Category: Motivation

Acupuncture is actually the tapping of the power which is already within us. Now for example, you have a certain power in your stomach, and this power is continuously supplied to your other organs in the stomach, and it is used for that, through the sympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic stores it and the sympathetic uses it.

Now supposing there is a disease in the stomach. So now the energy in that which is the vital energy in that particular centre is sort of exhausted or is much less. So what do they (acupuncturist) do? How do they work on that person? Well they take the energy from another centre to divert it, and put it where there is less energy. And that’s how they try to cure that.

But by that they create an imbalance, because you have a limited energy; the energy within you is absolutely limited. Now supposing for example you have limited gas in your car and you find another car with less gas or not gas. Now if you put your gas into the other car, maybe that car will go half way but you will also go half way and the end result is both the cars travel lesser and at the end are out if gas. You understand my point? So both of them reduce their longevity. So the process of extraction of the energy which is within us is very limited.

Sahaj Yoga is a very different thing: in Sahaj Yoga, your Kundalini rises and connects you with the All-pervading Power. And all the time you are getting that power, the vital power within you flowing, and there is no death of that power. It’s all the time flowing like the grace of divine.

But in acupuncture when you tap one energy into another, there’s no proper understanding of how much to give or how much to balance.

Once you are a realised-soul(kundalini awakened), supposing somebody has a stomach trouble, you have to just put your hand on the stomach and the person can get cured.

By doing this you can also cure cancer and you can cure anything because you become the source of that energy and your energy is not limited but it’s unlimited where you are getting energy from the All-pervading Power to which you are connected. So whatever you are doing it’s just flowing through your being and you just become a witness of that power which is flowing.

In this way you don’t have to mismanage or mishandle anybody. You just look after that part of the body which requires energy and you raise the Kundalini and give Realisation to that sick person also and he can also give it to another. He can get completely cured and then he can also cure others.

The tapping of this energy was first started in China when Zen system came into action. Zen in essence is nothing but Sahaj Yoga. But Zen had only twenty-six Kashyapas in six centuries. Kashyapa means realised-soul. And now there are none.

I have met the chairman of the Zen organization. His Kundalini was just frozen there. He coul not get Realisation ! He’s beyond Realisation. He was sick so they took me to him. And he said that, “Yes You have healed me, please give me your healing power.” I said, “You’ll have to take your Realisation!” He said, “How can I be a Kashyapa? There were only so many, how can I be a Kashyapa? I’m not still there…” I said, “You will become. Why don’t you take it?” So, main thing is you first get your Realisation, you get your power within yourself and manifest it into another person.

But it’s like no use putting oil from here to here and there to there. At least let one oil burn: you will have only stomach trouble. And otherwise the whole body will collapse. [That] which was to collapse – say, the stomach trouble is there – then it’s all right. You can continue with the stomach trouble; but if you remove it from your head there, then within say five days everything will be finished. Moreover this type of thing attacks the heart which can lead to heart attacks.

And acupuncture is one thing I have seen: those who take acupuncture are difficult to get Realisation. Even if they get it, it’s difficult to maintain it, because of the imbalances created in the body. We should not create any imbalance in ourselves. At the most if you have to do anything, balance it. Do not create more imbalances.

And this is what is happening with all these things which are done in ignorance. They do not tell you what you do really, they never tell you. Like in TM they don’t tell you what it is. It is nothing but possession. They are possessing you, absolutely they are possessing you. They mesmerise you. They don’t tell you, “We mesmerise and put a possession on you.” If they tell the truth, you won’t pay them any money.Isn’t it? So they won’t tell you. They say it is “transcendental meditation”.

How do you go to trance? Ask any Indian, he’ll tell you. You can only go into trance through mesmerism. Mesmerism comes through only spirits. By spirits, when you get possessed, then only you get into trance. That’s why they are behave improperly and keep jumping around.

Now people are paying for getting convulsions and epilepsy. This look at this Bernard Levin: such an educated man! He writes that if you go to Rajneesh you get convulsions. I mean, then there is even more reason you should not go! You pay to get convulsions and to get epilepsy?

First of all you cannot pay, first of all, if it is real, because it is too real to be bought.

And the second thing is that, whatever you get should transform you completely into a beautiful person. Your health must improve, your mind must improve, you should be a fine person, your temperament must change, your habits must change, your priorities must change, you should be a person who is a master of yourself.

Instead of getting better by going to them or to the guru you become a worse person. That’s what is happening. How can that be?

And this is not to be achieved through rationality because rationality is limited. It’s a state of mind where you jump into it. It’s an actualisation; it happens to you. Something that is actual should happen to you. You cannot just rationalise it by saying, “Oh I am I am God, I am Brahma!” How do you become? Supposing sitting down here, I say: “I am Queen Elisabeth!” They’ll arrest me and put it in the jail.

You see my point? So all these gurus are doing the same thing. And now see you are having problems with that. You can see that. Sitting and all that you are getting all these problems are because of that. Now will you please take to something real.

Woman: What should I take to?

Shri Mataji: You should take to Sahaj Yoga

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.

The knowledge, gyana, is useless without yoga, without the union with the Divine.

When you get the yoga, also, when you are realised, you get your Realisation, and I do not give you the knowledge, then your Realisation is also useless.

I have seen in this great country many realised-souls are born. They live as realised-souls, they don’t know what are they; they act as spiritualists, they call themselves, whatever people call them. But they are not aware that they are realised-souls! They commit mistakes, they go onto wrong paths, get confused about their Realisation.

So, it is necessary also to know what have they got, what does it mean, how to use it, how to go ahead with it and how to develop.

Many people who have been here in this hall have got Realisation. Once they get Realisation, they feel so satisfied about it that they just don’t come next time. And sometimes, after a year or two years they appear saying that, “Mother, we are again lost.” So, to get Realisation is the most important thing, absolutely important because if you do not start your car, you do not move. You [may] go on describing everything that, “Now here we are on Leicester Square. Now we are here!” But you are not there, you’re just talking.

The car has to move first, has to start and when the car has started then you must also know the roads, how to go. Then the car starts and bumps into something, then you feel that, “What has happened? Our car has started!”

So, these are two things: one is the yoga – is the Realisation, through awakening of your Kundalini and the other is the gyana (knowledge), which is the part which gives you complete knowledge and mastery over your powers.

For example, you go to a house and the lady gives you the keys, “All right this is your house. You use it as you like it.” Say, I come to England and somebody gives me the keys. I don’t know how to use a washing machine! And I don’t know how to use the oven! Though she has given me the keys, I have entered into it, I should know how to use it. I should know also what are the don’ts and what are the dos.

Before entering into the house, what’s the use of knowing, also? Of course, it may help you, if you have a little knowledge about it. But you cannot practise anything because you have not entered inside it. The machinery is not before you, you are not facing it.

So, in Sahaj Yoga one has to first get into [the] Self-realised state and then should know thoroughly how to use that state, or how to be in that state, how to manifest it, improve it and stabilise it. For this you cannot go into courses – that is for definite. “Should we do fourteen courses outside?” Has nothing to do with Sahaj Yoga. You have to get the keys.

Secondly, you cannot pay any money for it, you cannot purchase it.

It is very difficult for human beings to understand this part: that you cannot pay for it. That is one place where you cannot pay and purchase.

It is not that you are going to judge the Sahaj Yoga, but Sahaj Yoga is going to judge you. It’s just the other way around.

It is not that you are going to purchase Sahaj Yoga, but Sahaj Yoga has to purchase you and has to accept you.

It is very easy to do any other nonsense: just you pay the money and you are there enrolled, permanently. You become the member of any group, very easy. And you can club together and be satisfied, “Oh, we are this and that!” You can brand yourself as anything but not as Sahaj Yogis, unless and until you have got it.

It is that essential, that authentic, that intrinsic, that innate, that you have to be that. You can be an Englishman if you get a British passport. You can be a director anywhere if you can qualify for that. But you cannot be a Sahaj Yogi by doing anything that you have been doing to achieve for worldly things or worldly positions, worldly possessions.

We see so many such phenomena in our life that we cannot see or cannot manoeuvre, cannot do such as a flower manifest into a fruit. As we cannot germinate a seed, we cannot do this living thing, which has to be done by Divine power and not by human power.

Once you get it, the Divine power starts flowing through you, then you can also charge the dynamo. There is no false certificate that can be given. You may be having a son who is not realised: you may stand on your head or do whatever you please, you just cannot certify unless and until he has got it.

It is such a strange thing, so unique. But do you know: this is what you are seeking. The rest of the things can be sought. This is the thing which can only be requested for, to be prayed for, to be asked for. You cannot demand it. Only the grace of God can work it out.

Today I happened to read Bible, part of it, and I was amazed how John has revealed so many things about chakras and this; but of course, in a very mystic language. He calls chakras as the plug/plaque in his dream he saw, and the deities as the angels. He has also described the Realisation. It is so wonderful to read it. But only after Realisation you’ll understand, because it’s a very, very deep writing and you cannot read much from it – mystical sounding, vague words.

Now, we are here to seek ourselves. Everybody is floating an enterprise like that, everybody is saying, “Oh, we are here to help you to seek yourself.” I may be one of them, too. Why should you believe me, in any case? The first thought that will come into your mind is, “Why should we believe Mataji?” If you believe in me blindly, it is not going to help me at all. Neither it is going to help me, if you are going to deny. Like a scientist just keep your eyes open, keep your mind open, because this is what you are seeking, not just in this lifetime. You have been seeking for ages and unless and until you get it you are not going to be satisfied, you are not going to find your fulfilment. This has to happen to you.

I don’t know how far Gavin has been able to explain to you what to expect out of Sahaja Yoga. But it is the actualisation of this experience I’m talking about, which has to work out.

Here you see they have drawn a human being, as he exists, with his Divine instrument within himself. These are the patterns of the energies which are undercurrent of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

The sympathetic nervous system is managed by two channels within us. One, on the left hand side that you see with the blue line, is the power to desire: is called as ichcha shakti. And the other one, on the right hand side, with the yellow line, is the power to act, which is called as the kriya shakti. The first one is called as the ichcha shakti. First one has to desire and then he acts. And these two powers exist within us as left and right sympathetic nervous system, which doctors can see outside the spinal cord, but this is inside the spinal cord and inside the cranial bones, inside the brain as you can see there. These all can be related to the gross nervous system that doctors can see. But they are subtle energies within us.

The one which runs on the left hand side is connected with the seventh chakras down below; or you can call it the first chakra. This gives us desire to live and also desire to die. All desires give us emotions, it gives us existence and when we deny our existence, then it gives us death.

The other one is the power of action for which we use our physical being and our mental being. So, this represents our physical and mental being.

The central one is called as the path of knowledge: gyana shakti.

But the knowledge we know of is very different from the knowledge I am talking about. I mean the subjective knowledge that we have achieved as human beings through our evolution. For example, a human being is much higher in his awareness than the animal. His awareness is the thing that he has achieved through his evolution, which is built in him, which acts subjectively. For example, supposing you take a rose flower: you know it is a rose flower and you enjoy it. But for an animal, it makes no difference whether it is filth or a garden, it can pass through it mostly unaware.

So, your gyana shakti means your awareness or your knowledge – knowledge that is awareness, human awareness – is developed to a point and still has to develop more, has to manifest more. It has to have another dimension. Because of a certain gap in between – you can see the central line; this green gap gives you the Void – gives you an awareness which is not yet complete.

The completion of human awareness can only be achieved if he reaches the absolute point. Supposing you have not reached the absolute point then whatever you are talking is relative. Relative to relative creates confusion. So, the idea of righteousness, idea of holiness, idea of sin, everything is relative.

You have to reach that absolute point by which you judge whether it is holiness or not, whether it is sinful or not. That we have to reach. That absolute point is within us, placed in our heart, which is called as the Spirit and is the reflection of God Almighty. In Sanskrit language it is called as Atma.

That Spirit resides within us, it watches all our activities, it knows everything about us and it informs the lowest chakra there, which records everything that we do – all our conditionings, all our ego-trips – to that three and a half-coiled energy, which we call as Kundalini. ‘Kundalini’ means coils. This is the Kundalini, as called as the Serpent power.

Now, horrible things have been said and written about Kundalini. When I read, I mean when I even heard about it, I was really shocked about the naive description of it! I’ve always said that it is like a villager going in the city and putting both the hands into the plug and saying that, “Electricity I know, don’t tell me about it! You see what happens, it gives you a shock and you just fall back and you break your neck.”

Those who do not know about Kundalini have written about Kundalini because this is the only area where nobody can control you. You can write anything about God, against God, or do whatever you please, who can check you? There is no law which forbids. You can write about Kundalini whatever you feel like. She is your Mother. She has been born with you several times. She is the one who is going to give you Realisation. And do you think your Kundalini is going to harm you by any chance? Is going to torture you? Is going to trouble you?

And if you have to achieve the highest through the Divine love of God, is it going to be torturesome? Did you get this nose and these eyes and mouth and everything that you have as a human being out of some tortures? You never even felt how it has happened! How gentle it is, how kind it is! It is your Mother who is sitting there waiting for a moment to rise.

Now the whole thing sounds very poetic to a scientific mind. But poetry is also a part of human beings. If it sounds poetic. It is the poetic work, of the Kundalini. God is not only science; he is also love, beauty. He is not only dry truth; He is also joy. He is joy. He’s joy, because he is truth, He’s truth because He’s beauty.

So, when the Kundalini rises within you through these six centres that are shown here, it pierces this area, which is called as the fontanel bone and gives you Self-realisation. This is called as baptism. You cannot go to a theological college and become a Baptist. Nobody can brand you a Baptist. You have to be realised. This fontanel bone area has to be pierced through by the Kundalini, then only you become one with the All-pervading Power, with that subtle power. It has to happen; this germination has to take place within you. You are still at a seed stage and just by branding a seed you do not become a tree.

So, it has to happen within us, and has to happen beautifully, and spontaneously, because it is a living process of evolution.

We have evolved into human beings from amoeba: nobody has done anything about it. And we are not going to do anything about becoming that for which we are made. Somebody who has created this machinery is going to put you through to the mains if he wants to use it. But in between there’s a little problem. Everything was ready, just perfect, just to be connected to the mains. But the instrument was given the freedom to choose.

That is important for evolution, very important, that you should be given the freedom, a complete freedom to choose whether it is right or wrong. Nobody can force that onto you. In all your freedom you have to choose whether you want to enter into the Kingdom of God or not. Nobody’s going to force you there, to enter. It has to be your desire; it has to be your asking. And for that freedom has been given to use these two powers of your desire and of your action which gives you the idea of your accelerator and of your brake: to know how to drive your own car, so that the master behind it hands over the keys to you and car to you.

It was necessary for you to learn these two powers, to be managed. But in your freedom and in understanding yourself you have committed mistakes; you have bumped your cars too much. It was said that: keep in the centre, do not go too much left or to the right or you’ll get into bumps. Either you went into the left or to the right. And when you tried to correct your right you went into the left, to another extreme. To correct to the left you went to the right. By going to the extremes, you will be bumping your car. And this is exactly what has happened to us – doesn’t matter. The car has to be repaired; it has to be done. A little patience can work it out. There’s nothing to get annoyed with oneself.

When the car starts it goes very fast. Then you should know how to slow it down, how to organise it. Then you have to become the authority, yourself, of discrimination. I don’t have to tell you that this is not good or that is not good. How is it possible? Because you become one with the Divine, you become one with the Primordial Being, with the Great Being, with the Akbar, and you start acting according to that. A subjective manifestation of your awareness takes place by which you understand what’s wrong with you and what’s wrong with others.

It is so precise and correct. You just feel on your hands, on your fingers as shown, all the centres that are within you, which are created out of different elements. Immediately you know what is in imbalance, what is more, what is less, left is more or right is more, what is wrong with you. Even a born-realised child, say, of two years who can talk, can tell you what’s wrong, because it’s subjective. You start feeling it: this is happening, that is happening.

All this understanding comes to you because it is Self-knowledge. But when you know about yourself you also know about others, because you jump into collective consciousness. You ‘jump into’, I say. You become collectively conscious. It is not that I say, “We are all brothers and sisters,” have United Nations for it and use it for giving jobs to everyone. It’s not that way. It’s an actualisation that takes place: you just become. Jolly well you’ll have to feel it. You cannot get rid of it. It becomes your awareness. You just feel it and that’s how you correct it.

Everybody is a part and parcel of that Great Being. As this finger can feel this finger; and as, when it is hurt, this finger goes to sooth it, in the same way the whole is more important than individual.

So, when we are seeking our wholesomeness we have to know that, only through Self-realisation, by becoming one with the Self, you are going to get it.

Talks, talks, talks – we have had many. Let’s have the real and get it. You cannot argue about it. It happens, especially in this country I have seen, because you are great thinkers and analysers. Everything you try to analyse. But this is beyond your thinking. You go beyond your rationality. Because rationality is limited and you have to be triggered into something unlimited, so you have to leave that. You have to go into that space. You cannot explain it by thinking. But then, when it starts flowing through you, you use your rationality to understand, “Why this finger is burning?” It is decoded in Sahaj Yoga.

In Sahaj Yoga you know all the decoding of all the signals you get from the Absolute. Your computer starts working. But who has to decode the computer and the numbers? All that is explained. That is what you have to learn, that is known as gyana.

After Realisation what one has to do? Also, a point comes up sometimes. Supposing, I have enlightened this one (candle), now what have we to do? Is to give light. What a question! When you are enlightened, after enlightenment what do you do? Is to give light, that’s all. That’s your job, is to give light.

But how to manoeuvre it, how to organise it – that’s the thing you have to learn, for which I’m willing to work very hard. And everything that I say, you have to verify it, and you have to see for yourself. After Realisation, if you start doubting – we had people who started doubting – and what are you doubting here? I don’t want anything from you. I am sitting here just to give, not to take anything, then what are you doubting about?

They start doubting and the progress is much less. But some people are of very high calibre in this country, are of a very great high calibre, and once they get it, they just get it like that.

You will be amazed, there was one gentleman who went to someone and was ditched and deceived and absolutely he was looted: he just saw my photograph. There are, Gavin himself has got his Realisation only through my photograph. There are many here who have got it through my photograph only. But they are people of calibre.

So, I said that Sahaj Yoga is going to judge you and you are not going to judge Sahaj Yoga: you cannot. You cannot measure it. It is an ocean. Just enjoy it and be your Self. It’s a gift for which you have been asking, so just take it. It’s absolutely free, you cannot pay it and don’t think on these hopeless worldly ways. It is the love of God, the grace of God, which one has to receive. Just enjoy it. Just have it. That’s what it is and we should work it out.

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.

The subject “Shri Kundalini Shakti and Shri Jesus Christ” is very attractive and interesting. It is altogether a new subject for the common people because nobody has at any time before, attempted to establish any connection between Jesus Christ and Shri Kundalini Shakti. On the Virata tree of religion, saints of various kinds bloomed as flowers in many countries and languages. It is only the Virata who can know the relation inter-se amongst these beautiful flowers. Wherever they went, these flowers spread the sweet fragrance of religion. But even the people surrounding these saints could not grasp the significance of that fragrance. It is therefore, futile to expect the common people to understand the relation inter-se between a saint and the Adi-Shakti, the primordial Mother.

You would be able to experience or understand my view-point if you could attain the plane from which I am talking to you. Because at present, you do not have the necessary equipment to comprehend whether or not what I am telling you is the truth. In other words, you are not yet equipped to understand what the truth is. Until you are able to understand the meaning of the Self, the physical body would remain imperfect and would be unable to verify the truth. But once the physical instrument is connected with truth, you are able to verify the Truth. It follows therefore, that first you have to accept Sahaja Yoga and get Self-realization. After Self realization, the vibrations of Chaitanya begins to flow from your hands. If a particular matter is true, then waves of cool vibrations would start flowing into the palms, but if the same be untrue, hot vibrations would be felt. In this manner, you are able to know as to whether any particular matter is true or not.

Whatever the Christians know about Lord Jesus Christ is on account of the Bible. This book is very enigmatical. It is so much deep and profound that many persons have not been able to understand the hidden meaning of the Truth embodied therein. The Bible says, “I will come to thee as tongues of flames”. Israeli people explained this to mean that, “When the Lord would incarnate, He would be emitting flames of fire and therefore, they would not be able to witness Him”. The real meaning of this is that, “You would witness Me in the Sahasrara Chakra.” You will find many references to the Kundalini Shakti and Sahasrara in the Bible, but only a brief reference is possible here.

Jesus Christ has said that, “Those who are not against Me, are with Me”. It means, “The persons who are not against Me, belong to Me.” If the Christians are asked to identify these persons, they have no knowledge about them .

Two great powers are combined in Jesus Christ. The first power is that of Shri Ganesha, who is recognised as his original power, and the other is that of Shri Kartikeya. Because of this, the incarnation of Jesus Christ is of complete “Brahman Tattva” or “Aumkar.” Shri Krishna, He being the father of Jesus Christ, bestowed a number of boons on Jesus Christ prior to his birth. One of these boons was that, “You [Jesus Christ] would dwell on a plane higher than that of mine.” This could be explained to mean, that while the plane of Shri Krishna is the Vishuddhi Chakra, located at the base of our neck, the plane of Jesus is Agnya Chakra, which is located at the junction of the optic thalamus [pineal and pituitary glands]. The second boon granted by Shri Krishna was that, “You [Christ] would be the support of the whole universe.” The third boon was that, “You would be the first to receive one-sixteenth part of all the offerings made to Me in puja.” In this way, after bestowing a number of boons, Shri Krishna permitted Shri Jesus Christ to incarnate on the earth.

You would understand these things better, if you read Markandeya Purana. Shri Markandeya, the author of the Purana has beautifully explained a number of such subtler points. In the same Purana, there is a graphic description of Shri Mahavishnu. If you would listen to this description while in meditation, you would notice that the description is of Jesus Christ only.

Now, if You study the etymology of the word, ‘Christ’, you would know that the word has originated from a corrupted form of word, ‘Krishna’. As a matter of fact, the father of Jesus Christ is Shri Krishna. That is why He is called ‘Christ’. The manner in which his name ‘Jesus’ originated is also very interesting. The mother of Shri Krishna, Shri Yashoda Mata, was addressed as ‘Yesu’. Even today, we notice that in Northern India somebody named ‘Yeshu’ is not addressed as such but as ‘Jesu’. It is therefore, clear that from ‘Yashoda’ came the word ‘Yeshu’ and then further became the word ‘Jesu’ and finally the name ‘Jesus Christ’.

Whenever, Jesus Christ told stories about His Father, He was actually speaking about Shri Krishna, He was talking about Virata. Although, Shri Krishna did not reincarnate during the period when Jesus Christ lived on the Earth, His teachings centered round the theme as to how the seekers should know the Virata Purusha or God Almighty. The Mother of Jesus Christ was the Goddess Maha Lakshmi Herself. Mother Mary is none other than the Goddess Maha Lakshmi. She is the Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother. Therefore, Jesus Christ used to address His Mother as the “Holy Ghost”.

Jesus Christ possesses all powers of Ekadasha Rudras, that is eleven powers of destruction. These powers have their centers located around the cranium of our head. When the incarnation of Kalki takes place, all these eleven powers perform the work of destruction. Out of these eleven powers one is that of Shri Hanumana, the other is of Shri Bhairava. In the Bible, these two powers are named as Saint Gabriel and Saint Michael respectively. After Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga one can awaken these powers by addressing them in Sanskrit, Marathi or even in English. The Nadi on our right side, which is known as ‘Pingala-Nadi’, is activated by the power of Shri Hanumana. Whenever, any sort of pressure or constriction develops inside this Nadi, it is instantly relieved by Chanting the mantra of Shri Hanumana. Similarly, even by chanting the name of Saint Michael one would experience relief in the Ida-Nadi. Ida-Nadi is on our left side and and manifests the power of Saint Michael or Shri Bhairava. Obviously, chanting the Mantra of their names relieves any trouble or constriction on the Ida Nadi.

The aforesaid matters can be verified by any person after Self-realization in Sahaja Yoga. The purpose why I am telling you all this, is to impress upon you that it is absurd to quarrel against yourselves after grouping as Hindus or Muslims or Christians. If you could see the principle behind all this, you would realise that all these saints are like many flowers on the same tree of religion and are connected with each other because of the one and the same power.

Perhaps, you would be surprised to know that in Sahaja Yoga, the awakening of the Kundalini very much depends on the condition of the Agnya Chakra of the seeker. In the present age, many persons are found with highly inflated ego [Ahamkara]. That is so, because most of them lead an extremely egocentric life. It is on account of the egoistic attitude, that man fails from his true religion. Man is misled, and therefore remains continuously busy working, thinking, etc., which are complementary to the growth of the ego. Jesus Christ is of great help for securing freedom from the ego.

As Paigambar [prophet] Mohammad wrote about awakening of the Kundalini and the ways of protecting oneself from wicked [satanic] powers. So also, Jesus Christ told in very lucid manner about the powers in us as well as the weapons.

The first among these weapons is “forgiveness”. The one which operates in the “Proksha” form in Shri Ganesha principle, manifests itself in the form of forgiveness in human principle. In fact, forgiveness is a very powerful weapon. It protects man against the ego. If somebody hurts you or puts you in trouble or insults you, then your mind is engrossed in contemplating on these matters, and you get disturbed. You continue to think all the time about such a man, and by repeated remembrance of these events you put yourself in trouble. To overcome such troubles, we advise every such person to forgive one and all. Forgiveness is thus a very powerful weapon we have received from Jesus Christ. It enables one to get rid of troubles caused by others.

I have told you earlier that Jesus Christ possessed a number of powers and that He was endowed with the powers of Ekadasha Rudras. Then how is it that He was crucified and could not save Himself from this dreadful event? Jesus Christ, with His several powers, could have completely annihilated His opponents in a moment. His Mother Mary was no one else but Adi Shakti, the Primordial Mother Herself. She also could not bear the atrocities on Her son. And yet it happened. Perhaps God desired to stage a drama. Really speaking, Jesus Christ was beyond happiness or sorrow, and He had to enact the drama in perfect and faultless manner. How foolish were those who crucified Him! Jesus Christ rode on a donkey so that foolishness among the people of those days could be eradicated. If you suffer from headache and you pray to Jesus Christ to forgive all those who have put you in trouble, you will be cured of your headache without the aid of any medicines. However, before such a thing can happen, you have to awaken your Kundalini by accepting Sahaja Yoga and get Self-realization. The reason is that the Agnya Chakra, which is the Jesus principle in you, becomes active only after awakening of the Kundalini in Sahaja Yoga and not otherwise. Agnya Chakra is very subtle. The physicians are also unable to notice it. There is a very subtle door in this Chakra. That is why Jesus Christ said, “I am the door”. Jesus Christ incarnated on this earth for facilitating the passage through this door, and He Himself was the first to pass through it.

People crucified Jesus Christ because of their ego. They could not conceive of an idea that some human being can appear on the earth as an incarnation of God Their intellectual pride could not accept this idea and they rejected the Truth because of the ego. What was the bad deed for which Jesus was crucified? He had on the contrary cured many people of their ailments. He preached the Truth and taught many good things to the people. He showed them the way to live a very cultured life. He always preached Love. In spite of this, the people tortured Him. But they would bow before those who teach filthy and rotten things and make a fool of them. What a height of stupidity! These days any Tom, Dick or Harry becomes a Guru, robs the people, squeezes money from them. Such persons are held in high esteem. On the contrary if a good person, who stands by the Truth, wishes to show the true path, the people not only won’t listen to him but assault him. To educate such very stupid people God Almighty sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, on this earth. But the people crucified Him. They have been, ever since repeatedly doing the same thing. If you read, you will find that whenever God incarnated, or any Sage or Saint took birth on this earth, the people have harmed them and tortured them. Instead of learning from them, they behaved with them stupidly. We will notice the same story about Shri Gyaneshwara and Shri Tukarama, the great saints of Maharashtra. Similar treatment was meted out to Guru Nanaka and prophet Mohammad. Man, always runs away from the Truth and tries to embrace the untruth.

Whenever there is an incarnation of God, or a Saint is born, and you ask a question whether such a person is an incarnation or whether he is a pious Saint, a Sahaja Yogi would immediately feet the cool breeze on his palm, if the answer is in affirmative.

The past events in one’s life, result in strengthening the ego. For instance, one boasts that he is a disciple of such and such person etc. Man is unaware of the factual evidence facing him. Obviously due to the strengthening of ego, he loses sight of the real meaning of the Self [Sva]. It is therefore necessary to understand the meaning of the “SELF”. Suppose the river Ganges is flowing from a particular place, and you go at some other place and say that Ganges is flowing from that place, and that you are actually sitting on the Ganges, this will be ridiculous. Therefore, accept only that which is factually or materially present before you. In the case of Jesus Christ, the circumstances were similar. Jesus Christ tried to awaken the Kundalini, but with great difficulty could give Realization to some twenty-one persons. But in Sahaja Yoga, thousands have got realization. Christ could have given Realization to many more, but His disciples thought that He could only cure sick persons and that there was no other significance of Realization to them. On many occasions Jesus Christ demonstrated walking on the surface of water. This could be because He Himself was Pranava [Omkara].

In spite of all this, people could not understand that Christ was the son of God. In Sahaja Yoga, a number of seekers have got Self-realisation and got rid of the diseases. Man should, therefore, understand that the ego is very subtle. Another thing I want to tell you, is about fighting with your ego . That is not correct thing to do. The ego is not in any way effected by your fighting with it. It should get absorbed in your own Self. When your attention is focused on the Kundalini, and it pierces your Brahmarandhra, and therefore merges with Virata, it is at this stage that ego is absorbed. The real Ego is the Ego of the VIRATA SHAKTI. In fact VIRATA is the real Ego. You cannot free yourself from the ego. What do you do? That which I do is Ego [Aham Karoti, Sah Ahamkara]. You just ask yourself as to what is it that you actually do? You can do nothing except changing the form of dead matter. Can you transform a flower into a fruit? You are endowed with the nose, the face, the beautiful human body, How did this happen? We achieved this human form from amoeba. How could this have happened? It is undoubtedly the grace of God Almighty which enabled us to have this beautiful human form. Can we repay Him for this? Can you do anything which is similar? After man succeeded in producing a test tube baby, his ego swelled considerably. Really speaking here also man did not create any living organism. As in the case of crossbreeding of two plants, so it has been done here by uniting two living human cells. But how much it has inflated the ego balloon! Then, man reached the moon, how much further inflation of his ego took place! What is our ego in comparison to His. Who created the sun, the moon, the stars and the whole universe? In fact, our ego is false. It is fake. The true Ego is the Ego of the Virata Purusha. Because it is the Virata that is doing everything.

You should know that it is the Virata Purusha who alone is doing everything. Therefore, let all things be done by the Virata. You are just like a machine. Suppose I am speaking before a microphone, and My voice is carried to you through the medium of the microphone, then the microphone is only a sakshi or a witness. It is I who is doing the speaking and the power is flowing through the microphone.

In the same way, you are simply an instrument of God Almighty. The Virata has made you. So, let the power of Virata flow through you and understand the meaning of Self. In order to explain the meaning of the Self, Jesus Christ incarnated on this earth with His seat in the Agnya Chakra. Agnya Chakra is very complex and is the seat of the subtle principle of Omkara or Pranava. In fact, Jesus Christ is the Omkara, the Pranava. The connection between the Kundalini and Jesus Christ is the same as the one that exists between the moon and the moonlight or the sun and the sunlight.

The Kundalini, that is Mother Gauri, created Shri Ganesha by Her willpower, tapasya and noble deeds. It was when Shri Ganesha prepared Himself for incarnation that Jesus Christ was born.

There are many things in this world in respect of which man has not been able to find any satisfactory explanation. Have you ever considered how a seed sprout? How you breathe? How you make movements? Where from the power in your brain comes? How you came into this world? There are many such things. Can any man satisfactorily explain these things? We say that earth has gravitational force. But from where this force came. A number of things need unfoldment. This is because you are under the influence of an illusion. You have yet to come out of that illusion. Your illusion has to be blown up, otherwise it would grow from strength to strength. For spiritual evolution of man, it is necessary to demolish his illusion. At every stage of evolution, the incarnations have appeared. All of you know that Shri Vishnu incarnated as Shri Rama, and wandered in the forests. He staged a beautiful drama to demonstrate the life of an ideal king. Similar was the life of Shri Krishna and the life of Jesus Christ.

When we study the life of Jesus Christ, one thing is noticed prominently, that is the stupidity of the people of that time.

Because of that stupidity this magnificent personality was crucified. And what height of stupidity! When the people were asked to express their opinion as to whether a thief or Jesus be released, the Jews demanded that the thief be released, and Jesus Christ crucified.

We know the state of these people today! The sin committed by them will not be washed away in many, many lives. And even now these persons are enveloped in their ego. They think that they have done a virtuous deed. Even now, if these people seek pardon of God, saying that, “Oh God! Pardon us for crucifying your sacred principle. Forgive us for destroying your sacred principle”, God will immediately forgive them. But man finds it very difficult to apologize. He commits a number of evil deeds. How many persons can be found in the world who have worshipped the Saints? Take the instance of Shri Kabir or Guru Nanaka. The people have persecuted them at every step. In this world the people have not given anything to the saints except harm and torture. But I tell you now, that circumstances have changed. The Satya Yuga has commenced. You may try, but now you would not succeed in persecuting or torturing any saint. This is due to Jesus Christ Himself. For Jesus Christ has set in motion a mighty power in this world which would make such wicked people suffer. They would be punished.

The Ekadasha Rudras of Jesus Christ are all in readiness to strike. Those who would now torture any saint, would be completely ruined. It is a great sin to torture any saint. You try to understand this from the example of Jesus Christ. Do not commit such stupidity hereafter, otherwise you may get completely ruined. If one great lesson is to be learnt from the life of Jesus, then that is that you have to remain contented in the state in which the Almighty has placed you. Jesus did not change His mission, He did not separate Himself from the society, considering Himself to be a Sanyasi. On the contrary on occasions, He attended certain marriage ceremonies and made the arrangements. The Bible says that at one marriage occasion He transformed drinking water into fresh grape Juice. Now, man has picked up this one incident to suggest that since Jesus Christ made wine out of water, He used to drink wine. In Hebrew language you would notice that the word ‘wine’ means ‘pure juice of fresh grapes. It does not mean ‘alcohol’.

Jesus Christ incarnated to open the Agnya Chakra and to dissolve our ego. My job is to awaken your Kundalini power so that it could pierce your Sahasrara Chakra. This work is of collective nature; I have therefore to do it. In the case of one and all, I want to tell you about Jesus Christ, Guru Nanaka, King Janaka and a number of other incarnations and the way they relate with the collectivity. Similarly, I wish to talk to you about incarnations of Shri Rama, Shri Krishna etc., and also about Shri Shiva, because all the powers of these Gods and Deities are in us. Now, the time has come for collective consciousness to manifest.

In this Kali Yuga, all those who are seeking God shall find Him and millions of people will be able to do so. Sahaja Yoga is the Last Judgement. This is described in the Bible. You are judged only after you come to Sahaja Yoga. For that purpose, you however, have to surrender yourself completely after coming to Sahaja Yoga. After getting that, which means everything, it is important to dwell in it, to be settled and stabilized in it. Many people ask Me, “Mataji, when would we be stable?” The answer is very simple. Suppose you are sailing in a boat. Then you know when the boat becomes stable. So also, while riding a bicycle, you understand that when you do not wobble, you know you are in balance and stable. So also, in Sahaja Yoga our stability is understood. The judgement in this matter is to be made by the individual himself. It is only when you stabilize in Sahaja Yoga, that the state of thoughtless awareness is established. So long as the Kundalini power does not pass through the Agnya Chakra, the stage of thoughtless awareness is not reached. This is the first step in the way of thoughtless awareness of the seeker. As soon as the Kundalini crosses the Agnya Chakra, the thoughtless awareness is established. It is the power of Jesus Christ which is instrumental in opening the subtle door located above the Agnya Chakra. For that purpose, you are to recite the Lord’s Prayer composed by Jesus Christ. After crossing this door, the Kundalini power enters the limbic area of the brain. It is after the Kundalini enters this area, which is also termed as the Kingdom of God, that the state of thoughtless awareness is established. in the limbic area of the brain there are Chakras which activate the seven main Chakras and also the secondary Chakras in the body.

Now, let us consider the reasons why the .Agnya Chakra is spoiled. One of the main reasons of this deterioration are your eyes. You should take great care of the eyes, as they are very important. Then the Agnya Chakra is also spoiled on account of bowing before or touching one’s head at the feet of an unauthorized Guru. That is why Jesus Christ has told not to bow one’s head before every person or place, because by doing so, you unknowingly lose everything whatever you have gained, You should bow your head only before an authorized person, that is the one who is an incarnation of God. Do not bow before any wrong place. This is very important. If you bow your head before a wrong person or place, your Agnya Chakra will get constricted. in Sahaja Yoga, I have noticed that nowadays, many persons have spoiled their Agnya Chakras. The reason is that these people follow a wrong Guru or bow before or touch their heads at wrong places. Many of the eye-diseases are caused due to such wrong practices. In order to keep the Agnya Chakra in proper order, one should always read the scriptures and the sacred texts. One should never read unholy literature.

Many people may say, “What does that matter? On account of our profession, we have to do certain things which may not be strictly proper.” But then, by doing such unholy activities the eyes get spoiled. I never could understand, as to why people are bent upon doing wrong deeds. Even by looking at any unchaste and filthy man the Agnya Chakra may get constricted. Jesus Christ firmly told, “Thou shall not commit adultery.” But I tell you, “Thou shall not have adulterous eyes.” Thus, it again comes to the eyes. If your eyes are unholy, you have eye troubles, and your eyes get weakened. This does not mean that if you have to use spectacles, you become an unholy or improper person. it is the law of life that you have to use spectacles at an advanced age. The eyes are spoiled because you do not keep them steady and are always moving them from one place to another. So also, the attention of some people is constantly shifting from one object to another. These people are not even aware that such action spoils the eyes.

The other reason of deterioration of the Agnya Chakra lies in the manner in which you work. If you overwork, then you become work conscious. The work that you are doing may be good, but even then, if it is beyond the normal level, be it over-reading, overstitching or over-thinking, it will spoil the Agnya Chakra. The reason is that while you overwork, you forget God. During the course of such work, God consciousness does not stabilize in you.

The Kundalini is the Truth. It is sacred. There is no hypocrisy in it. It is not something which can be purchased in a shop. This is the absolute Truth. As long as you cannot recognize the Truth by following vama marg or the wrong path. When you will merge into the Truth, when you will get absorbed in it, only then you would understand that you are but an instrument of God Almighty, the Holy Father, that you are the instrument through which the power of God flows and that you are the instrument of the same power of love of God, which pervades the whole universe and directs all movement therein. This power is made available to you only because of Jesus Christ, through His crucifixion, What a great sacrifice on the part of Christ! It is due to Him that our Agnya Chakra has opened. If the Agnya Chakra of any person does not open, Kundalini would not rise, because the Mooladhara Chakra would also remain constricted till the Agnya Chakra remains constricted. if a person’s Agnya Chakra is too much constricted, the Kundalini power would not rise, whatever efforts you may make. For removing the catch on the Agnya Chakra, we apply Kumkum. This has the effect of reducing the troubles of the ego as also other troubles. When the Kumkum is applied on the forehead above the Agnya Chakra, the Chakra is opened and Kundalini rises. Such is the intimate connection between Jesus Christ and the Kundalini Power. Shri Ganesha, who is stationed at the Mooladhara and protects the modesty of Shri Kundalini, also opens the door at the Agnya Chakra, for the Kundalini to pass through it.

What is it that we have to do for maintaining the Agnya Chakra in order? The ways are many. Extremity in every action spoils the society, and therefore excessiveness in any walk of life is not proper and should be avoided. Maintaining the balance enables our eyes to get rest. In Sahaja Yoga, there are a number of remedies for this, but it is absolutely necessary to get Self-realization, first. Then there are many exercises for the eyes which help to keep the Agnya Chakra in a healthy condition. One of these is to watch your own ego and think of yourself that, “Yes Sir, what is the plan and where do you propose to go?” This is how you may address yourself as if you are observing your own image in a mirror. If you do this, the strain on the eyes due to ego will be minimized.

The other area which is very important is that part of the back of the head that is exactly behind the forehead. It is in the area which is at a distance of about the thickness of eight fingers [about 5 inches] above the base of the neck, and is known as the area of Shri Maha Ganesha. Shri Ganesha incarnated as Maha Ganesha and the same incarnation is of Jesus Christ. Shri Christ’s place is in the center of the forehead and is surrounded by the kingdom of the Ekadasha Rudras. Jesus Christ is the Master of that kingdom. The Ekadasha Rudras comprise of Shri Maha Ganesha, as also Shri Shadanan [The Lord with six faces]. If you open your eyes, after awakening of the Kundalini, you would experience that your vision is somewhat dimmed or blurred. This is so because when the Kundalini awakens, the pupils of your eyes are dilated and get cooled. This happens on account of the action of para-sympathetic nervous system. Mere thinking of Shri Jesus Christ or contemplating or meditating on Him would relieve Agnya Chakra. At the same time it should be remembered that merely following the conventions or traditions and the lines of succession made after Him, does not mean contemplation of Jesus Christ.

Now, I will be telling you some eternal truths. Foremost amongst them is that looking at any women with evil intentions is a great sin. You can realize the extent of the enormous sin that is being committed by several people who stare at women at road sides with evil intentions. Jesus Christ told about this matter some 2000 years ago. But He did not tell it so openly. That is why I have to remind you about this bad habit. Jesus Christ told about this matter and was crucified. Jesus only told that this should not be done because it is filthy. He did not tell about the bad consequences of this action. This habit makes man behave like a beast, as his mind is day and night engrossed in evil thoughts. In our Yoga science it has been advised that the mind should be controlled and kept on the correct path. You should approach God with all attention centered on Him.

We are made out of Yoga. Ours is the land of Yoga. We are not egoistic, nor do we want to be so. We desire to live on this land as Yogis. A day will dawn, when the whole world would bow to this country [India] in reverence. Then people would know who Jesus Christ was, and from where He came! He would then be worshipped with due respect on this sacred land. In India, even today, the modesty of women is protected and they are treated with proper respect. All over our country, we regard the mother with great reverence. When the people from other countries would visit this land they would know that it is in this country that real Christianity is practised with great devotion, but not in countries which profess the Christian religion.

Jesus Christ said that, “We should be born again.” In our country we refer to this process as ‘Dwija’ or ‘born for the second time’. The second birth of any human being is possible only by awakening of Kundalini power. So long as the Kundalini is not awakened, one will not acquire the second birth, and so long as we do not have rebirth we will not be able to recognise God. You read the Bible after realization. You will be surprised to know that Jesus Christ has told nothing but the importance of Sahaja Yoga. Everything has been explained with minor details. Those who have no insight, misrepresent the matters.

In reality, ‘giving Baptism’ means ‘the awakening of the Kundalini power’ so that after it rises and pierces the Sahasrara, there is the union of the all-pervading power of God and the Kundalini power. This is, in fact, is the final job of the Kundalini power. But the clergy know nothing about this. On the contrary, they are vainly trying to do something which they are not even authorised to do. Otherwise you will find these clergymen involved in all sorts of acts of kindness: kindness to animals, service of the poor, service of patients and so on. You would say, “Mataji, these are all noble deeds.” Yes, certainly they are noble deeds but then, it is not the work of God. It is not the work of God to serve the poor by paying them money. The real work of God consists in helping the people to enter the Kingdom of God, and to enable them to unite with God. To make their life full of peace, prosperity, happiness, beauty and grace, is in reality the work of God. God will not catch the feet of the persons who commit theft, or speak lies or wander around because of poverty. To help such persons is an act of kindness and can be done by any person. You would notice some Christians involved in proselytising work. They would go to a remote corner where the Adivasis [Aboriginals] reside. There they would do some work of service to the Adivasis people and then convert all of the Adivasis to Christianity. But one thing should be made clear, that this is not the work of God. The work of God is eternal.

In Sahaja Yoga, the patients get healed when their Kundalini is awakened. In Sahaja Yoga, we do not perform any work of pseudo-kindness. If we go to any hospital, we can easily heal 25-30 patients. With the awakening of Kundalini they are automatically healed, because within us is the power of Love. Due to awakening of Kundalini, this power of love starts flowing through their bodies and the same power cures them. Jesus Christ healed many with the same power of love flowing through Him. Jesus Christ did not help anybody with materialistic things. We have to understand these things minutely. Do not repeat the mistakes of the past. You get yourself realized. This is your first duty. After Self-realization your powers are awakened. These awakened power have healed diseases like cancer which are considered as incurable. In fact you can cure any disease. Diseases like cancer can be cured only in Sahaja Yoga. But those who get cured again resume their old paths and habits. They are no more in search of God. Such persons remember God only when they want to be cured of some disease. They do not otherwise think it necessary to seek God. Why then should God care for those who do not desire to be the light of God ? Such persons, whether cured or not, would not spread the light in this world. God would light only such lamps which would spread the light in the whole world. Why will God cure the stupid people ? Why will God help those who do not wish to do His work or those who do not want to seek Him? The work to relieve poverty or social work should not be mistaken for the work of God.

Jesus Christ came to save and liberate the whole mankind. He was not the personal possession of any particular sect. He himself was Aumkar incarnate. He was Pranava and the Truth. The bodies of the other incarnations were made up of “earth principle”, whereas the body of Jesus was made of the “soul principle”. That is why He was resurrected after death. And it was only through the resurrection that His disciples could know that He was no other than God Himself. Then they started beating the trumpets, started reciting His name, started delivering lectures on Him. The most important thing is that God incarnated. If the people should recognise Him and secure spiritual development and bliss, this would enlighten the soul and spread happiness and bliss everywhere. May all of you acquire the Yoga of God. Many many blessings.

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