The issue that is going to have the greatest effect on humanity appears to be that of climate change. No person or country can avoid the effects of this, and it is beginning to alter society worldwide dramatically. Humanity must change its ways on a gross materialistic level, but to correct the damage and sustain a balance and harmony with the earth we need to work on the subtle, natural energy level as well.
The fundamental problem with us humans is that, for all sorts of reasons, we don’t want to work together to solve this problem because we don’t love each other enough, and we don’t understand the suffering of other members of humanity as we should. There is an answer to this, though. Only one. That is, to achieve our inner awakening, also known as “Enlightenment” or “Self Realisation”. For the first time in history, this is available to everybody to experience effortlessly. Through an instantaneous subtle connection in the spine, this is a change in the awareness which enables us to feel the peace and beauty of the universe inside in a state of meditation. It also enables us to feel a connection with all other people actually on the central nervous system through feelings in the fingertips and other parts of the body.
There is an energy, known from ancient times as “Kundalini”, present in all people in the sacrum bone in the spine. We simply have to put our attention on it in the right environment for it to be awakened. This immediately activates a change in the central nervous system, enabling us to feel sensations on the fingers and other parts of the body which guide us to a knowledge of our own state and that of other people. This enables any imbalances in our subtle system to be removed automatically and a state of peace and inner silence to occur naturally.
The technique for attaining inner awakening was given to us by the founder of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. Since 1970 when she gave inner awakening to the first few people, it has spread around the world to millions who now meditate and practise it every day.
The nature of reality is becoming clearer to science, and it is now being suggested that reality doesn’t really exist until we observe it. This leads to the possibility that reality is created on a collective unconscious level and is an experience shared by all of us. It takes our awareness to keep it in the form that we know it. So, how does this help in the fight against global warming?
When we get our Inner Awakening, we become subtly aware of the connection between all people and the Earth itself and also the way that our attention as human beings sustains the universe. Of course, if we all experienced this change, the physical world would change as well. This is the key to alleviating the effects of climate change. Just like pain and illness in the human body is a reaction of the body to the way we are treating it, the overheating of the Earth is a reaction of nature herself to the way we are treating her and each other. When one achieves Self Realisation, one feels a sensation of coolness flowing in the hands and other parts of the body. This is a manifestation of a living energy that is present when truth and goodness are expressed. This energy, once activated by the mass realisation of humanity, will transform the heated Earth in to a beautiful cool paradise.
Enlightened people can purify the environment, they can give energy to the five fundamental life-giving elements through their being. The ecological situation can be easily corrected when the general population and decision makers receive their inner awakening. With inner awakening, we see things much more clearly so that we live our lives in tune with our surroundings instead of in conflict with them. Solutions present themselves naturally to us.
A world in balance begins when human beings are in balance within themselves. Only when this inner balance is established can we achieve a harmonious and respectful relationship with the environment and the Mother Earth, which sustains us all.
The solution to climate change really is in our hands. You can read more about Inner Awakening here.
Some things the founder of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi said concerning ecology in the 1980s before global warming was recognised as a major threat:
1989, Toronto, Canada
“Today’s problems of ecology, this, that – all these things come from human error, and the human error is because they have not found out the eternal. When you find out the eternal, then you become a balanced personality, absolutely a balanced personality and the balance comes from divine wisdom. All the problems today are because human beings are not at that level of self-knowledge, because human beings are still relatively living. One person thinks this is good, another thinks this is good and that’s how we exploit each other, we exploit the nature, we create problems and everything repels on us because transitory things as you know are transitory because they have the inbuilt quality to get destroyed. They get destroyed, and gradually we learn from them how to destroy. But human beings are the epitome of evolution.”
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
1989, Vienna, Austria
“Now, I have to put before you the beautiful instrument we have within us which is going to give us union with that power which has created us.
This instrument is within us and this instrument works out this connection and makes you like a divine computer. Now you’ll have to take an attitude of a scientist of an open mind and whatever I am saying, if it works, then you have to accept in your honesty. About this instrument, many people have talked and said, even when we turn our attention to religions and to philosophies we find that all these theories are mental.
So, where have we gone wrong that we not, we did not seek the eternal? Now if I say that there is a divine power which is a subtle power which surrounds us, and it does everything, every living work. We see it every day, for example, look at these flowers. We cannot make these flowers. So many living things we see, flowers becoming fruits, a seed sprouting into a tree, we just accept it, take it for granted. We do not want to think how it happens. Is there some power that does this work?
Now the time has come for all of us to feel that power and to be in connection with it. And this instrument within us works it out. Here in the triangular bone, if you see, the bone is called as sacrum by the Greeks, meaning sacred, lies a power which we in India call as Kundalini. In the west we have been busy growing outward like a tree, but if we do not know our roots this outward growth can be in imbalance and the day will come when the whole of this will be destroyed. So, we have to have the knowledge of the roots.
So, this is the primule of the seed within us which we call as “Kundalini”. In Sahaja Yoga practices if you come you can see the pulsation of this Kundalini and can hear with stethoscope very clearly. And suddenly, you find it stops and that time you feel the cool breeze coming out of your head.
So in your human awareness you develop another higher dimension which is beyond your mental capacity, and you become, actually it’s a question of becoming not certifying that you are baptized or anything but actualisation that you become a realised soul.
This is the last breakthrough we all have to achieve. In the evolutionary process we have come to the human level and unless and until we achieve this breakthrough, there is no possibility of saving this universe because only after this breakthrough you can feel it that you have become part and parcel of the whole. It’s an experience.“
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi