Friday, August 14, 2015

You are not to seek anything during meditation.


Sahaja Yogi: How do you attain nirvichar (thoughtlessness) in meditation?

Shri Mataji : In meditation? 
There is no vichar (thoughts) during meditation! 
Why should thoughts come in meditation? 
You are not to seek anything during meditation. 
It is only to be felt within. 
It is you who have to discriminate whether you have realised this or not during meditation. 
In meditation, first you will come to know your own mistakes, where you were wrong, and where you were right. 
When you start realizing your own mistakes, then you are on the right track. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see yourself. What is the use of seeing others ? 
The trouble with us is, we always like to see others in the mirror. Then how will you identify your own faults if you start to see others in the mirror?
(Q+A after Shri Krishna Puja 2003, Pratisthan, Pune, India)
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If you do not meditate, if you do not know how to raise your Kundalini, you better try to learn it. Negative people always avoid that because then they feel burnings, they feel this. 
Face it up for a while, doesn't matter, face it up, clear out yourself and see that you raise your own Kundalini. 
Don't blame your husband, don't blame your wife, don't blame your children, don't blame your atmosphere, nothing of the kind. You can go in the jungles everyday, you can go anywhere you want to, if you want to do it, you can do it. 
But people must understand that now we are saints, and saints have to do that.
You'll be surprised if you start meditating, most of your problems will disappear 
1986-01/14: Sankranti Puja, India
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

1000 first copies


Thanks to some blog-readers, who took in charge the printing,
Sahaj Dhyana is available at the bookshop in Cabella since Guru Puja.

There are no words enough to thank our friends, whose initiative will be mostly useful for all of us.
I took the opportunity of this inauguration to realize some power point presentations. Find them on YouTube, some CD  have been offered also. (being no nerd, you swill find they are far from a perfect technique) 

What meditation is:
1 Dhyana is Meditation (2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiaHNZjlhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cJbcFwZTI
2 How to meditate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T148RJjRqRU
The Aims of Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRR1DiMBMc
3 Meditation and Shiva tattwa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh6d8Pj6g_E
4 Turiya state of awareness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdP8-WZDZqI

Sunday, December 23, 2012

You should know how to meditate


RAHURI, INDIA,  Sankranti Puja, 14/01/1986

… But one must remember one principle of Sahaja Yoga which is very important. I think one should write it down in your heart. This is a very important essence of Sahaja Yoga, of how to grow, that you should know how to raise your Kundalini. You should know how to meditate and to find out about your problems, your defects and then remove them and raise your Kundalini. If you cannot raise your Kundalini you cannot improve in Sahaja Yoga.

 Now, the Kundalini falls off with many things, as you know, if you have defects. Even supposing you have a weakness for your wife, you worry about her, you think about her or your husband, who is a negative person: the Kundalini will be sucked down. It will be sucked down with all these negative attentions, any kind of a negative attention you have, it will be sucked down.
 (…) So instead of feeling unhappy about the negativity and making miserable faces, and making yourself miserable and me miserable with that, best is to laugh it out, and use that negativity for your positivity. (…) That is what is wisdom, and this wisdom comes through meditation, meditative method.  So you must everyday meditate and raise your Kundalini, otherwise you cannot grow by saying, “Mother, I love you, I love you,” writing me ten pages letters, which is impossible to read, doing all kinds of things like that and asking me questions morning till evening. Nothing, nothing is going to help you to understand me or to understand yourself or to understand Sahaja Yoga or to grow in Sahaja Yoga. You may talk, discuss, do what you like, to understand Sahaja Yoga, best is to keep very happy. Happy faces, happiness within yourself, joy within yourself, try to see the essence of joy in everything; don’t try to criticize, nor to make yourself miserable. But to raise your Kundalini every morning religiously, every morning, every night raise your Kundalin! Kundalini is like the nourishment, the nourishment, the water of life for the growth of your inner being.
King Jayavarman, Kampuchea.
If you do not meditate, if you do not know how to raise your Kundalini, you better try to learn it! Negative people always avoid that because then they feel burnings, they feel this, that. Face it up - for a while, doesn’t matter!- face it up, clear out yourself and see that you raise your own Kundalini. Don’t blame your husband, don’t blame your wife, don’t blame your children, don’t blame your atmosphere, nothing of the kind. You can go in the jungles everyday, you can go anywhere you want to, if you want to do it, you can do it. But people must understand that now we are saints, and saints have to do that. 
You’ll be surprised if you start meditating, most of your problems will disappear because all physical problems will be looked after by God. All material problems will be looked after. All other problems, family problems will be looked after. But the main problem is how to make you do it.
It’s like once you eat your food your tongue can taste it, it gets the saliva, it goes down, it’s all looked after, it goes down properly, down below it is all -the juices are secreted, they know that the food is coming, it is digested in different parts: as it is, it is all built-in. But you must put it in the mouth!  And this is what is the mechanism of Sahaja Yoga is,  that you must meditate and raise your Kundalini.
In so many ways, in so many styles, in so many angles I have said this again and again and again and again. But that’s what we do not do. 

And know your purpose, you must know your purpose! (…)
Bogota, 2003.

 DEFINING   MEDITATION


 From Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon     http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/ :
 
 nyAsa…    m. putting down or in , placing , fixing …; putting away , taking off , laying aside … consigning or intrusting anything to the mind ; mental appropriation or assignment of various parts of the body to tutelary deities
dhyAna …n. meditation , thought , reflection ,  profound and abstract religious meditation
dhAraNA …f. the act of holding , bearing , wearing , supporting , maintaining; collection or concentration of the mind (joined with the retention of breath) to exercise concentration; firmness , steadfastness , righteousness

samAdhi…m. putting together, joining or combining with …profound or abstract meditation , intense contemplation of any particular object (so as to identify the contemplator with the object meditated upon ; this is the eighth and last stage of Yoga  ; with Buddhists Samadhi is the fourth and last stage of Dhyana or intense abstract meditation ...absorbed in meditation 
cit …to perceive , fix the mind upon , attend to , be attentive , observe , take notice of …to aim at , intend , design … to understand , comprehend , know … , reflect upon .
citta …  mfn. `" noticed "`" aimed at "' , longed for n. attending , observing intention , aim , wish
nirodha…m. …restraint , check , control , suppression , destruction … suppression or annihilation of pain
kaivalya n. isolation Va1m. ; absolute unity; perfect isolation , abstraction , detachment from all other connections , detachment of the soul from matter or further transmigrations; beatitude
sthiti f. standing upright or firmly , not falling ;, remaining , abiding , stay , residence , sojourn in or on or at; maintenance of discipline , establishment of good order (in a state &c.) Ragh. ; continuance or steadfastness in the path of duty , virtuous conduct , steadiness , rectitude.
RtaMbhara mfn. bearing the truth in one's self ; intellect or knowledge which contains the truth in itself
PrajJa mfn. possessing the above knowledge (said of a class of Yogins)
mokSa m.  emancipation , liberation , release from … from worldly existence or transmigration , final or eternal emancipation; death; also: sacred hymns conducive to final emancipation ; setting free , deliverance (of a prisoner) 


Follow the Guide 
the Titles are here, 
on the top-right of the page
(Shri Mataji laughing) It’s like that!

WORSHOPS with Shri Mataji

Videos of workshops lead by Mother in person,

Page of the links: http://vimeo.com/album/1593211

1981 London 
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/28449334
1983 Perth - 1
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/19857206
1983 Perth - 2
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/19857264
1983 Adelaide - 1
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/19856667
1983 Adelaide - 2
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/19856991
1983 Sydney
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/23847325
1985 Public program and workshop in Sydney
http://vimeo.com/album/1593211/video/39817015

Thursday, December 15, 2011

CONTENTS / HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights
All these quotes can be found in their context  in this “Sahaj Guide”

Page 1


·         you should know how to raise your Kundalini.

You should know how to meditate
best is to laugh it out, and use that negativity for your positivity.
If you do not meditate, if you do not know how to raise your Kundalini, you better try to learn it!
saints have to do that.
But that’s what we do not do.
Nyasa.
dhyana yoga. Dhyana is meditation
whatever I have said please meditate on that..
dharana
So this is: dhyana, dharana, and samadhi.
As long as you feel the joy
Samadhi: sama-dhi means, the dhi means the buddhi, and when it has got enlightenment it means Samadhi.
Again the word is “all of you should achieve”, and then only the higher ascent works out.
how to keep the attention in the center is the problem
a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God’s blessings,
Once you have reached that state,
witnessing with joy.
learn, experience, learn, experience, learn.
Ritambhara Pragnya
Chitta Nirodha
there is a problem, which you are facing all the time in you, then know there is something wrong with you!
Question: Should we focus our attention while meditating, on the top of the head?]
You don’t have to focus anything anywhere.
Nirvikalpa samadhi,
Try your attention
this penetration starts by your meditation and sustainance of the meditation, and the Samadhi seed sprouting,
“What is happening to my attention?”



Page 2


first it should be thoughtless.
Then you are in thoughtless awareness: now you meditate.
Leave all the worries to Mother
you should see in your heart and, there try to put your Guru, in the core of it.

·         Meditation is when you're one with the divine.

Now we come to the hurdle of your Ego
controlling your emotions
try to reduce your breathing;

·         The Laya takes place between your Prana and your Mana. Both the Shaktis become one.

Now you raise your Kundalini

·         Once this has been done, then you go into meditation

·         Then the third thing happens, is the joy!

·         Ananda: that's the perfect state in which you should be

the most powerful mantra is “Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi namoh namah”.
is not how long we meditate, but how deeply.

Page 3


Meditation takes some time.
But it is how much intensely you are with me
you don’t have to worry as to what you have to do or what name you have to take, what mantras you have to do. In meditation you have to be absolutely effortless. Expose yourself fully, and you have to be absolutely thoughtless at that time
Effortlessness is the only way into meditation
When you put your hands toward me, that is the mantra
After listening to my lecture you just go into my meditation. Actually
state of complete silence is created.
When we are in this state of the present we become absolutely calm and peaceful
fourth dimension awareness: Turiya
a kind of a silence will come within you
When you are in that silence you are in the silence of the cosmos
into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God’s blessings,
Complete dedication is the only
that Whole which you are going to become.
now stationed in the Sahasrara, in thoughtless awareness.
you imbibe the beauty of your Sahasrara.
I cannot find any other way but meditation
then they grow,
pay full attention to what I've said here today,
Meditation is when you are one with the Divine.

Page 4


So, when you pay attention to the chakras, where do you pay attention to, is the point.

·         If effortlessly that happens to you, you should know that you have established Shri Krishna.

One does not give swords to stupid people isn’t it
when you are back home you will not forget my words
you must concentrate on a Deity to imbibe his qualities, otherwise you do not have the communication with this deity, and then it is useless to repeat his mantras…
“I promise, Mother, that now I will correct myself
We cannot “meditate”: we only can be in meditation
We have to be in meditation
Everybody is ascending individually
Be in thoughtless awareness!   That’s all.   Don’t do anything!
So all the techniques of Sahaja Yoga must be learned and mastered
You are not the Chakra, you are not the different Channels – you are the Awareness! You are the Power. You are the Kundalini.
meditate more so that you reach your inner being.
It’s an individual journey towards God when you meditate,
No one exists there
absolutely alone.
The whole world is your own manifestation
you want to enjoy it with others, you want to give it to others. This is the sign of a person who has been really meditating
whatever your gain is, has to be visible outside, how you radiate and how you give it to others.
meditation is a continuous availability of the divine Force.
Many people meditate but their thought process is going on. They are not thoughtlessly silent.
You don’t have to pray, you don’t have to call anyone, this state of thoughtless awareness is not established by many, which is not good.
you have to get to that state of thoughtless awareness, minimum of minimum.

Page 5


every moment you are in meditation
Mr. ** says that I can do everything, I can do everything but not to make you do something
And this is why none of the [spiritual] experiences which are described are felt sometimes

·         how to be in meditation all the time.

first thing is we must have peace
Many facets of a diamond, but it’s one diamond, and that diamond is your self, your spirit
it’s just the center of the whole universe. To develop this you have to pay attention to your heart chakra in the fontanel bone area. If you pay attention to the fontanel bone area then there you must establish the deity. But this deity has to be first established into the heart.
and put compassion, the feeling of compassion on these chakras. 
first you have to be innocent you become child-like.
because I don’t know if I exist in this body or not
the asking will disappear, and that is the time you will become very powerful
… …then know that you are progressing well.
that without meditation you will be in meditation





Page 6


·         But even if I know, I will never tell you

·         if it could be achieved through your lives,

·         but you should be such that you can adore yourself

·         But one must think why we are not progressing so fast as we should have.

·         you have to dedicate yourself completely to me - not to Sahaja Yoga - but to me.

·         Sahaja Yoga is just one of My aspects.

·         Of course, there’s no difference between Him and me,

·         But I’m illusive just to judge you.

·         I am what I am, I’ve been that, I’ll be that. I’m not going to grow any more, or less. This is an eternal Personality.

·         Meditation is nothing but surrendering,

·         Freedom, in its subtlest form, means complete egolessness

·         , the Parabrahma itself, has to pull you out.

·         Unless and until you are cleansed how can you be completely blessed?

·         , try to see what part is so sneaky:

·         . It’s a question of now or never

·         the name of your Mother is very powerful.

·         That joy is Nirananda.

·         So you don’t have to put in any effort, this is what meditation is. Meditation means exposing yourself to God’s Grace.

·         If you are absolutely effortless,  meditation will work.

·         if you can, you can come into my kundalini.

·         how much intensely you are with me which is important, now, it is not how much time you are with me. Then I’m responsible for you

·         But I think people are also not understanding the importance of what I am saying

·         But you should have a full oneness with the Divine, full oneness

·         In the beginning we may have a little problem

·         only thing you have to do really religiously is to meditate

·         It’s between you and yourself. It’s your gain, nobody else’s

·         that you have to be collectively meditating. Because I am a collective being of all of you

·         you must have the equipment to use the power

·         so many people are still not of that level

·         you are for the whole world

·         Your attention is only charmed by the Spirit.

·         But the Anand stage is not yet reached.



Page 7


·         NIH You have to feel this again and again. Then, you will know what Sahaja Yoga is.

·         In thoughtless state you are one with the God's power

·         you establish it, and then you come into doubtless state

·         time…. It is permanently stopped.

·         But you must see whether you are in the mainstream or not

·         Once you are established in the idea I am naught,..

·         or when the Shakti becomes Lalita,… the vibrations which you are feeling on your palms

·         Love in our hearts, or the power of that love from our hearts, should be filled into the power of action

·         All should have this experience.

·         'MA' is the word of Mahalakshmi. … In 'MA' Shakti you have to comprehend, assimilate and get Mastery.

·         That Sahaja Yogi who can maintain it rises to a very high level.

·         Hence the problems are necessary because you cannot progress without the problems.

·         When the life is changed like this, there will be 'Siddha' Sahaja Yogis  among human beings.

·         you are now drenched in the bliss of heavenly peace and joy.

·         whatever I have said, please meditate on that.

·         you must have the equipment to use the power.

·         But with your ego you cannot.

·         ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara.

·         If the Sahasrara is fully opened  all these powers of love should flow

·         but I see not that happening. And so you have to work it out.

·         Ananda stage is not yet reached.

·         By sitting down you know

·         Mastery of Kundalini starts

·         Such people are the satisfied souls. Such people are the ones who are going to create the Pillar for Sahaja Yoga.

·         We have a notion that a realized person should never lose his temper. It is a very wrong idea

·         that after Nirvikalpa, the Ganesha becomes really Jagrut

·         A Nirvikalpa man cannot have any temptation. (…)
When you get into the Nirvikalpa state, the Ananda starts settling in you.

·         Then, the Ananda which is the Hridaya [=the heart] starts emitting it.

·         Later on what you get is Vilaya into Ananda.At that stage complete Self realisation takes place.

·         At that stage you can control the sun, you can control the moon, you can control every element.
Beyond that, there is God's Realization.