Amazing experiences

I felt my heart open in waves
I travelled up with a friend from Glasgow and we arrived at the place where Shri Mataji was meeting people on a beautiful, sunny summer’s afternoon. This place was a small establishment, which was capable of accommodating a reasonable number of people. We didn’t meet Shri Mataji immediately. We met some other people and got a rough idea of what was going on.

In the evening, everybody congregated in a large room and Shri Mataji came and sat down at the front of the room facing everyone. I had a big, optimistic hope that She wouldn’t notice us, that we would sit at the back of the room and be able to observe what was happening. In reality, we were ushered down to the front almost immediately and introduced to Shri Mataji, who greeted us in a friendly way and direct way. She very quickly put Her attention on me.

‘You have a bad heart,’ She said and asked the assembled Sahaja Yogis to direct their attention to me and they began to chant a mantra, which I didn’t know at the time, but was the mantra for the left Heart. I felt my heart open in waves in a very undeniable way, as if a part of me, which had been asleep, was suddenly awakening in a most normal way. It was a very intense experience, but yet very normal. Many questions of mine were immediately answered by that one experience, which lasted no more than a few minutes.
Mark C.

An overwhelming feeling of joy and divine bliss
Soon after that I saw Shri Mataji at a public programme in Hampstead Town Hall, in 1983. I was right up the front with all the new people, and when Shri Mataji entered the hall we all stood up and I turned around. She came from the back, and immediately She entered the hall I had this incredible experience. My Kundalini was just shooting through my Agnya and my Sahasrara. There is a line in the Bhagavad Gita, and also the song ‘Your face shines like a thousand suns.’ It was like that. Shri Mataji came and sat down, and gave Her talk. Afterwards we were invited to come and meet Her. I bowed down to Shri Mataji, and She asked me how I was. ‘You felt it, didn’t you?’ She asked. I couldn’t speak. I was absolutely speechless. I nodded my head. I had an overwhelming feeling of joy and divine bliss.
Leanne H.

As if it was for Her
I arrived in the basement and there was Shri Mataji in the kitchen, which was in the basement. I came in through the door.
‘Hello, come here. Just put your hand on My Centre Heart,’ Shri Mataji said, so I walked over and put my hand on Her back on the Centre Heart. There were various people there doing bits and pieces and She was moving around the kitchen, so I was walking after Her. ‘Push harder.’ She would say every now and again, and I was pushing so hard, but She was solid as a rock. That went on for a few minutes and, after some time ‘Thank you very much,’ She said and that was it, as if it was for Her.

I just went off to work. It had completely cleared my own Centre Heart and I had so much energy and I was just running around that house and hugging everyone and I felt love for everyone and everything. I was just running all day with so much energy and getting so much work done because my Centre Heart was so clear.
John W.

Time is an illusion
Another interesting experience was when I was new to London and I didn’t know London very well, so Shri Mataji used to direct me and tell me where to drive. One day we drove all the way out to Southall to do some shopping. On the way I was trying to take mental notes of all the land marks so I wouldn’t get lost on the way back. It was a very slow journey and it seemed to take forever. Eventually we got to Southall and did some shopping. Shri Mataji bought some Indian groceries as She was entertaining that night.

On the way back we were talking about racism of the British and how they came into India for four hundred years and ruled and plundered and pillaged India. And how the Indians have come to London and work very hard and are doing very well, yet the English really resent that. My attention was completely on what She was saying. On the way back time seemed to go so quickly, and all of a sudden we were back at Brompton Square
‘See, it didn’t take very long to get back did it?’ . She laughed and said.
‘No Shri Mataji, it seemed to be a lot less time than going there,’ I replied.

‘Time is an illusion,’ She said. ‘When you are at Sahasara, it a complete illusion. I watched you, your mind was trying to remember all the land marks so you wouldn’t get lost on the way back. You were thoughtless on the way back. It didn’t take you very long at all did it?’ She laughed.
Alex H.

You look very fine
It was the first time I had actually gone to meet Shri Mataji at the airport. That was in 1984, after getting back from Australia. I remember I was a little bit nervous about going up to the airport. It was in the time of Sahaja when they were quite strict about the things you wore. I didn’t have many skirts, and usually wore jeans in those days, and was wearing an acrylic jumper and a skirt a friend had given me. I was a bit worried and when I got to Heathrow there was a small crowd of us. Shri Mataji came out, and walked straight up to me and touched my cheek. ‘You look very fine,’ She said. I had been so anxious about my clothes!
Bel H.

Where have you been?
The first clear vivid memory I have of Shri Mataji is the first time I was introduced to Her at the airport in February or March 1987. David P. introduced me to Mother and Mother took my hand and said something very nice to me.
‘Where have you been? Lost,’ She said then and that that moment my life flashed through my mind and I thought ‘where on earth have I been all these years?’ When I got my realisation that feeling of coming home was so completely natural and I felt ‘why did it take so long to get here?’ When Mother said that to me I felt my Sahasrara blow open – whoosh! All this bliss, I couldn’t sleep for some days.

A few days later Shri Mataji had a programmeme just for the Sahaja Yogis in Friends Meeting House, Covent Garden. We were all lining up to give a flower to Mother. She had a big beaming smile on Her face and again She said something really nice to me. I bowed down in front of Her and when I got up She said my left side needed working on. She invited me to sit next to Her and took my left hand then She looked straight ahead with a Mahakali pose and She gave a bandhan and I felt all these vibrations pouring through my left side. I was blessed out like a little child looking up at its mother, and completely enchanted by Mother and looking into Her eyes. I could have stayed there for ever. I was in heaven.
Steve J.