Dear Yogis,
Jai Shri Mataji!
The new school year for our precious International Sahaja Public School in Dharamshala starts on 17th March.
Last year ISPS had around 180 students. It is the world’s largest Sahaja Yoga Ashram and an incredibly special experience for our children to learn there.
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Shri Devi Puja, 29 March 1985, Dharamshala India
Please enjoy this video below that was so creatively put together by the Year 10 girls. Thanks also to Uncle Phil County who assisted with editing the video – it’s such a wonderful snap shot of the joy experienced at ISPS.
We do hope all parents you will give due consideration to sending their children to Shri Mataji’s school – ISPS.
Made by the Children of ISPS for the children of the world – Jai Shri Mataji!
“So I think we must understand the danger these children are facing and that’s how we started this idea of a school in India…”
“So I think we must understand the danger these children are facing and that’s how we started this idea of a school in India, which, of course, is going to work out in a way that we’ll have to create very dynamic children. Very dynamic. Sturdy, healthy children. Now the children who came didn’t have very sturdy bodies, very delicate bodies, perhaps because people eat here from the tins and all those things. Very delicate bodies, very surprisingly, they couldn’t walk for more than one furlong, while, I can’t understand, why can’t they walk when they eat so well, they live so well? Because, I think, too much of pampering, maybe? I don’t know… whatever it is.
So, it started a good scheme, that they go to a river to have a swim, and then walk back. Now the children have become stronger they have become healthier, because we found they were liverish, very thin, and had no strength and used to be very tired, easily. Perhaps they were thinking too much or I don’t know what was it. So this was also reported about them. So now we have to understand that, if we have to make our children something special, if we really care for them, and if we really love them, then you must take a new perspective about them and understand. That we are not going to waste our children just pampering them and loving them and keeping them with us.
Another thing is the way that here children always say, ‘I want this, I want that’. It is never encouraged in India. Whatever is cooked for the whole family they have to eat, because such an attention is wasted, then they become very obstinate if you don’t give them, at that time. It started also there; they wanted to have Western food. Western food in India is very expensive, apart from that, it’s all in tins. They wouldn’t take the fresh food. Gradually we had to bring them round, that you must eat fresh food. If they don’t take fresh food how can they have a healthy life? Because very artificial the preservatives and all that. So also that, they should not grudge Indian food if they have go to India. Supposing they have to go to Italy they have to eat Italian food, if they go to India they have to eat Indian food. Of course, it would be nourishing, good and healthy .
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That’s why I’m putting this before you that it is for the benevolence of the children; you have to have faith in people who are doing it. It is also to make them dynamic, great people, great orators, people of learning. I mean I see children here don’t read much, they don’t like to study. The first thing they said to me, ‘Mother, we don’t want to study,’ and the last thing they said, ‘Mother, we don’t want to appear for an exam.’ I mean, I cannot imagine because you would never have that in India. On the contrary the parents will threaten,’ if you do like this we’ll take you away from the school’. ‘ If you behave like this we’ll not allow you to go to school’. It’s a big threat on children.
So the attitude of the children has to be changed by talking to them. That you have to tell them, you have to be great, you have to read, you have to understand life and you have to do the work of Sahaja Yoga. You have to equip them.
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So first thing is character building, proper value system and secondly the dynamism. All this will come once they are settled in Sahaja Yoga. All of you should give your ideas; write to us what you want. Not about particular child but in general, whatever ideas you have they will go through it and see it.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmska Devi, Talk about Children and Indian School, 14 February 1991, Rome, Italy
(Transcript with Video and Audio)
Talk about Children and Indian School, 14 February 1991, Rome, Italy
Love
Lyn and Andre