Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia

It was probably April 1990. Shri Mataji had come to Australia that year, and She was flying from Sydney to Canberra. I decided to also fly to Canberra so I could attend the programme there. Without realising how it happened I found myself right behind Shri Mataji, boarding the domestic flight from the tarmac. We were walking up the portable steps and I found I was directly behind Shri Mataji.

I had my hand on the handrail and saw that a thread of Shri Mataji’s sari had caught on it; it was a red thread. My first response was to take hold of this thread so it wouldn’t pull or tear her sari. So I held the thread in my left hand, and looked up to Shri Mataji to see if Her sari was ok. When I looked back down at the thread, it had disappeared from my hand.

At that moment I realised it was something symbolic – Shri Mataji was just saying, “Hold on to this thread of my sari, just hold on.”

Sandhya Dara

From: Eternally Inspiring Recollections of Our Holy Mother. Vol 4 – Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Pune, India: Nirmal Transformation, 2007. P 27. 

Originally posted 2008-04-09 18:03:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Moss

This bliss then, you find everywhere. In a little thing also you find there is bliss. Zen taught that to people. They saw bliss in seeing only a moss, a little bit of moss. And you see the moss and you say, “Oh God, what a beautiful piece it is.” God has created a little moss and that moss has all the little, little tentacles and that bliss. But those who are vain people can never feel bliss. Vanity kills bliss. Ego kills bliss….

It is so beautiful. How many have got this bliss? Have sympathy for them, have compassion for them, those who do not have.

But bliss comes to you through your confidence in yourself. If you have no confidence in yourself, bliss cannot be. And the worst thing against confidence is [saying], “Then what should I do? Then how can I get it? Then why not I have?” It is the worst, you fighting yourself all the time. You are that, sitting on that and still if you are saying, “Why shouldn’t I have it?”

So what to answer? I mean, you just want to ask because you have to ask. It is there. Why are you asking? Just feel it. If that works out, that you feel where you are sitting, then you will be surprised that you are at peace with yourself and there is bliss.

Shri Mataji, 1985

(Photograph: thefreedictionary.com)

Originally posted 2010-06-20 07:51:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

To love God is … difficult. Without seeing Him, without knowing Him, without knowing His bounties, without getting Realisation, it is very difficult. But today that is not the case, but still you have to have no fear in your mind. Trust – you trust yourself and trust others. First of all, try to trust yourself. If you have made mistakes, you have to say, “Yes, I have made mistakes…” Trust yourself that you can correct yourself also.

Trusting doesn’t mean a blind ego trip. It does not mean that. Trust means that “Yes, I can correct myself. I can improve. I can do better…. I have been faltering, but I can correct. I have that strength within me. I can rise above all these things. I have that thing within me that I can use to my advantage.”

Trust yourself. Trust that you are realised souls. Trust that God loves you, that He has chosen you to be His instrument.

Love yourself…. You have to perfect yourself and trust in yourself that you can perfect yourself through your kundalini awakening….

A clean heart, transparent open heart – trust others. Talk to everyone with an open heart. Trust others.

Why do you doubt? If you do not doubt yourself, you’ll not doubt others…. What is there to be afraid of anyone? What is there not to trust anyone? What is there to be angry with anyone? Talk to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. Be nice to everyone. On the way, if you find somebody’s difficult, give him a hand….

If somebody cannot sit properly or has a problem, you try to remove the problem. If the person cannot stand, give the place…. Allow your heart to be drenched in your Mother’s love. Just allow.

Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga 1981

Originally posted 2008-06-19 04:41:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Dewdrops gleaming in the early sun
Lighten the way to the dawn’s fair morn,
Beckoning the wayfarer to greet the day.
In such a way the Divine essence
Encapsulates our hearts’ yearning,
The desire to be One with the essential part of God.

As the sun’s warmth and energy make light of the morning dew,
In the same way our yearning prepares the way
For the blossoming of the Spirit,
The ability to be One with the Whole.

Drop after drop, the Essence of the Divine water
Becomes the totality, the One-ness of God.
We are drenched with the Love and the Bliss and the Joy
Of the Amrut that flows from the Divine Being.

Marina Oldham

(Photograph: Vishnu Bonneau)

Originally posted 2008-04-07 04:30:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What is most joy-giving to Me was creating Sahaja Yogis and listening to them and talking to them, the way they were so sweet and so kind and so respectful. All this has helped Me so much and I must thank you for that. With your support, with your help, with your understanding, I could achieve it. If I could achieve it on My own, I would never have asked for this help of yours. But you are just like My hands, you are just like My eyes and I need you very much because, without you, I cannot do it.

It’s like channelising. Unless and until you have channels, what’s the use of being the Adi Shakti or anything – how will you channelise it? If there’s electrical movement, you need channels; otherwise, it is a static thing. In the same way, I felt always that I needed more and more channels. And when it worked out, I was really, really in a very great spirit.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga, Sahasrara Puja, 2000

Originally posted 2007-12-23 05:24:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter