Tag: Shri Mataji

  • Shri Mataji would get involved in all the work

    Shri Mataji would get involved in all the work

    Brompton Square was a jewellery box. Shri Mataji would get involved with all the work, She showed yogis how to stain furniture, all kinds of things and it would surprise some tradesmen that She even showed how to apply filler on the walls. On the outside of the house Shri Mataji applied filler and it…

  • Shri Mataji looked like Mother Mary

    Shri Mataji looked like Mother Mary

    Visiting Nagpur over the Christmas season and staying in the compound with Shri Mataji and Her family was another great blessing. My memories have a dream-like quality, of the three of us Sahaja Yogis sitting in a semi-circle on the ground of the pendal before Shri Mataji and Her family, and singing Silent Night. On…

  • I was enjoying watching you!

    I was enjoying watching you!

    When I was a young girl I had the great fortune and blessing of sometimes accompanying Shri Mataji on some of her trips abroad. I also spent some time ‘helping’ at Brompton Square, Shri Mataji’s London residence during the 1980’s. It was a time when those yogis and yoginis with decorating skills were invited to…

  • That’s better now!

    That’s better now!

    Shri Mataji worked on us and talked to us and there was an incredible smell of Indian cooking for about three hours. The servants started cooking early and then I began to get ill, but I felt brilliant. Everybody went down to the big drawing room and fell asleep on the floor for some time.…

  • A magical year

    A magical year

    Shri Mataji went back to India towards the end of 1975, but a small group of us met together during this time and waited for Shri Mataji to come back, which She did in the spring. After this our meetings with Shri Mataji continued throughout the rest of 1976, either at the house in Euston…

  • Shri Mataji went away for the winter

    Shri Mataji went away for the winter

    Shri Mataji went to India for about six months at the end of 1975 and we used to meet together, a handful of us, to try to meditate, but we were not very good at all. ‘You can come to India next year when I go. You can come with Me and meet all the…