Sahaja bai biography
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Sahaja
Spontaneous enlightenment in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
Sahaja (Prakrit languages: সহজSanskrit: सहजsahaja) means spontaneous enlightenment in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist spirituality.
Sahaja practices first arose in Bengal during the 8th century among yogis called Sahajiya siddhas.
Ananda Coomaraswamy describes its significance as "the last achievement of all thought", and "a recognition of the identity of spirit and matter, subject and object", continuing "There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void."[1]
Etymology
The Sanskrit [and the Tibetan, which precisely follows it] literally means: 'born or produced together or at the same time as.
Congenital, innate, hereditary, original, natural (by birth, by nature, naturally)'.[2]
Etymologically, saḥ- means 'together with', and ja derives from the root jan, meaning 'to be born, produced, to occur, to happen'.[3] The Tibet