‘Know Thy Self’ Sahaja Yoga Basics
“Truth is what you know on your central nervous system” Shri Mataji
A Awakening your New Awareness. Pure Desire? Raising Kundalini, Divine Mother. Evolutionary Power, Subtle Body, Chaitanya / Cool Breeze. Discrimination. Intuition. (Beyond Belief – Vibratory Awareness)
B Balancing your Subtle Body. Left-Right-Centre? Empowered to sense, clear, correct, protect. Three Nadis, Becoming more Inspired, Centred and Silent. (Beyond Bias – Transcending Temperament) (PQ IQ EQ SQ )
C Clearing your Seven Chakras. Feeling subtle? Chakras, hands and body, Catches, Causes & Cures. Purifying using Affirmations, Vibrations, Elements. eg candle & soaking. (Beyond Impurity – Cleaning and Displacing)
D Deepening yourself Spiritually. Priority? Meditation. Music. Affirmations, Mantras. Prayer, Praise. Bhakti, Bhajhans, Puja. Training Attention. Exchanging Vibrations. (Beyond Distractions – Spiritual Seeking.)
E Evolving your ME Personality Progress? Transcending Mind & Ego. Self-inquiry. Practising Presence. Witnessing ~ World, People, the Play. Samadhi States. Sahaja. (innate) (Beyond Relative – Thoughtless Awareness.)
F Flowering in your Sahasrara. Yoga? Union, Oneness, Flow, Integration. Progressive Realisation. Spirit becomes the Doer. Liberation, Expansion, Height. Divine Love. (Beyond Duality – Becoming Whole). (‘Individuation’ Jung)
G Guruing or Being your own Guru. True Self-Mastery? Sharing Self-Realisation. Collective Consciousness. Knowing “God Is”. Surrender. God’s Will. Inspiration. Pure Being. “I am”. (Beyond Doubt – The Absolute Self.)
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A – Awakening to your New Awareness.
There is another evolutionary step in our awareness that human beings have to rise into. This new awareness, this Gnosis or knowing has been accessed by a few saints and sages but has not been fully explained, or made tangible, and decipherable, until the advent of Shri Mataji. Vibratory awareness is a breakthrough, after your Kundalini is awakened, that gives conscious connection to subtle body consciousness.
The saying is ‘Know the Truth, and the Truth will set you Free.’ Kundalini awakening begins a new era of liberation from the tyranny of mental concepts and conditioning and allows the yogi to consult with their own higher or vibratory awareness. One must be careful to be detached from impure mental projections and framing, but when silent and humble inside, one can ask the higher God-Self or Spirit, for the vibrations of a situation, and also request the answer to a personal question. This is the Divine dialogue where one can discern and discriminate.
The Pure Energy of Evolution is referred to in many religions, as the Holy Ghost, The Cool Wind of the Holy Spirit, The Tao, The Chi, KamiKaze, The Breath of God, The Life Energy, The Ruach, Param Chaitanya etc etc. It’s a subtle, yet definite, cool Energy Flow that emits over the hands and from the Fontanel bone when one is centered, connected, in the flow-state of true yoga, when your Kundalini is up. (eg Pentecost – tongues of flames overhead.)
The break-through area of re-birth is the fontanel bone area (French-fountain) and this is represented but not realised in the rituals of baptism. In Reality the awakening of the Kundalini, and its flow of Chaitanya as a cool breeze can usually be activated and realised by the presence of a yogi or realised soul. Its like one candle awakening another. This is the Cool Breeze of the Holy Spirit as referred to in the core spiritual teachings of all true religions. Its the truth we can verify on the central nervous system and so transcends and integrates all the religions in the experience of true Yoga, with a new awareness of the one pure and Universal knowledge.
For the Awakening to be real the request for Realisation must be ‘auspicious’ ie pleasing to the Divine and so the requirement is that Kundalini be recognised, and invoked sincerely as the pure “Mother”. Then the Cool Breeze (Chaitanya) flows effortlessly and we spontaneously transcend mind and ego and enter the integrating flow of Silence, – the quality of the 7th chakra – Sahasrara. So we enter the transcendent realms of vibrations, of relationship with Divinity. and become empowered to Balance, Clear, Deepen, Flourish and to Become our own Guru.
B – Balancing your Subtle Body.
Left-Right-Centre? Empowered to sense, clear, correct, protect. Three Nadis, Becoming more Inspired, Centred and Silent.(Beyond Bias – Transcending Temperament)
C – Clearing your Seven Chakras.
Feeling subtle? Chakras, hands and body, Catches, Causes & Cures. Purifying using Affirmations, Vibrations, Elements. eg candle & soaking. (Beyond Impurity – Cleaning and Displacing)
D – Deepening yourself Spiritually.
Priority? Meditation. Music. Affirmations, Mantras. Prayer, Praise. Bhakti, Bhajhans, Puja. Training Attention. Exchanging Vibrations. (Beyond Distractions – Spiritual Seeking.)
E – Evolving beyond ME Personality
Progress? Transcending Mind & Ego. Self-inquiry. Practising Presence. Witnessing ~ World, People, the Play. Samadhi States. Sahaja. (innate) (Beyond Relative – Thoughtless Awareness.)
F – Flowering in your Sahasrara.
Yoga? Union, Oneness, Flow, Integration. Progressive Realisation. Spirit becomes the Doer. Liberation, Expansion, Height. Divine Love. (Beyond Duality – Becoming Whole/Integrated).
G – Guruing or Becoming your own Guru.
True Self-Mastery? Sharing Self-Realisation. Collective Consciousness. Knowing “God Is”. Surrender. God’s Will. Inspiration. Pure Being. “God Is – I am”. (Beyond Doubt – The Absolute Self.)
The Great Work
So this is the ‘great work’ of introspection, and integration, and Spiritual Ascent. One sees where we are getting dragged out of Union, integrity, back into duality, into Maya, or illusion. To deeply sustain our Self-realisation requires consistent effort, into our awareness, balancing and clearing. We are to Know our self both as individuals, and Universals. Our work is to become our true Self as God-Self or Spirit, and fortunately we are equipped for this ‘the great work’ after Kundalini awakening.
Once your Kundalini had been awakened you get to feel the subtle body vibrations. This is like a software system that you were unaware of. You feel the bias of your Nadis in your hands, the problems in your fingers, signifying catches or blockages in the Chakras on the left, right or both hands. You might start feeling the subtle system also actually within your physical body. If things are good you will feel cool and flowing with Chaitanya. If not, they may have heat signifying blockages or catches on a chakra. The causes may be from a variety of sources but the cure is single – restore the unimpeded flow of Chaitanya, on the Nadi and particular Chakras. How? By purifying using Affirmations, Vibrations, Elements. eg candle and foot soaking. Other examples here include
1 Mooladhara – Sit on Mother Earth. Put vibrations into the Mooladhara.
2 Swadhistan – Put Fire candle to left hip. Soak your feet in cool Water.
3 Nabhi – Drink lots clean Water. Eat vibrant foods, stay surrendered.
3a Void – Practise self mastery of your attention by staying in the Present.
4 Heart – Deep lungfuls of Air. Affirm you are the Pure Eternal Spirit.
5 Vishuddhi – Witness the Drama of the Play. Detach guilt and anger.
6 Agnya – Forgive everybody and yourself. Stay humble before God.
7 Sahasra – Raise Kundalini, vibrations, attention up into ~ Flow
8 Ardha Bindhu – Surrender to God’s primordial Creative Power AdiShakti
9 Bindhu – Dissolve awareness into God’s Consciousness SadaShiv
Deepening yourself Spiritually
In a busy world and with a busy life its easy to lose yourself in distractions. Truth is that your life without Spirit is a life without purpose or Centre. Conscience, Morality, Ethics, Dharma, Integrity etc are all Spiritual. But what ways can your spirituality be practised, actualised, realised? NB Its a problem to try and ‘spiritualise the ego’. Beware ego as guru. Shri Mataji conceded that ego posing as guru was a difficult problem. What is the antidote? Self-Realisation. “You must Become the Spirit” Spirit is the Light, a reflection of God, Kundalini is your purifying power. So with humility before God, the ego becomes surrendered to the Spirit. Then your ego surrenders, just like Christ who said “Thy Will Be Done” Then Param Chaitanya gives vibrational guidance and supports your spiritual growth.
If you are not sustaining thoughtless awareness ~ you require practices.
Meditation is the state of mental Silence, yes, and also it is Divine Flow. Meditation is turning inwards to be at One with God, literally “In Spirit” Your spirituality grows in the Silence, and so do your spiritual powers. You become more balanced, centred, more inspired, fulfilled, and mature. You also become empowered by using vibrational awareness and subtle energy to Awaken, Raise, Balance and Clear your Nadis and Chakras to enter Meditation and progressively attain the higher states of Samadhi.
Meditation becomes priority one and requires Self-mastery by training your attention to be here and now. Music that is inspirational, vibrational becomes a source of Joy and can lead into the Silence. Affirmations become the way to clear, activate, and inspire realisation. Prayers become powerful because you have real communion with Source.
Bhakti is devotion to the deities, aspects, personalities and qualities of God. Praise of the Divine’s names, and qualities, enrich you with in vibrations, power and Grace. Bhajhans and hymns written by great devotees testify and inspire God’s Love. Puja, the practices of worshipping with water, candle, incense, flowers etc both God and Guru.
Buddhi is Practising the Presence of God as pure Consciousness or Presence, being here – now.
Progressive Realisation is the pathway of spiritual progress and ascent. Because the awakening of your Kundalini is spontaneous and speedy we may take for granted the relative ease with which we enter Flow. It’s a dispensation LINK in the modern era that this event can happen easily. NB Typically spiritual seekers are attracted to Sahaja Yoga and initially may have profound experiences and receive blessings that help you confirm that you have got ‘it’. Self-Realisation. Experiences may signify different psychic, subtle and energy events. But for Sahaja Yogi initiates, they begin actually Knowing on their subtle bodies. Thus we realise the state of our own subtle body system and after a ‘honeymoon period’ realise the necessity of beginning or continuing ‘the Great Work’ of making our spiritual Ascent. Then we can discern where the problems or imbalances are, and also become empowered to use the vibrations and practices taught in Sahaja Yoga to progressively balance, clear, deepen and evolve your self into Self. Evolution is a lengthy process and for you even to be interested in spiritual growth suggests you have been seeking through many lives. Some of us have been increasingly drawn, and/or driven, to find our Self, and fortunately the Time is auspicious.
The modern era called Kali Yuga is a time of great stress and drama. Its foretold and expected that at this time many will get Self Realisation. Shri Mataji declared that in this difficult era was “The Blossom Time”. Individuals awaken and their Kundalinis sprout, and Sahasraras open. At first a few awaken and then these yogis can spread Kundalini Yoga. Their vibrations work it out individually and also contribute Collectively. Thus the Liberation and transformation of Humanity can and will be achieved.
Liberation – means one is no longer compelled or troubled by Life. Expansion has happened – oceanic feelings of Love include everyone. Height is realised – the Awareness has integrated over nine chakras. Divine Love – is known and trusted as the Great Reality of everything. The Holy Spirit, Divine Mother, is the Comforter, Counsellor and Redeemer. Beyond Duality – ‘I am’ is experienced as non-dual, or even as non-being, beyond Time.
Becoming – is realised as Oneness in Being both Individual Part, and Parcel, of the Universe.
When Christ crossed and opened the Agnya chakra He realised – God Is : I Am. We too are invited to ascend and realise “I and my Father are One” Our Ego, Mind and Body are temporal, and temporary, not Eternal. You are to realise you are not body, mind, ego or anything, but you are Spirit.