Music and Dance

Due to practicing Sahaja Yoga, many people found the willingness to create in themselves and they bring vibrations and love to other people through creativity, singing, music and dance. Many Russian Sahaja Yogis have studied the art of Indian classic music and dance in SY music academies in India and Togliatti, Russia. Many musical and dance groups have been created in Russia. It has given an opportunity to spread Sahaja Yoga through concerts of Indian music and dance.

The interest to Indian culture has always existed in Russia. The concerts of Indian classic music always attract people who consider Indian culture to be something close and interesting. At these concerts people learn more about the art and culture of India, about the subtle system, about Sahaja Yoga, receive their Self-Realisation, get an opportunity to meditate collectively listening to ragas and bhajans.

All collectives give performances in beautiful Indian clothes. Bright colors of the costumes, beautiful jewelry on our sisters create festive atmosphere for all the spectators. The costumes and instruments are purchased collectively. Thus, all the Yogis can support this great work. A pure desire of creative Yogis to bring the message of Sahaja Yoga to people, a constant growth of their professional level is touching the hearts. People come to these programs with pleasure, the halls are often full. The audience doesn’t want to let the artists go, asks them to go on with the concert. The administration of the Cultural Establishments where the concerts usually take place says that they haven’t had so many visitors for a long time. The music calms people down, they listen to the information about Sahaja Yoga very attentively, almost all the guests of such concerts receive their Self-Realisation and feel the vibrations.

Fine Arts

Numerous Sahaja Yogis in Russia carry their love to people through fine arts, poetry, embroidery, ceramics, etc. There is an Art Union in Togliatti “Aarti” (a community of people of art – Sahaja Yogis). Since 1994, the exhibitions of the paintings of the artists from “Aarti” group have been held on a regular basis. By now, the painters have visited many cities of Russia together with their paintings. They have been to Moscow, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Dimitrovgrad, Kostroma, Tarus, Novokuibyshevsk, Zhigulevsk, and Sochi.

Of course, several exhibitions have taken place in Togliatti as well. This is a wonderful experience – giving Self-Realization through fine arts. It’s a very effective form of giving Self-Realisation to people. In many cases the arrival of artists and their works to any city is a real event for the small collectives of the local Sahaja Yogis. It’s also an opportunity to raise their activity by taking part in the arrangement of such programs and exhibitions. As a rule, the local Sahaja Yogis take all the organizational work on themselves: solve the questions of time and place, etc. So, the only thing left is usually to put the paintings on the walls and dive into the warmth and hospitality of our brothers and sisters.

There were cases when 300 or even more people came to the openings of the exhibitions. It has become a tradition already to invite music and dancing Sahaja Yoga groups for such presentations. The guests are told about the creativity of the painters and gradually they are given basic knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. People receive their Self-Realisation. And then the exhibition works. Usually the exposition takes 2-3 weeks, sometimes longer. Sahaja Yogis change each other on the duty in the Gallery/Museum. And the visitors, communicating to them, have a chance to get their Realisation. Thus, during the exhibition, tens and hundreds of people get their second birth.

Ragas, bhajans help us balance ourselves and put us in this or that state. In the same way, painters can bring a certain state to a spectator. An artist, as well as a musician, can share his vibrations, his state, his spiritual experience by means of fine arts which will open the hearts of the spectators. That is why the paintings express the subjects of Sahaja Yoga. This is life and creating their works of fine arts and graphics the painters-Sahaja Yogis do their best to share the experience of their spiritual outlook, to fill the paintings with innocence, light, spiritual qualities and state.