“YOGA IS TO STILL THE PATTERNING OF CONSCIOUSNESS” April 15, 2008

I.2  Yogas- citta-vrtti-nirodhah

yogah = process of yoking; union

citta = consciousness

vrtti = patterning, turnings, movements

nirodhah = stilling, cessation, restriction

Yoga is to still the patterning of consciousness.

May be this is the most popular sentence from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. How many of us can really experience this state? Are we looking to achieve this state? Believe me, I had a chance to be there and it is beyond description.

I am not so satisfied from Sanskrit translation as well. Please find below some clarifications from Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

“’Chit’ is the attention, the ‘Consciousness’.  You are just now conscious and listening to me.  Every minute, you are conscious.  But every moment is becoming dead into the past.  Every moment is coming from the future to the present.  But you are conscious at this moment and are listening to me”.

“I do not know what is the word for ‘Vritti’ in English language.  It is not ‘aptitude’ but a person gets ‘prone’ to, or his Attention is dragged to – I do not know if there is a word in the English language for Vritti. Vritti means a temperament by which you are drawn to.  Whatever is your temperament, it acts like that. For example, if you see a man walking, say, blindly, he cannot see things. One person may get angry with that person. Another may have pity for that person. Third man may come forward to help him out. Is the vritti, is the temperament you have developed through your three Gunas. That is why this Attention becomes identified with you, and when you are identified with this, your vritti, your temperament then you are still in a misidentified area.”

“But for a Sahaja Yogi the most important thing is : ‘you must save your attention’. Is called as Chitta Nirodha. Nirodha : saving of your attention. ” Where is it going, It’s such a precious thing for me. Were is it running” ? Then how do you save your attention ? Is through concentration. Concentrate. Try to concentrate. Don’t allow your attention to wobble. Gradually you will develop concentration”.

I hope with these clarifications it will be easy for you to comprehend the message of Maharishi Patanjali.

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WHAT IS THE REASON FOR HAVING DREAMS? March 29, 2008

Public Lecture (New Delhi ‘83)

Audience member from public lecture: What is the reason for having dreams?

Shri Mataji: The reason for dreams is that when you are sleeping your attention moves either to the supraconscious side or to the subconscious side, your attention starts moving. And then you start seeing things which are connected with your subconscious or your collective subconscious and all this thing. And you may go onto supraconscious side where you see your future and all this thing. But the reason why you get dreams actually is that the unconscious, which is within you, or you can say the Kundalini or your Atma is trying to guide you to the right path. And how does it guide you to the right path? Is through dreams. But these are misunderstood.

How do you understand these dreams because you are so confused? First you go deep into yourself and you touch the unconscious - sushupti stithi. But from there you come out. And then when you are coming out, you touch your subconscious or maybe supraconscious. So whatever anubhuti you had, or whatever experience you had, of the depths of the sushupti gets confused and you don’t know what you dreamt, and you don’t understand and you forget it. But those who are realized souls go to their sushupti and see exactly what they have to know.

Like many people in Bombay when I came, they didn’t know I was coming but they were at the airport because they got the dream. So at this sushupti level, at the deep level you get the communication with God if you know how to go in and come out fully aware. But if you get confused with supraconscious or subconscious areas or if you start, your chitta i (Attention) is not so clear-cut, then there can be a big confusion.

PATANGALI’S YOGA SUTRAS END GITA ABOUT KUNDALINI March 25, 2008

Public Lecture (New Delhi ‘83)

Question – In spite of tremendous stress on Kundalini by Your Holiness, it is hard for me to reconcile myself with the fact that there is not the slightest reference of Kundalini in the authoritative guides on yoga – I mean Patangali’s Yoga Sutras or Gita. Why?

Shri Mataji: Yes it is surprising that people will say … He says that in Yoga Sutras of Patangali it is not written about Kundalini and also about Gita it’s not written about Kundalini. Is a fact because, you see, it was a secret science. It was kept a secret science, in my first lecture only I said, till the Sixth Century.

In the Sixth Century, Adi Shankaracharya for the first time opened his mouth about it. It was a secret science with very great gurus like Janaka gave Realization to Nachiketa.And in the same way Shri Krishna did not talk about it, because you see even when Markandeya talked about it, people did not know what he was talking. They never thought him to be a sensible man.

Then later on as the people became into two compartments, one on the right, one on the left side, some started worshipping God in a devotion and in a bhakti way, the another started doing yagya havanadi things. So whatever was required for these two types of things evolved and that’s what developed. The central side of evolution was kept a secret. And even at the time of Shri Krishna it was not mentioned, not a word about this thing was mentioned because this is an internal happening, it’s antar yoga. It was not described, but Shri Krishna hinted at it, that you have to have your yoga. But how, He did not say because that was not the time. He was the one who laid the seeds. That’s why He is called as Krishna. Krishna means “krishi,” the one who has done krishi. So this one was laid, the sprouting had to come. Today it was to be told.

So I am telling you about it. Everything is not told at the same time. Same in Sahaja Yoga. We don’t tell you everything at this state. About Agnya Chakra I have told you something, but not all. Gradually when you will be so aware, I will tell you. It has to be seen how far to be said at what time. And that’s what was needed at that time was told by Krishna. So Gita is the one which only tells you that this will happen. But Gyaneshwara, who was born after the sixth century, in Gyaneshwari has written about Kundalini clearly. Because, though Gita it is not written, but he said, “this is how it is done.” Gynaeshawara has written. Though he has written, it’s not, it’s the Gita translated into a common language, he put also the knowledge of Kundalini. Because at that time, it was to be told. Before that, it was not to be told.

Shankaracharya in the sixth century did it, then Gyaneshwara did it, then Nanaka did it, then Kabira did it. All these people did it. Not only, but even Mohammed Sahib in a way has talked about it – about the Sahaja Yoga and resurrection time. They all started talking about the resurrection time much later as they started seeing people getting it. Because to talk too much about the future is dangerous.

That time Shri Krishna was placed with Arjuna when they were at the war, and that time He had to talk about the problems of hinsa, ahinsa and those ideas which we have about - wrong ideas we have. And that’s how He talked on that subject. Whatever was the subject, He talked on that and He told him how to become one with God … not how…that when you become one with God, you become a stithapragya. He gave the idea as to what will happen to you. But how it will happen He did not say. That was left to me to explain. They can’t do everything, I have to do something, isn’t it? Because if He had said how, then they would have said, “Give me Realization.” But they were not prepared for realization.

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YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN March 24, 2008

John 3:3 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” John 3:2-4 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) John 3:7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:6-8 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter)

Do you think that born again is certificate like in the school or should be something more? We can say thousands times “I am born again” but still is nothing more than a lip service.

Christ clearly specified how this can happen.

“5Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

This happening should take place inside within us not outside. Where is the location of the Spirit and the Water within us?

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CRUCIFIXION OR RESURRECTION? March 23, 2008

What we are celebrating these days? Crucifixion or resurrection?

If we are celebrating the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ this mean that his massage for us is Resurrection not Crucifixion.

Then why the cross is Christian symbol?

For me resurrection means born again. We can be born again only by our Spiritual Self-realization.

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HOW CHRIST WAS DESCRIBED IN “THE S’RIMAD DEVÎ BHÂGAWATAM” March 22, 2008

The S’rîmad Devî Bhâgawatam describing Christ as “Mahâ-Visnu”.

“The egg (born of Mûla Prakriti) that was floating in the waters for a period equal to the life period of Brahmâ, now in the fullness of time separated into two parts. Within that egg there was a powerful Child, lustrous like one thousand millions of suns.

This child could not suck mother’s milk, as it was forsaken by Her. So being tired of hunger, the child for a moment cried repeatedly. The child that will become the Lord of countless Brahmândas (universes), now an orphan having no father nor mother began to look upwards from the waters.

This boy came to be denominated afterwards by the name of Mahâ Virât, when he became gross and grosser. As there is nothing finer than radium so there is nothing grosser than Mahâ Virât. The power of this Mahâ Virât is one-sixteenth of that of S’ri Krisna, the Highest Self.

But this boy, (born of the Prakriti Râdhâ) is the Sole Stay of all this Universe and he is denominated by the name “Mahâ-Visnu”. In his every pore countless universes are existing. So much so that even S’ri Krisna could not count them”. - THE NINTH BOOK, Chapter III

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HOW I FEEL AFTER THE KUNDALINI IS RAISED? March 21, 2008

After the initial raising of the Kundalini (self realization) you may feel many things.   You will likely feel some tingling or numbness on the fingertips.  As the Kundalini rises it informs you through your central nervous system if there are any blockages on your chakras.  See the section on Chakras to find out more information on the chakras.

It can be felt as a cool breeze in the palm of your hands or you may feel a slight coolness at the top of your head.  It also starts a flow of divine grace inside us.  For the first time we can feel the presence of the divine. It purifies the attention of the person and establishes this awareness in the state of meditation.  You may also feel some heat - this is the Kundalini cleaning some obstructions on your chakras - it is not painful at all.

The Kundalini knows everything about you.  Whatever chakra she touches, she knows what is wrong with that chakra before hand and she adjusts herself fully so that you do not get a problem by the awakening.  If any chakra is constricted, she waits and goes on slowly opening that chakra.

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CHILDREN SUFFER FROM STRESSED PARENTS March 20, 2008

Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclusion that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, unlike adults, whose function is decreased.

University of Rochester Medical Center - http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/news/story.cfm?id=1396

The word ‘Stress’ has a lot of reasons behind it. When a person says he is stressed out, he means he cannot keep a proper state of mind, rather it is difficult to keep a balanced state of mind.

So, whenever I feel stressed out after the day’s work, I come home and sit down for meditation. After meditation, I feel very very fresh and feel all the strain of the whole day go way, so much that I feel am ready for any other task now

Our subtle system is closely linked to our nervous system, which it keeps in balance. Indeed, we can detect the subtle system functioning within us due to the presence of a cool breeze, a prickling sensation or sometimes heat on particular parts of our hands or on top of our heads. Only the Kundalini has the power to awaken the subtle system, which can actually be felt on your hands.

Thus, once this mechanism is awakened and gradually mastered by practicing Sahaja Yoga, it becomes a marvelous instrument in developing the personality which we so look forward to becoming, and thus handle stress and become a very balanced person.

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HOW KUNDALINI WORKS? March 19, 2008

The Kundalini is like a tape recorder.  It knows everything about you - all your problems, all your thoughts.  It’s been with you for all your previous lives and has an unconditional love for you.  It wants to help you connect with the all pervading power of God’s love.  This is possible only through Kundalini awakening (self-realization). The Kundalini can be understood as consisting of many strands of energy.

The more we meditate, the more strands rise and the stronger our chakras and central channel becomes.  When we meditate and become thoughtless our Kundalini rises and begins to clear any blockages we may have on our chakras.  The Kundalini knows exactly which of our chakras are blocked and informs us through our central nervous system on our fingertips which of our chakras are blocked.

Each of our fingertips corresponds to a particular chakra.  If any chakra is blocked, the Kundalini works on that chakra until the chakra is cleaned and then rises until it reaches and crosses through the Sahasrara.  This is when yoga is achieved and we unite with the all pervading power of God’s love.

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KUNDALINI March 18, 2008

‘Kundalini is one of the greatest energies. The whole body of the seeker starts glowing because of the rising of the Kundalini. Because of that, unwanted impurities in the body disappear. The body of the seeker suddenly looks very proportionate and the eyes look bright and attractive and the eyeballs glow.’ - (Gyaneshwari, Chapter VI).

For the first time I had heard about Kundalini 25 years ago. According this book this power is residing in every one of us in dormant state. There were no any instructions how to awake this Kundalini power.

At May 25, 1990 I was invited to Sahaja yoga program.  Sahaja Yoga is a unique method of meditation based on an awakening that can occur within each human being. Through this process an inner transformation takes place by which one becomes moral, united, integrated and balanced. One can actually feel the all pervading divine power as a cool breeze, as described in all religions and spiritual traditions of the world.

Kundalini is the power of pure desire within us, a motherly and soothing spiritual energy which lies dormant at the base of the spine in the sacrum bone.  Kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning coiled up likes a snake.  The Kundalini is a primordial energy - a living energy that is completely pure and immaculate.  It cannot be stained or tarnished.  This Kundalini energy lies dormant until it is awakened by a process called Self-Realization.  Self Realization is the awakening of the Kundalini through the central channel, piercing through the six chakras above the sacrum bone and emerging at the top of the head (fontanel bone area) as a gentle “fountain of coolness”.

The Kundalini gives us the connection to the divine all pervading power.  She is the spiritual mother of each and every one of us, who nurtures and energizes our spirit.  She has always been with us and gives us the capacity for love and compassion.  She emits the impulse to search for something higher, for spiritual seeking.  She generates the power of pure desire - the power to evolve and to become one with the spirit

When the Kundalini rises, she awakens the spirit which is located in the heart.  When she touches the center of the Sahasrara Chakra we are bathed in vibrations.  Then the awakened Kundalini helps establish the sovereignty of the spirit over the different aspects of the subtle being and of our life.  As you experience the Kundalini raising it will point out the problems of your chakras and you feel it on your central nervous system as a tingling on your fingertips.  The Kundalini nourishes any of our chakras which are out of balance and corrects them.  When the chakras are clear enough for the Kundalini to rise without obstacles, we can feel the peace and enjoy thoughtless awareness.

As you experience the Kundalini raising it will point out the problems of your chakras and you feel it on your central nervous system as a tingling on your fingertips.  The Kundalini nourishes any of our chakras which are out of balance and corrects them.  When the chakras are clear enough for the Kundalini to rise without obstacles, we can feel the peace and enjoy thoughtless awareness.

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