ŚHRĪ WILLIAM BLAKE in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ
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"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."
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"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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"It is such a pleasure today, and great fortune too, that here, where William Blake lived, and He sang those songs of greatness, of the greatness of this country, the future that it has to be, the dreams He saw, have now come to shape: that we are here to celebrate His anniversary. Things go beyond words and you cannot express yourself.>br> Many people do not understand Him because He wrote it, according to them, in abstract language, or in the language that He understood. But I am happy that Sahaja Yogis understand Him so well.
And the prophesies that He made about England, people used to riducule [ridicule], ridicule it. Even today they can't believe that Jerusalem can be built in England. They cannot believe that people who have been all their lives, for ages together, thought of nothing but materialism, can take to spirituality to this extent that it becomes Jerusalem, and that the whole world comes to pay homage to this Holy Land: that this becomes the Holy Land. Is a fact! He dreamt, He wished it. Because He knew the value of this land.
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Since long, people knew about Kuṇḍalinī.
Even if that is lost, for history, it remains it.
And He knew about It, He spoke about It.
In His lifetime, maybe, people never understood Him: He ... they must have thought that, `He's really a madman, or something, a fantasy, or some sort of a poet,' who doesn't understand.
For what He wrote, every word of it, is the Truth.
Such a great Soul should live, in Hampstead itself, is such a blessing. Great blessing.
Such people, even if They write or not, They leave Their mark. Their ascent becomes the milestone for the people who live there: their aspirations become different, their priorities become different. The change is so subtle: is to be seen, is to be felt, to be understood.
And very sensitive people only can be born in such places. Of course, there could be very bad people also who counteract. But the sensiti-vity of the atmosphere attracts such souls to that place who are sensitive.
You can see from His poems that He was absolutely authoritative. He knew the authority, He had the authority. He talked like a man with complete authority. He had no doubt even. He has no doubts. He just said, ``This is going to happen!"
And, like a great warrior, that He knew ... He knew that one has to fight the negativity, one has to fight all these dark problems.
The Spirit has to fight all the time the matter.
And that's how He talked, spoke, wrote, [as] a warrior would do, because He started the fight when He was born here, hundred years back."
1981-1128 Public Program, You Are the Spirit, Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DR, UK
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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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"It is such a[n] honor for all of us to pay this homage to the great poet, printer and a Prophet that was William Blake.
When I first came to England, they have been telling Me that: ``England is a place of scholarship, and You can see lots of museums and exhibitions." And suddenly I told the Sahaja Yogis, that I would like to go and see Tate Gallery for William Blake's paintings. They were surprised because I seldom go to any one of them, specially the libraries and the books.
And when I went there, I saw this great poet, this great personality, pouring out His heart, with such concern, with such honesty, with such understanding and perception of the Divine, to the people of England, to understand the Great Powers of Divinity. But to My surprise, there were some sph-funny people: they had brought some magnifying glasses, and they were looking at the drawings, and were watching the private parts of people. I said, ``Look at these wretched, absolutely baser people, who cannot see the sublime, the highest, which He wanted to paint!" And they were taking photographs. I was surprised the way people reacted.
And then I realized: `How tormented He must have been in His lifetime to live with such people, who have no sense of Divine! He must have cried in the wilderness, He must have wept.' He could not have been accepted! It's impossible! Such low-level minds cannot accept something that's sublime and great!
And My heart bled with pain. `Oh God! Why did He take His birth in a place like this? To torment here's ... Himself, to torture Himself, saying something which cannot be accepted.'
But's not so! I knew who He was, what He is doing, why He was here.
We do not know about Him much, because from the books you can't understand who He could have been.
He was an Incarnation, of Bhairavanāth. That's whom you call the Saint Michael, or Saint George, who is, as you know, the Saint ... Angel of England. That's why He had to incarnate! And for Him, this was His role, to talk about Divine in a[n] open, fearless manner.
He had to use symbolic ... symbolic language. He had to use!
Is not difficult to understand Him, at all. If you are a realized Soul, you'll read through it, sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping, enjoying the whole drama, what He has tried to express.
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.br> ......
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?"
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1985-1128 Public Program (Śhrī William Blake's Birthday), Building the New Jerusalem, Hammersmith Town Hall, 1 Riverside Gardens, Hammersmith, London W6 9LE, 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!