Category: Chapter 23

  • Shri Mataji on the terrace of the Pincio, Rome, after the public programme

    Shri Mataji on the terrace of the Pincio, Rome, after the public programme

    During the day Shri Mataji passed some of the time in Her room with the Italian Sahaja Yogis, having familiar and intimate conversations. She spoke of Italy and said that this country is very blessed with a very pleasant climate, a beautiful seashore and a sweet countryside. The most beautiful of the blessings that Shri…

  • A  special cradle

    A special cradle

    A baby girl was born to us in London in August 1983. We were young, and happily poor in those days and of course very glad to receive things from other yogis for the baby, including a pram, which had been around some babies before ours. When the time came for my husband Djamel to bring the pram down from…

  • The Surbiton ashram

    The Surbiton ashram

    In 1983 another ashram was found in London, a large house in Surbiton, a suburb in West London. Shri Mataji visited this ashram often, and worked very hard in getting the ashram started, instructing various yogis to move there, and even advised them on sorting out the plumbing work and repairs needed! On August 21st…

  • You always please Me

    You always please Me

    We had worshipped Shri Mataji as Shri Bhumi Devi in the garden at Surbiton ashram, in 1983. When it was time to go home we were chatting by the car parked at the end of the drive way furthest away from the house, when Shri Mataji came out and spoke to some of the yogis…

  • The symbolic significance of our work

    The symbolic significance of our work

    We were about seven Italians who had the enormous good fortune to be called to work here at Brompton Square before the Guru Puja in July 1983. The young men were to redo all the floors of the ground floor in Carrara marble, including the dining room. That morning we had to sort out the…

  • Take us with You (diary entry)

    Take us with You (diary entry)

    Shri Mataji arrived at Fiumicino airport on Wednesday, 7th of September, 1983. Rome was shining because of the splendidly sunny days and because of the vibrations of four thousand posters of Shri Adi Shakti, put up on the main roads of the city to announce Her coming. We have been much helped this year by…

  • The best present

    The best present

    The day after the programme in Mulhouse, the yogis from there offered Shri Mataji a self made silk printed shawl. Because I had been so busy with the organisation, I didn’t have time to work on this present and in my heart, I apologized to Her. She looked at me. ‘But you already gave Me…

  • Technology to help us

    Technology to help us

    Before I got married I stayed for a while with a Sahaj family – as in a training camp, so to speak – supporting the mother–to-be as she was soon to have her baby. When the time of birth came the couple went to the hospital and I stayed back in the house. Suddenly I…

  • The endless sack of cement

    The endless sack of cement

    When we were in Brompton Square in July 1983, Shri Mataji was still doing some work in the house. The Italian boys were doing the floor with blocks of Carrara marble. Alessandra Pallini

  • Shri Mataji is not from this earth

    Shri Mataji is not from this earth

    When my son Elliot was seven years old, he met Mother for the first time at a Guru Puja in England. Afterwards I asked him what he thought of Shri Mataji. ‘She is not from this earth. She is super imposed,’ he replied. Melody Hodgson