Memories of encounters and experiences with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
Just before the programmes at Ganapathiphule started, Mr. Chavhan and seven yogis went with Shri Mataji to do a public programme in Ratnagiri. After the programme was finished, they were to catch a ferry back to Mumbai. On being told that this ferry would be very late, Shri Mataji said that they should still leave [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
I had been given Realization in South Africa, where Shri Mataji had not visited. I had the good fortune of being in our Holy Mother’s presence for the first time on the India tour in 1990 – ’91. I was looking forward to the tour immensely. We were met in Mumbai by some yogis and [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
I was very young in Sahaja Yoga and I was on the India tour with Shri Mataji for about five weeks. It was round about 1984/5. We were in Brahmapuri, staying in a big tent. The Krishna river is there. Every day we had a bath in the river and washed our saris and dried [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
This is a beautiful memory from the 1985 India Tour, at Brahmapuri. We were camping beside the river and it was the most beautiful idyllic camping site. In the morning we all went down to the river and a rumour went around that Shri Mataji was arriving. So we made a path of coloured saris [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
In December 1984 I was taking part in the annual tour of India with Shri Mataji and about two hundred Sahaja Yogis. I had been very struck by the enormous respect and adoration in which the Indian Sahaja Yogis held Shri Mataji. In Vaitarna, a village some distance from Mumbai, the Indians had one day [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
The first time we saw Mother was in Mumbai in 1980. There were thirty Australians on that tour, five English, two French and one American. My first impression of meeting Mother was when She walked through the door with Sir C.P. I had a garland for Sir C.P. and Mother smiled at us all. We [...]
Posted in Early India tours on May 23rd, 2008
The second India tour was 1979-80 and that began with flying from the UK to Delhi with Shri Mataji. We stayed at Shri Mataji’s daughter’s house. It was a tour, but it wasn’t like the ones that followed because we used to just travel around in either the car with Mother or we used to [...]