Comments on: Sahaj Advice for Spiritual Ascent – Stay in the Present

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:16:50 +0000

Shri Mataji says we have to understand our own dignity, our own essence. Through meditation this hopefully is the way, when we learn to know ourselves.

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:23:09 +0000

I wanted to add… It is like saying… “I am the pure desire”, or “I am the pure spirit”. Simply to remove the word “trying”

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:20:50 +0000

About your comment… “I am trying to be less judgmental”… that’s great. Yet you can take it one step further by putting yourself into the PRESENT by saying… “I am not judgmental”… it is an action statement that allows you to create what you want to experience.

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:15:39 +0000

So true Debbie… always “BE” from within, then the only person you can point a finger at is yourself… to remind yourself, that only “YOU” can take responsibility for those things you want to create and experience.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:26:45 +0000

We are sometimes too busy pointing fingers at everyone else without taking a good look at ourselves in the mirror. We are responsible for our actions. We cannot change the past, the future is unknown so the most sensible thing to do is be in the present and work on being a better person.

Lots of love always.

By: adrian

adrian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:06 +0000

It is all about creating your own experience… through the choices of responsible conscious free will…

By: Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:20:02 +0000

Reading the part in this posting of the present allowing us to feel free, really spoke to me.

By: paula erskine

paula erskine — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:27:23 +0000

Before Sahaja yoga I remember this thing that used to happen to me. Every time I would get judgemental, boom, shortly afterward something would happen in my life that would humble me right down again. It happened over and over. I started to contemplate the futility of judgement of others because it seemed to backfire on me indirectly. The things that happened were not positive, in fact, but it almost seemed to be a low point that brought me back to basics like a yo-yo effect. What right did I have to judge others? Who did I think I am? Only God can judge. And my personality would adjust back down off my high horse.

Then I discovered Sahaja Yoga. I am trying to be less judgemental, that is my goal. I am still judging myself, but trying to release the guilt of it. And I realize the responsibility that comes with being my own guru. It is to be aware and try to use “enlightened restraint” when I feel that judgement coming up in me.
Learning to forgive has been the greatest gift and challenge; forgiving, and letting go of guilt and unnecessary dramas creating by my thinking (ego-driven) brain. It literally hurts me to not forgive! It is sometimes the hardest thing to let go of the “I-ness”. But it is the easiest thing. As Shri Mataji says, “Now forward on…” that is powerful.

By: ashok kumar misra

ashok kumar misra — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Past is dead, future is unknown….why grope in the dark?
be in present and enjoy life thru sahaja yoga

By: adrian

adrian — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:05:45 +0000

“their own effort to give up all that is three dimensional will help them”… in their ascendance.

This particular part of the quote is difficult for me to understand completely. Firstly, we are here to experience our own unique individual self… And being that we are in the third dimension, it would seem that we should be attempting to integrate that part of ourselves with the other part, that is the spiritual and more real part of ourselves.

But to make efforts to completely eliminate “the all” of that third dimensional part seems to be a paradox! Perhaps I am misinterpreting the reading.

The intent at any moment whether we are choosing to experience part of our past, present or future is part of the reason why we have come to the third dimensional part of ourselves… otherwise there would be no reason for us to be here. We could simply remain in the spirit world. The point is to experience what we need to experience so that we can remember who we are… who we really are… that is pure spirit. And part of that experience is to experience “uncertainty”… for that is where the real growth occurs back into our spiritual selves. And this is where we have the opportunity to experience the emotional part of ourselves, yet in a spiritually directed manner… which makes it more so consciously driven… and that is how it is more human, than normal humanness.

It would be interesting to hear what others think.