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    Foundations of Sahaja Yoga
    Foundations of Sahaja Yoga
    Foundations of Sahaja Yoga
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    Foundations of Sahaja Yoga

    By Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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    Many of the foundations of Sahaja Yoga can be found in the early talks of the 1970s and early 80s. This book looks back at ten days in India between 1972 and 1977 when Shri Mataji spoke to us: unique moments, gems of wisdom, insights said only once. As one Sahaja Yogi at the time put it, “Shri Mataji, first you make the summit, then you make the foundations.” Shri Mataji later explained: “The human mind is used to doing things in a ritual way. To raise this house, you have to first dig the foundation, then the piling up and then you have those pillars and the roof. That is how they plan out things. But in God’s own kingdom there is no planning. You just sit down and you just enjoy.” Consider now some of the foundations of Sahaja Yoga.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 5, 2020
    ISBN9781716154614
    Foundations of Sahaja Yoga

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      Foundations of Sahaja Yoga - Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

      introduction

      We were shown the summit.

      Now we return to the foundations.

      The early talks of Shri Mataji reveal fundamental truths — foundation stones upon which we can build.

      They are touchstones with which we can measure.

      In this book, we visit ten special days in India, between 1972 and 1977, when Shri Mataji spoke to us.

      search

      Sahaja Yoga is a new discovery.

      In reality, how does the discovery take place for that which is placed, for that which is?

      Just as Columbus had started a journey to find India, then was India not there? If it was not there, then what would he be finding?

      Sahaja Yoga has been there from before. It has been found out only now.

      Sahaja Yoga is the way of the Supreme Essence.

      This is the way of nature’s own method. This is the only way where mankind can, through evolution, be taken to that dimension, by which mankind can be acquainted with that consciousness, can be absorbed with that consciousness, by the support of which this entire creation and the heart of man is moving.

      If Columbus was not able to find India, it does not mean that he was any less. Later those people who found it, they did not do it to belittle the ones who could not. This is not a collective search. You all think separately, so the thought comes to many that Mataji is saying something different.

      No. I am telling you about all the searching of all the searches.

      Until now man has borne tremendous hardships to put their attention on this.

      limitations

      Whatever man thinks with his mind, he does so within the limitations of the mind.

      That which is beyond the mind cannot be understood by the mind. Even this lecture of mine is only a talk and, by this talk, you cannot know the Divine.

      Whatever I go on saying, it will all become like a weight on your mind. If I say, Keep a weight, then that too will become a weight. God has created such an arrangement that whatever we do with our mind will become heavy like a weight. And being trapped under that weight, we cannot fly where we have to go.

      That is why seeking has always remained incomplete.

      time

      For God, time is timeless.

      We are the ones who think that some are left behind and some have moved forward, that the ones who have died are great.

      Who has died? I want to ask. Nobody dies.

      All those who die sit in the other world and then come back here and then go back to the other world and come back again. From the animals some become humans, but mostly people go to the other world and back again to this world. It is only a coming and going. No one dies.

      So it can happen that some of you who are sitting here are here because of your seeking from many lifetimes.

      rebirth

      Just as you have had many rebirths, so do I have many births.

      I too have had a very close relationship with all these great seekers. They are so near to me and mine. Perhaps they are not so near to you.

      Now if it is a question of births and rebirths, a question of joy, then one should think on that level.

      That level is such that whatever is eternal is not gross. Whatever is the Eternal Essence is not gross. That which is sucking is not growth. That which is subtle is not gross. Please understand this properly. It can be enlightened in the gross, but the Eternal is not interested in the gross.

      We have made a big mistake in understanding God. The Eternal Essence is only interested in giving the eternal.

      Please remember and write this down.

      kundalini

      Kundalini is your mother.

      She is sitting inside you to give you your second birth. She is only going to give you your second birth.

      She is not the foolish mother who will give you powers and throw you into the other world. The amount of understanding you have, she is many times wiser and more loving.

      She is not going to push you into a wrong place. She is not the evil mother who will push you into untruth. Until such time, as with the union of the Kundalini, one does not get the recognition. Until then, the Kundalini is not a union yoga.

      That is what Sahaja Yoga is.

      ascent

      Many people have said to me, Mataji you talk against this one or that one.

      I am not talking against anyone. You

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