Foundations of Sahaja Yoga

By Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Many of the foundations of Sahaja Yoga can be found in the early talks of the 1970s and early 80s. This book looks back at ten days in India between 1972 and 1977 when Shri Mataji spoke to us: unique moments, gems of wisdom, insights said only once. As one Sahaja Yogi at the time put it, “Shri Mataji, first you make the summit, then you make the foundations.” Shri Mataji later explained: “The human mind is used to doing things in a ritual way. To raise this house, you have to first dig the foundation, then the piling up and then you have those pillars and the roof. That is how they plan out things. But in God’s own kingdom there is no planning. You just sit down and you just enjoy.” Consider now some of the foundations of Sahaja Yoga.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716154614

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One Sahaja Yogi said, Shri Mataji, first you make the summit and then you make the foundations. This is really a true fact.

FOUNDATIONS OF SAHAJA YOGA

The words in this book were collected from the recorded talks and advice given by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi between 1972 and 1977. A full list of sources can be found at the end of the book. Some small words have been added for the sake of clarity and some repetition and words spoken aside have been removed. Such gentle editing has been done to aid comprehension and in the knowledge that the spoken language often differs in slight ways from that which is written.

© Nirmal Intellectual Property Corporation (NIPC) 2020. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner, printed or electronic, without permission from the publisher.

ISBN 978-1-716-15461-4

Divine Cool Breeze Books number 49 (DCB049-FSY) first edition 2020

Foundations of Sahaja Yoga is also available as an ebook.

front cover photograph: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, India, circa 1981

front page quote: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 27 May 1976

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Sahaja Yoga is life’s progress in full alertness taking place spontaneously.

introduction

We were shown the summit.

Now we return to the foundations.

The early talks of Shri Mataji reveal fundamental truths — foundation stones upon which we can build.

They are touchstones with which we can measure.

In this book, we visit ten special days in India, between 1972 and 1977, when Shri Mataji spoke to us.

search

Sahaja Yoga is a new discovery.

In reality, how does the discovery take place for that which is placed, for that which is?

Just as Columbus had started a journey to find India, then was India not there? If it was not there, then what would he be finding?

Sahaja Yoga has been there from before. It has been found out only now.

Sahaja Yoga is the way of the Supreme Essence.

This is the way of nature’s own method. This is the only way where mankind can, through evolution, be taken to that dimension, by which mankind can be acquainted with that consciousness, can be absorbed with that consciousness, by the support of which this entire creation and the heart of man is moving.

If Columbus was not able to find India, it does not mean that he was any less. Later those people who found it, they did not do it to belittle the ones who could not. This is not a collective search. You all think separately, so the thought comes to many that Mataji is saying something different.

No. I am telling you about all the searching of all the searches.

Until now man has borne tremendous hardships to put their attention on this.

limitations

Whatever man thinks with his mind, he does so within the limitations of the mind.

That which is beyond the mind cannot be understood by the mind. Even this lecture of mine is only a talk and, by this talk, you cannot know the Divine.

Whatever I go on saying, it will all become like a weight on your mind. If I say, Keep a weight, then that too will become a weight. God has created such an arrangement that whatever we do with our mind will become heavy like a weight. And being trapped under that weight, we cannot fly where we have to go.

That is why seeking has always remained incomplete.

time

For God, time is timeless.

We are the ones who think that some are left behind and some have moved forward, that the ones who have died are great.

Who has died? I want to ask. Nobody dies.

All those who die sit in the other world and then come back here and then go back to the other world and come back again. From the animals some become humans, but mostly people go to the other world and back again to this world. It is only a coming and going. No one dies.

So it can happen that some of you who are sitting here are here because of your seeking from many lifetimes.

rebirth

Just as you have had many rebirths, so do I have many births.

I too have had a very close relationship with all these great seekers. They are so near to me and mine. Perhaps they are not so near to you.

Now if it is a question of births and rebirths, a question of joy, then one should think on that level.

That level