Maa's broom story

[Guest guest]

Dear "for all",

Thanks for posting this story!Remember the other day Linda was

talking about her current interest in bringing the quality of

devotion into "washing dishes"? I immediately thought about that

when I read the story of Maa as a girl, throwing her broom into the

corner and then realizing that even the broom was alive! Since I am

someone who names my vacuum cleaners and, regularly, discusses what

they might like to do on a given day (lol), I really appreciated

this story from Maa. Recently, I took a layer of polyurethane off an

old wooden counter in the kitchen of a house I just moved into. It

was AMAZING how the wood literally came alive! As though it had been

trapped and unable to breathe underneath the coating of plastic. As

I was rubbing bee oil into the counter-top, incredible patterns of

tiger stripes, fish scales, whirling galaxies and tiny insect trails

began to emerge from what had appeared to be "nothing much" at first

glance! That night, I looked up at the sky and saw all of the

constellations with their names: the dippers and Orion's belt...etc.

I thought how interesting it was to see patterns of galaxies in the

wooden counter-top and horses and dippers in the night skies....all

one infinite system.

sadhvi