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One has to understand that there should be only one craze – to be settled, absolutely settled in your Spirit. You get yourself attached to your Spirit and detachment starts working. Actually, a person who is detached is the most beautiful person, is an extremely loving person, is love.
Attachment means death of love, complete death of love is attachment.

Detachment gives you the movement of your love, circulation of your love. Detachment is purity, is innocence. Innocence is such a light; light that really blinds you to all that is filthy. That is what is innocence which one may develop only through detachment. Detachment is of the attention. Do not allow your attention to get involved into something, even rituals of anything.

Shri Mataji, 1980

I just became blind
On this path to the formless Self:
All that was apart has united.
How to make out who others are
If “I” and “mine” can’t be defined?
That which used to be singled out is no more visible.
Resting peacefully on top of the threefold mountain,
Above empty illusions,
I’m blessed without efforts.
Evil and good, and all longings,
I’ve thrown away with my begging things.
Free from all the worries
That whirl round in the three Gunas,
I’m not going to beg anymore.
I raised my head
To chant “Soham”, the sacred sound,
And the Formless manifested.
He, the Giver, honoured my song.
The principle and the experimenter thus melted
in the unique Self,
Leaving behind the very concept of separation.
This word is truthful as
An auspicious prediction
Of the times we strive for.
We’ll follow the ancient path
To realisation ever new
In which we put all our faith.
There is one main requirement:
Hold firmly to experience.
By not clinging to knowledge
You’ll deny your achievements.
Despise worldly ties and
Dedicate to the state of non-duality.
Tuka says : Saints of the past
Used no other method.

Tukaram

(Photograph: poetseers.org)

Much research has been carried out to demonstrate how Sahaja Yoga meditation can result in dramatic improvements in patients who are suffering physically and mentally.

On 9 May 2007  a conference  called Towards Sustainable Global Health was held. The conference was organised by the United Nations, UNESCO-UNEVOC and the University of Bonn. Sahaja Yoga was presented at a conference symposium by Dr Sandeep Rai and Dr Madhur Rai from the Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre, Mumbai, India, Prof Katya Rubia, King’s College, London, Dr Maurizio Zollo, INSEAD, Business in Society (IBiS) Centre, Fontainebleau, France and Dr Wolfgang Hackl, Impact, Vienna, Austria.

The point was made that although environmental changes are required in order to effect sustainable global health, another approach is to initiate change at the individual level – a change of consciousness through meditation techniques. While the former approach is imposed by a government on the population, the latter is a grass-roots change empowering the individual.

An alarming trend was discussed at the conference, namely that some illnesses related to mental health and stress are escalating throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization, psychological problems account for 30% of disabilities, and depression and suicide will be the leading causes of death and disability by 2020. It was suggested that environmental changes are not as effective for diseases of this nature, and that meditation is a cost-effective technique that can enhance mental, emotional and physical health as well as social function. As Sahaja Yoga has been proven through medical research to be effective, and as it is provided free of charge, it is a logical choice.

Speakers presented evidence that Sahaja Yoga meditation has short-term and long-term effects on personality, cognitive function, physiological processes, brain structure and function, and brain chemistry.

Dr Sandeep Rai presented a study conducted at the Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre (SYRHC) showing that Sahaja Yoga meditation increases psychological well-being in both psychologically normal and psychologically troubled individuals.

Dr Maurizio Zollo reported that Sahaja Yoga meditation improves social consciousness and emotional stability in managers.

Dr Madhur Rai presented several most remarkable case studies of SYRHC patients who had been cured in a very short time using Sahaja Yoga meditation only, with no medication. She presented dramatic cases of fast recovery from depression, epilepsy, carcinoma, diabetes and arthritis, all cases documented by pre- and post-physiological measurements.

Dr Wolfgang Hackl presented his findings on the effects of Sahaja Yoga meditation on the reduction of drug use in heavy and light users.

For further information on the conference please click here.

Please go here for information on research into meditation.

Oh! Mother, let my mind awake slowly on this sacred shore of the sea. Where great souls of the world have come together to pay reverence. Here with outstretched hands we bow down to the Divine in human form. With bountiful prosody and supreme felicity we adore thee. Behold here, Oh! seeker, the meditative mountain with rivers resounding and dancing to the solemn music of heaven. Adore here your reverential Mother Earth where great souls have come together on the seashore to pay reverence.

Nobody knows whose invitation invoke so many souls who have gathered here like a turbulent current of river that has come and dissolved itself in the Divine Ocean. In this sacred place Aryans, non-Aryans, Dravidians, Afghans and Moughals have come and detached their individuality in One Supreme Body. West has opened her door for everybody to get their blessings. Here everybody will bring into union and exchange gifts. Nobody will go empty handed from this seashore where great souls come together to pay reverence. Those crossed the great mountains and deserts singing the song of your glory from their hearts like martial music and got their seats in your Own Self. Oh! Rudra-Vina, play your notes in full tune, so that those who are still in doubt may throw away their doubts and will come and gather where great souls have come together on the seashore to pay reverence.

Here one day the strings of our heart played an endless tune of Omkara in praise of the Supreme One. In search of the Supreme One they have penanced for ages and oblated their ego into the holy fire. By throwing away Prophecies the bonds of difference, they have emerged into universal brotherhood.

That place of religious homage where so much penance and sacrament had taken place is now open to all. We should bow-down here where the great souls have come together on the seashore to pay reverence.

Come, Oh! Aryans, come non-Aryans, come Hindu and Muslims. Come, come, Oh! Englishmen, come Christians, come Brahmins, purify your heart, hold the hands of downtrodden and out-castes. Remove all ills and disrespect. Come quickly for the coronation of Mother, where the “Mangal Ghat” has to be filled with sacred water which become consecrated by the touch of the great souls who have come together on the seashore to pay reverence.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), writer and educationalist from Bengal, eastern India.

Source: http://prophecies-sy.blogspot.com

“This Innocence is something which is absolute, honest intelligence. It is not that it works for a purpose, some purpose.  It’s absolutely purposeless. And thus, it achieves that height of Joy because there is no purpose in anything.  It sees the futility of all endeavours that we have. It just enjoys.” 

“Innocence is … an innate quality, and you should not deceive yourself that you are innocent.  On the contrary, you just put some introspection upon yourself and see for yourself what have you been doing so far, so far as others are concerned. What is your attitude?”

“So, in Innocence you become very grown-up, mature, and in that maturity you know what a person needs and what a person doesn’t need.” 

The above quotations are from a talk by Shri Mataji in 2000 on Shri Ganesha. In Sahaja Yoga, Shri Ganesha is very important as He is the essence and guiding principle of the Mooladhara Chakra and the embodiment of the quality of Innocence. 

The Mooladhara Chakra is placed at the base of the spine below the sacrum bone. It is the first chakra of the Subtle System and is its Root and Support.  Its most important quality is Innocence which embues everything in creation. Its main task is to protect the Innocence of the Mother Kundalini and to give permission for Her rising within us at the time of our Self-realisation. When we have the blessings of this principle, Shri Ganesha, our journey towards self-discovery is made easy as He removes all obstacles.