Miracles



Animals and Plants


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Shri Mataji at Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.


Crown of Thorns starfish
When Shri Mataji came up to Cairns to stay with us for a public programme, She was supposed to leave on the second day in the morning. However, She decided to stay and get a later flight and go out to the Great Barrier Reef. We got a jet-boat out to Green Island, a little island just off the coast, then She went on one of these semi-submersibles and put Her attention on the reef. I had been explaining to Her how the crown of thorns starfish was destroying the reef. It was in disproportionate numbers and it was eating the reef away. She said at that point She would put Her attention on it and they would just disappear.

During Shri Mataji’s visit, She met the mayor of the city, who told Her about an alarming problem that had the whole country concerned and which had worsened over the previous ten years. Due to the delicate nature of the ecosystem, the authorities had no biological or chemical solution to control the starfish, short of physically removing them. So the enormous reef was gradually being destroyed. Within our lifetime, little would be left. These starfish are very large and have a body about the size of a dinner plate. They have ten ‘arms’ that come out from the body and are all covered in thorns, which is why they are called the crown of thorns starfish. They live on live coral and what had happened over about twenty years was their numbers became plague proportions and they moved like a swarm over coral and they ate all the living coral polyps in their path and left the dead bones of the coral there. The scientists were worried that the Great Barrier Reef would die.

Shri Mataji told the mayor that once your powers are awakened through Self Realization you can have an influence on your environment. The mayor was a little sceptical. A day or two later news broke in Australia that something incredible was happening in Queensland. Without warning or explanation, tens of thousands of the crown of thorn starfish had been found dead, floating on the surface of the water above the reef. Shri Mataji just said we should tell the mayor to have more faith in his powers.
After Shri Mataji left, there was an article in the paper saying they just didn’t know where these starfish had gone to, but they had just disappeared.
Kay M.



Birds
One night in the early 80’s some of us stayed at Brompton Square after working there late, with Mother. I had slept a night in Mother’s flat at Ashley Gardens and on both occasions noticed the same thing. Often if one wakes early in London in the summer, before the traffic noise drowns out everything else, one can hear the birds singing. But in all my years in London — over ten in all — I only heard the birds singing all through the night in London on two occasions, both when I was staying in a house where Mother was at the time. I asked Her about it and She said:

“Yes, they feel the vibrations.” Mother has often told us to meditate in the early morning, just before the sun gets up, because the vibrations are very strong then. This is the moment when birds generally start to sing. The birds felt Mother’s vibrations all through the night, however, and started to sing as they would have normally done at dawn.
Linda W.


Cane toads
This is a story where there was a close coincidence timewise between something the Sahaja Yogis did, on Shri Mataji’s instructions, and a beneficial occurrence in the world of nature. As mentioned before, anything that touches Shri Matjaji radiates purifying vibrations: in this case water. About the cane toads, Shri Mataji said the Sahaja Yogis were to put vibrated water in all the waterways, rivers, lakes, streams of Queensland. A few months later, we read in the paper that the cane toads were developing a viral cancer that had just suddenly appeared from nowhere and they were dying in large numbers. They didn’t completely die out but there were far fewer of them.
Clair N.


The family dog attracted by vibrations
I live in Greenford, Middlesex. This is quite a large suburb of London and there are only two of us in the district who are involved with Sahaja Yoga.

One early morning, a lady was taking her dog for a walk in the park there. She did this most mornings, but on that morning it suddenly went mad and ran off for no good reason. She was completely frantic and tried to chase it everywhere in the park, but eventually it just disappeared and she had to go home without it.

Meanwhile, in another part of Greenford, I woke up and began getting ready to go to work. I am an optometrist. At one point I noticed a strange dog in the garden, just sitting there with a ball in its mouth. It looked rather nervous. I left it there and thought I would go out later, when I was properly dressed, and shoo it off if it hadn’t gone by then.

Two hours later it was still there, although by now it seemed more at ease. I was quite concerned because I had never seen a dog like that round us, certainly not in our front garden, and I was going to have to leave for work any minute. I went outside and looked at the phone number on the dog’s name tag on its collar, and decided to phone up the owners and tell them I had their dog. It was the least I could do.

I phoned the number and a man answered. The voice seemed vaguely familiar.
“Excuse me, have you lost a dog? We have one in our garden with your phone number on its collar,” I said.
“Oh yes, Mitesh, I’ll come and get it now. It’s my mother’s dog and she is so worried.” I was stunned, because I thought I was phoning a stranger. He had rung off rather quickly. I felt there was something really weird going on, because how did he know my name, and seem to know me? Soon a car drew up and it was Steve, the only other Sahaja Yogi in Greenford. Steve’s mother is not involved with Sahaja Yoga, but Steve lives in the house with her. The dog must have felt the vibrations coming from our house, and been attracted to them. Otherwise why did it choose our garden of the thousands? It did not know me and had never been to our house.

Our house is fairly difficult to find, even for a human who knows more or less where it is. The front door is down an alley and has a gate to get in to the garden.
Mitesch G.


Cut flowers
In May 1987 Shri Mataji visited Australia. For the Sahaja Yogis, the height of her visit was a weekend programme in the Snowy Mountains, in the town of Thredbo. Everyone had gone to a great deal of trouble to have a flower to give to Shri Mataji when She arrived on Saturday night. This was not easily done, as florists are few and far between in the Snowy Mountains, but we'd all managed somehow. We all had our flowers ready, but Mother made Her way straight to Her room without taking them. When Shri Mataji came from Her room, She went directly to the meeting hall and spoke to us for quite some time, after which we had a musical program, after which Mother spoke to us again. By this time, most of us had been holding our flowers for three or four hours and were giving up hope.

Just as Shri Mother was leaving, She very sweetly said:
“I see that you have some flowers for me. Would you like to give them to me now?" So, torn between the horror of offering these dead flowers and the longing to give something to Mother, no matter what, we gratefully and humbly gave the dead blooms to Shri Mataji. They were just hanging down and completely finished. They were completely dead, not just slightly dead, but utterly dead. Shri Mataji went back to Her room. After a little while, She asked for the box of flowers to be brought in.
“Bring them into the bathroom,” She said. “We're going to have a miracle. You'll see, it will be a miracle. Fill the bath with very warm water. Fill it just as if I were going to have a bath.”

As the water was running, Mother was putting Her hand into the bath, vibrating the whole thing.
“Now put all the flowers into the bath,” She said. “Make sure all the stems are down in the water.” When all the flowers were in the bath, Mother said: “See, they're already looking better.” And they were. “You wait,” She continued, “and see in the morning. We’re going to have a miracle. We'll use these flowers for the puja.” Next morning all the flowers were fresh and blooming.


A husband’s love

I am a flight attendant, and was already working on the aircraft, preparing to leave on a seven day trip when my husband came to the plane to present me with my favourite flower, a beautiful peony. He had driven over an hour to surprise me. The crew noticed the sweet gesture, but by the end of the first flight to Tokyo, without water and with the dryness of the cabin, the peony was completely wilted. Once in the hotel room, I placed it in vibrated water and kept it next to the picture or Shri Mataji by the bed. I honestly felt the flower was a lost cause, but was too tired to be overly concerned.

The next morning, however, as I opened my eyes, I couldn't believe it. Although I had seen miracles of Sahasrara Day flowers at Thredbo in Australia when Shri Mataji vibrated extremely wilted and dying ones so they became beautiful enough for puja, here was my own personal demonstration. It was absolutely beautiful and its fragrance filled the room. When it came time to leave Japan for Manila, I carefully tied the cellophane and ribbon back on and reported for my flight. The crew actually came rushing up to comment that it couldn't be the same flower. They were amazed and wanted to know more. This went on for days, in and out of water, flying to and from Manila twice, the same flower, each day at report time, still full fragrant and beautiful and the crew more and more interested in Shri Mataji and Sahaja Yoga. Even I was amazed it could last so long.
Ursula D.

A small flock of seagulls
After a public programmeme in Brighton, Sahaja Yogis gathered outside the venue to see Mother off in Her car. I had not managed to present Mother with the flowers I had brought. Mother had just finished speaking with some yogis and was just about to drive off, when one of the yogis called out to Mother and Her car door opened enabling my flowers to be presented.
As Mother’s car pulled away everyone’s attention was drawn above the car to a small flock of seagulls. There were about seven gulls flying clockwise and forming a perfect circle and their white feathers seemed to catch the streetlights giving them a dove-like appearance. They followed the car along the road and even kept formation as the car turned the corner.
Sean K.


Elfants
Shri Mataji also said that when She first married, they went to her husband’s family palace. The family owned some elephants and, as this was in India, that was not unusual at the time. What was unusual was that when they saw Shri Mataji, they all knelt down in obeisance to Her.
Auriol W.


Dr. Mylany’s research
After getting my Self Realisation in 1982, I met Shri Mataji personally and was astounded at her knowledge on every subject. She did not complicate anything but told me that the all-pervading power has created everything, that it nourishes everything, generates everything, controls everything efficiently. It organizes, it thinks and above all it loves.

She taught me how to use vibrations. I tried to establish divine vibrations, which is the all-pervading power, visible through an experiment. At this time I was working in an International Plant Breeding Company. I had the possibility to experiment with a lot of things, also with vibrated water. I tried a small experiment with vibrated water on tomato plants. It was surprising to find out that the tomatoes watered with vibrated water were much bigger, a better colour and even the taste was excellent compared to the ones watered with normal water. The results of this experiment developed my curiosity. It is remarkable to note that in her compassion, Shri Mataji has given vibrated tomato seeds to many people free. They have all been planted.
The next time I expanded my experiment to an aeroponic system. In this system one doesn’t use soil - only water with different nutrients added. The result of this experiment showed the same pattern of growth which persuaded me to continue my great interest in vibrated water experiments.

After receiving permission from Shri Mataji, I decided to make a field experiment using maize and sunflowers. I sowed An area with 6 repeats of maize and 6 of sunflowers and did the same for the non-vibrated block. Each area was approximately 2 sq. meters. I sowed the field on 27th May, which was much later that the farmers in this area. I didn’t have a lot of time to take care to irrigate daily so I made up an automatic irrigation system. This had several advantages in that it was independent from me, if the field was watered by someone they could give more water to vibrated crops. So as it was run by computer the crops received water at exactly the same intervals. The results of this experiment were that the vibrated field produced much greener plants and were about 1 ft. higher. The average weight of the plants were 25% heavier. With the sunflowers we measured the diameter of the flower to be 2 inches more than the non-vibrated. The vibrated plants are shown in the left hand photos.

It is again to be mentioned that Shri Mataji has experimented with sunflowers in her farmhouse research work in Pune and produced sunflowers tremendously big, more than 12 inches in diameter, very heavy and gave on the average 250 mm. of oil.
This was reported in the newspaper.

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Shri Mataji with the outsize sunflowers grown at Her house outside Pune, India