To GeorgeSon on Traveling in the company of two saints

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Prasadini wrote:

 

Dear GeorgeSonji,

This sibling does does not consider you at all disloyal. You had

questions, you were agitated, and you were wrestling with your dilemma

in a very honest way...

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon ~ Prasadini echoed the very words in my heart when I read

your note. I'm glad she said them. I have been reading "On the Road to Freedom"

by Swami Paramatmananda, Vol. 1. And, like so many others, he met and spent

long periods of time with other gurus before finding Amma. He spent 12 or 13

years at the ashram of Ramana Maharshi, studying with the Self-Realized sage,

Ratmanji (and what a relationship that was ~ if you want to read about

someone who had a monkey mind constantly getting in the way, this is a good

book

because Swami P spares no details). At one point, another Self-Realized being,

Avadhutendraji, came to visit Ratnamji, as they were friends. Long story

short, Ratnamji and Avadhutendraji decided to go on a trip to Nepal and

Avadhutendraji invited Neal (Swami P) to go.

 

Here are Swami P's very words about the trip: "I was naturally very eager to

go, especially in the company of two saints. I readily agreed...It was a joy

to be with even one of them; ...imagine the happiness of being with both of

them at once!...I felt a great happiness at seeing them together...Both of

them had renounced all worldly interests in order to attain God-Realization and

had achieved much in the spiritual world...

 

....Traveling in the company of two saints, one had no time to think of

anything other than God. I had come to India not even believing or caring

whether

there was a God (Neal had been drawn by Ramana Maharshi). Now I found that my

mind was full of the thought of Him alone...I was now living in the company

and under the guidance of two sages...thinking of this, tears welled up in my

eyes...

 

Of course, there is a lot more to the story, and I have yet to find out how

many other gurus, Neal may have encountered on his way to Amma. I'm not sure

exactly what this adds to the discussion of spending time in the company of

Great Souls when one already has a guru, but I know that Amma approves all that

is written under the auspices of Her bookstore.

 

Anyhow, I wanted to share this with, as Stevie Nicks says in Fleetwood Mac's

"Greatest Hits", "everybody. There is no one who can say that word like

Stevie Nicks.

Jai Jai Ma ~ Linda