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So
instead of wasting all your energy for decorating all these
things, you should decorate yourself, within yourself. With
sincerity, with nice thoughts about yourself that you are
capable, absolutely capable people and you can use your
imagination, your intelligence, rationality, whatever these
things you have to find the way - to find the way, again I say
- to keep your heart large. And this the message for today's
birthday all over the world because I felt that the whole
world was today like a big heart pulsating. I received the
last phone and came here. From all over the phones coming,
flowers are showering, the beautiful nice things they are
saying. Everything is there. When I am just drenched into it,
just drenched - it was too much for Me. Such sweet things for
the children, from the children, such things from the ladies,
some very, very nice from the men and it was amazing how these
people are bubbling with enjoyment that today is My birthday.
In
the same way, please consider that everyday is your birthday,
that you have to raise your Kundalini all the time and keep
the standard of your Kundalini higher and higher. The more you
open out, the more threads of Kundalini will come up and the
more your heart will open out and it will be awakened, it'll
become more powerful...."
(21.03.1990,
Australia, Birthday Puja)
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82
years since the birth of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The National collectivities of the
entire world are celebrating Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi's
birthday
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21st of March 2005 marks the day
when the renowned spiritual leader, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
celebrates her 82nd birthday. Numerous festivals,
concerts of classical Indian music and seminars all over the
world marked the occasion. The festivities highlight the
essence of her life's work, the simple and very efficient
method of meditation known as Sahaja Yoga.
Shri
Mataji's Birth
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On
March 21st at 12 noon, year 1923, Shri Mataji
was born in Chindwara (Central India), which is located
on the longitude of the Tropic of Cancer. Coincidentally
the Holy City of Mecca is also on the Topic of Cancer.
Seeing the beauty of this child who was born with a
spotless brilliance and very bright shining eyes, they
called her Nirmala, which means 'Immaculate'. "When
I was born, there was darkness around. I thought - how
would I tell the people and how to give them
realization?"
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Childhood
& Family Home
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Her family
the Shalivahanas were Christian and of noble decent. They are
direct descendants of the Shalivahana's royal dynasty, which
reigned in the Indian province of Maharashtra from 230 B.C. to
230 years after Christ.
Shri Mataji passed Her childhood years in the family house in
Nagpur. Nirmala was very happy and was loved by everyone. Most
of the time, She was bursting with childhood energy and
inspired Her playmates of all different ages in drama, songs
and dance. Other times, one might find Her alone in a remote
corner of the house, with Her face beaming with inward joy,
lost in meditation. She would even go to school barefoot in
order to feel Mother Earth.
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Sahaja
Yoga is the culmination of Shri Mataji's work. She spent
her childhood in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram and was one of
the leaders in the youth movements during India's fights
for independence from the British Empire. Shri Mataji
was born with the consciousness that enlightenment is
the natural right of every human being, and she
developed the method of Sahaja Yoga (meaning,
"spontaneous union") to share this experience
with humanity. In recognition of her contribution, she
was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Shri Mataji's Marriage
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In
1947, subsequent to her studies at the Christian Medical
College in Ludhiana and the Balakram Medical College in
Lahore, Shri Mataji married Sir C.P. Srivastava who was
to become one of India's living legends, knighted by the
Queen of England, Joint Secretary to India's Prime
Minister, and who served for 16 years as Secretary
General of the United Nations International Maritime
Organization.
Shri
Mataji has two lovely daughters, Kalpana and Sadhana.
Both are happily married with children.
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Emancipation of
Humanity
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After raising
two daughters, Shri Mataji began to devote Her time fully to
the spiritual emancipation of humanity. She began
contemplating how to give en mass realisation to seekers of
modern time. Shri Mataji decided in to study what all these
so-called God men gurus were doing. Completely disgusted, She
was shocked to see them looting people under the guise of
spirituality.
Feeling that
the seekers all over the world were in danger from these False
Gurus and corrupt Priests, and the demonic theories of Freud,
on May 4th 1970, near Bombay in Nargol, She went to
the seashore.
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Opening
Sahasrara
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In the early
morning on May 5th 1970, on a lonely beach of
Nargol (about 150 km from Mumbai), Shri Mataji out of shear
compassion opened the Sahasrara for Humanity.
"I saw
the Kundalini, which is the primordial force within us, which
is the Holy Ghost within us, rising, like a telescope opening
out. And then I saw the whole thing open and a big torrential
rain of beams started flowing through My head all over. I felt
I am lost. I am no more. There is only grace. I saw it
completely happening to me."
Sahaja Yoga Begins
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Sahaja
Yoga started with a handful of seekers in Bombay and
Delhi. Friends would organise small meetings in their
homes, where Shri Mataji would give Self-Realisation,
and work tirelessly for hours in establishing the
chakras of the seekers. Gradually She started giving en
mass realisation at public programs. The number of
Sahaja Yogis rose to a few hundred and Sahaja Yoga
centres were established in Delhi and Bombay. She was
not concerned with the quantity of people, but with the
quality of the seekers. She never took any money for
giving self realisation and started Sahaja Yoga with Her
own resources.
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Sahaja Yoga aims to bring meditation into the lives of
ordinary people who seek a meaningful spiritual experience in
the course of their hectic daily life. The state of meditation
is attained through a spontaneous awakening of the Kundalini,
a dormant spiritual energy inside every human being. Once
awakened, the Kundalini serves as a boundless source of a
peaceful and balancing force. "Through this process an
inner transformation takes place by which one becomes moral,
united, integrated and balanced," states Sahaja Yoga's
official website (www.sahajayoga.org).
Shri Mataji explains the fact that the awakening of this
energy is necessary in order to attain global pace. "The
world is in a state of crisis that can only be solved by
enlightened people. The awakening of Kundalini enlightens, and
Sahaja Yoga awakens spontaneously the Kundalini energy,"
Shri Mataji explains.
A universal teaching, Sahaja Yoga functions regardless of the
cultural level, religion, ethnic or social background. It is
also unique among the Yoga types because increasing scientific
and clinical research proves its effectiveness as an
alternative therapy in treating diseases such as asthma,
depression, hypertension and ADHD (Attention Deficit
Disorder).
Recognizing Shri
Mataji and Sahaja Yoga
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On 12th
November 1993, (Saint Petersburg, Russia) the
Petrovskaya Academy of Art and Science conferred on Shri
Mataji the Honorary Presidium Membership of the Academy.
This academy also conferred a similar award on Albert
Einstein. However the President of the Academy remarked
that Einstein worked with dead matter whereas the work
of Shri Mataji is far greater, as Her work brings peace
to mankind. In the history of this institution, one of
the oldest academies in the world, only 12 people have
ever been granted this honor.
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On 14th
September 1994, the Academy held a Science Conference
with Sahaja Yoga. This was a major breakthrough in the
field of science. Eminent scientists accepted Sahaja
Yoga as the 'Meta Science' and declared that science had
not advanced to anywhere near the level of Sahaja Yoga.
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In 1994,
France granted official recognition to Sahaja Yoga as a
religion. During Her visit to Brasilia in 1994, the Mayor
received Her at the aircraft and presented Her the keys to the
city. Ecoforum in Bulgaria awarded Her with a Gold Medal in
August 1995 and the same year the Romanian University
conferred upon Her a doctorate in Cognitive Science. In
September 1995, Shri Mataji was an official guest of the
Chinese government and addressed the World Women's Congress in
Beijing.
The National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. hosted on
June 19th, 2000 a conference on Sahaja Yoga and
Health which was attended by 550 medical professionals. Shri
Mataji spoke to a rapt audience about the 'Secret of
Medicine'. She said that modern medicine addresses only the
left and right sympathetic nervous system that correspond to
the left and right channels of energy, while Sahaja Yoga opens
the way for 'Meta-Medicine' which for the first time is
concerned with the parasympathetic nervous system (the central
energy channel, through which the Kundalini energy is
activated). This is an actualization that has been proved in
Sahaja Yoga.
Benefits of Sahaja
Yoga
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Since the
method of Sahaja Yoga originated on the 5th of May
1970, thousands of people in more than 90 countries have felt
its extraordinary benefits. The courses cover a multitude of
subjects, including the experience of Self Realization, health
and balancing of the subtle system in order to attain inner
peace and self-confidence in the context of the present global
turmoil. To participate in one of these public conferences is
a unique opportunity to experience what amazed thousands of
people starting from simple persons to chiefs of state.
Sahaja Yoga classes are free. As the potential to experience
the self is innate in every human being, it cannot become the
commodity of any business and cannot give rise to any
financial pursuit. Shri Mataji states that "We cannot pay
for our spiritual evolution."
Sahaja Yoga
Continues
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Today, as she
turns 82, Shri Mataji keeps on traveling worldwide to spread
her message of global peace. As part of her spiritual work,
she has laid the basis of some international schools for the
children from all over the world; she has created
organizations to assist the poor women in India; she founded
centers for arts and music, as well as hospitals and clinics
that use the methods of Sahaja Yoga.
For her tireless work, Shri Mataji had received many
international distinctions. When nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize, Claes Nobel, the grandson of Alfred Nobel, declared:
"Shri Mataji's discovery brings genuine hope to
humanity."
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A Poem by Shri Mataji from childhood.
See other
Sahaj poems at www.poetry-enlightened.org
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Toronto Mayor, David
Miller congratulated Shri Mataji on the occasion of
82nd birthday.
Please click on the
left image to see details
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Sitar recital
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Sahaja Yoga Canada would
like to invite you, on April 7th, downtown Toronto to a
presentation of Indian Music combined with a Sitar
recital by Hema Kukreja (student at "Sitar
School of Toronto")
The class will begin
with an introduction to Sahaja Yoga Meditation technique
and with the Kundalini energy awakening experiment.
The admission is free.
For more details
regarding the location click here.
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