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I was a little nervous about my studies, my exams and in India mostly we go to gurus and say, can I have your blessings because it’s quite common to say, can I have your blessings and things. I had to tell mother, can you put your hand on, because like Matthew said, we were…

…because like Matthew said, we were so informal, she really like a mother and can you put your hand on my head so that my exams go alright and she used to put the hand, yes, don’t worry. On one occasion, I said, I’ve got my SSC exams, that’s called GCSE in this generation and…

I remember seeing pictures. I don’t think there was, I don’t whether fear, as in a 10-year-old, mother was the center of attention so for me I would just wear my way through the front and stand next to mother. Mother was getting in the car, I was standing at the door as it was…

I  think one day Shri Mataji and her granddaughter and me, we are three of them, Shri Mataji was doing oil massage to her granddaughter named Anupama and I was just rubbing Mother’s feet. We were just watching that movie or something and we were just watching and Shri Mataji, suddenly she asked, what happened,…

No, totally the opposite. It wasn’t at all. I ran away from home, ran away from school and wondered where I fitted in the society. I tried everything and then I was on Crete with my two children, they were 11 and 14, living in a cave and we had fresh water, it was fresh…

It’s interesting when you look back after you got realization because you see all the little events that led up to this point as if Mother’s just pulling you there. When I was 14 I started reading poetry and I felt I want to be one with God, I want to be one with God.…

Pretty terrible things like philosophy and all this sort of intellectual seeking, getting completely lost and very damaged. I’d come back to London, I’d been out of London for a few years and I was feeling very unhappy, very depressed, quite unwell. I even took a day off work, I was feeling so depressed, I’d…

She is the consummate supreme speaker, she has that whole in her hands and the way she would switch from funny to make people laugh funny joke to then into the deepest most spiritual conversation and sometimes you would just watch and see the way she moved and you could see how she would bring…

Malcolm Murdoch, Chris Greaves, Patricia Proenza reminisce amazing times with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Person 1:…you know people, Mother, she was a mother to us. People find that difficult to, she’s divine but she’s a mother but it didn’t seem difficult to me. It’s like she’s your mother, whether she cooked for you, you just…

I used to put bandhans on things but I didn’t really actually believe with my heart. I found that hard to believe that doing this could actually affect anything. We went to a puja in London and Mother was talking about bandhans and she said, you know, when you put a bandhan on something it’s…