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That perfectly pure Sahaja is in everything and with that Sahaja all religious people gather together.Sankara began his sadhana in this Sahaja, Sukdeva, Sanaka and others also followed this Sahaja way.Devotees like Sojha, Pipa, Sena and Dhanaall have drunk of this Sahaja-bliss in the natural way.Raidas was also a sadhaka of Sahaja,and Guru Dadu also realised infinite bliss in this Sahaja path.

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There are many references to Sahaja in the writings of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), preserved in the Adi Granth.Mera mani mera man eara Ram piyara RamBelieve me, my mind is imbued with love of my beloved RamaThe Lord is the truth. He is the primal person, He is beyond all limits.Him I have accepted as my RamaHe is beyond reach, beyond comprehension of the sensesBeyond our most distant horizons.He is

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The body is the boat, the pure mind is the oar.Take as a rudder the word of a good master.Make your mind quiet and then steer the boat – by no other means can one reach the other shore.The boatman tows the boat.Do not hastily approach the inborn [Sahaja] through other ways.The path is dangerous, and the wicked are strong.Everything is destroyed at the swelling of the ocean.Saraha says: If you

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Where there is neither sea nor rains,Nor sun nor shade;Where there is neither creationNor dissolution;Where prevails neither life nor death,Nor pain nor pleasure;Beyond the states of Sunn and trance;Beyond words, O friend,Is that unique state of Sahaj.It can be neither weightedNor exhausted, Is neither heavy nor light;It has no upper regionsNor lower ones;It knows not the dawn of dayNor the gloom

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1. Holding on to Reality is samadhi.2. Holding on to samadhi with effort is savikalpa samadhi.3. Merging in Reality and remaining unaware of the world is nirvikalpa samadhi.4. Merging in ignorance and remaining unaware of the world is sleep.5. Remaining in the primal, pure, natural state without effort is sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi.Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)

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Where there is no two, there is Sahaja, there joy and sorrow become one.Sahaj neither lives nor dies; it is the state of complete nirvana ...Amidst all duality hold your consciousness in the vacuity of Sahaja,and drink nectar when you have attained the final state of arrestand then there is no fear of death or of the flux of time.Dadu Dayal (1544-1603), Rajasthan

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In Sahaja there is no duality; it is perfect like the sky.The intuition of this ultimate truth destroys all attachment and it shines through the darkness of attachment like a full moon in the night.Sahaja cannot be heard with the ears, neither can it be seen with the eyes;It is not affected by air nor burnt by fire;It is not wet in intense rain, it neither increases nor decreases,It neither

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From Joy there is some bliss, from Perfect Joy yet more. From the Joy of Cessation comes a passionless state. The Joy of Sahaja is finality.The first comes by desire for contact, the second by desire for bliss, the third from the passing of passion, and by this means the fourth [Sahaja] is realized.Perfect Joy is samsara [mystic union]. The Joy of Cessation is nirvana. Then there is a plain Joy

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Say, how can Sahaja be explained?(For) neither body nor speech nor mind can enter into it.In vain does the Guru preach to the disciple, for,how can he explain that which transcends the capacity of all verbal means?Kanha, a Sahajiya Buddhist from Bengal. c.8th century

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The origins of the word Sahaja are buried in the midst of time. By the time Kabir began using the word in his Hindi songs/poems in the fifteenth century, Sahaja had been in use amongst the mystics of northern India for at least seven hundred years, and most probably much longer. The Sahajiya Buddhists emerged in Bengal in eastern India somewhere between the 8th and 10th centuries. Saraha, Kanha,

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