Category: Chapter 24

Back in early years, when I was a small child, Shri Mataji would visit for pujas and public programmes She would always bring gifts for the women, but not for the men. I did not enjoy the feeling of being left out. So one day after She arrived and laid out all the gifts for…

Shri Mataji celebrated an Ekadesha Rudra Puja in a New York City apartment in 1983, approximately a year after I’d become a yogi. The local leader had explained that Shri Mataji works on several levels, both on the conscious and subconscious levels. She said that Shri Mataji often did work on us in the dream…

Back in 1983, when I was something like a ‘yuva shakti’ in our small Vancouver collective, I had the amazing honour of chauffeuring Shri Mataji in a rented Lincoln Continental. One drive took us to a local television studio, where, at the end of the interview, I was beside myself with joy to see Shri…

In 1983 Shri Mataji came to Boston. I am from there. She spent quite a long time with us that year. The memories that I have of Her time in Boston are very precious because we had a small ashram. Shri Mataji stayed in the ashram with a small number of us and we got…

In San Diego, California, in 1983, Shri Mataji had just finished Her breakfast in the hotel room and went over to Her suitcase to remove a sari that She would change into before travelling north from San Diego to Los Angeles where She was scheduled to give a public programme later that evening. She took…

One visit to the Gaddy’s apartment in New York with Shri Mataji was for the Shri Ekadesha Rudra Puja in 1983. There was a beautiful talk where She talks about how the destructive powers are to be used for transformation; that is their purpose. After watching the Star Wars movie Rustom Burjorjee summarized it for…

The Smurfs, as they were known, were all the craze at the time with the young children, and it seemed such a sweet thing for Shri Mataji to say that they were Shri Ganesha’s ganas. I remember sitting in the room watching the Star Wars movie. It was a somewhat surreal experience as I never…

We were on the America tour with Shri Mataji, in September 1983. We were in a car with Shri Mataji going between San Diego and Los Angeles and this happened during the sailing race for the Americas Cup, which Australia had entered for the first time. There had been a front cover on Time, or…

‘See, feel the vibrations flow around the circle,’ Shri Mataji said to us. We could feel the vibrations flow around the circle and there was a lady there who was pregnant and she could feel the baby dancing to the rhythm. Mother was in the circle, holding hands with us all. Mary Heaton

My family used to live on the East Coast of the USA at that time, the beginning of the 1980’s, and I had just started practising Sahaja Yoga. Before Sahaja Yoga I had an alcohol addiction. Shri Mataji advised me to try to quit drinking as my drinking habit was affecting my small daughter. I…