Amma Anasuya Devi/Relationships

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Dear Erica and Friends,

 

Here is a little more I'd like to share, this taken from an article

entitled "MOTHER ABOUT HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS" by E. Bharadwaja from the

June '67 issue Matrusri Journal:

 

"It is often thought that personal relationships are the cause of

bondage and that their existence is a hindrance to the attainment of

Liberation. Such a view tends to kill the tenderness and love for

fellow human beings in their hearts which are the only traits that

prevent a man from becoming callous and misanthropic. This

misconception is responsible for the prevalence of man's inhumanity

to man in the form of narrow dogmas and caste differences. It never

occurs to the mind of a bigoted scholar that it is infinitely sacred

to quench the thirst of a hungry and a thirsty low born wretch than

to receite hie "Mantras" and avoid the sight of a dying fellow human

being on pretext of being polluted.

 

This mistaken notion is dispelled by what Mother (Amma Anasuya Devi)

says about personal relationships. She suggests that in their purest

form personal relationships actually aid a man in preceiving divinity

in all creatures which is the goal of all spiritual endeavour. This

is what Ramakrishna preached; this is what Vivekananda strove to

establish in the Indian Society. It is this truth that Mahatma

Gandhi taught. The wisdom of these teachers is testified by the

verses in the Bhagavadgita in which the Lord said that the wise are

Him in all creatures and all creatures in Him and that the wise look

upon the animal, the low born and the Brahmin with an equal eye. No

wonder that Mother asserts that personal relationships, if rightly

cultivated are aids and not obstacles to the attainment of that

highest wisdom."

 

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