foot soaking

Foot soaking is the process, which has great importance in the sahajayoga meditation. It is expected that almost everyday it should be done twice a day- in the morning, evening or at night before going to bed.

It is a very easy simple thing to do, but of immence importance. It is the process which helps in cleansing the negativity in your body. It helps to drain out negativity from your body. It cannot happen suddently and in one day or one attempt. We have been storing negativity within ourself for years together, and so it needs time to get out. But once you realist its importance and start practicing it daily, it will be out of your body . When you will be freed from negativity you will feel great joy, pleasure, energy- all signs of paramchaitanya.

Removing all negativity from your body will help you concentrate more in meditation. You can meditate for longer time with great ease and enjoy it thoroughly. You will realise,experience cool breeze and the sensations and vibrations- all signs of divine power and feel cheerful and energetic. All the qualities of your heart and brain will develop by continuous process of cleansing and more meditation. Your kundalini will find the path to rise very easily and rise upto sahasrara. Then you know, you have got everything, the divine power within yourself - to guide all your life.

Following is the method of doing foot soaking-

To increase your inner Power and get negative energy out, get a plastic tub and fill it with lukewarm water and add a handful of salt. Just before going to sleep, sit in front of this photograph, silent in mind with your attention to the top of your head and ‘Being’, and soak your feet in that tub for 10 minutes. It will draw out enormous amounts of negative energy into the salt. Pour some clean water over your feet and, avoiding eye or skin contact with the negative water, pour it down the toilet only. Keep the bucket outside and away from food and pets and the livinf environment. Only use the bucket for that purpose because it deals with a very strong and great amount of negative energy. Return for normal meditation with right hand to Earth to drain more negative out while left hand is to Mother’s photo, and then left hand towards the sky / roof with right hand to Mother’s photo, then after about 5 minutes of negative draining out on each side then hold both hands to Mother’s photo for a while. A more effective way of footsoak is to use 2 tubs, the left foot and ankle in quite hot water, and the right foot in ice water (with ice blocks). Place a cushion under your thighs so your feet don’t touch the bottom of the tubs. You can add more salt once or twice if you like, moving your palm over the water 21 times in a clock-wise motion (Bandhan) to cancel out a bit of negative energy. Maintain a good spinal posture.

Foot soak drawing

Footsoak drawing

The double foot soak is water that is hotter than just warm for left foot, and ice blocks for right foot. 2 buckets at the same time, with lots of fine sea salt and feet not touching the bottom.

When there is such pain in the chakras, the best thing is to get the negative energy out with the footsoak, and I mean that you need to use about a quarter of a one kilogram bag of fine sea salt in each bucket and sit there for at least 45 minutes. Because you should Bandhan (7 or 21 clockwise movements of right hand) and add more salt half way through, you should share the salt out to make it 250 grams (about that much) for each bucket for the whole time of 45 minutes. It is not a good idea to carry on longer than that 45 minutes. When you take the buckets to empty in the toilet, you shouldn’t look at the water, as I’m sure you know. And also, don’t hold the buckets against your body as you carry them. When you return to the chair, do some Bandhans over the ground where the buckets were. Then sit with your right hand to Earth and allow all the negative in your Ida Nadi left channel to get out and ask Your Kundalini to drain it out, and Mother Earth to accept the negative for you, and feel a gentle and sweet love and gratitude for Them too. When you drain negative out of yourself, your consciousness will fill up with the pains of the side you are draining out. Bad emotions, memories of things in your life that make You feel guilty and such things will all become very strong for this time while You drain the negative. So here You just need to understand that You must go through all of that to be free over a certain period of time, and don’t fall into the pain that comes to You. Don’t try to stop the pain either or Kundalini will think you do want to be free. She responds to a Desire for Her to give You life and Your Spirit, so keep telling Your Kundalini, quietly inside Your heart, not with mind, that You want Her to keep getting this pain out for you. I went through all of this and there had been quite a lot of pain I had hidden away and when I got rid of it each day then I would wake up some terrible things inside and I just held onto the understanding that I need to always wish for Kundalini to free me.

To sit without getting into big ideas about things will be the best thing you can do, and you have to hold on to each part of freedom you can get. Then, when you feel no more pain in Your right hand’s fingers, and all the negative that is going to leave has gone out of you, then do the same with your left hand to the roof / sky. I’m sure you know all of this technique, but when you do it with the long double footsoak of hot water (not just warm) for left foot, and ice for right foot, then this is what brings so much of a difference. Watch out for the mental thoughts trying to increase while you drain negative out of the right channel through your left hand to the sky.

Then, it is very important to keep your feet apart always, even when you sleep in bed. You can stop the negative getting out if your legs and feet touch. I’m talking about your legs below the knee, not your whole legs, although I went the extra bit always and kept them apart, above and below the knee.

source- http://shrimatajisahajayogalectures.wordpress.com/double-foot-soak-sahaja-yoga/

Benefits of Meditation

Sahajayoga meditation technique is unique, very easy to understand and follow. Once the seeker gets its knowledge from Mataji Nirmaladevi or any disciple of Sahajayoga, and practice it every day, it provides emmense benefits.

In this type of meditation the kundalini of the person is awakened, balance between the three nadis within ourself - Ida, Pingala and Sushumna is established. The balancing of internal system, and cleansing of left side and right side nadis indirectly results in reduction of stress, anxiety, worry. It also helps to overcome various ailments like Asthama, Blood Pressure and even cancer to great extent.

Following are various benefits of Sahajayoga Meditation -

Physical benefits of meditation

It is our subtle body which co-ordinates all the work done by the organs and the cells in our body. When one of our chakras is blocked, physical dysfunctions appear in the organs it controls. It is then that most illnesses appear. Traditional medicine tries to cure the symptoms. An effective type of meditation allows us to attack the causes directly, by re balancing our subtle system and by cleaning our centers. Thus, even so-called incurable illnesses can be cured in a spontaneous manner by the purifying work of the energy of the Kundalini.

Mental benefits of meditation

When we enter a state of meditation, we enter a realm of silence; the thoughts which assail us fade away, and the reality of the present is revealed to us in all its intensity. Our senses send us a direct image of the world which is not altered by our mind or our conditionings.

Emotional benefits of meditation

When the Kundalini is awakened and we are immersed in a state of meditation, our emotions are also brought into balance. All the weaknesses which hinder the expression of pure and sincere sentiments, such as greed, insecurity, jealousy etc. are reduced when the joy of meditation is felt. This joy is absolute, devoid of all duality. This same joy becomes the motivation of our emancipation.

Spiritual benefits of meditation

Especially Sahaj Yoga Meditation reveals to us the eternal, divine being that is truth, awareness and bliss. We become part and parcel of the whole, like a drop in that ocean of love, and in meditation we melt into that Primordial being. This experience is the next stage in the evolution of an ordinary human being's awareness: that person is said to be born again or realized. This means that our spiritual essence, that had been hidden until then, becomes reality. Our union with the whole will become stronger and stronger as we go along and that is without doubt the most precious benefit that Kundalini awakening can bring us. This middle way that is established within us day after day by our kundalini will shower blessings of all sorts upon us, not only of a physical, emotional or psychological nature, but also material, social and professional benefits.

reference - http://www.mpsahaj.org/benefits.html

Ocean of love

Human beings in modern days are quite different. They are over active, over sensitive, unbalanced,depressed and in search of many things of life. Many of them are search of love, because somewhere in their hearts they feel that, in spite of having everything like, wealth, power, popularity there is something which they are missing , and that is love. Pure love is very difficult to find today. Only pure souls can have it, can distribute it, can confer it, can spread it. Otherwise what kind of love we witness around us is many a times linked to something else which we have, our power, our position, our capacity to be of help to others or something of that sort. that is not pure love.

So if you want to be loved by all you need to be pure soul. How can it happen - by opening of sahasrara, where lives mataji within us, where the kundalini gets settled, once awakened fully. So keeping sahasrara clean, open, is the key to love, happines, paramchaitanya to dawn and get established within yourself. The only method to have it is Meditation.

Therefore Mataji Nirmaladevi has again and again asked all the sahajayogis to meditate, meditate everyday. It is the route to complete transformation, pure love, happiness. Mataji has advised to lover her as she loves us all, to love self, to love everybody and anybody. There should be no boundaries for love. Love is within yourself, in your heart. It gets manifested on its own No one can teach how to love or learn it from anybody. It must happen spontaneously, from within, it happens and that is why it is pure love, the manifestation of divine spirit within yourself.

Love is the best method to cleanse sahasrara. Love which has no limits, no questions to be answered, no expectation in return , it is just pure love, which is most powerful instrument in our life. What stops us from loving - our conditioning. We are slavcs of conditioning, our upbringing, our ideas, our inability to express love for various reasons. In many societies expressing love is considered as sin. One should never be afraid to express love for anybody, anything- it is the pure form of divine power.

Try to check your parameters of love- analyse why you love particular thing or personality- because of his physical conditioning, his appearance, his dress, his lifestyle, his money, his power, his sweet talk and so many other things. Mataji says our love must not get entangled, get attached, get fixed to anything- otherwise it is really a death of love.

The love of spirit is different, it is unconditional, unlimited, unbiased, uncontrolled, unaffected, we must have it within ourself. The love of conditioned mind is different- it has limits, it is calculated, expecting something in return, it is not pure love. The greatest obstacle in our love is our ego- we have set some standards, some yardstick, some measuring rod to decide - what to love, who are worth loving and something of that sort. It is absurd, wrong, egoistic. If something fits into our thinking, our ideas, our notions, our beliefs, our bracket or frame of measuring its worth- then only we love. Try to analyse such type of conditioning, question yourself is is right, is it proper, is it normal, - perhaps your inner voice may be couragious to tell you something else. But you must be wise enought to understand it, to accept it. Let pure love fill yourself, express itself openly, without any boundaries, any conditioning, any limits, any expectations, any fear, any taboo, any criticism.

Mataji says love from heart, express it, make your life full of happiness with overflowing love from within. Never criticise other, never insult others, never ill treat others, never question others, never indulge unwanted arguments. It you do not accept , leave it, go away from it, but never criticise it, never kill the art, the expressions of others in any form.

Mataji has asked us to just jump into the ocean of love. She has expressed that -

Once you jump into the ocean of love there’s nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed. Every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning. That Sahaja Yoga is nothing but love.

reference- http://shrimatajisahajayogalectures.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/jump-into-the-ocean-of-love/

Establishing Guru Principle in self

With the help of Sahajayoga when the kundalini is awakened, the person concerned becomes his own Guru. Kundilini Maa or Mother is one power, which remain with us every minutes and in every life, how many times we have taken birth. So it is that divine power, whch knows us completely, from our past, present and also our future. Therefore it is in a position to guide us on every aspect of life. So this way the Sahajayogi becomes Guru of his own, and guides all the time.

Mataji has been kind enough to establish this Guru Principle within ourself. Now we have to nurture it, we have to follow it, we have to understand it, we have to witness it every now and then. We have to keep it alive, we have to see that we go more deep and deep and allow ourself to be guided by Guru within ourself, by obeying all the dictats of it, without questioning anything about it with full faith, and completely surrendering to it.

We need to save ourself from the destruction of this Guru Principle. We have to constantly follow it, accept it, respect it, adore it, recognise its guiding and follow it, and then it will flourish. If you stop looking at it, if you do not take care of it, if you do not nurture it properly, it will be just destroyed. So the seed of Guru Principle within self needs to be nurtured with love and proper attention. Never allow it to die at any cost due to your negligence or apathy or tiredness anything for that matter. That would be perhaps the greatest mistake of the life, which you will repent afterwards. Maintain Guru tatva properly. Maintenance is essential for saving it from getting destroyed.

Many people have a wrong notion that when Guru Principle is established it will take of its own. But it is not so. There is every probability of its destruction, if we fail to maintain it properly. As we water the new plant properly, we have to nurture our Guru Principle. After getting enlightenment we have to make own progress from the stage of ordinary human being to that of soul- pure soul. And for that purpose proper maintenance of Guru Principle is utmost essential.

How to maintain Guru tatva - by maintaining balance in self. Balanced thaughts, balanced acts only will convert you and lead you on the path of becoming pure soul. Any kind of imbalance within yourself will literally destroy the guru principle. So do not get catched by the over acts of left side or right side of you. Maintaining balance is the most essential thing.

First we have to austere ourself. We have to separate ourself as human being and as a spirit. We have to watch our every act, every deed, every thought from the eyes of the spirit. We have to witness our conditioning as a witness, as a third party, and then we really realise what is wrong with us. what are mistakes and what we need to improve upon.

Another essential thing is altering our habits. Every one of us have formed some habits, about which we feel proud - it may be of any kind - liking for sweet, eating only raw food, taking wine everyday, using dark colour cloths, taking delight in troubling others, so many things - we have formed habits. We need to witness it from the eyes of spirit, we have to change them, we have to destroy it and then only you can have balance within yourself. Try to think about your habit differently- act against your habits- but then go to the other extreme also, otherwise your habit will get converted in some other forms. We have to save ourself from the slavery of our habits.

The great master gets delight in everything, he sees beauty everywhere - in lush green surrounding and also in tree without a single leaf. He can get joy in every form of nature and does not get trapped in particular type of liking or preference. We have to learn many things from the nature. See how nature gets itself dressed to welcome the spring and how it is undressed during winter. It all happens naturally. It should also happen to us naturally , with that ease. We must be ready to accept any change, enjoy it under any conditions, alter ourself to its mood and demand, then life will be totally interesting and wonderful to live.

Another obstacle in maintaining Guru Principle is the - mental attachment. Mental attachment to anything - which conditions you, which sets boundaries for you, which limits you in every sense. Get rid of every kind of mental attachment if you want to become pure soul. Our mental attachment always gives us a pride for knowing everything on this earth- everybody is so sure that he knows everything - really everything- but it is not so . It is only our mental attitude which makes us believe that we know everything - the great scientists, doctors, solicitors, leaders, everyone is convinced of self knowing everything - that he is just like a blind man facing the reality. He can never find reality, he can never feel it, greet it, accept it because perhaps it will break mental attachment to particular thinking, self ego, super ego within oneself . So we have to stop this all, learn to witness every of our act, deed, thougt as witness , from the eyes of third person, external force, and then only we can realise what is wrong with us. It will help to get establish guru tatva in self.

We need to be progressive on our journey of life. We have to understand our mental feelings and convictions are not necessarily true. We have to hold the light of spirit, guru within ourself very strongly , which will lead us on right path, which we show us reality, which will show how we are nurturing wrong notions as per our our mental perspective. We rely too much on our mental faculties , which are based on our thoughts, so we are always at the level of thoughts. We have to move forward from the conditions of thoughts to thoughtless state,where we will get to know the reality, the brahma , the knowledge of pure soul.

Another problem we face is that of our feelings, emotions. It is a great destructive force, we have to always remind ourself. With the dictates of particular emotions, we become complete blind to everything. People get delight from their emotions, but the real delight comes from the state of detachment. We need to detach from our ego, from our superego, and then only we will delighted in real sense. With boosting ego and superego of self we alway indulge in criticising others. But that is unfair- we are blind to our own deeds and under some wrong notion we criticise others- feeling that only we are correct, we are perfect, ours is the only authentic course of action and something of this sort.

We need to detach ourself. We have to witness from external side as witness ourself , then we realise everything. When we are emotional we see the ego of others, and when we are self under ego or superego we completely forget feelings of others. That should not happen. We need to detach ourself from ego and super ego.

Many of sahajayogis also commit mistakes. They say that they are unaware of their mistakes, it was done under some influence of external forces operating etc. They never intended to do it and so on. Mataji do not like sahajayogis to commit mistakes of any kind under any pretext. You get detached, never allow negative thoughts to seep into you like a stone, and then you will never be under influence any kind of negativity. We need to make us as strong as very hard stone which never allows external elements to affect itself, like that, so next time negativity will have to think hundred time before venturing to enter in you. Save yourself from negativithy to become real Guru, real Master of your own.

As human being we are bound to commit some mistakes, but do not go on commiting it again and again. It can have no excuse, just ourself being a human being is no excuse for commiting mistakes and perpetrating those again and again. When you commit mistake, you understand it, the light within you, the inner voice clearly gives you indication that you have committed mistake. Accept your mistake and punish yourself for it. Punish yourself for every kind of misbehaviour on your part. You punish yourself or otherwise the divine power will punish it, and that punishment of divine power is always very severe. But at the same time do not feel guilty, do not feel guilty at all for any past act Get out of guilty feeling and vouch to behave in such a manner than in future you will never feel guilty for your act, deed or thought.

We need to change ourself externally also. We need to learn and adopt good manners. Manners becomes our nature and hence we need to be extremely cautious about it. We have to control all our likings - our look, our food, our behaviour, our manners, our tone, our reaction, our acts everything. Then only one can become Real Guru and not otherwise.

So let us all become our own Master, Guru ourself with all the teachings and warnings given by Mataji Nirmaladevi.

Jai Shri Mataji.

Complete dedication

With the blessing of Mataji Nirmaladevi thousands of people everyday get self realisation, their kundalini is awakended. They are on the path of power of god, they become their own masters, they lead on righteous path and feel contented in life. However few do not, they feel something down, why it is so - the main and real reason is lack of dedication to Mataji Nirmaladevi.

Mataji has been kind and generous to get us self enlightgened. She has given that power, which nobody on this planet gives, and that too freely. We see people around us loosing everything in search of Guru, Dharma, Religion and so on. Here we are not loosing anything but gaining in every respect. It happens automatically, knowingly or unknowingly, you get completely transformed in and ou,t on all parameters of life. If you are feeling down in any respect- kindly dedicate yourself completely to Mataji Nirmaladevi and everything will change.

For the benefit of all sahajayogis and all seekers i reproduce below extracts from the text of the lecture given by Mataji Nirmaladevi in 1982 in UK.

But be dedicated on that tattva, because I am the principle of all these. I am the tattva – Tattvamasee. I am the Principle. Keep to your principle. I am the Kundalini. I am the essence.

The Parabrahma has come to look after you. Cling on to it. Even the death has to go back, then what about these minor things ? Now, the name of your Mother is very powerful. You know that is the most powerful name than all other names, the most powerful mantra. But you must know how to take it. With that complete dedication you have to take that name. Not like any other name.

I want to tell you very frankly, as Krishna has told only Arjuna, ”Sarva dharmanam parityajya, mamekam sharanam vraja”. There is no other way out. Vraja means the one who is twice born, like a solid, solid personality. When you are solid then you must dedicate. When you are perfected then you must dedicate. It will help you to get out of the mire and then it will help the great cause. No one understands that “Why Mother is trying to help me?“ They think “She is too generous.” I am not. I have lot of common-sense. Because you are the ones who are capable of manifesting God’s joy on this earth. You are the flutes which are going to play the melody of God. You are going to be used and manoeuvred by God. I am doing all this to perfect you to be the most beautiful instrument of God. To be the right instrument of God. I don’t know if you understand how sweet, beautiful life it would be. – The life of dedication, with understanding – logical, completely dedicated extracting all the nourishment and dedicating it for a higher purpose. Something like the leaves extract the sun’s ray and give colour, achieve colour for themselves, for a higher purpose, that they can be used by human beings later on. Nothing on this earth works out the other way roun out for a purpose, but such an unselfish, such a wide, such a great dynamic purpose. You become the ocean, you become the moon, you become the sun, you become the earth, you become the ether, the firmament and you become the Spirit.

We can only understand dedication of something, which looks bigger in gross way, which appears in a gross way. But we cannot dedicate ourselves to something that is so much subtler, which is so much more minute, which is so much deeper, which is so much effective, which is so much dynamic, so universal and so eternal. We cannot think of dedicating ourselves to that. We can surrender ourselves to somebody who looks like a mountain, who comes to oppress us like a mountain, who is like Hitler, who is like false guru. But to surrender to your subtler being – which you cannot see with your eyes, which is not audible, but, in effect is so powerful. Like the atomic bomb when the atom is split – when it is not split, it is everywhere. But at the subtlest point it is so dynamic, that when you separate it, it becomes such a dynamic force of destruction. As your attention has now penetrated into the subtler side of this universe, get deep and deeper into it. The urge that takes the end of the root to the source of water, is the same as the source. Your Kundalini is the same as the Adi Kundalini, and it’s Power the Parabrahma. All these things are to be understood after realisation, and after maturity. Before that it is not possible. That is why for the last eight years, I did not say these things to you. I was on a very patronising and sweet terms with you. And always I made you feel that you are obliging Me. There is no obligation. Beyond all these conceptions you have become your Self, now ready, to be responsible, to be what you are made for. Like the ship is built, is brought to the sea, tried, and found out to be sea-worthy to sail out now, into the sea. So this is the second phase where you have to sail out, when you know everything about the ship, everything about the sea. With complete freedom and wisdom, you have to sail now. Not afraid of any storms or any hails or any typhoons because now all you know. Your job is to cross through.

May God bless you.

reference - http://shrimatajisahajayogalectures.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/complete-dedication-the-only-way/

Sahajayoga in Russia

Mataji Nirmaladevi has established a real religion in this world- called - "Vishwa Nirmala Dharma". It is the reality that people from all over the world Hindus, Muslims, Christians everybody - is joining sahajayoga- because after getting realisation- one becomes enlightened soul and Guru of its own. He understands real meaning of Religion, becomes religious in practice.

Mataji wanted to spread this awakening, and real enlightenment all over the world. In Russia also people are initially attending the programs out of anxiety, and then after getting realisation practicing it from their heart.

It is very interesting to note that Sahajayoga has completed 20 years in Russia and widely welcomed and accepted by Russians.

Following is the extract of the news from Russia, which clearly indicate the real power of Sahajayoga

Azerbaijan is a Muslim country and it was a Great Play of Mother that Russians were performing Indian music in a Christian temple giving realization to Muslims. Four civilizations: Slavonic, Muslim, Western and Indian – gathered in one and the same place at one and the same time thanks to the great work of Shri Mataji!

Two Public Programs were held in Baku. There never were vacant seats in the halls. About 600 people got their Self-realization during those two days. The representatives of TV and the Press visited the Programs and we held several press-conferences including the one for the Central TV Channel of Azerbaijan.

Mataji Nirmaladevi has expressed the happiness over the way the Russians have realised and adopted it. They are really practicisng the meditation techniques and teachings, phylosophy of life and getting self enlightened.

Reference-

http://news.sahajayoga-russia.ru/?p=481&cpage=1#comment-1115

Divine Knowledge

Mataji Nirmaladevi has time and again explained various important things to be known and followed in life. This is nothing but the divine knowledge.Many of our questions get solved by referring to such divine knowledge.

Divine Knowledge

• The importance of putting a bindi on forehead
  Bindi is made with a substance called Lead Oxide. Lead Oxide is also called Sindhoor in Hindi. It is a cooling thing and is very good for right sided people. For them if it is put on Agnya it cools them down and controls anger. Thus, it helps to protect and clear Agnya chakra.
  
  
• ‘Ham’ and ‘Ksham’ is the Beeja
  Quotes from Shri Mataji - ”Now the mantra of the Agnya Chakra is Lord’s Prayer. It has got two sides ‘Ham’ and ‘Ksham’. ‘Ham’ means ‘I am’ and Ksham’ means ‘I forgive’. So if supposing this is catching, you have to say, ‘I forgive’. If there is ego within us, you should say, ‘I forgive’. If there is superego within us, we should say ‘I am, I am’; so it is ‘Ham’ and ‘Ksham’ is the beeja, is the seed. It is the seed of the prayer, Lord’s Prayer”
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• Forgive everybody including yourself
• • We have to forgive people… That is very important, because that is the power you have won - from Christ.
  • Forgiveness comes from people who are very generous, who are good-hearted. You know, everybody makes mistakes and so we can also make mistakes, but that means we have a right to forgive and we have a heart to forgive. If you don’t have that, then you are not a Sahaja Yogi. You must learn to forgive and forgive without any remarks behind you.
  
  
  The Shri Lalita Centre

  Shri Lalita Chakra is the moon and contains the power of the left side. This

  Chakra is above the left heart. It is the point where sacred union of Shri Shiva

  and his Shakti takes place. Their joy becomes expressed within us at our level

  of earthly existence. It is situated on the left side so that we can experience this

  joy spontaneously and we desire to seek it again and again. From here one

  learns to surrender emotional attachments to the Maya. As a result we are

  emotionally attached solely to the attainment of joy, to God almighty. Since this

  point is between Heart and Vishuddhi, by establishing that link, it can help us to

  get rid of guilt and deep insecurity. Thus when we fully recognize Adi Shakti and

  set into the state of doubtless awareness, we feel Divine joy within. This gives

  us our witness power, which helps the attention to remain firm in Sahasrara.

  
  

  Catches: can be caused by a false guru. When one feels that one can

  intellectually know and possess God, then one can become very gaunt.

  Imbalance in Left Vishuddhi and lack of joy is a constant cause of catch. Avoid

  moving shoulders. Also, ladies should cover their shoulders.
  
  
  Courtesy - http://www.sahajayoga.ca/newsletter/index.htm