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The Way to Self-Realisation – the Knowledge of the Spirit
Forgiveness
“It goes to a long extent to forgive and forgive and forgive. Forgiveness is one of the qualities of the Spirit.”
Shri Mataji, 1981-0403
Have you ever faced a situation where you really, really had a tough time to forgive? And maybe it did not even feel right to forgive because, after all – how can we just let it go when someone bullies us? When we had to face cruelty? Maybe even torture? When we still carry the wounds, be it physically, emotionally or mentally that others inflicted on us?
Wouldn’t “forgiving” mean that we kind of accept what the person did, that we somehow “ok” it? That the person would escape the deserved punishment; that justice would not be served; that a person would not learn from his mistakes?
Some or all of these reasons may jump into mind when it comes to forgiving, right? And understandably so. Most of us have something to chew on that we cannot quite forgive. But… let me ask this question:
By not forgiving – has the person learned from his/her mistakes? Has the person changed? Has that person been punished? Was justice served? Has it made your life easier by holding on to what happened to you (I know… this is an anger-trigger-question… because of of course life has not been easier… but…)
One of the most bitter pills to swallow (talking from my own experiences) may be that the person who has hurt us does not really bother if we forgive or not. They actually might lead a quite happy life (at least for the moment because yes, there is a higher justice and they will have to face the consequences of their actions) while we are trying to deal with what was done to us.
So, what does that mean? What is forgiveness really, then?
If we look deeper then we have to acknowledge that by not letting go, by not for-giving (give it away), we still allow someone to have power over us; because every time we think about what happened we again feel the pain; and again; and then again.
Shri Mataji said: “If you don’t forgive, then you play into wrong hands. The other person, who has troubled you or tortured you is quite happy, but you are tortured, you are playing into the hands of such a person. So the best thing is to forgive.”
Shri Mataji, 1990-0314
I would like to share a story that has deeply touched my heart and was a true inspiration for me.
It is the story of Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor who put forgiveness into action and set an example of how empowering it is. She was one of the children used in experiments in Auschwitz. Here is what she said about her journey of forgiveness:
12:53: And at the end of it I said (to a pretend-in-the-room Mengele), “In spite of all that I forgive you.”
Made me feel very good that I, the little guinea pig of 50 years, even had the power over the angle of death of Auschwitz.
13:35: I felt free. Free from Auschwitz, free from Mengele.
13:55: But what is my forgiveness? I like it. It is an act of self-healing, self-liberation, self-empowerment. All victims, all hurt, feel hopeless, feel helpless, feel powerless.
I want everybody to remember that we cannot change what happened. That is the tragic part. But we can change how we relate to it.
Holocaust Survivor
For anyone who would like to see the full story here is the link (please know that it has very graphic and disturbing descriptions so it may not be advisable for some to watch it):
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156791799070329
In the practice of Sahaja Yoga Meditation forgiveness is a fundamental part in the awakening of our Inner Energy, our Kundalini. And once our Kundalini is awakened if becomes so much easier because the energy-center which carries the quality of forgiveness in us, the Agnya Chakra on the forehead, starts opening out and we can let go of past events and our reactions to them.
So please join our meditations and experience the richness of your own energy-centers, the store-houses of so many qualities waiting to unfold in you!
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One may give you a lot of things and also take you to great heights but you will still remember only the person who loved you deeply.
Shri Mataji, 1981-1018
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“The light of love is joy. Anything else cannot give you joy. It’s only the love that you feel in your heart that gives you joy. “
Shri Mataji, 1979-1230
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Sahaja Yoga Meditation Is The Most Practical Thing in Your Life – a story how i found my dream job
Have you ever had the dread of having to search for a new job? Getting stressed over interviews with people who will scrutinize every bit of your professional self, moving you through seemingly endless cycles of assessments together with sometimes 200+ competitors, then the anxious waiting for a ‘Yes’ that might never come… no fun!
I was in that situation some 15 years ago where I suddenly had to search for a new job after the company I worked for went bankrupt. But – as I already had practiced Sahaja Yoga Meditation for more than 10 years – I was not much worried. I searched for all the available job offers on the internet and did a simple thing: I checked the vibrations of each.
[A quick note for those who do not know about it, yet: if you get cool vibrations in your hands it is great, if vibrations are warm – not so great. But – it only works after you got your Kundalini Awakening!! (hint hint! Come to one of our classes!)]
So, after finding all the ‘cool’ job offers I started applying for them and guess what… – the one that was the coolest was the one I got. It was in a big company where two years later I was sent to Dubai, stayed in a super luxurious apartment paid by the company and – had one of the best times of my life there!
“Ok, great story….”, you might think, “but… times have changed… I am not sure it will work for me…”. And of course, these times are challenging as never before. But that is exactly the time you really really want to have something so amazing at hand! And the best way to find out is to take the first step and join one of our daily meditation classes (see info below – they are for ever free, no hidden anything, so you have absolutely nothing to lose but tons and tons to win!!!).
So, come and meditate with us! Start this beautiful journey towards yourself with a group of like-minded people! The reason why it is always free is because Shri Mataji insisted that it is our birthright to have!! – for a beautiful, meaningful, joyful life!
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MASTER OF YOUR OWN BEING
Sahaja Yoga is a thing which establishes your reality within yourself, by which you feel secure because your reality is beautiful. It is joy and then you do not want to run away from it. This is what we have to understand, that we are here to receive our reality, to know ourselves. By knowing ourselves, how many things can happen to us? You have no idea.
Shri Mataji, 1980-1124
The whole property that you are, the whole wealth that you are, the whole beauty that you are becomes your own. You become the master of your own being. You become a different person. You become a higher evolved soul. And then you realize that you have suddenly become a being who is collectively conscious.
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THE JOY OF MATTER IS GIVING
Did you ever feel that punch in your stomach when you found a beautiful gift for someone, you were all excited about it and then, when the person received it you got the: “Oh, ahem, nice, yes…” and they put it aside too quickly? Did you feel the guilt that you could not find anything better? The nagging feeling at the back of your mind because you would have wished that no matter what, your efforts could have been appreciated a bit more?
More than 15 years back I got one of those painful punches that later on turned into an aha-moment. I found a beautiful glass figurine (expressing a blessing for a new home) for a friend but already, when she unwrapped it, I got this blank polite expression and a couple of months later she gave it back to me because “her husband did not like it”.
I felt as if someone had hit me over the head with a club. I went home, dumbstruck, left the figurine at a fountain on the way and hoped it would find a better place (the next day it was gone).
I pondered over this incident for a long time. Maybe, if she had not been a close friend it would not have hit me so hard. But she was and I rather wished she would have thrown the gift away, or given it to someone else and told me that it broke by accident. I would not have minded that, at least not so much. But I minded that she gave it back.
Giving it back felt like giving back my friendship, my good wishes, my love.
All difficult situations in life have a gift for us. Also here, one day the realization hit me: we do not only express our love by giving something but we also express our love by accepting what was given.
ACCEPTING WHAT IS GIVEN WITH LOVE IS AS MUCH GIVING AS GIVING WITH LOVE ITSELF
In the spiritual practice of Sahaja Yoga, you will experience an even deeper level of this meaning. Everything that exists carries vibrations. They can be felt as a cool soothing breeze in your hands after you have received the awakening of your inner energy (in Sanskrit: the Kundalini but described in all the scriptures; the Holy Ghost; the Tao; the Ruach; etc).
Matter given with love is constantly giving beautiful vibrations to our home and is a constant source of joy for our hearts. Handmade items or food cooked with love hold the strongest vibrations because all the love and the joy of the artist goes into it.
SHRI MATAJI SAID:
Now, it’s most surprising that the countries which are affluent have more money orientation than the people who are not. It’s very surprising.
Say, for example, in an Indian village, a person may not have so many things as you people have, but if you go to him, he’ll be very happy, whatever he has, he would like to serve you, his food, anything that he has. He would not like to see that you have not taken your food or your milk or something at his residence. He’ll feel so obliged that you go and you serve him with that joy and with that love that he has. He would like to express his love.
Now, people misunderstand. I’ve seen, people who are affluent misunderstand. They think it’s a slavishness. It is not. It is that they find joy in emotional life, in expressing their joy. To them, it does not matter if he has to starve for the day, doesn’t matter. But he has given you food, so he feels that satisfaction: “Oh, God, he has eaten at my place. So sweet of him.”
1983-0303
There’s no slavishness, but is a kind of an expression of that love.
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Meditation and live music – saturday, October 10
Experience the depth in meditation through live music.
About this Event
Join us on Oct 10th at 7:00 PM for an evening filled with Meditation and Music. Experience your self-realization and go deeper into meditation through live music. To Learn more about Sahaja Yoga Meditation visit us.sahajayoga.org.
Event will live stream on our YouTube channel
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International Yoga Day – Live now!
Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to meet amazing speakers and learn about so many facets of a spiritual life!
https://www.sahajayoga.org.in/live
Listen to global experts, professionals and social activists live with 30+ sessions from more than 20 countries in more than 15 languages about Self-Realization and Kundalini Awakening.
Find the topic of your choice and click “Join” at the right side of the topic.
https://www.sahajayoga.org.in/international-yoga-day
Some of the topics you will find:
- What is the purpose of life?
- Self realization as means to transcend racism
- Secret of our own inner source of energy
- Freedom and self-mastery: be your own boss
- Detoxification of the brain
- Non-duality of joy
- Untapped potentials of human brain – unlock the full potential
- The source of all problems and best solution
- Improvement in focus and concentration
- Making sense of the reality, away from the sheen of superficiality
- Rest the unrest: Stress Management
- and many more…
Please note that the life-stream is directly from India and times are in IST so it is already live!
20th June, Saturday, EST 10 pm is 21st June, Sunday, IST 7:30am (there is a 9 1/2 hours time difference)
Sahaja Yoga is a Divine Gift to Humanity by H. H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.
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Let us answer to hate with our united love
William Blake was a poet, painter, printmaker and visionary in the 18th century. Throughout his life his poems and paintings express a notion of universal humanity, abhorring any form of racism or other -isms.
In the poem “The Little Black Boy” I found these lines especially meaningful:
“And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy”
Let us all stand up together against any form of racism, let the anger we feel give us strength to building up something new, something better, let us all stand united against the forces which want to divide us and respond to any hate with our united love.
We are all one human family!
With love, Angi
The Little Black Boy by WILLIAM BLAKE
My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child:
But I am black as if bereav’d of light.
My mother taught me underneath a tree
And sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And pointing to the east began to say.
Look on the rising sun: there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.
And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
For when our souls have learn’d the heat to bear
The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice.
Saying: come out from the grove my love & care,
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.
Thus did my mother say and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:
Ill shade him from the heat till he can bear,
To lean in joy upon our fathers knee.
And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him and he will then love me.
One Human Family
Who can watch events unfolding in our country and remain unaffected? It is heartbreaking to see. We are One human family.
When we meditate, we connect with our Spirit, the pure and eternal essence of ourselves. The power of Spirit is collective, there is no exclusion or differentiation. The kundalini does not distinguish between races, colors, genders, ages – it is a universal force of love.
When the kundalini rises and the mind becomes still, we reach a state of awareness known as collective consciousness. In this state, all boundaries disappear.
Let’s meditate as ONE.
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