Category: Chapter 9

Initially the only recording of Shri Mataji’s talks was done in India. We started to record them in England with a small cassette recorder but the first real recording by the English Sahaja Yogis was at the first public meeting at Caxton Hall on 24th October 1977. This was done with an open reel recorder…

Shri Mataji took a whole pile of photographs and rubbed kumkum on the pictures. These were small posters, which we used to put in the shops because we thought if Mother vibrated them there would be a greater chance that they would attract seekers, but we didn’t have large posters and all these fancy things.…

On that first encounter Mother’s talk was about chastity. She explained how chastity was the most important quality in a woman. Also Shri Mataji worked upon a young Scandinavian girl who had been seeing a false guru.    After Mother had worked upon her, the girl moved back to her seat, however a little while…

I came to Sahaja Yoga at the first meeting held at Caxton Hall in October 1977. An Indian lady was sitting on the stage with about half a dozen very sick looking people and an English man was standing and talking. I was in the audience because the advertisement said, ‘Your divine birthright’ and ‘No…

That was a complete sea change. Up to that time it had just been a small group of people going around to different houses with Shri Mataji. Then She announced that She would like to have a public programme and we were all mystified. We were quite frightened and didn’t know what would happen. We…

The formal programmes started in October 1977 in Caxton Hall, on Mondays. The first advertisements were put in Time Out London. At the same time, we had posters, which we put up in shops and on shop windows. A lot of the seekers came from the Time Out advertisement. Djamel Metouri

We went to Saint Albans with Shri Mataji for one or two days in 1977. Shri Mataji, my sister Maureen, my son Kevin, Gavin and Jane Brown, Douglas Fry and Tony Panayioutou all stayed with Djamel Metouri at his student accommodation in the town. We had a small puja with Shri Mataji at the house…