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Back to Amma's arrival in Seattle...

 

After Amma arrived at the airport and we watched her

drive away (as recounted earlier), another devotee,

C, and I walked back into the baggage claim area to

collect the people we were transporting to Bipin's

house.

 

We were stopped by an older Indian man who asked,

"Who is this who is coming?" Not sure why he was

asking, I decided to assume that he wanted to know

for "good" reasons, i.e. perhaps he would be

interested in Amma. So I said it was Mata

Amritanandamayi, and C. said "Ammachi." So he seemed

interested and asked if she was from India, etc.

Then he said, "Well, miracles happen, but She can't

save you from your sins; only Jesus Christ can do

that!"

 

With recognition dawning in my eyes, I said, "Oh,

you're a South Indian Christian!"

"No," he said, and started going into how his

family had been Muslim and Hindu, and then

continuted, "but thank God my grandfather discovered

Jesus Christ. You were raised here in that truth

and have forsaken it for a false teaching," etc.

 

C and I were polite, but then I said, "We don't

see it that way." And C added gently, "Everyone

has to follow their own path." And we went on

to baggage claim. C and I assured each other that

we consider ourselves Christian.

 

It's my experience that hardly anyone is less

respectful of our freedom of choice in religious

matters and seems to feel more threatened by Amma's

international following than Christians from India.

Almost all the people I know from the west who have

gone to Amma's ashram have been approached.

 

Jyotsna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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