Mataji's Qutes for self development

Many of us have a problems- Who I am? What is the purpose of my life? Where to find the peace? How to act in life ? and so on. These are very basic and common problems , which can be answered if we pay attention to the various quotations of Mataji Nirmaladevi.

I reproduce below few quotes for the benefit of all the seekers.

"You are not this body; you are not this mind – you are the Spirit. This is the greatest truth."

“Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you, in you central nervous system and in your conscious mind. You must feel the existence of the Spirit.”

“Kundalini cures you, She improves you, She bestows all these blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.”

“Meditation is the only way you can grow because when you meditate you are in Silence; you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place. "

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit."

"Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of them you have to choose, the Time has come."

It is important for everyone to have that knowledge of the roots within ourselves. Sahaja Yoga allows the individual to become his own spiritual guide."

"Self Realisation makes us humble. Replace temper with compassion. The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be."

"Discover the peace and joy within through the connection with your Spirit."

The greatest friend you have is the Divine Power which is looking after you and doing everything for you."

Jai Shri Mataji.

Surrendering is Best Policy

In one of her lectures during Navaratri in London, Mataji Nirmaladevi has impressed upon the devotees to understand the power of surrendering. Surrendering to the God has great value, unless it is done from heart, God cannot help you. When a devotee is attacked by satanic forces, it is done in subtle way, it creates confusion in the mind of concerned person. That is a peculiar situation of Kaliyug, that people get easily confused about the real things, doubt is created in their mind, leading to wrong thinking and actions.

The only way to come out of such a confused state of mind is surrendering to the God. When it happens, then all the satanic forces which have taken hold of you, disappear immediately. As they have no business to be there with you, when you have surrendered to the God, and they cannot surrender themselves.

To solve any problem the easiest way is to surrender completely to God, and then the path of progress will be visible to you. All your confusions and worries will be over, because the Almighty has taken charge of it. When you surrender you ego and superego, you receive the blessings, which will chart your way in future towards progress.

You with your logic, knowledge, wisdom, reasoning and whatever you have , you cannot get answers to all the questions. When you try to solve it, or resolve it , at times they become more critical and difficult and complex , so better wasy is to keep aside your ego, superego and surrender to the Almighty and see the miraculous way , how the question gets solved easily.

So why waste time. Just surrender yourself completely and witness the happenings.

Jai. Shri Mataji.

Vibrations can purify Water

In Sahajayoga , the sahajayogi or the person who does it experience everything and anything with the help of vibrations. Those vibrations are the source of divine power coming from our beloved Mother - Mataji Nirmaladevi. It is a great surprising thing that vibrations can be felt coming from the photographs of Mataji Nirmaladevi. These vibrations are very useful and helpful in many ways. We can use it for healing purpose. We can use it for cleansing and purifying purpose or for that matter for any good and noble work.

The divine power manifested through vibrations was used for purifying water on sample water taken from a tab and the results were astonishing. When the water was kept in front of photograph of Mataji Nirmaladevi, due to its vibration it was purified to great extent. When it was tested to compare where chemical contents present in that vibrated water, it was found that almost all the chemical impurities were just marginalised due to vibrations, they were considerably reduced. It is said that such a vibrated water can be effective for number of days and can be used in purified form.

You can have an interested reading on this matter on the Sahajayoga website- under the head research and benefit.

Lyudmila Tkachenko, Dr. of Chemistry, Kiev, Ukraine has published it for the benefit of all the seekers.

Referene-http://www.sahajayoga.org/researchandbenefits/water_research.asp

Jai Shri Mataji.

Sahajayoga- essence of all religions

Religion is the most dear thing to human beings and it follows the person from the birth to death. It is something, which he tries to understand in life, practice in daily routine, and attempts to get to some sort of relief, pleasure, joy of doing some ideal work - Satkarma in life. Religion essentially is a bundle of rules ,formed to control human beings, in their behaviour with everybody around .

But today in Kaliyuga, religion instead of doing something good to society is causing more harm. Battles are fought in the name of religion, inequality is perpetrated in the name of religion, certain dogmas, beliefs, rituals, practices are getting established and gaining acceptance as real religion. But it is not so. We must understand the essence of any religion, it is always the best practices for the human being to follow.

Sahajayoga is essence of all religions. It is build upon the unique awareness, self realisation generated within oneself . It implies and includes all the sacred principles to be followed in life - love, affection, brotherhood, sympathy, forgiveness, help, better relationship and so on. It is not associated with any kind of cult - like using dress of particular colour, wearing some mala or ring, or doing prayer on particular day, at particular time, fasting on particular occasion etc.nothing of this sort. If you observe clearly then you will notice that these are all external things, external manifestation of some acts, while the person concerned is not improved in any mannger, he rather behaves like an animal in life, which should never happen.

In Sahajayoga person understands real meaning of religion, its importance and practices it from within. Sahajayogi is in awakened soul, he on his righteous path becomes a pure soul, which is nothing but living dharma or religion in oneself. He is the self master , guru of his own. He can well guide others also with the help of this Kundalini power and make them realise real peace and joy of life.

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/