(Photograph: Vishnu Bonneau)
You have seen how a flower shakes off all that is not needed, blooms out, pierces its head outwards, opens out just to give fragrance to others. If you want to give fragrance to others, how far is there fragrance within you? Is there fragrance within you that you are going to give fragrance to others?
So that is what one has to find out and to do…. You have to bloom out, bloom like flowers. Change yourself. Transform yourself. This transformation is going to help you. This is like triggering into a new dimension of life. Unless and until this triggering shows, your life has no meaning, Sahaja Yoga has no meaning to you. So try your level best to trigger this transformation every minute of your life. Then you will be amazed at the enrichment of life.
Shri Mataji, 1980
You are invited to a free Sahaja Yoga Seminar in Cairns, Queensland. Come along and experience the benefits of deep meditation.
Time: Sunday 17 May 2009, 10.00 am to 3.00 pm
Place: 7 Saxon Street, Clifton Beach
Lunch will be provided.
Seminar topics
• Real meditation
• Chakra clearing
• Using affirmations and mantras
• Tips for meditating at home
• Collective meditation
• Video talk by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga
To register please phone 07 4055 3608 or email [email protected].
Shri Mataji
What is our job is to enjoy, enjoy everything, and that enjoyment is the blessing of the Divine. Even you can enjoy the turmoil, the torture, everything you can enjoy if you see the point that nothing can happen to your spirit, which is the real light. Whatever you may suffer, whatever you may think is troubling you, actually this silent light of the spirit makes you absolutely perfectly joyous.
And you give joy to others. You don’t design it, you don’t plan it, how to give joy, but you just automatically give joy; and this giving joy is also effortless, sahaj, because you are in the sahaja state. In the sahaj state you just see things. It’s a drama you feel it, it’s a different styles, different types, and you just see and watch and get the joy out of it. It is not important to say, “I like this, I like that” – no. That “I” which likes is nothing but ego, and keeps you out of the enjoyment which is reality, which is real. Everything in this world that you find is troublesome, if you see from another angle, from a sahaja sthiti, you won’t feel the troubles. But that higher life should be there, that higher standard should be built within you.
Shri Mataji, 2000
Sahaja Yoga Meditation will have a stall at the 2009 Sydney Mind Body Spirit Festival to be held this week. If you’ve always wondered about meditation, but weren’t sure how to do it, we’ll be happy to help you.
While there is a general entrance fee to enter the Festival itself, Sahaja Yoga will, as always, be teaching our meditation for free. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is very easy to do and you are welcome to join us to experience the peace it offers.
The Festival is at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, from Thursday 30 April until Sunday 3 May 2009, from 10.00am to 7.00pm daily.
You’ll find our meditation stall at: Hall 1, Stand G 04
So if you are planning to attend the Festival, make sure to come and visit us to have the experience of true meditation. We’re also preparing take-home information kits, too, to help you meditate at home. In addition, we will provide information on the many locations throughout Sydney and Australia (and worldwide!) where you can attend free weekly meditation classes.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, as there will be lots of other beginners, too, and we’ll show you simple techniques to enjoy Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
For more information about Sahaja Yoga Meditation: www.freemeditation.com