Memories of encounters and experiences with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Posted in UK Beginnings on May 31st, 2008
I’d seen Shri Mataji’s photograph before I met Mother. I’d heard about these meetings and I came to the last meeting at Judd Street. One damp Sunday afternoon, it was raining, and I came with my sister, Maureen. It had a huge impact on me because I’d heard that there was a yogi lady and [...]
Posted in UK Beginnings on May 30th, 2008
The area where I used to live was round by Euston, near Tolmers Square in London and that area was a sort of high energy area. There were a lot of squatters and things like that there. We had a little community club there and one day in 1973 this fellow turned up, Mukund Shah, [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 29th, 2008
It was the beginning of 1981 and we went to see a movie with Shri Mataji in Pune. There were about thirty of us from Australia on that first tour where there were buses. Shri Mataji told us all to go to this movie theatre one evening. She was supposed to come too, but the [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 27th, 2008
It was 1989 when I was on the India tour, when we were at Brahamapuri, which was the Krishna River, and I had the opportunity to walk close to Shri Mataji. She did some footage for a video, and I put my shawl on a rock where She was going to sit down. She vibrated [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 26th, 2008
It was about 1991/2, in Delhi. I was travelling with Shri Mataji, and asked Her a question which had been in my mind.
‘What is the thin line dividing self respect and ego?’
‘A person who has self respect has no ego,’ Mother replied.
Mr G.K. D.
Posted in Early India tours on May 25th, 2008
Mother had gone to Lucknow to attend a marriage, in 1989. When Shri Mataji came back to Delhi, the flight was delayed and we had arranged a public programme for Shri Mataji in Noida. By nine o’clock Shri Mataji had still not arrived, because of the delayed flight. At nine thirty, Shri Mataji came and [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 24th, 2008
Mother came to Lucknow in 1989. On the same evening as She was flying to Delhi from Lucknow, She had a public programme in Noida, near Delhi. We all went to the airport in Lucknow to see Her off, but the flight was delayed. There was a sofa there and Mother was relaxing on [...]