Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the Founder of Sahaja Yoga
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, born in India on March 21, 1923, spent a lot of time in the United States teaching Sahaja Yoga. She never took any money for her work. Her first nationwide tour in 1981 included New York, Houston and Los Angeles.
Shri Mataji returned many times to the U.S. and visited other cities, as well as the United Nations in New York City and the National Institutes of Health. Her last public program in the U.S. was in New York City in 2002. She passed away in 2011.
Through her simple method of meditation, Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji showed how to calm the mind and open the heart. She called this state “thoughtless awareness.”