EXCERPTS ON SHRI MATAJI'S PHOTOGRAPH
Any other question please? Yes, please – little loudly…
Seeker: Why is Your picture sitting on the table next to You?
Can you say loudly, please?
Seeker: Why is Your picture sitting on the table next to You?
Shri Mataji: What's it…? yogi: Why is Your picture sitting on the table next to You?
Why, you don’t like it?
It’s something, it’s a question really something I can’t understand.
You see, if I am something, if this picture is my true picture,
then why not have it? With this picture, you’ll be surprised,
the person who first got realization got through this picture.
In this picture there are vibrations. When you will get realized, you will know
that only this picture has such vibrations because the real thing it is –
thank God the science has given us the real thing.
If there were cameras before, we would have had pictures
of all those great people. Because there were no photographs
they said, “Better not have any pictures.”
Because all the pictures were imaginary, done by people
who wanted to have some money.
With this picture, many people have been cured. All right?
It’s a very good thing that has happened that we can take pictures now
because I think, I cannot meet everyone in this world,
but they can at least see my picture.
Question: Can we just clarify that do you claim that you can heal or cure?
Shri Mataji: I do not claim; I do it.
No question of claiming, you see. I do it. I’ve done it.
You can do it also. Everyone can do it.
This Doctor Warren has done. He’s cured so many people.
Question: And you said it can be done through the photograph.
Would you explain that? Shri Mataji: Yes, it is surprising, you know.
Myself I was surprised, as you are, that my photograph has also got vibrations
and people get cured with photographs.
In your country only when I came, the press was very kind to me.
The reason was there was a lady who was sick with coma.
And they said she had what … Yogi: Cerebral aneurism. Shri Mataji: Aneurism.
And one another disciple of mine
took my photograph, put it under her head.
And she started getting all right in the sense that she started opening her eyes.
So the doctors got frightened. They said, “Even if she gets all right,
she will be damaged. She won’t be able to walk.”
But today she’s perfectly all right. Not only that,
but she is very hard-working sahaja yogini so she is all right.
Question: How does it work? Shri Mataji: It was in … Yogi: How does it work?
How does it work from the photograph? Shri Mataji: From the photograph?
The photograph is a real image of myself, you see,
and this, my body, has got a coefficients which emits vibrations.
Same happens with the photograph. That too has the same coefficients.
Of course, it hasn’t got the other dimension,
but it also emits the vibrations because of the coefficients being the same.
Say, even if you take Christ’s photograph, it’s not real
because it has come out of the unconscious, all right,
but that’s a lot of imagination put in.
Any photograph, if you take of any person it is like that.
But there are so many things I’ve seen which have come out of the Mother Earth,
they emit vibrations. Like Stonehenge in England has vibrations.
So many places like that have vibrations, but not so strong as mine,
because I’m a living person.
There was one fellow in Russia,
supposed to be very intelligent,
he said that: “Alright, if we keep Mother’s photograph
and also the icons, we can get the same type of vibrations.”
You cannot, because icons are made
by some artist’s imaginary.
These are not representing actually even Maria or Christ or anyone,
they are all, all imaginary.
If Italian ones makes Christ, He is Italian style,
if some French one makes, He is thin like French man,
if you get somebody say from Holland, He will have a forehead like that.
So you can see Christ if He’s Japanese, He’ll have chinky eyes,
if He’s Chinese, He’ll have no nose,
if it’s Indian, He’ll be dark. So all kinds of Christs I have seen
and I feel that, "How can they emit vibrations?" Tell me.
While with my photograph, how can you compare?
Also, cameras were to be developed at this time:
do you notice that point?
Cameras were developed at this time, not before that.
This loudspeaker was not developed before this.
So all these things are – even video,
even the way you are seeing my image there,
was that available before? No.
So this is a very special time, where science has also supported
seekers to find the Truth – science has supported.
So first, just like a scientist, to try to accept one by… there is nothing
has to be done, I mean, you do not have to pay me anything of course, that goes...
You don't have to do any acrobatics or anything.
But for example a small thing like my photograph,
you see, many people say, “Why Your photographs?”
So “Use your photograph” I say, if that works out, you see.
It's something surprising:
that’s how people are challenging me: “Why Your photograph?”.
“Why don’t you use yours? I will be very happy, use anybody’s”…
… but doesn’t work out, what to do now? Is my photograph that works out,
but even if you don't like it, you have to use it – what can I do?
Is as simple like that, you see; but in that I don't gain anything from you,
I don't want anything from you, nothing material that you can give me.
But you'll enjoy, you will enjoy my love, you'll enjoy.
But Sahaja Yoga is becoming, is awakening and Realisation.
How is it going to work out? It was a very big problem for me.
It’s not that I can just give you a book and just sit
and read it and say that, “Yes, I have got it, I have become.”
It’s real becoming, ripening, maturing, living process.
Now how am I to do it?
And here is the answer – is a photograph.
So this is what it is, that all your medias can be used
through my photograph. What a blessing it is!
And the photograph, if you think, is representing me,
I think you are not expressing it fully.
I was amazed that my photographs are much more powerful
than any statues put together – even produced by Mother Earth!
Because photograph has got so many elements in it.
For example, you see, it has got light element,
it has got water element, it has got earth element,
it has got also air element.
If the air is not all right, you cannot get a photograph.
And also it has got the ether element.
With all these five elements, you cannot produce a statue.
Ether element it has got because if you have a photograph here,
you can transcend it to any other place you can –
what do you call that? – transmit it to any place.
Photograph can be transmitted.
But you cannot transmit the statue as it is anywhere,
only the photograph of a statue you can.
So it has also got ether element.
So photograph is much more powerful than any other statue.
Moreover, it is a reproduction, no doubt,
but reproduction of reality, with five elements.
So I shouldn’t call it just a representative,
it’s quite me. Because my attention is there.
So the protocol of these photographs also is important
to start developing that faith.
You should keep one photograph with you all the time in your pocket. Respect it.
As many as possible, respect them.