Maa stories

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Dear Sarada, What wonderful stories. I am holding you to your promise

that you will tell us all more if I share one more )

 

I dont have a story but an incident that I learnt from.

 

I was making snacks one day (Maa had requested them) and knowing that

they were best enjoyed hot, I wanted to make sure she got them right

away. So I took them with me, knocked on her basement and she asked

me to come in . She was sewing a big turban/crown for Napeshwar

Maharaj. She told me to set the snacks aside and made some small talk

about the turban and how I liked it. When I mentioned that the snacks

would get cold , she told me this ,

 

"I have taken a sankalpa to finish the crown and I will not do

anything until the sankalpa is complete"

 

I always remember that when I am tempted to leave a job unfinished -

Maa asks us to take a sankalpa for every job that we do, so that we

can give our full , undivided attention to it, so that whatever we

are doing at this moment is the most important thing to do.

 

Thank you Maa.

 

OK Sarada, more stories please

 

 

, "Sarada" <sarada_saraswati>

wrote:

> Latha, I have a similar story but the result was a bit different.

A

> few years ago the wooden bridge that leads to our Mandir needed to

> be replaced. It was starting to rot away and every time a car

passed

> over it there was a good chance that it would be the end of the

> bridge. One day when we finally decided to rebuild it, I was

> starting the first stage of the demolition of the old bridge in a

> very light rain, and Maa walked by and said that I should go inside

> because the wet weather conditions would make me sick. I has lived

> in some pretty extreme climates in my life and to me this light

rain

> posed no threat at all to my health especially because I had a very

> strong immune system and had been used to working in freezing rain

> and snow during the previous five years in Boston. So I considered

> the advice to be nothing but Maa just being the sweet mother to her

> children and kept right on doing what I was doing.

>

> The next day I woke up with the worst flu that I can remember

> having in my life and I was in bed for a week. I couldn't believe

> it, I hadn't been sick at all for years and now this. I then

> remembered Maa's advice. Sometimes the Guru sees thing that we just

> can't perceive and give advice according to that intuition. As

> devotees, we have to have faith that they know what is best for us

> even when we think that we know better. Sometimes they are just

> testing us. Ma told me a story once of one of Her Gurus telling Her

> to eat a rock. When She put it in Her mouth and began to chew it

> turned into a delicious sweet.

>

> There is another story that happened when we were building Maa's

> house. There was a big oak tree in the front yard that Maa decided

> one day that it needed to come down. She was afraid that one day

the

> tree would fall on Her house. This was a difficult proposition for

> us because the angle of the tree put the house at risk of being

> toppled when we would cut it, so we tried to talk Her out of it.

The

> tree appeared to be perfectly healthy to us so we felt confident

> taking responsibility for letting the tree stay. "Of course it

won't

> fall down," we thought, "What does She know about trees anyways and

> besides, the tree shows no signs decay at all. This tree will be

> here for another hundred years easily." Well, after a few days of

> debate we decided to listen to the Divine Mother and we cut down

the

> tree. To our surprise, the entire center of the tree was rotten and

> it would have only been a matter of time before Maa would have been

> surprised by a crashing tree falling into Her kitchen.

>

> Even though from the outside the tree showed no signs at all of

> danger, Maa saw inside the tree and was giving Her advice from that

> perspective. I would imagine that all of Her words come from this

> same intuition.

>

>

> , "kamalama_2002"

> <kamalama_2002> wrote:

> > As we purify more and more, I pray that our will comes into

> harmony

> > with the Divine Will. Not only that, but that we intuit, and

know

> > without uncertainty, and yield to that Divine Will! Is the

Guru's

> > desire also the Divine Will? You surrendered! Jai Maa!