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 Schools of Sahaja or Shajiya and the Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga
The name Sahaja is not a new coinage. It seems to have quite a long history. All systems claimed that theirs was the natural way of attainment of the ultimate Reality or liberation. This much alone is common to all - their claim to be the natural way.
The question that arises, of course, is what we do mean by the term 'Nature'. Before going to explain this it is better to refer to the several cults called sahaja or natural.
The tantrik buddhism tried to develop the sahajayana, the natural path or method, which could be used by all. It is stated that the middle path, not being extreme either to the right or left, is the natural or mean method that would lead to the ultimate condition of nirvana. The other two methods are said to be the Vajra-yana and Kalacakra-yana. The ultimate state reached by all, which has to be the natural condition, is called Sahaja. In this condition there is neither prajna nor upaya.
Dr. Shasibhusan Dasgupta writes "The sahajiyas would never prescribe any unnatural strain on human nature, but would use human nature itself as the best help for realizing the truth. It is for this reason that the path has been always described as the easiest ad the most natural. It will be totally wrong to suppose that the question of moral discipline was in any way less emphasized in the sahajiya school .. the sahajiyas would recommend the transformation and sublimation of them ... The Sahaja-yana aims to realise the ultimate innate nature (sahaja) of the self as well as the dharmas, and it is sahaja-yana also because of the fact that instead of suppressing, and thereby inflicting undue strain on human nature, it makes man realise the truth in the most natural way ...."1 They discarded formal rules and regulations of religion, such as pratika worship of all kinds which, they hold, leads to confusion.
The pure citta must be attained; that is mahasukha. It is not a matter for discussion or dialectic or explanation. It can only be somehow known from





























































































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