To Bala: Amma Was Never Born

[Guest guest]

Dear Bala:

 

 

 

I am in total agreement with Bala's assertion that Amma can have no birthday.

 

 

 

How can Amma have a birthday? She was never born. She can never die..

 

 

 

Bala recalls the Tacoma Retreat question and answer correctly.

 

 

 

At the Tacoma 2005 retreat Amma evaded the question of who She was in a

previous birth. Big Swami has never trapped Amma into answering this.

 

 

 

I feel this was not evasion. The truth is She is totally birth-less.

 

 

 

Brothers and Sisters who read this post are also Birth-less and Death-less in

your true form. The Apparent You dies. The Real You was never born and cannot

die.

 

 

 

The Great Rishi/Saint and author of the Mandukya Karika Of Gaudapada,

 

Sri Gaudapada came to this conclusion : The supreme truth is this: there is no

birth and no dissolution, no aspirant to liberation and no liberated, and no one

who is in slavery» (Mandukyakarika, II, 32).

 

 

 

Sri Krisnna in the Bhagavad Gita tells Arjuna about the Soul:

" It is never born, nor does it die: after coming to be, it does not cease to

be; it is without birth, eternal, imperishable and timeless; it is not

destroyed with the destruction of the body."

 

 

 

When Arjuna was fearful of killing his relatives Sri Krishna said:

 

..

 

"He who thinks it (the soul) to be the slayer and he who thinks it to be the

slain, both of them know nothing; for it neither slays nor is slain. It is never

born, nor doth it ever die; nor, having existed, will it exist no more. Unborn,

unchangeable, eternal, and ancient, it is not slain upon the body being

perished. That man who knoweth it to be indestructible, unchangeable, without

decay, how and whom can he slay or cause to be slain? As a man, casting off

robes that are worn out, putteth on others that are new, so the Embodied (soul),

casting off bodies that are worn out, entereth other bodies that are new.

Weapons cleave it not, fire consumeth it not; the waters do not drench it, nor

doth the wind waste it. It is incapable of being cut, burnt, drenched, or dried

up. It is unchangeable, all-pervading, stable, firm, and eternal. It is said to

be imperceivable, inconceivable and unchangeable. Therefore, knowing it to be

such, it behooveth thee not to mourn (for it). "

 

 

 

In the Great Tao scripture the Tao Te Ching the verse reads:

 

 

 

The Tao is infinite, eternal.

Why is it eternal?

It was never born;

thus it can never die.

Why is it infinite?

It has no desires for itself;

thus it is present for all beings.

 

 

Of course I am a hypocrite writing the above. I fear death. I do not have

faith in Saints like Gaudapada and Ammachi. They say the truth. We cannot die

etc. yet I do not gut check this. It will not sink in. Faith is lacking.

 

With Love,

 

GeorgeSon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start your day with - make it your home page