{"id":636,"date":"2008-04-04T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/04\/04\/recollections-of-shri-matajis-birthday-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:02:09","slug":"recollections-of-shri-matajis-birthday-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/04\/04\/recollections-of-shri-matajis-birthday-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Recollections of Shri Mataji’s Birthday 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going to Chhindwara, little\u00a0did I\u00a0realise that the event coming up\u00a0was quite cosmic in proportions –\u00a0Good Friday, Persian New Year, Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday and, of course,\u00a0Shri Mataji’s\u00a085th birthday.
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\nThe celebration of Holi was expected on the day after Birthday Puja [celebration], so we dressed in our silks and other finest for the Puja, leaving “holi clothes” for the next day. Little did we realise that we were going to break into spontaneous Holi colour-smearing right after Puja.
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\nShri Mataji’s daughters, Sadhana Didi and Kalpana Didi, decided to play Holi with Shri Mataji right there after the birthday cake was cut. More Gulal (red powder for smearing on each other) was vibrated by\u00a0Shri Mataji.\u00a0The Indian yogis spared no time mixing the vibrated red powder with tons more, making packets and distributing it right away to a rapturous crowd of more than 20,000.
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\nA new movie on Shri Mataji’s childhood was premiered just before the Puja. In February this year,\u00a0Shri\u00a0Mataji\u00a0gave a 3-hour interview, reminiscing about her childhood and the house in Chhindwara where she was born. The house is a shrine restored without replacing most of its vibrated elements: the floor on which Mother took Her first steps, etc.
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\nThe house was a hospital for a long time. During this time, many years ago, Baba Mama [Shri Mataji’s youngest brother]\u00a0took Sahaja Yogis to the building and asked them to check vibrations in various rooms to find the room where Shri Mataji was born. This Sahaja Yogi recollected that they passed many rooms before coming to a small, abandoned room which was quite cobwebbed. It gave vibrational evidence that Baba Mama confirmed as the birth place of Shri Mataji.
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\nAfter the puja, Holi celebrations resumed with the folksy charm of Mukhiraam\u00a0and Dr. Rajesh’s songs about Holi. It was quite\u00a0a coincidence to celebrate Holi in the state of India where Holi is celebrated quite intensely: Madhya Pradesh.\u00a0
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\nThe highlight of Birthday Puja was Shri Mataji’s power of transforming the remote puja site in Linga village near Chhindwara, into a hospitable place for thousands in a matter of weeks.\u00a0
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\nRuthvick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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