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Category: UK Beginnings

Category: UK Beginnings

How could someone like this be here
UK Beginnings

How could someone like this be here

September 6, 2026, 11:36 pm September 6, 2026

I’d seen Shri Mataji’s photograph before I met Mother. I’d heard about these meetings and I came to the last meeting at Judd Street. One damp Sunday afternoon, it was raining, and I came with my sister, Maureen. It had a huge impact on me because I’d heard that there …

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How am I going to visit you?
UK Beginnings

How am I going to visit you?

August 17, 2026, 8:44 am August 17, 2026

We went to Shri Mataji’s house in Oxted, but I can only remember patchy things because I was quite young at the time. One of them was that I used to love drawing maps. I drew this map which had some islands. There was an island for me and an …

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It’s great being a kid
UK Beginnings

It’s great being a kid

August 17, 2026, 8:23 am August 17, 2026

I got my Realization when I was seven years old in ‘75. The first time I met Mother was quite a marked memory. My father, sometimes used to bring me up to London for the weekend as I lived with my grandparents until my father remarried. He first met Shri …

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She never tired of clearing us out
UK Beginnings

She never tired of clearing us out

August 17, 2026, 7:33 am August 17, 2026

We were all sitting in a line. Somebody had a hand on Shri Mataji and we all had one hand on each other. The end person had their hand out of the window and we were just sitting there and it just went on hour after hour after hour. And …

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She tried things out with people
UK Beginnings

She tried things out with people

August 17, 2026, 6:13 am August 17, 2026

Shri Mataji used to give me little presents sometimes. My memory is fragmentary because it’s a long, long time ago. I remember in Gower Street. My father says the older Sahaja Yogis at the time were a collection of ex-hippies and I was younger and clearer. They had had a …

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She gave us so much affection
UK Beginnings

She gave us so much affection

August 17, 2026, 6:03 am August 17, 2026

We are talking about early days and for me early days were the spring and summer of 1977. What was special was that Shri Mataji had just a few Sahaja Yogis. She was trying to bring them up to the level where they could be strong enough, so we could …

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I’ve found this new sort of yoga
UK Beginnings

I’ve found this new sort of yoga

August 17, 2026, 5:21 am August 17, 2026

The area where I used to live was round by Euston, near Tolmers Square in London and that area was a sort of high energy area. There were a lot of squatters and things like that there. We had a little community club there and one day in 1973 this …

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A different universe altogether
UK Beginnings

A different universe altogether

August 17, 2026, 5:08 am August 17, 2026

Mother arranged this weekend at Her house at Hurst Green — Icehouse Wood, Hurst Green in Sussex. It was near Oxted. We all went down there by train. It was extraordinary because here we were, a very strange collection of people in an extremely nice neighbourhood, extremely nice. Shri Mataji …

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We felt what Shri Mataji felt
UK Beginnings

We felt what Shri Mataji felt

August 17, 2026, 4:00 am August 17, 2026

We were painting various bits of the house in Hurst Green in Sussex in about 1974. Now, one particular experience that I remember was that Shri Mataji went out with Sir, then Mr., Srivastava to go to a meeting, a reception of some sort. He was at that time the …

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