Nirmala Srivastava
Nirmala Srivastava (born March 21, 1923 in Chhindwara , British India ; † February 23, 2011 in Genoa , Italy ) is the founder of Sahaja Yoga . She is called Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi by her followers .
Life
Nirmala's parents, Prasad and Cornelia Salve, were Protestant Christians. Her father was a lawyer and a member of the Indian legislature before independence . At 17, she came to the ashram of Mohandas Gandhi , where she remained until she was 19th She studied medicine for two years at Balakram Medical College in Lahore . In 1947 she married Chandrika Prasad Srivastava , who soon worked as secretary to the later Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and later was Secretary General for Maritime Affairs of the United Nations in London for three terms until his retirement . Two daughters resulted from this marriage.
Nirmala Srivastava dealt with Hinduism and founded the Sahaja Yoga movement in 1970 , which spreads in 140 countries and is considered the New Religious Movement . Her followers revere her as the incarnation of Adi Shakti , the holy spirit or mother of the universe.
documentary
- Nirmala Devi: Freedom and Liberation - A Life for Freedom (2006, 82 minutes)
Web links
- Nirmala Srivastava in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Oliver: New Religious Movements. A Guide for the Perplexed , Continuum International Publishing Group, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-4411-0197-6 , pp. 145f.
- ↑ Sahaja Yoga founder Nirmala Devi is dead , The Indian Express , January 25, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nirmala Srivastava |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian guru |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chhindwara , British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Genoa , Italy |