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An easy way to make rakhi strings

When you start receiving spam in this blog, it is time to start updating it before more spammers come in and think this blog is abandon. It's the time of the year again to tie rakhi for our brothers.  I have always enjoyed this special occasion thanks to Sahaja Yoga.  Being born a Chinese, I have never known such auspicious and beautiful occasion about Raksha Bandhan.  And being the first born in the family and having no brothers, I have always wanted to feel a brother's love.  So thankful for Sahaja Yoga to introduce me to this wonderful event of tying rakhi for your brother and getting your brother's love and affection. Having being confined in the house due to virus infections in the family, I missed collective for few weeks.  In fact, I wanted to teach to some yoginis how to make these rakhis and was informed to teach them too.  Unfortunately, the virus has isolated me and my family.  So last Saturday, while going deep into meditation (aft...

Good Sahaja Yoga resources

I think I have posted some very good Sahaja Yoga websites but I can't find that post.  Here you go: 1. Amruta This web has a collection of Shri Mataji's speeches in audio and video and some with transcript.  There are also some speeches translated to different languages which is beneficial to those who doesn't know English.  The search function is also very good.  If you need to find any info, just type in the keyword and click Search and voila, all the speeches with the keywords will appear.   2. Sahaja Yoga Online Library This was created by the Indian Sahaja Yogis and it has a wide collection of books, CDs (can listen in MP3 and downloadable), magazines and photos.  The registration part is a little tricky though.   3. Sahaja Yoga Books for Children This web has a list of books for Sahaja Yogis' children.  Once you click Order, it will bring you to Amazon and you can purchase from there.  I just did. 4. Sahaja Yoga e-Bo...

Sahaja Yoga and Children

Books "Raising Children in Sahaja Yoga" is very good.  It contains excerpts from Shri Mataji's various speeches and also a summary of how to bring up children according to their ages from 0-6 onwards.  Very informative for new parents.  You can download this book for free from Sahaja Yoga Online Library .   "My First Book of Chakras" is a beautiful book with colourful illustrations.  It is suitable for both children and adult.  It has lots of information about chakras and deities.  One look at it you can tell that the authors put a lot of effort and attention into this book.  You can buy this book from the Sahaja Books for Children.  Somehow I got a copy of the e-Book forwarded by some yogis few years back.   In the same webpage, you can find many Sahaja Yoga books written for Sahaja Yogis children by Sahaja Yogis.  I just bought Nirmala's Story on Amazon.  Cost a lot but the vibes were fantastic. Music "Litt...

In preparation for Guru Puja 2017

In responding to the collective request by the hosting countries of Guru Puja 2017 in Cabella to meditate together, let's us meditate and put our attention to improve and strengthen our Guru Principle, our Guru Tattwa, starting today, 29 June 2017.  There are online meditations on a daily basis, at 4am and 8pm Cabella time.   There are 39 Guru Puja talks from starting from 1972.  You can find these talks in Amruta.org , audio, video and transcripts.   In the same website, under Documents, click on Primordial Masters - Research.  Here you will find a Word document on all the 10 Gurus. Raag Malkauns which is corresponds with our Void.  The notes are for aroh and avaroh are S, G flat, M, D flat, N flat S, S, N flat, D flat M G flat, S.  You can listen on Youtube, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan playing on his sarod, Raag Malkauns and Arun Apte singing with his students on Raag Malkauns . You can also recite the 108 names of Shri Adi Guru Dattatreya and 1...

Love is the only answer

I have not written for a long time and as I was lying down on my bed, nursing my little one,  I was browsing through Facebook. It's hard to go through the news feed without news of animals abuse,  child abuse,  no human rights, racialism,  war,  corruption,  suicides,  accidents, rapes, and so on and so forth. As I caressed my little one's forehead and feel cool breeze emiting through her Sahasrara,  I feel worried for her. Since becoming a mother,  stories about children getting hurt really disturbed me.   And it's so scary that it is happening so much more frequent.   Maybe because of social media,  we get the news instantly compared to the times before Facebook was born.  So we get to hear news of parent left baby in car and suffocated and died, or the parent who accidentally sat on the toddler and killed him instantly or fell off from high place, or legs got stuck in elevator and so on. We used to only se...

Raksha Bandhan - Making rakhis

I have always looked forward to Raksha Bandhan, every single year.  Maybe because the gifts are attractive. Every year, we have been making simple rakhis, in huge amount, to be distributed out to the collective.  This year, I learned to make rakhi the Indian way.  It's really simple to do but takes more time than the simple string that we have been making year after year. I used DMC embroidery threads that is from my abandoned cross stitch project.  Sorry, but I don't have the step-by-step method in pictures. Materials: Embroidery thread - normal colour Embroidery thread - silver or gold Fork Glue gun Beads / little flowers for decoration A partner to help you (optional but better) Method: 1. To make the centerpiece, first, take out 1 gold or silver embroidery thread and separate it from the main bundle.  The whole bundle consist of 6 threads.  Just take 1 out or the 6. 2. Take a fork and wrap the coloured embroidery t...

Everything happened for a reason

When we believe that everything happened for a reason, then we won't be disappointed. Since delivery, I feel as if there are way too many obstacles.  I am sure this is a test.  It has to be a test coz otherwise I cannot accept why it is happening like this. Everyday is a challenge.  Be it at home or at work.  Before the first issue subside, another issue arise.  It's been like that for the past few months. Having a baby does give us additional responsibility.  My duty to pump milk for her every few hours, everyday has been tiring but yet I felt very satisfying. It's the other things that are beyond my control that really irks me.  Things like people's behaviour, what others are saying, what others are doing to my baby and so on.  Every single day, without fail, all I can say is "I Surrender" but how much I am able to do it is another question. I am pretty sure the negativity out there is strong and keep pulling us down.  I ...