COME MEDITATE IN CONNECTICUT
Know Thyself – A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Meditation
Make Each Moment Extraordinary
Lord Jesus: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi: “You are already in the kingdom of God, but you have to be like children; how innocent they are, how simple they are and they’re happy with small, small things. They don’t want something very extraordinary. It’s very surprising how our love, which is actually, is enlightened by divine love, can change the whole world.”
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The Knowledge of The Roots
“We must reach that state of awareness where we become aware of higher seeking within us. First as a human being we seek food, then protection, house, possessions, money, power – and then we find that all these things even if you have achieved you have not been able to achieve what you wanted – that is the state of joy, and thus you start seeking furthermore to find out what should be that state in which you remain in complete joy.
Many people have no idea as to what to expect and also they are quite naive about the structure or the nature of this tree of life which is built within us. So far with our developments we only know the Knowledge of the Tree, but we have to know the Knowledge of the Roots which sustains this tree. If we do not know that Knowledge, it may be one day this great tree that we see which seems to be quite secure, may completely be destroyed.
So it is important for everyone to have that Knowledge of the Roots within ourselves and within our society, within human beings as a whole.”
∼ Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
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How To Explain That Which is Beyond Rationality?
When people come to our meditation program and ask what Sahaja Yoga is I always get this “biting the lips while trying to explain the unexplainable”.
Shri Mataji said it is too fantastic to be understood by the human awareness.
After more than twenty years of experience I can only agree with that. At the beginning of my spiritual journey I could never imagine what it held in store for me.
Imagine there is this unending, unconditional love which is constantly there, to help you out, to nourish you, to guide you, to protect and balance you, and yes, also sometimes to correct you when you get a little bit over your head.
A love that does not judge nor wants to punish but wants you to grow into your higher Self so that you can enjoy this Creation to the fullest. With the Awakening of our Kundalini we start connecting with this Divine Love.
So often I feel nowadays like a child under the sparkling Christmas Tree being in awe of all that which is laid out for me there. And this Divine Love being there enjoying my joy.
It does take some time and perseverance to come to this point because we have to struggle to get out of the shells of our ego and conditionings to go beyond our usual behavior patterns and reactions. We have to do our daily meditations and clearings religiously like you need to water a growing sapling so that it can prosper. But if we do that then our growth can be fast where we start feeling this Divine love flowing into our lives and changing it from within.
When we come to our first Sahaja Yoga Meditation programs we really have no idea what it is. How grand it is. How breathtakingly beautiful. How deep. And how precious and meaningful each and every life truly is.
As Shri Mataji said:
“Then, after getting Realization, you could not feel what it was. Just if you have dropped into the ocean, and you don’t know what is the dimension of this ocean. How far you have gone into it? What is it? Where are we? What is our purpose?”
“There is no rationality left now anymore to even communicate as to what you have been seeking and where have you landed. So the only method you have got now – or only way is left to you – for a drop which has become an ocean, is to dissolve more in the ocean, so that you feel the ocean at least. And to communicate with other drops in such a way that you know the whole through all of them.”
∼ Shri Mataji, 08/06/1982
by Angelika
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The Water-Drop Stories
“As I told you, the drop becomes the ocean; and the drop has to become the ocean by dissolving all its ‘dropness’ with other drops. And all the drops dropping their dropness become the ocean ultimately. “ ∼ Shri Mataji, 08/06/1982
The Water-Drop Stories
by Werner Steindl
(translated from German into English)
The Master (to his disciple):
“It is not only you who is separated from the truth, many are. I will tell you 12 short stories and to you they may sound very simple. But you have to chew on them over and over again”, he said, “many a hundred times, and when you believe you have understood them, then still do not stop chewing on them, so long until you have permeated them, until these simple stories have become sublime and from the sublime have become simple again.”
The first story
Once upon a time there was a water-drop in the ocean who claimed there has never been an ocean.
The same it is with many people; they stand in the midst of God and say there has never been a God.
The second story
“I want my freedom”, demanded the water-drop in the middle of the ocean; and the ocean was merciful and lifted him up to the surface.
“I want my freedom”, demanded the water-drop again – and the sun heard his call and lifted him up onto a cloud.
“I want my freedom”, he demanded again. The cloud let him drop and he was in the ocean again.
The third story
An intellectual water-drop is an intellectual water-drop but not the ocean.
The fourth story
„All the water-drops are worthless”, said the water-drop in the ocean.
The fifth story
„Undoubtedly, one thing I have realized by now: much more significant am I than the ocean”, said the water-drop in the ocean.
The sixth story
„I probably will never meet the ocean“, sighed the water-drop in the ocean.
The seventh story
„Oh what do I care about the ocean“, said the water-drop in the ocean.
The eighth story
One water-drop could not accept his fate because he did not want to know anything about the ocean.
The ninth story
One water-drop in the ocean mustered together other water-drops, to rebel against the ocean.
The tenth story
„By virtue of my office”, said one water-drop to another water-drop in the middle of the ocean, “by virtue of my office from this day on you are expelled from the ocean.”
The eleventh story
„You are in my love“, said the ocean to the water-drop. But the water-drop could not hear the ocean, because he himself was full of love to another water-drop.
The twelfth story
„If I could succeed”, so the water-drop reflected, “that each and every water-drop could be in my love, then I would be the whole ocean.”
And so the water-drop began to take one after the other into his love. But there was a water-drop who once caused him terrible suffering, the worst grieve in his life and for all his love, him he could not forgive. And only because one single water-drop was missing in his love, only this one water-drop, he could not become the ocean.
Disciple:
“Tell me, oh Master, was there ever a water-drop who became the ocean?”
The Master:
“Hear now the last story:
There once was a water-drop who was seeking the silence of the ocean, he was seeking the depth of the ocean. His yearning was strong, and he was full of forgiveness – and suddenly the ocean spoke to him:
„You are I and I am you“, and it opened its arms and welcomed the yearning drop – and what was of the ocean became his. He became the silence of the ocean, he became the wideness of the ocean, and his depth was salvation for the world.
Thus know, full of mercy is the ocean for those who love it and welcomes them in all its abundance, if they truly desire so.”
“But what if such a yearning drop has accumulated all sorts of filth, what then?” asked the disciple.
Here the Master laughed heartily.
“No water-drop can be so dirty, that the ocean cannot cleanse it.”
What does it mean when the drop becomes the ocean?
The “drop” represents the small sense of who we think we are – our thoughts, worries, identity, and the feeling of being separate.
The “ocean” represents a deeper reality within us – peace, joy, and a connection to something much greater.
When we go beyond constant thinking and come into a state of inner stillness, we begin to experience that we are not limited to this small identity. In Sahaja Yoga, this happens naturally when the Kundalini rises and our attention moves inward.
In that experience, the “drop” does not disappear – it expands.
You begin to feel connected, more balanced, and less caught in comparison, fear, or the need to prove anything.
What remains is a simple, genuine quality: a good and open heart.
If you would like to experience this for yourself, you are warmly invited to join our free meditation classes—no belief needed, just a willingness to try and see what you feel.
The Totality that Is Love
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Nov 8, 1980
We have within us a being which I call ‘the Spirit’: the Spirit which is also the part and parcel of the totality that is love, totality that is God, totality that is joy, totality that is knowledge. And that Spirit within us is watching us. It is not watching like a guard or a police inspector.
That also we human beings cannot understand. If I say the Spirit is watching, people get a fright, “Oh God!”
The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving, and not asking for anything? Can you understand someone like that? Can you?
Loving for love’s sake; that’s what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love. That totality of love is watching you to give you that what it is. Now here, I would say, you are the Spirit and you are this self, another one, which is this awareness, this human awareness which you have got. This human awareness has to be enlightened by that totality, that Spirit. When it enlightens that, then only, you know that you are a part and parcel of the totality and that you are beautiful; you are really beautiful. Sometimes one feels a little bashful to know how beautiful one is, and so fragrant, and so grand and so dignified.
That new dimension one has to achieve.
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When You Have Got The Highest
Benefits of Sahaja Yoga Meditation
“Physically you feel fit, mentally you feel fit, because your extreme behavior disappears. Mostly we take to habits because we get bored in life or we are fed up or we are very unhappy or we are disturbed about something or we are shocked. But supposing the reverse happens that you feel settled, you feel blissful, you feel happy, you feel cheerful, you feel on top of the world, naturally everything drops of. When you have got the highest you don’t want to indulge into all these things, which are sensational, for the time being, work out for a short period. But you start enjoying that is what is eternal within you, flowing all the time. Stress and all that also disappears. Because supposing – I give an example always of a car which is about to finish its petrol – everybody it is in a stress in the car as well as the driver is worrying that the petrol is going to finish. But supposing by some chance, you are connected to the mains and all the time the energy is flowing into you, then, then you have no worry, you have no worry and just you get over all these things.” ~ Shri Mataji
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Meta Science – An Introduction
Science is a form of seeking but it is a seeking in limited areas. Some will seek truth in physics, some in the medical science, in chemistry and so on. There are different lines of seeking but what if they are all connected?
The cause of science is much subtler than we think. For example, let’s say there is a Sulphur dioxide molecule. The Sulphur and Oxygen have isometric, symmetric and all kinds of vibrations. But what are these vibrations? From where do they come from? Who controls them?
Science can be compared to the knowledge of the tree where we know all about the leaves and the branches but if we have to treat the tree we have to go to the roots than taking care of just one leaf or one branch.
This video is part of a series which introduces the new findings of science and how science may be much more connected to spirituality than we would think of. It covers subjects regarding the physical universe, brain, nervous system, consciousness and others. We will post each new part so keep looking for them!
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Collective Consciousness
“After realization, you may feel a pulsation and a flow of cool vibrations. This is the baptism by which you know you are truly born again. Your new vibrational awareness signals that you have moved into the subtlest level of communication, in collective consciousness.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Collective Consciousness can be interpreted in several ways by different societies or people or beliefs – quote Wikipedia – “Collective consciousness, collective conscience, or collective conscious (French: conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society. The term was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his The Division of Labour in Society in 1893.”
This definition is still incomplete in the sense that it talks about collectivity on the basis of being a human being, or a society which is only one aspect of the deeper nuances of collectivity. The power of collectivity has a definite impact as defined on human behaviors and influences every generation to evolve, transform, become higher, stronger together or promote newer ideas – that may or may not necessarily be benevolent as a society. It is a definite truth that universe is ever evolving, is not linear and so this has to start from the smallest levels of life. Collectivity, also known as swarming begins at a basic insect level or animal level popularly known as swarm theory where swarming causes small sized animals to aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en-masse or migrating in some direction. On human levels, it brings forth ideas of democracy, governments, law, universalism, religions and so on.
Collective Consciousness in Sahaja Yoga, is not limited to a collective gathering or internalized peace and calmness through meditation. It goes beyond the scope of human mind, intellect, beyond limitations created by race, countries, religions and so on in a truly harmonious and joyful way. This happens very spontaneously, without actually intellectualizing it within the mind, or forcefully creating an idea. It is an innate quality that resides within us but the one that gets covered because of worldly conditionings, how we are raised as society or other human factors. Collective consciousness is being completely integrated with the inner being, with nature, with people around while remaining non-reactive or having appropriate behaviors for every situation. Collective consciousness extends to being one with the higher power, again spontaneously, the responses to which are obtained in the form of vibrations – which are so tangible, that it is almost unbelievable that it happens so beautifully and effortlessly.
Collective Consciousness is a living, dynamic attribute which most certainly has empathy and takes our attention to the issues that torments societies, countries and starts working out the benevolence of the society through meditation. This is such a powerful tool that can transform the world by the innate capabilities which exist within us and that are awakened through Sahaja Yoga. The practical teachings of Shri Mataji lay down the basis for the seed to sprout and give fruit in the consciousness, although they have to be followed according to the desire which springs up within each individual.
Arti Ramanathan
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Unite Nations Through Meditation
“Unite Nations Through Meditation” is an article about the Love America Tour in the US which was published by the Free Press Journal, an Indian Newspaper since 1928
The full article in the newspaper: 26102018-ADF-26
With the theme “Unite the Nation with Meditation” ,Vishwa Nirmal Dharma (VND), dba Sahaja Yoga International, a non-profit organisation registered in the State of California in 1985, in United States of America (USA) has organised a one month “Love America Tour” to conduct free Sahaja Yoga workshops from 8th August to 3rd September. It has invited Sahaja Yoga Meditation practitioners from various countries.
https://www.freepressjournal.in/latest-news/sahaja-yoga-love-america-tour/1337601
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