Master of the Dance

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A beautiful piece from Amma.org:

 

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Master of the Dance

 

 

 

It is human nature to question what we cannot see, and to fear what we don’t

understand. Because of this many of us, or at least me sometimes question our

faith in God, or the presence of God in our lives. For someone to have full

faith in something which they cannot even comprehend is sometimes quite

difficult. But once we truly surrender to God we will realize that God is always

with us. Man is never without God.

 

About three years ago I stayed in Amma’s ashram in Kerala with my mom and my

two sisters. We first arrived in Amma’s ashram in the middle of December and

planned to stay through February. Right when we arrived all of the people in the

ashram were preparing for the holiday festivities. My two younger sisters

quickly joined with other children staying in the ashram, and with the help of

their parents put together a dance to perform for Amma on New Year’s Eve. All of

the children practiced regularly, but as things tend to go with younger

children, they weren’t exactly setting the standard in productivity. Although

the advantage to this was that they were young and cute, so they could pull just

about anything off.

 

Then before we knew it, it was New Year’s Eve, and time for the children and

everyone else to put on their performances for Amma. The program hall was

filled, the performers were dressed, but Amma was late coming down to the hall.

Eventually word was sent down through one of Amma’s assistants that Amma would

be down shortly, and to just go ahead with the programme. The children began

their dance oblivious, as children of their age usually are. However, many of

the parents were upset that the dance that they had taught the children wouldn’t

even be seen by Amma. But it is my experience around Amma that Amma always out

does everyone’s expectations, and more importantly her ways can never be

predicted. After about thirty seconds into the dance the children started

loosing it. They were up on stage in front of a thousand people and running

around. Suddenly my sister and one other girl bumped into each other, and my

sister fell to the ground. And who was there to pick her up… none

other than Amma. Amma had slipped onto the back of the stage with out anyone

noticing and as soon as she saw what was going on quickly came to the children’s

aid. Amma lifted my sister off the ground holding her up while she instructed

all of the other children on how to carry out the dance. All of the parents were

amazed and just stared at Amma in awe. Amma had not only come to see the dance,

but was also dancing with the children on stage.

 

This is the greatness of a true master like Amma. Through a simple act of

dancing Amma revealed her presence in our lives to everyone there that night.

Though it may not always seem she is near. I am reminded of one of my favorite

stories in which a man goes through life and sees the footsteps of God by his

side. However, eventually the man gets into trying times and the footsteps

disappeared. The footsteps reappeared once the man reached better times. Seeing

this, the man cried out to God saying "All throughout my life your footprints

were by my side, but when I truly needed you there was only one set of

footprints. How could you desert me?" God replied "It was then I carried you my

son." We must realize the lesson of this story in our lives. We must never fear

fore Amma is with us. Amma may not come when we call, but she is always on time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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