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Memories of our Divine Mother: 19. CHILDBIRTH AND CHILDREN 1) Rosie Lyons said: Shri Mataji knows everything One day my sister came to visit. She wasn't a Sahaja Yogi and she was a vegetarian. That day Shri Mataji had asked for vegetarian food to be prepared and after that visit I was so excited. I'd heard that [my sister] was having a baby. I mentioned this to Mother, who replied, "Yes, I know." After that time my desire to have a baby was really strong. I was in a room with a pregnant woman and Shri Mother said, "This couch should be moved." And then She looked at us both and said, "Pregnant ladies can't move furniture. Go and find someone." And I looked around to find the pregnant lady wondering who else was pregnant. I was the only one there. I found out I was pregnant the next day from a test. Shri Mataji knows everything. Rosie Lyons 2) Maureen Rossi said: I was hovering about in the hall When we were expecting our second child, there was a huge seminar [at the source] of the River Thames at that scout place — somewhere, Cowley Manor. And, because I was very, very pregnant — it was July or August and the child was due in September — they put me in the next room to Shri Mataji and there was also someone else. Rosie [Lyons] was very pregnant as well and she was in the next room. And the next morning I was hovering about and Shri Mataji was there and there was a Sahaja Yogini looking after Mother and I was hovering about in the hall. I was hovering around first thing in the morning. It was quite early. In fact, I was still in my nightclothes with a dressing gown. Mother actually asked who was out in the passage. They said, "A pregnant Sahaja Yogini." She called me in and said, "I wasn't sure if it was you or Rosie." And She started working on my left Swadisthan and left Visshuddhi. She worked on it for forty minutes and said that it would help my delivery. Innocent was born on the 16th September and the birth took forty minutes from start to finish. Maureen Rossi 3) Gail Pottinger said: She felt my desire When we were living in Bramham Gardens and I was pregnant with William, I had this incredible desire to eat dates and I really wanted some dates. And one evening, [my husband] Graham came up from Mother's apartment [which was downstairs] and said, "Mother sent you these." And She sent me a huge box of full of stuffed dates, which was quite amazing because obviously I hadn't told Mother, but She obviously felt my desire to eat dates and sent up a huge box full of dates for me, which was nice. Gail Pottinger 4) Ruth Flint said: Transparent for our Mother I was pregnant with my second child, Jayendra, Jerome, [in 1987] and was feeling very sick. Shri Mataji told me that I had to drink lots of Coca-Cola and that this would help me. I said, "Yes, Shri Mataji," to Her, but because I did not like Coca-Cola, I thought that I would take Coca-Cola Lite, so at least it would not be so bad, because I somehow thought that Coca-Cola Lite would contain less caffeine. Immediately Shri Mataji said, "No, no, not Coca-Cola Lite. You take the normal Coca-Cola and if you don't want it to be so full of gas, you can put a little bit of salt in it and so the gas will go away." Of course, I was stunned once more at the way we are transparent for our Mother. Ruth Flint 5) Maureen Rossi said: Everything in Sahaja Yoga is completely joined She started this tour, which started in London and went up north and She came out and we arranged a meeting in Ilford, in the Town Hall. I couldn't go because I was expecting our third child, Sammarth, and She then went on round and went up to Middlesborough in the end. Now my husband, Mark, was organizing Ilford, but we also organized Middlesborough in the north because he came from there and by then the child was old enough for me to travel. And when we were up there, She stayed in a flat of Sahaja Yogis there and She was going to name our child. And She sort of took him — and people were being helpful and suggesting, people trying to make suggestions. Anyway, Mother named him Sammarth. She said, "You should give him an English name as well." Anyway, Mother then named him Samson. So he was Sammarth Samson. She told us what it meant — Sammarth. It meant powerful and the one who knows his own reality. And the one who is equal to his name. And we were very pleased. Anyway, some time later I heard the tape from the Ilford Town Hall, five weeks earlier. And in it Mother said, "You have to be Sammarth. You have to know your own reality. You have to be equal to your name." It was just an instance for where everything in Sahaja Yoga with Mother is completely joined and completely and completely flows. And yet, Mark had been at that meeting and he didn't remember Her saying that. Maureen Rossi 6) Meenakshi Murdoch said: The power of smile With [my daughter] Smita I had this high desire to show some photographs to Mother because Smita had lovely smiles when she was very young — you know, lovely, lovely smiles. She used to always smile all the time, you know. You see her pictures where Agnya chakra is glowing and you know, lovely smile. Anyway, I had this very high desire of showing these photographs to Mother, you know, these lovely photographs. And it's funny, this desire is there, but I don't want to take Mother's attention from that to petty things like showing a daughter's photograph to Mother, I thought. But this — the desire was there, but I wouldn't show it. So anyway and then when Mother came to the airport, She gave me the message to say that "Oh, your daughter, she's fine. She's fine because I saw her photographs. Your daddy showed Me her photographs. Mr. Pai showed Me her photographs." So even when you have this desire and it just comes out, Mother, you know, replies your desires, you really know. And then afterwards, for Sahasrara Puja, I took at Cabella — Cabella, but it was different that time — we took Smita there and Mother said, "Oh." She just held Smita on Her hand and later on She gave. She must have remembered. I mean, She knew, of course, the smiles. She gave her name as `Smita, power of smile.' That's how she got her name. So they're so small things, but they're sort of significant, I think. You know very, very significant. Meenakshi Murdoch 7) Linda Williams said: The first one to hold the baby was Mother My son Datta was born when we were living at Chelsham Road. He must have been the quickest and easiest birth ever, about forty minutes from the beginning of the labour pains to the birth of the child. What happened was this: it was a Saturday afternoon and I was alone except for Grezyna Anslow. I felt the labour pains starting, not very painful, but enough to know the birth was starting. I was just about to phone for an ambulance to take me to the hospital, when the phone rang. It was Mother and when on the phone to Mother, one does not interrupt or change the subject — rather, let Mother lead the conversation. Mother talked for quite some minutes and the labour pains were coming closer and closer together, indicating the child would soon arrive. Eventually, I plucked up the courage to say, "Mother, I think the baby is coming any minute now. Perhaps it would be a good idea to phone the ambulance." To which Mother said, "Yes, it is. I can feel it, too." So She rang off and I phoned the ambulance, which arrived a few minutes later. We were supposed to be going to the Royal Free in the north of London, about half an hour minimum in the ambulance. As we were crossing the Thames, I said to the driver, "You must put me off at the first hospital we get to or this baby is going to be born in the ambulance." The driver was a young man, a part-timer and was horrified at the thought of delivering a baby, even though Grezyna was there to hold my hand. Three or four minutes later I was dropped off in the Trauma Unit of the University College Hospital and within five minutes Datta was born in a sort of waiting room. The thing was, I think Mother wanted Grezyna present at that time and no one else. My then-husband had gone to the Royal Free up in Hampstead. The first one to hold the baby, apart from the doctors and me, was Mother, who arrived shortly afterwards to pay me a visit. Mother brought a lovely bunch of flowers in a copper vase and when the flowers, a few days later, had died, I tried to give Her back the vase. "No," She said. "The vase is part of the gift." Still, almost twenty years later, we use that vase for putting the coconut in at our pujas. Linda Williams

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