Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Founder President of the International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre, inaugurating the Health Centre on 19th Feb 1996
The International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai, India, founded by Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on 19th February 1996, is a “true gift to the humanity".
The Health Centre is situated in picturesque, green surroundings and is a unique Health Centre of its kind in the world. At the Health Centre treatment for diseases is done by vibratory awareness, developed through Sahaja Yoga meditation.
The Health Centre has witnessed an increasing number of patients since its inauguration and has attracted many overseas visitors and many Indians.
Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi appointed the late Prof. Dr. U. C. Rai as the first Director of the Health Centre. Prof. Dr. U. C. Rai had worked as Head of the Physiology Department of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, and as a Professor in various medical colleges of Delhi. He had done research at the Lady Hardinge Medical College and associated hospitals, New Delhi, on the role of Sahaja Yoga in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases. He was conferred with the 'Vladimir Verniczky Honoured Doctor' award in Moscow, for his research work on Sahaja Yoga.
The fundamental uniqueness of this Health Centre is to provide humanity with healing through vibrations generated by the practice of Sahaja Yoga. Prof. Dr. U. C. Rai was of the opinion that through Sahaja Yoga, the results in the medical field were fantastic, especially in areas where doctor’s efforts had been ineffective.
After the demise of Prof. Dr. U. C. Rai in 2000,H.H. Shri Mataji appointed Dr. Madhur Rai as the CEO of the Health Centre and in 2006 appointed Dr. Sandeep Rai as Director for Research and Development at the Health Centre.
At this International Sahaja Yoga Research & Health Centre, Shri Mataji's Divine Grace has cured patients from all around the world. Sahaja Yogis across the globe especially from overseas countries like United States of America, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia and Canada have visited on a regular basis to get their subtle imbalances corrected as well as their physical ailments cured and have benefied immensely benefited from the Sahaja Yoga Meditation and Sahaja Yoga techniques practiced at the Health Centre.
Cases of varied etiology such as Hypertension, Bronchial Asthma, Diabetes, Migraine, Epilepsy, Depression and Cancer have been cured at the Health Centre. The influx of number of patients visiting this Health Centre has risen progressively between 1996 and 2007. A total of about 20,000 patients in-house admissions plus out patients, from all parts of the world have visited the Health Centre during the last ten years and have benefited from the Sahaja method of treating the inner imbalances and thereby getting cured.
To be admitted to the Health Centre patients needs to send individual requests by fax, post or e-mail, along with a brief medical history or a brief account of subtle imbalance, to the doctor in charge, Dr Madhur Rai. Subsequently, all information and communications for booking and reservations for room accommodation at the Health Centre are taken care of by the reception desk.
Recollection from Memories by Mrs. Lilly Rai
Since, the inauguration on 19 Feb 1996 by H.H. Shri Mataji, Dr. UC Rai was appointed as the founder Director of the Health Centre by Shri Mataji. After his demise, Dr. Madhur Rai was appointed as the next In charge of the centre and continuing since then as Mrs. Lily Rai wife of Late Dr. UC Rai fondly recollects. Shri Mataji has lately also appointed Dr. Sandeep Rai as Director Research and Development at International Sahaja Yoga Research & Health Centre and now both of them are looking after the functioning of Health Centre.
Before his appointment to the post of Director of this Health Centre by H.H. Shri Mataji, Dr U.C.Rai was pursuing his Sahaja research works on the varied diseases at the Lady Hardinge Medical College and associated hospitals in New Delhi in India. His main focus of research was especially on the role of Sahaja Yoga in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases. Later, with the blessings of Shri Mataji he was appointed here in the health Centre, to perform this divine task to serve the humanity around the globe recalls Mrs. Lily Rai.
As if Divinity knew better the purpose behind his joining this Health Centre, New vistas kept on unfolding its newer dimension to assess and make the humanity accept the ultimate surrendering to the power inside that created it. Immediately after his taking over Mrs. Lily continued that he started working on the patients who had diseases that he had conducted his research works in Delhi earlier and with Mother's blessings through vibratory awareness unveiled many mysteries. His type of administration of medical treatment differed though from the conventional method of treating a patient but brought in good result, out of his dedication to Sahaja Yoga on one hand and his medical knowledge on the other. He always adopted the basic step to awaken the Kundalini of the patients and then treat them through vibrations. Shri Mataji often used to say, “you cannot know until you are connected to that great power called Kundalini that must be awakened within yourself to take care of everything”.
With the blessings of H.H. Shri Mataji’s and his research work blended with Sahaja Yoga practice he was able to document all his valuable research facts in form of a book “Medical Science Enlightened” which was released by PRESIDENT OF INDIA late Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma. Blessings of Shri Mataji indeed were pouring on him in those days while he was privileged to attend a number of International Medical Conferences all over the world. He was blessed to accompany Shri Mataji in a number of places where he could express his medical research work for propagating the message of Sahaja Yoga across the continents. His last visit was to America for a Sahja Yoga Seminar at National Institute of Health. After the seminar, the Director NIH agreed to conduct weekly Sahaja Yoga Meditation at NIH and since then they are being done. During Prof U.C.Rai tenure at Research & Health Centre spanning 5 years, he could substantiate the truth that diseases could be cured through Vibrations developed by Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
Further narrating her memories lingering with this Health Centre, Mrs. Lily relates some more incidence with the words that “no doubt, medical science has progressed a lot but still there are some diseases like mental disorders, diabetes, high blood pressure, epilepsy etc. for which scientists have not been able to find a permanent solution but in Sahaja Yoga there are permanent cure for such diseases. The yogis those have been cured here are a proof and testimony to the success by applying the Sahaja Yoga treatments through Kundalini awakening and vibrations by the grace of Shri Mataji.
Overview of the Health Centre
The Health Centre has a very lush green milieu all around with a huge complex that houses two floors furnished with all the necessary facilities for the comfort of the visiting patients and the attending yogis. A new complex is the early stages of development which will be used for the many outpatients who come to the Health Centre. The proposed structure plans to have an extension to the existing kitchen and dining facility within the campus. The main Health Centre campus seems to be amidst a concrete urban conglomerate of CBD, Belapur on the H.H Shri Nirmala Devi Marg on the highway yet from it overlooks a beautiful lush green hillock as the backdrop and one has a beautiful overview scenic view from its roof.
The main complex has a well-defined reception area adjacent to the Director’s/Chief Medical Officer’s and the Accountant’s offices. The complex besides having separate ward accommodation for males and females also has special Non A/C and A/C rooms. The large kitchen with high health and safety standards along with an expert chef who takes care of the balanced diet for the yogis in the indoor wards. There is a large Meditation hall adjacent to the reception area while at the other end it has a very serene OPD room. This is where yogis/patients are diagnosed by the attending doctors in charge and taken care of the individual Sahaja Yogis undergoing cleansing session by simple method of Sahaja Yoga meditative techniques as devised by H.H. Shri Mataji. The results are very positive in most of the cases who accepts the basic fact of recognition of the power within that created us. This positive result is achieved through the raising of the Kundalini of the individual and attending to various subtle centers that may need the attention of this subtle power to function in integration with other subtle centers within the body.
The Health Centre has beautifully furnished accommodation for Her Holiness Shri Mataji on the first floor while the ground floor underneath has been the area for the research work. Also the centre of the complex has a beautiful rectangular shaped lawn with meditation cum stage used for collective functions within the campus, under the open sky. The lawn provides a silent respite to the seeking souls as it helps generate more vibratory awareness with in as one undergoes the experience of awakening one's own energy from within. The yogis use this lawn as an ideal morning and evening meditation ground.
A Few Statistics of the Health Centre
Total number of patients that have come to the Health Centre
OPD & IPD (1996-2005):
| Number of Patients | Out-Patient | In-Door | Overseas | Indian |
| 1996 | 954 | 175 | 9 | 166 |
| 2005 | 4500 | 1000 | 500 | 500 |
Success rate
Virtually every yogi who had come to the Health Centre has greatly benefited from the Sahaja Yoga method of treatment and numerous cases registered have been completely cured. These cases include being cured of infertility, epilepsy, thyroid carcinoma, cancer and many other illness. The Health Centre has been experiencing an overwhelming influx of yogis day by day, year after year from India as well as overseas countries. The popularity may be because of the belief and the astonishing benefits in terms of both spiritual and physical health that this Heath Centre delivers to the world by the Holy Grace of Shri Mataji. All Sahaja Yogis and staff at Health Centre pray to Her Holiness to continue to shower Her Divine Blessings on the Health Centre.
About The International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre - Dr.Madhur Rai.
Our motto is “We treat She cures” recalls Dr. Madhur Rai, the current Chief Medical Officer and CEO in the Health Centre. She affirms that certain explanations are beyond expression, and cannot logically be proved with the human mind. She recalls that her second son was born with certain ailments, basically a bleeding and a feeding disorder. Shri Mataji allowed her to come to the Health Centre with the sick child and both of them were given vibrations and she was guided by Sahaja Yoga Doctors at the Health Centre through the gentle Sahaja techniques and meditation. At the end of their three weeks stay at the Health Centre, by Shri Mataji’s grace, her son was completely cured.
Dr. Madhur Rai believes that Shri Mataji had bestowed upon her a chance to experience the essence of the medical benefits through Sahaja Yoga. Each case that comes to the Health Centre is unique on its own and when the patient gets cured they feel the essence of vibrations that does wonder here through Sahaja Yoga meditation. There is no treatment as such everything is basically cured on the foundation of the vibratory awareness through raising of individual's Kundalini and working within with that power that heals by the grace of Shri Mataji. There is no other technique that is in practice here for the cure of patients says Dr. Madhur Rai. It is all what Shri Mataji has devised for the world; to awaken that power within that cures you. It is in fact a true gift to the humanity. She continues saying that “now day-in and day-out for me it is vibrations first and then the medication even though I am an allopathic doctor. For the past five years I have been here and surprisingly my medicine intake has come down dramatically.”
After realization, many people have miraculous experiences. Many seriously ill patients have been completely cured at the Health Centre. Shri Mataji’s Divine Attention is here all the time and She has given to the world the knowledge of curing everything, like Dhanvantari (the God of Medicine), through this unique discovery of vibratory awareness and recognition of that power that created all of us.
About The International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Centre - Dr.Sandeep Rai.
Curing through Sahaja Yoga has been very close to Shri Mataji’s heart and all of us know that she has cured thousands of patients to date. She herself studied medicine at Lahore but left her studies midway and joined the Quit India Movement on call given by Gandhiji at that time.
I fondly remember meeting Her with my father Late Prof.U.C.Rai. She first instructed my father to try Sahaja Yoga treatments on patients at his Medical College and to do medical research to show the world that Sahaja Yoga meditation techniques are scientific and not just imaginary. On Her insistence my father embarked on the Research projects amidst some doubts from hospital staff and his department colleagues, but soon fantastic results were obtained one after the other. It needs to be mentioned that all research was done under the direct supervision of Shri Mataji and hence the great positive results.
After Sahaja Yoga got a scientific backing by having its presence in scientific journals and conferences, Shri Mataji asked Prof. Rai to start thinking of a Sahaja Yoga curing centre where Sahaja Yogis could be treated by vibrations. I had the proud privilege to be present at many such meetings and in one of them Shri Mataji put a very pointed question to me asking me whether I would manage as Director, the Health Centre which She was planning in Vashi. I was a young postgraduate medical doctor full of ambitions for a big career. I was not sure what to do but surely couldn’t ever dream of refusing Shri Mataji, so I agreed but suggested that it would be nice if there is a modern lab, some emergency equipment, ECG, X-ray, etc. To my surprise She said “No, I don’t want to dilute Sahaja Yoga treatment by all that . I want to see whether you people can affect a cure by purely vibrations generated by Sahaja Yoga meditation technique." I said ‘as you say, Mother’ but I was skeptical of this new form of therapy. Shri Mataji lovingly re-assured me that just by balancing the energy flow in a yogi would affect a cure.
Further during our meetings with H.H.Shri Mataji, She expressed Her Desire for my father Prof U.C.Rai to be the first Director of the Health Centre and that is how he came here in 1996. I continued my career in Modern Medicine at Delhi. However I was also destined to come to the Health Centre and so i did, in 2001, along with my family. As Divine Wish prevailed, in 2006 Shri Mataji appointed me as Director of Research and Development at the Health Centre.
