To Prasadini on Families, Holidays and the question of Amma

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Prasadini wrote:

 

>> This is great for all situations in life - isn't that what it's all

>> about? Now if I could just remember to do it........and not let those

>> buttons get pushed. Gotta get rid of those buttons.

>> When I was with my first guru I was going through some pretty nasty

>> stuff with my parents. During the middle of it all on Easter there was

>> an all day chant. On the way to my parents I stopped and chanted for a

>> few hours, and then had to go. It was hard to pull myself away, but I

>> just glided all the way to my parents house and floated through the

>> afternoon. I was so full of bliss and love that if anyone was

>> unpleasant, I surely didn't notice it. What a gift! It was my first

>> lesson in being Love. The roof could have caved in and I would have been

>> as happy as a clam.

>> The secret is to be in that state all of the time. Then we would be very

>> much like Mother. Guess this child has a long way to go.....

 

 

 

 

Dear Prasadini ~ if this is not a "sales pitch" for enlightenment, I can't

think of a better one. (Just kidding about the sales pitch part) But this is

part of what we long for. I have experienced numerous times a state of complete

Oneness, sometimes with nature, sometimes with people on a subway, sometimes

just a general feeling that came over me wherever I happened to be. They

didn't last, as you say ... but part of being in the Oneness is to be outside

the circus of button pushing. And in that state, even if someone else's buttons

get pushed, and they get angry, we don't take it on personally. I wonder if

being in that state would make me feel less attached to my illnesses and

their symptoms or to how my family has treated, is treating me. It reminds me

of

the man who took the knife that was meant for Amma. When I talked to him in

the hospital, he was so detached, it was almost as if he was embarrassed to be

getting attention. He didn't seem to mind at all. He was wonderful to talk

with. Examples are all around us ... even here in our writings, we can imbibe

a sense of that oneness... Jai Ma ~ Linda