The world might now be going gaga over Radhe Maa, but beneath all the red and the aura, there’s a past. A past, not many people are familiar with. One where Radhe Maa used to tailor clothes for a living.
Today Radhe Maa lives in a spacious ‘Radhe Maa Bhawan’ in Borivali, Mumbai.
Moreover, she has a temple to her name and an ashram in Khanpur village, 2 kms from Mukerian, her native place in Punjab.
Film personalities like Subhash Ghai and Gajendra Chauhan are her followers.
Every fortnight, her complex hosts mata ki chowki , jagran and a satsang that attract hundreds of followers.
But there was a time, when Radhe Maa was known as Sukhwinder Kaur and used to stitch clothes in Mukerian in Hoshiarpur, Punjab to augment the income of her husband who used to work in his brother’s sweetshop.
Now 46, Radhe Maa became religiously inclined after her husband went to the Middle East to work as a labourer.
At age 17, she’d gotten married to Mohan Singh of Mukerian in the mid-80’s. Soon after her husband left, she started attending local satsangs .
As her religious pursuits grew, people started calling her for satsangs . As her popularity grew, she started dressing up like a Goddess.
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