Amma and our mothers

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Ranjani wrote:

 

> Amma's smiling presence made a stressful summer much brighter. Perhaps

> the best of all was to hear my 91 year old mother say "I know Amma takes

> care of you...I know you love me and I love you...BUT LET ME KEEP MY

> INDEPENDENCE."

 

This touched my heart so much. I can't imagine my own mother ever saying

this to me, but somehow, reading it in your message opens my mind to the

possibility. One of the devotees here took her mother to see Amma in Chicago

this year. That too was very inspiring to behold.

 

> If she's is able, I continue to pray she will meet Amma in Ann Arbor.

> She considered coming last November but a lifetime of churchgoing as a

> Roman Catholic makes the concept of "living Master or Guru or avatar"

> difficult to understand. Amma takes care of her regardless...so, once

> again, I am reminded it is not important to work my will but rather to

> accede to "...Thy will be done."

 

I join you in this prayer. As I have watched my mother grow more frail, I

have been so grateful for the times I can remember that Amma is behind me

and my mother. My sense of overwhelmed diminished some time ago when I

finally realized that our mothers and we as mothers suffered so much when we

did not know Amma was there for us. Or, as I put it in a little chant I

made: "Every mother needs a mother. Where's the mother of the mothers?" As I

once again become my mother's mother (as I was as a child), I rejoice in

knowing that Amma holds me up and helps me, even when I'm 1000 miles from my

mother and father, who could use my direct support every day.

 

May Amma's will be done in my heart and all of yours,

 

Kenna/Premarupa