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A SHORT STORY ABOUT SHREE MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI
                     FOUNDER OF SAHAJAYOGA

BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD :

                Shree Mataji Nirmala Devi was born on March 21,1923 to a Christian family in Chindawara,India. Her parents were Prasad and Cornelia Salve, direct descendants of the royal Shalivahana dynasty. Seeing the beauty of this child who was born with a apotless brilliance, they called her Nirmala, which means ‘IMMACULATE’.
       Later on she came to be known by the multitudes by the name of Shree Mataji Nirmala Devi- the revered Mother who was born with her complete Self Realization and knew from a very young age that she had a unique gift which had to be made available to all mankind.
       Her parents played a key role in India’s Liberation Movement from British rule. Her father, a close associate of MAHATMA GANDHI, was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and helped write free India’s first constitution. He was a renowned scholar,master of 14 languages, and translate the KORAN in MARATHI. Her mother was the first woman in India to receive an Honors Degree in MATHEMATICS.

Fighting for India’s Freedom :

    As a child, Shree Mataji lived with her parents in the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiji saw the wisdom of this child and used to appreciate her immensely, affectionately calling her ‘NEPALI’ due to the neapali features of her face. Even at a young age , her deep understanding was evident to Gandhi,who frequently sought her advice on spiritual matters.
      Shree Mataji’s involvement in the freedom struggle is extremely remarkable. She was very courageous and play a daring role as a youth leader of this campaign. In the 1942 “QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT” announced by Gandhi, she was even arrested and put in jail along with other freedom fighters for actively participating in this movement.
     Shree Mataji was born with a complete understanding of the human nervous system and its energetic counterparts. In order to become acquainted with the scientific vocabulary attached to these subjects, she studied medicine and psychology at the Christian Medical College in Lahore.

Sahaja Yoga is born :

        Shortly before India achieved independence she married Sir C.P. Srivastava, one of India’s most dedicated civil servant officers, who was knighted by the QUEEN OF ENGLAND. In India it is believed that the wife brings luck to her husband – this is most certainly the case for Sir C.P. Srivasatava. He rose in government ranks very quickly; though he was an absolutely honest person. He held the post of the Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister’s office of the late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri in the year 1964-66. Shastri himself was an ideal model for a Prime Minister in India’s political history. Afterwards he was elected for 16 consecutive years to be the Secretary General of the United Nations International Maritime Organization. As Sir C.P. Srivastava moved in fame from the Indian history to the worldly scene, Shree Mataji, after fulfilling her familial duty of bringing up her two daughters, embarked on her spiritual mission.
       Although she knew about her own spiritual consciousness she did not know how to present it to the people of modern times. She was also aware of the problems encountered by the earlier spiritual personalities who came on this earth like Jesus, Mohammed,Buddha, and others when they prophesized the truth directly to the people. As she was pondering on the many faceted problems confronting human beings, on the 5th of May , 1970, on a lonely beach of Nargol (about 150 km from Mumbai) a divine spiritual experience filled her whole being and suddenly she found an answer to her question. She discovered a historical process of en-masse Self Realisation through which thousands of people could get this connection to their Spirit and thereby their inner transformation.SAHAJA (=SPONTANEOUS) YOGA (=UNION WITH THE SELF) was born.

Conclusion :

  Shree Mataji Nirmala Devi has dedicated her life to triggering the spiritual ascent of mankind through Self Realization, reclaiming the role of women in the spiritual evolution, and guiding humanity to correct today’s moral dilemmas. It seems that the light of Gandhi’s vision is being brought to fulfillment by this great lady who is revered as the compassionate Divine Mother by her followers, as the “Messenger Of Peace” by Ayatollah Rouhani, an Avatar of the modern era by Claes Nobel, grandnewphew of Albert Nobel and Chairman of United Earth.

(This extract is taken from “DIVYA GYAN”, GORAKHPUR SAHAJAYOGA SEMINAR, 02-03 OCTOBER,2004)

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