This Article is not only about the Love that nurtures Atoms or the Knowledge flowing in the Veins, but You will also Learn about the True Meaning of ‘Sahaja’ and ‘Guru’ from Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – the founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation

You might Want to Know about the Love that nurtures Atoms and About the True Meaning of ‘Sahaja’ and ‘Guru’

This article is based on excerpts from a public speech in Hindi offered on March 8, 1989 in New Delhi, India by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – the founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation. As we are her students and Shri Mataji offered tens of thousands of speeches all around the world, in various languages, it is always a great joy to discover and share such pearls of wisdom.

Let’s absorb and enjoy going to the roots and to the fundamentals of Sahaja Yoga Meditation.

  The following excerpts about the Love that nurtures Atoms and the Knowledge in the Veins are based on the English translation of a Hindi speech transcript verified by Indian Yogi friends

The Welcoming Words are so beautiful, and I listened many a times Shri Mataji addressing with the same Respect to the Seekers of Truth also in Her Public Programs offered (always with free entrance and open to everyone) across Europe or Asia

In this Article we also honor the inspired artists who chose to depict Shri Mataji or the spiritual world of the subtle energy centers known to those that practice Sahaja Yoga Meditation

Shri Mataji: “All those who are seeking the truth, my salutations to you Saints!

Truth…. what is this, and how it is going to be sought after, there are many ideologies on this topic.

Truth is only one, and that is: you are not this body, mind, ego etc, but you are the Spirit.“

Let’s find out what is the Absolute Truth and How we know we Get it

“The day when you become the Spirit, not by studying, writing, or by discussions, and say that ” I have become the spirit”, but if actualization of this incident takes place within you, and because of which you attain the form of the spirit, then you can know the absolute truth. 

   Nowadays, in this world we think that this person is good, that person is bad, using our mind. But this is not the absolute truth. Does everyone think the same way? It is not like that. Some say this is good, some say that is good.

So, it means that whatever we have known, is not the absolute truth.

Only when human beings, start thinking alike, one can say that this is absolute truth.

Pondering on the meaning of ‘Guru’ and ‘Sahaja’ we start developing our Discernment

“We should ask ourselves a simple question:

that if we have to give money to someone, then he cannot be our Guru (spiritual teacher), he can only be our servant. Because, when God is a living energy, and because of this energy, we have evolved to be human beings,

then How can you give money to this living energy?!

You think, if you sow a seed in the womb of Mother Earth, then it awakens by itself, and starts sprouting.

For this, do you pay the Mother Earth some money, do you ask the seed to do some exercise?

This is a living process. A living process of the living power.“

Shri Mataji concludes:

“If you can understand that as a sprout comes out of a seed,

similarly the Power which is within you in a dormant state, gets activated easily (Sahaja). “

You will find out What Does Sahaja mean and Why is important to know its meaning

   ‘Sahaja’ means (literally): ‘Saha’ means ‘with you’ and ‘ja’ means ‘born’.

This energy is born and present within you and you attain union (‘yoga’) with the all-pervading power, which has an omnipresence in the whole world in formless energy, which exists in atoms and molecules, and has a presence everywhere!

You become one with that, and this happens in a Sahaj way, and it is every person’s birth right.

Each person can achieve this. 

   Until now, many saints and sages have taken birth; you read great scriptures and texts, all of them say about God which is present within us, which is in the form of the Spirit.

Without knowing it, the confusion doesn’t go away. 

Why is this Confusion and Why there is a lack of Love when God is One?!

    Shri Mataji explains in a Socratic way, revealing the dialogues with the Seekers of truth:

“But many people, ask me also this,

‘Mother, if God is one, and one God has several forms, then, why among us the love does not exist?’

“Until now, we have not known that we all are part and parcel of the same body.

In human awareness, this has not come yet that: we are part and parcel of the same body.

If there is a pain in one hand, the other hand strokes it. Doesn’t think that it is doing some favor and without stroking, it feels restless. Because the whole body starts paining. Because of the one hand, the whole body started paining. 

   If you are the part and parcel of the same body, in that case, how can we all be separate?!

Because we have forgotten a very important thing, in all the orient countries, particularly in Indi, this is what is thought: in this world, everything is destructible, is volatile. 

Therefore, we have to achieve, whatever is indestructible.

We know that we have to achieve the indestructible.

When we know this absolute truth, and when we know that Realization of the Spirit, is the ultimate goal of all the religions. Many people have not spoken about deities, many did not speak about Gods and Goddesses.

Some did not speak of supreme-being, did not speak of Lord also, like Buddha. Because they thought until their self-realization does not happen, whatever spoken to them, will remain just talk, and they will not understand anything. “

Let’s Achieve What is Genuine, the Pure Knowledge and Become Gnostics through Self-Realization

So, it is better that, at first, attain your self-realization. Whatever is genuine, achieve only that.

You achieve the self-realization, this is what they (i.e. the saints and sages) kept saying.

So, these people do not lie, firstly, and secondly, there was a big difference between these people and us. They never did anything wrong. Never. Whatever they did used to be very auspicious, and did everything for the benevolence of the society. 

    So, which power was within these people, that they were not doing anything wrong like us?

That Power was the Enlightenment of the Spirit when the light of the spirit comes within us, in that light we see the truth which is absolute. This light that comes within us, should flow through our every vein. 

As we know that if we touch this, this will be cold, and if we touch that it will be hot, similarly we should know on our fingers. (i.e. attaining the the absolute truth through the new sense of vibratory awareness, the knowledge triggered by our Self-Realization, when we know and feel the truth in our nervous system through the flow of the kundalini energy).

Let’s dive deeper into the Subtle Knowledge that is meant to be felt and experienced within us

What is Shri Mataji saying about this subject matter during the same public speech:

“Should know on our fingers, it’s knowledge, it’s “vidya”, from which the word “veda” has come, which is known as “knowledge” in English, also called gnostic. 

    Until this does not happen, till we reach that height, until then, in the whirlpool of confusion, we do not know what we all keep doing.

Now, there is a person, who keeps memorizing God’s name, some other person, who will be doing something else.

Ask them:

‘By doing all these, have you become sinless? Don’t you do anything wrong?’

In every religion this kind of people are there, whether he is Christian, Muslim, Sikh, whichever religion he belongs to, there are no restrictions of any sort, whether he slits anyone’s throat, whether he fools anyone, or he may tell lies and cheat anyone. He can do anything. There is no restriction of any kind, on him.  Yes, they go to temples, they go to the mosque, they go everywhere, bow down to God, then they remain the same like before. They don’t think they are doing anything wrong. 

Some thoughts about the Purpose of Religion in connection with one’s Self-Realization

 “The religion was brought to this world so that we achieve some balance and we attain the self-realization.

But when we see the world, our children have started saying that the existence of God is a lie and there is no religion.

And many scientists also say this. When they say like this, it means they are not scientists at all. Because a scientist should keep his mind open and see if there is anything or not. How can you decline anything instantly? 

     The God is there, and His power is spread over the cosmos.

How the Almighty made a Beautiful Arrangement for People to Achieve Purity through Connection

“All the saints and sages born in this world, who were true Masters, the lives of all those true masters were genuine, not fake. They were immaculate people, totally pure people. And you can also achieve the same purity.

For you to achieve this purity, the Almighty has made a very beautiful arrangement within you.

The same knowledge I am going to give you in Sahaja yoga.

But just by telling it is not going to happen, this incident has to take place. About this, several thousand years back, Markandeya had written. After that Nathpanthis did a lot of work on this. After that, the work was in progress, in other countries also side by side. 

   And you can see that from the time of Raja Janaka to the time of Guru Nanak this has been happening. Mohamed Sahab also has told, that when the judgment time comes, resurrection time comes, your hands will speak and will testify against you. He told this clearly. There is no religion, which has not told that you (must) attain your self-realization. 

There is more to absorb and meditate upon, Wisdom and Nourishes us from Within: indeed there is Love that nurtures Atoms and flows as Knowledge in the Veins

Shri Mataji continues to enlighten us about the experience of connecting with God as an ‘incident’ that gives purpose to the Beautiful Arrangement prepared by the Kundalini Energy:

  “But since we did not do that, now, consider this equipment, if this is not connected to the main, then it is useless until you are connected to God, because the true master is the one who is connected to God.

Until your connection with God Almighty has not happened, with the all-pervading power of God’s love that’s spread in the cosmos, it has not happened, then if we talk of love, it is not true love. It is a selfish love: like, ‘my son’, ‘my daughter’, ‘my house’ and ‘me’. 

    The Selfless Love, the love of the God Almighty which flows in the whole world, which nurtures atoms and molecules, that love cannot be described by anyone.

But, when You bathe in that, when you become pure in that, when this ‘incident’ takes place within you, then you also achieve that energy: from within you flows the energy of vibrations!

This arrangement has been done by the energy within us which is called Kundalini energy. 

Are you Ready to Gain some Knowledge about the History of Spiritual Knowledge and the Science of Sahaja Yoga Meditation?

    “Regarding this, in the 12th century, in Maharashtra (a region in India), Gyaneshwar Ji has mentioned very clearly.

Shri Krishna also spoke about it, in a guarded manner, but clearly.

For me, it is very clear: he told in the beginning that ‘You become sthita pragjnya‘. 

   Sthita prajnya meaning, ‘you attain enlightenment‘ wherever you are sitting. Prajnya means enlightened knowledge. Arjuna asked (mentioned in Bhagavad-Gita holy book), ‘how’? He / Shri Krishna said ‘This is Gyan” and ‘gyan’ means ‘knowing’. Knowing not by the brain! These saints have never been to any Universities and done Ph.D., but they were so knowledgeable.

‘Gyan’ means you have to know in your central nervous system. You have to know in your nerve center.

This is Gyan (pure knowledge through your veins). 

And then when he was asked, ‘what about karma’? (deed).

For that, Shri Krishna replied ‘Do the deed. You should do the Deeds. But surrender all your Deeds at the feet of God‘.

See, how cleverly this has been told. This is not possible at all. Though there are some people, who commit murder and say that I have murdered, but I have surrendered this deed at God’s feet. 

   Human beings can never surrender any deed to God. Whatever a man does he only thinks that ‘I have done it, I am the doer of this’. This doesn’t go from his mind. When does it go? When he becomes a self-realized soul. When he is in third person’s context, he says ” this is happening”, “this is taking place”, “this is being done”. He never says ‘I am doing’. 

“I”, gone. Like, Kabir Das Ji has told that when a goat is alive it keeps saying “mai”, mai, mai, mai, mai (I). But when it is dead, and it’s intestines are used as a string on a bow for carding cotton, then on the cord, it says “Tu hi”, “Tu hi”, “Tu hi” (only You). 

   What a beautiful thing he has said. He was just a weaver, but what lovely words he has used.

To get integrated in God’s Kingdom, human being doesn’t have to do anything. Effortless. 

Anything, which is very essential for our life, if we take an effort for that, then it can get spoilt.

For example, our breath. Our breathing happens by itself.”

Did You Know that the Kundalini Energy was called ‘Mother’ by the great saint Shri Adi Shankaracharya?! Or that its abode is known to be the Sacrum bone within us?!

We will share a few more excerpts from this special Public Program talk offered by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:

    “This bone is called sacrum bone in English, meaning Greeks already knew that this bone is sacred (when they named it so). This bone is sacred and in Sahaja yoga, you can see with your own eyes that, in some people, if there is any problem in the upper chakras (subtle energy centers), then this Kundalini energy pulsates as if it is the heart.

The bone starts pulsating like the heart and this energy is sitting in three and a half coil and it is made of several hair-like minute threads; the Brahma nadi (inner most energy channel) which is in the exact center, through this the Kundalini rises up very beautifully and when the fontanel bone is pierced, then from your crown, from the fontanel bone to your surprise, you yourself can feel the cool Breeze coming out!

From the hands also cool breeze comes out. Adi Shankaracharya (great philosopher and saint from the 8th century) also has described this as “Salilam, salilam”.

Note from Ioana: Salilam is a Sanskrit word meaning both ‘water’ and ‘playfully’ as it rises like a water of life from within as well spontaneously; or sahaj (this is a personal interpretation)

Shri Mataji continues: “After going to that state he says neither with yoga nor with nearness, not with anything else, this happens only with the blessing of the Mother. 

Because he was tired of explaining to the people. So, this (Kundalini energy) is your Mother and this is everyone’s individual mother. Everyone’s separate, personal, individual mother, who knows everything about you: where all you have been searching, wherever you have been wandering, the goodness inside you, good or negative qualities.

But since she is a mother she forgives everything, and she is very anxious that “how do I give birth to my child”? 

    Only with the Awakening of this Kundalini, we can have our re-birth.

There is no other way to get this spiritual knowledge. This Kundalini rises through six chakras, and after piercing the fontanel bone (the seventh known as Crown Sahasarara chakra), you yourself can feel that all around you there is a cool breeze and from your head also the Cool breeze is coming.”

 “So, within you, your energy is present, and within you, the medicine also is present. Everything is your own.

When you achieve your light, you awaken others also and you also can cure others, as soon as the Kundalini is awakened, many (even) incurable diseases have been cured by Sahaja yoga; the mental sufferings, and mental misery, which we get, there are many such people to get depressed psychologically, many such people also have got cured by Sahaja Yoga.

But the most amazing thing that has happened is, many who were drug addicts stopped taking drugs the next day. 

     In your Delhi city also, many people who used to consume liquor, too much of it, and cannot relax without liquor.

I don’t tell them not to drink, otherwise, half of them will get up and leave. 🙂

But if you come to my company, you will get rid of drinking by itself!

 That is how it is because human beings (after the self realization) become independent. This kind of person stands tall in his freedom and dignity. In reality, because nothing can suppress him. No habit can subdue his individuality. He neither requires anything, nor he is frightened of anything. He is always in his merriment. Like Kabir Das Ji has told, “when one is overjoyed, then what is there to say”? I don’t know why today I am remembering Kabir Das Ji a lot. He also had come to Delhi. And, he worked very hard here. Many great Saints were born here,  Nizamuddin Saheb also was born here, great sages also were born, perhaps, because of their hard work you all have come here get your realization.

By remembering them, I think that today they all must be thinking that, ” we worked so hard here, we spread lots of vibration here, spoke to people, today it has become fruitful.

Because it is time to get the result. This time is like that.

Thousands of years back it was mentioned that this particular time will come. 

And today the time has come then thousands of flowers have blossomed in the garden. Earlier only one or two flowers used to bloom. But today thousands of flowers have blossomed.”

“And you can achieve this by living in this world. Not by running away from the world, Or by becoming an ascetic. You can achieve this by living in the world. 

   And whoever achieves this, understands that he has come to the kingdom of God. Because all kinds of blessings, all kinds of Grace is showered upon him. You don’t have to bother your body in any way. You don’t have to give yourself any trouble. Fasting is not at all necessary. Only if you want to trouble your mother, you fast. Don’t know how the method of fasting has come into practice. You do all the fasting and, give all your money to us. 

   You don’t have to follow any method which is against Sahaj. (a-Sahaj). Being in a  normal family you attain this, the problems in the family also gets solved, your relationships get better, and you turn into new Leaf. But I would say, a whole group of similar people is getting ready. 

   Bismillah Khan had come to Switzerland. He saw all of the Europe Sahaja yogis sitting there. They were listening to him in a Harmony. He said ” mother! How did you mend them? 

How are they understanding everything? And how nicely they are listening. And how they are able the sing so beautifully in build Hindi language?” I told him ” you see, now they have become the form of the spirit”.” Do you mean to say they have become immaculate”? Yes ” they have become immaculate (Khalis). I told, “I am making Khalistan”. He said, ” then what are they making”? I said, ” go and ask”. This is Khalistan, where People are Khalis (immaculate).

    This has been described; all the problems and pain of the word are man-made. So, human transformation is a necessity, a need. Until humans transform, this world will not become alright. How to say about this transformation? I have witnessed, people who used to roam around always with anger, today they are going around with knowledge of love in their hands.

By the knowledge of the spirit human beings recognize the truth, which is absolute. When his attention gets enlightened, then, a single glance of such a person is enough to bless you.

This kind of a person, wherever he is present, will bring peacefulness there; whichever house he enters, he will bring prosperity; whoever’s head will touch that person will benefit from his positive energy.

Because for our own benevolence, God has given us this beautiful instrument and only by the penetration of the chakras, we can achieve this.“

We hope you’ve enjoyed this article and you learned new things. Drop a comment if you wish.

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