tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:32:50 +0000towards a Sahaja encyclopediahttp://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)Blogger454125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-7479565639873222094Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:04:00 +00002009-11-02T07:41:57.250+11:00NatureChildrenSahaja YogaEven when you get your realisation you are sometimes in a growing stage up to a point. Like you're nourished by the Mother Earth all the time, but you're not aware of it. In the same way the womb of Sahaja Yoga nourishes you to grow into beautiful human beings. Still you have to come up to a point when it has to click in such a way that you start feeling the awareness of that unbounding love. In http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/11/unbounding-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1289089646309809647Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:42:00 +00002009-10-29T17:43:25.714+11:00KundaliniSahaja YogaThe knowledge coming from the arousing of Kundalini and [the associated] state of actionlessness brings about automatically the Sahaja Samadhi.Varaha Upanishad 2.77http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/sahaja-samadhi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1500205841728076673Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:59:00 +00002009-10-28T08:29:55.884+11:00NatureJoyFirst time I went to America I also went by ship. Now the ship has one problem: that it cannot have any problem, because there are no solutions. It is so limited. Whatever is not on the ship is not there. Now, supposing you want to have a pair of scissors, it's not on the ship, so you cannot find it. So there's no problem. (laughter) Because you have possibilities and you have choices that’s why http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/enjoying-disadvantage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-5856511998255910821Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:54:00 +00002009-10-25T12:24:09.779+11:00Vishudhi ChakraMantrasAdvice given by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:As I told you about eyes yesterday, it’s very important that eyes are the ones which give you the play of Shri Krishna, the power of Shri Krishna. Even a glance, a little glance of a person who has Krishna consciousness, as they call it, if he has Krishna consciousness, then should be able to awaken the Kundalini, should be able to redeem, should be http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/mantras-and-divine-connection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-7562866363790447516Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:10:00 +00002009-10-23T14:13:20.128+11:00ChinaPrimordial MasterConfucius (551-479BCE) was a Chinese sage, teacher and administrator, whose ideas have profoundly influenced Chinese society through 2,500 years. His observations and teachings are to be found in the Analects (Li chi), which were mostly compiled by his disciples and successors in later years.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has stated that Confucius was an incarnation of the Primordial Master, who came http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/confucius.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-2554849405517008623Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:25:00 +00002009-10-12T18:37:39.076+11:00ScienceKundaliniCreationWhen I was a young student in school, at that time I could never have believed that we could ever reach the moon, none could have believed. If anyone would have said that, the people would have laughed at such a conjecture. Even today if you tell my grandmother, she does not believe it. She thinks it is just a story you are telling. But we have reached the moon, no doubt.In this system, we have http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/evolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-6460835829188215124Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:00 +00002009-10-23T14:10:05.710+11:00BuddhaHistory of IndiaGautama, Prince Siddhartha, known to history as The Buddha, (d. c.400BCE) was an Indian guru, and founder of what has become known as Buddhism. Shri Mataji has talked of the Buddha many times, in particular mentioning the sacrifices made by those who followed him:They would go, get people from all the villages, whatever was possible, and would bring them to Buddha for a sermon – such sacrifices.http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/buddha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-6014116451721445625Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:04:00 +00002009-10-09T17:49:00.555+11:00Primordial MasterDate uncertain. 2nd millennium BCE. Jewish leader. Regarded as the first patriarch of the people of Israel. His teachings are accepted by three faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has described Abraham as being an incarnation of the Primordial Master (eg. 1979-1202) who "had problems of talking to people who were really very, very ignorant." (1989-0524)Abraham had ahttp://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/10/abraham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-3028389185945594357Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:16:00 +00002009-09-28T18:20:43.810+10:00BibliographyEuropeSufisHistory of IndiaJust published!Saints, Sufis, and Yogis: a Biographical Dictionary of Realised SoulsThis book contains 160 entries for Those Who Went Before.A must read for Sahaja yogis!http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/saints-sufis-and-yogis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-8133075350878319850Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:10:00 +00002009-09-17T12:09:56.636+10:00ThoughtlessSahaja YogaWhen you start surrendering and the faith comes in, then your awareness rises higher than this, and these small, small, little, little things which have become subtler, they start departing from you. This is the third state where your three gunas you can see, but they do not affect you.So in the first state you have desire. In the second state, which is a very big thing, you see the desire being http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/real-becoming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-8282366765016945462Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:14:00 +00002009-09-05T09:18:17.372+10:00NatureQuestion from yogi: Can you tell us a bit about sunset; are we not to look at the sunset? Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi:Sunset is not very good, sunset is not good. That’s the time the sun is taking away all the energies from this earth. So it’s not such a good time to see. It depends on, for example, ego-oriented people if they see sun would be better off. Little bit of their ego might go down. But http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunset.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-6804665556889880373Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:06:00 +00002009-09-05T09:10:30.838+10:00MantrasGaneshaSay you have to meditate on Mooladhara, now you pay attention towards Mooladhara and take the name of Shri Ganesh. Say the mantra. You know there are four petals; so that mantra every time should be said four times. Four into four you can say. Pay attention there.H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, London, 1980 (1980-0424)http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/mantra-to-shri-ganesha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-3987785065286843815Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:58:00 +00002009-09-06T17:25:28.206+10:00MedicalAcupuncture actually is the tapping of the power which is already within us. Now for example, you have a certain power in your stomach. Now this power is continuously supplied to your other organs in the stomach. It is used for that. Now through the sympathetic nervous system, the parasympathetic stores it and the sympathetic uses it. Now supposing there is a disease in the stomach. So now the http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/limitations-of-acupuncture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-2003501209210077827Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:46:00 +00002009-09-03T18:10:01.249+10:00KundaliniSocial ProblemsNow people might say Marxism, this ism, that ism. Tukarama has said ava ghaachi samsaara sukha cha kari. He said it. Same - Marx says the same. He says that the whole world should be so... Read more… such a happy place, such a happy place that there should be no state. How? Nobody asked him how. He talks of evolution. How? How the evolution is going to take place? Ask him. Ask all these http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/09/transformation-through-kundalini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-2779000151619937769Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:26:00 +00002009-08-27T00:06:02.107+10:00KundaliniGiving realisationMarathiGaneshaI had told you yesterday, that we have to know about the powers that we have, and the powers that we can get. First of all we should know what powers we have got, and also we should know how we are going to preserve those powers and what more powers we can very easily achieve.The first power that you get after Realization is the greatest power on Earth. This is the power of Shri Ganesha. It is http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/when-raising-kundalini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-8381179162322056414Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:01:00 +00002009-08-26T23:53:09.669+10:00KundaliniNadisNabhi ChakraPrimordial MasterThis is an English translation from a Talk given in Marathi by H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi during the Mahalakshmi Puja, Sangli, India, January 6th, 1986.Today’s Puja is very important as it is a Mahalakshmi Puja and Mahalakshmi in Sahaja Yoga is more important than any other Shakti because Mahalakshmi Shakti - which we also call Sushumna Nadi - resides there and She deals with Parasympathetic http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/shri-mahalakshmi-puja-1986.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1542175247716414655Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:19:00 +00002009-08-18T10:04:01.165+10:00Vishudhi ChakraMarathiIn Maharashtra, and specifically at the pilgrimage town of Pandharpur, Vitthala is worshipped as the Lord; and Rukmini is his consort, or power. At Pandharpur, Rukmini has her own temple. In some traditions, Vitthala (or Vithoba) is said to be derived from Vishnu, and Rukmini (or Rakhumai) is derived from Lakshmi.Now when we have our Vishuddhi problems we have to know what are the deities on bothhttp://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/shri-rukmini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-637715686463962832Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:43:00 +00002009-08-11T21:44:50.261+10:00EuropeWomenAustrian queen and Dowager Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was a key figure in the power politics of eighteenth century Europe. She brought unity to the Habsburg Monarchy and was considered one of its most capable rulers. Her sixteen children included Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has commented:(Austria) was a very great country http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/austrian-queen-and-dowager-empress-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1599083082211504909Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:26:00 +00002009-08-08T09:37:26.542+10:00History of Sahaja YogaSahaja YogaEuropeIn 1985, the first Russians got Self-Realization in Switzerland. In 1989, Shri Mataji conducted the first public programs in Russia after which the first collective meetings started in Saint-Petersburg (called Leningrad then), Moscow and Togliatti.Sahaja Yoga is officially considered to start spreading in Saint-Petersburg since the summer of 1989 when Shri Mataji came to the city with a Public http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/beginnings-of-sahaja-yoga-in-russia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1881732969928160704Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:05:00 +00002009-08-03T09:12:11.413+10:00Sahaja YogaFriendship is such that you could share your secrets, you could share your problems. You do that with me. And why not with each other? It’s a question of understanding that Sahaja Yogis are all really friends to each other. I think relationship of friendship is even higher than any other relationship we could think of, because there is nothing to be gained out of our friendship. It never ceases http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/friendship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-8119371029791321436Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:44:00 +00002009-08-02T14:22:06.599+10:00Sahaja YogaEducationMr. Pradhan is a very humble person. He didn’t tell you, that we have started a, I mean, he actually brought the idea to start a, another subsidiary you can call it, or whichever way you may say, another parallel movement, called as “Yuva Shakti”. Which is meant for the young people in Sahaja Yoga. For their guidance, for their expression, and for their dedication. And, this is spreading so fast http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/origins-of-yuva-shakti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-7314196538462231742Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:25:00 +00002009-08-01T09:35:17.349+10:00Vishudhi ChakraWitnessIt is a very important thing about the power of Shri Krishna that gives you a witness state. This is very important also because, in these days of Kali Yuga and complete confusion of value system, all kinds of turmoil makes very complex conditions to exist. The state of witnessing is only possible through meditation: you reach the state of thoughtless awareness. It’s combined together. Now the http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/08/witness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-7794582908753172623Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:43:00 +00002009-07-31T20:01:49.413+10:00History of IndiaPrimordial MasterThe Janakas were a lineage of sage-kings of Mithila or Videha in ancient northern India. The best known was Seeradhwaja Janaka, more popularly known as Raja Janaka or King Janaka. He is mentioned in the Ramayana as the father of Sita. The Ashtavakra Gita is a dialogue between the sage-guru, Ashtavakra and his disciple, King Janaka. H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has stated that Raja Janaka was thehttp://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/07/raja-janaka.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-1456073864148712667Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:51:00 +00002009-07-29T16:56:38.612+10:00IslamPrimordial MasterMoses had (a) problem with people who were very indulgent people, so he had to pass laws of Shariat. ... Moses had to pass these laws … to make the people follow religion precisely. So he did not argue, he did not say why you should do it, didn’t give any explanation. “You do it!” Like that. … So the people who were at the time of Moses, when he had gone to get the Ten Commandments, started http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/07/moses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879584404845422448.post-5529136251197582606Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:30:00 +00002009-08-08T10:47:22.725+10:00Vishudhi ChakraSahaja YogaLove...What sweetness, what beauty that knowledge has given them, and what security of understanding that everywhere in the whole world we have brothers and sisters who are on their inner being, on their divine, and how we are bound together with that love. When I talk of love, people think that I am trying to make you weak people - because people think those who love are weak. But the most dynamic http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2009/07/shri-krishna-puja-1973.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Noyce)1