Dirty toilets need to be cleaned

[Guest guest]

Amma's Love inspires devotees to take up difficult tasks.

Once, having entered in a very bad and horribly filthy toilet

situation in Cochin, I turned around and quickly exited the scene.

 

Amma, please clean my mind and heart of impurities so I can be a

daughter whose actions and thoughts make You smile.

sarama

--

 

http://www.amritapuri.org/tsunami/toilets.php

 

Who Are They?

 

2 January 2005 — Ochira, Kerala

 

"Who are they?" This was the question asked by most as they saw the

team of Westerners from the Ashram cleaning up toilets that hadn't

been cleaned for months and which local health authorities had closed

down as being unhygienic and unhealthy.

cleaning toilets

 

There were 20 sealed toilets at the government-run relief camp in

Ochira. When a group of Amma's visiting devotees and brahmacharis came

to clean the camp, the local officials there asked them if they could

do something about the toilets.

 

The devotees—most of who were from the West—were willing to

do the

work. So they all put on gloves and masks and entered. What they saw

they will never forget: the most disgusting toilets on the planet

ever. In order to do the job properly, they literally had to scoop out

excreta with their hands.

 

Chidambaram, a devotee from Los Angeles, says that the local

government staff and some of the evacuees had gathered around, and the

question on their faces was clear: "Why are they doing what we

ourselves wouldn't do?"

 

"I thought, 'Dirty toilets need to be cleaned,'" says Chidambaram, an

American from Los Angeles. "But others were gagging and covering their

nose and mouth."

 

The local authorities were so impressed that they called a

photographer.

 

In the end, when the toilets looked as good as new, the astounded

government officials asked, "How could you do it? What motivated you

to do it?"

 

And the answer was the same from all the Westerners: "It is Amma's

love and what She teaches through Her life that motivated us to do

it." One of the brahmacharis on the site added, "It is the love that

they've received from Amma that they are now giving out to the world."

 

—Tulasi

[Guest guest]

uphhh !!! that is really inspiring sara.. myself also does this

sometimes in my own office thinking that If Amma can clean our dirty

hearts then why can't I do this little work in return. Ofcourse it

cannot be compared with the public toilets .

 

In general Se'wahh' is multidimensional ( seva in most of the indian

languages means service ). It is not just for karmic relief. It works

at all levels. It helps to purify our heart which is contaminated

with lots of dislikes. It helps us to watch how much ego we are

having. Many times even if we have done seva sincerely we will be

getting only complaints as the feedback. ha ha !!! Isn't that we too

were doing back to the divine all the time.. complaints ,

comparisons & complains .. lol .. " look , all others are having or

living so and so , But I am only one in this earth not having or

living ..... bla bla " .. hi hee !!!.. Is n't it ?. The nature is

doing the work without fail. I have never noticed delay for the

sunshine !!! ) . It has a perfect mystic plan .

 

Seva brings many back from the mind to body . It is an expression

of gratitude to the divine . In some occasionas while working with

poor people, It helps us to realise how fortunate we are. The energy

then moves from the comparative mind to the compassionate heart.

Many of our feverishnesses disappears during that mystic seWAHH

process.

 

Many people in the cosmopolitan cities lead a insecure tensed life

style sometimes leading to depression. The reason is that all the

time they were thiking about themselves. So amma is giving them an

opportunity , to sow the seeds of compassion in their hearts.

 

And at the end it helps us to start feeling the divinity inside, when

few people shows their affection and gratitude to the people those

who have served them ..

 

I can imagine what the sava warriors might have felt when they left

those kids .

 

http://www.amritapuri.org/slideshow/flood/camp.php?sn=6

 

Aum Namah Shivayah

 

Your little brother

 

Ranjeesh

 

"Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not

reaction."

—Amma

 

 

Ammachi, "sara" <saramj33> wrote:

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