To balakrishnan re Amma's tireless efforts

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balakrishnan wrote:

 

After the tsunami, the whole world was worried about how thousands of people

suddenly homeless would manage until they could get back on their own feet.

How would they be sheltered? How could they eat, with neither cooking

facilities nor the money to buy food?...

 

Now it is more than three months later, and many who first came forward have

exhausted their funds or time or volunteers, or have moved on to help in

some other worthy cause. Only a few are still serving the tsunami affected.

 

The M. A. Math in Kerala, India, is among those few. A villager who has lost

everything put it this way: “If Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi, founder of the

Math) hadn’t been there, we’d be dead now. We’d have starved, or rioted.

She

took care of us the first day and she’s still taking care of us.â€

 

 

 

 

Dear balakrishnan ~ it is interesting that in this digest there are two

posts that remind us that the tsunami efforts still (and must) continue. After

the initial horror and the news have abated, and the charities have gone home,

the work is not done, and, as I said in response to Adriane's post, MUST

continue. We are so lucky, and so are the people still suffering the affects of

the tsunami, to have Amma and her devotees to continue the work. How can we say

"thank you" to these people, besides giving a donation, I mean. Can we send

a letter to the M.A. Math, thanking all the people who are helping for their

tireless efforts, that what they do is not lost to us and we appreciate it.

Is there any chance that the M.A. Center here in the U.S. might do another

online auction? That was such a wonderful way to participate.

 

I am going to print out what you have written and take it to our next (2nd)

Amma Satsang and read it to the group. I want the group to know that Amma is

about more than just prayer or puja or bhajans. Thank you for reminding us

with such vivid details. Jai Ma ~ Linda