In our two year engagement, we didn’t see each other very much, but on one occasion I went to London to see him. Shri Mataji was having a public programme at Versiliana. She used to go there every year. This was one of the first times and I was supposed to take the plane by myself to London afterwards to see Victor. I was very afraid and my mother was a little bit worried because I had never been on a plane before. She took me to the airport and we were going to have to wait a bit for the plane, so we decided to go and have a short look at the city, which was Pisa. We went to this amazing square called the Miracles Square and Mother was just standing there.
‘What are you doing here?’ She said. Somebody explained that I was going to England to see Victor, so She said, ‘Well, you must come with Me. I will take you there because Victor is looking after My house and he is there waiting for you.’
So I had to change my ticket and my mother was so pleased. We told the Sahaja Yogis that I wasn’t to leave alone because I was so young to travel by myself. It was an amazing journey. There was just Mother and me and flying with Her was like a journey in paradise. She kept telling me how Victor was such a good boy and that we would have such a happy life together. She was so very, very sweet. I didn’t look after Her; She was looking after me. She gave me chocolate and coffee to keep me relaxed with Her.
‘Now you have to stay in My house,’ She said when we arrived in London. When I got there, Victor was there, because he had been looking after it, and he didn’t expect me at all.
‘I have brought your fiancée with Me,’ Shri Mataji said. He was so confused and the aarti tray fell on the floor and things like that. I was so shy and red in the face and standing on the other side. ‘You see, men, how they are,’ She said and was laughing so much.
In the couple of days I was there, She was always playing with us, telling Victor we should have walks in the park together and be together and go in the garden to the swing, all this romantic kind of thing.
‘Did he buy you an engagement ring?’ She asked me one day. So I said he had not and She called Victor and said, ‘Do you have money to buy an engagement ring?’ She gave money to him and he got a ring and She wanted to see it. Mother was quite amazing at this time.
We got married two years later, when I was eighteen, and we have had such a happy life together.
Purna Vertunni
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