Celebrating Auspicious Marriage

HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi & Sir CP Srivastava Papaji
April 7th 1947 (Easter Monday)

Dear Family,

London, 28 April 2006

Jai Shri Mataji!

On this day we celebrate the Wedding Anniversary of HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and Sir CP Srivastava Papaji. As the Children of HH Shri Mataji this is an occasion to celebrate and acknowledge their sacred union and the joy they brought to so many in the world.

Thank you so much HH Shri Mataji for showing us, through your auspicious and Divinely planned marriage to Sir CP Srivastava Papaji, the model of an ideal marriage. HH Shri Mataji we pray to You to please bless our Collective that we understand marriage in the proper way and live it in a Sahaja Yoga manner.

Love,

Lyn and Andre on behalf of your Australian Councillors

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Shri Mataji Wedding Anniversary 1982

“So I am thankful to you for arranging this program today on an auspicious day for Me, it was an auspicious day that I married Mr. Srivastava, and it’s an auspicious day for all of you, that we… we have to understand that marriage has to be done in a proper way, in a Sahaja Yoga way and is to be lived in a Sahaja Yoga manner.”
(HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Wedding Anniversary April 7th 1982, Nirmala Palace – Nightingale Lane Ashram, London UK) More on Amruta website

Shri Mataji Wedding Anniversary 1994

“So, thank you very much for the greetings on this day. It was a Easter Monday when I got married that day, and also My baptism took place on Easter Monday. But you know our Easter Monday always changes according to the Monday it comes. So it was quite a big venture for Me to marry. Actually, I did not need it at all. But as you know in India, they won’t spare any girl from marriage, and they have been after My life since I was about eighteen years of age. So somehow I managed. But I was in the medical college Lahore, and suddenly the disturbances broke out there, of a very serious nature. And I came back, and there was no possibility of My going back. Then the whole thing – planned, I think Divine planned it for My marriage, because I had to accept them. And as My husband was there, there were many proposals also, which they chose this one, and I was married. In a way arranged, because I had never talked to him about it, he had not talked to Me, but he had seen Me once before. So, for Me it was all right because everybody’s so much worried in My family about My marriage all the time. … ”
(1994-0407 Farewell Talk, Burwood Ashram, Sydney) More on Amruta website

Shri Mataji Wedding Anniversary 2003

“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’s 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. …”
(HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Wedding Anniversary, Mumbai India, 7th April 2003) More on Amruta website