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Our Music of Joy group and Meditation team will be visiting Sydney during November to present a Music and Meditation concert followed by a 3-week course.
Embark on a serene journey with Music of Joy as they bring their acclaimed Music and Meditation experience to the Sydney region. Presented by Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia, this uplifting tour combines world-inspired live music and guided meditation to nourish the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being of all attendees.
Visit our event website or view details below:
https://www.freemeditation.com.au/burwood-oct-2025
Music and Meditation Concert and 3-Week Workshop
Woodstock Community Centre
Penfold Ballroom
22 Church Street, Burwood Sydney
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All events are always free of charge.
Enquiries call 0468 476 552
MUSIC and MEDITATION CONCERT
Sunday 9th November 2025 • 10AM – 12PM
Uplifting live music from Music of Joy and the experience of true meditation.
3-WEEK WORKSHOP
(FREE – Join in at anytime, even if you miss the concert or a session.)
Week 1 – Experience the silence within
Sunday 16th November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
We will experience the awakening of a divine mothering energy within us that gently takes us into a state of silence.
Week 2 Expand the silence of meditation
Sunday 23rd November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
Learn how to calm your attention, reduce your thoughts, and increase your enjoyment of inner silence.
Week 3 – Inner peace and balance
Sunday 30th November 2025 • 11AM – 12PM
Our attention can move into the past, the future, or be stable, quiet, and settled in the present. In a state of balance we are able to surmount inner and outer obstacles to becoming our true selves.
ONLINE CLASSES
Ongoing online classes and courses in over 10 languages
The Music
Music of Joy is a multicultural ensemble based in Australia, dedicated to creating music that awakens the spirit. With decades of international and Australian touring behind them, they unite meditative practice and global musical traditions to cultivate inner peace and joy.
The Meditation
The sessions will include guided meditations and a video presentation by Sahaja Yoga founder – Shri Mataji who offers practical tips to reduce stress and cultivate inner peace
A Sample of Music of Joy: “Raining on the Rock”. The Rock is Uluru.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbxECuOf1E
The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word “Mother,” and the most beautiful call is the call of “My mother.” It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness….
Everything in nature bespeaks the mother. The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart; it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks. And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers. It produces them, nurses them, and weans them. The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds. And the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love.
Kahlil Gibran
“The concept of Sahaj is central and pivotal in Guru Nanak’s mystical thought. It relates to the highest spiritual state humanly attainable and has thus deepest connotations attached to it. The ordinary meaning of Sahaj [is] ‘just what it should be’ or ‘just normal’. In other words, a simple human proposition: that a man should become a man par excellence, a real man; no adhesions, no default, no accretions, no deviations.
But this paradoxical word Sahaj does not go with mere ‘saying’ or verbal expression. It is an actuality, a real human state, a tangible workable human achievement. Guru Nanak himself … experienced directly the blissful union with God and the concomitant divine manifestations attending such beatitude.
Sahaj is originally a Sanskrit word which means ‘having been born together’ and thus something inwardly perceived or intuited along with one’s birth as a human being – a sort of indwelling mystical principle of divine perception given to man as his birthright and therefore, a natural and effortless heritage of divinity ingrained in humanity.
Properly speaking, Sahaj is the very mysticality of religion. It is the acceptance of inwardness and intuitionism as the true basis of religion, to the negation of all ritualistic externalities. Sahaj in this meaning would be the mystical state of a man who has accepted the divine will. Sahaj, thus, is the highest spiritual state attainable in Sikhism. It is the highest bliss.
Sahaj connotes a natural slowness and steadiness required for perfect action. Sahaj is the opposite of inordinate haste. Sahaj is compactness and self-sufficiency, while haste is flippancy and inner weakness. Sahaj would mean equipoise, equanimity and equilibrium. It may be called ‘balanced perspicacity’ or sambuddhata, in the psychological sense. All true balance and true action (which may be called Sahaj-karam, as distinct from the self-willed action) engender aesthetic as well as spiritual pleasure, while spiritual fulfillment produces infinite bliss.”
From a book on Guru Nanak by Dewan Singh
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own.
Thou hast brought the distant near
and made a brother of the stranger.
I am uneasy at heart
when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;
I forget that there abides the old in the new,
and that there also thou abidest.
Through birth and death, in this world or in others,
wherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same,
the one companion of my endless life
who ever linkest my heart
with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.
When one knows thee, then alien there is none,
then no door is shut.
Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose
the bliss of the touch of the one
in the play of many.
Rabindranath Tagore