My Close encounter with Shri Mataji and Sahaj Yoga

i was interviewed in Daglio, Italy for a compilation about "Memories of Shri Mataji".
Over 120 people all over the world have stories in the book telling about their first-hand close encounter with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of Sahaja Yoga world movement.
The book is a gift for Shri Mataji on Her Birthday 2003. Text below is part of the draft sent by the editor, Linda Williams.

They will teach you everything ( Beijing 1995 )
We had the chance to do some shopping with Shri Mataji in Beijing. When we were waiting for the shopkeeper to check the bill, She was talking to us about the chakras and said that Sanskrit is a very scientific language. The number of vowels, for example, has a correspondence with the number of petals in a chakra.
At one place, Mother waved to the sales people and grabbed their hands and said, “Come, come,” and asked them, “Do you feel the peace now?” Some of them said they did and She at once told them what was their problem, such as worries about their families or personal problems. She told them to just relax and they would be all right. And there were only two Chinese people doing the shopping with Shri Mataji and She pointed to them and said, “They will come back and teach you everything.”

1995 /9

I have left my heart in China
When Shri Mataji left Beijing, at Beijing airport, suddenly there was a gentleman, a Chinese man, who was also seeing someone off, and he saw Shri Mataji from a distance and walked past Her. He knelt down and namaskared to Mother, just like that.
She said, “He is a real seeker.” He was not living in Beijing and had just come to Beijing by chance to see his friend off at the airport. Then he recognized Shri Mataji.

After that, he wrote Her a letter and praised Shri Mataji as a real guru. At the airport, Central China TV was filming the departure of the delegates of the UN conference. A reporter came to Shri Mataji and Shri Mataji really thanked the Chinese people for holding such a beautiful conference and She said, “I have left my heart in China, as Tagore once said.” We didn’t know about the importance of the reporter at the airport. When we returned to the hotel, we thought there may be a chance that the evening news might have something about it. At the end of the program, there was a special program of about twenty minutes about the conference. A small part was about the departure of the delegates, what was their view of the conference. They used Shri Mataji’s image as the huge backdrop of the video wall. They used Shri Mataji’s impression, Her quote of Tagore’s feeling of China as the conclusion of the whole program. When they showed all the names of the film crews at the end of the program, Shri Mataji’s huge image was there on the video wall for more than one minute. Ten million around China saw this image. Shri Mataji said, “I have left my heart in China. If the Chinese people invite Me, I will come back.”

1995/9

May God bless you
Another time, in 2001, when Shri Mataji was in Hong Kong, She gave us all rings. I picked up my ring and She said, “May God bless you.”
My experience is that whenever She talked to us, She would use that expression – “May God bless you.” And now I realize how many blessings I have got.

Edwin Hou

(photo of 2001. 12)

 Ó(保留版權) writing  of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma , Copyrights reserved

Back to Mr Hou's HomePage at the Lingnan Server 回侯爺主頁@LNSS