Sahaja

सहज sahaja

The Sanskrit term Sahaja means naturalness: natural joy, the amoral elevation of worldly things to a divine status, natural experience dissolved into divine expression.

Within the International Nath Order it stands in two lists. In The Pathless Path to Immortality Mahendranath names three stepping-stones: Pratibha, Sahaja, and Samarasa. On Keywords it stands with Sama, Samarasa, and Svecchachara. Sahaja is the easy, uncontrived state—what comes of itself, as a tree grows. It is not a grade and it is not a permission slip. It is not Svecchachara (conduct by one’s own will) and it is not Samarasa (the lasting equipoise of attainment). Those pages name those words. This one names naturalness.

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