Amma learns a New Bhajan

[Guest guest]

"New". Yeah, right!

 

Jai Ma!

Ravi

 

 

Amma learns a New Bhajan

 

What is really going on when Amma learns to sing a

bhajan in a language She supposedly doesn't know? She

likes to please Her children wherever She travels, so

during the last spring tours, for example, She learned

some new versions of a few otherwise familiar

bhajans-so it was that In New Delhi there were several

Hindi bhajans; in Calcutta, a few Bengali versions; in

Reunion Amma learned to sing "Ishwar Tumi Daya Karo"

in French.

 

And in San Ramon, a few days ago, that same

bhajan-"Ishwar Tumi Daya Karo" emerged in a new

language: English. The English words were

transliterated into Malayalam characters, in with only

a few tries Amma had mastered "Grace Us With Your

Compassion Lord":

 

Grace us with Your compassion Lord

I have no one but You my Lord.

You are my friend and my family Mother and Father, my

Everything

You are my soul refuge O Lord

I have no one but You my Lord

 

When we watch Mother "learning" something, questions

naturally come into our minds: Does She really NOT

know these words? Is it really hard for Her to make

these foreign sounds? She gives every appearance of

moving from confusion to comprehension, from

awkwardness to mastery. And yet we recall the story of

the Russian devotee who brought Her a letter in

Russian at a time when there was no translator near

the chair-so what could She do but reply-in his own

language! Or the Brazilian woman who had never met

Mother before, and approached her with cool curiosity.

She drew near, watching-and suddenly was overwhelmed

with emotion. She began crying, and couldn't stop. She

reached Mother's lap, and Mother, Who didn't know her,

didn't know she was Brazilian, didn't know she spoke

Portuguese, touched her chin, looked into Her eyes,

and said lovingly, "Don't cry." In Portuguese.

 

Now, how are we to understand this?

 

Maybe we need not understand, but simply enjoy the

different faces of Amma as they unveil.

 

 

 

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