Abode of Beloved | East meets West

Some like it hot, some like it cool, How will you tell who is the fool?

This is how Sahajayoga.org has described the spontaneous happening of a union with all pervading power of God’s love;

Sahaja Yoga is a unique method of meditation based on an experience called Self Realization (Kundalini awakening) that can occur within each human being.

Through this process an inner transformation takes place by which one becomes moral, united, integrated and balanced.

One can actually feel the all pervading divine power as a cool breeze, as described in all religions and spiritual traditions of the world.

This is the actualization of such transformation, which is taking place now, worldwide, and has been proved and experienced by hundreds of thousands in over 96 countries.


It is entirely free of charge, as one cannot pay for the experience of Divine Love.

Interviewer: The theory that scientists say that man came from a little cell from heaven know where; how did you feel about those?

Shri Mataji: It’s a fact, it’s a fact. He (man) came through a cell, evolved through a cell. How did he evolve? Why did he evolve? What is the purpose of his life? It is not all answered by science. What is the power that males you evolve? Also, that is not answered. So, in Sahaja Yoga you know all that. Not only you evolve but with the same power you go higher.

Interviewer: What is your theory about that then? Why are we here or, why are we so long in the process?

Shri Mataji: You see anything that you create, even human beings for example, you have created things. A beautiful lamp is to give us light, isn’t it, the power. So, that’s how God has created us, to give His power to us that we feel Him and know Him in our awareness and understand and we emit His powers and enjoy it; to say in the words of Christ ‘to enter into the kingdom of God’…

Interviewer: Is it what Self Realization means; that You mean as a Realized Soul?

Shri Mataji: Yes, Self Realization means when the Self, which is talked about in all the scriptures, starts emitting its manifestation in our conscious mind; means that time when we become aware of it. To this extent our central nervous system starts recording the power of our Spirit, of oneself and we start feeling the breeze-like vibrations of the Spirit which is called in the bible as the ‘Cool Breeze of the Holy Spirit’…

Interviewer: Two very interesting thoughts come to my head at this point. One, is it through being Realized that one gets to knowledge of what’s on the other side of death, as it were and two, whether one really through this Realization that one finds a little bit of God inside oneself?

Shri Mataji: That’s the point. Second point is correct. You find God within yourself then your priorities change about knowing about things. You don’t want to know what is beyond life because you come in the present. You are not worried about the past and the future but that also you know because gradually your vision improves… But the main thing that happens to you is that feeling, that universality; just start feeling in the sense that it becomes a part and parcel of your awareness. Just a part and parcel of your awareness. As a human being you have a special awareness for flowers, a special awareness for cleanliness. Animals don’t have. In the same way you go to the point where you just become aware of that you start feeling them around. You start feeling what is right and wrong. For example, if I start telling people, this is sin, then they will do it a hundred times. If I give them realization they will not just do it. They will see. In the night, I am sleeping in this room and there is this snake up here and someone will say there is a snake and I say, no it’s not there, I can’t see. But if you put on the light I’ll just know it’s a snake and I will run away from it…

Interviewer: What is achieved once this awakening happens? I mean, why are we better for it?

Shri Mataji: You see like I told you you are like a light. Now when you are enlightened what happens to you. You see the light. In the light you see yourself. All confusion is finished. You know the Truth, and you feel so blissful and happy because you know everything. There is no chaos, no nothing. You are so relaxed and the power starts flowing through you all the time. It is never lost and you see in this light whatever is good and what ever is bad and you understand everything so well. And when you become the light, what do you do? Is to give the light to others so that they should be enlightened also. But this dead light cannot give light to others in such a way as that light can give to others. But you can, once you are Realized you can make others enlightened. The whole confusion of disintegration, quarrels and political problems and these economic problems and religion, everything will subside absolutely when you are enlightened. Human beings have to be enlightened because they are in darkness. That’s why all these problems are there.

Interviewer: Will the world as we know it cease to exist if we all become enlightened in such a way?

Shri Mataji: It will be flowering then. It would take another shape of beauty and enjoyment, happiness.

Interviewer: The heaven that is so talked about in religious books?

Shri Mataji: Yes…

Interviewer: How long is it going to take to get us there?

Shri Mataji: You see it depends on human beings, how they work it out. That’s all. It’s for them to decide now. You see, they have to take a decision…

“Radio Interview, Hong Kong, 1992″

Do you know about Mehndi? Alright, first read piece of information from Wikipedia; then we will continue with some amazing shots from this beautiful eastern art.

Mehndi (Hindi: मेहँदी, Urdu: مہندی) is the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration in India and Pakistan, as well as by expatriate communities from these areas. Mehndi decorations became fashionable in the West in the late 1990s, where they are sometimes called henna tattoos. Henna is typically applied during special occasions like weddings and festivals. It is usually drawn on the palms and feet, where the color will be darkest because the skin contains higher levels of keratin which binds temporarily to lawsone, the colorant of henna. Henna was originally used as a form of decoration mainly for brides.

Here is a valuable piece of writing from a Sakshi. Hope you enjoy it;

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days.
While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake.
They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples.

“I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.
The disciple walked up to the lake.
When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake.
As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid.
The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”

So he came back and told Buddha,
“The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink.
The disciple obediently went back to the lake.
This time too he found that the lake was muddy.
He returned and informed Buddha about the same.
After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back.
The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it.
The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had.
So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,

” See what you did to make the water clean.
You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water.
Your mind is also like that!
When it is disturbed, just let it be.
Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own.
You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down.
It will happen. Give some time to it. It is effortless.”

What did Buddha emphasize here?

He said, “It is effortless.”
Having ‘Peace of Mind’ is not a strenuous job; it is an effortless natural process! Do stay calm for a little while till your mind settles down. Do not react to anything in a hurry specially when the mind is disturbed and clouded by some thing unpleasant or when you are hurting. Just stay calm – all will be fine in due time…effortlessly!
Keep smiling not because of something, but in spite of everything….

When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I am grew up.
I wrote down “happy”.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit