About Shri Mataji - Founder of Sahja Yoga


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About Shri Mataji

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was born on March 21, 1923 to a Christian family in Chindawara, India. Her parents were Prasad and Cornelia Salve, direct descendants of the royal Shalivahana dynasty. Seeing the beauty of this child who was born with a spotless brilliance, they called her Nirmala, which means 'Immaculate'.

Her father, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and helped write free India's first constitution. He was a renowned scholar, master of 14 languages, and translated the Koran in Marathi. Her mother was the first woman in India to receive an Honors Degree in Mathematics.

Shri Mataji's involvement in the freedom struggle of India is extremely remarkable. She was very courageous and played a daring role as a youth leader of this campaign. In the 1942 "Quit India Movement" announced by Gandhi, she was even arrested and put in jail along with other freedom fighters .

Although she knew about her own spiritual consciousness she did not know how to present it to the people of modern times but later on the 5th of May, 1970, on a lonely beach of Nargol (about 150 km from Mumbai),She discovered a historical process of en-masse Self Realisation through which thousands of people could get this connection to their Spirit and thereby their inner transformation.

Once the process of Self Realisation was discovered by her ,She taught it to few people near to her and as they were transformed physically, mentally and spiritually , she found out that only this process had the potential solution for all human problems and therefore she decided to spread it on an en-masse level. She invested her own time and money to talk to people and give them the key to their own spiritual power.

Today because of her compassionate ,continuous efforts people over 100 countries worldwide are enjoying the benefites of Sahaja Yoja through Self Realisation.