Category: Experiences

  • From now onwards it will be like this

    From now onwards it will be like this

    In the early seventies, after Shri Mataji started Sahaja Yoga She used to spend a lot of time working on people. She used take the time to teach us how to feel vibrations and would always ask us which chakras were catching. This gave us the opportunity to develop confidence in ourselves. At each programme, She would…

  • He felt he could be anywhere in the universe

    He felt he could be anywhere in the universe

    The second experience occurred a short while later in 1972, at Dadar during a programme. There were young and old who had this state of self realisation. The writer was a bit incredulous but decided to approach a teenager, and asked him what it was like to be realised. This question was asked even though the writer…

  • The Tree

    The Tree

    In March 1972 Shri Mataji again visited Nargol for one day along with Advocate Pradhan, the first trustee of the Life Internal Trust of Mumbai. He requested Shri Mataji to show the tree at Nargol under which She sat to open the Sahasrara of the universe. In all the subsequent years after 1975 some Sahaja…

  • The first seminars

    The first seminars

    Shri Mataji requested the first seekers to attend a seminar for four days at Bordi beach, a few kilometres to the south of Nargol, in January 1972.  Only ten seekers came to Bordi, where Shri Mataji Herself helped all of them to further establish the power felt by them within.  After that She arranged annual…

  • One would feel Her fragrance

    One would feel Her fragrance

    After the first meetings at Jeevan Jyot I was allowed to go to the talks that Shri Mataji used to give near Dadar. There would be sixty to a hundred people. Everyone would come in and sit with their eyes closed and Shri Mataji would arrive. Sometimes She would give a talk and sometimes She…

  • You are fortunate that you saw Me

    You are fortunate that you saw Me

    ‘Raolbai, I want you to come to My house tomorrow. All of you who felt vibrations must meditate every morning and evening, so as to go deep and feel them.’ I used to stay with my daughter in a one room apartment and at around 4 am I woke up and I was surprised to…

  • How kind and compassionate Shri Mataji was

    How kind and compassionate Shri Mataji was

    Shri Mataji and Sir CP were living in Mumbai in the Shipping Corporation flat, on Napean Sea Road, when Sir CP was Shipping Corporation Chairman. A few floors down lived Mrs Batra, the wife of Admiral Batra, who knew Shri Mataji very well and related this story to me. She told me how kind and…

  • A prayer answered

    A prayer answered

    The musician Aslam Khan is the brother-in-law of Baba Zaheer, the qawwali singer from Hyderabad who always sang before Shri Mataji. He told this miracle story. Around the time of Eid, the Muslim festival, Aslam Khan was very worried as there was no money to buy presents for his family. This festival being like Christmas…

  • May God bless you

    May God bless you

    In 1969, I again met Shri Mataji at Worli, Mumbai, near Century Bazaar.  We were then staying in Worli, and my wife told me that she had met a beautiful lady with a gleaming, shining face at the market. ‘I said namaskar to Her and asked Her if it was the first time She had…

  • My first holy darshan of Shri Mataji

    My first holy darshan of Shri Mataji

    It was in about February or March in 1963 that a complaint came to my superior, from the Shipping Corporation of India office, about a maintenance problem in their flat at Jeevan Jyot.  As it was my job, the next day I went to Jeevan Jyot around 9.00 am and rang the bell of the…