Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sahaja Yogini Exhibits at ART 2009 Toronto


A special treat for art lovers! This year's art exhibit at the Toronto Convention Center will be 'vibrated' by the original art of a sahaja yoga artist.

Louise, a Sahaja Yogini from Montreal invites all the Toronto Yogis to visit the ART 2009 at the Convention Center, 255, Front St. West. Louise is exhibiting her beautiful paintings at booth # 124.

The Exhibition runs from June 12th - 14th.

Well worth the drive into Toronto!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Put Attention to Our Spirit

We had a very good meditation tonight at the Whitby Library. Olga spoke very nicely about the Spirit and the importance of directing our attention to our Spirit. She quoted from a talk by Shri Mataji from 1980 (Divine Cool Breeze Magazine Volume 20/3):
"What is Sahaja Yoga? It is the right of every seeker to have this connection with the Divine. This you are doing in your own right... you are promised in the modern times, all those who will ask for Realization will be granted. What a promise to make - just imagine! And you use Me for that purpose - or Sahaja Yogis... The time has come and I have to give you Realization...If you think you have the right then you must assume also the power of the spirit within you. You have to keep your attention to your spirit... People don't understand how we've done it. We have because the spirit is the dynamism within us... The basis of all our existence is nothing but our spirit..."
Once we have our Self-Realization it is necessary to 'train' our attention towards the Spirit in us, the goodness in life, the innocence of this world, peace, love and joy in ourselves and to bringing these things to the lives of others. Before Self-Realization the attention is outside ourselves, Kundalini brings it inward, it is our job to establish our attention upon our spiritual growth.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Sahaja Yoga in Bomanville Maplefest this weekend

Sahaja Yoga will have a booth again this year at the Bomanville Maple Syrup Festival on Saturday, May 2nd.

All are welcome. Come meditate with us, the vibrations are always very strong when Self-Realization is being offered!
If you have curious friends or relatives, this is the perfect opportunity for them to experience Kundalini awakening (also called Self-Realization) for themselves.
Hope to see you there! (Main Street, east of Liberty Street)

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Music for Easter

"So one can see how powerful is this love. All kinds of bad feelings, negative thinking and also self-destructive elements can be corrected and controlled very simply in Sahaja Yoga, if you with sincere heart meditate morning and evening, twice.
That time you shouldn’t see your watches, of course, but enjoy, enjoy your meditation. That will give you such a strength to love others, to forgive others..." Shri Mataji, 1999

Please enjoy Handel's "Hallelluia" on this occasion of Easter. Handel was a Self-Realized soul and in general his music is therapy for our Ida Nadis (Left Channel).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZFjdMsWobg


and for our Pingala Nadis (Right Channel) Johann Sebastian Bach:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWK0EUdCOI&feature=related



and Mozart's "Halleluia" (for the Central Channel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvRI8MD7moU

HAPPY EASTER!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Easter Reminds Us of the Gift of Shri Jesus

As we are learning in Sahaja Yoga, all the divine aspects and incarnations that have come throughout the history of mankind to deliver appropriate messages guiding the human race to positive behaviour and attitudes, are working through various chakras to enlighten and evolve us. At the very difficult level of Agnya, the home of our Ego and our SuperEgo, the essences of Shri Buddha and Shri Jesus Christ can help us work out problems with Ego, if we have the desire and make the choice to give space to these extremely high vibrations.
While we are thinking, there is little space in this restricted area in which Right and Left Channels cross. The challenge is to choose to stop thinking whenever possible. To choose to expand our thoughtless attention into our daily life. The divine always respects our right to choose. We should understand that the desire is the power of our Ida Nadi (Left Channel) and the Pingala Nadi (Right channel) is the energy that puts our desires into action, ie. actually make the choice. We must complete our desire with the appropriate choices/action. By choosing thoughtlessness, by attempting to put our Attention to Sahasrara, we are clearly making that choice and the divine aspects become very active at this point, helping us to achieve our desire.
Enjoy some of Shri Mataji's words about the divine essence of Shri Jesus working in our agnya chakras.

Christ Moves Us Past Our Mental Being
"… But if you are at the Agnya level, means you are mental, absolutely mental, then your vibrations also are dwindling in the sense you don’t know what really they are saying….It’s a very common thing… It’s not possible because you are just mental.”

“Now what Christ has done is to put you away from the mental level. That is the most difficult thing…We read like mad, we listen to people like mad, we like those who give us feed for our mental being…. You can’t fight their mental attitude. That’s why Christ is to be worshipped by people who are so very mental. … They cannot correct themselves because unless and until you cross this limit of mental being, you cannot see yourself. You cannot introspect. You’ll see others. ‘These Sahaja Yogis are like this, Sahaja Yoga is like that,’ but you can’t see yourself because the whole thing is mental.”

“This mental attitude should be completely curbed through the help of our Lord Jesus Christ. But… in your brains Christ is also mental, now what to do? …
“So firstly we have to tell ourselves, ’Now don’t think, don’t think, don’t think , don’t think.’ Four times, and then you can rise above … In meditation you have to go beyond the mind and thanks to Christ that He is sitting at the Agnya to finish off this nonsense of mental being.

“So the best thing for all of you is to become thoughtless. That’s the blessing of Christ. That’s what He worked it out for and I am sure you (can) work it out… Just don’t react. Everything they will see, they will react… This reaction creates nothing but ripple of thoughts in your mind. … Then only this akash tattwa in you will work. And how it works? Through your attention. It works with Me, as you know. With My attention I work out many things. How? Just My attention has become thoughtless. It goes wherever it goes, it works. But if you put your attention for thought all the time, for thinking, then it doesn’t do the work that it is supposed to do. Attention works marvellously if you are thoughtless; otherwise it doesn’t.”…

So it (your Attention) has to rise from your own self, then from others to the higher level of humanity, where you are in communication with the sky, which we can call it as the tanmatra or the essential or the essence of ether. With ether you can have television, telephone. It’s a miracle otherwise, but with this tanmatra, sitting down here you can do the job. Just attention works… It’s a very important thing that you have got.”…

“You can pay attention and you can work it out. In this attention, you don’t feel… what you are wearing, what others are doing. You are one with yourself and it’s a life full of so much humour, so much of joy, so much of happiness…

“…And you all can do it. You all can work it out – only thing, become thoughtlessly aware, as the blessing of Christ. If it works, you will be absolutely enjoying yourself. May God bless you.”

Christmas Puja Synopsis 1998, Ganapatipule - from the Divine Cool Breeze Volume 13 #1/2, Jan/Feb 1999

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Shri Mataji's Birthday Message

Enjoy some excerpts from previous talks of Shri Mataji on the occasion of her birthday:
“If you think that My Birthday is important,
that for Me very important is that everybody gets their Spiritual birthday." March 21, 2001 New Delhi.
"I see you as very great, very great people. Especially ladies have to work it out more, because I am a woman and women have a special capacity to love, and to bear. I expect all of you to become beautiful, beautiful Sahaja Yogis, and that nothing can convince the whole world but your work, your abilities and also your power to love. So many things I have seen, experienced about you people, and when I think about them I really feel very happy. I have seen people, how they have managed and looked after so many things which were difficult, and have worked it out.
So now we are in for a new world, and in that new world, a new race of Sahaja Yogis have to show their results, they have to show their powers and their courage and their understanding.
It is not serious, it is not frivolous, but it is joyous! It is just joy that you have to feel about yourself. I am telling you all this because this is within you, within your power. It is all the time residing within you, and that you have faced it also.
I know so many names; practically everybody’s name I know, practically everybody’s Kundalini I know. I also know whose Kundalini is alright and whose is not. I know so many people. So many ask Me: “How do you know so many names, and how do you remember them?” You see, I don’t know that part, but it is that whenever I see a person, I see his Kundalini, and from that Kundalini I know who he is.
There can be thousands and thousands of Kundalinis, but I know who is who – because I love them. If you love somebody, then you know what he is.
It is not stupid love, as they call it romance and all that, it’s a very deep feeling. When you enter like into the garden of your heart and you feel the beautiful fragrance all around; when you think of such nice people as there have been as saints, great saviours, and now the Sahaja Yogis, you feel so much grateful that you have achieved that state of collective enjoyment.
So I wish you all a very, very happy Birthday, so that you people have a ‘new’ birth and ‘new’ understanding, and a ‘new’ personality. Try to accept that personality, try to respect it – that personality is your Self.”
May God bless you."

Monday, March 16, 2009

Celebrate Shri Mataji's Birthday on March 21st

Another year has flown by and we again rejoice at the opportunity to celebrate the auspicious occasion of Shri Mataji's birthday on March 21st.
This is indeed a time to celebrate. Our hearts have been touched, 'opened', as we have witnessed Shri Mataji's efforts to reach all of us from everywhere, as we witness our own ongoing transformation, and watch in amazement as other people's lives are completely renewed by our Mother & Teacher, Shri Mataji. Let us come together and share our deep appreciation for the greatness of Her vision and the selflessness of Her continuing work, on this occasion of Her 86th birthday.
Hope to see many of you there at our Ontario Celebration. We can all be together, get to know each other even better, make new friends, and enjoy the artists, the humour and the surprises prepared for us by a wonderful committee of Sahaja Yogis that have volunteered for this event.

Here are the details:

DATE: SATURDAY MARCH 21ST, 2009

The meal will be catered by the Sangam Banquet Hall. (same location, and great food, as our last Christmas party)
The Entertainment Committee will be arranging the program after dinner.
The cost is $15 per adult, $7 for children between 7-12 years of age, and children 6 and under are FREE!

LOCATION: SANGAM BANQUET HALL
6991 MILLCREEK DRIVE, MISSISSAUGA
close to DERRY ROAD AND 401

6PM - DINNER
7PM - ENTERTAINMENT

REGISTRATION for the DINNER:
We ask that you pay for the meals when you pre-register.
Kathleen will be able to take email registrations (and you may pay at the door) - kathdowney@hotmail.com until Tuesday, March 17th.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR THE MEAL IS TUESDAY MARCH 17th!

We can invite new seekers, family, and friends to the meal and entertainment program to share in such an auspicious occasion.

See you there!!
With love,
the Celebration Committee

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