To Michelle on odd experience

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Michelle wrote:

 

Both of us kept the situation to ourselves for awhile because we were both

so

embarassed that it had happened. Then, when we found that we both

experienced the exact same thing at the exact same time, we knew that it was

Mother's hand creating the situation.

 

 

Dear Michelle ~ I am glad you shared this. I find it quite courageous. I

think many have doubts from time to time. They may think, "Who is this person

really?", or they may think, "why am I doing all this strange stuff?" I think

doubts are quite normal ... they are just like coming across a boulder in the

road. I do think it is quite amazing that you and your partner experienced the

same experience at the same time, so I think you are right about Mother's

hand being in it. You know the thoughts did not come from your own

intellectualizing and then they just as rapidly disappeared.

 

Perhaps this is part of what someone recently referred to as Amma's washing

machine. I actually like this image better than the one that the Washington,

DC, satsangers used to say to me when I lived back there. If someone acted out

or behaved inappropriately, someone would say, "Oh, it is just Amma stirring

the pot." I just could not accept that Amma was responsible in any way for

other people's inappropriate behavior. But the washing machine analogy is very

descriptive because it shows us that we might experience things that are

uncomfortable (and we climbed into the washing machine of our own volition), but

that the ultimate purpose is that we come out pure, clean, and sweet

smelling as Amma's Rose.

Jai Ma ~ Linda