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Meta Modern Era
Meta Modern Era by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a loving, compelling and powerful book that introduces a tangible spiritual breakthrough for the 21st century — spontaneous Self Realization through Sahaja Yoga meditation — which opens a new dimension in human awareness.
Written by Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the greatest voices on spirituality, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the book offers stunningly deep insights on the crises of our modern times and the solutions to their root problems.
From the preface to Meta Modern Era
"Actually I did not want to write a book of this kind. I am a person who is in complete joy of Divinity. There is the all-pervading joy of Divine love and I wanted everyone to enjoy it. Specially in the West I have seen that there are many seekers of absolute Truth. There are many scientists who have written voluminous books about consciousness, about awareness. One can give a list of them. But all these books really weary you completely, because they do not emit any knowledge of the ultimate truth. I don't want to criticize them; after all whatever they are doing constitutes honest research. But why not also give a chance to this new discovery which is being made? Why not humble down to see what is beyond this mind which gives you all this artificial intelligence?
It is extremely difficult for me to write about the problems of Western life. It is like an enormous tree which has grown outside. How to be pushed down now to the roots and made to grow inside. It is only by going deep inside that we can find out what the problems of Western civilization are which have kept a Western mind away from truth."
Written by Nobel Peace Prize nominee and one of the greatest voices on spirituality, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the book offers stunningly deep insights on the crises of our modern times and the solutions to their root problems.
From the preface to Meta Modern Era
"Actually I did not want to write a book of this kind. I am a person who is in complete joy of Divinity. There is the all-pervading joy of Divine love and I wanted everyone to enjoy it. Specially in the West I have seen that there are many seekers of absolute Truth. There are many scientists who have written voluminous books about consciousness, about awareness. One can give a list of them. But all these books really weary you completely, because they do not emit any knowledge of the ultimate truth. I don't want to criticize them; after all whatever they are doing constitutes honest research. But why not also give a chance to this new discovery which is being made? Why not humble down to see what is beyond this mind which gives you all this artificial intelligence?
It is extremely difficult for me to write about the problems of Western life. It is like an enormous tree which has grown outside. How to be pushed down now to the roots and made to grow inside. It is only by going deep inside that we can find out what the problems of Western civilization are which have kept a Western mind away from truth."
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248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 26, 2012
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April 4, 2013
Innocent, straight forward and loving - A clear depiction of the pitfalls of the so-called modern cultures and of the path for ascent :)
July 7, 2018
I opened the book and began reading at page 139 and couldn't put it down. I have read it before and felt like being spontaneous. Just upon reading that page and the following two pages I felt that more people should become aware of the message in this book because the insights offered gives us the opportunity to have a good look at ourselves and a chance to change and save ourselves.
Meta Modern Era by Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a scathing looking at humanity by its Creator on just how far off the path we have gone in this Modern Era - of how we have crushed each other at level of gender and morality at level of society. Only a Divine personality can have such a clear picture of the multilayered nature of the human personality and how we have gone wrong at every one of the layers.
Her Holiness Shri Mataji travelled the world and interacted with people from all walks of life, from villagers to the Queen. Her Holiness gave Self Realisation to hundreds of thousands of people during Her forty years of spreading Her message of Sahaja Yoga. For example, in a single year of 1992, the urgency to save humanity propelled Her Holiness to crisscross all continents, accumulating close to 200,000 air miles.
Her Holiness was born with the sole purpose to save humanity from this worst of Kali Yugas and got a very good picture of what had happened to humanity over the centuries and, how far off the evolutionary path we had come in this Modern Era. Calling this age the worst of the Kali Yugas is putting it mildly.
Born of a noble family, Her Holiness led a normal householder life to show that the saints of the Modern Era have to be normal people, leading normal lives because that is where the maximum manifestation of the creativity and beauty of the Spirit is possible.
Insight into the nature of the faults that we have been accumulating over generations and solutions to remedy these faults are offered in this must read book if we are to cure ourselves and come onto the central path.
Meta Modern Era by Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a scathing looking at humanity by its Creator on just how far off the path we have gone in this Modern Era - of how we have crushed each other at level of gender and morality at level of society. Only a Divine personality can have such a clear picture of the multilayered nature of the human personality and how we have gone wrong at every one of the layers.
Her Holiness Shri Mataji travelled the world and interacted with people from all walks of life, from villagers to the Queen. Her Holiness gave Self Realisation to hundreds of thousands of people during Her forty years of spreading Her message of Sahaja Yoga. For example, in a single year of 1992, the urgency to save humanity propelled Her Holiness to crisscross all continents, accumulating close to 200,000 air miles.
Her Holiness was born with the sole purpose to save humanity from this worst of Kali Yugas and got a very good picture of what had happened to humanity over the centuries and, how far off the evolutionary path we had come in this Modern Era. Calling this age the worst of the Kali Yugas is putting it mildly.
Born of a noble family, Her Holiness led a normal householder life to show that the saints of the Modern Era have to be normal people, leading normal lives because that is where the maximum manifestation of the creativity and beauty of the Spirit is possible.
Insight into the nature of the faults that we have been accumulating over generations and solutions to remedy these faults are offered in this must read book if we are to cure ourselves and come onto the central path.
June 7, 2014
I am reviewing the book Meta Modern Era by Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Sri Mataji who died in 2011 was the leader of the Sahaja Yoga movement and this wasn't what we might think of yoga which means union in Sanskrit but is a form of meditation. When Sahaja Yoga it is not charged for as she says you can't put a price on enlightenment. Instead people who have been helped in the past make donations that fund it. I did some Sahaja Yoga some years ago but have probably learnt more from reading books about it than I ever learnt in the group and there don't seem to be that many books about it but I would like to read as many as possible. This is a book Sri Mataji wrote for a Western audience in English and despite her saying she speaks English but has no academic training in it, I think she has done a good job. Sahaja Yoga has had the occasional scandal like someone started a Sahaja Yoga Centre in Switzerland and it was just a means to make money but then almost any organisation has had problems. Apparently the Catholic Church regards it as a cult which as she says and I agree must mean it is just different to the Catholic Church and any organisation not affiliated they regard as a cult. She lived in Surrey, England for many years but did spend much time in India because her husband was President of the UN Maritime Organisation based in London. She spent much time herself teaching Sahaja Yoga. I thoroughly enjoyed this book which looks at a lot of different cultures and religions both Western & Eastern and strips away all the tosh and tells you quite frankly what really matters. Apparently as a child she spent many hours talking to Mahatma Gandhi who could see there was something special about her. She was arrested for being part of the peaceful protests for the Free India Movement. One thing she does say is if a yogi or religion is charging you for being a member or for their help they are stealing. Because India is quite poor many so called yogis have left there and gone to Western countries because they know there is easy money. I think this is a great book.
August 5, 2014
Amazing !!
Must read .
Must read .
October 15, 2019
This was a kind of a strange book. Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi writes from the heart, to state what she thinks is the inherent dignity of human beings as abused / not-recognized by the West, especially in the United States.
She embraces an order of being human that should be upheld in order to allow each individual's inner self to emerge. To that end, she denotes a "meta" to the modern era. Recognition of this meta means a coming to terms for each of us of our sacred nature, in terms of peace, body, mind, product, philosophy and so on.
Sometimes her views seem quaint, and other times it seems anti-political correct. But always interesting. Towards the end of she describes the change in energy of awareness as one approaches enlightenment. Shes doesn't go so far into that subject matter though, seeking only for us to become aware that there is a problem and a possible solution.
She embraces an order of being human that should be upheld in order to allow each individual's inner self to emerge. To that end, she denotes a "meta" to the modern era. Recognition of this meta means a coming to terms for each of us of our sacred nature, in terms of peace, body, mind, product, philosophy and so on.
Sometimes her views seem quaint, and other times it seems anti-political correct. But always interesting. Towards the end of she describes the change in energy of awareness as one approaches enlightenment. Shes doesn't go so far into that subject matter though, seeking only for us to become aware that there is a problem and a possible solution.
September 7, 2018
Very insightful. The book is like an eye opener that takes you closer to reality
June 17, 2019
O carte foarte bună care prezintă viața așa cum este, trecând dincolo de iluzia vieții cotidiene, a statuturilor sociale și a societății în care trăim.
April 22, 2022
No words. Only love and truth.
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