Love, love, love!!!

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Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!

 

Namaste most dear Children of Amma, my darling sisters and brothers!!

 

i had written a couple months or more ago to Ram Dass on his

RDTapes website...i had been reading his latest...Still Here...and

it's such a wonderful book, filled with such a lot of love and light,

that i just had to write to him, thanking him for all his wonderful

pioneering work (in the West at least...) and especially for that last

book...as it had contained very deep teachings for me in the realm of

suffering.

 

Ram Dass' Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, always used to say that He loved

pain because it helped to bring Him closer to God....and this entire

book is basically about that...how the suffering associated with

aging, disease and eventual death doesn't have to be viewed with

horror, but seen as it is...a way of detaching us from this body, from

this life, from this planet which is not our real home....(i could

relate to his stories of loss, and so on, because i have been

"blessed" with Migraines for most of my life....and chronic headaches

too...so i could really identify with how these diseases (such as

stroke in his case) could place severe limitations upon one's

life)....it has been an "interesting" series of lessons let us say...

i even asked Mother one time (96) what to do about these migraines

and headaches...Amma looked concerned and told Swamiji

(Amritaswarupananda) to tell me that i should put vibhuti on my head

when having a headache, and that She would do a Sankalpa for

me....Great!!!thought i...the headaches are gone.....

But wait a moment....Amma being my Guru, just made sure i'd bring

it up with Her, to formalize things....just so we both knew where we

stood, and then do you know what She did? She blessed me with even

MORE headaches and Migraines....now all sorts of things proved to be

triggers which had been fine before...chocolate, wine....you name

it...even nuts, bananas...tons of stuff...So i now know that She is

not necessarily going to take it away...but is instead using the

migraines to "train" Her reluctant and lazy little son....

"You like Chocolate???? How about with Migraine? still like

it???how about some more Migraine...."and so on...

anyways i shared some of this with Ram Dass to illustrate why i

could so closely identify with the themes of his wonderful book...and

also suggested that if he felt like it, he should go and see Amma when

She comes to California....She might help him...(forward of me isn't

it!!) and sent it off to him...never really expecting a reply, as he

is such a busy man...

today i went to my email site, and there was a short letter from

the RDtapes site...i'll reproduce it below:

 

"I have experienced one of those divine hugs from

your guru. It put me in

ecstasy.

 

We have been graced to understand what Maharajji

meant when he talked about

suffering.

 

In Love,

Ram Dass"

 

 

Being a "pioneer", he had already been to see Her.....

 

 

In our Amma's Divine Love

and in Her Service,

i lovingly

salute you all

my dear brothers and sisters,

Amma babies all!!

 

as ever,

Your Own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!