Category: Chapter 24

It was the Ekadesha Rudra Puja in 1983 in New York. I was assigned to make the crown. I cut it out of cardboard, covered it with blue velvet and decorated it with five gold stars. In the puja Shri Mataji explained that the distinctive powers of the Ekadesha would now be used constructively and…

I remember Shri Mataji saying something about teddies protecting children while they sleep. Danya Martoglio

Shri Mataji raised the Kundalini of many a child’s cuddly. She would make the little monkey or bear meditate nicely. Manipulating its little paws roly poly up the body, She would make seven bandhans and then sit it down to meditate, paws out in front of the delighted children. Marilyn Leate 

In 1983 Shri Mataji came to New York and spent a week at the apartment of Herman and Judy Gaddy. Word went out that She was coming and yogis came from as far away as Vancouver to stay with Shri Mataji and have Her darshan. As Sahaja Yoga was quite new in America, it meant…

In 1983, when Shri Mataji visited us again in New York, we had to be instructed that if we wanted to have Her return we would have to invite Her. I thought this was so cool, because I knew that the false gurus just showed up at their convenience. We were led in the puja…

In October 1983 Shri Mataji came to Vancouver with some Australian and English yogis. The English yogis came about two weeks beforehand to assist in preparing the ashram and the programmes. The ashram was in West Vancouver, a large home in one of the more elite parts of the city. We had about six people living there at…

On Shri Mataji’s first major American tour She did the rounds of radio and television stations in Los Angeles, with the help of a public relations agency, which had on its staff an Australian. We wrote them a script, and one of the girls rang around, making bookings. Pictured below that is the result of…

When my son was an infant, Shri Mataji came to Vancouver and I was very grateful that She consented to give him a name after the Shri Ganesha Puja in 1983, at which all the people from the public programme the night before in the city were invited to! At that time She also gave…

Here is the story to the Ekadesha Rudra Puja in our apartment at 215, West 92nd St, New York City, in September 1983. An Indian Sahaja Yogi did the puja recitations, Christine Kirby helped place the garland and John Partridge videoed the puja. I am pretty sure I was the only one with a camera.…

When Shri Mataji was in Boston in October 1983, a few of us were staying in the ashram there. We’d had a meeting and Mother had asked everybody back for puja. Everyone who had been to the public programme was asked back to have lunch and a puja the following day. We were cooking for…