Another Amma Story

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In re: confused interpretations of Amma's whisperings...

 

At my first darshan, Amma whispered to me, "ram... ram... ram... ram...

ram..." Five rams. And I thought, "Oh -- Rama? He's cool, but I'm not

much into Vishnu's avatars."

 

I've become convinced Amma reads our minds when we come up for our hugs.

At any rate, she said, "No..." and whispered again, "Rang... Rang...

Rang... Rang... Rang..." Five Rangs. With a nasalized ending. I

remembered reading about the Bija Mantras associated with the chakras.

"Rang" is the sound for Fire, symbolized by a red upward-pointing

triangle, and centered at the Manipura (solar plexus) chakra.

 

Amma beamed, said, "Yes!" and whispered yet again, "RANG! RANG! RANG!

RANG! RANG!!" And in my mind's eye, five red triangles appeared, and

formed a five-pointed star. This figure is A.) a yantra for five-faced

form of Sada-Shiva, and B.) a pentagram, symbol for the Western occult

tradition of Wicca (which I have studied for many years). I took this as

a sign that I had come to the right place for a guru!

 

Amma placed a dab of sandalpaste on my forehead, nodded in agreement, and

said, "Ha!" And I've been going to her darshans whenever she comes to

New York, since.

 

Rang-rang-rang-rang-rang,

-- Len/ Kalipadma

 

 

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:54:50 -0800 (PST) Ellen Lamb <jyotsna2

writes:

> Well:-), I don't know what it means for the guys,

> but for us gals, it means "my daughter." There was

> great confusion in my mind about this for a long

> time, as Mother would say everything from "my rutu"

> to mridutu to "ma dottah" to "my daughter." I was

> so confused that finally on one darshan she just

> chanted all of them, started with the (dreaded because

> I thought it meant something bad) "my rutu" and

> gradually changing it with each pronunciation until

> it was finally "My Daughter!" Then she gave me a

> final "Ha!" and fierce look. That Kali.

>

 

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