The ultimate goal of our life

*note* Beautiful explanations from Shri Mataji about,,becoming the Spirit within,, meaning ,,becoming ONE with truth and reality,,.
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"Innately, within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten
you, to give peace, the bliss and the joy of our being."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"But when you become the Spirit, the Spirit, being the collective
consciousness itself which is the reality, the concept becomes your
awareness."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate
goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the
reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and
also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all pervading
Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and
Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system
enlightening our being. We also feel the cool breeze of the Holy
Ghost, which is the all pervading power of Divine love, coming out of
our fontanelle bone area as well as flowing through our finger tips
and our hands."

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"The Self is the Spirit. This Spirit resides in the heart of every
human being and is in a witness-like state. The Spirit is the
reflection of God Almighty, while the Kundalini is the reflection of
the power of God, of His desire which is the Primordial Mother, or
you can call it Adi Shakti, Holy Ghost or Athena. So the Kundalini is
the reflection of the Holy Ghost, while the Spirit is the reflection
of God Almighty. The all-pervading power of love is the power of the
Primordial Mother, which creates and evolves, and does all the living
work."

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"You are yourself and you must see yourself as your Self, as your
Spirit. And Spirit is a Universal Being, is the innocence, is the
virgin within you. This body is a palace and it is the House of God.
Within it God kept the Infinite Flame."

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"Atma is the reflection of Paramatma in our heart. This reflection is
like the sun in water. Although reflection of the sun is in the
water, he is away in the sky and not in the water. Similarly, Atma is
as much as it is seen, it is beyond all that and not limited by it."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"The Atma (Spirit) resides inside this heart and after Sahaja Yoga
its light spreads within us in seven layers."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"God is no more a concept, it is the reality, the joy and
happiness of your Spirit."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"The representatives of Sadashiva and Adi Shakti in us are the Atma
and the Kundalini."

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"The nature of the Spirit is that it is an universal being within
every individual. As there is one God Almighty His reflection on
every human heart is the same, but the reflection of the Spirit
varies because of the different types of reflecters. When this
Spirit, which is the source of joy and truth, is connected through
the Kundalini the human attention becomes enlightened. Thus one knows
the absolute truth on our central nervous system and becomes a joyous
collective being. The spirit is reflected in the heart but the seat
of God Almighty is above the fontanel bone area, above the apex of
the head."


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"Kundalini is our Mother, we are Her only children and She has been
with us through all our lives just waiting for the moment of
fulfilment."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"It is the Divine love and grace of God which has made you a human
being and it is His grace which is going to make you a supreme human
being in Sahaja Yoga."

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"Spirit is the only thing that is at the center, and at the periphery
if you look at things, they look as if they are separate and
different. But if you can approach somehow into that state where your
Spirit resides, you will be amazed to see that everything integrates,
everything coordinates, and there is no difference. Say, in Mohammed
Sahib, Dattatreya, Raja Janaka or Shirdi Sai Nath — there is no
difference in their principle if you can just get your Spirit."

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"Until you are able to understand the meaning of the "Self", the
physical body would remain imperfect and would be unable to verify
the Truth. But once the physical instrument is connected with Truth,
you are able to verify the Truth."

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"Until the spirit is awakened, no religion can be absorbed or
established within us. It just cannot be imbibed. It remains on the
outside and when it is on the outside it moves away from a balance.
People either become power oriented or money oriented. They do not
move toward the spirit, they are not spirit oriented. When the light
of the spirit comes, then at once human beings discover this (self)
principle established within. For this, human beings don't have to
make any effort. Spontaneously! Sahaj! Sahaja Samadhi Lago. This
feeling comes in a very sahaj way to human beings.... When you accept
one Vishwa Dharma, in that all religions are there and to respect all
religions is wisdom, is discretion. And to respect all the
incarnations, and all the saints, visionaries is not just verbal or
intellectual but is established within us spontaneously with the
light of the spirit."

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"When you become one with the Spirit all your problems will be
solved. A realized person never talks in first person. He becomes
separate from himself, leaving aside his desires, his materialistic
ideas."

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"In Sahaja Yoga, you have to understand one simple thing, that you
are the Spirit and whatever is not the Spirit is not yourself."

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"The object of Sahaja Yoga is basically to become and experience the
spiritual Self."

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Now as you know, the Spirit is the reflection of God Almighty. So
when the spirit in you starts reflecting itself in its full beauty,
then you become the giver. You are no more a person who has to take
away, you just become the giver, you are so fulfilled.

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"In this light of love, you love yourself in the right way and you
give up all that is wrong, all that is immoral. This love is eternal,
is very powerful and gives you a confidence in the collectivity of
human beings because it is the spirit which enlightens... all the
powers, and the spirit is the source of collectivity and love for
every human being in the world."

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"Paramatma is the enjoyer, and therefore ail should desire Him. We
should enjoy the God, who is the enjoyer of every thing. If we start
enjoying Him, what else do we need to enjoy? We should enjoy His
bliss. What is God's creation; what a beautiful world He has made;
how many things He has given to us; now we have become Sahaja yogis,
God has given this shakti in us; now we can know our Atma, and can
recognise the Spirit in others, how much unending grace God is
showering on us; with these thoughts you should grow in inner
happiness. If you start enjoying the God like this, then you will
find that your heart is growing and still more growing and you
feel as if it is encompassing entire creation."

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"And they should know that Sahaja Yoga is only spirit oriented.
Nothing but spirit oriented. That, you have to have your spirit
enlightened, that your spirit has to work everything, that you are
not this body, this money, this position, this power, nothing. But
you are the spirit. This is what one has to know."

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"So the meeting point only comes when all these ideologies become one
at the lotus feet of your Spirit. Spirit is the only thing that is at
the centre, and at the periphery if yon look at things, they look as
if they are separate and different. But if you can approach somehow
into that state where your Spirit resides, you will be amazed to see
that everything integrates, everything co-ordinates, and there is no
difference, say, in Mohammad Sahab, Dattatreya, Raja Janaka or Shirdi
Sai Nath. There is no difference in their principle, if you can just
get your Spirit. But this is a very major step for human beings. It
is a very major step for human beings. Because they want to live
with concept and not with reality. This is one of the problems which
we have faced throughout in Sahaja Yoga, all of us have faced it."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi


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"You have your own power inside you which got awakened and you
attained your own spirit, and this spirit has made you this way. And how
honorable it is that you have become people of great qualities."

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"I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to
know that truth is what it is. We cannot change it. We cannot
conceptualize it. We have to know it. Unfortunately at this human
awareness level we cannot know the truth. We have to become the
Spirit. Whatever I am telling you today need not be accepted, no need
to have blind faith because all of them have praised Sahaja Yoga so
much, but keep your mind open like a scientist and I have put before
you this hypothesis and if it works, as honest people you have to
accept it because it is for your benevolence and it is for the
benevolence of the whole world."

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"The Truth is, as I said yesterday, that you are the Spirit and once
you become the Spirit, you become Gunatit, Kalatit and Dharmatit.
Once you cross these limits, then you become like a drop in the
ocean. If the drop is outside the ocean, it’s always frightened of
the sun because if you dry it, he doesn’t know what to do, which way
to slip, which way to move. But once it is one with the ocean, just
moves and enjoy because he is not alone. It’s not alone, it’s moving
with the waves of that beautiful ocean of joy and that is what you
have achieved, of which you are aware. You know, but you don’t know
that you have achieved it because you are the Spirit."

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"So, all these things, whatever I have told you, you have to be aware
of your being of your own self, of your Spirit, that you are the
Spirit; and as you are the Spirit, you are beyond all these things
and once that happens, you’ll be amazed what a personality you are."

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"Once the Spirit starts shining fully in one's attention one actually
becomes enlightened in the sense that one can see for oneself that
one becomes one's own guide, one becomes one's own master. Then you
don't need any guide, but you are the master of yourself. In the past
this process was limited to one or to very few persons but now a
phenomena to allow en-masse realisation was discovered about twenty
years ago.

All such enlightened people follow a religion which is called as
Vishwa Nirmala Dharma, meaning the innate pure religion within us.
These people have actualised the enlightenment. They have actualised
the baptism because they feel the cool breeze as Kundalini pierces
through the fontanel, and thus have become religious saints, yogis,
yoginis and seers. They are not like ordinary people who have not
entered into this new fourth dimension of awareness and established
themselves. These are the people who know themselves within and know
others in collective consciousness. They are the people who have
achieved a state in which they know on their central nervous system
that they are part and parcel of the whole. lt is not a blind faith
or lip service building a net of empty words. (Shabda Jalam).

This is the knowledge of the roots. All the trees of modem
civilisation have grown outside. If we do not go to our roots and
find out the fundamentals of our existence, these unbalanced,
crazily expanded civilisations are going to be destroyed. lt is very
important and imminent that the world should try to take its
attention towards finding out its roots. lt is described in every
scripture in some way or other, and has been extensively described in
the Indian scriptures. India is a very ancient country and it has
been blessed by many seers and saints who wrote treatises about
reality and guidelines of how to achieve it. Like all other real
saints of the world they also suffered at the hands of people
of outward religions (Dharma Martandas)."

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"Whatever one is doing now is relative in this modern world. In
relative terms, everything is working it out. This relative working
is not going to give any absolute results. Absolute knowledge only
comes from the Spirit, and so unless we know the Self, the Spirit, we
cannot know what is absolute and what is absolute truth. Otherwise ,
when we live in the relative world we will be always quarrelling ,
fighting and having wars. But if one is in the absolute then one
knows that there is only one truth for everything, and there will be
no more argument or discussion; everybody will enjoy that truth as it
is absolute."

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"A materialistic society is never the ideal for Sahaja Yogis. It is
the spiritual society which has the Spirit enlightening them, and
which is giving them all these joyous experiences of the miraculous
powers of all-pervading Divine love. The ideals of Sahaja Yoga are
very different. The Spirit is the one which is the collective being
within us. We do not have to start an organisation to call it
something international, but automatically we become global, united
in one nation of Sahaja Yogis, where we understand that we are all
part and parcel of the whole, the microcosm becoming the macrocosm."

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"Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking.
They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself
spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit. Prior to
Realisation one may or may not agree, but the truth is that the
Spirit is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. Only after
Self-Realisation, and only then, is there a direct experience of the
Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and
it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The
divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. It does not
have a linear movement like rational thinking. It is not partial,
tendentious, or manipulative, but is simply like the rays of the sun.
It enlightens every area of darkness and ignorance. The power
of glowing reality radiates from the Spirit on all sides, and
penetrates into all the deepest questions and problems. The power of
the Spirit is unlimited and it continues enlightening every area,
even the most difficult and obscure. There is no question of it
reaching a point where it must recoil and lead the mind into
confusion and error, as the linear consciousness inevitably does. On
the contrary, it enlightens wherever one's attention goes, and one
sees reality with complete clarity in a balanced and tangible way.
That is because reality is what it is. Unlike the limited ego (blind
consciousness), the Spirit neither wishes nor needs to manipulate any
idea to fit in with rational projections, to suit the demands of an
argument or of some mental construction. The trouble is that truth
cannot compromise. It stands on its foundations of deep, pure love."

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"This is why the one who knows the truth sometimes shuns other people
because he cannot adjust his vision to fit in with the most popular,
successful or fashionable ideas of others' rational projections. He
stands on the pedestal of the Absolute, and he knows that beyond the
confusion and chaos of the rationalising modernisers is the realm of
Reality, the Absolute Truth. He knows that this Reality cannot be
achieved by rationality, within the limitations of the ego, but by
our ascent. This is not something imaginary, but the actualisation of
the experience of our soul or the Spirit. The Spirit is like the
steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable farm
axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is
constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source
of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

However, when our awareness remains attached to the ego on. the
periphery of the wheel, there is a continuous movement in the normal
course of our lives and we live on the level of a merely relative
understanding of the turmoil that surrounds us. Apart from this
limiting effect of the ego, all kinds of desires, expectations and
conditionings also affect and distort our consciousness, reaching our
superficial physical or mental senses causing strain, stress and
complete exhaustion. As opposed to this is the innate quality of the
Spirit that raises us above all artificial, unrealistic chaos into
the realm of Pure Reality, emitting peace, also outside, in the
surroundings. This is not something which can be demanded or forced
or paid for. It happens spontaneously through a living process
of evolution. The consciousness, which is unsteady and relative,
becomes, after our ascent, one with the all-pervading Divine
consciousness. This is because through Self Realization the Spirit
knows itself and is completely self-radiant, absolutely confident,
and self-sufficient. One can say that the Spirit is complete
awareness, and is therefore supremely aware of its own nature.

Now, as I have said, the nature of the intelligence of the Spirit is
like that of a unique light which emits radiance on all sides and
goes on emitting light as far as it can reach, without ever
encountering any polarity effect as a reaction. The consciousness
which comes from the light of the Spirit perceives', transforms and
creates. The intelligence of the Spirit is thus neither simply and
exclusively the cause nor the effect of anything, but it is cause and
effect combined together. It is neither active nor passive. It
therefore neither has to manipulate nor to take orders. It has the
built-in quality, simply, to act in order to be effective. We might
say: "it is, therefore, it does"."

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"The truth is there is a residual power in the triangular bone
Sacrum, called as the Kundalini. She has the power to bring forth the
complete nourishment and adjustment of the disturbed genes. Whether
they are genetic, inherent or acquired. When She is awakened, She
changes the series of genes. Not only that She corrects the gene's
data base but She breaks through the fontanel bone area and connects
the seeker to the all pervading power of Divine Love also called as
the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost, Ruh Ritambhara or Parama
Chaitanya. Thus one, by this second birth, becomes a realised person
as actualisation of Baptism takes place. The light of the spirit
which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart enters into our
attention and enlightenment. The seeker is really born again, not
just a certificate but he changes as the transformation takes place
within. There is a vast difference between an ordinary seeker
and a realised soul (Yogi). He becomes his own master full of Divine
Love. It is a resurrection process, like an egg becoming the bird.
Maybe this is the reason eggs are presented as a symbol, reminding,
that one has to get resurrected. The genes change and complete
transformation takes place. For some people it takes time if they are
sick or egotistical."

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"The Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty, is the source
of absolute truth and joy. But this spirit does not shine in our
awareness when it is in the human state. Only after Self-Realisation,
does our awareness get enlightened by the Spirit. Thus, to find pure
love, peace and joy of absolute truth, one has to become the Spirit.
This is the first thing we have to understand and accept because we
are not this body, this mind, this intellect, these emotions, these
conditionings or this ego. We say: "My, body, my mind' etc., but is
this "me' which we refer to as "my". "

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"So now I tell you exactly to become the Spirit what happens. I don't
think anybody should object to that because it is for your
benevolence, it is for the benevolence of your family, for the
benevolence of your nation, for the benevolence of the whole world.
So please listen to me carefully. We have this power of Kundalini
within us. It's a very ancient science from India. In the Koran also
is written Asas. In the Bible it is said that, "I will appear before
you like tongues of flames." Now the reality is that you must
experience. You not blindly have faith in me. We have had enough
problems of blind faiths. But experience, experience it that this
Kundalini rises and pierces through your fontanel bone area. And the
result, you get connected with this All Pervading Power of Divine
Love. It is no lecture. It is no sermon. This is the actualization of
your baptism."

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"Happy Easter to you all.

So we celebrate Easter to show Christ resurrected Himself. The Spirit
that is Christ has to resurrect out of the material manifestation of
the Divine Itself. The matter is manifested because we ourselves have
created it. Not that we are born out of matter, our body, but we are
attached to it, we want it, we want to have it. Whatever you want,
that sustains itself, by your desire, because now you are on the
stage. If you want to sustain the matter, if you want to keep the
matter as the first priority, it will remain. It cannot disappear.
It has to go out of your mind that matter cannot hold you any further.

Christ rose out of the matter, came out of the tomb which symbolises
the matter which has enclosed us within, which has to be opened out
with our spiritual power. Throw away the stone that is covering this
grave. Get out of that and stand outside it. This is the message of
Christ's resurrection."

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"You have to rise into that new realm which is the realm of God
Almighty, what you call the Kingdom of God. And He said it very
clearly to Nicodemus that "You have to be born again," and when he
asked "'Am I to enter back into my mother's womb to be born again?"
And He said it so clearly! It's so clear. Those who don't want to see
can remain blind, but he said it very very clearly; that "No,-that
is, whatever is born of the flesh is the flesh, but whatever is born
of the Spirit is the Spirit."

I mean nothing could be more clear than that, that it has to be
born 'of the Spirit'. Of course, human beings have a special capacity
to twist everything around. For them Spirit could be a book, could be
some words, could be an organisation, a church, or some sort of a
thing like that which they have made. But whatever is man-made is not
the Spirit; this is the ,clear' statement of Christ, which people
wanted to avoid and start their own organisations, their own ideas
and created a very mythical thing in His name. And now the time has
come for it to be blasted. It has been going on and on now for
thousands of years, captured so many innocent people, and people are
into it. ut when you are resurrected, and you become realised souls,
one has to understand that now your movement is 'inward', you are
moving towards your roots and not outside. So whatever was the
endeavour 'before' realisation has to be changed; the direction
has to be changed. And that point mostly we miss. This is the thing
today I am trying to explain to you : that so far to a human mind
entertainment was important ; entertaining-to the mind, not to the
Spirit. Entertainment to the Spirit is 'absolutely' opposite to the
entertainment to the mind."

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If we see the world we have all kinds of problems..ecological,
political, economic, and family problems. But the center point of all
these problems is one.. that's the human being. And if somehow we can
transform this human being into a new awareness of universality, then
all these problems can be solved. All the saints and great
philosophers the world over have spoken about the spirit. All the
scriptures also have talked about becoming the Spirit. But in reality
all these religions which were very great, which were very pure, were
absolutely real got into a mess because people who followed them were
either money-oriented or power-oriented. They were never spirit-
oriented. They never bothered as to how to achieve this ascent.
Neither Buddha nor Mahavira spoke of God because they thought that
if they did so people would start thinking they belong to this or
that religion. So they talked about the formless which is the Spirit,
and they insisted that you should have your self-realization. It was
the same with Guru Nanak and Mohammed Sahib. They all talked about
the Formless Divinity.

But whether you talk of the form or the formless, it is a talk. Like
if you talk about the flowers, you don't get the honey. And if you
also talk of the honey, you don't get the honey. Talks are talks.
These are words. In Sanskrit, Shri Adi Shankaracharya called this as
Shabda Jalam, is the web of the words. How to go beyond the web of
the words? Of course, Kundalini awakening is not a new thing in this
country. Sahaja Yoga also is not a new thing. And it has been
expressed in all the scriptures that unless you become the Spirit,
unless and until you are reborn, you cannot know the religion. That
doesn't mean you know it by your efforts. Mentally everybody knows
what their religion or philosophy is. Recently it was shocking to
hear that many Armenians killed Azerbaijans because they are Muslims
but before going to kill them they used to read the Bible. How can
it be? Just imagine Christians doing that. Islam is one of the best
religions, but nobody has understood what Mohammed Sahib has said
that you have to know it. Know comes from the Sanskrit word, gna.
Early Christians also were called Gnostics because they knew. It
means to know on your central nervous system, not mentally. That's
why as soon as Paul took over, Christ's disciples ran away, and when
Thomas came to India he hid all the knowledge about reality in a jar
in Egypt. This was because he would have been persecuted by people
who were interested in organizing religion, in making money out of
it. As a result of all this nonsense, people said better not talk of
religion. In the name of religion they murder and kill. How can that
be a religious act? Human beings can make a mess of everything. That
does not mean there is no divinity or reality.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"Saha" means 'with', "Ja" means 'born', "Yoga" means union with the all pervading power of Divine love. It is a subtle power which does all living work and which cannot be felt at the level of human awareness. To connect us to this subtle energy which permeates into every atom and molecule, there is a power of pure desire which is placed in the sacrum bone (sacred bone) of the human beings, which is called as Kundalini. The Kundalini can be awakened spontaneously by the power of Sahaja Yoga.This Kundalini has to ascend and pierce through six solid centres which are placed in the spinal cord and in the brain. The last breakthrough is the actualization of the "Baptism" as one feels the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost (the Ruah; the Ruh; the Adi Shakti; the Athena) emitting out of one's fontanelle bone area.
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Sahaja Yoga means that a seeker of truth has birth-right to get his self-realization spontaneously. At the very outset, one has to be a seeker of truth and with scientific attitude one should approach the subject. It should be treated respectfully like a hypothesis and if found by experiments as truth, should be accepted by honest people in the spirit of honesty. Because this is for one's total benevolence and for the benevolence of all the world.