Sahaja Yoga

Haiku Poetry

Graham Brown, Sydney, Australia

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry using three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables. A haiku can be about anything; however, each haiku should, traditionally, evoke a sense of place, time of day, or season. Often one of the lines is a so-called ‘cutting line’ which may shatter the logical flow of the poem rather like a Zen koan (irrational statement designed to startle the mind out of its slumber of conventional thought). According to the masters of Japanese Poetry, good haiku may only be composed in a state of egolessness.

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How Sahaja Yoga changed my life

Peter Hewitson, Brisbane, Australia

I guess I’d always wondered what “Truth” was. I’d heard this term bandied about quite often but never had I heard an explanation that seemed right. I’d read so many books but I still didn’t understand what “Truth” was.

Then one morning I was walking through the park, still thinking about “The Truth”. I was so irritated about not knowing that I said out loud, “What IS this Truth thing anyway?” Then I looked around to see if anyone had heard me!

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Self Realization is available to everyone

Helja Kallioinen

In April 1981 there was a picture of Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, in the Sydney Morning Herald advertising her first lectures in Sydney, Australia. The statement “most holy human being visiting Sydney” was a bit too much to me. I decided to see this person and prove that they had overstated their case.

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Symbolism of the Mooladhara Chakra

The four petals of the Mooladhara chakra can be likened to the four arms of the Hindu deity Shri Ganesha. In traditional iconography He is shown holding a different object in each of His four hands. The Mooladhara chakra, with its four petals, or sub-plexuses, is the foundation of the Tree of Life, or the subtle sytem of seven chakras (energy centres), in the human body. The Mooladhara Chakra gives us our grounding in Reality, and the sense of orientation in space.

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Through the grace of Shri Mataji

Bill, Canada

To begin the story of how I discovered Sahaja Yoga properly, I would try to describe the atmosphere of seeking in which I was living in the winter of 1995-96. I can only point to the types of influences that shaped my mood in those days. I’m sure my search was in some ways a universal one, and many fellow-seekers will recognize what these outside circumstances tell about what was happening inside.

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