ORF Radio Interview Meli Ashram, Vienna (Austria)
Interview: Shri Mataji Talks about Her Early Life. Vienna (Austria), 9 July 1986. Reporter: Can we start with Your childhood? Shri Mataji: Yes. Reporter: Do You, can describe a little bit the circumstances where you were grown up? Shri Mataji: My family? Reporter: Yes. Shri Mataji: I belong to a family of very enlightened people. My father was a linguist and he was master of fourteen languages. He knew about twenty-six languages and he translated even Koran-e-Sharif into Hindi language. My Mother was in those days, was a Honors in Mathematics. So both were very well educated and enlightened people. At the time of My birth, My mother dreamt something which she could not explain, but after that she had a great desire to go and see a tiger in the open field. My father was a great hunter, because tigers were a menace in the area where we were living. It was a hill station called Chhindwara. So there was a king who was very much interested in My father. Somehow or the other a letter came that there’s a tiger, a very big tiger that has appeared and they are frightened of him that he might be a man-eater. So My father took My Mother and Me to that place. And they were sitting what we call as a machhan, where they built something, for people to sit on top of a tree, from where they can shoot nicely. And then My mother tells Me that a big Read More …
