Category: Chapter 3

  • First programmes in Hong Kong

    First programmes in Hong Kong

    My friend Emily arranged for Mother to stay in a suite at the Hilton Hotel, Hong Kong, to have Her first official press conference with English and Chinese newspapers and two public programmes, one at a very prestigious venue and one in a large Hindu temple. Through her connections in TV and radio she arranged…

  • Divine timing

    Divine timing

    Emily noticed that Mother mostly arrived after the advertised starting time of the programmes. She had Her own very good reasons for doing this, never did anything by mistake and often graciously apologised for Her late arrival, giving logical and unavoidable reasons. Emily had little understanding of the ways of the divine and asked Shri…

  • The shawl-bearer to the Goddess

    The shawl-bearer to the Goddess

    After the 1981 programme in Hong Kong, we went back to the hotel in the hotel car and I got out, said my pranams, goodnight to Shri Mataji, and bowed down. ‘You must come,’ She said. I was in my dress with just my handbag. ‘But I haven’t got anything to wear, Mother,’ I replied.…

  • Overcoming negativity

    Overcoming negativity

    We were walking down a street in Hong Kong, shopping, in 1981. ‘Negativity – I don’t want to destroy negativity; after all, I created it,’ Shri Mataji said. ‘I want you people to become so powerful that negativity runs away in your presence. If you can do that, I won’t have to destroy it.’ Kay…