Vande Matram

Independence Day of India

Yesterday, was the Independence Day of India and I have seen the flag going up, our national flag and the British flag going down. All that has happened after so much of struggle, so much of sufferings of the people because they came to India, landed nicely there and became the masters.





So, this is also a kind of a conditioning that comes in a collective way, that you go into anybody’s country, throw away the people from there or sort of occupy that place and become the masters.





It’s like going into somebody’s house, that belongs to somebody, and throw away the people who are inside and nicely settle there as the owners and the masters because they have better intelligence, perhaps the cunningness is more in them. With that cunningness if the white people think they can rule black people then it is not where you can develop a witness state.





So, this kind of conditioning is like a plague and moves from one country to another country where some people think they are superior and make people look inferior and the people also are there who accept these kind of situations, accept this kind of a position, where they are supposed to be equal.




H.H.Shri Mataji

Shri Krishna Puja,
16th August 1998, Cabella

DCB March - April 1999

Vande-Matram

This is the last song, which is every great song of olden days. Last time I told a story of my father. He was a great patriot. He carried our tricolor flag on top of the high court.



He climbed up and they shot at him. He got a shot, here in the head. He was bleeding, bleeding, still he went up, put the flag there and saw that it is already flying. Only then he came down and told us to sing the song.



We were all dancing down below. You sing the song of Vande-Matram that means we salute to you, ‘ O Mother.’



Now you see our country is going through some stupid movement that they said that you should not sing this song. We fought the whole of this war of independence singing this song; and those who are saying that, I ask them.


‘How many of you have worked for Independence?

What have you contributed for getting independence?

What is your right to say that you will not have this song?


This song is a song which suggests the beauty of Mother land, the nature of our Mother land. This song was always used as a National Anthem.


Somehow, some new people have come and they say it is in Sanskrit language. It is not. It is not completely in Sanskrit language. I mean I really some time feel like crying, even I remember those days when we were facing the British with their guns on us and singing song.



Today these people, from somewhere they have arisen and trying to say that we should not have this song at all. This is what happens in Kaliyuga. They forget all that has happened before. So I hope you now stand up for this song
‘National Anthem’.


Thank You.



H.H.Shri Mataji
Delhi 19th March 1999
(DCB May-June 1999)

Freedom and Liberation

The words get lost.. they have no meaning.. so many of you are aspiring to ascend to that state where you would have complete joy, bliss and peace.



In this country we had a struggle of freedom. I was part and parcel of that. My parents were part and parcel of that. We were rich people.. quite rich, I should say from every standard. You will be amazed, my father burnt all his suits.. they were stitched in England. My mother burnt all her saris.. They used to spin their own clothes and wear them. I had only one coat throughout my education. When I was in Lahore it was terribly cold sometimes can be like London.



But we never gushed, never grumbled and never said that "our father should have looked after us and done something. Why did he sacrifice for the country..?" never.. never.. never.. That quality was created, I should say by Mahatma Gandhi.



He made everybody so transformed into a new personality. All the money that we had, everything that we had, all conveniences, all housing, everything was given up. Not only by my father but so many of them. Otherwise we could not have got our freedom. To get our freedom this country has sacrificed so much.



I must say Gandhiji had a special charm. I don’t know how he managed. He was like touch of Midas... touched anybody he became transformed. And he was an extremely strict man.. very kind to me.. to children.. but he was extreme extremely strict man.. he would not tolerate any non-sense at all.



Throughout if you study the play, all these people were brought up not only for freedom or for independence but even before that, for spiritual life, anywhere - there is one thing very common is - sacrifice.. and the consciousness that you are doing something great.. the consciousness that you are the part and parcel of the whole!



I have seen it with my own eyes.. such people, in this country, whom you may call legendary but I have seen it. Thousands of people were killed and butchered, children died but nobody shared tears….

Now after that we are here to get our freedom.. to get the freedom for our spirit.. to make our spirit free from our greed, lust.. from our anger.. from our conditionings.. from our terrible ego."




H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Freedom and Liberation