2026 Celebrating 250 Years of Independence of United States of America: ““It is a responsibility to save America. You know it is a Viśhuddhi chakra and all the responsibility of Sahaja Yoga rests on Viśhuddhi chakra.”

"At this time, you had to have your Realization. That was decided by the Divine Collectivity, you can call it. All the Gods, Goddesses, all of them decided to put this work on somebody whom they thought to be very capable. So they said, "We all will be with you, entirely with you. All our powers will be with you, but you take up this job now in this Kali Yuga to transform human beings."
In a way, human beings are more difficult than animals because they have their own freedom and they have been given this freedom to achieve their final freedom. In their freedom, the way they behave is something very surprising, how they go completely out of control and try to do things which are so destructive. Of course, in Kali Yuga it was predicted in India but I think they could not predict what would happen in America or what would happen in the Western countries where people have freedom just to destroy themselves and they're finding new methods of destroying themselves. This tendency cannot be curbed, cannot be stopped by Ādi Śhakti or by God Almighty because you have been given the freedom to ruin yourselves, spoil yourself and to go to hell. That cannot be controlled by any Divine Power. Divine Power also respects your freedom.
So the Divine Collectivity thought, "Are we going to completely ruin the creation of Ādi Śhakti? Are we going to completely destroy whatever She has created and then recreate something better?" This was the discussion going on and most of them were so fed up with the human beings, especially with the Western freedom, that they said, "These people want hell and why should we give them the heavens? It's not proper."
So first thing Ādi Śhakti did was to create a seeking in them. She created this desire to seek and so these people belonging to this culture, which was so destructive, started seeking.
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Now why is it some are seekers and some are not? One may say that Ādi Śhakti, if She has created all the human beings, all of them should have seeking. Because in freedom they have lost their way. They are seeking something else and they think they're right. They have a right to think that they're right. Even a stupid fellow, even a mad person thinks he's right. If you tell him that, 'You are mad,' he will say, 'You are mad.' And this seeking, though put into them, they are not yet capable. So many of them are achieving it in the proper way because for that one has to surrender, not one's freedom, not one's intelligence, but the ego that is developed in human beings."
1994-0626 Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Pūjā, Seekers, Ego, Women are Śhaktis, Tent, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy

"Because freedom, independence of freedom ... or freedom, is of course necessary, political freedom to talk even about God. We could not even make a small needle like that time, we were not allowed by the [British] governments. So much oppressed! So we had to get out of the shackles of uh-uh-uh slavery. No doubt.
But now I find we have another kind of slavery: a slavery of selfishness. Self-oriented: 'This is my comfort,' 'I must have this,' 'It should be enjoyable,' 'I am enjoying,' 'I am this,' 'I am that.' You should enjoy, otherwise it is not something great. I mean the whole thing should provide you some sort of a uh feeling, instead of you providing the feeling. Because people, I think, do not know what they are doing, What sort of work they are doing! They do not want to come up to that level, of that height, to see, 'What are you up to? You are trying to save the whole world!' "
1985-0206 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, A New Era (Grow to Save the Humanity or Sacrifice, Freedom, Ascent), Seminar, Bordi, Maharashtra, India

"Andthat is what you see in America, very common, that for people it has become a joke, life has become a joke. And they think that, 'Life is not to be taken seriously, there is more fun in doing all kinds of things than in getting into any kind of inhibitions,' as they call it, or maybe some sort of uh forms or patterns. But it is a myth, with Americans now, because for that you have to have Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, you have to have Realization.
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It's quite symbolic that in Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa's place this thing should be so commonly accepted, that, 'Everything is an illusion.' So, who is wrong? Who is bad? 'Nothing is wrong! There's nothing like evil, nothing like good.' And some people go to that limit to say that, 'There's nothing like a bhūt, nothing like a rākṣhasa, nothing like a[n] evil force.'
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So, one has to understand in that light, that when Kṛiṣhṇa said, "The whole thing is a play," He was meaning for Him, not for others. For Him it is a play. And that's why, when they talk to you about the play and the illusion, you must tell him [them], 'Then why did He kill Kaṃsa? Why did He uh kill Jarāsandha? Why did He kill all the people who were following Kaṃsa?' So to Him it was a play, everything was a play. And He did it in His own attitude of a play.
So the first thing if you are awakened by Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa's Powers, then the first thing that should happen to you is wisdom.
1985-0602 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, He Started a New Theme (The Whole Thing Is Nothing but a Līlā) and The Divine Diplomacy Is Expressed through Your Discretion (Play the Melody of God and See Everything as a Play), Tent, Backyard, House of Judy Gaddy, 442 Liberty Road, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.

"It is a country which can definitely help for the emancipation of the whole human beings. But on the contrary, it is uh going on the other way round. I mean, American culture, I don't understand at all what, what is the American culture i[s]. Is um something -- they say something, do something else. They've no proper value system, which is accepted by everyone, which is built traditionally from days together. The value system is so convoluted, so twisted that it's only a Sahaja Yogi by his nobility, by his greatness can disentangle these people. They have funny ideas, and those funny ideas should not deter you, should not stop you, for you know that they are stupid, they are destructive and they will destroy all the, all the good qualities.
You should know that their responsibility of Americans is much greater than the responsibility of any other Sahaja Yogis, because they are accepted and regarded as the most competent people, as the most effective people, by the Divine Power. Divine Power thinks that, 'Now you can go all ahead, you can do so much, and let us see.' "
1999-0620 Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Pūjā, Sahaja Yogis Have to Transform Others, Hangar, Nirmal Nagarī, 287 Starkville Road, Fort Plain (5 kms NW of Canajoharie), NY, U.S.A.

"It is a responsibility to save America. You know it is a Viśhuddhi chakra and all the responsibility of Sahaja Yoga rests on Viśhuddhi chakra. So how important it is that this transformation is to take place. Unless and until the transformation comes in, you will see it will not work out. You cannot talk to people, you cannot communicate with them. So you must pray that transformation process must start, must trigger, and must gallop, and must go on spreading like wildfire. This should be our prayer today."
1983-0917 Śhrī Ekādaśha Rudra Pūjā (Parivartinī Ekādaśhī Day), Transform People by the Manifestation of the Ekādeśha's Powers, Living Room, Apartment of Judy Gaddy, 215, West 92nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
-- America the Beautiful
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Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!