Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday 11th May 2025
Our very best wishes to all the Mothers on this their special day
To our Most Holy Mother, Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
On this most auspicious day when we celebrate Mother’s Day, Your loving children wish to thank You for all the blessings You have bestowed upon us and we would like to humbly offer these poems of praise at Your Lotus Feet as gift to You.
You are Our Divine Mother, Our Spiritual Mother.
Dear Her Holiness Shri Mataji
You are Our Divine Mother, Our Spiritual Mother.
You are the Mother of this Universe and all Universes.
You opened our Sahasraras, giving us our birth and our potential to connect with, and to surrender completely to the Will of God.
We are Your Children and it for us to assist You to emancipate humanity, so one day Your global family sees itself as just one family, as all Your Children, and peace will pervade everywhere.
On this special day when we celebrate and give reverence to motherhood as the foundation of society and of the special place our own biological mother had in our own existence, we give reverence to You as the Mother of all mothers, the Creator of all, the Salvation of all, and the Emancipator of all!
It is at Your Holy Lotus Feet that we, as Your Devoted Disciples, give reverence to You as the greatest Mother, the Divine Embodiment of all qualities of a mother.
You are the greatest love, the greatest forbearance, the greatest sacrifice, and the greatest compassion that can ever be bestowed on any children. You are the source of all love.
You are the power that created us and also the giver of our own rebirth.
We thank You again and again.
We love You again and again.
Jai Shri Mataji!
Holding us in Your Motherly embrace
Dearest Holiness,
as a seeker of the Spirit it was such a great delight, joy and comfort to find You had taken this incarnation in the form of the Divine Mother, the promised ’Comforter’.
Only as a Mother could You wholeheartedly embrace, heal, guide and love us as You have.
You are the perfect form of beauty, love, compassion, forgiveness and nurturing which we were so desperately seeking.
You lifted us up out of the maya, holding us in your Motherly embrace as our Spirits danced in joy and enlightened our awareness at having found You, and we were drenched in bliss and awe at Your indescribable magnificence.
What an amazing blessing to be on the Earth when the Divine has chosen to take form and be amongst us, and to choose us to recognise Her and receive Her beautiful gift.
Dear Divine Mother please help us cleanse and open our hearts to reflect Your great love, and be vehicles for Your love to touch the hearts and Spirits of others.
May we also be worthy of the great privilege of calling You ‘Mother’ and may we aspire to imbibe and share Your many Divine aspects and qualities.
Please forgive our inadequate attempts at expressing our greatest gratitude to You for being Our Mother and Our Guru, and for the
countless blessings and gifts You bestow upon us as Your children.
With all our love to our most glorious Mother.
Jai Shri Mataji!
Shri Mataji ~ Mother’s Day Picnic
Sydney 10th May 1987
“I would like to thank all of you but thanking is coming with the rain, for a celebration of this Mother’s Day. It’s a very good idea that this Mother’s Day has been established in your country and that it coincides with My visit here.
In India surprisingly we don’t have anything like Mother’s Day. Very surprising. We have all the goddesses’ days but not for mother. And we have to remember also the mother who gave us birth, and then only you can realize what it is to give a spiritual birth. And so nice to see so many children here and small little babies, all of them so much enjoying themselves in the nature and are bringing joy to all of you. There are no words that can really express the joy I feel the way Sahaja Yoga is growing in Sydney especially. I have to [unclear: achieve?] Melbourne, but I think it will go very much faster than any other country abroad than India. You can see how things are happening.
It was so exciting the other day when you came after the workshop. You were so much satisfied that you have been able to save so many Australians. And you will be saving more and more and more and bringing much more joy to your country.
So many things happened at such a short time. Difficult to mention all of them together. Next year you have decided to have another beautiful Ganesha Puja. That will solve most of the problems, I think. Sahasrara to Ganesha, the problems remain nowhere, isn’t it? [unclear] … complete. But we must understand that we are surrounded by another force which is taking us downward, and we should not get into that downward movement.
Lots of temptations are there because now you are having families. Then you are having children, having houses, homes, ashrams, possessions, positions, money. Lots of temptations will be there because you’ll be blessed by the temptations, and then these temptations will judge you. The blessings should be counted but they should not ruin you. Blessings should not ruin you. They should elevate you in greater faith in God’s compassion and love.
On this great day that we are all here where you see the Mother Earth is in full abundance giving all the beautiful flowers that she could. All kinds of fragrance and all kinds of hues and colors that you see. The Mother Earth has given us so much and within us Mother Earth is represented as the Kundalini and she has given us so much also within us. So as Sahaja Yogis we should be blooming beautifully with our fragrance and with our joy.
Sahaja Yogis are always very happy people. Very joyous. They stand out by their beautiful expressions anywhere you go. They are very beautiful people, no doubt, and this is going to convince, this is going to convince others that Sahaja Yoga is a great thing.
In Sahaja Yoga there are some people who still cannot get over certain problems. For them we have to arrange certain things like sometimes we have to send them outside the atmosphere and they prosper well. Or sometimes we have to send our children to some other place to improve, and they do improve.
So the attitude should be of gratitude that there is a chance for all of us to be perfectly all right and enjoying ourselves and others enjoying us. if that is the attitude, nobody will feel that, ‘Oh, we are going out and my children are going out.’ All of these problems come up when we think in a very narrow way. We have to think of our lives and the lives of our children and the lives of our countrymen here. Especially now we are trying to get some more people from outside to Australia, and most of them who have come here have improved very much. Australia is a place of improvement, I think. It’s like we send them for improvement, you see. So sometimes that people send their children to some reformatory school or some sort of a jail to be improved, but it’s the other way round. We send them to a beautiful garden so that they improve. In the garden they blossom better. And so this is a beautiful garden where you have come. So you have to learn to enjoy yourself.
Now I am again going to Melbourne – you know that – and there are hardly ten days now I am in this country. Whatever it is, what your time is spent here, how intensely we take Sahaja Yoga is the point. How intensely we understand Sahaja Yoga is the point. It’s not how much pastime we spend together but how deeply we feel the joy of Sahaja Yoga.”
Full talk: https://www.amruta.org/1987/05/10/mothers-day-picnic-sydney-australia-1987
Shri Mataji ~ Mother’s Day Picnic
Sydney 10th May 1987
