Guru's teaching about lice

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Gopal as many did in the past got lice on a public

train in India.. her guru gave her a vision

that He was showering her head with stars..

do we have advaita enough to see lice as

a gift? Some kill them with shampoo..

some shave their heads.. but Ananda Mayee

Ma.. who did obeisances to a cockroach

to educate her followers.. what would she

have done?

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In a message dated 2/25/01 12:03:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,

prema1008 writes:

 

<< do we have advaita enough to see lice as

a gift? >>

 

 

NO!!!

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The first time I dealt with lice it was quite a chore...endless combing

of my daughter's hair...lots of cleaning and vacuuming etc. Nonetheless it

was an amazing experience to sit and comb her like that, grooming like

gorillas do for each other. I figured she was in need of my attention. Did I

see the lice as a gift?...sort of...I was happy though that soon thereafter a

new product came out that was so effective that it killed the lice and the

eggs and required much less combing. We used it several times. She was in an

alternative school that wasn't thoroughly getting rid of the critters. Then

we moved and only dealt with lice one more time until this past spring when

my younger daughter caught them from a friend who had just returned from

India.

Imagine my dismay when I used my trusty product and it didn't fully

work. Lo and behold, the lice had grown resistant to it in the years since I

had used this shampoo. Ha! They had evolved through many generations in the

interim. Well, I did research on the Internet and went out and bought "The

Licemeister," the ultimate nit comb. I was able to eliminate our problem by

spending hours each day dipping the comb in olive oil and combing, combing,

combing...both my daughters' heads and my own.

Ok, what were the spiritual lessons. Well, first of all to see that life

is life and modern chemistry had only a temporary solution for this age old

human experience. My older girl tells me of a fairy tale where a prince has

to pass three impossible tests to be able to marry the princess. She wants to

marry him so she soothes him to sleep and then summons gnomes to do the work.

The way she soothes him to sleep is by picking his lice!

Also I found it to be a meditative experience, although the girls say

it's not so much that way to be on the receiving end:>) It was one of those

times when one has no choice but to stop in one's tracks and focus on the

situation at hand. Again I had the feeling of being one with the gorillas;

since I love gorillas this was cool. I assume also that some karma was

lessened on the process. So I guess I would say that I saw the lice as a

gift, as Guru prasad. After all they came all the way from Amma's ashram in

India to our home. In Amma's Divine Love, Amalia