Guest guest Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Namah Shivaya, Thank you so much Linda, Sanatani & all of you who pray for our list. I see definite Grace in my life, my son's life, & in the life of another name on this list. I believe the prayers are making a difference. It's nothing short of amazing, how our material needs are met. My teenage son & I live out-of-state, away from our family members. It's been years since we've seen any of the few with whom we've kept in touch, & only 1 regularily speaks with us on the phone. I am not at home as much as I would like, due to school & work. So, seeing an answer to needed support for my son, during his critical early teen years, means a lot to me. One name on the list has been straightenng out his life, lives vlose to us, & has become "The" male figure in my son's life. I'm very grateful that as my son is naturally pulling away from me, he now has a male in his life, with whom to do healthy activities. This seems doubly important, since our area has a well deserved reputation for drugs. The male in my son's life plans to meet Amma, at my son's urging . Thank you so much. With love, Sweta Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Dear Sweta, You are precious to Amma and to us, and you and your son deserve an abundance of Her blessings, on every level. My son, my husband and I have been with Amma for over ten years. During the first few years, everything kept falling apart in a big, Kali kind of way, and faith alone carried us through. I have found that the further you go on Her path, the more amazing it becomes. She provides for us in ways that are truly amazing, and hard to put into words. Things get torn down, but only to make way for something far better, and more deeply real and true. The path to surrender is so rocky, but the fruits are so very wonderful! Have faith in the process and in Her, for there is nothing She can not give you. May Her grace become a way of life for each and every one of us!! Jai Maa!!!!! With Much Love In Her, Sanatani Sweta Mitzel <swetabc wrote: Namah Shivaya, Thank you so much Linda, Sanatani & all of you who pray for our list. I see definite Grace in my life, my son's life, & in the life of another name on this list. I believe the prayers are making a difference. It's nothing short of amazing, how our material needs are met. My teenage son & I live out-of-state, away from our family members. It's been years since we've seen any of the few with whom we've kept in touch, & only 1 regularily speaks with us on the phone. I am not at home as much as I would like, due to school & work. So, seeing an answer to needed support for my son, during his critical early teen years, means a lot to me. One name on the list has been straightenng out his life, lives vlose to us, & has become "The" male figure in my son's life. I'm very grateful that as my son is naturally pulling away from me, he now has a male in his life, with whom to do healthy activities. This seems doubly important, since our area has a well deserved reputation for drugs. The male in my son's life plans to meet Amma, at my son's urging . Thank you so much. With love, Sweta Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! Mata amritanandamayi Visit your group "Ammachi" on the web. Ammachi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Dear Sanatini Thank you for your words to Sweta. I needed to hear them too. As you said, Mother is nothing short of amazing. My husband and I are going through pretty tough times right now. My husband was recently fired, and my health is at a very low point. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself all morning. Both my husband and I have felt the need to surrender and have faith, and at the same time take the action needed - as in Mother's story abut the woman who prayed to win the lottery and God finally told her "buy a ticket". It is pretty easy to fall into the hole of defeatism during hard times. Your words reminded me that Mother is looking out for us all. Jai Ma! Prasadini. sanatani urban wrote: > Dear Sweta, > > You are precious to Amma and to us, and you and your son deserve an > abundance of Her blessings, on every level. > > My son, my husband and I have been with Amma for over ten years. > During the first few years, everything kept falling apart in a big, > Kali kind of way, and faith alone carried us through. I have found > that the further you go on Her path, the more amazing it becomes. She > provides for us in ways that are truly amazing, and hard to put into > words. Things get torn down, but only to make way for something far > better, and more deeply real and true. The path to surrender is so > rocky, but the fruits are so very wonderful! > > Have faith in the process and in Her, for there is nothing She can > not give you. May Her grace become a way of life for each and every > one of us!! Jai Maa!!!!! > > With Much Love In Her, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Dear Prasadini, You are not alone. Many fearless (or not so fearless, like me) sadhus have tread the same path of Kali destruction and resurrection as you are now. Remember Joan of Arc, St. Francis, St. Theresa, St. John (who went on to write a very beautiful book on the "Dark night of the soul"), and the many stories of the saints of India. The one thing they all have in common is their undying love for God, and their inevitable suffering (oops..that's two things). The facade of the ego, and all of its underpinnings must be demolished in order for the true nature of divinity to flourish. Suffering comes as all the underpinnings, conditionings and attachments get yanked out from under us, and we resist, just as we would resist the surgeon who comes upon us with a scalpel with our name on it! The mind struggles to make sense of this process, but fails to do so because the process is one which goes on beyond the mind and it's faulty logic, beyond it's extremely limited perspective, and heavy conditionings. The ego knows it means certain death, and it will do whatever it has to in order to maintain control. So the battle begins! There is so much going on within this process which is unable to be seen or understood by the human mind. When we try to measure it or quantify it, it simply brings us more suffering. Add to that, the people in your family and community who have no idea what is happening in your life from a spiritual perspective. You receive the judgments and criticisms, unenlightened suggestions and conditioned beliefs...all designed to push you back into mass consciousness, and normality. Sigh...... You must be so very strong within your Self in order to bear it all, dear sister. The fires of hell are surely more friendly! Oh, how I understand those feelings. Yet, through it all, She carries us, and shields us from the brunt of those forces. We end up crying out to Her as a baby cries for it's mother...sometimes beating on Her with our fists, red faced and teary eyed; other times eagerly sucking on Her divine breast, as the Cosmic Milk flows in and reminds us of who we really are...and the funeral pyre burns on and on...Let it burn, dear sister...let it burn... Once, about nine years ago, I had to have an emergency hysterectomy, and after the surgery, I ruptured an artery in my pelvis, and came very close to dying. My son was four years old at the time, and I remember being out of my body, telling Amma that She could not take me yet, as I had way too much work to complete, and my son needed me! She graciously consented, and I dropped back down into my less than comfortable body. I was very sick for many months after, with lots of complications. I was given the knowledge that I was supposed to be stabbed...it was my karma, but Amma allowed for a simple pop of an artery within a safe environment and lots of pain meds instead. What Grace! Now, the events which dismantled our lives in the years that followed this event were a lot more veiled, and I was not given the conscious understanding of why the events took place...but by then I had been given the taste of Her amazing grace, and so I tried to walk, (or in some cases, drag..oh, all right, crawl...)) myself through the process, as my husband did the same thing. A few months after the surgery, he was suddenly laid off, and was unemployed for lets just say a long time. We lost our home...not unlike the disaster survivors...and along with all these so called losses, the egos slowly loosened their grip...rubbed, shredded, humiliated and burned away..layer upon layer, too subtle to quantify or understand. Throughout it all, the light burns ever brighter, and the heart gains strength and clarity. Sometimes that realization dims, and we feel only grief, doubt and pain...but even that is now transient and transparent, as She carries us through all these illusions, and takes us ever higher into Her. The battle wages within...always waging, but Her weapons are so very powerful, and She uses them with unbelievable precision! She takes us through so many lifetimes within this one...divine consolidation. Dear Prasadini, it is all Grace, and She has you always tightly at Her breast. Her grace has brought me and my husband and Son to a whole new level of sweetness and deep, abiding contentment, even when things do not go as we think they should...even when everything crumbles down around us..She is always present...the only real truth..always offering us something better and more valuable than what was taken away.. So, beloved sister, hold tight to Her Feet, for those feet know The Way, and they will always take you in the right direction. She is the Sacred Spiral heading ever upward..and Your are not separate from Her. The path to surrender is so rocky, but the fruits are so wonderful! The fruits are Her Prasad, and once you consume those fruits, you become Prasadini for the world! Jai Maa...Jai Maa...Jai Kali Maa!! Much Love and Peace In Her, Sanatani Prasadini <ganesh1008 wrote: Dear Sanatini Thank you for your words to Sweta. I needed to hear them too. As you said, Mother is nothing short of amazing. My husband and I are going through pretty tough times right now. My husband was recently fired, and my health is at a very low point. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself all morning. Both my husband and I have felt the need to surrender and have faith, and at the same time take the action needed - as in Mother's story abut the woman who prayed to win the lottery and God finally told her "buy a ticket". It is pretty easy to fall into the hole of defeatism during hard times. Your words reminded me that Mother is looking out for us all. Jai Ma! Prasadini. sanatani urban wrote: > Dear Sweta, > > You are precious to Amma and to us, and you and your son deserve an > abundance of Her blessings, on every level. > > My son, my husband and I have been with Amma for over ten years. > During the first few years, everything kept falling apart in a big, > Kali kind of way, and faith alone carried us through. I have found > that the further you go on Her path, the more amazing it becomes. She > provides for us in ways that are truly amazing, and hard to put into > words. Things get torn down, but only to make way for something far > better, and more deeply real and true. The path to surrender is so > rocky, but the fruits are so very wonderful! > > Have faith in the process and in Her, for there is nothing She can > not give you. May Her grace become a way of life for each and every > one of us!! Jai Maa!!!!! > > With Much Love In Her, Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! Mata amritanandamayi Visit your group "Ammachi" on the web. Ammachi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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