In 1982 I was introduced to Sahaja Yoga – a friend came to tea and told me a little about it and I was so interested she promised to take me to Caxton Hall in London where Shri Mataji Herself used to come every week.
We travelled to London on a Monday with the boot of my friend’s car packed with stems of lilac that I had picked from my garden to present to Shri Mataji. I didn’t know what to expect but was comforted by the introduction talk when it was explained that our Lord Jesus Christ was a crucial part of Sahaja Yoga – this made a deep impression – and when Shri Mataji came onto the stage I was aware of a light cool breeze all about me.
Being a C of E Christian I had spent my whole life believing that Christianity was the only way to God and that all other faiths were not even to be considered. After this first meeting and remembering particularly Shri Mataji telling us that ALL the great faiths are part of Truth and Reality – I determined to read the ancient scriptures of other faiths to see what they said for myself.
To start with Sahaja Yoga was an intellectual pursuit for me – I meditated from time to time but concentrated mainly on reading the Bhagavad Ghita, the Koran, the Dhammapada, Lao Tsu, Socrates, the Nag Hammadi Library, the Bible and was completely bowled over by so doing. It was a great experience to study these beautiful texts and to see for myself that what Shri Mataji had told me was true.
I was very slow in starting to practice Sahaja Yoga and in l985 at last went to Diwali Puja in Rome – the entire airoplane was full of Sahaja Yogis and Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Herself flew with us. Again I didn’t know what to expect – over the past three years I had had little contact with other Sahaja Yogis and traveled all the way from Scotland by myself to join the flight from Gatwick to Rome. What a brilliant weekend it was. I didn’t expect to be so filled with joy and confidence – I didn’t expect to come back home with peace in my heart and mind and such gratitude that I had been lucky enough to find Sahaja Yoga.
Personal Experiences – the effects of Sahaja Yoga on my Life.
The death of my father when I was a child left me with deep insecurity and lack of confidence – these problems being buried so deep that I never considered the possibility of being able to change the way I was. But after Self Realization I found I was able to feel the damaged Chakras on my fingertips and this enabled me to stand back from myself and see why I didn’t feel confident and secure.
Being able to separate myself from the problems made me know that they were not part of myself at all and with the simple techniques of Sahaja Yoga I gradually started to feel incredibly different. My heart felt lighter and I started to enjoy life more and more.
Looking back over nearly twenty years I can say that my life has been transformed by Sahaja Yoga and that it is a wonderful treasure to discover the Truth that we ALL have a Subtle System within our Spinal Cord and that the gentle and loving Mother Kundalini energy really is there in our Sacrum Bone to look after us and bless us with Her Love and Grace.