{"id":443,"date":"2007-07-22T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/22\/the-story-of-emily\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T10:15:21","slug":"the-story-of-emily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/22\/the-story-of-emily\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Emily"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"Shri<\/a>On a foggy Fourth of July morning, 2007, the San Diego Sahaja Yogis set up a booth at the Standley Park Fair in Clairemont.\u00a0We finished setting up by 8:30 am and were all set to spread the\u00a0message of Sahaja Yoga\u00a0to the\u00a0crowds that were starting to trickle in.\u00a0There were only a couple of us, as it was still early in the morning.
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\nAt about 9 am, a little girl in a brown dress and a bright, neon-yellow windbreaker walked up to our booth.\u00a0She couldn’t have been more than eight or nine years old.\u00a0We\u00a0observed for a minute or so as she read the poster set up in front of the booth.\u00a0Then Keona asked her if she would like to try meditating.\u00a0The little girl\u00a0said she was open to it.\u00a0We went through the experience of Self-realisation with her, and she seemed to enjoy it immensely.\u00a0 We asked her what her name was and she said it was Emily.
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\nEmily left the Sahaja Yoga booth, but\u00a0twenty minutes later she was back.\u00a0She just stood by our booth, smiled at us and waved as we were giving Realisation to other seekers.\u00a0She did this about four or five times during the day.\u00a0Since this was a Fourth of July fair, there were\u00a0lots of other attractions for the children –\u00a0face-painting, drawing contests, a balloon parade and many other events.\u00a0Emily would go away from our booth, but kept returning as if the tremendous vibrations kept pulling her back.
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\nAbout\u00a0two hours later, she came back, this time with her mother.\u00a0And then she came back with two friends, and soon a small crowd started forming in front of our booth.\u00a0At one point, our entire booth was filled!\u00a0 We had about\u00a0six children and seven mothers and other\u00a0ladies crowded into our little tent, and the more the people saw this, the more they were interested in what was going on.\u00a0 We had to borrow extra chairs from our tent neighbours and the organisers, and people were spilling out of our allotted space to get their Realisation.
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\nEveryone got their Realisation, and we had a long list of names of people interested in starting a new Sahaja Yoga meeting in that area.\u00a0The vibrations were tremendous because the\u00a0children all had their Kundalinis up in no time!\u00a0And little Emily joined them a second time to sit down and meditate with us.\u00a0It was the sweetest experience to see this little Angel with light in her eyes and a big smile on her face enthusiastically telling everyone about the Sahaja Yoga booth.\u00a0She kept pointing people to our booth even when she was in line for the rock-climbing wall or the face-painting booth.
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\nTowards the end of the day, she came back to the booth, hugged Keona tightly and just smiled.\u00a0She said she would love to come back to meditate some more.\u00a0We told her mother that she was a very special child, a Realised soul\u00a0who recognised the significance of the work we were doing.\u00a0We asked her mother to please bring her to every meeting once we started.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We haven’t stopped talking about our little Angel whose innocence did Shri Mataji’s great work for us that day like a little Shri Ganesha, Shri Hanumana and all the Shakti powers rolled into one!\u00a0
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\nViraj and Keona Talpade
\nSan Diego, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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