On 19 th February 1996, Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi founded and graced this sprawling International Health Centre as a gift to humanity at CBD, Belapur, Navi Mumbai. The late Dr. U. C. Rai, former Head of the Physiology Department of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, and professor in various medical colleges of Delhi, was appointed as its first director by Shri Mataji. After his demise, Shri Mataji appointed Dr. Madhur Rai as the next person in charge of this Health Centre.

Mother's Divine Grace has cured many patients from all over the world. About thirty-five countries including U.S.A., Australia, England, Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia and Canada have benefited from the Sahaja treatment in this Health Centre.

Cases of varied etiology like Hypertension, Bronchial-Asthma, Diabetes, Migraine, Epilepsy, Depression and Cancer have been cured at the Health Centre. Not only patients with physical ailments but also yogis with subtle system imbalance visit the Health Centre. The total number of patients (indoor admissions plus out patients) has risen progressively from a figure of nine hundred and fifty four in 1996 to five thousand and twenty five in 2004.

For admission at this Health Centre one needs to send in, by fax, post or e-mail, his or her brief medical history or a brief account of subtle imbalance, to the doctor in charge. Subsequently, the bookings and reservations for rooms in the Health Centre are made at the reception.

Contact Address:
International Sahaja Yoga Research & Health Centre,

Plot.1, Sector 8, H.H. Shri Nirmala Devi Marg, CBD, Belapur
Navi Mumbai - 400614.
Tel 91- 022 - 27571341/27576922, between 10 am and 4 pm (India time)
Fax  91 - 022 - 27576795
Email: sahaja_center@ vsnl.net

Some important quotes from our Mother, while talking to doctors in the International Health Centre on 19 th February 1996

be some reason why they wrote about it. Now this power is nothing mysterious today, it's the power that is to sprout for our last breakthrough of our evolution after the human awareness which is a complete understanding of ourselves. This new awareness that has been talked about, told about by Zen system which you know that is followed very well in Japan, then also by Lao Tse in China, by so many people it has been talked about that one has to become a person who is beyond the mind.”

“… Seekers of truth. It's a very different thing today that I have to speak to people who are professionally doctors and are following a kind of a medical practice which is supposed to be absolutely scientific. I am not here to in any way denounce or put down any one of the theories that are prevalent and are practiced by the doctors all over the world. In no way one has to degrade any knowledge whatever is available. But the problem is when you find any knowledge is not fully developed or not competent we should open our minds to something that could be something better than what we are following. Because we have studied in a medical science, because we know about medical studies it's not necessary that we should be so conditioned that we can not take to anything that is new, is available. In the ethics of medical science as far as I know, it is for the benevolence of the people that we are working, we are not working for just pocketing money or for propagating a one kind of theory that we know of.

As it is you know, every time in the science theories are challenged. Starting from earlier times, you see all becomes hypothesis then becomes laws and then the laws are challenged. Another thing is the science is amoral. It doesn't look at that aspect of human being where it is important that morality must be imbibed. Thirdly it's a limited thing, it's limited because it is dealing with our efforts through our mind. With our mind, whatever we try to know need not be absolute truth, that is the reason there is always difference of opinion. If it was absolute truth there would have been no difference of opinion. So what we have to do is to get to a point where we can know absolute truth, absolute meaning that every doctor should feel the same way, diagnosis should be the same. From all these point of view we have to a little bit humble down and see for ourselves what knowledge lies before us in this great country of India. We have no idea as to this knowledge of Sahaja Yoga existed thousands and thousands of years back.”

“…… In Sahaja Yoga you don't have to take any money or anything just works out through your powers. You can help the poor people very well. Of course if there are very rich people, they are available to you, we don't want to bother them too much and neither they are bothered about us. They only depend on doctors so you can have them. But for us is more important the middle class and the lower middle class especially the people who can't afford to go to doctors and hospital.”

“……This science is absolutely free to you, you can learn it in one month. For medical science you have to work for seven years. What is the advantage for doctors to know it because they can locate it very well, they can grasp this much better. They can understand that it's so scientific. It's so beautifully working out. They are amazed at it. I would say that, this is so great a science, we can call it a meta science as Doctor sahib (referring to the late Dr. U. C. Rai) has said, but this science can explain it logically but science cannot encompass the whole. Science is still a little cup can't get all the ocean in to it. So for that all the scientific people who think science is great should try to understand what is such a wealth of our country. May God Bless You All.”

A few interesting experiences shared by the Sahaja Yogis who visited the centre

Etienne Loyson, a 62 year old architect from Belgium, is just spell-bound, “Earlier I had high blood pressure. Doctors abroad had suggested taking several tablets on routine as the only treatment method. But today, with Sahaja yoga treatment and the blessing of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, I am full of energy. I have stopped all medicines and I feel I am just 30 years old.” Katherine Reid from England (who suffered from irritable bowels syndrome) is a happy woman today, in contrast to her life previously when she had to take several medicines prior to her arrival in CBD, BelapurCentre.“I feel much better having stopped my medication completely.

My health has improved by about eighty per cent.” Anna Kargaity, a Canadian who suffered from depressive psychosis is full of smiles today. “I now have a positive outlook towards life, being able to develop my own personality and express my feelings”, she says. Similar benefits were highlighted by Belinda from Australia, Kumar from Canada, Bryan from USA and others.

On being asked as to why so many foreigners are coming to India, when advanced medicines are available with doctors of modern medicine all over the world, late Dr. U. C. Rai once commented, “The doctors abroad don't have a treatment for the psyche of human being, except giving tranquillizers, sedatives and anti-depressant drugs. These are not only harmful, but also habit-forming. In view of this, Sahaja yoga, which can control the psyche of human being by meditation, has become very popular to the treatment and prevention of psychosomatic diseases like bronchial asthma, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, infertility, multiple sclerosis and spondylitis, to name a few. It is all due to the blessings of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, who founded Sahaja Yoga centre, and has enlightened thousands of people all over the world.”

Theodore Efstathiou from Greece

In February of 2002, I was at the Sahaja Yoga Health Centre at Belapur, in order to dust off some more negativity from my subtle system. On the 19th of February, it was the sixth anniversary of the operation of the centre. For the occasion, a puja was offered to our Divine Mother. Vibrations were very strong and it was very auspicious to have attended such a puja. The event marks a milestone and it is a good opportunity to say a few things about the centre, about its operation and the need for it.

Those with medical problems

The question was raised in the past, as to why Sahaja Yogis need to come to the centre for treatment. The question hardly needs any answer when one has some evident medical or severe emotional problem. In such a case, one should consult a physician and determine the ailment and its cause. Normal practice is for Sahaja Yogis to follow the recommendations of doctors.

It should be noted that the centre has achieved cures or improvements in cases where medical science could offer no relief whatsoever. Even if you receive the full medical treatment specified by your doctor, you may still wish to come to the clinic. Sahaja Yoga practice is the way to cure a medical problem. This must be emphasized.

In sickness, the medical profession simply eliminates the symptom. Medical practice does not cure. A cure is effected only when the negativity in the subtle system that caused a disease to manifest is itself eliminated. Otherwise, the cause is still in the subtle system and the patient simply begins to work himself into something worse.

Only fragments remain of the works of the ancient Greek philosopher Heracletus from Ephesus (circa 500 BC). In one of them he says, “The doctors, by cutting and burning, they work up the same as the diseases and they receive payment, which they do not deserve.” This is as applicable then as it is today, despite all the progress in medicine.

Socrates has explained this more fully by saying that “No doctor knows himself. This is the reason he is a doctor.” Putting this in the language of our Sahaja culture, it says that “No doctor is self-realized and this is the reason he is a doctor.”

Yogis with medical problems should consider going to the centre to benefit from the experience and focused attention of the Sahaja Yoga doctors there.

Those without medical problems

With respect to persons who have no medical problems, the natural question is why one should take the big step and come to the health centre. Once Professor Rai quoted our Holy Mother, who said that the negativity in Sahaja Yogis is so strong, that they cannot feel their catches.

This is a very strong statement by our Holy Mother. It indicates that unless you can feel your catches, your spiritual ascent may be very difficult to achieve. It is after you understand your problem that you can eliminate it.

In order to appreciate Shri Mataji's remark, She has stated that the number of diseases that exist is the total number of combinations and permutations of the chakras. On the three channels there are twenty-one chakras, so the total number of combinations and permutations can be computed as the product of 21 x 20 x 19 x 18 ... 3 x 2 x 1.

I tried to compute this expression on my computer in integer format and the computer run out of numbers. So I used Stirling's approximate method to estimate the value of this product and it turns out to be of the order of ten raised to the eighteenth power. This is a fantastically big number and is of the order of a quintillion. This shows the hopeless task with which the medical profession and the bio-technologists are faced in trying to determine the genetic code of diseases in order to effect cures.

At the same time, it also gives an idea of the fact that in each one of us, the condition of the subtle system is not as simple as it might be indicated because we feel a chakra catching. Of course, no human ever attains this fantastic number of catches.

To ascertain the condition of the subtle system and to treat the various catches and cross-catches, a person who has a well developed vibratory awareness is required. Such people are the doctors to be found in the health centre at Belapur. Such people are the ones who can balance a subtle system and get a person on their way to spiritual ascent.

What this points out is the fact that when people who have lived an average life and have had no unusual experiences, it is not easy to feel and understand the inner workings of affirmations, mantras and treatments.

Routine at the centre

During your stay at the health centre your attention is set on your spiritual progress and on nothing else. There is a morning meditation at 8 am and an evening meditation at about 7 pm, which includes watching a video or listening to a talk by our Holy Mother from an audio tape. You will have the opportunity to get up at 4 am, in order to get to the lawn for a very early meditation and prayers. In this way, you will get the experience of the difference it makes to have early meditation, as our Holy Mother urges us. You will also get the experience of feeling Mother Earth as a Goddess who is there to help you by sucking from your feet all your negativity, when at this early hour you walk around saying Her mantra and asking Her to absorb the negativity.

The doctors see you twice a day and they prescribe to you the treatment that you have to give to yourself until the next time they see you. The idea of the treatment is to get the Ida and Pingala Nadis to balance, so that you are always on the Sushumna Nadi. In so doing, they can tell which chakras need to be corrected next, thus finding the way in the labyrinth of the cross-catches that exist in you.

The techniques used in the health centre are not different than what has already been published either in the Sahaja Yoga Prayer Book or in other treatment publications. What really counts is that the grounds are highly vibrated. Our Holy Mother has Her attention on the health centre and She effects all cures. It must be appreciated that the Goddess is realized by devotion. Once you are here, you are devoted, for there is nothing else to distract your attention. Mother has said that prayer is the greatest weapon of a Sahaja Yogi. The health centre is a very good place to learn devotion and surrender to our Holy Mother and to learn how to pray effectively.