"...don't consider yourself to be endowed with some sort of a special power as a leader..."

... Secondly, the leaders must tell off people who are to be told off, it's very important.
If you cannot tell off people, it's no use. And that's how the leadership is not going to be respected, if you do not tell off people who are negative.
One negative problem comes in, immediately they'll report it, I immediately know this is his wife or husband must be doing nonsense there. Immediately it is reported, "This is happening, that is happening," is a sign of negativity. Immediately you can solve the problem, give bandhans.
The simplest way is to sit before My photograph and just say, "Mother, please this is the problem," finished!
 There's no need to take a telephone and telephone to Me at about two o'clock in the night. Just do that!
But the trouble is :
you cannot because your system has not yet reached that point.  It's such a vicious circle!
Your system must reach that point where the connection is absolutely there: you don't care for leadership, anything, but you care for your inner growth. If your inner growth is in that position it will happen automatically. This is what it is, very difficult for people to understand that we have to be sensibly placed towards ourselves.

Now about the leaders I would say this about others also, that we have to be very, very sensibly placed about ourselves. Are we sensible towards ourselves? Some old people behave like children, some children behave like old people in the sense that start telling off, answering back, misbehaving. We must know our age, our group, everything, and behave in a manner that is dignified. In a small age also if a child talks like a child, he can be very, very positive. I must tell you that I've had some very, very funny reports about some people which was so shocking that how did they arbitrarily behaved.
And it's only  one thing that is behind, it  is the sense of leadership." I" wanted to be leaders, "this" wanted to be leaders, "that" wanted to be leaders.


There's nothing like leadership in Sahaja Yoga, you don't know your Mother is too capable. She doesn't need any leaders, you don't know Her, better know Her. She's too capable, very clever and cunning woman. She's all-powerful and She knows everything about you, She knows how to handle situations. She's not going to allow Sahaja Yoga to disappear because of somebody's stupidity. Know that! Sitting down here I know about everything about everyone. I may look very simple, it's not so.
That's why I have to tell you that you:
don't consider yourself to be endowed with some sort of a special power as a leader.
Only that you have the power through your Mother,  which you have to assert. So, "Whatever I'm doing is the Mother Who is doing it." And when you do that you'll be amazed that whatever you want will be sensible, whatever you'll ask for it will be sensible - sensible means which is related to Sahaja Yoga. And whatever you do will be sensible. All your dignity, everything will pile up together, but foremost thing and the most important: at any cost you must meditate.

1986-01/14: Sankranti Puja, India    ... starting at 22mn30

- How should we introspect, 25 years after, without Mother speaking

physically to us? 

- Can we just sit  and talk to the Photograph, have reached that point? (or not?)

- Is our " inner growth in that position (that)  it will happen automatically" ? (or not?) (considering what has happened and is  happening, maybe not, neither individually, nor collectively)

- About leadership, what is the responsibility of Trustees, and of each of us,  2008-puja-Gurus  ?

 

"Ah.....My heart just weeps." ( the lessons of 9-11)

 "Ah.....My heart just weeps. At what time I have come on this earth, where I have to see human beings hating each.?...
 All our activities as Sahaja yogis, I never realized were so important. We have to give so much time, not to bother about nonsensical, frivolous things, but something serious that is within us or without. That must be taken out. If I ask you how many people you hate, you may say twenty people...and...[PAUSE]
See the thing, whole atmosphere and all this fills Me with such remorse that I just don't know what are we going to do:  the Sahaja yogis- what are their plans?
Will you please look into yourself and think what constructive work we are doing and what destructive work we have been doing? 
You need a big shock to understand this.

 I like the way we have programs and pujas 
and all that, 
but
if you ask My Inner Being,
I know it is very, 
very, unhappy, very, very sick. 
At this time what you have to do as Sahaja yogis, as Sahaja yogis, minimum of minimum, you should put full attention. ... see, the trouble with Sahaja Yoga is that you all start enjoying yourself and then you don't see around what is happening.
Now I must tell you, I am now in the midst of war between myth... [PAUSE] Is it a, area, is it a, I don't know what should I say, is it within us, there is still lurking some kind of a weakness that we do not try to fight our behavior. I would now request you all to meditate on yourself and see for yourself what is wrong. It's a big shock and to reduce this shock, what can Sahaja yogis do?
 It's a big lesson now for all of us, to see for ourselves:
"Are we all right or we go on hating others?"

Statue in the Met- NY.

I want to touch the deepest part of your heart, which should reconcile. I am sure you all will understand the magnitude of danger that awaits. Maybe there may not be any human beings left, maybe there may not be any children left, because if this kind of thing is working out, it's very difficult, very difficult [LONG PAUSE]
My whole existence gets shaking, gets shaken up. 
You all should see in every nook and corner of life - where is this talk going on? Where are people talking of cruelty? What's happening? You know it.
Whatever I think ...it's not one, it's not two, it's all of us. [PAUSE] The fight that I am having is of a serious nature, no doubt. But if you all can fight collectively, how much we can work it out. [PAUSE] My all efforts, understandings, powers, everything is now in your hands and that's what you should be prepared for. Not by just reading something or talking about it. You have to build up within yourself the power of love. I'm sure with the opening of the Sahasrara, you will do that. But try to read something, to understand something, with the power of love.

I hope you people have understood what I want you to do. A new generation is coming up. All of you, all of you are in My Heart and I love you very much and I want you people to come as soldiers to fight with Me.
I am also told that there are some people who are forming groups.
Extremely negative attitude!
At this time what we need is a complete solidarity. So all such people whom you see, tell them to behave themselves.
No use making them Sahaja yogis.

I am sure, it's really heartfelt desire of Mine that you should become really soldiers of love and peace because that is why you are here. You are born here for that. So enjoy yourself.

http://www.vimeo.com/25792785
Navaratri 2001, Greece.

Did we progress?... since...1989...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/axinia/347540934/in/photostream/

I will be talking to you about all these things, in the beautiful atmosphere here, and on the bank of Krishna river.

We have to understand that the river flows, it makes a sound. It makes a sound to show that she, it exists.

But we are -not only the rivers. We are all the mountains, rivers, everything of the universe we are.

And our manifestation is like a big zero as if the Mother Earth has been emptied out. It is time that we should watch ourselves and see ourselves.

What's wrong with us? - Very important ! I had to say this once again, and again but I don't like to say these things because I love you so much. And I care for you so much. And you people also love Me.

But loving is not sufficient, you have to love yourself and respect yourself. Only your self is going to work out. As Shivaji Maharaj has said, ' Swa dharma Wadwa' 'You must develop the religion of your spirit'.

That's what we have to do. Is to develop the religion of our spirit. And once it happens, we can get the whole world completely emancipated. This is our work.

And if we fail,

then it is the responsibility of Sahaja yogis

and nobody else.

So for everyone I have to tell you that I don't have to please you, you have to please Me.

For a small thing people react. For a small thing they feel bad. If I don't smile at somebody they feel bad. In little, little things they feel bad and they react. If I say anything, they react. So how can anything go into you? If it is such a convexity, how will you absorb it?

It is important that we should try to absorb with humility, with understanding.

 Now you are Sahaja yogis, you know I am Adishakti. You have had photographs, you have known that I am Adishakti. But how much are we absorbing? How much we are taking within ourselves? 

"You know I am..." (24 mn)

This work is much more than anyone of the incarnations had to do. Is much more than Christ, is much more than Rama, much more than Shri Krishna. So create such great people among you. Because I have the power.

Only thing you have to have, the absorption power. The acceptability.

But if you run after something very cheapish, and something very frivolous, it's impossible.

You have to ask for your depth, and you have to take in whatever is emitting from My being.

I hope now, you all will take it up seriously.

 By the Krishna River, 1989

http://vimeo.com/25495888, probably one of the most important talk of Shri Mataji.

1989-12/30: Puja, Brahmapuri, India- extracts