More on Amma Anasuya Devi from Kathy..

[Guest guest]

kathy, welcome back, dear one!

 

yes, you posted this message in ''lub (now a group..) i liked

the post so much that i immediately went and performed a google

search and read all about Amma Anusuya devi... she is as fascinating

as other women saints like laalleshweri, akkamadevi, and all the

rest...

 

thanks for introducing this great woman mystic to this audience..

 

"Mother Anasuya Devi (1923-1985) of Jillellamudi (in southern India)

was revered by millions for her homespun wisdom, motherly love, and

extraordinary spiritual powers. Her profound yet enigmatic teachings

powerfully challenged traditional patriarchal views and rejected the

common Hindu belief that the world is an illusion. She was a living

witness to her own core teachings that the earth is sacred and

spirituality comes from embracing life in full. "

 

kathy, the quotations you have posted remind me of shri ramana's

teachings...

 

Kathy, do not let anything in life frustrate... least of

glitches..

 

in life, we must use every 'stubling' block as a 'stepping' stone!!!

this is calle 'woman power' or shakti!!!!!

 

love and keep posting!!!!

[Guest guest]

Dear Adi-Shakti,

 

Thank you for your post and telling me how you looked up a lot of

information on Anasuya Devi on google, etc.

 

It was a few years back that I was just "blown away" in reading Her

words in a book entitled WOMEN OF POWER AND GRACE by Timothy Conway,

Ph.D. I don't think I had EVER read anything that compared to what

She was saying. It helped me tremendously. From there I went on to

writing to the author to contact Gordon Westerlund, who was mentioned

in the book as a devotee of Amma and from him I received many gifts

of the Matrusi (sp?) Journals and became friends with Gordon, who has

come to visit me a few times. He also personally knows Richard

Schiffman and also Jef Blom who is the editor of Blue Dove Press. I

believe Amma Anasuya Devi never cried as a baby, and did not require

food, although when offered, she would eat it. I have a few books

about Her and also know someone personally who was Her devotee

in India when She was still in the body. Did your search on google

show the different books available and also a magazine that comes out

in India I think every 3-4 months, dedicated to Her and information

about Her/Her life?

 

Have you been able to read any of the books about Her?

 

Here is an excerpt from Appendix I, Mother on Herself from the

book, "MOTHER OF ALL" by Richard Schiffman:

 

"For many years I obsessed over a single question: Who is Mother, in

fact? This book was written in order to answer that question, at

least for myself. And the effort has led me a good deal further into

the mystery, to be sure. But it has also shown me clearly that there

are no pat answers to the question--only suggestive phrases, vague

pointers, ghostly images for the imageless. All of our concepts for

describing someone like Mother are somehow inadequate, two-

dimensional. They invite us to viualize that which can in no way be

visualized or even imagined, much less spoken of intelligibly. And

indeed, even Mother's own few utterances on the matter of her

identity, culled from years of her conversations with devotees,

unavoidably fall short of the mark. They are, at best, a kind of

cryptic shorthand for an experience which beggars description--the

experience of being indivisibly and unalterably complete, whole and

without limits.

 

To read Mother's words on herself, as you are about to do, is to have

your breath taken away. It is to dwell for a time on the very

margins of word and thought. Still, if Mother's fantastic

descriptions of her own nature strain our conceptual faculties--or

even our credulity at times--then that was, perhaps, their purpose

all along: to lead us to the very edge of that seacliff from which we

must either retreat or jump. To jump into the heart of a mystery is

not to know it, in any limited intellectual sense, but to immerse

ourselves in some pretty strange and expansive waters. But when you

finally do take that daring leap, you will find yourself not in an

ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean called "God," nor even in an

ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in the uncharted

depths of your own innermost being.

 

So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters of

your own truest Self.

 

Mother's Sayings About Herself:

 

"She who has no birth or death, and yet is the cause of all births

and deaths, is Mother."

 

"Long ago I begot and reared all of you; now I have revealed myself."

 

"You were all born of me, and I gave you to your mothers to bring up."

 

"There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

become the many mothers."

 

"My traits have not been inherited from any side (i.e., her father or

mother). All of you have inherited my traits."

 

"No one knows my measure: I am the measure of all."

"Everyone views me according to their own particular level of

awareness. Mind is the measuring rod. They measure me according to

the state of their own mind; but whereas there are inches in a yard,

there are no yards in an inch." (p. 309-3ll).

 

I shall be happy to continue to post about Amma Anasuya Devi (Mother)

if any one wishes it. Please either email me privately

(Ceslestial_Saraswati or make a post here in the Group).

 

Blessings,

 

Kathy

 

, "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16>

wrote:

> kathy, welcome back, dear one!

>

> yes, you posted this message in ''lub (now a group..) i

liked

> the post so much that i immediately went and performed a google

> search and read all about Amma Anusuya devi... she is as

fascinating

> as other women saints like laalleshweri, akkamadevi, and all the

> rest...

>

> thanks for introducing this great woman mystic to this audience..

>

> "Mother Anasuya Devi (1923-1985) of Jillellamudi (in southern

India)

> was revered by millions for her homespun wisdom, motherly love, and

> extraordinary spiritual powers. Her profound yet enigmatic

teachings

> powerfully challenged traditional patriarchal views and rejected

the

> common Hindu belief that the world is an illusion. She was a living

> witness to her own core teachings that the earth is sacred and

> spirituality comes from embracing life in full. "

>

> kathy, the quotations you have posted remind me of shri ramana's

> teachings...

>

> Kathy, do not let anything in life frustrate... least of

> glitches..

>

> in life, we must use every 'stubling' block as a 'stepping'

stone!!!

> this is calle 'woman power' or shakti!!!!!

>

> love and keep posting!!!!

[Guest guest]

dearest kathy, it is our pleasure! we did miss you!

 

yes, i have ordered some books from amazon.com but not this one as

yet . may be in the future....

 

kathy, i really liked this quotation - kind of describes

the 'motherhood of god' sentiment very beautifully... the subject of

recent discussions...

 

"But when you finally do take that daring leap, you will find

yourself not in an ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean called "God,"

nor even in an ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in the

uncharted depths of your own innermost being.

 

So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters of

your own truest Self."

 

how true! this is the 'divine feminine' in all of us which we need to

recognize and celebrate - 'the true mother' - the heart

of 'compassion' !

 

i also relished this comment by the Mother herself !

 

"There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

become the many mothers."

 

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

kathy, this is your group... more the participatuin, the merrier it

is!

 

so, please feel free to shae your thoughts !

 

also, is it not strange that we (indians) learn about our own mystics

from western scholars? but for schiffman and your post, i would have

never known about Amma anusuya devi! thanks kathy!!!

 

love

[Guest guest]

-Dear Adi-Shakti,

 

Thank you again for your post.

You wrote (below):

 

"Also, is it not strange that we (indians) learn about our own

mystics from western scholars?

 

This lifetime I was not born "indian", but born here in the U.S. (I

am a female Caucasian). I have a number of friends who are "indian"

and perhaps my soul is indian, I feel a great attraction and affinity

with Indian people. It is in the book, "DAUGHTERS OF THE GODDESS,

The Women Saints of India" by Linda Johnsen, in the chapter on Anandi

Ma, wherein there is a discussion about the people born in the

Western world..here is an excerpt:

 

"As an Indian, you've been raised in an incredibly spiritually rich

culture," I interject. "Dealing with Westerners, you're working with

a very different type of student. I'd like to know what you see as

the strengths of Westerners and also what you see that we need to

work on."

 

"Dhyanyogi (Anandi Ma's guru) heard that another saint (Upasani

Baba), who is no longer in the body, used to say that many souls from

India were taking birth in the West. So there was some indication on

the subtle level that for those souls to evolve, the teachers would

need to come here as well. That's what prompted Dhyanyogi to come

here. He planned to stay only for six months but after seeing the

earnestness of the people and their strong desire to evolve, he

decided to stay longer. Many people said, 'You're needed here in the

West, so why don't you stay more?' In India people take these things

for granted, although there's a much, much larger number of people

who're really sincere and do tremendous things for their growth

compared to the West. In the West, since information is lacking

people were so strongly desiring, and Dhyanyogi was moved to see that

and decided to stay longer and help."

 

I asked if Anandi Ma found anything particularly frustrating about

Western students.

 

"Nothing is frustrating, so to say, at the spiritual level, but due

to cultural differences often times things are done on the part of

the student which are not good for their own growth which we find

frustrating. It's not their fault, but are the _samskaras_

(psychological tendencies) which they have been given in their

childhood. Even now in India, the entire culture is based on

spirituality to start with so it makes a very, very big difference as

the child is growing up. In the West we don't see as it is strongly

as in India. So if someone wants to evolve, something comes in which

holds them back, or that requires much, much more energy to break

through. Often we feel we want to give but the person doesn't want

to take. If he or she were an Indian, it would be much easier."

(p. 68-69)

 

Adi-Shakti, please feel free to email me privately so we may continue

this discussion if you'd like.

 

Kathy

Celestial_Saraswati

 

 

 

-- In , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> dearest kathy, it is our pleasure! we did miss you!

>

> yes, i have ordered some books from amazon.com but not this one as

> yet . may be in the future....

>

> kathy, i really liked this quotation - kind of describes

> the 'motherhood of god' sentiment very beautifully... the subject

of

> recent discussions...

>

> "But when you finally do take that daring leap, you will find

> yourself not in an ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean

called "God,"

> nor even in an ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in

the

> uncharted depths of your own innermost being.

>

> So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

> called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

> your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters

of

> your own truest Self."

>

> how true! this is the 'divine feminine' in all of us which we need

to

> recognize and celebrate - 'the true mother' - the heart

> of 'compassion' !

>

> i also relished this comment by the Mother herself !

>

> "There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

> become the many mothers."

>

> yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>

> kathy, this is your group... more the participatuin, the merrier

it

> is!

>

> so, please feel free to shae your thoughts !

>

> also, is it not strange that we (indians) learn about our own

mystics

> from western scholars? but for schiffman and your post, i would

have

> never known about Amma anusuya devi! thanks kathy!!!

>

> love

[Guest guest]

-Dear Adi Shakthi,

 

Just a few minutes ago I tried to make a post responding to your

post, but not sure if I entered it correctly or if it is lost in

Cyberspace, or if it just takes more than 5 minutes to enter. I had

typed up a lot of info from the Linda Johnsen book, DAUGHTERS OF THE

GODDESS, wherein it is mentioned how their are a lot of souls from

India that are taking birth in the West. I hope this post was not

lost as I typed up quite a bit of info. If the post got

inadvertently sent to you somehow, please would you post it for me?

Thank you,

 

Kathy

Celestial_Saraswati

 

 

 

-- In , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> dearest kathy, it is our pleasure! we did miss you!

>

> yes, i have ordered some books from amazon.com but not this one as

> yet . may be in the future....

>

> kathy, i really liked this quotation - kind of describes

> the 'motherhood of god' sentiment very beautifully... the subject

of

> recent discussions...

>

> "But when you finally do take that daring leap, you will find

> yourself not in an ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean

called "God,"

> nor even in an ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in

the

> uncharted depths of your own innermost being.

>

> So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

> called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

> your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters

of

> your own truest Self."

>

> how true! this is the 'divine feminine' in all of us which we need

to

> recognize and celebrate - 'the true mother' - the heart

> of 'compassion' !

>

> i also relished this comment by the Mother herself !

>

> "There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

> become the many mothers."

>

> yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>

> kathy, this is your group... more the participatuin, the merrier

it

> is!

>

> so, please feel free to shae your thoughts !

>

> also, is it not strange that we (indians) learn about our own

mystics

> from western scholars? but for schiffman and your post, i would

have

> never known about Amma anusuya devi! thanks kathy!!!

>

> love

[Guest guest]

-Dear Adi-Shakthi,

 

This is the third post I am trying to enter to respond to your post.

So far the first two have not shown up and it has been a number of

hours since I tried to get them in. I don't know what is the problem

that my response posts to your post are not showing.

 

?

 

Kathy

 

 

 

-- In , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> dearest kathy, it is our pleasure! we did miss you!

>

> yes, i have ordered some books from amazon.com but not this one as

> yet . may be in the future....

>

> kathy, i really liked this quotation - kind of describes

> the 'motherhood of god' sentiment very beautifully... the subject

of

> recent discussions...

>

> "But when you finally do take that daring leap, you will find

> yourself not in an ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean

called "God,"

> nor even in an ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in

the

> uncharted depths of your own innermost being.

>

> So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

> called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

> your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters

of

> your own truest Self."

>

> how true! this is the 'divine feminine' in all of us which we need

to

> recognize and celebrate - 'the true mother' - the heart

> of 'compassion' !

>

> i also relished this comment by the Mother herself !

>

> "There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

> become the many mothers."

>

> yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>

> kathy, this is your group... more the participatuin, the merrier

it

> is!

>

> so, please feel free to shae your thoughts !

>

> also, is it not strange that we (indians) learn about our own

mystics

> from western scholars? but for schiffman and your post, i would

have

> never known about Amma anusuya devi! thanks kathy!!!

>

> love

[Guest guest]

kathy, your soul is 'divine' and that is all that matters!!! in fact,

swami vivekananda said 'every soul is potentially divine.'

 

i have read that book by linda johnson on 'daughters of the goddess' -

yes, it is very informative and interesting ! linda has done a super

job of bringing the life story of all indian women saints under one

cover!!! ibelieve, linda has since then become a disciple of sree

maa!!!!

 

do not worry about '' glitches!!! keep on posting your wonderful

posts!!!

 

love

[Guest guest]

-This is a "test" post to see if it makes it in. What I tried to

post yesterday (Sunday) did not appear at all, and I want to make

sure is working again before I start to re-type everything that

evidently was wasted and lost in cyberspace because of malfunctioning

programs.

 

Kathy

 

 

-- In , "celestial_saraswati"

<celestial_saraswati> wrote:

> Dear Adi-Shakti,

>

> Thank you for your post and telling me how you looked up a lot of

> information on Anasuya Devi on google, etc.

>

> It was a few years back that I was just "blown away" in reading Her

> words in a book entitled WOMEN OF POWER AND GRACE by Timothy Conway,

> Ph.D. I don't think I had EVER read anything that compared to what

> She was saying. It helped me tremendously. From there I went on

to

> writing to the author to contact Gordon Westerlund, who was

mentioned

> in the book as a devotee of Amma and from him I received many gifts

> of the Matrusi (sp?) Journals and became friends with Gordon, who

has

> come to visit me a few times. He also personally knows Richard

> Schiffman and also Jef Blom who is the editor of Blue Dove Press.

I

> believe Amma Anasuya Devi never cried as a baby, and did not

require

> food, although when offered, she would eat it. I have a few books

> about Her and also know someone personally who was Her devotee

> in India when She was still in the body. Did your search on google

> show the different books available and also a magazine that comes

out

> in India I think every 3-4 months, dedicated to Her and information

> about Her/Her life?

>

> Have you been able to read any of the books about Her?

>

> Here is an excerpt from Appendix I, Mother on Herself from the

> book, "MOTHER OF ALL" by Richard Schiffman:

>

> "For many years I obsessed over a single question: Who is Mother,

in

> fact? This book was written in order to answer that question, at

> least for myself. And the effort has led me a good deal further

into

> the mystery, to be sure. But it has also shown me clearly that

there

> are no pat answers to the question--only suggestive phrases, vague

> pointers, ghostly images for the imageless. All of our concepts

for

> describing someone like Mother are somehow inadequate, two-

> dimensional. They invite us to viualize that which can in no way

be

> visualized or even imagined, much less spoken of intelligibly. And

> indeed, even Mother's own few utterances on the matter of her

> identity, culled from years of her conversations with devotees,

> unavoidably fall short of the mark. They are, at best, a kind of

> cryptic shorthand for an experience which beggars description--the

> experience of being indivisibly and unalterably complete, whole and

> without limits.

>

> To read Mother's words on herself, as you are about to do, is to

have

> your breath taken away. It is to dwell for a time on the very

> margins of word and thought. Still, if Mother's fantastic

> descriptions of her own nature strain our conceptual faculties--or

> even our credulity at times--then that was, perhaps, their purpose

> all along: to lead us to the very edge of that seacliff from which

we

> must either retreat or jump. To jump into the heart of a mystery

is

> not to know it, in any limited intellectual sense, but to immerse

> ourselves in some pretty strange and expansive waters. But when

you

> finally do take that daring leap, you will find yourself not in an

> ocean called "Mother," nor an ocean called "God," nor even in an

> ocean called "Reality". You will find yourself in the uncharted

> depths of your own innermost being.

>

> So don't imagine that these sayings are about some mysterious being

> called "Mother.' They are about _you_. Take them as objects for

> your contemplation. And use them as diving-boards into the waters

of

> your own truest Self.

>

> Mother's Sayings About Herself:

>

> "She who has no birth or death, and yet is the cause of all births

> and deaths, is Mother."

>

> "Long ago I begot and reared all of you; now I have revealed

myself."

>

> "You were all born of me, and I gave you to your mothers to bring

up."

>

> "There are not many mothers; there is only the One Mother, who has

> become the many mothers."

>

> "My traits have not been inherited from any side (i.e., her father

or

> mother). All of you have inherited my traits."

>

> "No one knows my measure: I am the measure of all."

> "Everyone views me according to their own particular level of

> awareness. Mind is the measuring rod. They measure me according

to

> the state of their own mind; but whereas there are inches in a

yard,

> there are no yards in an inch." (p. 309-3ll).

>

> I shall be happy to continue to post about Amma Anasuya Devi

(Mother)

> if any one wishes it. Please either email me privately

> (Ceslestial_Saraswati or make a post here in the Group).

>

> Blessings,

>

> Kathy

>

> , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16>

> wrote:

> > kathy, welcome back, dear one!

> >

> > yes, you posted this message in ''lub (now a group..) i

> liked

> > the post so much that i immediately went and performed a google

> > search and read all about Amma Anusuya devi... she is as

> fascinating

> > as other women saints like laalleshweri, akkamadevi, and all the

> > rest...

> >

> > thanks for introducing this great woman mystic to this audience..

> >

> > "Mother Anasuya Devi (1923-1985) of Jillellamudi (in southern

> India)

> > was revered by millions for her homespun wisdom, motherly love,

and

> > extraordinary spiritual powers. Her profound yet enigmatic

> teachings

> > powerfully challenged traditional patriarchal views and rejected

> the

> > common Hindu belief that the world is an illusion. She was a

living

> > witness to her own core teachings that the earth is sacred and

> > spirituality comes from embracing life in full. "

> >

> > kathy, the quotations you have posted remind me of shri ramana's

> > teachings...

> >

> > Kathy, do not let anything in life frustrate... least of

> > glitches..

> >

> > in life, we must use every 'stubling' block as a 'stepping'

> stone!!!

> > this is calle 'woman power' or shakti!!!!!

> >

> > love and keep posting!!!!

[Guest guest]

Nameste Kathy

 

Im sorry im not able to respond to your messages, as i just came back

from a trip back home. I really enjoy your post and the exchanges

between you and adi shakti. Im still trying to catch up with the

messages. I hope you can continue to enlilghten us more about Amma

Anasuya Devi

 

OM ParaShaktiye Namaha

[Guest guest]

Greeting Kathy

 

I post an earlier message for you and it didnt get on the message

board. I just hope this one does. Just to let you know that i really

enjoy reading your post especially on AmmaAnasuya Devi. Sorry im not

able to responded to your message, as i just got back from a trip

back home.

 

Om ParaShaktiye Namaha

[Guest guest]

dear my own celetial, yes - is really acting up...

 

i posted quite a few posts this weekend and not all of them hade made

it to this group...

 

do not lose hope!! this is just a temporary problem due to group

mergers and server problems..

 

keep on posting, they will be on a 'queue' and appear sooner or

later!!!

 

yes, the 'daughters of the goddess' is a wonderful book and very well

written...

 

i learned so much about all the great indian women saints grom miss

linda johnson...

 

do you know that she is now a discip;e of sree maa?

 

kathy, please sharing your thoughts with us... they are awesome....

 

love

[Guest guest]

Dear Adi Shakthi and Nora,

 

Many thanks for your responses. Yes, I think has really been

having problems...I posted something on Sunday and it was not till

the next day when my post showed up. This makes it very difficult

for me to feel any type of continuity with the Group, when responses

and post times are spread out over such a long period of time. Since

you both seem to like me posting/sharing about Amma Anasuya Devi, I

went upstairs and pulled a book off my shelf from which I will take

excerpts. Adi, I did not realize that Linda Johnsen was now a

disciple of Shree Maa. I had darshan with Shree Maa last year.

 

Excerpts from "WAVES OF BLISS" (book containing sayings of Amma

Anasuya Devi) this written in the beginning section of the

book, 'Abhigaaram' by Ravinuthala Ramachandra Rao:

 

"Paramatma in its unbounded compassion and Leela (Divine play)

revealed itself as the Divine Mother, Jillellamudi Amma. One may ask

where in the question of the descent or manifestation of the Divine,

when all that one sees and hears is nothing but Paramatma. So long

we think that we deal and operate in a world of dualities, this

question doesn't arise. Duality is creation. The incessant search

and the continuous effort of everybody has been to realise that all

THIS and THAT is Paramatma. that is why at the end of every Puja

(worship), we affirm in the vedic hyman of Manthra Pushpam "Yacha Kin

hit Jagat Sarvam Drusyate Srooyatepi Va Antar Babischa Tat Sarvam

Vyapya NAARAAYA NAH Sthithah!"

 

During the period of over six decades when Amma sported in the

physical in this world, SHE embodied and readiated the supreme

motherhood. She revolutionised the concept of God - head and the

traditional religious practices. Who ever and who else has declared

in such unmistakable terms as "there is SUGATHI (attainment of the

ultimate) for all, whether one is a saint or sinner". Her calm and

cool full moon presence always soothed and gives a healing touch

elevating the soul. Her Grace and Touch are ambrosial.

 

Amma did not prescribe any particular mode of worship or practice.

She always cajoled the seeker to do what he is capable of to do or to

continue to do what he has been doing. She declared that Mother

attending to her children is worship. Wife's care for the husband and

husband's care for the wife is worship. Worship is what goes on all

the time. The functioning of the heart, the respiratory system, the

digestive system and the autonomous nervous system, sustaining life,

go on, whether one wishes them or not. The fact that the constant

flow of thoughts in the mind and the materialisation of only a few of

such thoughts into action affirm the fundamental truth that none is

responsible for his actions. Apart from the Paramatma who is the

sole Thinker, Seer or Doer, there is no other thinker, seer or doer.

A constant and choiceless awareness of what goes on in and around us

is the recipe. Observe is the principle and learning to observe is

the Sadhana.

 

Amma nourished her children by fulfilling their physical, mental and

spiritual needs. Annapoornalayam, medical centre and Devalayams

sprung up around Her. Annapoori alayam has been the heart of Amma.

Any one and every one is fed at any time of the day or night

irrespective of caste or creed. Hunger is the only qualification to

feed there. Sri Viswa Janani Parishat has been carrying on those

functions as the extended arm of Amma. The students of the Oriental

College and High School have been lodged, educated and led freely

with the blessings of Amma." (p. i-ii)

 

Here are some of Amma's sayings (excerpted from this book):

 

BELIEF OR DISBELIEF

 

"Generally we go to the spiritualists for the fulfillment of our

desires. They may or may not be fulfilled. The fact is that the

things happen inspite of our wish. In that case what worth is the

belief or disbelief in Mother? Does not Sun rise and Sun set in

spite of our with to the contrary? We go to the market to buy

vegetables. Some times we may find them there and be satisfied. Some

times we may not get them and we may be disappointed. Our

disappointments are due to our desire. If we go to maarket willing

to buy whatever vegetables are available, we are not disappointed.

We should be ready to get things as they come as gift of GOD and as

the things we deserve. God gives us whatever He wishes. We must

receive them ungrudgingly and without ego. We can do only by self

surrender. If we surrender ourselves completely to God, we can

neither gloat over success or grieve even failure. We are in a state

of mind which is unaltered by worldly gain or loss, good or bad."

(p. 53)

 

on GRACE:

 

"If his GRACE is not there, we do not exist. All actions are only by

HIS GRACE. In my view both joy and sorrow come from HIS GRACE only.

Every action however small is performed by HIM, though we suppose

that we are doing either with our hands or with our minds, impelling

us to do the respective moment without our knowledge is itself

GRACE. GRACE is like wave in the ocean. When the allotted moment

arrives for the GRACE (to exist) the water would itself become wave

itself. Having arisen, it grows like a mountain and dissolves. One

wave appears to be coming from somewhere. Another seems to have

arisen close by. After all wave means impact of wind on water."

(p. 55)

 

Kathy

 

 

 

-- In , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> dear my own celetial, yes - is really acting up...

>

> i posted quite a few posts this weekend and not all of them hade

made

> it to this group...

>

> do not lose hope!! this is just a temporary problem due to group

> mergers and server problems..

>

> keep on posting, they will be on a 'queue' and appear sooner or

> later!!!

>

> yes, the 'daughters of the goddess' is a wonderful book and very

well

> written...

>

> i learned so much about all the great indian women saints grom miss

> linda johnson...

>

> do you know that she is now a discip;e of sree maa?

>

> kathy, please sharing your thoughts with us... they are awesome....

>

> love

[Guest guest]

Dear Adi_Shakthi,

 

Thank you for this beautiful post. Yes, I have read that book by

Swami Satyananda Saraswati some time back, and your post brought back

to remembrance that passage you posted about. I wear every day a

rudraksha bead that was blessed by Shree Maa (I had written to Devi

Mandir some time back and asked if I may have something blessed by

Shree Maa, and that is what I was gifted with). At a darshan with

Her last year, I asked Her to give a blessing to someone very close

to me who has had very serious health challenges. After I went up to

Shree Maa, I then went up to Swami Satyananda Saraswati, asking also

for his blessing upon the same person I asked Shree Maa to bless (She

had then proceeded to give me some blessed vibhuti to give to him).

The swamiji's reply to me was, "you bless him". If any one reading

this would also please offer your prayers for this person close to

me, I would be most grateful. Perhaps this is Mother's way of

working things, as it has been quite some time since I read that

book, "Shree Maa, Life of a Saint" and your post about faith was very

deeply touching to me, as Karunamayi says, "you must have l00% faith".

 

Did you read the book, "Sahib Sadhu, The White Sadhu", which is a

fascinating book about the Swami's experiences? That was really a

great book, and then a dear friend sent me a copy of it, not knowing

I already had a copy, so I gave the second copy to a friend.

 

Here is something from that book by Swamiji: "Prayer is much more

effective than worrying. What the Divine wills, will be. We can

influence the Divine will with prayer much more than with worry."

(p. 30)

 

This is something I will have to remind myself, and perhaps your

post, dear Adi, will remind me that this is what I have to do, also.

 

I am looking at the excerpt you quoted from from "Shree Maa, The Life

of a Saint", and I see it is on p. 224, and just now I caught the

words where Swamiji said: "She rearranged the stars for you."

Perhaps this is what Mother will do for the one I ask the prayers for

also. Many thanks for your prayers and blessings, I bow to the

divine in each of you.

 

Kathy

 

 

-- In , "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> dear celestial - i love to address you that way (something out of

> this world-smiles) !

>

> dear, i love all the quotations by Amma -she sounds like the

tantrik

> guru maa amritananamayee ! please keep sharing these wonderful

quotes

> in this shrinr ! they are full of love and light!! we enjoy reading

> them!!!

>

> now, may i share an incident in linda johnson's life which changed

> her life forever?

>

> this is from the book "Shree maa- the life of a saint" by swami

> satyananda saraswati- her formost disciple...

>

> here it is in linda johnsen own words...

>

> "learning that my husband had a deadly form of bone cancer was a

> horrible shock. .... it had been a virulent form of cancer that is

> nearly impossible to treat.

>

> as the grim diagnosis sank in, i thought of KALI, the hindu goddess

> who destroys everthing that is less than divine. suffering and

death

> are two of the tools. she uses to drive us back to GOD. THERE WAS A

> MANTRA TO THIS GODDESS WHICH SHREE MAA REPEATED CONSTANTLY WHILE WE

> TRAVELED WITH HER IN INDIA. I asked my husband johnathan if he

> remembered it and he spoke the mantra out loud.....

>

>

> we had an extraordinary blessing of having shri maa , one of the

most

> beloved saints of north india (now stationed in devi mandir, napa

> hills, ca) visit our home in sonoma. she and swmi satyananda sat

with

> johnathan for hours , singing hyms to the divine mother,

recommending

> protective mantras for us to chantand healing ritualswe should

> perform. placing her hand on johnathan's hand , she gave him her

> blessing....

>

> two days later we received an emergency call from johnathan's

doctor

> who explained that he had just received the results of johnathan's

> last biopsy and .... it turned out that johnathan did not have

> incurable bone cancer after all but another type of cancer that

could

> be treated easily."

>

> is this not an extraordinary story? only great souls like sree maa

> could "rearrange the stars for you"

>

> well, celestial, what do you think?

>

> as the bible says 'faith of a mustard seed can move mountains"-

FAITH

> IS THE BEST HEALING MANTRA!!!

>

> OM PARASHAKTI OM!!!