Darshan

[Guest guest]

Om Amriteswarye Namah,

 

You know... this is so true and I'm glad that Aikya articulates this

so well. The "initiated" ones hold the space for Mother.

 

When I was new to Mother, I didn't sit in the hall for all the hours

I can now. I didn't "get" it then. It took time. The first year I

went, I didn't even get a token because someone said it would be 3 am

before my darshan. I lost interest and left. (Too bad I didn't

receive the correct info.)

 

Of course she is primarily "holding the space"for us, but also, she

needs us to reciprocate. This is why she closes the doors during Devi

Bhava , when people are feeling like they'd like to go and sleep. No,

she needs us to help maintain the bhava, the energy. It builds,

builds the night through.

 

I used to care about getting a low numbered token. Now I don't. Just

knowing I'll receive darshan is enough. It hardly matters, earlier or

later. I love to just sit and "soak it up" in the hall. Get filled

with the mystical atmosphere, trancelike.

 

And eventually this mindset shifts to that of feeling that just being

in the presence of an enlightened master IS the darshan.

 

Namah shivaya,

Sarah

 

On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Ammachi wrote:

 

>> One benefit of the exchange token system is that those who have come

>> for Amma's hug must wait, must stay near her, for some time. The

>> greatness of Amma is not immediately evident. She is a small simple

>> humble person who does not pretend anything. We Westerners rush

>> around so much that we are hardly present, hardly able to understand

>> our experience as we rush through it. I have known many people who

>> were able to come to Amma and quickly get darshan. In fact, I

>> used to

>> help bring groups to Amma and arranged it so that they did not

>> have to

>> stay for hours on end. In general these people do not come back on

>> their own. To know and understand Amma's greatness, it seems that a

>> person must stay for some time, as close as possible, see and feel

>> her

>> unconditional love expressed in what Jane Goodall called "her

>> wonderful hugging." One must stay near her for a time and breathe in

>> the possibility of such unconditional love into one's own heart.

>> Thus

>> this exchange token system enables people to be touched, moved and

>> transformed by Amma's life rather than dashing in an out with no

>> impact on t