Logic, Intellect, Emotion, Amma

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Amma allows everyone to come to her. That means that anybody who

stays around after she takes the flight back to India will find

him/herself surrounded by quite a variety of people. I studied

Sanskrit and Vedanta between 1979 and 1982...lots of logic there. My

latest realization is that everybody is a little crazy and in need of

serious healing until self-knowledge is clear, at which point they

are the proverbial person marching to a different drummer, as it

were.

 

Healing comes in the form we can receive it, in the form we are

willing to receive it. Some people, desperately in need of emotional

healing, can only take in logical arguments. Later they'll be ready

for the heart explosion. Others who could really use more

information and logical structure need to stay near Ammachi and

saturate themselves with emotional nourishment before they can take

in anything else. For some people it's a really big thing to give up

a few hours to help out at one of Amma's center. Somebody else is

able to directly work in the world to help the sick, the homeless,

those suffering because of injustice and greed, to reform governments.

 

Amma hugs all these different kinds of people and they all stay in

her family. Like a good Mother, she encourages all of them to grow

as fast as they are willing, to be the best they can be right now.

 

Accepting people who are different from us is awfully hard. Nothing

is as unknowable as the spiritual path of another person. One can

know the Self more easily.

 

Aikya