ŚHRĪ MĀRKAṆḌEYA in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ

"References to Kuṇḍalinī awakening abound in many of the Indian Scriptures. Some of these are Vāsiṣhṭha Yoga, Ṛigveda, Puruṣha Sūkta, Upaniṣhads of Atharvaveda, Yogopanishad, Yogaśhikhā Upaniṣhad, Kaṭhopaniṣhad and Yoga Kuṇḍalinī Upaniṣhad. In the Purāṇas are Devī Bhāgavat[am] Purāṇa, Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, Śhrī Bhāgavat[a] Purāṇa, etc. In Sanhitas: Haṭh[a] Yoga Sanhita, Laya Yoga Sanhita, Rāj Yoga Sanhita, Śhiv Sanhita. In the Yoga tests: Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā, Saundaryalaharī, Śhubhodayam, Lalitā Sahasrānam, and by Saints such as Bhakt Kabīr, Nāṇak, Gyāneśhwar, etc."
1900-0000 Quote from the book Divine Knowledge through Vibrations (1992) by P.T. Rajasekharan and R. Venkatesan, Pages 73 and 74

"You have read Devī Māhātmyam. Not one word is wrong in it. Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī was a great Seer. Not a word by Him is untrue. Not a word is distorted.
I am sometimes surprised, how far did humans have seen these things so minutely.
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But have anyone heard Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī's name? He, in Saptaśhatī, described Śhrī Durgā."
1973-1208 Public Program (Hindi), Day 2, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"Those people who are very big paṇḍits, if they want they should read Kabīr Dās, Nāṇakjī and if possible also read Śhaṅkarāchārya, He is the best. If you read Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya then you can understand what is this Chaitanya Laharī [Wave of Vibrations], I am talking about.
I have not yet met anyone who has systematically said or explained about Kuṇḍalinī.
You know that little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The same can be said about Kuṇḍalinī, otherwise how they could have written this kind of strange things, I do not know on what basis.
But still the Witness State of human being is so high, so high that if you read Devī Bhāgavat[am], Saptaśhatī of Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, then you will be surprised how deeply, in small detail,They have understood this thing."
1973-1209 Public Program (Hindi), Day 3, Śhrī Dattātreya Jayanti, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"If you read Devī Mahātmyam, a simple book written by Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, you will know that all these things given in that: like how to make out a person, who is an Incarnation, who is not an Incarnation."
1975-0219 Public Program, Day 3, Gita Mandir Hall, Bhara-tiya Vidyā Bhavan (3rd floor), 29, Kulapati K.M. Munshi Mārg, Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (other date 0218)

"I feel that Ānand (Sadhana's son) is incarnation of Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya. Śhrī Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī Himself took incarnation as Śhaṅkarāchārya. Kalpana soon will give birth to [a] second gem."
1975-1117 Letter to Mrs. Rāja Kuṃwar Raul (Marathi), London, UK

"But you have to be very careful with those horrible destructive forces that have come in so many ways. I can tell you that there are sixteen rākṣhasas whom I know have been taken birth. Mahiṣhāsur is there, Narakāsur is there, Vṛutrāsur is there. There there are six rākṣhasinis who have taken birth. And you have no idea to what they are doing. They'll do all kinds of tricks to convince you that they are godly people.
But you must only ask for the Supreme, for the Last, which is being described by so many Sages like Mārkaṇḍeya, like Śhaṅkarāchārya.
We are so lucky that we have had such great people, who have elaborately said, who have clearly said, that, "This is what is the supreme, ask for the reality. And do not ask for something cheapish."
You cannot cheapen God. You do not try to mold Him [laughing:] in your own small cups.
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Above this chakra is the Āgñyā chakra, which is a very, very important chakra, which is the Door, which is the Door of the Sahasrāra. At the Āgñyā chakra resides Mahāviṣhṇu.
Those who have read about Mahāviṣhṇu, in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa or in the Devī Bhāgavat[am], you will know what I am talking about. But you will not know when He incarnated and who He was.
He was nobody else but Jesus Christ."
1976-0205 Public Program (Vasant Pañchamī), Day 2, Description of Kuṇḍalinī, after Śhrī Viṣhnu Havan, New Delhi, India

"This chakra, called Āgñyā chakra, is situated in the middle center where optic nerves cross, called optic thalamus. Śhrī Mahāviṣhṇu is placed in the Āgñyā chakra.
You can read the description of Mahāviṣhṇu in Saptaśhatī, Mārkaṇḍeya, Bhāgavat, or Devī Purāṇa.
But these days you don't read such books and spend time reading Rajneesh.
If you read Devī Bhāgavat, there is a perfect description of Mahāviṣhṇu."
1976-032x Public Program (Hindi), Day y, Advertised as 'Kuṇḍalinī Awakening', New Delhi, India (date to be confirmed)}

"Mārkaṇḍeya discovered all these things through meditation.
Now I can tell you these things, it is up to you to verify it.
I asked him: "Why do You want to write?" He told Me, "I must write otherwise they may not recognize You."
Today, all the Gods you may recognize in Me whom you call as Nirmalā. It's a very mild Form. But all the Powers are inside and may be used. They have become subtler, simpler. This finger may look dainty to you but it has a very powerful weapon which has killed many rākṣhasas."
1976-1000 Pūjā, Śhrī Mātājī's House, 2, Parklands, Ice House Wood, Hurst Green, Oxted, Surrey, UK (month not sure; also listed as 1974 or 1975)

"You can have free cabaret, and you can have free discourses on all the nonsensical things debasing God Himself! All these things are so interesting to human being! Are they really seeking the Truth? Are they really asking the reality?
They will never read Śhaṅkarāchārya! Yesterday I told you: 'They will never go and find out what Mārkaṇḍeya had written! They have time to find out what Jesus has to say about it. They don't know what Muhammad Sāhab has said.'
Nāṇak Sāhab said so many things, Kabīra has said so many things. 'They are all fools!'
These 'wise' have come from somewhere to teach us about all these satanic methods that they want to employ on us. So be ware! Be careful! This is a ghor Kali Yuga. All these satanic forces are acting!"
1976-1222 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (English+Hindi), Spirits of the Dead, Sweet Home, Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"Thirdly we have Swāmī Mārkaṇḍeya and Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya. We call ourselves Hindu, this and that but no one reads Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya's work. Even after reading it no one could understand Him well.
He was such a big devotee of Mother that He won't do anything other than offering prayers to Mother. All the time He kept praying to Mother Bhagavatī and He knew nothing else. He would suggest only to pray to the Mother and anything shall be done. And this is absolutely correct. He said, "Whatever Yoga, etc. you do, will not help you find Divine. You can find [the Divine] only when Mother endows Her blessings, otherwise you just can't find Him. He mentioned this very clearly."
1977-0215 Public Program (Hindi+English), Day 2, Sat-chit-ānanda, New Delhi, India

"So that center which is here placed at the crossing point of the optic nerves is known as the Āgñyā chakra. And the Deity placed there is Mahāviṣhṇu.
I don't know how far people have read about Devī or Devī Māhātmyam or Mārkaṇḍeya or even Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya.
Now Mahāviṣhṇu is a creation of Rādhājī, is the Son of Rādhā. He [She] had created Him out of Śhrī Gaṇeśha's essence, and in a special way. And this Child was created in the Vaikuṇṭha Stage, in the Heaven we can say, and He incarnated on this Earth as Jesus Christ."
1977-0222 Public Program, Day 1, About Different Chakras and Their Deities, Gāndhī Bhawan, Delhi University, North Campus, GC Narang Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

"Christ is Brahm, the Form of Brahm. That's why His physical form is also that of Brahm. You can say a special being was created.
If you read the Devī Bhāgavat[am] although you do not read such things, if you read Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇ, all such things are mentioned in it. His name was Mahāviṣhṇu. His Father was none other than Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, the Virāṭ. The person He keeps talking about, His Father, is Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa."
1978-0201 Public Program (Hindi), Brahma kā Gyān (Knowledge of Brahma) or Mūlādhāra to Viśhuddhi, Āgñyā, and Sahasrāra, 9 Raisina Road, New Delhi, India

[Version 1:]
Now this Kuṇḍalinī, Dñyāneśhwar has also talked a lot about It. Mārkaṇḍeya has done the most amount of work on it, so has Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya. They have described and explained it so beautifully.
But I am surprised that no one reads the work of Śhaṅkarāchārya. He was a resident of Kerala and He had spent His entire lifetime over there. So it was even more surprising when I came to know that the people from His place didn't even know who He was.
So much ignorance has come into people over there. They think, just because they have been educated in English they are someone special."
[Version 2:]
Now this Kuṇḍalinī is right here, Dñyāneśhwara has also talked a lot about It. Similarly, Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī and Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya have done the maximum amount of work on It. They have made It lucid and explained It all so beautifully.
But I am surprised that no one reads the work of Śhaṅkarāchārya. Not only this but I had been to Kovalam and He belongs to Kerala, He spent his life in Kālaṭi village there, and I was surprised when people over there told Me, "We do not know who this Śhaṅkarāchārya, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya was, whom are you speaking about."
So much ignorance has come into people due to English education.
1979-0223 Public Program (Marathi), Kuṇḍalinī Śhakti ani Sat Chakra (Kuṇḍalinī Śhakti and the Seven Chakras), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India

"From time immemorial, people have said that Kuṇḍalinī is an institution within us. This has been especially elaborated by Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya and Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī. After that Kabīr and Guru Nāṇak have also explained and written in detail.
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Now I will tell you about Kuṇḍalinī and I will describe one or two experiences about It. You can see with your eyes the pulsation of Kuṇḍalinī.
That is My identity. Mārkaṇḍeya has professed about Me, that, "The Kuṇḍalinī will pulsate at Her Feet." "
1979-0227 Public Program (Marathi), Dhule, Maharashtra, India

"Now, this chakra is where there is sākṣhāt Christ.
Christ is none other, He is the incarnation of Śhrī Gaṇeśh.
How He was made? If you read Devī Bhāgavat[am] by Mārkaṇḍeya, you will understand. He was made as Mahāviṣhṇu first and was described as how He is the basis of this Universe and how Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa who is the father of Christ, that is why He is called Christ. They call Him Christ, like it is the surname. And Yaśhodājī's name is used and He is also called as Yeśhu. That is how Rādhāji Herself kept His name, and Rādhāji is His mother.
1979-0311 Public Program (English+Hindi), Day 2, Session 2 (evening), On Gāndhī and Collective Consciousness, Gāndhī Bhawan, Delhi University, North Campus, GC Narang Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

"Kuṇḍalinī knowledge is very much known to us.
Actually we are so much anglicized, thanks to Lord [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, that a very few people who even know the word Kuṇḍalinī.
If you read Kabīr, the whole thing, Kabīr is nothing but Sahaja Yoga.
How many of you read Kabīr? For fashion sake even if they read they don't know what He is talking about.
Nāṇak has talked about it, Gyāneśhwara has talked about it.
Christ has talked about it that, "I will appear before you like tongues of flames." What is the meaning? Christians do not know about it.
So it is being promised.
Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, of course, the greatest son of our country has described it so elaborately, but those who call themselves also Hindus, do they know the word Kuṇḍalinī? While throughout in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇ, such a Great Sage, the one who has not read the Mārkaṇḍeya, I would not call him an Indian at all.
One of the greatest Sages of this country is Mārkaṇḍeya who has written a complete knowledge about the Devī to such a little extent, to such a small detail that you will be so surprised, 'How He could see all these things? Did He enter into the body of Devī to find out these small small minute things?'
But all this we have done in this country much more than any other country."
1979-0328 Public Address, Inauguration of The Advent (Guḍhī Pāḍavā Day), FICCI Auditorium, 1 Tansen Mārg, New Delhi, India from Anant Jeevan, Issue 1 (July 1979), Pages 5–12

"Take the case of our Buddha. Now, Buddha was the ... one of the very Great Incarnations in the sense that He was the son, one of the sons of Rāma, who incarnated on this Earth, Buddha, to occupy the highest life on this Earth. So He had to take saṃnyāsa. Because without that He could not show that.
But there was no need for anybody else to take saṃnyāsa.
But in His case mistakes, uh-uh-uh I mean why there were some mistakes about things were, because when He tried all these tricks of saṃnyāsa, going here and there, He never realized that this is all not needed.
He was so tired and fagged out, that suddenly, spontaneous, the Primordial Mother Herself gave Him the Realization. Because He was so tired.
Now, supposing this is Caxton Hall. To come here, you go to, say, uh-uh-uh-uh Reading, then you go to-oo, in the north, to Leeds, then you go this side and uh-uh-uh then you go to Brighton and come back here. And you tell everybody, "If you have to go to Caxton Hall, you better do all that." It is just like that! It is just like that, very misleading!
Because when He found it out, as you have found out too, you do not realize how you have found it. You do not know how you have done it. If I do not tell you that it is God who has done it, how are you going to believe it? You'll think, 'I have done Self-realization, all right, I am a self-realized person.'
Self is most important.
That's why He believed this a ... anīśhwaratv, means atheism. He said, "There's no God. Only thing, the Self is to be achieved."
Naturally. Because there was nobody to tell Him that, 'You have achieved through the Grace of the Primordial Mother.'
So He was to be born again as one of the sons of Fāṭimah Bi, who was the daughter of Muhammad Sāhab. Then again He was to be born as Mārkaṇḍeya, and again as Śhaṅkarāchārya: just to neutralize what He has been preaching.
So you will see that in the sixth century Śhaṅkarāchārya is the one who put end to Buddhism, the nonsense of Buddhism in India. Because, apart from what Buddha's understanding of the whole thing is, the His disciples made it so perverse, that somebody had to come down to tell: that, 'The marriage system has to be re-established.'
And this is how this right side was controlled through various Incarnations coming down."
1979-0611 Public Program, How Aspects of God Are Expressed within Us, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

"Is a technique which is written in all the Scriptures. Kabīra has described it. If Nāṇaka has described it. All the other Scriptures of Śhaṅkarāchārya has described it. If you read Mārkaṇḍeya, He has described it. Nothing new about it.
But because you do not know it, you are naive about it, that's why you don't understand. But nothing is going to harm you."
1979-0806 Public Program, Self-realization and Fulfillment, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

[ Version 1:]
"Now, this Gaṇeśha Principle becomes Jesus Christ when He arrived in this world at Āgñyā chakra.
Do read Devī Māhātmyam or Devī Bhāgavat[am]. Go through the description of Śhrī Mahāviṣhṇu in it. It is described that Śhrī Rādhājī prepared Her son similarly as Śhrī Pārvatī did it but the main principle in this is Śhrī Gaṇeśha Principle and the son prepared as Śhrī Gaṇeśha came in the world as Jesus Christ."
[ Version 2:]
This Gaṇeśh Tattwa, when It comes on the Āgñyā chakra, It took the form of Christ when It came in this world.
You would have read in Devī Māhātmya[m], the [Devī] Bhāgavat[am] written by Śhrī Mārkaṇḍeya.
You could say Mārkaṇḍeya is My most beloved son.
Nowadays nobody reads Mārkaṇḍeya, but if you can get it, read the description of Śhrī Mahāviṣhṇu. He has mentioned that Rādhā had created Her own Son by Herself. Means just as Pārvatī created Her Son, She too had created [Hers]."
1979-0922 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Marathi), Kuṇḍalinī and Śhrī Gaṇeśha Principle, Navarātri Celebrations (1st Day), Amar Hind Mandal, West Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"Two Great Powers are combined in Jesus Christ. The first Power is that of Śhrī Gaṇeśha, who is recognized as His Original Power, and the other is that of Śhrī Kārttikeya.
Because of this, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ is of complete Brahman Tattwa or Oṃkār.
Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa, He being the Father of Jesus Christ, bestowed a number of boons on Jesus Christ prior to His birth.
One of these boons was that, "You would dwell on a plane higher than that of mine."
This could be explained to mean, that while the plane of Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa is the Viśhuddhi chakra, located at the base of our neck, the plane of Jesus is Āgñyā chakra, which is located at the junction of the optic thalamus.
The second boon granted by Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa was that, "You would be the support of the whole universe."
The third boon was, that, "You would be the first to receive one-sixteenth part of all the offerings made to Me in Pūjā."
In this way, after bestowing a number of boons, Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa permitted Śhrī Jesus Christ to incarnate on the Earth.
You would understand these things better, if you read Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. Śhrī Mārkaṇḍeya, the author of the Purāṇa has beautifully explained a number of such subtler points.
In the same Purāṇa, there is a graphic description of Śhrī Mahāviṣhṇu. If you would listen to this description while in meditation, you would notice that the description is of Jesus Christ only."
1979-0927 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Hindi), Kuṇḍalinī and Lord Jesus Christ, Navarātri Celebrations (6th Day), Hinduja Auditorium, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"So all these experimentations are of no use.
As a Mother I'm telling you, 'Please stop it.' Awaken your Lord Gaṇeśha within you, by respecting your chastity!
Our Indian men think that, 'Chastity has no nuh-neah ... no meaning for them. Only the women have to be chaste, and men are not supposed to be chaste at all'! Is more surprising.
Chastity is the most important thing for human beings, to be in the center, because it is Śhrī Gaṇeśha's blessings one gets, then only the Kuṇḍalinī is going to rise.
Now, Śhrī Gaṇeśha has incarnated in this Earth ... on this Earth Himself as Lord Jesus Christ. He came on this Earth as Lord Jesus Christ on this center, what you call the Āgñyā chakra, where I am putting this red thing.
But He has evolved a lot. There are Eleven Rudras, as we call them Ekādeśha [Ekādaśha] Rudras, which are His Powers.
All this is described in the Devī Māhātmyam, Devī Bhāgavat[am]. His name is Mahāviṣhṇu. He is called as the Support of the Universe.
But who reads Devī Bhāgavat[am]? Or who reads Mārkaṇḍeya's books or Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya's books?
They will uh say that, 'We are great Hindus,' and they have not even heard the name of Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya!
I went to Kerala and these newspaper people told Me that, "We have never read Him."
In Kerala, such a great man was born, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, I mean they have not read about Him!
He never preached any Hinduism, it's a wrong idea! He said, "Na Yogen na Sāṅkhyen" [part of line 1 of Vivekachūḍāmaṇi 56]. He said, "Not by these philosophies you are gore ... you are going to gain [get] to God. But through Mother's Grace only you will gain that position."
He's clearly said it. He never believed in any such secular uh-uh-uh sort of ideas or any such ideas which meant that, 'This religion is different.' "
1980-0128 Public Program, Seminar, Day 1, Cowasji Jehangir Hall, 15, Madam Cama Road, Mantralaya, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"One has to know that the powers are tremendous. You cannot conceive it, as it is said by Mārkaṇḍeya. You cannot conceive it. Is beyond that, your conception. Outwardly, you cannot understand. You just cannot understand.
Under such circumstances, the best thing is: to surrender yourself.
Now, in surrendering, what do you surrender? What do you surrender? Is your ego and your superego. And it is completely cleansed and drenched in the blessing.
Because you cannot give anything. You have to receive the blessings.
And to receive the blessings, you have to just surrender. It is so simple. The easiest way: to solve all your problems is to surrender."
1980-1019 Havan, Navarātri Celebrations (Dussehra Day), To Solve All Your Problems Is to Surrender, Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead, London, UK

"Now, this is the message we have talked today. And, in the same way, we must understand that all the religions have predicted about Christ, and supported Him.
As you know in Mārkaṇḍeya's book, He is described as Mahāviṣhṇu.
And they all have talked about Him and He's come on this Earth.
In Hindi to support, the ādhār, is to hold Him. Because He is from the very beginning. As Gaṇeśha is Ādhā-rā and as Christ also is Ādhār.
But what you have done of Him, His spirit, His intellect. So give anything to human beings, and they'll make up with a laugh of it. Just think: the brain is like that. I don't know how you can do that to Him. It's another crucifixion, every moment I feel, the way people have done it."
1980-1020 Public Program, The Way of Kuṇḍalinī, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

"You'll be amazed, none of the books which have been written so far have been able to tell you about the spiritual be-ing that is within you as you have come to know through Sahaj Yog. One has to accept it. It is so. Any one of them, whosoever has written any books, even, I would say, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, He could not explain so many things which you know.
But the quality of Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya is very great, or people of His type, Mārkaṇḍeya or Buddha, the quality is very high, because They are extremely pure people – purity. They have achieved individual salvation of a very high degree while you have achieved your collective salvation better. But individually, they are of a very-very high quality. I mean, They had no doubts about Divine Power, They had no doubts about God. They never had any doubts. And They were very dignified. And They never bothered as to Their petty problems of life. For Them, this was too petty to think about. "
1980-1201 Public Program, You Are Part of the Divine Being, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

Śhrī Mātājī: [Mentions that Her forefathers ruled in Rāhurī and that the Nāth Pānthis worked there.]
Madhukar Bhikobā Dhumāḷ: [Asks who were the Nāth Pānthis.]
Śhrī Mātājī: I have so far told you how the evolution was led by Viṣhṇu and His Incarnations on the Earth.
Apart from this there was a unique Incarnation of the Primordial Master, Ādi Guru, in the Void or Bhavasāgara. He incarnated many a times to guide humanity to cross the Void.
These Masters evolved new personalities endowed with the Principles of Disciples or Śhiṣhya Tattwa, who manifested as Great Disciples of this Ādi Guru. The disciples created by Ādi Guru were human beings but they achieved salvation with the help of their Gurus or their own efforts. They were not Divine Incarnations and are known as Avadhūts.
They incarnated on this Earth as other personalities: Solomon, David, Guru Vasiṣhṭha, John the Baptist, second and third Zoroaster, Mārkaṇḍeya, Gaganagaḍ Mahārāj and the Nine Nāths.
The Nav Nāths knew that Kuṇḍalinī awakening is the only way you can get your Self-realization. Their attention was enlightened, and they could just put it on matter or anything and it would work.
For instance, Chāṅgadev would put his attention on heat and cook on it!
They had the True Knowledge of the Kuṇḍalinī and went as far as Bolivia and Ukraine to bestow Kuṇḍalinī awakening.
Madhukar Bhikobā Dhumāḷ: Are they to be worshiped?
Śhrī Mātājī: Only Deities are to be worshiped.
Madhukar Bhikobā Dhumāḷ: Are there any Avadhūts born in India?
Śhrī Mātājī: Now Sahaja Yoga has created the environment for many great Souls to take their birth.
1980-1229 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, House of Madhukar Bhikobā Dhumāḷ, near Railway Station, Rāhurī, Maharashtra, India

"Is very interesting to see: how uh the spirituality spread into these countries, and had then how it died out.
All these things happened, but then They were born again and again. They were born as Mahāvīra and Buddha. They are the same. They are born as Mārkaṇḍeya. They are born as Kabīra, as Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya.
It was Buddha who was born as Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, just to correct Himself. Buddha was shocked the way people were going towards Nirākāra, that He had to be born as Śhaṅkarāchārya to tell people, "Oh God! What are you doing?" It was only Buddha who came to correct Himself as Śhaṅkarāchārya.
It is so [laughing:] surprising, that people are fighting, Buddhist and Hindus are great uh enemies of each other. But they do not know that the person who really re-established Hinduism was the same who established Buddhism.
So, imagine the same personality coming in and agai... coming ... coming again and again on this Earth, tries to correct uh-uh-uh His disciples, again finds that there are two groups He has created: it's a big problem.
Now, Mahāvīra also was one of Them, who ... who was born again and again, and He was Mārkaṇḍeya, and He was Kabīra.
The way Kabīra lashes people, you can see that He is tremendous! He is like Bhairava!
And the Power of Bhairava, Kabīra has used in His language, but for Hindi poets it is Sadhukaddi [vernacular dialect of Hindi+Punjabi+Māravāṛī in medieval North India] and they have made fun of it.
The best thing of a person who doesn't want to face reality, is to make fun of everyone. That is the best way.
They said, "What is this talk, 'Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣhumṇā'? Who is He? What does He think of Himself?"
But He was appreciated, very much, by the Saints and specially by Guru Nāṇaka, who included all His poetry in His Grantha Sāhab.
He's included so many of these poetry from all the realized Souls from Ma... Maharashtra, also."
1981-0207 Public Program, Day 3, Introduction to Nābhī and Void, Mavlankar Hall, Constitution Club of India, Vithal Bhai Patel House, Rafi Mārg, Sansad Mārg Area, Behind Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, India

"Never a word was it told about Kuṇḍalinī nor this word was used except, also, by Mārkaṇḍeya, who was there long time back, much before Śhaṅkarāchārya.
But to people, Kuṇḍalinī was something unknown, something very much away from the understanding of people."
1981-0601 Public Program, The Time of the Seekers, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

"Now the trouble is: this knowledge was a very secret knowledge, thousands of years back. And it started descending, this knowledge, to people very slowly.
Like on a tree there's only one flower or two flowers in the beginning.
Now, in the sixth century – actually Christ talked about it quite a lot. And the other people, like Moses, and all these people have talked about it. But the ones who wrote, never got anything there perhaps, so they wrote it in a very mystical way like, "I'll appear before you like tongues of flames," or, "The Fir... uh the Tree of Fire" and all that, indicative of all that.
But ah it so happened that in the sixth century, somebody in India, called as Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, He was actually Buddha reborn, He started talking about it. Self-realization, of course Buddha talked about it. Then He started telling about these, all these nāḍīs and everything He described.
But there is a poet, in India, whose name is Mārkaṇḍeya, who has written about this. They say He was living in India about, say, ten thousand years back, this poet, about that time.
So this knowledge was known to people but was not put down on the paper, was not circulated, was not for en masse."
1981-0817 Public Program, Seeking the Light, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

"But, this knowledge, was a secret knowledge for many years, thousands of years.
There was a poet called as Mārkaṇḍeya, who lived, I think, they say about ten thousand years back: He has described about the Kuṇḍalinī. But He has just described that, 'She resides here and She is awakened, and She passes those chakras and all that. But not in details and not very clearly: in a very mystic language."
1981-0927 Public Program, Day 4, East West Center, 141 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

"Mārkaṇḍeya's you don't have, otherwise you could have read about Mahāviṣhṇu, about Jesus Christ, but it's all right now."
1981-0929 Navarātri Pūjā (1st Day), Room, Home of a Sahaja Yogi, Staten Island, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

"But in the Purāṇas it is described that Kṛiṣhṇa said, "You are higher than Me. I placed You higher than Me." He placed Him, you can imagine, that Christ is at this point, and Kṛiṣhṇa is at this point. He placed higher Him than Him. And He said: "In anywhere people worship Me" – Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa said – "automatically You are worshiped. You will be the Support," Ādhāra, "of the whole world."
Is wonderful to say that, about, I think, fourteen thousand years or twelve thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya, such a great Saint was born in India. And He has written the complete Gaṇeśha Stotram. Means the complete praise of the Gaṇeśha. You can see the translation is so beautiful. And that he said: "You will be so humble."
He is the One who is the ninth Incarnation, called as Bauddha, among the Ten Incarnations.
That, 'He will be so humble that He will wash the feet of His disciples.'
All the miracles of Christ are described in these books. But these books are not translated.
And that, 'He will be the One, when enlightened within you with the Kuṇḍalinī, He will take away all your karmas, and all your conditionings. Because He will die for your sins, for your karmas. The world will not have to suffer anymore, if He is awaken within you.'
These are all the things already written, thousands of years back, can you imagine?
I wish the Christians who went from here [laughing:] to take, explain Christianity to Indians, told them that, 'Mahāviṣhṇu is already born! And we are preaching about Him! The One who is going to suck your conditioning, the One who is going to suck all your problems of karmas.' They never told them.
On the contrary, they were so stupid, I must tell you, that they would put a loaf in a ... in a well, and say: that, "You all have become Christians because we have put the meat of the beef ... uh uh the beef inside the well." In ... Indians don't eat beef, you see. "So you all have become Christians." Villages after villages they converted into Christianity. They started branding them as Christians.
This was absurd! And that's why them ... people were waiting and waiting for the Advent of Christ."
1981-1006 Public Program (8th Day of Navarātri), Day 3, The New Age Has Started (From Kṛiṣhṇa to Christ), Venue 2, Unity (Church of Christianity), 2929 Unity Drive, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

"And is so subtle, so subtle, every word [of Śhrī William Blake] is so subtle, that is like a chanting, is like a chanting.
You are specially blessed, because such a great poet was born in this country.
And, wherever I go, in My series of lectures, at least in one lecture I always mention Him.
He has gone into great details, just like Mārkaṇḍeya, another great poet in India, who was born thousands of years back.
But to realize that, 'This country is the heart of the Universe, and here the Jerusalem is going to be'!"
1981-1128 Public Program, You Are the Spirit, Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DR, UK

"I told you yesterday how, in the ancient times, also this knowledge of Kuṇḍalinī was known to us. This knowledge was known to us that India ... because India is the country where we are supposed to look after the roots of the Creation. We have to look after the roots.
While others have the tree, the flowers, and the fruits, in India the roots grew up unknown to common masses. These roots reached that stage where Kuṇḍalinī became a knowledge of very, very few people, actually extremely few I should say.
And this knowledge was not revealed for many days till, I would say, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya Himself started talking about it. Though Mārkaṇḍeya has described Kuṇḍalinī, the different powers of the Mother, but it was Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya who came to this Earth and He is the one who talked of Kuṇḍalinī openly.
The reason was: before this, it was kept secret, and part of it was revealed and people used to doubt. Or if it was to be revealed, whom to reveal it? Because there were very peop... few people who were incapable [capable] of knowing about it."
1982-0222 Public Program (English+Hindi) (Śhivarātri Day), Day 5, Lord Śhiva, Gāndhī Bhawan, Delhi University, North Campus, GC Narang Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

Śhrī Mātājī: Is not only that, I'm saying on the whole, a shee ... worship is a tradition which has come to us from great Seers and ancient Sages. Anybody, even, say, Moses, you can say Socrates, you can say Dattātreya, or Mārkaṇḍeya, or any one of these people, have found out the ways and methods how to tune our instruments to the Divine to achieve the maximum joy.
'How to please the Deities,'' that's the main point is, how to please the Deities. But it's a crude word pleases, but how to ... [laughing:] I don't know what should I say, innovation they say, or what do you call that? How to spark them, ...
Sahaja Yogi: Invoke.
Śhrī Mātājī: ... invoke, invoke them. Invoke them: that they give you complete blessings.
And the trick of the trade one has to learn, one has to educate. There's nothing wrong in getting educated.
So we know that we have to educate ourself, first point, and secondly, we have to know, that for that, we have to be humble. The humility should be such: that, 'I have to learn. I have to learn. I have to educate. Nothing ... nothing wrong in it.'
1982-0321 Birthday Pūjā, Āśhram, 44 Chelsham Road, Clapham, London, UK

"I think Gavin will read it out to you later on about what is written about Christ in Devī Māhātmyam [Bhāgavatam]. This was ... this book was written about fourteen thousand years back by Mārkaṇḍeya. So imagine, fourteen thousand years back! He knew, being a Seer, just like Blake, what was going to happen when Christ was to come. But He was called as Mahāviṣhṇu. He was not Viṣhṇu, He was the Son of Viṣhṇu.
And, how many Christians understand this, about Easter? They don't! They, it's ... Christianity today is nothing but a mental activity, that's all, which is dead, nonsense it is. Just like any other nonsensical religion, it has become another foolish, stupid religion, which has no meaning.
Unless and until you get your Realization, unless and until you feel the vibrations, unless and until you feel this Divine surrounding Power, how will you understand? Because that's the only thing that is Truth, that's the only thing that is Reality. And unless and until you achieve it, how will you know about Christ?
And fighting about Him! How can you fight? I can't understand really. To Me, it's stupidity gone to another extreme."
1982-0411 Easter Pūjā, How Christ Was Created, Resurrection of Christ, and Collective Resurrection (Mahāviṣhṇu State, Easter Is the Most Important Happening, You are a Collective Being and Collectivity Is the Nature of a Sahaja Yogi), Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane, Balham, London SW12 8LZ, UK

"Blake has described all Sahaja Yoga in such details to comprehend. He said: that, "God of men will be born in those days, and they will have power ... they .... they will become Prophets, and they will have power to make others Prophets." But He even described where I stayed. For He said that, the first we're going to live in Surrey Hills where I lived. Then Ge says that, "Foundation will be laid in London," where we laid the foundation of our Āśhram. Then He described the house that I now have, which uh will be decorated by the Sahaja Yogis. He's describing the house near the Kensington Garden, near Talburn. That's what My house is there now. And these boys are painting it with gold, the ceiling. For the golden builders will be doing that. With such detailed, you know! Such details [unclear]. And have ... a sinuous will vibrate this. Sinuous are the ... nerves, will vibrate that land.
Is so beautifully He has done. I don't know how He could see, like Mārkaṇḍeya. He's a Seer of that point."
1982-0426 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Apartment of Ruth Lederberger, Via Giuseppe Mercalli, 46, Rome, Italy

"We had three persons, very main persons in India, like Mārkaṇḍeya, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, and, we can say, all the other Incarnations which came on this Earth, who were in India, who have clearly said what is Self-realization, very clearly. But specially, we have to be very grateful to Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya who has written books after books on this."
1982-0504 Public Program, Day 2, Salle, Maison de la Mutualité, 24 Rue Saint-Victor, 5th Arrondissement, Paris, France

Śhrī Mātājī: I think we'd better not tra... translate it, better not. It is more about the breast of the Mother. Because the children are worried about the breast, so it's described here. So is better not to translate.
Dr. Rustom Burjorjee: [unclear] ...
"Salul..."
I'll translate it then.
"Sal..."
Śhrī Mātājī: [Overlapping:] No-no-no, is better not.
Dr. Rustom Burjorjee: Nice, OK.
[Reads in Sanskrit.]
Śhrī Mātājī: You see, this is written by, per people like Mārkaṇḍeya. And they ... they described Mother in and out. I don't know how they found the Mother like that, you see, because they are children, you see.
Dr. Rustom Burjorjee: They were the highest children.
Śhrī Mātājī: You see, so they were the children, so the children know everything about the Mother in and out, see? So He described the whole body.
1982-0515 Śhrī Lalitā Pūjā, Understand Your Own Importance, House of Gillian Grimshaw, 11 Vallance Road, Hove (next, W of Brighton), UK

"Christ exists within ourselves in a very small point there on the optic chiasma, in a very subtle point called in Sanskrit language as Āgñyā chakra.
......
Now, if it comes from Sanskrit it doesn't mean it is Indian because they knew about Christ fourteen thousand years before you could know. Mai ... Mārkaṇḍeya, who existed fourteen thousand years uh-uh-uh before the ... uh before Christ, you can say, or maybe twelve thousand years before Christ, has written a book called Devī Māhātmyam: is the ... is the importance, the holy importance of the Goddess, in which He has described Christ very clearly. He is called as Mahāviṣhṇu. All His uh formation, how He was formed, and how the Immal.. Immaculate Conception took place, all these details are there. Is described, most of His life, the details about it even up to the point that He will be the support of the whole Universe.
But the people who went from here, who were talking of Christ, never told them that, 'Mahāviṣhṇu is born.' They were such closed... closed-minded people, they did not want to know about Him from any other source.
Also when they went there, to find the kind of Christ was represented was horrifying. In one hand they had the gun and another hand they had the Bible."
1982-0823 Public Program, Day 1, Temple de la Fusterie (Fusterie Temple), Place de la Fusterie, Geneva, Switzerland

"In India, there was a poet called Mārkaṇḍeya, eh ... about fourteen thousand years back, who has written about this happening.
In the South [India] there is a prayer uh pray uh place called uh-uh-uh Shit-chin ... Chind-indra, Chindindra. Means: the Indra, the King of the Devas, was given Realization, made ... was made a hole in the head, chind Indra.
So, God knows how many years back it happened.
And it is said: that, "Once it happens, then you find the All-pervading Power, the Brahma." "
1982-0826 Public Program, Day 1, History of Spiritual Seeking, Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland

"Saptaśhṛiṅgī, that's the most powerful one. You see, I mean regarded Sītājī. Mārkaṇḍeya, you see, worshiped Her thousand years back.
She appeared in the stone to Me."
1982-0826 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Great Information about All These Horrible Sects (False Gurus, Scientology, Tantrism), Lausanne, Switzerland

"Fourteen thousand years back there was a great poet called Mārkaṇḍeya: He has described that every human being has to be born-again."
1982-0828 Public Program, These Are the Days of Confusion, Freiburg, Germany

"So those people who have talked about Kuṇḍalinī, most of them, have done it by reading some books or I don't know how they got these ideas. And they are so confused, that I don't know what to do, how to answer [laughing:] them because they are absolutely confused people.
There are, of course, good books, like Mārkaṇḍeya, who was fourteen thousand years back, who has written about Kuṇḍalinī, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, Kabīra, Nāṇaka, these are all sensible people. But these books are not so translated in English languages and all that. And the ... they must have taken it from some other books, I don't know, from some tāntrik book or some sort of a thing."
1982-0920 Public Program, Day 2, You Are to Be Born-again, Ghent, Belgium

"Like, if you see Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya's descriptions or that even Mārkaṇḍeya's descriptions about your Mother, it's remarkable: how little, little things He could see, from where, from what angle. And every little bit of Mother He could see, as a child would see, you see, absolutely close to the Mother. That means the innocence was complete and perfected in Them. Otherwise you can't see these points that They have seen, all the little things like the three folds of the Mother. How can anyone see? But a child can see that three folds of the Mother's are there, that She has three folds in Her body. Uh only a child can see that.
It's-ss tremendous. I tell you, it's tremendous: Their innocence, Their penetration, and Their cou-rage.
You need real courage to grow into that penetration."
1982-0926 Śhrī Durgā Pūjā, Mind Is just like a Donkey, House of Grégoire de Kalbermatten, Sternwartestrasse 62, Vienna, Austria

"This knowledge has been a secret knowledge for thousands of years till it came in the sixth century the Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, who was a very great realized Soul, who came on this Earth, He started talking about it. About fourteen thousand years back, since then, we can see there were poets who wrote about Kuṇḍalinī, like Mārkaṇḍeya. But it is in the poetry form, and oh was only available to very few people who were capable of coming to the situation of Self-realization."
1982-0927 Public Program, Day 2, Knowledge of the Roots, Urania Volkshochschulen, Volksbildungshaus, Uraniastraße 1, Vienna, Austria

"Now, it is described in the Purāṇas, if you read there's a book of Mārkaṇḍeya, which these people should know how Mahāviṣhṇu was created by Rādhā, who was the second Incarnation of this [principle]. First came Sītā, then came Rādhā, and then came uh-uh-uh Mary. These are the three human Incarnations of that force which is Mahālakṣhmī, on this Earth.
......
But uh ... you see, on Blake I have spoken on this.
He went to this extent, you see, that He has even described, you know, the houses where I lived. The first one He said, the first beacon will be lit in uh-uh-uh ... Sunny Hills, where lived first. Then about our Lambert Way where we have an Āśhram, that a sinuous will vibrate. You see, such details He has given. "Come to Lambert Way."
Then Jerusalem is to be, means this is going to be the pilgrimage.
The last house that we have now: is on a Tyburn Brook. And it's written there: that, 'It will be on that brook behind the Kensington Garden,' it's exactly there.
And the Sahaja Yogis are the golden builders because they have painted some parts in the uh cornices with gold [some laughter]: the golden builders.
And so beautifully written: the hearts are thanksgiving, and the floors are honesty. It's beautifully He has done it!
You see, if you read it, you'll be amazed. Jerusalem, in that He has described all that.
So, I mean I must say the Blake, Blake is the same as Mārkaṇḍeya, the one who came about fourteen thousands years back to talk about Christ, and Blake who came to talk about Me, about hundred years back, in England."
1982-1029 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Creation, Original Sin, and Incarnations, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

"So many of Them! So we discard Muhammad Sāhab, we discard everyone‽ That's how it is! Is Brahmanism! Is Brahmanism. Is ism again! We discard all the great people of the world by this.
They were not realized? Kahlil Gibran was he not realized? How will you know? Unless and until you are realized you will not know who was realized or not! You will live on these ideas only. You have to feel it. William Blake, was He not realized? He was Mārkaṇḍeya Himself!
We have forgotten so many things. Even in the Indian Scriptures we['ve] never seen, we don't want to see these things!"
1982-1126 Public Program, What You Can Do (Feel the Beauty of Thankfulness), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

"From Nasik you'll get ... go to see the ... this Chatturśhṛiṅgi, Temple of Mārkaṇḍeya, which is a very beautiful one, early in the morning. "
1982-1220 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Instructions for Maharashtra Tour, Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

"Now this triangular bone is called as sacrum. Sacrum means sacred. In greek language, sacrum means sacred.
And when I went to Greece, I asked them, "Why do you call it sacrum?" So, they told Me: that they had a rapport with Indians, much ... much, much before ... Alexander came here. And the Indians told them that, 'There is a power in this triangular bone.'
Can you imagine? We have forgotten it, we have lost it. Because we have studied only the British or whatever is English or you can call it a Western medical science.
But in our science, you will be surprised, fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya has talked about it.
We Indians are best suited for this to understand."
1983-0104 Public Talk, Sholapur Brunch of Indian Medical Association, Sholapur, Maharashtra, India

"This needs to be found out, hence everyone has [been] told that, 'Everybody should find their own Spirit.' If one of them has told, then it should be described (varṇana). But whoever has become great, they have told us that, 'You need to find your own Spirit within. You should find your God within yourself.' This has been told by all Seers and Saints: Rāmadās has told this, before Him Mārkaṇḍeya has told this, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has told this, Christ has told this, Muhammad has told this, Buddha has told this, Mahāvīra has told this, everyone has told this, that, 'We need to find the Spirit within ourselves.' "
1983-0104 Public Talk (Marathi+English), Rotary Club, Sholapur, Maharashtra, India

"Hindu religion now we can take what even Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has said, that: "Na Yogen na Sāṅkhyen" [part of line 1 of Vivekachūḍāmaṇi 56]. "It's only through Mother's Grace you can get your Realization."
Everybody, intellectuals and all that fought with Him, and were arguing with Me. Like Mister Sh... there was a Sharma fellow who uh-uh quite argued.
And He got so fed up with all those arguments and, "Śhabda jālam," [laughing:] that He said, "[unclear]," He wrote the last, was Saundaryalaharī, praising the Mother. Describing all the waves of the different types of śhaktis that flow from Her and how they take their forms.
And every couplet that He has written is a Mantra! But who knows about it?
Everybody who were supposed to be intellectuals in those days said, "Ohh! What are you doing? Here You are writing like Vivekachūḍāmaṇi and all that, and today why are You writing like this? What is the need to write about this?" So, He said, "This is the way it is going to work out. This is the way it is. Not by all these arguments, śhabda jālam, by talking about it but by happening of the Kuṇḍalinī."
He is the one who first time opened this knowledge of Kuṇḍalinī, in His books.
Of course, it was talked long time back, fourteen thousand years back, by Mārkaṇḍeya.
But we Indians are so modern that we don't know who is Mārkaṇḍeya is. [Laughing:] I don't know if people who are not Sahaja Yogis have even heard the name of Mārkaṇḍeya, who is the basis of Sahaja Yoga."
1983-0129 Public Program, Day 3, False Gurus and Conditionings, FICCI Auditorium, 1 Tansen Mārg, New Delhi, India

"Yes, it's surprising that a people will say ... he says that in Yoga Sūtra[s] of Patañjali ah it is not written about Kuṇḍalinī, and, also, about Gītā it's not written about Kuṇḍalinī. Is a fact!
Because, you see, it was a secret science. It was kept a secret science, in My first lecture only I said, till the sixth century. In the sixth century, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, for the first time, opened His mouth about it.
It was a secret science with very Great Gurus like uh-uh-uh Janaka gave Realization to Nachiketa.
And in the same way, Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa did not talk about it.
Because, you see, even when Mārkaṇḍeya talked about it, people did not know what He was talking. They never thought Him to be a sensible man."
1983-0203 Public Program (English+Hindi+English), Day 5, The Āgñyā Chakra, N.D.M.C. Park, Hanumān Road, New Delhi, India

"No kriyā is needed at all in Sahaja Yoga.
Actually it is not at all traditional. It is a very recent stuff that has come out.
If you read from the past, if you read Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, in the sixth century, if you read other people, Mārkaṇḍeya like, the fourteenth century, you will be amazed that: They have said the same thing what I am saying. This is traditional.
But these new gurus came up and they started talking about this and that, but it is not so.
Nobody has achieved Realization by Kriyā Yoga. I have not met one. On the contrary they come to Me as patients.
I must say, I'm sorry to see [say], but it is so.
People have spent so much money, from India they have gone all the way to America to do Kriyā Yoga, and they are just suffering. Nobody has achieved anything."
1983-0302 Public Program, Day 1, Town Hall, Hay Street and Barrack Street, Perth, WA, Australia

"You see, because they don't know the job. They don't know the job. [Laughing:] How can they claim they can raise the Kuṇḍalinī? They don't know the job!
Not only that, they are anti-God people.
How can they raise Kuṇḍalinī, you just tell Me? A person who has no authority from God, how can he raise the Kuṇḍalinī?
It's a very recent thing, all also this is about fifty years back only, people have started writing all this nonsense.
And ancient books nobody reads, that's the trouble is.
If you read Mārkaṇḍeya, who wrote in fourteen thousand years back.
Of India, [laughing:] what's such a thing like that?
He said, "Mother can do it." Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya in the sixth century said."
1983-0303 Workshop, Garden, Āśhram, Dalkeith, Perth, WA, Australia

"So, this Kuṇḍalinī has to rise to give you Realization, the Baptism, the Real Baptism, not an artificial one.
Now, how it can happen in a person is a problem.
It used to happen: what knowledge I am telling you is not the knowledge of today. Is the knowledge of very-very ancient times. Fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya, a great poet in India, has written about it. After that there were many other poets who wrote about it, till, in the sixth century, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya very clearly wrote about the Kuṇḍalinī and Its awakening.
Nobody has said so far, from those ancient writers, that Kuṇḍalinī gives you any problems, or She makes you dance, jump and all that: is all modern nonsense. Traditionally nobody has said so.
Sixth century is the time when Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya incarnated on this Earth. Buddha got His Realization without doing any dancing or anything. You know for definite."
1983-0310 Public Program, Day 3, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, 9 Nicholson Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"The knowledge that I'm telling you is not of today. But even fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya, a great poet in India, has written about it. Of course, I have brought it to the modern standard to explain to you.
But when you read Mārkaṇḍeya you will be amazed, after Realization, that from His book you will be getting vibrations."
1983-0316 Public Program, Day 2, Maccabean Hall, 146, Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst (eastern suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia

"Even today there are people who do not believe in the Incarnation of Christ. Very 'nice', because that's the ego behind them. And those who pamper their ego like this, they like such people.
We do not understand what Christ has done for us.
Let Me tell you about His own subtle methods by which He came on this Earth.
In the Devī Purāṇ, which you people seldom read – I think it is translated in English – which was written fourteen thousand years back ...
As I told you, only fifty years back all these nonsensical people came and got all the perverted, useless literature printed and everybody is basing their analogies on those fifty years, which are nothing compared to the traditional thousands of years which were spent in India in seeking God.
Fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya, a great poet, has written about Kuṇḍalinī, has written about the Mother.
He has written about Christ. He called Him Mahāviṣhṇu, because He is ... He is the Son of Viṣhṇu. And He's described it in such a way that if you read it you will be amazed, you'll think all these-s special points of Christ are described in it. He was called as the Support, Ādhāra, of the Universe."
1983-0317 Public Program, Day 3, Maccabean Hall, 146, Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst (eastern suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia

"William Blake calls them: the, "Men of God."
Men of God are the people who are seekers! Whatever mistakes they are doing, whatever they're doing, they are Men of God. They are special people, who are Seekers of God. And such Seekers of God are special people, a special category.
And what He says, He has described Sahaja Yoga hundred years back. He was a great Seer of England: a very great Seer. He said, that, "Men of God will become Prophets, and they will have power to make other Prophet."
And that's what exactly Sahaja Yoga is.
I mean, He is so great! The amount of things He has seen about Sahaj Yog is so great that one can't understand such a Seer to see these things hundred years back.
We had one like that, Mārkaṇḍeya, about fourteen thousand years back. And I wonder it [He] was the same personality was born in England about hundred years back to see clearly, even the places and things they have described!
Is so wonderful, that one can't imagine how He has been able to talk about it. And what He said, ultimately, that: 'One day, England has to become Jerusalem!' That's what it is! It has to become!
......
Oh, it is absolutely traditional! Is absolutely traditional, it is a... uh ... is so ancient, the Sahaja Yoga. Is as ancient as anything else.
It was fourteen thousand years back, also, there was this Mārkaṇḍeya was born, who's talked about it.
Sahaja Yoga is the most ancient thing. ......
Is the most traditional thing!
But how it was kept a secret? Because there were very few realized Souls.
So, this third path, we call the central path of evolution, was not so much talked about. Though Mārkaṇḍeya, fourteen thousand years back, has talked about Kuṇḍalinī, about Self-realization, but how it works out, they did not talk. They kept it like a secret."
1983-0525 Public Program, Within Us there Is a Power Which Can Fulfill Our Seeking, Lewes Town Council, High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, UK

"From fourteen thousand years back, you will be surprised, there was a great Seer called Mārkaṇḍeya, who has written all about Kuṇḍalinī, about the ascent of the Kuṇḍalinī and everything."
1983-0916 Public Program, Bertine Auditorium, C.G. Jung Institute, 28 East 39th Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

"But in India when this meditation took place, these great Seers worked it out in such a way to find out what is the method of evolution.
You will be surprised, fourteen [thousands] years back we have a poet called Mārkaṇḍeya who has described the evolutionary process in human beings. He has described it clearly how the Kuṇḍalinī rises, how She gives you the Mokṣha, the Realization.
There nobody said that Kuṇḍalinī is a dangerous thing and you get burnings and you get all these things that you read about Kuṇḍalinī, such dangerous things about Her."
1983-0929 Public Program, Day 2, Auṃ̣, Cultural Integration Fellowship, 260 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

"Even William Blake has prophesized that, "Men of God will become Prophets, and they will have power to make others Prophets." The amount of details William Blake has written I don't think even Mārkaṇḍeya has done that. He, of course, Mārkaṇḍeya has described even the shape of My knees [laughing:] and all that, but Mā... this One has described even the exact house where I will live, all the house. And even the Āśhram where we are going to live. Imagine: to that extent this William Blake has written. So you can understand how far He has gone deep into the whole thing. And He was such a great Seer born in England, which is the heart of the universe."
1983-1001 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Seminar, Day 1, Session 1, Kennolyn Campgrounds, 8400 Glen Haven Road, Soquel (10 kms ENE of Santa Cruz), CA, U.S.A.

Śhrī Mātājī: First is we have to establish the innocence.
And to establish the innocence, the Deity is called as Śhrī Gaṇeśh.
And you'll know about Him much more. But you know Him as Jesus Christ, because He incarnated on this Earth as Jesus Christ.
Now this prayer that he is going to read to you was written about fourteen thousand years back, and see how detailed it is described about Christ. And it is described in a book called Devī Purāṇ by Mārkaṇḍeya, is called as ...
Dr. Warren Reeves [interrupts]: Devī Bhāga...
Śhrī Mātājī: Devī Mahātmya.
Dr. Warren Reeves: Devī Bhāgavat[am].
Śhrī Mātājī: Devī Bhāgavat[am].
So you can see all these things written there.
So, to know about Christ, we cannot limit ourselves to Bible. Because He was such a great personality that you cannot contain Him in a little book like Bible, you see. So [laughing:] you have to go to other Scriptures also and keep your mid open about it.
1983-1010 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (5th Day of Navarātri and Canadian Thanksgiving Day), Garden, 1386 Lincoln Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

"Now, this Great Incarnation was called as Mahāviṣhṇu and was, is described in the ancient books, about fourteen thousand years by [back], by Mārkaṇḍeya."
1983-1012 Public Program (7th Day of Navarātri), Day 2, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Massachussetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

"And since immemorial times She has been described by Dattātreya and so on. It is described in many books.
Mārkaṇḍeya existed fourteen thousand years back. Even He has described Kuṇḍalinī. In the Devī Mahātmyam and Devī Purāṇ that He has written He has described the Kuṇḍalinī."
1984-0219 Public Program (Marathi), An̄janerī (30 kms W of Nasik), Maharashtra, India

"But how do you do it? Where do you get that eternal life which cannot be crushed? So somebody had to show what is that.
Kṛiṣhṇa has described it so clearly in His lifetime: that, 'You have to achieve that eternal life which I am telling you.'
So somebody had to come on this Earth, on this Āgñyā chakra, to work it out.
In that I would say that you should go and read some of these treaties about Mahāviṣhṇu which is described by Mārkaṇḍeya. Mārkaṇḍeya is the person who has very clearly described the origin of Mahāviṣhṇu.
Mahāviṣhṇu was created by Śhrī Rādhājī.
Śhrī Rādhājī is the Mahālakṣhmī, is the Suṣhumṇā, is the parasympathetic nervous system within ourselves.
She has created with Her own willpower, this Mahāviṣhṇu. And this one was like an egg. And half of it became active and became Mahāviṣhṇu.
And with that active uh Mahāviṣhṇu, we can uh cross through the Āgñyā chakra."
1984-0317 Public Program, Day 5, Āgñyā Chakra, Mavlankar Hall, Constitution Club of India, Vithal Bhai Patel House, Rafi Mārg, Sansad Mārg Area, Behind Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, India

"Those two Incarnations, we will call them Principle of the Disciple. Not the Guru Principle, which also incarnates, but that one is fully of Divine Nature. So, these two incarnate as Disciple Principle. [Ces deux Incarnations, nous Les nommerons Le Principe du Disciple, pas de Principe du Gourou, lequel s'incarne aussi, mais celui-ci est entièrement de Nature Divine. Donc, ceux-là s'incarnent sur cette terre comme Principes du Disciple.]
First, they incarnated, as we say, as Lava and Kuśha, each one being specially assisted by Saint Gabriel and Saint Michel. [Tout d'abord ils s'incarnèrent, nous dirons, comme Lava and Kuśha, chacun est spécialement assisté par Saint Gabriel et Saint Michel.]
These two Incarnations incarnated later as Buddha and Mahāvīra, who came once again as Śhaṅkara [who had been Buddha] and Kabīr [who had been Mahāvīra]. Kahlil Gibran is part of their Incarnations. So was Mārkaṇḍeya, and we can say that our William Blake is part of it. [Ces deux Incarnations s'incarnèrent plus tard comme Bouddha et Mahāvīra, lesquels revinrent à nouveau au sixième siècle de notre èrecomme Śhankara [c'était Bouddha], puis [c'était Mahāvīra]. Kahlil Gilran fait partie de Leurs Incarnations. Mārkaṇḍeya aussi, et on peut dire que notre Mister Blake en fait partie.]"
1984-0507 Interview with Michel Sadashiva Cherney for the Sahaja Yoga Magazaine in French L'Attention, Issue 4, Pages 32 to 37, Āśhram, 9, Allée Du Rocher, Le Raincy (13 kms E of Paris), France

"The Kuṇḍalinī has been described by many people but specially I would mention Mārkaṇḍeya who lived about fourteen thousand years back. He described this Kuṇḍalinī, about which I told you yesterday, which resides in the triangular bone. "
1984-0726 Public Program, Day 2, Session 2 (evening), Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove (next, W of Brighton), East Sussex, UK

"Sahaja Yoga is not a new thing. In the tradition of spirituality, it is mentioned, about fourteen thousand years back, by Mārkaṇḍeya, that, 'Ultimately it is the force, within you, of the Holy Ghost, which is called as Kuṇḍalinī, residing in the triangular beau ... bone, has to give the Realization.' "
1984-0905 Public Program, Day 1, Christian Tradition and Christ, Vienna, Austria

"Sahaja Yoga is not today's thing. Thousands of years before, Lord Indra was given his Self-realization. Self-knowledge was granted then. Also, Sahaja Yoga existed, and after that you know Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī was born fourteen thousand before [ago] in this world. He has also shared the importance of Sahaja Yoga, but this knowledge was never shared very openly.
After that, long long ago, we can say that Śhrī Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya openly shared this knowledge with mankind.
In spite of this, it was never disclosed how this happens, because the time was not right then."
1984-1204 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, Pune, Maharashtra, India

"But actually, there are only three castes: sāttvik, rājasik and tāmasik. Fourteen thousand years ago Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī said, "Yā Devī sarvabhūteśhu, Jāti rūpeṇa saṃsthitā." Three are only castes in Devī, Mahālakṣhmī, Mahāsaraswatī, Mahākālī, and no fourth caste.
One is above [the] three Jātis, that is Paramātma. He has no caste."
1985-0215 Public Program (English+Hindi), Day 4, Mavlankar Hall, Constitution Club of India, Vithal Bhai Patel House, Rafi Mārg, Sansad Mārg Area, Behind Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, India

"Such great people like Mārkaṇḍeya were born in our country, so why not you people?"
1985-0216 Public Program (Hindi), Day 5, Sahasrāra and Ātmā, New Delhi, India

"See, about, I think seventy or eighty years back there was one fellow, he came out, his name was Viṣhṇu Tīrth, and he wrote a very funny book, uh where he's talked of something aruṇo dāyen [aruṇopāyane] all sorts of things, you see, which is nowhere, has no connection with the traditions of India, nothing. And that, in that a person starts jumping.
Actually, there was a fellow sitting with his bo... both feet towards Me. And this people said, "You can't sit like this towards Mother." So he said, "No, because I ... my Kuṇḍalinī It's awakened, I'll jump like a .... uh-uh-uh ... jump like a frog." [Laughing:] So they said ...
Now, I called him and I said: "How can you jump like a frog? Now you are a human being, you cannot become a frog." So he said, "No, I'll be jumping like a frog."
So he brought this book of Viṣhṇu Tīrth is. And I was amazed that in book was written in that ... written that, "When the Kuṇḍalinī It's awakens you jump like a frog."
And that's what the people are doing it, Muktananda's, it's another fellow, Gluruvāṇī [Guruvāṇī] Mahārat.
Actually, these are, I call them the karadeṃ kāris, the ... are the destroyers of people who have come. Those people, for your intellectuals, for them this gentleman is there. He talks intellectually, this, that and that, and this finishes them all. Is like that! They are the destroyers of these people!
Then there are some people who are born like we have the Brahmins in India, orthodox Brahmins, for them this Guruvāṇī has come. And he taught them all these things aruṇo [unclear duayeti], this, that, and all that.
And then, all of them are sick: they have got high blood pressure, they have got all kinds of troubles, they are horrible people, uh ... and they came to see Me. And they said, "Mother, uh do you believe in this uh aruṇo dāyen, paruṇo dāyen, all that?" "But what it's all that?" They said, "Viṣhṇu Tīrth," but, "Who is that? Where is it written? We have Scriptures, thousands of years back. Where is it? Fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya wrote about it. Where is it?" "
1985-0301 Workshop, Āśhram, Crawley (7 kms SW of Perth), WA, Australia

"So now, under these confused conditions, one has to talk about something that is very deep. This is the knowledge of the roots.
This we knew in India thousands of years back. Fourteen thousand year[s] back, Mārkaṇḍeya wrote about it, and many people, after that, elaborately explained it."
1985-0422 Public Program, Day 1, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, 5 Rue Thomas Mann, Paris, France

"Kuṇḍalinī has been described fourteen thousand years back by a great poet called Mārkaṇḍeya in our country.
I told you the other day that in Qur'ān It is described as 'Asas, and in Granth Sāhab as Surati, and in the Bible as the Holy Ghost."
1985-0424 Public Program, Day 2, CEDIAS-Musée Social, 5, Rue las Cases, Paris, France

"Now when I'm talking to you about the mechanism that is built within us for our last breakthrough, you need not believe Me.
In our country also, this knowledge was kept a secret for thousands of years. Though we can say people like Mārkaṇḍeya, whose dates could be fourteen thousand [years ago], or later on, up to Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, people did write about the Kuṇḍalinī.
And at the time of Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, He very clearly talked about it. That was the tradition of evolution described in all these great Scriptures.
Even in the Bible, you find the Tree of Fire. It says: "I will appear before you as tongues of flames."
Even Muhammad Sāhab, who came much later, very clearly, very, very clearly, and elaborately, at length, talked about the Resurrection Day. He said: "At the Time of Resurrection, your hands will speak."
But everybody missed the point.
Zoroaster talked about it thousands of years back. Confucius, Lao Tze, everyone talked about it: that, 'We have to be the Spirit.'
Christ clearly said: "You are to be born-again!" Then Nicodemus asked Him: "Do you mean to say, I should enter into the womb of my mother?" "No," He said, "whatever is born of the flesh is the flesh. You are to be born of the Holy Ghost." "
1985-0703 Public Program, Day 1, Nederlands Congresgebouw (now World Forum), Churchillplein 10, The Hague, Netherlands

"Blake said, uh-uh: "Men of God will become Prophets and they will have powers to make others Prophets.
.....
He was very precise, in everything. Even He's described My house. He has described the Āśhrams. It's so many things He has described, you can't imagine. He was a Seer! Like Mārkaṇḍeya!
Talking about Him, see the vibrations! Talking about Him, just see the vibration[s].
......
Just see, what a great! He was Mārkaṇḍeya! [Rubbing the hands:] Great! Haah! Saint Michael!
......
He was Mārkaṇḍeya. ......
Mārkaṇḍeya." 1985-0704 Interview with a Gentleman Journalist for Het Binnenhof (Inner Court), Conferentieoord Overvoorde, van Vredenburchweg 170, Rijswijk (6 kms SSE of The Hague), Netherlands

"Now third one is what Wakefield has done: is My description and devotion to Me. Come out very well, I must say.
I think that's the highest one can do. That's the best.
But still we need all this, we have to have, otherwise we cannot manage.
So, that's a part of it.
But the essence of it, the praise, where many great poets, many great writers, many Great Saints and Incarnations have aspired to sing the praise of the Mother. It's agreat aspirations.
Like Mārkaṇḍeya did that. Today also we read it after fourteen thousand years.
Then, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya did that."
1985-0831 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Spreading Sahaja Yoga, after the Public Program, Southlands College, University of Roehampton, Wimbledon, London, UK

"When I read Him, I am amazed at His s-s-sense of humor: how He openly comes out with such remarks. I feel He is like Mārkaṇḍeya in India, or Kabīr Dās in India, who slashed the whole society with their sword all the time to see that they are brought to the proper shape, without fear. But so gentle. If you read the song of the '[Book of] Thel' [by Śhrī William Blake], is so gentle.
And all of Them, who were Him perhaps or are of the same style, [were] extremely open, straightforward, you can say even blatant and extremely gentle. ......
Now we do not understand what is innocence is also.
Just like Mārkaṇḍeya describing His Mother, Her breast and everything. Like a little child!
A child doesn't see sex in a naked body, he does not see.
And the beauty of a Woman He describes.
That means all women are walking n-nude, everywhere, now. Are you exciting the innocence of people or you are exciting the baser self of the people? 'We have to be natural!', are you natural?
......
Traditionally we have known for thousands of years!
I talk of Mārkaṇḍeya, who was there twelve thousand years back! Who incarnated here as William Blake. Twelve thousand years back He said the same thing which is said in England after twelve thousand years, because that time I don't know what was here! Maybe only jungles, I think.
And that is also waste! Isn't it? Tell Me, isn't it?
......
There are certain things described, about Śhrī Mātājī.
If you have read any books, of Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, or of Mārkaṇḍeya Himself, then you will know.
And the qualities described there, of such a person, if they find it in someone, they call that person by that name. Isn't it?"
1985-1128 Public Program (Śhrī William Blake's Birthday), Building the New Jerusalem, Hammersmith Town Hall, 1 Riverside Gardens, Hammersmith, London W6 9LE, UK

"The first time somebody wrote about Kuṇḍalinī was actually, I should say in a real sense of the word, wrote properly, was Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya Himself. And then our uh, what you call, Gyāneśhwara. Because that was the time. And before that, of course, Mārkaṇḍeya wrote it, thousands of years back, but who considered Mārkaṇḍeya as something? No one listened to Him."
1986-0125 Pūjā, Why We Have Failed in Our Pursuit of God (The Whole System Has to Be Changed), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

"In our country, this ancient knowledge came in a secret way. It should be said that Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya was the first who talked about this knowledge, but Mārkaṇḍeya and others did talk about the Kuṇḍalinī a lot, but where we had Mārkaṇḍeya?
Śhaṅkarāchārya also we read it in one way, write it in other way, and describe it in another way.
That kind of situation I see in books. Nobody tried to understand Him or wrote about this knowledge in the right way.
They used it to make money but not to make [attain] Dharma or Supreme Being."
1986-0218 Workshop (Hindi), Day 2, Session 1 (morning), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

"The Āgñyā chakra is in the middle of our forehead. This is the place of Śhrī Mahāviṣhṇu. This has been described in Devī Māhātmyam by Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, but who has time nowadays to read that? This is Mahāviṣhṇu's place, and on the left side of Mahāviṣhṇu resides Buddha, and on the right resides Mahāvīra."
1986-0219 Public Program (Hindi), Day 3, Session 1 (evening), A Sahaja Yogi Will Reflect on the Outside His Inner Quality, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

"This knowledge is the knowledge of the roots.
All the knowledge that is on the outside, Western knowledge, science, etc., all this is the knowledge is of the trees. But the knowledge of the trees increased, the trees increased and the roots were destroyed and slowly they are becoming unstable. Now they fear that they will be destroyed.
Its roots are in India.
Since ages, the Sadgurus and the Incarnations gave us this culture and talked about it openly.
When Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya came, when Guru Nāṇak Sāhab, Kabīr Dāsjī, when such people came, They completely initiated talks about this.
In the South [India], Gyāneśhwarjī has spoken a lot about it.
I told you yesterday that Mārkaṇḍeya had spoken about it fourteen thousand years back."
1986-1013 Public Program (Hindi), Ice Skating Ring, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

"In a way Mārkaṇḍeya also described about Kuṇḍalinī fourteen thousand years back. So much so that even Lord Indra was given Realization."
1986-1201 Public Program (Hindi), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"This is not a new science in India. Fourteen thousand years back, somebody called Mārkaṇḍeya wrote about it. But it was-s-s not available to every person. We can say that it was a secret science. And was only bestowed upon very, very few people at that time."
1987-1012 Public Program, Day 1, Auditorium Maximum, University, Vienna, Austria

"But those [writers] have the inner side, they see it so precisely, so clearly. I mean, these were written long time back. Of course, this one is written by Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya. But thousands of years back they have written thing[s], like Mārkaṇḍeya. He has described My knees, can you imagine? He must have crawled up to My knees to see all this? [Laughter.] Is it exactly the same!
And here He says there are three folds, is [a] fact. All the time I have three folds, which human beings don't have: one on here, another here, another here. I have to have.
The eyebrows described, everything. Surprising.
They never saw Me, I think, otherwise I didn't exist before, as manifested on this Earth, but they saw Me all right, specially Mārkaṇḍeya."
1988-0509 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Commentaries on Songs and Leadership Is a Myth, Rome, Italy

Interviewer: But uhm ... yes, from, on this there is no founder or something, just some mythical person?
Śhrī Mātājī: No, no, no, nothing, no ph... mythical, ...
Interviewer: Yeah, I see.
Śhrī Mātājī: ... no, nothing mythical.
But Nāṇaka has talked about it, Kabīra has talked about it, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has talked about it. Fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya taught ... talked about it.
1988-0609 Interview with Mr. Wadschwa for the Radio Network of Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Āśhram, Vienna, Austria

Version 1:
Śhrī Mātājī: You know the story of Mārkaṇḍeya, or not?
Sahaja Yogi: I just, we were seeing the Āśhram, Śhrī Mātājī – I mean on the rocks, where it was once.
Śhrī Mātājī: Yes, I tell you the story of Mārkaṇḍeya.
You see that he, this father had no children, and the father and mother were unhappy. So they prayed to Śhiva. And they said that, "We want to have a son." So They said that, "All right," Śhiva said, "I'll give you the son, but I'll have to take Him back after eight years. So He'll only exist till He is about eight years of age." So They gave that boon to him, plus this kind of a curse. So the parents were very upset that, "My child will die after eight years of age." Very upset!
But they found the child very bright, brilliant, and also shining. And very religious.
So one day He asked His father, "Why do you look always so worried? I mean, after all, I'm your son." So they said that, "It is said so," eight years or sixteen years, something like that, "So now I'll be loosing You very soon. Who can surpass Śhiva?" So he said it, "So I cannot think, that we can really ask anyone to neutralize that curse upon us. If You were not born to us we would not have been so attached to You. Now You are born to us, we are so much attached towards You."
He was a very wise person. He said, "No, I know someone, I know Ādi Śhakti."
And He went to this place in Vani, where you go to see these Saptaśhṛiṅgīs, and there He prayed to Her.
And nobody had prayed to Ādi Śhakti, they would pray to Jagadambā, they prayed to all other.
But Ādi Śhakti is the One, He prayed to Her.
And She appeared there. See, Her face is just like Me. And Saptaśhṛiṅgī, because She has seven chakras, you see, on Her head, śhṛiṅga means 'on the head'. Like, what you call, śhṛiṅga means the śhikhara, peak. Seven peaks, you see.
So, She was born with seven peaks, She came there, appeared, from the Mother Earth She just came out and She [He] prayed to Her, She prayed to Her, and then the whole place became so vibrated that Śhiva could not touch Him.
Then He wrote all these Mārkaṇḍeya's things, I mean, He was the first who wrote about Ādi Śhakti.
All these things that you read about Śhaṅkarāchārya and all that, He took it from Mārkaṇḍeya.
He was the first who wrote about Kuṇḍalinī, first about Realization, He was the first who did all that.
And even today they say that there is a gap between two hills, and people used to cross that gap on a bullock cart, and the bullock cart was carried over to the other side.
Now of course you got a place to go up but that time there was no things like that.
So they used to just go on the bullock cart and the bullock cart was carried over, without any bridge, by Ādi Śhakti.
And She is the complete, because we have got, as you know, Mahākālī, Mahālakṣhmī, Mahāsaraswatī, three of Them, in Maharashtra. Like, Mahākālī is [unclear Tuḷajāpūr], then, Mahālakṣhmī is, you know, in Kolhapur, and the third one is in Mahor [Mahur]. Mahor [Mahur], there is one mountain in Mahor [Mahur], is Mahāsaraswatī. And Ādi Śhakti is the Ardhamātrā, is on top of everyone. And this is it.
So Mārkaṇḍeya was actually the dearest son of Ādi Śhakti, because He is the one who incarnated there.

Version 2:
"You know the story of Mārkaṇḍeya or not? I tell you the story of Mārkaṇḍeya.
You see, His father had no children and the father and mother were unhappy. So they prayed to Śhiva and they said that, "We want to have a son." Śhiva said: "I'll give you the son, but I will have to take Him back after eight years. So He'll only exist till He is about eight years of age." So They gave that boon to him plus this kind of a curse. The parents were very upset that, "Our child will die after eight years of age," very upset.
But they found the child very bright, brilliant and also shining and very religious.
One day He asked His father: "Why do you always so worry, I mean, after all I am your son?" So they said that it is said so, eight years or sixteen years, something like that. "Now I will be losing You very soon. Who can surpass Śhiva?" He said it, "So I cannot think we can really ask anyone to neutralize the curse upon us. If you are not born to us we would not have been so attached to You. Now you are born to us, we are so much attached to you."
He was a very wise person, He said: "No, I know someone, I know Ādi Śhakti."
And He went to this place where you got to see this Saptaśhṛiṅgī. There He prayed to Her.
Nobody had prayed to Ādi Śhakti. They would pray to Jagadambā, they would pray to all others.
To Ādi Śhakti, who is the God, He prayed to Her.
She appeared there and Her face is just like Me. It is Saptaśhṛiṅgī because She has seven chakras on Her head. Śhṛiṅga means 'on the head', like what you call the śhikhar, peak? Seven Peaks. She was born with seven peaks.
She came there, appeared from the Mother Earth, She just came out and He prayed to Her. He prayed to Her and then the whole place became so vibrated that Śhiva could not touch Him.
Then He wrote all this Mārkaṇḍeya things, I mean He was the first who wrote about Ādi Śhakti.
All these things that you read about Śhaṅkarāchārya, He took it from Mārkaṇḍeya.
He was the first who wrote about Kuṇḍalinī, the first about Realization, He was the first who did all that.
Even today they say that there is a gap between two hills and people used to cross that gap on a bullock cart and the bullock cart was carried over to the other side.
Now of course you got a place to go up, but at that time there was nothing like that.
So they used to go up on a bullock cart and the bullock cart was carried over without any tension by Ādi Śhakti.
And She is the complete, because we have got, as you know, Mahākālī, Mahālakṣhmī, Mahāsaraswatī, three of Yhem in Maharashtra. Mahākālī is in Tulsapur [Tuḷajāpūr], then Mahālakṣhmī is in Kolhapur and the third one is in Mahor [Mahur]. In Mahor [Mahur] there is one mountain where is Mahāsaraswatī. And Ādi Śhakti is Artha Mātā, on top of everything and this is it.
Mārkaṇḍeya was actually the dearest son of Ādi Śhakti, because He is the one who incarnated Her.
... He was like a little child, absolutely. Everything is described, My hands and everything, even My body in a way. Just like a little child grabbing on the Mother. The dedication and devotion was so great, I mean, that Ādi Śhakti had to take Him up. He is the one who brought Me in.
There was no idea of Ādi Śhakti taking birth or anything, nobody thought of It.
Only once She came in Gokul, She was created in Gokul.
Gokul is the one, now of course later on it was reflected in India, but Gokul is where Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa played, in the Goloka, in the Vaikuṇṭha.
She was created as one cow with all the Deities sitting in Her, She never came on this Earth.
And He is the one who gave the Form, in what form She has to come. With thousand hands, the face like Mine and seven chakras.
In that way India is very much blessed, I should say, with these things, but the difference between the Saints and the public is so much, that they never understood. They know it is a very great place and Saptaśhṛiṅgī is there.
We have Saptaśhṛiṅgī also in Poona [Pune], but Saptaśhṛiṅgī is only there, where all you people go, near Nasik, that's the place.
So that's the great part of Mārkaṇḍeya.
He took His birth later on as Buddha, then He took His birth as Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, it's the same personality.
But He was actually the son of Rāma, to begin with. He was Lav and He went to Russia and that is why they are called as Slavs. He ruled in Russia, that's why they are called as Slavs.
Another son was Kuśh, who went to China, that is why they are called as Kuṣhāṇ.
Then They incarnated again and again, also as Hasan and Husayn, as Mahāvīra and Buddha, as Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya and Gyāneśhwara, like that.
See, it is so peaceful. Cool Breeze.
I think the name Markus might be coming from Mārkaṇḍeya.
Mārkaṇḍeya is a very unique name, isn't it? Markanda means a powerful personality. Mārkaṇḍeya is Sun, of course, Mārkaṇḍeya is the name of the Sun. Mārkaṇḍeya is the Sun."
1988-0609 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Giving Names and the Story of Mārkaṇḍeya, Āśhram, Vienna, Austria

[Speaking again on the kavach:] "Which was promised long time back by Mārkaṇḍeya, now you have achieved it. This He had promised fourteen thousand years back that, 'When Mahāmāyā will come, She will do this work.'
That it will happen. We must realize that we are getting all the promises fulfilled for us."
......
Supposing there is somebody like Mārkaṇḍeya, no problem.
1988-1014 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Navarātri Celebrations (4th Day), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Warje, Pune, Maharashtra, India

"Now, those whom you have read now, this I have not told Them, this they had known Themselves. How did They know? Because they became pure, pure, pure within, of divine, and that's how They know it. So this purity has come.
All these people, say for example Mārkaṇḍeya used to live in a place in, He used to be prapared. He used to dedicate Himself. He lived there, very happily, with His father, in a very modest manner.
And then, you see, He was the richest man because He enjoyed the uh-uh-uh Grace of the Mother. And He saw all these things so well.
He was cursed to be dead uh at a very young age. And then His father told Him that, "You have to die because Śhiva has given me the boon that I will give you the son but then He'll die." He said, "All right. I will find out the solution."
So He worshiped the Goddess. The Goddess gave Him the boon. See, Goddess Herself He saw in person. That's how this uh-uh-uh place is Saptaśhṛiṅgī is there, there, [unclear].
It's uh-uh-uh ... Saptaśhṛiṅgī is seven, seven chakras. Is the Ādi Śhakti's place. Is the Ādi Śhakti's place.
So, this is, when you are reading all these things, you are amazed, 'How do They?' For He's gone fourteen thousand years back.
How many know this thing [laughing:] about it, which tallies with your ... which tallies with your Sahaja Yoga, which shows what you are?
And then how could He be so precisely about it? Because He Himself had become a complete reflector. It's a complete reflector which has shown to the world what is the Goddess is.
Is a very great credit to Him. For without any ego!"
1988-1019 Navarātri Pūjā (9th Day), Raise above Āgñyā (Left Āgñyā and Right Āgñyā), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Warje, Pune, Maharashtra, India

"The same knowledge I am going to give you in Sahaja Yoga. But just by telling it is not going to happen. This incident has to take place.
About this, several thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya had written. After that Nāth Pānthis did a lot of work on this. After that, the work was in progress, in other countries also side by side. And you can see that from the time of Rāja Janak to the time of Guru Nāṇak this has been happening."
1989-0308 Public Program (Hindi), Iṃsāna kā Parivartana (Change of Human), Saraswati Vihar, New Delhi, India

"This is all written in our Scriptures.
Apart from that, we had great poets, the saint[ly] poets, like Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī who, it is said, lived fourteen thousand years back.
After that, so many Saints wrote about Self-realization."
1989-0316 Public Program (Hindi), Kuṇḍalinī Ke Jāgran Ke Bād Lābh (Benefits after Awakening of Kuṇḍalinī) or The Power of Love and the Blessings of Kuṇḍalinī, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

"[We had many Yogis who started work on the middle path of human ascent like Gorakhnāth, Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], Macchindranāth. They worked on the problem of human beings and how to make this ascent possible. They discovered in human beings in the triangular bone sacrum a residual power.]
[Over fourteen thousand years ago Mārkaṇḍeya talked about it.]
[In eighth and ninth century A.D., Vasu Gupta wrote about it.]
[So the culmination or last achievement is to ascend into a new awareness of your Spirit.]"
1989-1018 Public Talk, 1st World Conference on Yoga Organized by the Soviet Ministry of Health, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia (other date 1019)

"It is very essential for us that we keep a clear head because this could be a [unclear novel] thing for you.
If someone had talked about Kuṇḍalinī two hundred years ago, it would not be a new thing.
In twelfth century A.D., Gyāneśhwara talked about it. Mārkaṇḍeya talked about it, thousands of years ago. Kabīrdas talked about it, the Bible also talks about it, and Nāṇak Sāhab also talked about it.
But no one really thought about it that, 'Is the Truth,' or that there should have been more attention to it."
1990-0206 Public Program (Hindi+English), Day 1, Paramātma ko Jānane ke Lie (To Know God), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

"So, nowhere in the ancient books.
We have Mārkaṇḍeya's, which we can say thousands of years back has written about Kuṇḍalinī, we have Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, all of Them, nobody has written anything like that. In the twelfth century, Gyāneśhwara has written about Kuṇḍalinī, nobody has said this is dangerous.
This is a modern stuff, I think coming from Germany. Because Germans came here and somebody told them something, and they have written down. Is most unauthorized and wrong."
1990-0315 Public Program, Department of Religious Studies, University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

"Now, it's not at all dangerous, how can it be? It's your mother! It's your mother.
When you were born, your mother took all the care, that you are not hurt, she took all the pains upon herself, she suffered.
So in the same way the Kuṇḍalinī is your mother, your individual mother. And She has recorded everything about you. Like a tape recorder, we can [laughing:] say, She's coiled up. And She knows everything about you. And She's so smoothly rises. You will be surprised how smoothly It does.
Of course, sometimes you do get little heat, because there's heat in the body and your eh this thing opens out, so the heat comes out, doesn't matter. But is nothing, uh nothing dangerous, nothing dangerous at all.
But those people talk of danger, have no authority to do it.
Supposing somebody wants you to put your hands in the plugs and you say that, 'Electricity is dangerous,' means this fellow doesn't know anything, he's a rustic fellow, has never seen electricity.
They have no authority. That's why they are talking like this and deviating people from getting their Realization.
But it is a very modern thing, you will be surprised. This is only last fifty years people have been talking like that. Some Germans went to India, they must have met some horrible people there, and they have written all these things. Then others started writing, others started doing this.
But in the olden books you read about, there's one Mārkaṇḍeya, they say He lived in the year fourteen thousand years back.
Then there was ... there were so many ... uh-uh-uh like, we can say Śhaṅkarāchārya was there, Gyānadeva was there, uh Nāṇaka was there, Kabīra, nobody said so!
It's a ... only this is a modern idea to frighten people that they shouldn't get their Realization. Is just a modern idea."
1990-0603 Public Program, Day 1, Miami, FL, U.S.A.

"But in the twelfth century there was a great saint called Gyāneśhwara who broke this tradition and He asked His master, His own ... His elder brother was His master, that, "Just please allow Me to at least write it down. Let people know." Though in the Sanskrit language we have many, many uh-uh-uh uh books and many, many treatise about it, fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya wrote about Kuṇḍalinī.
But He [Śhrī Gyāneśhwara] wrote it in Marathi language, we see is a local language or you can say which is a vernacular language, in which He wrote that, "There is this Kuṇḍalinī which has to be awakened, otherwise you cannot get your Realization." "
1991-0405 Public Program, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

"Fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya has written about Kuṇḍalinī, then also Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, everybody has talked about Kuṇḍalinī.
But the system was such that ah the ... tradition was to have one guru to one disciple only. One guru, one disciple. And it was all in the Sanskrit language.
So, only in the twelfth century, one great Saint, called Gyāneśhwara, wrote about it for public in a local language."
1991-0802 Public Program, Day 2, The Liver, Its Problems and Treatment, Koningszaal, Artis (Natura Artis Magistra), Plantage Middenlaan 41 A, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Jains have Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], and a deviation started from that: ah ... one guru was supposed to give knowledge to only one person. Like Janaka had only Nachiketa. Till the time of Gyāneśhwara, that's in the twelfth century.
Gyāneśhwara was the disciple of His own brother, Nivṛuttināth. And they suffered a lot. And He asked Nivṛuttināth for one permission: that, "Let Me open the Truth to the public. Just I'll tell about it! I'll not do anything, I'll just tell about it."
Because thirteen, fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya has described about Kuṇḍalinī. Then came ... Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has described about Kuṇḍalinī.
But all in Sanskrit language. And Sanskrital knowledge was not available to the common public. And those who knew Sanskrit nalguage ... language didn't want to get into Self-knowledge.
Thus this knowledge was kept a secret all the time."
1991-1206 Public Program, Day 1, Narada Gana Sabha, 254 Mowbrays Road, Alwarpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

"In a way, in sixth century Saints like Śhaṅkarāchārya, and fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya, both have described about Kuṇḍalinī and have written a lot about Kuṇḍalinī."
1991-1216 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, Kuṇḍalinī Eka Mahāna Śhakti (Kuṇḍalinī Is a Great Power), Grounds, New English School, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Śhrī Mātājī: Fourteen thousand years back, ...
Sahaja Yoginī translator: Mārka ah ...
Śhrī Mātājī: ... Mārkaṇḍeya has written about it, in Sanskrit language.
1992-0310 Public Program, YMCA Hotel, Satorn Road, Bangkok, Thailand (other date 0311)

"Of course, this is written in ... about, I think, fourteen thousand years back by Mārkaṇḍeya in Sanskrit, but a very difficult Sanskrit language."
1992-0322 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Birthday Felicitations Program, the day after Birthday Pūjā, Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, India

"So first you have to take it as a hypotheses but keep your minds open if it exists, there is a power which has come to us, this knowledge has come to us from ancient times, from sears and great Saints: right from Mārkaṇḍeya, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, then we had in the twelve century Gyāneśhwara who has described in the sixth century [chapter], then we had uh Kabīra, Nāṇaka, Nāmadeva, all of them. "
1993-0310 Press Conference (English and Hindi mixed), Pune, Maharashtra, India

"Now the Sahaj Knowledge, I wouldn't say is modern or is Mine. We have had this since long, in our country.
I would say, from Mārkaṇḍeya onward, we had Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya. Then we had Gyāneśhwara. Then we had all these people like Guru Nāṇaka, Kabīra. All of them have described it.
But it was kept in such a manner, that people thought that, 'It was too much uh-uh-uh philosophic or spiritual that we cannot do it.' "
1993-0319 Press Conference (Medical and Scientific), Meridian Hotel, New Delhi, India

"This is in our country from ancient times. This is our heritage of our country. From where to where, how many years back, thirteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya has talked about it in the Sanskrit language."
1993-1203 Public Program (Hindi), Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi, India

"The whole of Haryana has been a very, very historical, mythological place. You must have known about it, that Pāṇḍavas and Khauravas fought in Kurukṣhetra. And also, all this area has been used, since long, for meditation.
Mārkaṇḍeya, whose now ... name you have heard many a times, meditated in this area. First He was in Maharashtr[a], where you have seen the Saptaśhṛiṅgī. And after that, He came down here and meditated, and wrote His treatises.
Everywhere you find a-uh-uh place of a Pīr [Saint]. Also they are realized Souls who have been respected till today."
1993-1211 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, Yamunānagar, Haryana, India

"I don't know if you have read about Mārkaṇḍeya, who is, see, was about fourteen thousand years back in history. And He has talked about Kuṇḍalinī."
1994-0115 Public Program, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"[Today's Sahaj Yoga is only one advancement.]
[If you read Mārkaṇḍeya, who was thirteen thousand years ago, he was only sixteen years old when He wrote about the Kuṇḍalinī.]
[Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth and Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya have described it.]"
1994-0118 Public Program, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

"In the twelfth century, one great poet called Gyāneśhwara, He asked permission from His Master, His own brother was His Master, that, "Allow Me to talk about It. And I will not do anything but I'll just talk about It in My book, Gyāneśhwarī." In the sixth chapter, He wrote very clearly about It.
In Sanskrit we had, fourteen thousand years back, a great Mārkaṇḍeya, who had written about It. Sixth century also Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya wrote about It. But it was all in Sanskrit, was not available to common people.
After this, after the twelfth century, many wrote [about] It."
1994-0408 Public Program, Civic Theatre, Canberra, Australia

"Like Guru Nāṇaka said: "Kāhe re bana khojan jāe, Sadā [Sarab] nivāsī sadā alepā tohī saṃga samāī." "Kahe Nāṇak bin āpa chinhe mite na bhram ki kayi" [without knowing your Self, you cannot get rid of the moss (scum) of confusion].
But who does that? What He said, we just go on reading, reading, reading but do we do that?
We have to know ourselves, we have to have Self-knowledge.
In the ancient times, fourteen thousand years back in India, Mārkaṇḍeya wrote about it. That we have a Kuṇḍalinī within us, and She's to be awakened. But that was in Sanskrit language, so many people did not know."
1994-0426 Public Program, PJ Civic Hall, Jalan Yong Shook Lin, Pj New Town, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"Uh-uh-uh ... but the problem is like this that, you see, this whole basis of our [Indian] traditions and our uh-uh-uh ... we can say the culture, is moral.
Culture is for morality. If there is no morality in culture, that culture is foreign to us. Because we are ancient people.
Uh-uh-uh and also the climate in India is so good, that you need not, sort of, worry about going out or anything. People live in, actually, forests just to find out: 'Why we are on this Earth?' To ... just to get an answer for this question.
And they discovered it. Long time back, ancient time, they discovered. Fourteen thousand years back, Mārkaṇḍeya has written about Kuṇḍalinī, can you imagine!"
1994-0731 Public Program (Hindi+English), Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Of course, before that also, we have had people, like Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, the sixth century, and before that also Mārkaṇḍeya. But They talked about the Kuṇḍalinī, that's all. Praised the Kuṇḍalinī. But that She passes through six centers, how will It raise and all that. And not about the future, that this will happen one day.
So many have written, of course."
1994-1002 Śhrī Yogeśhwara Pūjā, Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa and the Enlightenment of the Brain, Camp Vacamas, 256 Macopin Road, West Milford, NJ, U.S.A.

Variant 1:
"Kabīr Sāhab and Nāṇak Sāhab, Rāmdās Swāmī have all written on Kuṇḍalinī. Śhrī Rāmdās Swāmī and even Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī have also written on Kuṇḍalinī."

Variant 2:
"Kabīr Sāhab, Nāṇak Sāhab, Rāmdās Swāmī and many others have all written on Kuṇḍalinī."
1994-1128 Public Program (Hindi), Satya kī Khoj (Search of Truth), Faridabad, Haryana, India

"I do not want you to believe that this great work has been done only by Me. Sahaja Yoga has been in our country since ancient times. Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī who was born fourteen thousand years ago here spoke of the Kuṇḍalinī. There has been a discussion about Kuṇḍalinī everywhere."
1994-1129 Public Program (Hindi), Kuṇḍalinī Ek Mahan Śhakti, front of AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Variant 1:
"This thing that needs to be experienced has been told by Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, since ancient times. In foreign countries, many Saints and Seers have also said that this Truth you cannot know without experiencing it.
Variant 2:
"About this experience, for thousands of years Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, everyone and even in foreign countries, many Great Saints have told that without the experience you cannot know the Truth."
1994-1206 Public Program (Hindi+English+Hindi), Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women, Chandigarh, India

"What I am telling you isn't something new. It is all there in our Scriptures.
In the sixth century, Śhaṅkarāchārya spoke about it.
But thirteen thousand years ago, Mārkaṇḍeya also spoke about the Kuṇḍalinī, but it was all in Sanskrit.
And then, in the twelfth century, Gyāneśhwarjī spoke about it. When He wrote the Gyāneśhwarī, which is a commentary on the Gītā, in its sixth chapter, He clearly wrote that, "You get your Self-realization through the Kuṇḍalinī." "
1995-0412 Public Program (Hindi), What Is the Truth, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indoor Stadium, Eden Gardens, Strand Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

"According to Me, in the twelfth century for the first time, Gyāneśhwarjī wrote about Kuṇḍalinī in His commentary about Gītā. In sixth chapter, He has openly said. As we should say, keeping in mind the conditions of that era, He had openly said in that period. But religion organizers said that, 'It is prohibited and so don't read it.'
Before that, Mārkaṇḍeya Swāmī, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya who had come in the sixth century, told about Kuṇḍalinī in Sanskrit language. But common man doesn't know anything about this."
1995-0422 TV Broadcast (Hindi), Sahaj Yog Se Lābh (Benefits of Sahaja Yoga), Part 4, Dūradarśhan Television Network, New Delhi, India

"See, it's not My discovery, I should say, in a way, because all people have talked about it. For thousands of years back Mārk... Mārkaṇḍeya talked about it, Ādi Śhaṅkara talked about it. Then came, all other on the twelfth century, you see, Gyāneśhwara talked about it very much. Then came sixteenth century, all these Great Saints talked about it, and in Punjab, you know, uh-uh-uh Guru Nāṇak Sāhab, Guru Gobind Sāhab, all of Them have talked about Kuṇḍalinī, Kabīr and others who talked about it, all of Them."
1996-0119 Public Talk, Rotary Club of Central Pune, District 3130 (Currently District 3131), Pune, Maharashtra, India

"This knowledge has been there from ages and ages like Mārkaṇḍeya was fourteen thousand years has talked about it, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has talked about it.
Many Saints abroad also I know have talked about Kuṇḍalinī, even in the Bible it is written, "I'll appear before you like tongues of flames."
They have talked about the Tree of Life, like Kṛiṣhṇa has talked about also the Tree of Life which is upside down and the roots are in the brains."
1996-0219 Public Address to Doctors, Inauguration, International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Center, Plot No. 1, Sector 8, H.H. Śhrī Nirmalā Devī Mārg, C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"But I was surprised that in Kiev, which is the capital of Ukraine, I went to see the museum: is full of paintings of Kuṇḍalinī and of the chakras, different chakras. I was amazed: 'How could it be?'
And then they said that, :Two thousand before Christ [2000 B.C.], two S-Saints came from India," and they told Me the name and I was a... amazed how they knew the names of those people: Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth.
That time I think America didn't exist, otherwise they would have come here also. [Laughter.]
And these two people went there. And they taught them all about Kuṇḍalinī, but they said, "We didn't know how to raise, we didn't know how to achieve it. So, we just knew it, but we didn't know how to do it."
Same in India: Gyāneśhwara has written about it.
But much before that, thirteen thousand years back, another Saint, Mārkaṇḍeya, has written about it.
Then in the sixth century, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has written about it.
And it has been written by many people. In the sixteenth century, so many Saints have written about.
In the Bible also it is there, that, "I'll appear before you like tongues of flames," and these are the chakras that you see."
1996-0924 Public Program, The Olympic Collection, Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor, 11301 W. Olympic Boulevard, 204, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

"In Australia, they also have the Mother Culture amongst the aboriginals as well as amongst the aboriginals of America and Canada. The Mayan culture of Mexico believed in the Mother and Mother Earth. The only thing is, they did not know how to awaken this Power which sleeps in the base of the spine known as sacrum. That means that the Greeks knew about the sacredness of this bone, but all of them knew about the Primordial Taboos relating to the body (in Sanskrit known as śharīra), and the Spirit or the Ātmā Tattwa.
All this has been described by great Seers and Saints like Mārkaṇḍeya, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya, Nāṇaka and Jñānadeva."
1997-0827 Written (Presented) Talk, Russian Folk Medicine Conference, Russia (other date 0901)

"Now you can understand that how far it is important to save our country and to stimulate the greatness of this country – this is our duty. No one from outside will come and do this. We have to do it.
How can we do it? A very simple and easy method is to awaken the Kuṇḍalinī of people.
In Maharashtra, in the sixteenth century, so many Saints had talked about Kuṇḍalinī awakening – just talked. And, Saint Gyānadeva told about this in the twelfth century. But Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya told in the sixth century and fourteen thousand years back Mārkaṇḍeya told about it. All that these people have said, is it all in vain?"
1999-0220 Public Program (Hindi+Marathi), Hamārī Sanskṛiti ki Viśheṣhatā (Specialty of Our Culture), Śhivajī Park, Dadar West, Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"This is not told only by Me. I tell you: is told by all the Saints of the world.
Long time back, I should say, Gyānadeva in the twelfth century, and all others who lived there. But even before that, Mārkaṇḍeya, He talked about it.
We don't know anything about these people.
Then also in the sixteenth century, we should say, Guru Nāṇak was there, Kabīra was there, all of Them have talked about it!"
2000-0417 Public Address to Income Tax Officers Meeting, New Delhi, India

"About Kuṇḍalinī, many people knew It long time back.
I must say, there was Mārkaṇḍeya, who was thirteen thousand years back, He has talked about Kuṇḍalinī.
Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has talked about Kuṇḍalinī.
And later, am I ... I must say, they were at least sixteen to seventeen Great Saints, seventeen, who have talked about Kuṇḍalinī in the twelve ... in the sixteenth century.
One of them was Guru Nāṇak, who has clearly said: that, "You have to seek it within."
And Kabīr, who is also included in the Grantha Sāhab, has said, [laughing:] that: "It is the Kuṇḍalinī that can give it."
All of Them have said the same thing."
2000-0926 Public Program, Day 1, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7, UK

"According to Mārkaṇḍeya, an ancient spiritual giant and author of an important Purāṇa, these demonic forces [tāntrikas] are destroyed many times in physical form, and are sent to hell to suffer untold punishment. In spite of all the punishment they go through there, they never cease in their search to find more subtle and cunning methods of wrecking the morality of human beings who genuinely sought God. Like prisoners released from jail, they return to Earth again and again to wreak their evil against this morality which builds up the sense of religion in man (dharma)."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 6: Tantrism

"We had a Saint called Mārkaṇḍeya, who they say lived fourteen thousand years ago. He has written about this fourth dimension and has described it as the blessing of the Primordial Mother. The second person who was very well equipped with this knowledge, was Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya who has written many books. The first book he wrote was Vivekachūḍāmaṇi, in which he describes this fourth dimension and explains why we should try to attain this fourth dimension. An intellectual, one Mister Sharma, challenged him and told him that he could not do anything as an ascetic and win over my intellect. Thus he felt that for the common people all this discussion might just seem to be mental acrobatics. So he decided to write books just praising the Primordial Mother, especially in Saundaryalaharī, where he described all the Divine Vibrations as the vibrations of the loving beauty of the Primordial Mother. At that time all this was written in the Sanskrit language but the common people did not understand this language, except for a very few learned people, who also did not want to go into the details of this exposition."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 9: Evolution

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