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Title: Meera Mata Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Sep 02, 2024 05:11 pm 💞🌹 BELOVED MEERA MA - JOYOUS SERVANT OF GOD passed on September 3, 1982 💞🌹 (excerpts) MEERA MATA, [mother of Mrinalini Mata, President of SRF/YSS], a loyal and beloved direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda for over thirty-five years, was a Self-Realization Fellowship minister and co-administrator of SRF Hollywood Ashram Center from its inception. DAYA MATAJI: One of the reasons Guruji highly regarded Meera Mata as a disciple was that she was truly capable of serving this work. In Meera Mata Guruji had someone who couldn’t be balked by even the most difficult task. I know that she never once said to Master,”I cannot do it,” or, “This is impossible.” She always said, “Master, we will find a way!” — and she did! . . . (Once)…she had come here to Mt. Washington to see Guruji, and rode with him in the car back to the Encinitas Hermitage, along with Ananda Mata and myself. As we drove, she and Master talked long and enthusiastically about the Self-Realization teachings. At that time, Meera Ma was about to undergo a very serious operation; but as she spoke with Master, I could see that she was facing it with all the faith and trust that the human soul can put forth when confronting some crisis in life. Throughout her life she faced every crisis with that same total, childlike trust in God. Guruji later said that she was to have left her body as a result of that illness, but her life was spared for God’s work. … Guruji also said this to Meera Ma: “The spiritual path will not be easy. You will learn great tolerance, patience, and perseverance.” Meera Ma’s path was not easy, especially after the mahasamadhi of Guruji in 1952, and of Rajarsi Janakananda in 1955. Meera Mata was out in the “front line,” you might say— a liaison between the Mother Center and the members, the world—doing everything she could to help keep this work strong and united after the passing of those two divine souls. She was like a standard-bearer, carrying the symbol of God and Guruji for all to see. She was a pillar of strength and understanding. . . . Even to the end, unmindful of her age and her sickened body, she devoted herself to helping others, to cooking, to cleaning, to serving in any way she could — in addition to her many administrative responsibilities at the ashram center. She had total humility in that respect. She never felt, “I am a senior on the Path. I am above menial tasks; I have graduated from that stage.” No, she had the attitude of a true renunciant of one who has completely surrendered to God: “Wherever I am needed—if it is scrubbing the bathrooms, if it is cleaning in the kitchen, if it is working in the office, if it is speaking before the masses—there I must be.” The higher we get in the love of God, the more we strive to do the meekest, smallest things in the world. Everyone wants to reach the top, but I can truthfully tell you that the way to reach the top is to be down at the bottom, willing to serve with the least. That was the example set by our Meera Ma. … (CONTINUED) See link to ~~ MEERA MATA, “Grand Mother” to Paramahansaji’s SRF Children ~ Daya Mata, Bro. Chidananda 💗 READ the memorial article https://yoganandasite.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/meera-mata-direct-disciple-joyous-servant-of-god/Qqqqq |