ADI SANKARA'S ORDEAL= not easy to understand all details -Amarnath

January 17, 2007

OM NAMAH SIVAYA

so true, Amarnath. it always boils down to the point or moral of the

story. which when this was posted i took to be the last sentence;

"This shows that when you cherish the Mother and seek God's grace, the

blessings of the mother becomes more powerful."

after i read this i was thinking that cherish to me means my Faith in

The Mother, and seek to me meant the effort put forth to be open to

Her blessing or grace. and i thought that considering probably less

than 1% of the world's population knows of Amma, i think it is safe to

say all here already have Her blessings. i was thinking how Her Love

is our Love and that Love is also both the power and the blessing! as

Amma says with Love nothing is impossible. we can accomplish any goal.

but to be truthful after i read the last sentence i forgot the rest of

the story because it reminded me of another story i read within that

devotee's letter from Amma that Sweta was talking about earlier. The

story was this;

"Some years ago, an enlightened saint left his body. It was well known

that his closest disciple had also reached the state of enlightenment.

When he died, she began to weep. For days, she wept uncontrollably and

she wouldn't stop. Finally, the departed saint's disciples came to her

and told her that they were confused. They said, "You are supposed to

be enlightened, and yet you are weeping like this! How can you be so

sad? How is it possible?" She replied, "I am not weeping because he

left his body. I am crying for you! I weep because you had him with

you, and yet you didn't take advantage of it!"

i keep reminding myself cause i don't want anyone to cry for me later.

JAI MA

Ammachi, "amarnath" <anatol_zinc wrote:

>

> Aum Amriteswaryai Namaha,

>

> Trying to understand all the details of Scriptural stories( including

> the Vedas ) can be difficult and frustrating, I found. Even though the

> stoies contain beautiful examples.

>

> This seems to be a universal problem with the "written word."

>

> Perhaps, Amma's suggestion

> "Extract the essence, and discard the rest."

> is appropriate here?

>

> Supposedly, Thomas Jefferson extracted from the bible only those

> things which made spiritual sense/ resonated with him; and discarded

> the rest.

>

> There are many stories in the scriptures( including Vedas ) that I

> just ignore because they don't make sense to me.

>

> All of us are very, very fortunate to be living at this time when

> Amma, THE LIVING SCRIPTURE IS HERE!

>

> But even with Amma's Words, we need to go deeper and deeper into the

> inner stillness, to understand; or perhaps to go "beyond trying to

> understand."

>

> In any case, at least we can ask Amma some questions, sometimes.

> this is my 2cents.

>

> Amma Bless,

> amarnath

>

> Ammachi, "joannapollner" <joannapollner@> wrote:

> >

> > I agree here , there could be number of reasons ( not neccesarily

> due to her gender status

> > as suggested by Max ) . Women during their menstrual cycles also

> should not perform puja

> > , it also states so in Amachi puja book .

> > namaste, joanna

> > >

> > > om namah shivaya,

> > >

> > > maybe i am missing where it said that the mother was *ineligible*

> to perform the puja. i

> > thought it only said she *could not* perform it. perhaps she did

> not know how, or had

> > other obligations, or any of a number of other reasons?

> > >

> > > jai ma,

> > > coconut

> > >

> > > Max Dashu <maxdashu@>

> > > Ammachi

> > > Monday, January 15, 2007 5:06:50 PM

> > > Re: ADI SANKARA'S ORDEAL

> > >

> > > I know that this was not the point of the story, but:

> > >

> > > >He told the boy: "Son, your mother cannot perform the

> > > >worship which I do. You better do the worship today.

> > >

> > > How sad that the mother was not considered eligible to perform the

> > > worship of Rajarajeshvari, with an offering of milk yet. Why

could a

> > > mother not carry out the puja to the Mother?

> > >

> > > Max

> > > --

> > > Max Dashu

> > > Suppressed Histories Archives

> > > http://www.suppress edhistories. net

> > > Real Women, Global Vision

> > >

January 17, 2007

Oh Eric, Thank You so much for the beauty of this reminder! Let us each remind the other to stay awake and consume our Beloved Mother with all that we have. She is our food, and by consuming Her, we become Her (You are what you eat!)

Always Hungry and Ever Full in Her,

Sanatani

ecjensen_us <ecjensen_us > wrote: