Miracles

Miracles: The cool breeze

Incredible cool wind
I was never what is termed a seeker. My brother was always looking for something, and said he would tell us once he found it. One memorable day, I was seated in front of the television watching a football game, when my brother came home and said the most incredible thing had happened. He had just met an Indian lady called Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and had received his Self Realization. He told me he had spent the day with Her and a group of people and he had felt an incredible cool wind coming from Her body, when he put his hands in Her direction.
Chris K.

She is there
I love greeting Shri Mataji as She arrives in a city. I remember many times waiting for her to arrive at an airport, often for quite a long time, and all of a sudden, we’d feel the cool on our hands and we’d look at each other.
“She’s here,” we’d say. Then almost immediately someone would come and say:
“The plane has just landed.”
Heidi Z.


Aroma of roses
My mother went to an introductory programme of Sahaja Yoga and received her Self Realization. This was in Italy, and Shri Mataji was not present. It was conducted by the local Italian followers of Sahaja Yoga. My mother came home with a photo she had been given of Shri Mataji. My mother showed me the photo and two extraordinary things happened. Firstly, for no apparent reason, I smelled a very strong and beautiful aroma of roses, and then I felt a cool breeze coming from the photograph. The following week I went along to the Sahaja Yoga programme too.
Rama I.

Coolness is a positive sign whereas hot vibrations are not
I was at a public meeting in about 1978, in London. I had been coming to Sahaja Yoga for a few months and a Sahaja Yogi (someone who practices Sahaja Yoga) gave me healing treatment, particularly in the area of my head. All of a sudden, I began to feel a tremendous cool breeze flowing. In those days, if Shri Mataji was taking the meeting, She used to come by and talk to each one of us.
“Are you feeling the cool breeze?” She asked.
“Yes,” I replied.

Then She told me to put one hand towards Her and one hand towards a long-haired person who was next to me. The hand towards Shri Mataji felt this fantastic cool breeze, whereas the one towards this guy felt tremendous heat. As I was doing that, this man, a complete stranger who I had never seen or spoken to before, turned around to me and for no apparent reason said something like he didn’t like me at all. It was the first time I had felt the difference between the cool and the heat.
Bala K.


Beyond cultural conditioning
This story shows that the experience of the cool breeze of the Spirit goes far beyond our cultural conditioning. Ali Akbar (not his real name) is from a Moslem background, a citizen of the European Community, a banker by profession and married with children. He later discovered that in the Koran is a verse which says ‘On the day of resurrection your hands will speak and bear witness.’ It is probable that the day of resurrection referred to refers to the time when the ‘second birth’ of the Kundalini awakening, or Self Realization takes place.

People who are Sahaja Yogis and come from a Moslem background have discovered that the Kaaba, the sacred stone which all Moslems are asked to visit at Mecca, also emits coolness. Perhaps this is why Mohammed asked Moslems to visit it and revere it, but at the same time made sure all the idols he found in Mecca when he lived there in the sixth century were destroyed.

Shri Mataji arranged a weekend at her house at Hurst Green in Sussex, near Oxted, in 1976. There was a big drawing room downstairs with beautiful Indian rugs. There were large statues of Indian deities, and one of them was a beautiful wooden Shri Ganesha. One of the Sahaja Yogis who had been there before took me upstairs and showed it to me.
“This statue has such vibrations,” he said.

“Hang on,” I replied. Being from a Muslim background, I thought, ‘What is he talking about?’ Although I had received my Self Realization, and could feel the cool vibrations, because of my Islamic conditioning I was a bit sceptical that this statue would emit them. So I tried feeling the vibrations, while stepping back, and it did have vibrations.

One of the things that struck me also in the house of Mother, was that it felt as if every statue that She had in the house was vibrating with power. Everywhere you went, you felt a kind of silent, peaceful, but extremely powerful environment, which is very difficult to describe, except to say that you knew something very powerful was working very deep inside you and working it out. You were in the middle of this and you felt you were in a different universe altogether.
Ali A.


Cool breeze in the synagogue
My parents were very, very religious Jews. The first weekend after I got my Self Realization, I went up to see them at our home in Sheffield, England. I was still working the whole thing out myself, but I gave my mother realization and she felt the vibrations as a cool breeze.

She went to the synagogue the next Saturday, as she always did. At a certain point in the service the scrolls of the law would be taken out. They are kept in a beautifully decorated altar, which we call the ark, and this is a replica of the place where the Ten Commandments were kept after they were given by Moses on Mount Sinai. The scrolls are all parchment and beautifully written and decorated, by hand. In Judaism we have traditions which are in many ways parallel to those of Hinduism.

As soon as they opened the ark, my mother said she couldn’t believe it. She felt a cool breeze pouring out of the ark. The rest of the people in the synagogue had no idea of this. As soon as the Sabbath was finished and she could use the phone, she phoned me and said: “Ray, the most extraordinary thing happened to me today. I went to the synagogue, and when they opened the ark, I felt the same cool breeze pouring out of it as I felt from Shri Mataji. Now I know that this is right.”

Sadly she died in 1987, but before that, although she was always a firm follower of Judaism, she came to accept Christ and understood about Shri Mataji. Shri Mataji came to stay in our house and my father, a deeply learned and religious Jew, also had profound respect for and understanding of Shri Mataji.
Ray H.

Where She was born…
In Nagpur, India I met Shri Mataji's brother, the late Baba Mama. He asked me if I would like to visit the house at Chindwara where Shri Mataji was born, which was now used as a hospital. Two days later, my family and I went there. Baba Mama had given us a letter, which, he said, would allow us to visit each room of the house.

“I'm not telling you in which room She was born. You'd better find out for yourselves using vibrations,” He said. When we gave the letter to the hospital director, he asked one of the doctors to show us around the hospital. We were all very eager to find the right room. So round we went, our hands stretched forward with palms turned upwards, ready to register every slightest cool breeze or vibration on our hands. We felt coolness and peace all over the hospital, and in one laboratory both my brother-in-law and I could feel a more vibrations. Standing in this small room, which measured about two metres by five, and holding my hands like a radar scanner, I directed them to each part of the room. I never doubted that we would find the spot, but as we found it, we became excited like children.
“You felt it too?” I said.

“Yes, it's there in this corner,” said my brother-in-law. We went round the whole corner, from the left side to the right side, then raising our hands from the bottom to a height of about two metres to check how high this breeze was reaching. After a little while of enjoying ourselves like this, we again remembered our guide, the doctor, who was standing there patiently. We asked him whether he had any idea what we were doing there and why we were holding out our hands like this.

“No,” he said, “but two years ago, a doctor from Saudi Arabia was here in the same room and doing just the same thing.” He had found the same corner as us.
We were later told that this was indeed the right place.
Oskar K.