Shri Mataji: If it is an evolutionary process ... it must culminate into something fruitful.

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> Introduction

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> " One spring afternoon in 1992, a Norwegian friend who was living in

> my village for a year whilst he completed a Master of Business

> Administration at Bath University dropped over for coffee. After

> exchanging the usual set of pleasantries about the weather and a few

> comments about the local primary school, he introduced a new topic

> into the conversation. Knowing my interest in new religions, he

> said, was i aware that some people in the next village were 'giving

> cool breezes'? I confessed my ignorance and pressed him for

> details. One, a woman called Jane, he continued, had given him a

> sort of massage and as as result he had felt a cool breeze on the

> top of his head. " I really did, you know! " he went on, looking

> slightly uncomfortable, as he did not quite believe it himself.

> " What's it all about? "

>

> This book is my attempt, as a sociologist of religion, to answer the

> question raised by my friend that day. It is about Sahaja Yoga, the

> new religious movement (NRM) whose member was responsible for

> the 'cool breezes' which he felt. "

>

> Judith Coney, Sahaja Yoga

> Hardcover: 269 pages

> Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon; 1 edition (May 24 1999)

> ISBN-13: 978-0700710614

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> Book Review

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> Jeffrey " jleow21 " (New Jersey, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

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> This book presents the thoughts of at least half the practitioners

> of Sahaja Yoga in the United States.

>

> I read the book avidly as I recognised many similarities to what I

> had observed myself.

>

> Judith Coney has obviously found the flaws in SYoga, and has

> presented a fair representation of the problems in this group. What

> she did leave out was the amazing capability of the leader to

> trigger blissful experiences in individuals. These people in turn

> can set off these feelings in others.

>

> Judith does not investigate this crucial aspect of the group.

>

> I, too, had the pleasure of trying SYoga for several years. After

> the initial pleasant experiences, I was led into a whirlpool of

> contradictions and deceit - as many still in the group will confirm

> privately. Why do they stay? - fear and an inability to resume a

> normal social life after decades of confinement to a closed

> community - friends and family forcibly discarded to be a " real "

> SYogi. However, the ability to trigger intense joy and a tangible

> peace in thousands of people is inexplicable.

>

> I do still believe that the leader has unique capabilities, but I

> could never subject my loved ones to the emotional and mental

> turmoil that many in the group accept.

>

> A good book for those " thinking persons " in SYoga to know that they

> are not alone. A good start, Judith Coney

>

> Jeffrey " jleow21 "

>

 

" Now this Kundalini is the power which is placed in the sacrum bone,

nowhere else... And imagine this bone is called " sacrum " ; " sacrum "

means " sacred " . So they knew there was something in it... This is the

primule, is the germinating power within us. Now this fact has been

accepted for thousands of years in India and elsewhere. For in the

Bible also ... they talk of the Tree of Life. That is the same as this...

 

So this is the thing that is being described in our ancient books, in

all the scriptures, even in the Qur'an they are described as Ruh,

R,U,H, Ruh. " Ruh " means the " cold breeze " , the " cool breeze " . The

cool breeze of the Holy Ghost is described in the Bible also.

 

You cannot suddenly start a new idea about something. If it is an

evolutionary process, if it is a living process it must have its

background, its history, and it must culminate into something

fruitful. Like every fruit has a tree behind it... If it is a living

fruit it has to come out the tree that have existed for thousands and

thousands of years, and out of that this tree has to come. It must

have a base and this is traditionally called the kundalini awakening

process...

 

Christ has said very clearly that you have to be born again. I mean

the whole message of Christ's life is realization ... when Christ

came on this Earth to show that you have to become the spirit. By His

resurrection He showed that, and this is the message of Christ. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Seeking our Spirit, 10-23-1980

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" The Kundalini rises through a very thin line of Brahmanadi. In the

beginning only a hair like thing rises, it pierces through. In some

people, of course, in a big way it rises also. And then it pierces

this fontanel bone area which is a real baptism, real. Today only

people felt the cool breeze coming out of their heads. Can you do

that by jumping, or by paying money? They felt the cool breeze in the

hand. It's written in the Bible, even in the Bible very clearly, that

it's the cool breeze. Cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost. You

start feeling the cool breeze in your hands and you start feeling the

cool breeze on your head. This is the actualization.

 

Of course, you people don't read other books which are very good,

like Adi Shankaracharya. People don't even like the mention of his

name who has really and clearly said that it is the cool breeze, the

chaitanya, is to be felt like cool breeze in the hands. They do not

want that you should know the truth. And this is the truth that when

you get your realization, you have to feel the cool breeze in your

hands yourself. You have to judge yourself. I'm not going to tell

you. It is you who has to see, it is you who has to feel. And then

you have to grow and you have to know all and everything - all the

secrets of Divine Science. You become the master then, you are the

guru.

 

You are the Spirit, and you should get it. It's your own which is

given to you. I have nothing to do about it. I'm just a catalyst. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Maccabean Hall, Australia on March 22, 1981