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Om Namah Shivaya Prasadini ji!

Thank-you so much for all your intimate sharing in this deep heart

felt post. i am always so inspired by what you write, and this

particular post has really touched my soul. i always say, to the

point of aggravating some devotees, but yet i cannot help but

continue to say, "We must get out of our heads and into our hearts,

that's where the True Magic starts. We have to Loose the grip that

our mind has over us and let go of all preconceived notions. i really

love the poem by Rumi that our dear brother, Eric J. posted on

another forum.

It is called "The Intellectual". let us all "Lose our Minds" and

become ecstatic lovers!

 

The Intellectual by Rumi

 

"The intellectual is always showing off;

the lover is always getting lost.

 

The intellectual runs away, afraid of drowning;

the whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

 

Intellectuals plan their repose;

lovers are ashamed to rest.

 

The lover is always alone, even surrounded with people;

like water and oil, he remains apart.

 

The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover

gets nothing. He's mocked by passion.

Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

Love is a tree, and lovers are its shade."

 

Aum Amriteshwaryai Namaha!

muktimaa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ammachi, Prasadini <ganesh1008@c...> wrote:

>

> Namah Shivaya

>

> Can we understand Mother with the mind at all? We look at Her,

siting up

> there, giving hugs to everyone and we think, "wow, this is neat,

but

> why would anyone want to do that?" It's the way She gets into our

> hearts. It's that magic thing She does that makes us different

around

> Her, and for having been around Her.

> The first time I met Mother I was really sick and had been for

years.

> This was in the old days when Mother spent more time with us. I

noticed

> things like the way She smiled, Her hair, what She looked like, but

I

> pretty much felt nothing. It certainly wasn't instant love. I was

so mad

> at God for making me sick, and I wasn't looking for another guru.

(Mine

> had left his body.) As time went on I felt closer to Her. It was a

> gradual thing. But when I first met Her there was no "Boing!!!!

I'm in

> love".

> Mother has only given me snippets of who She is. Mere specks. They

are

> feelings and "knowings" that knock me on my tush.

> It is all heart. The heart is pure, the mind is a clown. Through

going

> into our hearts She raises our consciousness so that we can see

things

> differently, so we can ride on that incredible wave of love, so

that the

> pull of Maya is lessened for a while. And if we are really lucky,

She

> turns us to mush.

> How can one understand infinity or incredible unconditional love

with

> the mind? On a worldly level the mind is a fascinating and

wonderful

> and also troubling thing, but we can't use it to understand

Mother.If we

> understood Her only with the mind She would be merely "the Hugging

> Saint". Through our hearts She draws us to Her and makes us like

Her.

> And hearts don't talk, thankfully.

> Jai MA!

> Prasadini

>

> Adriane wrote:

>

> >I think I know what you are talking about-this experience. I think

I

> >may have had something very similar.

> >

> >I truly cannot understand in my mind at all what She "is." I had

an

> >experience that probably would not make a lot of sense writing-it

> >just had to do with how She is everywhere, all the time, and so

many

> >are having experiences with her simultaneously. (ok, so I AM

trying

> >to write about it.) And how She has ALWAYS been. Then I imagine

what

> >it's like to never be born again into the world as we know it. How

is

> >it to be just like, creation itself, blissful and yet not who you

> >know yourself to be in this life? To no longer come back-

especially

> >when you think of your children, friends, etc-those you love.

> >

> >But I am nowhere near the goal. I've had a snapshot here or there.

I

> >had an out of body experience and told my mother. This was about

30

> >yrs ago when I was first out on my own. She told me my father had

the

> >same experience about the time I did. I don't think that may mean

> >anything. But the experience confirmed a "proof" to me of life

after

> >death. It was total freedom. So I believe those "almost died"

> >stories, too.

> >

> >Yet I still cannot fully understand Amma. Swamiji told us that he

> >does not even try to comprehend Amma with the mind as it simply is

> >not possible.

> >

> >work in progress (and sometimes 3 steps back-maybe even 10!)

> >in devotion to Amma,

> >adriane

> >

> >Ammachi, "ammasiswari" <ammasiswari>

> >

> >