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Auszüge aus Reden von Shri Mataji, der Begründerin von Sahaja Yoga

Liebe alle Kinder wie Deine Kinder


Ganesha Puja, 15 September, 1996, Cabella

But otherwise all the children of this world are your own children and you have to love them as you would love your own children. Christ has said "love thy neighbour as thyself". I don't know why he said it because in all Christian nations neighbours are the biggest problem. Even here. So I say love other children as thy children. ...

The handling of the children is very important. Innocence is to be handled in a very delicate manner as you would handle a beautiful flower. ...


Liebe für alle Kinder

"Shri Mataji`s advice to western women!" 1982, Switzerland

Imagine! When you have a child you have such a great company of your child.
I mean, for an Indian mother, as soon as she is pregnant she feels the
hapiness. When the child is born, she feels the company of the child. For
her nothing more is needed than that her own child is there and then,
through her child, she learns how to love other children.


Liebevolle Aufmerksamkeit für die Kinder, Liebe zu Kindern

Shri Ganesha Puja, 22. 09. 2001, Cabella, Italia
I have told you, in Sahaja Yoga, we should not ever be annoyed with out children. We should not, in no way punish them. Our main achievement should be that loving attention for children. All over the world, whether he belongs to your family or to some other family, or has some sort of detached attention with you, still because he’s a child, he’s innocent, the innocence within itself, your own innocence, will try to protect. …

If you cannot love children, you cannot love anything.


Kinder in der Familie

Shri Ganesh Puja, 14/9/02, Cabella

Children must be looked after.
They should be the most important in the family.



Emotionale Sicherheit und dharmisches Familienleben

"Ocean of love" 25.6.81, Hampstead

A mothers job is to constantly cleanse and correct the child with
forgiveness and loving care, but above all to show the child the correct
pattern of behaviour by loving example.
The child must be not just physically nourished but provided with emotional
security so as to allow his spiritual development to take place from the
background of a dharmic family life."


Freude an und mit Kindern, Rolle der Eltern, Massvolle Erziehung

Ganesha Puja, , 08.08.1989, Schweiz

We have got beautiful Maddona and the Child,
so this principle is the most pleasing principle, is the most pleasing
principle for human beings, to see the children, to play with them, to
enjoy their company why, because it has that sweetness of a child, its
really I should say tickles joy within you when you see a child,
…

so love for your child has to be absolutely important
but you should not as Sahaja Yogis have only attachment for your child,
first thing and the second thing is you must know how to keep a
complete margin to your love, the margin is benevolence, is it
benevolent for my child, am I spoiling my child, am I too much
encouraging my child, am I playing into the hands of my child, or I am
managing the child all right, because in childhood the father and
mother have to manage the children, they have to take children and have
to be obedient and they have to listen to them.


Rolle der Kinder in der Familie, Vernachlässigung und Gewalt sind abzulehnen

Shri Ganesha Puja Talk, 14.09.2002, Cabella, Italy

You should be able to enjoy everything, and to enjoy your children, enjoy children of others people. …

Sometimes we neglect our children, very much. Because of money problems, maybe, or I don’t know what husband-wife problems there are, and the children are neglected. And once they are neglected, anything can happen to them and I think it’s a very great sin on the part of people to produce children and to neglect them. ...

Children should be given the first, the primary place in the household, in the family. And they should be looked after by everyone. They are the most important thing. …

I don’t like people beating their children or hitting them and fulfilling their ambitions through the children. It’s very, very wrong. You should leave them alone, they are perfect. Only thing is: they should be given proper ideas at a time, appreciation for their chastity, for their well behaviour. That should be done.

But as children, if they have an influence, very beautiful influence of proper family life, proper school life, proper guidance, proper love and help in every way, in their growth, then children become extremely, extremely good, beautiful.
…



Gewalt und Strenge gegen Kinder, Liebe und Respekt für die Kinder

Ganesha Puja, September 9, 1994 Moscow , Russia

Innocence is the source of love. Like small children , when you see them sweetly dancing,
you feel such tremendous love for them. When you see a little baby, very sweet baby smiling at you, you feel tremendous love for that child. If you do not respect your innocence, you can never be a loving person. And without love you cannot know truth. Only thing is that we feel rather sometimes awkward, sometimes frightened, to love the innocent people. The innocent are most harmless people. I do not like parents to beat their children at all. They are in innocence do something, so you must be really kind to them, and understand them. ...

Now the difference between a mother and a mother who is very angry with her children is this: the mother who loves her child, enjoys everything she has to do for her child, while the mother who doesn’t love the child feels that she is doing too much, she can’t do it, it’s too much. If you ask her what’s the matter , she will say I have to wash this, I have to clean this, I have to look after this child, all kinds of stories. But a mother who is enlightened will love doing all that, and enjoy it. She will have respect for her children, and she will make them respectable. There is no need to be harsh with your children. Children are very sensitive and intelligent. ....



Liebe in der Ehe und in der Familie

Ganesha Puja, 9.2. 1992, Perth, Australia

That's why you all have to be married, you have to have a proper physical
life and that you should have proper children and lead a very sensible, dignified
married life. That is very important.
But Love should be there, there should be love between husband and wife, between
children and parents and everyone. If one person goes into imbalance the whole
family goes into imbalance. To establish a family sweetly and nicely is also an art
Mutterschaft in Mann und Frau, Unschuld der Kinder muss beschützt werden

Ganesha Puja, 19. September, 1993. Cabella, Italy

Motherhood is very important. Motherhood in the women, motherhood in the father and also in the children has to be accepted as the mainstay of family life and society. The ordinary life of a human being — very simple, innocent, simple people revolves around the mother. It revolves, but the mothers have to be mothers. …

Also we have to look after our children with great care…

First and foremost thing that is to be understood, that innocence should be respected, looked after, nourished and protected. That's why I’m very particular about the children….




Mutterschaft in Mann und Frau

„Mother Earth“, 2003, Surbiton, UK

The consciousness of human beings, not only men but women also ... is moving towards the feminine expression of life ... and today we have to understand that it is the time for the motherly qualities to develop ... even a man, when he becomes motherly ... he only becomes a great man. So now in you the motherhood must take over ... rather than the fatherhood; The quality of a women as a mother is the power, most important to ignite Sahaja Yoga.