Fwd: Easy, natural..This was the email I was talking about

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Hari OM! OM Amriteswariye Namaha!

 

Blessed Ones,

 

The following was the email, which I was talking about... sent by

ckeniley2003s

 

With Love & OM

 

OM Nama Shivaya

 

Krishna Prasad

 

 

Ammachi, "ckeniley2003" <ckeniley2003>

wrote:

Hi Devotees,

 

When someone says they are enlightened..naturally, and that no

effort

is necessary...use your discrimination...not in a judgemental way,

but in a practical way...are these people really "enlightened"? Are

they engaged in transcendental service to all beings 24 hours a day?

Are they able to look at you and know all of your future and past

births? Do they even believe in reincarnation..probably not. (The

current school of natural enlightenment, sort of dove tails with the

intellectual, scientific, existentialism schools. Very

intellectual.)

Or are they just mentally peaceful and accepting. That's O.K, but it

isn't enlightened.

 

Amma really sets the bar on being self realized very high. At the

Detroit retreat that just passed during the Q&A a devotee said that

she was trying to see the children she works with as Amma does. Amma

responded by saying that "for you to see Amma's children as Amma

does

is nearly impossible."

 

What is Amma's state? An indian physicist was chatting with Amma

about physics. He got slightly impatient with her over a issue, he

had adopted the role of a teacher teaching a village girl about a

complicated subject. She asked him, "Do you know who I am?" She

asked

this question very intently twice. He became a little nervous. She

replied, "I have 330 million ishta devatars in each of the cells of

my body waiting for my command to create or destroy universes."

 

How enlightened are each of us, really, say, compared to Krishna?

(Many advaitans will say that Krishna is a myth!) Are we feeling

peaceful? That is good...but many Advaitans and Buddhists, no

judgement, just discrimination, have set their standards for

enlightenment very, very low. That is why a devotional attitude

towards the Supreme is just so beautiful. The creator, sustainer and

destroyer of all the universes will come to us as a loving mother!

Now that is something I still do not grasp.

 

On Namah Shivaya!!

Chris

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