Building New Jerusalem

Everything is possible
Mother had some external builders coming in and in the house, on the left hand side there was a sort of sitting room and there was a set of stairs that went upstairs. On the left hand side there was a small set of stairs with a small room, which was a room which was to be a bathroom and the next room behind that was Her bedroom. Mother wanted this room turned into a bathroom and She wanted a bath in a very specific place in this room. The external builders were determined that there was no way that this bath was going to fit in there and it was impossible to do the plumbing and so on.

‘This will work and I want it done like this,’ Mother said. They said no and there was a disagreement. Eventually, I seem to remember that the builders were no longer around and the bath was put in by the Sahaja Yogis and it fitted and worked out exactly as Shri Mataji had desired. This happened again and again. Whenever Shri Mataji has anything to do with the building, She does things which traditional builders will say are impossible!
Auriol W.

It came off like butter
There was some wallpaper on the ceiling in the dining room and it wouldn’t come down. Shri Mataji decided She didn’t want it because the person who put it up had such a caught up right side. She’d changed Her mind.
‘No, we won’t have the wallpaper on the ceiling. We’re going to have mirrors,’ She said. She had us take the wallpaper off and it would not come off. We were soaking and soaking. We were standing up on the thing and it wouldn’t come off.

‘How’s it going?’ She said when She came down to see us.
‘Oh, it won’t come off, Mother. It won’t come off.’
‘Well, just give this person a bandhan,’ She laughed. We did as She asked and the next minute the wallpaper just came off like butter. It just fell off.
Kay M.


Some need patching
When we worked in Mother’s house quite a few things happened in the house itself. One day Mother gave me a box of wallpaper and asked me to line two open shelves for ornaments. One shelf was easily completed with a roll of paper. Then l looked in the box and found, it seemed like, just a few scraps of paper.

‘Sorry, I don’t think there’s enough paper,’ I went to Mother and said. She told me to go back and try, so I went and, after a long time of total patchwork, the papering was complete and I had the smallest piece of paper left. It all exactly fit. I was amazed. When I stood back from the shelf, I couldn’t believe my eyes. They looked the same, yet one was completely patched.
I felt Shri Mother was showing me that some souls come into Sahaja Yoga so pure without much blemish and some come with holes and need patching. Once the love and vibrations permeate their beings, they are as beautiful as the other. Everything is possible with Mother’s love.
Rosie L.

She bought it on vibrations
Mother was talking about a sofa She had bought, on vibrations, and people were wondering why, as it wasn’t very nice.
‘Take off the paint.’ Mother said. It was embroidered in gold underneath.
John G.


We worked on the house and Mother worked on us
The part in William Blake’s prophetic work about Brompton Square which starts, ‘Where have those golden builders gone?’ was the origin of the name of the Sahaja building firm, the Golden Builders. As was always the way, we would work on the house and Mother would work on us. It seemed people did just the job which was right for them, on many levels. I spent a great deal of time stripping wood-panelled doors of white paint with a blowtorch and then staining those same doors with rich woodstainer.

The following year I left the UK and have since lived mostly in India and Africa: warmer, more highly coloured places. I also did a fair bit of glazing, as there were a lot of doors in the house which were made of small glass panels. Shri Mataji taught me how to do glazing. Putty was nice stuff to work with and I shall never forget the smell of linseed oil when Mother showed me how to put the glass in and seal it with putty, which She did perfectly.
Linda W.

Mother knew exactly what was there
I got my Self Realization in 1985 and first met Shri Mataji in 1986. The first time I met Mother was in 1986 at Shudy Camps at the Guru Puja there. For me it was just amazing to meet so many wonderful people who all felt the same thing. When I got my realization from a friend, we were talking about love and God and religion, and every time we talked like this my Kundalini would rise. When I met all these other people who felt the same thing it helped me understand this was so beautiful and special, the fact tht so many of us could feel the same way.

The first time I really spoke to Shri Mataji was in 1987. That was when She came and visited Shudy Camps, when we were all working there on this beautiful house. In 1986 Mother had arrived and had given everyone presents. They all got watches. I was quite sad because I had been there for six or seven months, and I did not get a present that time. In 1987 Shri Mataji came again, and She gave me a watch, the same watch that everyone else had got the year before. I can’t remember Her exact words to me, except that She said She was happy that I was there. I felt completely at home, and it was wonderful.

Shri Mataji told everybody in detail, what to do – such as removing internal walls and so on. Mother only inspected the house once, and She would explain exactly what to do in a part where She had never actually been. She would tell them to look for areas which had been hidden, such as false ceilings. The rooms were all so small, one could hardly use some of them, but Mother knew exactly what was there. It was quite amazing. The whole situation was as if Mother had designed the house long in the past and She knew where every nook and cranny was. We were being asked to do something which didn’t seem possible, and then we would say ‘Where did that space come from?’ She knew about all of them even if it wasn’t visible.

Hari B.