Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
We wish you all Happy New Year of Shalivahana!
HH Shri Mataji first celebrated the Shalivahan New Year in Australia during the first Shri Ganesha Puja in Australia on 4th of April 1981.
As Her Australian Children let’s acknowledge this day – Happy Gudi Padwa!
“Today is the New Year’s Day for Sahaja yogis, because this is the New Year’s Day of the Shalivahan calendar.”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Ganesha Puja Burwood Sydney, 4th April 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.
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The second thing is the importance of this day is, that I have never celebrated this first day anywhere, so far. It was to be in Australia. It is the right of Australia to have this day here, celebrated here. We had other pujas, other Navaratris we had; with that I celebrated the first, second, third, over nine days we have done. But never this Navaratri as such we have celebrated this day anywhere, of the Shalivahana. Though in London they had a little sort of a thing on this, which I, we had on the seventh of April, then I spoke about it; but actually on this day we had no puja, before. So, this is very creditable that it should happen here. I’m very happy, because this is where Gauri established Shri Ganesh.
Now for today we have two things to be worshipped: one, Ganesha, because Ganesha can preserve our status, our heights, in our realization. He protects us when we are getting our realization, we are rising high; so He preserves and He protects. And He looks after us and gives us wisdom, to have our ascent in such a way that we do not deviate into the left and the right side; we have full dignity; and that we are fully integrated with our heart, with Shiva Tattwa, with our realization, and do it with our heart genuinely. That’s why we worship Shri Ganesh.
But today is actually the puja of the Gauri, that is, the Kundalini. So Shri Ganesh we’ll do first of all, and then we’ll worship the Kundalini, which is the Gauri.
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So today we have a great day of Shri Ganesha’s Mother being established, incarnated. Today is the day She had Her bath, we can say, and that’s why I said I’ll come and have a bath here.
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So one has to relax and just enjoy the puja. I think today you are going to receive lots of vibrations. Just enjoy them, just enjoy them. And if your ego is there or anything, just ask them to shut up, that’s all – all right?”
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri Ganesha and Shri Gauri Puja. Burwood Sydney, 4 April 1981
HH Shri Mataji’s Shri Ganesha Statue is still emitting strong Vibrations
(A Yogini’s story from Shri Mataji’s Australian visit 4th April 1981)
The morning of April 4th, Shri Mataji decided that She would prepare for the Puja at Burwood. So She arrived and was in Her room, when She asked for some yoginis to come to Her. There were about four of us close by, who were ushered into Her room.
When we entered, the room was empty and Shri Mataji called to us from the bathroom. There She was, sitting on a chair holding a small bowl of what looked like clay in Her hands. She asked us to rub this into Her arms. When the bowl was empty She scraped the paste off and gently molded it into a tiny shape. “This is how Shri Parvati created Shri Ganesha.” She said to us, holding up the tiny model. We were then told that we could leave Her and we quietly backed out of the bathroom. At that time I had no comprehension of the greater symbolism of this scene. So many incredible things were happening to us and around us, we were just watching.
Later that day we had the first Shri Ganesha Puja that we have all seen on DVD and where the photo of Our Mother as Shri Ganesha was taken. The room was full. It was the raised part of the now large meditation room at Burwood, which at that time was a separate room wIth windows looking into the lower section. We were very squashed, no mike, people ringing the door bell, dog barking, children running around and yelling, someone asking Shri Mataji to speak up, for some their first Puja and there was Our Mother, just love flowing, smiling at Her children, working so hard for us all, complete patience and love. She explained the story of Shri Ganesha and asked us to learn the protocols of being in Her presence.
Shri Mataji called all those who had never had the chance to wash Her Feet to come up to wash Her feet during the Puja and after the Puja She worked on all those who had come for the first time. Her patience was endless.
That little statue is now over 35 years old and still emitting vibrations. Still emitting vibrations to help us in our ascent.
Jai Shri Ganesha, sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi!
Love
Lyn and Andre