{"id":1304,"date":"2010-01-05T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:54:15","slug":"the-power-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2010\/01\/05\/the-power-of-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1305\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1305 \" title=\"Shri Mataji\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/01\/Shri-Mataji_Diwali_97_Portugal-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" width=\"184\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/01\/Shri-Mataji_Diwali_97_Portugal-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/01\/Shri-Mataji_Diwali_97_Portugal.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shri Mataji<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The attention has to be purified, but that you don&#8217;t have to do. Your kundalini itself purifies your attention.You become collectively conscious. Many things happen to your attention. Sitting down here you can tell about people, what&#8217;s happening to them&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now the attention manifests itself. It&#8217;s another very remarkable thing that&#8217;s happened. Like I&#8217;m sitting here now and I&#8217;m thinking of someone &#8230;. If I want, I can think.\u00a0If I don&#8217;t want, I need not think. That is the situation. But after Realisation, if somebody needs your help, you&#8217;ll just think of that person and if you think of that person, that person is helped.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Mataji, 1984<\/p>\n<p><em>Sitting down here you should be able to feel the centres of anybody you want to think of, whether\u00a0dead, alive or far away. You should be able to say whether a person is a fake or if he is a real person of divinity. That means your computer &#8211; the mind that you call as the biggest computer that human beings have got &#8211; should become eloquent. Any knowledge that people give you, you should be able to say whether it is a true knowledge or not. That is what in the Vedas is called vidya. Vidya means &#8220;to be known on the nervous system&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Mataji, 1985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attention has to be purified, but that you don&#8217;t have to do. Your kundalini itself purifies your attention.You become collectively conscious. Many things happen to your attention. Sitting down here you can tell about people, what&#8217;s happening to them&#8230;. Now the attention manifests itself. It&#8217;s another very remarkable thing that&#8217;s happened. Like I&#8217;m sitting [&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":[57,14,16],"tags":[129,177,423],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57","category-quotes","category-shri-mataji","tag-attention","tag-collective-consciousness","tag-realisation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","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=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}