Other gurus and Beautiful qoutes: LOVE

08-17-2005, 06:42 PM

I just finished an online back and forth in the Ammachi Free speech
zone for a long time Amma devotee who is struggling because he feels
that Amma is not giving him enough personal meditation instruction.
He admires the writings of Ramana Maharshi and Nisragadatta, as I
do. He really loves non-dualism, as do many "intellectuals."

This may be one of the slight problems with having too many gurus
and not being focused on Amma's teachings: he is expecting Amma to
become his idea of Ramana Maharshi. he doesn't understand it when
Amma doesn't give him personal instruction and instead has huge
bhakti satsangs which he considers to be "kindergarden."

After reading these Amazing quotes from Amma below, it made all my
responses to him seem kind of silly. I posted them over there,
Thanks!

Also, I read extensively in spiritual topics...especially hunduism.
I really love it, and seems to broaden my understanding.

But I have to say we have the most unique guru. I am so so proud of
Amma. Isn't that sort of dopey? When I see her or hear about the
things she does, I'm like yahooo! go Amma! When I look at her
pictures they are alive..literally, they don't seem like just
pictures to me. Im so glad someone is speaking doing and acting the
truth! To me Amma is actually Krishna, returned to help us. I mean
that literally. Can we second guess Krishna? I mean isn't that
funny? My prayer is may there be millions of Ammas! Maybe that is
all of you.

> from dearamma :
>
> 0337."When there is real love, there is silence. There cannot be
any
> words. There is only stillness. Just like a perfectly calm lake,
> there cannot be any ripples or waves when real love is
experienced.
> Ripples and waves are a distortion, a distraction, a disturbance
in
> the mental lake. Love ensues from stillness of the mind. In
that
> stillness one can experience silence. The talking of the mind
stops
> completely. Real love is felt in that silence. Silence, silence
> alone, is the language of love." - Vol.5, p7
>
> 0338."Real love exists in the heart. The love that exists in the
> heart cannot be spoken; it cannot be put in words. The heart is
not
> the place for words. Words are in the intellect. The intellect
can
> speak, but it is nothing more than a tape recorder. It records
and
> spits out words and words and words - words that don't have any
> feeling in them. The intellect cannot feel compassion; it cannot
> feel love or kindness." - Vol.5, p7
>
> 0339."The intellect cannot feel compassion; it cannot feel love or
> kindness. It can only reason. It will even try to reason out
love
> and compassion. Son, where there is too much talking, there is no
> love. One who really loves is constantly in a meditative mood.
> Thoughts cease to exist in the presence of such love." - Vol.5, p8
>
> jai amma ~ incarnation of love ~