Jaya Amma!!!

[Guest guest]

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!

 

Namaste dear sisters and brothers!!!

 

i received this letter forwarded to me by a dear friend, and fellow

Amma devotee...who had been sent it from India...by a friend of his,

with whom he had collaborated upon the production of a couple CD's of

music for Amma's Bookstore...very nice music, i'd recommend it..

 

anyways this forwarded letter is telling some of the sister's

experiences on tour with Amma...it was so lovely that i thought of you

darling sisters and brothers...and how you also might like to have a

chance to read it....so here we go...just below....

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Perhaps you want to hear about the tour? I do not know where to

begin....so much

happens and the best things are indescribable. In general i got a lot

of chances

to be close to Amma. A few times i could massage Her for up to

fourhours at a

time. (Etre valare Bhagyam allo!)One time i was massaging Her sitting

up on my

knees and leaning forward which was an excruciatingly painful position

to

maintain.It is Her favorite thing to put us through blissful agony or

agonizing

Bliss!!! After two hours i thought my muscles would fail me and i

might collapse,

so i decided to change positions for a few moments and rested all my

body weight

on the elbows while i massaged Amma's hips.....Sheimmediately turned

around and

said, "What are you doing?Sleeping or what? Do it on the upper back!"

She just doesn't budge an inch when it comes to

torturous luck...Another time i

was holding the hot water bottle on Her back and i turned around for a

brief

moment to exchange theluke-warm bottle with a new hot one....then Amma

turned

around and scolded me.."Why are you looking elsewhere while you are

doing

this work, Shraddha-ille? (Don't you have anyShraddha?)And She made me

stop...for which i was grateful since it was definitely causing me

physical pain.

But for all that, i am so happy to have such long "Darshans"

and contact

with Her. It was almost as if she wanted to make upfor all the time

that i am

away at AIMS. We all got to visit Amma in Her cabin on the train

from Delhi to

Calcutta and Amma answered people's questions ingroups of fifteen for

ten

minutes each. I got to be in the doorway for the group preceding mine,

so

indirectly i actually got a double dose. Isn't our Amma kind?Lots of

interesting

swim stops en route. At one place Amma spoke to us at length about

AIMS problems

and Advaitamrita and other issues. It was amazing how She openly

discussed

everything in public and had it translated for all theWesterners as

well. Her

main point was that people in general do not make enough monetary

donations and

that all of Her projects are funded primarily through the

selfless service of Her

devotees like making Dolls, Cassette tapes (at which time She looked

directly at

me with a long penetrating gaze) Multi-media, etc. and selling them on

the tours.

She said: "I even let them sell my clothing, including bras and

underwear,

to make money for the poor". Then She commented later:"You children's

pure service is my only wealth". It was extremely touching.I get a

feeling

that we should begin working on a third tape soon. So far we have one

song...your

Hrim Kali, for which Anu has agreed to put a new tabla track. Any

inkling of a

plan to come back to India next year???? (Hint Hint).More later.

Patients

waiting.In Amma's Love & Light, rama devi

 

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For those who are interested, this Wednesday the 25th will be

Karttika Nakshatra...that is the Moon will be transitting thru

Krittika, Amma's Birth Star...and thus there will likely be big Kali

Pujas in Her centers on that day...this Sunday evening will also be a

little Shivaratri, as it is the day before the new moon...hopefully

there won't be any significant earthquakes around THIS new moon, as

there have been for the last three!

 

May She bless all of you always, with pure Love of Her Lotus Feet.

 

In Amma's Divine Love

and in Her Service,

 

as ever

Your Own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!