{"id":122,"date":"2007-02-17T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/02\/17\/from-left-to-right-to-centre\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:26:09","slug":"from-left-to-right-to-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/02\/17\/from-left-to-right-to-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"From Left to Right to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/mataji6_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\" title=\"mataji6_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/mataji6_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\" title=\"mataji6_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/mataji_2_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\" title=\"mataji_2_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/mataji_2_jpg_jpg_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" \/><\/a>There is a very interesting phenomenon related to the notion of left-sidedness, right-sidedness and being in the centre. In many ways progress\u00a0&#8211; natural growth\u00a0&#8211; develops from left to right, and from right to centre. A new-born baby is a left-sided creature in that he or she is dependent for survival on others. Later, the young child is concerned entirely with himself or herself. There is no other viewpoint; everything is seen, needed, felt, explored, as an individual. Nothing else matters. Later again, the child starts to become conscious of other people&#8217;s needs, begins to see alternative points of view, starts making plans, starts moving into the right. Some adolescents don&#8217;t fully make this transition. They stay withdrawn, secretive, uncommunicative.<\/p>\n<p>The same progress is typical of the seekers of truth. We tend to begin in the left, withdrawing from the rat-race to feel things through, longing for patterns, answers. Exploration, study and experiment will take us into the right. And, if we are lucky and make the right discoveries &#8211; such as, in our day and age, the grace of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi &#8211; we arrive in the centre with the possibility of attaining Divine knowledge, perception and joy.<\/p>\n<p>The painter, Picasso, is an interesting example. \u00a0After his apprentice years spent copying great artists, he became famous for sad, left-sided, blue and rose paintings. Then he moved into the right, exploring cubism and collage and painting harshly-coloured abstracts, before settling, through an interest in neoclassicism, into a balance where he gained his self-realisation.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very interesting phenomenon related to the notion of left-sidedness, right-sidedness and being in the centre. In many ways progress\u00a0&#8211; natural growth\u00a0&#8211; develops from left to right, and from right to centre. A new-born baby is a left-sided creature in that he or she is dependent for survival on others. Later, the young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","category-shri-mataji","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}