A New Era is the name given to an exquisite 1985 talk given in Bordi, India. Shri Mataji spoke to us of sacrifice, freedom and ascent. In part it is a description of life in Gandhi's ashram in the 1930s and in part it is also the story of India's fight for political freedom. But A New Era is more than its parts. It is also a rallying cry for liberation of another sort: the liberation of the spirit. "My life is for the purpose of the emancipation of humanity," Shri Mataji told us. "Now forward on!" This landmark talk is here presented in full, supplemented by sixteen related excerpts from other occasions on topics such as freedom, love, compassion, valour, idealism, discretion and truth.