Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
(Photo: HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Puja, 4 March 1983, Adelaide)
Our offer was accepted!
By HH Shri Mataji’s Divine Grace, our offer of $405,000 + GST was accepted by the owners of the hall at 67 Onkaparinga Valley Road, Woodside!
The contract process is now under way and we are getting structural and other reports undertaken to ensure the condition of the building and underlying ground are acceptable.
We thank you all for your continued attention on this most significant project. We express our thanks to the Adelaide Collective for expressing their desire to please Shri Mataji and then acting on this persistently for years to get to this momentous situation. We thank the South Australian Councillors, current and previous, for their efforts.
Please give generously for the Adelaide Ashram
We still require approximately $200,000 for this Project. Once again, we state that this is our national priority project and requires us all to introspect about the role of an Ashram in our Sahaja Yoga life and how we can be a small part of assisting with that life for the Collective and new seekers in South Australia.
Please give generously for the Adelaide Ashram! If each adult Yogi can donate $1,008 this project will be paid with no continuing financial burden on our (currently) small South Australian family.
We once again attach a video so you can see the property and to understand the importance of this centre for South Australia and subtly for the whole Collective:
Direct Debit Donations
Donations can be made via the following Bank account:
BANK: ANZ
Life Eternal Trust – National Projects
BSB: 012 245
Account No:3491 53587
212 Burwood Road, Burwood 2134 NSW
Please mark ‘Adelaide’ on the deposit.
Shri Mataji talks about money
Yogis commented on the following part of a Shri Guru talk that was watched on Monday morning at Wamuran:
“Another thing I have seen is in small, small things, specially in money matters, it’s very funny. I have to tell you this: Turkish people, our Sahaja yogis have no money, everything was stolen away from them. So I said, “All right, you send some shirts here and we’ll sell those shirts, and extra money you can take it,” because they would not take money from Me. So when they sent the shirt here, it was.. they said that “Mother,” – I don’t know marketing – they said, “Mother, it should be twenty-one dollars, twenty-two dollars.”
Many of them said, “It is expensive.” Then I said, “All right, collect money from everyone, twenty-two dollars each without giving any shirt, finished – for Turkey.”
But a false guru takes money from you, you don’t mind. Sahaja Yoga is free of course, no doubt. Sahaja Yoga is free. But you have to contribute. How are we to run this Sahaja Yoga? There’s no sense of donation in you at all. For a guru, one must know how to donate. I am surprised sometimes: there is no sense of donation. We got something, say, terracotta from India, to help those people; and I was surprised that these Belgian women are so funny that they were telling everybody it is expensive. If they don’t want to buy, they need not buy. Others were willing to buy but they, these women were telling that these things are expensive. Where do you contribute for Sahaja Yoga?
Now we had to have this pendal, we had to have all kinds of things. What do you contribute? This attachment to money can never be good for a guru. I have no attachment at all. If you ask anyone they’ll tell you, even My husband will tell that, that from inside I am absolutely detached. I don’t know also, I don’t know banking, I don’t know how to keep accounts, somebody keep accounts, somebody does that. But this attachment to money in Sahaja Yoga – I won’t say like Christ that you’ll all go to hell, but you won’t rise much higher. You have come for your spiritual ascent. I don’t say you go to Himalayas, stand in the cold, stand on your heads, nothing of the kind. But the another defect they call in Me is that I never tell them that “you must contribute.” It is to be done with pleasure, with happiness, that you can contribute something to Sahaja Yoga. In any case, whether you give it or not, I’ll have to contribute for Turkey, no doubt. I’ll do that.
Now this kind of a thing as a market is there – “It’s very expensive. This is cheap, this, that” – this is just an excuse because I know you can never contribute even twenty dollars for anything. So I bring their clothes, all right. They have stitched the shirts, sent it here, and now – I’m surprised. But if the free presents are given it’s very much acceptable, and nobody sees how expensive it is. So now I would say that on money matters a guru has to be absolutely detached and giving, and generous. You’ll enjoy your generosity but the problem is, you are not generous at all. You think Sahaja Yoga is another market-place where you have come. So the generosity part is so much missing, and it is very surprising. They asked Me that “Mother, please, we need some chiffon skirts and blouses for the summer.” You stitch them for them, bring all the way; nobody wants to buy, it’s all lying there. There’s no shopping here. So I’m going to tell you that as long as all these things are exhausted, I am not going to ask any country to send anything here for sale.
To believe that you are Sahaja yogis, you are sadly mistaken. Your attention so much: you’ll go to hairdressers, you’ll do all kinds of things, but for Sahaja Yoga you have no money. Today, as everybody has said, “Mother, you should be little stern, You must tell,” I’m telling you this. Your progress will be very slow.”
HH Shri Mataji, 24 July 1994, Guru Puja, Cabella, Italy
Thank you for your support.
Love
Lyn and Andre