ŚHRĪ WILLIAM BLAKE in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ
Version 1:
"Many Seers had announced about this era [time]. Recently, saw William Blake's book called Milton. He was very philosophical and in His prediction He mentioned the place where Sahaja Yoga started (Surrey Hills) and the place where the foundation of the first center was established (Lambeth Vale), writing about both places is very surprising. It is also written that a common person will be becoming a Preṣhit (Prophet), who will be bestowed with special power. With this amazing power he will create many more Preṣhit [Prophets]. After reading this so deep and so correct information about Sahaja Yoga in His poem felt tremendous joy. If our country's Sahaja Yogis' also be aware of this knowledge[,] then recognizing the greatness and accepting the depth of this greatness will be their great responsibility."
Version 2:
"This yuga was predicted by many great people. Recently, I saw the book Milton written by William Blake. He was a great philosopher and it's so surprising how he predicted the foundations of Sahaja Yoga (Surrey Hills) and the first Sahaja centre (Lambeth Vale). He also wrote that with a special power, ordinary people will become a Preṣhit (Prophet), who will be bestowed with special power. With this amazing power he will create many more Preṣhit [Prophets]. And with this wonderful power they will liberate many others. I enjoyed very much his poem that had such depth and such clear knowledge. If only the Sahaja Yogis of our country could become aware and alert towards this kind of knowledge, then they will aim at achieving the greatness and the depth of Sahaja Yoga."
1901-0000 Letter (Message) (Hindi) from Nirmala Yoga, Issue 1 (January-February 1981), Pages 2 and 3
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1978-1002 Public Program (1st Day of Navarātri), Knots on the Three Channels, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1978-1113 Public Program, Evolution beyond Organized Religion, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1979-0616 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, Bala Kanayson's House, Rosemary Road, Tamworth (31 kms NE of Birmingham), Staffordshire, UK
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1980-0715 Public Program, What We Are Wanting Is the Reality, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
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1980-0721 Public Program, Auspiciousness, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1980-0809 Public Program, What Are We Inside, Carrs Lane Church Center, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
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1980-0907 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, How to Know where You Are, Āśhram, 44 Chelsham Road, Clapham, London, UK
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1980-0922 Public Program, Day 2, Hotel Aston La Scala, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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1980-1005 Public Program, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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1980-1012 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (4th Day of Navarātri), Winterthurerstraße, Zürich, Switzerland
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1980-1019 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Dussehra Day), How to Spread Sahaja Yoga in Europe, London, UK
"There's one more thing: I was happy to learn that the great poet of this country, Blake, had prophesied about Me.
And it is so beautifully done, that He said that: "England is going to be the Jerusalem." We, this is going to be the pilgrimage. The venue has shifted.
And then He has very beautifully – have you got the thing to read? No. You haven't brought [it].
But what reading! That: He has said that first thing furnace will be burning in Surrey Hills, where I came first, and then He has mentioned Lambeth Vale, where we have got our Āśhram. Where the foundations will be laid, we have laid the foundations.
And that Jerusalem is going to be in England, not in India. And you are the people responsible for this Jerusalem."
1980-1019 Havan, Navarātri Celebrations (Dussehra Day), To Solve All Your Problems Is to Surrender, Temple of All Faiths (now demolished, 11c Pond St), Belsize Park, Hampstead, London, UK
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1980-1023 Public Program, Why We Are Seeking Our Spirit, Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DR, UK
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1980-1027 Public Program, Be Absolutely Absorbed into Your Being (How Necessary It Is to Develop Your Inner Being and The Innermost Core of Every Center is the Spiritual), Outside Qualities Are so Joy-giving to the Spirit (You Have to Enrich Your Outside to Bear that Inside Beauty and Physical Stability, Principle of Well-being, Esthetics of Generosity, and Emotional Life), and Divinity Is Universal (It Embraces Every Thing), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1980-1031 Public Program, You Are to Be Resurrected, Newbury, Berkshire, UK
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1980-1103 Public Program, We Are All One, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1980-1123 Śhrī Guru Nāṇaka Jayanti Pūjā, You Are to Become Prophets, Temple of All Faiths (now demolished, 11c Pond St), Belsize Park, Hampstead, London, UK (perhaps Caxton Hall)
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1980-1124 Public Program, Are You Seekers, Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK
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1981-0205 Public Program, Day 1, Introduction to Mūlādhāra Chakra, Mavlankar Hall, Constitution Club of India, Vithal Bhai Patel House, Rafi Mārg, Sansad Mārg Area, Behind Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, India
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1981-1212 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, House, 48 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, UK (date not sure)
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1981-1231 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, New Year's Eve, Āśhram, 44 Chelsham Road, Clapham, London, UK}
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"So, try to gather nourishment. Like reading Devī Māhātmyam, reading about ... finding out about Bible and finding about other Scriptures, about Qur'ān, this, that, and which supports you, which nourishes you. Blake, Kabīr, Nāṇak, I mean there are so many, Lao Tze. This is the Guru: is a knowledge."
1982-1101 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Śhrī Guru Nāṇaka Jayanti), Every Sahaja Yogi Has to Become a Guru, Nirmala Palace Āśhram, 99 Nightingale Lane, Balham, London SW12 8LZ, UK
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"And these great people have talked, Nāṇaka has talked very clearly, very recently they have talked about these things. Hundred years back only, William Blake has talked about Sahaja Yoga. He has said, "The men of God" -- Men of God, that's you -- "will become Prophets and they will have powers to make others Prophet."
He had such hopes of making England into Jerusalem.
But where are those English? I have still to meet many."
1985-0920 Public Program, Memorial Hall, City Hall, Sheffield, UK
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2001-0716 Public Program, Day 2, Hall, Holland Park School, Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill Rd, London W8 7AF, UK
"Also the leader can read books which are written by some enlightened people to show where they have gone wrong. They should not say that "I say so" but they can use some other book like Khalil Gibran or William Blake or someone like that to show how things were said absolutely in a wrong manner by some of the people who managed to enter into the Scriptures and master them."
1991-0700 Book 'Sahaja Yoga', Chapter 5: The Leader in Sahaja Yoga
"This process has now started on an en masse scale and is the fulfillment of William Blake's most heartfelt desire: "would that all God's people were Prophets". In this age of Kṛita Yuga, through the compassion of the Paramachaitanya (or Divine Love), the Kuṇḍalinī is being raised in countless human beings, so that it is actually happening: God's people have become Prophets and, what is more, they have powers to make others Prophets too.
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Most of the seekers that I met during that time told me that, although they knew they were looking for something, they were completely ignorant of what it was and had been mesmerized by these negative and false teachers. I have to say that it is truly lamentable the way earnest seekers have been exploited by these horrible so-called gurus from India. For seekers are a special category of people and, as such, they are very precious. William Blake describes them as "men of God". They are the ones who have been seeking in many lifetimes to find the Divine and have often become lost in the web of words of false ideas ("śhabda jālam" in Sanskrit, as described by Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya).
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On the firm foundation of Absolute Truth only, can one have complete confidence and an absolutely peaceful, nonviolent stand in the face of the relative world of uncertainty, contradiction and confusion. Such a person, like William Blake, for example, is truly what is meant by the word Saint – a person who states the truth simply as he sees it with his higher vision, and does not react vehemently or violently to contradiction and scorn, but pities his or her aggressors as blind and ignorant.
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Of course, modern art can also have a very evolved manifestation if it is emitted from the formless Spirit. It breaks the lines and forms of conventional art to create a formless substance which is full of light and transparent meaning. But to achieve this potential, one has to be a realized Soul, who can paint his formless joy in such a way as to represent and emit that abstract spontaneous enjoyment of the Spirit by the Spirit. Such art requires no commentary and no discussion. Only a poet can describe it. A poet like William Blake, who was a great evolved Soul and Seer, could also draw and paint the visions He describes in His poetry. The imagination of such poets touches all the beautiful heights that only an enlightened Soul can appreciate and enjoy. All those evolved souls, whether they are sitting in a simple village weaving a shawl for the Goddess, or singing the praise of the Eternal and Everlasting in divine poetry, or playing the divine music, are all the Creator's own Divine Ripples. They may sometimes not be understood, they may be criticized by ignorant, blind people, but they work and sing and play for themselves and for those who have Divine Knowledge and who can understand the world they portray."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 1: Modernism and Rationality
"These are the seekers all over the world. What they are seeking is the peace of their own mind. It is a good news for such people that a unique discovery has been found out by which one can achieve the peace within. One has to go beyond the mind. This was very old knowledge in the East, especially in India, and there were Seers in the West who also knew about this knowledge by which one can achieve that state of Self-realization. In England William Blake, Molière in France, de Maupassant in France, and many other poets like C.S. Lewis, and certain persons in America, have been endowed with this future vision of divine life entering into human beings."
1995-0929 Meta Modern Era, Chapter 11: The Subtle System
"Do the Āratī with the children, have lots of music to develop their sense of rhythm and how to sing. It is important to sing in tune. No dreamy airy-fairy world. Don't let them float about. Give them reality. They can be poets, but use real images like Blake did."
Education Enlightened A Guide For Schools, Chapter 18: In the Classroom
Jay Śhrī Mātājī!