Amma's omniscience

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I can't vote in the poll, because there's not a description that

quite fits what I feel Amma's omniscience to be.

 

I believe that Amma is beyond what we can conceive of in

our limited mental abilities to imagine what is unimaginable.

But my best sense of her is that she has the capacity at any

given moment to know absolutely everything about all of us.

Nevertheless, I don't think she's always consciously tuning

in to absolutely everything that all of us is doing. And I

guess I should say She, because it's not about a little woman

in a white sari, you know? It's That consciousness of Amma.

 

Anyways, I don't know that I have quite the right words, but

I feel her energy with me all the time... and when I'm going

through something difficult, I know in my heart she really is

there, and tunes in. And if I consciously think of her, I think

she tunes in. Kind of like when, in the 108 names, it's said

that she drew Krishna to her as by force, with the power of

her love and attention towards him - I think we draw Amma us

to us by our thoughts and feelings towards her. But I think she

always has a link to us that can sense if we're in need of her,

or if there's something we're doing that it's important that she

is notice, even if we aren't thinking of her. Like the idea of

accidentally stepping out in the street when a truck is coming.

Or the fact that sometimes I waste my time playing games on

my computer.

 

So I don't think we can think of it in the limited terms of,

"is she watching absolutely everything that I'm doing", like

we'd picture looking at someone all day long through a

video camera, or the like. I occured to me that it probably

doesn't matter to her when I'm soaping up in the shower, or

how I'm clipping my toenails. I think it's more like that Amma, the

Big Amma or Divine Mother, permeates all the space around

us, and that energy is always with us and can respond in a more

concrete way if it is appropriate.

 

I don't know if that makes much sense... it's trying to describe a feeling

I have about who She is in our lives.

 

And by the way.... I'm leaving for a month at Amritapuri on

Sunday!!! I'm so excited! (and a bit nervous!).

Blessings,

Achintya