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Summer Camp: Sahaja Yoga Meditation

The summer camp was organized for four weeks starting from 5 May 2002; every Sunday for one hour followed by two follow up programmes in the centre on 1st June 2002 and 8th June 2002. On Sahasrara day 5th May 2002 the participants were introduced with Sahaj Yoga, benefits of practicing Sahaj Yoga meditation in daily life, the importance of attention how it gets divided with luring attractions available in modern era. They were introduced how to get balancing of nadis done and after this they were given collective realization.

With the blessings of Shri Mataji the flow of vibrations was tremendous. Almost every body experienced the flow but many of them were not able to put it in the word form as it seemed almost unbelievable to get the cool breeze from one's own head. In the second week's Sunday the participants were told further information on how Sahaj Yoga meditation helps to achieve physical and mental health. Again balancing and nine steps affirmative meditation was practiced. They were asked whether they had practiced at home and whether they felt vibrations. Obviously some participants practiced and also they felt the vibrations.

Next Sunday the participants were introduced with detailed subtle system, the correlation of Chakras, nadis with diseases and also with good qualities. At this stage participants were introduced the raising of Kundalini and taking bandhan.

The importance of taking bandhan and when to take it. After this the participants were practically shown how to do salt water foot soaking. On last Sunday once again the participants practiced balancing, bandhan, meditation. Activities carried out during the summer camp were summarized. At this point of time the participants were informed about who is Shri Mataji, her childhood, her family life and when she started Sahaja Yoga, what is her mission today and what is her vision for the entire world.

They were provided with the photographs of Shri Mataji, introduction books, some of the articles photocopied from our magazines and also some information downloaded from Sahaj Yoga official web site was given on floppies. The participants were asked to come for two weeks follow up programmes in Anushaktinagar centre. In first follow up a videocassette depicting speech by Shri Mataji at Perth, Australia was shown.

The next follow up consisted of meditation and information on importance of Aarti, Pooja and bandhan and also importance of regular practice of meditation. Over all we observed that about 65 to 70 persons registered for the camp. About 45 to 50 participants were present on all Sundays, 80% of them completed all 4 Sundays about 25 seekers came to the centre for two follow-ups. And only one lady seeker still continuing to come to centre from this summer camp.

It was distinctly observed during the camp that the strength of men was more than women and that is some thing surprising looking at general men to women ratio in almost all the centers. The other interesting fact is that most of the participants except one felt good vibrations during summer camp and many of them felt vibration even while meditating at home.

Some of the participants even practiced foot soaking at home. With all this experience we feel that "One day" public programme may not be adequately informative to attract the seekers. Such a six-week programme is good enough to attach people for that many days. We feel more needs to be done to retain the people in Sahaja Yoga. We wonder where are we lacking. Information? Knowledge? Refined Presentation? or just the vibrations? Or may be its only the mothers desire? We pray to Shri Mataji to enlighten us on this matter.

But the true seeker does not need all these for whom just a single invitation card of mother's public program is enough or may be her photograph, poster in newspaper. These true seekers stick to Sahaja Yoga as soon as they come in contact with Sahaja Yoga meditation.

JAI SHRI MATAJI.
Anushaktinagar collectivity.