language question to Malayalam speakers

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>Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!

>

>Anyways dear ones, when we were with our Mother

>in Seattle, my daughter in darshan was mystified

>to hear Mother saying over and over, "murruttu"

>or "mudduttu" or "murrudhu" or something like

>that.

 

Namah Shivaya!

 

There is no such word in Malayalam that I am aware of.

Some possible close words are, as someone else mentioned,

muttu-mole (darling daughter, literally 'pearl' daughter)

muttu-mone (darling son). Amma also calls people ponnu-mole

('golden' daughter) or ponnu-mone. Another thing is

malli-mutte (meaning, literally, 'jasmine-pearl').

It might have also been just 'mutte, mutte, mutte ...' (O pearl,

O pearl, ...).

 

Someone told me in November that Amma had called her

something that sounded like 'tomato'. I knew that although

Amma views everything in the universe equally, it was unlikely

that She would have addressed her devotees with names of

vegetables. So I asked Amma about it. Amma laughed and

said that she was probably saying one of the above words.

 

Whatever Amma calls you is endearment. I took a book for

Amma to autograph, and in it, she inscribed 'Hey, you rascal,

if you are such a good son, you have to be a little careful.

Loving kisses to my darling son from Amma.' Naturally the

rascal was such an endearing term for me!

 

Amma is here now in San Ramon, and showing good spirits.

Yesterday was Devi Bhava, and Amma was in a cream and gold

sari, looking great!

The temple building could not accommodate everyone

all at once, so people were waiting in the large dining

building that has been renovated after the fire last summer.

The dining building has a large TV, and is nicely decorated

with flowers and huge pictures of Amma.

My son had a new clay ocarina, and Amma held up his music

so that he could play Yankee Doodle for her, and he played

it perfectly for the first time!

 

The new ammachi.org website was shown to Amma and approved, one of the

webmasters told me.

 

I told Amma that I am kind of dependent on her personal presence,

and was worried about the time that she would leave. She just

stroked my cheek, looked very sympathetic, and told me to keep smiling.

 

Amma paid me a lot of attention, and my wife was pissed off that

she was ignored. She did not seem convinced by Amma's statement

that Radha and Shyam were one.

I told Amma this, and when my wife and I

were doing the prasad seva (handing Amma flowers and candy)

Amma told her 'I am going to look only at you, and not at

your husband now.' My wife extracted a promise from Amma that

she (my wife) would get to sit near Amma for a while when

she goes to Vallickavu next month.

 

Love and regards,

Nandakumar

 

(p.s. to Visvanathan -- Nandakumar is my given name, and

Vallath is my family name. People call me either Nandakumar

or Nandu, for short.)

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