Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia

To understand the importance of the current Sahaja Yoga tour in Sierra Leone, which is taking place from 5 March to 5 April 2008, it is necessary to find out a little about the history of Sahaja Yoga in Sierra Leone.

Sometime in the early 1980s, an Australian Sahaja yogi called Peter Corden was working in Sierra Leone, in Africa, on the refurbishment of the Sierra Rutile Mine. During this time, Peter was working with a Sierra Leonean, and the two became close friends. The man, whose English name was Patrick Sheriff, started practising Sahaja Yoga.

Peter left Sierra Leone in 1986, and for some time kept in close contact with Patrick. However, in 1992 war started in Sierra Leone, and tens of thousands of people died. Peter lost contact with Patrick, and feared for the safety of Patrick and his family.

In late 2006, while shopping in Toowoomba, Australia, Peter saw an African lady whom he recognised as coming from Sierra Leone. He spoke with her, and through her was eventually able to find out that Patrick was still alive. In July 2007 after eighteen years, Peter was able to speak with Patrick by telephone! Peter discovered, after all this time, that Patrick was still practising Sahaja Yoga.  

Out of this amazing event came Peter’s desire to travel once more to Sierra Leone, this time to help organise a Sahaja Yoga tour. With Freetown as the centre, the tour organisers hope to contact as many people as possible to spread the message of Sahaja Yoga. Starting with a one-hour television talkback session on ABC TV in Freetown, the station has continued to provide daily, 45-minute sessions on Sahaja Yoga. Sahaja Yoga is mentioned four times a day on radio. Hundreds of people are coming to meditation sessions at the beach each morning. Musical programs are also being held.

To celebrate the 85th Birthday of Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, on 21 March 2008, ABC TV broadcast a 30-minute segment showing Shri Mataji giving realisation.  As ABC TV has approximately one million viewers, the program was able to reach many, many people.

For more information about the Sahaja Yoga Tour in Sierra Leone, and for updates on its progress, follow the link:

http://www.sahaja-yoga-sl.org/

Shri Mataji

You must pray to God and ask what you want. Ask for:

“Complete satisfaction in my heart, Joy in my heart, Bliss in my heart; so that the whole world becomes blissful.”

“Give me Love, Love, that I could love the whole world and that the whole world becomes one in Love.”

“Give salvation to the entire humanity, which is suffering.”

“Take me to Your Feet.”

“Cleanse me with Thy Love”.

Now see if there’s God or not. You can feel it. Within yourself He hears you. He is the Glory of all the Glory. He loves you, He protects you, He guides you. He has created you to be really His Love. But accept it.
Any time any thought is coming to you – pray; and you will be moving in the way of the Ocean which is Unconscious mind, which starts with thoughtless awareness.

If you cannot become thoughtless, you pray to Him:

“Forgive me for what I’ve done, and forgive those who have done harm to me.”

Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga, 1975

Shri Mataji

The central path of evolution has brought you today to this level of human awareness. Now beyond that is a very short ascent which you have to achieve, by which you become the spirit. But there has to be some living process  for this to happen. And what is that living process built within us? It is the reflection of the Holy Ghost within us in the triangular bone [sacrum], which is called as Kundalini in the Sanskrit language. This exists within us…. At the top of the head, it pulsates and then it breaks. When this breaks, the pulsation stops and you start feeling the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost coming out of your fontanel bone area. This is the happening … that takes place so that you get connected with the truth.

So the connection takes place and you start feeling on your fingertips the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost which surrounds you. Actually you start feeling…. One should know that when we have eyes we start seeing, when we have ears we start hearing; so now you have got a new awareness. What is this awareness? This is the awareness of collective consciousness, that you become. Again, I say, “You become.” You are not just certified, but you become. It’s a question of becoming, that you become collectively conscious, that on your central nervous system you can feel another person. You can feel yourself. You can feel your centres [chakras]. You can feel the centres of others on your fingertips.

Shri Mataji, 1984

Christ’s message of love and forgiveness is the same even today, preached by all – all the saints, all the incarnations, all the prophets. They all have said about love and forgiveness. If it was challenged or people felt that this won’t work out, they were asked to have faith in what was said.
Shri Mataji, 1996

If you love a person, you do forgive. You don’t feel bad. Not to forgive is dificult, but to forgive is the best. At least when you forgive, there is no headache for you.

So this love, which is joy … when this love melts and flows like a river and gives nourishment to all the surrounding trees on the shores, that is the time. It is the completion of the individuality or a personality of that love. And that’s the time it feels fulfilled. It’s not just that you have a light in the corner, but it has to flow, it has to move, it has to flourish. Love is not something dead like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything and everything becomes very beautiful with that.

So you have to first understand that life is for giving joy to others because you are now saints and your light has to give joy.
Shri Mataji, 1991

Mahatma Gandhi

India’s proposal to the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish the 2nd of October as World No Alcohol Day has support from all eleven South-East Asian countries, and has been accepted by the WHO assembly earlier this year, around May.  The day is also Gandhi’s birthday.

The proposal came on a day when all 193 WHO member countries signed a resolution to reduce alcohol-related harm. WHO will now spend the next two years developing a global alcohol strategy.

Member states also drew attention to the links between alcohol and domestic violence, the risks to pregnant women, and road safety. WHO estimates that alcohol is responsible for about 4% of deaths each year.

India, where the average age of alcohol consumption has fallen by nearly nine years over the past decade, is also in the process of formulating and launching the country’s first national policy against alcohol.

The recognition of the day will go to a final vote by the Assembly’s Executive Board in January 2009.