Miracles

Healing

I was declared dead…

In December 1971 I fell sick at my home in Nasik and sank into a state of deep anaemia, my entire body having turned yellow with an astoundingly low hemoglobin count of five – normal being about fifteen. I sank into a coma and was rushed by ambulance to hospital in Mumbai with a recovery chance estimated at hardly five percent.

At that time, by divine providence, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was in Mumbai and a close relative of ours took my worried children to Her for Her Blessing. When they told Shri Mataji about my plight, She assured them that She would put Her attention on me and I would be all right in a few days. After two weeks I was discharged from hospital.

Two weeks later I went for a check-up and was found to be perfectly normal and in good health, to the amazement of the doctors. I was put on some strong medicines, but Shri Mataji advised me to discard them all. She warned me that my continued intake of these strong medicines would give me a heart attack at a later date. Ignoring Shri Mataji's advice and thinking that out of caution I had to take these medicines, I went on for a while till Shri Mataji sent another warning. I then discontinued the medicines, but it was a bit too late.

In 1973 I had a severe heart attack and was rushed to Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, where I was examined and declared dead, my pulse having totally failed. Shri Mataji was at that time in London. Fortunately, She could be contacted over the telephone. Her attention and Her blessings were given to me from London and I miraculously recovered.

My point here is that it is not very necessary for Her to be physically present. Her collective attention and vibrations travel like lightning to any distance in a very short time. There was a time I needed twenty to twenty-five tablets a day for my health. Today I do not need even a single tablet and enjoy excellent health.

B.G Murthy


Dystrophy vanished

In 1981 I was told I had had dystrophy and the doctors said I would probably be dead by the time I was forty. I am now forty. But I am still alive and kicking. There is no sign of dystrophy at all.
I remember that first year in Sahaja Yoga, 1981. I went to see Shri Mataji and She was in a room full of medical doctors who were Sahaja Yogis.

“Well, what’s your problem?” She said. So I said that the doctors had just diagnosed dystrophy and She looked at me and She was laughing, and said the doctors did not know anything (at least in my case!).
I have never had any sign of it since.

Alison R.

There are no words to express my gratitude and love for Shri Mataji
I received Self Realization in 1979 when I was twenty. Some months later I had a miscarriage, which unfortunately led to serious complications. It was eventually discovered that there was a tumour in my womb. The news didn't come as any great shock, as I'd felt for sometime that there was something wrong with me. It had been impossible to stop thinking and my thoughts were morbid and depressing, often about death. Shri Mataji at this time was in India and, although I knew She could cure me, it didn't seem right to expect to be cured just when She returned to England. So I went to Charing Cross Hospital in London. It was a depressing place to be in, but I felt that Shri Mataji was always with me. They started me on a chemotherapy treatment. The first week wasn't too bad, but by the third week the pain was unbearable. To the horror of the doctors, I discharged myself. They told me that without the full course of treatment, I'd have at most eighteen months to live.

By this time, Shri Mataji was back in England, so I wrote a letter to her about the illness. Shortly afterwards I was invited to spend some time at Her house at Brompton Square in London. On arrival, Shri Mataji asked me to sit down in front of Her and gave me vibrations. After a few minutes She told me that the main causes for the cancer were drugs and getting involved with, and practically hypnotized by, a very negative person. Immediately, I started to feel guilty. How foolish of me! So Shri Mataji very sweetly told me not to feel guilty because the vultures swoop down to attack the baby chicks when they're born and She is like the Mother hen who has to keep the chicks under Her wing. Shri Mataji asked me to go upstairs and rest. I fell asleep and dreamt of being on a bus full of Sahaja Yogis, driving along a road. Suddenly, we came across the negative person and he was destroyed. I woke up feeling much better.

Shri Mataji worked on me every day for a few days. After two days, the colour came back into my cheeks and the darkness around the eyes disappeared. After another two days, Shri Mataji told me I was cured. I felt transformed.

I returned to the hospital for a check up and to show them the results. Only one doctor was interested in how it had happened. The others, reluctant to recognize that the Spirit is stronger than their treatments, put the cure down to luck! There are no words to express my gratitude and love for Shri Mataji. The feelings run much too deep for that. Some time later I went for a check-up which included a chest x-ray. On the x-ray my lungs appeared perfectly clear of all contamination by nicotine. Normally when a person smokes twenty cigarettes a day, as I did for several years, the lungs continue to bear the traces of the habit long afterwards, but the doctors looking at my x-rays refused to believe that I had ever smoked!
Kay O’C.

The doctors found nothing
I returned from India in June 1986 after four years absence to find my mother looking grey in the face and very aged. She told me that both her local GP and the specialist from the local hospital strongly suspected she had lung cancer. I wasn't surprised, as when I saw her for the first time after returning to England I felt a violent constricting pain in my own lung, just momentarily, in the place she later told me the cancer was suspected. As Sahaja Yogis we often have this ability, to feel what is going on within someone, if we put our attention on him or her. She told me there was little hope and that she would be going to the prestigious Churchill Clinic in Oxford the following week for a biopsy. But basically, doctors don't tell patients they might have cancer until they are pretty sure that they do.

I went back to London from the countryside. Shri Mataji was in London at the time, but I didn't see her. However, unknown to me, some other Sahaja Yogis did tell Shri Mataji that my mother was very ill, probably with cancer.

My mother went for the biopsy in Oxford, clearly very frightened as the result was more or less a foregone conclusion. However, there was not a trace of cancer. The specialist was amazed. He said the lungs were very inflamed, but there was nothing malignant at all. He'd never seen anything like it. My mother was not pleased with her GP, a very competent and experienced doctor or the local specialist for telling her she probably had cancer and giving her a terrible fright.

Three days later I saw Shri Mataji. I hadn't seen Her for some months, since India.
"How is your mother?" She asked me.
"Well, strangely enough, she's all right. The doctors thought she had cancer," I replied.
"Yes, they told me. I thought I better do something about her and cure her," said Shri Mataji.
Jane S.


The power of surrender
Allow me to tell you about a miracle I experienced. On the 27th of March [1989] I had suffered a phlebitis on my leg, following which an eczema set in around my ankle, stiffening my foot and making walking impossible. Nothing my doctor did helped much.
On the weekend of the 15th April, two friends of mine went to London to see Shri Mataji, bearing with them a letter I had written and having promised to tell her about my state and ask her kind advice. On the Sunday evening, as I sat meditating before the photograph of Shri Mataji, the idea came to me suddenly, spontaneously, that I had to detach myself from all the regular medical treatments that I was undergoing and surrender my situation completely into Mother's hands, following whatever She decided. That way, I hoped, I would be able to travel to see Shri Mataji in early May, when She would be in Italy.

On Monday morning, I stopped all treatment. On Tuesday morning, my friend kindly phoned me to pass on Shri Mataji’s advice. I told her of the decision I had made. My leg was already in a better state, the skin not quite so red, the swelling diminished, and the ankle becoming a little more supple. She laughed and I felt a great gratitude towards Shri Mataji. It was clear that my wish was being realized. Early that afternoon, the doctor came to see me. She was very surprised by the progress that had been made and agreed that I had done the right thing in abandoning the treatment she had prescribed for me. And she agreed that I would be able to travel again after a short while. By Wednesday evening, everything had completely gone and I was able to travel to the local Sahaja Yoga meeting for the first time in weeks.
Geneviève K.



All the boils dissappeared
In September of 1995 I was visiting Darwin, Australia. Just as I was preparing to leave Darwin to travel around Australia, I was bitten by a cattle tick which was carrying a very toxic virus and after several days I ended up with a huge boil under my arm. For the next six months I was plagued with huge seeping boils under my left arm. Homeopathy did not work, and even the most powerful courses of antibiotics only kept them at bay for only a few days at best. Still the boils kept coming back, getting worse and worse each time.

In April of 1996 I was on my way back to England and stopped over in India to visit friends for a few days. I had just completed another course of antibiotics to enable me to travel, and the boils were temporarily under control. I was in New Delhi and ended up staying in India a couple of weeks rather than a few days. Inevitably the boils returned. My friend asked a doctor she knew to meet me – he was a General Practitioner who also used homeopathy and ayurvedic medicine. He arranged to meet me at a medical seminar he was attending the following day.

The next day we went to the seminar to meet him. We sat at the back of the auditorium and waited for the conference to finish. Suddenly the boils under my arm started to throb quite violently and a few seconds later Shri Mataji Herself walked out onto the stage. I was not even aware that She was even still in India at the time! She sat down and although there were a lot of people in the room, She immediately started to stare very intensely in our direction. The thumping pain under my arm got faster and faster and Shri Mataji continued to stare in our direction for about thirty seconds. All of a sudden the thumping pain stopped and Shri Mataji immediately smiled, looked around the room and the conference continued very successfully.

Afterwards we met Umang’s doctor friend and I explained to him what had happened during the seminar. He just laughed. He asked me to move my arm – something that was normally too painful for me to even attempt. I moved my arm and found there was no pain. He said I needed no further treatment. Two hours later the boils had shrunk from about the size of half a hen’s egg to one quarter of their original size and the following morning they had disappeared completely. The scars of all the boils, at least twenty, had also disappeared and since that day I’ve not had another boil.
Chris C.

No traces of infarct

My professional life was spent as a civil servant in the Italian Foreign Affairs ministry. In February 1986, just after my return from Moscow where I had been working, I had a myocardial infarct as I was sitting in my armchair reading a newspaper. I almost immediately lost consciousness and only came round about twelve hours later to find myself in the intensive care unit of a hospital. I later learned that I had been admitted very gravely ill and the doctors did not believe I would recover, despite having subjected me to violent cardiac stimulation. However, I made steady progress and after forty days in the hospital I was allowed to return home, retired from my work as permanently disabled.

I lived under constant medical control, with four visits a year to a cardiologist who carried out electrocardiography and various other tests. The doctor told me that I was very lucky to be alive. The only highlight of this difficult year was getting my Self Realization and finding out about Sahaja Yoga.

About a year after getting my Self Realization I went to see the specialist again. After conducting the usual tests with his apparatus, he expressed astonishment and asked me if I was sure that I had really had an infarctus. According to what he told me, the scar from the attack was no longer visible, this was incredible, although on the official report he merely noted that he had „an impression of a partial recovery." Since then he has told me that I no longer need undergo any further craniological checkups.
The facts are so telling that little comment seems necessary. I would just like to add that my general medical progress followed my Self Realization. Even the pain of an arthritis in my left shoulder gradually disappeared to the point that I can use my left arm normally and can go swimming again. When I received my Realization I could not even lift my left hand to feel the cool breeze as my shoulder was completely seized.

So I can confirm, in all awareness and all honesty, that only divine intervention helped me survive the heart attack and to get to know about Sahaja Yoga. Shri Mataji’s love and the vibrations did the rest.
Luciano G.

Intelligent candle
A woman who had multiple sclerosis, she used to come to our programs in Birmingham, in 1980. And her husband, who was not interested in meditation, used to carry her from her wheelchair, off her wheelchair and put her on a seat in the room that we met in.

She only came because she told us she was interested in the spiritual part of it. She never thought it would heal. In those days, we did not talk much about healing. I mentioned it to Shri Mataji in London and She told me to work on her using a candle flame. I went back to Birmingham the following week and, when the husband carried her in, I told him to put her at the back of the room because I didn’t want any of the newcomers to be surprised and perhaps upset out by me waving a candle around this woman. So she was sitting on a chair and I worked on the chakras — the main one was the Mooladhara and there were a few other chakras which needed help and I began some things clearing out in her.

So, after working on her for about half an hour, I suggested to her that she stand up. Now, obviously, she was quite surprised, but she was willing to try and, sure enough, she stood up. Now this was a woman who hadn’t walked for years and was wheelchair-bound for any movement at all.

“Do you think I could walk?” She said.
“Yes, try and walk around your chair,” I replied. So she held a chair and she walked around the chair and she was overwhelmed. I was just as overwhelmed by what had happened. At the end of the meeting her husband came to carry her out and she actually stood up, held his hand and slowly walked out of the meeting room with him. And this was being worked on with a candle. Amazing.
Bala K.


They brought him in on a door
There was the story of my husband Michele. He had a really bad problem in his back, but we were not living in Shri Mataji’s house, which we always call the castle, at that time. We were living in a house nearby. He couldn’t move at all and was lying in his bed. I phoned someone who could give a message to Shri Mataji. She said to bring him to see Her. Two men came, and even though they were both very strong they couldn’t move Michele at all. Then they came back with six men and they put him on a door and they took him into the dining room at the Shri Mataji’s house. Shri Mataji came and he couldn’t even move to greet Her.

‘Oh my God!’ She said a few times, and began to work on him, to give him vibrations. She put Her foot on his side, and started working on him. And someone else was working on him with a candle, moving it around in anti-clockwise circles at the back of his body, and She said to me ‘just put your hand and tell me what you feel’ (on your fingers, as to where the problem is in his chakras). She was touching him with Her feet, and telling the other man which chakra to work on with the candle flame. After about twenty minutes She said to Michele, ‘now turn’ and he said, ‘Shri Mataji, I cannot turn.’ She said ‘you have to turn’ so he turned, and She was pressing and pressing with Her feet. He was crying out and She was saying that it was all right, not so bad. She went on giving him vibrations, and after one hour She said ‘you get up now.’

Slowly he got up, he stood up, and walked out. She said he had to work with the candle two hours a day. She said it was like a chain, the Left Swadisthan Chakra pulling on the Right Swadisthan Chakra, and that was the cause of the physical problem. So he walked out and no one could believe it. He had a hernia. It was amazing to see him come in carried on a door and then after one hour to walk out.
Roxana S.

A life-long illness fade away in Sahaj
Three years before I received my Self Realization I was very sick with peptic ulcers as well as other problems. Seven of the ulcers burst and as a result the doctors said that they could not operate as it was in six different places and that I would just have to continue life with them. Continuing life with them was by no means an easy task as I could only eat razgulas, (a sweet made mostly of milk) cottage cheese, ice cream and milk. I was obviously very thin as a result and so bony that I couldn’t sleep at night. I was so unhappy and hungry most of the time and had to take eleven different pills daily.

After meditating in Sahaja Yoga for three months, I began to feel that I didn’t need to take these cumbersome pills anymore, and so I prayed to Sir Mataji that ‘You are my doctor and I can stop these pills?’ I approached my husband. He was so amazed that I wanted to stop asked me how I would live without these pills. He was sure I would die, such was the extent of the illness. However, I felt on the vibrations that I could stop so from that day I left them.

Now I have absolutely no problem, I have happily gained weight and energy. Both the doctor and my husband were so surprised they couldn’t believe it would be possible to cure only by using Sahaja Yoga techniques.

However, two years later, I was still taking laxatives twice daily. I had been taking them for thirty-five years, due to a problem that runs in our family. I went to a programme in Shri Mataji’s presence, the Sri Sivaratri Puja, and while there I wasn’t able to take them so regularly, so I dropped one per day. Then, following a diet recommended by Sri Mataji, and continuing with the Sahaja Yoga, I was able to give them up completely.
Savita A.


Sahaja Yoga has usually a great impact on asthma
We had a group of four new people coming to our Sahaja Yoga programs and establishing themselves in Sahaja Yoga. One of the men came to Sahaja Yoga with very bad asthma. He used to need six sessions a day on a ventilator using ventiline gas, a brachial dilator used to relieve the constrictions in the airways arising from asthma attacks and relieve the symptoms of asthma and he never left home without ventiline.

We told the new people that if you have a problem in your body, then you should say, “Shri Mataji please come into that part of your body.”

The next day when he felt an asthma attack begin he said:
"Shri Mataji please come into my lungs.” He felt the attack subside. For each attack that day, he used the same mantra and, with the same result each time, the asthma attack was prevented. He now uses this mantra all the time and no longer requires the ventiline. The number of the attacks started to diminish as well.
Chris K.


Normally I would die without these pills
In January 1991 I was successfully operated from a hyperthyroid growth. The surgeon removed 390 grams of spongelike tissue. This took place after many months of an exhaustive disease, a very deep and strong ‘organic depression,’ as they call it, and life-weariness as a result of all this.

In fact, it’s very difficult to communicate how I felt in those days. I was at the absolute deepest bottom of my well, at the point where you can’t go down anymore without annihilation. I am using the word “annihilation” because it expresses best how I felt, “destruction” being too weak.

At the beginning of February my wife and I got our Self Realization. From that moment on, vibrations continued to grow every day, but for about nine months I didn’t feel a single thing in my hands because of a badly damaged Vishuddhi chakra, which is in the throat, where I had the operation. In August Shri Mataji came to Belgium and when She first set eyes on me, I felt as if my skull was suddenly blown off my head and as if a very powerful explosion took place inside me.

In August, in Weilburg, Germany, I had a personal meeting with Shri Mataji. She said, “We will cure you” — but I didn’t understand at all. A few weeks later I became ill again. The treating doctor could not find out what was happening and, after a month of trial and error, sent me to the hospital for a general check-up. They couldn’t find anything special, except a small increase of thyroid hormone in the blood and decided to reduce the amount of medicine, which proved to be a better medicine than more medicine.

Here I have to open a medical parenthesis. When your thyroid gland is taken away, except for a small part, you have to replace the hormones it produces normally by pills. These hormones are called “thyroxines” and are absolutely vital for the functioning of the body and the mind. Without thyroxines, you would die. When you don’t have enough of them in your blood, your general rhythm of life slows down and you develop all kinds of diseases. When you have too much of them, which was my case, you also develop all kinds of diseases. To prevent all these problems, you have to take hormone pills for the rest of your life. And to that rule is no exception.

Still, a few of the symptoms — such as a general nervousness, agitation, taking oneself too seriously, ego-centeredness, liver troubles, etc. — were disappearing naturally under the influence of Sahaja Yoga.
Anyway, I had to take one and a half pills of Elthyrone 100 every day after the operation and one pill after I met Shri Mataji. After a few weeks, I decided, without consulting a doctor, to reduce the medication to half a pill every day and later on to a quarter. What was left over was an enormous sleeping problem.

The following May I could attend one of our advanced programmes with Shri Mataji, and this was followed by a second personal contact with her. The next day I stopped taking sleeping pills, which I had taken for five years. The rest of my story is quite simple to tell. I have continued reducing the hormone pills until zero. The doctors tell me this is quite impossible, scientifically and medically speaking.

The happy end of this story is that one of the doctors came to our programs to find out what was really going on. He got his Self Realization and still contends that Sahaja Yoga gave him more understanding of illnesses than many medical courses.
Rida V.

A lady who had lost her hearing

In Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1983, after a public program Shri Mataji met a Portuguese lady who had lost her hearing. Shri Mataji asked her to come back the next day to the house of a Sahaja Yogi with whom Shri Mataji was staying.
The following morning, we were once again in Shri Mataji's presence, in the drawing room of that house. Mother gave vibrational treatment to several people, leaving the Portuguese lady till the last. This lady had lost her hearing many years previously and an operation had not succeeded in restoring it. Shri Mataji worked on her with vibrations for about ten minutes, during which all communication with the lady was with written notes on scraps of paper, translated on the way from Portuguese to French and then to English. Then, at one moment, the lady started to hear more clearly what was being said. She burst into tears and embraced Shri Mataji. Her hearing has continued to improve since.
Said A.

Healing scarf
In Kiev, there was a miracle involving a lady with a stiff right arm and no strength in her hand. While the Sahaja Yogis were working on her, a scarf with Shri Mataji’s vibrations was tied around her Vishuddhi chakra in the throat area, and suddenly she was able to move her arm and felt strength in her hand. The scarf had been used to cover a chair that Shri Mataji had used in St. Petersburg.
Dr.Izmailovich


Epileptic child transformed into a fully-blossomed flower

At a meeting with Shri Mataji, nine doctors were blessed with their Self Realization. Their very good experience prompted them to bring a teenage girl suffering from epilepsy for an experiment with Sahaja Yoga. This child had a problem beyond the control of specialists and had been to all of the best institutions in Russia without any positive results. Shri Mataji gave the child self-realisation. Working on her Agnya chakra helped open her heart and, from a closed sick personality, she spontaneously transformed into a fully-blossomed flower. This experience prompted the doctors to arrange another meeting, where thirty-five specialists came for Realization.

In the next meeting, fifteen patients were worked on, using Sahaja techniques, in the presence of the thirty-five specialist doctors and one psychiatrist. The atmosphere was very heavy because of the egos of all the doctors and the negative energy of the patients. However, the attention guided the Sahaja Yogis to give Self Realization, first to dissolve the aggressive egos. This time, Self Realization was amazingly granted with just the simple prayer from the heart to the photograph of Shri Mataji, “Please come in my heart.” Some blockages were also cleared when the doctors and patients forgave everyone. It was a tremendous blessing. Their first experience lasted approximately fifty minutes and there were no questions left. During the experience all the specialists were laughing, crying and opening up in the loving security of the Mother. All of the fifteen patients experienced our Mother's Love and, as observed by the doctors, there was a considerable improvement in the balance of the various energy levels.
A miracle occurred — the little girl is now cured of “incurable” epilepsy and her doctors are convinced about the possibilities of Sahaja Yoga. The encephalogram trace of the brain is clear of the characteristic signals of epileptic activity.

Dr.Izmailovich



The foreign body in the knee
My brother-in-low came to Dehra Dun on a holiday and got his Self Realisation from me, and then I gave him vibrations. Then he returned home to Delhi. Shortly before getting Self Realisation, he had had a lot of x-rays. The doctors had said he had a foreign body stuck inside his knee and they would have to operate. They had tried everything else to remove it but nothing had worked. Luckily, just before they gave him the anaesthetic they decided to do one final x-ray, and lo and behold the particle had completely disappeared. The only difference was that he had received realisation. They were amazed.
Ashwini

A hump disappeared over night

Once Shri Mataji invited any of the Sahaja Yogis, who wanted to make the journey down from the north of India, to meet Her in Pune, in the central part of India. When we reached Bombay, en route to Pune, we stayed with my Mumbai brother-in-law, Mr Bava, who was a wealthy industrialist. The plan was that we would go up to Pune the next morning on the train. We reached Bombay in the early evening after an exhausting two-day train journey from Dehra Dun. The Bavas had a big flat in the most upmarket part of Bombay, and we had arranged that in the early morning a taxi was to be ordered to take us to VT, the train station for Pune.I gave ralisation and worked on Mr.Bava.

Mr Bava had a problem with his spine, which had been bent from childhood, and as a result he had a hump of flesh that protruded at one side of his back. It was quite noticeable and both the lump and his curved spine had been giving him trouble for many years.

The next morning we were woken up very early. The taxi didn't come and didn't come, and then Mr Bava said he was taking us, so we all got into his jeep and off we went. After some time those of us with some knowledge of Mumbai began to wonder if he was perhaps going a very stange way to VT Station. Then a bit later we noticed we were going over the causeway out of the city, and were on the Pune road. We asked Mr Bava, who was driving, what was going on.

He explained that he has got his Self Realisation in the night. By the early hours of the morning, his hump had disappeared and he was standing up straight for the first time in many many years. 'I have had a miracle,' he said, ' and I am going to drive you up to Pune myself, even though it is quite a long way and I should be at my factories today, because I want to personally thank this lady who has given it to me’. So that was that.

When we reached Pune we went to the flat where Shri Mataji was staying. We explained that Mr Bava had insisted on bringing us up, a four hour drive on a working day, and that he had had a miracle and absolutely insisted on coming to thank Shri Mataji personally. She was very touched.
Ashwini K.

Recognition
In October 1993, in Canada, a letter of congratulations was received from the Governor of British Columbia, and was read out at the public program. It thanked Mother for visiting Vancouver. The well-attended program, with more than five hundred present, went smoothly and after questions and realisation, Mother received over a hundred people on the stage.

One lady with hands and body shaking came to Mother`s feet. She told Mother how it came and went. It was obviously uncontrollable and quite severe. After a few moments, Mother indicated it was a problem of the Visshuddhi chakra (at the level of the throat) and told her to first ask and then affirm the following:
"Are you the Holy Spirit that Christ has sent?” Then: "You are the Holy Spirit that Christ sent.” The lady’s upper body, arms and hands shook uncontrollably, and then stopped completely.

"There, look it’s gone now, finished,” said Mother.
One man, a teacher, informed Mother he was partially blind in the left eye. The remedy, Mother said he should ask Her the question:
"Are you the teacher of all teachers?”
He did this, and Shri Mataji continued.
"You are the teacher of all teachers!” She then asked him to affirm, and he did so.
"How do you see?” Mother asked. His eyesight was restored and everyone applauded.
Geoff G.

A Bible-style miracle

Shri Mataji did a miracle similar to one Christ did, at Nagpur India, outside the church She attended as a child. The story started in Delhi, about two weeks before Christmas in 1983. Mother was at the old Delhi temple at Safdarjung. She invited anyone who wanted, to go to join Her with Her family at Christmas at Nagpur. The family were getting together not only to celebrate Christmas, but also to attend the dedication of a statue to Her father, Mr. Salve, who had played a prominent part in the emancipation of India. The statue was being put up in Nagpur.

On Christmas Day we all went to church as the Salve family are all Christians. Shri Mataji’s brother, the bishop, was one of the people giving a sermon. Those of us who were not of the family had been given seats outside the church in the yard around and, as all the doors were open, we could see and hear what was going on. However, it began to rain and we all ran into the church. As fate would have it, we Sahaja Yogis finished up sitting at Shri Mataji’s feet in the front pew.

After the service all the Salve family went outside into the yard and began talking to each other. We stayed in the church for a few minutes with Mother. Then She walked down the main aisle and out of the main door. The old man was in a wheelchair and was in the corner of the atrium at the entrance to the church. As Mother came out of the main door of the church, She saw him. She greeted him.

"Oh, it's little Nirmala. I worked for your father," he said. He had apparently been in a wheelchair for years and must have been over eighty. Mother went over to him and asked him to get up and walk. She held his hand, then stepped back. He got up and walked over to Her.

Shri Mataji had also spent a lot of time on another day curing members of Her family, especially children, of diseases and other problems, pouring out Her love and compassion.

Bogunia B.