Music programme in front of Shri Mataji and Sir CP in Mumbai on the occasion of Her 56th wedding anniversary.
Shri Mataji looked wonderful, and radiant, as always, in a red sari with a design of little gold stars. Mother was sitting on the throne that usually lives at Belapur hospital, and many people had brought flowers, some of which were put on the stage as decorations.
Firstly, seven ladies from Mumbai did aarti to Shri Mataji to welcome Her. Then children, members of local SY groups, came in pairs to give flowers to Shri Mataji and Sir CP. Each pair was dressed as a deity and His shakti - I later saw a young person still covered in bluish white powder and the traditional hair style of Lord Shiva, a little girl dressed charmingly in a white sari and holding a musical instrument was Shri Saraswati, and another small person, in a white gown, had on a false beard and longish hair to represent Lord Jesus. They were very sweet and innocent, but also symbolic ,as they came in, and knelt before our Divine Mother, pair after pair.
The music consisted mostly of a group of musicians and a man who sang forcibly and joyfully in praise of Shri Mataji n Her many forms. At times he encouraged us to join in the choruses. It was a very light and joyful evening. A large cake was brought in and together Sir CP and Shri Mataji cut it and later everyone of us present were given a piece from it.. At the end, representatives from the different states of India, and various foreigners on behalf of their countries, came and presented flowers and gifts. After Shri Mataji had left all thousand or so of us were offered a delicious meal and prasad, served in the gardens of the college where the function was held.
Talk of Sir CP Srivastava
(This is not transcribed but recalled, possibly not word for word)
It is said that marriages are made in heaven, and that is certainly true in my case. I must be the luckiest man in the whole universe.
(This is transcribed) :
Shri Mataji has been a wonderful wife, a wonderful Mother, an equally wonderful grandmother and now also a great-grandmother. She has spoiled me all these fifty-six years by giving me excellent food and looking after me all the time. It was because of Her generosity that I was able to work very hard in the office, but then I came back to a wonderful thing at home. She has been so kind to all my relations. You know when relations came to our house She would look after them in exactly the same way as She would look after Her own daughters. She would never make any distinction between one child or another.
The family, that She has given, the two daughters are wonderful. Kalpana is here. I want to thank Her for all that She has done for me for 56 years. But I want to thank Her more, even more for all She has done to the world. She has created a new humanity. She has done what no other person, no other person that I know or have read about, has been able to do, to have thousands and thousands of angels, people who are wedded to goodness, are wedded to purity, who are wedded to the concept of one human family. You know in the world today there is conflict everywhere, you read the newspaper and you find everywhere there are problems. But there is only one world,which is Her world, which is sitting here, which is beautiful, pure, and chaste, and which is the future of humankind.
On the occasion of Her birthday She invited me over to create Sahaja Yogis. She said if each one of you could transform a hundred more persons, the world would be a different place to live in. And I want to tell you, this is not mere talk, this is the most important, most crucial need that we have in the world. We have a choice now and the choice is stark. Either we move towards saving humanity, or we move towards destruction. She is the one who is the One force in the world. There is no other force in the world that I know. She is bringing north and south together, east and west together. As I said to my audience somewhere else, these are directions for navigation, but they are not for dividing humanity. Humanity is one. She has brought people of all faiths, of all races, of all colours, all religions,t ogether. Can you name one single person who is doing that today? They are all dividing. They are all saying, my God is the best?. Can you imagine? Can there be two Gods, can there be two Almighties? There cannot be two Almighties, there can be only One , and She is the only helper.
Talk of Shri Mataji
I just want to thank you all from My heart for coming to celebrate this anniversary with your love. I can't do more than to thank you really - how you people have appreciated My humble work. Moreover it is a work of just love. Love is the greatest quality of human beings. And if you have developed that then you will forget all other things. Because love has its own reward. And the reward is here - I can see it. I am nothing special, except that I love everyone very much. And I don't think anybody is to be condemned, because I have seen people coming out of all their problems, their smaller minds in to a bigger area in which they are capable of giving love. I must say that whatever was my faith has worked very well. And it is very very nice thing to see how many of you have understood My love and have spread love among yourselves. Our human problem is one, and that is that we don't know how to love each other. If we could understand that then we would understand all this love. We really enjoy this love. You don't have to sacrifice anything. Don't have to give away anything.
It is all there and you enjoy, it is reciprocal. You enjoy giving love to others. Maybe some of your experiences may not be that good, but most of the people who are human beings have a special temperament of loving each other, and this is to be shared and this is to be enjoyed. I have enjoyed it, and you all have also enjoyed it. So I have said, continue to do that, and spread your love all over.
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