Narrator: The series of the meeting is continuing, the journey is progressing ahead and it is teaching us that what is the purpose of life, what is our objective and why we have come in this human body? Today Mrs Neeta Rai will be our guest, who is a housewife of a retired IAS officer, and let us know how efficiently she carries out her household responsibilities and along with that how she achieve her spiritual purpose, so come and listen from Mrs Neeta Rai how was her spiritual journey in Sahaj yoga.
Interviewer: We welcome all of our viewers once again in News Dnn’s special presentation Sahaj yoga a unique discovery and a unique gift to mankind, friends today among us we have Mrs Neeta Rai who is the wife of a senior Retired IAS officer, and along with that she is a housewife who looks after her house very efficiently. Neeta ji we welcome you to our studio.
Mrs Neeta Rai: Thank you.
Interviewer: Neeta ji I would like to ask you that you are a homemaker and along with that how did you come to Sahaj?
Mrs Neeta Rai: I came to Sahaj in 1994 and maybe my search was from many lives, I was searching for the truth. And I had gone to all the gurus but I haven’t got any answer anywhere. Finally, in 1994, someone had told me about Sahaj Yoga, and for me, it was an experiment. And until now nothing has happened with anything, now let us see what happens. So I got the realization, but I was speculative minded so faith didn’t come that easily. So someone while sitting behind me gave me realization, and I felt that there is some heat in the right side, I could feel the vibrations but I did not believe it nor I could disregard it, I said that “I will go home and do the experiment, if it happens to me at home then I will believe it” so when I reached home, so I sealed all the rooms. So that no air can come in, because I was told that in Sahaj yoga when kundalini energy is awakened so got proof for it, and cool breeze starts flowing from hand and head.
Interviewer: So you were dubious about the prospect of cold air coming from outside and you might not able to feel that cool breeze.
Mrs Neeta Rai: I even hold my breath and sealed all the window and doors, and challenged Shri Mataji, her photo was there in front, I said to her “if there is any truth in it then give me experience” and the experience that I had at that time I could not doubt it, it was so powerful, and my Kundalini positioned itself in Sahasrara for three days and that feeling I couldn’t forget till now it was an absolutely new existence for me and I almost started afresh.
Interviewer: So what were the problems because of which you were searching so desperately– if you don’t mind sharing with our viewers, there are many aspects of a housewife be it economically, socially with other, ralations where she might get some problem, so what was your reason that you were searching the truth.
Mrs Neeta Rai: I got all kind of privilege from the beginning, I had a very comfortable life from childhood. Even after marriage, there was nothing to worry about. But I was lacking satisfaction. And I used to thought that God has created everything so perfectly why he has created human beings like this, where you are born, then you have children, then you fall ill, then comes old age and eventually we all die. So this can’t be the purpose of our existence. So in search of it, and maybe this was the truth that I was searching, which I finally found the answer in Sahaj Yoga.
Interviewer: Neeta ji after coming to Sahaj yoga what difference you felt and how much time it took for those changes to come? Can we discuss a little bit about with our viewers so that our viewers can know what changes come into the life after one joins Sahaj yoga.
Mrs Neeta Rai: So the first thing that I got was quietness, and to become quite is not a little thing, and we all human beings are after that. So that happened on day one. I was feeling too much peace from within, so I understood that this was the way, from which we can achieve. But there is the thing that, no one can become a saint overnight so there are many shortcomings in us and gradually, the deeper we went into meditation we could see our weaknesses. And when we see them, automatically we want to correct it. Because it is an obstacle in your way to reach God, as that peace got disrupts if those shortcomings are there. So peace was the first thing and the power that we have, we do not know about them.
Because we use a fraction of our brain, we are not aware of the power that lies within us as a human being, because God has really created us as Superhumans. And that discovery started from day one, because as I have told you for me it was an experiment, and I was told that you can heal and cure others through Sahaj yoga, so that appeal to me a lot because I didn’t want anything for myself, if I gain anything through meditation and if I couldn’t cure others then it was something like putting money in your bank. And is of no use to anybody not even to yourself.
So I did wish that I could able to help others, and when it was told that you can help others, I knew nothing, I just got my realization. And I was also told that all these power was within us and also all the knowledge is within us. And it develops automatically when Kundalini is awakened. In one night I was not able to sleep and this was one week after I got my realization, so I was laying on the bed and I put my concentration on my sister and my sister was in Delhi and I was in Lucknow. And suddenly this two fingers of mine started burning but later on, I interpreted as there was some problem and this fingertips they tell us our inner state. So I knew that this was to do with throat so I called her up and I asked her that “whether you are suffering from a throat problem?” and she could barely speak. So she was surprised and she asked how did you know? I didn’t want to tell her because I thought it was just my wild guess,
so then she said “now that you know why don’t you set me right?” and I said “OK I will try”
I didn’t know anything and as we were told and I just put my attention on her throat and imagined her in the sky, later on, I got to know this guidance was given because this Chakra is made of ether element.
Interviewer: So with the help of Sahaj yoga we can Heal anybody anywhere.
Mrs Neeta Rai: And it was surprising because within 5 minutes she called up to say “what did you do? I am fine now.”
Interviewer: And at that time you were not that old in Sahaja Yoga?
Mrs Neeta Rai: No I was very new at that time hardly a week.
Interviewer: But there was a Desire or willpower within you which inspired you to connect with her. Neeta ji as you have told, you belong to an IAS family, and in an IAS family there is a routine in itself and when you adopted Sahaja Yoga how did you manage to strike a balance between the two?
Mrs Neeta Rai: I think where there is a will there’s a way, and that balanced things on its own because you have to see the positive side of everything and there is a lot of socializing there is no way you can prevent it. And I started feeling different from others. But I take it as an opportunity to talk about Sahaja Yoga and in doing so I found many many seekers. No matter how the environment was. At parties people drinks and amid all that there were seekers.
Interviewer: That means you where a medium which not only give that light to itself but where ever you went you just spread it to everyone. And it is the power of a housewife that she plays so many roles and does so much stuff daily and it is said that she makes her house lively make it glowing and likewise you made the social life and share that light with people. Neeta ji when you got the realisation after that managing the day to day household works, there are children, there is the family, how much power that you got to manage them? How much changes happened? How you were able to manage all the things in a better way please tell us about it to our viewers because the housewives who are sitting at home and who do not have this spiritual power they always struggle with this question that “How they can manage the household?”, so when a housewife get spiritual power does that help her in managing her household responsibilities?
Mrs Neeta Rai: Definitely because the first thing is peace and satisfaction, and when these two things are there inside us and it will automatically spread outside and in all of the family satisfaction and peace both comes. Both of children came to Sahaj very early within a week after my realisation because they could feel that there is something which is coming out and they were very excited and both of them just wanted the same. And they both got the realization very early and the change that I found in them that was absolutely amazing. Number one they were always in stress and tension when children had their exams.
Interviewer: During exams children are in stress and at that time their mother didn’t understand how to get them relieved from that stress.
Mrs Neeta Rai: Exactly.
Interviewer: Does Sahaj helped you here also?
Mrs Neeta Rai: Because parents too get the stress, because we can’t go anywhere and the whole attention is upon children and that feeling of competition is always there. But it happened after coming to Sahaj, I had complete faith on Shri Mataji and I had given entire responsibility upon her because I do not have that much patience, I used to teach them and anger come and eventually that lead to fighting with kids, so I just left everything up on mother that they are your kids and you take care of them.
And results were the proof that they started doing much better in school and with less effort. Earlier when I asked to teach them they used to do well, but after I stopped teaching them they did much better result.
Interviewer: We have seen that the concentration level of kids increases when they came to Sahaj.
Mrs Neeta Rai: Retention power also improved and they are not tense. So when you are not tense then automatically every thing becomes well.
Interviewer: Neeta ji special thing that we are talking about Sahaj for a long time I would like to ask you, what we do in Sahaj?
Mrs Neeta Rai: It is a very basic thing, which is very important to tell, Sahaj yoga is a form of meditation. And the Kundalini Shakti that we have is in dormant State and when we awaken it and after that when we get connected to the power of God, the power of God is everywhere around us but we never feel it because we never get connected. So it is that connection which we need and after that this energy with our help put into play.
Interviewer: How much time does it take? can a person immediately get connected to this energy or he may take a little time to get connected?
Mrs Neeta Rai: No it is instant and few people get it’s feeling quickly but some may not feel it quickly if their chakras are not well then it may take a little time. But it starts to work at that instant.
Interviewer: Looking after the household and all the other works surrounding it how much time one should give to Sahaj yoga for the Spiritual peace, is there any specified time duration or you can do it easily at any time while living in the house?
Mrs Neeta Rai: It is very easy, initially it is told to do 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening. But I would like to say that when you start getting happiness you didn’t want to leave.
Interviewer: And that 10 minutes didn’t remain 10 minutes?
Mrs Neeta Rai: Sometime even you might not get 10 minutes. So it is the situation that with what intensity that we get connected, so it is a gift by the God it is not something in our hand. Who is just sit and whatever we receive that is the peace.
Interviewer: Neeta ji while talking to you we understand that you adopted Sahaj yoga also your children’s had adopted Sahaj yoga, it becomes very difficult if your partner– it is said that our life is running on two wheels, if I am the one wheel then another one is my spouse i.e my better half, but if they both work in the same path then life becomes very peaceful. Does his acceptance come quickly in Sahaj yoga?
Mrs Neeta Rai: He took a little time to came in Sahaj but the most important thing was that he didn’t stop me, and I was so happy about it, that I was able to do it. And I also think that it is very much individual oriented, someone who has that quest to find God and someone doesn’t have that. And you cannot force anyone. And I didn’t have any hope that he will join Sahaj anytime.
Interviewer: And by your wish he–
Mrs Neeta Rai: Actually I didn’t wish, it just happened. Because he could see the change probably, that it what must have been.
Interviewer: Neeta ji the social circle from which you have come there are so many people like you who are caught in such social boundaries and gatherings, so what message would you like to give those housewives.
Mrs Neeta Rai: I like to say that they should at least have its experience because without having experience there is nothing. No matter how much we describe it, or we recall its benefit because it really doesn’t sink in, you have to taste the food. And it is a wealth inside us and utilisation of that wealth can only happen in the human body and it is that wealth that we will take with us, and we have to leave everything else here.
Interviewer: Friends this journey will continue like this and in the coming weeks we will have a new guest who will tell us about Sahaj, namaskar.
Narrator: So viewers this was our meeting with Mrs Neeta Rai Ji, the series of meetings will continue, meetings will keep on happening and every meeting will reduce the distance. How while living in the human body we can get connected to the God and can lead a happy, peaceful and spiritual life, so friends, we will meet again give us permission for today namaskar.