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<title><![CDATA[Sahaja Yoga is the tremendous amount of experience and knowledge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>axinia</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Elements]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;Jivatma is the soul. Means with these five elements. And
these five elements gi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>......"Jivatma is the soul. Means with these five elements. And<br />
these five elements give you your own identity, your own character,<br />
your own particularities etc. These five elements; the way they are<br />
placed in you. That's the causal element, the causal of the elements<br />
that are within you. Then these causals act on the chakras and<br />
through the chakras these causals act on the other ...on the grosser<br />
side. So from the subtle to the subtler to the ...you can say the<br />
subtlest. The subtlest we can say is the Spirit, supposing. Then the<br />
subtler is the soul. And the subtle you have the chakras. And the<br />
gross is the body.</p>
<p>.......... The Spirit and the causal put together is the Soul. You<br />
see, like a mirror and its reflection on it. Both put together is<br />
the soul. The causal of the five elements and the Spirit put<br />
together make the soul. Now the vibrations that we feel are the<br />
reflection of the light of the Spirit. The Spirit does not vibrate.<br />
It does not v1brate. It is those elements, they vibrate. Like you<br />
can say that lf you put a sound on top of this (a glass of water) it<br />
will vibrate. You can put a stone in it, the stone won´t vibrate.<br />
But this will vibrate. "</p>
<p>Shri Mataji<br />
(talk at the restaurant in Volterra, Italy on July 25,1986)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Accorrete numerosi!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marta Cristina</dc:creator>
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QUESTO E’ UN MESSAGGIO PUBBLICITARIO!  PER TUTTI I LETTORI DI ROMA E DINTORNI…
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">QUESTO </span><span style="font-size:20pt;">E’</span><span style="font-size:16pt;"> UN MESSAGGIO PUBBLICITARIO! <span> </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">PER TUTTI I LETTORI DI ROMA E DINTORNI…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Non vendiamo niente…ma tutti noi che ci occupiamo di questo blog abbiamo a che fare con <a href="http://www.sahajayogaroma.it"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">SAHAJA YOGA</span></strong></a>…per cui viene naturale sponsorizzare questo evento a cui parteciperemo…un programma pubblico…un pomeriggio ed una serata per conoscere il fascino e l’intensità della musica indiana…il suo legame con la nostra energia interiore…ed un’occasione per scoprire un metodo di meditazione gratuito da noi tutti conosciuto, sperimentato, amato!</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 .0001pt;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Martedì 30 Settembre</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, alle ore             <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">18,30</span></strong> e alle <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">20.30</span></strong>, si svolgeranno due programmi introduttivi a <strong><a><span style="color:#575859;">Sahaja Yoga</span></a></strong></span> nella sede del<strong><span style="font-family:&#34;"> Teatro delle Muse</span></strong> in via Forlì, 43 <a href="http://maps.google.it/maps?q=via+Forl%C3%AC,+43+Roma&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;oe=utf-8&#38;rls=org.mozilla:it:official&#38;client=firefox-a&#38;um=1&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=geocode_result&#38;resnum=1&#38;ct=title">a pochi passi da Piazza Bologna (fermata metro B)</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Nel corso degli incontri verranno presentate le particolarità di questo Yoga, così antico ma anche <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">così diverso</span></strong> da tutte le altre tecniche di meditazione conosciute in occidente.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 .0001pt;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Un gruppo di musicisti <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">eseguirà dal vivo </span></strong>musiche tradizionali dell'India, scelte fra quelle relazionate all'energia evolutiva presente in ciascuno di noi: <a href="http://benvenutiinparadiso.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/esiste-una-realta-oggettiva/">la Kundalini</a>, l'energia madre. Il suo risveglio, dice <a href="http://www.sahajayoga.it/kundalini.html"><strong></strong></a><strong><a><span style="color:#575859;">Sahaja Yoga</span></a></strong></span><strong></strong>, ci offre la possibilità di affrontare la vita in modo diverso, perché apre nuove vie nel cammino della nostra evoluzione.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Sarà allora possibile diventare <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">"maestri di se stessi"</span></strong>, grazie alle informazioni che la Kundalini risvegliata invierà al sistema nervoso centrale.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> Attraverso l'acquisizione di una <strong><span style="font-family:&#34;">nuova sensibilità</span></strong> si impara quindi ad intervenire sui problemi fisici, mentali, emotivi e spirituali che possono disturbare la nostra esistenza e si accede a quello stato di benessere profondo e pieno di vitalità descritto nei testi sacri di tutte le culture.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Sahaja Yoga, fondato da Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi nel 1970, svolge la sua attività gratuitamente in oltre cento paesi del mondo.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.coolspirit.info/">http://www.coolspirit.info/</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Preghiera alla Madre Terra]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>giorgio1977</dc:creator>
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Noi stiamo al crocevia del destino degli uomini.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Sopra Te adorata Madre Terra,<br />
Noi stiamo al crocevia del destino degli uomini.<br />
Solo attraverso il tuo gentile Amore per i Tuoi bambini,<br />
noi siamo qui ora.<br />
Tu ci hai benevolmente sostenuto fino ad ora,<br />
Tu ci hai donato cibo, acqua, vestiti e rifugio.<br />
Oh adorata Madre Terra,<br />
ci inchiniamo per ringraziarTi,<br />
con la testa china, chiediamo umilmente<br />
sostentamento ed energia per molti lunghi giorni a venire.<br />
Oh adorata Madre Terra, ora che siamo cresciuti un poco,<br />
sempre più forti,<br />
noi Ti preghiamo:<br />
aiutaci a liberarci la strada,<br />
mentre noi iniziamo a marciare avanti.<br />
Noi desideriamo la pulizia di tutte le terre,<br />
cosicché su Te adorata Madre Terra,<br />
il virtuoso possa tornare alla propria Divina casa.<br />
Speriamo che saremo in tanti.<br />
Oh adorata Madre Terra,<br />
dacci la pazienza per cercare i nostri fratelli e sorelle,<br />
donaci il distacco dalle distrazioni,<br />
donaci la perseveranza per raggiungere i nostri scopi.<br />
Oh adorata Madre Terra,<br />
più che altro,<br />
aiutaci a pulire i nostri cuori,<br />
così come i mari puliscono le coste,<br />
per desiderare solo ciò che è virtù.<br />
Oh adorata Madre Terra,<br />
sostienici per poter presto stare in gran numero su di Te,<br />
ed invocare con voce unica e forte la danza del Dio Shiva.<br />
E' di questo che Ti preghiamo umilmente</em>.</p>
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="434" caption="Ananda Tandava: la danza della gioia del Dio Shiva"]<img src="http://www.kundalini.org.hk/images/ananda_tandava.jpg" alt="la danza di gioia del Dio Shiva" width="434" height="306" />[/caption]
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a title="la visione del secolo d'oro" href="http://benvenutiinparadiso.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/la-visione-del-secolo-d%e2%80%99oro/" target="_self">Come anche profetizzato</a>, viviamo una fase molto buia chiamata Kali Yuga, dove però molte persone possono ottenere la <a title="La realizzazione del Sè" href="http://www.sahaja-yoga.it/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=56&#38;Itemid=166">Realizzazione del Sé</a> e riportare la pace e la moralità.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a title="Shri Mataji" href="http://www.sahaja-yoga.it/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=35&#38;Itemid=53">Shri Mataji</a> dice: “<em>Nei Puranas, l'età moderna che stiamo ora vivendo è detta <em>Kali yuga</em>, Età della confusione e del conflitto. Gli <strong>"yuga"</strong>; sono periodi di tempo, lunghi migliaia di anni, che ricorrono secondo una progressione ciclica a spirale. Il Dwapara yuga è la seconda età, nella quale la gente comincia a perdere alcune delle grandi qualità che aveva nella prima età, Età dell'Oro o <em>Satya yuga</em>, mentre nel <em>Kali yuga</em> (l'epoca moderna) segna il punto più basso di sviluppo morale e spirituale di ciascun ciclo. Il <em>Kali yuga</em> è seguito dal <em>Krita yuga</em>, l'età della trasformazione, ovvero quella in cui l'esperienza spirituale diventa un fatto concreto. Questa riconduce finalmente al <strong>Satya yuga</strong>, l'età della verità o della realtà, nella quale ritorna l'Età dell'oro, e tutte le facoltà dell'uomo cominciano a manifestarsi un'altra volta nella loro piena gloria.</em>"</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Un segno di questo Kali Yuga è il materialismo, la brama per il potere e l'avidità dell'intera società.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il seguente filmato chiamato "<a title="www.storyofstuff.com" href="http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html">La storia delle cose</a>" <em>porta all'attenzione come sia ingenuo e ingenuamente difendibile il modello economico lineare propostoci sin dalla prima età. La concatenazione di Estrazione-Lavorazione-Distribuzione-Consumo-Smaltimento viene scomposta e presa in analisi sotto l'aspetto delle sue conseguenze e sotto l'aspetto delle sue cause economico-politiche.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>L'analisi è cristallina e ottimamente argomentata. Le parole scorrono accompagnate da animazioni molto elementari che non distraggono ma sottolineano i nodi della questione. Sfatato il mito del riciclo, più palliativo che efficace, propone altri modelli... (</em><a title="Lezioni Americane" href="http://lezioniamericane.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/la-storia-delle-cose-sostenibilita-del-moderno-stile-di-vita/">lezioniamericane</a>).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-2138416794381091301]</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Questi filmati invece ci informano su quale è la situazione in Italia, in particolare il primo è il trailer del documentario-film "<a title="biutifulcauntri" href="http://www.biutifulcauntri.it/">biùtiful cauntri</a>" sulla situazione dei rifiuti in Campania (<a href="http://wwwstatic.megavideo.com/ep_gr.swf?image=http://img1.megavideo.com/1/6/5b3ab8bb87fe10b860df393a3e809e.jpg&#38;v=Z7VNUDHR&#38;u=6459012884">qui</a> si può vedere in qualità degradata).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><code><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/TkPQ31d6U7k'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/TkPQ31d6U7k&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></code></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il prossimo video è il servizio di <a href="http://www.report.rai.it">Report</a> andato in onda su Rai Tre ("<em>In Campania ci sono 2.551 siti potenzialmente contaminati, il doppio della Lombardia che ne ha 1.300, la maggior parte sono concentrati tra le province di Napoli e Caserta, nella piana campana, dove le falde acquifere, sia quella superficiale che quella profonda, sono inquinate da sversamenti di liquidi pericolosi e cancerogeni...</em>")</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6199305594698738590]</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Questi gli indirizzi per saperne di più:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Crisi_dei_rifiuti_in_Campania" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisi_dei_rifiuti_in_Campania">La crisi dei rifiuti in Campania (Wikipedia)<br />
</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wwf.it/client/render.aspx?content=0&#38;root=1103">WWF Campania</a></li>
<li><a title="terradeifuochi" href="http://www.terradeifuochi.it/dblog/">La terra dei fuochi</a></li>
<li><a title="chiaianodiscarica" href="http://www.chiaianodiscarica.it/">La discarica di Chiaiano</a></li>
<li><a title="rifiuticampania" href="http://www.rifiuticampania.org/">I rifiuti in Campania</a></li>
<li><a title="laveritadellecontrade" href="http://laveritadellecontrade.wordpress.com/">La verità delle contrade</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codisam.wordpress.com/">CO.DI.S.AM (Comitato difesa salute e ambiente) Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte (BN)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ambienti.wordpress.com/">AMBIENTI (Blog di Resistenza Ambientale)</a></li>
</ul>
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<title><![CDATA[Sahaja Yoga is everywhere!]]></title>
<link>http://sahajayogais.wordpress.com/?p=105</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>axinia</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://freemeditation.ca/">http://freemeditation.ca/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sahajayogawa.com/flash/charlie-1.swf">http://www.sahajayogawa.com/flash/charlie-1.swf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.coolspirit.info/">http://www.coolspirit.info/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/sahajayoga/references">http://sitemaker.umich.edu/sahajayoga/references</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sahaj-az.blogspot.com/">http://www.sahaj-az.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sahaja-yoga-sites.org/">http://www.sahaja-yoga-sites.org</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sahaja-yoga.at/">http://www.sahaja-yoga.at/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://sahajayogais.wordpress.com/">http://sahajayogais.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://leelajesus.wordpress.com/">http://leelajesus.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.yoga.or.at/">http://www.yoga.or.at/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://sahajayogalive.wordpress.com/">http://sahajayogalive.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://sahajayoga16.wordpress.com/">http://sahajayoga16.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<link>http://sahajapower.wordpress.com/?p=257</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="EN-US">".. Take another example of a piece of cloth. It represents the attention. Before realization it is all spread out and in all directions. Now take a finger and poke the cloth in the center from the bottom and raise it upwards. What happens?<strong></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="EN-US">The cloth is pulled up to a point and in the process it just wraps or falls around the finger. In the same way, when the Kundalini rises, it pokes the attention, raises it to the Sahasrara, where it gets enlightened by the light of the Brahmha Chaitanya.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="EN-US">It then just wraps and falls in line with the Kundalini 's path on the Shushumna Nadi in the center. What has actually happened is that on realization, our Chitta is pulled inside from wherever it is spread out in the outer mundane world.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="EN-US">The Chitta is thereby enlightened. This is the so-called state. But in reality we human are slaves of our habits. We out of sheer habit do not allow our Chitta to stay put in that state permanently. Actually the Chitta should not go out. ."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;" lang="EN-US">(Shri Mataji's Talk with Dr. Talwar , Bombay, 26th and 27th February 1987)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La Grande Madre è una divinità femminile primordiale, presente in quasi tutte le mitologie, rappresentante la terra, la generatività, il femminile come mediatore tra l'umano e il divino.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il culto della Grande Madre risale al <a title="Neolitico" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolitico">Neolitico</a> e forse addirittura al <a title="Paleolitico" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolitico">Paleolitico</a>, se si leggono in questo senso le numerose figure femminili steatopigie ritrovate in tutto il mondo.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">l periodo storico è antichissimo (dal 30.000 al 1000 a.C.): la fase più fiorente si situa dal 7000 al 3000 a.C. (Neolitico). La spiritualità della Grande Madre si rivolge verso <strong>l’aspetto femminile e materno di Dio</strong>.<br />
<a title="Madre Terra" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madre_Terra" target="_self">La Madre Terra</a> diventa il simbolo della Grande Madre, Dea della Natura e della Spiritualità. Fonte divina di ogni nascita dà e sostiene la vita; è a Lei che la vita ritorna per rinascere come nei cicli della vegetazione. La Dea è, in tutte le sue manifestazioni, il simbolo dell’unità di tutte le forme esistenti in natura. Il suo potere è nell’acqua, nelle pietre, negli animali, nelle colline, negli alberi, <a title="i-fiori-di-edward-bach" href="http://benvenutiinparadiso.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/i-fiori-di-edward-bach/">nei fiori</a>. La grande creatività di quel periodo caratterizzò la cultura come cultura dell’arte. Templi, abitazioni, ceramiche, statuette, abitazioni, portano evidenti tracce di questo culto. <a title="Veneri_paleolitiche" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneri_paleolitiche" target="_blank">Sono state rinvenute molte veneri che presentano i simboli della Dea</a>. In esse sono incisi o dipinti semi, boccioli, germogli, uova, crisalidi e segni acquatici come rappresentazione della rinascita e rigenerazione, del divenire e della trasformazione.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lungo le generazioni, con gli spostamenti di popoli e la crescita di complessità delle culture, le "competenze" della Grande Madre si moltiplicarono in diverse divinità femminili. Per cui la Grande Dea, pur continuando ad esistere e ad avere culti propri, assumerà personificazioni distinte, per esempio, per sovrintendere all'amore (<a class="mw-redirect" title="Ishtar" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar">Ishtar</a> - <a title="Astarte" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte">Astarte </a>- <a title="Afrodite" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrodite">Afrodite</a> - <a title="Venere (divinità)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venere_%28divinit%C3%A0%29">Venere</a>), alla fertilità delle donne (<a title="Ecate" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecate">Ecate</a> triforme), alla caccia (<a title="Artemide" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemide">Artemide</a> - <a title="Diana (divinità)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%28divinit%C3%A0%29">Diana</a>), alla fertilità delle sementa (<a title="Demetra" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetra">Demetra</a> - <a title="Cerere" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerere">Cerere</a> e <a class="mw-redirect" title="Persefone (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persefone_%28mitologia%29">Persefone</a> - <a title="Proserpina" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina">Proserpina</a>)  analoga alla <strong>domanda dell'uomo di rinascere</strong> come il seme rinasce dalla terra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L’area geografica analizzata riguarda Africa, America e l’Europa. In Africa la Grande Madre viene chiamata Nana e Iside; in America la Dea dall’abito di serpente;presso i Navajos e gli Apache la Estsanatlehi era la Madre di tutti gli esseri viventi che all’alba del mondo, quando si unì al sole, partorì due gemelli che sconfissero i mostri che popolavano il suolo terreste. In Asia, in area <a title="Mesopotamia" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia">mesopotamica</a> (V millennio AC) e  in area <a title="Frigia" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigia">anatolica</a> (II millennio AC), viene adorata come <a title="Ninhursag" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag">Ninhursag</a>, <a title="Cibele" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cibele">Cibele</a>, e Anahita, in Cina è chiamata Quan-Yin, in India Durga. Per l’Europa in Grecia con <a class="mw-redirect" title="Gea (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gea_%28mitologia%29">Gea</a> e Athena, l’Italia con Cibele,<a title="Bona Dea" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_Dea"> Bona Dea</a>, Minerva ed Uni, con l’antica Dea <a title="Mater Matuta" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_Matuta">Mater Matuta</a> degli etruschi, Spagna e Malta con la Dea Astarte, l’Irlanda con la Dea Brigit, la Russia con la Dea Lada ( famosa incarnazione di Lada è Matersva, la dea uccello ).</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Reperti molto interessanti si trovano in Bulgaria, in Russia ed in Lombardia (Val Camuna) del 2000 a. C. dove vi sono incisioni rupestri in mezzo alla natura con evidenti simboli che appartengono al culto della Grande Madre: serpentine, labirinti reti, bande ondulate, motivi a zig-zag. Per Jung questi sono i frutti interiori che emergono dall’inconscio collettivo, il regno della spiritualità della Grande Madre. Per lui la Grande Madre è una delle potenze numinose dell'inconscio, un archetipo di grande ed ambivalente potenza, <strong>salvatrice e distruttrice degli aspetti negativi della nostra personalità</strong>, nutrice e divoratrice. delle nostre ossessioni.  Altri reperti significativi sono due statuette della Dea rinvenuti in Turchia e a Creta. In quello della Turchia, risalente al 6000 a.C., la Dea è rappresentata seduta in trono, maestosa e regale con 2 fiere accanto; le sue mani sono posizionate in modo forte e tranquillo sulla testa delle fiere.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">In quello di Creta ha in mano 2 serpenti. Il serpente era il simbolo della saggezza oracolare della Dea, infatti nell’antica Delfi la sacerdotessa che dava consigli ai capi di stato era raffigurata in associazione con il serpente. Anche il serpente era un simbolo collegato alla Grande Madre; il suo movimento verticale ascendente rappresentava la forza vitale e l’energia (<strong>la Kundalini</strong>) mentre il letargo e la muta rappresentavano il divenire e la trasformazione, l’immortalità ed il risveglio ciclico della natura. Questo tipo di cultura e di spiritualità si inserisce in una società di tipo agricolo dedito alla cura della vegetazione, dell’artigianato, del commercio. Fu un periodo di stabilità e pacifico.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Le donne erano considerate e valorizzate</strong> – regine, sacerdotesse, artigiane, membre anziane del clan – la società era di carattere egualitario. Si evidenziava un particolare <strong>rispetto verso la Madre Terra</strong> come simbolo della Grande Madre. Il potere della donna era inteso non come dominio ma come capacità di illuminare e trasformare la coscienza umana. Più tardi nell’epoca medievale tutto ciò sarà simboleggiato nel vaso femminile: il calice del Sacro Graal. Un potere, quindi, non terreno ma spirituale che si estrinseca non solo nella conoscenza e nella saggezza, ma soprattutto nella verità, nell’amore, nella giustizia. Queste qualità verranno in seguito attribuite alla Vergine Maria. <strong>La dispensatrice della nascita e la Madre Terra si fusero con la Madonna</strong>. Alla fine di questo periodo la spiritualità antica della Grande Madre gradualmente si attenuò fino a scomparire come risultato delle scontro tra culture diverse e del successivo affermarsi delle religioni patriarcali.<br />
Seguì l’alienazione dell’uomo dalla natura e da se stesso i cui effetti sono ben evidenti nella società odierna. Per nostra fortuna il culto della Grande Madre ed i suoi simboli non sono andati perduti in quanto hanno costituito lo strato primario dell’inconscio collettivo, presenti come archetipi e visibili nelle fiabe, nei miti, nei sogni. I cicli storici non si fermano mai; e la spiritualità della Grande Madre riemerge in tutte le sue forme (ecologia ed interesse verso i temi dell’unione, dell’integrazione, della pace) a donarci speranze per il futuro ricollegandoci alle nostre più antiche radici.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Iside</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Iside è sp</span><span style="color:#000000;">esso simboleggiata da una vacca, in associazione con la Dea <a title="Hathor" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor">Hathor</a>, ed è raffigurata con le corna bovine, tra le quali è racchiuso il <a title="Sole" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole">sole</a>. Nell'iconografia è rappresentata spesso come un <a title="Falco" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco">falco</a> o come una donna con ali di uccello e simboleggia il <a title="Vento" href="http://www.sahajayogatrentino.it/brezza-fresca.htm">vento</a>. In forma alata è anche dipinta sui sarcofagi nell’atto di prendere l’anima tra le ali per condurla a nuova vita. Solitamente viene raffigurata con una donna vestita, con in testa il simbolo del trono, che tiene in mano un loto, simbolo della fertilità. Frequenti anche le rappresentazioni della dea mentre allatta il figlio Horus. Il suo simbolo è il <a title="Tiet" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiet">tiet</a>, chiamato anche nodo isiaco</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cibele</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Cibele fu un'antica divinità anatolica, venerata come <a title="Grande Madre" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Madre">Grande Madre</a>, dea della natura, degli animali (<em>potnia theron</em>) e dei luoghi selvatici. Cibele viene generalmente raffigurata seduta sul trono tra due <a title="Panthera leo" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_leo">leoni</a> o <a title="Panthera pardus" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_pardus">leopardi</a>, spesso con in mano un tamburello e con su il capo una <a class="new" title="Corona turrita (pagina inesistente)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corona_turrita&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">corona turrita</a>. Il culto di Cibele, la <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="Magna Mater" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Mater">Magna Mater</a></em> dei Romani, fu introdotto a <a title="Roma" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma">Roma</a> il <a title="4 aprile" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_aprile">4 aprile</a> <a title="204 a.C." href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/204_a.C.">204 a.C.</a>, quando la pietra nera, simbolo della dea, vi fu trasferita da Pessinuntee collocata in un tempio sul <a class="mw-redirect" title="Palatino" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino">Palatino</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Anahita</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Anahita era una divinità dell'antica <a title="Persia" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia">Persia</a>, delle sorgenti d'acqua della fertilità e della maternità. I suoi simboli erano la <a title="Spirito_Santo" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirito_Santo">colomba</a> e il pavone, era la madre di <a title="Mitra (divinità)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra_%28divinit%C3%A0%29">Mitra</a>, il nome con cui <a title="Zoroastro" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastro" target="_blank">Zoroastro</a> attribuiva a Dio. Il tempio selucide di Kangavar in Iran (c. 200 a.C.), è dedicato a "Anahita, l'Immacolata Vergine Madre del Dio Mitra". La terminologia cristiana della <a class="mw-redirect" title="Maria, madre di Gesù" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%2C_madre_di_Ges%C3%B9">vergine Maria</a> è fortemente legata a questa dea che era insieme madre e vergine immacolata.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Durga</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Presso la religione <a title="Induismo" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induismo">induista</a>, Durgā è una forma della <a class="new" title="Devi (pagina inesistente)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devi&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">Devi</a>, la <a class="new" title="Madre Divina (pagina inesistente)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madre_Divina&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">Madre Divina</a> (che assume anche molte altre forme, tra cui <a title="Sarasvati" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasvati">Sarasvati</a>, <a title="Parvati" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati">Parvati</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Lakshmi" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi">Lakshmi</a>, <a title="Kali" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali">Kali</a>). È raffigurata come una donna che cavalca un leone, con numerose braccia mani che impugnano diversi tipi di armi e fanno le <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="Mudra" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra">mudra</a></em> (gesti simbolici fatti con la mano). Questa forma della Dea è l'incarnazione dell'energia creativa femminile (<a class="mw-redirect" title="Shakti" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti">Shakti</a>). Secondo il racconto del <a class="new" title="Devi Mahatmyam (pagina inesistente)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devi_Mahatmyam&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">Devi Mahatmyam</a> del Markandeya <a title="Purana" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purana">purana</a>, la forma di Durga fu creata come dea guerriera per combattere il demone <a class="new" title="Mahishasura (pagina inesistente)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mahishasura&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">Mahishasura</a>. Grazie ad intense preghiere a <a title="Brahma" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma">Brahma</a>, Mahishasura ebbe la grazia di non poter essere sconfitto da alcun uomo o essere celeste. In virtù di questo potere, attaccò i <a title="Deva" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva">Deva</a> che andarono in aiuto della <a title="Trimurti" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimurti">Trimurti</a> (<a title="Brahma" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma">Brahma</a>, <a title="Viṣṇu" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87u">Viṣṇu</a> e <a title="Śiva" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aiva">Śiva</a>), ma Mahishashura sconfisse tutti gli dèi compresa la triade stessa. Scatenò un regno di terrore sulla terra, in cielo e negli inferi. Dopo diversi giorni di battaglia durante i quali l'esercito di Mahishashura venne decimato, Durga uccise finalmente Mahishashura il decimo giorno della luna piena. Questa vittoria viene ricordata nella festa del Navaratri in autunno.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Quan-In</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Conosciuta In cinese Quan-In o Guan Yin, in giapponese Kannon o Kanzeon, in coreano Gwan-eum o Gwan-se-eum, in tibet come <a title="Avalokitesvara" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokitesvara">Avalokitesvara</a>.  E' una divinità molto venerata, soprattutto come dea della misericordia: una sua statua è presente in tutti i piccoli altari che si trovano nelle case, nei negozi e nei laboratori dei Paesi in cui il buddismo è diffuso. In tutte le lingue, il primo nome sta per "Osservatrice dei suoni del Mondo".</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sempre in Cina, Guanyin indossa generalmente una lunga veste bianca, e spesso una collana delle famiglie reali indocinesi; nella mano destra regge una brocca d'acqua pura, e nella sinistra un ramo di salice.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Una leggenda Buddhista presenta Guanyin nell'atto di far voto di non riposarsi fino ad aver liberato tutti gli esseri senzienti dal <a title="Saṃsāra" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra">Saṃsāra</a>. Nonostante il suo strenuo impegno, realizzò che c'erano ancora molti esseri infelici che dovevano ancora essere salvati; sforzandosi di comprendere le necessità di tanti, la sua testa si divise in undici parti. <a class="mw-redirect" title="Amitabha" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha">Amitabha</a> <a title="Buddha" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha">Buddha</a>, vedendo la situazione, gli donò undici teste con cui udire le suppliche dei sofferenti; avendole ascoltate e comprese, <a title="Avalokitesvara" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokitesvara">Avalokitesvara</a> cercò di raggiungere e soccorrerli, ma così facendo le sue braccia si divisero i mille pezzi: ancora una volta, Amitabha venne in suo aiuto e gli assegnò mille braccia per soccorrere le moltitudini.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Gea</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Gea o Gaia nella mitologia greca è la divinità femminile che impersona la <a title="Terra" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra">Terra</a>. La <a title="Teogonia (Esiodo)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teogonia_%28Esiodo%29">Teogonia</a> di <a title="Esiodo" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esiodo">Esiodo</a> racconta come, dopo il <a title="Caos (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caos_%28mitologia%29">Caos</a>, sorse l’immortale Gaia degli ampi seni, progenitrice degli <a title="Olimpi" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olimpi">dei dell’Olimpo</a>. Da sola e senza congiungersi con nessuno ella generò <a title="Urano (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urano_%28mitologia%29">Urano</a> rappresentante il cielo stellato, l'universo.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Dunque, per primo fu Caos, e poi</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Gaia dall'ampio petto, sede sicura per sempre di tutti</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>gli immortali che tengono la vetta nevosa d'Olimpo,</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Teogonia di Esiodo (Versi 116-119)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Gaia per primo generò, simile a sé,</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Urano Stellato, che l'avvolgesse tutta d'intorno,</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>che fosse ai beati sede sicura per sempre.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">(Versi 126-132)</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Alcuni studiosi credono che Gea fosse la divinità che originariamente parlava per bocca dell’<a title="Oracolo di Delfi" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracolo_di_Delfi">Oracolo</a> di <a class="mw-redirect" title="Delfi (città)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfi_%28citt%C3%A0%29">Delfi</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong> Athena</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Nella mitologia greca, <strong>Atena</strong> era la dea della sapienza, particolarmente della saggezza, della tessitura, delle arti e, presumibilmente, degli aspetti più nobili della guerra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Atena ha sempre con sé la sua civetta, indossa una corazza di pelle di capra chiamata Egida donatale dal padre Zeus, ed è spesso accompagnata dalla dea della vittoria <a title="Nike (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_%28mitologia%29">Nike</a>. Quasi sempre viene rappresentata mentre porta un elmo ed uno scudo cui è appesa la testa della <a class="mw-redirect" title="Gorgone" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgone">Gorgone</a> <a title="Medusa (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_%28mitologia%29">Medusa</a>, dono votivo di <a title="Perseo (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseo_%28mitologia%29">Perseo</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Non ebbe mai alcun marito od amante, e per questo era conosciuta come <em>Athena Parthenos</em> (<em>La vergine Atena</em>), da cui il nome del più famoso tempio a lei dedicato, il <a title="Partenone" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partenone">Partenone</a> sull'<a title="Acropoli" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli">acropoli</a> di <a title="Atene" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atene">Atene</a>. Dato il suo ruolo di protettrice di questa città, è stata venerata in tutto il mondo greco anche come <em>Athena Polis</em> (<em>Atena della città</em>). Il suo rapporto con Atene era davvero speciale, come dimostra chiaramente la somiglianza tra il suo nome e quello della città.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong></strong><strong>Minerva</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Minerva fu la divinità romana della guerra, e la protettrice degli artigiani. La figura di Minerva deriva da quella di <span class="mw-redirect">Atena</span>, suo corrispettivo nella mitologia greca.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a title="Publio Ovidio Nasone" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publio_Ovidio_Nasone">Publio Ovidio Nasone</a> la definì <em>divinità dai mille compiti</em>. Minerva fu adorata in tutta l'Italia, nonostante solo a Roma assumesse un aspetto da guerriera. Viene solitamente raffigurata mentre indossa una cotta di maglia ed un elmo, completa di lancia.</p>
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<p><strong>Astarte</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Astarte fu una dea venerata nell'area <a title="Semiti" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiti">semitica</a> nord-occidentale. Astarte era la Grande Madre fenicia e <a class="mw-redirect" title="Cananei" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cananei">cananea</a>, sposa di <a title="Adon (mitologia)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adon_%28mitologia%29">Adone</a>, legata alla fertilità, alla fecondità ed alla guerra e connessa con l'<a class="mw-redirect" title="Ishtar" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar">Ishtar</a> babilonese. I maggiori centri di culto furono Sidone, Tiro e Biblo. Era venerata anche a Malta, a Tharros in Sardegna, ed Erice in Sicilia, dove venne identificata con <a title="Venere (divinità)" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venere_%28divinit%C3%A0%29">Venere</a> Ericina. Suoi simboli erano il leone, il cavallo, la sfinge e la <a title="Colomba" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomba">colomba</a>.</p>
<p><strong> Brigid</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La celtica Brigid era una triplice dea sposa di Dagda, potente signore della fertilità. Egli era il dio dell'abbondanza in quanto il suo magico calderone dava sostentamento, non solo materiale ma anche spirituale, a tutti i popoli della Terra, essendo custode del sapere infinito.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Questo portentoso oggetto fa parte della tradizione di molte culture antiche, come quella asiatica, per esempio, secondo cui esso è il "progenitore" del Graal. Si narra, infatti, che alcuni messaggeri degli dei, forse angeli, sarebbero scesi dal cielo e fermatisi nel deserto avrebbero insegnato agli uomini tutto ciò che sapevano, facendoli partecipi della loro cultura superiore. Prima di partire, avrebbero lasciato quattro oggetti magici: una pietra, un calderone, una lancia e una spada, che sono rispettivamente la pietra nera de la Ka'ba, la spada di Re Artù, il Graal e la lancia di Longino.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Aveva altre due sorelle, anche loro chiamate Brigid, considerate come una sola triplice Dea. Brigid era associata al sacro fuoco perpetuo. Il suo culto è sopravissuto come Santa Brigida. La figura della <span class="new">Signora del lago</span> nel ciclo di Re Artù potrebbe essere ispirata a Brigid.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La dea Brigid aveva come oggetti sacri a lei dedicati la coppa, la ruota del filatoio e lo specchio. La coppa era il simbolo dell'abbondanza ed anche il ventre da cui ha origine tutto il creato, il filatoio simboleggiava il centro del cosmo, la ruota delle stagioni e la durata della vita degli uomini.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I suoi animali totemici erano in primis i serpenti come simbolo di della vita che si rigenera, il gallo che annunciava il nuovo giorno e la mucca immagine della fertilità per antonomasia (<a title="i-segreti-della-magna-mater" href="http://www.abruzzocultura.it/abruzzo/i-segreti-della-magna-mater">fonte</a>).</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La spiritualità della Grande Madre è oggi presente in 100 paesi del mondo per merito di <a title="http://www.shrimataji.net/" href="http://www.shrimataji.net/">Shri Mataji</a> che il 5 maggio 1970 ha permesso il risveglio della <a title="kundalini" href="http://www.sahajayoga.it/kundalini.html">Kundalini</a> a livello collettivo, l’energia spirituale materna che tutto sostiene e tutto comprende.<br />
Attraverso <a title="sahaja-yoga.it" href="http://www.sahaja-yoga.it">Sahaja Yoga</a> (fondato e sviluppato da Shri Mataji) ognuno può mantenere risvegliata questa energia fonte di benessere, equilibrio ed armonia. L’archetipo della Grande Madre si è destato dal suo millenario letargo e, grazie a Shri Mataji, è completamente attivo e pronto a manifestarsi in tutta la sua bellezza e potenza.</p>
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<p>Wir sind umgeben von Coolness. Dies kann cool sein oder jenes, dieser Mensch, jenes paar Schuhe, dieser Ort, jenes Buch. Coolness lächelt uns von Plakatwänden an und Topdesigner versuchen uns ihre nonchalante, meist untragbare Mode (teuer) zu verkaufen.</p>
<p>Doch letztendlich entscheidet jeder selbst nach seinen ganz eigenen, undurchschaubaren Kriterien was für ihn/sie cool ist oder nicht.</p>
<p>Cool oder nicht cool ist dabei aber gar nicht so relativ. Alle Gegenstände, Menschen, Orte, ja sogar Klamotten! :) haben coole oder warme Vibrationen - ganz unabhängig von unserer Meinung darüber. Cool ist alles was der Wahrheit entspricht (auch die Wahrheit ist kein relatives Begriff) und was die Menschen in ihrer Entwicklung, Schönheit ihres Wesens etc fördert.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sahajayoga.at/Section01Chapter04.html"><strong>Shri Mataji </strong></a>hat eine einfache Methode entwickelt wie man Vibrationen fühlen kann und hat sie allen Menschen geschenckt, damit wir endlich aufhören können im Kreis zu laufen.</p>
<p>Damit man Vibrationen fühlen kann, muss man zunächst die <a href="http://www.sahajayoga.at/Section01Chapter02Page01.html"><strong>Selbstverwirklichung</strong></a> bekommen. Als erstes fühlen wir dann den Zustand unseres eigenen <a href="http://www.sahajayoga.at/Section02Chapter01.html"><strong>Subtilen Systems</strong></a> auf den Händeflächen (ob wir cool sind oder nicht quasi)...  später dann mit ein bisschen Übung, oder auch ohne (je nach dem Zustand unseres Systems) können wir die Vibrationen eines jeden Menschen und jedes Gegenstandes fühlen.</p>
<p>Ist das nicht cool?</p>
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I see a mountain from my window<br />
Standing like an ancient sage<br />
Desireless, full of love.<br />
So many trees and so many flowers<br />
They plunder the mountain all the time.<br />
It's attention is not disturbed<br />
And when the rain pours like<br />
Many pitchers of clouds bursting<br />
And it fills the mountain with greenery.<br />
The storms may come soaring,<br />
Filling the lake with compassion<br />
And the rivers flow running down<br />
Towards the calling sea.<br />
The sun will create clouds and<br />
Wind carries on its feathery wings<br />
The rain on to the mountain.<br />
This is the eternal play<br />
The mountain sees<br />
Without desires.</p>
<p><em>                                                                 poem by <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/?review=1#url=http://www.sahajayogaquote.com/seeking-the-spirit.html">Shri Mataji</a></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">Free yoga in the meditation room the sign purported. Ok, so I do a bit a Yoga, a bit of Ashtanga a bit of Hatha, a bit of this could not hurt. The meditation room was in fact a room in a nursery, it's walls adorned with poorly painted effigies of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and at one end of the room<span>  </span>a shrine covered in boxes of cakes and the effigy of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. A tad more spiritual than her American counterparts or so I am led to believe. Shri Mataji is the guru for<span> </span>Sahaja yoga meditation. The clientèle, a bunch of guys in their 70s, a smattering of house wives and this lanky white guy, yours truly. Hmm, I should have got out then, but heh it was free. However, I could not see much of what I call yoga happening in this crammed space.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">So after a brief introduction I am placed on the concrete floor and sit through an hour and half of chanting, odd hand movements and a poor tape recording of Shri Mataji herself, complete with background traffic noise. Now meditation has never been my strong point, and my mind begins to wander. Have they cleared copyright on Mickey Mouse, is it safe for my leg to go to sleep for this long without gaining deep vain thrombosis, can the anus really get pins and needles, what are the cakes doing there. I am then prodded by one of the old guys, because my hand posture isn't right.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">After this agonizing torment we carry out a ritual of rubbing left and right hands above our heads and are asked if we feel hot or cold emanating from our foreheads. And I tell you what, my right hand felt warmth and my left felt cold. Spooky, have I just experienced some spiritual awakening or was it the location of the fan behind me. We are then told to focus on the effigy of Shri Mataji and our minds will clear. And again for the briefest of moments I feel it, for the briefest second my mind is not fixated on the cakes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">We then carry out some more chanting and the cakes are distributed. A collection of nut things, marzipan and sugary string. If I come again, I will bring a lovely Battenberg or some of Mr Kipling's finest selection that I so used to enjoy on Sunday evenings in front of the Antiques Road Show.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">A lovely bunch of people, with a good selection of sweet products, but i don't think Sahaja yoga meditation is for me. I read once that the purpose of doing yoga is to gain the ability to remain in the same position for a long time. Well I love yoga, but my butt is just too bony for sitting still for an hour and half. on a concrete floor.<span>  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;">It has entered my mind to take the opportunity to try any spiritual session, with whichever guru there is. I am not really fussy which guru, any will do.<span>  </span>As long as I bring a pillow and they provide cake.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><a href="http://www.sahajayoga.org/"><span style="color:#000080;">www.sahajayoga.org</span></a> if you like cake.</p>
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<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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The Old Testament
In the OT the spirit of the Lord (ruah yhwh; LXX, to pneuma kyriou)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The <span class="yshortcuts">Old Testament</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><br />
In the OT the spirit of the Lord (ruah yhwh; LXX, to pneuma kyriou)<br />
is generally an expression for God's power, the extension of himself<br />
whereby he carries out many of his mighty deeds (e.g., 1 Kings <span class="yshortcuts">8:12</span>;<br />
Judg. 14:6ff; 1 Sam. 11:6). As such, "spirit" sometimes finds<br />
expression in ways similar to other modes of God's activity, such<br />
as "the hand of God" (Ps. 19:1; 102:25); "the word of God" (Ps. 33:6;<br />
147:15, 18); and the "wisdom of God" (Exod. 28:3; 1 Kings <span class="yshortcuts">3:28</span>; Job<br />
32:8). The origins of the word "spirit" in both Hebrew (ruah) and<br />
Greek (pneuma) are similar, stemming from associations with "breath"<br />
and "wind," which were connected by ancient cultures to unseen<br />
spiritual force, hence "spirit" (cf. John 3:8, note the association<br />
with air in English; e.g., "pneumatic," "respiration, " etc.). The AV<br />
uses the term "Holy Ghost" for "Holy Spirit" based on an obsolete<br />
usage of the word "ghost" (from Middle English and Anglo-Saxon,<br />
originally meaning "breath," "spirit", cf. the German Geist). Thus it<br />
is understandable that God's creative word (Gen. 1:3ff.) is closely<br />
akin to God's creative breath (Gen. 2:7). Both ideas are identified<br />
elsewhere with God's spirit. As an agent in creation, God's spirit is<br />
the life principle of both men and animals (Job 33:4; Gen. <span class="yshortcuts">6:17</span>;<br />
<span class="yshortcuts">7:15</span>).</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The primary function of the spirit of God in the OT is as the <span class="yshortcuts">spirit </span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts">of prophecy</span>. God's spirit is the motivating force in the inspiration<br />
of the prophets, that power which moved sometimes to ecstasy but<br />
always to the revelation of God's message, expressed by the prophets<br />
with "thus saith the Lord." Prophets are sometimes referred to<br />
as "men of God" (1 Sam. <span class="yshortcuts">2:27</span>; 1 Kings <span class="yshortcuts">12:22</span>; etc.); in Hos. 9:7 they<br />
are "men of the Spirit." The general implication in the OT is that<br />
the prophets were inspired by the spirit of God (Num. <span class="yshortcuts">11:17</span>; 1 Sam.<br />
<span class="yshortcuts">16:15</span>; Mic. 3:8; Ezek. 2:2; etc.).</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The phrase "Holy Spirit" appears in two contexts in the OT, but is<br />
qualified both times as God's holy Spirit (Ps. 51:11; Isa. 63:10-11,<br />
14), such that it is clear that God himself is the referent, not the<br />
Holy Spirit which is encountered in the NT. The OT does not contain<br />
an idea of a semi-independent divine entity, the Holy Spirit. Rather,<br />
we find special expressions of God's activity with and through men.<br />
God's spirit is holy in the same way his word and his name are holy;<br />
they are all forms of his revelation and, as such, are set in<br />
antithesis to all things human or material. The OT, especially the<br />
prophets, anticipates a time when God, who is holy (or "other<br />
than/separate from" men; cf. Hos. 11:9) will pour out his spirit on<br />
men (Joel 2:28ff.; Isa. 11:1ff.; Ezek. 36:14ff.). who will themselves<br />
become holy. The Messiah/ Servant of God will be the one upon whom<br />
the spirit rests (Isa. 11:1ff.; 42:1ff.; 63:1ff.), and will<br />
inaugurate the time of salvation (Ezek. 36:14ff.; cf. Jer. 31:31ff.).</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Intertestamental Judaism</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><br />
Within intertestamental Judaism several significant developments<br />
shaped the idea of "Holy Spirit" as it was understood in NT times.<br />
After the OT prophets had proclaimed the coming of the Spirit in the<br />
messianic age of salvation, Judaism had developed the idea that the<br />
spirit of prophecy had ceased within Israel with the last of the<br />
biblical prophets (Syriac Bar. 85:3; 1 Macc. <span class="yshortcuts">4:46</span>; <span class="yshortcuts">14:41</span>; etc.; cf.<br />
Ps. 74:9). Consequently, there arose from time to time a hope of the<br />
dawning of the new age, especially within the apocalyptic movement,<br />
which generally pointed to a supposed messiah and/or prophetic<br />
reawakening of some kind (cf. Acts 5:34ff.). The Qumran community is<br />
illustrative of this, since it understood itself to be involved in<br />
the fulfillment of Israel's messianic hope as the "preparers of the<br />
way of the Lord" (Isa. 40:3; cf. 1QS 8. 14-16). The Qumran literature<br />
also shows increased identification of the spirit of prophecy<br />
with "God's Holy Spirit" (1QS 8. 16; Zadokite Documents II. 12). The<br />
phrase, "the Holy Spirit," occasionally occurs in Judaism (IV Ezra<br />
<span class="yshortcuts">14:22</span>; Ascension of Isa. <span class="yshortcuts">5:14</span>; etc.), but, as in the rabbis, it<br />
generally meant "God's spirit of prophecy." Thus, the messaianic<br />
expectation of Judaism, which included the eschatological outpouring<br />
of God's spirit (e.g., 1 Enoch 49:3, citing Isa. 11:2; cf. Sybilline<br />
Oracle III, 582, based on Joel 2:28ff.), was bound up with the<br />
conviction that the Spirit had ceased in Israel with the last of the<br />
prophets; the Holy Spirit was understood as God's spirit of prophecy,<br />
which would be given again in the new age to a purified Israel in<br />
conjunction with the advent of a messiah.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The concept of the Holy Spirit was broadened through the Wisdom<br />
Literature, especially in the personification of wisdom as that idea<br />
came into contact with the idea of Spirit. As early as Prov. 8:22ff.<br />
and Job 28:25ff. wisdom is presented as a more or less independent<br />
aspect of God's power (here as agent in creation), and wisdom is<br />
credited with functions and characteristics that are attributed to<br />
the Holy Spirit in the NT. Wisdom proceeded from the mouth of God and<br />
covered the earth as a mist at creation (Sir. 24:3); she is the<br />
breath of the power of God (Wisd. Solomon <span class="yshortcuts">7:25</span>); and by means of his<br />
wisdom God formed man (Wisd. Sol. 9:2). The Lord poured out wisdom<br />
upon all his works, and she dwells with all flesh (Sir. 1:9-10).<br />
Moreover, wisdom is full of spirit, and indeed is identified with the<br />
Spirit (Wisd. Sol. <span class="yshortcuts">7:22</span>; 9:1; cf. 1:5). Thus the Jews of NT times<br />
were familiar with the background of these ideas as they are<br />
variously expressed in the NT, ideas which use these background<br />
concepts but move beyond them to some unexpected conclusions. Indeed,<br />
Jesus taught that his messiahship and the corresponding outpouring of<br />
the Spirit were firmly rooted in OT understanding (Luke 4:18ff.,<br />
citing Isa. 61:1-2), and, similar to intertestamental Judaism,<br />
understood the messianic Spirit of the Lord to be the Holy Spirit<br />
(Matt. <span class="yshortcuts">12:32</span>), the spirit which had foretold through the prophets<br />
that the coming Messiah would inaugurate the age of salvation with<br />
the pouring out of the Spirit on all flesh....</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Advocate, (Gr. parakletos), one who pleads another's cause, who helps<br />
another by defending or comforting him. It is a name given by Christ<br />
three times to the Holy Ghost (John <span class="yshortcuts">14:16</span>; <span class="yshortcuts">15:26</span>; 16:7, where the<br />
Greek word is rendered "Comforter," q.v.).</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Comforter, the designation of the Holy Ghost (John 14:16, 26; 15:26;<br />
16:7; R.V. marg., "or Advocate, or Helper; Gr. paracletos") . The same<br />
Greek word thus rendered is translated "Advocate" in 1 John 2:1 as<br />
applicable to (the Comforter to be sent by) Christ. It means<br />
properly "one who is summoned to the side of another" to help him in<br />
a court of justice by defending him, "one who is summoned to plead a<br />
cause."</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Spirit, Breath</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><br />
<span class="yshortcuts"><strong>Ruah</strong></span><strong>:</strong> "breath; air; strength; wind; breeze; spirit; courage; temper;<br />
Spirit." This noun has cognates in Ugaritic, Aramaic, and Arabic. The<br />
word occurs about 378 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew...</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Ruah frequently represents the element of life in a man, his<br />
natural "spirit": "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth,...<br />
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life ..." (Gen. <span class="yshortcuts">7:21</span>-22). In<br />
these verses the animals have a "spirit" (cf. Ps. 104:29). On the<br />
other hand, in Prov. 16:2 the word appears to mean more than just the<br />
element of life; it seems to mean "soul": "All the ways of a man are<br />
clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits<br />
[NASB, "motives"]." Thus, Isaiah can put nepes, "soul," and ruah in<br />
synonymous parallelism: "With my soul have I desired thee in the<br />
night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early ..."<br />
(26:9). It is the "spirit" of a man that returns to God (Eccl. 12:7).</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">... the Bible often speaks of God's "Spirit," the third person of the<br />
Trinity. This is the use of the word in its first biblical<br />
occurrence: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness<br />
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the<br />
face of the waters" (Gen. 1:2). Isa. 63:10-11 and Ps. 51:12<br />
specifically speak of the "holy or free Spirit." "</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Paraclete, Advocate, Comforter<br />
www.mb-soft. com/believe/ text/holyspir. htm</span></em></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"If we follow Him (Jesus) then we cannot be conditioned by anything<br />
because He talked of Spirit only. Spirit cannot be conditioned,<br />
conditioned by anything. . . . I am here to tell you all these things<br />
which Christ could not tell, and to fulfil what He wanted to say. All<br />
those things I am saying to you."</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi<br />
Christmas <span class="yshortcuts">Puja</span>, Delhi, India — December 24, 1995</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"The Kundalini rises through a very thin line of Brahmanadi. In the<br />
beginning only a hair like thing rises, it pierces through; in some<br />
people ,of course, in a big way it rises also. And then it pierces<br />
this fontanel bone area which is a real baptism, real. Today only<br />
people felt the cool breeze coming out of their heads. Can you do<br />
that by jumping, or by paying money? They felt the cool breeze in the<br />
hand. It's written in the Bible, even in the Bible very clearly, that<br />
it's the cool breeze, cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost. You<br />
start feeling the cool breeze in your hands and you start feeling the<br />
cool breeze on your head. This is the actualization.</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Of course, you people don't read other books which are very good,<br />
like Adi Shankaracharya, People don't even like the mention of his<br />
name who has really and clearly said that it is the cool breeze; the<br />
chaitanya is to be felt like cool breeze in the hands. They do not<br />
want that you should know the truth. And this is the truth that when<br />
you get your realization, you have to feel the cool breeze in your<br />
hands yourself. You have to judge yourself. I'm not going to tell<br />
you. It is you who has to see, it is you who has to feel, and then<br />
you have to grow and you have to know all and everything; all the<br />
secrets of Divine Science. You become the master then, you are the<br />
guru.</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">You are the Spirit, and you should get it. It's your own which is<br />
given to you. I have nothing to do about it. I'm just a catalyst."</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi<br />
Maccabean Hall</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, Australia</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> on March 22, 1981</span></td>
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<dc:creator>axinia</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The purpose of the Japanese Gardens ]]></title>
<link>http://1000petals.wordpress.com/?p=364</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>axinia</dc:creator>
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<p>In Japan we had a great master whose name was Vidhitama. He was the disciple of Lord Buddah and he went to Japan and started the Zen system. Zen means meditation-dhyana - and he wanted people to become "<a href="http://1000petals.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/what-is-thoughtless-awareness-sahaja-yoga/">thoughtlessly aware". </a>He found out many ways of making people "thoughtlessly aware" - the tea ceremony and the temples that they have, are <a href="http://1000petals.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/thoughtless-awareness-sahaja-yoga/">all meant to create thoughtless awareness.</a></p>
<p>I was amazed that none of the Japanese knew what the purpose of these gardens were. There is one garden which has some moss on top of a hill in a very small area and it is very interesting. You have to see the flowers and other foliage there through a magnifying glass. And this should amaze a person and one should become thoughtlessly aware.</p>
<p><strong>Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Holiness-Mataji-Nirmala-Srivastava/dp/8186650059">META MODERN ERA</a></strong></p>
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<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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&#8220;It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the holy souls, the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the holy souls, the<br />
beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when God will be<br />
disclosed to <strong>everyone in this distant Light."</strong></span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"The most magnetic of all religious symbols is the light, the light<br />
that radiates everywhere within and without — the light that never<br />
was on land or sea. Great mystics have realized the Peerless One in<br />
the form of Light. Moses saw the burning bush and received the word<br />
of God. The Upanishad seers saw It as Jothi Aham — the Splendor in<br />
the self." - Hinduism Today</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"The Bible is seen to be full of terms about light. Lossky tells us<br />
that "for the mystical theology of the eastern Church these are not<br />
metaphors, rhetorical figures but words expressing a real aspect of<br />
godliness." "The godly light does not have an abstract and<br />
allegorical meaning. It is a data of the mystical experience." The<br />
author then referred to "Gnostics", the highest level of godly<br />
knowledge [that] is an experience (a living) of the noncreated light,<br />
where the experience itself is the light: in lumine tuo videbimus<br />
lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.)"</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Eternal, endless, existing beyond time and space, it appeared in the<br />
theophanies of the Old Testament as the Glory of God. The Glory<br />
is "the Uncreated Light, His Eternal Kingdom." Being bestowed to the<br />
Christians by the Holy Spirit, the energies appear no longer as<br />
external causes but as grace, as inner light." Makarius the Egyptian<br />
wrote: "It is . . . the enlightenment of the holy souls, the<br />
steadiness of the heavenly powers" (Spiritual Homilies V.8.)</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"The godly light appears here, in this world, in time. It is<br />
disclosed in the history but it is not of this world; it is eternal,<br />
it means going out from the historical existence: `the secret of the<br />
eight day', the secret of the true knowledge, the fulfillment of the<br />
Gnosis . . . It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the holy<br />
souls, the beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when God<br />
will be disclosed to everyone in this distant Light."</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Dan Costian, Bible Enlightened</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"Cultivating the Awareness of the Light Within</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the<br />
transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent light</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">From the Yoga Sutra of PATANJALI, second century B.C.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Patanjali is often called the father of yoga because he was the first<br />
person to codify and write down yoga practices. In this meditation<br />
instruction, he is telling us to let go of all distracting sights,<br />
smells, and sounds and meditate on our spiritual nature, our luminous<br />
true self. He is telling us to look inside and experience the<br />
radiance within.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">All cultures, peoples, and religious groups through all times have<br />
talked about the phenomena of light in the context of the religious<br />
or mystical experience. Those who have seen visions of holy beings<br />
typically see them surrounded by white light. People have always<br />
described going to the light, finding the light, being called by the<br />
light, dissolving in the light. We read about light in The Egyptian<br />
Book of the Dead as well as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Men, women,<br />
and children who have had classic near-death experiences vividly<br />
describe arriving in a place of white light; they speak of themselves<br />
and others as being bathed in white light.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Prior to being described as the light of any religion, light was just<br />
light. Light is a part of the primary source material. Later, as the<br />
history of mankind developed, the concept of light became<br />
institutionalized; it was then interpreted according to cultural and<br />
religious beliefs. Pure light thus became light of God, light of<br />
truth, light of Buddha, light of Jesus, cosmic light, and ocean of<br />
light depending upon where you were born and what you were taught.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Light, however, is constant. It is fundamental energy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">The New Testament, referring to John the Baptist, reads: "He came for<br />
testimony, to bear witness to the light that all might believe<br />
through him." Later Jesus says, "Put your trust in the light while<br />
you have it so that you may become sons of light."...</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">British mystic George Fox, who founded the Quaker religion, used the<br />
term "inner light" to describe our ability to personally experience<br />
God within ourselves. He himself had such an experience, which left<br />
him with the lifelong conviction that everyone can hear God's voice<br />
directly without mediation by priests or church ritual. This is the<br />
central tenet of the Society of Friends.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">According to Buddhism, all beings are imbued with a spark of inner<br />
divine light. In describing our original Buddha-nature, we use such<br />
phrases as innate luminosity, primordial radiance, the unobscured<br />
clear natural mind, and the clear light of reality.... The Jewish<br />
mystics use similar words when they speak of the inner spark or the<br />
spark of God. The Koran, referring to man, talks about the little<br />
candle flame burning in a niche in the wall of God's temple.</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Almost inevitably a spiritual search becomes a search for divine or<br />
sacred light. By cultivating our inner core, we search for this light<br />
in ourselves as well as the divine."- <strong>Lama Surya Das, Awakening to the Sacred</strong></span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"We are now Sahaja Yogis but we were ordinary human beings. We had no<br />
Light within us. Now the Light comes within us and we see the Light<br />
then what do we become? We have to become the Light itself. Christ<br />
was the Light. He did not have to become. We have to become the<br />
Light. And now you have to guard on the way this Light might get<br />
disturbed, might be reduced or maybe completely extinguished.</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">So carrying on yourself with this Light first thing you should<br />
know that if you see the Light is not proper means you are not the<br />
Light. You have to become the Light. When you are the Light, then in<br />
that Light you can easily see how your mind works, what ideas it<br />
gives, what affects your mind while you're ascending. Is this the<br />
worry or is this the responsibility that you have? Or is this from<br />
the bad habits you had, that there is an impediment in your growth as<br />
a spiritual personality?</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">So you have to guard yourself all the time and see for yourself how<br />
you are progressing. It's a very beautiful journey — very, very<br />
beautiful journey."</span></strong></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi<br />
Rome, Italy — April 11, 1993</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"This conditioning can be remolded, if you know what sort of life Christ led. That's very important. First of all, He was born in a manger. To be born in a manger means "poor circumstances" . That means He shows there is no need to have money or to have a huge big property with which to impress people. Those were the days where people expected tapasya [penances]. So He came on earth and lived like a Tapasi."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Shri Mataji <span style="cursor:hand;">Nirmala Devi<br />
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Ganapatipule, India<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">"The Message of His life is not the Cross but the Resurrection. He was resurrected. That was one of the things He did so that now you can be resurrected. Every Incarnation is something unique. But the end of it was the Resurrection. He did it because He had to die.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi- December 25, 1993</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi-Dec. 25, 1993</span></p>
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