Interviews with Sahaja Yogis

Dear All,

Hearing other peoples experience of sahaja yoga meditation can sometimes help us in our own meditation practice. So collected here for you, are an assortment of short, mostly 2 or 3 minute, interviews with people who have been practicing sahaja yoga meditation for a few years to many years.

Some of the interviews contain tips: Helen on how to meditate on the go;Sofia on the boost provided by group meditation and Dave on how it's helped him with problem-solving at work.

Some are medical revelations: Dr. Brian Wells on the inadequacy of western medical science to explain the cool breeze experienced above the head; Dr Ramesh Manocha on scientific research and how previous research has been hampered by different definitions of what 'meditation' is; and then Diana on how she was able to give up a drug habit through the meditation.

A couple of the interviews are first-hand accounts from people who met Shri Mataji more than 30years ago and spent many years learning directly from her. Some notes are provided below to put into context some of what is said.

You may recognise some of the faces and hopefully be encouraged in your own meditation practice:

Interviews with Sahaja Yogis

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

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Notes:

Phillip on 'People are still seeking the Truth'. Phillip referring to the tendency, especially among the generation of his youth, to seek meaning in life in a counter-culture lifestyle and not being able to settle once they'd found what they had been looking for. A case of travelling but never wishing to arrive at any destination.

Gregoire on the significance of Shri Mataji's life's work and Rajesh Shah's statement that "..in India, we believe that she (Shri Mataji) is the incarnation of Mary or Radhaji herself.." . The reason for this was that the feat of raising the kundalini was very difficult and the very few genuine yogic masters who could do this were only capable of raising it  in just one other person. Shri Mataji was able to give this experience en-masse. At one public program in a large park in Mumbai, India, Shri Mataji raised the kundalinis of an audience of as many as 100,000 people. As a result, in India Shri Mataji was recognised as 'Adi Shakti' ('Adi' in sanskrit means 'primordial' and 'Shakti' means 'feminine energy') or an incarnation of the 'primordial mother'(Adi-Ma/ Ma-Adi/ Mahdi or Mother in 3 forms - comforter-counsellor-redeemer: Ma-treya/Maitreya).