Fountain of Knowledge

She knows everything about everything.
We were standing with Shri Mataji in the nave of a beautiful 13th century abbey in Sherbourne, Dorset, England. We had just had a weekend seminar the day before at our house, Mill Farm in Dorset, England and as was Her custom, Shri Mataji was visiting the area to spread vibrations everywhere. She looked way up at the limestone ceiling full of vaulted buttresses.
“How do you think they made those arches?” She said, gesturing with Her hand, as if wondering to Herself. I was clutching a guidebook.

“Maybe it will tell us in here,” I said, but before I could find anything, Shri Mataji launched into a complete architectural explanation, as if She knew the answer all along.

Later Djamel M. said that he had had a conversation with Shri Mataji about aerodynamics and She had talked with him about very technical aerodynamic concepts. It was this incident that made me realize that Shri Mataji, of course, is the pure source of all knowledge. She knows everything about everything.
(This type of story has been repeated by people who are specialists in many areas of expertise)
Felecity P.


Colours of Shri Mataji
Because I wasn’t properly centred, I had a bit of an Agnya problem in the beginning. I used to see Shri Mataji flash from different colours. She used to go this beautiful rainbow green and this beautiful rainbow red and I’d just see this light sort of flashing from Her. But apparently the reason for that was because I had an Agnya problem. I mentioned this to Shri Mataji:

“You shouldn’t see that,” She said, “One colour is power and one is purity.” I could see them, but She said, “If you can actually see those colours, it means you are not a in the centre. You are off to one side.”
Douglas F.


How the chakras feel in Shri Mataji’s own body
After Shri Mataji had given realisation at the public programmes, we all would stand in a queue and go at to her and Mother would say:
“Oh, see. That’s there.” I still remember the Kundalini rising or throbbing at each chakra in the new people as She used to clear it out and that’s how it was. If there was a problem in a chakra, then you could sometimes see the Kundalini throbbing or pulsating at that place for a short time.
When Shri Mataji asked you to put your hand on Her head, on the Agnya chakra or whatever chakra, you could feel the rotation of the chakra spinning so fast.
Meenakshi M.


Pulsating bones
We went to a hospital where there was a Sahaja Yogi’s mother-in-law, who had gone to a fake, or as we say false, guru after getting her Self Realization. She’d gone blind and Mother went to the hospital in Her compassion.
“Now you don’t come in,” She said to me, and went into the hospital and after some time She came out again. I was amazed because She sat in front of me in the front seat of the car and, because She’d worked on this woman’s blindness, Her back Agnya, the back of Her head, had sucked in all the negativity and it was pulsating out about an inch and a half. You could see it. I sat there with my mouth open and watching the back of Her Agnya go in and out and in and out, as She obviously was working out the back Agnya. That was a pretty amazing experience to see that, to see the bones move like that and pulsating.
Kay McH.


Incredible force
We all went to Shri Mataji’s flat in London and were given cups of coffee. She continued to work on people, help them in every way and cure them. She just gave and gave. One time She asked me to put my hand on Her left Swadisthan Chakra, on her back at the level of the hip, and put my other hand out. I felt an incredible force going through me and my arm shook slightly. She looked at me.
“Powerful, isn’t it?” She said.
Maryline L.


Respectful Stonehenge
There were some Sahaja Yogis who had been to Stonehenge and who had felt a lot of wonderful vibrations coming from the large stones. They suggested that we go there with Shri Mataji.

We went, and eventually we stood close to Mother and were trying to feel the vibrations from the stones and oddly there were no vibrations coming from them. Some of the Sahaja Yogis who had been there before and had felt the vibrations asked Mother. They were really surprised and they said:
“Look, we used to feel vibrations here and we are not feeling any.” Mother turned to us and said:
“That’s because I am here. Out of respect for Me, the stones are not emitting any vibrations. They are waiting for My permission. All right. Now!” The moment She said that, the vibrations just came in waves from the stones.
Bala K.


Helpful stones
We had a megalith, a standing stone in the garden, which was why the place was called Crosscraig – place of the holy stone. There were quite a few standing stones in the Rannoch Valley, Perthshire, Scotland, but this one was all alone, about a metre and a half high and near the edge of the loch. It had a sort of a cup mark in it near the top.

We took Shri Mataji to see it, as it was only about fifty metres from the house, and She told us something very interesting. She said that the people who put up these stones knew that She was going to come there, but that also some very bad things were going to go on there beforehand, because we had been caught up in a very damaging pseudo-spiritual cult. She asked us to feel the vibrations of the stone and it didn’t seem to have any, either positive or negative. She said yes, that was right, that the stone had been put there to absorb some of the negative vibrations and so make Her work easier, but that it was as if full, so could not emit cool vibrations.
Linda W.

Stonehenge: Different stones different chakras
We went with Mother to Avebury in the south of England some time before going to Stonehenge when there were just the few of us. At Avebury we stopped and got out with Mother and walked all round the stones. Mother was telling us that different stones had different vibrations of different chakras, different deities.
Ray H.

The Advent
I stayed one year in London to finalize The Advent and saw Mother several times a week and She still recalls laughingly that I was bombarding Her with so many questions. But She always replied, steadily, brilliantly. Only slowly did I cool down. In those days She revealed so much and mentioned things that I never heard Her uttering again.
I soon found Her so much more knowledgeable, competent and convincing than were any other teachers or gurus I had visited in several countries. She moved with total ease from the most practical and down-to-earth subject to the highest metaphysical consideration. It was a very special time for the few of us. She fed us so often, keeping us for lunch or dinner. Sir C.P. was always most gracious when he found us in his home, back from his long days of work at IMO, sitting at his table and sometimes wearing his kurtas.
Gregoire de K.

Inducing a baby
Inducing a baby isn’t a very good idea unless it is medically necessary. In 1980, there was a puja in Pamela B.’s house in Brighton. A Sahaja Yogi’s wife had just had a baby the day before. What had happened was that the doctors tried to induce this baby, but the baby didn’t come and didn’t come and after about three days of semi labour, it was necessary to give a Caesarean because both mother and baby were almost finished. Mother said the baby had wanted to come on the day of the puja, which would have been auspicious, and that she hadn’t wanted to come earlier, and that if a child is forced to come too soon he or she comes on the wrong horoscope.
Linda W.

Born realised
My first ever visit to Ashley Gardens came after attending only two of Her programmemes, so it was my third encounter with Shri Mataji. She had this way of putting people at their ease — instantly. I walked in clutching a brown paper bag containing seven limes and seven chillies without the faintest idea why She had asked me to bring them along. I had a vague notion of Her Holiness blending them in a food mixer, then popping in some mystical ayurveda to make a curing elixir. She took one motherly, enthusiastic look at me, clutching my mudka and laughed.
‘You don’t need them. You’re better!’ She said.

She Mataji asked me how I had cleared myself. I explained that it all got drawn out. I told Her I’d had nightmares about war. She asked me if I’d ever been in a war and when I told Her that I hadn’t, She seemed to go into a concentrated reflection on this.
She told me I was born realised, and that it was the duty of the born-realized to help the others. She likened it to us all being in a tall building. The born-realized are on a higher floor and so, when they look out of the window, they can see further. It’s their duty to inform those upon the lower floors what they can see and thus enable them to come up to their level.

This was in the seventies when Sahaja Yogis were in their infancy. Nowadays, Sahaja Yogis seem, on the whole, much more evolved and aware than we were in those days. In the eighties Mother expressed Her displeasure at the born realized, saying that just because they can do simple addition, they think they are great mathematicians, adding that many had caused Her trouble.
Marylin L.

Shri Mataji explaining Astrology
Mother always miraculously had time for us, and after cooking for the heads of state, when She came back from the USA especially to do this in 1981, the local Sahaja Yogis were invited round to Warwick Road, Earl’s Court, to spend a bit of time with Her. It was the first occasion anyone had videoed Mother and we watched the tape of a programme She had conducted in America. Mother watched too. "This Mataji, She is good on the video, isn't She?’ She said, in all innocence. It was so candid, so sincere, I realised Mother is much much more than the Shri Mataji we see. She was watching an infinite part of Her vast being on the TV.

She then spoke about astrology. She said it was a good thing to know one's sun sign and rising sign, and to look with all honesty at one's star chart. She gave a little example against Herself.
'I am a Pisces, fish,' She said. 'Now fish usually swim away from trouble, but do I swim away from trouble? No. So you must face yourself and try to overcome any tendency which is not positive.' She went on to talk about the different signs and I can't remember all of what She said. The main thing is that every sign has a positive and a not so positive side, and one must try to recognise and overcome any shortcomings inherent in that sign.

For example, Sagittarius is the man with the arrow. An arrow goes straight to the point, Shri Mataji explained, but on the other hand it gets stuck in and can't easily be withdrawn. So if you are Sagittarius, either rising or birth, be aware of this and don't get too stuck into things, because that is a tendency. Then there is Taurus, the bull. Taurus is the most earth-bound sign, and if you are Taurus know that negativity will stick rather easily, because of this, so one must shoe beat and so on if you think there might be bhuts bothering you. On the plus side, the bull is the vehicle of Lord Shiva, the Most High, so you can become the vehicle of the Spirit.

Some signs are easier for Sahaja Yoga than others, but that is only a relative thing. For example, Libra and Gemini are a bit difficult because they are air signs and also double signs, therefore ruled by the intellect, so it is difficult to let go and surrender. Scorpio, She said, can be good, because it is the sign of rebirth - Lord Jesus could never have been a Capricorn and was born under Scorpio. But ordinary folk like us must watch out - the scorpion has a sting in its tail. Aquarius is good, and this is the age of Aquarius, the age of the Spirit on earth. (editor’s note: on another occasion Shri Mataji said that Shri Ganesha gets angry if people put too much attention on astrology)
Anonymous English Sahaja Yogi

She breaks any fanaticism
When vegetarians came to the programmes, generally catching on the left, Shri Mataji would recommend them to eat a McDonald’s hamburger, as much to break the conditionings as anything else. She called McDonald’s ‘Macdougles.’ She often broke Her own rules, giving gifts of black trousers to women, advising a yogini to wear high heels and fancy stockings, chocolates to children, coffee beans given to an ashram, etc. She breaks any fanaticism, which attaches itself to Her advice.
Marylin L.

Lots of animals - few humans
We went to a public Programme at Kingston-on-Thames, which was quite a drive and those of us in the car with Mother had a good chance to listen to Mother talking on the way down and back. We asked Mother about the description of Kali Yuga, and especially about the few people bit. It didn't seem to make sense, as so many animals are going extinct, and there are billions of people crowding out the earth. But Mother said that yes, it was accurate, because many people are actually animals who have taken birth in human bodies, because the general vibrational level is so low. So in a sense there aren't many true people, that is beings with truly human qualities about them.
Linda W.

Everything in Sahaja Yoga is completely joined
Shri Mataji had a tour and stayed in a flat of Sahaja Yogis and She was going to name our child. She took him, and people were being helpful and making suggestions. Mother named him Sammarth.
‘You should give him an English name as well,’ She said. Mother then named him Samson, so he was Sammarth Samson. She told us what it meant — Sammarth. It meant powerful and the one who knows his own reality and the one who is equal to his name. We were very pleased. Some time later I heard the tape from the Ilford Town Hall, five weeks earlier.
‘You have to be sammarth,’ Mother had said. ‘You have to know your own reality. You have to be equal to your name.’ It was just an instance for where everything in Sahaja Yoga with Mother is completely joined and completely and completely flows. And yet, Mark had been at that meeting and he didn’t remember Her saying that.
Maureen R.