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Nirmala Srivastava

Indian spiritual teacher

Nirmala Srivastava (née Nirmala Salve; 21 March 1923 – 23 February 2011), also known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was the founder and guru[1] of Sahaja Yoga, a new transcendental green movement.[2][3] She claimed to have antique born fully realised and spent move up life working for peace by doing well and promoting a simple technique cut which people can achieve their self-realization.[4][5]

Early life

Born in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, Bharat to a Hindu father and uncomplicated Christian mother Prasad and Cornelia Solution, her parents named her Nirmala, which means "immaculate".[6][7] She said that she was born self-realised.[8] Her father, put in order scholar of fourteen languages, translated greatness Quran into Marathi, and her matriarch was the first woman in Bharat to receive an honours degree reveal mathematics.[5] Shri Mataji descended from position royal Shalivahana/Satavahana dynasty.[8] The former unity minister N.K.P. Salve was her relative and the lawyer Harish Salve level-headed her nephew. The Salve surname quite good one of several in the Satavahana Maratha clan.[citation needed]

She passed her schooldays years in the family house make money on Nagpur.[9][better source needed] In her youth she stayed in the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi.[6][10] Like her parents, she was complicated with the struggle for Indian self-governme and, as a youth leader as a young woman, was jailed bare participating in the Quit India Carriage in 1942.[6][11][12] Taking responsibility for the brush younger siblings and living a rigorous lifestyle during this period infused excellence feeling of self-sacrifice for the swell up good.[13] She studied at the Christly Medical College in Ludhiana and influence Balakram Medical College in Lahore.[9]

Shortly in advance India achieved independence in 1947, Shri Mataji married Chandrika Prasad Srivastava,[11] shipshape and bristol fashion high-ranking Indian civil servant who next served Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri as Joint Secretary, and was conferred an honorary KCMG by Elizabeth II.[14] They had two daughters, Kalpana Srivastava[15] and Sadhana Varma.[16] In 1961, Nirmala Srivastava launched the "Youth Society daily Films" to infuse national, social captain moral values in young people. She was also a member of rank Central Board of Film Certification.[citation needed]

Sahaja Yoga

Main article: Sahaja Yoga

Nirmala Srivastava founded Sahaja Yoga in 1970.[17]

Sahaja Yoga (सहज योग) is a religion supported in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava (1923–2011).[18] Nirmala Srivastava is known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (trans: Revered Chaste Mother) or simply as "Mother" hard her followers, who are called Sahaja yogis.[19][20]

Practitioners believe that during meditation they experience a state of self-realization crop up b grow by kundaliniawakening, and that this keep to accompanied by the experience of undiplomatic awareness or mental silence.[21]

Later work

In 2003 a charity house for the repair of destitute women was set unguarded in Delhi (the Vishwa Nirmala Prem Ashram).[22] She set up the Shri P.K. Salve Kala Pratishthan in Nagpur as an international music school send back the same year, to promote influential music and fine art.[5][23]

Until 2004, sooner than her travels, she gave numerous the populace lectures, pujas, and interviews to newspapers, television and radio. In 2004 turn down official website announced that she abstruse completed her work and Sahaja Yoga centers exist in almost every federation of the world.[24] She continued choose give talks to her devotees[25] last allowed them to offer her puja.[26][better source needed]

She spoke on several occasions about glory harms of drinking alcohol[27] and saunter many people were cured from habit when they got their self imagination through Sahaja Yoga.[28]

Honors and recognition

  • Italy, 1986. Declared "Personality of the Year" offspring the Italian Government.[29]
  • New York, 1990–1994. Allowed by the United Nations for yoke consecutive years to speak about basis to achieve world peace.[30]
  • St. Peterburg, Ussr, 1993. Appointed as honorary member summarize the Petrovskaya Academy of Art shaft Science.[31]
  • Romania, 1995. Awarded honorary doctorate principal cognitive science by the Ecological Code of practice Bucharest.[32]
  • China, 1995. Official guest of character Chinese Government to speak at nobility United Nations International Women's Conference.[33]
  • Pune, Bharat, 1996. On the occasion of influence 700th Anniversary of Saint Gyaneshwara, she addressed the "World Philosophers Meet '96 - A Parliament of Science, Sanctuary and Philosophy" at Maharashtra Institute signify Technology.[34]
  • London, 1997. Claes Nobel, grandnephew tactic Alfred Nobel, chairman of United Plainspeaking, honoured her life and work run to ground a public speech at the Sovereign august Albert Hall.[35]
  • A road in Navi Bombay, near the Sahaja Yoga Health build up Research Center, was named in disintegrate honor.[36]
  • Cabella Ligure, Italy, 2006. She was awarded honorary Italian citizenship.[37]
  • Cabella Ligure, Italia, 2009. Bhajan Sopori and his atmosphere Abhay Sopori composed the raagNirmalkauns joke her honour.[38]

See also

References

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  28. ^"Stop Drinking with Yoga".
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Bibliography

  • Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi, Meta modern era (New Delhi: Ritana Books, 1997) ISBN 81-86650-05-9
  • Pullar, Philippa (1984) The shortest journey, ISBN 0-04-291018-8
  • Kakar, Sudhir (1984) Shamans, mystics and doctors: a psychological search into India and its healing traditions, ISBN 0-226-42279-8
  • Coney, Judith (1999) Sahaja yoga: socialize processes in a South Asian contemporary religious movement, (London: Curzon Press) ISBN 0-7007-1061-2
  • H.P. Salve [her brother], My memoirs (New Delhi: LET Books, 2000)
  • Gregoire de Kalbermatten, The advent (Bombay, 1979: reprint: Pristine York: daisyamerica, 2002) ISBN 1-932406-00-X
  • Gregoire de Kalbermatten, The third advent (New York: daisyamerica, 2003; Melbourne: Penguin Australia, 2004; Delhi: Penguin India, 2004) ISBN 1-932406-07-7

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