Anahata Chakra

December 7, 2003

Dear Shri Jagbir Singhji,

In http://www.adishakti.org/subtle_system/anahat_chakra.htm , the following has been written in case of Anahata Chakra :-

GROSS PHYSICAL ASPECT

Using the body as an instrument of athletic display fatigues the Heart centre. Excessive athletic competition simply develops into an ego-oriented thing, with no real gain at the end of it. In a similar way modern Hatha yoga is a form of athleticism which has no correlation with the Spirit, and this too can harm the centre. Unfortunately today Hatha yoga is mistaken for spirituality and people spend hours doing all kinds of asanas (positions). By standing on our heads (or wearing white/saffron robes or being vegetarian or whatever) we are not going to know the Almighty Creator.

Kindly clarify the following :-

1) Should a Sahaja Yogi completely avoid exercising since this can affect one's anahata chakra? If yes, then can a person undertake basic exercises like jogging, running, walking for health, suryanamaskar and uthak-baithak? Will this also affect a Sahaja Yogi in any manner?

2) Can a Sahaja Yogi eat non-vegetarian food or should he completely be a vegetarian and avoid even onion and garlic, since the body is after all a temple wherein various deities reside and eating non-veg is like dumping dead living creatures (God's creations) into your sacred system and polluting it.

Kindly clarify.

Regards,

Manoj Pisharoti

December 21, 2003

shriadishakti , "Manoj" <map5166@r...> wrote:> > Dear Shri Jagbir Singhji,> > In http://www.adishakti.org/subtle_system/anahat_chakra.htm , > the following has been written in case of Anahata Chakra :-> > GROSS PHYSICAL ASPECT> > Using the body as an instrument of athletic display fatigues > the Heart centre. Excessive athletic competition simply > develops into an ego-oriented thing, with no real gain at the end > of it. In a similar way modern Hatha yoga is a form of > athleticism which has no correlation with the Spirit, and this > too can harm the centre. Unfortunately today Hatha yoga is > mistaken for spirituality and people spend hours doing

all kinds > of asanas (positions). By standing on our heads (or wearing > white/saffron robes or being vegetarian or whatever) we are not > going to know the Almighty Creator.> > Kindly clarify the following :-> > 1) Should a Sahaja Yogi completely avoid exercising since > this can affect one's anahata chakra? If yes, then can a > person undertake basic exercises like jogging, running, walking > for health, suryanamaskar and uthak-baithak? Will this also > affect a Sahaja Yogi in any manner?> > 2) Can a Sahaja Yogi eat non-vegetarian food or should he > completely be a vegetarian and avoid even onion and garlic, > since the body is after all a temple wherein various deities > reside and eating non-veg is like dumping dead living creatures > (God's creations) into

your sacred system and polluting it.> > Kindly clarify.> > Regards,> Manoj Pisharoti

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"In Sahaja Yoga we do some Hatha Yoga exercises whenever necessary. When there is a chakra damaged because of some physical problem, we try to give that particular Hatha Yoga exercise. But the way people do Hatha Yoga is to take all the medicines at once. In Hatha, "Ha" and "Tha", both the nadis have to be used. But nowadays its only "Ha" used. This can cause a great imbalance within you."Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi29 June 1990, Russia

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"So let us take the case of Hatha Yoga. It is based on centres, no doubt. It is based on "lshwar Pranidhana", no doubt, all the Ashtangas, all the eight sides of Hatha Yoga. See from human point of view, I'm saying. For them why Hatha Yoga came into being.It's first that they should fix their attention on Ishwara Pranidhana means they should fix the attention into the existence of God. Not blind faith. But to understand that there is God, so that you humble down yourself. Then you should go to the realized soul as a Guru. Guru means a realized soul minimum. Any Tom, Dick and Harry becomes a, Guru, is a nonsense absolutely. He has to be a realized soul and if he is a realized soul he will say like that. . . .So Hatha Yoga itself is done under a person who is a realized soul. Not only realized but who knows. Who has mastered the art of Shakti-pat is the raising of the Kundalini

minimum. Of course Sahaja Yogis just raise it like that. It is different. But no other Yogis can do that. It is only you, because you are authorized, that you can raise the Kundalini just like that. So what these Hatha-Yogis have done they have boiled it down to only the physical sense. So you have to have Ishwarapranidhana, Yama and Niyama and that too before 25 years of age, you have to discipline yourself in a way that you should understand, what is right and what is wrong. ...So one has to understand that these Yama and Niyamas and all these things are not meant for us. At least for the Western people, in any way. Let us accept it whatever it is in experimentation or whatever it is we have committed lots of mistakes or may be we have been experimenting, again I'll say the same word. Whatever we have done we have done a lot of harm to ourselves, to our body and to our mind. Because we had nobody to guide us. Alright. We didn't want to harm ourselves but by mistake it

happened. Now what to do ?"11 November 1979

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"The sympathetic nervous system uses the vital energy. There are two systems-left and right. The two channels, which carry this energy, in subtle form (in the medulla oblongata), are known as Ida and Pingala respectively. The right-side system (in the right-handed person) caters to the emergencies of the active consciousness (extra efforts and emergencies). The left-side system (in medicine they say it remains dormant) caters to the subconscious mind of the psyche (libido).Both these sympathetic-nerve systems are called the Sun and Moon channels (i.e., Surya nadi and Chandra nadi). Hatha Yoga comes from the words Ha and Tha, meaning the Sun and Moon. By this yoga you can control the activity of the sympathetic; you can use more stored energy or else completely stop the activity of the sympathetic for a short time. Just by using the stored energy you cannot achieve the eternal flow of the

divine. With control over the sympathetic you can slow the heart rate or even stop the heart for a short time. You may achieve all the physical gross symptoms of the parasympathetic. But you cannot activate the parasympathetic which is the channel for your real Yoga. With Hatha yoga you may even control your mind. But the mind thus governed is heavily conditioned for the spiritual flight into the divine. One may keep good health and good mind to be a good citizen in a society, but that is not the only aim of life."Shri Mataji Nirmal Devi

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"Now the modern Hatha Yoga is something I just don’t understand, but Patanjali Shastra the one who has Written Ha Tha that is Ha and Tha is the thing, but you have these two Nadis which these must have described to you and there are ashtangas, means there are eight aspects of Hatha Yoga according to Pananjali who has written it, the most important in the primordial and the past one is Ishwara Prahnidhana, means the establishment of God within you. Now in these acrobatic things that we do, we have no idea, what were going to talk of it (laughing) forget, forget abut God, only you have to think down that’s all, because you are want to be actors and actresses, they dont want to be Yogis, it’s a different style of things, it was Ishwhara Prahnidhana first you must get your realisation out of there eight one is Yama Nirma In the Nirma there is only one for physical exercises, that too

depending on where the Kundilini is, where also he is Hatha Yoga in a way, supposing Kundilini is stopping at a point at a certain centre due to physical problem, we do a little asanas which are necessary or some exercise to do it....None of these teachers have realisation how will they understand the importance of Hatha Yoga I don't understand, in India the Guru is a person who is a realised soul, he could be a Muslim he could be a Hindu, he could be anyone, but he had or be a realised soul to begin with. Brahmin is a realised soul, now these days there is a Brahmin can be kept as cooks so the whole concept is so superficial today’s Hatha Yoga. ... The beginning of Hatha Yoga starts with Sahaja Yoga, when it is established, but Hatha Yoga is a subsidiary thing."Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi9 July 1982

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"As today they asked me another question, which was interesting, about Hatha Yoga. I said nobody's doing Hatha Yoga, they are doing some exercises most indiscriminately. Because attention is on the body, and that's why they're just doing something without understanding why certain exercises have to be done.Actually the real Hatha Yoga of Patanjali, you have to have Ishwara Pranidhan; that means first your God must be established ! First you must be connected. Let the Kundalini rise and then know what chakras are catching, what exercises are needed? What mantra is needed? We have a great organizations in this country, and everywhere else where they give a mantra, Now just think of it ! There are six centres; these are the basic centres, there are many more, I don't want to tell you the number, otherwise you']] be surprised. But six main centres and two on the left and the right are sun and the

moon. And at the bottom is the seventh one.So you can see there are nine centres, basically we have to know and there are nine deities on these nine centres. How can you give somebody one mantra ? Supposing you have to pass through six gates and you have only one pass, of the fifth one and you are at the first gate, how will you pass through? These people have no idea 1 And they have given such horrible mantras I was shocked, If you tell Indians they'll be surprised. One of them means 'tinga' means (thumb). Can you imagine this could be a mantra, like this. it's such a ridiculous thing to say. Horrible things like 'inga binga dinga', these are no mantras, this is nonsense! ...Be careful about these horrible people! They know that you are seekers, and ardently you are seeking. They know that you have money and they want to play upon your ego by saying that you can pay, you must pay, how much money have you got? These are all parasites, of the worst type ! These

are all parasites, remember, and the day will come when you recognize them, when you'll be falling on the streets with epilepsy and all kinds of diseases and then you'll be coming to me. There are already so many people who are coming to me in that condition. I have to warn you again, be careful and understand that these people give no knowledge whatsoever, they are just mesmerizing you, not only because they want to make money but they are bent upon destroying the Kingdom of God. They are bent upon destroying you all because they are satanic people and they want to establish the kingdom of Satan. For us, it is easy to take to these things, it's very easy to fall, as I told you. But to rise is difficult. It's not so difficult also, spontaneity is so simple, if you know the job you can do it. If there's a beautiful garden you can easily find out that there must be a gardener behind it who has done the job. If somebody knows the job he can do it."Shri Mataji

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