Celebrating Auspicious Marriage
of HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi & Sir CP Srivastava Papaji
Married 7th April 1947 (Easter Monday)
Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
On this day, 7th April, we celebrate the Wedding Anniversary of HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and Sir CP Srivastava Papaji.
Thank you so much HH Shri Mataji for showing us, through such an auspicious and Divinely planned marriage to Sir CP Srivastava Papaji, the model of an ideal marriage as the foundation of society.
HH Shri Mataji we pray to You to please bless our Collective so that our marriages uphold and support Sahaja Yoga culture.
As the Children of HH Shri Mataji this is an occasion to acknowledge and celebrate the sacred marriage of Shri Mataji and Sir CP Srivastava and the joy and love they brought and shared to so many in the world.
Love,
Lyn and Andre on behalf of your Australian Councillors
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, 7 April 1982, Nightingale Lane Ashram, London, UK
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. … ”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Farewell Talk, Burwood Ashram, 7 April 1994, Sydney, Australia
Release of Sir CP’s book on Shastri
“I must say that without C.P.’s help I could not have done Sahaja Yoga because he has only one Wife and I’m always out, I’m always traveling. I’m, I mean, I’m very, very little time with him. One thing he used to do the same to Me before. So (laughs) he’s used to My absence, I think, but I must say My children and My family, which is here, they also always support Me in Sahaja Yoga and they respect Sahaja Yogis very much and they think that what work I am doing is the only solution for saving the world.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 3 December 1994, Release of Sir CP’s book on Shastri, New Delhi, India
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, 7 April 2003, Mumbai, India
Marriage 7th of April, 1947 (Easter Monday)