Category: 1993-1997

Shri Mataji used to send directions for the projects at Canajoharie. She told us to add salt to the men’s food one day because they were getting dehydrated. Once we were to try to find a well. Shri Mataji knew there would be water and suggested that we use an old technique of dousing for…

I had an idea concerning Sahaja Yoga, and had kept it to myself for five years. I even did not tell my wife about it. ‘Sasha, you have an idea. It is wrong,’ Shri Mataji said once, when I was massaging Her at Cabella. So, I did not think of it any more. Then She…

In 1997 I came to live in Cabella. On many occasions we would go into Shri Mataji’s rooms and lift big boxes with gifts, and open them. A few times She would ask us to stay after the job was finished, then She would talk about all kinds of things. Sometimes She would offer us…

Once Shri Mataji was talking about the purpose of art. ‘Why do we have these arts around us?’ She asked. She was concerned that if fine art is not given patronage, it will soon die out. She said that the real purpose of fine art is to awaken the subtle sensitivities within us: it should…

Mother invested so much time and energy in artists and we have to remember this. Art enriches our life. Artists in Sahaja Yoga often make enormous economic sacrifices to develop their art, to express themselves and to offer that richness to society and the Sahaja collective. Mother always supported them, especially these great Indian musicians.…

Once at Cabella, I was in Mother’s room. ‘How is it,’ She asked me, ‘that you people took immediately to dharma in this crazy world after your realisation. Every time we switch on the TV, we see a man with his hands on a woman who is not his wife.’ ‘Before Sahaja Yoga,’ I told…

I was alone with Shri Mataji in Cabella. ‘Mother, will the whole world be saved?’ I asked Her. She went into meditation. ‘Evil was, is and will be. They don’t deserve it,’ She said. Christine Haage

Shri Mataji said that Indian art is very refined and very dignified, especially the art of miniature painting because it’s – I don’t remember Her exact words, but She explained it was very close to the spiritual, where each and every event of the incarnations is described using seasons, colours and everything. Shri Mataji spoke…

Just before my son was born Shri Mataji asked us to come and live at Cabella, because we were living in Milan at that time. We came in 1997, after the baby was born. After the Krishna Puja that year She called me up, in the night, so I went up and Shri Mataji was…

‘There exists only one religion in this world, and we call it Vishwa Nirmala Dharma,’ Shri Mataji said to a visiting Sahaja Yogi. Franz Mekyna