Shri Mataji - the founder of sahaja yoga meditation - motherly spiritual teacher for millions of seekers around the world
On the occasion of the first anniversary of our beloved Mother Shri Mataji’s worldly departure, a press release on behalf of Canadian sahaja yoga practitioners was submitted through Market Wire on February 23 at 9AM EST, and it was broadcasted around the world.Reuters, the largest news agency globally picked up our press release and posted it on their website: here. It was also posted on MSN. Also MarketWatch and NewsBlaze under the Title: Observing the Anniversary of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s Maha Samadhi.
Shri Mataji left her human existence on February 23rd, 2011, in Italy. We have realized very shortly – everywhere around the world, as well here in Halton-Niagara region – that with Shri Mataji’s yogic powers, She came and bid farewell, provided comfort, love and answers to ALL Her spiritual children .. one by one .. exactly on that day or around that day of February 23rd. She appeared in real form, or as a vision or in dreams not only to adults but as well to children that are having this spiritual connection through sahaja yoga meditation and Kundalini energy awakened.
In this article we have started to gather-together such experiences, first from our yogis that are part of what we call ‘Halton-Niagara Sahaj Family’. Most of them had never met Shri Mataji in person … but see how She managed this before She left her human existence.
Gladys, 71 years old – sahaja yogini from Oakville: Motherly Saviour Appearance
One of my experiences with Shri Mataji since I have joined Sahaja yoga, is that every night when I get to bed and I do a Bandhan (protective rainbow of subtle energy) before going to sleep, is that I feel and see Mother (Shri Mataji) very close to me, like saying: ‘Have a good night, every thing is going to be OK. Tomorrow is going to be a better, and brighter day.’
Another thing that happened to me at that time in 2011, is that I was suffering with a bad migraine as many days in the past, but this night was terrible, and after taking many medication, I did not know what else to do to relieve this excrutiating pain, and I raised my hands to God like trying to get some help, and that I saw, (and I was not at sleep)…. I clearly saw the sacred Heart of Jesus, and Mother at his side with a sweet smile on her face, in a beautiful red dress, like giving me some support, and telling me, one more time: ‘It’s going to be all right’, and at that moment I fell like Bliss upon me, at felt at Peace, all the pain was gone. Little that I knew, that the very same night, Mother had passed away, and
She was with me one more time…….
Thank you Mother.
- Love, Gladys
Rajani – young mom from Oakville: Dream with Blessings
I had a dream about Shri Mataji. I think it took place in our basement. I was standing there, and in a circle there were other sahaja yogis sitting on folding chairs. In the centre of all of us was Shri Mataji – I think she was wearing a blue sari – and She was touching the top of our heads (Sahasrara chakra – or the crown chakra), one by one. She was happy and smiling
Love Rajani
Paula – flight attendant from Burlington: Dream with Powerful Message
My dream was that Shri Mataji came to visit one of our (Halton yogis) homes during one of our sahaj potluck dinners. She was sitting on a beige couch socializing casually and I wanted so much to bow and do namaste to my guru to welcome her and show my respect. When I got down on the floor and my head touched the ground,Shri Mataji got up and put her whole body over me.
She was as light as the lightest blanketbut I could feel her presence and knew she was helping clear my chakras.A long time after, I got up and sat with her on the couch.She was joyful but seemed a bit tired.She looked at me and said «Now you do the work…» and Smiled.”- Love, Paula
Debbie – from Burlington: Always the Mother, even for our own Beloved Mothers
Tribute to our Saintly Mother in Toronto, on February 23rd, 2012
It was the morning of Feb 23, 2011. I woke up with such a strong urge and need to meditate. Before starting, I noticed a light in Shri Mataji’s eyes (in the photo I have at my yoga meditation space I have in my house). I said to myself, “I do not want the light directly in Mataji’s eyes” so I adjusted the photo. Later on and while working, I looked at my own mother’s photo and said to her “maa, please let me know that everything is okay”. (My dear mom died on Jan 31, 2010 and today would have been her 76th birthday). Within a minute, the phone rang and I got the news of our beloved Mataji).
On March 1, 2011, Shri Mataji came to me in my dream. She was wearing a white sari with a brown border. She was coming to visit us in Canada and we were making preparations to have everything ready. I recalled making some sweets using flax seeds and giving Ahilan (a dear yogi) one to try. It was for Mataji so it had to meet approval and this it did. Shri Mataji was smiling so much, she was very happy, she approached me and said “so this is Debbie”. My heart was full of joy as I was thrilled that Mataji knew who I was. Then I saw her wearing a long brown robe. There was a young lady with a baby boy. This lady was depressed and sad. Shri Mataji was under a white sheet that covered both of them. She was talking to this young lady and helping her through her difficulties.
In January 2010, Ioana gave me a couple very powerful photos of Shri Mataji. I introduced my mom to Shri Mataji and gave her a picture which was placed in a frame and in her bedroom. I told my mom that Shri Mataji will take care of her. On January 27th, 2011, mom went in for a very simple surgery. I placed Shri Mataji’s and Shri Ganesha’s photo in her hospital room. My mom’s condition worsened and on January 31st, 2011, I was praying so much to Shri Mataji, Shri Ganesha and Shri Jesus. I asked for a miracle to help my mom recover. I was so tired and did not sleep for a couple days so while my other sister sat with mom, I decided to shut my eyes for a little. I immediately saw a field that was filling up with white daisies in an ascending order. I quickly opened my eyes because I felt that Shri Mataji (whose English name is Daisy) was going to lead my mom on her journey. Later that morning, my mom passed on.
I went through a very dark and sad period in my life after this. I could not cope with the loss, I could not sleep, did not eat and did not want to be around anyone. In the middle of March 2010, Shri Mataji came to me in a dream. She was giving me a bunch of bananas. I felt that she was telling me that it was time to go back to Sahaja Yoga, she was offering me fruits, nourishment, sustenance. Two weeks later I went back. My Sahaja family was there ready and waiting to help me. On the first day, I received a very strong and powerful workshop from Ioana and others.
Words cannot express the gratitude and love I have for Shri Mataji and my sahaj family for bringing light into my life. This pure knowledge of Sahaja Yoga has transformed me from within and has been my compass on life’s journey.
Lots of love always,
Debbie
Chandra – retired professor of economics, Oakville: Spiritual Divine Teacher for Intellectuals
Yogis from all over Ontario, had paid tribute to Shri Mataji, our Motherly Yoga Teacher, on February 23rd, 2012
May be all through I was seeing HER as a Human being, that is why all these pains… and, it is my fault. When I see HER as Incarnation, the pain disappears… how can there be death and birth for the Divine ….. how can there be an end and a beginning for the Divine; SHE is just a continuous flow in eternity….. SHE is beyond eternity … SHE is not mine to hold on to! … SHE is always with me and what is there to hold on to? SHE said “I will be with you whenever you remember me…. with all my powers” .
For the Divine HER, this is just a hop in and a hop out, here and there, as Krishna was there with Radha, dancing with her, at the same time with Draupadi, supplying her eternal sari and at the same time, with Gopikas, playing His flute. And we are the blessed ones we were here when SHE hopped on to this Earth…. SHE only said Sahaja Yoga is just one aspect of HER… SHE has other things, other aspects .. … other Worlds …. other levels of consciousness….. other Ramayanas, other Mahabharatas to look after.
Am I not a bit selfish, even foolish, when I cry for HER to be with me all the time in HER physical body….. when will I recognize HER Divine spirit in my Heart… when will I tell my mundane thinking mind to think beyond its limitations …..
I think all this turmoil in me is HER Divine plan ….. plan to cow me down of my intellectual arrogance….. plan to cow me down to surrender….
But, nothing matters now, my vision of HER has expanded beyond of HER physical body, gradually, SHE is sinking in my heart as limitless, timeless Divinity, this feeling is gaining weight in my heart, I am getting a feeling that SHE is like that vast blue sky on me, always there protecting me ….. just above my head … just eternal… I am getting HER picture in my mind not as I see HER in her photos in physical form, but as just ETERNAL. This perception is clearing the dark clouds of pain in my heart as Sun clears the fog…. at this VERY moment, SHE is teaching me what I should really know…. the Eternal Truth of what really SHE is.
Thank you, Ma….” -Chandra
Shri Mataji - as Monalisa, will always, gently fascinate our souls. We feel Her presence and guidance always. Shri Mataji, you are in our Hearts forever.
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Beautiful ! Just beautiful ! Such great reminders to all of us that She is there for us, has always been, will always be !
Thanks Gladys, Rajani, Paula, Debbie and Debbie for shring your stories and Ioana for bringing them to all.
I was in Canada too at the same time last year and remember suddenly waking up from my sleep and feeling totally joyous as I felt that She had answered my prayers and given me ALL. Later, I realized that this was approximately the same time She returned to Her formless state in Genoa, Italy and blessed everyone as She went beyond.
Sorry, I mentioned Debbie twicw in my earlier comment… it should read as Chandra.
Beautiful. Thank you all. On 23rd Feb 2011 I had to be up very early to go somewhere for work. I expected it to be a difficult day as I was beig made redundant and it was my last meeting with those colleagues. When I woke I had a sense of Mother being very, very close to me, a real tangible presence. This feeling stayed with me all day and everything was easy, I felt detached and fine. Then a yogi text me the news of Mother’s passing when I was in the train home. A few days later we had a memorial at Bloxham Farm, the UK centre, and all offered a flower to Mother’s lotus feet and sang our hearts out. Tears and joy seemed to mix and melt together. For about a fortnight afterwards I was just in Sahasrara, it was remarkable. And ever since I have experienced much deeper meditations and stronger vibrations than I ever knew before. I just have to thank our Holy Mother from the bottom of my heart for the gift She has given us and for Her never failing love.
These are a few moment in life I have faced when I am filled with a speechless expression and mood when everything seems to come to a grinding halt even if I try to write anything. The ’stillness’ and the ’silence’ within keeps on growing profound like a ‘child growing within’. It is only when the child is born, it gives a birth to a mother.The mother hood is experienced by a human. or else this quality of ‘relation’ remains unexperienced. One doesnot really experience the essence of motherhood unless one possess the adequate amount of love and compassion to recognize another human being or God’s creations. It is love, its is compassion, it is just a feeling so soothing, yet so profound in its domain.
Whenever I am driven to experience these moments imagining being ‘within’ and ‘without’ Mother’s protection a seeking question enshrouds my attention that makes me thoughtless that is -’ Who am I?’ and ‘Why did god had to choose me?’ These all are outcome of Her endless love and comapassion of our most beloved Mother -beyond explanation, expression. I always feel so light whenever memories of Her physical-being crowds my thoughts and tangibly can feel the enlightment within heart.
Thank you all Haltonian collective for who I am again driven to this delicate lane of memory that is so refreshing and so enchanting yet so powerful that help unfolds a few petals of the fragrant flower that I possess within.Thank you once again. I love you all.
May Mother’s love abound in our small company and purge out of every heart the lurking grudge…….Into that heaven of freedom may our conscinece be awake. Amen!
Ioana,Gladys, Rajani, Paula, Chandra,Debbie thanks a million to you all and please feel my gratitude and love for all of you who have shared such gem of impression on this day to collectively sing in glory of our most beloved Mother. Who lives forever and ever….within our hearts.
I just don’t know how would i say my thankful sentence to you Mother, Shri Mataji; You give us more and more than we ask for, the beautiful gifts that the words can not explain the power of each one of those gifts. I just want to sacrifice every moments of my life for you, maybe by this I can answer to a drop of this ocean of love and happiness that you give to me;
Just reading these Wonderful Memories of Our Divine Mother itself brings in tremendous waves of Cool Vibrations … That is the Power Of The Divine Love Manifested By Our Ever Loving , Blissful Shri Mataji !!!
I was one of the fortunate ones to be there at Nirmal Dham last year when our Divine Mother’s Physical Body was brought there from Cabella ……Why I say fortunate is becoz , for the first time in 7years of Sahaja Yoga , I could feel The spontaneous Opening of The 7 Stages Above Sahasrara… It was an amazing experience …. It was like Mother just opened out those chakras while She Permeated into Ether …. I became completely thoughtless and blissful and joyous and what not , i really donno to put it into words ….. It was then that I realised that Mother has not left any of us …. She has just left the Limitations of her physical body , inorder to be more Effective , more Powerful In Space , that is all around us , below us , above us , everywhere ….. Now , It is for us Sahajis to be in meditation as much as possible , inorder to Absorb her Power and Reflect Her Power in Its Most Purest Form …. It is for Us Sahajis To Recognise Our Divine Mother in Her True Form and Glory , in this life time and to lead other Seekers too into this realm of Divinity….
The Bliss that I brought back from Nirmal Dham last year has remained with me till now …. and this time , on feb 22nd , while I was in meditation , I felt That Blissful Power In The Similar manner, just like an assurance from Mother That she is With Us all the time , waiting for us to seek more , to yearn more , to ascend deeper …. just to Immerse Ourselves Completely In The Vast Ocean of Divinity , which is None Other Than Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi ….
mother has given all her powers for spreading sahaja yoga and being in collective!
lets take one step towards her goal, rest will follow!
we r very grateful to devine mother ..
So beautiful thank you Ioana for posting these memories and dreams