To GeogeSon on Sacred Journey Excerpt

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GeorgeSon posted:

 

>From "Sacred Journey" by Swamini Krishnamrita Prana on Page 51

 

"The most important thing Amma is teaching us is how to love. It is the

greatest thing that we can aspire to learn, and yet it is probably what we have

understood the least. It is much easier to learn how to meditate, chant or

do seva, than to truly love. But, unless we have learned how to love,

nothing else really matters.

 

Many years ago, Amma was talking to me, and I wanted to talk about tapas and

vairagya with Her. But she kept on bringing the subject back to love. I

was a little annoyed by this because I wanted to talk about something "deeper"

with Her. But I could not get Amma away from the subject of love. Finally

I said to Her, "But I don't want love!" Amma's reply was, "Then what are

you existing for?" Clearly, from Her point of view, love is not only the

essence of spirituality, it is the essence of life itself.

 

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon ~ thank you for sharing this precious vignette with me.

Recently I was talking to someone about Amma, and the person said they had once

heard her say, "The only thing is Love." This reminds me much of the "Course In

Miracles" and "Conversations

With God," if you are familiar with them. I must have met Amma much earlier

than I remember because I have been saying 1985 (my memory is not what it used

to be), but I remember seeing Amma when Gayatri was her primary assistant,

and I remember Gayatri becoming a swamini, and then suddenly she was gone. It

is interesting that Amma's new swamini is also from Austrailia. Blessings ~

Linda

 

 

 

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.....they had once heard her say, "The only thing is Love."

 

 

 

Many years ago I had the privelage to be with my father when his body died.

While looking down at his former body, I realized that of all the things he had

accomplished in 70+ years of life & all the possessions he had aquired, the ONLY

thing that mattered was love. It was quite profound.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Namaste:

 

If I were forced to chose one word to describe Amma it would be LOVE.

 

As referenced in Swamini's excerpt, I do not like to think about love.

Arcane Vedanta is more appealing to me than love.

 

Amma implies again and again that we incarnate to manifest our

already existing reservoir of love.

 

In Loves Cause,

 

GeorgeSon

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body died. While looking down at his former body, I realized that of

all the things he had accomplished in 70+ years of life & all the

possessions he had aquired, the ONLY thing that mattered was love.

It was quite profound.

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