Guest guest Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Namah Shivayah, Here are the notes I took during the talk Swami Amritatmananda gave on Nov. 27 in Michigan: Great masters are a purifying force in the world. Everyone wants a joyful life. How to attain this happiness? The final end will be sweet, but the means will be hard. A disciplined life means happiness: an undisciplined life leads to unhappiness. Discipline can only come from culture. Amma describes the word culture as control. Outer things like clothes and manners don't matter. Controlling ourselves is not an easy thing. If we want peace and contentment, we have to control the tongue in two ways--speech and eating. If controlling one's senses is so hard, how difficult it is to control the mind. The man of control is the man of happiness, it says in the scriptures. One day we all have to start looking inside. TIME will force us to. We have to turn toward God. In front of Amma is a good place to start this huge yagna. He told the story of approaching Amma while she was seated near a large waterfall. His question was, "Amma, what is the real meaning of spirituality?" "Son, can you return this water to its source?" was Amma's reply. "This is spirituality-- reversing the flow of the five senses." It is a Herculean task, but we have Amma. We need to try to transform ourselves into introvert meditators. Here in the presence of Amma, we are doing inner cleansing. We are in the yogi hospital now. The doctor has diagnosed our disease, and if we have enough courage to surrender to the doctor, we will be cured. I would like to share one of my "surgeries." It was my first public speech. Everyone praised it except Amma, who, whenever I was near Her, praised other's satsangs! I decided never to give another speech if I couldn't please Amma. Amma then asked me to give another speech, and I told her I couldn't because she didn't like my other one. She told me that now that I was not attached to giving talks, he could give them! Amma's mother bhava is very sweet, but the guru bhava is tough! (Here Amma interrupted and said that if she were really in Guru Bhava, NO ONE would be in the ashram!) Swami told the story of lying in bed one morning after a few hours sleep. He was feeling sluggish. Amma upbraided him and told him that he could have stayed at home and gotten married if he wanted to be sluggish. (Amma pantomined beating him.) To this day, all he has to do is think about Amma telling him that to get himself up and out of bed. It is an honor to serve Amma. We should be an instrument in the hands of the guru. In Amma's service, Jyotsna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2005 Report Share Posted December 20, 2005 Dear scribe Jyotsna, thank you so very much for taking your time to post this. I really appreciated it. It is really helpful for us on our spiritual path, and is a valuable service from you. If you have any more notes ( from old satsangs, or Q & A sessions with Amma ), especially from the years before I joined the Ammachi group, that would help us, I sincerely hope that when you have time you type them out and post them. In Europe, there are no retreats and public Q. & A. sessiions with Amma. You have been very blessed to attend many of them. Thank you again for this service. In Amma's Love, sarama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Dear Sara, Yes, funny you should mention it. I was just thinking the same thing today. To help keep the winter blahs at bay, I'll periodically post notes from Amma's and the swamis' talks this summer and in Nov. This is my seva for the group. Jai Amma, Jyotsna > > Dear scribe Jyotsna, > > thank you so very much for taking your time to post this. > I really appreciated it. > It is really helpful for us on our spiritual path, and is a valuable > service from you. > > If you have any more notes ( from old satsangs, or Q & A sessions with > Amma ), especially from the years before I joined the Ammachi > group, that would help us, I sincerely hope that when you have time > you type them out and post them. > > In Europe, there are no retreats and public Q. & A. sessiions with > Amma. You have been very blessed to attend many of them. > > Thank you again for this service. > > In Amma's Love, > sarama > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 Dear Jyotsna, your abilities and talents in doing this beautiful service for our List are very much appreciated. And please, do not forget the notes you may have from previous years, if your time permits. And YES, this will be a big help in keeping the winter blahs at bay. In Amma's Love, sara --- Iceland - ------------------ In Ammachi, "jyotsna2" <jyotsna2> wrote: > > Dear Sara, > > Yes, funny you should mention it. I was just thinking > the same thing today. To help keep the winter blahs > at bay, I'll periodically post notes from Amma's and the > swamis' talks this summer and in Nov. This is my > seva for the group. > > Jai Amma, > Jyotsna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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