The Times They Are A' Changing....

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The Times They Are A' Changing....

 

Dear All,

 

In Sahaja Yoga, 'Big Brother SYs' are trying to run SY's worldwide,

to suit their own whims. Shri Mataji said that because people had

formed religions, and gained power over people that way, 'because

when you have the majority, you can rule'.... that 'Big Government'

had taken the example from the religious sector, and in the name of democracy,

in fact, also exercised their will over 'the will of the

people':

 

" It was the great advent of Abraham Lincoln which brought the uniquely true idea

of democracy into reality in America. He specifically said that the government

should be " of the people " , yet today we find that most countries who call

themselves democracies have been " demon-ocracies " . They are ruled by people who

are either money-oriented or power-oriented. Concern for the benevolence of the

people, which should be the main aim of a democracy, has become completely lost

in modern times. It is simply no longer a matter of concern for those people

who are said to be at the helm of affairs. Many people have claimed, and

perhaps they are not entirely wrong, that America is nowadays no longer ruled by

the people, but by the rich only, by big businesses, or by cinema actors and

actresses. The rest of the developed countries nowadays, are also ruled by the

banks, the entrepreneurs, the media and the underworld. " (Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi - Book/Meta Modern Era - Chap. 3 " Democracy " - 29 September, 1995)

 

So, both the religious sector, and the political and economic sectors have found

'that such control' works very well, to their own advantages of 'money and

power'!

 

However, people are getting fed up, because the 'autonomy' has been lost. 'Their

autonomy' has been lost! The giant military/industrial complexes, which do not

reflect the wishes of the people themselves.... just do not really seem to care

for the plight of human beings, and if there is a 'show of it', it only seems to

have a 'skin deep effect', and not a real change in people's circumstances, that

are lasting, so the efforts are not generally effective, thereby one questions

the 'intent of the will' in regards to such gestures.

 

One just has to look at the newspapers (almost daily if one can bear it) to see

the truth of it. The horror of Katrina is just one example, where 'they did not

care'! Where was 'Big Brother' then! 'Big Brother' was just not there, just not

interested. Lets face the reality here on Planet Earth, as to what is happening,

and how we have to be Catalysts of the Holy Spirit, to effect change through our

Enlightened Attention, and 'the helping hand' too.

 

Because, poverty of the Spirit and material circumstances too, 'are screaming

out everywhere'. The rich are getting 'disgustingly richer' on the 'backs' of

the economically disadvantaged 'hard workers' who have 2 or 3 jobs just to 'make

ends meet'.... due to corruption from all angles. The middle classes are getting

poorer, because of the inordinate amount of taxes imposed, from every angle. The

military/industrial 'begging hand' is out, to an extent that shows what 'beggars

they really are!' It is a case of the 'rich robbing the middle classes, and the

poor, even!

 

In my 'neck of the woods' where we are having continuous drought condtions,

people have been advised to get water tanks, to collect the rain for domestic

use, so as to preserve the storage of water. Nobody was told, that they would be

'taxed' on what they would collect! Now, 'word has it', that 'Big Brother' is

intending to 'tax' the 'free rain' that God gives, too! We have 'airplane

spotters' who are determining who is collecting the 'free rain'. We, the people,

just cannot have anything free from the Divine anymore, apparently. However,they

can never take away our Spirit, and our 'Self-Realisaton' and Shri Kalki is

active now, to expose all this corruption. Shri Kalki works through the

Enlightened Attention of " Born of the Spirit persons " .

 

It is no wonder, therefore, that the people are just getting 'mightily fed up'.

The abuse of power, and resultant corruption, have surely 'gone to the heads' of

these people, but we do not have to sit down and be defeated. We can use the

Power of the Spirit to effect the change needed, when we are confronted to make

a decision, one way or another. We do not have to support the 'corrupters' just

as we do not have to support WCASY & Co. who have corrupted Shri Mataji's

Resurrection Message, because it does not serve their 'whims of power and money'

over others.

 

However, 'the Times are a'changing. The Winds of the Spirit of Change, are here

now. Shri Mataji says that this corruption is going to be exposed in " every "

country. In other words, according to Her, 'every country is riddled with

corruption':

 

" But the worst is the corruption. Now Italy is getting exposed, I'm sure your

country will also get exposed, all these countries are to be exposed. But, first

of all the Sahaja Yogis are to be firm people. They have to be very, very firm.

And they should know that Sahaja Yoga is only spirit oriented. Nothing but

spirit oriented. That, you have to have your spirit enlightened, that your

spirit has to work everything [out], that you are not this body, this money,

this position, this power, nothing. But you are the spirit. This is what one has

to know. (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - Athena Puja - Athens, Greece - 26 April,

1993)

 

So.........we need to teach others through Sahaja Yoga (Union with

the Divine), that the Spirit needs to be 'in charge' over the

Nations, and over the People, to bring Life-Giving Spiritual Change.

Shri Mataji said SYs ('Born of the Spirit persons') should 'go into

politics'.... and all these places, to effect change. We are not to sit down,

and expect others will do, what we incarnated to do our selves. We each have a

job to do, to be 'the salt of the earth', wherever the Divine places us.

 

Below is an article, which shows that people 'are fed up' and are enacting the

change needed, for the betterment of society. Some may be cynical at these

efforts, but i admire their efforts, to get back the 'the power of the people'.

For, " We are the Spirit " .... and this needs to be reflected in our societies on

Earth, as well. Otherwise, how will Shri Jesus Prayer ever be answered of 'Thy

Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven'. We have the free

will and the spiritual liberation to effect 'heaven on earth'. All the corrupt

forces need to be exposed, before 'heaven can come one earth'.

 

love to all,

 

violet

 

 

Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the

time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has

grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own

citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the

democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans' fundamental freedoms.

 

Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire.

 

Some of us therefore seek permission to leave.

 

A decade before the War of Independence, Vermont became New England's first

frontier, settled by pioneers escaping colonial bondage who hewed settlements

across a lush region whose spine is the Green Mountains. These independent folk

brought with them what Henry David Thoreau called the " true American Congress "

-- the New England town meeting, which is still the legislature for nearly all

of Vermont's 237 towns. Here every citizen is a legislator who helps fashion the

rules that govern the locality.

 

Today, however, Vermont no longer controls even its own National Guard, a

domestic emergency force that is now employed in an imperial war 6,000 miles

away. The 9/11-commission report says that " the American homeland is the

planet. " To defend this " homeland, " the United States spends six times as much

on its military as China, the next highest-spending nation, funding more than

730 military bases in more than 130 countries, abetted by more than 100 military

space satellites and more than 100,000 seaborne battle-ready forces. This is the

greatest military colossus ever forged.

 

Few heed George Washington's Farewell Address, which warned against the danger

of a permanent large standing army that " can be regarded as particularly hostile

to republican liberty. " Or that of a later general-become-president: " We must

never let the weight of [the military-industrial complex] endanger our liberties

or democratic processes. " Dwight D. Eisenhower pointedly included the word

" congressional " after " military-industrial " but allowed his advisers to excise

it. That word completes a true description of the hidden threat to democracy in

the United States.

 

The two of us are typical of the diversity of Vermont's secessionist movement:

one descended from old Vermonter stock, the other a more recent arrival -- a

" flatlander " from down country. Our Vermont homeland remains economically

conservative and socially liberal. And the love of freedom runs deep in its

psyche.

 

Vermont seceded from the British Empire in 1777 and stood free for 14 years,

until 1791. Its constitution -- which preceded the U.S. Constitution by more

than a decade -- was the first to prohibit slavery in the New World and to

guarantee universal manhood suffrage. Vermont issued its own currency, ran its

own postal service, developed its own foreign relations, grew its own food, made

its own roads and paid for its own militia. No other state, not even Texas,

governed itself more thoroughly or longer before giving up its nationhood and

joining the Union.

 

But the seeds of disunion have been growing since the beginning. Vermont more or

less sat out the War of 1812, and its governor ordered troops fighting the

British to disengage and come home. Vermont fought the Civil War primarily to

end slavery; Abraham Lincoln did so primarily to save the Union. Vermont's

record on the slavery issue was so strong that Georgia's legislature resolved

that a ditch be dug around the " pestiferous " state and it be floated out to sea.

 

After the Great Flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster in the state's

history, President Calvin Coolidge (a Vermonter) offered help. Vermont's

governor replied, " Vermont will take care of its own. " In 1936, town meetings

rejected a huge federal highway referendum that would have blacktopped the Green

Mountain crest line from Massachusetts to Canada.

 

Nor did Vermont sign on when imperial Washington demanded that the state raise

its drinking age from 18 to 21 in 1985. The federal government thereupon

resorted to its favored tactic, blackmail. Raise your drinking age, said Ronald

Reagan, or we'll take away the money you need to keep the interstates paved.

Vermont took its case for state control to the Supreme Court -- and lost.

 

It's quite simple. The United States has destroyed the 10th Amendment, which

says that " powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor

prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to

the people. "

 

The present movement for secession has been gathering steam for a decade and a

half. In preparation for Vermont's bicentennial in 1991, public debates --

moderated by then - Lt. Gov. Howard Dean -- were held in seven towns before

crowds that averaged 230 citizens. At the end of each, Dean asked all those in

favor of Vermont's seceding from the Union to stand and be counted. In town

after town, solid majorities stood. The final count: 999 (62 percent) for

secession and 608 opposed.

 

In early 2003, transplanted Southerner and retired Duke University economics

professor Thomas Naylor gave a speech at Johnson State College opposing the Iraq

war. When he pitched the idea of secession to the crowd, he saw many eyes " light

up, " he said. Later that year, he and several others started a loosely organized

movement (now a think tank) called the Second Vermont Republic, which has an

independent quarterly journal, Vermont Commons, and a Web site.

 

In October 2005, about 300 Vermonters attended a statewide convention on the

question of secession. Six months later, the annual Vermont Poll of the

University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that about 8 percent of

respondents replied " yes " to peaceful secession, arguably making Vermont

foremost among the many states with secessionist movements (including Alaska,

California, Hawaii, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas).

 

We secessionists believe that the 350-year swing of history's pendulum toward

large, centralized imperial states is once again reversing itself.

 

Why? First, the cost of oil and gas. According to urban planner James Howard

Kunstler, " Anything organized on a gigantic scale ... will probably falter in

the energy-scarce future. " Second, third-wave technology is as inherently

democratic and decentralist as second-wave technology was authoritarian and

centralist. Gov. Jim Douglas wants Vermont to be the first " e-state, " making

broadband Internet access available to every household and business in the state

by 2010. Vermont will soon be fully wired into the global social commons.

 

Against this backdrop, secessionists from all over the state will gather in June

to plan a grass-roots campaign to get at least 200 towns to vote by 2012 on

independence. We believe that one outcome of this meeting will be dialogues

among different communities of Vermonters committed to achieving local economic

vitality, be they farmers, entrepreneurs, bankers, merchants, lawyers,

independent media providers, construction workers, manufacturers, artists,

entertainers or anyone else with a stake in Vermont's future -- anyone for whom

freedom is not just a slogan.

 

If Vermonters succeed in once again inventing vibrant local economies, these in

turn may reinvigorate the small-scale democratic town meeting tradition, the

true American Congress, and re-create the rudiments of a republic once again

able to make its own way in the world. The once and future republic of Vermont.

 

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