To Sweta on stirring the pot

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Sweta wrote:

 

....The thought crossed my mind, "Everybody just needs love." Then, I

noticed someone kneeling near Amma, with whom I've had struggles. At that

moment,

it appeared that Amma made eye contact with me for the first time during the

day. As all of you probably know, every glance from a Mahatma means

something...I was near someone who was seeing Amma for the first time & was

already

doing dish washing seva. Since she felt she had already been so connected to

& blessed by Amma, she didn't feel the need to get darshan through a hug...I

wondered aloud to her, how can we fully love people when we feel hurt by

them. She suggested visualizing the relationship as healed, & everything as it

should be. I think this is a very good suggestion.

 

The challenges we encounter with people, especially around Amma, are great

learning & growth opportunities. Just think, when we transcend all of our

personal likes & dislikes to love everyone equally as our own, as Amma does,

what a tremendous impact this will have on our world. I'll be praying for us

to

do this.

 

 

 

Dear Sweta ~ what you say is so true, and thank you so much for sharing your

personal experience of being with Amma. As you say, every glance or gesture

has great meaning when it comes from a mahatma. One time when I saw Amma in

Maryland, I was in the greeting line of people who chant Om Amriteswariye

Namahs (I hope I spelled that right). We began chanting as soon as we knew Her

car

had left the hotel, so we were chanting for a long time. Someone outside was

letting those of us inside know how close Amma was getting to the Darshan

Hall: "I can see Her car down the street;" Her car is approaching the Hall;"

"She is getting out of the car:" (LOL), and each time our chanting grew louder

and louder, until She walked in and then all became silent in a single moment.

 

I was not expecting anything. So it was a tremendous surprise and blessing

when Amma smailed at me and reached over and touched my face. OMG, can you

imagine what this is like for a new devotee? This was the same visit where I had

the great fortune to drink some of the water from the Pada Puja (washing of

Amma's feet). I was so blessed, and I am so praying to be well enough to go to

see Her in Santa Fe this summer.

 

When I went to the Rhode Island retreat, I experienced first hand this

"stirring of the pot." Ioaned someone my clock radio. This person had to do seva

very early in the morning and was worried she would not wake up. Our agreement

was that she would give the radio back to me later that day. After three

days, I still did not have my radio, and oh, did I ever make a big deal out of

it. The other person just wasn't concerned at all about our agreement, or my

radio, or my feelings about it (her lila). But I got all in a tizzy about it,

and, of course, thought I was right and she was wrong. Now it seems so silly

that I got so upset over a simple clock radio. But Amma was working on my ego,

and you see, because I did not have the radio, I had that wonderful

experience of her visiting me in a dream to tell me it was time to come for

Devi

Bhava (because I had gone to take a nap). Ah, who can possibly know the ways of

the Guru, but aren't they perfect and wonderful! Jai Ma ~ Linda