[to Ardis] Tales from the Devi Mandir #7 - Detoxification

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, Ardis Jackson <ardis1@v...> wrote:

 

"Swamiji said ³my toxins seem to always come out of my mouth.²

With

this, I

laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair and I have had many laughs

over

it since then, seeing the swami with his straight face saying that.

The

amazing thing is that everyone was so serious about the need to

detoxify

that they didn¹t even get the joke (or the lesson)."

 

Dear sweet beloved sister, Ardis!

i am laughing so hard that my tears are watering the plants! :<) i am

reminded that 'Laughter' is one of the all time

greatest 'Detoxifiers'! i am so grateful for Swamiji's Divine Humor!

As you well know, Sri Ramakrishna had that same type of Humor! Not

surprising...no, not at all! smile! Jai Maa! Jai Swamiji! Jai Sri

Ramakrishna Deva!

muktimaa

>

> Detoxification

>

> I arrived at the ashram one Saturday just as a devotee was starting

to

> prepare lunch. I walked up to her and said hello. She scowled at

me and

> said ³ I suppose you are going to want to eat lunch too.² I

said

that I did

> and offered to help. She said ³no, I know what I am going to

fix.² I saw

> some cheese sitting on the counter and offered to slice it. She

looked

> annoyed and said that she was going to do that.

>

> Then she said I could go down to the garden and pick two eggplants.

I went

> down and got the eggplants and stopped at an outdoor sink to wash

them.

> When I set them on the counter, she said ³I don¹t suppose you

washed them.²

> I pointed out that they were still wet. She looked surprised. She

sliced

> the eggplants and sauteed them with some mushrooms and green

pepper. Then

> she decided to let me slice the cheese. Right about then Swamiji

appeared

> and sat down on a stool. The devotee assembled sandwiches with the

sauteed

> veggies and the cheese and then grilled them.

>

> It turned out that there were only five of us eating lunch. When I

took a

> bite of the sandwich, I said ³wow, this is really delicious!²

The

devotee

> scowled at me, but Swamiji gave me a big grin.

>

> The devotee then brought out what she said was a special

detoxification

> lunch for her husband. I looked at it and it just looked like a

plate of

> steamed green vegetables. I told her ³it just looks like regular

food². She

> said ³we are on a special purification diet to get rid of all

our

toxins.

> This looks like a regular meal, but next week it will be the same

but there

> won¹t be any food.² Two of the devotees at the table started

talking about

> articles they had read about certain foods that forced the toxins

to exit

> your body right through the pores of your skin.

>

> Swamiji said ³my toxins seem to always come out of my mouth.²

With

this, I

> laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair and I have had many

laughs over

> it since then, seeing the swami with his straight face saying

that. The

> amazing thing is that everyone was so serious about the need to

detoxify

> that they didn¹t even get the joke (or the lesson).