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Memories of our Divine Mother: 20. AIRPORTS AND AIRPLANES 1) Heidi Zogorski said: The plane has landed I love greeting Shri Mataji as She arrives in a city. I remember many times waiting for Her to arrive. We'd be waiting, often quite a long time, and all of a sudden, we'd feel the cool on our hands and we'd look at each other and say, "She's here." And then someone would come and say, "The plane has landed." Heidi Zogorski 2) Kristine Kirby said: She was very conversational In 1981 Shri Mataji came to Boston for the first time. This was really my first experience of Sahaja Yoga. And through the person who is now my husband, Steven, I had heard about Shri Mataji and about Sahaja Yoga and heard of the reality of who She was and became very eager to meet Her face to face because I felt, if I could meet Her face to face, I would be able to recognize if this was reality or not. And I still have vivid memories of standing with my then acquaintance, now husband, at the airport, preparing to greet Her with a bouquet of yellow roses. Of course, She wasn't on the plane that we expected Her to be on, which was a disappointment, but She was on the very next plane, which was an hour later. I met Her and She said, "Oh yes, Kristine, we have another Christine who is in New York." And She was just very conversational. Kristine Kirby 3) John Glover said: You'll have to come a lot closer One time at [Heathrow] airport we all used to go to meet or send Mother off I had a camera to take some pictures and I was right at the back of the line with a wide angle lens and Mother was there and others were taking photos and She looked at me and smiled and said, "You'll have to come a lot closer with that lens." And I was quite amazed and I came to the front and just smiled. John Glover 4) Ajay Arora said: What more do you want? One year, Shri Mataji was coming to the airport in New Delhi and there were lots of Sahaja Yogis who had come from all over India and abroad to receive Her at the airport. And we were also there with our collective group from Dehra Dun, along with our centre leader, Arun Goel, and we were all waiting outside the airport. All the Sahaja Yogis were carrying flowers in their hands and they were singing bhajans. Then the plane of Shri Mataji arrived and we were told that She would be coming out very soon and that we should form two long queues on both the sides, so that Shri Mataji could walk right in the middle and everyone could get the darshan of Shri Mataji. We were all standing in long queues. There were more than a thousand Sahaja Yogis. And the whole airport seemed to be just full of vibrations. Then Shri Mataji was coming we saw through the glass doors and, as She was walking between the queue, there were Sahaja Yogis who were carrying a big shawl behind Her and all the Sahaja Yogis were putting the flowers into the shawl. And I must have been standing somewhere in the middle of the queue, not at the end and not at the beginning. And as we saw Shri Mataji was approaching, suddenly my eyes closed. I wanted to see Shri Mataji, but my eyes closed. And as She passed us, it felt like a huge ocean of joy just hit us. I mustn't say hit us, but it just went right through us. And it was something that is beyond words, as if something just passed right through you. And then when Shri Mataji passed and you looked behind, it seemed like a huge ocean of joy which was moving right in between the two queues of Sahaja Yogis. And then Shri Mataji entered the car and suddenly all the Sahaja Yogis, they were just so much full of joy that Arun Goel came to us and he said, "What more do you want?" And we said, "Nothing." Ajay Arora 5) Christina Rosi said: What more could you need? In July of 1988, I began final preparations for my move from the United States to Spain to a new life with my new husband, Josι Luis, and the Sahaja Yogis of Spain. Shri Mataji had married us in India the preceding January on the India tour. I decided that it was important to go to Buddha Puja in San Diego and to arrive in Spain for Guru Puja in Andorra, but the dates were ever so close and I changed my airline ticket several times, as Shri Mataji's travel plans changed. A week before Guru Puja, my husband phoned, telling me to change my flight again, to go directly to Barcelona, not Madrid, as it was the departure point for Andorra. After a lot of running around, I finally found one flight available at an outrageous price, but I knew this had to be my flight. A few days later I found out that Shri Mataji had changed Her plane again. After Buddha Puja, instead of flying from New York to London and then later to Barcelona, She was going to fly directly to Barcelona. I asked which flight She had booked. It turned out to be TW 904 on July 28 at 6:30 pm the same flight I was on. Kennedy Airport on July 28 the airport was mobbed. A whirlwind of checking in luggage, saying goodbyes to all my Sahaj brothers and sisters, to my family. Suddenly, I found myself behind Shri Mataji going though security. We began walking up the ramp toward the gate and Mother turned around and waved goodbye to all Her children. She turned to me and said, "Are you coming too?" with a big smile and a laugh. We were all laughing and I felt the joy and love filling my being. The plane prepared to take off finally, after a long delay due to overbooking, but there was another delay suddenly a huge thunderstorm began. Shri Vishnumaya was heralding the Adi Shakti, as She left the land of the Vishuddhi. During the final hour of the flight, after sunrise, I went up to first class to say good morning to Shri Mataji and was feeling a bit shy. She asked me to sit down for a while and began telling me about how She liked Spain and the Spanish people, the songs of the Spanish Sahaja Yogis, about marriage in general, about the upcoming European tour and the Indian musicians that were going to be on the tour as well. How Mother was shining like the Goddess! I felt so joyful and so content, like a baby bird in the nest with the mother bird. As we began to land, I began to feel a bit of butterflies-in-the- stomach nervousness about what was waiting for me a new life in a new country where people spoke a language I didn't know and a new husband that I had known only ten days in India. I thought to myself, "How petty to feel such things when I'm here with the Goddess." But immediately another thought came to me, "She knows exactly what I'm thinking at this very moment and I can't hide it." I sort of blurted out, "Mother, I'm feeling a bit scared now." She instantly took my hand with both Her hands and squeezed it tight and said to me, "Don't worry, don't worry. Adi Shakti is here with you and She's bringing you to Spain. Everything is all right. What more could you need?" And She smiled radiantly. Oh, what a beautiful, beautiful Mother! All my fear and anxiety melted into nothingness as I filled, absolutely drenched with Her Divine Love. How sweetly and preciously our Divine Mother takes care of every single one of Her children. Christina Rosi 6) Edward Saugstad said: Someone has been listening to me Back in the early nineties, we had a lot of fun following Shri Mataji's tours through the East Bloc. Two of Sahaja Yoga Austria's satellites, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, were on the schedule every summer. We normally travelled by car or bus, but one time my wife surprised me by booking me on a flight from Budapest to Prague. It was the same flight that Shri Mataji was to take. I arrived at the tiny airport with two of the Austrian Sahaja Yoga coordinators amidst a sea of flowers held by joyful Sahaja Yogis, seeing Shri Mataji off. As the five of us, including a Sahaja Yogini who was attending Shri Mataji, passed through immigration, Shri Mataji turned to me and said cheerfully, "Oh! You're also coming!" We sat in the front row of the first class section in the small jet. After take-off, Wolfgang Hackl and Alganesh went back a couple of rows to explain Sahaja Yoga and give Self Realization to an Indian gentleman who had expressed interest back at the airport. On my right sat Hermann [Haage] reading a newspaper. To my left was an empty seat, the narrow aisle, another empty seat, then Shri Mataji. Her eyes were closed and She appeared to be in deep meditation. For over twelve years I had grown accustomed to praying to Shri Mataji and enjoying most of my prayers coming true. One of my favourites is the following: "Shri Mataji, please bless me with pure attention and pure desire." At that moment, feeling a bit shy and nervous to be sitting so close to the Incarnation, I began thinking my prayer in the hope of attaining perfect inner balance, peace and clarity. I got as far as, "Shri Mataji, please " when She suddenly lifted Her head and looked over at me. I was hoping for a positive response, but I certainly didn't expect such a personal one. I stopped the prayer and waited till Her head sunk back down on Her chest before quickly finishing my heartfelt, but shaken, request. After that, I sought to regain my composure by picking up a piece of newspaper and browsing through it. It took a minute or two for my excited heart to slow down to normal. Soon Wolfang and Alga returned to their seats and the rest of the flight proceeded blissful, but uneventful. I should mention six years later that my attention and desiring really have improved. I guess someone has been listening to me. Edward Saugstad 7) Ray Harris said: On this plane is the Adi Shakti In India there was one guy who was really freaking out and he was quite scared of flying. And Shri Mataji said to me, "Go and talk to him, as he is not very well." So I said, "You know, on this plane is the Adi Shakti." So he said, "What? Adi Shakti?" because in India they know what Adi Shakti is. And I said, "What is the matter?" And he said that he was very scared. So I said that because Shri Mataji was on the plane he was protected. And he was okay after that. Ray Harris 8) Bala Kanayson said: To defend Her by all means possible Now this is something that isn't very pleasant that happened at the airport at Heathrow in England. The authorities were very prejudiced and racist and both Shri Mataji and Her husband, who was a senior United Nations diplomat, had experienced racial discrimination whenever they travelled in or out of London. On this particular day, Shri Mataji was going to leave London and somehow She decided to tell myself and Tony, who was the first Sahaja Yogi [in England], the wrong time. In fact, She gave us a time that was about an hour after Her plane departed, maybe two hours. We had been with Her all day and we had a bit of a reputation for getting rather angry with people who troubled Her and being rather strong with anyone who got in Mother's way, so maybe that was Her way of keeping us out of trouble. But when we got there that day, we met some Sahaja Yogis, who said that we had missed Mother's flight, but that something very terrible happened. And basically, what they told us was that Shri Mataji had been badly treated by one of the airport security guards. Later on I got a message that I had to call Shri Mataji and I called Her up and She spoke to me and said, "Bala, the guard actually hit Me on My back. You know, he hit Me and he hit Me so hard that it caused a problem with the spinal fluid." And, you can imagine, for a Sahaja Yogi how tormenting this was. And She was very unhappy with the reaction of the Sahaja Yogis, that those who were present, other than one person, had not jumped to Her defense, that they had not gone and made a major issue of something like this with the airport authorities. And at that time, people were under the illusion that they had to step back and be peaceful and loving, but what She was trying to show us was that when your Mother is insulted or attacked, just like Shri Ganesha, you should defend Her by all means possible. And also She was giving us an indication of the extreme discrimination that was still going on [in about 1980] against the Indians from the Indian sub-continent, even after all these years of independence. And to think that somebody who had a diplomatic passport like Shri Mataji could be treated this way and how the ordinary Indian people and Asians who go there are treated every day. Bala Kanayson 9) Ruth Flint said: Have you given a bandhan? It was the first time She had come to Rome for this big series of programs [in November 1981] and Gregoire had driven Shri Mataji back to the airport and I had decided I was still free. I had taken holiday from work and I had decided to go to London and in London there was suppose to be a series of weddings. And I can't remember if there was to be a little puja, but anyway Shri Mataji was going to see the yogis at these weddings. And because Shri Mataji had nobody to travel with because She had come with Kay Keating [McHugh], but Kay Keating had had to leave. I said, if Shri Mataji accepts it, I would with great pleasure travel with Her and accompany Her. And She had accepted. So there we were at the airport. I had met Shri Mataji for the first time only about five or six days before, when She had arrived in Rome, and there I was travelling with Her. And, of course, She had done some shopping and there was a lot of hand luggage and I had taken a plane ticket. I had taken economy class plane ticket, of course, and She had Her business class plane ticket. And then we arrived at the gate and the flight attendants started shouting at Shri Mataji because She had too much hand luggage and this was not okay at all and so on and so forth. And, of course, I was very worried and a bit panicky, but Shri Mataji said She was thirsty, so I went to fetch Her a cup of tea, which was actually in a plastic goblet. And I gave on the way, I gave a bandhan for this situation to solve itself because I was worried about all this hand luggage and it was, I don't know, porcelain cups and saucers and so on. And when I came back, I could not believe it. Before this, airline attendants were being so aggressive with Shri Mataji. And I saw that they were so kind to Her and they said, "Yes, yes, they would accompany us to the airplane from the gate." And they were carrying our hand luggage and they even upgraded me in business class and I could sit next to Shri Mataji. And I was looking at that, absolutely stunned, and Shri Mataji laughed and She said, "Well, Ruth have you given a bandhan then for the situation to change?" And I said, "Yes." But, of course, I knew that it was not my bandhan who had done it, but Shri Mataji. But it was just so amazing to see these people change attitudes so much. Ruth Flint 10) Albert Lewis said: She was clad in a suit of armour In May 1983 Shri Mataji had just completed a lecture tour of Australia and had stopped over at Kuala Lumpur, en route to India, where She was to give some public programs. At Singapore airport, Matthew Fogarty and I had the privilege of being able to join Her for the onward flight to Bombay. We were waiting in the queue of people to go through the metal detector prior to boarding the aircraft. Matthew and I were just behind Shri Mataji. As She went through the detector, all the lights started to flash and the buzzers to sound. Shri Mataji was called to one side by a security attendant and, after we had gone through without a murmur from the alarms, we followed to where She was detained. Shri Mataji was wearing a typical traditional Indian sari and blouse, with bare arms and midriff. The security attendant was using his hand scanner to check for any metal objects and, to his surprise, it continued to sound while scanning Shri Mataji, even on Her bare arms. He checked his device on himself by scanning his arm and it only buzzed when going over his watch. A little confused, he once again scanned Shri Mataji, especially Her bare arms and the device continued to buzz. According to the metal detector, this Indian lady, wearing only a silk sari with bare arms and midriff, was clad in a suit of armour. In the confusion and in disbelief in what was happening before his eyes and with a queue of passengers building up and walking through the detector without supervision, he waved to Shri Mataji to carry on. Shri Mataji chuckled to Herself and walked on into the boarding lounge. All this happened in a matter of ten to fifteen seconds. Matthew and I both saw it and were totally bemused by the maya that Shri Mataji had played. I doubt that anyone else in that busy airport lounge realized what had happened that early morning. Albert Lewis 11) Phil Trumbo said: On for a great adventure My first meeting with Shri Mataji was in the fall of 1985 at JFK Airport [in New York]. And we had gone out to meet Shri Mataji and She was there on a trip with Sir CP Srivastava for the United Nations. And we went out to receive Her and there were maybe a dozen or so Sahaja Yogis there at the time, who were there waiting at the airport and we were quite shy and quite new to Sahaja Yoga and we had never met Shri Mataji. So we were standing at the back of this row of people and, you know, and waiting for Her to come out and didn't quite know what to expect. We had seen photographs and seen videos, but suddenly and very quickly this presence appeared, coming out of the exit of the airport and moving pretty rapidly for not a very large person. I became aware of this colour, this glowing purple colour surrounding this being. And I went, "Oh, my God, this is not human! This person is not human." And it finally struck me that this wasn't just somebody who was a nice teacher, but this was in the presence of a being who was literally not a human being. I felt this amazing colourful kind of glow emanating from Her not in a visual or psychedelic sense, but almost like an aroma or a beautiful perfume. And as She came by and spoke to various people in the group, I suddenly found myself at the front of this group of people, without moving. And She just stopped and said, "Well, hello. How are you?" And it felt as though a cosmic bell was like ringing through my skull and sort of echoing off to infinity. And then She smiled and walked on and then got in the car and went off to some place else, to the ashram. And then one of the Sahaja Yogis asked me and said, "Well, has anyone ever asked you how you felt like that before?" I confessed that no, I hadn't had that experience before and I was on for a great adventure. This was not just interesting. This was something I was going to be pursuing deeply for the rest of my life. Phil Trumbo 12) Michael Petrunia said: She knew exactly what to do and when to do it The story was that Shri Mataji had my wife clean up Her rings and we were leaving and She was leaving for California. As we got on the road, She asked us, "What is this community we are coming to?" And I explained to Her that this was a Hasidim Jewish community and they basically deal in diamonds and/or electronics. As I finished saying the word "diamonds," Shri Mataji turned to my wife and said, "Where are my rings?" And the story is that we had to go back and pick up Her rings in the flat. It so happened that Shri Mataji explained to us later that the way we were going, we would have gotten to the airport sooner than the yogis would have gotten there to greet Her, but with this little delay, by the time we had got back and picked up the diamond rings, by this time the traffic had built up. So when we got to the airport, all the yogis had time to get back there. This reflects my speediness in those days. It was a little bit of a variation of a miracle, but that's what it was. She knew exactly what to do and when to do it, so sweetly. Michael Petrunia 13) Heidi Zogorski said: Look at my watch One time in Los Angeles, a large group of people assembled to see Shri Mataji off as She departed the city. We were waiting near the departure gate. The person next to me pointed to her watch and said, "Oh look, it's five minutes until the flight and Shri Mataji's not here." I said, "Oh, that's interesting. The flight is expected to leave on time." Within a minute or so, we saw Shri Mataji coming. She was walking down the hallway. She greeted the crowd of yogis, which had grown. As Shri Mataji walked, She stopped and spoke to individuals, one at a time. She seemed to speak for some time to each person, never rushed. I didn't count the people, but it had to be at least thirty. She also accepted the flowers from people, many people, graciously and slowly. Then She got on the flight and the flight took off. The person who showed me the time before Shri Mataji arrived pulled me to the side and said, "Heidi, come here. Look at my watch." It was five minutes later. We looked at each other and said together, "Oh my" to ourselves. We smiled. There was no way to do all that in five minutes. Heidi Zogorski 14) Justyn Tiptaft said: That's much better I met Shri Mataji in Hong Kong a few years ago. I went to the airport to welcome Her when She came to Hong Kong. I went on my motor bike and I was wearing all my motorcycle gear, which is a bit dirty and messy and it was all leather gear and everything. I went to welcome Her and it was a lovely experience and then we had a fantastic weekend and on the Monday I went to say goodbye to Shri Mataji and I was wearing my suit, so I was looking a bit smarter. I went to say goodbye and gave Her a flower and She looked at me for a few seconds and said, "Oh, that's much better. Looking much better now." I thought it was purely physical and it was because I was wearing my suit and was a lot cleaner. So I said, "Oh, thank you very much, Shri Mataji. I am going off to work now, so I thought I would put on my suit." And, of course, the joke was it was my subtle system that was looking a lot better, which it certainly felt like it was. Justyn Tiptaft 15) Elizabeth Ravenscroft said: I think I have to take these flowers In 1993 when I was in England, I had just arrived in Bristol to stay with a yogi lady-friend and, after two hours of my arrival, we had a phone call from London saying Shri Mataji was going to be arriving at the airport at five o'clock that day. So it was now about half past twelve. So we had a little lunch and we climbed in the car and drove all the way back to London, which was about a three hour drive. And we arrived quite rushed because it was quite late and we didn't have time to get flowers. But a yogi had quite a big bunch and she very kindly divided it up and gave each of the three of us, who had come in our car, a little bunch. But I was a bit concerned because they didn't look very fresh and it wasn't what I would have chosen to give to Shri Mataji, even though the lady had been very kind, but I accepted it because I didn't have a choice. I decided that, because my flowers weren't so beautiful, I wouldn't make a great effort to go to Mother with my flowers. So when Mother arrived I stood and watched the crowd surging forward, watching the people take their gifts and decided to just stay put and watch. Shri Mataji walked around, all around me and, as She was going back towards the car, I began to feel a bit heartsore because I had travelled six thousand miles to come and see Her and, although my flowers weren't beautiful, I still wanted Her to receive them. And in my heart I was saying, as She bent down to get into the car to leave, my heart was crying out so loudly saying, "Please, please, Mother, take my flowers. I've come six thousand miles to see You, please." Before She actually sat down, She began to rise again and She must have been about fifteen metres away and She turned around and She looked at me through the sea of faces and the people just parted like waves. And She walked right up to me and said, "I think I have to take these flowers." And, of course, the tears just flowed with joy that Mother had heard my prayer and I realized that if our desire is deep enough and if we ask sincerely in our hearts, that She does hear us. Elizabeth Ravenscroft 16) Ruth Flint said: Everything's all right Shri Mataji had come to Rome [in May 1982] for the second series of programs and She was leaving Rome after six days in my flat to take the airplane. She had made this second series of programs and I had been very nervous for everything to work out all right. I knew that after the Sahasrara Day Puja, we would start with the follow-ups, that I had to take care of them and I had not even been a yogini one year. So I was a bit worried. There was no more Gregoire to take care of all. But now I could somehow relax, Shri Mataji was leaving and all had been okay. I remember driving Shri Mataji to the airport and starting to cry, the nervous tension releasing and the worry for the follow-ups. Shri Mataji fell asleep next to me between my home and the airport, or pretending to, and I was feeling sorry for myself and crying and sniffing. And then I really heard inside me, not a voice, but I heard so clearly, "Don't worry, I will be there and I will help you. You don't have to worry. It will all happen. You have just to be an instrument." And that cheered me up completely and I felt peaceful and serene. After a while, before getting at the airport, Shri Mataji woke up, She smiled and said, "Everything's all right, Ruth?" And, of course, I felt wonderful. Ruth Flint 17) Pamela Bromley said: Even the flowers Mother had come to New Zealand and Brian [Bell] was taking Mother back to the airport to catch the plane and there was a very famous rose garden there. People got married in there I went to a marriage of Sahaj Yogis there myself very beautiful garden. Mother said She wanted to see the rose garden and Brian was going, "Oh, no, we've got to go to the rose garden. We're not going to get to the airport." But you can't say anything to Mother and in those days we weren't totally believing of what She said. Because he was driving and what to say, so he said, "Well, I can't say anything because of who Mother is. I won't say anything about the airport. We'll have to go by the rose garden." And as they came up to the rose garden, Mother said, "It's okay, we can go to the airport now." She said that the flowers just wanted to do namaste about Her as She went past. So even the flowers. Pamela Bromley 18) Gillian Patankar said: She knows my name In Adelaide [Australia] in 1984 we were sharing a townhouse with Shri Mataji, only fourteen of us. It was the first time She had come to Adelaide. Kay [McHugh] was looking after Shri Mataji. We had just come back from India tour, my first tour and the first time I had seen Shri Mataji. Anyway, we had two public programs in the Adelaide Town Hall and a puja in this small townhouse. Over these three or four days a persistent thought kept on coming into my head. "I have been with Mother for all these days and She does not know my name. She has never said my name." I know daft, but persistent. On the last day, when She was leaving I can see Her so clearly we had sugar, rice, etc. in bowls at the bottom of the stairs for Her to vibrate on Her way out. She looked glorious and radiant as She glided down the stairs. She vibrated the items and then walked past me. As She did, the thought came back. She turned around, looked at me and said, "Gillian." I nearly fell over backwards with surprise. She then smiled and walked on. Later on, while waiting at the airport, we were all sitting at Her Feet and She looked at me again and said, "Gillian," just to make sure that I knew that She knew. Gillian Patankar 19) Brian O'Gorman said: I am coming back Shri Mataji was at the airport in Sydney in 1992 and She was travelling to Cairns and then She was to return to Sydney. Most of the yogis were at the top of the escalator and I was the only one at the bottom. She walked out of Her car and straight towards me. As She came to the escalator, She stopped and turned to me and said, "I am coming back, you know." And I said, "Yes, Mother." And the thought inside my head was "Yes, She is coming back from Cairns next week." Then She went on up the escalator and it was only some time later that I realized that She had said something very profound to me. Maybe She is going to incarnate again. Brian O'Gorman 20) Elizabeth O'Gorman said: While he was at the bottom of the escalator, I was at the top, standing with another yogini. When Shri Mataji got to the top of the escalator, She stopped and looked at both our hearts very hard and then said, "Everything always works out right in Sahaja Yoga." Then She smiled at us and moved on. And I thought, "Isn't that nice that She said that to my friend" because she had been going through a really difficult time. And I said to my friend, "Isn't that nice?" And my friend said, "What did She say? She didn't say anything." And I realized that She was actually saying that to me. Elizabeth O'Gorman 21) Heidi Zogorski said: I had served tea to the Adi Shakti I lived in Tampa Florida [USA in 1994] and another yogini lived in Miami and she called me and she said, "Harsh [Mehra] called and said She's coming from South America. She's going to have a change of planes and go through customs in Miami. If you'd like to greet Her, you know, this is the flight." So she called and I said, "Yes, we have to go serve tea because the last time Shri Mataji was in Florida there was a problem with " The tea wasn't ready. Well, for some reason it came to me, "We have to go to serve tea." So the yogini said, "Okay, I'll go buy everything tomorrow and you drive here" [to Miami] because it's like four, six hours' I can't remember drive and she would get the food and get the teas because we didn't have. And I just called into work, said, "I'm ill" or "can't come to work." And when I drove there, I had a tape on and in Florida it's quite flat. It felt literally that I was sitting in the car and not one minute had transpired, just that I was sitting in a chair listening to a tape. I felt like "Oh, it was just one minute," you know. It was just like I'd sat and listened to the talk. So, anyway, she had everything ready. She brought the china. She brought everything. And I said to her, "You know, let's take this little table, you know." And then she said, "Ah, I think the table is too heavy to carry to the airport." So we said okay. But, I don't know, this table I just was thinking I should take this table because we had two bags of everything, each. So we go to the airport, went to customs with our bags, then we finally see Shri Mataji. She's with two yogis who are travelling with Her. And it's like "Oh, how did you know I was here?" And She said, "Come with us," you know. I tell you, when I was walking next to Her, I remember so much, the colour of Her sari was so brilliant, that the colour was I was like "How does something get to be that brilliant because it's not normal brilliant? It's like blue and green with gold." It wasn't really a fancy sari because She was travelling, but it just had this colour, you know. So then She sits down and just at the airport, you know, waiting area. They had tried there was no special room. And so She asked the other yogini to sit with Her because She wanted to speak with her and so I was suppose to serve the tea. And I look there's no table. We needed the table. So I said, "Oh, we don't have the table." So anyways, we got everything out. We just put the doily on the seat, served the tea and sandwiches, you know. And then Shri Mataji said to me, "I'm so sorry what happened with your son." I said, "Oh, Shri Mataji, what happened?" And then there was some confusion. There was some confusion, but when She looked at me, She said, "I'm so sorry what happened with your son." It was so much compassion. I remember this compassion. It was like what they describe as bottomless depth, you know. And I said, "Oh, what happened?" because it was the first time [my son] Partha went to [the school in] Rome and I was thinking, "My son." But after like a few minutes confusion because then She said, "Well, didn't you?" There was some confusion and then all of a sudden I realized She was talking about the fact that I just had a miscarriage. And I had, in my human mind, I hadn't even remembered that the last time I'd been with Her I had a miscarriage. And then I realized. I didn't know it was a son, you know. But then when She said, "I'm so sorry what happened with you," then I remembered. The conversation went on to other things, you know, about Florida and what was happening. But then I remembered, you know. And the interesting thing is, of course, I went right to become pregnant and have a son. So I felt that I'd just lost him and it was a little delay, you know. But then when She talked about different things, She said, "Oh, Florida is so hot and, you know, dangerous." And Florida is very hot and dangerous. Oh, then She asked about my work. She said, "What do you do for work?" And I said, "Oh, I'm a nurse." And She said, "Do you work with handicapped children?" And I said, "No, poor children" because I worked in the school system. She said, "Oh, you can help them a lot." And I was so taken aback because in that job I felt completely really useless because there was so much poverty and the people I felt left Swadisthan so much, you know. There was just so much poverty. And nursing-wise, I was making very little impact because in the school system they ask you things like like so many things. It's very disorganized, you know. But actually She said, "Oh, you can help them a lot." And that changed so much when She said that because, when I went back to the job, I was walking around and I suddenly realized that, just being there as a yogi with your attention on all these children need love I could almost feel all the love falling on all the children. I could really feel that just by being there it wasn't really what I was doing. It was just having attention on them, that, all of a sudden, it was in my attention that "These children really have a hard life because the teachers are kind of mean to them, the parents are mean to them. You know, they get treated kind of badly." And it was always in my attention, "Oh, they need so much love." And I could feel that just by having that, the divine attention was coming. So the last part of the story is that when Shri Mataji left, She shook my hand, my right hand, and She held on for a long time. And I was so surprised because I'm like "Adi Shakti's shaking your hand." You know, somehow this was feeling funny to me. But then, when I left you know, She left and we said, you know, goodbye I spent the night and then the next day I drive home. I was completely again driving like it was a two minute drive, you know. I was just all day I was just so thoughtless, just you know, I had driven. I had served tea to the Adi Shakti. People would wait lifetimes for this and I just got to do it. It was so, like, amazing, you know. Heidi Zogorski
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