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	<description>Welcome...  Here you’ll find a compilation of Questions and Answers (Q&#38;A’s) relating to the Sahaja Yoga meditation technique and its philosophy, as taught by its founder, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. These Questions have been posed to Shri Mataji at various events, such as public lectures and interviews. The answers below are Her response to the questions. Each event is grouped using the Q&#38;A Categories feature (on the right sidebar). New Q&#38;A’s are regularly posted on this page.</description>
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	<itunes:summary>Welcome...  Here you’ll find a compilation of Questions and Answers (Q&#38;A’s) relating to the Sahaja Yoga meditation technique and its philosophy, as taught by its founder, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. These Questions have been posed to Shri Mataji at various events, such as public lectures and interviews. The answers below are Her response to the questions. Each event is grouped using the Q&#38;A Categories feature (on the right sidebar). New Q&#38;A’s are regularly posted on this page.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Question: What can you say to them about how to become a realized soul, how to achieve this Cool Breeze?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: The listeners who will be tuning in to this program on the radio won&#8217;t have had the experience of being in Your presence. Some of them may have who were in this room. What can you say to them about how to become a realized soul, how to achieve this Cool Breeze that comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mataji, what about teachers or gurus who produce miracles. You go to a guru who will materialize something out of the air and say, “This is divine.” That’s a….</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: Shri&#160;Mataji, what about teachers or gurus who produce miracles. You go to a guru who will materialize something out of the air and say, &#8220;This is divine.&#8221; That&#8217;s a&#8230;. Shri Mataji: This is all jugglery. It&#8217;s all jugglery. And also, you see, now supposing somebody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mother, what are we doing here? What is the purpose of life on earth? What are human beings walking around on this planet for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: Shri Mataji, what are we doing here? What is the purpose of life on earth? What are human beings walking around on this planet for? Shri Mataji: You are specially made by God. You are specially chosen by God to be human beings and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: What’s the role of the artist in this work, this Sahaja Yoga?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: What&#8217;s the role of the artist in this work, this Sahaja Yoga? (An artist, artistic work like music&#8230; ) Shri Mataji: Oh, great, great! Tremendous it is! You see, those people who have been realized souls have created eternal art. Like we can say, Michelangelo was a realized soul. So his work is eternal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Mother, can you describe what You mean by “Service and sacrifice are a myth, or is a myth.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[All Pervading Power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: Mother, this afternoon You said something very interesting in response to a question by a woman. And, the response that You gave was, &#8220;Service and sacrifice are a myth, or is a myth.&#8221; Can you describe what You meant by that? Shri Mataji: Yah. You see, when I said that, when you become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Mother, some questions about who You are; who were You as a child; what people influenced You&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: Mother, today there are many, many things said about Sahaja Yoga, about Your philosophy, and very little is said about who You are as a person. [Shri Mataji laughs] And, I thought it would be good to start out with some, some questions about who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: How do we know who is teaching something that’s true or who is being deceptive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: I have a question that’s important to me and to many people who are searching for something or seeking perhaps, what you call, Self Realization or Sahaja Yoga or something. Some of us don’t know exactly what it is. But we find that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: What is the role of woman in this world, the role of the feminine principle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: What is the role of woman in this world, the role of the feminine principle? Shri Mataji: I would say … I don’t say that women as women who are born as women only have the role, even the men have, everyone has because everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mother, &#8230;. What is the relationship between love and will?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 12:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: Mother, we have learned, heard that when we learn love then we shall have will. What is the relationship between love and will? Shri Mataji: When we&#8217;ll have love, then we&#8217;ll have will. Good! Love is when you become the Spirit, because Spirit is nothing but God&#8217;s love. &#8211; is All Pervading Power, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mataji, You are called “Mother.”&#8230;. what is this meaning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: ShriMataji, You are called “Mother.” And, it seems in the Hindu tradition there’s a special context or meaning of the word “Mother.” What is this meaning? Shri Mataji: You see, in the Indian philosophy, even in the Christian philosophy it is so, but it has [...]]]></description>
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