Amma Anasuya Devi/Relationships: Part 5

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continued from Part 4:

 

One day Mother told a group of widows, "In my opinion there is no

Vidhava (Widow) at all. Physically her husband may not be present

with her. But so long as her husband's feet are in the memory that

woman remains a house-wife." One who was widowed in her childhood

asked Her, "What about widows like me who have lost their husbands

too early in their life to remember their forms?" Mother (Amma

Anasuys Devi) replied, "you certainly have the idea, 'I had a

husband'. Keeping that memory fresh and worship that idea. What all

one can achieve by meditating on form, one can achieve by meditating

on an idea. Dhyana is that constant remembrance of one thought or

object."

 

It is a well known fact that Mother offers ablutions to her sacred

thread every morning and partakes of that water as an offering. Not

that she hopes to attain perfection thereby. She is Perfect by

birth. But as was stated by the Lord in the Bhagavadgita, the

Perfected ones have nothing to do for their own sake but they

continue to observe rules and discipline to set an example to

others. "What are the sacred thread and the golden pieces?" once

Mother asked and explained it hersef; "The two golden pieces are the

feet of the husband. When he ties them around your neck, he is tying

his own feet permanently to you. Let him stay anywhere, let him do

anything, his feet are always in your heart. What is easier for

women than serving them to attain Perfection? To a woman her husband

is God in human form. That faith is the easiest means of attaining

Liberation. Creating the form of an invisible God in his mind,

worshipping it in mountain fastnesses falling a prey to suppressed

(not conquered) desires, even a man cannot accomplish what an

ordinary housewife can easily accomplish and she needs no special

mantra or sadhana for it." This way the householders' life which is

feared by several as, an obstacle to Liberation can be turned into an

aid to Liberation."

 

End of article, p. 4-8, Matrusri Journal, June '67, article by E.

Bharaddwaja

[ramsay]

Dear Saraswati,

I liked the post. But I just wondered whether u follow the same. Doing things life touching your husband's feet everyday. Do u do it???

 

If u don't mind give me some tips on how to get my wife to do it???