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A Paramhansa Yogananda

Trilogy of Divine Love

By SRI DURGA MATA

(Ma Durga)

Joan Wight Publications

Beverly Hills, California

1992/93

DEDICATION

This book is lovingly dedicated to our Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, with a silent prayer that it bring

about a new awakening of his teachings, in the hearts and minds of disciples everywhere, a prayer that

has grown with ever greater love and intensity within the heart of Sri Durga Mata over the more than

65 years of service to her Guru and to his principal disciple, Rajasi Janakananda.

This book is also dedicated to our Beloved Sri Durga Mata by we, her children, who have for years

lovingly known her simply as "Ma." For the last 35 years other more than 65 years of service, she has

devoted her life to extensive personal counseling and leading group meditations and classes on the

teachings of Paramhansa Yoganandaji and Patanjali.

– The Editor

IN MEMORIAM

Sri Durga Mata 1903-1993

My intention was to have Ma's (Durga Mas) autobiography off the press by the first week in

January. I had been informed her health was failing, and my greatest hope was that she would see the

finished product of her book before she passed. There were six dear and beautiful souls ("Ma's Kids")

who worked day and night to make this dream come true, but unfortunately, "man proposes, while

God disposes."

My typesetter, a kind and compassionate young man, had a copy of Ma's book bound as a

manuscript, with the beautiful look only typesetting and design of type can provide. I was able, through

his efforts, to show Ma how beautiful her book would be. As she lay in her bed I held the book up for

her to see. A big, beautiful smile came over her face and her eyes showed their approval. My final

promise to Ma was that her book would be off the press and on sale by March or April of this year.

She smiled her approval, and at approximately 8:15 a.m. on Saturday morning, January 16, 1993, the

morning of the beginning of celebrations for Paramhansa Yoganandas centennial at Self-Realization

Fellowship, International Headquarters, Mt. Washington, our beloved Ma entered Maha Samadhi, the

Yogi's final conscious exit from this body. She had left this world to join her Beloved Guru and those

disciples who had gone before. I had been allowed to see her once in the morning around 10:00 a.m.

and once again in the early evening as her body lay on her bed in her room. Her skin was as soft,

beautiful, and radiant as it had been in the morning when I first saw her. At first her mouth was slightly

opened. I was informed after I left it was noticed her mouth had closed into a most beautiful and

loving smile. Her eyes were open, and though the expression was remote, they were clear and sparkled

with a depth and beauty all those who knew Ma will associate with her. Wherever we moved about in

her room, all those nuns who came to pay their last respects will testify that her eyes seemed to follow

them wherever they went.

Her ashes are interned in an unmarked crypt in Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, with other

nuns who have passed in the service of Self-Realization Fellowship, in the Slumber Room near the

final resting place of Paramhansa Yoganandaji.

Already there are devotees who testify to seeing Ma outside her body, even before they knew she

had passed, and I am certain as time goes on, there will be many more testimonials as to the help,

guidance and joy being felt by disciples everywhere by her holy and blessed presence. In the words of

that beautiful chant, "One thousand Vedas do declare, Divine Mother’s everywhere."

Bless all those beautiful and devoted souls who have so lovingly and selflessly devoted their time,

their energies, their whole beings to the completion of this divine endeavor.

Thank you, beloved Ma, for the many years of training you gave to this soul and for the many

years you allowed me to serve you, and to all who had the benefit of your darshan . In Master's love,

we'll meet again.

– Jai Guru, Jai Ma

PREFACE

Sri Durga Mata has given over 65 years of her life in loving service and obedience to her Guru. It

is with humbleness and gratitude, we her children are taking this opportunity, on the 100th anniversary

of Paramhansa Yoganandaji's birth, to introduce her book to disciples everywhere. We sincerely hope

you the reader will receive inspiration, guidance, and a large measure of the spiritual joy we received in

printing it. The following is a spiritual journey with Durga Ma, her Guru, and his chief disciple, Rajasi

Janakananda.

Durga Mas life did not end when Master and Rajasi left this world, though she thought it would.

Instead, her life took a new turn and over the next 35 years she became mother, counselor, friend,

psychologist, and confidante, for Masters many disciples. For many years her phone was busy night

and day, for those who needed physical, mental, and spiritual guidance. She has never turned away a

sincere appeal for help, regardless of the persons race, religion, or gender. Her love is always there, her

forgiveness is always there, all we have to do is ask. She would often say, "It doesn't matter how many

times you fall, as long as you pick yourself up and start again."

Ma would say, "He always sends me the ones with the strong will, the rebels, the ones no one else

can do anything with." I too was one of those rebels, whom Ma has, after many years, managed to

tame.

Besides personal and group counseling, Ma became a master at many different art forms.

She used with great dexterity, watercolor, oil, and acrylics, which she liked the best. Over the years,

she has composed and written many chants. A few appear in this book. She has sculpted beautiful

statues of our Masters, of Rajasi (which Marjorie BenVau now has), of Master, and of the Beloved

Mother, Sri Ananda Moyi Ma. Mas writings are unparalleled in their beauty and heartfelt devotion to

Master.

Ma never liked to sew, it was tedious and time consuming, she felt, but she taught herself, and

became a master tailor and seamstress.

No can hold a candle to Ma's cooking. She can take the blandest food, and with a little touch here,

and a little touch there (her French touch), turn it into a gourmet's delight.

Now, at the end of the eleventh hour, when her life is fading, a child here cries once more, for the

tender, loving arms of its mother to embrace and protect, to succor and love it as of old. She has

promised that she, with Master, will always be there for us. All we have to do is call, "Ma, Ma," and she

will be there to help us, to soothe us, sometimes to discipline and scold, and to lead us back home.

I love you, my Ma, now and forever more. Thou art mine, I am Thine.

– Joan Wight

Los Angeles

December 17,1992

"All too often we praise dead saints and persecute living ones."

– Author unknown

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