By Surya Prabha
Surya Prabha – as bright as the sun
Today is the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis, and here, by writing this testimonial, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Mohanji for holding my hand and supporting me unconditionally throughout this journey.
It was December 2022, right after the silent retreat in Zlatibor in Serbia. I was busy translating the Power of Purity book into Farsi, and I was going through deep cleansing. One day, I received a call from Leela, my dear friend in the Mohanji family, who told me that Mohanji wanted me to be in India for his birthday. (This was a telepathic message that she had received), and I told her that there was no way I could afford it. She told me two other times, and each time, my answer was a definite ‘No.’
One night, I dreamed of Mohanji. He was in white clothes. He hugged me and told me. “Don’t give up on this path so soon.” In the morning, when I woke up, I was surprised and contemplated the dream. As my morning ritual, I opened the YouTube app to watch one of Mohanji’s videos. A video popped up by Monica sharing her experience about Shirdi Sai Baba; a sentence in her testimonial hit me hard. “Don’t pass up the opportunity of visiting a Master while you can.”
That was it. “Bam,” right into my face. Just right there, I made my decision to go first to Shirdi and then to Puri for Mohanji’s birthday and the pilgrimage. I just had 2 weeks to apply for a visa and make the trip arrangements. A few days later, my brother told me that he and my father were planning to buy a new cell phone for me as a birthday present. He was inquiring about the model that I would like to have, so I told him: “You know what? I already have a phone which I’m satisfied with. I’m so grateful to you both, but can I go to India with this money instead of getting a new phone, and his answer was: “Sure, as you wish.”
Baba and Mohanji had planned everything for me. Right away, I called Leela and told her that I was on board for Shirdi and Puri. The first night in Puri, when Mohanji saw me. He said: “Happy to see you here,” and I thought to myself, he knows everything, and he worked everything out for me. Puri retreat was very difficult and transformative for me; it was a deep cleansing. While in Puri, I was introduced to dear Dejan to read my birth chart. Having looked at my chart, he told me that I would have a very challenging year ahead, cleansing the huge ancestral karma of women in my lineage. At that time, I didn’t fully understand what he meant, but that information stayed with me.
After Puri, everything began to change. I was going through a rough time with my partner as we were not on the same page, frequency-wise, at that time. A few months after Puri, I went to Serbia for Prana Pratishta and then took part in Kriya Intensive in Bosnia. There was going to be Empowered 5.2, 10 days of silent retreat in September, two months after Kriya Intensive.
I remember the last day of Kriya Intensive when I was saying goodbye to my dear Mohanji family. They were like, “We are going to see you in the silent retreat.” And I said, “I’m afraid I can’t be there as my partner, and I have planned to attend a wedding in Paris and the wedding has coincided with the 1st day of the silent retreat. 2 weeks after I came back home, my partner fell off a 2-meter high ladder. It was terrible. He was bleeding and had bruised, swollen eyes. All I could think of at that moment was contacting Leela, asking for a Mai-Tri, and asking for prayers in the Mai-Tri group. Leela told me that Mohanji held him up and was taking care of him. He was in Mohanji’s loving care. At the same time, a dear Mai-Tri practitioner, Gauri, was chanting the Mai-Tri mantra for him.
The first scan taken in the first hospital showed a fracture in his skull, and we were advised to take him to a hospital in Tehran (as the incident had happened in a city an hour away from Tehran, the capital). Immediately, we took him to a hospital in Tehran, where Mohanji worked his magic. A miracle happened. In the second scan taken in the second hospital, there was no sign of skull fracture. However, since he had all the symptoms of a bone fracture, he was hospitalized in the ICU for a night, followed by a week in the ward.
To make the long story short, this incident was a shift for him, and he survived it with the grace and blessings of Baba and Mohanji. After the incident, he quit smoking and drinking. And now he’s a firm devotee of Mohanji, and he’s even been initiated to Kriya. But the story doesn’t end here. Actually, a profound layer of cleansing was about to start for me. Having gone through the incident, I was really drained and pressured. Due to the physical health of my partner, the trip to Paris was canceled, and I thought that I could attend Empowered online.
Gauri, whom I had met during the incident that happened to Reza, insisted that I should go to Serbia for Empowered 5.2. I cancelled the ticket to Paris. For which I had paid €600, I was charged €120 for the ticket cancellation and refunded €480, and guess what? I bought a ticket to Serbia for exactly €480, how odd and amazing! The retreat was amazing and absolutely reviving for me. How couldn’t it be?!
Being present in the energy field of Mohanji and the powerful presence of Baba is nothing but absolute bliss. One day, on the way to the Center, Gauri gave me a paper explaining how to do Manasa Yagna for ancestors; she wrote that she had received a telepathic message from Mohanji that I should do this. So for the following days, every day on the bus on the way to the Center, I did Manasa Yagna for my ancestors, and I told them if they had any karma, they could give it to me so that I could help them with its cleansing. The retreat ended. I came back home happy and peaceful. I made an intention to do Sai Baba meditation for 41 days. I had been trained for Conscious Gapless Breathing, and I had to practice it for 21 days.
Every morning, while I was meditating, I had a weird feeling in my left breast. One day, after Conscious, Gapless Breathing (CGB), I had a vision. I saw one of my past lives in which I was a girl but not happy being one. I had weird feelings about my breasts. I didn’t want them. I didn’t want to be a woman. The vision was so vivid, but at the same time, it didn’t make any sense to me. It was after my cancer diagnosis that pieces of the puzzle fell into place, and the mystery was solved. On the last day of my 21-day practice of CGB, I also had a vision in which I died in Mohanji’s lap, and Baba was standing behind Mohanji. Well, I had all these experiences, but I was still not able to connect the dots.
Exactly a month and a half after Empowered 5.2, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a shock! My main concern was my family. I didn’t want them to go through another challenging time, as I had lost my mom because of cancer 2 years prior to that. I didn’t have any choice but to accept and fight. 3 weeks after the diagnosis, Mohanji happened to be in Dubai, and I was blessed to see him before the start of my treatment. In Dubai, Mohanji told me that my cancer was 80% my ancestral karma. And I was kind enough to volunteer to clean it for them. Mohanji told me that he’d heard me talking to my ancestors during Empowered 5.2.
Having been energized by Mohanji, I came back home ready to start the treatment (chemotherapy, operation, and radiation, which took 8 months). I received several MTMs and Mai-Tris. Whenever I felt weak and in pain, help from the Mohanji family Just popped up. Mohanji truly held my hand throughout my treatment and answered all my prayers. I was even blessed to finish the translation of ‘Mast,’ conducting 2 Conscious Dancing workshops and several CGB workshops during my treatment. Actually, doing sadhana gave me the strength to fight cancer. I’m genuinely grateful to all members of the Mohanji family who supported me along the way with MTM, Mai-Tri, and their lovely, supportive messages.
I also would like to highlight the necessity of cleansing and purification. As Mohanji always says, each emotion leaves an impression on different layers, and I assume that’s why Mohanji always advises us just to observe and not get attached emotionally to the situations. Having received MTM, Mai-Tri, and my vision in CGB, I realized that I had this pattern of lack of self-acceptance in previous lives, not accepting myself for whom I was due to various reasons in different scenarios. Once not wanting to be a woman because of being barren and being cursed and offended by people. Once not being happy with my gender. The impression has been so strong that I lost a breast (a symbol of femininity) in this life. On top of everything, the suppressed femininity in the woman of my lineage. I’m thankful to Mohanji for cleansing me through his beautiful instruments.
Those of you who have passed the Empowered series must be familiar with the core teaching of Mohanji in Empowered. Be You! Don’t identify yourself with your possessions, positions, and relations. During my chemotherapy treatment, I lost everything: my hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and even one breast.
I lost all the symbols of the first layer of femininity.
I lost my positions.
I couldn’t give Mai-Tri for a while, which was very important to me.
I had to cut down on my English classes.
I lost some of my friendships, which I had relied on mistakenly.
By losing the things significant to me, Mohanji helped me experience detachment and discover the powerful ‘me’ within me.
Mohanji helped me to realize that it’s not my possessions, positions, and relations that make me valuable. But It’s the powerful presence inside me that makes me shine bright.
A few weeks after Empowered 5.2, as per my request, he gave me a new name ‘Surya Prabha, meaning as bright as the Sun, and through my journey, he helped me to say goodbye to old Marjan and become Surya Prabha. The process through which a new ‘me’ was born. A new version that wants to reflect the shining presence residing within her. A new version who is closing karmic files and is doing her utmost to live her dharma.
Hereby, I express my genuine, deepest gratitude to Mohanji. He’s been a loving, caring Father and Guru to me, a shining light in the darkest nights of my soul. He’s also given me a new family, the ‘Mohanji family,’ for which I’m really grateful. Thank you for your time reading my story.
|| JAI BRAHMARISHI MOHANJI ||
Edited & Published by – Testimonials Team, 2nd January 2025
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