Message from the National Leader of Australia

[Guest guest]

Message from the National Leader

 

I want to wish a belated happy new year to all the sahaj yogi

brothers and sisters.

 

2003 Looking back it has been a year of unparalleled events both on

the world stage as well as in the world of Sahaj yoga. The

paramchaitanya has churned the whole pot to bring out and expose the

good and bad with all their shades while testing the yogis in full in

terms of their faith, dedication, devotion, seeking and commitment to

their spiritual path. I know it has been a very tough year for most

but if we look back with a detached outlook we can witness the divine

play full of mystery and surprises but full of benevolence for us

all. It has been a year where Shri Mataji has been withdrawing

physically to see her children take on responsibility of spreading

her love and saving the world today. She had to resort to pretending

to be unwell so that rational human mind of us yogis mature and stop

coming to her for every small problems from health to marriage and

learn instead to believe in our own abilities and start using the

powers that She has given us. The year has been a challenge to our

conditionings.

 

If we look inside and watch ourselves, we find that in 2003 we all

were exposed to our " PAST LINGERINGS OF " limitations, conditionings,

egos, ideas, opinions, weaknesses and how have we performed

 

2004 So what should we all be doing for 2004? Firstly we have to save

each other from falling down during these times of final judgement as

well as save all those who are really seeking the divine. During one

of the private talks with Shri Mataji during Ganesha Puja

 

2003 Shri Mataji was saying that the " people are not seeking today " .

Maybe the effect of materialism coupled with the air of hatred and

violence has taken everyone's attention more to survival than to

striving for God. That makes our job even harder. We have had 2 days

of leaders meeting on 24 & 25th January 2004. The main focus

was " What we should do individually and collectively to go deeper?

How we can unite the whole Australia & New Zealand collective as one

family? How we can spread sahaja yoga? " etc etc. It was very nice to

receive a phone call from Pratisthan during the start of the meeting

with a message from Shri Mataji offering her complete blessing for

all the present leaders and that she had her full attention on the

meeting. It elated everyone.

 

Many many issues were discussed and a action plan has been drawn up.

Please ask your state leaders to discuss openly in details in the

collective meeting. The contents of the meeting as they have been

minuted and a plan of action has been drawn up which we all have a

collective responsibility to know and carry it out.

 

TASMANIA We are looking for yogis who can take on Tasmania to

establish Sahaj yoga there. Please let me know as we can offer full

support. New initiative / ideas?

 

1. We will have one " AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SEMINAR " every year during

the Easter puja long weekend which everyone in Australia who

considers himself as Sahaj yogi must attend. The seminar dates will

be advised well in advance so that we can plan our holidays and take

advantage of cheap airfares. We will hold it in different cities

every year. The first one will be held at Balmoral. It will be a true

celebration with a wide range of activities, music, going deep

meditations as well as plenty of laughter sessions are being planned.

The seminar will be from Friday 9th April evening till Monday 12th

lunchtime. The other " Second tier " (not in terms of vibrations but in

terms of national preference) will be Guru Puja at Wamuran and Diwali

at Gidgegannup. For details and help contact Chris, Raymond or Alan

Napper.

 

2. A project is underway to make all Shri Mataji's Australian

talks available for sale at a very cheap price by Easter Puja and

also to make into DVD all of Shri Mataji's Australian talks. Shri

Mataji has asked us to listen to Australian talks. For details and

help contact Joe Saloman

 

3. Encouragement /recognition awards for children: To express our

love and appreciation of our youth in the areas of Sahaj, academics,

sports and arts, we will be introducing annual awards at the

Australian national seminar. Our children will feel the love of the

collectivity which will help them to be better yogis. For details

contact Raymond Hampton.

 

4. A possibility of " Mother's Love Childcare Centre " cum

collective centre in Melbourne. Contact Colin Berry for help and

ideas.

 

5. Guidelines & Code of conduct for " Ashram life, new people's

programs & email circulations " is being worked out contact Chris for

suggestions/ideas.

 

6. Program resources including handouts and advertisements are being

worked out at national level so that yogis can focus more on doing

programs instead of worrying about " how do I start? " , " how can I

design an ad? " , " how can I make handbills and posters? " and " what

handouts should I use? " Contact Sno Bonneau.

 

7. Information pack and promotional package for telephone callers and

remote areas is being worked out on a national level. Contact Paul

Nicolai

 

I thank everyone for all the hard work they have done for Sahaj Yoga.

I know there are many, many unsung heroes who have contributed

significantly but who are shy of limelight. Everyone who has taken on

the responsibility of Sahaj, especially of giving realization, has

been immensely blessed in their inner growth. I am proud to say that

we have among us some very generous financial donors who want to

remain anonymous. The common thing among all the Sahaj Yogis is that

everyone is a great individual, who is a realized soul blessed by the

goddess herself. So let us pray to Shri Mataji inside our heart to

remove all the problems, negativity that attacks us as individuals

and collective, to make us completely united at heart, to grant us

complete spiritual fulfilment and to make us good and worthy

instruments of God.

 

Jai Shri Mataji

 

Avinash Nichkawde