To Sweta on question to Amma

[Guest guest]

Sweta wrote:

 

While Amma was in San Ramon, I had the opportunity to ask Amma 2 questions.

The answer to one question, seemed to present me with 2 options. So, I

clarified the situation a bit for the swami who was interpretting for Amma.

Without referring back to Amma, he specified what I should do for now. Is it

right to assume that Amma would've corrected the swami, if he made a mistake?

This is a major life decision.

 

 

 

Dear Sweta ~ if you still feel unsure as to the answer you received, can you

write to the swami who interpreted for Amma and let him know how you feel,

how important the decision is and that you just want to be sure you understood

what you were told correctly? This would simply be asking for clarification,

putting yourself in the position of the person who maybe doesn't understand,

rather than seeming to question either Amma or the swami. I don't think there

is any way to know for sure whether or not Amma would have corrected the

swami, and for a life-changing decision, I don't think asking for clarification

would be looked askance at.

Hope this helps. Good luck. Hugs ~ Linda

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

The bottom line is: nobody talks for Amma, not even Swamis who

sometimes try to do so. A long time devotee from California who

helped me tremendously when I was not allowed to ask Amma for a

permission for something in 2002, advised me to go back and ask

again, saying that it was very important that I ask Amma. He also

advised me to stay and ask further questions until I was 100% clear

of Amma's answer and to insist that the translator ask Amma if I

wasn't sure I was being told something that Amma herself said.

 

As some of us know--because he has admitted as much in public talks,

there is one monastic who doesn't always ask Amma but just wings

it. He told one woman she didn't have to go to the doctor once. It

turned out that she had a brain tumour. That woman won't ask Amma

anything anymore. A year later, after the tumour was treated, the

woman told Amma about the monastics treatment of her question.Amma

yelled at the monastic in question. Her message basically was never

to tell anybody that they should not go to the doctor.

 

So at this point I guess you have to decide what was the nature of

the additional comment the swami made and how crucial it was to your

clarity. In my case in the 2002 incident, Big Swamiji added some

interpretive remark but it was very helpful to me. The comment he

made was contrary to what a long line of Amma devotees had been

telling me, but it made more sense to me than what I had been being

told. Thus, in that instance, I didn't feel I needed to insist that

he ask Amma further questions.

 

Blessings

Aikya

 

 

Aikya

 

 

Ammachi, nierika@a... wrote:

>

> Sweta wrote:

>

> While Amma was in San Ramon, I had the opportunity to ask Amma 2

questions.

> The answer to one question, seemed to present me with 2 options.

So, I

> clarified the situation a bit for the swami who was interpretting

for Amma.

> Without referring back to Amma, he specified what I should do for

now. Is it

> right to assume that Amma would've corrected the swami, if he

made a mistake?

> This is a major life decision.

>

>

>

> Dear Sweta ~ if you still feel unsure as to the answer you

received, can you

> write to the swami who interpreted for Amma and let him know how

you feel,

> how important the decision is and that you just want to be sure

you understood

> what you were told correctly? This would simply be asking for

clarification,

> putting yourself in the position of the person who maybe doesn't

understand,

> rather than seeming to question either Amma or the swami. I don't

think there

> is any way to know for sure whether or not Amma would have

corrected the

> swami, and for a life-changing decision, I don't think asking for

clarification

> would be looked askance at.

> Hope this helps. Good luck. Hugs ~ Linda

>

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