Places of the Devi

January 18, 1983

Now, I have to say that the quality of people is very important, and in Maharashtra you must understand that there’s a quality. These people have a special quality of purity, I think, that invariably I’ve seen the amount of working it takes place in Maharashtra, doesn’t take place in other places. Perhaps the people are very much aware of the three-and-a-half peethas (seats of the Goddess) they have here. They are Jains and have been following Jainism but still they always worshipped the Goddess, the Devi. So we can understand the impact of those three-and-a-half peethas, and you have visited the great shrine of Chaturshrungi.

[Yogi: Shri Mataji … Saptashrungi?]

I’m sorry, Saptashrungi. Today [Marathi] … Today being Ganesha’s day, only it is going to come chatura in My mouth! All right. So this Saptashrungi is the one who has got seven chakras, means the limbic area, and she’s the Sahastrara, representing the Sahastrara. That’s why she’s the ardha matra. And her face and body and all that you can see is so beautifully made that it emits vibrations for miles together. Those who are sensitive can feel it. And you have been so lucky to go there and see that miraculous place that has come out of the Mother Earth, and since ancient times it has been there; nobody knows when it appeared.

So we are in a very holy place, because as you know Sita lived here for so many years and Shri Rama was also with Her, and also Shri Lakshmana. So it is obvious that this is … quite a big meeting place of various holy things that happened during the different periods of Maharashtra.