Is the story real?

[Guest guest]

Well, I am inspired out of my lurkdom to respond to this one.

 

In response to:

 

> The more I think about it, the more I think it was

> pure fiction, actually. I

> think someone wrote an inspiring story. At first I

> thought it might be true,

> since it is written that way. I think the issue

> deserves to be settled,

> based on what is true, however, and not on what

> someone wants to be the case.

 

And:

 

> Well (smile) I'm glad you weren't the one chosen

> to respond to a little girl named Virginia who

> asked once long ago if there was a Santa Claus..

 

here's my impression:

 

I'm intrigued that there is a questioning of whether this is fact or

fiction. On short follow up to this story in question, was another post on

Amma's response during a Q&A session where she said: "My children are not

different from Me. I see my reflection in all of you just as one sees one's

reflection in a mirror. I see you all as

extensions of Myself.... " and, "Amma then proceeded to say that

even though

She is aware of the mental states of Her children, She does not

always interfere- 'WHAT

IS THE USE IF I CRY ALONG WITH THEM? THAT WONT HELP THEM. AMMA WANTS HER

CHIDLDREN TO GROW STRONG "

 

Now this wasn't questioned as Amma's words. I personally do not question it.

Why? because it feels true and uplifting to me. The other story --- the

unsent letter -- I deeply question --- because what Amma said "as if in a

dream" does not sound like the voice of God --- it did not feel true and

uplifting to me --- it felt judgmental and whiney and ego involved and plain

just "not good" TO ME --- this is not the Amma I carry in my heart. I

maintain that true Amma speaks only from a place of loving neutrality; from

a place of upliftment; from a place of divine joy - always.

 

Jacquie.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

om amritesvaryai namah

 

my feeling is that the story is absolutely real. Amma is not just some

neutral God who has no humanity...She is our True Mother, with a motherly

love that is infinitely more intimate and protective and guiding than the

any human mother could ever be. she DOES know our every thought, every

nuance, everything that WE don't even know...She knows us better than we

know ourselves, and has stated this on numerous occasions. and Amma DOES

talk this way with LakshmiAkka....i have spoken with LakshmiAkka personally,

sitting with her in Amma's room in Amritapuri, and she herself has told me

of how Amma is always, at all times thinking of Her children, and never

thinks of Herself....which is why LakshmiAkka is there to begin with, to see

that Amma eats and all that...

 

i understand everyone's doubt, because we all have our own personal

conceptions of who Amma is....but i prefer to trust Her words implicitely,

and what She has said about who She is, and who we are is entirely

consistent with that letter....why is it so hard to believe that God is

concerned with our every moment, and takes an active interest in us on every

level?

 

the more one reads about the saints' and sages' experiences, the more one

begins to see it really can be that simple - God loves us as we are, in

every moment, for all time, and is constantly, patiently, devotedly

revealing Him/Her/Itself to us, though we choose not to see because we

prefer our illusions...however, it's when we choose to see, when we lay

ourselves down in complete and utter trust and surrender at the Feet of God,

that a wondrous thing happens....we are shown....and we laugh at how silly

we've been all along to complicate the simplicity of it all with our

intellectual reasonings and constructions and all the other barriers we

erect, and from that moment onward revel in the natural blissful intimacy of

a child with its Mother...and all life becomes a wonder.

 

may we all realise this someday.

 

In Amma,

~sucetas mon~

om lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu

 

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