Light of Love – Sahaja Yoga Meditation Newsletter

News, events and articles about Sahaja Yoga meditation worldwide

Welcome to Light of Love

This newsletter contains interesting and useful information about Sahaja Yoga meditation. Sahaja Yoga was founded by Shri Mataji, a great spiritual leader of our times.

'Whole life should be a light; light of love, light of Divinity, light of beauty.' Shri Mataji, 1992

Shri MatajiWhen you meditate, try not to … make some sort of a function out of it. No. Meditation is something silencing yourself, silencing your thoughts and the going to that deep ocean which is within you…

But supposing you don’t do that; if you don’t meditate, I can make out immediately those who are meditating and those who are not – it’s not difficult for me. Those who do not meditate are always hesitating; they are confused; they can’t understand.

And that’s why meditation is the most important thing in Sahaj Yoga. Just like a light burns, in the electricity flowing in it, you can say, or … because of the candles, in the same way meditation is a continuous availability of the Divine force.

Shri Mataji, 2002

                                             

Willoughby Council in Sydney have asked Graham Brown to participate in their annual “Artists Weekend”.

This year Graham will be showing five small paintings at the Northbridge School of Visual Arts, 307 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge. They will be on display only on Saturday 11 November and Sunday 12 November between 11.00 am and 4.00 pm.

The paintings can also be seen on the website http://www.iriscroll.com/.

The benefits that Sahaja Yoga brings to our lives are infinite. Vibrations are not just there when we meditate; they are there every second of our lives, just waiting for us to let them help if we shut off our thoughts long enough for them to be heard.

When teaching a class of thirty boisterous Year Four children, I found that it was often difficult to remember this. The class was particularly challenging as it had more than its fair share of strong personalities. Two children had been diagnosed with behavioural disorders and one child suffered from a form of autism known as Aspergers Syndrome. However, one day that all changed.

I was having a hectic time with my class. We had just finished sport and we were awaiting the much-anticipated shopping spree at our P & C Mothers’ Day stall. The children were bouncing off the walls, and all I could do was think of how much I wanted to meditate.

This was the moment that I remembered I had vibratory help, literally at hand. So, I wrestled to get into thoughtless awareness. As I did this I remembered that relaxation techniques, although rarely taught, were a part of the Physical Education and Personal Development curriculum. The class could learn to use meditation to relax!

I managed to settle my class down and then told them that I understood that they were very excited and that probably their heads felt as though they were ready to explode with thoughts about the stall. What will I buy? What will be there? Will there be anything left? Is it our turn next? Or maybe there were thoughts about what just happened at sport. On top of it all, I dared to sympathise, they had a bossy teacher telling them what to do! The class smiled in agreement. They also agreed to try a way of helping them to relax and feel better.

I didn’t explain a thing. I didn’t talk about what would happen. I didn’t use the words, “cool breeze”, “Kundalini” or even “meditation”. I simply asked them to sit comfortably and copy me.

I sat for meditation with palms upturned. I began to move my right hand slowly upwards in front of me until it reached the top of my head and lightly touched the centre of the fontanel area. Thirty pairs of eyes all watched, and thirty hands all did as I did. We did this a number of times. Then we held the right hand above the tops of our heads, as we do in Sahaja Yoga to feel the Kundalini. I didn’t even so much as hint that they would feel anything.

After a few seconds, I lowered my hand back onto my lap and asked them to close their eyes. Every eye shut. They were meditating! The room was completely silent, and the meditation that I was having was incredible. The whole atmosphere had changed.

It was difficult to stop my own meditation, but it occurred to me that I should ask them to write down their experiences, if they had any and only if they wanted. I quietly got out some paper as I told them to open their eyes.

When I looked at them, they were all glowing. Stunned, I asked them to put up their hands if they felt different from when we started. The entire class put up their hands. I asked if they felt anything above the tops of their heads. I will always remember the smiling, nodding faces of the “cool” girls up the back. I told them that if they wanted to, they could write down what they felt, and began to hand out the writing paper. Each child wrote.

By the time they had finished, it was our class’s turn to go to the Mothers’ Day stall. My usually rowdy class quietly left the room and enjoyed a successful shopping experience.

Later, I read their descriptions of how they felt. If I had any doubt about whether or not they had truly gotten their realization, they were immediately removed as I read comments such as, “I felt as light as a feather,” “It felt cool,” and “I loved it”.

The one that moved me the most lacked any poetic description, but it was full of meaning. It said, “I felt normal”. It was written by the boy with Aspergers.

LB

Tension is very easy to absorb. Day-to-day rush and bustle become standard rhythms. Even the abrasive speed of images and information on television transmits a buzziness that is hard to shake off. Ours is a speedy world. And we often become slaves to it. Ease and well-being we long for, but they are hard to find. We can search the world and catch only glimpses. The only way to gain, and hold, such rewarding grace is by turning inward. Inside each one of us we have, born within, the source of balance and peace and well-being for which we yearn. Each and all of humanity has a built-in well-spring of relaxation, health and freedom. It’s part the life force in us. It’s the foundation on which we build joy and love.

To begin this journey towards balance and security, we must gain our self-realisation, a very singular experience with a thousand names. Every language, every society, has a label for the Realisation of the Self – enlightenment, moksha, union, illumination, rhu, yoga – but ultimately they are all one thing, the joining together of the essence of our being with the universal power of creation. It’s an on-going part of the “big bang” that started billions of years ago.

The experience of self-realisation is developed, deepened, given power to overcome problems, by meditation. And through Sahaja Yoga this self-realisation can be gained and the basics of profound meditation absorbed. In an almost effortless and inexpensive way (Sahaja Yoga does not charge) peace and well-being can be brought into day-to-day life.

The founder of Sahaja Yoga is Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. Since 1970 She has been touring the world giving to those who seek it, self-realisation and knowledge of the techniques that bring about peace of mind, a deeper understanding of Divinity, health and a balanced life.

Self-realisation has been the aim of seekers for millennia. Until recently it was very hard to gain; sacrifice and many years’ dedication were required. But now, through the discoveries and grace of Shri Mataji, all that is needed are the desire for it and congenial circumstances. Once gained, this gift of self-realisation can be passed on to others. The more self-realised people there are in this world, the greater are the chances of peace, more relaxed life-styles, greater trust and collective respect.

Brian Bell

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