Category: Chapter 11

  • Today we can talk quite freely about religion

    Today we can talk quite freely about religion

    When Shri Mataji was renovating Ashley Gardens, in 1978, we used to go down to the McDonalds in Victoria Street nearby sometimes and have our lunch there. When we were sitting down, She used to talk to us. ‘Just imagine that today we can just sit down and talk quite freely about religion,’ Shri Mataji…

  • Her face kept changing

    Her face kept changing

    In Bath, in the late 1970’s with Shri Mataji, we wandered around shopping and there was a street artist trying to draw Her. She sat down and he tried to draw Her and couldn’t. He complained that Her face kept changing. The artist had incredible problems trying to draw Shri Mataji. The end result didn’t…

  • Everybody would go to Shri Mataji’s Feet

    Everybody would go to Shri Mataji’s Feet

    There was no singing in those days at the pujas. At the end of every puja everybody would have to take turns to go to Shri Mataji’s Feet and have their vibrations checked. That could sometimes be quite an ordeal. I remember being thankful when the collective got big enough to hide in and you…

  • Powerful, isn’t it?

    Powerful, isn’t it?

    We all trooped up to Shri Mataji’s flat after the Caxton Hall programme and were given cups of coffee. Shri Mataji continued to work on people. She just gave and gave. She asked me to put my hand on Her Left Swadishthan and put my other hand out. I felt an incredible force going through…

  • We were only a few Sahaja Yogis

    We were only a few Sahaja Yogis

    We were only a few Sahaja Yogis. After a while, we had the experience that when you worked on someone new, you knew which false gurus they came from, according to the catches. We used to have programmes at Caxton Hall and then people used to come back to a Sahaja Yogi’s place for follow-ups,…

  • I know you

    I know you

    In those early days, we all had the pleasure of going for personal visits to Shri Mataji and Sir CP’s apartment in Ashley Gardens, next to the cathedral in Victoria, London. Of course, Shri Mataji’s apartment was the real cathedral. Once Shri Mataji worked on a twelve year old girl I’d brought, who had a…

  • We were just there as instruments

    We were just there as instruments

    One day we were in Mother’s flat in London. ‘Can you go with another yogi to this old lady who is in the Royal Free Hospital?’ She said. Apparently this lady had some kind of ulcer and was in a really critical condition. At the hospital they didn’t give her much chance to live. I…

  • Mammals

    Mammals

    It must have been about 1977/8, in Bath, and Shri Mataji asked me if I knew what mammals were and I didn’t, so She explained to me that they were distinguished from other creatures because they suckled their young. I am uncertain how that came up though. Childhood memories can be so fragmentary sometimes. She…

  • Shri Mataji just looked at those clouds

    Shri Mataji just looked at those clouds

    On the trip back from Stonehenge we had been having some forest fires in the south of England, which had been going on for quite a long time and it hadn’t rained. I was in the car with Mother and one of the yogis was expressing his concern that we were going to lose all…

  • They are waiting for My permission

    They are waiting for My permission

    Some Sahaja Yogis went to Stonehenge and felt a lot of wonderful vibrations coming from the large stones. They suggested that we go there with Shri Mataji, so we went, in several cars. When we got down there, Shri Mataji bought us all ice creams. And just like little kids, we were all running around…