This city was founded in 600 B C, the city of Tomis went along history under Goth, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Romanian and Ottoman rule. Each of these culture left marks in the developing of the city, known nowadays as a major harbour to the Black Sea. More about Constanta here
We visited the city and some of the museums this summer. We started with the mosque, since it is the only local cultural element which reminds us of Asia and, why not, India. On the wall in the right side there was a strange thing happening. Due to humidity, the dampness of the wall created there a face. a portrait. we could identify it with the one of socrates, as it appears in sculptures.
The "portrait"
Now it really reminded us of Istanbul!
We visited also the Catholic church, which had a swastika on the tower.
Just as this city should look like, generally
We loved the mosaics from the museum that seem to be an ancient Roman bath. It reminded me of the Mosaic Museum in Istanbul.
The Hamangia Thinker, 5th millennium BC
We also visited the History museum and his temporary exhibition. We met the Thracian Cavalier, Cybele goddess (Greek-Roman Durga), or Greek Hecate triformis, which reminded us more about Hindu deities, with the 6 hands full of weapons.
Hecate triformisCybele goddess
The Thracian rider
The most impressive meeting was with the Glycon Snake, deity of Macedonian origin which represents the Kundalini energy.
This area, at least has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. It has
only 58000 inhabitants and it is surrounded by many islands, which every year come
out of the sea. It is an archipelago with a particular charm and beauty. Here
the local people spend the summers in their cottages, located near the sea,
perhaps on islands. As in all Northern countries, summers here are very bright
and are blessed by the day light longer than anywhere else. I had many
surprises, started from the very first day. The autistic hotel I lived, with
everything online and electronic and no reception and person to talk to, the
flowers I haven’t seen anywhere else, the gees and the rabbits that you could
find just everywhere. In those days I was staying there, I met wonderful
people, I experienced the local tradition of daily sauna and cold bath in sea after,
I tasted various types of food, from home cooked to Egyptian and Thai. Of
course, the greatest joy is to meet your sahaji brothers and sisters. I just felt home in the beautiful sahaj center, together with my family and we celebrated together Shri Krishna puja. But, besides being pampered by my new friends
there, also the nature fulfilled my dreams and wishes. Who doesn’t want to
experiment seeing the Polar lights? Well, I saw them! It was a wonderful light
show created by nature. And also, when I was playing myself with the angle, a caught
a pike fish. To these I add the tour and the nice dinner offered by Kalle and Lena, their wonderful stories and jokes and the walks in
the woods, searching for berries, mushrooms and rabbits. The only unfulfilled
dream was to see a reindeer. Ok. Next time maybe!
Istanbul is a city that bears a history from
the ancient time, going to the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of official
Christianity and then falling under the Ottoman conquerors and establishing the
Islamic era. The mix of work, tourism and spirituality was a very happy one in
my case. I was there for a concert of George Enescu Philharmonic Choir together
with Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra with opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini. This
opera has the famous aria Casta Diva, which was often offered to Shri Mataji in
musical programs. I succeeded in joining a sahaj program while I was there. I
understood they are 100 yogis for a population of 14 millions, which is very
little. But the Islamic propaganda is very aggressive this time. I remember
that 20 years ago I haven’t seen many women wearing hijab. Now half of them do.
Especially the young ones. And they look pretty arrogant too. Turkey is a laic
state, though, due to Kemal Atatürk, a realized soul.
What I find very beautiful there is the mix of
the Christian vestiges and the Islamic art. Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque
situated on the two ends of a square are just a sample. While visiting Chora
Church, which it is famous for her mosaics and fresco, I found out the canons
of the representing the Holy Virgin and her mother in early Christianity. First
of all, the pronaos of the church represents the whole life of the Holy Mother
of Christ and we can see that She is equal important in that time with Jesus.
The color for the Saint Anna (Mother of the Virgin) is pink (Shri Lakshmi),
while the color of the Virgin’s clothes is blue (Shri Radha). Also, the
Creation it is represented as a spiral (Kundalini) which has on her sides the
Sun and the Moon. Enjoy the pictures!
Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi Day is
celebrated in Bucharest, Romania with public programs, the
most important thing being the Self Realization experiment by awakening of
Kundalini energy and the speech of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (video). In this way, the seekers of truth have the
information directly from the source.
The festival in 2016 included:
-15th
of March: Promo and mini recital Indian music of Anne Marie Ene and Avadhut
Kasinadhuni at Orfeu TV
-17th
of March – during the weekly sahaj program from Metropolitan Library Bucharest,
video projection of Immaculata documentary, as a tribute for Shri Mataji
- 21st of March, public program at Metropolitan
Library Bucharest, which included power-point presentation of Shri Mataji’s
life and work (made by Paul Petrut), video projection of a Speech of Shri
Mataji, Self Realization experiment and recital of soprano Cleopatra David and
pianist Ieronim Buga (guest)
-22nd
of March – invitation of soprano Cleopatra David and pianist Ieronim Buga at
Orfeu TV with interview about the public program and recital
Monday, on the 21st of March 2016, we celebrate 93 years from the Birthday of our Guru and Mother Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.
On this occasion, we are organizing a public program at Metropolitan Library Bucharest. The program will contain:
- classical music recital
- Self Realization experiment
- speech of Shri Mataji Mirmala Devi (video)
Soloists:
Cleopatra David - soprano
Ieronim Buga - piano (guest)
Since 1970, H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi., travelled world-wide giving self-realization to all regardless of race, religion and offering free public lectures. Shri Mataji is the first and only one in the history of spirituality to offer the experience of self-realization en masse through Sahaja Yoga. Her teaching has benefited hundreds of thousands worldwide to experience the inner balance and health improvement, thus giving complete spiritual ascent.
Self-Realization awakens within us the primordial kundalini energy an innate spiritual potential. It is a spontaneous process and Shri.Mataji emphasized that this awakening, cannot be purchased. All the workshops of Sahaja Yoga are done absolutely free by the local volunteers all over the world.
In addition to Sahaja Yoga, which is now established in more than 100 countries, Shri Mataji founded a non-governmental organization for destitute women and children, several international schools teaching a holistic curriculum, health clinics offering free treatment through Sahaja Yoga, and an arts academy to revitalize the classical skills of dance, music and painting.
Shri Mataji dedicated her life to Humanity- quietly transformed lives globally. She believed that it is every human beings birthright to receive their self-realization. Shri. Mataji passed away on Feb 23, 2011. To honor her noble work, we would like to declare her birth day March 21st as “Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Day”.
On 19th of February 1876 the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi was born
Enlightened personality, he is most famous for the Târgu Jiu Ensemble, consisting in 3 pieces: The Gate of Kiss, The table of Silence and The Endless Column.
"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them." , said the artist
Music is not just the expression of Bhakti. Music was created in Heaven before it was given to us. The entire Universe was created through the dance of the Goddess.Knowledge about music is just like knowledge in
spirituality. We think it took us very little to get the Self Realization, when
in reality it took us many lives, and we were watched carefully by Shri Mataji
in every step we made. But still, it took us months and to some even years to realize
who actually Shri Mataji is. And all these while the Kundalini energy was
increasing the strength in each of us. It took us years to give up bad practices, the
attachment to false knowledge and false gurus, to understand the falsehood of
the religious organizations of the world. It took years for some to even quit
cigarettes and alcohol, while the society never condemned “social drinking”. A
non-realized soul will read random books and articles.
For music, things work in the same manner. Yes,
music is for everyone, but everyone knows what music really is? Shri Mataji
advices the artists to keep the dignity of art. You can read here:
But people
don’t make a difference between ART and
entertainment, for both use sounds. They say: music should give joy. But
let’s see what joy is.
Can one
compare the joy from getting a present for your birthday and the one in the
deep meditation? Is the first one really joy, or just excitement?
Yes, this
is the confusion people make. They mistake joy with excitement, as they mistake
art with entertainment.
But, as in
spirituality, where it took us years in the physical presence of The Guru of
all Gurus to feel a little of the light we should achieve, also in music you
need a little exposure and education about the real classical music (Indian or
European), or in the traditional ones to understand what they are. By this
education you don’t become a musician, you don’t become a guru, not even a
disciple in Art, but an aware witness.
Unfortunately,
just like in spirituality, many people in order to get more money pretend to do
classical music, while in fact they defile it. And they play some light music (entertainment
zone) or execute out of any style and rule excerpts from classical composers “adjusted”
to pop culture. Names: Andre Rieu, Havasi, Richard Clayderman, Vanessa Mae, etc. Is this
making any service to classical music? Is this going to approach more people to
the world of enlightened musicians? Facts proved that, NO! Is this a work of a
false guru?
Yes. It is
the same manner in which some guy pretends to give Realization, while in fact
it takes your money and gives you troubles in evolution, the false gurus of
classical music give you bad taste. Is this that bad? Well, yes. Since the real
musicians won’t find anymore the place to live in this world. The whole artistic
world might collapse if not fed with our attention, care, love and
appreciation.
In Indian
music things are not going any better. All people know about the popularity of
Ravi Shankar. But was he a real exponent of Indian music or he gone to the easy
cheap way to gain more popularity and money? Also Shri Mataji spoke about this:
“They like
somebody like Ravi Shankar who just goes on mixing up notes and just goes on
playing something which is very, very unscientific according to Indians things,
and is not at all entertaining; it doesn’t open your heart and something like
that. But, that is the thing that appeals to them, to go into a big sort of a
rock and roll sort – make it, sitar into rock and roll, and even worse than
that. I don’t know the new, latest one I don’t know what it is.” Shri Saraswati
Puja, Vancouver (Canada), August 11th, 1990
Even when
he was young he was dedicated and that time Shri Mataji was very well impressed
by him. But…money and ego change everything.
Here I give you some samples of what classical
music is and what it is not:
Here is a
crime against childhood and music education. This little girl obviously has
talent, but in this way she will lose her voice by the age of 20
This is how children voices should be trained
like:
Maybe some
of you don’t notice the difference. It is slight for ears, huge for the music.
This is the
result of not exposing people to Classical music, they believe all impostors. How
these people get so famous while real musicians struggle so hard only to have
enough contracts so they can pay the bills and eat? It is a lot of marketing
for nothing at all. The problem is that it is not enough music education in the
real sense of the word and the entertainment's ugly head is mistakenly taken as
art. It is a big difference; even high spirits can have fun with art too. Only
most of the people never ever hear classical music, because nobody exposes them
to it. They are being served only cheap things. Cheap as value, expensive as
price
The shadows
of grey are much more dangerous than black. At least when it is black, you know.
And just what kind of marketing are doing these people? Havasi says he is the fastest pianist in the world....But music is not a race! What about Rieu? Rieu takes advantage of a tragedy (fire accident at Colective club in Bucharest) to promote his new CD. He comes to the place of tragedy, brings a Mafia-like mortuary bucket, and makes declarations in front of TV cameras while blubbering his nose (out of sadness, of course), that people can buy his new CD from Carrefour. How gross this can be?
To reach a
professional level in music need sacrifices and real work since early
childhood. A person who since 5-6 years works so hard and learns and knows what
is doing, must have love for music. Like Perlman, Menuhin, Debu Chauduri if
you want Indian....they love and they do music. Rieu loves and makes money. The
difference between Rieu and a ....musician is like the difference between Osho
and Shankaracharya
The value
of o a musician (and also of a person) is not determined of how well known is.
Let's take a very short example: very few people heard about William Blake, but
everybody knows who Hitler was. And he is quite popular in Asian countries as
well. Cheap popularity is not the aim of a musician, but the QUALITY of the
musical act itself.
Anca Elena
Ratiu, musician and sahaja yogini says: "the worst of these kinds of people is
that are living out of any Reality....and they use Sound just to glorify their
Ego and steel your money! But basically they do not exist!!! They are
completely out of any central vibrations of the Primordial Sound! They are in
the limbo of the Universe. And what is really said is that when we
professionally musicians condemn it, there are always other opinions!!!!!!!
"I LIKE IT" or "What is wrong with this music?"....PEOPLE
WILL NEVER EVER DISCUSS ANY OTHER PROFESIONIST, LIKE A MATHEMATICIAN, but they
will say "I like this music. Because they do not realize is nothing to be
liked there, because IS NOTHING THERE!....but they continue to like it in a
not-real world where they live together with this wrong vibration.....is a
simple think called "No-Music"!....and I will ask everyone here: DO
NOT CALLED IT MUSIC, because the word will loose his meaning...."
Someone
told once to me: you can do and say anything, people like what they like.
Really? In spreading Sahaja Yoga, we were first giving Self Realization, and
then taught how to talk to people, but also not to accept compromise.
I met once an Indian young man who told me “I
know Shri Mataji is divine, everybody in India knows this, but I chose Osho
for he gives me more freedom for my sexual life.” How can one react to such a statement? It is
not even of common sense! As absurd this statement looks to us, as absurd is to
stick to law level sound production, to entertainment, and not expose yourself to real music, being
it classical or traditional, or worse, to mistake classical music with the
massacre Rieu and Clayderman are doing.
Listen, go to concert halls, go to opera, go to
temples and hear the real music! If you will not do this, kitsch will suffocate
us.
Now it really reminded us of Istanbul!
Also, we could visit the temporary exhibition, with gold pieces from the ancient times. 
