List of general literature and music recommended by Sahaja Yogis
The best fiction books and Novels - advisable in Sahaja Yoga
This booklist is for
Sahaja Yogis
who want to read "regular" literature /
non-professional literature,
that is books not specifically written for or by yogis, or on yoga (which,
naturally, are good books and don't need any further recommendation)
In the bottom of the page you can also give your recommendation for singer and musician.
This is just a beginning site, so:
Sahaja Yogis, please send yours recommendation to email: amichai58@hotmail.com,
and please give your remarks and anything more that you know about that book.
Modern books - since 1900
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Shri Mataji said That the writer, Tolkien, is Realised soul (If you know more details please write to me).
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Book: Lord of The Rings / J. R. R. Tolkein |
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Shri Mataji Recommended that book (If you know more details please write to me) |
Book: Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen |
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Book: Jonathan Livingston Seagull / Richard Bach |
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Book: The Neverending Story / Michael Ende |
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As I know Shri Mataji recommended that book in particular for Seeker or people who beginning Sahaja Yoga (If you know more details please write to me) |
Book: Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse |
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Author: Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) |
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According to http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2008/05/sahaja-biographical-dictionary.html
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Author: Okri Ben
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For more information: Kahlil Gibran and Sahaja Yoga
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Author: Kahlil Gibran |
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Shri Mataji said he was realised soul ? (About Tolstoy) "... She
said that although the stories could be bit depressing, his characterisation
was perfect, how described these pepole so beautifully, it was realy an art
form".
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Author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) |
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Shri Mataji liked this book |
Book: Razors Edge / William Somerset Maugham |
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http://www.sahajayoga.org/sahajnews/downloads/new_york_newsletter_may_13.doc |
Book: In Search of an Identity: An Autobiography, Anwar Sadat, Harper Collins 1978 |
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Author: Maugham, Somerset (English writer) |
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It's recommended to see some interpretation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
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Book: Animal Farm / George Orwell |
| In the book "Eternally Inspiring Recollections of Our Holy Mother" Vol' 2 pg' 27, Written that in a program in Geneva Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi praised that book. |
Freudian
Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and
Culture By E. Fuller Torrey |
| About C.S Lewis - Lot of information and Shri Mataji quotations on: Clive Staples Lewis (C.S. Lewis) and Sahaja Yoga |
Lewis, C.S. (= Clive Staples Lewis) (1898-1963) |
Books - before 1900
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Shri Mataji said that we have to know the Scripture, and the roots of them are truth. Could be some wrong thing there add by people that were not holy like Paul (Paulus, Paul of Tarsus). There are translation that good and some that not (if someone want to recommended please write)
Good translatin of Bhagavad Gita done by Juan Mascaro. Shri Mataji said he was realized soul - see http://www.sahaja-yoga-whitby.ca/2008/12/bhagavad-gita-translated-by-realized.html and also http://www.sahajayoga.org/sahajnews/downloads/new_york_newsletter_may_13.doc |
Holy Scriptures Like: Bible, Koran , The Gospel Of Thomas, Bhavagad Gita and all The Mahabharata, Ramayana. |
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Shri Mataji said he was realsed. |
Shakespeare, William |
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According to http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2008/05/sahaja-biographical-dictionary.html
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
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"Shri Bhairava incarnated as the prophet, poet, painter, and visionary William Blake" (Nirmala Vidya, pg' 229) |
William Blake |
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Shri Mataji said they were (all?) realised souls |
1.Kabir (Indian poet, 14th century) 2. Gyaneshwara. 3. Adi Shankaracharya.((788 CE - 820 CE). |
| " "There were Seers in the West who also knew about this knowledge by which one can achieve that state of Self-Realisation. In England William Blake, Moliere in France, De Maupassant in France, and many other poets like C.S. Lewis, and certain persons in America, have been endowed with this future vision of Divine life entering into human beings.’ (Shri Mataji in her book Meta Modern Era, chap.11, The Subtle System)" Quote in http://www.free-meditation.ca/archives/2195
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Moliere (1622-1673) De Maupassant (1850-1893) |
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(A Sahaja Yogi by name Theofore Estathiou, tell what Shri Mataji told him so in Greece. It written in the book "Eternally Inspiring Recollections of Our Holy Mother" Vol' 3 pg' 50).
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Homer |
| a Chinese sage who lived after Laotse and was the one who explained Daoism a little more clearly - quite similar in some ways to Gynaneshwar who wrote Gyaneshwari and a commentary about the Gita. The Chinese story about how a sage trained up the King's fighting cocks to win the cock-fighting arena was often used by Shri Mataji, and comes from Chuang Tsu's book on the Inner Chapters. | Chuang Tsu (or Zhuangzi) |
| * Did you know ? Charlie Chaplin - the movie "Modern Times" a 1936 B&W pantomime on film was often mentioned by Shri Mataji in the 1980s, and also called him a genius. Incidentally, Mother calls Her book "Meta Modern Era". |
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Recommended Musicians - list by Sahaja Yogis
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The Beatles |
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Cat Stevens |
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Shri Mataji said he is realised soul |
Sting |
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1. Ludwig van Beethoven. 2. Antonio Vivaldi
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Oum (Um) Kalthoum |
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* Mozart is an incarnation of Shri
Narada. His music principally activates the central channel. In his opera
The Magic Flute, he express the qualities of of the seeker of truth
through the characters of Tamino and Pamina ond those of the Adi Guru
through the character of Sarastro (Zarathustra). |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Bach's music activates the right channel and through his masterly '48 Preludes and Fugues' Bach helped to establish the basis of conventional western harmony.
Handel's music activates the left channel. His most Famous work 'The
Messiah' is said to have been composed in only twenty-four days. |
1.Johann Sebastian Bach. 2.George Frideric Handel |
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According to http://sahaj-az.blogspot.com/2008/05/sahaja-biographical-dictionary.html |
Albinoni, Tomaso (Italian musician) Bono (Irish musician/activist) John Dunstaple or Dunstable Joshi, Bhimsen (Indian singer) Marsalis, Wynton (American musician) Tchaikovsky, Pytor Ilyich Thomas Tallis (1510-1585)
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This is just a beginning site, so:
Sahaja Yogis, please send yours recommendation to email: amichai58@hotmail.com
and please give your remarks and anything more that you know about that book.
Links:
List of more people who were realized soul / great soul
DHARMAVISION IN SAHAJA YOGA - Site of recommended movies By Sahaja Yogis
Fiction books (novels) written by Sahaja Yogis
Lots of books written by Sahaja Yogis And Shri Mataji -
Sahaja Yoga World Foundation Online Store