Man in his search of joy and happiness is running away from his Self, which is the real source of joy. He is absolutely unknown to his Self. A human being seeks joy in money or possessions, in power or human limited love and ultimately, in religion that is also outside. The problem is how to turn one's attention inward.

   The inner being which is our awareness is an energy (I call it the energy of Divine Love). All the evolution and manifestation of material energy is guided by the Supreme energy of Divine Love. We do not know how powerful and thoughtful this unknown energy is. The silent working of awareness is so authentic, minute, dynamic and expansive that we take it for granted. At first it appears a silent throbbing vibrations through our being after Self-Realization. Because we cannot fix our attention to something that has no form (abstract being), our attention is wandering outside on forms. Now a method has been found out to tap the Divine power and this is called as "Sahaja Yoga ".

   At the very outset, I have to say that the working of Sahaja Yoga is very simple, although the operation within is quite complicated. For example, if you want to watch television it is very easy. But to explain the engineering technique of a television set is very difficult and complicated. It also needs a qualified engineer to understand and explain its workings. I will try to explain it in the simplest way, but please note that it is really complicated if you want to know it in detail. The best way to enjoy the television is first to switch on and watch and then to understand its engineering. As a mother, I would say that I have done the cooking for you. Why should you worry as to how it is done? If you are hungry you should start eating. If you are not actually hungry but only inquisitive, what can I do? I cannot force you nor can I make you hungry by discussions or lecturing. I leave it to your wisdom and to your freedom to reel the longing from inside. The word "Sahaja" (Saha + Ja) means born with you (inborn). Whatever is inborn would manifest without any effort. Hence "Sahaja Yoga" is the name given to my system, which is effortless, easy and spontaneous. It is natural to nature (you may call it life's search, vitality of Divine). To understand life let us take a case of something that is living a germinating seed. The seed grows by itself into a tree; bloom into flowers and the flower get transformed into fruits. Any human effort cannot change the process of growth of a seed into a tree. The gardener can only look after the growth of the tree. In the same way, the process of growth of our consciousness to further the evolution takes place effortlessly.

   When the fetus (child in the womb) is about two or three month old in the mother's womb the column of rays of consciousness, emitted through the all-pervading Divine Love, pass through the brain to enlighten it. The shape of the human being prism-like, the column of rays falling on it gets refracted into four diverse channels corresponding to the four aspects of the nervous system. They are: 1. Parasympathetic nervous system 2. Sympathetic nervous system (right) 3. Sympathetic nervous system (left) 4. Central nervous system. The set of rays that falls on the fontanel bone (apex of the head known as Taloo), pierce in the center and pass straight into medulla oblongata through a channel called Sushumna. This energy after leaving a very thread-like thin line in the medulla oblongata settles down in three and a half coils in the triangular bone placed at the end of the spinal cord (Mooladhara). This is known as "Kundalini".

   The subtle energy enters through the center of the brain (Sahasrar Brahm-andhra) and precipitates on its way in six more centers. The gross manifestation of this subtle energy is the "Sushumna" channel of the spinal cord. It is termed as the parasympathetic nervous system and "chakras" are expressed as plexuses outside the spinal cord. Surprisingly, we have the same number of plexuses and sub-plexuses outside as the number of chakras and their petals inside the spinal cord. Very little is known about this system to the medical science. It is termed as the autonomous nervous system - the system that works spontaneously on its own. For example, if we want to increase the rate of heartbeat, we can do so by exerting the heart (activity of the sympathetic nervous system), but we cannot reduce the rate of the heart (activity of the parasympathetic nervous system). The parasympathetic nervous system is a system like a petrol pump through which the petrol of Divine Love ids filled in us. But as soon as a human child is born and the naval cord is broken a gap is created in the Sushumna (the subtle channel in the spinal cord), and also outside one can see the gap between the solar plexus and vagus nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system. This gap is known as the void in Zen system of religion and Maya (or bhav Sagar) in the Indian religions. Later, when ego and super ego bloat up like balloons and cover our brain at the apex of the left and right sympathetic nervous system, the fontanel bone gets calcified and the all pervading vital force of the Divine Love gets cut off completely.

   Then the human being identifies himself as a separate entity and the consciousness of I (Aham) presides. This is the reason why a man does not know their "universal unconsciousness". He is served there by his ego.

   The sympathetic nervous system is created to use this vital energy. There are two system, i.e. left and right. These two channels carry this energy in subtle form in medulla oblongata and are known as Ida and Pingla respectively. The left side system (in the right handed person) caters to the emergencies of the active consciousness (extra efforts and emergencies) and the right side system - medically, the say it remains dormant - caters to the sub consciousness mind of the psyche (libido).

   Hath Yoga comes from words "Ha" and "Tha" meaning the Sun and the Moon. Both these sympathetic nervous systems are called as the Sun and Moon channels (i.e. Surya Nadi and Chandra Nadi). By this yoga, you can control the activity of the sympathetic, i.e. you can use more energy that is stored or else completely stop the activity of this sympathetic for a short time. By using the stored energy, you cannot achieve the eternal flow of Divine Love. With control over the sympathetic, you can slow the heart rate or even stop the heart for a short time and you may achieve all physical gross symptoms of parasympathetic, but you cannot activate the parasympathetic, which is the channel for your real yoga (meeting of Divine). With Hatha Yoga you may even control your mind. But the mind, thus governed is too heavily conditioned for the spiritual flight into the Divine. One may keep good health and good mind to be a good citizen in a society, but that is not the only aim of life.

   Both sympathetic and parasympathetic act on the plexuses but in opposition to each other, i.e. the parasympathetic relaxes the plexuses, but the sympathetic squeezes the energy constricting them. One fills in the vitality and the other consumes it. There is a gap ion the parasympathetic nervous system (Sushumna) but no gap in the sympathetic nervous system at the naval point. This is the hurdle that has rendered all our search and entry into the parasympathetic fruitless so far. It is like three ladders, two of them touching the ground while the center one is hanging in the air. So whenever we try to rise in our consciousness, we move onto the sympathetic system. If we pass towards the right side, we enter into an activity that goes on bloating in the balloon of ego. Thus we feel responsible and active. Over-activity of the sympathetic nervous system causes tension, sleeplessness and ultimately all deadly diseases like cancer that are caused by the constricted plexuses drained out of their energy. If you make the parasympathetic dominate the right side, then we can antidote the effects of over-activity and all diseases and the effects caused by this side gets cured automatically.

   The left side sympathetic nervous system (libido) has the power to store all that is dead in us. It connects you with the storehouses of the subconscious mind and also with the collective subconscious. At the backside of the brain, at the apex of this channel, the superego exists like a balloon. It becomes heavy by storing the conditioning of the mind through libido. So, if the tension is heavy it breaks the superego into many fragments. If you still over-exert by conditioning, a partial vacuum is created and it sucks another dead personality from the collectivity subconscious in your superego. So, in your pursuit of truth, if you take to further efforts and indulge in concentration, in training of the mind of forced abstinence or forced meditation or complete slavery to emotional attachment of the mind, the libido with the aid of the affected superego may connect you to the collective subconscious where all the dead souls bad or saintly exists. These souls start manifesting through you and you get siddhis or extra sensory perceptions. Actually, these are the different subtle (dead) personalities dominating us through superego.

   There is another method, which may be effortlessly employed by many so called teachers, by which they turn the Chakra in the direction of the libido and this can put you into your subconscious, This method either makes the aspirant go into a trans or accept the complete domination of the dead spirit, introduced by the teacher through the plexuses.

   In the first case, the Sadhak feels relaxed, his mind is switched off, but after a few years of practice he realizes his weakness that he can not face reality and he takes to heavy drugging. In the second case, the aspirant becomes a complete slave of the teacher and start giving away all the material possessions to the teacher without understanding the logic behind it. These teachers never explain the technique they have employed, nor do the give the powers to anybody else. In short all efforts you put in the name of religion on miss-handling of Kundalini by so-called realized people can only activate the sympathetic nervous system (Ida and Pingla) that can not make any progress to bring about the play of the parasympathetic (Sushumna).

   All mesmeric powers such as materialization power (enslaving masses for money, power or fame), visionary powers (Drishti siddha), speech powers (Vani Siddha), curing powers, power of switching off the mind, separation of body and many other powers are very ordinarily found among those who practice the control of spirit (Pretsiddhi or Shamshan Vidya). All such powers can be proven as powers of the dead in any one of our Sahaja Yoga centers.

   These are not Divine powers because the Divine has no interest in these gross subjects. It is only interested in the miracle of the inner being and its further manifestation to bring about human evolution. Thus, those who indulge and use their attention on such "siddhis" and those who run after such gross miracles find it difficult to follow Sahaja Yoga.

   We have noted that when such people confront Sahaja Yoga they start trembling and shaking like lunatics who also behave in the same way. If, with very great difficult, such a person teaches the state of Self-Realization he completely loses all interest in such powers and in their exhibition. Actually, then he is freed of all extra dead personalities who dominated him. There is no need to pass through the subconscious strata to jump to the unconscious. The subconscious is an end by itself and one gets lost who enters into its realms. These strata are placed vertically and the only direct way is through the parasympathetic, through the Sushumna, the central path that takes you to the Divine, the universal unconscious, through Sahaja Yoga.

   It is very dangerous to use the powers of the subconscious that may become uncontrollable and torture the practitioner. Those who have temporarily benefited may suffer irreparable loss to body, mind or grace.

   All religions have promised inner silence when you reach the state of Self-Realization, the inner miracle of the subtle awareness and not gross jugglery - The 'Gita" says that you become the witness of the play of the Divine. Many modern thinkers are also talking about the new awareness. This has also been described as thoughtless awareness that result in collective conscious ness. We hear of many prophecies made by ancient and modern writers about the evolution of a new race of super human beings of unique awareness. These are no more empty words.

   Through the discovery of Sahaja Yoga it is possible to achieve the transformation of the human consciousness to higher planes promised by various seers.

   The Subject of Kundalini is no more a book knowledge. You can see with naked eyes the breathing of the Kundalini at the Mooladhara and also feel the different chakras existing in the spinal cord with your fingers. Formerly, bridging the gap in the Sushumna was the insurmountable problem, but it is being discovered that if the gap could be filled with the vibrating power of the Divine Love, the Kundalini rises like a majestic mother and breaks the apex of the brain (Brahmarandhra) without giving slightest trouble to the child (Sadhak). It happens in a split second in the short spell between two successive thoughts. Of course, if the aspirant (Sadhak) is diseased or his chakras are constricted by over activity of the sympathetic nervous system, the Kundalini, being the mother of every individual and the embodiment of love, knowledge and beauty, knows how to reveal her love beautifully and to give rebirth to the child without causing any hurt.

   There are many descriptions about Kundalini warning us against the dangers and perils of the taming of Kundalini. Also, many books describe various gross or frightful experiences of the Kundalini awakening. Actually this is caused because Kundalini cannot rise without Sahaja Yoga. That is, if it is tried to be awakened by someone who is not self-realized, do Kundalini does not leave her seat or else, without the proper invitation, the Kundalini becomes adamant and angry. Thus the sympathetic gets into activity. When she is accused of sex she sends heat waves over the sympathetic nervous system, which causes the constriction or blockage of the plexuses and the path of the Kundalini is completely broken down. Sometimes one gets into funny gesticulations or loses complete awareness of the outside. Moreover with mishandling of Chakras and Kundalini due to ignorance or greed of the teacher, the chances of realization of the aspirant can be very poor and sometimes impossible.

   The mind that is very much conditioned or the mind that is die slave of self-indulgence or of egoistic actions and thoughts is also a very slow conveyance for Sahaja Yoga. Even if you read too much about the deconditioning of your mind you may get only more conditioned. If you try to decondition by efforts, you can become conditioned much worse than what you were. Deconditioning is only through Divine Love. The main condition of Sahaja Yoga is that your will and freedom are all the time respected.

   In Sahaja Yoga the person is fully aware and alert and receives inner silence and experience without doing any unnatural movements. He sits in a completely easy pose throughout or he may also lie down (Sahaja asan or Shavasan). The breathing is normal or less than normal.

   Religions are also the expressions and experiments of the realized souls, the seers. They also talk about the inner being, second birth and about Self-Realization. In the beginning in India, they tried to take the attention inside by introducing symbols that they saw of this unconscious universal being within. This gave rise to pantheism and the aspirant's attention got stuck to the symbols (Sakar) and rituals that killed the main objective.

   So the other type of experiments of talking only about the abstract (Nirakar) gave rise to many other religions that ended up as dogmas or "isms". The reason is obvious that that talking about the flower or the honey cannot take you to the honey but can only create dogmatic isms in the mind. You have to be a bee to reach there, i.e. you have to be re-born. This has to happen within to take you inside.

   It is too great an achievement and unbelievable, but I feel the search or ages has brought great results.