re: being stuck....and mani's cheap shot

[Guest guest]

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!

 

Namaste Mani!!

 

i like your Ammachi sell job for Dasji...but i have to take issue with

your cheap crown quip....i admit that the first time i saw the

pictures of Amma in Devi Bhava i felt the same way...and it is

difficult to explain to people with out them thinking one is

nutty...but in reality, Amma only wears those clothes because Her

children insist that She do so....and the Crown is not cheap as far as

i can tell...it looks like solid silver to me (Amma has some

VERY rich devotees, so it wouldn't be hard to have a REAL crown

if She would wear one...)...the jewels aren't real(i don't

think!)...but i believe the crown itself is...although not very

thick..and thus not so expensive...also well padded...that crown took

a lot of work by some dedicated devotees to make for Mother, and i

suspect they'd be pained at hearing your casual opinion expressed so

on Dasji's list!!! KICK!!! BOOT!!!Naughty Mani!!!

 

When i actually SAW Amma in Devi Bhava the first time and ever since,

i understood WHY She does it...She says that She takes off a couple of

veils when in Devi Bhava...although i was told by Sri Lalitha, a

devotee born in Madras, but now in the US, that Amma has mostly

stopped taking off the veils since 1994 because people couldn't take

the power....in the older videos, you see quite a different Amma in

Devi and Krsna Bhava....the Divine power obviously just radiates thru

and out of Her then...there was so much energy moving thru Her that

Her legs would visibly tremble...and the looks of bliss as Amma would

stop in the middle of a darshan...to look off into some world of Her

own with the most heavenly smile....going into samadhi for minutes at

a time...the devotee on Her lap in heaven!!

 

So i definitely take issue with you over Devi Bhava...in fact many

more people come on the Devi Bhava nights than ANY OTHER....so it must

be a good effect on them....You should see Amma before She puts on the

Clothes and Crown...first the Devi Puja (which i just love!!!...it

inspired me to learn to do Puja on my own to Divine Mother....)...then

you see Amma kneeling in front of the Peetham...whereupon Sri Devi's

sacred garments are lying neatly arranged....then you hear Amma's

sweetly husky voice as She worships the Devi...singing Her own

Puja....after a long while of this...She finally dons the clothes

behind the curtain...and when the curtains open, Darling Amma is

sitting in splendor on Her Peetham decorated in flowers, with Swami

Ramakrsnanadaji (and a few others) singing the Vedic Mantras naked

from the waist up....with conch shells and bells..and flying flower

petals as Amma showers them around Her...it is such a stirring

sight....i actually feel myself to BE in the presence of that GREAT

DEVI, Who has kindly consented to take birth on this plane yet once

more for the liberation of all beings, and the relief of Mother Earth

from the Demonic hordes...trampling Her and raping Her...and stealing

Her precious plants and animals...sometimes the splendour and the

beauty and Amma's Divine Love just overwhelm me and it sucks the

breath out of the body for a brief space of awe...and reverence....you

can actually FEEL the Divine Love energy pouring out of Mother

throbbingly intense....and into you, filling you with the most

intensely blissful loving feelings....YAH!!!!give me more!!!!

 

 

Let us remember the Devi Mahatmyam dear elder brother....and let us

remember Who this is that we are so easily criticizing....

(of course we are allowed to criticise our own family members...but

SHOULD WE??)

especially when we know so little about them?

 

a big Amma hug to you dear brother...be eternally embraced in Her

Divine Love....(and no more cheapshot comments...or we'll just have to

tell mommy!!!and you won't get any milk!!!!so there!!!nya nya nya

nya...)

 

In Her Divine Love,

and in Her service

this little one is

as ever,

your own self,

and your younger

but impudently

loving

brother

 

visvanathan

 

Om Devyai Namah!!