Dear Family
Jai Shri Mataji!
We wish everyone a Happy Shalivahan New Year! (Gudi Padwa).
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Gauri Puja, Gudi Padwa, Sydney, Australia, 4 April 1981
On this wonderful new year day, we wanted to express our heartfelt gratitude to Her Holiness Shri Mataji for allowing us to be part of such a mature, loving and committed Sahaja Collective. The roots of our Australian Sahaja Culture are very deep. The Shri Ganesha Gauri Puja held on Gudi Padwa in 1981 in Burwood Ashram and Gudi Padwa in Burwood Ashram in 2006 are clear examples of these deep roots.
On this auspicious occasion, we collectively acknowledge that we are facing unprecedented challenges in our broader community and around the world. Let’s humbly pray collectively to Shri Mataji today for an end to the spread of Covid19 and for Her Divine protection always.
We share the Shri Mahamaya Puja Talk given in Auckland on Gudi Padwa in 1994 and encourage Yogis to wash and decorate Shri Mataji’s Divine Lotus Feet as part of your evening meditation on this auspicious day.
As Sahaja Yogis, we must always strive to be those pillars of society that will please our Divine Mother Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.
On this auspicious day, let’s collectively recommit to completing the pathway to becoming our own Guru. Let’s recommit to our daily clearing practices in meditation, and using the appropriate Sahaja clearing practices to clear ourselves.
As the COVID19 crisis requires the whole community’s efforts to be effective, in the same way, we as a Collective benefit enormously from Yogis regularly and diligently following HH Shri Mataji’s precious guidelines for clearing, balancing ourselves and enjoying meditation.
Collective program webcasts for Yogis
The Australian Council and Trustees confirm that until further notice, all Sahaja Yoga Ashrams and centres are closed to both Yogis and non-Yogis (with the exception of residents). In line with our established Sahaja culture our weekly collective meditations will be held online.
Every Saturday we can meditate together and will start this Saturday 28th March. Full details below.
We will also arrange for one mid-week Collective meditation each week. Programs will run for 60 to 90 minutes.
COLLECTIVE PROGRAMS FOR YOGIS ON YOUTUBE
Saturday 28th March at 7pm (Sydney time)
(6pm in QLD, 7pm in VIC, NSW & ACT, 6:30pm in SA & 4pm in WA).
Click on the following link to go to the live webcast page with recordings from previous collective webcasts.
Public program webcasts
Our online public program arrangements are coming together by the Blessings of Her Holiness. There will be 2 weekly online public programs, one on Sunday and one on Thursday.
This will be supplemented by smaller more interactive public programs. We will keep the Collective regularly updated as this next layer of smaller public programs is developed.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR SEEKERS ON YOUTUBE
This Thursday 26th March 7pm (Sydney time)
(6pm in QLD, 7pm in VIC, NSW & ACT, 6:30pm in SA & 4pm in WA).
&
This Sunday 29th March 7pm (Sydney time)
(6pm in QLD, 7pm in VIC, NSW & ACT, 6:30pm in SA & 4pm in WA).
Click on the following link to go to the live webcast page with recordings from previous public online webcasts.
Show Her our thankfulness
Our Divine Mother has delicately crafted and nurtured this Australian Collective over decades and now again it is time to show Her our thankfulness by maintaining our Collectivity in Sahasrara, by continuing our commitment to daily clearing, staying balanced and by doing our utmost to foster Sahaja culture how best we can.
Love
Lyn and Andre on behalf of your Australian Council
“Today is the first day, New Year’s Day”
“Today is the first day, New Year’s Day, according to the Shalivahana Calendar, who were My forefathers. And in the whole of Maharashtra, it is regarded as the New Year Day and the best day to start anything.
So today I’ve decided to have Mahamaya Puja. I have never talked about Mahamaya, as it is not to be talked or told – it’s a secret, as they say. It’s the basic of Sahaja Yoga, I should say, because it’s described, when the Goddess comes in the Sahasrara, the Shakti, She is Mahamaya – “Sahasrare Mahamaya,” already described. She has to be the Mahamaya, means She should camouflage Herself fully. Nobody should be able to know Her as the Goddess, to begin with; and even if they get Realization, they should not reach to the end of it. There are many reasons for that.
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“So this is the anti-maya that is there and, for that, you need a Mahamaya to correct it and to solve the problem.The complete working of the Divine depends on you people, wherever you are. How many you are is not the point – wherever you are, how intense you are, how you want to work it out, how you want to put your attention to. It’s very important how you are going to do, it because you people should understand the responsibility.”
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For you, also, there should not be any illusions because many of you are more busy with other things. To you other things are more important than Sahaja Yoga. But whatever you are doing, you can bring in Sahaja Yoga into that. Into anything you can bring in Sahaja Yoga. I said in politics, in agriculture, in social life, in your jobs, everywhere you can bring Sahaja Yoga. By your own behavior, by your own intelligence, you can bring in Sahaja Yoga into every field, which you have to think about, “Where can we take Sahaj Yoga? Where can we work it out?” And this is what is to get into the Maya of God, that you get rid of all the illusions which are false, which do not allow you to see the right thing, and then seriously to get into the productive side of Sahaja Yoga. Can you imagine how productive is Sahaja Yoga, how the miracles work out, how there is this Divine Power is anxious to help, despite all this Mahamaya and all that.
HH Shri Mataji, Shri Mahamaya Puja, Auckland, New Zealand, 10 April 1994
(Transcript, video & audio)
“…is a special luck for Sahaja yogis of Australia”
“Today is a very unique thing that is happened – is a special luck for Sahaja yogis of Australia. This day has never been celebrated before in the history of Sahaja Yoga. Today is the New Year’s Day for Sahaja yogis, because this is the New Year’s Day of the Shalivahan calendar. As you know, Shalivahan is My dynasty, and they are called as Shalivahan because they are the carriers of the shawls of the Goddess, they are called as the, because – as you are also carrying so many times My shawls around – and they were called as Shalivahan.
So this New Year’s Day is the first day of advent of Goddess – the nine days there are. Then in another times that there are Satya Yug, then there’s Dvapara, Treta, Kali Yuga: there are four yugas. So in two yugas the Goddess incarnated, one before the Satya Yuga and one after it. So today is the day to mark absolutely the first day when She incarnated on this Earth. That’s the day also of the Gauri, because Virgin is the first form of the Goddess. And She created also Ganesha on Tuesday, just starting this week.
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We call it Chaitra. Chaitra is the month. And this is the time when – [Marathi] – Gauri is the Chaitra. So the establishment of the Gauri is taken place during these nine days. But Ganesha has to be established before anything else. Though first Gauri had to come, you can see that. Gauri had to come first to establish Ganesha. But Ganesha is always put before even Gauri. Before the pujana of the, worship of the Ganesha, nothing starts; because He’s the one who takes out all the obstacles, all the negativities, all the hurdles that are going to come up, all the attentions that are here and there. So that’s why we first worship Ganesha, just to ask Him to protect us. But first the Gauri has to come, and that’s how the Gauri is this nine days. She came on this Earth to fight the devils and demons, negativity, for people to transcend the Bhavasagara, the Void, the maya, the illusion. When they were praying, when they were doing anything, people used to obstruct and then they troubled the bhaktas, the devotees of God – rakshasas. In those days the rakshasas were separate and the saints were separate; there was not such a mixture as it is today. ….”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha Gauri Puja, Gudi Padwa, Sydney, Australia, 4 April 1981
(Transcript with video & audio)
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Shalivan New Year Puja Burwood Ashram 31 March 2006