Category: Chapter 14
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See My face
In the dining room in Brompton Square, Shri Mataji had all these different tea sets: teapots and cups and saucers and other things, around the picture rail, from about 1982. We had bought some of them in Hong Kong when She was there, from the local Chinese emporium for not very much money at all,…
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Shri Mataji on saris
Shri Mataji said the sari was the piece of clothing God created for women to wear. It is very auspicious, because if you include the palloo – the end bit – being put over one’s right shoulder for modesty and/or warmth, it is three and a half coils, like the Kundalini. She also said a…
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Updating the bible
In about 1981, in Brompton Square, Shri Mataji`s house in London, there was a public programme that Shri Mataji did not go to and She stayed at home. She asked someone to bring a copy of the bible and asked them to read out the part about John and the revelations. When it came to…
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Whatever you praise increases
One day my mum, Magda, had been invited to help at Shri Mataji’s Brompton Square house. As everyone knows, Shri Mataji was always very hands-on in all aspects of Her housing projects. No detail was too small to escape Her divine attention – even down to the quality of the products being used. Shri Mataji…
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You are the great ego
Mother had often told us to ask for something when we came to take vibrations from Her Feet. Of course we were always thoughtless and just absorbed the vibrations. After a meeting at Caxton Hall I remembered this and wanted to surrender. As I gave Shri Mataji a flower I placed my hands under Her…
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A large ashram called Nirmala Palace
In 1982, a large former nursing home in Nightingale Lane, Balham, South West London, was rented by the Sahaja Housing Coop, and it became an ashram. It was renamed Nirmala Palace. This mansion-like house was about half-way down Nightingale Lane, on the left hand side when coming from Clapham South underground station. Shri Mataji visited…
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A miracle at Brompton Square
It was a wonderful time for all of us when Shri Mataji was renovating Her house in Brompton Square off Knightsbridge. We were often there, sometimes for days together, and always working under Her personal directions. One day Mother asked two of us to clean the marble in all the bathrooms. We didn’t know what…
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A note from Shri Mataji
There was a letter pinned to the notice board in Nightingale Lane ashram (Nirmala Palace) back in the early eighties. It was from Shri Mataji to one of Her doubting sons. In it She communicated that of course She didn’t know everything. ‘But does a broom need to know the history and relationship between each…
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Back in London
Shri Mataji made several visits to Darwin Court, once when some French yogis came to stay there. Another occasion was when Shri Mataji came to see William, the first baby born to Graham and Gail Pottinger, who were living there from 1981 to 1982. Patricia Proenza
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Education
Shri Mataji spoke about Rabindranath Tagore’s school, Shantiniketan in Bengal. She said it was all very well their learning to make nice garlands, but it did not help them pass their exams, and this is a necessary part of a school, to qualify people for life. Right back in 1982, She said She would start…