Detachment is purity, is innocence

The third thing for a guru in Sahaja Yoga has to do, is to develop detachment. Gradually you do develop it, because you find that unless and until you develop that detachment, you are not receiving vibrations in full way. All kinds of detachments have to be developed, means your priorities change.



Once your attention gets fixed up with your Spirit, the catch or the hold on things which are of no importance starts reducing by itself. For example, you have a father, you have a mother, you have a sister, this is a bigger problem in India.




Here you are over-detached, but in India people are very much involved in their own children, in their own: 'This is my son', and others are all orphans. Only your sons are the real children: your daughter, your sons. 'My daughter', 'I must do this for my son, for my father, mother' here also.




Two types of attachments are there, one through mohah, through involvement into them; that you want to do this for them and that for them, and give all the property to them, insurance for them, every sort of thing.




And another could be, the way we have here, that you hate your mother, you hate your father, you hate everyone. Both things are just the same.So a detachment must be developed. The detachment is that you are your father, you are your mother, you are everything, your Spirit is everything to you.




You have to enjoy only your Spirit, as everything. Then the detachment comes from there, and then you really do good to them by detaching, because you see the complete vision about them and about what is to be done. For example, people have also attachments to certain crazes. Human beings always become crazy after something, I mean it can be anything.




One has to understand there should be only one craze: is to be settled absolutely into your Spirit. All other crazes will disappear, because thats the greatest joy-giving thing, that's the most nourishing thing, that's the most beautiful thing. So the, all the other things fall off, you enjoy only that which is the source of all enjoyments.




So you get yourself attached to your Spirit: detachment starts working. Sometimes detachment is taken as a license for becoming dry to others, which is absurd. This is only human quality also: make everything ugly, whatever is beautiful. Actually, a person who is detached is the most beautiful person, is the extremely loving person, he's love.




Look at the flowers, they are detached. They are dying, tomorrow they are not going to live, but every minute they live, they are emitting fragrance to you. The trees are not attached to anything, they will die tomorrow, doesnt matter; but anybody who comes to them, they give shadow, they give fruits.



Attachment means death of love, complete death of love is attachment. For example, in a tree, say, the sap rises, goes to all the leaves, goes to all the necessary parts, all the flowers, all the fruits, and goes back to the Mother Earth. He is not attached to anyone. Supposing the sap goes and gets attached into one fruit. What will happen? The tree will die, and the fruit will die.




Detachment gives you the movement of your love, circulation of it.For things now, things have no value unless and until there are emotions behind it. Now for example, a sari, this one I am wearing today, was bought for Guru day, Guru Purnima, but they had no sari. The other day they wanted to have a sari for Puja, so I said: 'All right, use this.'




But I wore it again today, just to say that this was bought with that emotion that on a Guru day, Mother would like to wear something of a lighter shade: white, the pure color of silk, its complete detachment. But in white all the colors are mixed, then only it becomes white. In such a balance and unity it is, should be, that you become white, and whiter than snow.




Detachment is purity, is innocence. Innocence is such a light, I tell you, light that really blinds you to all that is filthy. You wouldnt even know that a person has come with bad intentions. You look at the person, you see, say somebody comes to you, you'll say: 'Oh, come along, what do you want?' You'll offer him tea and all that, and he'll say: 'I have come to rob you.'




'All right, rob me if you want to, its all right.' He may not at all rob you! That is what is innocence, which one can develop only through detachment. Detachment is of the attention. Do not allow your attention to get involved into something too much, even rituals of anything. ... If some mistakes are committed, what does it matter?




If you see on the abstract plane, it's love. This is just a step forward. Like somebody ran very fast and fell down before reaching me, and he said: 'Mother, sorry I fell down before reaching You, I should have not done that. But see how I prostrated before You!' Its complete poetry, detachment.




So one has to develop that detachment to be a guru, and that detachment doesn't mean sanyas or anything like that. Yes, sometimes one has to wear those dresses to announce, because if you have to do lot of work in a short time, then you have to take such intensive behavior, like Christ, we can say, Adi Shankaracharya.




All these people had a very, very short life, and in that short life they had to achieve such a tremendous task that they had to actually take a military uniform, just to avoid problems, not to impress others. Now-a-days people wear that dress just to impress others that they are detached, and do just the thing opposite of it.




H.H.Shri Mataji
Guru Puja, 1980

Hampstead Temple, United Kingdom
(DCB July-August 2001)

God created His reflection

“Why has God created this beautiful universe?” Has been a question asked for thousands of years. The reason is very simple to understand. This beauty that is created cannot see itself. In the same way, God who is the source of beauty, cannot see His own beauty. Like a pearl cannot enter into itself to see its beauty, like the sky cannot understand its own beauty, the stars cannot see their own beauty, the sun cannot behold its own brilliance. In the same way, God Almighty cannot behold His own being. He needs a mirror. And that’s how He has created this beautiful universe as His mirror.


In this mirror, He has created now the beautiful things like the sun. The sun has to see his own reflection also. So He has created these beautiful trees to see that when he shines they come up so well and look so green.


Then He has created those birds to rise early in the morning to greet the sun, so the sun knows that “Yes, I am there, I am existing.” Or else He has created these beautiful lakes for these trees to see their reflection and the lakes to feel their existence when the ripples start moving within themselves.


So then He created human beings. The human beings cannot also see their own beauty, their own glory. That’s why they are in the darkness. They are ignorant. They cannot see what lies within themselves. So they are running after something which is absolutely against themselves, which is ugliness, which is self-destructive. And the struggle to get to reality is such a lot, that as a result , they destroy themselves-like people have taken out to these drugs , taken to all bad habits because they do not know what beautiful thing they are .


So now a mirror has to be created for them to see for themselves, how beautiful they are. Their mirror is their sprit. That sprit is to be brought in their consciousness, in their attention. If it comes in their attention, then they can see their image.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
21 December 1986

Important is what you have reached & not what you know

" Whatever you can verify by your vibrations becomes your knowledge and is what is gradually told to you. You should not indulge into books or things, which talk of the origin of the earth, etc., because your mind will be diverted. You will take to knowledge which may not be knowledge and then you will start thinking ' I do not know this part, I do not know that part,' What you have to know is what you are.


You are the spirit and the light of the spirit will tell you everything, as much as you can bear. It will not tell you something that you cannot bear. It’s a very good analogy when we say that you are the light, but the light you are carrying is very different from this ordinary light. This light does not understand or think. Now the light you are carrying understands, thinks and it gives you only that much light which you can bear.


It won't flash or dim. It will be absolutely in relation to what you can understand. Sometimes the deities emit too much vibration in Pujas, but if you cannot bear it, then they trouble me but won't enter into you. One must understand that it's not important what you know about this or that. What is important is what you have reached. At what maturity you are in Sahaja Yoga."

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Shri Ganesh Puja, Berlin, Germany, 27.07.1993)

Sahaja Yoga is the only way to save the world in Kaliyuga

To,
Sahaja Yogis,
Received your cable on the eve of Guru Purnima. The sentiments, which you have expressed in very beautiful words have gone to heart. On the occasion of Guru Purnima day celebrations in London, I have explained what is self realisation and whether you have got it or not. I will send the tape recording of this speech with some one instead of sending it by post.

I suggested, in my earlier letters, to think of "Atma tatwa". Because you are "Atma Swaroop", your mind, intellect and ego, should be enlightened by the "atma jyoti". The light of wisdom shines in the intellect only when Atma-jyoti illumines in its fullness. Then, mind emits fragrance of love and ego does great and noble works, the whole of your inner being is fully enlightened. You should be able to rely on the Atma tatwa, accommodate others in it, but first stabilize it.


Many of the Sahaja Yogis have cured a number of diseases. They have immense love for me and others. These people could do all this because they have become experts owning to their "Poorva-Sampada". However, there are many intellectuals among us who have not been able to go very far on the strength of their knowledge or wisdom. Sahaja Yoga is lacking in books. We will have to write books in each language. Also, Sahaja Yogis should go to different cities and give lectures. Many people send their poems to me. We should collect all these. Similarly my letters can also be printed. Such publicity is necessary. Let it be known all over the world that Sahaja Yoga is the only way to save the world in Kaliyuga. I am writing a book but it is not useful to all at the present. All should think on what I have suggested. every centre may also be accordingly advised.

Many blessings from Mother to all Sahaja Yogis.
Always remembering you
Your mother NIRMALA

( LETTER OF SHRI MATAJI - London 11th July 1980)

What you want Joy or happiness.........

What I want, that my children should be beautiful people, when they enter into the 'Kingdom of God'. They should be respected as great saints, sages. More than anybody else, they are special people.



That's how they are to be educated. May be, I am very ambitious, you might say. But my ambitions are based on reality. I am sure I can achieve these. But you must develop that humility and understanding within yourself that we all have to improve, we have to be in the attention of the Mother. If she has to say something to us, we are not ,to feel hurt. If you feel hurt, then know that it is your ego. Beat yourself with shoes. Take it out, because it is not good. I cannot go on pampering your ego all the time till you are completely blasted off and then you come and tell me "Mother why didn't you tell me?"


For example, somebody asked me, he is in love with somebody and wants to marry her. I knew that the person was horrible and he should not marry that person and I said that, in a way, it's alright. I mean, I first was in a shock and I kept quite. I said, now how to say that, not to pamper his ego either, but to say. How to say that, no or yes. It was very difficult.



So, I said, all right as long as she makes you. happy, it's alright. Now the word happy, has double meaning. Happy means only your ego can be happy, not the spirit. It's joy. I did not use the word joy, I said happy. See I have to be clever about it. Now, if you had thought of it, why would Mother say happy, she should have said if it gives you joy. If I say joy then it's correct. But I said happy. I said it three or four times to him that, does it make you happy.


He said, "Yes". If it makes you happy then you can marry. Now see, if he is very intelligent, and he should have thought of it. But he never thought of it that I was meaning that it is not going to give you joy, if it gives you happiness, you marry. Happiness means your ego pampering, it's simple. Also you have to educate yourself to understand your Mother. This is the third thing, that you ought to know, is to understand your Mother. See I have to be clever. Because if I am not, if I am very blunt, you get blasted. If I am not, you are lost. So I have to be clever. And when I am clever, they call me Mahamaya. So at least, let me keep to one style, let me be a "Mahamaya".



Alright, accepted. But then you try to understand that if I tell you something, you just get absolutely annoyed and angry. And the people get lost. You see, they get lost. If you tell them don't do it, they get lost. If you say, do it, then they get lost, in any case, because they are doing a wrong thing.

H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Birthday puja 21. 03. 1982 –
Chelsham Road, London, UK

Yoga Means Union With God. It Means Union With Your Spirit...

“Yoga means union with God. It means union with your Spirit. It's no other nonsense that people talk. Sahaja means: Saha means with, Ja means born. It's within you, it's spontaneous, like every seed has a primule in it, you too have that Power within you, just placed there in the sacrum, the triangular bone. So many people who are real scholars, who are seekers, have reached the conclusion that it is the awakening of the Kundalini only that gives you your second birth, your baptism, but they do not know how it will work out because it is a living force. You cannot pull our the primule out of the seed, you cannot not force a flower to become a fruit, you cannot pay money for it, you cannot rationalize it or mock at it or laugh at it or if you doubt it whatever it is. It will work out when it has to work out. In the same way today we are at the junction of a great happening, en-masse Realization has to take place, evolution has to take place, otherwise this creation will have no meaning, you will have no meaningeither.


So don't worry for cheap sensations and sensational stuff that is around. You have to ask for the real and that real you will only ask for if you have self-esteem, that you understand that you have to get the real and not something that you can purchase on the market.”


H.H. Shri Mataji
University of NSW, Australia — March 23, 1981

First the connection must be established

Another thing that happens to you is with your attention. Now our attention is outside, the reason is our brain has become like a prism, and the rays that come into us of awareness also are thrown out and as a reaction our attention goes outside. If I tell you take your attention inside you cannot take it, just cannot. Something has to happen inside and that's why when this Kundalini rises within you then your attention is attracted inside and this happening takes place. And then you find that you can enter inside as well as outside. But otherwise you cannot. Many people say that we are praying, now you are praying outside there is no connection, first the connection must be established. So when your attention is outside you react to everything. For example, I come and see these flowers, then I react to it and then I say something, or another thing I see all the time I am reacting outside. As a result of all the kind of sensations we get out of our reactions our attention becomes absolutely disturbed and we get into a lot of troubles.



H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
(1984 ,Public Program, England).

Feel your own security and then the joy of that security .......

In small, small things we destroy our security…. The complete security within yourself is that you are the Self and these things are not important. If you are a secured man, your children will also find that out, that their security lies in finding their own security. They themselves will say, “Now don’t try to help us, to spoil us. Do not give us things by which we feel more insecure.” And such children will be really brave children like Shivaji was. His mother gave him all the protection, no doubt, but she made a Shivaji out of him….

Feel your own security and then the joy of that security will take you to your depth. Why are you insecure in life? Money? The person who has got, who has got now the blessings of the Divine, what more does he want? Because your God is almighty, nobody’s might is greater than that of your Father. Nobody can touch you on any point. But your faith is lacking and that’s why you should start with your faith in yourself. Make the faith sit in your Heart chakra and that faith is going to give you the joy of security. Faith is the answer for all the insecurities of the world…. The essence of the Heart chakra is to feel your own security, your own Self. Feel your own security within yourself. Only the realised can feel their security because they know they have their atma, their spirit.

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ,1979

IT IS NOT BOTHERED THAT IT SHOULD REAMIN FOREVER

Did you see the sky, how beautiful it was? How orange, blue, all kinds of colours were there. The colour it takes, automatically, and is enjoying it. It is not bothered that it should remain forever, that this will go away when there is darkness. Just watching! The sky is just watching. Whatever comes its way, it takes it. So, it’s so beautiful and it’s so joy-giving.

So the another thing is that, when you are in that state of spirituality, then you are joy-giving, you are peace giving, you are compassionate and you love each other. All these problems of the ego just disappear. Ego is your greatest enemy I think, and it is the one that really hinders all the wealth and beauty of your life. So if you could just see this ego, how it works, just you’ll be enjoying it. It’s a drama it plays, alright? Let’s have it! You can see the drama and then suddenly you will be amazed that you are not in it, you are watching it. When you are detached from your ego you can see how it tries to entice you.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 25.12.2000

Overcoming the Six Enemies of the Soul

Six enemies of the soul, seen as blockages of the chakras

Lust, anger, greed, attachment, jealousy, vanity.

When these are cleared, we become innocent, imaginative, satisfied, secure, collective, confident and real. A realized individual enjoys pure inner freedom, without psychological bondage. Introspection is necessary. Each chakra is under attack. The awakening of the chakras' power by the Kundalini eliminates these defects.

The First Center: Moladhara Chakra

Lust is a malfunction of the first center.The restoring of the integrity of the moladhara chakra is possible through sahaja yoga meditation practices. Implies a return of innocence.

The Second Center: Swadhistan Chakra

Anger represents a malfunction of the second center.People with well operating swadhistan are imaginative, talented and competent.

The Third Center: Manipur Chakra.

Greed relates to a contraction in the third center.The energy of the being is diverted from inner growth into acquiring external possessions. To have and not to be is the realm of one's identity. If society does not control greed, greed will undermine its foundations because it destroys the collective values, which are indispensable for its long term survival. The manifestation of the qualities of the nabhi chakra include an innate feeling of well being and satisfaction, a condition that makes greed superfluous and irrelevant. The third center grants balance to the personality. The resulting equilibrium between the movements of the lateral channels provides the basis for the capacity to adapt and evolve.

The Fourth Center: Anahata Chakra

Attachment strangles the opening of the fourth center.It curtails the power of the heart to love in a generous and giving way. Attachment is a lower and selfish form of love - it takes instead of giving. It is a cause and consequence for a lack of inner security.


The Fifth Center: Vishuddhi Chakra

Jealously blocks the passage through the fifth center.Jealously prevents the establishment of common purpose and teamwork. It is destructive to the smooth functioning of any human collectivity. A person with an operative vishuddhi chakra is sensitive to the needs of the whole, the interest of the collectivity or the organization of which he is a part.

The Sixth Center: Agnya Chakra

Vanity obstructs the opening of the sixth center.It places appearance above substance. When the agnya clears the brain, the subject is no longer blinded or misled by the projections of his ego or the residue of his conditionings. He is capable of settling into a deeper self-identity, a source of personal strength, confidence and resilience.

These are the enemies of our self-mastery.

He was the Omkara. He was the Logos and He was the Spirit

(It the beginning was the AUM)

" Its very significant for Sahaja Yogis to understand the great event of His resurrection, by which he showed that the Spirit does not die। He was the Omkara. He was the Logos and He was the Spirit. That is why He could walk on water. We now made a film in which we have shown the Mooladhara, which shows the Carbon atom, and if you see from right to left you see a proper Swastika there and left to the right we see Omkara. From down below looking up you see Alpha and Omega that proves beyond doubt that what Christ says ' I am the Alpha and I am the Omega' show clearly that He was the incarnation of Shri Ganesh. We now have a scientific proof and we can tell people that it's a fact ".

H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

(Easter Puja, Magallano, Italy, 11.04.1993)

The causal of the five elements and the Spirit put together make the soul

……“Jivatma is the soul. Means with these five elements. And these five elements give you your own identity, your own character, your own particularities etc. These five elements; the way they are placed in you. That's the causal element, the causal of the elements that are within you. Then these causals act on the chakras and through the chakras these causals act on the other ...on the grosser side. So from the subtle to the subtler to the ...you can say the subtlest. The subtlest we can say is the Spirit, supposing. Then the subtler is the soul. And the subtle you have the chakras. And the gross is the body.

………. The Spirit and the causal put together is the Soul. You see, like a mirror and its reflection on it. Both put together is the soul. The causal of the five elements and the Spirit put together make the soul. Now the vibrations that we feel are the reflection of the light of the Spirit. The Spirit does not vibrate. It does not v1brate. It is those elements, they v1brate. Like you can say that lf you put a sound on top of this (a glass of water) it will vibrate. You can put a stone in it, the stone won’t vibrate. But this will vibrate. The Spirit when it shines over it…”(talk at the restaurant in Volterra, Italy on July 25,1986)

We are made of five elements out of which the element of earth drops out; then you become the Soul

“They don't know what is Soul, what is Spirit. But these are all precise things. Soul is the thing which is not only Spirit but is the body, the personality. Except for the element of earth in it. We are made of five elements out of which the element of earth drops out; then you become the Soul, because you cannot be seen but you exist in another plane”…..
( Radio Interview with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,Hong Kong 1992)

When ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart.

The balloon on top that you see yellow is ego. Swadisthana Chakra, which is for our creativity, is directly connected to ego. When it starts rotating round the void and going to various parts of the void it collects all the problem of the void. Void is that green circle within us. In the void, we have Uterus, Kidney, all the Intestine, Liver (mostly upper part of the liver) ascending Transverse, descending Coils, Pancreas and the Spleen. So all the problems of these organs are collected by this Chakra, which moves round, and round and collect and come out of the Nabhi Chakra. It nourishes, gives power, the vital power to these organs. It also generates the necessary power for our creative action, it also collect the Fat Cells of the void and convert into the proper cells for the brain for the gray matter. All this work has to be done by this one Chakra. It manifests the Optic Plexus, outside on the physical level. It has got six sub plexus, which look after these organs. This is meant for our action. When we go into action these Chakras start moving. By the first power, which is on the left side, we desire and by second, we go into action and when the action starts with us, it produces the bi-products or we can say all the problems of the organs and these are to be disposed some where and they are deposited in the brain. All the problems that we have of these organs out of this creativity or any action are to be counter balanced, the ego develops. Any activity is exertion, botheration, problems, we take up the challenges. Because we do action, we have to have satisfaction. As a result, ego develops. The more we rationalize our activity, the more ego develops. We get identified with our ego, supposing you have made a very good poetry then you like to be appreciated. When you create some art, art could not give you satisfaction. You develop ego and ego has to be satisfied others should say, you are very good, you are genius.

The more you indulge in planning the more you get ego. The more you pump, the balloon goes on.
It is very easy to fool a ego oriented man. A simple hearted man cannot be easily fooled. Ego means mis- appreciation, ego is never satisfied.

Actually what happens physically, that when the balloon spreads on your head all over, the aura of the brain surrounds the heart normally, but when there is ego problem, the ego surrounds the heart, the brain is cut off from the heart, so you are non-integrated person. Your heart runs other side your brain runs another side. Your body runs third side and your emotion runs fourth side.

Four people running four horses. It is impossible to stand on two stools but to stand on four stools. One should have very big legs. Ego is very dangerous for Kundalini awakening.

You are much higher than ego, much greater than ego, much more than ego. What people have received from ego ? - Nothing. With ego, at the most what you can get. Imagine the whole of the head is covered with yellow stuff and the blue thing becomes very small. Then, first your desire is diminished. You do not desire anything, your ego desires. No combination of thinking and your heart. You do not seek anything from your heart. Activity of heart has become practically nil.

Anything that doesn’t satisfy your ego you get upset about it. One must go on saying that you are unique personality. (One must praise you) You cannot get joy because joy comes from your heart, joy, you can get only from your heart. With ego orientation, you can get many diseases like Arthritis, Kidney failure, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Attack. Because of over activity, Lever is neglected. Because of too much thinking, you may get Paralysis.

You get misidentified and condemn others, sometimes they feel very depressed. You are not seeking from your heart. You are seeking from your brain. You do not desire. Your ego desires, ego cuts you out from your heart and leaves you nowhere.

You are much higher than ego. What people have achieved through ego! If God has given you some knowledge of the unknown, one should not be pampered by it. He has graciously given you. Take that with humility.

You detest your ego, make a fan of yourself. See in front of the mirror and say "alright Mr Ego ! " and make a fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

Raise the left, and down the right, then there is a gap, then you raise the kundalini. This is Shri Vidya of the Holy Spirit.
Sahaja yoga is the only way through which we can face ego.
You have no time to judge others. Just see yourself. Face it that you do not do anything, every thing is done by God. He is the doer and he is the enjoyer.
You become one with god. The power of god is passing through you. If the doer is lost then who is going to do Karmas. (Then there is no Paap and Punya i.e. sin & good deeds).
When Mr. Ego has gone, all liabilities have gone with him. Your mouth does not say that I am eating and your hand does not say that I am working. When you become one, then you see the whole is working and we as part are working. Then all the responsibilities are finished. If you do not do anything and work, but you desire, then the blue stuff is more with super ego, you get physical problems, you get mental problems, you go on thinking and you go on arguing. So you should be in center. Watch your ego and super ego. You should not expect any thing from others. With Ego, you expect from others, with Super-Ego, you do for others… In center, you emit yourself Joy… love.
(Shri Mataji, Nirmala Devi)

Photograph is much more powerful than any statue…

( Mother earth)

" There were no photographs before. Only in My lifetime the photographs have started, for your information. These photographs also you have developed yourself on your own, of course with the help of the Holy Ghost no doubt, that goes without saying, but you have developed it. I Myself did not know this photography would catch Me so much. I did not know Myself. You will be amazed that I started seeing that these photographs are more powerful than a statue, which is made according to what I was before. Because this is the present thing: this is how I exist. I was amazed Myself that it was emitting vibrations and life that My photograph came up so well….

And the photograph, if you think, is representing Me, I think you are not expressing it fully. I was amazed that My photographs are much more powerful than many statues put together, even produced by Mother Earth, because photography has so many elements in it. For example, you see it has light element, it has water element, it has earth element and also air element. If the air is not all right, you cannot take a photograph.

And also it has ether element. With all these five elements, you cannot produce a statue. Ether element it has because if you have a photograph here, you can transmit the photograph, but you cannot transmit a statue, as it is anywhere- only the photo of a statue you can. So it has also ether in it. So photograph is much more powerful than any statue…

So there's a very big difference between a statue and a photograph because My attention is there. Of course, even the statues, which are created by Mother Earth also, have vibrations and they also show they have vibrations, but they cannot give you the awakening of the Kundalini because My photograph has My desire also in it. They cannot. If they could Stonehenge would have."

Representation of Our Spirit

What is Spirit? What work is it doing residing within us and how is it related to God? It is said that Spirit is the reflection of God in our heart. This reflection is like that of the sun in water. Although reflection of the sun is seen in water, he is away in the sky and not in water. Similarly Spirit is as much as it is seen, it is beyond all that and not limited by it. But, for any reflection to be clearly visible the mirror, which is the cause of that reflection must be clean. If the mirror is not clean, or instead of mirror a stone is there, the sun's reflection will not be seen in it. In the same way, that may look disturbed who has not yet become clean like mirror, so that he can see the God's reflection within himself. Although the sun is seen taking different shapes on the ripples of flowing water, he is steady at his place and it is only his reflection that changes its shape. Similarly, the reflection of Spirit appears to be absent or it just shines for a moment and disappears, in the person who is full of sin and wickedness or whose heart is loaded with false ambitions and desires. It thus entails that all these - body, mind, intellect, ego etc. that we know, should be converted into a mirror. (18.08.1979, Delhi)

BASIC SAHAJA YOGA TERMS

Kundalini

The mothering energy that is lying dormant at the base of the spine in the sacrum bone. This energy is awakened by Self-Realization to begin its work of cleansing and balancing our energy centers.


Attention

The attention is a very important faculty within us. It is often damaged by over-emphasis on the intellectual side of our nature. So the attention itself must be cleansed, steadied and healed. This is a natural process performed by Kundalini.


Chakras

These are subtle energy centers that are located at the sites of the main nervous plexuses. A chakra is a wheel (this is the literal Sanskrit meaning) of energy. There are seven main chakras in our subtle system, which relate to the stages of evolution. Once awakened (i.e., after realization) they begin to emit vibrations, expressing the unique qualities of the divine within us. It is in this sense that we are created in the image of God. Physical, mental and emotional problems can also be traced to an imbalance in one or several chakras.


Catches

A catch occurs when the efficient functioning of the chakra is impaired. This blocks the passage of the Kundalini through that chakra to a higher level. Chakras can become distorted and bruised, and this is the root cause of problems in our lives. Once the Kundalini starts to naturally repair bruised chakras, the problems will disappear. It is very important, however, not to focus attention on catches. Keep your attention on the Kundalini and on the positive aspects of your ascent.


Spirit

This is the reflection of the divine which is present within us. The object of Sahaja Yoga is to fully become Spritual Self, which is the true Self. By virtue of Kundalini awekening, the Spirit can be perceived and felt in our attention, and we can then live and act in harmony with the divine.


Vibrations

Once Kundalini is awakened, vibrations can be felt on the palms of the hand, in the body and on top of the head. Everything in creation emits vibrations, but the ability to feel them comes only with Kundalini awakening. Anyone or anything emitting cool (not cold) vibrations is balanced and “holy”. Hot, tingling vibrations are emitting when there is an imbalance or lack of harmony with the Spirit.