Happy Father’s Day!

Dear Family,

Jai Shri Mataji!

Wishing all Fathers an enjoyable and fun day …today on Father’s Day!

Please enjoy this beautiful story that Shri Mataji shared with us about Her father and friendship…

“There is a nice story my father used to tell that’s about friends”

“In friendship one can really enjoy! You need a very large heart to be a friend, very large heart. If you look after your own child, support your own child then you are a gone case for Sahaja Yoga. But if you have that kind of a largeness of friendship…

There is a nice story my father used to tell that’s about friends because my brother had lots of friends and he used to go about, gallivanting, this, that. And then used to always criticise that: “What, father, your friends come in, they just look after your lawn sometimes because somebody is fond of lawn. Then another does that. And you don’t discuss, argue anything! Just, I don’t know how you enjoy each other’s company!”

He said, “No, we talk, it’s not that.” “But, no, no, we enjoy very much.” So, my father told him, “All right, I will tell you a story…” That there was a father who had a friend and the son had a friend. In the modern times. I mean ‘modern’ these days is also ‘old times’ [now], I should say. So, the father said to the son that, “You see, friendship is where you can always rely on your friend and your friend can rely on you.” He said, “Really?” “Yes”, he said so. “Oh, my friends I can rely”, the boy said, “I can rely on my friends”. He said “Really?” “Yes!” So, father said, “All right, let’s test your friends and my friends.”

So, they went down, the father went with the son, and went to these friends of the son. And he told the son that, “You have to say that I have murdered someone and help me.” He said, “All right.”

So, they went to one friend. That friend said, “You murdered? Baba, you get out!” He closed the door. Another one they went to, he closed the door. Third one he said, “No, no! Don’t say that you have come to my house. I have nothing to do with you.” All his twenty friends said, “No.”

He said, “All right, now let me go to one friend of mine.” They went there. So, they knocked at the door, knocked at the door. Door would not open. Then he shouted, “I am here.” So, the boy started saying, “Look at this. Your friend is not even coming.” He said, “No, no, no! You just wait and see.”

So, about ten minutes later the friend came and opened the door, and took him inside. “What’s the matter?”

He said, “You know I have murdered somebody” The father said, “and so we have come to you for help.”

“I knew something must be there because why will you come at this hour? So, I was collecting all the ornaments of my wife. I mean, if you need money, I had better give you the ornaments. So, that’s why I was late. But,” he said, “if you have murdered, it doesn’t matter. Now, you have got children, I don’t have. So, you better tell them I have murdered. Tell me how the murder took place, I’ll take the murder upon myself.” And the son was surprised. He said, “No, no, take this.” Then the father said, “See now, this is my friend. You had twenty friends and I have only one friend!”

This is his friendship, and this kind of a friendship we Sahaja Yogis should have. I mean with a friend you cannot be tense, you cannot be! That is the first sign. And with your friend sitting there, you won’t doze off, and you won’t sleep, but you enjoy.”

HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Shri Radha Krishna Puja, The importance of friendship. La Belle Étoile, La Rochette (France) Sunday, July 9th, 1989

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