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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: Shri Mataji, would you say a few words about the golden age? The forthcoming golden age?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Press Conference (London '99)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aquarius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: Shri Mataji, would you say a few words about the golden age? The forthcoming golden age? Shri Mataji: You see, Aquarius, as they say, Aquarius according to our astrology is the Kundalini. The Kundalini is Aquarius according to Indian, I should say, Indian science of Astrology. And, you see, they, what they say that [...]]]></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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				<category><![CDATA[Radio interview (Santa Cruz USA '83)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam & Eve]]></category>
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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: 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[Radio interview (Santa Cruz USA '83)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Pervading Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primordial Being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realized soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahaja Yoga]]></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: What is the importance of receiving Self Realization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Public Lecture (New Delhi '82)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shri Mataji: In the evolutionary process a human being has come out of a small little unicellular animal called Amoeba as they say in the science. But what is the purpose of this becoming a human being? The purpose of his becoming a human being is that he has to become the spirit. This vehicle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Do you leave the present plane of consciousness, just by getting to the Realisation (through Sahaja Yoga)&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Public Lecture (Brisbane Australia '87)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Public Lecture, Brisbane 5th May, 1987) Question: Do you leave the present plane of consciousness, just by getting to the Realisation (through Sahaja Yoga). I have come here to learn but it shouldn&#8217;t happen that you lose your present plane of consciousness. Shri Mataji: No you don&#8217;t lose it. No, no nothing like that happens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mataji, who do you consider to be the right person for yoga (Self-Realization)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Radio Interview (Austria '84)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: Who do you consider to be the right person for yoga (Self-Realization)? Is there a group of people that&#8217;s easier to be caught by yoga or is it for everybody, or is it a question of the personal education of the mind? Shri Mataji: No, education is not at all required. The simpler you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mataji, what are Your views on evolving matter&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Radio interview (Santa Cruz USA '83)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: Many of us have heard discussions or read in books about the evolution of matter, the evolution of substance. What are Your views on evolving matter and how does this relate to our own physical matter in our bodies, in our cells? Shri Mataji: For the matter did go into evolution, you know that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Shri Mother, what is the true nature of death?&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Radio interview (Santa Cruz USA '83)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: Mother, what is the true nature of death? Is it possible that you can choose not to die? What&#8217;s the purpose of death? Shri Mataji: See, death is just like changing your clothes. So sometimes when you use too much of your clothes you get tired. You want to change it. Like that death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: And what is this technique (Sahaja Yoga Self-Realiszation) about?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[TV Interview ORF (Vienna, Austria ’88)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Right sided]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interviewer: And what is this technique (Sahaja Yoga Self-Realiszation) about? Shri Mataji: It&#8217;s a very &#8211; depending on a person. Now see, we will take your case for example. (Shri Mataji laughing) You are a very busy person, one thing. Interviewer (laughing): How do you know? Shri Mataji: and you are very futuristic Interviewer: Yes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question: Mother, what does it mean to open the last center?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Radio interview (Santa Cruz USA '83)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Ghost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahasrara chakra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz USA) Interviewer: What does it mean to open the last center (the Sahasrara chakra)? Shri Mataji: The Sahasrara. Last center is the center which is the limbic area where is the seat of all the seven centers. It’s all integration there. So far, everybody who has come [...]]]></description>
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