This little gem took place at Lisbon Airport after Diwali Puja 1997 in Portugal. About 30 yogis were in the airport and one by one Shri Mataji was accepting a flower from them. I began to feel we were putting pressure on Mother, who was staying there and having to accept all our flowers and I held back. However Mother had accepted all the flowers from nearly all the other yogis and it was my turn. When I gave Mother the flower, I began to cry. She asked me why I was crying.
‘I always cry, Mother,’ was what came out. I don’t actually cry so much but that is what I said.
‘You know I can never leave you. I am always with you,’ Shri Mataji replied, knowing really what I felt.
Barbara Bain
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