"You have to move in the public"

"So then you come to the point where you are in the public, you are in the public. You've to circulate now, you have to articulate in the public, you have to move in the public. You're not only for a secluded, some group of Sahaja Yogis, you're not that. But you have to articulate, you have to circulate. Now for that, what should we do. You have to understand that we have to form other groups, other things by which we can circulate.
Let's see now in England: - we can form some societies. Let's form some society which are not, which are not are what we call them as the Sahaja Yogas, because you are different from them. So now let us form some societies. We form certain societies, say let us form a society where we talk about the decadence of this country; how the decadence has come in, why it is there, why are we spoiling our young children, why are we behaving like this. Let us see. Let us start a society under this name.  
Let us start a society which will fight all social problems
Like, let us I said in India, let us start a society which is against dowry system.

That's how you'll circulate with them and later on when they come up to a point they will see your character and then you can talk to them about Sahaja Yoga."

(1986-03/05: Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Wimbledon)


AMUME  

Amume, is an acronym in Spanish language which means Association of municipalists women of Ecuador, at the moment we are looking for their cooperation to develop a public conference regarding the role of women in the society and a Kuchipudi workshop as a tool of cultural interchange. Of course, this is a a very good opportunity to bring the realization to many women.

  1995/09/13 Shri Mataji's Address at the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women
  Title of Conference: Women Speak Out on Peace

In South America many women are abused, some of them are still used as slaves and usually they earning less than the men, in case they are paid. Ecuador has a very big indigenous population and many of their women are rejected in the society since the colonial times.

 

 Ecuadorian aborigin painting her pottery

 AMUME is empowering the women with education, the knowledge of their rignts and the development of entrepreneur women and leaders in their communities.

We request for your bandhans and vibrated attention in this subject that this possibility will work out.

Thank you very much for your contributions, we are very close to the 50%. 

If the media help us...

"If the media help us, you see, understanding how important it is and vital, that it should grow in these countries, because in India it's much easier, much easier, I mean thousands and thousands it's working out in the villages and all. But here, you see, media's so important and so powerful. Thank God we are not so developed, so we don't depend on media so much in India (laughs) and the newspaper people also understand that truth has to be there, and they help us, they have been very helpful in India, compared to here. Here nobody wants to even publish an article on Sahaja Yoga - nothing. Can you imagine? Nobody wants to do anything about it" 

  
What is the need for Sahaja Yoga?, Public Programme, Caxton Hall, London 1982

 Shri Mataji's press conference at the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, in 1983, where She gave Realisation to a TV reporter. 

The media in Ecuador 

During my last visit to Ecuador in 2008, we had a public program in one of the big halls of the city. The yogis had contacted several TV channels, radio stations and news papers. The media was very open and helpful, the journalists made very good questions and we had the opportunity to show Mother's picture during the TV interviews.

I remember very well one of those questions: "A recent investigation in Ecuador states that a big percentage of the polulation have very low self esteem, specially the young people. Which one of those chakras you have been talking about is related with the self esteem and how to overcome it?"

This gave me the floor to speak a lot about the meditation, left vishudhi and express our invitation to the youngsters.  

In Latin America we haven't had problems with the media and normally they have been very kind towards Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yoga. If you have something which involves foreigners, an newfangled technique or something which attracts the attention of the audience, the media is willing to cooperate.

This time the Ecuadorian yogis have been contacting the media already. They said that we will have a very good support of the media. There is also a new seeker who is a journalist, and he has started making contacts with his collegues.

We got a very beautiful feedback from a yogini, stating that this project is in the spirit of the Guru Puja talk 2008, to form groups, to join the effort. Combining the ones who can go there and help, and each one of us with some little amount to give them a hand.

All in all, we feel things are flowing very smoothly and beautifuly, your enlightened attention is very valuable, so the aim of this project of bringing the self-realization to many will come true.