To Premarupa on not criticizing

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Premarupa posted a quote by Amma:

 

"Do not walk around complaining that certain people got angry with you and

that they criticized and scolded you. Let them give a lecture criticizing

and

teasing you. You just keep quiet. All the things that they have said about

you

will revert back to them. When you react or retaliate, that means you have

accepted it, and then they will fabricate even more things about you and you

will also do the same about them. There is no way to settle that kind of

argument , and the end result is utter humiliation, anger, hatred, revenge,

and the like...

And, dearest Premarupa, as I was told once about jumping in and getting

started in a new job, "She knows of which she speaks." I am now reading volume 2

of "On the Road to Freedom" by Swami Paramatmananda, and last night read a

chapter of the "early days" when there were numerous, very serious attempts to

kill Amma. She is our best example, for She did not react, and some of the

very perpetrators became ardent devotees. I was shocked to read these stories,

for they were stories I had never heard. In fact, much of what Swami P has to

say about the early days are things I have never heard. I feel as if I am in

a blissfull garden, with ripe fruit falling off the tree into my hand. All I

need do is imbibe. Jai Ma ~ Linda