2021 Celebrating August 15: Mother Mary’s Assumption and India’s Independence Day

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"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 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (33rd Republic Day), Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

Mahārāshtra deshā jagruta karuyā kavane karuna
Let us awaken this country of Maharashtra singing poems
Jāgruti mohima hāti gheuyā vinamra houna
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
Sahaj 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 Ādi Śhakti
Jāgruti mohima hāti gheuyā vinamra houna
We will carry on this work of awakening with complete surrender
Maharashtra Deśha
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"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) (Diwālī Pāḍavā Day), Honesty and Patriotism, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Sapta koti kantha kalakala nināda karāle
nisapta koti bhujaidhruta kharakarvāle
sapta koti kantha kalakala nināda karāle
nisapta koti bhujaidhruta kharakarvāle
ka bola ka noma eith bole
bahubal dhārinīn namāmi tārinīm
ripudalavārinīn mātaram
vande mātaram ......

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the swords flash out in seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee, I call Mother and Lord!
Thou who savest, arise and save!
To her, I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free
Mother, to thee I praise thee.

1999-0220 Public Program (Hindi+Marathi), Hamārī Sanskṛiti ki Viśheṣhatā (Specialty of Our Culture), Śhivajī Park, Dadar West, Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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"We got our independence and graciously English left us, that was something really great of them, in those days to do it. But that independence was just a political independence, political freedom but today you have the ultimate, ultimate freedom. You got the freedom of your spirit which is not attached to anything, which is not anything but the spirit, which is absolute, which is neither English nor Indian nor Australian, which is not this house, which is not anything but the spirit itself, the complete freedom you’ve got. In that freedom, you have to rise."
1986-0802 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Arrival for the Inauguration, Tent, Marque, Back Garden, Śhuddhi Camp (now The Hall, Shudy Camps Park), Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, UK

Mā Teri Jay Ho Tera Hi Vijay Ho,
Victory be to You, O Mother India
Tere Geet Se Aaj Jag Ye Jivit Ho,
Let this world get alive today with Your song!
Mā Teri Jay Ho.
Victory be to You, O Mother India!

Mā Teri sung by Śhrī Mātājī Nirmalā Devī
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"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 Śhrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā, National Palace of Culture (NDK), Boulevard Bulgaria, 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria

Suggested Talk: 1986-0802 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Arrival for the Inauguration, Tent, Marque, Back Garden, Śhuddhi Camp (now The Hall, Shudy Camps Park), Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, UK

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Bhajans:

Jay Gaṇeśhajī ke Mā Ambe
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Ave Maria Śhrī Mātājī
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Mā Teri Jaya Ho 1997-0906 Evening Program, Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā, Cabella
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Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Mary Mahālakṣhmī sākṣhāt
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!

Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!