Sahaja Culture as explained by Mataji Nirmaladevi

 

Following is the extract of the lecture given by Mataji Nirmaladevi wherein she talked about the Sahaja Culture. 

"Today I was thinking of talking, telling you about the Sahaja Culture...

So the culture is the pattern of behavior we have with others. Is a common pattern of behavior we are supposed to have with others...
So the culture of the Spirit doesn't change. It's universal, and is higher than any other culture. Apart from that it integrates all the essences of all the cultures...

So for a person who is imbibed with the culture of spirit, the Sahaj culture, impresses others by his calmness and relaxed attitude. Relaxation never means lethargy, by any chance. It doesn't mean lethargy. Lethargy is against relaxation. A person who is relaxed cannot become lethargic. "Relaxed" means a person who's alert and calm. These two things for human beings is an impossibility, because if they are alert, if they are alert then they're not calm. If they're unhappy, sad, then they think they are very, very calm. So this is one of the things one has to remember, that you have to witness yourself all the time. Not to condemn yourself, but witness.

Now I said the word "witness" means "detached". Now what happens with this, when you start condemning yourself, you miss every good point. For example, you have some experience of a sudden height being achieved. All right? At that point you should catch hold of it, hold on to it, keep doing, but don't forget that you may go back, no. And then wait for another higher moment to come, hold on to it. That's how you climb Himalayas. But not that, "Oh Ma. Now it's all right, but what will happen next?" Then you are gone down, because you have to face yourself in the way, knowing what are your powers. You are a spirit now, you are no more an ordinary human being, so you have no business to condemn yourself, or to degrade yourself, or in any way to feel unhappy. No way. Past is past. What happened a moment before is finished. "Now I am going to rise. Now I am going to rise."

So a person who has a Sahaja culture is not only spontaneous, but is inspired, is an inspired personality. A person who is of that kind, an inspired visionary, then other people get impressed by such a person that, "See, there's a man who's inspired, who talks in an inspired way, in a way that is something very different from others." Something new he says, new that is nourishing. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi    October 6, 1985    "Sahaj Culture"    New Jersey Ashram, USA

Remove stress, anxiety, depression with Sahajayoga Meditation

 Stress, Anxiety, Load, Pressure, Depression, Overthinking, etc have became the friends of human beings these days. All these things have became the daily routine of all of us. We are so much engaged in these that we have lost our pure joy, our inner self. Where is our inner peace gone? Also the another part of this is that different kinds of diseases that we have never heard about them are coming in front of us and some of us are suffering form them. We are running behind money, yes it’s our duty to earn for our living but we are striving for more and more money, but people having money are they really happy, Joyful ? Many of us have got everything in our life but still, we are not happy with it we want more, we are not satisfied. Where is this satisfaction gone ? Have we came on this earth to suffer all these things? Have we taken birth to run after money,Job, Business, Girlfriend/Boyfriend, etc ? or there is something else for which we have came here ?

How does this Stress, Anxiety,Depression, Overthinking, etc come in us ?

Usually a human being keeps thinking about his past or about his future. When he thinks about his past he keeps on torturing himself why this happened to me? Why did behaved like that? When he thinks about the future he keeps worrying about What will happen? Will I get that or not? all these things leads to imbalance andgives rise to all the stress, anxiety, depression, overthinking within us and it grows very seriously in us that it becomes impossible to get out of it and it becomes our behavior. But to get out all of these things is possible though Sahaja Yoga.

What is Sahaja Yoga Meditation?

In a smaller sense Sahaja yoga meditation is the technique of meditation but in the larger sense it is the way of living. Sahaja Yoga is a very simple technique of meditation which connects us to our inner being to the all pervading power that created us. This meditation is a cognitive science in which each and every thing can be proven. This meditation is scientifically proven. Sahaja yoga meditation technique is founded by H. H . Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in 1970 for the well being of the whole humanity.

How Sahaja yoga Meditation helps in balancing our lives?

The meditation itself starts with balancing. There are two sides of our subtle system that is left, right and centre. The Left side is all about our emotions or the ‘Ichha Shakti’, our past activities. While the right side is all about our work also called as ‘Kriya Shakti’ and our future. And the central path is all about our present, about the truth, it is the path of our evolution. Itgives us the absolute peace. In the lower part of our the abdomen, in the triangular part of our secrum bone is the Kundalini, it is the power of pure desire within us. When it rises, it passes through our central channel and peerses out of the fontanel bone area at the top of our head and gets connected to the all pervading power in the whole universe. We feel the cool breeze 

reference-https://eduindex.org/2021/07/21/achieve-balance-in-life-through-sahaja-yoga/

Lord Ganesha - His powers and position in your life.

 

Today is birth day of Lord Ganesha.  Mataji Nirmaladevi has given lot of information of this deity.  

Lord Ganesha is the deity controlling the first chakra, Mooladhar chakra in every human being. 

Following is the extract from one of her lectures on the occasion of ganesh pooja.

But when Parvati made Shri Ganesha, He was the son of Parvati alone. There was no Father. Parvati Herself wanted to have a child of Her own. There were angels who were dedicated either to Vishnu or to Shiva, like ganas were dedicated to Shiva alone.

So, She wanted to have Her own Son who can permeate Her powers on this Earth. So to begin with when the Shakti created this Universe and Sadashiva was watching Her creation, the first thing She created on this Earth was innocence and the embodiment of that innocence was Shri Ganesha. The whole Universe was covered with innocence, which we call as Omkara. This innocence protected all the creation of the world and penetrated into all that is matter. Matter is innocent. If you hit the matter, it will hit you back because it is built like that. It doesn’t want to harm you by any method except that if you try to hit it, it hits you back, in its own nature,

When the Kundalini risesShri Ganesha is awakened in you, the Ganesha whom you never respected, slowly comes up from His slumber, out of the hurt and the injuries inflicted on Him, still He stands up, but still weak.

Shri Ganesha has four hands and the hand that carries the destructive weapon of Parasha is the one you have to be careful about. That is His job and if you neglect Him, that force will act and act so vehemently that despite your realization you may not be able to save yourself. Do not take your realization for granted. Unless and until your Ganesha is settled, your realization has no meaning at all. Watch yourself, have you got adulterous eyes? Have you got an adulterous mind?

After all Shri Ganesha is My Son because He is pure. Now He is not the only son I have. I have so many sons and daughters and I have made you in the same way as I created Shri Ganesha, without the Father, on My own. To your Mother nothing but purity of heart and purity of your body is going to please. Anything that is impure has to be thrown away. My name itself means purity. You can do it. You are empowered to do it. You have a Kundalini to do it. But the first thing you have to do is to cleanse that and the rest you don’t have to worry, Shri Ganesha will look after it. One chakra you keep clean, the rest is looked after. All your incurable diseases right from all muscular troubles like mellitus and all that, all your incurable diseases right from cancer onwards, all your psychosomatic problems right from schizophrenia, everything come because of the disturbance in Mooladhara. When the roots are not all right, how can you cure the tree? If the roots are all right then any medicine can reachany center, any area, any place, any fruit. But if the roots are not all right, how can you work it out?

 

Shri Ganesha within us is magnetic. So a person who has Shri Ganesha awakened within himself becomes magnetic and magnet attracts the steel – not dried leaves, does not – steel. And steel is like the Guru Tattwa.

Is a man with the steel, say. “Man of steel” – a person who has character, conviction and who cannot be dominated by temptations, is a man of steel. So this magnet attracts the steel. Steel has only one badness, bad thing about it that it is not pliable, it’s rather dry but the magnet attracts, means it creates that special quality in the steel that it moves towards the magnet. In the same way when this magnet is awakened within you, you’ll be amazed. Instead of people running away from your ashrams they’ll be running towards you. I find it impossible. I go to any house, if they come to know I am there, God save Me – anywhere, any place. So what is this magnet? Is pure love.

he deals with Mother Earth everyday. He knows the living process. He knows about the innocence of the Mother Earth. So an innocent person is the wisest among … A child who is innocent is much wiser than ten ego-oriented people. So the second capacity of Shri Ganesha is that you become a wise person. When you speak, people start looking at you. You speak like Kabira, you speak like Nanaka. You speak like something that makes people feel their spirit. This is what I call is a Sahaja yogi.

The Mother Kundalini cannot move, unless and until Shri Ganesha gives the permission. He is like the Vice-Chancellor sitting on all the chakras. He has to certify, “All right. Pass. Go,” on every chakra. And when the Kundalini rises, Shri Ganesha is awakened, otherwise Kundalini cannot rise. But then when He sleeps down, Kundalini sucks, is sucked by Him. Now we think we have lost our innocence. That’s not easy to be lost. It is not destructible.

He guides you. Sahaja yoga cannot work out without Shri Ganesha. He is the one who is Sahaja. He is the one who creates all spontaneity of the world. He is the one who takes you to the right path. He is the one who gives you everything easily. He is the one who creates all the chamatkars, all the magic, all the miracles of the world. He is the Ganapati. He is the one who is sitting on Ganas, in the sense that He is like the king of all the Ganas. The one who has pleased Shri Ganesha has pleased all the Gods and Goddesses because all the Gods and Goddesses are pleasing Shri Ganesha, so what is the need?

He’ll give us wisdom. He’ll give us sense to understand. He’ll give us power to overcome our arrogance that is within us. He’s the one who is the giver of knowledge. He’s the one who  gives us light. Many people in India also worship Shri Ganesha, and go on “Shri Ganesha, Shri Ganesha, Shri Ganesha”, and do all kinds of funny things. That’s like cheating yourself unnecessarily. It’s so simple to establish Shri Ganesha within you. But understand that it is vital that you people who are Sahaja yogis should establish Shri Ganesha, which is a silent power within you, doesn’t talk. It’s a silent power, which acts.,

 reference -https://www.amruta.org/1986/09/07/shri-ganesha-puja-