{"id":808,"date":"2008-09-30T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T01:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=808"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T01:58:05","slug":"sixty-five-new-realised-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/09\/30\/sixty-five-new-realised-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-five New Realised Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Freedom<\/a>

"Freedom and Liberation" at Newcastle theatre<\/p><\/div>\n

It was our first warm day.<\/p>\n

We waited for the audience of \u201cMama Mia\u201d to exit the theatre in Newcastle, Australia,\u00a0where we were to present Shri Mataji\u2019s film, “Freedom and Liberation”. Only four people filed out. For a moment\u00a0we felt\u00a0doubtful whether anyone would come to see \u201cFreedom and Liberation\u201d given that it was election day, a good beach day and even \u201cMama Mia\u201d faired badly!<\/p>\n

Within a few minutes a slow trickle of people began to steadily enter the theatre. This theatre was one of three in the complex and so some people came to see any old film, but opted for Shri Mataji\u2019s.<\/p>\n

When the lights dimmed we had sixty-five new seekers in the audience. Our kundalini shot up in a shower of joy as we saw Shri Mataji\u2019s image on the big screen.\u00a0As I had\u00a0grown up around this area, this was something that I had dreamt of but never considered possible in Newcastle.<\/p>\n

As the film came to an end the audience applauded! Again, something unimaginable. Through Shri Mataji’s grace,\u00a0the sixty-five people were given their realisation. The silence was awesome. No one left. Everyone stayed and enjoyed a short meditation.<\/p>\n

Afterwards,\u00a0some members of the Sydney Sahaja Yoga music group\u00a0played bhajans in the foyer. Many people stayed to listen to the music. Some filled out feedback forms with comments describing tingles up the spine and in the hands, an enlightening experience. One read \u201cin lightning\u201d and I couldn\u2019t help but wonder whether this newly-realised person knew that their inner light had been turned on!<\/p>\n

Shri Mataji\u2019s humour was subtly at work, as the musicians had unwittingly set up\u00a0next to\u00a0a poster advertising a film showing a girl sitting in meditation, with thought bubbles showing a clutter of all the objects associated with the materialistic, hectic Western lifestyle. The teenage girl\u2019s expression was one\u00a0of rejection. We all had a chuckle when we realised!<\/p>\n

As we were leaving I noticed another poster showing words to the effect: \u201cHe always knew what he had been built for. Now he knew what he was meant for.\u201d\u00a0Shri Mataji\u00a0was truly letting us know that she was with us. After all, doesn\u2019t this describe in very basic terms the revelation of truth that we all receive through Self-realisation? It was a great summary of the whole event!<\/p>\n

Lisa Barron, on behalf of the Newcastle Sahaja Yoga collective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was our first warm day. We waited for the audience of \u201cMama Mia\u201d to exit the theatre in Newcastle, Australia,\u00a0where we were to present Shri Mataji\u2019s film, “Freedom and Liberation”. Only four people filed out. For a moment\u00a0we felt\u00a0doubtful whether anyone would come to see \u201cFreedom and Liberation\u201d given that it was election day, […]<\/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":[44,7,10,11,12,16],"tags":[237,246,321,652,378,423,654],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","category-films","category-meditation","category-music","category-personal-experiences","category-shri-mataji","tag-film","tag-freedom-and-liberation","tag-kundalini","tag-meditation","tag-newcastle","tag-realisation","tag-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-d2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}