Miracles

Power over the Elements

Shuddering candles
When Shri Mataji was giving vibrations, or curing, or generally working on someone by giving vibrations, very often a person would kneel at Her Feet. Shri Mataji would be looking at their back and then suddenly She would look up and there would always be a candle put in front of Her. The moment She would look up at the candle, the flame would shudder. Then She would look at another flame, because there would always be two or three candles. As She looked at a particular flame, that candle would judder as She would be driving the negativity out and into the flame. It was fantastic to watch.
John W.


Like a sunlight
There was a miracle, which I experienced when we had a seminar in the English countryside. It was a long time ago, 1979, and Shri Mataji came. It was a very dark day with no sun, heavy clouds. It was very, very dull and heavy. Shri Mataji was talking to us and saying that She expresses the powers of Shri Krishna and Lord Jesus: all of the aspects of the divine.
She said it was like the sunlight. At that moment the beam of sunlight came out of nowhere and shone on Her head and went away. To prove it, She said that the beam of sunlight should come again on Her head. That happened two or three times. Out of nowhere the sun came. I witnessed this together with about fifty other Sahaja Yogis who where present at that time.
Miodrag R.

Air
One day some of us went to meet Shri Mataji at Heathrow Airport. Shri Mataji was coming from America with Harry J. As we were approaching the airport, we noticed that the sky looked extremely unusual. It was sunset, but not a sunset I have ever seen before. The sky was of so many different colours, with such breathtaking intensity, that we were stunned. The colours kept changing very fast and they were in front of us, behind us and just everywhere. It was a feast to the eye and a masterpiece of artwork.

Harry told us later on that when the plane was circling above the airport, Shri Mataji was playing with the sky, asking Harry:
“Should I add some pink here and some yellow there? What do you think?” Harry said Mother was moving Her hands and the colours were changing all the time.
Grazyna A.


Water and light
Some time back, just before the programs at Ganapatipule started, seven Sahaja Yogis and myself went with Shri Mataji to do a public program in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra some way south of Mumbai. After the program we went to see a Ganesha temple near by.

This Ganesha temple is at sea level and sometimes the sea enters into the temple at high tide. Shri Mataji then entered inside the temple, where the swayambhu was at sea level, to check the vibrations for about ten minutes. A swayambhu is a stone, or statue, which has come out of the earth and radiates vibrations naturally. Shri Mataji came out and told us that this swayambhu was very much awakened and very powerful. In fact, it is much more powerful than any of the astavinayak, or eight swayambhus of Ganesha, which are known in Maharashtra, India. It has powerful vibrations of Shri Ganesha and also the very powerful vibrations of the ocean, the power of Shri Adi Guru Dattatraya. So by coming here at least two chakras can get cleared out, Mooladhara and Void. The deities governing those two are Shri Ganesh and Shri Adi Guru.

After this we all decided to go and watch the sunset and have a paddle in the sea, which helps to clear these chakras within each of us.

“Now I am going to show you a miracle. Look out over the ocean and tell me - what you see?” said Shri Mataji.
“Mother, we see the waves all coming in our direction from all sides. The waves are coming all coming in our direction, towards us.”

“Now watch. I will change the direction of the waves,” said Shri Mataji. She then walked towards the south and the waves all went in that direction and followed her. Then Shri Mataji walked north, that is in the other direction, the waves all went that way. When Shri Mataji stood still, all of the waves also stood still. The waves seemed to be waiting for the next instruction.
“You may be having doubts and thinking that possibly the wind is doing this, so I will show you again.” She then did everything all over again. Shri Mataji said this was the second time that She had done this miracle. The first time was in America.
After we had finished at the Ganesha temple, we went back to Jaigad to wait for the ferry. By this time the sun had set and we were all waiting on the quay.

“Now I will show you all another miracle,” said Shri Mataji, “The Ganesha temple is in that direction,” She pointed. “Now look. Do you see anything over there?”
“No, Mother, we can’t see anything,” we all said.
Shri Mataji again pointed in the same direction and asked us to look again. As we looked, we could see, slowly appearing, a huge stream of light. It was like a huge cylindrical circle of light, as if thousands of volts were coming out of Mother Earth and going straight up into the heavens.

“There is no other light around here, not even moonlight, so that light is coming from the Ganesha temple,” said Shri Mataji. “This light will not stop until I tell it to. This light is coming from the swayambhu of Shri Ganesha and I am taking it out.”
Shri Mataji then asked us if we all had seen this light, and if so She would stop it. All the Sahaja Yogis present said that they had all seen it and that Shri Mataji could now stop it from coming out of the Ganesha temple. The light was there for about ten minutes. We were all very lucky to see such a thing and I have not seen anything like that since then.
P.D. Chavhan

Fire: just doing aarti
Once in Shri Mataji’s house in Brompton Square, She was walking around and directing people who were helping out there. She would tell us where decorations were to go and what colour this door or that window frame was to be painted.

It was a mess to begin with. One always has to make a mess to create a house. One day Shri Mataji was wearing a highly inflammable synthetic nylon sari and walking around amid the rubble and dust. Some other people had been working in the room too and someone had left a blowtorch burning. It was pointing into the middle of the room and Shri Mataji walked in. Shri Mataji walked towards the blowtorch and did not appear to notice it. As She passed very close to it, the flame leapt right out of nozzle and went completely around Shri Mataji two or three times, at the height of Her knees, forming a blue ring of fire a few centimetres away from the sari, then back into the torch.

While all this was happening I was horrified and took a dive across the room to move the torch. I landed in an undignified heap on my stomach at Shri Mataji’s feet, having grabbed the blowtorch in order to point it away from Her. When we realized what had happened, we looked up in amazement to find Shri Mataji smiling down at us.
“I am the fire, how could it hurt me?” said Shri Mataji. “The fire is just doing aarti to me.”
She calmly went on Her way to supervise putting in some pipes in the next room.
Jane S.


Holy fire of Kundalini
When I had only been in Sahaja Yoga a few months, I went to work in a summer camp for children. On the afternoon of the last day, there was a great festival with a huge fire in the centre of the camp. That evening I was passing the place where the campfire had been and I noticed that nothing was left of this great fire, no smoke, not even the slightest glow, just the cold ashes. I sat down on the beach nearby. A French colleague called Nathalie approached and sat down and we started talking. The conversation quickly turned to Sahaja Yoga and we talked together for about an hour and a half. The only word I knew in French to name the Kundalini awakening was “illumination” — enlightenment. The very moment I held my hand above her head, at the instant that I felt the coolness emanating from her head, indicating her Kundalini, on my palm, her face shone suddenly with a strong ruddy light. I half turned and saw the fire, previously inert, burning brightly, flames leaping one or two metres in the air. This lasted not even a minute and the flames disappeared without leaving any signs of a fire.

I told Nathalie to write everything into her diary. Like me, she was completely stunned. A few days later I received a letter from her. She had looked at the calendar for that day in her diary and discovered that it was the day of Saint Nathalie.

Christ-style miracle
For a number of years Shri Mataji has done a Sahaja Yoga introductory programme at Versiliana, in northern Italy, at an open air café or tea garden.
One time She had lunch with two Sahaja Yogis and a journalist, Romano Battaglia the organiser of the programme. She was explaining Sahaja Yoga to him. At a certain point Romana Battaglia, said ‘Jesus Christ did transform the water into wine’. According to the bible that we have today, Christ went to a marriage at Cana, and when the host ran out of wine He changed water into wine, and it was said to be the best, much better than the earlier wine which had run out.

Shri Mataji answered Battaglia saying ‘this, I can also do’ and She put two fingers in a glass of water and after She gave it to him to drink. Romana said, that this was normal water, but was also like wine. Shri Mataji also said that Christ did not make the water into wine. She explained that this must have been a mistranslation, because to make an alcoholic beverage it would be necessary to let it ferment, which is a process similar to rotting. And this would have taken time. She told the journalist to drink the contents of the glass, because it would be good for him.
Sandra C.

Water: reducing pollution
In the summer of 1991 a few hundred Sahaja Yogis from the city of Tagliatti, near Samara, Russia, came together for a seminar on the banks of the Volga River. On the Saturday afternoon after our arrival, we all sat for meditation in the open air on the bank of this great river.

The next day we were able to see in the local newspaper, which regularly reports this information — the Volga being normally extremely polluted — that the concentration of active bacteria in the river flowing through the city had dropped by an unprecedented thirty percent since our collective meditation.
Bogdan S.


Water: “The Thames is the Kundalini of England”
In 1982, on the day after the weekend seminar finished, there were just a few of us still there and Shri Mataji took us up to the Seven Springs above Cheltenham, England. She took Her shoes off and went down to where there is some water on the stones there. There are seven little springs coming out from under a big rock.

It wasn’t flowing much and there were flies around the place. We all put our feet into the water of the springs, but it was very cold. Then when Shri Mataji put her feet in, the water started to flow and all the flies went away and it became a much nicer place. The water level rose up once Shri Mataji’s feet were there. It was really nice.

She put Her Feet in it and said, “the Thames is the Kundalini of England.” She explained that Thames is for tamasa, which is the left side. And London is the city of the moon - Luna. The moon is associated with our left side too.

“Now, this will clear England out,” She said, and the Thames has been very vibrated. It was a very polluted river then, but since then it has been cleared out on the physical level as well and is much cleaner.
John W.

Some weeks later we all went down to Exeter in the south west of England. A few days before Shri Mataji had asked us to bring water from the different rivers of England for her to vibrate. I went to the Seven Springs and took some water from there. I had not been there when Mother had put her feet in the water after the seminar and did not know She had been there. The water seemed to have good vibrations, but I thought perhaps the springs were naturally auspicious. When I gave Her the water, She said “But this is already vibrated,” telling us that the water is vibrated for always not just then.
Jane S.

Snow: avoiding sinking
In the winter of 1986, I was walking across a snowfield. There was a layer of soft powdery snow with a thin icy crust, which was just too soft to carry the weight of my body and my steps sank deep into the thick snow. The field was lit by the moon and I could see that there was no obstacle to my journey, so I said to myself, ‘Why not just trust Shri Mataji.’ At first, I was not sufficiently confident and I felt a little afraid.

Then I realized that the thin hard layer of ice on the surface of the snow would be able to carry my weight if I could surrender myself completely, and trust in Shri Mataji’s power that She gives us. It worked. The first step: sinking, second – third - fourth step sinking, fifth step resisted, sixth sinking, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen — it is working, I don't sink any more! I felt the protection of Shri Mataji’s power. But as soon as there was I started thinking about whether it was possible my feet sank into the snow again — as in life, in general.
Günther T.