London, England, 2nd December 1979. Guru:

"But today is the day, I declare that I am the one who has to save the humanity. I declare I am the one who is Adi Shakti, who is the Mother of all the Mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti, the desire of God, who has incarnated on this earth to give its meaning to itself, to this creation, to human beings. And I'm sure, through my love and patience and my powers, I am going to achieve it. I was the one who was born again and again but now, in my complete form and complete powers, I have come on this earth. Not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the joy, the bliss that your father wants to bestow upon you."

London, England, 27th July, 1980. Guru:

"Now the fourth thing, the fourth statute of the Lord, is to lead a moral life. These statutes were given by all the Gurus, take them from Socrates onward. Moses, Abraham, Dattatreya, Janaka, up to say Nanaka, Mohammed Sahib. And take up to the point where it was only about a hundred years back, you can say at the most, was Sai Nath. All of them have said that you have to lead a moral life. None of them have said that you do not get married, that you do not talk to your wife, that you have no relationship with your wife. All this is nonsensical. Lead a moral life. When you are young, not married, keep your eyes on the ground. Mother Earth gives you that innocence, by which you develop that principle within you. It’s a very important principle. It’s such a pure principle. It really helps the society to develop its dignity. Now think, in a society where you do not know who is your sister, who is your brother, who is your mother - what complications it can create, what confusion, what unhappiness! It is one of the most essential things for human beings, to be moral."

London, England, 28th July, 1980. Public Programme:

"For example, the best use of the Mother Earth is to watch her working. Watch the nature, watch every tree. What beautiful personality every tree has. Every leaf of the tree stands against the sky. I mean it’s such a poetry, to feel her with your feet. How soft she is, when she produces flowers for you. You have to learn so much from what she does. She creates a flower to emit fragrance, to give, to give, to give. She just gives. Her innocence doesn’t bother as to what you are, whether you deserve it or not, whether you are a good person or a bad person or what use you are going to put her resources. She just gives. She doesn’t judge you. Nirvaj – it flows. The capital flows without any interest. It just goes on flowing and flowing. That’s the word of nirvaj is. It doesn’t think to whom she is giving to, whether they deserve it or not, if they are sinners or they are this or that. But now it is for you to use your wisdom. And she has created this deity of wisdom within you [ Shri Ganesha ] and you have to keep that deity awakened. He came, incarnated on this earth as Jesus Christ. Look at him. Look at his life, how he lived. He was a carpenter’s son. He lived like a carpenter’s son. He didn’t amass money. And what a dynamic life in thirty years of his age!"

More: A longer extract from this speech. The Guru Principle.

Sydney, Australia, 21st March, 1983. Birthday:

"Declare to all the nations now, that I am the Holy Ghost and I have come for this special time, that is the resurrection time."

San Diego, USA, 7th September 1986. Shri Ganesha:

"Marriage system has been here much before Christ, much before Abraham, much before Moses. And a sanctified marriage, which was blessed by the society, was acceptable since long. But man in his arrogance raised his voice against the marriage, against the natural way of leading a life of sanity. If it was natural to be the way people lead their private life, why do they get all kinds of diseases? If you are a natural person, you don’t get any diseases. Because you are anti-nature, that’s why. In this country, how many men and women were murdered for jealousy? If it was natural to be in love with ten men and ten women, then why jealousy? You should be happy... It’s very natural... Because the head was raised at Vishuddhi Chakra, without surrendering to Shri Krishna, anti-life, anti-biotic atmosphere started growing and this kind of life has taken this great country now to the brink of complete destruction. The attack of innocence is the greatest weakness of this country."

Ischia, Italy, 5th May, 1991. Sahastrara:

"Today’s subject may sound rather difficult for you to understand but I had to say this one day because we are quite satisfied with a little of the Kundalini coming out of our head. There’s so much to come out. So much divinity is there which has to come out and if you have to ascend and if you are the foundation of that New Age, which is going to transform the whole world, we’ll have to work hard. We shouldn’t say, 'I don’t know how to get up in the morning. I don’t know.' You are on a warpath. You are soldiers now. And you have to work it out, if you have to fight the forces of ignorance and darkness. This has to be worked out. This has to be paid attention to. So what you have to do is to absolutely decide within yourself today that, 'We are going to work it out in such a way that we all will become very powerful Sahaja Yogis and through us the whole world is going to be saved.' A very important thing for all of you to understand."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 6th June 1993. Adi Shakti:

"But the biggest problem came with these so-called religions that they started. These religions, all religions got derailed and they formed kind of puddles, you see. Muslims here, Christians here, Hindus there, this is this, this is this... So, you really needed this river of life to fill up all these puddles and make them one. It's complete ignorance, is sheer stupidity, to think that one human being is higher than another. You can only say one thing, that at a different state you are. Some are at a different state, some are at a higher state. But in general you cannot condemn somebody that he is no good, this society is not good, this society is not good, in general. Individually you can. In general you cannot say. But this ignorance was so dark because it became collective. It’s a collective ignorance, collective ignorance. They all joined hands together, collectively to say that 'This is the religion that is the best. We are the only ones which are saved ones.'"

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 4th July, 1993. Guru:

"So, for a Sahaja Yogi, it’s important that he should have joy within his heart. It’s like an ocean. It’s like an ocean which is there, all the time, to give you such thrills. Even little drops of this ocean, when they trickle down in your being, it is so soothing. The experience can be only experienced. It’s all waiting within yourself. And such a person also makes others joyous. He cannot see another person unhappy, in trouble. Himself is full of joy and spreads joy all around. You can get joy from small, small things because you have the ocean and a little thing that drops into the ocean creates such beautiful ripples. They touch the shores, not only of your own being but of others. Very, very small things make you so very happy and that all the time you are just like a surfing, as they call it these days, on this beautiful lake or a beautiful ocean of love."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 24th July, 1994. Guru:

"How many people you have given realisation? You have powers. These gurus never had powers, though they were realised souls. You have powers to give realisation. How many of you have done it? And once you start doing that, you get about ten people, twenty people from somewhere, you become great masters and you start talking about your great mastery and that you know everything, that you are the guru, you are the Adi Shakti. This is at the Agnya level. As soon as you reach the Agnya level you get this into your heads. So many, of course, have done so much for Sahaja Yoga, otherwise it would not have been possible to see this today. For all those who have not done anything, I must tell you that you are just standing at the same steps. Your Kundalini has risen but you have done nothing, nothing to give it to others. Unless and until you give it, you cannot grow."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 28th August, 1994. Shri Krishna:

"The first principle of dharma was to create balance. If a person doesn’t have a balance, then he cannot achieve his ascent. As simple as that. If you don’t have a balance in your airplane, it cannot ascend. If you don’t have a balance, say on a ship, it won’t move. In the same way, first the human beings had to achieve the balance.

But they are born with different capacities, with different capabilities. As said that, 'Ya Devi sarva bhuteshu jhati rupena samstita,' means the aptitudes are different. They are born with different aptitudes, with different faces, with different colours because variety was to be created. If everybody looked the same, you see they would be looking like some robots or something. So, everybody was created in a different way, according to the country, according to the parents.

All this was organised by the principle of Shri Vishnu, that he created this world in different varieties. He gave variety and Shri Krishna is the master of it. At the time when Shri Krishna came, people were extremely serious type and had become very ritualistic. The reason was that Rama came and he talked of maryadas and these maryadas made people extremely, extremely austere type. In that austerity, people lost the sense of joy, sense of beauty, sense of variety. So the Shri Krishna’s incarnation came, as we call it, the Sampurna. It’s complete because he has sixteen petals. As the moon has sixteen kalas he too had sixteen petals, so he’s Sampurna and he is what we call is the Purnima, is the full moon. With this completeness of his incarnation, of Vishnu’s incarnation from Vishnu to many other incarnations, he came as the complete incarnation. The total of Shri Vishnu was manifested. So, whatever was lacking in Rama’s incarnation, he brought it forth. ... ...

All horrible things are happening around, so Sahaja Yogis have to equip themselves much more with the Shri Krishna principle. The first principle is communication. First principle is how you communicate with others. Start it at home with your children, with your wife, with your husband, how you communicate. Are you gentle? Are you kind? Are you dominating, aggressive? Just try to find out. It can go to any limit, this aggressiveness, either of the women or of the men. Here, more women I must say, I’m sorry to say. But, in my experience, I’ve seen the women are very dominating. In India, men are extremely dominating but here I find the women are."

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New Jersey, USA, 2nd October, 1994. Shri Krishna:

"Unless and until you are thoughtlessly aware, you cannot grow. That is first thing. And secondly, unless and until you are thoughtlessly aware, you do not know the absolute truth. Through your brain only you will know. You don’t have to put your hands. You don’t have to ask questions. But it’s like a computer that works. It just gives you an answer. In that state, you are completely one with the divine and it just gives you an answer and you do that and you are amazed how it has worked out. Everything, every moment, is computerised with Shri Krishna."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 12th July, 1998. Guru:

"So, you have to be a steady person. For that you all have to meditate. I know immediately a person who meditates and I know who does not meditate. You will yourself know a person who meditates. It’s a question of ten, fifteen minutes but that you must do every night. And morning, about five minutes meditation. Then you develop your balance. You develop your tenacity. You develop your own body, in such a manner that it can stand lots of nonsense, it can bear lots of things. You don’t have then desires left: what food you should eat, when you should eat, whom you should please, nothing of the kind! You yourself become such a sweet person, that everybody is pleased and understands that one has to be like you. The people see you and you become like a model. People start following you. That means you become a guru. In this way, you get rid of these two habits that you have, of left and right side."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 7th May, 2000. Sahastrara:

"Thirty years back, when Sahastrara was opened, I found darkness all over. People were so ignorant. They had no awareness [about] what they have to find. Of course, I found they wanted to find something that was unknown but they did not know what was unknown, what they have to find. And they were extremely ignorant people, about themselves and about their surroundings and about the aim of their life. I didn’t know how to start the topic with them."

Canajoharie, USA, 2nd July, 2000. Adi Shakti:

"Children are tomorrow’s citizens. Who will groom them? Who will bring them up? All these manly women don’t also have children sometimes, so they don’t know what is the problem of children. At least those who are solving the problem of their children, you must understand their responsibility. You see, the very, very crucial point, I think, on which all the Western societies are collapsing because in their culture there is no place for the mother. So, the women should not feel in any way less, if they are mothers and looking after the household. They should not feel inferior to anybody who thinks that they are something great. Basically, the families have to be good. This collectivity must work first in the family. The children are to be groomed properly. They are to be brought up in a proper way. As it is, in this day, you know what is happening to the children. When I read about it, I’m really shocked that children are just treated as if they’re some unwanted stuff. They are not given any attention. Ultimately, the children become drug addicts, they become vagabonds or anything. They can become anything because there’s so much, so much neglect and so much of hatred for children. So, one has to first remember that, for collectivity, you must look after your children. Not only that, with love and compassion. Not as somebody who is trying to become a despot out of it, but a person who is a source, who is a source of joy and compassion."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 20th August, 2000. Shri Krishna:

"You have to create something - maybe art, maybe music, maybe poetry, maybe literature, maybe writing. Whatever it is, you have to create. And above all, you have to create Sahaj Yogis. That’s the main creation you have to achieve. That’s the main thing you have to have is creating Sahaj Yogis all over. I am there. I can go to places, can have programmes, do everything. But you have to show with your own example that this is something great. 'How they have achieved this state? We should also achieve that state!' So you will be the ones who will really inspire them, who will really make them follow you and take to a life of a Sahaj Yogi. Actually you are Maha Yogis, if you become complete and you have to become. Nothing is more important than becoming a Maha Yogi, by which your spirit gives joy, peace and blessings to everyone. May God bless you!"

Los Angeles, USA, 29th October, 2000. Diwali:

"As I've told you before, that after realisation you become extremely creative, creative in everything, specially in giving realisation to others. And also creative in your life of art, music, poetry, drama, writing, all kinds of things you do. We have seen now so many cases who have never been on the stage even have given very great, inspiring lectures. So the creativity comes like an inspiration for others. They see you and they feel inspired. You are not the one who goes into the shadow and sits back. But openly you come out, with no pride or no sort of aggression but complete humility. And you give such beautiful feelings to others, such understanding about yourself and about the other, through your collective consciousness. You see, about collective consciousness and other things, so many people have talked. The other day you saw it. There were so many people like Jung and also there were other scientists and also other philosophers who have talked about it. But you have got it, you have the experience of collective consciousness."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 3rd June, 2001. Adi Shakti:

"Self-knowledge is the key for a saviour to give to people. We have had so many saints, we have had so many Sufis. We had Tao people, we had Zen people. All kinds of realised souls came on this earth. They all suffered, they were tortured, nobody understood them. But now the time has come for you to know the truth. But truth which is not dry, truth which has compassion, truth that encompasses everyone, that brings the complete view of our existence. Why are we here on this earth, what is our purpose, what should we do? Adi Shakti’s powers are such, of love and compassion, that makes you understand yourself first. The love for you, is very, very limited. There’s no awareness of your own being. Just imagine what a great task it is for you, how much you have to be seriously becoming aware of yourself first. That is extremely important. First you have to be aware of yourself. And now you have the light of your spirit. In the light of that spirit, you can see what you are and you can see how far you are going, how wrong things you are doing, what harm you are doing to yourself. And you have a power to cure it, to improve it and to come to your senses."

More: Music, Mantras and Meditation. A YouTube link, which includes another section from this speech.

Los Angeles, USA, 3rd November, 2002. Diwali:

"Now this is the one point which is very important. If you have to grow, you should be absolutely in connection with the divine, through thoughtless awareness. You don’t have to pray, you don’t have to call anyone, nothing. It just works because it is within you."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 9th May, 2004. Sahastrara:

"People are lost because they have no knowledge. Knowledge from the books is no knowledge. Their knowledge must come from within, from within themselves, and that has happened because of Sahastrara opening. In all the countries it has happened and it will be in the whole world. So many people will get realisation. But only thing, I feel that you people should have no emotional attachment to it. Not emotional but realistic attachment, that it is there, it has happened, it’s working out. Then you will be able to give realisations to others, you’ll understand the importance of realisation. Unless and until you use it, you won’t know what is the power of realisation. So you must learn how to use this power, which is within you, which has started working out and which will give you such an immense capacity."

Cabella Ligure, Italy, 20th July, 2008. Guru:

"Today is a very great day for all the Sahaja Yogis. Because Sahastrara opened in you, you could feel the existence of God. By saying there is God, that was not sufficient and to say there is no God, also was wrong, very wrong. And people have suffered who have said like them. Only after getting realisation, you know that there is God and there are vibrations."

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