The Experience of Sahaja Yogis from Kolomna, Russia:

In summer 2005, at a Sahaja Festival, one of the Sahaja Yoginis from Moscow Region started a conversation about an idea of giving programs in Young Offender Institutions of Moscow Region.

For this, we had to get an affirmation from the Management of the Federal Service of Execution in Moscow Region. We also needed Sahaja Yogis to support this idea and to be ready to get together at the required time and hold a program in prisons and colonies. Sahaja Yogis from Kolomna (Moscow Region) enthusiastically agreed to take part in this initiative.

Several months later Sahaja Yogis received an affirmation for giving a chain of programs in the Young Offender Institutions of Moscow Region. During the period between November 19, 2005 and January 21, 2006, four programs were given in Mozhaysk and Kolomna male, female and teenage detention colonies. The programs were a great success and arouse sincere interest of some officers who worked in these colonies. These programs were also a great inspiration for Sahaja Yogis.

“We saw that among the prisoners there are lots of seekers and good people. We saw their eyes, we felt the replies of their hearts. The main thing was that we constantly felt the great support of the Divine Power and attention of Mother was all the time with us. We received great joy and satisfaction from these programs”, says Vadim M. (Coordinator of Kolomna).

On this wave there were several more programs in Young Offender Institutions in other regions of Russia. When Sahaja Yogis from other regions heard about the positive experience of Moscow Region, they invited Kolomna bhajan-group to take part in the programs in their local prisons. In February 2006, the programs were held in the male colony in Tambov, in October 2006 – in the teenage colony of Alexin. On December 16-17, 2006 Ryzan Sahaja Yogis arranged three programs in different parts of the region. In June 2007, there was a program in Kostroma in the detention colony.

The positive experience of these programs proves once more that there are no obstacles for Love and leading to Truth, there are no obstacles for the warriors of the Light of Spirit armed with the Light of Truth.

The Experience of Sahaja Yogis from Saint Petersburg, Russia:

There were programs in prisons of the North-Western Region which included an open talk about Sahaja Yoga and the full protocol of Self-Realisation. In the prison libraries, there were left guides on Sahaja Yoga and musical CDs. The prisoners looked bonded but in spite of this they sincerely did the protocol of Self-Realisation and didn’t feel shy to express their feelings.