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Memories of our Divine Mother: 18. MARRIAGES 1) Pat Anslow said: This is going to be a tricky one Our original instructions for marriage we were told that Sahaja Yogis couldn't marry because we were brother and sister. We had the same Mother. So the only way you could marry was that you had to meet someone. They had to agree to marry you and then they would get their Realization, as your fiancι. We all thought, "This is going to be a tricky one." But Maureen actually did it. And the first time Mother arranged a marriage between two Sahaja Yogis, we were scandalized. We thought, "That can't happen!" But again it all changed. Pat Anslow 2) Maureen Rossi said: Shri Mataji had arranged one marriage in England and we thought that was what had to happen. But I was going to college and I met someone and I thought this is really not the right way to do it and I thought I better tell Shri Mataji. So I phoned Shri Mataji and said, "Mother, I've met somebody and he wants to marry me." And I thought She would say, "Well, what about his vibrations?" But She said, "What does his father do?" and "What is his career? What is his income?" She was just like a mother. Then She said, "Bring him to the meeting." So I said to this poor lad, "Shri Mataji wants to meet you." He hadn't met Her. He could feel vibrations and everything. So we went to the weekly Caxton Hall meeting. When Shri Mataji, who at that time used to walk among the people checking each one even though we had been doing our little bit, She would come and sort them out. You would thankfully hand them over. When She got level with this man, I sort of went, "Mother, this is the one" and She paid particular attention to him and the meeting went on. As She was getting into Her car because we would always see Shri Mataji to Her car outside Caxton Hall and gather round to say goodbye I thought, "I must ask." So I pushed myself forward and She said to me, "May God bless you." So I thought, "Oh, right," and turned round to [my brother] Pat [Anslow] and said, "Pat, I'm going to marry this boy." And he said, "I'm going to kill you." I mean, right down to that, Mother sorted us out. And then She said we would have the wedding in the Temple of All Faiths in Hampstead. We had had one other wedding and Shri Mataji organized the whole thing. I was at Hester [Spiro]'s house getting ready and Mark was at the Dollis Hill ashram getting ready and Shri Mataji went out and said, "You must have wedding ornaments." She brought them for us and we were to pay Her. She organized everything. She actually went out and brought the right things for us. She got Her own sari and put it round Mark's head as a turban an entire silk sari. And we had the havan and we walked round and we had the wedding vows and everything. And at one point during the ceremony we were seated within about two feet of Shri Mataji, sort of at an angle to Her at one point Mark's turban started to come undone, so Shri Mataji leapt up and went and reorganized it. And we have all these photos of Mother and you just know that it was all linked to everything, the chakras and everything, that She was actually fixing at the last minute. At one point during the ceremony I didn't know if I would feel married in an Indian wedding. You just don't know. It was a totally new thing. Unless there was music and someone saying, "I do," would I feel married? And I sat there and gradually the whole thing unfolded. And at that time we had to import a pujari because we didn't have anyone who knew anything and that was a bit strange. And we had to walk around the fire tied together by the silk scarf thing. And when most of the ceremony was finished, I was seated nearest to Mother. And I looked at Her and I started to cry and Mother started to cry. And She just took the depth of that occasion. She wanted to show me that this is for real. This is a real occasion and it has really happened. And after the wedding She took the wedding ring and blessed it and gave it to us. Then we went back to Hester's house and She had done a whole reception for us. We sat on this special seat. It was just extraordinary, the whole thing, and Shri Mataji was in another room. We were sort of the guests of honour, which was really weird. And then, in the end, we were brought in front of Mother, still joined by the scarf, sort of hobbling along, with the garlands on us. We didn't know enough to take them off. "And where are you going now?" And we looked at each other and we hadn't arranged anything or anywhere to go. And She said, "You'd better come with Me." And She took Mark and I to Her house, to Her flat, Ashley Gardens, overlooking the Catholic Cathedral. We didn't know what to do with ourselves. We were just so stunned. She took us into Her room and we sat there on the edge of this bed, waiting to know what to do next. And She undid all the silk things and She took them off. We were just so stunned. And She took us into Her sitting room and She gave us supper and we watched television with Her. And the next morning we had breakfast with Her and She gave me a cardigan to wear. We had nothing. She gave us everything to wear. And it so happened that next day was the day in which Chelsham Road became ours or Linda's or Sahaj Yoga's or whatever you want. And somehow Mark and I had to go and collect the key [from the owner] and so we went there to Chelsham Road and Mother said it would be such an auspicious thing to do. So we went there and found the old lady waiting to be taken away, who had sold it. She was quite a fright, sat in the old kitchen upstairs. So you know, that was just an incredible start. Maureen Rossi 3) Gail Pottinger said: There I was having my hands painted ready to get married I was very new to Sahaja Yoga. I'd been in about six months. I'd only met Mother a couple of times. I was living in Sheffield and I was phoned at home in Sheffield by Auntie Pam [Bromley] and asked, said, "Mother has proposed a match for you. Will you accept?" So I said yes and felt amazing vibrations. Incredibly, sort of my kundalini shot to the top of my head and through and I thought, "Wow." So I had about three days in which to get myself down to London for the weddings. It was quite a sort of event because, although there was sixteen couples, we thought this was a huge amount of people due to be married. Most of the weddings prior to this had been two or four couples at the most, so this was really an amazing event. We thought sixteen weddings was mega. So I came down to London and Graham, my husband, met me at the station and he'd been with Mother quite a bit and She told him what ring to get for me and everything. It was quite amazing. And I went to Chelsham Road, I think, the day before the weddings and stayed the night. And then in the evening, I think it was Chaya [Camille] and somebody else was putting mendi on our hands. We had like a mendi session in the boys' dormitory, that big room that was at Chelsham Road at the time, which was quite amazing. I didn't know anything about mendi. I hadn't a clue what it was or any way and there I was having my hands painted, ready to get married. Gail Pottinger 4) Kay McHugh said: It was Krishna Puja and there were lots of weddings sixteen? Sixteen weddings. It was lovely. It was full of flowers and it was Krishna Puja. Of course, it was the middle of summer or the end of summer and lots of brides getting dressed in Chelsham Road and I remember two Australians right up in that top, top atticky room. She sat outside with Her face to the garden with Her back to the meditation room with the French doors open either side of Her. Kay McHugh 5) Gail Pottinger said: We had a haldi session in the garden. I seem to think it was mixed up in a big sort of a tin yes, like a bath thing. That's what I seem to remember. Yes, yes, I remember this. I remember it all being mixed up, this huge tin bath full of haldi. And, you know, we all sat in the garden and people covered us in haldi. Shri Mataji was sitting in a chair there and I remember there's a beautiful picture of Her somewhere, just sort of back in Her chair laughing at us all putting this haldi on. She's really enjoying everyone putting on this haldi. This is August. This is in the August of 1981, in the August of 1981. And I remember Gregoire had a white suit on. I always remember that because it wasn't white when we'd finished. But there, that was an amazing ceremony and Mother just sat there through the whole of the haldi. She was sitting in Her chair in the middle of the garden in Chelsham Road, while we all got covered in haldi. On the day of the weddings we were prepared up in the rooms and Mother was there and She actually gave out the garlands to the ladies. She gave us all the garlands which had been made. She actually handed them personally to all the ladies. We stood in a line with our veils over us our sparkly veils over our face and She came along the line actually handing out the garlands to us, which is quite amazing. And ya, She told a lot of what She was instructing people what to do and how to do it. It's quite amazing really. And I remember thinking I don't know how we all got in that garden at Chelsham Road. I'm convinced it must have grown. Because we had the sort of havan ceremony was down the bottom end of the garden. And I can't remember, but I think there was only one fire. We didn't have lots of fires, like they do now. I think we were all walking around one fire and Mother was sitting down there near the stone. There's some stones, weren't there at the bottom? I remember sitting quite close to Mother. Mother was sitting there. And She brought in some sort of pujari, who wasn't I don't think a Sahaja Yogi, to do the ceremony. I remember She kept stopping him and correcting his Sanskrit. I do remember that. You know, we were all just sitting round with Mother at the bottom of Chelsham Road garden. We were all very close and She kept telling us what to do about walking around the fire and I seem to remember that we were tied by the scarves to each other and I had to walk around the fire once and then I had to follow my husband then seven times around the fire. Gail Pottinger 6) Kay McHugh said: And it was a beautiful starry night in the end, I think. Didn't it go into the night time? Kay McHugh 7) Gail Pottinger said: The day after the weddings [in Chelsham Road in 1981] I remember we came out of the house and we actually met Mother. I can't remember where Mother was staying, but we were going into Holland Park I remember. We were going for a walk in Holland Park and we met Mother somewhere on some steps. I can't even remember where it was, but I remember Mother was coming out of a house, anyway, and I remember I still had my anklets on I was thinking, "Oh, this is great. I feel really joyful and my anklets were tinkling." And we met Mother. There was Mother suddenly on these steps, sort of coming down from the house. And we bowed down to Her and She said, "Are you happy? Are you happy? Is it all right? Are you happy?" And I remember Her saying that to me and I said, "Yes, thank you, Mother. I'm very happy." And then we went off to the park. Gail Pottinger 8) Malcolm Murdoch said: When I decided to get married When I decided I wanted to get married, Shri Mataji would always point out someone to me and say, "What about the girl in the blue sari?" and all this sort of thing. And I just used to say nothing and disappear in the other end of the hall to avoid the subject. And Mother never pushed me, you know, towards saying it must be this girl or something. So anyway, the year I decided I probably decided, "I may not go through with it this year." And so I decided and then Mother said, "Oh, that spoils things." "Oh, that's all right, I got the hint, so I better go." So I went this year and during the tour around places like Rahuri and all that sort of thing, I went to Shri Mataji I found an opportunity to walk up to Her and say, "Yes, I'd like to be married." "Oh," She said, "Well, I've got two girls in mind an Australian and an Indian." So I said, "All right, yes. Mother, I'd like to get to marry to the Indian girl." She says, "Well, she's that girl over there." And, of course, I knew instantly who it was because I'd stayed in their house overnight because they were near the airport. But Mother said, you know, "Let me know in a few days' time what you want to do." And so I said to Her, "Okay, Mother. Thank you." And so I used these four days. I got Patrick Redican to go be my spy, you see. So I sent him off. I sent him off and I said, "Go and speak to this girl to see what she's like." I couldn't do it myself directly, could I, you know? I'd be too embarrassed to do that. So he came back and gave a good report and said she was a suitable character "suitable character and would, you know, be okay." And, of course, during this whole time, sort of, Meenakshi had no idea about it, you know. It was a bit one-sided, you see. So anyway, I went eventually went to Shri Mataji and said, you know it took a little time to catch up with Shri Mataji and said, "You know, I'd yes, I'd come. I'd accept her," that kind of thing. So during this conversation Mother said, "Okay, maybe. Maybe. Do you think she's a little dark?" I said, "No, no, Mother, come on" that sort of thing, as you say. And She says, "It may take a little time because I haven't spoken to the girl and I haven't spoken to the family." She called in probably Raolbai. So I expected to wait a few days for something like this for Her to speak to the parents, so we went outside and in about half an hour, three-quarters of an hour later, Shri Mataji came out to speak to the Sahaja Yogis and during the conversation She said, "I've got some good news that Malcolm and Kamakshi [as she was then called] are to be married." And, of course, we were all sitting there cross-legged on the ground with these two heads which sort of popped up, "Ah ah," you know, because, you know, I was expecting it to take some time. Meenakshi had no time to think about it because she'd only just been called in there and probably her father had been called in there and she agreed without any hesitation. And that was really the start to our story. Malcolm Murdoch 9) Jeff Raum said: I knew you would say that When Shri Mataji introduced me to a photograph of my future wife in India, She showed me the photograph and said, "She's very dark, but perhaps she'll lighten up in America." I felt that was very odd for Shri Mataji to say that because to me colour didn't make any difference, so I thought, "Well maybe She means that my wife is moody, meaning that she is dark in that way." So I asked Shri Mataji and said, "Do you mean she is dark skinned, Shri Mataji?" And She said, "Yes, yes, she is very dark, but perhaps she will lighten up in America." And I said, "Shri Mataji, that's no problem." And Shri Mataji tilted Her head back and let out this huge laugh and just slapped me on the back and said, "I knew you would say that" and just enjoyed the moment. Jeff Raum 10) Meenakshi Murdoch said: What to call him I remember one thing, asking Mother what should I call my husband because in India they don't call husbands by names. And Mother said to me, "Oh, call him `darling' because everybody calls husbands `darling.'" And then, of course, my brother [Avdhut Pai] prompted me that "I think you should call Malcolm `highness'" and I should call him really `highness.' And everybody knew that I used to be shy to call him in the public also `highness' and foolish to look and didn't bother me, of course. And then, of course, I think at that time Gavin [Brown] must have told Mother or something. So Mother said, at one stage, "I think now he should be called `eminence' and not `highness.' "He should be called `eminence,' not `highness'" that's what I got the message, of course, but you know. Still it's sweet. Meenakshi Murdoch 11) Ray Harris said: There is nothing you can do about it This is about my wedding in June 1983 to Chantal. That was a personal experience with Shri Mataji. She actually came over for a short time. Were you in Shri Mataji's house when She came? Because She was late, wasn't She? Ray Harris 12) Pamela Bromley said: Very, very late. And we knew your wedding was on and Shri Mataji was going to a wedding. But She had lost something, a necklace or something. And we had to look for it. And I said, "Where is it? Where is it?" and "Has the housekeeper got it?" And I remember thinking that "It is Ray and Chantelle's wedding and we have to look for whatever it was that was lost." It was found in the servant's room and then when it was found Shri Mataji left. But it was late. Pamela Bromley 13) Chris Marlow said: There was some hesitation. "Shall we open the presents now?" And it was decided and we opened them and it took quite some time and everybody appreciated every present. And the moment the last present was finished, there was a space "Well, what do we do now?" And then "Shri Mataji's coming." Absolutely perfect timing. Chris Marlow 14) Ray Harris said: When She arrived, She said that She was very sorry She was late. She apologized. There was a party with about ninety Sahaja Yogis there. It was a very large room and we had already had the ceremony earlier that day. And we had prepared food and cakes. I hope they had prepared food for Shri Mataji. I wasn't very compos mentis that day. When She arrived, She said, "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, but I have also been trying to work on some things. She said, "I have been working on AIDS and now we have the cure" or "there will be a cure." She said or "I've worked out some way of curing it." Maybe that was what She was doing in Her house. That's what She said or something like that. It was a very strange thing. We had been sitting there for some hours opening presents and just sort of talking. And, as She arrived, the whole place sort of lit up, as it does when Shri Mataji arrives anywhere. It was lovely before. There were Sahaja Yogis around and our families and I've got pictures of Her but when Shri Mataji arrived it was like the epitome of the whole thing became clear. Everybody sort of started to shine and the flowers looked beautiful and it really was a very awesome thing for Shri Mataji to come to one's wedding. She made a very short speech, sort of saying how the weddings in Sahaja Yoga are not just for you individuals getting married, but they should be for the good of the collective. And they should be for everyone to enjoy. And there is a tape of it somewhere. She gave us some presents. She said, "I'm sorry I couldn't find very much. I just found this present." And She gave us a parcel and we opened the parcel and it was a sandalwood box and it had four elephants on the top and She said, "That's four elephants for your four children." And, of course, we do actually have four children. It wasn't intentional because we only wanted two. When Shri Mataji says something, there is nothing you can do about it. But we are very glad actually. There have been one or two weddings where Shri Mataji has attended. I think they are very, very special occasions. Since then when everybody goes to weddings. They all enjoy it. I remember several other weddings over the years. Sahaja weddings have always been very collective affairs, not just family affairs lovely vibrations. Seeing Shri Mataji, you realize all the Sahaja Yogis are your family, all the human race are your family. Ray Harris 15) Sharon Vincent said: Above the thoughts One experience which was the most important, I suppose, was when I was going to get married. I went into the room. I was all ready. I had my sari on. And I didn't know which person I was going to get married to because there were two, two men, and nobody told me which one it was. And Shri Mataji was there in the room and She said, "What would I think, then?" And I said. "Yes. It's fine." And, although I had thoughts at the time, I seemed to be in a state where I was above the thoughts at the same time. And I walked towards Shri Mataji and I felt as though a ball of vibrations had just smacked me in the face. And I felt so good. I felt very happy and joyful. And She seemed to be very happy. And the marriage was okay and She said, "Look how well they go together." Well, that was just one small experience which meant a lot to me, how She arranges things so perfectly. We had never seen each other and yet it was something so natural. Sharon Vincent 16) Adriana Penido said: In any age and in any place I passed through a very memorable experience in Sahaja Yoga. That was my wedding in my case, a re-marriage in Sahaja Yoga. The whole day was very special. It began in the morning with the haldi ceremony in the river. There I got the impression that I was taking part in something much bigger and I noticed that time was not real. We could be living in any age and in any place. I passed a great part of the time in the witness state. It is very complicated to translate in words the bond, the communication between us when the brides were being prepared. Later, when we got ready, we sat for a few hours on the steps inside the castle [in Cabella], which led to a room where Shri Mataji was seated. We could not see Her, but could hear Her. We stayed there until the last yogini achieved the meditative state. Shri Mataji received us two by two for a little puja. Then I was absolutely sure that I was in the presence of the Great Goddess because only She could grant us this experience of the absolute. Adriana Penido 17) Wolfgang Hackl said: Bring her here Before I came into Sahaja Yoga, I had a girlfriend called Sabine. We had known each other for many years, even though we were not together all the time. I gave her Self Realization shortly after I received it myself. After some time it became clear to us that we should either marry or have the relationship of a brother and a sister, if we were to make progress in Sahaja Yoga. At the time, we did not want to marry and so we decided to see less of each other, which was quite hard at first. Every time we came across each other at Sahaja Yoga events, we tried not to see each other. A few years passed. Now, in Sahaja Yoga we can surrender to Shri Mataji to find the ideal marriage partner for each of us. This I did and, during the annual India tour with Shri Mataji in 1986, I learned that I was supposed to marry an Indian girl. However, the day before our marriages I was just becoming a little impatient, as my fiancιe had not arrived and no one had any news of her. Shri Mataji spoke with her father and I also was able to speak with him, but still the girl did not arrive. So I started to become rather fed up and quite frankly my desire to marry this girl started to ebb. Suddenly, I was called into Shri Mataji's presence. "You know," She said, "this Indian girl, she's a little too small for you, but what about this Sabine from Austria?" And I fell flat on the ground. No one at all had told Shri Mataji that Sabine and I had had any sort of relationship before and normally Shri Mataji likes to arrange marriages between people from different countries. "But still," I thought, "this won't happen anyway. Sabine has not come on the tour this year." Mother said, "Bring her here." "Sorry, Shri Mataji," we replied, "but she is not in India." Shri Mataji, unperturbed, simply repeated, "Bring her here." And we found out that Sabine had arrived, unannounced, at that very place just fifteen minutes beforehand from Europe. She is an air hostess and had taken advantage of special standby travel arrangements to come to India for a few days. So the two of us prostrated before Shri Mataji to receive Her blessings, resembling the Austrian flag, with my face very red and hers very white. Wolfgang Hackl 18) Rosie Lyons said: I was there with you all along There was a lot of turmoil in my life. I wanted to divorce my husband and Mother suggested that I write a letter to Her explaining why we should divorce. I did so and She read the letter. "No, no, no. Go and get a pen and paper." And She dictated things to me, things I would never mention, but true things. Mother was telling me, "I am with you. I know what you are going through. I know what you have to bear. I was there with you all along in every moment, every thought. I'm always there. There's no secrets from Me." Our Mother is the Adi Shakti. Rosie Lyons 19) Patricia Mays said: We realize we are part of this game I was married with a Romanian guy, but I never lived with him. He came to Columbia and I saw him and I didn't feel okay with him. I felt like it's not the right person for me, but I felt my kundalini and it really confused for me, really confused. When he goes to the airport and I felt my kundalini and I felt some joy, but, at the same time, I felt such panic to live with him. So I realized that I can't live with panic with this person in this way. I had to wait or maybe I had to shed more of my ego or my fears or many things. "Maybe I'm not ready for this kind of marriage." And I told the leader, "I'm not ready for that. I really have to work out so many things." And I started to shoebeat, everything. I felt like it can't be, but nothing else was in the middle of my mind and he stayed at home with us six months, more or less. I asked the leader, "Don't make me make something. I really don't want to." It's something you have to have for the freedom in yourself. And I knew I had to listen Shri Mataji, but, at the same time, I listen to my heart and I can't do it. It's something, I can't do it and she says, "It's your ego." And I say, "Maybe it's my ego. It's too much. I can't do it." I thought when Shri Mataji came here Shri Mataji would come that year to Colombia to visit and She would stay at the ashram. And I said I will go away. I didn't want to stay there. "Shri Mataji will kill me." I felt so so like guilty for not being the perfect child for Her and I said, "Oh, no. This is going to be terrible." And I said right away She will go to the airport. And the first person She asked, "How are you?" was me. And it was like I am far away from Her, like I took my rose, but I want to be far, no? like I'm far away. And She had both Her eyes on myself for all the way down, down, down and when She came near to me, She said, "How are you?" And I said, "Fine, thank you, Shri Mataji." And it's like now you have to hide something and it's impossible to hide something from Her. She knows everything. And I gave to Her the rose and immediately She said, "I want you to make first class for My trip to Miami and the way back." She was coming from Argentina. And I took the passport in my hand. She gave me the passport to me, no. It's nobody else. And I don't speak very well English and they had to explain to me everything, but to me, no. And I say, "Okay." And I had that passport and saw this passport. It was like two passports really, one glued with the other. And it's a big passport with all the countries. And I opened the passport and saw how much She travels. "It's only two year's passport and look at that." And it's countries and countries and I look and it's amazing. I asked myself, "Why did She put me in this situation? She wants my mind in peace or something I think." After, I realize She wants me not thinking about it probably. I put my mind on something different. And I really had to change Her passport first class and go into different airlines because She travels with one airline and after different airlines and like this and She wants all the first class till India. It's America and after through India, all the tickets. I had to go to different travel agencies and figure it out how it will work. It was two days working like that completely disappeared of the ashram. I had to cook for Her. I had many things to do there, but She didn't want me there. She wanted me all the time in the travel agency, buying tickets and changing them. And meantime, Marie Laure [Cernay] told Her what is my decision. And I want my ex-husband to go to Shri Mataji and speak with Her, whatever he wants to do. Whatever he wants to say, he can say. It doesn't matter if he says whatever. It doesn't matter, whatever. She knows everything. And I want him to because he was such a left-side personality and I feel he needs more than I. He needs more explanation why the divorce will happen, why the divorce had to be. He needs more explanation from Shri Mataji. I feel that at the moment and I ask Marie Laure, "Please work this out. Ya, work out with him. Whatever She says, I will do it." And I decide at the moment, say She says I have to marry with him is the best for me, I will do it. I told her I will do it with my closed eyes and I will try to work it out." And, at that moment, I went to different travel agents and I changed the tickets and I came back and She was with all the couples about the problems and was She really upset. You know, Shri Mataji said, "It has to work out." And I say, "No way I am going to see Her." Because they asked me, "Do you want to go see Her?" And I say, "No way She says that. I know what's there. I know what She says. I want it to be from Her. I really don't have the courage to be with Her right now" because I felt She wasn't happy with me. And I cried, cried all night because I can't see what I can work out, how it can work out, how's myself, how I'm going to be with Her. I know She is powerful. I know how She changed my life. "How I can change this little part of my life? Why I don't change, no? This mind what is going on in myself?" And I cry and one moment She sent me a glass of water. It's like, "Stop crying, now. Don't cry more." And the moment She sent me the glass of water and I drank the water and they say, "You drink," somebody was saying to me, "and Shri Mataji sent that. This is the water Shri Mataji gives to you." And it's a really big glass of water, no? I drank. They say, "You have to drink. You don't put on the hair. No, only drink." I say, "Okay, drink the glass of water." You know, I can't believe. I felt never in my life, I feel the water can be so powerful powerful, like it's cleaning every little chakra. I feel so happy. The joy in my heart does not stop. It's joy and joy and joy. And I started laughing. Completely different the crying completely became laughing and enjoyment and I started laughing out loud in the house and everybody felt so surprised, saying, "Shri Mataji was upset with the women and you're so happy." I say, "Now tell me why because I really feel some blessings of Shri Mataji." Shri Mataji said, "Please make the soup. Patricia make the soup for Me tonight." And I did the soup with somebody. And I remember Shri Mataji told me and I gave to Shri Mataji. I went to Her bed and gave to Shri Mataji and Shri Mataji said She's laughing a lot and talking about my ego, I think so, and about my attitude with this boy. And She says he's a pure, very pure man, a very sweet and left- sided and he needs another kind of woman. And also you need a very strong husband. But for that, you have to wait some time." But She was still laughing about me and almost She took one of my ears. I remember. I have a beautiful earring and She saw one a blue, very nice earring and She pulled my ear. And She said, "Oh, it's so beautiful." And after, She pulled. The same time She said "beautiful," She pulled my ear. And I felt like She's really fooled me and I say [to myself], "What is going on with you?" Like that, She said, "Please see yourself and be honest with yourself." I felt like that at the moment. "Work on yourself and I will give you to the right person for you." But, the same time, I felt that that person wasn't for me, was somebody to show me how is my behaviour, like how I have to be more strong. I have to be a better Sahaja Yogi. I have to be more surrendered there. We realize we are part of this game, Shri Mataji. We are part of this how does She say this work, Shri Mataji has asked with us, no. Like don't worry now, we are still part of this cosmic collective consciousness and we, together, work something out. Patricia Mays 20) Mary Ann Ghaffurian said: I remember everything Over the days Mother was in Melbourne [in 1990] She had a public program at the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne. It ended with Her inviting anybody who wanted to come forward, to do so. The hall is large with a wide central carpeted aisle and two smaller side aisles. Shri Mataji was sitting in the very centre at the head and all the people who were slowly moving forward to meet Her. We joined at the end of the almost hall-long queue and I noticed something remarkable. Right down the central aisle was flowing an intense current. It was unmistakable. If I moved to the sides, it slackened right off, but in the centre it was intense, like a wind off the sea, only rippling through me. The many people in front were like a weak shield to this wind, which was blowing straight through them, as I steadied myself, my vibrations and attention in order to be able to meet its source right ahead of me, which was Shri Mataji. Then it was our turn [my husband and I] to go forward to Her. She was looking at us approach. We both went down to our knees. I then thanked Her for the marriage in Milan. She said, "Yes, I remember. I remember everything." Then She lifted Her right hand up, facing towards us and closed Her eyes, staying motionless as She does at the end of pujas. Her eyes open, She said to me, "See what a tremendous marriage I have given you." Mary Ann Ghaffurian
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