tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36773827575295362242024-03-17T20:03:50.258-07:00Sahaja Yoga: Path of KnowledgeThis blog contains personal reflections on Sahaja Life by practitioners of the Sahaja technique. Sahaja is the path of enlightened knowledge, as opposed to other forms of yoga and meditation, which profess singular paths like devotion-only (bhakti path). Growth in Sahja happens by experiential knowldge acquisition.LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-972329194290311762013-04-18T22:16:00.000-07:002013-04-18T22:16:10.783-07:00The Last Age of Good vs. Evil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Long ago, about 10,000 years ago, there was an age when good and evil were distinctly different. Humanoids were either heroes, commoners or villains. Quite distinct in character, no identity crisis. Quite unlike today. In these times rose a hero, a prince from the Kingdom of Ayodhya, who defended the good against the evil on a regular basis. Prince Rama, and his brother, Lakshmana were chief defenders of faith against the nasties. But their greatest challenge was yet to come.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Ramayana performed as a ballet in Indonesia </i>(cc licensed | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/beberonline/6126645768/in/photostream/">flickr/ Bertrand Duperrin</a>)</span></div>
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Shri Rama, accepting the desire of his step-mother to give up his claim to the throne and retire to forest life for more than a decade was the beginning of the epic story that becomes Ramayana. After losing his divine wife, Shri Sita to a kidnapping event, he loses his second most precious possession: his motivation. Having lost his drive to take on an established kingdom without a proper army or armor, he is in the midst of the greatest flight/flight decision anyone could face.<br />
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Thankfully, he is advised by a celestial being to invoke the goddess through the Navratri worship. Although these 9 nights of goddess worship were typically done in Fall, he performs the worship in Spring, as the situation demanded an extraordinary solution. The goddess, pleased with the worship appears and clarifies the grand picture, wherein gears are set in motion for Shri Rama's success. And he does succeed eventually. But that is another story.<br />
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Shri Rama was a man's man. Purushottama, was one of his names. He was also Maryada Purushottama, which meant, the one who would respect boundaries and not act out of line, no matter what the cost. Yet, he performed the worship when it was<i> needed</i>, rather than waiting months for the opportune moment. The timeless nature of divine action is at play here. He thus established the Spring version of the Navratri 9 nights of worship, which conclude with his birthday, Rama Navmi (literally, Rama's Day on the Ninth).<br />
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This year, that day is today, Saturday April 20th. A great reason to meditate upon the right-heart chakra and inculcate the wish-fulfilling and sin-destroying name, that is 'Rama'.<br />
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LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-54321900180611805262012-09-28T08:37:00.000-07:002012-09-28T08:37:00.895-07:00Oleg Florov's Geocities Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>When Geocities was closing, about 10 years ago, the following website was archived for posterity:</i><br />
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I am Oleg Florov and I would like to share a beautiful experience with you.<br />
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'We were in Athens in October 2001. It was a warm evening and Shri Mataji was giving a public programme, an introduction to Sahaja Yoga, in a hotel there. In many traditions, one of the signs of Self Realization, or as the Christians say, the awakening of the Holy Spirit, is a cool wind or breeze. At the end of the programme, Shri Mataji gave the experience of Self Realization or kundalini awakening. Nearly all the people who had come for the first time said they had indeed felt a cool breeze, on their hands and above their heads, but some insisted it was the air conditioning. Someone went to find the hotel staff to ask them to please turn it off, and the staff, when found, said it was not on in the first place.' (M.S.)</blockquote>
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<li><a href="http://know.sahajayogaonline.com/2012/09/using-breeze-or-vibrations-of-spirit.html">The Cool Breeze of the Spirit</a> Personal experiences of the cool wind of the spirit </li>
<li><a href="http://know.sahajayogaonline.com/2012/09/the-miracles-of-sahaja-yoga.html">Miracles of Sahaja Yoga</a></li>
<li><a href="http://know.sahajayogaonline.com/2012/09/using-breeze-or-vibrations-of-spirit.html">Experiences of Sahaja Yoga</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://know.sahajayogaonline.com/2012/09/the-golden-age-experiences-of-other.html">Welcome to the Golden Age: Experiences from different faiths</a> </li>
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LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-32726147208087304482012-09-28T08:29:00.002-07:002012-09-28T08:38:00.736-07:00Using the breeze, or vibrations of the spirit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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'I lived in Dehra Dun, India in the 1980's. In theory money was sent to me from London but it sometimes got mislaid. I would often sit drinking tea with the manager of my bank, while he looked for my drafts. As always in India, we talked about many things apart from the lost money.<br />
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In 1985 my bank manager told me he was very worried about his friend A. G, who had a serious form of blood cancer. He asked me if I knew any doctors in England who might be able to help him. I said I did, but they were all involved in the yoga, Sahaja Yoga, that I did and would probably suggest those treatments as much as the conventional ones. He asked me if I could go to Meerut, near Delhi, where the young man was staying at that time to tell him about this yoga. I made contact with his family and they indicated that there was not much time to waste, so I went soon after.</div>
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The family in Meerut presented me with the young man's medical reports, which meant absolutely nothing to me, except that certain numbers were obviously going down and down. The young man was having regular blood tests. They told me that the normal person has 150,000 red blood corpuscles per cubic centimetre of blood. His count was down to 11,000. At any time when there are less than 10,000 there are not enough red blood corpuscles to carry the oxygen and the patient dies.<br />
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He was lying in bed and looked a pale sickly yellow, nothing like the warm honey colour of a North Indian person's skin. I explained Sahaja Yoga and gave Self Realization to him, gave him a photo of Shri Mataji and told him how to do the Sahaja Yoga treatments recommended for cancer. Some weeks later he went back to Dehra Dun. He was still in his bed, but looked slightly less ill. I gave him vibrations and he was very positive and was obviously doing the treatments, meditating and taking vibrations from Shri Mataji's photograph. Things went on in this way and, after some time, he was up and about.<br />
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"How is the cancer?" I asked. <br />
"Look, we are probably going to see each other quite a bit in the future and one thing you are not to ask me is how is my cancer. I am Indian and I know that the most important thing is to get Self Realization."<br />
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He was still not entirely out danger but his family, who at this time were not yet involved with Sahaja Yoga, decided that as he had stabilized they should send him to America to have a bone marrow transplant. He had to spend some time in Delhi while his visa was sorted out. While there he met a family of Sahaja Yogis. The husband of this family had also had a Sahaja miracle and had been cured of paralysis, after being on his back for two years following a stroke. A. G. went to Sahaja Yoga programs with them almost every night for some time.<br />
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The young man was having regular blood tests. After he received his Realization, his red blood count stopped going down and stabilized. But it was only when he was in a collective environment and he also spent a lot of time being given vibrations, and with this family, who were all strong Sahaja Yogis, that his blood started to really normalize quickly.<br />
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He never did get to the States, but at the end of the year, after he had been in Sahaja Yoga for about eight months, he met Shri Mataji. The day before he actually met her, he went to the hospital and the blood test showed his blood was almost back to normal, and he was well out of danger.<br />
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Sixteen years later, A.G. is healthy, married with two children, a successful architect. He achieved the cure by working on himself from Shri Mataji's photograph, using the vibrations coming from it, and with the help of other Sahaja Yogis, who would share their healing vibrations with him. (L.W.)</div>
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<i>There are many similar stories involving cures from a number of diseases and other grave situations using the healing vibrations of the cool breeze. This website serves merely to introduce the concept of the cool breeze which is felt by all those who practise Sahaja Yoga.</i><br />
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Here is another story of the heightened awareness which is common to those practising Sahaja Yoga.<br />
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In January 1987 I got married, and my wife is from India. Soon after the wedding I had to return to Europe. However, since I wanted to visit my in-laws in Nagpur, India, I tried to extend my ticket to return a few days later. I was told by the airline that this was not allowed and that I would have to buy a new ticket, but I had no money for this. I asked my Sahaja Yogi friends what to do.<br />
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"You are a Sahaja Yogi," they told me, "you ask the vibrations." <br />
So I wrote in my palm: 'Shall I stay in India?' A cool breeze was coming. <br />
Again I wrote, this time: 'Shall I go to Nagpur?' The breeze was flowing again. <br />
I asked again: Shall I go straight back home to Austria? Very clearly the answer came, no cool breeze, no vibrations at all.<br />
"You have felt the answers yourself. We cannot decide for you," my friends said, so I stayed. They promised to try to extend my ticket home, so I left Mumbai and went to Nagpur.<br />
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In Nagpur I met Shri Mataji's brother, the late Baba Mama. He asked me if I would like to visit the house at Chindwara where Shri Mataji was born, which was now used as a hospital. Two days later, my new family and I went there. Baba Mama had given us a letter, which, he said, would allow us to visit each room of the house.<br />
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"I'm not telling you in which room she was born. You'd better find out for yourselves using vibrations," He said. When we gave the letter to the hospital director, he asked one of the doctors to show us around the hospital. We were all very eager to find the right room. So round we went, our hands stretched forward with palms turned upwards, ready to register every slightest cool breeze or vibration on our hands. We felt coolness and peace all over the hospital, and in one laboratory both my brother-in-law and I could feel more vibrations. Standing in this small room, which measured about two metres by five, and holding my hands like a radar scanner, I directed them to each part of the room.<br />
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I never doubted that we would find the spot, but as we found it, we became excited like children.<br />
"You felt it too?" I said. <br />
"Yes, it's there in this corner," said my brother-in-law. We went round the whole corner, from the left side to the right side, then raising our hands from the bottom to a height of about two metres to check how high this breeze was reaching. After a little while of enjoying ourselves like this, we again remembered our guide, the doctor, who was standing there patiently.<br />
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We asked him whether he had any idea what we were doing there and why we were holding out our hands like this. <br />
"No," he said, "but two years ago, a doctor from Saudi Arabia was here in the same room and doing just the same thing." He had found the same corner as us.<br />
"His name was Dr. Rustum?" I asked, knowing this Sahaja Yogi was then living in the Middle East. <br />
"Yes, yes." So we had some further confirmation. We were later told that this was indeed the right place.<br />
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My return flight home was scheduled to leave Mumbai at 3:45 am. I had to take a connecting flight the previous evening from Nagpur, which in theory left Nagpur at 7:15 pm to reach Bombay at about 8:30 pm. I checked in at Nagpur Airport and waited. At 10:00 pm the plane had not even arrived, let alone left for Mumbai. While I was waiting, I noticed that I was not at all nervous or hectic, as I used to be. All around me I felt a kind of coat made out of soft coolness. At 2:45 am I finally reached Mumbai, where a Sahaja Yogi was waiting for me at the National Terminal.<br />
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Then we had to go to his flat to pick up the luggage I had left there. I checked in at the International Terminal at 3:20 am to find my other Indian friends waiting for me. They thrust a boarding card into my hand and a few minutes later I was sitting comfortably in a first class seat - the other compartments by now being full.<br />
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In the plane I found some other Sahaja Yogis, who told me that they had somehow been able to exchange my ticket with somebody else, usually quite impossible. They also told me that the whole procedure of boarding a plane in India normally lasts at least two hours, not twenty minutes, especially during the night, the peak period in Bombay.</div>
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Incidental to this story is the power of Sahaja Yogis to ask questions to the vibrations. The Unconscious is infinitely cleverer than we are and once we have our Self Realization we are in touch with that. The writer is a medical doctor from Austria, Dr. O. K. The story also explains why in many cultures and religions places, where saintly and very holy personalities have been or lived, are considered to have beneficial effects on those who visit them. It also shows how, once one has felt the cool breeze, indicating that Self Realization has taken place, one is often looked after and cared for in the most extraordinary ways.<br />
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'Once Shri Mataji took about five children to a game park near London, in 1981. As we were driving around the game park, we drove past some giraffes they turned their backs to us. Shri Mataji explained that the animals felt the vibrations she always emits as a cool wind and, in the way of animals, turned their backs to shield themselves from the cold. Animals are one with the universal consciousness, whereas unrealized humans are split off from it, and often lost in their egos and superegos. As realized souls, we should be one with it again.<br />
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One night in the early 80's some of us stayed at Shri Mataji's house in London after working there late. I had slept a night once in the flat she had before buying this house, and on both occasions noticed the same thing. Often if one wakes early in London in the summer, before the traffic noise drowns out everything else, one can hear the birds singing.<br />
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But in all my years in London - over ten in all - I only heard the birds singing all through the night in London on two occasions, both when I was staying in a house where Shri Mataji was at the time. I asked her about it.<br />
"Yes, they feel the vibrations," she said. Shri Mataji has often told us to meditate in the early morning, just before the sun gets up, because the vibrations are very strong then. This is the moment when birds generally start to sing. The birds felt the vibrations of the awakened Spirit all through the night, however, and started to sing as they would have normally done at dawn.' (L.W.)</div>
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These are examples of how animals, birds and all nature are part of the universal consciousness, and respond accordingly. As humans, especially modern, so-called civilized humans, we have often lost that sensitivity. But we can regain it, and go further, because whereas for these living creatures it is a spontaneous unconscious awareness, for us it can become a conscious recognition of what in Sanskrit is called sat chit anand - meaning truth, enlightened attention and inner bliss and joy. These are the three qualities which describe the conscious experience of the Spirit within us, which is experienced on the level of the body as a cool breeze.</div>
LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com162tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-27754902981854760002012-09-28T08:27:00.001-07:002012-09-28T08:38:21.593-07:00The Golden Age: Experiences of other faiths<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If one looks at the religions of the world, they fall into two main categories. The first group believe that to worship, or pay respects to any holy image is wrong, while the second use images in their doctrine. Perhaps at the end of the day there is no conflict. If the image is created by, or is a true likeness of, someone who has strong vibrations, then to put oneself in a situation where one absorbs those healing vibrations can only be for the good. But if someone bows down before an image which is made by someone who themselves emitted heat (problems) then no wonder Moses spoke so strongly against 'graven images'! But the solution is to be able to have a heightened awareness so as to be able to distinguish between what is 'holy' and what is not. Once a person has settled into Sahaja Yoga they can generally do this.<br />
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'Shri Mataji arranged a weekend at her house at Hurst Green, Sussex, England in 1976. In her house there was a big drawing room downstairs with beautiful Indian rugs. There were large statues of Indian deities, and one of them was a beautiful wooden Shri Ganesha.<br />
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One of the Sahaja Yogis who had been there before took me upstairs and showed it to me. <br />
"This statue has such cool vibrations," he said.<br />
"Hang on," I replied. Being from a Muslim background, I thought, 'What is he talking about?'<br />
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Although I had received my realization, and could feel the cool vibrations, because of my Islamic conditioning I was a bit sceptical that this statue would emit them. So I tried feeling the vibrations, while stepping back, and it did have vibrations, in that there was a cool breeze coming from it.<br />
One of the things that struck me also in the house of Shri Mataji, was that it felt as if every statue in the house was vibrating with power. Everywhere you went, you felt a kind of silent, peaceful, but extremely powerful environment, which is very difficult to describe, except to say that you knew something very powerful was working very deep inside you and working it out. You were in the middle of this and you felt you were in a different universe altogether. (D.M.)</div>
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This story shows that the experience of the cool breeze of the Spirit goes far beyond our cultural conditioning. The writer is from a Moslem background, a citizen of the European Community, a successful banker in early middle age and married with children.<br />
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My parents were very, very religious Jews. The first weekend after I got my realization, I went up to see them at our home in a town in the Midlands of England. I was still working the whole thing out myself, but I gave my mother realization and she felt the vibrations as a cool breeze.<br />
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She went to the synagogue the next Saturday, as she always did. At a certain point in the service the scrolls of the law would be taken out. They are kept in a beautifully decorated altar, which we call the Ark, and this is a replica of the place where the ten commandments were kept after they were given by Moses on Mount Sinai. The scrolls are all parchment and beautifully written and decorated, by hand. In Judaism we have traditions which are in many ways parallel to those of Hinduism.<br />
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As soon as they opened the Ark, my mother said she couldn't believe it. She felt a cool breeze pouring out of the Ark. The rest of the people in the synagogue had no idea of this. As soon as the Sabbath was finished and she could use the phone, she phoned me and said:<br />
"The most extraordinary thing happened to me today. I went to the synagogue, and when they opened the Ark, I felt the same cool breeze pouring out of it as I felt when you gave me realization. Now I know that this is right."<br />
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Sadly she died in 1987. Before that, although she was always a firm follower of Judaism, she came to accept Christ and understood about Shri Mataji and the great gift she has brought to the world. Shri Mataji came to stay in our house and my father, a deeply learned and religious Jew, also had profound respect for and understanding of Shri Mataji. (R.H.)<br />
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Here we see how all the problems between the religions could be resolved if their followers could understand them as being different flowers of the same tree of universal wisdom. What is vital is that we can all evolve to gain our Self Realization, so we can actually experience the truths which the great personalities of the past have come on earth to reveal to us The writer, like his family, is learned in the Torah and Caballah, and sees Sahaja Yoga as a fulfillment of this wisdom.</div>
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LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-65539022737621853632012-09-28T08:25:00.001-07:002012-09-28T08:38:44.849-07:00The Miracles of Sahaja Yoga <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">How does one define a miracle? If one considers it to be an event or occurrence which does not follow the normally accepted laws of nature, then Sahaja Yoga is a miracle. But if one thinks about it, many things which we accept as normal would have been considered not just miracles but impossible not so long ago.</span></div>
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In the recent past humanity has made enormous strides in the worlds of science and technology, in other words many 'miracles' have ceased to be miracles in the material world. Imagine talking to someone in 1900 and trying to explain the technology behind a CNN global news broadcast, the Internet, mobile phones, - all the conveniences of life we take for granted. Great grandpa would have thought you were living in a complete fantasy world!<br />
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Clearly, the experience of the cool breeze mentioned in the previous chapter, is not as yet a common experience to humanity, so could at present be defined as a miracle. But that is only the beginning of the story of this new awarenesss, miraculously existing within all of us if we choose to seek and find it. It is the first sign of Self Realization.<br />
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Self Realization occurs when what in the Indian tradition is called the Kundalini awakens from its dormant state in the sacrum bone, and rises through six chakras or subtle centres within each of us. It reaches the top chakra, called the Sahasrara, which is at the top of the head, and union of the individual takes place with the all pervading power of the divine, the collective unconscious at the basis of all creation. This experience is felt on the gross nervous system as a cool breeze.One feels peace and inner joy at the same time, and the thought process settles down.<br />
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After that, one needs to settle into this new awareness and learn how to use it to grow inwardly and in every way. It is the greatest blessing we as humans can receive, and obviously it is a gift. Then many other experiences start to occur which can also be defined as miracles. Some have been noted in the page entitled Experiences of Sahaja Yoga. Others are below and a book is being prepared for publication of hundreds more.<br />
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L.T lives and works in of South Africa.This her story:<br />
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It has been almost eight years now since I received my realisation by the Grace of Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. Looking back it is incredible to me to see where I was picked up from and how my life has changed so dramatically. As with many seekers, my seeking took me to drugs and alcohol, desperately seeking for a heightened consciousness and awareness. I had smoked dope in copious amounts for seven years, combined with large volumes of alcohol and packets of cigarettes and then moved onto more chemical drugs such as cocaine and LSD. <br />
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One night in Cape Town, going through yet another emotional roller coaster ride, I asked for my Self Realization, from a friend of mine who had received her own Self Realization just two weeks before. I was amazed to see the joyful change in her. There were no blinding lights, or even feelings of vibrations - hot or cold; no dramatic experience, but a gentle, warm feeling of having arrived home. And somehow deep down inside I knew that something very special had happened to me, a real treasure to hold onto.<br />
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The most incredible thing happened to me, which just shows the tremendous power of the Kundalini… the desire to drink, smoke cigarettes and take drugs completely fell away, and I literally stopped overnight, all of it!!! I started practising Sahaja Yoga from that day on until the present day. It continues to be a beautiful journey and I am ever grateful to Shri Mataji for having blessed with Her unbounding love. <br />
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In October 1982, Shri Mataji was visiting Bedford, England, where She spoke at a public program. Her photograph had appeared in an advertisement in the local newspaper, the "Bedfordshire Journal," earlier in the day. While Shri Mataji was speaking at the program, a road accident took place some distance away from the hall, in which a young man, Jason, was injured. Only a day or two later did he recognize the photograph in the newspaper as the lady who had come to his aid, as Journal reporter Ross Francis related under the front page headline, "GURU AND THE 'MIRACLE BOY.'<br />
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Jason was not "seeing things," according to the man who is arranging the present whistle stop tour for the lady Guru. He said it was quite probable that Jason had seen a "mystical vision" of the Shri Mataji.<br />
He said there were many cases known to the movement of people who had witnessed the vision of the woman who, it is claimed, can cure serious illnesses by the touch of her hands.<br />
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"It's quite possible Jason had such an experience connected with this lady. Strange things have happened that just can't be explained rationally. I don't discount what he says at all."<br />
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Jason came off his motor scooter after colliding with a car in Cauldwell Street, Bedford, last Thursday at 9:15 pm. He had finished work for the evening and was riding home. At the same time, Shri Mataji was at a meeting in the Guildhouse, Harpur Street. She didn't leave until 11pm.<br />
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Jason said, "I was just laying in the road in pain. People were standing about saying, 'Don't touch him - he may have broken his back.' Then I was aware of this Indian lady over me. She said, 'Do you have faith in me?' I said, 'Yes.' She put her hands on my head, my shoulders, my arm and my body. As She took Her hands away from each spot, the pain just vanished. I thought I had broken my arm, but she said I hadn't."<br />
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He didn't see the lady after that and minutes later was taken to hospital in an ambulance. Bruised and shaken, he was allowed home later in the evening after his worried parents called to see him.<br />
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Two motorists concerned in the accident said they had remained at the spot until Jason was put into the ambulance. Neither had seen the lady. The ambulance crew which took Jason to hospital and police officers who attended the crash also said they had not seen her.<br />
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The couple with whom Shri Mataji was staying after the program and who drove Shri Mataji home said that her car had not stopped and no one had got out to help at any accident. But when told of the strange events this week, Shri Mataji said, "It's marvellous to think such occurrences are happening in this country and it is a blessing."<br />
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Jason's mother said, "I would like to meet that woman to thank her for whatever happened. It is like a miracle."<br />
And the final word from Jason, "I definitely saw this woman and She helped me. There was only one spot She didn't touch, my lower back, and that is still hurting."<br />
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B. B. of New Zealand has some points to add about this story. <br />
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'During the 1983 tour of America, Shri Mataji, while She was in Los Angeles, did a radio interview. We were waiting with Shri Mataji for the studio to become clear. This was shortly after the incident which happened in England, the so-called "Bedford Boy," who had had an accident on his motor bike and when he was taken to hospital he told the doctor of this strange thing that had happened with him, how while he was lying there, this Mercedes had come up and stopped nearby. And this lady in a long white dress had come out and smiled at him, come to him, and passed her hand over him and had left him and had gone back into her Mercedes and driven off. <br />
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"Yes, that is a very interesting story. The reporter is somewhere. You should tell him," the doctor had said. The boy told the reporter and the reporter had reported this incident, which had had a number of sequels.<br />
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"Oh, that was the lady," said the boy when he saw the piture of shri Mataji in the local paper. "That was the lady who came to me when I had my accident." The doctors were amazed that very little damage had been done to him. The other interesting thing was that this accident had happened while Shri Mataji had been delivering a public program at the Bedford Town Hall. <br />
In LA, Shri Mataji was talking about this incident, and a Sahaja Yogi asked Her:<br />
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"Shri Mataji, were you conscious of that? Were You conscious of being with that boy at the accident?"<br />
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"It's like this," Shri Mataji answered something like this, "the Divine is always transmitting. The message is always going out from the Divine. Whether it is picked up or not depends on the quality of the receiver. If the receiver is good, then the divine message is picked up." <br />
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Now presumably the boy in Bedford was a good receiver.'</div>
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L. .W. corroborates.<br />
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'I was at that Bedford program, except that because my baby son was crying, I had to take him out and sit in the back of my car with him, so as not to disturb the programme. Shri Mataji's car was near mine in the car park, just outside the main and only door into the Town Hall. <br />
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Believe me, no one came in or out of the Town Hall while the program was on. I know because I was sitting there wishing I could go inside, except with a fractious child I couldn't. So I was watching the door intently all the way through, waiting for Mother to come out when She had finished the program. She finally did, at about ten o'clock, accompanied by the other Sahaja Yogis. The Bedford boy incident had happened much earlier in the evening.'</div>
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C. N. and K.McH. tell the following story about how Shri Mataji resolved a serious ecological problem. <br />
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In 1992 Shri Mataji was staying in Cairns, Australia. The Cairns Sahaja Yogis told Shri Mataji about the problems that were occurring in the area of Queensland in northeastern Australia. One of these was the crown of thorns starfish, normally living in manageable numbers on the Great Barrier Reef. They have a body about the size of a dinner plate, ten arms that come out from the body and are all covered in thorns, hence the name. They live on live coral and over about twenty years their numbers had grown to plague proportions. They moved like a swarm over coral and ate it and they left the bones of the coral. The scientists were worried that the Great Barrier Reef would die. The Sahaja Yogis told Mother and She went out in a glass-bottomed boat to see them. She put the starfish into bandhan and said it was in Her attention. <br />
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Shri Mataji put these things into bandhan. She said that Queensland has a problem because there is so much corruption there in the society, the government and the police force that they will have plagues.<br />
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After Sydney Shri Mataji then flew on to New Zealand. And on the way back from New Zealand someone from the Perth collective was sitting next to Her. She wanted to watch the news on the internal flight video. The first item was that tens of thousands of crown of thorns starfish had been found floating dead off the Great Barrier Reef. The scientists couldn't understand what had happened but looked into the thing and they found that the proportion of crown of thorns starfish had gone back to the pre-plague proportions. This all happened about twelve days after She had been there and put Her attention on it.</div>
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LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-10326607856327003662012-09-28T08:24:00.001-07:002012-09-28T08:39:05.983-07:00So just what is this cool breeze? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is time for an explanation! Some of this might be quite a lot to digest and accept initially, but read on, and you too might feel it.<br />
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In this first personal report, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is conducting an introductory programme of Sahaja Yoga, to give Self Realization. The newcomers are told they have this experience when they feel a cool breeze coming from their own bodies. Sahaja Yoga is extremely simple. The first stage is to get Self Realization.<br />
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In many scriptures this experience is reported as being accompanied by a wind, or coolness, for example the wind of the Holy spirit in the Christian bible, or the 'sali lam' or cool wind which accompanies the awakening of Kundalini, necessary to attain 'moksha', or realisation of the self as spirit, in the Hindu tradition. It is interesting that in many languages, the word for Holy Spirit, or Adi Shakti as it is in Sanskrit, is a feminine noun. Christ used an Aramaic word which was feminine, and in Islam, the word is feminine: 'ruh'. In at least two African languages, Zulu and Xhosa, the word for Holy Spirit and cool wind are the same: imoyo.<br />
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'My family and I live in Sydney, Australia. I was never what is termed a seeker. My brother was always looking for something, and said he would tell us once he found it. One memorable day, in the early 1980's, I was seated in front of the television watching a football game, when my brother came home and said the most incredible thing had happened.<br />
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He had just met an Indian lady called Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and had received his Self Realization. He told me he had spent the day with her and a group of people and he had felt an incredible cool wind coming from her body, when he put his hands in her direction.' (C. K.)</div>
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In this account, a young man reports feeling this coolness coming from Shri Mataji herself. Shri Mataji is an extremely powerful spiritual personality, and as she has said on many occasions, she has come on this earth to give en masse Self Realization to all those who are sincerely seeking inner fulfillment. She explains that this coolness is a very subtle form of vibrations, and it is felt as a cool wind or breeze. As she is the one who has opened the way to this en masse awakening for all the rest of us, it is hardly surprising that even her body radiates this coolness very powerfully.<br />
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'I got my Self Realization in August 1979. The first strong experience was when Shri Mataji invited some of us to her flat in London a little later. Before getting my realization, I had been experimenting with different forms of consciousness, and seeking for something, but unfortunately it had caused me to have all these voices going on in my head all the time in those days.<br />
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Shri Mataji got me to put my left hand towards her and the right hand towards a candle flame. After some minutes all the voices in my head stopped and a cool breeze just came blowing into my forehead. It was a lot easier to be experience inner peace and inner stillness after that.<br />
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Some months later, a woman and her brother brought a sixteen year old boy who had cancer to Shri Mataji's house in Brompton Square, London. I was doing some decorative work, maybe painting or wallpapering, in the same room where Shri Mataji was curing this boy.<br />
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He was so weak, he couldn't even sit up. She had him lying down. She called me over to help as well. <br />
"What do you feel?" She said. I felt incredible heat coming from him. Shri Mataji gave him healing vibrations on his Nabhi chakra, at the level of his waist. I was feeling it all and, maybe after twenty minutes or so, it was just blowing cool. I saw and felt Shri Mataji cure this boy of cancer. What a tremendous experience. After being almost carried in, he walked out, full of energy.' (J.W.)</div>
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This young man had some sort of imbalance, and when he is cured he feels this same coolness. He gives a short account of how he is healed, which anyone who practises Sahaja Yoga quickly learns about. The same man is involved in helping to cure someone, and whereas when the boy is clearly ill he feels heat coming from him, once he is better he feels coolness radiating from his body. In any system heat indicates friction and often a problem. Once a person has Self Realisation he or she can become sensitive to this subtle heat or coolness, and can also learn how to direct these subtle vibrations to help heal people of diseases.<br />
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'I was at a public meeting in about 1978, in London. I had been coming to Sahaja Yoga for a few months and a Sahaja Yogi gave me vibrations, particularly on my Agnya, (forehead). All of a sudden, I began to feel a tremendous cool breeze flowing.<br />
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In those days, Shri Mataji used to come by and talk to each one of us. <br />
"Are you feeling the cool breeze?" She asked.<br />
"Yes," I replied.<br />
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Then she told me to put one hand towards her and one hand towards a long-haired person who was next to me. The hand towards Shri Mataji felt this fantastic cool breeze, whereas the one towards this guy felt tremendous heat. As I was doing that, this man, a complete stranger, turned around to me and for no apparent reason said something like he didn't like me at all. It was the first time I had felt the difference between the cool and the heat.' (B.K.)</div>
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This writer, an aerospace engineer from Singapore and now settled in America, also shows how the cool breeze indicates positivity whereas heat indicates some problem.<br />
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'My mother went to an introductory programme of Sahaja Yoga and received her Self Realisation. She came home with a photo she had been given of Shri Mataji, the lady who started Sahaja Yoga.<br />
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My mother showed me the photo and two extraordinary things happened. Firstly, for no apparent reason, I smelled a very strong and beautiful aroma of roses, and then I felt a cool breeze coming from the photograph. The following week I went along to the Sahaja Yoga programme too.' (R.I.)</div>
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This young woman, who comes from Italy, feels the coolness coming from a photograph of Shri Mataji. We find by experience that photographs of Shri Mataji, and anything She touches emits the same coolness. In a sense the matter is transformed.<br />
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Many people have been healed of serious diseases and others have gained Self Realization from the photograph of Shri Mataji, without ever meeting her. The beautiful smell of roses has been experienced by many people in the vicinity of Shri Mataji, her photo, or places where she has visited, even some time after she has left.<br />
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'My mother and I have been involved with Sahaja Yoga for many years. She never misses a chance to take me to an art gallery, but one visit stands out. We were in Milan, Italy in 1998. It was a warm day and we went to the Castello Sforzesco. We walked around for about an hour, until we reached the room which has the Rondanini Pietà by Michelangelo in it.<br />
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There were some benches, and being hot and tired, we sat down to look at the statue. We both suddenly felt a blast of cool wind, like air conditioning on full. It seemed to be coming from the direction of the statue.<br />
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"You've got strong air conditioning on in here," my mother said to the attendant.<br />
"No, signora, there isn't any in here," he said, looking rather puzzled. <br />
"That was a bit slow of us," laughed my mother, "after all, Michelangelo was a realised soul."' (A.W.)</div>
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The mother and daughter feel a powerful cool wind coming from a great work of art. This is a continuation of what has been written above. Because Michelangelo was a realized soul, his artworks emit good, or cool vibrations. And how does one know he was a realized soul? Because if a Sahaja Yogi puts his or her attention on him, a coolness will be felt on the palms of the hands.</div>
LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-5341567518082715792012-09-28T07:32:00.003-07:002012-09-28T07:32:53.915-07:00The Girl from Palakol<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am an Indian girl born in a place called Palakol, Andhra Pradesh. My Parents had good devotion towards God Almighty. My father used to worship all incarnations of God mainly Lord Shiva, Lord Shri Rama, Lord Hanumana and Shri Shridi Sainatha. My mother is a good devotee of Shri Shridi Sainatha. He is a sadhguru who is an incarnation of Shri AdiGuru Dattatraya. Usually Parents ideas and their deeds influence children alot. In that way I also started worshipping Shri sainatha from my 5th class onwards i.e from the age of 9 years. I used to pray to Him in all my problems, in all my fears and also in my joy. I used to pray to Him every minute in my heart. But in my personality, I used to be afraid for everything i.e even talking with others, used to feel insecure, having so many tensions for doing any work. I couldn't share anything with any one like a closed heart fellow. One side I had very good bakthi towards God Almighty and other side I had all these qualities in me. Because of this possessed nature I used to hurt some of my friends even in my bachelor's degree. It means from 9 years to the age of 18 years, there is no change in my behaviour at all. But I still had same bakthi towards Shri Sainatha.
One day one of my classmate who was practising this Yoga told about this meditation to my roommate. On that day she went and took self-realization, even she at that time couldn't understand what it is exactly. She and me used to do all things together all the time. So next day she took me to meditation center. There I saw a couple of people, who were practising this Yoga for a few years, giving self-realization to new people infront of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi's photograph. Seeing all this I thought inside, I shouldn't pray to any other God expect Shri Saibaba, I couldn't leave Him.
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This Yoga starts by giving self-realization to us. Self-realization means awakening the kundalini, which is the purest form of feminine Divine energy, which resides at sacrumbone in all the humanbeings. In the previous days all the saints used to do great tapsya(called meditation) for so many years for getting this self-realization. But Shri Mataji made this experience possible for everyone through the technique of SahajaYoga. Shri Mataji made it very simple in such a way that within minutes we will get this self-realization by using Her Photograph or in Presence of Her. When Kundalini raises we feel cool breeze called vibrations on top of our head and on our palms.
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So those people tried alot to help me in getting these vibrations. But I was with only one thought inside strongly that I shouldn't worship any other God. With that thought I didn't practise this Yoga until six months after I got self-realization. After six months one fine day me and my roommate went to picnic with all my classmates near to a sea shore. On that day I hurt again my roommate without understanding other's feelings, without understanding how much love she is giving to me. I was like that all the time in my own world. So she didn't talk to me. It made me worried alot. When we were returning from the picnic since my roommate was not talking to me I went sadly and sat near other friend. I think time came for me at that time to realiaze completely about Sahaja Yoga. I sat unknowingly near the friend, who was practising this yoga. He was talking something and suddenly he started telling about this meditation. I asked him I wanted to learn this meditation with a thought that I should become good. My roommate was leaving to her place next day I thought inside before she comes back I should learn this meditation and I should become good before she comes back.
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So my classmate took me this meditaion center after a couple of days. Before he took me to this center, I was reading Shri Sainatha life story and thinking even I was doing all these things why is my behavior was not changing? Why I still worried for all the small things. Why couldn't I give happiness to others???????? So many questions started.
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When he took me to meditation center this time I felt as if Shri Sainatha showed me this path to free from all my worries. I started practising this Yoga twice a day for 15 to 20 mins. daily even I didn't understand what it is completely at that time. After 10 or 15 days I started feeling this cool breeze. I felt some curing was going in my subtle body. My heart was becoming light and joyful. I felt I was relived from all my tensions and fears. I felt my health also becoming very good, I observed that I was not taking any medicine also. I realized Who Shri Mataji is. Then I didn't felt that I left Shri Sainatha.<br />
This Kundalini energy rises from the sacrum bone through the spinal column. As a result, the energy centers or chakras become energized or nourished. With the kundalini awakening I realized all the deities inside us, I realized God within us. I realized that unless we find God within us we will not get real happiness. When Kundalini passes through all these chakras, it connects us to All Pervading Power. So Sahaja Yoga means the spontaneous connection or union with the self or the spirit. This Kundalini has Motherly nature. It always protects us from all the problems and looks after us every min and every sec. In that way I was saved from so many accidents. I felt completely secured. When Kundalini cleanses all the chakras we get qualities of Divine i.e Loving nature, Forgiving nature and sharing nature. I found tremendous change in my behavior. I realized until we find God within ourselves our behaviour will not change. Now I feel God's Motherly love & compassion all the time taking care of me, protecting me and giving me real happiness all the time.<br />
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After my roommate came back from her home She also started practising this yoga and all other roommates also got realized. My parents also realized God within themselves. And all of our roommates’ families started practising Sahaja Yoga. All of our neighbors also got realized. From five years onwards we have been practicing this mediation every day and enjoying ourselves. Now thousands of people are practicing this Yoga all over the World. There is no discrimination on religion or color to practice this meditation. We worship all the incarnations of God Almighty within ourselves. Thanks alot for Shri Mataji for giving this beautiful Yoga in this horrible time of kaliyuga.<br />
This Self-Realization is open to everyone. </div>
LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-52725581827535743842012-09-28T07:24:00.000-07:002012-09-28T07:31:29.203-07:00Kakanim Tells a Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><br />Once upon a time two young men Ali and Ram lived in a village. They were brought up wise, generous and brave in the nature’s care and nurturing of village atmosphere. They have started on a journey towards the East to explore the worlds.<br /><br /><br />The Journey began thru dense forests, arid deserts and rugged mountains on their way. They came across a cave in which they decided to take the shelter for the night. As they entered the cave suddenly the ground under the feet of Ali shook and he disappeared into the ground. Not knowing where his friend has gone Ram has searched around and a beautiful lady has appeared before him. The lady spoke with a sweet voice, “O charming young man. I am very much pleased with you and wanting to marry you. But I must turn your friend into a monkey. Please accept me as your wife and we will live happily ever after.” Ram, was very angry with the lady and spoke with determined voice, “O lady. I don’t know who you are. You have taken my friend and turned him into a monkey. For this I shall not forgive you nor I can accept you as my wife. Return my friend Ali to me or face me”. As soon as Ram spoke these words the lady turned into a monkey and ran into the forest, his friend Ali has appeared before him.<br /><br />Ram explained what has happened to Ali and they rested for the night there. In the middle of the night Ali was woken up by a sound of blazing lava inside the cave. He woke up and couldn’t find his friend. He saw an ugly and dreadful looking man staring fiercely at him. Ali stood without fear and asked the man about his friend. The man answered “ Whoever comes into this cave I have complete right on their lives. But being a kind person I decided to take the life of only one of you. So you are free to go now”. On hearing this Ali felt deeply distressed, recovering himself in a moment he said, “You let my friend go and take my life”. On saying this he jumped in to the hot lava and Ali found himself next to his friend Ram. They hugged each other and made a promise to each other that they will remain friends for their rest of the life and no one can separate them. They didn’t know that The Almighty was watching the great friendship among his children and was pleased with his children.<br /><br />Ali and Ram have decided to return home after acquiring lot of knowledge. They approached their village eager to meet their parents and relatives. As soon as they came to outskirts they realised that it was their prayer time, headed towards Mosque and Temple in different directions. The Almighty felt this way. My children have passed even the toughest tests, but now for worshipping me they went to different places. They don’t know I was in their hearts.<br /><br />This is how the irony of life is in our present day life. We some times find ourselves in great confusion about life and what to achieve in life. Many of us have chosen and honestly tried different ways of life to find peace and true meaning of life. Some of us were mislead sometimes cheated in our journeys. The meaning of ‘Self’ and “life” became suddenly transparent from illusions and darkness for me. I found Sahaja Yoga and the experience of Self Realisation. I have been enjoying my life ever since I came to Sahaja Yoga in 1994. I love and enjoy my true “Self” and the company of thousands and thousands of my brothers and sisters all over the world. It is a blessing and I find myself in the lap of Mother Nature, a Jerusalem, a Heaven, a Mecca and I find the Promised Land in and around me. Hope you also enjoy the same Bliss and Joy.<br /><br /><br /> - kakanim</div>
LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-60505390720159697002012-09-28T07:15:00.003-07:002012-09-28T07:15:39.273-07:00Miraculous Escape: Blessings of Sahaja Yoga Meditation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In a family who practices Sahaja Yoga in Indore, they are four members, parents, a son and a daughter. The parents were worried about their daughter's marriage, as she was not ready to get married for next 2-3 years. The parents prayed to Shri Mataji and sent the bio-data of the daughter without the prior knowledge of her, to the guy they were looking for. As the boy was looking for an MBBS girl and their daughter was B.Com., they were still worried.<br />
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Somehow due to Sahaja Yoga the things changed miraculously. The guy not only called them for a visit but also agreed to get married. The daughter checked the vibrations of the guy, and as he was having good vibrations, she too replied in positive. Moreover he started practicing Sahaja Yoga from the day of their engagement. The parents were happy people. But the story doesn't end here; in fact it begins from here.
The to be bridegroom is working in Merchant Navy. He was on the leave when he got engaged. He had to join the ship in the Houston so he left from India on 9th of September 2001. On 11th of the same month he had to catch a flight from Zurich to Houston. But somehow he got delayed, missed the first three flights and was waiting for the fourth one. Then only he came to know that one of the three flights got hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon or one of the buildings of World Trade Center, the most dreadful event of the millenium. The authorities diverted the fourth flight to Montreal, Canada.<br />
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This is how Shri Mataji saves her children.<br />
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Similar thing happened to a lady in Indore. She was going to attend a function in Mysore. She had to catch a train from Khandwa so she left for Khandwa by bus. On their way to Khandwa the bus driver couldn't keep control of the steering and bus fell down from a bridge in the dried river. The height of the bridge was 25 feet. The bus went upside down, but miraculously the lady didn't even get a scratch, while other passengers were hurt mildly, thanks to Shri Mataji. Even the presence of a Sahaja yogi can make the difference. Her husband was with her, but he was not a Sahaja Yogi. He got a mild crack in the shoulder so he needed some treatment because of the pain. As the bus got delayed due to accident, and they had to catch the train, they were unable to go for the treatment in Khandwa. Luckily in the same compartment there was a doctor travelling with his aid box and he treated him there. After the incident the husband also joined Sahaja yoga and both are living happily.
These are the few miracles that happen everyday to the Sahaja yogis all over the world, but this is all the byproduct of Sahaja Yoga. The main aim of joining Sahaja Yoga is to get self-realization and to attain peace of mind. After getting self-realization, one enters into the Kingdom of God, where He takes care of all his children.</div>
LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-84973907420169102832012-06-25T10:54:00.002-07:002012-06-25T14:44:59.287-07:00Occupy The Self: The Importance of Inviting Auspiciousness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was a typical trick. Bait and switch. It was not minutes since i had realized i had been swindled off $1200. I was lured in with the promise of an employee discount which was yanked away when I went to renew my apartment lease, and then further increases were added on as my state has a lack of rent control laws. Yet, the cycle of emotions that followed afterwards amazed me to the bone.<br />
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For about ten days, I have been playing with a few meditation principles that deal with beginnings and ends. Whether its a project or a simple emotion that arises causing pleasure or pain, if we can control for the beginning and end of the thought process, the outcomes are amazing.<br />
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<a href="http://shrimataji.sahajayogaonline.com/2012/06/shri-mataji-paramchaitanya-itself-is.html">Shri Mataji advises in 1985 on success and happiness</a> in endeavors of all natures on the occasion of Guru Purnima festival and celebration in Paris, France. The thoughts that follow, are heavily derived from the guidelines by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on this occasion, and several other occasions.<br />
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In many endeavors in our lives we are sometimes deprived of opportunities, sometimes we are confounded by overinformation, both to the end of being mislead and entrapped by stronger entities like corporations, who know better about laws and use their knowledge to exploit us. The result is the failure of our endeavors, the failure of our efforts and wasted time & energy. The solution is to ensure the beginning and the end are divine-compliant.<br />
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<b>The Beginnings of Endeavors</b><br />
The beginnings have to start with not just a ritual to Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, but a genuine, heartfelt invitation for him to be involved in what is to follow. That could be something as short and quick as a contemplation or something long drawn out like a project. The involvement of the Lord of the first chakra brings auspicious grounding for the purpose and the success.<br />
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And, as far as the end point of endeavors is concerned, the question remains, how do we measure our success? Again, in something as short as a few minutes of introspection or a decades long endeavor of any nature. We cannot manage, something we cannot measure. We cannot declare the end of an endeavor unless we feel we have failed or succeeded. The benchmarking process is simply to check vibrations at the milestones along the endeavor. The check is simple and effective because the measure is a summative variables of all and any variable deemed relevant to success: Vibrations. The pleasing flow of energy through us, which is calm and soothing. This corresponds to the pleasing of our inner energy, the Mother Kundalini.<br />
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So simply, we begin, progress and conclude by checking vibrations.<br />
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However, the process has a pleasant side effect. It helps our behavior evolution through substitution. Nature abhors a vacuum. So when we are idle, we are very much susceptible to become a devils workshop, because the vacuum in us is quickly occupied by one or more of the six enemies: greed, fear, anger, hate, lust, pride. That is exactly what was happening to me, when I learnt of my latest swindle at the hands of the corporate juggernaut that our apartment owners are.<br />
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I was upset, angered and helpless. And when I sat down to sulk and pamper my feeling of anger, I applied the new routine of dealing with endeavors: invite Shri Ganesha to my process and check for cool flow as I introspect. Normally I would have spent days cursing my destiny, the heartless corporate types holding us hostage and the inevitable days of mourning that destiny. Yet, just the simple act of inviting the deity of innocence to my thought process made sure the negative feeling and emotions were kept away from my introspection. I was certainly dejected, but felt in a shell of temporary remorse, rather than a prolonged self-torture by harboring hatred towards the faceless enemies.<br />
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Thank you Shri Mataji for rendering the advice so clear and practical, that a so-called formerly atheist mind like mine can not only understand, but bring into practice the true knowledge of inner peace.</div>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-53559535865292763402012-06-03T14:38:00.001-07:002012-06-03T14:44:25.254-07:00Acquisition Instinct<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Communities built upon feeding such instincts are of shallow character. Spiritual systems that condone this instinct are the bane of the world and individuals who become active drivers of pandering to this instinct are surfing just the base nature of humans. The journey that takes us farther away from enlightenment.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">At the subtle level, the acquisition instinct is the first reaction we have to things we perceive in other's possession. He we react to things we perceive is highly dependent on our discrimination. A Hamas chakra is balance will enjoy a perceived object irrespective of ownership. For instance, there are times when I look at my aging car and I feel the need to acquire a better one, or I look at my child and I worry about his upbringing, or I look at my apartment and the anxiety of rising rents consumes me. But when I have returned from a wholesome afternoon in the company of the meditation community, the reactions are quite different.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I would look at my possessions and feel thankful, I would look at my apartment and enjoy the nature outside, I would look at my offspring and relive my own childhood. Same perceived objects, different cognition. The Hamsa chakra, is triaging the sensori input correctly into higher thought.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Hamsa chakra is an interesting little chakra. It is a part of the fifth energy center of the senses, the Vishuddhi Chakra. It is active when healthy, directing our sensori input from the five senses the correct subtle centers within the brain, which are connected to the subtle centers in our body. When malnourished, it is inactive and the processing of sensori input is now left to the willpower of the person, which is the balance of the left and right sides, the sympathetic channels.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thus, when the person is well rested and at peace, the perception is processed well. But when the person is stressed out, the willpower is ebbing and the sensori inputs lead to perverted cognition. For instance, looking at something beautiful raises the instinct to acquire it, irregardless of social justice. Criminal behavior ensues and hoarding of objects results.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The hoarding that results from PAI (perverted acquisition instinct) is not just what we see on episodes of hoarders, but also in hoarding of mp3s, hoarding of ambitions, hoarding of options, hoarding of securities, hoarding of money in the bank etc.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The solution is recommended by the wise lady of the east, Her Holiness <a href="http://facebook.com/shrimataji" target="_blank">Shri Mataji</a>, who has worked incessantly to break the chains of money-based systems on the human soul and elevate the human condition. The solution to any self destructive behavior is not in taboo or restraint. It is in finding a more powerful, fulfilling substitution. In the specific case of PAI, the recommendation is to become more involved in local flora and fauna. Replace the "cool knowledge" of where to find the best local deals and eats with the truly cooler knowledge of local trees and flowers. Spend the attention and time in knowing the living nature in the immediate surroundings and it heals our sensori processing.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<p>They close up when so surrounded by dark</p>
<p>They grow from small to large gradually, like all life</p>
<p>Fragrance and color are important  but not that important</p>
<p>They love being offered to the divine, and that fulfills their destiny</p>
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<a href="http://spiritualtexts.sahajayogaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/shri_mataji_gyaneshwara.jpg"></a>Sant Gyaneshwara (Dyaneshwara) was an incarnation of Shri Kartikeya, who resides in the right Mooladhara chakra. His Guru was his elder brother, Shiva incarnate Nivruttinatha. His sister was Vishnumaya incarnate Muktabai. Bhramadeva incarnate Sopandev* was born between Gyaneshwara and Muktabai. they lived in the 13th century. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.iloveindia.com/spirituality/gurus/gyaneshwar.html" target="_blank">Full biographies are online</a><br />
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Shri Mataji on Gyaneshwara on his 700th Birth Anniversary (Pune, 1996):<br />
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<em>But in these modern times, it is predicted that is going to happen to thousands of people... A specialty of this age, that it is happening all over the world. I am surprised Myself. This is the power that you have within yourself. I am not obliged. Neither you are obliged. It is your own power that rises and gives you this self-hood which is being described by Shri Sant Gyaneshwara. And this state of Sahajavastha is very easy to achieve."</em></div>
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<em> </em>Rajshri Productions produced an cheesy, yet informative animated short chronicling the life and work of the lives of these divine brothers and sister:<br />
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* 1988 Fatima Bi Puja, Switzerland</div>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-58146530328409202832010-01-22T11:43:00.001-08:002011-03-26T21:11:35.559-07:00Realtime Righteousness in Second BirthAt the turn of the year, a yogi asked another yogi: What are your new year resolutions for 2010? <br /><br />Yogi #2: Realtime Righteousness<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/connected-752974.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" mt="true" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/connected-752947.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Yogi #1: What's that exactly?<br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Yogi #2: Well, in the previous stage of growth in self-realization, righteousness and spiritual conduct had been establishing within me, but it was a process which entailed listening to the Guru's advice externally, mentally processing the advice into positive conditionings, eliminating negative conditionings and meditating for silence. The brain was an intermediary which instroduced necessary but inefficient brokering of righteousness. Necessary, because the inner being, the soul hasn't evolved enough for lesser brain and more heart based righteousness. The next stage is when the connection with the all-pervading is less riddled with doubts, fears and thoughts, so that the righteousness can just flow instantaneously. Just like dial-up and broadband internet. <br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Initially we needed to dial-up to the provider, we counted the minutes of use, downloaded data, wen't offline and processed it. It was inefficient, but the best approach at the time. Now that broadband connection is available, everytime you are working at the computer, it is impossible to do 90% of the tasks without a live connection. Thus, when the new bandwidth is available in our subtle system to handle the new age of spiritual conduct, we just jump onto that mode spontaneously one day, because our dial-up was too broken to fix and we needed to upgrade - no choice. Similarly, the first stage of offline righteousness had worked until December 2009, and the crumbling of the approach had begun. It was terrifying at the start, but the grace of the Comforter was standing by, assuring yogi #2 to witness the awesome creative power which destroys only selectively, and to make space for new spiritual infrastructure within. The accuracy of destruction is astounding as all innocent parts of the soul were retained and built around. <br /></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/hatched-709524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" mt="true" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/hatched-709494.jpg" width="298" /></a><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In the end, it seemed like the bird had been hatched out of the egg. The destruction was only the temporary protective egg shell, which was bound to break one day, anyways. Now the bird is out, can see reality directly, rather than interpret indirectly it from the sounds and words of the Mother outside and above. Now, in the lap of the Mother - not as an egg, but as a bird ready to fly fearlessly and do all that the Mother wishes Her offspring to do. <br /></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>So its not the end, just the beginning of a new stage, which may also reach saturation one day and be abandoned in favor of newer, higher life. Like a rocket, dropping off propulsion stages on the way up, the ascent goes on, the old keeps burning up and dropping off and we attain higher and higher orbits. We only need small correction jets once we've escaped the ocean of illusion. We don't feel guilty for the initial noisy and hot state because we start seeing it as a temporary necessity. Now the old one is dead, burnt up and dropped off and the new life begins in second birth, where the only worry is "are we having fun"?<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MJTdGUPrx1Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MJTdGUPrx1Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />JSM!<br /><br /><em>Photo Credits: flickr users' Creative Commons photos</em><br /><em>1. Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org (we are all connected)</em><br /><em>2. chidorian (egg/bird) </em>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-80706034350434860272009-12-09T11:42:00.001-08:002011-03-26T21:11:35.564-07:00Correction and Hurt<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/oops-738260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/oops-738238.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we want to correct someone, there is a chance that we will hurt them. But when we go out to hurt someone, there is no chance we will correct them.</span></span><br /></div></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22897538@N04/3531945644/sizes/m/">CC licensed photo by photomequickbooth </a></span>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-42958853797264594992009-12-09T11:33:00.001-08:002011-03-26T21:11:35.566-07:00The Ship Hath SailedOne of my favorite proverbs is<br /><blockquote>"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." Grace Hooper<br /></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/port_hercule-729138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/port_hercule-729110.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br />Our agnya chakra is the most critical, most delicate and most easily affected. A person with no conflicts of any kind is either realized or completely oblivious. Conflict resolution approaches are the best way to test a person's agnya chakra. Without conflict, there is no way to confirm who will survive the new age that is rapidly closing in.<br /><br />As the grand illusion, the Mahamaya, separates the wheat from the chaff, she sets up these serious games for our personal learning. These serious games can be harmless as long as we are not involved in the emotional aspect. Because it starts of with small seeds of discontent amongst a so-called brotherhood, which ultimately erupts in a fight which will for a part of the collective to leave. The reaper is at work testing people who can truly humble themselves and forgive others.<br /><br />Last Monday, it occured to me in a morning meditation that the one quality I still lack as a Sahaja Yogi, is the ability to express love. I had genuine love for most acquaintances, but my failing had been the ability to express it. I did develop the ability to express it for seekers over the past few years, because that genuine love is the only thing that a seeker of truth can feel. However, there was a serious lack of ability to express love openly to other enlightened souls. Since the morning meditations were now regular and improving, I felt courageous to ask for this new ability. As the Chinese say, <i>be careful what you ask for, because it may just come true. </i><br /><br />The very next day, I played good cop/bad cop to pull over a organizationally speeding brother and issue a spiritual ticket. What I got in return was the culmination of his months long plan to slow poison our common friends. This slow poisoning was successful only because of, guess what, my total lack of ability to openly express love and adoration of my fellow realized beings. This comes partly from my Indian descent, where I leave communication with ladies to my wife or other female representative of the family. The passive aggressive negativity had thrived in the brain of my weak friend, and had him sow seeds of discontent quite discretely so that some of my other weak friends were starting to cut off their time with me. I suspected something, but the "speeding ticket" brought out the complete masterplan.<br /><br />Like the unfortunate cop who gets shot by a druggie on a stop-and-bust, I was repeatedly shot down in the back multiple times as I asked for the drivers license and registration. A routine stop and check had turned fatal for me.<br /><br />Now came the real part - will I give in to the ideas of hatred or bring down my ego, make the ultimate sacrifice of pride and humbly apologize, even though there was a clear violation of natural law. Like many ironic court cases of America, the process started with me issueing unconditional apologies to the poisoned friends for anything done unknowingly in the recent past. Asking for forgiveness. And as that started, they their poison revealed to me. If I had aggressively pursued the matter with the poisoned innocent, they would have frozen up and confirmed the trash talk about me.<br /><br />Honestly, I was surprised by my mind's ability to express unconditional apologies and ask for forgiveness and acceptance. This could be the greatest jump in evolution of all the fantastic jumps I have seen this Fall of 2009. I am tempted to analyze the motivations of my malefactor, but the mind simply refuses to co-operate with thoughts of hatred. I would have never discovered this depth granted by Sahaja meditation, the blessing of the agnya chakra to humble down immediately. I would have expected that it would take me months before I would consider leveling with them. But the stakes are too high. The social capital we build is more precious than our fragile egos and one cannot implement this self-belief in any other system of yoga meditation. This is simply Sahaja, simply unique and simply amazing.<br /><br />As the proceedings proceed, I sometimes feel distinct "working out" of negativity in different chakras. Clearing of this nature usually takes years. I am happy that this dynamic training environment exists within Sahaja Yoga where our false knowledge is actively removed, our theoratical learning is tested and corrected -- all without an institutionalized system of education.<br /><br />Once you begin Sahaja Yoga, your ship, i.e., your being, will truly sail off the harbor into the wild seas and your captainship will be tested, improved and blessed. <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/samyra_serin/1176049354/sizes/m/">CC licensed photo: symera_serin</a></span>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-91049029527267643142009-12-04T20:30:00.000-08:002011-03-20T22:57:29.977-07:00Everybody Hates Chris, But Loves Raymond<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><div style="background-color: white; counter-reset: __goog_page__ 0; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 6px; min-height: 1100px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/happysad-742777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/happysad-742771.jpg" /></a>Happiness & Sadness are a state of mind and that is exactly where the trap is. If we shoot for joy which is a constant, always-on property we will not be dissapointed.<br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The shortcut to a high is usually exciting the parasympathetic sympathetic channel (Sushumna), through egoistic means: drugs, cigarettes or alcohol. Perhaps even food sometimes. Exciting the parasympathetic makes one happy, which leads to a crash eventually because we are simply fighting fire with fire. De stressing the sympathetic requires detachment from the mind and the sympathetics. The good news is that that can happen in just one instant by acknowledging your spirit & denouncing your body.<br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Instantly one moves from being "Chris" to being "Raymond". As an aside, I must mention that the concept of detachment from the body, mind I intellect has to be innate. Not by leaving society, meditating in the jungles or shaving the head and wearing funny clothes. It has to be innate or else the true high will hot be achieved. One will only end up fooling the self for years on end.<br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo credit: </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/swamibu/2855812597/sizes/s/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">CC licensed photo by swamibu</span></a><br /></div><a title="View Why Everyone Loves Raymond but Hates Chris on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/23699767/Why-Everyone-Loves-Raymond-but-Hates-Chris" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Why Everyone Loves Raymond but Hates Chris</a> <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="doc_796119491757545" name="doc_796119491757545" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" align="middle" height="500" width="100%" > <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=23699767&access_key=key-2kitwo2dl3pis2xp6hlt&page=1&version=1&viewMode=list"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="play" value="true"><param name="loop" value="true"><param name="scale" value="showall"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="devicefont" value="false"><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><param name="menu" value="true"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="salign" value=""><param name="mode" value="list"><embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=23699767&access_key=key-2kitwo2dl3pis2xp6hlt&page=1&version=1&viewMode=list" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="true" loop="true" scale="showall" wmode="opaque" devicefont="false" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="doc_796119491757545_object" menu="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" salign="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" mode="list" height="500" width="100%"></embed> </object> <br /></div></div></span>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-2698845330311632272009-11-22T17:22:00.000-08:002011-03-20T22:57:29.990-07:00Knowing Thyself, Definitively<span style="font-style: italic;">One of the first questions that arises after learning to meditate, is how do we interpret our meditations? How do we judge our feelings & sensations during meditations? How to know what we are seeing within is true progress in the right direction? Three approaches are examined below for merits.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/lookinside-784927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/lookinside-784857.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asking Others to Judge Us</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />Having another meditation expert or peer feel our chakras and work on them is a great way to cleanse. It does not work quite well to get an absolute measure of where we stand within. Asking others coldly to check vibrations, in my experience, is a common mistake. Since we are all progressing towards perfection, getting a definitive answer from someone else is a risky proposition. The answer may be biased by emotion or tainted by the imbalances of the person checking vibrations without entering a good state of meditation. I usually avoid cold calling on awakened friends to check vibrations, as the spontaniety of feeling vibrations is now constrained by emotion, "performance pressure" and other stressors.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self Checking Vibrations</span><br />The act of feeling our subtle energy centers is called checking vibrations. It is a spontaneous process when our attention reports bliss or stress in the subtle energy centers. However, the approach and practice of it varies widely. Doing it ourselves requires complete detachment and a strong witness state. The willingness to face our faults without guilt and correct them with advanced practices, which are beyond the reach of a majority, one can safely state. The lack of detachment almost always results in confusing answers.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Giving Awakening & Inner Experience of Meditation to Others</span><br />In my opinion, giving stands out as the best way to investigate our spiritual depth & inner growth. It is independent of our personal biases and present state. Our ability to pass on the experience of bliss to others is the golden yardstick to measure our growth. "We can only give what we have within" The honest and willing reciever will honestly report their inner experience. If our awakening is true, we are able to awaken others by our mere presence combined with their active desire. And to rule out the reciever's inability to report back their blissful state accurately, we can draw a conclusion about ourselves by giving self-realization to many others - to eliminate estimation errors. <br /><br />If we have the light, it well pass on effortlessly to most people we attempt to enlighten. Daily meditation keeps our mortal shell clean & transplant. A non-daily mediator usually cannot sustain their connection with the universe and any attempt to pay forward the experience will by futile. In conclusion, only in giving others we can really discover what's within us. By giving enlightenment to others we can know for sure if we have nourished our light within. Based on what others recieve from us, we can make a definitive conclusion of who we are. So get going and know thyself!<br /><br />Wish you all the best in your journey of meditation and personal growth.<br /><br /><object height="265" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bv4nousnTY0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bv4nousnTY0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br /></div>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-1949666202628383212009-11-22T15:30:00.001-08:002011-03-20T23:19:40.219-07:00At a Quiet Courtyard in Ann Arbor<i>Last week at one of our meetings in Ann Arbor, an attendee shared a beautiful story of how he was helped with the knowledge of meditation during a stressful time. Here it is, with the name changed to protect his identity<br /></i><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sahaja-yoga.name/uploaded_images/stressRelief-764819.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://sahaja-yoga.name/uploaded_images/stressRelief-764747.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><br />Gerald is a graduate student pursuing his PhD at the University of Michigan in Economics. Most days he can handle the stress and juggle the busy schedule that comes along with being a doctoral student. But Someday even a seasoned student like Gerald cannot find a way to juggle all the balls tossed up so quickly by the virtue of his student life.<br /><br />Today he had 3 grueling classes and to top it all, a final exam. The pressure has mounted and strolling through the streets of Ann Arbor he searched for a way to relieve his anxieties. That's when it struck him. He could try out some simple stress reduction he learnt at last week's meditation class.<br /><br /><a href="http://sahaja-yoga.name/uploaded_images/Garden-739762.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://sahaja-yoga.name/uploaded_images/Garden-739722.bmp" width="262" /></a>He knew about the perfect spot - a little garden between the Michigan League and the Alumni Center, a small courtyard that would be the perfect place for an activity like meditation.<br /><br />Ten minutes of silence and saying simple affirmations while placing his hands on his heart and forehead, he was already feeling good. The buzz in the stomach was gone. The racing mind was now working at a more normal speed.<br /><br />A few minutes that morning put everything in perspective for Gerald He slipped into this dynamic. yet centered state where he was a witness to himself, sorting out a hectic day, one activity at a time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Images:</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidy/1847735009/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Stress" by flickr user otherthings</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Butterfly" by author</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-57791296052547085792009-11-15T16:46:00.000-08:002011-03-20T22:57:30.006-07:00Work Your Powers - Photography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/photoPower-784704.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/photoPower-784553.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Yesterday, while collectively listening to the 1982 Vienna address in September on the occasion of the 9-Nights festival, before the talk begins, Shri Mataji was browsing pictures taken by Sahaja Yogis in and around Europe. She then quietly but surely remarked something to the effect that photography has now become one of the powers of Sahaja practitioners. almost 3 decades down, photography has become accessible through digital camera and online sharing mechanisms. This must be taken up by realized souls and enlightened yogis to observe, report and transform their societies. There are a few remarkable blogs already displaying high quality photo blogging efforts (<a href="http://1000petals.wordpress.com/">1000 petals</a>). I would like to see some more.LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-19512974348000708302009-11-12T21:07:00.000-08:002011-03-20T22:57:30.024-07:00Karaoke and Meditation: Unusual Partners in World Peace<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/mic-755517.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://sahajayoga.me/uploaded_images/mic-755289.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">CC licensed image by flickr user <span style="font-style: italic;">fensterbme</span></span><br /><br />Listening to a podcast about technology today, the topic of ethnographic studies came up and the interviewee mentioned how the study of Karaoke had revealed much about the differences of cultures in the east and west. And then it struck me. My use of Karaoke to break ice with acquaintences, was not a random co-incidence. (See Book referred to at the bottom of the post).<br /><br /><br />Karaoke is such a powerful activity when done collectively, and fails miserably when done alone (I mean REALLY alone, not recording for later distribution as many websites let you.) Over the summer we had Karaoke sessions almost once every month.<br /><br />Past summer, during a long weekend, we hosted 3 families and a hoard of local friends which had more cultural diversity than one can imagine. Meditation is the activity that has traditionally brought us all together for weekend seminars. However, there were a few accompanying spouses who were not us much into meditation or were just getting their feet wet.<br /><br />Like other weekends spent together, it seemed like another one where the non-meditating & newly meditating spouses would possibly feel alienated or just bored. Thankfully someone had the idea to jump start karaoke sessions and the ice was broken, melted and crushed into a smoothie. All of us, ALL - pre-teens, children, an Italian, an Irish American, a Indo-Pakistani-American, Russian, Finnish, Bulgarian, Indian and Brazilian were joined in ecstatic enjoyment of each other's company like never seen before. Participative music is the next best thing to integrate us, period.<br /><br />World cultures, generations and other identities will merge by burning the candle both ways. The integration inside-out comes through meditation and outside-to-in comes through participative music.<br /><br />What song would you like to sing along?<br /><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0px" src="http://books.google.com/books?id=GZybNI7pf3wC&lpg=PP1&ots=RBMascqmt5&dq=karaoke%20nights&pg=PP1&output=embed" width=500 height=500></iframe>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-41880363262418721152009-11-10T06:24:00.000-08:002011-03-26T21:11:36.131-07:007 things you should know about meditationScenario<br /><br />1. What is it?<br /><br />2. Who’s doing it?<br /><br />3. How does it work?<br /><br />4. Why is it significant?<br /><br />5. What are the downsides?<br /><br />6. Where is it going?<br /><br />7. What are the implications for you?<br />LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-59124141269284946612009-10-18T13:40:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:06:13.644-07:0011 ways to reduce stress without spending a dime: <a href="http://is.gd/4pFkb">http://is.gd/4pFkb</a>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-54626672211255588972009-09-29T09:55:00.001-07:002011-03-20T23:19:40.375-07:00If the past and the future do not exist, why do people worry about them?Question from Y! Answers: Past is gone, future is not here yet; if it ever gets here, yet many people's lives are controlled by these two nonexistent forces...<br /><br />My Answer:<br /><br /><div class="content">Humans have 3 main energy channels: left (past), central (present) and future (right). The stresses of mundane life accumulate as blockages or disturbances in these subtle energy flows.<br /><br />Thoughts in the brain come from the left (past) and right (future) constantly. There is almost no way to stop them, as they are innate part of human existence. Spiritual masters who know meditation are able to soothe their left and right channels and stay on the central channel, which results in these thoughts from past/future subsiding.<br /><br />Eventually the person is able to experience freedom from these annoyances. Check out the references below for more info. Or try a simple meditation exercise here: <a href="http://www.freemeditation.ca/meditation-basics/" rel="nofollow">Meditation Basic Excercise</a></div> <h3 class="reference">Source(s):</h3> <div class="reference"><a href="http://www.researchingmeditation.org/home/the-eastern-view-of-stress" rel="nofollow">ResearchingMeditation.org</a><br /><a href="http://sahajayogawa.com/?id=15" rel="nofollow">Left & Right Channels</a></div>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3677382757529536224.post-22376516686119112882009-09-29T09:47:00.001-07:002011-03-20T23:19:40.405-07:00Is hate a form of love?<span style="font-weight: bold;">Question on Y! Answers:</span><br />Do you ever love to hate? can hate ever be an expression of love?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Answer:</span><br />Hate and Love effect our body in different ways. Hate creates blocks in our energy system, eventually "chocking" good energy. The satisfaction from hating is self-destructive and temporary. True love dissolves blockages and makes one feel genuinely good.<br /><br />Love > Hate<br /><br />Reference: <a href="http://www.azsahajayoga.org/meditation.html">http://www.azsahajayoga.org/meditation.html</a>LiXRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17672677133478360310noreply@blogger.com1