February 23, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Memorial day

Nirmala Srivastava (née Nirmala Salve, more widely known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) lived from March 21, 1923 to February 23, 2011.

Early life

Nirmala Srivastava was born in Chindawara, India to Christian parents Prasad and Cornelia Salve. Her parents named her Nirmala, which means "immaculate".She said that she was born self-realised. Her father, a scholar of fourteen languages, translated the Koran to Marathi, and her mother was the first woman in India to receive an honours degree in mathematics.Nirmala Srivastava said she was descended from the royal Shalivahana/Satavahana dynasty. The Salve surname is one of a number included in the Satavahana Maratha clan.

Nirmala Srivastava passed her childhood years in the family house in Nagpur. In her youth she stayed in the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi. Like her parents, she was involved with the struggle for Indian independence and, as a youth leader when a young woman, was jailed for participating in the Quit India Movement in 1942. She studied at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana and the Balakram Medical College in Lahore.

Shortly before India achieved independence in 1947, Nirmala married Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, a high-ranking Indian civil servant who later served Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri as Joint Secretary, and was bestowed an honorary KCMG by Elizabeth II. They had two daughters, Kalpana Srivastava and Sadhana Varma. In 1961, Nirmala Srivastava launched the "Youth Society for Films" to infuse national, social and moral values in young people. She was also a member of the Film Censor Board.

Sahaja Yoga

Nirmala Srivastava was known to have been concerned with the damage being done to society by false gurus. Interviewed in the movie "Nirmala Devi: Freedom and Liberation", Nirmala Srivastava said that these supposed spiritual people were greedy and promiscuous rather than spiritual and that this caused her to give up hopes and begin searching within herself.

Nirmala Srivastava said that while in Nargol, on May 5, 1970, she witnessed the rising of the Primordial Kundalini. Later she described the experience as follows: "I saw my kundalini rising very fast like a telescope opening out and it was a beautiful color that you see when the iron is heated up, a red rose color, but extremely cooling and soothing." She stated that the potential for all humanity to gain spiritual self awareness was realized at this time, which she characterizes as a "historical process of en-masse self-realization and inner transformation". Soon after she founded Sahaja Yoga in Mumbai.

Worldrealisationday, 05.05.2012

The whole world celebrates the Worldrealisationday as a milestone in history of humankind. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi sacrificed her whole life to transform human beings. She was tireless in her mission to bear a method to change people en masse. On 05.05.1970 the Great Mother made the breakthrough. Spread the message of selfrealisation and pass it on!

2012

It´s not the year of Armageddon or doomsday. It's not the end of the world.
An evolution is going on. We are created from nothing to human beings. We went through different stages like Stone Age, Middle Ages, modern era...finally we are coming to a golden age. 2012 is a year of higher transformation, nothing else. It´s nothing negative, quite the contrary, our world is becoming better. Why? Because people will be able to see all reasons, why our planet is in that situation. There is an incredible power which will allow us people to introspect, to go beyond concepts and thoughts. We will be able to see the whole creation as an union. A native connection within will occur with everything. Men will get collective and one. It´s a process. It´s a becoming. It´s a growing. It´s a motherly evolution within...

Interview with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

40 years Sahaja Yoga

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In five days - 40 Years Sahaja Yoga

For a child, enjoyment is complete. Whatever he sees, he makes a joyful thing out of it. Look at children. I've seen children, they find anything, they make a joy out of it. ... You see, they find anything, any space, they make a joyful thing from it, a play for them. For them life is also a play. Just a thing of enjoyment. And they make you also enjoy everything. If you are not in a good mood, they'll come and behave in such a manner that you'll have to come round and become a very simple, natural person. So to see a simple, natural person, we always say they are like children. It means they do not understand the cunning. They do not understand the stupidity of the people, they live in a world of innocence.

Children are the most interesting things, I think, in the world. For me roses are very beautiful, but children are the most interesting thing, and they teach you so many things that you are surprised at their innocence.

from Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Turiya is the fourth dimension. If you could stay on that then you become a witness. And that’s the point where you start sucking the joy of every moment. Every moment, of everything, of every work, of every friendship, of every relationship, of every understanding.

from Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

40 years Sahaja Yoga

This year we make history, it´s the 4th year of www.worldrealisationday.com and we will celebrate 40 Years Sahaja Yoga in 2010. We have already over 10 000 visitors on our Blog.

We will spread "The message of Sahaja Yoga" as long as hate is disappeared. Love will unite us again, only love will left.
Let the world know that we are the warriors of the rainbow.

What is Sahaja Yoga?

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

from Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi