2020 Celebrating Mother Mary’s Assumption and India’s Independence Day. “She is the Redeemer and She connects you to God.”
"Mahālakṣhmī's Incarnation is very important for Sahaja Yoga. First She establishes our dharma by which we become righteous, we become religious in the real sense. After the light of Realization we cannot do anything that is not dharma. As you know what is dharma is, and the maryādās, the boundaries of our behavior. This transformation takes place automatically. I don't have to tell you, ``Don't do this, don't do this," like Ten Commandments. You, yourself, establish your dharma and you enjoy your virtues. This happens, as you know -- already has happened to all of you -- with the Grace of Mahālakṣhmī. Then She starts bestowing blessings on you."
1993-0908 Shrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā, National Palace of Culture, NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sancta Maria, Dei Genitrix glorificamus Te,
Holy Mother, Mother of God, we glorify Thee.
Immaculata Dea, Dei Genitrix, laudamus Te,
Immaculate Goddess, Mother of God, we praise Thee.
Ave Maria Śhrī Mātājī
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"There's so much can be said about this Mahālakṣhmī Tattwa; you are all blessed so much by that.
And so today we remember Her Great Incarnation as Maria, who was very great because She had to bear terrible pain in Her heart with All Her Powers that She had, She was a tremendously powerful Lady. But despite that, She bore all the tortures of Christ upon Her heart. And it was Her order and Her desire that Christ had to crucify Himself so that people could be resurrected. And sometimes Indians ask Me, ``What did She do to be a Mahālakṣhmī, what did She achieve?" I said: ``With All Her Powers to bear it. To play the drama it must be too much."
So She is the Redeemer and She connects you to God."
1984-0908 Śhrī Mary Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā, Münich, Germany
"If you have to celebrate say your Republic Day or your Independence Day we put the lights on, or we have fireworks, you see. To express ourselves that way is in the Rājalakṣhmī.
Now the Mahālakṣhmī. Mahālakṣhmī is the evolutionary state. In the evolutionary state, when the evolutionary state starts, then the Mahālakṣhmī starts asserting Herself and that comes when your wellbeing is established fully."
1981-1027 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Āśhram, former Hotel, Bramham Gardens, Earl’s Court, Kensington, London, UK
"Today we celebrate our freedom from that slavery that we had for three hundred years. But slavery does not go easily only by celebrating our independence day. It has to go completely from our minds. And one has to realize that we are really independent people now.
We are independent it does not mean that we are abandoned people. Those who have not paid anything to achieve this independence cannot understand also the value of this independence. The slavery is in our mind still lingering on.
Indians are now more westernized, anglicized than they were ever before. Before independence as they had to struggle out of it they protested. But when we became independent we started thinking that we should also imbibe all the bad qualities from the West. So this is also a kind of a slavery which is very subtle. Also the people who ruled us are still carrying on with the idea that [they are] still ruling us. Is all imaginary. Both things are imaginary. They don’t exist anymore. As far as we are concerned in India, we have to know that this independence was granted to us through God’s Grace. We have won it through nonviolence and truth, and granted to us, for us to achieve our spiritual ascent. To become spiritually enlightened and find out from our root what Truth has been laid for us."
1982-0126 Pūjā, 33rd Republic Day Celebration, Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
We have seen those days too when our country was not independent but you people are liberated now. Now we are independent. And what is swatantra [independence]? Know the Swa – one Self and the tantra – mechanism. Know the mechanism of one Self.
Through Sahaja Yoga you have known your Self and you know the technique or the mechanism of knowing one Self.
2007-1110 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Hindi), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Mahārāshtra deshā jagruta karuyā kavane karuna
Let us awaken this country of Maharashtra singing poems
Jāgruti mohima hāti gheuyā vinamra houna
We will carry on this work of awakening with complete surrender
Jyoti-madhuni jyota ujaruyā prema bhāva ne ne
We will enlighten one candle after another with love in our hearts
Sahaz yogāchi prārthanā ātā shuddha bhāva ne ne
We will pray for Sahaja Yoga with purity in our hearts
Ādi-śhaktitse mantra phulavuyā jāgruta houna
We will chant the mantras of Adi Shakti
Jāgruti mohima hāti gheuyā vinamra houna
We will carry on this work of awakening with complete surrender </b>
Maharashtra Deśha
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Jai Gaṇeśha ji ke Mā Ambe
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Mahālakṣhmī Stotram
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Vande Mātaram
(the national song of India written by Bakim Chandra Chatterjee in 1874, it means Worship of Mother or Mother I bow to Thee)
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Mā, Teri Jaya Ho
(was composed by Shri Mataji in 1941, before India got its Independence) Mā Teri Jaya Ho (1997- 0906 Evening Program, Shri Ganesha Puja, Cabella)
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!