Category: Motivation

Dr Rustom Bujorjee: Yoga, is to take you to God, and any form of meditation, which doesn’t do that is obviously not true. Now we have heard that TM (Transdental Meditation) takes you only to bankruptcy, mental illness and physical illness. When I was a young doctor in London. I was working in a very famous psychiatric hospital, the most famous in England. And there, I used to find a lot of patients used to come about 6 or 8 weeks after having started TM. In those days, I never used to understand, what it was the TM did? That it used to drive people mad. We used to have all sorts of theories and all sorts of ideas, and we discussed this many times amongst yourself, but we didn’t know the answer.

By next, it going to TM happen when I was in Shri Mataji’s ashram and the people from Scotland came down. There were 20 of them perhaps 25 and we tried to give them realization. The first thing that happened is when we began to take mantras, that they began to shake like people who are having epileptic fits. I was very surprised. I have never seen anything like this before. So to try to protect him, we try to put sindur on their forehead. When we tried to put sindur on their forehead, they began to shiver and to run away from us and they have no control over this. One person sitting on the ground, and he jumped so high of the ground, and ran like an animal on all four legs between the legs of somebody, out of the door into the garden. All these things really happened. They were used to growl and bark like animals. It was so bad that all the people around us wondered what was the matter?

Then, I attended a scientific seminar, a so-called scientific seminar on TM. And what we found them was the brain waves that TM eventually produces in people are the same as the brain waves that are produced in epilepsy. Most of the people who came from TM, in addition to having to be psychologically unstable. They are very irritating, they can’t bear any disturbance, their minds are not steady, they do not seem to be in control of themselves, and their intelligence is completely destroyed, their capacity to think is completely destroyed, they can’t do anything anymore. They are broken, empty.

I was a doctor. You see, so I was very interested in this. So it seems to be that, there is no technique for reaching God. Rather here is a technique which will enable you to destroy yourself. Many of the people who have done TM, either their families, members of families have had heart attacks, have bronchitis, pneumonia. The mother of this friend of Mr Marcus, who first brought him died in a hospital of a heart attack, and she was unconscious for I think something like 8 or 10 days.

So you see, anything that is auspicious, anything that is True, anything that is a good Yoga, should bring you blessings. It should not destroy you, it should not destroy your mind, it should not destroy your body, it should not destroy your family and it should not destroy your wealth. And I have never done TM, but I have never seen anyone who has benefitted from TM. All it does, it places your ego.

God does not make you governors of this Universe. He does not make big thrones to sit on, that is not his job. His job is to make you one with your spirit. And if anyone comes to you, and says if you give me money, and I will make you reach me, reach God. Then if you go to him, then you are a fool. Because you must know that God does not act through money, and it does not flatten your ego. He is not a diplomat. He is the master of this whole Universe.

Sahaja yoga is the opposite of all this. It is, in fact, the only way. You see, through Sahaja yoga, the first thing that happens by the grace of the God, which is manifested in Mataji Nirmala Devi that your Kundalini awakens. As your Kundalini awakens your attention, your Chitta which upon now going there, there, everywhere is drawn inside into your subtle body, into the chakras, which sit in the subtle body and into the gods and the deities who sit in this chakras and rule the subtle body.

In the technique of this Yoga, you say the mantras and you feel the chakras move. You take the names of Gods and you see where they are sitting. You see what qualities they rule over. You see what things you do which makes the chakra close, and you should not do them. And you see, what things you should do which makes chakras open. Your attention goes inside from outside and it becomes subtle and your chakras teach you the best way to live. And so your dharma is established in reality through your own feelings, not simply by listening. You learn from your own experience, and as you become deeper and deeper established in Sahaja yoga, you begin to feel the silence, that is your own spirit. And you begin to see the manifestation of your own spirit within you. So that it becomes, your attention becomes centered on your spirit, and you realize that your spirit is one with the Absolute.

Another side of Sahajayoga is that the Devi is ‘sarva vidya pradayini’. She is the giver of all True Knowledge. Now, I was educated at Cambridge, where I was taught by at least 20 noble prize winners. Whatever there was in science to know, I learnt and I knew. I did the research myself into brain cells. But what we know in science is very limited compared to what you can learn from the vidya of Sahaja yoga.

You see, why all the scientists are talked as medical scientists? All the scientists discovered that such a gland is here. If you do such and such thing to that gland, it will react in such a way. All that physicist discovered is what does atom in the Universe. If you do such and such thing to this atom, they will behave in this way, that’s all. It is not very deep, it is not very profound. And it takes you many centuries to discover all these things.

In Sahaja yoga, using your own instrument, you can feel the great shaktis of this Universe. How do they move to? How do they act? And how they have built this Universe? What is the architecture of this Universe? And knowing that, knowing the subtle skeleton, the subtle structure of this Universe, you know not only what things do? But why they do them?

For example, since coming to Sahaja yoga, I have discovered why certain endocrine glands are placed in certain situations. I will give you one example, you see, the Swadishthana chakra is a chakra that is concerned with the metabolism of fat of transforming fat for use in the brain or transforming fat into sugar for use by the Nabhi chakra. Now, this we know, and now we know why all the glands which deal with fat metabolism are placed there. Now the liver is the only organ in the body that can use fat, that is in the centre Swadishthana. The pancreas which controls the shift of sugar to fat and fat to sugar is also in the Swadishthana chakra. So it makes perfect sense.

We know the Vishuddhi chakra is the chakra which handles growth, height. And here the two great glands thyroid and parathyroid which control this, are placed there. We know the Agnya means command. It is a chakra of command and we know the pituitary, which commands all the endocrine glands are situated in Agnya chakra. And we know that the limbic area, which is the area of bliss. You are stimulated to get bliss and that controls the Agnya chakra that is the area of Sahasrara. So the Sahasrara integrated the whole sympathetic, para-sympathetic system which manifests in Agnya hypothalamus pituitary pineal glands and these control all the other endocrine glands all the over sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

You see, it is very simple, if you go to the realm of chemistry, you will find the same thing. We know that the carbon atom with its four valencies is the tatwa of Lord Ganesha. We know that the nitrogen is the tatwa of Lord Vishnu, of the Satwa Guna. You know with carbon, hydrogen and oxygen you can produce any organic compound. But without nitrogen, you can not have a life. So it seems, without the power of Lord Vishnu there is no life, there is only material Universe. Now how many people of you know that that is why for life we need nitrogen. We put nitrogen fertilizers on our field. Did you know? Why it is so necessary?

You see how the other side of it is that we know that Lord Vishnu sits in the Nabhi chakra that he rules the Sushumna Nadi and he is the lord of Satwa Guna. How do we know this? I didn’t read this in any book. But when people come to Mataji’s feet you will see, where the Nabhi chakra is, that there is blocked, Kundalini below is moving. You can see it with your own eyes moving up and down. How do we know that it is Vishnu’s tatwa? You say the mantra of Lord Vishnu, very simple “Om twamev sakshat Shri Laxmi Narayana or Shri Laxmi Vishnu sakshat Shri Adishakti Bhagwati Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi namoh namah”. Then that block gives, the Kundalini rushes up to Sushumna Nadi and breaks into the Sahasrara. That is how we know.

You see, it is a direct experience. It far more satisfying than scientific experiment you can do in the laboratory because it is, you see it with your own eyes. You don’t measure with any fancy instrument. You see with your own eyes, you say your own mantra and you see the effect.

Though I am a scientist, many of Shri Mataji’s disciples are scientists. Shri Mataji herself is in fact scientist. She is a great scientist and she is the scientist of scientist and teacher of a scientist.

But those people, who refused because they say they are a scientist to believe what she says, they are many people, they are not really a scientist. Because, they are not looking, they are trying to say, it should be like this. A scientist never says, ‘It should be like this’. He always says ‘What is it?, How is it?’. He keeps an open mind. He never says it should be like this. If you say, it should be like this, then you will never discover anything.

As I can say as a scientist. Here you are many of you are students, you stand on the threshold. It is perhaps the biggest discovery that this world will ever know and use your scientific mind now to understand it, to discover it and later use your heart to enjoy it.

I bow to all the seekers of truth.

We have to realize that there’s something gone wrong with humanity. We have come to a level of awareness, which is a human awareness, which understands many more things than animals can understand. Like a horse can pass through a dirty lane but a human being cannot pass through that. We have developed lots of sensitivities after becoming a human being. We have a sense of beauty, we have a sense of creativity, of music, of architecture, everything that surrounds us, we’re aghast to see what human beings can do.

On the other side you see a terrible vacuum, as if the world has reached its doom. What has gone wrong within ourselves or without, it is high time for us to find out. This beautiful hall is created out of a human mind, so beautifully done, every detail worked out because the artist wanted to give something great to human beings for their happiness, for their joy. But this tree of life grew too big outside and the roots inside have not grown. Unless and until we know about our roots and grow them to their source of joy we cannot continue anymore. This is the knowledge of the roots. This knowledge existed in India since long and also is expressed in most of the religions. They all have hinted at it. Like in the Bible it is said:

‘I’ll appear before you like tongues of flames’.

In the Koran it is described as Asas and the very few first lines say that unless and until you are connected with God and God descends upon you, if you start talking about God you’ll do all kinds of cruel and horrible things. This explains why we find the people who call themselves religious are getting exposed today and also we are finding how they are nowhere near religion. Any religion you take today, that can be Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikh, they all have become fanatics and the level of their personality is so low that they are worse than many thieves. That means religion has not given any glory to them, no beauty to them, no righteousness, no virtues. Then a common person gets surprised and shocked, what is this, did we all get it wrong? What has happened, where did we make the mistake? The mistake is that we have to get the connection of the Divine.

I verily say that there is God, God exists and His all pervading power is all over, no doubt about it that there is God but the time has to come to prove the existence of God, that time has come now to prove the existence of God. The all-pervading power of God which is His desire is talked about in all the Scriptures but people have not felt that before, they have never known it, they have been just talking about it, talk and talk and talk. Whether it was about the formless God or God with forms.

Now this is the mechanism within us which works out our Self Realization. It is related of course to the gross side also and can be explained, all these centers are expressed outside as plexuses which doctors know very well, but that’s only on the physical side. These centers represent our physical being, our mental being, our emotional being, our spiritual being and there is a path kept absolutely free for the ascent of the power that is the Kundalini. Now the Kundalini is the word, comes from the word kundala, means coils, that’s all.

This Kundalini is the power of pure desire within us. This is described as the Holy Ghost in the Christian religion but if you ask any priest what is the Holy Ghost, he’ll say I’m agnostic, I don’t know what is the Holy Ghost is. Holy Ghost is the desire of God and when reflected within us it is the Kundalini. The primal Holy Ghost is reflected within us as Kundalini and in our heart is reflected the Spirit which is the reflection of God Almighty.

A very long way has taken for our evolution, if Adam and Eve had listened to God it would have been much easier but you know how human beings are, they want to know by difficult ways and learn by experience. It has taken so long for us to become human beings but evolution has not stopped because we have not got our purpose. We are still at a relative relationship, we don’t understand anything in absolute manner, that is why there is a chaos. It has to work out in such a way that all of us should know the same truth, there cannot be two truths, there has to be one and in this evolution whatever you have gained has been felt on your central nervous system and that’s very important. Just by saying I believe in Mother or I believe in God, I believe in such person or believe in that person is your ego and your extension that’s all. If you say you believe in someone it is just a blind faith, what did you get by that belief, did you get something on your central nervous system? We have to face it very squarely, face ourselves and ask ourselves did I feel God or all- pervading power on my central nervous system?

The Ruh that is described in the Indian shastras(scriptures) it is written “saleelum saleelum”, described very clearly. That is like a slow cool breeze, where is that? If you have not yet felt it then you are not yet connected with the Divine and this connection has to be established. There is no need to feel bad about it if you have not known so far, that’s not to feel even upset about it, it’s your right to get it. That is what sahaja is, sahaja means born with you, it’s your right, it’s your birthright to get this Realization and all of you who are human beings have to become yogis, have to become the people who are realized souls. As they say in Koran (…….unclear). Unless and until we become that we cannot understand God, we cannot understand Bible, we cannot understand Koran, we cannot understand Gita. In different ways, in different manners all of them have tried to tell us that you have to get connected to God. Like somebody certifies that I am now a person who is a realized soul. What’s the use of such a certificate? Have you stopped making mistakes, have you become righteous person, have you become virtuous like Christ, are you beyond temptations now, are you a satisfied soul, no. Why, because the power of Spirit is not in our consciousness, the love of the Kundalini is not in our consciousness. That is our own property, that’s our own.

This Kundalini is the mother of you as an individual and she’s loved you all her life. All her life has been much more that yours because she has taken birth with you many a times and she’s recorded all your past and she’s just waiting for a chance, for a moment so that you could get your Realization which is the real baptism. Not an artificial one that I just put hand on your head and say now you are alright, that’s not the way. It has to work out in a way that this Kundalini which is a natural process of evolutionary process, please understand there’s nothing artificial about it, has to rise and pierce through your fontanel bone area to give you Realization . It’s like sprouting a seed, it’s that natural. Of course in the olden times there were very few people who got Realization, very few, I would say that time the tree of life was just growing there were very few flowers, but today it’s a blossom time I believe and also I’ve discovered a method somehow with great meditative efforts, an effort by which thousands can get Realization and once you get Realization you can give Realization to others.

Once you get this power within you, you can cure others. Once you get this power within yourself you are absolutely at peace with yourself. Your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual being is completely integrated. Apart from that, it’s not like a mother who gives some chocolate on top of the caster oil, I’m telling you the truth. Apart from that, you don’t know the realm of God. The realm of God is so efficient, so kind and so great and so miraculous that’s there’s no end to its description, you have to just feel it and see for yourself how God has been kind to you, how His compassion and love is showered upon you and how you get your transformation into a personality which is so sure, so confident yet so humble.

It’s such a beautiful thing that is happening and I must say Australia is not lagging behind. When I came first to Australia I was not very sure about Australians, but gradually now I feel Australians are people very much better than many others. There’s something about them, some sort of an innocence that is within them that tells them that this is wrong, this is bad, we have to take something that is sensible. There’s some sort of a wisdom, wisdom of the deity of the innocence that they have that they know that we have to get to it.

I’ve had very good Australian children and I hope to have more here. This is how we have to change the world, we cannot change by giving lectures on peace or having demonstrations against atom bomb and all that. If there is no peace within the human mind what’s the use of talking of peace? Even those who are working in peace foundations I have seen them, they are fighting among themselves for who will be the president of the peace foundation. All such stupid things happening in the name of peace, in the name of God, in the name of religion. These are all some sort of forms people have invented to sell their goods perhaps, but these are artificial and people will discover it very soon. Now they’re all getting exposed, one by one they are all to be exposed. When the light of truth comes in, all of them get exposed and the truth shines through but if the truth is not accepted then it breaks through and it breaks through it destroys quite a lot of things which could have been saved.

My request to you is that keep an open mind like a scientist. It is a new knowledge for you or maybe you might say that it is from India. It is not but you may say so. So India has learned so much from you, your sciences, there’s no harm in learning something from India also for a change. For this you cannot pay, you cannot pay, this is a living process. Even one thing if you apply to all these professionals that we cannot pay for God, all of them disappear. Now you cannot put in any effort also. Some people say I’m trying, I’m trying, there’s nothing to try.

It’s a living process which works out automatically which will give you Realization. So there is no need to try for anything. We became human beings without any effort, did we try any efforts to become human beings? Nothing, just one fine morning we find we are human beings from monkeys. In the same way it doesn’t require any efforts but it does require a humble attitude, a desire, because Kundalini is the pure desire as I told you, all other desires are not pure because when that desire is fulfilled you don’t want anything. You are so satisfied with yourself.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

I bow to all the seekers of truth.

I do not know how to thank the mayor of Oakland and mayor of Berkeley for being so kind to give this certificate to Me. I must say this is a wonderful country where people recognize something that is doing good work. Really remarkable it is. I had been here before, to Berkeley, because everybody tells Me that there are lots of seekers of truth in Berkeley. This is the thing that attracted Me very much. But first of all we should know what are we seeking all these days. Once you start seeking it goes on like a rat-race of seeking. Or have you been able to find something? So what do you have to find in your seeking? As you know, in all the scriptures it is been told that you have to know yourself. You don’t know yourself, you don’t know what problems you have within. People get into diseases without knowing until it develops into a very serious trouble. Also they go on hurting others, being jealous with others, being in tension and stress. All kind of problems come to them, and they don’t know why it happens, why, what is the reason?

So today I’m going to tell you how you have to know yourself. First of all you must decide that you have been seeking, seeking, seeking and this is the place known for its seeking. It’s high time you better come to the end of it and seek what you have been seeking and you get it, that’s the promise. First and foremost thing, when we are seeking we should know what are we within ourselves. What do we know about ourselves is only through doctors, or through psychologists or some people, which is very superficial knowledge about ourselves. In our depth, in our within, what do we have which doctors don’t know, is the para-sympathetic nervous system. They don’t know. Sympathetic system is the system by which when we work very hard, we run and do all kinds of things, the sympathetic goes into action, heart will start beating fast. But what brings it to normal is the para-sympathetic and this is what we have to know within ourselves, that it exists and it operates automatically How it exists and how works out that’s why we have to know. Moreover what are we? When you see the whole world, it is so full violence, full of all kinds of nonsense that’s going on, and you can’t imagine why people do it. What is the need to do all these horrible things in the name of God, in the name of religion, in the name of some political party, or some sort of a name they must have to fight with each other, torture others, kill each other. All this works out through human beings, through people who are supposed to be at the top of evolution. Human awareness is at the highest point. So now what’s happening to our awareness? Why do we get into jealousies, into angers, into all kinds of funny type of behavior, which animals also don’t do? Because we have freedom, we can do what we like, we can do what we like with ourselves and with others. But still we must know our vehicle better, we should know what is within us.

Now for that, there is placed within us a beautiful thing called Kundalini which lies in the triangular bone, which is called as “sacrum”. That means Greeks knew about it, that’s why they called it a sacred bone. In the triangular bone it lies at the base of your spine and this is the one which is going to give you a real ascent. This is the one which is going to connect you to the All Pervading Power of Divine Love. They have all talked about God, Power of God, Divine love, all kinds of things, but we don’t know where it is, where does it exist, how it works. If really it is there or not, also we are not very sure. So this power lies within your triangular bone, can you show them? All of you have this power within you. It is not anyone who belongs to any nationality, or to any culture but everyone has this power within himself. But you’ll be surprised, how people have made such a horrible picture of Kundalini and they say that when the Kundalini rises you may go mad, you may shout, you must do all kinds of things. Because they have no authority to do it, because they don’t know how to do it – that’s why they make up a story like that and tell you, because they don’t want you to ascend, I think. Or they don’t know, they are incapable of awakening the Kundalini. But I must tell you that She is your Mother, She is your individual Mother, She knows everything about you. It is all recorded, whatever was your past, whatever mistakes you committed, whatever aspirations you have, everything She knows about it, it’s all recorded there in the 3-1/2 coils. But She is your Mother, your own Mother and when you were born, your Mother took all the trouble upon Herself. She didn’t give you trouble. In the same way when this Kundalini rises, She doesn’t give you any trouble. Now people are afraid even to talk about Kundalini because those who talked about Kundalini were I don’t know what sort of people they were, and it was such a misleading thing that they thought, it’s better not to talk about it. But talk is talk, talk is not everything.

What has to happen is the awakening of this Kundalini. It’s an actualization, it is not just talking, giving lectures, you do this, you stand like this, put your hand this way, your legs that way, it’s not that. It is very simple, that this Kundalini, which is responsible for your last ascent, your, I should say, the last step in your evolution, this Kundalini is your own Mother and She cannot harm you. She can never do that. This is the fact I would like to tell you first of all. Because I know in America all kinds of people have come from India, those people also they were released from jail, wore some sort of a dress and came here. They are all minting money, that’s what they are doing, they are good at it. So if you have any understanding about Divinity you must understand that you cannot sell it and you cannot purchase it. If you can purchase some person then such a person cannot be your master, he can be your servant but not your master. So once you understand this point, it is very important for you people to know that it is not saleable because you know this is a consumer society, and everything has to be sold. But not spirituality, you cannot sell spirituality. And those who sell spirituality are spurious people, they are not real, they are absolutely bogus people as they call them, and you don’t waste your energy and money on them.

So now, we have before you this triangular bone and this Kundalini and She rises through six centers. The seventh center is below the Kundalini, it is below the Kundalini and it protects the chastity of the Mother. Now those people who talk about sex as one of the instruments for ascent are absolutely befooling you. Nobody has said that in any scripture, but suddenly they started a kind of a myth or fashion I should say or fad, and people get drawn into it. So I have come to warn you about it, that it has nothing to do with sex, but as Christ has said you have to be like children when you enter into the Kingdom of God. So your innocence gets awakened. Many people feel they have lost their innocence, you can never lose it. It comes back to you. It is dormant, it might be bruised, it might be a little bit hurt, but it’s all there intact, and you will be amazed to see what you are.

Because you don’t know what you are. So I would say you are not this body, this mind, but you are the Spirit and that’s what you have to become. Once you become the Spirit, you will know what you are, you’ll know everything about yourself. But for that to happen you don’t have to do any acrobatic thing, it’s just very simple. Wherever you are sitting it will work out. But first tell your mind to stop little bit thinking, because this mind has been reacting all the time, reacting to this, reacting to that, reacting with the result that Kundalini doesn’t rise, but when She rises, She’s wonderful. The thoughts rise like that and fall down, again thoughts come up and fall down. They come from the future or from the past. Present you cannot be, you cannot be in the present. But when Kundalini rises, She elongates these thoughts and there is a space created. It’s called as pause, you can call it. In Sanskrit, it is called as vilamba. So your mind stands at that place where you have thoughtless awareness. Is told by, also Jung has talked about it, that you get into thoughtless awareness. Pantanjali has talked about it. But talking about it is not sufficient as I told you, it has to happen.

So first thing that happens to you, you become thoughtlessly aware. There is no thought, no reaction. For example, I see this beautiful carpet here, and if I react I would say oh, what a beautiful carpet. If it is Mine, I would be worried I should insure it. If it is not mine, I would say that how much they must have paid for it and, to whom does it belong? And all kinds of things. But supposing I’m in thoughtless awareness, then I just see it. While seeing it also I’m just witnessing, and what I’m getting is the complete joy of the creator who has done this job, complete get filled with that joy. There is no reaction, it is just thoughtless awareness in which Divine works. You don’t have to then think about it, it all works out. Now this Kundalini rising through six centers – now you don’t know you have any centers within yourself, and you don’t know how they are placed. After this rising, this Kundalini rises, passes through the fontanel bone area and becomes one with the All Pervading Power of Divine Love, which is very subtle and you also start becoming your subtler personality. When the Kundalini rises through these six centers which are responsible for your physical, mental and emotional being, She nourishes them. She nourishes them with light, and then She integrates them. And when She reaches this spot, She opens up this fontanel bone area and becomes one with this All Pervading Power. This is the actualization of baptism, this is the baptism. It is not just some priest comes, puts his hand on your head, it’s not the way. It has to be the actualization of this happening, which is for your ascent. This is the last break-through of your evolution.

Whatever I’m saying we can prove it also, it’s not just talking. But this Kundalini, Kundalini’s awakening which takes places, it actually makes your hands speak. You start feeling the cool breeze coming out of your fingers and through your hands and here also. You feel the cool breeze, actually and then if you know what do these mean 5, 6, and 7 center, in the same way, 5, 6 and 7 center, these seven centers are on the sympathetic nervous system. But when the sympathetic centers, two of them they mix, the central system is formed of para-sympathetic. So when you get enlightenment your Spirit gets awakened in your heart, and in the Spirit is the reflection of the complete Divine force. Then you become a, really, a spiritual personality. It is a reality I’m talking about, and in the light of the Spirit your attention becomes purified. Not only that, but you know what is good for you and what is destructive for you. You give up all nonsense in no time. Of course Sahaja Yoga has cured many people with all kinds of addictions, all kinds of problems, it’s a fact. But that is this Kundalini has done it, which is your own, which has enlightened your own chakras, your own centers and has brought forth this result.

The second thing that happens to you apart from your attention being enlightened, that you become a collective personality. People have talked about it, said about it but this is in the books. Like a drop falls into the ocean, becomes the ocean. It doesn’t mean that you are lost, you are nowhere. But your ego is lost, your so called pretensions are lost and what you become is part and parcel of the whole. Whole global race belongs to you, then how will you fight each other? If you are part and parcel of the whole, nothing but love, nothing but compassion. We have now people in 86 countries, and when I see them, I see the dream fulfilled because I’ve never seen them fighting or saying anything harsh to each other. They come from all kinds of religions, they come from all kinds of countries, every type of knowledge they have. Because you get the absolute knowledge, absolute knowledge. Now we don’t know what absolute knowledge is. For example there is a person comes say from India or from any other country, and says “I’m a real great saint, I’ll give you a great experience”. How will you know that person is not telling you lies, and that he is not coming from the prison? How will you find out? You just put your hands when you are realized, when you are enlightened, towards that person. Immediately what you will get? Will be a hot breeze, that’s the minimum. You might get tingling very bad, perhaps maybe you might even get a blister, one or two.

So you will be amazed how you judge people on your finger-tips – absolute knowledge about people, absolute knowledge about Spirit, absolute knowledge about the whole global problem you get. You become collectively conscious, you can connect yourself to the whole world in a way that is spiritual. Whatever you want, whatever you think becomes very pure, compassionate and beautiful. That is what you are, that whatever you are that you become. There’s nothing to be said. Like this now, this instrument is before Me, I’m speaking to you, but supposing it is not connected how can it, what is the use of this instrument? In the same way you do not have that spirituality within you. Sometimes people must think that we are very spiritual. Don’t believe in that. You must have absolute knowledge about yourself and about everything else.

Also we can say lots of things have happened in Sahaja Yoga. Like I know of somebody who was just a Chartered Accountant, knew only about finances. He’s become a great poet. All kind of balances work out, and it is so surprising the amount of aptitudes that you develop. You are amazed, you never knew you had these aptitudes within you. I have an Academy of Music in India, and the people even from America and other countries came and three months, only in three months they started singing a very difficult raga called as [unclear word, Malcos]. I was amazed. For which people have to work at least 5 to 7 years, and here they are. So your capacity to absorb knowledge, to render it, is so much increased because you don’t know your potential. You don’t know what you are, that’s what the point is. That’s why they said that know yourself, know thyself because after knowing yourself, you’ll have absolute knowledge, absolute reality and you won’t live in the mental world “oh this is this, this is that”. I know many books have written like that, about a person who was seeking and they ended up into nothing. Your seeking should not end up like that. You should get what you are seeking.

You have been seeking, and seeking and seeking and it is My greatest desire that you the well known seekers all over the world, because they say Berkeley University has the maximum number of seekers. So I mean I don’t know, you should come to the end of it. There are many I know who came to Berkeley because they thought they were a group of people who are seeking. They went to meetings after meetings. When they got their realization they wrote to them that we have found, we have found the reality. So they wrote back all their friends and groups “oh I see, that we see that you have found it your own way, we’ll find our it own way”. So he was so, this gentleman who came, he was so disappointed, that still they are seeking. Seeking has become like a fashion. It cannot. It must come to an end. Your journey must come to an end, otherwise it will go on, one after another. So many will come and tell you “this is it, this is it, this is it”, but the experience of the spirit, experience of realization is the thing you should ask for. If somebody doesn’t give you the experience, don’t be satisfied with what they say. Even with Me.

As a 90’s child born in the concluding days of the millennium, my adulthood in the 21st century is distinctly different from that of my parents. I, like my fellow millennials, have witnessed, first hand, the technological revolution that took over India in the late 90s and which has only been expanding since.

We are the transitional generation – not too old to be resistant to new ideas and not too young to be completely oblivious of the pre-smartphone lives. While this may seem like a wonderful thing when the adult lives of me and my parents are compared, it comes with its own set of problems. After all, back then, they could not have imagined having a product delivered to their doorstep with the click of a button.

When quizzed about what kind of things he was worried about in his 20s, the father answered after a long pause with a shrug, a classic Indian nod followed by a quick response that went – “Just career and means of earning a livelihood”.  That’s it. There was nothing else I could get out of him. Worrying about a career was understood in his context of being the eldest son of middle-class parents. But apart from that, he was basically worry free through his adult life. He got married to my mother in the most predictable Indian arranged marriage way – no drama there. They had a system of closely knit family that celebrated all volumes of events together. They soon had a daughter born to them. And all was hunky-dory in the 20s.

How strangely impossible this seems in today’s context! The many advancements that we thought were boons of our lives have been slipping their way into our problems bucket without even us consciously noticing. This is where Sahaja Yoga comes in with its benefits! As a practising MEDITATOR I rarely got affected by these problems and even if I did, I was empowered to overcome them. The main consequence of meditation is a complete holistic well-being of oneself. One’s mental, emotional, physical and physiological problems get solved automatically as a by-product of this. And so, for all my other fellow millennials, who would much rather not pay money to a therapist or for a self-help book, here’s a list (because we all love lists) of the 5 most common ways, us millennials, get affected by the so-called modern developments and how Sahaja Yoga meditation can help:

Modern Development	Negative Consequence	How can Sahaja Yoga help?
On-demand video services and improved gaming consoles (Digital Addiction)	Binge watching and binge gaming … physiological and physical consequences.	Through meditation, one’s focus is shifted within … give that up.
Consumerism and paradox of choice	Consumerism leads to dependence on material goods … perpetual dissatisfaction.	One becomes extremely satisfied and at peace … desires begin to diminish.
Instant communication through the internet	Unfiltered expression causes miscommunication … trolls, cyber bullies.	Self-satisfaction prevents hurt … improves relationships.
Social Media	Curated lives lower self-esteem … can lead to depression.	Self-contentment avoids comparison … promotes mental health.
Increased ambitions	Competitive work culture … harms relations and increases stress.	Meditation develops witnessing state … improves productivity and calmness.

Imagine doing all this without any mental strain! But in order to avoid these, from being just words without practical meaning, I would encourage everyone to think of this as a hypothesis and test it out like a science experiment. After all, for our benefit, we are also a generation of Sceptics!

Author: Krutika Telang

Having always been a seeker in life, I was unaware of what I was seeking. An idealist to the core, I was often hurt by the behaviour of others and often wondered how they could behave in a way they often did. Not that I was perfect, no way thinking that….but at least I was aware of my shortcomings and always strived to overcome them. Introspection has always been a part of my life since young and I always realized that something was missing from my life.

Then one day I stumbled upon a book called “THE ADVENT” by Gregoire de Kalbermatten, a Swiss Diplomat with the United Nations Organization, and it changed my life forever. I got introduced to “Sahaja Yoga” and its founder H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, whose teachings struck a chord within myself and in a fraction of a second, I found an answer to my seeking…. which probably I was carrying over from many lifetimes.
The first thing which appealed to me was that Sahaja Yoga was not about mere empty talk about ideas but it provided a practical tool to manifest these ideals within each of us in a spontaneous way. What I found amazing was that there was no question of any money involved. Shri Mataji was clear to point out that you cannot pay for something which is Divine. “How much did you pay to evolve to a human being from an amoeba stage”, She questioned. Further, She went to the extent to say that “why should you believe in what I say to you… rather you should take up as a hypothesis what I tell you, and as a scientist, only after experiencing it, should you accept something as truth.” So far, I had never heard any spiritual Guru say that. She further said that “how is it of any use to you if I have inner powers? Awaken your own dormant powers within and let them manifest.”

Only on the basis of a pure desire, anyone can be given his or her self-realization spontaneously through the awakening of the dormant Kundalini energy, situated in the sacrum bone at the base of our spine, through a technique developed by Shri Mataji, known under the name of Sahaja Yoga.

“Sahaja” means spontaneous and “Yoga” means Union. Through the awakening of the Kundalini, rising up through the spine within our subtle inner central channel (corresponding to the Para-Sympathetic gross channel), a seeker can get connected to the All-pervading Divine Power, from which we have come. That is the real meaning of YOGA…. union or connection of individual consciousness (jeevatama=individual soul) with the Collective Consciousness (Parmatama=the Universal Soul). When this happens, we touch the infinite dimension within us… our divine spirit and it starts shining and getting manifested in our attention.

Having experienced that and strengthening and establishing this connection through regular meditation shown through Sahaja technique, Sahaja yoga teaches a seeker to interpret this knowledge and adapt it to understand not only ourselves but others. Sahaja yoga gives us “pure” knowledge in every field or subject, which is verifiable on our finger-tips through the vibratory awareness we develop, as we progress on the path of spirituality laid open before us through this union.

Getting one’s self-realization through Sahaja yoga is not difficult if one has a desire for it. But getting established in it is not an easy task. Only a pure desire to go deep, regular meditation, honest introspection and a willingness to transform from within can yield results. But once that happens, no mundane desires remain. You don’t need to give up anything by force, you can be detached and yet enjoy everything without any attachment. Limited human love trans-changes into Unlimited Pure Love, which does all living work.

The benefits of Sahaja Yoga are not limited to an individual. They percolate to society by transforming individuals who have realized the truth about Sahaja Yoga.
Sahaja Yoga is an answer to all our human problems be they physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, religious economical, environmental, ecological  because at the base of all our problems is the problematical human being who is steeped in ignorance because of his ego and conditioning, which allows him to only see the “relative truth” and not the “absolute truth” which is the next logical step in our evolution… where we ascend from our normal human consciousness to a higher state of superconsciousness.

I invite each and every one of you to experience this path and see for themselves what they have been missing so far.

“WORLD TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INNER AWAKENING”!

Written By: Armaity Bhabha

Growing up meditating is something I’ll be ever grateful for. It has been a constant. It’s almost impossible to truly describe how comforting knowing that is. In these times where there are so much hatred and so much shallowness, isn’t it a blessing if you have something to hold on to; something that is above the mundane and the petty; something that guides, keeping you grounded and balanced.

The practice of meditation has proven benefits with regards to physical and mental health,no doubt, but once it becomes a part of the way you live its influences are multifold.

Through my interactions with friends, colleagues, and relatives, it’s apparent to me that almost everyone is inherently seeking happiness, to make the most of everything in terms of gaining personal satisfaction. Most of us go about achieving this by immersing ourselves in a rat race: slogging away through each phase of life, believing that the eternal bliss we crave will be waiting for us at the top of the ladder. We keep at it for a while, but when the satisfaction of that effort proves to be momentary we turn to our peers to see how they are faring. We emulate those around us who appear to be successful, contented and at peace with life. We fake it.

However, when this doesn’t work out we cloak ourselves in denial because we cannot bear to face it that we have gone about things the wrong way. We then constantly keep ourselves distracted by getting addicted to material things so that the noise inside us gets drowned out.

 What I’ve experienced with meditation is that it pulls the focus within, addressing the turbulence that is inside and by extension guiding us to deal with the commotion that is outside. What is amazing is that these ideas of joy, peace and happiness that might otherwise be partially-formed or abstract can be identified as palpable, real things through Sahaja Yoga meditation.

Meditating every day helps us get to know ourselves better, helps us stay connected with our being and the energy within us. And this joy of being connected multiplies when meditation is practised in a collective.

The Sahaja Yoga family is huge – Sahaja Yoga has its presence in around 100 countries, there are over 40 centres in Karnataka alone. There is no race here – the aim is to grow collectively.

Written BY: Sakshi Rao

I am a 76-year-old grandmother and have been practising Sahaja Yoga for 34 years. A young boy from Chennai said, “Aunty, whoever talks about you says you are very strong”. “Yes, I am strong, but not like a wrestler”. I am mentally and spiritually strong, and that is because of my honest and sincere practice of Sahaja Yoga. It has taught me everything. How to be good and strong, how to keep healthy, and how to be a person whom everybody wants to meet and know.

From the day I joined I have followed all the teachings of Sahaja Yoga very obediently, without any doubts or questions. We are not asked to do difficult things like fasting, giving up family, being very sober and not going for parties or movies. BUT we must live a moral life and avoid all things that are wrong and sinful. How will we know?

The day you get realisation, the Divine Energy of the Kundalini starts spreading into all the cells of the body and starts cleaning us from inside.

All this dirt must be removed, so we are taught to sit with our feet in a bucket of salt water. The water element takes it all out.

We are also taught to sit in meditation early in the morning, because between 4:30 and 6:00 am is Brahma Muhurtham, when the divine rays are very strong, and the flowers open, and birds sing. This is my daily routine. Sometimes I may feel pinpricks on my fingers and palms. They told me in the Centre that these are signs that there is some disturbance in a Chakra. Every chakra has a nerve ending on a fingertip, and according to the finger, we can know which chakra is in trouble.

I even learnt that on every chakra a reflection of God has a seat, and every chakra has qualities that we have to follow. Like the chakra at the neck is the place of Shri Krishna, and the qualities there are to speak sweetly to everyone. If I have been rude and bossy, and hurt anyone’s feelings, this chakra will get disturbed and I will feel it on a finger.

Not only this, but we also learn how to repair any damage that we may do by our bad behaviour, or by harming others. So, we are always alerting to find out our mistakes and correct ourselves.

So regular practice of Sahaja Yoga makes me a better person.

I do not get angry, so I do not get blood pressure or tension headaches. I am always happy with what I have, so I don’t try to do cheating and fraud to gather money or property. I do not speak rudely to anyone in my house – my husband, my children, my grandchildren, or the people who come and help us in the house.

I am not strict about what time I eat, what time I sleep, or any other requirement. But I am regular with my meditation, my foot soaking, and attending the collective programs in the Centre. I learnt how to balance myself!

Written By: Poornima Damodaran

It has not been many years I am practicing Sahaja Yoga but in these past few years, I have grown immense respect for the life god has blessed me with.

My life involves a close knit family, which means an everyday play of expectations, and household chores. A generation Z boy and the time he demands. With these is my passion towards my profession. Working in the industry brings its own set of expectations, and negativities.

Few years back when I was oblivious to this unique method of meditation, my day began with the three thoughts:

1. A guilt of not fulfilling expectations
2. A stress of how to complete so many things planned for the day
3. A dissatisfaction within me and for my environment.

But still I was surviving because I knew God is looking from somewhere up there. Then one day I got my realization, which in simple terms is imbibing Sahaja Yoga meditation method. It raises the kundalini energy which lies within each human. This energy rejuvenates everything in life.

Every morning and every evening, I sit for meditation. The time maybe as little as 15 minutes but, in those 15 minutes I surrender all my actions and thoughts to almighty. In that less time, when there is no thoughts in my head I feel serenity. With practice I am able to sustain the feeling of quietness while I do the daily chores. The quietness comes from “Nirvicharita” or Thoughtlessness. It is a state when you are aware of everything happening around you but the happenings and the surrounding does not affect you. In other words you do not think about what is happening, why is it happening, what will happen if something happens…and the never ending stream of thoughts.

When you are not thinking about what has happened (the past) and what will happen (the future), you are in the present moment.

And when you are in the present moment:

• The guilt of work not done diminishes because thinking about it is pondering about past. Past cannot change.
• The stress of the day lying ahead does not affect. What lies ahead is the future. Future is what we do not know.
• The dissatisfaction is not felt. You are filled with positivity and keenness to see what god has planned for you.

Being in thoughtless awareness is just a small gift of Sahaja Yoga to us. It helps in being attentive, focused towards work, and not getting distracted by inert things. In short, able to balance all aspects of my life with her blessings.

H.H.Shri Nirmala Devi (beloved Mataji for all Sahaja Yogi and Yoginis) who is the founder of Sahaja Yoga has given a much deeper and stronger knowledge through this meditation method. I wish every human being is introduced and able to accept the blessing from her.

Written By: Lekhoni Banerjee