Digest Number 963

October 9, 2003

om namah shivaya beloved brothers and sisters who live for our holy mother,

ive just returned from ma's birthday blessing extravaganza. wow, to imagine that

each country and culture has now been purified and blessed by infinite pure love

is so beautiful. i was fortunate enough to get to represent honduras int he

peace march. there is so much to share that i will have to do it in increments.

i was very moved by the blessings of the thousands of indians who stood on

either side, beaming blessings. ..om namah shivaya, they would say over and over

radiating the love of Mother India to the entire world. since we were marching

in alphabetical order, honduras was right before hungary. so for some reason,

they would say om namah shivaya to me and then look right behind me and see the

sign for hungary and then they would say hungary. om namah shivaya, hungary,

hungry, hungry.....in their sweet voices, againa and againt he whole procession,

i heard hungry, hungry, hungry..... after a while, it seemd no accident that

these beings were saying hungry and my heart started

feeling the extent of hunger that Mother India is feeling-(morethan 65%of India

is under twenty four years old) and then i started realizing how the majority of

the world, if we could hear them -and if they could speak english- would

probably voice the same thing- hungry. and they would probaly also share

whatever words of blessing they could. hungry hungry, we would never trun our

backs on an innocent cry for food but we never get to hear this- glossed as our

lives are with media polish poison.

my commitment to serving amma through serving the parts of Her who are suffering

in the world was deepened at her birthday. while ther i leanrnde it only costs

fifteen dollars, a moderate priced dinner for one indian child to got hrough a

whole year of schooling.yolanda king and other strong women inspired us to stand

firmly in our power and become the changes we want to see in the world. one

woman leader suggested the need for non-violence training in the world. amma is

going to be creating alternatives to prostitution starting with calcutta.ther

will be achat room for this. she suggested until then to doanything you can in

your local communities to help uplift women .

so i came back to maui hoping that i would feel her shakti here even more now

but am having a hard time finding spiritual community here. i know the change

has to come from within first but i really could use the deer fence of amma's

values and prinicples which are found in her organization more than in the

world. so, im praying either to find like- minded, ( or hopefully a little more

elevated) spiritual aspirants to share home space with which can be

predominantly revolved around amma and from where i can confidently ground and

move daily into the world with service as my sole goal. this chaos of not

finding a spiritual community may be her gift to me to grow but i feel like it

is too hard for me. please pray for me.

At Amma's Feet,

Ambuja

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October 9, 2003

Dear Lakshmi Dasi

Your mail moves me to tears. Being an indian myself, I am painfully aware of

the poverty and suffering my countrymen are going through . India is a great

country, the cradle of civilization, it has given so much to the world in terms

of sanathana dharma and spirituality- but with muslim invasions and the british

colonization and the present corrupt politicians and overpopulation and

ignorance, India's problems are colossal.

There are thousands who live on the streets in india... Amma's amritakuteeram

project has done so much for housing the poor in india but still the numbers of

homeless are enormous. Just for $750 we can buy a house for a homeless family in

india and help house a couple who othervise would live on the road.

Just for $20 we can pay for the education of a poor student for a few months- if

you check out www.indiateam.org, you will see a team of remarkable people who by

just contributing $10 a month are helping schools in india..

I am not endorsing any charity group here , but i am amazed at how much we can

do for the poor there by saving a little here. The number of times i go to

restauraunts instead of cooking at home, the number of extra cups of tea and

coffee I have unnecesarily, all these can help pay for the food/education of so

many poor. After coming to Amma, i am even more aware of this ....Amma talks of

a lady in france who loved to go shopping and buy expensive items- until shewent

to india and visited Amma's orphanage- when she flew back to france, she took

some money that she had set aside for an expensive watch and sent it to the

orphanage instead. Instead of buying a costly watch she bought an inexpensive

one and sent the money she saved to the orphanage.. she also sent a letter to

Amma saying this and Amma as so moved by the letter that She mentions it often

in Her speeches on the tour.

Similarly we can all do a lot for the poor in india and africa and other parts

of the world by redcing our wastage and overusage of resources. When I came

here to the US, i was amazed at the amount of wastage here- people throw away

old watches, TV''s , computers etc- things we would never dream of doing in

india..

well you all know all this already .. dont need to ramble.. but we should all

maybe chip in some money together and give it to Amritakuteeram for an extra

house and tell Amma that it is our birthday gift for Her from the Amma

chat group :-) .. what do you think?

bala

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