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.