Why to practice Sahaja Yoga

 

Why should you practice Sahaja Yoga ?

1. It’s easy.

You don’t have to spend years living in the mountains to achieve enlightenment. You don’t have to give up anything or spend weeks in silence. You don’t have to learn mantras or wear special clothes or even try to clear my mind. The meditation simply happens spontaneously. The classes are easy and fun, and as long as you keep up a daily ten minutes of meditation you find you are able to achieve a deep and peaceful meditation on a regular basis.

2. Its free

You don’t pay for your meditation. There are no catches, and there are no hidden expenses. If you missed attending classes one week, it didn’t matter.You just picked up the classes again when you could manage it. It is simply the generosity of spirit of other Sahaja meditation practitioners that allows Sahaja Yoga to be taught to whomever desires it, at no cost.

3. You can see results.

You feel relaxed and you feel a deep sense of calm. Now you can also feel your chakras (energy centres) and through the meditation techniques learnt along the way you can understand the vibrations of your own energy centres. If you feel unwell you meditate and use the techniques you’ve learnt to heal your chakras, and you can then feel the centres clearing, and as a consequence your health improves.

4. It’s all-inclusive.

All the major religions and their core teachings are acknowledged and respected in Sahaja Yoga. No one’s spiritual journey is right or wrong. And through meditation the wisdom of all the great gurus and saints is easily revealed and understood. In fact, you’ll find that since you’ve been meditating you’ll come to understand and appreciate the teachings of great teachers such as Lao Tse, Buddha and Mohammed.

5. You’re your own boss.

You meditate and introspect at your own pace. You don’t have to keep up with others, or feel pressured into doing things you’re not comfortable with. You are your own teacher, your own guru, your own master. This technique of meditation empowers you and enables you to help yourself. You don’t have to rely on anybody else. Of course, there are many people in Sahaja Meditation who can teach you a great deal about the meditation and its various techniques. However, all that you need is ultimately within you.

6. It’s everywhere.

Sahaja Yoga is practiced in almost every country in the world. So, no matter where you travel you can always locate a local Sahaja Yoga Meditation program that you can attend. Whenever you get the chance, and no matter where you are, You try to link up with other Sahaja Yoga practitioners and enjoy a collective meditation. (Meditating with others is a much deeper and more powerful experience than meditating alone.)

7.It’s portable.

You don’t need to take anything with you to meditate: no mats, no potions, no special clothing or books. You can meditate anywhere – in a quiet room or on a noisy bus; at the beach or watching a movie. Thoughtless awareness (the state of meditation) is easy to achieve if you keep meditating daily, and it can be achieved in almost any situation.

8. It makes sense.

Everything you’ll learn will make sense. There is a lot of common sense in this meditation, and even though not everything was known to you (for example, the chakras and their respective qualities), once you have a chance to learn more about the meditation, it feels very natural and comfortable.

9. Everybody does it.

When you begin a hobby or join

a new group, you often find that there are particular types of people who are in the group with you. For example, some groups attract younger people, others older folk; some groups have a lot of people who are wealthy, or people who live in a certain part of town. In Sahaja Yoga you will find people from every walk of life, from every demographic – male and female, young and old, rich and poor, every shape, size and colour, with varying interests, languages and beliefs. You don’t have to be a certain type of person to do this meditation. It is one of those rarities: something for everybody.

10. You feel good.

Without fail, every time you sit down to meditate you feel better. Whether you manage to have a deep meditation or not makes no difference, and as a consequence your family and friends are reaping the benefits.

I declare I am Adi Shakti

 

Today is the day, I declare that I am the One who has to save the humanity. I declare I am the One who is Adi Shakti, who is the Mother of all the Mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti, the Desire of God, who has incarnated on this Earth to give its meaning to itself, to this creation, to human beings, and I’m sure through my love and patience and my powers, I am going to achieve it.

I was the One who was born again and again, but now in my complete form and complete powers, I have come on this Earth, not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the joy, the bliss, that your Father wants to bestow upon you."

" Among you, there are people who are still not been able to recognize. My announcement will work it out within them the recognition. Without recognition, you cannot see the play. Without play, you cannot have confidence within yourself. Without confidence, you cannot become guru. Without becoming guru, you cannot help others, and without helping others you are not going to be in any way happy. So, to break the chain, is very easy. But to build the chain, one after another, is what you have to do. This is what you were all wanting to be. So, be confident, and be joyous, and be happy that all My powers will protect you, My Love will nourish you, and My nature will fill you with peace and joy.

May God Bless You."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, London.

2nd December, 1979

Importance of Meditation

 

"Every day you should do meditation. Those who do not do meditation are capable of falling down, because meditation is like putting oil into the lamp. THOSE WHO DO NOT MEDITATE, THINK THEY CAN DO WITHOUT IT, ARE SADLY MISTAKEN. They have to meditate morning and evening. The problem is everything comes so handily, so simple that they don’t understand that meditation is very important. Typical. Not you, but there are many I know who get realisation, who don’t meditate. And their style is different. Their nature is different. MEDITATION IS SUCH A SOOTHING THING, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WAY OF CONNECTION WITH THE DIVINE, THAT ALL YOUR PROBLEMS GET SOLVED IN THAT MEDITATIVE MOOD. If you are not meditating, you are not following meditation, then maybe your light will go down. It won’t give sufficient light. It’s important, very important to find out about yourself, about others in the meditation.

HOW TO DO MEDITATION, many people ask. DON’T DO ANYTHING, to JUST GO INTO THOUGHTLESS AWARENESS. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you’ve done your job, because that’s the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.

When you meditate, try not to make some sort of a function out of it, no. MEDITATION IS SOMETHING SILENCING YOURSELF, SILENCING YOUR THOUGHTS AND GOING TO THAT DEEP OCEAN WHICH IS WITHIN YOU ITSELF."

H H SHRI MATAJI

DIWALI PUJA

LOS ANGELES ,

03 - 11 - 2002 .

Sahajayogi has to be like Flower - Strong, never fading Flower

 

" When it is needed you have to rebuke yourself. When you have to glorify, you should glorify yourself.

So now you separate. You become the mother, the Spirit is the mother, and you, whatever you are which has to grow, is the child. Mother is the ideal, she is the inspiration, she is the power, and the child is the recipient. If the child is an obstinate fellow, then you can’t do anything about it. Also find out – you might be one of them. I know who are they like that.

There are many and you can find them out in no time. Obstinate fellows, if they live with ten people, suddenly we hear reports of their existence. They are quite eloquent, even if they are not talking a word people can tell you: “I had a fight with such and such. That person said such and such a thing to me, that person was so cruel to me, that person demanded this.” You know which person it is, where.

You see, as a diamond can be made out, thorns can be made out also; anytime you go near the thorn, anyone without exception, it will bite everyone. It is not going to spare, it’s a thorn. So a thorn has to be a thorn. But if you are a Sahaja Yogi you have to be a flower. And a strong flower and an eternal flower, that always grows, does not fade out. Always growing, never fades, such a flower you have to be. Then you will be surprised that you do not get into a trip of ego, neither you go into a complete collapse of super-ego”.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, London. 06-11-1983 .

Approach Yourself and attain state of Nirvikalpa without blaming anyone

 

we have to mentally approach ourselves. We have to talk to ourselves and say to ourselves, “What are you doing?” What is surrendering? It is enjoyment. It is just enjoyment. “Then why I cannot surrender? What is lacking in me? Am I a very low level person? Am I the one who was just saying I’m a seeker but I’m not? Am I dishonest person that I cannot surrender? If so, what am I proud of myself? If that is the situation, then why am I so much enamoured by my ego?”

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it be? So, what is the surrendering? Surrendering of our conditionings, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us.

One can approach [it] mentally, one can approach emotionally and also physically we can approach ourselves. We can approach ourselves through mantras, through seeing ourselves, through knowing ourselves. But one should know, this is the greatest of greatest opportunity for you, not for the Divine.

If you are not available the Divine can find its own ways of fulfilling its last culmination of expression. Even to understand how immense the task is you need a surrendering heart. "

" The area of Sahasrara is the realm of God. When the brahmarandhra opens fully then the heavens open within yourself. The Kundalini which has risen up and given you Realisation creates that subtle opening by which the Divine starts pouring all its subtleties inside your brain. But if you’re pressing it from both sides with these balloons, sometimes opening, sometimes closing, sometimes opening, the Divine recedes its attention; you must know that. The attention is receded back and if it is done many a times, the Divine doesn’t bother .

So it is you who has to achieve that state and all of us can achieve that state of nirvikalpa. In that there is just progression. After nirvikalpa you cannot come down. If somebody is still going up and down, up and down, he should know he is still not up to the point and he should face up to himself and tell himself or herself that, “No, I have to be into Nirvikalpa where I do not come down!”

The people who are not in the nirvikalpa state are not going to be saved. I am very sorry to say that. They are not going to be saved. They will be punished. May not be in the same way [as] those who are not realised souls. But they will not occupy the seats in the realm of God Almighty. At least you must reach the state of nirvikalpa. Do not blame any circumstance. Do not blame your father, mother, brother, atmosphere, this, that. There’s no need to blame anyone,” “Because somebody came we were influenced?” What is the matter with you? I’m here – you are not influenced by Me! How are you influenced by somebody who is so stupid obviously, so dominating? That means what is your level? "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Austria . 4th May, 1985 .

Meditate Every Day and see the Essence of Joy in everything

 

YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO MEDITATE

"But one must remember one principle of sahaja Yoga which is very important. I think one should write it down in your heart. This is very important essence of sahaja yoga, of how to grow, that you should know how to raise your kundalini. You should know how to meditate and to find out about your problems, your defects and then to remove them and to raise your kundalini. If you cannot raise your kundalini you cannot improve in sahaja yoga.

Now the kundalini falls off with many things, as you know, if you have defects. Even if you a weakness for your wife, you worry about her, you think about her or your husband, who is a negative person, the kundalini will be sucked down. It will be sucked down with all these negative attentions, any kind of a negative attention you have, it will be sucked down.

So instead of feeling unhappy about the negativity and making miserable faces, and yourself miserable and me miserable with that, best is to laugh it out, and use that negativity for your positivity. That is what is wisdom, and this wisdom comes through meditation, meditative method. So you must every day meditate and raise your kundalini otherwise you cannot grow by saying.. Mother, I love you, I love you, writing me ten pages letters, which is impossible to read, doing all kinds of things like that and asking me questions morning till evening, nothing, nothing is going to help you, to understand me or to understand yourself or to understand sahaja yoga or to grow in sahaja yoga. You may talk, discuss, do what you like, to understand sahaja yoga, best is to keep very happy. Happy faces, happiness within yourself, joy within yourself. Try to see the essence of joy in everything, don't try to criticize nor to make yourself miserable but to raise your kundalini every morning religiously, every night raise your kundalini.”

H.H. Shri Mataji

RAHURI

14.01.86

Without the Self Realisation you cannot have the Kalyan

 

" The Guru is praised more than the Deities and the Gods Who is this Guru? In this, which is the most important shakti? The Guru tattwa is the Shiva. The form of the Shiva’s power we should consider as the Guru’s power. Because when we take the powers from the Guru’s shakti, and when the shaktis come within us then we ourselves become the Guru And with this, we are blessed for the whole life (Kalyan). The one who gets these powers, it seems he has got all the blessings (kalyan). “Kalyan” is a word which is very hard to explain in a few words. “Kalyan” means to get blessed from all the sides. To obtain joy from all the sides. When someone says that in the blessings you have got the Kalyan, what does it mean? What is Kalyan? Kalyan means Atma Sakshatkar, the Self-Realisation. Without the Self-Realisation, you cannot have the Kalyan. Nobody can understand without having it.

All these things are in the Kalyan. Because of this a person gets all the joy, and he becomes radiant. To have this Kalyan, whatever you have to do you have done it all, whatever efforts you have to make it has all been made, the faith which you have to take, you have already taken it. But when you are all in the “Kalyanmarg” (Path of Kalyan), when He has given the mantra to have the Kalyan, what does it mean? It means that the most important thing inside you is samadhan (satisfaction).

Afterwards you all don’t have to search for anything, you have all become the Gurus. You don’t have to take some great things in this moment, but the blessings of this samadhana you all can feel inside yourselves, you all can know inside yourselves you all can enjoy within yourselves. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Pune. 15-02-2004 .

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