Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
Today, would be the 101st Birthday of Sir CP and we would like to acknowledge and pay our respects on this occasion, both for his love for Our Mother Shri Mataji his beloved wife and for his all his generosity and service to Sahaja Yoga.
We can never forget the blessed days we all shared together with Shri Mataji and Sir CP and the family here in Australia in 2006 and 2007, days of glory that will live forever.
Shri Mataji and Shri CP’s Australian visits in 2006 and 2007
Centenary Celebration Video
Please enjoy the video presentation below, in acknowledgment of this unique man prepared on the occasion of the celebration of Sir CP’s 100th birthday from last year.
Sir CP website
A website was created some time ago to recognize Sir CP as an honoured Indian civil servant, international administrator and diplomat, loving father and husband to Shri Mataji.
About Shri CP and Shri Mataji talks about Sir CP
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava KCMG, ComIH, IAS 8 July 1920 – 22 July 2013 educated in Lucknow, India (BA, MA, LLB), his career started as a civil servant in India, entering the Indian Administrative Service, becoming a Joint Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister’s office from 1964–1966, during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri. C.P. Srivastava became the first chief executive of the Shipping Corporation of India and in 1974 was elected to serve as the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations agency based in London, serving successive four-year terms as Secretary-General from 1974 to 1989.
During this time, he played a pioneering role in the establishment of the International Maritime Academy in Italy, and the International Maritime Law Institute in Malta. He was also the first Chancellor of the Sweden-based World Maritime University which was founded in 1983 to address a pressing need for maritime professionals in the developing world. Dr C.P. Srivastava has adhered firmly to the path of ethics lighted for him by SHRI MATAJI, with total dedication to his duties and responsibilities in serving his country India and the International Maritime Organisation of the United Nations. The result is a career of outstanding achievements. Sir C.P. Srivastava, KCMG, Secretary-General Emeritus, of the International Maritime Organization, United Nations, and recipient of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management, from the Government of India.
“And now a new world is being created. I sincerely hope that Sahaja Yoga will spread more rapidly. It has spread very, very fast but it needs to spread much faster.”
C.P. Srivastava has stated that his life has been greatly influenced by his wife and he has been motivated by Her vision of one Almighty God and one human family. He has been motivated by this vision in all aspects of his life and believes it has to be applied worldwide.”
Shri Mataji talks about Sir CP
“It is very embarrassing in this way to speak about Mr. Srivastava. Today, I am very happy that you are honouring him because if he was not supporting me, I could not have done anything. Apart, from that, as he said about values, I have yet to come across a person who has values as Mr. Srivastava himself has. The difference is that you can imbibe values after self-realization very easily, but even before self-realization he has them. He is a very honest man. He bought ships worth crores and crores of rupees and never he thought of any kind of dishonesty, and he is a man of great discipline. I think what we lack is discipline. As it is, the countries which are disciplined have themselves grown very much and helped others to grow. But if Sahaja Yogis do not have discipline of Sahaja Yoga, then Sahaja Yoga will be like any other nonsensical institution Mr. Srivastava’s discipline is so great that I do not know how he manages it. For example, for time, he is so particular, so also for consideration of others, for attending to his work, to see the people who come to see him. to see what he has to say, how far to say, what to say at the right time. There is so much Sahaja in him, so much inborn in him that at the right time, he will say the right thing. And above all the brilliance, he has, so much that he comes to the right conclusion immediately. He was not a realised soul, now I think he has touched the Sahasrara. But even before this, he would reach the right conclusion. As you have seen about Sahaja Yoga also, he has taken a right attitude. To take the right attitude is only possible, if you are really intelligent otherwise, those who are not, cannot Pure intelligence, means that there is no bias of ego or super-ego, no conditioning and you could see it in its pure form. You can see that he has allowed me to work. To accept that I should do all this work is in itself a very big sacrifice for a man. None of you would allow your wife to leave you for 3 months. It is a great sacrifice but because he has seen that this is the way, he not only allows me, but you know how generous he is about everything. We see things and even understand rationally that this is good, still they are not identified with ourselves. While I see in him, his own discipline; when he rationally accepts something or thinks that it is correct then he just does it. This is something which you have to learn from someone who has done this all his life. I used to be amazed, as to how he used to identify! There is so much integration in his actions and his understanding.”
H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Reception of Sir C.P. New Delhi (India) January 4th, 1980
Wonderful to see the recognition of a Great Soul. JSM!