This is a recollection of the 1990 tour of South East Asia. Shri Mataji had toured down to Australia, then She travelled to Malaysia, then to Thailand, and Taiwan and then finally Hong Kong. I was fortunate enough to be doing the video filming during this tour, so had the opportunity to spend quite a lot of time with Her.
We were staying with Prakash’s father’s house in Bangkok at the side of a canal. Shri Mataji was upstairs, and She was being attended by a number of yogis. We were sitting downstairs and one person said he had just had an amazing experience rubbing Shri Mataji’s Feet. The thought crossed my mind, that I would like to do the same, and then one of the girls who was looking after Shri Mataji came down and said that She wanted to see me. She called me upstairs.
‘Yes Shri Mataji, did You want to see me?’ I asked.
‘No,’ She replied, ‘I didn’t want to see you, did you want to see Me?’
‘No, Shri Mataji,’ I said.
‘Well, in any case, while you are here, you can rub My Feet.’
So it was a little play to get me up there to fulfil my desire to rub Her Feet. I started to rub Her Feet, and I was really pressing and massaging. I was using a lot of my strength, and the sweat was coming out of me, and She was telling me to press harder. After some time my arms started to get tired, but I just surrendered into it, and I just got lost in it, and after two and a half hours I just remember my whole body vibrating.
‘You had better take your rest now, and go off to sleep,’ Mother said.
She had been going in and out of meditation. I remember floating downstairs, and I lay on the floor and fell asleep, felt totally vibrating.
‘How is Alex?’ Shri Mataji asked the next day. ‘He must be in the seventh heaven by now.’
It was a very sweet experience.
Alex Henshaw