I was first introduced to the “Sahaja” Yoga sadhana eight years ago when backpacking through Europe and I stumbled upon a postcard of Guru Nirmala Devi which had unmistakable kundalini kriyas.
I walked several miles to meet her local cult in the city of Bath, and was introduced to the simple, natural meditation practice which I added to my very classic South Indian-style hatha practice.
My initiation wasn’t complete until my enlightenment master, Yoah, transmitted his teachings during the “exercise contemplation” portion of an enlightenment intensive. I recommend his books Knowing Your Self, Enlightenment Volume 1, and Enlightenment Volume 2.
Sahaja Yoga is a unique method of meditation based on an awakening that can occur within each human being. Through this process an inner transformation takes place by which one becomes moral, united, integrated and balanced. One can actually feel the all-pervading divine power as a cool breeze, as described in all religions and spiritual traditions of the world.
Kundalini is the power of pure desire within us, a motherly and soothing spiritual energy which lies dormant at the base of the spine in the sacrum bone (the ancient civilizations knew that in this bone resides a sacred energy). “It is important for everyone to have that knowledge of the roots within ourselves. Sahaja Yoga allows the individual to become his own Spiritual Guide.” — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Man is born with an instinct for naturalness. He has never forgotten the days of his primordial perfection, except inasmuch as the memory became buried under the artificial superstructure of civilization and its artificial concepts. Sahaja means natural. It not only implies natural on physical and spiritual levels, but on the mystic level of the miraculous. It means an easy or natural way of living without planning, designing, contriving, seeking, wanting, striving or intention. What is to come must come of itself.
It is the seed which falls in the ground, becomes seedling, sapling, and then a vast shady tree of wisdom and teachings. The tree grows according to Sahaja, natural and spontaneous in complete conformity with the Natural Law of the Universe. Nobody tells it what to do or how to grow.
Sahaja is that nature which, when established in oneself, brings the state of absolute freedom and peace.
It is when you are in your natural state, in the harmony of the Cosmos. It is the balanced reality between the pairs of opposites. As the Bhagavad Gita says, “The person who has conquered the baser self, and has reached the level of self-mastery: he is at peace, whether it be hot or cold, pleasure or pain, honoured or dishonoured.” Thus Sahaja expresses one who has reverted to his natural state, free from conditioning. It typifies that outlook which belongs to the natural, spontaneous and uninhibited man, free from innate or inherited defects. — Shri Gurudev Mahendranth in The Pathless Path to Immortality
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