108 Teachings: The Path to the True Self

Publisher: Natus Books

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108 Teachings: The Path to the True Self consists of concise, direct insights and ways of practice that each contain a “true message from the universe.” Particularly focused on those in pain and in need of comfort and healing, and intended to touch and open the human heart, they constitute a unique introduction to the Himalayan Wisdom Tradition. A Himalayan Siddha master is one who through a course of ascetic trainings has reached the highest truth, and Yogmata-Ji is one of only a few such masters alive today to transmit the Himalayan Wisdom to the world. As Yogmata-Ji writes, “I am here to guide you on a journey of transformation to expand your consciousness and help you reconnect to the sacred source.” This she does with compassion and wit and a continual refrain to her own experience. The lessons are wide ranging, touching on many facets of our self-ascribed limitations, which with patience and love she explores and explodes. Exemplary is her first teaching, “Release unnecessary thoughts,” and she explains: “When we release the mind’s clutter, we move beyond the constraints of time. The present moment becomes part of an unchanging eternal present Now.” The focused, incisive and caring nature of 108 Teachings makes it a perfect work of daily meditations, the practice of which place the reader on a unique path of discovery and self-realization.

Yogmata Keiko Aikawa was born in 1945 in Japan.. She developed an early interest in yoga and naturopathy, which led her to travels in Tibet, China and India. She was one of earliest promoters of yoga in Japan, and in 1972 she founded the General Health Institute, where she taught her unique Yoga Dance and Pranadi Yoga. In 1984, she met the Siddha Master Pilot Baba while he was in Japan on a speaking tour. He invited her to study among the Siddha Masters in the high Himalayas, where she reaching the final stages of Samadhi. In 1991, Yogmata-Ji performed her first of many public Samadhis, a supreme yogic practice in which she was sealed in a small, air-tight underground enclosure without food or water for seventy-two to ninety-six hours. She has received the title of Mahamandaleshwar, or Supreme Master of the Universe, in India. Yogmata-Ji is the first woman and non-Indian to achieve this status. She is currently working with the United Nations on a series of international conferences. Yogmata-Ji’s charitable work includes the Yogmata Foundation dedicated to funding mobile hospitals to remote villages in India. Her global mission is to bring love and kindness to all. She has published over thirty books.