what sort paralysis, how is it I am worshipping Shri Ganesha, my forefathers have worshipped Shri Ganesha and how he is doing this to us." I said, you just introspect yourself, what kind of a life you lead, what do of Artisans they are. For money's sake they might be making Ganesha and they might not have got any idea of Chastity. Such people make these Ganesha and then you worship those Ganeshas, so we you do, are you really worthy of Shri Ganesha's Pujari. And then he realized it. are not at all helped by this. That's why Mohammad Saheb has said, don't do any worship of any idol because I said, "I will cure you now. Its all right but afterwards you see to it that you become an innocent personality. Try to these idols have been created by human beings who are not authorised to do that. lead an innocent life, not of outwitting They are not Swayambhus Ha. They another and being very cunning and are not created by the mother earth but clever. Shri Ganesha's troubles, are really, are copied by people who are just wanting I can't count them even, how much it can to make money out of them. So that's how hamper, or how much it can give you any idol you get, say, from the shops trouble, how much it can take you nearer need not be worshiped, it is not to be to your death. He is so powerful, because worshiped, any idol whatsoever. So all his energy is for the divine work of his whatever is not there, we should not Mother, all his energy. vorship because it is made by somebody who has very bad vibrations, who is a He doesn't do anything, he doesn't want cheat, who is very cunning and thinks no anything. Just all his energy is for that and end of himself. With such a person if you he is asking for what is simple, what you buy a Shri Ganesha it is going to harm can call Modaka, a kind of a thing they you, is not going to help you. You can make out of coconut. That's what he eats. His body is so subtle and so, so powerful have it for decoration in the house but March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Ganesha. that he can move mountains after mountains. With his simplicity, with his All these things are there but we cannot sweetness, and with his innocence he can understand it because we are confused. We don't want to see it in a proper sense that this is already written there. So those who worship Christ, also worship Shri Ganesha and whatever you say to Christ really change people. People who are very harsh, can be changed. His symbol as we have seen is a Swastika, of the right direction. But if it is the other way round Swastika, then that can destroy. When It was used by Hitler in the beginning, it was you are saying it to Shri Ganesha. They are not two, they are one and absolutely one with each other. All the things I have the right type and he was successful. But then what happened, they had stencils and told you about Christ, you can try to find out and you will prove it. Like Christ had these two fingers, this means one finger they started using it from the otherside. So it was from the left side, they started other way round and then they were all destroyed. How powerful is Shri is for the Vishuddi as we say Shri Krishna and this one is Vishnu's means this is his Ganesha's Swastika, you can say. Also we have proved now that Swastika if you see from left to the right, is actually from the Carbon atom. The carbon atom has got father's. That means his father was Vishnu or Shri Krishna. Very clearly he used to do, why didn't he use other fingers, only these two fingers why did he use. Pointing Swastika and the whole of this chakra is made of Carbon atoms, all put in series. out towards his father who was Shri Vishnu and Shri Krishna. Now if you look at it from the left side, It is easy to understand what I am saying, if you see the vibrations of Shri Ganesha. If you see his vibrations and think of him you will be amazed, that your Agnya will open out, you will become thoughtless, you have proved it now, look at it from the left side to right side, what you see is Onkar. If you see it from right side to left side, you see the Swastika, and if you see from down below upward then it looks like a Cross. So it proves that Shri Ganesha incarnated as Christ and he is because he is the Jesus and he is on the Agnya. So it all opens out and all the stupid ideas about getting the Agnya, this and that is all neutralized because you see for yourself, just the name of Shri Ganesha can open your Agnya. The and out of the half of the egg became cunningness that comes from Agnya is Christ and half of the egg was Shri absolutely finished. You are no more the one who is worshipped all over the world, is already written in the Devi Mahatmaya if you read it, is all clearly written about him how he became an egg March- April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze cunning. When you see this innocence on your forehead, you are amazed at yourself earth is a wrong idea, is very wrong because it is harming us with pollution. To cut down the trees, to cut down every thing that mother has produced and just to use it for money is a very wrong thing. One should think about it and when you cut one tree also you should put another one there. That is the beauty of the Mother earth, all the greenery, every thing is the beauty of the Mother carth. and all such ideas just disappear. You cannot think of something very cunning and harmful to others. You are completely changed when the Agnya is absolutely opened out. This one is a very big blessing to us that we all have this Muladhara Chakra now put into proper thing. When you sit on the ground also it helps more because the mother of Shri Ganesha is Many people have no interest in gardening or in nature, no interest. I don't this Prithvi, is this earth, the mother earth and that's why we should look after the know how they live but they do without taking any interest in gardening or in the mother earth. We don't look after the mother earth. We don't understand the nature. Nature is so beautiful, just look at the nature, it is never smelling, is never dirty, every leaf is so organized that it value of mother earth. Actually in Indian culture it is that when you are getting up in the morning, you must say Namaskar should get the sunrays. There is no quarrel about it. They are so well organized, bow to you, O. Mother earth because I everything is so beautiful and it is never am touching you with my feet. Such destroyed also by any animals. You will respect you should have for Mother earth, be amazed. The animals also don't then you won't exploit it, you won't have destroy, at the most they might eat some to the Mother earth because saying that I today's problems of pollution and this and grass or something, but normally animals do not destroy any tree, do not destroy that. It all comes out of our ignorance that the anything as we destroy the Mother earth Mother earth is the mother of Shri for our own use. Whatever may be the Ganesha who's chakra we have got as cry for this, we have to understand that Mooladhara. If you understand this you we have to respect to the Mother earth. will be able to understand, what is to be Mother earth is the mother of Shri done. The mother earth itself we should Ganesha, who is our, you should say the look after, we can glorify her, we can eldest Sahaja Yogi. He never had to take beautify her, we can do all kinds of things but the way we are exploiting the mother to yoga but he is in Yoga all the time. He is the greatest yogi we have and the way March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 10 he is doing right things all the time. He never does anything wrong, never and he is so capable of getting to the position of any great deity that is possible, I would say. He is the greatest deity we have and much more for men. Shri Ganesha is very important thing because men can develop so many diseases if they do not respect Shri Ganesha. Our health would be the best if we look after Shri Ganesha because he is all the we should really worship him. Through him all deities are worshiped and are made happy and blissful. So this is today's thing was that I was just thinking that now a time repairing our body. He is all the time looking after, protecting us and our Shri Ganesha is in the Mooladhara. He is the days, in modern times how we have become shameless, how we have tried to trouble our chastity, for kind of a honour. one who is looking after our Kundalini, he is protecting our Kundalini. If any thing happens to us the Kundalini comes up but If we have any honour you will have the chastity but you are dishonouring yourself and you think you have been very very smart and modern by becoming so sinful. All the sinful act that is going on in these modern times is absolutely wrong and it should be completely, we should abhor it. You should go no way near because the one who supports her and, keeps her up, awakened and standing is Shri Ganesha. He works it out. He is the one who is the protector of our Kundalini which is also a basis of your self realisation. So how much important is Shri Ganesha you should know, and you should find out about yourself, introspect thats all wrong and that's how Shri that are we really dedicated to Shri Ganesha gets angry. Decency is very important in understanding, what is our important basis, is our chastity. In India you know thirty two thousand women got themselves burnt for saving their chastity. I come from the same family and you can imagine what courage they must be having, what faith they must be having, in their chastity that if we lose our chastity what's the use of our life. So they cared for their chastity, have done so much sacrifice to show that chastity is the most Ganesha? If we are, what are we doing about it? Then you will develop a real hatred for all these dirty things. You will not like them, will not like such people. That is how a Sahaja Yogi should work it out. The children are the best as we know. Children are so sweet and so kind, they are so loving, so beautiful. In the same way we should know Shri Ganesha is there. He is the one who is really innocent but extremely extremely, protective of you, very much protective, with his important thing, we all should have. Its not only for women but also for men, very innocence. So we should also try to cherish our March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 11 The Divine Cool Breeze other countries it has happened but I was happy to see that in Australia they are very secular. They have many Maoris and all those people and they encourage all of them and its so surprising that they have so much talent and they are bringing innocence and not to feel hurt because sometime such people are cheated, dominated, every thing happens, doesn't matter. They will all suffer who will dominate innocent people. As the whole world, you see, there is a big uproar about it, people are talking about it that there should not be domination of the innocent them to this state to show that they are equal in their rights, political rights, in Australia. Its a very good venture. simple people. It has happened but it all has to be changed, has to be brought to some last end otherwise people can not Now this Ganesha has appeared in Australia is as Uluru, is a very big exist, like everywhere they went and mountain which looks like Shri Ganesha. It has also a very big trunk, going down. oppressed so many people. In America, I was surprised to see that there were so Vibrations itself will prove that it is Shri many Red Indians, who are called as Indian Americans. They were all Ganesha, from the mother earth. He has appeared in many places, Shri Ganesha not only there. But there I felt really the oppressed so much that they had to run away to different places and then I went to this place Canajohari. I found the vibrations were so good. That means they It is. And in Australia I thank him that were very innocent, simple people and because of him only Sahaja Yoga has Americans that time, who went there. worked so well and so easily, and tried to completely finish them. So they Government also has never troubled us went and hid in places like Canajohari but source, source of vibrations. Thats what or there has been no problem with them. I don't know what's this helping them but the Canajohari has such tremendous vibrations that I said look at this, so many perhaps it is Shri Ganesha as uluru which years have passed, still the people who is protecting Sahaja Yoga there and is live there or worked about and were growing so much. In the same way every atsolutely enjoying this place were Red where, where ever you may be Shri Indians, the ones who were Indians, we Ganesha should be worshipped and you call them American Indians. But they are will be helped out and out miraculously. so simple and innocent and they were so, You will be helped, miraculously but first I think, spiritual people because they used do something about our chastity which is to worship the Mother. All the time they Shri Ganesha. May God Bless You. worship the Mother. Even I have seen in March April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 12 NAVRATRI PUJA NAVRATRI PUJA Cabella, 17-10-1999 Discourse by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Tonight we have gathered here to do the Puja, to the Devi, that is, Mahakali we can call her, or Durga. So many types of forms, She has taken to kill the negative forces that are trying to trouble or to obstruct or even to grow, the people who were gentle and good, Her forms are of different types that we know about, that She destroyed so many rakshasas. She destroyed many evil doers. Also, we do not know that in the world wars that we to hate. But these forces join together sometimes to form a giant personality of evil which tries to torture the human beings and trouble them. They might take any name, they might call themselves by anything but they are absolutely hundred percent evil and for such persons there is no pity or compassion from the God Almighty. These are to be destroyed and that is the job of the Goddess, to destroy them, who is a Mother, full of compassion had She was there to protect the right and love. type of people and that's how they all survived the ill plan, the ill gotten plan of It's a very contradictory work the very cruel and evil people. The evil people Goddess has to do, to kill these people have a capaeity to hate and to expresS their hatred in every way that is possible. They are really born evil and there are also who become evil. When they are born because in the larger interest it is important that all such evil people should be destroyed completely, but they do not. They, like you go to jail for sometimes, like that, they go to hell for sometimes, suffer and again they come back much more stronger and then again try to trouble good, saintly people. It's a common style they are, all over the world. They can come in the form of a very good evil you can make them out that their whole style is so aggressive and so vindictive about things, but hatred has no limits, no limits at all because if they hate, someone then just to justify that hatred they will say all kinds of things, just to justify. But sometimes they don't even want to justify, they just feel that they hate and it's a fundamental right they have got man, of a very gentle man or of a man who knows a lot about God or they can also say that they can give you realisation. March- April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA 13 The Divine Cool Breeze All kinds of lies they are capable of these people. While the good people also because they have that power-evil power sometimes follow suite, they also try to of doing evil. So, they take to all kind of follow them. It's very surprising why falsehood and they proclaim that we are should good people not understand what this and we are that and we can give you is good and what is bad? But that discrimination many good people also lack and that's why they take to wrong Actually they have come on this earth to things and then they go on justifying all ruin people. We have had many of these the time. Whatever they are doing is the false people and many stupid people right thing, is the best thing, they have this, all that. followed them. They never talked against the proof of it. each other. Christ has said, "Devil won't talk against its own house", as if they are Now, as you know there have been many in one house and in one house they live of them in this Kaliyuga and so many of and they can not talk, of something that them have now disappeared from this will disturb their collectivity or their earth and now they can not trouble us. fraternity. Their fraternity is so great that But, there are still some more who are wherever they are, they know that they exposed, people have exposed them so are together. Just imagine, all the evil much that no body can expose anybody people should join together and behave without any proof. But, they have such in this manner, is very surprising. That's courage and they are so full of confidence why they are very collective. Supposing, that they can do what they like and one has taken a particular part of the land. anybody tries to expose them, they will Then he dominates there, another takes definitely ruin that person. Few things up in another way, third one takes, there's they are doing-fīrst of all, they put wrong no competition as such. Ultimate effort ideas into your head. They say that we is somehow or other to destroy all the are very great people, we are this, we are creation of God, all the good people of that. God has sent us, all sorts of things tne world, who will ultimately get their they will talk but there is no proof about it and human beings never ask for the self realisation and who will have the knowledge about reality. This kind of proof as to how do you say? What is the proof? So, the solution is Sahaja Yoga. In Sahaja Yoga you have the experience, you have the proof. Then you grow into it, immediately you cannot become a great atmosphere is the worst during Kaliyuga, and there are so many, stupid people who may be simple, who may be good natured but they are drawn by the evil doing of March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA 14 Sahaja Yogi, that's a fact. You have to will tell you by many ways that this is wrong, why you are doing wrong to some person. But, if you do not repent and come back on to the normal position, She gives you up. Once Mahakali gives you mature, it takes some time for some people, it takes some more time for some people, doesn't matter. But, you do mature. In the meanwhile if you try to go up, you are now exposed and become prone to all kinds of evil things. I would say, when you worship her, what you want? You want her to protect. In your discrimination, in your mistake you might do something wrong, may do something that is not good for you, could be very to these wrong people then there is no possibility, there is no way of again bringing you up. Specially those people who rise high in Sahaja Yoga. If they fall, they fall so low then even an ordinary Sahaja Yogi could say Mother, look at him, where has he gone! So, with all these things happening, what is our job, is to worship Mahakali within us because what does She do, perhaps, we are not very dangerous for you. But She is the person who guides you, how to avoid all the dangers. aware of. Now, She protects your life. She protects First and foremost thing She does is to protect us. Wherever you may be, what your body, She protects all organs of your body, She is the one who gives you all ever you may be doing, in whatever peril you may be, how-so-ever dangerously you may be placed in life, She protects the security of the life. In Her realm you feel completely secure, you are never afraid of anything. Because you have left you. First thing, She protects you. All the people who write to me how they were protected, how they were cured, how they were helped is this thing that they should know that all this has happened because of Mahakali power within you. She exists within you. When you are worshipping Mahakali, you are worshipping the Mahakali within you, with due respect you must know that this Mahakali is a very sensitive personality, She is very sensitive. If you try to do any wrong to anyone, She will guide you, She her realm, you have come out of it that's why, that is the reason, you are afraid. But, if you are under Her beautiful guidance and Her blessings you will never feel afraid to do anything, you will never do anything wrong also. As soon as you will try to do wrong, She will hold your hand. She is really the guiding person, She is the one who actually gives us our existence. Without Her we cannot exist because She is the one who is the power of Shri Shiva. She gives us so many things. For example, She gives us the March - April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze 15 relaxation, the sleep. She gives you the truth, She tells you what is the truth and what is not. Sometimes people so much in their ego, always try to believe that what I think is the truth. Then, She is the one who points it out by creating a maya, a kind of a confusion that you start thinking, what is this? So, She is called also the one who gives us 'Bhranti' means 'illusions'. She puts you to illusions also. She tests you, puts you to illusions and She then ultimately takes you out of the when you are like a child before Her, how can you worry about it! So, your worries are finished. She worries about you, you shouldn't worry about yourself. That's the point in it. Her security is so great, She is so secure Herself that She gives you all the security that you need. You can hold on to Her feet, you can hold on to Her image or to anything, you can even pray to Her. Many people are being cured only by praying to Her because She cures you. She can cure your diseases which are very complicated diseases, She can cure. illusions. She is the one who relaxes you because Now, what she likes-Mahakali likes the She take over all your responsibilities, She light. She is worshipped in the night takes over all your problems. She is the because then we can put on the lights. one who solves all the problems. It is we She likes enlightened person. Also, She who forget to leave all the problems to likes the light, She likes the sun, She likes Her. If you just leave problems to Her, something that will be completely all your problems are solved. Not only enlightened and brightened. You must that but you really feel blessed. It's not have heard about people who are called, only physical also it is mental that She I don't know what, but specially in the makes your mind absolutely free of West they use them, they have big teeth worries. She doesn't worry and She and they are the people, just imagine, they doesn't want you to worry. If you worry cannot exist before the sun. As soon as then She tries to show that while you are there is a sun rise they just want to go off worrying, you are denying Her, you are and sleep. They cannot see the sun 1.ot accepting Her. Worrying is because the light they can't bear. Now, something, is very common and people what has happened here that Mahakali has take great pride in it."O! I was worried." departed from them and when Mahakali How can you be worried when your has departed from them and then they are Mother is sakshaat Mahakali. She can kill afraid and such people are attacked by all the demons, She can finish all of them. these people who know they are afraid. She knows how to manage things and The sun itself is very important to work March - April 2000 16 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze works, what does it teach you, what does it tell you, try to understand what is the plan of this evil person that you are playing into his hands! How can you play into his hands? And how can you do whatever wrongs he wants you to do? out this Mahakali thing. But, as it is, in the West specially, we are very hard working and very much sun oriented and we worship the sun. All this we do- worship the sun and also go right sided very much. Then it is She who gives us the balance. She is the one who gives us Secondly, against Her is the ego. The biggest problem is the ego today. Ego shows "no, no I can do," Ego says - I will work it out, the balance by relaxing us completely and protecting us. Sometimes we are competitive and we are really worried and we want to do something which we cannot do then we get upset and we don't know what to do. Then it is She who ego says - it will be done but the human beings, yield to ego, It is of a great satisfaction for them that their ego is so strong and they don't want to listen to the brings sleep to us. So, when we sleep She looks after us, She soothes us and She takes away our problems. So many things She is doing but what are we doing for Her that we should see. Main thing is that Mahakali forces. You have to be like children, really that's a state we have to be in, is to be innocent like we are ourselves worshipping Her. She children. She loves innocent people, She is likes that Her children should worship innocence Herself, She loves innocent Her. That on that level she can be one people and She looks after you much more with them, she can give them Her because you are innocent, you are not compassion, love and protection from all cunning, you are not very much trying to play the evil. But, it has to be understood those your ego on others. If you are innocent, She who are not yet settled, those who are helps you, She definitely will help you but not yet absolutely belonging to that land this ego has to be brought under control of security of Mahakali can be attacked because he is the worst enemy She has. and once they leave that area, they can She doesn't like your ego, She wants you be very badly injured, killed, whatever to be egoless, to be innocent. As you know may happen. that it is first She came and She created Shri Ganesha. That's why we worship Shri Ganesha, we have to be innocent, means. So, we are living in this Kaliyuga in a very dangerous times, means anything can happen. So we have to be very careful, we have to watch our mind, to see how it we are not planning to do something bad or good or anything but we are without any intentions. It's a timeless, activity. You The Divine Cool Breeze March - April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA 17 just don't bother about what you are going compassion, compassion for each other, love for each other, also caring for others. That is something She loves. If you are a Sahaja Yogi, if you are a realised soul She's always with you but she says what are you doing with your compassion? How many people you are giving realisation?How many people you are curing? How many people you are helping? She is quite aware of to do, what you are not going to do, what you should do-nothing of the kind. You are just existing in your complete innocence and enjoying yourself and making others enjoy. If there's one child in the house he can make hundred people dance, it's like that. Because these children have the power of innocence and that is what She respects. You sometimes feel that how people are cheats, how they cheat us, how they make all kinds of, I should say, aggressiveness, whatever you are doing. I should say it's such a tremendous power of Mahakali that She knows everything about you, everything. She knows, your mind, She knows your heart, She knows about your health. Everything She knows, actually She is the Mother in every way who cares for the little child. In that way She knows that sometimes how they try to also tell lies, all kinds of things they will do and they expect so much from you also but all this is happening, is happened. You shouldn't bother about these things, you should keep to your innocence and you will be surprised you will be completely innocent. So, like when you are very protected. How? because Mahakali will small, your mother looks after you. In the this child doesn't do anything, is very stand around you, She will look after you same way, this Mahakali looks after you. if you are innocent. Innocent person doesn't get angry. What is there to get Then the Mahasaraswati power comes in angry. Innocence has its own, I should and She educates you, She gives you say, strength, power. It's extremely other ideas of knowledge, this, that but powerful. Even a cruel man, if he sees a looking after the child in you, looking child he becomes little bit aware of it, after your innocence and your there's a child. The whole world is aware compassion is all done by this Mahakali that children should not be in any way power. So, She is extremely sensitive about her children. No body dare touch Her children. For her everybody is like a tortured or troubled, why? Because children are so innocent. So, the quality of innocence is going to really help you very much because She appreciates your child. Those who are realised souls specially, She thinks are Her children and quality of innocence. in no way they should be hurt, nothing Then another thing She loves in you is your March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA 18 should happen to them. She is always the end of our life! What is the purpose of following them. One can say if She is a person, how does She follow them, because She is omnipresent. She is present everywhere, everywhere in your life She is there, specially with Sahaja Yogis. She follows them up and down, everywhere, whatever you are doing. You are in an accident She's there to see you, this life? Why have we come on this earth? What is so special that we should live on this earth? All such fundamental questions start rising and then you just take to the seeking. In that also you have to understand the Mahalakshmi principle is very-very, very different from what people understand. They think if they are seeking it should be intelligible, it should be through their minds or could be rational, all this or scientific. That's how they move seeking the truth. It's not possible. Mahalakshmi's principle is like this, that you should have earnest desire to know the truth and truth and truth and nothing She's like an angel behind you and nothing can happen to you if you really worship her from your full heart, not for any gain, not for any achievement but for Her blessings. Her blessings are very great and they really have enriched human beings, they have enriched this earth, they have enriched everything because of the blessings of Mahakali. else. When you think like that then you will not take to other things. So many people took to drugs thinking that by doing that they will achieve their self realisation. It's a wrong idea. How can you Of course, then there comes the Mahalakshmi. Her thing is that in Mahalakshmi principle you become sort of detached. You start finding that what is this world after all, and a kind of a feeling of detachment comes into you and you start thinking that there must be something better, there must be truth beyond. Specially, people who have been tortured by bad people always think like get away from your awareness to achieve that. Awareness is the most important thing. If you can go into the realm of awareness then you have to understand the basic awareness is not to be lost. If your basic awareness is lost through drinking or through drugs or all these things that people do. They think that they are seeking that's why they are doing. So, sometimes they take excuse of seeking to do wrong things. It's like a revenge on yourself, I think, that you want to revenge on yourself by thinking that that that there must be someone who will raise us from this. Here comes the Mahalakshmi principle in you which is the principle of the Goddess, of ascent. She puts the ideas in your head that what is next? What do we have to do? After all, is this you are now seeking. It's not the real seeking. In a real seeking a person has to March - April 2000 19 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze sale on, I said, really! You can pay him half just meditate and should find out what is the the amount, he can give you his blessings, alright. Then next week she said, now the right way but that too by not reading some books or listening to some false gurus. sale has come to one fourth. If you pay the one fourth amount then he will give you the full knowledge. I said, how can he reciprocate, it's not proportionate, I said. When you were giving half, he was giving half, when you are giving one fourth, he is giving full. That's the thing, she said. he is very magnanimous, you see, that's the point. I said, for all such people who think they can purchase truth, they can Actually Kundalini awakening is the only way one can know the reality, there's no other way out. But no body tells that it is Kundalini awakening. They will tell you, we will go to this place, then to that place then, move to that place then, this has to be done and ultimately where do you come-where you started. It's just like that moving from places to places, moving from false to another false to another false to falsehood. not achieve it. You can not purchase it, Ultimately so many seekers have been lost. you can not pay for your Kundalini So many have been lost because they payment for that. awakening, no, nor you should take any thought that certain type of seeking is very precious, because you can pay lots of Self realisation is absolutely the divine money to the guru. I mean, you can grace and you can not take money for purchase the guru and so all the rich that. You can not sell it. It's not so cheap people can become enlightened, that means that. But I don't think the to be sold. If you understand that then the Mahalakshmi power works and Mahalakshmi power is really meant for people who are genuine seekers, who are really seeking genuinely. It acts and works so well that they achieve a kind of a very- very spontaneous realisation. This spontaneous realisation you all have got percentage of good people are all only rich. The people who are good are good whether they are rich or not is not the point. But such people try to gather round a person because I think there's a subtle ego of their money that we can afford to buy this, buy that. Once I was in America and there was one lady who came to see me and she didn't know that I was a spiritual it, you don't have to go to Himalayas, you don't have to do anything like that. All those things are over, you have done it. person. So, she said, now, there's a very In your previous lives you must have done it. Now you don't have to do anything. good guru who has come to America. I said, really! what does he do? She said, there's a You can get it, you are getting it just 20 2000 March - April The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA must mature in such a manner that you should sitting down here. Wherever you are in the know everything of all these evil doers. You must find out what these false people are whole world you can get it and it is spreading fast. Now, it's also the duty of Sahaja very doing? It's very easy because you are enlightened and with your enlightened attention you can definitely find out what's wrong with what organisation, with which you will do it. It will be the best way to meditate. Not to be aggressive in any way but just to meditate and ask Mahakali- Yogis to spread Sahaja Yoga. Now, this one is to be understood that Mahalakshmi and Mahakali both go hand in hand. When, Mahakali blesses you and She is with you and you are in her realm the Mahalakshmi comes forward and She definitely helps you to achieve your realisationa and also to improve your destroy, destroy him for he is destroying the world, you please destroy him. That's Her problems to help you, I mean, the financial side of it, you can call it or in any way other problems also, She solves. The greatest problem She solves that your greatest desire, to achieve self realisation, is granted. So, there's is no competition between them. All these three powers job and She would love to do but somebody has to tell Her and ask Her. It's very good because there are so many that unless and until you point it out She may not be able to put Her attention to them possibly. So, best is always ask Her to help you on individual basis, on a national basis, may be work together and whatever is needed they work it out. But, it is the Mahakali who guides, where what help has to go on a collective basis or maybe on global basis. That's what. She exists every where, She is globally available. Anywhere, you and that's why the power of Mahakali is very much respected. As it is She has killed so many devils, and so many rakshasas and still there are some more, may be having any colour, any race, any nation, anything. But She exists within you all the time and to worship her and to awaken her is only your duty, that you have some of them are existing but I am sure they to do. will be all finished. There will be none of If She is awakened within you will be a these horrible ones ever existing. humble person. You will see what mistakes you have been committing and will feel bad about it. You will not But, still we have to be very careful and alert and try to find out what's wrong with these people. What are they doing? And what they are trying to propagate? You you feel guilty but you feel bad that I will never do such thing, I have done very great comr'd on page31 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 March April 2000 21 The Divine Cool Breeze NOR TH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 Sixty-Four Powers of Shri Adi Shakti On the Occasion of Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Canajoharie, New York, June 20, 1999 heavens ring with joy for the lifty-four adorations were offered to Shri Mataji by the U.S. collective for Adi Shakti Puja. delight of Shri Sada Shiva. 7. Indeed, You are the Source of Shri Mataji reviewed and edited them, Cosmic Energy. This Power and added the last ten Herself. radiates from You as the Finest Ethers of Divine Love. After each name, say together, "Aum Shri Adi Shakti Namoh Namah." 8. Beyond beyond matter, 1. Shri Adi Shakti, You are the consciousness, the Grace of Adi Shakti is where reality can be Principle that created the fourteen known. bhuvanas of universes; You are beyond our comprehension. 9. You are the Ineffable, the Immeasurable. We call You The AUM is Your Sound which 2. Pneuma, Divine Breath, the Living resonates Your Three Powers Waters, yet You are so much more throughout the universe. than this. Only the Deities have the 3. The Joy of Your Attention- Darshan of Your Greater Powers. chitvilas-is expressed in all Your 10. God Almighty in His Dance unifies Creation. with Your Complete Power as Shri Adi Shakti. 4. In the Play of the Divine, God Almighty acts by Your Powers. 11. You are the Primordial Power of 5. The Breath and Desire of Shri Sada Shiva are One with You. the Holy spirit that mothered Shri Jesus. 6. The Paramchaitanya, which is your 12. You are the Creatrix, the Feminine power, makes the stars and the Creative Energy that sustains the March - April 2000 22 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Peace of God Almighty. for You, the grandest tree has its share as well. 13. Through Your Mahalakshmi 22. All Nature's Creatures are Yours, Power, we experience the Timeless Peace of the Fourth Dimension. From the Beauty of Mother Earth's Green Sari to the Majesty of the 14. Shri Adi Shakti, You enable God Tiger and the Lion. Almighty to do His Sacred Work. Verily, You are the Most Sublime 23. The Gravity of Mother Earth, and of all Your Heavenly Spheres, is Power in the cosmos. controlled by Your Power 15. God Almighty takes charge in a way swift and surprising if anyone Magnificent. 24. Your Power, the Paramchaitanya, acts against Shri Adi Shakti. adjusts nature and its elements, and its all-pervading power opens us 16. Shri Ganesha, Your first creation, resonates in the carbon atom, the to Your Benevolence. essence of life. May He reawaken innocence and wisdom in the very 25. Shri Adi Shakti is the Artistic Creator of the Mother Earth and cells of humankind. those who respect the Mother Earth are loved by you. 17. You created the World of the Divine, and the World of Evolving. May our Evolution merge with this 26. Shri Adi Shakti, the Land of Divine Play. Vishuddhi is one aspect of Your Vast Creation. You will raise the 18. O, Adi Shakti, Evolution is the Vibrations to transform the people force that gives rise to Your Divine of this land. Play in the lives of humanity. 27. The native peoples of America 19. The Adi Kundalini formed the worshipped Adi Shakti as the primordial chakras, and opened the doors to the unfolding of life. Great Mother, and they respected the land as sacred. May this attitude return to all others who 20. It is You who created the Kundalini live here and enjoy the land's of our Mother Earth. bounty. 21. The simplest flower has its fraction NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 23 28. The mystery of living processes is Yours and Yours alone, and cannot 37. Shri Adi Shakti, to describe You is the work of poets and saints who be duplicated by any personality. awkwardly try to embrace a Let humanity be aware of this. mystery on the horizon. 29. O, Ritambharapragnya, You are 38. You are Para Shakti, the power One of the Powers of Shri Adi beyond all powers. Shakti-You are the Power of all 39. Give us, O Adi Shakti, greater living work. humility so that we can gain some 30. You regulate and organize all life. small glimpse of Your Glory. 31. You came, Shri Adi Shakti, as 40. Make us like the Sufis and the Gnostics- adoring You at every Surabhi, the Divine Cow emerging from the Vishnuloka at moment. Gokul, where Shri Krishna had His 41. Your power of Mahalakshmi bridges over the Void to allow the childhood. 32. Shri Adi Shakti, let the feminine Kundalini of the seekers to ascend. qualities of the Sahaja Yoginis 42. Thank You, O Adi Shakti, for the manifest through the beauty of seeking which brought us to Sahaja Yoga. You now lift up humanity meditation, surrender and self- esteem. into the Omega of the Last 33. Your Quality of Sharada Devi Judgement. gives authority over the truth, art, 43. We pray that Adi Shakti's Love. music and drama. continues to protect all the saints 34. You give to women the Regal and seekers around the world. Gentleness of Shaleenata to care 44. Shri Adi Shakti, Your Work is for their families and to be the greater than any? You created the preservers of society. pithas, the chakras, nature and humanity, and its subtle workings. 35. You also came as Sati Devi, May the complexity of Your Work humble us down completely. establishing a Royal Dharma to which we aspire. 36. O Vag Devi, Goddess of Language, 45. Your Love gives power to the You give inspiration to the great Bandhan, which directs the vibrations. poets and saints. March - April 2000 24 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze clutches of false pride, jealousy, 46. Your Power of Kundalini brings false attachment, greed, freedom that is Divine. It is the identification and violence. only true freedom. 47. Flow through us freely. Help us 56. You have incarnated on this earth give vibrations to all with Your Photograph of Living Vibrations. 57. You are the Source of Cognitive for the Last Judgement. 48. Your Mahamaya Swarupa allows E Science and the Torsion Area. us to be near You, and it shields us 58. Whatever human beings plan, You dismantle to destroy their egos. from the Awesome Might that flows form You. With one subtle movement of Your 49. Shri Adi Shakti, please give us Finger, You destroy people like deeper powers of introspection so that we become self-cleansing and Hitler. 59. You give powerful advice with self-aware. very subtle humour. 50. You are the Mother who desired You correct Sahaja Yogis, never by 60. that human beings be mirrors for harsh words, but with very loving, God Almighty. gentle affection. You have crafted Beautiful Mirrors 51. 61. You explain the subtle meaning of all the scriptures. of the Spirit in the Sahaja Yogis to help redeem humanity. 62. You expose the falsehood in very Your Compassion protects us from the anger of God Almighty. 52. direct ways. 63. You do not know any fear and You 53. Through maya, humanity forgot the principles of life. Through Sahaja Yoga, humanity now give complete security to all Sahaja Yogis. You respect Your children and love 64. remembers and absorbs the them to make them perfect models vibrations of Shri Adi Shakti. for the rest of humanity. You have 54. May Your Evolutionary Force bring humanity to the inspired existence of the Golden Age. given Sahaja Yogis sinless fun and a life of complete joy. Om Twameva Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti 55. You have disentangled us from the Namoh Namah. March - April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIANTOUR 1999 25 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 Shri Mataji's Visit to Toronto Mother. (The hotel manger actually asked the guests occupying the most prestigious HE CANADIAN SAHAJA YOGIS were most plesantly surprised by the news that Shri Mataji would be coming to Toronto before proceeding to the USA. It was a sheer joy to hear that the Adi Shakti would be gracing Canada suite in the hotel to "move over" in order to make place for their "valued and esteemed" guest!) Prior to the arrival of Shri Mataji, it rained by Her most auspicious presence! Shri Mataji in Her Divine compassion sent a continuously for three days, not only in message to the Toronto collective that Toronto but also over almost the entire though it was 'short notice' to arrange a province of Ontario. The rains were much needed as the lake levels were going public program, we should not worry as down and the authorities were worried! the results would be unprecedented and we would have more people attending this program than every before! The atmosphere was thus purified and readied by Shri Vishnumaya to receive the Adi Shakti and we were all eagerly Posters were printed and put up all over the city of Toronto and adjoining areas, awaiting Her arrival pamphlets distributed at all the prominent Shri Mataji arrived in Toronto in the public places, newspaper ads placed and evening on May 25th, 1999. There were important dignitaries in the public and political arena were sent personal Her. While waiting for Her luggage in the invitations via personal telephone calls. immigration area, She gave realization to fax or e-mail. Most ministers of the seven customs officials who were then Canadian federal government as well as about 150 yogis at the airport to receive continuously around Her till She left the all the provincial Government Ministers airport! Shri Mataji was very happy to were informed and invited to the Toronto see so many yogis at the airport and program as well as to the forthcoming remarked that the collective here had Vancouver program (June 26th). We grown a lot and that Sahaja Yoga was spreading quite rapidly in Canada! She also described the loving way in which were even able to get the hotel booking where we had wanted to for our Divine March- April 2000 26 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze the Sahaja Yogis of Germany had the audience while putting them into a gathered to welcome Her at the Frankfurt meditative mood. Then a local Sahaja airport (Her stopover on Her way to Yogi very effectively, in 10 minutes, Toronto). She then received flowers from introduced Sahaja Yoga along with an all those assembled, and blessed explanation of the subtle system and the chakras. everyone. Amazingly enough, just as he As She sat there in Her chair . concluded and his talk, smiled, Shri our hearts Mataji sang with joy and our spirits graced us with Нег danced. presence. Th Everyone stood up public program to greet was held Нег. the at The Canvocation evening Hall of the belonged University to Shri Mataji. She was in Her element. of Toronto. The sequence of events to take place at the public program was She communicated the benefits of Sahaja clearly outlined by Shri Mataji; no wonder Yoga in a very easy and simple manner, everything went like song! There were along with a sense of humour, to which approximately 1,000 people present in the everyone responded with spontaneous auditorium, eagerly waiting for the laughter. The entire talk was full of proceedings to begin. The program compassion and Her voice was started at around 7.30 p.m., thanks to the overflowing with the love and the concern of a Divine Mother. Indeed She efforts of the Yuva Shakti, who had the venue ready on time. Steven Dey played manifested Her form as Sakshat Shri raag Yaman on the sarod and charmed Sandrakaruna. Later in Her hotel room SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 27 She said that she was concerned about to the audience. She requested them to join us by clapping their hands because it the direction in which American society increases the vibrations. The auditorium was going. The solution to all their problems, She further continued, was only Sahaja Yoga. was full of joy and Shri Mataji joined in the clapping. The bhajan reached a crescendo and our joy through vibrations peaked. Silence prevailed for a minute or Shri Mataji requested the audience to ask Her questions because She felt they were two and Shri Mataji thanked and blessed intelligent people. However She requested that they ask relevant questions everyone. Everyone stood up on Her departure. only. Shri Mataji, once again, with disarming ease and spontaneity answered the questions succinctly with Her own brand of humour. On being asked as to who She was, She answered, "Instead of The next day Shri Mataji agreed to meet Tamil TV (an ethnic television network with an extensive reach in North America) and talked to them for an hour and a half. They plan to do a documentary on Shri Mataji. They also covered the public program the day before and had Self Realization. They were very worrying yourself as to who I am, why don't you try to understand who you are? By knowing yourself, shall you know who I am." Jai Shri Mataji! their got respectful to Shri Mataji and sat at Her Lotus Feet during the interview. The (some other questions and answers interview will be broadcast to all of North After the question and answer session appear at the end of this article), Shri Mataji mentioned it was time for everyone to experience their Self Realization. What America and some countries in the Caribbean where there are pockets of ethnic Tamilians, which is a community happened next was an unusual experience from the south Indian state of Tamil for most Yogis. We felt cool breeze in Nadu. Shri Mataji then departed for the the auditorium and saw the banner behind airport. She had a few brief words and Shri Mataji moving with the breeze. Shri bid Her good-byes for now! With the ever Mataji did tell the audience She felt the beautiful smile, the Divine Mother cool breeze coming to Her from the continued on Her way to meet Her audience. What a blessing! Toronto was expectant children waiting for Her in New really "cool." York, USA! Shri Mataji requested the bhajan singers to sing Jogawa and explained its meaning Approximately 100 people attended the first follow-up program. Their sincerity March - April SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 28 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze and interest was simply amazing. A four- purpose of life?" "That's simple", Shri part follow-up program was scheduled, during which we proposed to gently guide our new brothers and sisters to find deeper meaning of their own selves, their kundalinis already awakened by and in the presence of the Divine Spirit itself! Mataji replied, "to become Divine." Others asked questions revealing their inner anguish and the pains of seeking. Shri Mataji complimented them on their honesty. A young boy in the front row wanted to know how evil comes into us. Another man sought the meaning of the Bolo Jagatmata Shri Nirmala Devi Ki jai!! backdrop on the stage behind Shri Mataji. She explained that was only there for decoration. "Everything you see," She cautioned, "but why don't you see the There are now 2,500 newly realized souls point?" After the public program, Shri in the city of Vancouver. After two public Mataji toured the city by car- Stanley programs conducted by Her Holiness Park and the North Shore mountains - Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi, a visit to Her to disperse the strong vibrations of the -Ashish Pradhan, Toronto Shri Mataji in Vancouver House in suburban Surrey and a hotel evening. room press conference, our city has been After very little sleep, Shri Mataji visited on Sunday morning a temple in Burnaby for the second public program. Speaking thoroughly vibrated and blessed by Her detailed attention, unprecedented in the eighteen years since Her first visit here. entirely in Hindi, She told these devotees Arriving from Chicago on Saturday, June of Shri Krishna that it should be easy for 26th, Shri Mataji gave a public program them to get their Self Realization. The at the city's major convention centre built temple's pujari prepared the way by over the water of the inner harbour. In introducing our Mother with great this landmark building first constructed devotion and recognition. From Burnaby, as the Canadian pavilion for Expo 86, Shri Shri Mataji travelled to Her house in Mataji addressed the seekers of our city. Surrey, a Sahaja Yoga ashram, where She As She had done in Toronto, New York received all the Sahaja Yogis, had lunch and Washington, Shri Mataji invited questions from the audience, satisfying all and rested. In the evening, back at the hotel, a small their mental concerns before the gift of Self Realisation. One man asked, with the press conference was held for five directness of a true seeker, "What is the journalists, including the editor of March April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 29 The Divine Cool Breeze Common Ground (the city seeking have evolved from the animal, so this magazine), a crew from Vision TV (a evolution is not complete, I think, as national religious cable chanel) and human beings also. But whatever it is, all members of the Vancouver Indian these horrible things that are lingering community's press and television. They within us and our personality are also sat shoeless on the floor before Her. One coming from our heritage. Then also because we think too much, we acquire article was offered to Shri Mataji the following morning for Her approval and correction. It reads as if written by a Sahaja Yogi. lots of things and our orientation also changes from other orientation like food, but we become sort of great greedy people. We become very money-oriented and the whole system changes to We all feel very blessed by Shri Mataji's great attention upon our city. Every Sahaja Yogi was able to offer Her flowers at the airport at both Her arrival and departure. When She visited the ashram in Surrey, everyone was able to go to Her different line, but these lingering things are still there, so with that also, we have jealousy, aggressiveness. All those things are actually our inheritance. So as a result, you become a person who can see things, Feet, offer a gift or discuss a concern. She who can watch things and not react. gave time equally to each of Her That's the greatest benefit I think. Children. She said that Paramchaitanya QUESTION: Did you do any work with was so pleased that She just wanted to fill the house with vibrations, to just let it Gandhi? flow. And so we were blessed. SHRI MATAJI:I didn't do vork, as such. Richard PAYMENT was a little child of seven years and I stayed with him and he found out about Me. He knew because he was also a On June 27th, Shri Mataji held a press realized soul, but very much full of conference in Her hotel room while disciplines and things like that. So people visiting Vancouver. Four journalists were never understood that side of Gandhiji. present representing Common Ground But he was a very spiritual man and he magazine, U magazine, The Link loved children. If I did any work, I used QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS newspaper and Vision of Fiji television program. Here is a small excerpt. to take out his temper some time, entertain him. But actually, you see, with him, he wanted Me to find out how he SHRI MATAJI: You see, what is the Should write the different bhajans. In his trouble with human beings, is that they March - April 2000 30 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi gave a public program in Vancouver. She invited questions from the audience. bhajanawali they had a book, written down all the hymns, so in what series we should write. So according to different centres, I told him that you have to QUESTION:What's the purpose of life? awaken on the centres. Shri Mataji: To become Divine. Simple. QUESTION: Are we all one being? That's a question to be felt within us. What is the purpose of human life? Is to become Divine, part and parcel of the Divinity. Now supposing you are a father, what do you want your son to become? SHRI MATAJI: All are connected, but those who are realized souls can feel the connection. But those who are not, do not feel it, but we are all connected. Happy, enjoyable and also a responsible They're all one person, part and parcel of one spiritual being. We can call it God Almighty. We have to be just aware of it. person. You also want that for your children. Then your great Father, what does He want for you? He wants you to be happy joyous people. Out of We have not come into our awareness. Once it comes, you know that... and then you are a different personality. ignorance, you are not that, so He wants to remove that ignorance. This is the QUESTION: When will things work out? purpose of our life. SHRI MATAJI: It depends on the wish QUESTION: If someone is in a stressful of the people. My wish, that it should situation and they don't have the happen tomorrow. Why should we waste our life on the non-sensical? Come to our senses. This is what I want, but I'm now opportunity to go and meditate or they don't have a chance to align, what is the best, on-the-spot, way to raise their vibration so that they can see it fromn God's point of view, from the point of view travelling, lecturing, talking, but what I feel that at the helm of affairs one should see the point. of society, in order to properly deal with QUESTION: Then how do you reach the problem? supreme being, God? In other words, is this the route to reach the supreme God? is your fundamental right and, if Shri Mataji: As I have told you already, it circumstances do not help you, the whole SHRI MATAJI: Yes, this is, of course. thing works out, automatically it works out. You get all the opportunities. I have This is Nirvana. On Saturday June 26th, Her Holiness seen many people who had these March April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze 31 problems, but they work on it. So believe in this power of love, how beautifully it works it. All right? May God bless you. all these are meant for introducing spirituality, and that's not the end of it. What is the end? End of it is to know yourself, to become spiritually endowed. I am saying you have to go QUESTION: [A man from a Vancouver Hindu temple invites Shri Mataji to visit beyond your mental personality, For that, you have to have Kundalini awakening. the next day and give a program.] SHRI MATAJI:Thank you very much. You see, temples, gurudwaras, churches. Continue from page 20 and that childhood has to come back in you, wrong and then you will try to correct it. Al this works out very well when you are pure in your heart. The heart should be pure. If if you really worship the Mothe. May God Bless You your heart is not pure, if you are doing Sahaja Yoga to have some competition with others or with some sort of material achievements, it will not work out. You have to do it in a way that is an innocent act, that you are worshipping your Mother like a little child worships and loves his mother. It's a very simple relationship which all of us have felt. How we should love our Mother and how we should be under her guidance and under her protection. That is something very simple you have known in your childhood The Divine Cool Breeze RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA March April 2000 32 Reclaiming the Swastika Have you ever looked up the word, ness about the swastika - yet the pure swastika" at the library? While writing truth about the swastika can never be this article, the reference librarian at the altered. It is the most ancient symbol of New York Public Library was asked humankind and its shape actually imparts about a text about the swastika. Her the energy of Shri Ganesha. The vibration reply: "Are you researching of the swastika is very World Wart II?" When it powerful and holy, and marks His presence. was explained that the swastika is one of word The the most revered swastika in symbols of Sanskrit Hinduism and derives from other religious traditions, the S Vasti • me aning "well-being" writer was sent over to: (su-good +asti-being). The following is the Fine Arts Division, Things were an incomplete list better there, as the of cultures that have librarian said, "Oh, revered the swastika, you're interested in Shri and have used it extensively to Ganesha and the swastika. He is the show auspiciousness of favorable circumstances: India; China; The son of Shri Shiva and Shri Parvati; here is a reference about it." Myceneans (of Greece); The Celts (or Ireland); also, Ancient Britain and As the swastika is such an essential part Scandinavia; Ancient Christians of the of life and Sahaja Yoga, understanding its meaning and history is important. The negativity of the Third Reich has affected the awareness in the public conscious- Middle East; Native Americans; Russia: Japan: and Gemany, The presence of the true swastika (in a RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 33 clockwise direction) gives miraculous vibrationally aware, and their chakras qualities. It acts as the remover of insensitive to the kundalini. It makes one obstacles and as such marked the ships wonder if the repeated (but unintentional) departing from Lanka to insure Shri Ram's victory. In China, stone carvings of Shri Buddha's feet are often marked use of the counter-clockwise swastika eventually brought entire societies down by displeasing the Divine. with swastikas. Its name there is wantz- te and it represents a benevolent society. the totality of life, and Buddha's heart. The ancient Christians identified the swastika with Jesus Christ and the Sun. In the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament, references are made to four angels, each standing on a fiery wheel- like cross, and each facing one of the four Actually, the swastika is found virtually everywhere human-kind has wandered. Thousands of swastikas are painted on the walls of ancient Indian caves, and directions. This can only be the divine quality of Shri Ganesha interpreted through Western iconography. today the Hindu housewife in the villages still marks the doorway and walls of her home with it. Ancient Greek coins, Roman mosaics, and even the sewing Pre-World War I Western philosophers bobbins of Old Europe have this mark. had a positive understanding about the As the centuries have gone on, the swastika as representing dynamic growth understanding of the swastika became in life, and as a symbol of Christ. They disconnected from people's lives. also took it to be a symbol of the four directions, and the evolution from the animal realm to human life and up to the celestial realms. They were unaware that Sacredness was separated from the activities of everyday life. Nevertheless, the swastika appeared on household Ganesha and Christ were aspects of the same principle, and associated with the cross of Christ which is not a truth. goods, clothings, and building columns as a mark of auspiciousness that was less conscious than in the past. e past. Through Sahaja Yoga, we know that the qualities of Shri Ganesha-innocence and wisdom-reside in living cells on a subtle The vibratory quality of the swastika is in its clockwise direction. The counter- clockwise form is not auspicious and has level. The swastika is also reflected in the been used in this form for tantric or evil spiral shape of the DNA molecule, the building block of life. On an atomic level. purposes. In many cultures, the swastika became an ornamental symbol (used in the swastika itself is visible in the carbon either form) as people became less 2000 34 March - April RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA The Divine Cool Breeze great Uluru, otherwise known as Ayer's atom. Shri Mataji has confirmed the findings Rock. A massive red rock formation, it of Sahaja Yoga scientists who have is a Ganesha swayambhu, a natural geological phenomenon that emits vibrations. Ayer's Rock was a sacred place for the aboriginal tribes who felt the huge documented that the swastika (), as well as the omkara (). Alpha (a) and Omega (Q) can be seen as part of the structure of the carbon atom. stone formation was alive. Scientists have pinpointed this rock as the oldest fossil record of amoebic life and possibly life The swastika is not just a representation: it is in itself the presence of life. Before realization, seekers find comfort in itself. The rock is red in colour and has messages and symbols. After realization, magnetic properties. we feel the blessing of this "symbol" Shri Mataji speaks about the magnetic and electromagnetic qualities of Shri Ganesha, who is at the core of evolution itself: directly on our chakras. In the land of the Vishuddhi, the Native Americans felt the power of the earth "At the level of matter, we might call it element. The ancestors of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest, the electromagnetic, but potentially it is the Anazazi, depicted swastika designs on energy of Shri Ganesha which is electromagnetic at this point. There it starts evolving, growing. That's how we their beautiful pottery. Today the Hopi, their descendants, still tell stories of an ancient migration In a human being it exists, as you know, covering 10,000 years of history as auspiciousness, as purity, mainly the throughout the Southwest. The Hopi innocence." believe that they as a people came right have different growth of the evolution. out of the earth and that they migrated in Shri Ganesha, the four-armed elephant- the four directions in the shape of a headed God, mirrors the swastika in form. clockwise swastika. They believe this His flowing arms and hands are reflected shape gave religious meaning to the in the words of the Shri Ganesha Song. journey. Their emergence symbolized to He is praised here as Shri Vinayaka (the them an entrance into a new world and remover of obstacles). "Four Holy Hands, created a longing to return to the world the blessing, rope and goad, the fourth where the "door to the top of the head" offers food to your devotees." The goad-spiritual growth; the rope- rescue from harm; the cup-raised hand- bestowing blessings; and the fourth was open, a return to the mother. In Australia, Shri Ganesha's land, sits the March April 2000 RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA 35 The Divine Cool Breeze angelic quality of the right side of Germany. Shri Hanumana acted during World War II to play a trick on Hitler. The Nazi Party bearing food-or blessings of prasad. All of these combine to represent innocence itself, and gives pranava-"that is when electromagnetic force is charged with originally used the swastika in a clockwise Ganesha's principle." These symbolic manner on its flag. Shri Hanumana made the aspects of Shri Ganesha help impart stencil go in such a way that the Nazis pranava, a coefficient that generates decided to use the other side. Both Shri vibrations. (Shri Ganesha Puja, Cabella, Ganesha and Shri Hanumana joined September 19, 1993). together to stop Hitler from winning the war in this way and so the whole world was saved from evil's attempt to conquer. Then how did the swastika of Shri Ganesha get distorted by the evil of Hitler? Shri Mataji explains that Hitler New seekers at meetings may have was influenced by Tibetan Buddhists who conditioned ideas toward the swastika were involved with tantric practices. because of this century's negativity from Knowing this symbol had power, he used Nazism. The Western media also it to represent a supposed German perpetrates a fundamental misunder- cultural resurrection and to justify his evil standing about the meaning of the doings. At aother point in history, the Roman empire used the swastika as a sign of its domination, and it was carried by Roman standard bearers, but as in the case swastika because of World War II memories. In India, today the swastika represents political elections and the Indian society at large in a positive way. As recently as the 1930s, public buildings of the Nazis, such wrongs are always conquered by goodness. As Shri Mataji reminds us, the Romans were responsible for the death of Shri Jesus Christ. Their around America were built with swastika as a beautiful decorative element representing life and goodwill. It is only in the last fifty years that attention has gone backwards. empire weakened soon after. It is a fact that their mercantile trade with India introduced them to the swastika as a Sahaja Yoga is healing these misunderstandings about the meaning and symbol of society, but the Romans used it in reverse. power of this profound sacred mystery, At the 1998 Shri Hanumana Puja the swastika. The swastika of Shri (conducted in Germany), Shri Mataji Ganesha is inviolate, pure and beyond spoke about Shri Hanumana and the time and history, and through Sahaja Yoga The Divine Cool Breeze RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA 36 March- April 2000 its public dignity will be completely restored. 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Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Ekadash Rudra Puja 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-1.txt In this Issue: Invocation to Shri Adi Shakti 1 Shri Ganesha Puja 25.9.99 (Cabella) Navratri Puja 12 North American Tour 1999 21 Shri Mataji's Canadian Tour 1999 25 Reclaiming the Swastika 32 Sahaja Yoga World Centres 37 Edited by : Yogi Mahajan V.J. Nalgirkar 162, Munirka Vihar Published by : New Delhi-110 067 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-2.txt The Divine Cool Breeze March - April 2000 INVOCATION TO SHRI ADI SHAKTI O Mother Divine Out of the highest realm of Divinity You have come on this Earth only because of Your infinite love, compassion and benevolence. Your powers, which created all the universes. are insurmountable. Your completeness is such that everything that exists, that has existed, shall exist and also that exists for ever is contained in Your indescribable being. Despite that, O Supreme Mother, out of Your immeasurable love, You have assumed a form which is similar to ours, only to give us guidance, protection, salvation. In spite of being the Most Powerful, the Most Complete, the One Who contains everything, O Beloved Mother, You have granted to Your children the opportunity of offering Puja at Your Lotus Feet, only for our own benefit. On this auspicious occasion of your 77th Birthday we all the Sahaja children from the world most humbly and respectfully invite You to Delhi and shower your blessings on us. Humbly, Your children from the world. 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-3.txt March April SHRI GANESHA PUJA. 1999 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA 25.9.99 (Cabella) Discourse by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi these problems, all such people, who suffer from the right side, should worship Shri Ganesha. For example these days, life is very much busy with all of you. You are extremely busy with your work and you are doing extra work, I should say, ODAY We have gathered here to worship Shri Ganesha. You äll know what a powerful deity He is. His power comes from his innocence. When we see small children we are automatically compelled towards them and also we want to love them, kiss them than normal. But you think you are doing a very great job of God. As a result Shri Ganesha is neglected and such a man can beceome either very dry or very self indulgent. One of the two things come up and he does not know where he is going. The only thing that keeps you in the middle, in Sahaja Yoga, is Shri Ganesha's Puja, Shri Ganesha's worship by which you can always be in the centre. All these diseases of the right side can be and be with them. And very innocent they are, extremely innocent, and when we worship Shri Ganesha we have to know if we have been really innocent or not. These days people have become extremely cunning, and they don't mind any amount of cunning. They play all kinds of cunning games on others who are innocent and simple. They can justify themselves always that whatever they are doing is the right thing in these modern times when everybody is so cunning. This cunningness can take you to the other Now there are various ways people extreme of right side, which is very much worship Shri Ganesha but there is a punishable, in the sense that some peoplesimple way to remember him and sit develop all kinds of problems, which are before his photograph and take vibrations physical, you can say. Like their hands from him. Thats the best way you can can get paralysed or their leg can get balance yourself. There are so many paralysed. AIso, they can have other worries, there are so many struggles you cured by Shri Ganesha's Puja. have. All these can be neutralised by Shri troubles with their liver treatments and Ganesha. Though innocent, He is extremely clever and when he comes to all that. All this comes up. Then to punish them a disease of psychosomatic nature might set in. At this time, when you have your help you are amazed. How he works 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-4.txt SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze very difficult times. It is his style that he it out and how he removes all the hurdles manages things so weil because he is a Ganpati. Ganpati means the one who is the Lord of the Ganas. As I have told you Ganas exist within us. Very nicely settled down as these bodies, small, small bodies and all the worries from you. So this is the most important deity we have. Though its a very simple deity. This Mooladhar chakra is very very complicated. It is one of the most complicated, chakras I think, because it has many waves, it has many compartments. We can say which all the time are vibrating and oscillating. So to study down these you should try to be who report if there is any problem. They report to the brain that there is a problem and on the sternum bone is the residence or you can say the throne of the Goddess Durga. So whenever there is any problem absolutely dedicated to Shri Ganesha. we are found into some trouble, sternum bone starts vibrating and these bodies Shri Ganesha, as I told you, was which are Ganas get the information. incarnated as Jesus Christ, and Jesus was Antibodies they are called in the medical also a very innocent person. If he was not terminology. Then these Ganas attack. They can target also. They know how to innocent, He would not have been crucified, but he was not a cunning fellow target the troubles and attack it, one may think that only the people who are to see the cunning of others. His own disciple deceived him and still he knew suffering medically are helped by Ganas is not true. Also the people who are who it was, he never said who it was. If you see his life, its full of innocent beauty, mentally upset, who are mentally suffering are also helped by the Ganas. These is such a simple hearted personality, such a good personality and wherever he saw anything wrong done he is to go all out to fight it. Same is Shri Ganesha. Ganas are so good at targeting their problems that sometimes we are surprised how things are worked out. For example Shri Ganesha's blessings are very say something happens to someone, some important for all the people who are child, somewhere. Now his parents start specially proe to some sort of a hurdle crying for Mother and the Mother is the or 'Sankata as they call it'. He is called as Durga say, then what happens, that they Sankata Vimochan, the one who takes immediately rush to that place and you out of all the hurdles of life. So many miraculously they cure the boy. of you have experienced how he has miraculously they say. So many helped you in different troubles and miraculous thing that have happened in hurdles and also different type of very your life you cannot explain, but they are 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-5.txt March April 2000 4 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 they brought out the boy and he was treated by the doctors also but also with vibrations and today that boy is perfectly alright, while the doctors had said he can all due to this Ganapati's Ganas. They are also small like him and they are very active and very alert. They never sleep. Anytime there is any trouble these Ganas will go and attack the problem and find out solution for him. It is something unbelievable how they act and how they never survive. If there is one chance of his surviving, he will be like a dead body, in a coma all the time. This boy, I have met him this time, when I went to America. So, like this, so many things inform. Ican give you so many examples that have happened like this. For example there was a boy who got drowned in one of our happen and people tell me that Mother its your 'kripa', your blessings that this has happened. ashrams in America in the swimming pool. They were all jumping in the In a way, it is very distantly, I should say, swimming pool, I didn't like the idea of but because of Shri Ganesha. Now Shri swimming pool very much because there Ganesha's another quality is that he is were children. So one boy fell down into extremely obedient to Mother. He does that and was inside for about 15 to 20 not recognize even Shiva, Vihnu, any one. minutes. Nobody knew he was there. So To him his Mother is everything. So he can fight with his father, Shiva, he can fight with anyone because to him is then they tried to find out the body of the boy and then they found out he was not there. Where has he gone? Then they discovered that he was in that swimming complete obedience and absolutely quick Tatpar', just quickly understands what is pool. After that they got so frightened and they said we just prayed to you, Mother to save this boy. Surprisingly, I never telephone to any Ashram, I didn't know even the address, but I asked to telephone to this number, on my own. I don't know the desire of the Mother and he works it out. His style is otherwise very innocent, simple, child like but His work is tremendous. Now these Ganas are also very innocent people, very innocent but when told that you have to attend to a particular problem, they are extremely quick and they are very fast. The another thing within is that he respects people who are chaste, who have chastity as the prime thing in their life. Chastity is very much anybody's numbers and, when I telephoned, one of the leaders came there and I told him I know the boy has fallen into the water and he will be saved. Nobody had told me anything. "Don't worry he will be perfectly alright." Then worshipped by him. Its not only in women 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-6.txt March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze but also in men, he expects chastity to be present. After getting realisation you should be absolutely chaste people, you shouldn't have your eyes rolling around country, who are doing black magic, or who are doing fundamentalism and where people are also having very bad morals. He creates problems for them. What happens that He tells the Mother earth to every where and sort of what you can call create the earthquakes. Earthquake takes place in places where there is no respect of chastity, also where there are a very bad method of communicating with young women and young men and spoiling your chastity. Even your eyes should be cleaned, even your thoughts should be cleaned. For that you should introspect and see for yourself what mistakes you have committed and what kind of an unchaste behaviour you have. You have to correct yourself and ask Shri Ganesha to forgive you. If you ask for forgiveness, he can forgive anything. He is so innocent and beautiful that he fundamentalist and also where there are people who are worshipping the black magic. This kind of people are attacked by him through his Mother. So the Mother earth also understands. Now we have so many earthquakes, one in Turkey you know, one in Taiwan, but not a single Sahaja Yogi has died. So he protects them. He has discrimination and only such people, who are of this kind, he tries to destroy them, and he has destroyed many like this even before. Also, the Mother forgives you, but that is a very important thing. Our whole morality depends on our idea of chastity. We should be very chaste. So many religions have come and they have talked about chastity. But religions earth's powers he has got, is that he is magnetic, he attracts people towards have become so useless now, have himself, people take to him very easily as we take to children very easily. So that is become without any basis, without any proper execution, of what is written for them. They do all kinds of things and they magnetic power that he has got within himself. call themselves Hindus, Muslims, Now, you will be surprised this magnet exists also in the birds, also in many animals but specially in the birds. That's Christians, all kinds of religions. Actually the religions have failed completely and that's why Shri Ganesha gets after them. how they can follow direction where they have to go. They are flying from, say Siberia, all the way, flying to Australia. How do they fly? And again they come back to the same place. It also is in the Another thing about Shri Ganesh is that he is created out of the Mother earth. He is absolutely created out of the mother Earth. So if he doesn't like people of some 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-7.txt March - April SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze 2000 Ganesha. So like that they were doing to fishes. Fishes also are found say in the waters which are coming from some hills, so they come to the plains for some time and again God knows how, they go back to their own place. So going back to the same place is only possible if there is a way of knowing the direction. But they know the direction, they have a sense of this one statue that they had and they were dancing before it. But when they put the statue in the water and they came back home, they got drunk and when they got drunk, they started dancing with that drinking and saying Jai Ganesha, Jai Ganesha. At that time the earth moved direction, also they are bound by their own qualities. For example a snake will be a snake, a dog will be a dog, and a lion will be a lion. But human beings have perhaps all the animals within them. So they could be anything, you can't say and they are too cunning to admit that they can be anything. And once they become anything like that you are amazed how these people can be of such a low level when they are human beings. But it is so because Ganesha has not been respected in their lives. So they can go to any level, and the earthquake took away all of them inside the earth itself. They all disappeared into earth. Apart from that there were many others also who were doing this kind of thing, were taken into the mother earth. And our Ashram was there, a kind of a centre and around the centre there was a very beautiful land but he did not touch that land. Around is about at least quite a long distance, a big gap came in and there was a opening in the mother earth all around the centre and nobody was harmed. They were all at home. They were all right. But this happened, that our any place. Ashram was not at all touched and this is Another example, I give you a very big how they saved the Ashram and not a earthquake we had in India, in Latur. In single Sahaja Yogi died. It is really very Latur this was the fourteenth day of Shri remarkable how the protection is given Ganesha where they take Shri Ganesha by Shri Ganesha and his Ganas. and put it in the sea or in the water of a So we must respect his Ganas, very river. So there, in Latur, these people have been having a nice statue of Shri Ganasha. important is to see that they are all around within us, they are acting within us. They Before the statue they dance and they have now started playing very dirty, very bad, music from some very funny films see us what sort of person you are, and in case you try to dislodge Shri Ganesha by your misbehaviour they try to see that or something. It's so bad that you just can't you again go back to normal. They give bear it. Very bad and that upsets Shri 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-8.txt SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze not for worship. There is no photograph of real Shri Ganesha, no photograph. you a chance many a times. But even then you go on with your cunning and ideas about your ego, you are very badly hit by There are eight Shri Ganeshas who came out of mother earth. I have seen them. But in those places the pujaris, the people who are the priest are horrible, horrible people. I went to one of them and he said, "I am getting Asthama", "I am getting him and that is the biggest, I should say, calamity for you people. So you must worship Shri Ganesha but I always say don't worship every Shri Ganesha which is being created by those, we can say, artisans. Because God knows what sort paralysis, how is it I am worshipping Shri Ganesha, my forefathers have worshipped Shri Ganesha and how he is doing this to us." I said, you just introspect yourself, what kind of a life you lead, what do of Artisans they are. For money's sake they might be making Ganesha and they might not have got any idea of Chastity. Such people make these Ganesha and then you worship those Ganeshas, so we you do, are you really worthy of Shri Ganesha's Pujari. And then he realized it. are not at all helped by this. That's why Mohammad Saheb has said, don't do any worship of any idol because I said, "I will cure you now. Its all right but afterwards you see to it that you become an innocent personality. Try to these idols have been created by human beings who are not authorised to do that. lead an innocent life, not of outwitting They are not Swayambhus Ha. They another and being very cunning and are not created by the mother earth but clever. Shri Ganesha's troubles, are really, are copied by people who are just wanting I can't count them even, how much it can to make money out of them. So that's how hamper, or how much it can give you any idol you get, say, from the shops trouble, how much it can take you nearer need not be worshiped, it is not to be to your death. He is so powerful, because worshiped, any idol whatsoever. So all his energy is for the divine work of his whatever is not there, we should not Mother, all his energy. vorship because it is made by somebody who has very bad vibrations, who is a He doesn't do anything, he doesn't want cheat, who is very cunning and thinks no anything. Just all his energy is for that and end of himself. With such a person if you he is asking for what is simple, what you buy a Shri Ganesha it is going to harm can call Modaka, a kind of a thing they you, is not going to help you. You can make out of coconut. That's what he eats. His body is so subtle and so, so powerful have it for decoration in the house but 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-9.txt March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Ganesha. that he can move mountains after mountains. With his simplicity, with his All these things are there but we cannot sweetness, and with his innocence he can understand it because we are confused. We don't want to see it in a proper sense that this is already written there. So those who worship Christ, also worship Shri Ganesha and whatever you say to Christ really change people. People who are very harsh, can be changed. His symbol as we have seen is a Swastika, of the right direction. But if it is the other way round Swastika, then that can destroy. When It was used by Hitler in the beginning, it was you are saying it to Shri Ganesha. They are not two, they are one and absolutely one with each other. All the things I have the right type and he was successful. But then what happened, they had stencils and told you about Christ, you can try to find out and you will prove it. Like Christ had these two fingers, this means one finger they started using it from the otherside. So it was from the left side, they started other way round and then they were all destroyed. How powerful is Shri is for the Vishuddi as we say Shri Krishna and this one is Vishnu's means this is his Ganesha's Swastika, you can say. Also we have proved now that Swastika if you see from left to the right, is actually from the Carbon atom. The carbon atom has got father's. That means his father was Vishnu or Shri Krishna. Very clearly he used to do, why didn't he use other fingers, only these two fingers why did he use. Pointing Swastika and the whole of this chakra is made of Carbon atoms, all put in series. out towards his father who was Shri Vishnu and Shri Krishna. Now if you look at it from the left side, It is easy to understand what I am saying, if you see the vibrations of Shri Ganesha. If you see his vibrations and think of him you will be amazed, that your Agnya will open out, you will become thoughtless, you have proved it now, look at it from the left side to right side, what you see is Onkar. If you see it from right side to left side, you see the Swastika, and if you see from down below upward then it looks like a Cross. So it proves that Shri Ganesha incarnated as Christ and he is because he is the Jesus and he is on the Agnya. So it all opens out and all the stupid ideas about getting the Agnya, this and that is all neutralized because you see for yourself, just the name of Shri Ganesha can open your Agnya. The and out of the half of the egg became cunningness that comes from Agnya is Christ and half of the egg was Shri absolutely finished. You are no more the one who is worshipped all over the world, is already written in the Devi Mahatmaya if you read it, is all clearly written about him how he became an egg 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-10.txt March- April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze cunning. When you see this innocence on your forehead, you are amazed at yourself earth is a wrong idea, is very wrong because it is harming us with pollution. To cut down the trees, to cut down every thing that mother has produced and just to use it for money is a very wrong thing. One should think about it and when you cut one tree also you should put another one there. That is the beauty of the Mother earth, all the greenery, every thing is the beauty of the Mother carth. and all such ideas just disappear. You cannot think of something very cunning and harmful to others. You are completely changed when the Agnya is absolutely opened out. This one is a very big blessing to us that we all have this Muladhara Chakra now put into proper thing. When you sit on the ground also it helps more because the mother of Shri Ganesha is Many people have no interest in gardening or in nature, no interest. I don't this Prithvi, is this earth, the mother earth and that's why we should look after the know how they live but they do without taking any interest in gardening or in the mother earth. We don't look after the mother earth. We don't understand the nature. Nature is so beautiful, just look at the nature, it is never smelling, is never dirty, every leaf is so organized that it value of mother earth. Actually in Indian culture it is that when you are getting up in the morning, you must say Namaskar should get the sunrays. There is no quarrel about it. They are so well organized, bow to you, O. Mother earth because I everything is so beautiful and it is never am touching you with my feet. Such destroyed also by any animals. You will respect you should have for Mother earth, be amazed. The animals also don't then you won't exploit it, you won't have destroy, at the most they might eat some to the Mother earth because saying that I today's problems of pollution and this and grass or something, but normally animals do not destroy any tree, do not destroy that. It all comes out of our ignorance that the anything as we destroy the Mother earth Mother earth is the mother of Shri for our own use. Whatever may be the Ganesha who's chakra we have got as cry for this, we have to understand that Mooladhara. If you understand this you we have to respect to the Mother earth. will be able to understand, what is to be Mother earth is the mother of Shri done. The mother earth itself we should Ganesha, who is our, you should say the look after, we can glorify her, we can eldest Sahaja Yogi. He never had to take beautify her, we can do all kinds of things but the way we are exploiting the mother to yoga but he is in Yoga all the time. He is the greatest yogi we have and the way 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-11.txt March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 10 he is doing right things all the time. He never does anything wrong, never and he is so capable of getting to the position of any great deity that is possible, I would say. He is the greatest deity we have and much more for men. Shri Ganesha is very important thing because men can develop so many diseases if they do not respect Shri Ganesha. Our health would be the best if we look after Shri Ganesha because he is all the we should really worship him. Through him all deities are worshiped and are made happy and blissful. So this is today's thing was that I was just thinking that now a time repairing our body. He is all the time looking after, protecting us and our Shri Ganesha is in the Mooladhara. He is the days, in modern times how we have become shameless, how we have tried to trouble our chastity, for kind of a honour. one who is looking after our Kundalini, he is protecting our Kundalini. If any thing happens to us the Kundalini comes up but If we have any honour you will have the chastity but you are dishonouring yourself and you think you have been very very smart and modern by becoming so sinful. All the sinful act that is going on in these modern times is absolutely wrong and it should be completely, we should abhor it. You should go no way near because the one who supports her and, keeps her up, awakened and standing is Shri Ganesha. He works it out. He is the one who is the protector of our Kundalini which is also a basis of your self realisation. So how much important is Shri Ganesha you should know, and you should find out about yourself, introspect thats all wrong and that's how Shri that are we really dedicated to Shri Ganesha gets angry. Decency is very important in understanding, what is our important basis, is our chastity. In India you know thirty two thousand women got themselves burnt for saving their chastity. I come from the same family and you can imagine what courage they must be having, what faith they must be having, in their chastity that if we lose our chastity what's the use of our life. So they cared for their chastity, have done so much sacrifice to show that chastity is the most Ganesha? If we are, what are we doing about it? Then you will develop a real hatred for all these dirty things. You will not like them, will not like such people. That is how a Sahaja Yogi should work it out. The children are the best as we know. Children are so sweet and so kind, they are so loving, so beautiful. In the same way we should know Shri Ganesha is there. He is the one who is really innocent but extremely extremely, protective of you, very much protective, with his important thing, we all should have. Its not only for women but also for men, very innocence. So we should also try to cherish our 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-12.txt March - April 2000 SHRI GANESHA PUJA, 1999 11 The Divine Cool Breeze other countries it has happened but I was happy to see that in Australia they are very secular. They have many Maoris and all those people and they encourage all of them and its so surprising that they have so much talent and they are bringing innocence and not to feel hurt because sometime such people are cheated, dominated, every thing happens, doesn't matter. They will all suffer who will dominate innocent people. As the whole world, you see, there is a big uproar about it, people are talking about it that there should not be domination of the innocent them to this state to show that they are equal in their rights, political rights, in Australia. Its a very good venture. simple people. It has happened but it all has to be changed, has to be brought to some last end otherwise people can not Now this Ganesha has appeared in Australia is as Uluru, is a very big exist, like everywhere they went and mountain which looks like Shri Ganesha. It has also a very big trunk, going down. oppressed so many people. In America, I was surprised to see that there were so Vibrations itself will prove that it is Shri many Red Indians, who are called as Indian Americans. They were all Ganesha, from the mother earth. He has appeared in many places, Shri Ganesha not only there. But there I felt really the oppressed so much that they had to run away to different places and then I went to this place Canajohari. I found the vibrations were so good. That means they It is. And in Australia I thank him that were very innocent, simple people and because of him only Sahaja Yoga has Americans that time, who went there. worked so well and so easily, and tried to completely finish them. So they Government also has never troubled us went and hid in places like Canajohari but source, source of vibrations. Thats what or there has been no problem with them. I don't know what's this helping them but the Canajohari has such tremendous vibrations that I said look at this, so many perhaps it is Shri Ganesha as uluru which years have passed, still the people who is protecting Sahaja Yoga there and is live there or worked about and were growing so much. In the same way every atsolutely enjoying this place were Red where, where ever you may be Shri Indians, the ones who were Indians, we Ganesha should be worshipped and you call them American Indians. But they are will be helped out and out miraculously. so simple and innocent and they were so, You will be helped, miraculously but first I think, spiritual people because they used do something about our chastity which is to worship the Mother. All the time they Shri Ganesha. May God Bless You. worship the Mother. Even I have seen in 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-13.txt March April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 12 NAVRATRI PUJA NAVRATRI PUJA Cabella, 17-10-1999 Discourse by Her Holiness Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi Tonight we have gathered here to do the Puja, to the Devi, that is, Mahakali we can call her, or Durga. So many types of forms, She has taken to kill the negative forces that are trying to trouble or to obstruct or even to grow, the people who were gentle and good, Her forms are of different types that we know about, that She destroyed so many rakshasas. She destroyed many evil doers. Also, we do not know that in the world wars that we to hate. But these forces join together sometimes to form a giant personality of evil which tries to torture the human beings and trouble them. They might take any name, they might call themselves by anything but they are absolutely hundred percent evil and for such persons there is no pity or compassion from the God Almighty. These are to be destroyed and that is the job of the Goddess, to destroy them, who is a Mother, full of compassion had She was there to protect the right and love. type of people and that's how they all survived the ill plan, the ill gotten plan of It's a very contradictory work the very cruel and evil people. The evil people Goddess has to do, to kill these people have a capaeity to hate and to expresS their hatred in every way that is possible. They are really born evil and there are also who become evil. When they are born because in the larger interest it is important that all such evil people should be destroyed completely, but they do not. They, like you go to jail for sometimes, like that, they go to hell for sometimes, suffer and again they come back much more stronger and then again try to trouble good, saintly people. It's a common style they are, all over the world. They can come in the form of a very good evil you can make them out that their whole style is so aggressive and so vindictive about things, but hatred has no limits, no limits at all because if they hate, someone then just to justify that hatred they will say all kinds of things, just to justify. But sometimes they don't even want to justify, they just feel that they hate and it's a fundamental right they have got man, of a very gentle man or of a man who knows a lot about God or they can also say that they can give you realisation. 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-14.txt March- April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA 13 The Divine Cool Breeze All kinds of lies they are capable of these people. While the good people also because they have that power-evil power sometimes follow suite, they also try to of doing evil. So, they take to all kind of follow them. It's very surprising why falsehood and they proclaim that we are should good people not understand what this and we are that and we can give you is good and what is bad? But that discrimination many good people also lack and that's why they take to wrong Actually they have come on this earth to things and then they go on justifying all ruin people. We have had many of these the time. Whatever they are doing is the false people and many stupid people right thing, is the best thing, they have this, all that. followed them. They never talked against the proof of it. each other. Christ has said, "Devil won't talk against its own house", as if they are Now, as you know there have been many in one house and in one house they live of them in this Kaliyuga and so many of and they can not talk, of something that them have now disappeared from this will disturb their collectivity or their earth and now they can not trouble us. fraternity. Their fraternity is so great that But, there are still some more who are wherever they are, they know that they exposed, people have exposed them so are together. Just imagine, all the evil much that no body can expose anybody people should join together and behave without any proof. But, they have such in this manner, is very surprising. That's courage and they are so full of confidence why they are very collective. Supposing, that they can do what they like and one has taken a particular part of the land. anybody tries to expose them, they will Then he dominates there, another takes definitely ruin that person. Few things up in another way, third one takes, there's they are doing-fīrst of all, they put wrong no competition as such. Ultimate effort ideas into your head. They say that we is somehow or other to destroy all the are very great people, we are this, we are creation of God, all the good people of that. God has sent us, all sorts of things tne world, who will ultimately get their they will talk but there is no proof about it and human beings never ask for the self realisation and who will have the knowledge about reality. This kind of proof as to how do you say? What is the proof? So, the solution is Sahaja Yoga. In Sahaja Yoga you have the experience, you have the proof. Then you grow into it, immediately you cannot become a great atmosphere is the worst during Kaliyuga, and there are so many, stupid people who may be simple, who may be good natured but they are drawn by the evil doing of 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-15.txt March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA 14 Sahaja Yogi, that's a fact. You have to will tell you by many ways that this is wrong, why you are doing wrong to some person. But, if you do not repent and come back on to the normal position, She gives you up. Once Mahakali gives you mature, it takes some time for some people, it takes some more time for some people, doesn't matter. But, you do mature. In the meanwhile if you try to go up, you are now exposed and become prone to all kinds of evil things. I would say, when you worship her, what you want? You want her to protect. In your discrimination, in your mistake you might do something wrong, may do something that is not good for you, could be very to these wrong people then there is no possibility, there is no way of again bringing you up. Specially those people who rise high in Sahaja Yoga. If they fall, they fall so low then even an ordinary Sahaja Yogi could say Mother, look at him, where has he gone! So, with all these things happening, what is our job, is to worship Mahakali within us because what does She do, perhaps, we are not very dangerous for you. But She is the person who guides you, how to avoid all the dangers. aware of. Now, She protects your life. She protects First and foremost thing She does is to protect us. Wherever you may be, what your body, She protects all organs of your body, She is the one who gives you all ever you may be doing, in whatever peril you may be, how-so-ever dangerously you may be placed in life, She protects the security of the life. In Her realm you feel completely secure, you are never afraid of anything. Because you have left you. First thing, She protects you. All the people who write to me how they were protected, how they were cured, how they were helped is this thing that they should know that all this has happened because of Mahakali power within you. She exists within you. When you are worshipping Mahakali, you are worshipping the Mahakali within you, with due respect you must know that this Mahakali is a very sensitive personality, She is very sensitive. If you try to do any wrong to anyone, She will guide you, She her realm, you have come out of it that's why, that is the reason, you are afraid. But, if you are under Her beautiful guidance and Her blessings you will never feel afraid to do anything, you will never do anything wrong also. As soon as you will try to do wrong, She will hold your hand. She is really the guiding person, She is the one who actually gives us our existence. Without Her we cannot exist because She is the one who is the power of Shri Shiva. She gives us so many things. For example, She gives us the 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-16.txt March - April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze 15 relaxation, the sleep. She gives you the truth, She tells you what is the truth and what is not. Sometimes people so much in their ego, always try to believe that what I think is the truth. Then, She is the one who points it out by creating a maya, a kind of a confusion that you start thinking, what is this? So, She is called also the one who gives us 'Bhranti' means 'illusions'. She puts you to illusions also. She tests you, puts you to illusions and She then ultimately takes you out of the when you are like a child before Her, how can you worry about it! So, your worries are finished. She worries about you, you shouldn't worry about yourself. That's the point in it. Her security is so great, She is so secure Herself that She gives you all the security that you need. You can hold on to Her feet, you can hold on to Her image or to anything, you can even pray to Her. Many people are being cured only by praying to Her because She cures you. She can cure your diseases which are very complicated diseases, She can cure. illusions. She is the one who relaxes you because Now, what she likes-Mahakali likes the She take over all your responsibilities, She light. She is worshipped in the night takes over all your problems. She is the because then we can put on the lights. one who solves all the problems. It is we She likes enlightened person. Also, She who forget to leave all the problems to likes the light, She likes the sun, She likes Her. If you just leave problems to Her, something that will be completely all your problems are solved. Not only enlightened and brightened. You must that but you really feel blessed. It's not have heard about people who are called, only physical also it is mental that She I don't know what, but specially in the makes your mind absolutely free of West they use them, they have big teeth worries. She doesn't worry and She and they are the people, just imagine, they doesn't want you to worry. If you worry cannot exist before the sun. As soon as then She tries to show that while you are there is a sun rise they just want to go off worrying, you are denying Her, you are and sleep. They cannot see the sun 1.ot accepting Her. Worrying is because the light they can't bear. Now, something, is very common and people what has happened here that Mahakali has take great pride in it."O! I was worried." departed from them and when Mahakali How can you be worried when your has departed from them and then they are Mother is sakshaat Mahakali. She can kill afraid and such people are attacked by all the demons, She can finish all of them. these people who know they are afraid. She knows how to manage things and The sun itself is very important to work 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-17.txt March - April 2000 16 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze works, what does it teach you, what does it tell you, try to understand what is the plan of this evil person that you are playing into his hands! How can you play into his hands? And how can you do whatever wrongs he wants you to do? out this Mahakali thing. But, as it is, in the West specially, we are very hard working and very much sun oriented and we worship the sun. All this we do- worship the sun and also go right sided very much. Then it is She who gives us the balance. She is the one who gives us Secondly, against Her is the ego. The biggest problem is the ego today. Ego shows "no, no I can do," Ego says - I will work it out, the balance by relaxing us completely and protecting us. Sometimes we are competitive and we are really worried and we want to do something which we cannot do then we get upset and we don't know what to do. Then it is She who ego says - it will be done but the human beings, yield to ego, It is of a great satisfaction for them that their ego is so strong and they don't want to listen to the brings sleep to us. So, when we sleep She looks after us, She soothes us and She takes away our problems. So many things She is doing but what are we doing for Her that we should see. Main thing is that Mahakali forces. You have to be like children, really that's a state we have to be in, is to be innocent like we are ourselves worshipping Her. She children. She loves innocent people, She is likes that Her children should worship innocence Herself, She loves innocent Her. That on that level she can be one people and She looks after you much more with them, she can give them Her because you are innocent, you are not compassion, love and protection from all cunning, you are not very much trying to play the evil. But, it has to be understood those your ego on others. If you are innocent, She who are not yet settled, those who are helps you, She definitely will help you but not yet absolutely belonging to that land this ego has to be brought under control of security of Mahakali can be attacked because he is the worst enemy She has. and once they leave that area, they can She doesn't like your ego, She wants you be very badly injured, killed, whatever to be egoless, to be innocent. As you know may happen. that it is first She came and She created Shri Ganesha. That's why we worship Shri Ganesha, we have to be innocent, means. So, we are living in this Kaliyuga in a very dangerous times, means anything can happen. So we have to be very careful, we have to watch our mind, to see how it we are not planning to do something bad or good or anything but we are without any intentions. It's a timeless, activity. You 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-18.txt The Divine Cool Breeze March - April 2000 NAVRATRI PUJA 17 just don't bother about what you are going compassion, compassion for each other, love for each other, also caring for others. That is something She loves. If you are a Sahaja Yogi, if you are a realised soul She's always with you but she says what are you doing with your compassion? How many people you are giving realisation?How many people you are curing? How many people you are helping? She is quite aware of to do, what you are not going to do, what you should do-nothing of the kind. You are just existing in your complete innocence and enjoying yourself and making others enjoy. If there's one child in the house he can make hundred people dance, it's like that. Because these children have the power of innocence and that is what She respects. You sometimes feel that how people are cheats, how they cheat us, how they make all kinds of, I should say, aggressiveness, whatever you are doing. I should say it's such a tremendous power of Mahakali that She knows everything about you, everything. She knows, your mind, She knows your heart, She knows about your health. Everything She knows, actually She is the Mother in every way who cares for the little child. In that way She knows that sometimes how they try to also tell lies, all kinds of things they will do and they expect so much from you also but all this is happening, is happened. You shouldn't bother about these things, you should keep to your innocence and you will be surprised you will be completely innocent. So, like when you are very protected. How? because Mahakali will small, your mother looks after you. In the this child doesn't do anything, is very stand around you, She will look after you same way, this Mahakali looks after you. if you are innocent. Innocent person doesn't get angry. What is there to get Then the Mahasaraswati power comes in angry. Innocence has its own, I should and She educates you, She gives you say, strength, power. It's extremely other ideas of knowledge, this, that but powerful. Even a cruel man, if he sees a looking after the child in you, looking child he becomes little bit aware of it, after your innocence and your there's a child. The whole world is aware compassion is all done by this Mahakali that children should not be in any way power. So, She is extremely sensitive about her children. No body dare touch Her children. For her everybody is like a tortured or troubled, why? Because children are so innocent. So, the quality of innocence is going to really help you very much because She appreciates your child. Those who are realised souls specially, She thinks are Her children and quality of innocence. in no way they should be hurt, nothing Then another thing She loves in you is your 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-19.txt March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA 18 should happen to them. She is always the end of our life! What is the purpose of following them. One can say if She is a person, how does She follow them, because She is omnipresent. She is present everywhere, everywhere in your life She is there, specially with Sahaja Yogis. She follows them up and down, everywhere, whatever you are doing. You are in an accident She's there to see you, this life? Why have we come on this earth? What is so special that we should live on this earth? All such fundamental questions start rising and then you just take to the seeking. In that also you have to understand the Mahalakshmi principle is very-very, very different from what people understand. They think if they are seeking it should be intelligible, it should be through their minds or could be rational, all this or scientific. That's how they move seeking the truth. It's not possible. Mahalakshmi's principle is like this, that you should have earnest desire to know the truth and truth and truth and nothing She's like an angel behind you and nothing can happen to you if you really worship her from your full heart, not for any gain, not for any achievement but for Her blessings. Her blessings are very great and they really have enriched human beings, they have enriched this earth, they have enriched everything because of the blessings of Mahakali. else. When you think like that then you will not take to other things. So many people took to drugs thinking that by doing that they will achieve their self realisation. It's a wrong idea. How can you Of course, then there comes the Mahalakshmi. Her thing is that in Mahalakshmi principle you become sort of detached. You start finding that what is this world after all, and a kind of a feeling of detachment comes into you and you start thinking that there must be something better, there must be truth beyond. Specially, people who have been tortured by bad people always think like get away from your awareness to achieve that. Awareness is the most important thing. If you can go into the realm of awareness then you have to understand the basic awareness is not to be lost. If your basic awareness is lost through drinking or through drugs or all these things that people do. They think that they are seeking that's why they are doing. So, sometimes they take excuse of seeking to do wrong things. It's like a revenge on yourself, I think, that you want to revenge on yourself by thinking that that that there must be someone who will raise us from this. Here comes the Mahalakshmi principle in you which is the principle of the Goddess, of ascent. She puts the ideas in your head that what is next? What do we have to do? After all, is this you are now seeking. It's not the real seeking. In a real seeking a person has to 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-20.txt March - April 2000 19 NAVRATRI PUJA The Divine Cool Breeze sale on, I said, really! You can pay him half just meditate and should find out what is the the amount, he can give you his blessings, alright. Then next week she said, now the right way but that too by not reading some books or listening to some false gurus. sale has come to one fourth. If you pay the one fourth amount then he will give you the full knowledge. I said, how can he reciprocate, it's not proportionate, I said. When you were giving half, he was giving half, when you are giving one fourth, he is giving full. That's the thing, she said. he is very magnanimous, you see, that's the point. I said, for all such people who think they can purchase truth, they can Actually Kundalini awakening is the only way one can know the reality, there's no other way out. But no body tells that it is Kundalini awakening. They will tell you, we will go to this place, then to that place then, move to that place then, this has to be done and ultimately where do you come-where you started. It's just like that moving from places to places, moving from false to another false to another false to falsehood. not achieve it. You can not purchase it, Ultimately so many seekers have been lost. you can not pay for your Kundalini So many have been lost because they payment for that. awakening, no, nor you should take any thought that certain type of seeking is very precious, because you can pay lots of Self realisation is absolutely the divine money to the guru. I mean, you can grace and you can not take money for purchase the guru and so all the rich that. You can not sell it. It's not so cheap people can become enlightened, that means that. But I don't think the to be sold. If you understand that then the Mahalakshmi power works and Mahalakshmi power is really meant for people who are genuine seekers, who are really seeking genuinely. It acts and works so well that they achieve a kind of a very- very spontaneous realisation. This spontaneous realisation you all have got percentage of good people are all only rich. The people who are good are good whether they are rich or not is not the point. But such people try to gather round a person because I think there's a subtle ego of their money that we can afford to buy this, buy that. Once I was in America and there was one lady who came to see me and she didn't know that I was a spiritual it, you don't have to go to Himalayas, you don't have to do anything like that. All those things are over, you have done it. person. So, she said, now, there's a very In your previous lives you must have done it. Now you don't have to do anything. good guru who has come to America. I said, really! what does he do? She said, there's a You can get it, you are getting it just 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-21.txt 20 2000 March - April The Divine Cool Breeze NAVRATRI PUJA must mature in such a manner that you should sitting down here. Wherever you are in the know everything of all these evil doers. You must find out what these false people are whole world you can get it and it is spreading fast. Now, it's also the duty of Sahaja very doing? It's very easy because you are enlightened and with your enlightened attention you can definitely find out what's wrong with what organisation, with which you will do it. It will be the best way to meditate. Not to be aggressive in any way but just to meditate and ask Mahakali- Yogis to spread Sahaja Yoga. Now, this one is to be understood that Mahalakshmi and Mahakali both go hand in hand. When, Mahakali blesses you and She is with you and you are in her realm the Mahalakshmi comes forward and She definitely helps you to achieve your realisationa and also to improve your destroy, destroy him for he is destroying the world, you please destroy him. That's Her problems to help you, I mean, the financial side of it, you can call it or in any way other problems also, She solves. The greatest problem She solves that your greatest desire, to achieve self realisation, is granted. So, there's is no competition between them. All these three powers job and She would love to do but somebody has to tell Her and ask Her. It's very good because there are so many that unless and until you point it out She may not be able to put Her attention to them possibly. So, best is always ask Her to help you on individual basis, on a national basis, may be work together and whatever is needed they work it out. But, it is the Mahakali who guides, where what help has to go on a collective basis or maybe on global basis. That's what. She exists every where, She is globally available. Anywhere, you and that's why the power of Mahakali is very much respected. As it is She has killed so many devils, and so many rakshasas and still there are some more, may be having any colour, any race, any nation, anything. But She exists within you all the time and to worship her and to awaken her is only your duty, that you have some of them are existing but I am sure they to do. will be all finished. There will be none of If She is awakened within you will be a these horrible ones ever existing. humble person. You will see what mistakes you have been committing and will feel bad about it. You will not But, still we have to be very careful and alert and try to find out what's wrong with these people. What are they doing? And what they are trying to propagate? You you feel guilty but you feel bad that I will never do such thing, I have done very great comr'd on page31 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-22.txt NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 March April 2000 21 The Divine Cool Breeze NOR TH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 Sixty-Four Powers of Shri Adi Shakti On the Occasion of Shri Adi Shakti Puja, Canajoharie, New York, June 20, 1999 heavens ring with joy for the lifty-four adorations were offered to Shri Mataji by the U.S. collective for Adi Shakti Puja. delight of Shri Sada Shiva. 7. Indeed, You are the Source of Shri Mataji reviewed and edited them, Cosmic Energy. This Power and added the last ten Herself. radiates from You as the Finest Ethers of Divine Love. After each name, say together, "Aum Shri Adi Shakti Namoh Namah." 8. Beyond beyond matter, 1. Shri Adi Shakti, You are the consciousness, the Grace of Adi Shakti is where reality can be Principle that created the fourteen known. bhuvanas of universes; You are beyond our comprehension. 9. You are the Ineffable, the Immeasurable. We call You The AUM is Your Sound which 2. Pneuma, Divine Breath, the Living resonates Your Three Powers Waters, yet You are so much more throughout the universe. than this. Only the Deities have the 3. The Joy of Your Attention- Darshan of Your Greater Powers. chitvilas-is expressed in all Your 10. God Almighty in His Dance unifies Creation. with Your Complete Power as Shri Adi Shakti. 4. In the Play of the Divine, God Almighty acts by Your Powers. 11. You are the Primordial Power of 5. The Breath and Desire of Shri Sada Shiva are One with You. the Holy spirit that mothered Shri Jesus. 6. The Paramchaitanya, which is your 12. You are the Creatrix, the Feminine power, makes the stars and the Creative Energy that sustains the 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-23.txt March - April 2000 22 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Peace of God Almighty. for You, the grandest tree has its share as well. 13. Through Your Mahalakshmi 22. All Nature's Creatures are Yours, Power, we experience the Timeless Peace of the Fourth Dimension. From the Beauty of Mother Earth's Green Sari to the Majesty of the 14. Shri Adi Shakti, You enable God Tiger and the Lion. Almighty to do His Sacred Work. Verily, You are the Most Sublime 23. The Gravity of Mother Earth, and of all Your Heavenly Spheres, is Power in the cosmos. controlled by Your Power 15. God Almighty takes charge in a way swift and surprising if anyone Magnificent. 24. Your Power, the Paramchaitanya, acts against Shri Adi Shakti. adjusts nature and its elements, and its all-pervading power opens us 16. Shri Ganesha, Your first creation, resonates in the carbon atom, the to Your Benevolence. essence of life. May He reawaken innocence and wisdom in the very 25. Shri Adi Shakti is the Artistic Creator of the Mother Earth and cells of humankind. those who respect the Mother Earth are loved by you. 17. You created the World of the Divine, and the World of Evolving. May our Evolution merge with this 26. Shri Adi Shakti, the Land of Divine Play. Vishuddhi is one aspect of Your Vast Creation. You will raise the 18. O, Adi Shakti, Evolution is the Vibrations to transform the people force that gives rise to Your Divine of this land. Play in the lives of humanity. 27. The native peoples of America 19. The Adi Kundalini formed the worshipped Adi Shakti as the primordial chakras, and opened the doors to the unfolding of life. Great Mother, and they respected the land as sacred. May this attitude return to all others who 20. It is You who created the Kundalini live here and enjoy the land's of our Mother Earth. bounty. 21. The simplest flower has its fraction 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-24.txt NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 23 28. The mystery of living processes is Yours and Yours alone, and cannot 37. Shri Adi Shakti, to describe You is the work of poets and saints who be duplicated by any personality. awkwardly try to embrace a Let humanity be aware of this. mystery on the horizon. 29. O, Ritambharapragnya, You are 38. You are Para Shakti, the power One of the Powers of Shri Adi beyond all powers. Shakti-You are the Power of all 39. Give us, O Adi Shakti, greater living work. humility so that we can gain some 30. You regulate and organize all life. small glimpse of Your Glory. 31. You came, Shri Adi Shakti, as 40. Make us like the Sufis and the Gnostics- adoring You at every Surabhi, the Divine Cow emerging from the Vishnuloka at moment. Gokul, where Shri Krishna had His 41. Your power of Mahalakshmi bridges over the Void to allow the childhood. 32. Shri Adi Shakti, let the feminine Kundalini of the seekers to ascend. qualities of the Sahaja Yoginis 42. Thank You, O Adi Shakti, for the manifest through the beauty of seeking which brought us to Sahaja Yoga. You now lift up humanity meditation, surrender and self- esteem. into the Omega of the Last 33. Your Quality of Sharada Devi Judgement. gives authority over the truth, art, 43. We pray that Adi Shakti's Love. music and drama. continues to protect all the saints 34. You give to women the Regal and seekers around the world. Gentleness of Shaleenata to care 44. Shri Adi Shakti, Your Work is for their families and to be the greater than any? You created the preservers of society. pithas, the chakras, nature and humanity, and its subtle workings. 35. You also came as Sati Devi, May the complexity of Your Work humble us down completely. establishing a Royal Dharma to which we aspire. 36. O Vag Devi, Goddess of Language, 45. Your Love gives power to the You give inspiration to the great Bandhan, which directs the vibrations. poets and saints. 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-25.txt March - April 2000 24 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze clutches of false pride, jealousy, 46. Your Power of Kundalini brings false attachment, greed, freedom that is Divine. It is the identification and violence. only true freedom. 47. Flow through us freely. Help us 56. You have incarnated on this earth give vibrations to all with Your Photograph of Living Vibrations. 57. You are the Source of Cognitive for the Last Judgement. 48. Your Mahamaya Swarupa allows E Science and the Torsion Area. us to be near You, and it shields us 58. Whatever human beings plan, You dismantle to destroy their egos. from the Awesome Might that flows form You. With one subtle movement of Your 49. Shri Adi Shakti, please give us Finger, You destroy people like deeper powers of introspection so that we become self-cleansing and Hitler. 59. You give powerful advice with self-aware. very subtle humour. 50. You are the Mother who desired You correct Sahaja Yogis, never by 60. that human beings be mirrors for harsh words, but with very loving, God Almighty. gentle affection. You have crafted Beautiful Mirrors 51. 61. You explain the subtle meaning of all the scriptures. of the Spirit in the Sahaja Yogis to help redeem humanity. 62. You expose the falsehood in very Your Compassion protects us from the anger of God Almighty. 52. direct ways. 63. You do not know any fear and You 53. Through maya, humanity forgot the principles of life. Through Sahaja Yoga, humanity now give complete security to all Sahaja Yogis. You respect Your children and love 64. remembers and absorbs the them to make them perfect models vibrations of Shri Adi Shakti. for the rest of humanity. You have 54. May Your Evolutionary Force bring humanity to the inspired existence of the Golden Age. given Sahaja Yogis sinless fun and a life of complete joy. Om Twameva Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti 55. You have disentangled us from the Namoh Namah. 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-26.txt March - April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIANTOUR 1999 25 The Divine Cool Breeze SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 Shri Mataji's Visit to Toronto Mother. (The hotel manger actually asked the guests occupying the most prestigious HE CANADIAN SAHAJA YOGIS were most plesantly surprised by the news that Shri Mataji would be coming to Toronto before proceeding to the USA. It was a sheer joy to hear that the Adi Shakti would be gracing Canada suite in the hotel to "move over" in order to make place for their "valued and esteemed" guest!) Prior to the arrival of Shri Mataji, it rained by Her most auspicious presence! Shri Mataji in Her Divine compassion sent a continuously for three days, not only in message to the Toronto collective that Toronto but also over almost the entire though it was 'short notice' to arrange a province of Ontario. The rains were much needed as the lake levels were going public program, we should not worry as down and the authorities were worried! the results would be unprecedented and we would have more people attending this program than every before! The atmosphere was thus purified and readied by Shri Vishnumaya to receive the Adi Shakti and we were all eagerly Posters were printed and put up all over the city of Toronto and adjoining areas, awaiting Her arrival pamphlets distributed at all the prominent Shri Mataji arrived in Toronto in the public places, newspaper ads placed and evening on May 25th, 1999. There were important dignitaries in the public and political arena were sent personal Her. While waiting for Her luggage in the invitations via personal telephone calls. immigration area, She gave realization to fax or e-mail. Most ministers of the seven customs officials who were then Canadian federal government as well as about 150 yogis at the airport to receive continuously around Her till She left the all the provincial Government Ministers airport! Shri Mataji was very happy to were informed and invited to the Toronto see so many yogis at the airport and program as well as to the forthcoming remarked that the collective here had Vancouver program (June 26th). We grown a lot and that Sahaja Yoga was spreading quite rapidly in Canada! She also described the loving way in which were even able to get the hotel booking where we had wanted to for our Divine 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-27.txt March- April 2000 26 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze the Sahaja Yogis of Germany had the audience while putting them into a gathered to welcome Her at the Frankfurt meditative mood. Then a local Sahaja airport (Her stopover on Her way to Yogi very effectively, in 10 minutes, Toronto). She then received flowers from introduced Sahaja Yoga along with an all those assembled, and blessed explanation of the subtle system and the chakras. everyone. Amazingly enough, just as he As She sat there in Her chair . concluded and his talk, smiled, Shri our hearts Mataji sang with joy and our spirits graced us with Нег danced. presence. Th Everyone stood up public program to greet was held Нег. the at The Canvocation evening Hall of the belonged University to Shri Mataji. She was in Her element. of Toronto. The sequence of events to take place at the public program was She communicated the benefits of Sahaja clearly outlined by Shri Mataji; no wonder Yoga in a very easy and simple manner, everything went like song! There were along with a sense of humour, to which approximately 1,000 people present in the everyone responded with spontaneous auditorium, eagerly waiting for the laughter. The entire talk was full of proceedings to begin. The program compassion and Her voice was started at around 7.30 p.m., thanks to the overflowing with the love and the concern of a Divine Mother. Indeed She efforts of the Yuva Shakti, who had the venue ready on time. Steven Dey played manifested Her form as Sakshat Shri raag Yaman on the sarod and charmed Sandrakaruna. Later in Her hotel room 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-28.txt SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 27 She said that she was concerned about to the audience. She requested them to join us by clapping their hands because it the direction in which American society increases the vibrations. The auditorium was going. The solution to all their problems, She further continued, was only Sahaja Yoga. was full of joy and Shri Mataji joined in the clapping. The bhajan reached a crescendo and our joy through vibrations peaked. Silence prevailed for a minute or Shri Mataji requested the audience to ask Her questions because She felt they were two and Shri Mataji thanked and blessed intelligent people. However She requested that they ask relevant questions everyone. Everyone stood up on Her departure. only. Shri Mataji, once again, with disarming ease and spontaneity answered the questions succinctly with Her own brand of humour. On being asked as to who She was, She answered, "Instead of The next day Shri Mataji agreed to meet Tamil TV (an ethnic television network with an extensive reach in North America) and talked to them for an hour and a half. They plan to do a documentary on Shri Mataji. They also covered the public program the day before and had Self Realization. They were very worrying yourself as to who I am, why don't you try to understand who you are? By knowing yourself, shall you know who I am." Jai Shri Mataji! their got respectful to Shri Mataji and sat at Her Lotus Feet during the interview. The (some other questions and answers interview will be broadcast to all of North After the question and answer session appear at the end of this article), Shri Mataji mentioned it was time for everyone to experience their Self Realization. What America and some countries in the Caribbean where there are pockets of ethnic Tamilians, which is a community happened next was an unusual experience from the south Indian state of Tamil for most Yogis. We felt cool breeze in Nadu. Shri Mataji then departed for the the auditorium and saw the banner behind airport. She had a few brief words and Shri Mataji moving with the breeze. Shri bid Her good-byes for now! With the ever Mataji did tell the audience She felt the beautiful smile, the Divine Mother cool breeze coming to Her from the continued on Her way to meet Her audience. What a blessing! Toronto was expectant children waiting for Her in New really "cool." York, USA! Shri Mataji requested the bhajan singers to sing Jogawa and explained its meaning Approximately 100 people attended the first follow-up program. Their sincerity 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-29.txt March - April SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 28 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze and interest was simply amazing. A four- purpose of life?" "That's simple", Shri part follow-up program was scheduled, during which we proposed to gently guide our new brothers and sisters to find deeper meaning of their own selves, their kundalinis already awakened by and in the presence of the Divine Spirit itself! Mataji replied, "to become Divine." Others asked questions revealing their inner anguish and the pains of seeking. Shri Mataji complimented them on their honesty. A young boy in the front row wanted to know how evil comes into us. Another man sought the meaning of the Bolo Jagatmata Shri Nirmala Devi Ki jai!! backdrop on the stage behind Shri Mataji. She explained that was only there for decoration. "Everything you see," She cautioned, "but why don't you see the There are now 2,500 newly realized souls point?" After the public program, Shri in the city of Vancouver. After two public Mataji toured the city by car- Stanley programs conducted by Her Holiness Park and the North Shore mountains - Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi, a visit to Her to disperse the strong vibrations of the -Ashish Pradhan, Toronto Shri Mataji in Vancouver House in suburban Surrey and a hotel evening. room press conference, our city has been After very little sleep, Shri Mataji visited on Sunday morning a temple in Burnaby for the second public program. Speaking thoroughly vibrated and blessed by Her detailed attention, unprecedented in the eighteen years since Her first visit here. entirely in Hindi, She told these devotees Arriving from Chicago on Saturday, June of Shri Krishna that it should be easy for 26th, Shri Mataji gave a public program them to get their Self Realization. The at the city's major convention centre built temple's pujari prepared the way by over the water of the inner harbour. In introducing our Mother with great this landmark building first constructed devotion and recognition. From Burnaby, as the Canadian pavilion for Expo 86, Shri Shri Mataji travelled to Her house in Mataji addressed the seekers of our city. Surrey, a Sahaja Yoga ashram, where She As She had done in Toronto, New York received all the Sahaja Yogis, had lunch and Washington, Shri Mataji invited questions from the audience, satisfying all and rested. In the evening, back at the hotel, a small their mental concerns before the gift of Self Realisation. One man asked, with the press conference was held for five directness of a true seeker, "What is the journalists, including the editor of 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-30.txt March April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 29 The Divine Cool Breeze Common Ground (the city seeking have evolved from the animal, so this magazine), a crew from Vision TV (a evolution is not complete, I think, as national religious cable chanel) and human beings also. But whatever it is, all members of the Vancouver Indian these horrible things that are lingering community's press and television. They within us and our personality are also sat shoeless on the floor before Her. One coming from our heritage. Then also because we think too much, we acquire article was offered to Shri Mataji the following morning for Her approval and correction. It reads as if written by a Sahaja Yogi. lots of things and our orientation also changes from other orientation like food, but we become sort of great greedy people. We become very money-oriented and the whole system changes to We all feel very blessed by Shri Mataji's great attention upon our city. Every Sahaja Yogi was able to offer Her flowers at the airport at both Her arrival and departure. When She visited the ashram in Surrey, everyone was able to go to Her different line, but these lingering things are still there, so with that also, we have jealousy, aggressiveness. All those things are actually our inheritance. So as a result, you become a person who can see things, Feet, offer a gift or discuss a concern. She who can watch things and not react. gave time equally to each of Her That's the greatest benefit I think. Children. She said that Paramchaitanya QUESTION: Did you do any work with was so pleased that She just wanted to fill the house with vibrations, to just let it Gandhi? flow. And so we were blessed. SHRI MATAJI:I didn't do vork, as such. Richard PAYMENT was a little child of seven years and I stayed with him and he found out about Me. He knew because he was also a On June 27th, Shri Mataji held a press realized soul, but very much full of conference in Her hotel room while disciplines and things like that. So people visiting Vancouver. Four journalists were never understood that side of Gandhiji. present representing Common Ground But he was a very spiritual man and he magazine, U magazine, The Link loved children. If I did any work, I used QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS newspaper and Vision of Fiji television program. Here is a small excerpt. to take out his temper some time, entertain him. But actually, you see, with him, he wanted Me to find out how he SHRI MATAJI: You see, what is the Should write the different bhajans. In his trouble with human beings, is that they 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-31.txt March - April 2000 30 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi gave a public program in Vancouver. She invited questions from the audience. bhajanawali they had a book, written down all the hymns, so in what series we should write. So according to different centres, I told him that you have to QUESTION:What's the purpose of life? awaken on the centres. Shri Mataji: To become Divine. Simple. QUESTION: Are we all one being? That's a question to be felt within us. What is the purpose of human life? Is to become Divine, part and parcel of the Divinity. Now supposing you are a father, what do you want your son to become? SHRI MATAJI: All are connected, but those who are realized souls can feel the connection. But those who are not, do not feel it, but we are all connected. Happy, enjoyable and also a responsible They're all one person, part and parcel of one spiritual being. We can call it God Almighty. We have to be just aware of it. person. You also want that for your children. Then your great Father, what does He want for you? He wants you to be happy joyous people. Out of We have not come into our awareness. Once it comes, you know that... and then you are a different personality. ignorance, you are not that, so He wants to remove that ignorance. This is the QUESTION: When will things work out? purpose of our life. SHRI MATAJI: It depends on the wish QUESTION: If someone is in a stressful of the people. My wish, that it should situation and they don't have the happen tomorrow. Why should we waste our life on the non-sensical? Come to our senses. This is what I want, but I'm now opportunity to go and meditate or they don't have a chance to align, what is the best, on-the-spot, way to raise their vibration so that they can see it fromn God's point of view, from the point of view travelling, lecturing, talking, but what I feel that at the helm of affairs one should see the point. of society, in order to properly deal with QUESTION: Then how do you reach the problem? supreme being, God? In other words, is this the route to reach the supreme God? is your fundamental right and, if Shri Mataji: As I have told you already, it circumstances do not help you, the whole SHRI MATAJI: Yes, this is, of course. thing works out, automatically it works out. You get all the opportunities. I have This is Nirvana. On Saturday June 26th, Her Holiness seen many people who had these 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-32.txt March April 2000 SHRI MATAJI'S CANADIAN TOUR 1999 The Divine Cool Breeze 31 problems, but they work on it. So believe in this power of love, how beautifully it works it. All right? May God bless you. all these are meant for introducing spirituality, and that's not the end of it. What is the end? End of it is to know yourself, to become spiritually endowed. I am saying you have to go QUESTION: [A man from a Vancouver Hindu temple invites Shri Mataji to visit beyond your mental personality, For that, you have to have Kundalini awakening. the next day and give a program.] SHRI MATAJI:Thank you very much. You see, temples, gurudwaras, churches. Continue from page 20 and that childhood has to come back in you, wrong and then you will try to correct it. Al this works out very well when you are pure in your heart. The heart should be pure. If if you really worship the Mothe. May God Bless You your heart is not pure, if you are doing Sahaja Yoga to have some competition with others or with some sort of material achievements, it will not work out. You have to do it in a way that is an innocent act, that you are worshipping your Mother like a little child worships and loves his mother. It's a very simple relationship which all of us have felt. How we should love our Mother and how we should be under her guidance and under her protection. That is something very simple you have known in your childhood 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-33.txt The Divine Cool Breeze RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA March April 2000 32 Reclaiming the Swastika Have you ever looked up the word, ness about the swastika - yet the pure swastika" at the library? While writing truth about the swastika can never be this article, the reference librarian at the altered. It is the most ancient symbol of New York Public Library was asked humankind and its shape actually imparts about a text about the swastika. Her the energy of Shri Ganesha. The vibration reply: "Are you researching of the swastika is very World Wart II?" When it powerful and holy, and marks His presence. was explained that the swastika is one of word The the most revered swastika in symbols of Sanskrit Hinduism and derives from other religious traditions, the S Vasti • me aning "well-being" writer was sent over to: (su-good +asti-being). The following is the Fine Arts Division, Things were an incomplete list better there, as the of cultures that have librarian said, "Oh, revered the swastika, you're interested in Shri and have used it extensively to Ganesha and the swastika. He is the show auspiciousness of favorable circumstances: India; China; The son of Shri Shiva and Shri Parvati; here is a reference about it." Myceneans (of Greece); The Celts (or Ireland); also, Ancient Britain and As the swastika is such an essential part Scandinavia; Ancient Christians of the of life and Sahaja Yoga, understanding its meaning and history is important. The negativity of the Third Reich has affected the awareness in the public conscious- Middle East; Native Americans; Russia: Japan: and Gemany, The presence of the true swastika (in a 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-34.txt RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA March - April 2000 The Divine Cool Breeze 33 clockwise direction) gives miraculous vibrationally aware, and their chakras qualities. It acts as the remover of insensitive to the kundalini. It makes one obstacles and as such marked the ships wonder if the repeated (but unintentional) departing from Lanka to insure Shri Ram's victory. In China, stone carvings of Shri Buddha's feet are often marked use of the counter-clockwise swastika eventually brought entire societies down by displeasing the Divine. with swastikas. Its name there is wantz- te and it represents a benevolent society. the totality of life, and Buddha's heart. The ancient Christians identified the swastika with Jesus Christ and the Sun. In the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament, references are made to four angels, each standing on a fiery wheel- like cross, and each facing one of the four Actually, the swastika is found virtually everywhere human-kind has wandered. Thousands of swastikas are painted on the walls of ancient Indian caves, and directions. This can only be the divine quality of Shri Ganesha interpreted through Western iconography. today the Hindu housewife in the villages still marks the doorway and walls of her home with it. Ancient Greek coins, Roman mosaics, and even the sewing Pre-World War I Western philosophers bobbins of Old Europe have this mark. had a positive understanding about the As the centuries have gone on, the swastika as representing dynamic growth understanding of the swastika became in life, and as a symbol of Christ. They disconnected from people's lives. also took it to be a symbol of the four directions, and the evolution from the animal realm to human life and up to the celestial realms. They were unaware that Sacredness was separated from the activities of everyday life. Nevertheless, the swastika appeared on household Ganesha and Christ were aspects of the same principle, and associated with the cross of Christ which is not a truth. goods, clothings, and building columns as a mark of auspiciousness that was less conscious than in the past. e past. Through Sahaja Yoga, we know that the qualities of Shri Ganesha-innocence and wisdom-reside in living cells on a subtle The vibratory quality of the swastika is in its clockwise direction. The counter- clockwise form is not auspicious and has level. The swastika is also reflected in the been used in this form for tantric or evil spiral shape of the DNA molecule, the building block of life. On an atomic level. purposes. In many cultures, the swastika became an ornamental symbol (used in the swastika itself is visible in the carbon either form) as people became less 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-35.txt 2000 34 March - April RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA The Divine Cool Breeze great Uluru, otherwise known as Ayer's atom. Shri Mataji has confirmed the findings Rock. A massive red rock formation, it of Sahaja Yoga scientists who have is a Ganesha swayambhu, a natural geological phenomenon that emits vibrations. Ayer's Rock was a sacred place for the aboriginal tribes who felt the huge documented that the swastika (), as well as the omkara (). Alpha (a) and Omega (Q) can be seen as part of the structure of the carbon atom. stone formation was alive. Scientists have pinpointed this rock as the oldest fossil record of amoebic life and possibly life The swastika is not just a representation: it is in itself the presence of life. Before realization, seekers find comfort in itself. The rock is red in colour and has messages and symbols. After realization, magnetic properties. we feel the blessing of this "symbol" Shri Mataji speaks about the magnetic and electromagnetic qualities of Shri Ganesha, who is at the core of evolution itself: directly on our chakras. In the land of the Vishuddhi, the Native Americans felt the power of the earth "At the level of matter, we might call it element. The ancestors of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest, the electromagnetic, but potentially it is the Anazazi, depicted swastika designs on energy of Shri Ganesha which is electromagnetic at this point. There it starts evolving, growing. That's how we their beautiful pottery. Today the Hopi, their descendants, still tell stories of an ancient migration In a human being it exists, as you know, covering 10,000 years of history as auspiciousness, as purity, mainly the throughout the Southwest. The Hopi innocence." believe that they as a people came right have different growth of the evolution. out of the earth and that they migrated in Shri Ganesha, the four-armed elephant- the four directions in the shape of a headed God, mirrors the swastika in form. clockwise swastika. They believe this His flowing arms and hands are reflected shape gave religious meaning to the in the words of the Shri Ganesha Song. journey. Their emergence symbolized to He is praised here as Shri Vinayaka (the them an entrance into a new world and remover of obstacles). "Four Holy Hands, created a longing to return to the world the blessing, rope and goad, the fourth where the "door to the top of the head" offers food to your devotees." The goad-spiritual growth; the rope- rescue from harm; the cup-raised hand- bestowing blessings; and the fourth was open, a return to the mother. In Australia, Shri Ganesha's land, sits the 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-36.txt March April 2000 RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA 35 The Divine Cool Breeze angelic quality of the right side of Germany. Shri Hanumana acted during World War II to play a trick on Hitler. The Nazi Party bearing food-or blessings of prasad. All of these combine to represent innocence itself, and gives pranava-"that is when electromagnetic force is charged with originally used the swastika in a clockwise Ganesha's principle." These symbolic manner on its flag. Shri Hanumana made the aspects of Shri Ganesha help impart stencil go in such a way that the Nazis pranava, a coefficient that generates decided to use the other side. Both Shri vibrations. (Shri Ganesha Puja, Cabella, Ganesha and Shri Hanumana joined September 19, 1993). together to stop Hitler from winning the war in this way and so the whole world was saved from evil's attempt to conquer. Then how did the swastika of Shri Ganesha get distorted by the evil of Hitler? Shri Mataji explains that Hitler New seekers at meetings may have was influenced by Tibetan Buddhists who conditioned ideas toward the swastika were involved with tantric practices. because of this century's negativity from Knowing this symbol had power, he used Nazism. The Western media also it to represent a supposed German perpetrates a fundamental misunder- cultural resurrection and to justify his evil standing about the meaning of the doings. At aother point in history, the Roman empire used the swastika as a sign of its domination, and it was carried by Roman standard bearers, but as in the case swastika because of World War II memories. In India, today the swastika represents political elections and the Indian society at large in a positive way. As recently as the 1930s, public buildings of the Nazis, such wrongs are always conquered by goodness. As Shri Mataji reminds us, the Romans were responsible for the death of Shri Jesus Christ. Their around America were built with swastika as a beautiful decorative element representing life and goodwill. It is only in the last fifty years that attention has gone backwards. empire weakened soon after. It is a fact that their mercantile trade with India introduced them to the swastika as a Sahaja Yoga is healing these misunderstandings about the meaning and symbol of society, but the Romans used it in reverse. power of this profound sacred mystery, At the 1998 Shri Hanumana Puja the swastika. The swastika of Shri (conducted in Germany), Shri Mataji Ganesha is inviolate, pure and beyond spoke about Shri Hanumana and the time and history, and through Sahaja Yoga 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-37.txt The Divine Cool Breeze RECLAIMING THE SWASTIKA 36 March- April 2000 its public dignity will be completely restored. Shri Ganesha Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Om Twameva Sakshat Shri Nirmala Devi Namoh Namah - Karen DeNitto, USA 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-38.txt SAHAJA YOGA WORLD CENTRES March - April 2000 37, The Divine Cool Breeze Sahaja Yoga World Centres Mr. Mohammaed Said Ail-Chaalal 27 Avenue Pasteur Mr. Jay Chudasama 390 Dixon Road # 612 Etobicoke OT Canada M9R 1T4 Belarus Minsk, UL llimskaya Dom 1 kv 56 Korotky Oleg Telephone (7 0172) 62 68 27 Work: (7 0172) 6 02 13 Alger Algeria Telephone: (213) 64 8122 Work: (213) 64 95 23 Telephone: (1-416) 614-7338 Fax: (1-416) 614-9521 (ashram) Nadjilem Tolasde Moudjingar do Ndoubalengar Mdgaou SA.C. N. P. 185 Ndjamena, Chad Mr. Mariano Martinez Cuyo 937, Martinez 1640 Buenos Aires Argentina Tel/Fax: (54-11-4) 798-9378 E-Mail: mmartinez@civdad.com.ar Mr. Roger Akigbe. 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Modulo C, Casa 4 Rod. DF-150, km 2,5 (Sobradinho Brasilia DF 730 70-014 Brazil Dr. Engelbert Oman Auhofstraße 231/3/1 Brazzaville Congo 1130 Vienna Austria Mr. Radim Ryska. Telephone: (55 61) 501-0834 Cell telephone: (55 61) 983-9821 E-Mail: marinoe if.utrj.br Telephone: (43-1) 877 7411 Koziskova 511 250 82 Uvaly Czech Republic Tel/Fax: (420 2) 997 23 10 Work: (420 2) 519 33 94 E-Mail: ryskaemsmt.cz Dr. Wolfgang Hack! Schöbrunner Allee 113 2331 Vosendorf Austria Mrs. Rosa Alexieva Complex Hippodruma Block 122, Entrance A, Floor 5 TelFax : (43-1) 609 1131 Cell telephone: (66-4) 422 5686 E-Mail: wolfganghackl@aon.at Sofia 1612 Inna Angelidou Cyprus Telephone: (3572) 489596 E-Mail: loukis@ rai.com.cy Bulgaria Tel/Fax: (35 92) 599 360 Shri K. Madhusudan Pillai C.C. 85, ALBA Post Box 570 Bahrain Mr. Daniel Oyon0 B.P. 11771 Yaounde Cameroon Telephone: (237) 2273 97 (Joseph Tsala) Telephone: (973) 702 148 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-39.txt SAHAJA YOGA WORLD CENTRES March- April 2000 38 The Divine Cool Breeze Mr. Rasmus Heltberg Hammelstrupvej 40, 2 tv 2450 Copenhagen SV Denmark Mr. Vaibhav Khopade & Thodoreos Proussis-11 John and Gulshan Fisher Kusumaatmaja 58 Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia Telephone: (62 21) 720 6613 Mobile: 0811 993 312 104-40 Athens Greece Telephone: (45) 36 45 60 15 Work: (45) 32 32 44 00 E-Mail: rasmus. heltberg@econ.ku.dk Tel/Fax: (30-1) 884 1489 Mr. Michael Roussin Graham & Tamara Donaldson No.62 Carysfort Averiue Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland Telephone: (353 1) 282 5542 Work : (353 1) 278 1242 9 rue Auguste Boudinot 97300 Cayenne Guyane Francaise Tel/Fax : (594) 30 4614 Work: (594) 29 99 24 E-Mail: rlomaint@nplus.gf Aleksei & Galina Kotlov Rohu 109-14 EE-80040 Parnu, Estonia Telephone: (372 44) 36 043 E-Mail: galina@viisnurk.ee Mr. Oleg Kotilarsky clo Philippe Scheimann 30 A #3 Avoda St. 63821 Tel Aviv, Israel Telephone: (972-3) 507 3911 E-Mait: Philips weil.com (Philippe Scheimann) Mr. Raine Salo Kuusikallionkuja 3B 27 02210 Espoo Mr. Alex Henshaw Flat D, 6/F, Lel Shun Court 116 Leighton Rd. Causeway Bay Hong Kong Telephone (852) 2504-5260 Work : (852) 2504-4779 Fax: (852) 2504-4965 E-Mail: smtech hkstar.com Finland Telephone : (358 9) 855 0934 Fax: (358 9) 621 4262 E-Mail; tuomas@cute.fi (Tuomas Kantelinen) Mr. Guido Lanza Vocabolo Albereto 10 02046 Magliano Sabina, Italy Telephone: (09-744) 919-851 &: (39-744) 919-122 Fax: (39-744) 919-904 E-Mail: Nirmala@etr.it Majid Golpour 47 rue de Verneuil Mr. Gyorgy Pohl Liliom u. 27/A II8 H-1094 Budapest Hungary Teiephone : (36-1) 218 0493 Fax : (36-1) 220 0264 E-Mail: pohl.gyorgy@emeryworld.com 75007 Paris France Telephone: (33-145)483 373 Mr. Jean-Claude Laine 01 BP 2887 Bouake 01, Ivory Coast Tel: work: (225) 63 25 14 E-Mail: Amon@ AfricaOnline.co.ci(Amon Ettien) Mr. Patrick Desire Akouma Nze B.P 146 Libreville Mr. V. J. Nalgirkar Sahaja Yoga Temple C-17, Qutub Institutional Area Behind Qutub Hotel New Delhi-110016 Tel.: 91-011-6966652 Work: 91-011-6179421 Gabon Georgia 380094 Tbilisi Mr. Philippe Carton Himonya 6 chome 7-8 Megoru-ku Tokyo 152, Japan Tel/Fax: (81-3) 3760 4434 E-Mail: pcarton@softlab.co.jp UI.N. Nikoladze10 Peter Jijeishvili Telephone: (995 8832) 934-911 E-Mail: ella@geonet.ge Prof. Dr. U.C. Rai International Sahaja Yoga Research & Health Centre Plot 1, Sector & CBD Navi Mumbai, India Mr. Phillip Zeiss Kastanienstrasse 19 D 14624 Daligow Germany Telephone: (493322) 20 8870 Work: (4930) 315 25 66 Fax: (49 3322) 20 24 73 E-Mail: ganeshat@cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Radatz) Kazakhstan 486 008 Chimkent UL Gagarin 38-45 Bondarenko Dima Telephone, (7 3252) 12 13 68 Telephone (91 22) 757 6922 Fax : (91 22) 757 6795 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-40.txt March- April 2000 SAHAJA YOGA WORLD CENTRES The Divine Cool Breeze 39 Mr. Henno de Graaf Kersegaarde 16 3436 GD Nieuwegein Netherlands Christian Fontaine Didier Gauvin French School of Nairoti (College Diderot) PO. Box 47525, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: (254 2) 56 62 59 58, Grand Fond Exterieur 97414 Entre Deux Réunion TelFax: (262) 39 62 32 E-Mail tgauvin@guetali Telephone: (31 30) 630 1270 Fax: (31 30) 630 1700 E-Mail: h.degraaf @ inter.ni.net Mr. Dan Costian Ms. Inna Solomenikova Str. Constantin Nacu No. 8 70219 Bucharest. Romania Telephone: (40-1) 313-58-82 Fax: (45-1) 211-57-87 E-Mial: dcostiane syrom.slos.ro Riga, Latvia Telephone: (0132) 25 93 42 Mr. Geofl Piatford 24 Pukenui Road Epsom, Auckland New Zealand Gertruda Sargautiene Staneviciaus 66-64 Telephone (64-9) 624 1788 Fax: (64-9) 625 B888 E-Mail: sahaj-nz @ihug.co.nz Vilnius 2029, Lithuania Teléphone (37 02) 4781 43 E-Mail: jvkos@pub.osf.t (subj "to Gertruda) Russia 119148 Moscow UI. I Frunzenskaya 6, kv 5 Telephone, (7 095) 245 25 50 E-Maitunionesahaja.msk su (collective) Sidsel Muglord Myrlia 31 1453 Bjornemyr. Norway TellFax: (47) 66 91 56 08 E-Mail : mugford@ online.no Goitchoo StevkOVski Partenie Zografski 77A 91000 Skopje, Macedonia Telephone. (389 91) 22 62 75 Mr. Aziz Gueye Sic de Sengue M'Baye Gueye Direction CFAO-BP 2631 Mr. Ivan Tan 17, Jalan 14/52 46100 Petaling Jaya Selangor, Malaysia Telephone: (60 3) 774 4750 Fax: (60 3) 718 7128 E-Mail: tbertan @pc.jaring.my Dakar Marina Traversa Av. Golf Los Incas 440/13 Lima 33, Peru Telephone: (51) 436 5152 E-Mail: mtravers @staff.sansil.edu pe Senegal Mr. Eric Sopholas Belonie, Mahe Seychelles Telephone: (248) 24 400 ext. 545 Dr. Rajiv Kumar 29. V Madrigal Street, Corrinthian Graciela Vazquez-Diaz Tejocoles 56-201 Col. del Valle Mexico D.F. 03100, Mexico TelFax: (52 5) 575 1949 E-Mat: indoamci rn netmx Mr. Patrick B Sheriff c/o Sierra Rutile Limited P.O. Box 59 Freetown Sierra Leone Gardens Quezon City 1100. Metro Manila Philippines Telephone: (632) 633 5633 Fax: (632) 632 2381 Work: Telephone: (232) 25316 Telex: 3259 (632) 632 5709 E-Mail: rkumari mail.asiandevbank.org Mr. Peter Koretzki Mr. Jozel Skurla Zochova 16/IX Bratislava 811 03, Slovakia Tel Fax: (421 7)5441 5493 E-Mail trans-eu@internet.sk Mr. Tormasz Kornacki ul. Baczynskiego 20 m. 17 05-092 Lomianio nr.Warsaw Poland Maratesti Str. 13/1 Chisinau, Moldova Telephone: (373-2) 73 0212 Fax: (373-2) 73 86 69 Tel/Fax: (48 22) 7513520 Mr. Herbert Wiehart Gourmet Vienna Chha 1-705 Thamel, Kathmandu Nepal Tel/Fax: (977 1) 415488 Mr. Dusan Rados Voliceva 6 SI-1380 Vrhnika Catarina de Castro Freire R. Garcia de Orta, 70-1'C Lisboa-1200, Portugal Telephone: (351-1) 396-3149 Slovenia Telephone: (386) 61 755369 E-Mail: bostjan.troha@ siol.net 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-41.txt The Divine Cool Breeze March - April SAHAJA YOGA WORLD CENTRES 40 2000 Dr. Siva Govender P.O. Box 729 Mrs. Clarie Skinner Cumana Postal Agency Cumana Via Toco, Toco Mr. Manoj Kumar 270 Overpeck Avenue Ridgefield Park NJ 07660-1239 USA Laxmi 3207 Natal, South Africa Telephone: (27-331) 424484 Fax: (27-331) 425685 E-Mail:/G=Deena/S-Govender/OU- Trinidad Telephone: (1-201) 384-5034 Fax: (1-201) 384-0820 E-Mail: manoj-kumar@merck.com Tunisia c/o Mr. Youcef Brahimi Roggegasse 40 1210 Wien, Austria Telephone: (43 1) 2929 956 =1751PMFS/0=TMZA.UNI @LANGATE.gb.sprint.com Monia Almensa Carlos Albo W47 Paysandú Uruguay Telephone: (59) 72 35831 E-Mait anona@adinet.com.uy Mr. Eduardo Marino Mrs. Nese Aigan Atiye Sok Ak Apt. No. 7/7 Tesvikiye - Istanbul, Turkey Telephone: (90) 212 248 3122 Work: (90) 212 241 3487 Fax: (90) 212 231 3524 E-Mailt nalgan@domi.com.tr Rua Aperana, 99 Ap. 201 22450-190 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil South America Telephone (55-21) 274-1753 Fax : (55-21) 239-2705 E-Mail: marino@it.ufrj.br Mrs. Rani Lavu P.O. Box 50180 Lusaka, Zambia Telephone: (260) 1 291 378 Cell telephone: (260) 757 550 Mr. José-Antonio Salgado Santa Virgilia 16 Zou33 Madrid, Spain Ukraine 252 190, Kyiv - 190 Vul. Estoska, 5, kv. 80 Galina Sabirova Telephone: (34-91) 764 3767 Fax : (34-91) 564 4457 Telephone: (380 44) 442 6871 Fax: (380 44)412 9806 EMaikdobro@ppadamkevua Mr. Rolf Carlsson Valhallanvagen 18 S-11422 Stockholm, Sweden Telephone: (46-8) 16 77 17 E-Mail: rolf.carisson@stockhoim. mail.telia.com Pravin Saxena/Suresh Ananthnarayan PO Box 25450 Sharjah United Arab Emirates Telephone: (971 6) 519012 Fax: (971 6) 518894 Work: (971 67) 571797 Work Fax: (971 67) 571773 Mobile: 050-631 3504 Mr. Arneau de Kalbermatten 2 bis, Chemin Sous-Voie 1295 Mies, Switzerland Tele/Fax: (41 22) 779.20.37 EMatpharmuae@emirates.netae Mr. Wen-Cheng Liu 2F, No. 13, Alley 3, Lane 106 Sec 3, Ming Chuan East Rd. Sung-Shan District Taipei Cit. Taiwan (R.o.C.) Tel: home: (886 2) 7155208 Mr. Derek Lee clo 44 Chelsham Road London, England SW4 6NP United Kingdom Telephone: (44 1223) 420 855 Fax: (44 1223) 423 278) E-Mail: ealing@dircon.co.uk(attention: Derek Lee) Mr. Pascal Sreshthaputra 84 Sukhumvit Soi 40 Bangkok 10110, Thailand Telephone: (66 2) 712 1418 Fax: (66 2) 391 2373 or: (662) 382 1109 E-Mait: pascal@loxinfo.co.th 2000_Divine_Cool_Breeze_E_(Scan)_II.pdf-page-42.txt 2930