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Meditation
Sahaja Yoga is considered by many people to be one of the most powerful forms of yoga meditation in the world. This book describes the basic features of the yoga, how it works, and why the practice can be so beneficial in our day to day lives. * Learn how to meditate at home and how to use the power of vibrationary awareness to enhance your spirituality. * Discover how to enter into the crucial state of thoughtless awareness. * Decode your spiritual personality and learn how you can take steps to improve it. * Includes a simple exercise to establish your self realisation at home.
216 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2005
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October 22, 2007
This was a surprisingly excellent book on meditation. Surprising because I kinda expected it to gush on and on about the founder of Sahaja Yoga but instead it does an excellent job of just keeping to explaining and exploring meditation itself, without bringing to the forefront the Sahaja Yoga aspect/perspective. Not that it's not in there, it's just not in-yo'-face. Which is good. :-)
Pity it's a borrowed book, this is something I would want to have handy as a reference, or for a random page/chapter selection. So it'll go on my amazon wish list, LoL! :-)
Pity it's a borrowed book, this is something I would want to have handy as a reference, or for a random page/chapter selection. So it'll go on my amazon wish list, LoL! :-)
July 20, 2016
It's the second book I read about Sahaja Yoga which has a lot to offer in terms of meditation and practical things about life in general which I have learned a lot from and I'm grateful for that...however a few times I felt the author a little contradictory specially when talking about others who I'm sure had put the same (if not even more) amount of time, dedication and research to write a something on the subject of meditation.
It's clear nowadays that we live in a world we sell stuff...many types of stuff and it's up to us to define what's good or not good and what we can or cannot apply into our lives.
I think everyone can learn a lot from Sahaja Yoga meditation but sometimes it feels it's just another selling product (giving the way the author describe the Sahaja Yoga being the only method to provide the reader or practitioner with self-realisation and awakening of the kundalini).
I don't think it's necessary to talk bad (or just talk in a way that's not good) about others in order to sell what you believe to work as a method and this emphasis on the book is something I find particularly unnecessary.
Have said that I did though paid more attention to my own judgments and critics but what I'm writing as a review is just what I got from reading the book.
There are many types of meditation that's been practised for thousands of years and here the author claims that none of them would lead to self-realisation but Sahaja Yoga. Really?
I respect and apply what I can to my life but there's no one particular thing that holds the absolute truth and by affirming Sahaja Yoga is the only one that can truly liberate us from this state of ignorance is again, from my point of view, another selling technique.
Also what I have learned from many other teachers is that when you're learning how to connect with the divine it's appropriate you don't cultivate in your heart the idea of ignoring something. It's the way around; you work with whatever feeling, sensation, etc you might be experiencing and that will truly lead you to connect with the divine (with yourself).
I understand that it is important that we maintain ourselves clean in all aspects but fully clothed to meditation? Where that came from? I love meditate naked and I don't think that'll create any distance between myself and the divine...
So the author also mentions that imagining colours, patterns, light as a way of helping a meditation practice to flourish happens at the level of the ego but on the other hand having a picture of Sri Mataji is essential for the awakening of the kundalini as well as self-realisation. Why can't we just put the effort of those who also happen to try and find ways of helping us to reach self-realisation? Why just Sahaja Yoga is the way to liberation?
Oh yeah and to finish we are also instructed to read a passage from the bible. That somehow really put me off (I know I'm watching my complains and I'm working on it) but better said than ignored.
It's clear nowadays that we live in a world we sell stuff...many types of stuff and it's up to us to define what's good or not good and what we can or cannot apply into our lives.
I think everyone can learn a lot from Sahaja Yoga meditation but sometimes it feels it's just another selling product (giving the way the author describe the Sahaja Yoga being the only method to provide the reader or practitioner with self-realisation and awakening of the kundalini).
I don't think it's necessary to talk bad (or just talk in a way that's not good) about others in order to sell what you believe to work as a method and this emphasis on the book is something I find particularly unnecessary.
Have said that I did though paid more attention to my own judgments and critics but what I'm writing as a review is just what I got from reading the book.
There are many types of meditation that's been practised for thousands of years and here the author claims that none of them would lead to self-realisation but Sahaja Yoga. Really?
I respect and apply what I can to my life but there's no one particular thing that holds the absolute truth and by affirming Sahaja Yoga is the only one that can truly liberate us from this state of ignorance is again, from my point of view, another selling technique.
Also what I have learned from many other teachers is that when you're learning how to connect with the divine it's appropriate you don't cultivate in your heart the idea of ignoring something. It's the way around; you work with whatever feeling, sensation, etc you might be experiencing and that will truly lead you to connect with the divine (with yourself).
I understand that it is important that we maintain ourselves clean in all aspects but fully clothed to meditation? Where that came from? I love meditate naked and I don't think that'll create any distance between myself and the divine...
So the author also mentions that imagining colours, patterns, light as a way of helping a meditation practice to flourish happens at the level of the ego but on the other hand having a picture of Sri Mataji is essential for the awakening of the kundalini as well as self-realisation. Why can't we just put the effort of those who also happen to try and find ways of helping us to reach self-realisation? Why just Sahaja Yoga is the way to liberation?
Oh yeah and to finish we are also instructed to read a passage from the bible. That somehow really put me off (I know I'm watching my complains and I'm working on it) but better said than ignored.
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