Dear Bharat Bhushan:
Thank you so much for this fascinating material. I plan on doing a magazine devoted to what you uncovered. I have a few questions if you don't mind answering.
1. How did your meeting end with Yogini? Did she say she is still meditating?
2. Does she have any following?
3. What were Your impressions of her when you met her?
Any other details, perhaps from your Hindi version, that you wish to share?
Thanks so much in advance.
Dave
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Dear David, I am giving information required by you:-
1. How did your meeting end with Yogini? Did she say she is still meditating?
The end of the meeting was bit heavy due to the fact that she started jumping from one topic to another. However, when we took permission to leave, she very gracefully got up and accompanied us to the ground floor right up to the street. During conversation she has not said that she still meditates. Rather she says that meditation (Sadhana) is Maya only. She daily recites ‘Sukhmani Sahab’ a holy book of Sikhism.
2. 2. Does she have any following?
I enquired whether she delivered discourses. She denied. It is obvious that most of the time she talks to the ladies living in the street. Her ‘following’ remains a question since she gave Namdan to many ladies in the temple.
3. 3. What were your impressions of her when you met her?
She was declared a guru by Param Dayalji for whom I have great respect. She had been a guru of women and I took every care to give her same respect. I garlanded her and offered some fruits to her. I knew that age factor had descended upon her. I knew her family circumstances when she was living in Hoshiarpur. Her husband had been visiting her in the temple. She was very close to my mother while she lived in the temple.
Other details are given below:-
She was born to Mr. Mulkh Raj and Mrs. Sumitra Rani. It was perhaps a matter of chance that none of her brothers or sisters had children. Home environment was disturbed.
Tripta Devi came in contact with Shraddhanand. Mostly girls and women go to his Ashram and press his feet and do other services (Seva) in the Ashram. Shraddhanand gave Tripta Devi a new name i.e. Saroj Devi. He used to address her as if she was a male. Instead of saying ‘सरोज क्या बोलती है’ he would say ‘सरोज क्या बोलता है’. She prayed to Shraddhanand for blessing her brother with child. It fructified after some time. This strengthened her faith in Shraddhanand.
Faqir had appointed Lajjawati Kakkad (Kamalpur Wali Mai) as guru of women. Now he appointed Tripta Devi also. He called her Yogini Mata and she became famous with this name. Firstly, Tripta Devi became Saroj Devi and then Yogini Mata. A childless Tripta Devi became Yogini Mata and then visitors of the temple rechristened her as Jagat Mata (Mother of the world). She had been given a room for doing Yogic practices and giving Namdan. She remained there for many years. At that time she was in her youth and had a glowing face which is considered to be the result of Yogic practices. In those days I myself saw Yogini Mata in the temple.
After Param Dayal Ji's death, Dr. I.C. Sharma fastened his own saddle of authority on the Temple. Dedicated worker like Dr. Karam Chand Kapoor left the temple and went to his village. Bhagat Munshi Ramji (Faqir’s nominee for Satguru’s work) moved to Chandigarh. Some people say that Faqir, during his life time, had instructed Yogini Mata to leave the temple. Yogini Mata also confirms it. After Faqir’s demise Yogini lived in the temple for few months. She was there when Sharma came to Hoshiapur. Yogini says that Sharma did respect her. After some time she moved to a rented room near temple and finally left for Pathankot.
A short note on her present life
Yogini Mata says that now she does not think about eternal questions like- ‘From where have I come, where shall I go?’ She took care of her husband and his second wife and their children, though second wife had always been against her. Her husband and his second wife have since died. She belongs to a well to do family. Her father left sufficient money for her and lives in a room of a house which belongs to her father. She requires help from near relations.
She talks many things but speaks full sentences. She jumps from one topic to another but stops to listen to the other person. She is seemingly in good health. On 21-10-2010, during telephonic conversation she mentioned about her asthmatic problem. She also told that she had been doing Sumiran (repetition of holy name) with breathing process.
Yogini Mata expressed her wish to live in Manavta Mandir if permitted. I advised her about the changed circumstances after Faqir Chandji. She agreed with me. However, she wanted to come to the temple on festivals like Baisakhi. I have conveyed her desire to Dayal Kamalji (present spiritual head).
Bharat Bhushan
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