{"id":56,"date":"2006-11-10T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/11\/10\/shri-matajis-views-on-meditation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T12:55:00","slug":"shri-matajis-views-on-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/11\/10\/shri-matajis-views-on-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shri Mataji Talks about Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/55.JPG\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" style=\"width: 204px;height: 145px\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" id=\"image64\" \/><em>When you meditate, try not to &#8230; 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&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But supposing you don&#8217;t do that; if you don&#8217;t meditate, I can make out immediately those who are meditating and those who are not &#8211; it&#8217;s not difficult for me. Those who do not meditate are always hesitating; they are confused; they can&#8217;t understand. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that&#8217;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 &#8230; because of the candles, in the same way meditation is a continuous availability of the Divine force.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shri Mataji, 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you meditate, try not to &#8230; 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&#8230; But supposing you don&#8217;t do that; if you don&#8217;t meditate, I can make out immediately those who are meditating [&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":[19,8,10,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nov-2006","category-great-spiritual-leaders","category-meditation","category-quotes","category-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}