Category: Chapter 10

I met Shri Mataji in Rome in the autumn of 1981 when I was thirty years old. Gregoire and Catherine de Kalbermatten had given me realisation in early August. Catherine was busy with her baby so Gregoire and I organized programmes for Shri Mataji, who came in November. She had accepted to give four public…

Shri Mataji’s journey to Italy began in Rome. We saw some sights of the city with Her. In a church we saw Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, a massive figure of one of the ten primordial masters – Adi Gurus. Shri Mataji taught us that the incarnations of the Adi Guru are expressions of the principles…

One representative of each of the European countries then in Sahaja Yoga – Switzerland, France and Germany, was at the station to welcome Shri Mataji. The first evening the programme took place in the back room of a library. There was a crowd as far as the street, lots of young people from twenty to…

Gregoire de Kalbermatten was doing the introduction at a public programme in Rome in November 1981. We had been shopping with Shri Mataji and She went directly from shopping to the programme. I drove Her there, and before going on stage She wanted to refresh Herself, but nothing special was prepared for Her, so we…

We were a little group of European yogis who accompanied Shri Mataji for the first programmes in Rome in 1981.  We went out with Shri Mataji to see some basilicas that She wanted to visit. The first one was Santa Maria Maggiore, and as soon as we entered Mother was delighted with the marble floor…

We went to see the statue of Moses by Michelangelo. In front of the statue there were three ladies, all with black clothes and they were all praying and they were kneeling on the wooden pew. ‘Let them face My Kundalini,’ said Shri Mataji. So Mother put Herself in front of these three ladies and…

When Shri Mataji came to Rome in November 1981, She stayed at Grégoire and Catherine’s place. After two big and very successful public programmes took place, one day we went to visit Florence. We went to see the museum where Michelangelo’s statue of David is housed. ‘It is the representation of Luv or Kush,’ She…

We went to see the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in Italy in 1981. It is one of the most famous picture galleries in the world, where especially you have Italian paintings. At that time, we were a group of people from Italy and Switzerland. There was a lady who was a teacher of the history…

We discovered Botticelli when Mother told us that he was a realised soul. We discovered the Primavera and The Birth of Venus. At one of the paintings, it was amazing because Shri Mataji came close to the painting. ‘Why did they paint Joseph like this?’ She said. ‘He was not at all old. Why do…

It was the first time Shri Mataji came to Rome, for a series of programmes in November 1981. I had taken a holiday from work and went to London for a series of weddings, and Shri Mataji was going to see the yogis at these weddings. Shri Mataji had nobody to travel with Her and…