Celebrating Shalivahan New Year (Gudi Padwa)
Tuesday 9th April 2024
Dear family,
We wish you all a very Happy Shalivahan New Year – Gudi Padwa!!
Dearest Shri Mataji, we pray that we will completely surrender our lives to Sahaja Yoga and to spread Sahaja Yoga collectively and with dynamism.
On this auspicious day, Shri Mataji allowed Her Australian children to worship Her as Shri Ganesha Shri Gauri for the first time at Burwood Ashram in 1981. During the Puja, the classic photo below was taken of Shri Mataji in Her Divine aspect as Shri Ganesha.
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Ganesha Puja Sydney 4th April 1981
We celebrate today, by offering Shri Mataji’s Shri Ganesha Shri Gauri talk and full Puja, held at Burwood Ashram in 1981.
“Today is a very unique thing that is happened – is a special luck for Sahaja yogis of Australia. This day has never been celebrated before in the history of Sahaja Yoga. Today is the New Year’s Day for Sahaja yogis, because this is the New Year’s Day of the Shalivahan calendar. As you know, Shalivahan is My dynasty, and they are called as Shalivahan because they are the carriers of the shawls of the Goddess, they are called as the, because – as you are also carrying so many times My shawls around – and they were called as Shalivahan.
So this New Year’s Day is the first day of advent of Goddess – the nine days there are. Then in another times that there are Satya Yug, then there’s Dvapara, Treta, Kali Yuga: there are four yugas. So in two yugas the Goddess incarnated, one before the Satya Yuga and one after it. So, today is the day to mark absolutely the first day when She incarnated on this Earth. That’s the day also of the Gauri, because Virgin is the first form of the Goddess. And She created also Ganesha on Tuesday, just starting this week.”
Shri Ganesha and Shri Gauri Puja on the occasion of Gudi Padwa