1987-10-27 Media Interview, Italy Interviewer: Welcome, Shri Mataji. Good morning. Shri Mataji: Good morning. Interviewer: We have some questions for you. The first is that you have this modern Sahaja Yoga. What is your method and how it’s different from other yoga methods around the world? Shri Mataji: This method of awakening of the Kundalini existed in the ancient times, thousands of years back, in India. But only very few people got their realization. The reason was there were very few people ready to get their realization. So it’s so happened that there were three types of schools started in India. One was which was trying to understand God through the elements. So they started worshiping the elements and as a result of that the Vedas came into being. This is on the right side movement, we can say. The left hand side movement was the people became devoted to God, a devotion. They started singing praise of God, asking for his help. But when they had gone through these two different seeking then came to the center and where Patanjali Yoga, Patanjali Shastra existed. This what you call these days as “Hatha Yoga” – it’s just a wee bit of it. It’s Ashtanga, there are eight aspects to it. That also started long time back.  And we had a system in India of Chaturvarna, means Chaturashramas – there are four ashrams. The first one was when you are a child up to 18 to 25 years of age; then Read More …