Guest guest Posted August 4, 2002 Report Share Posted August 4, 2002 Namah Shivaya Shelly, Just read over my last post...didn't mean to imply that you were seeking sympathy for waiting at all!! Your posts are always so sweetly devotion-filled that I feel it brings Amma closer just to read them. I was feeling sympathetic towards the kids and their feelings though...I have just one, and she has many of your little one's attachments to Amma too. She wants to go up to her as quickly and naturally as possible. In fact, I took the excuse of her presence to buy an Amma doll this time (I was the one who really wanted it!) Also, a fair note to make in this context (as a follow up to my earlier posts on this topic of "in" and "out" devotees) would be that while I was doing my seva near Amma (it happened to be stair seva during Devi Bhava), a little Indian girl that I had chatted to several times ran up the steps to the stage toward Amma. I stopped her on her way to enquire if she was with her parents...more as a means of buying time to figure out what I was supposed to do if a little kid broke through the line and ran around the stage. I thought we were supposed to keep the lines more or less coherent and organized. I was a little surprised when a volunteer who knew things better came over and explained to me that this particular little girl and her family had full access to the stage and Amma...that they were special. Don't ask me what it meant,...I don't know. So there is this inexplicable "special treatment" toward people of all colors and nationalities. I don't want to imply that it is just non-Indians. I ask pardon from anyone whose feelings I might have hurt in any way with these somewhat negative posts. On reflection, I feel that this is a rather unconstructive topic I began (as most rants are), and of no real consequence to spiritual growth, except to provide an arena to exercise our vasanas (as someone just pointed out to me); and to receive further lessons on mind and self-control from Amma. Thank you for your good wishes and blessings...they are very precious to me. Om Namah Shivaya, Usha *********************** In a message dated 8/3/2002 4:23:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Ammachi writes: > Re: Re: rituals, politics... > > Usha, > > Oh please I am not to upset we had to wait 4 hours. I understand that > people in > India often wait over 10 hours. And to me just seeing her and being able to > sit > in the same room is more than enough of a darshan for me. It was hard on > my 2 > year old only because he adores Amma very very much. He saw her and wanted > to so > much to go right to her. The program guide we were given is his new lovey > as > it has her picture. And just recently a friend sent us a picture she got in > Singapore of Amma in Devi Bhava and it is just beautiful but it took a few > days > for me to get it in a frame since Jake wanted to hold it and tell us how > much he > love her and she love him. > > I wanted to wish you many blessing with your move. How exciting. Hope you > are > able to find a good connection and rejoin the list. > > Shelly > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2002 Report Share Posted August 5, 2002 Usha, Oh no hon I am sorry to have made you feel that way. Please forgive me. It is hard to show emotion behind words when your typing. ((hugs)) to you. I love that you bought a doll for your daughter and yourself. How so very sweet!! It is so wonderful to watch the little ones in thier pure love of Amma. I forget where but I know Amma had said that children have the purest of love and there is nothing behind it. And so watching my children, especially Jake who likes to hold a picture close to his face and just sigh like she is right there and he is deep in her bliss, helps me to try to come to her as a child. Children are our best teachers some times. Shelly Mommy to 5 CT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2002 Report Share Posted August 5, 2002 Bless you for opening to door to what many people think, but have no courage to say! How can you ask pardon for surving Durge Mata so well? In a message dated 8/5/02 4:01:57 PM EST, Ammachi writes: << I ask pardon from anyone whose feelings I might have hurt in any way with these somewhat negative posts. On reflection, I feel that this is a rather unconstructive topic I began (as most rants are), and of no real consequence to spiritual growth, except to provide an arena to exercise our vasanas (as someone just pointed out to me); and to receive further lessons on mind and self-control from Amma. >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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