Guest guest Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Kalipadma & Tombliss......You surely have the right idea......as Amma continues to encourages us to be childlike....which means to me to remain more detached and keep our sights on joy, love and lightheartedness. A very tough one for me. Personally, am still working at the visualizing level. Rarely did tea parties as a kid.....always thought they were alittle fake, and never realized the conversational part was SO important..........just thought it was precurser to larger missing meal.....and rarely had enough cookie-crumpets to make me happy or satisfy sweet tooth. Favorite part was ironing the linen tea cloth until it shined....and spritzing with water to work out the wrinkles with the iron.....also loved the teakettle whistlng.....and finally like to drink the hot tea after 10 minutes when room temperature. I don't visualize Amma accepting my invitation to have tea but I know I could lure her with one of my turtle brownies and French vanilla ice cream.......tee hee. When I was a young child, hop scotch, roller skates attached to my hard soled shoes,and hoola hoops were popular. Has anyone ever seen Amma receive a hoola hoop ? Once made her a hot pink frisbee with her picture laminated to the top....and always wondered if she played with it and the little one she often takes back to her room, whom I am told have lots of fun with the toys we shower on Amma. Anyone know where all the toys go ? ONS, Amritavarshini On Sunday, August 8, 2004, at 10:28 PM, kalipadma wrote: > > When I was a young child, boys did not want to play tea-party with > dolls, > and girls did not want to play with trucks and toy soldiers. When we > were forced to spend time together (and weren't teasing each other) we > inevitably played "Grown-Up." > > I can imagine Amma saying to me, "Okay, you're Krishna and I'm Radha. > You play the flute while herding the cows, and I'll milk them and dance > while you tell me how pretty I am!" > > -- Len/ Kalipadma > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:07:45 -0400 Tom Childers <tom > writes: >> Great idea! I can imagine the tea party in my mind's eye. A wonderful >> >> scene! I think Amma would like to have more such tea parties with >> Her >> devotees. I'm a guy so I'll imagine Amma & I playing with our Tonka >> trucks toys in a sandbox. >> > > > ______________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > Links > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Om Namah Amma, Thanks to those who expressed appreciation for my Amma-lila, and my limited perceptions. Can anyone explain Karthika as Amma's Birth Star a little more? Today the eighth, was Karthik wasnt it? Is there some special ritual prescribed to be done for wroshipping mother on this day every month? It is so precious to hear how people would/could play with Amma. Amritavarshini-ma, Im sure you could lure Mother in a heartbeat with the fun spirit of your ironing. I could see Her enjoying ironing with you so much. Anything we do with love and attention brings the goddess of love- anything. Amma says its not the action but the attitude that matters. It was just today while ironing my work uniform, I was thinking, I need to visualize Amma doing this but it didnt seem very fun. Thanks for sharing that this is one of your favorite childhood activities. Now I can visualize it as fun whereas that thought never even dawned on me before. funny, eh? Anyway, I need this productive kind of fun with Mother. Karma-yoga. Om Namah Shivaya Ambujam PS i have never seen Mother with a hulahoop but for some reason its not very difficult to imagine a bright pink one swirling around her divine waves of action like the galaxies in love with their Creator Ammachi, Barbara Edmonds <edmondsb@i...> wrote: > Kalipadma & Tombliss......You surely have the right idea......as Amma > continues to encourages us to be childlike....which means to me to > remain more detached and keep our sights on joy, love and > lightheartedness. A very tough one for me. > > Personally, am still working at the visualizing level. > > Rarely did tea parties as a kid.....always thought they were alittle > fake, and never realized the conversational part was SO > important..........just thought it was precurser to larger missing > meal.....and rarely had enough cookie-crumpets to make me happy or > satisfy sweet tooth. Favorite part was ironing the linen tea cloth > until it shined....and spritzing with water to work out the wrinkles > with the iron.....also loved the teakettle whistlng.....and finally > like to drink the hot tea after 10 minutes when room temperature. I > don't visualize Amma accepting my invitation to have tea but I know I > could lure her with one of my turtle brownies and French vanilla ice > cream.......tee hee. > > When I was a young child, hop scotch, roller skates attached to my hard > soled shoes,and hoola hoops were popular. > Has anyone ever seen Amma receive a hoola hoop ? Once made her a hot > pink frisbee with her picture laminated to the top....and always > wondered if she played with it and the little one she often takes back > to her room, whom I am told have lots of fun with the toys we shower on > Amma. Anyone know where all the toys go ? > > ONS, > Amritavarshini > > On Sunday, August 8, 2004, at 10:28 PM, kalipadma@j... wrote: > > > > > When I was a young child, boys did not want to play tea-party with > > dolls, > > and girls did not want to play with trucks and toy soldiers. When we > > were forced to spend time together (and weren't teasing each other) we > > inevitably played "Grown-Up." > > > > I can imagine Amma saying to me, "Okay, you're Krishna and I'm Radha. > > You play the flute while herding the cows, and I'll milk them and dance > > while you tell me how pretty I am!" > > > > -- Len/ Kalipadma > > > > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:07:45 -0400 Tom Childers <tom@b...> > > writes: > >> Great idea! I can imagine the tea party in my mind's eye. A wonderful > >> > >> scene! I think Amma would like to have more such tea parties with > >> Her > >> devotees. I'm a guy so I'll imagine Amma & I playing with our Tonka > >> trucks toys in a sandbox. > >> > > > > > > ______________ > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > > Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > > Links > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 I'm a guy so I'll imagine Amma & I > playing with our Tonka trucks toys in a sandbox. > Yeah, I could visualize that too, though I tended to prefer the smaller Dinky and Corgi toy cars and trucks rather than Tonkas. Not to mention building houses with Lego, and burning holes in newspaper with a magnifying glass. Also, coming home after school and listening to songs like Scott Mackenzie's "San Francisco" on the radio, cheering on the Toronto Maple Leafs as they beat the Canadiens to win what is likely their last Stanley Cup in my lifetime, celebrating Canada's centennial with a visit to Expo 67, and watching the Vietnam war every evening on the Huntley-Brinkley Report or CBS News with Walter Cronkite - received by a rooftop antenna in those pre-cable days, and in glorious black and white as my family didn't get a colour set until I was an 8th grader. Keval (just old enough to remember the 1967 Summer of Love! Amma would have been 14 - about the same age as my babysitter back then!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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