Sahaja Yoga Meditation Australia

Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga

Today when you see the whole world is busy fighting and they are trying to protect people from wars and creating great, huge, protecting instruments, the whole world seems to be in a mad race of killing each other, of destroying each other, of competition, ambition, leading to fighting and then to greater wars. They’re fighting for a piece of land. So ignorant they are. Can you carry even a pinch of this land with you when you die?

 When you are born, you come with closed fists. And when you die, you go with open hands. What do you take with you? All right, you may not like to take anything, but do you enjoy whatever you think is so great, for which you are fighting? Why is this fighting going on among all nonsensical people? It’s surprising how people give up their peace, give up their understanding when it comes to a piece of land. And the whole thing has moved into a very wrong direction and is going toward complete destruction.

This is the thing that has made human beings so much suffering because of all their ignorance, by which they have all those habits, all those attractions, all those identifications…. They have to take to sense  and … to their self knowledge.

Self knowledge is the key for a saviour to give to people. We have had so many saints. We have had so many Sufis. We had Tao people. We had Zen people. All kinds of realised souls came on this Earth.  They all suffered. They were tortured. Nobody understood them. But now the time has come for you to know the truth, but truth which is not dry, truth which has compassion, truth that encompasses everyone, that brings the complete view of our existence. Why are we here on this Earth? What is our purpose? What should we do? Adi Shakti’s powers are such, of love and compassion, that they make you understand your Self first.

Love, for you, is very, very limited. There’s no awareness of your own being. Just imagine what a great task it is for you, how much you have to be seriously becoming aware of your Self first.

That is extremely important. First you have to be aware of your Self. And now you have the light of your spirit. In the light of that spirit, you can see what you are and you can see how far you are going, how wrong things you are doing, what harm you are doing to yourself and you have a power to cure it, to improve it and to come to your senses.

Shri Mataji, 2001

On this Saturday, 15 November 2008, Sahaja Yoga will have a stall at the Love Lawson Festival in the township of Lawson in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The festival will be held from 10.00 am until 3.00 pm.
 
There will be plenty of activities for children to enjoy, Including a woodturning demonstration, children’s creative activities, an Aboriginal tool kit demonstration, a pet show, and lots of music and dance.

"Freedom and Liberation" at Newcastle theatre

Over sixty-five new seekers gathered at Newcastle’s Greater Union Theatre to enjoy the “Freedom and Liberation” movie on Saturday, 12 Sept 2008. The movie was followed by a Self-realisation and meditation session.
 
The Music of Joy music group from Sydney travelled to Newcastle for the day to entertain the film-goers.

On Saturday, 11 October 2008 “Freedom and Liberation” will be shown in Charlestown which is about 15 km south of Newcastle.

To love God is … difficult. Without seeing Him, without knowing Him, without knowing His bounties, without getting Realisation, it is very difficult. But today that is not the case, but still you have to have no fear in your mind. Trust – you trust yourself and trust others. First of all, try to trust yourself. If you have made mistakes, you have to say, “Yes, I have made mistakes…” Trust yourself that you can correct yourself also.

Trusting doesn’t mean a blind ego trip. It does not mean that. Trust means that “Yes, I can correct myself. I can improve. I can do better…. I have been faltering, but I can correct. I have that strength within me. I can rise above all these things. I have that thing within me that I can use to my advantage.”

Trust yourself. Trust that you are realised souls. Trust that God loves you, that He has chosen you to be His instrument.

Love yourself…. You have to perfect yourself and trust in yourself that you can perfect yourself through your kundalini awakening….

A clean heart, transparent open heart – trust others. Talk to everyone with an open heart. Trust others.

Why do you doubt? If you do not doubt yourself, you’ll not doubt others…. What is there to be afraid of anyone? What is there not to trust anyone? What is there to be angry with anyone? Talk to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. Be nice to everyone. On the way, if you find somebody’s difficult, give him a hand….

If somebody cannot sit properly or has a problem, you try to remove the problem. If the person cannot stand, give the place…. Allow your heart to be drenched in your Mother’s love. Just allow.

Shri Mataji, founder of Sahaja Yoga 1981

                                                                                                           William William Blake is recognised in Sahaja Yoga as a great realised soul. It is very fitting, then, that a very talented theatre group made up of Sahaja yogis was involved in developing and presenting a play about William Blake, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of William Blake’s birth.

From November 20 to December 2, 2007, the international theatre company, Theatre of Eternal Values, performed William Blake’s Divine Humanity at the New Players Theatre in London, UK, in the very heart of the country where Blake took his birth – and a stone’s throw away from Fountain Court near the Strand where he spent the last years of his life.

The press wrote:

“With Blake’s beautiful words and the supple and constrained movements of the cast, the Theatre of Eternal Values enact a series of tableaux based on Blake’s etchings, as well as using his work to elaborate on the poet’s life. This piece is a loving and sophisticated work created to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Blake’s birth.”
UK Theatre. Net – December 2007
Sara-Mae Tuson

“It was always going to be a theatrical challenge, as writer Tim Bruce says of attempting to do justice to the complexity of Blake’s works, and the Theatre of Eternal Values rose beautifully to it, presenting a wonderfully lyrical production of William Blake’s Divine Humanity.

“The beautiful voice and narration of The Bard set a quiet, centred, yet dramatic tone to the play, and gave it an unhurried meditative quality, in which Blake’s visionary message was brought alive. The performance drew the audience in from the beginning, and invited reflection on Blake as a mystic poet, and on how relevant his work still is, 250 years later. The fact that this play is being performed in the heart of London, the city in which Blake spent his life, and one that embodies many of the materialistic capitalist values Blake spoke out against through his work, makes it all the more relevant.”
Extra Extra – November 2007
Marion Drew

This is the first time that Blake’s prophetic books have been performed on stage. Here the story of Jerusalem is set against the background of Blake’s masterly engravings from The Book of Job and interspersed with key moments in Blake’s life, incorporating original music and contemporary dance.

The play has evolved over one and a half years in a series of collective workshops in Cabella (Italy), London (UK), Vienna (Austria) and Everbeek (Belgium) and is the culmination of the creative talents of many people from twelve countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Spain, UK.

It will be possible to see a live performance of William Blake’s Divine Humanity in various countries in 2008 or to purchase a DVD (estimated release date: May 2008).

Log on to the Theatre of Eternal Values website regularly (http://www.theatreofeternalvalues.com), and check the News section to find out more information.

(Photograph: http://www.theatreofeternalvalues.com)