Amma's prasad items

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Actually, just for the sake of accuracy, the DB saris are around $1000 these days, give or take, depending on the amount of gold in them, the financial state of the recipient, etc. Conversly, her white saris are $150 (for dress and sari wrap). Bangles and other prasad jewelry is also quite varied depending on the material and how long Amma wore them. There were some green glass bangles that Amma wore for a whole day and night in San Ramon that went for $40 for the whole set, but the jade ones that she wore the day before went for $200. Amma's rudraksha earrings are $20/pair, while non-prasad rudraksha earrings are $10. Her rings can also be very affordable or very expensive, it's all quite mysterious. We bought Amma a really nice silk and gold sari as a gift at our wedding, which we found online for about $250. Her silver sandles go for $1008, and her little birkenstocks are also pretty pricey.

These things are so precious, and so worth the money, considering that it's all going to charity. I used to go to the Mount Washington SRF Center in LA, and they have a few of Yogananda's personal effects there, under glass, and pilgrims come from all over the world just to sit next to his chair or see his handprint in cement. How fortunate we are that we can have these mementos of our beloved Satguru, whether a Devi Bhava sari or simply the petals she showers on us. Think how many devotees of Ramakrishna, Anandamayi Ma or Neem Karoli Baba would love to have some small token of their Beloved.

My DB sari is now draped over a nice comfy chair, with Amma's photo on it next to our altar. I wear her white sari for puja, and often wear the wrap part around my head during meditation. It gives me great comfort to know that these things held my Amma.

BTW, I have some scraps of material from Amma's DB Choli (shirt), where I had it altered for my wedding. If anyone would like to have a little piece of this cloth, I'd be happy to send it, just let me know, it was right on Amma's skin, next to her heart for a whole Devi Bhava!

love,

Prajna

 

leokomor <leokomor > wrote:

{{{Thank you Surya. Like others who toured a bit this Summer I am

continuously amazed at your seemingly tireless yet meticulous Seva

for our Mutual Mother. In City after City your Karma yoga seems

Hanuman like. No I am not exagerating.}}}

 

In Amma's Krishna and Jealous Gopi Parable my mind drifts toward a

section of M.A. Center's Travelling Bookstore. There is a section

where they sell Saris that Amma has worn at Devi Bhava's These

items are several hundred dollars in price. Bracelets worn by Amma

are far more expensive due to Her skin contact etc. Why?

 

If you were a non spiritual scientist with a minor in Marketing one

would think - well, - the mark up in price is due to the proximity of

Amma's skin to the article of clothing or jewelry or cloth.

 

Amma/Krishna (in the parable) wants to remind us that each and every

Devotee has not only come in contact with Amma but have had our hair

stroked, our chins and cheeks tweeked and even felt the Devi's holy

lips on our foreheads. Are we not one hundred and eight times more

valuable than a Sari from a Devi Bhava?

 

Lokaha Samasthaha Sukino Bhavantu,

 

Chitanand

 

Ammachi, "Mahamuni Das" <mahamuni wrote:

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> This was one of my very favorite things that Amma said on the

Tour. It was so beautiful. You could just feel how everyone realized

how it should apply to everyone around them and more.

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> Jai Maa!

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> Surya

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> GeorgeSon

> ammachi

> Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:01 AM

> HOW TO PLEASE AMMA

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> Om Amriteswary Namah:

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> A short while ago I posted a Massachusetts Retreat

> story/parable about Sri Krishna and intra-jealous

> Gopis. The previous post omitted a significant

> sentence (which in effect is the punchline to Amma's

> parable.

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> Here is a revisal of the earlier post.

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> Amma conducted a Satsang talk on the first evening of

> the Marlborough Massachusetts retreat on Wednesday

> July 19, 2006.

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> {{Anyone who attended this first night in the Retreat

> please give me your recollections of the following

> story.}}

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> Memory indicates that Amma was talking about the

> disharmony in Satsangs. Amma said something to the

> effect that Tamil devotees go to Tamil Satsangs. And

> Western Devotees go to Western Satsangs and they do

> not seem to mix. My sense was that Amma was less than

> pleased about this tendency. Then within this context

> Amma told the Krishna and Jealous Gopi (Story/Parable)

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> {{Forgive my attempt at paraphrase}}.

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> The Gopis were becoming jealous of one another. One

> Gopi would think Lord Krishna dances with the other

> Gopi longer than me. Another Gopi would wonder if Sri

> Krishna smiled more often at another Gopi and so on

> ... Sri Krishna decided to teach them a lesson. He

> gathered them in an assembly and said (again I

> clumsily paraphrase from debilitated memory cells wish

> I had taken notes but I get a little lazy at Retreats)

>

> Sri Krishna said to the Gopi Assembly:

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> "I have observed that most of you have great reverence

> for items considered holy. For example the water of

> the Ganges is sometimes put aside and placed on your

> alter. Even a rock from some venerable locale is held

> as precious. Every one of you have obtained some

> object from My possession. Some of you have a part of

> one My feathers. Some of you have perhaps a piece of

> one of my articles of clothing or flute. But please

> my children, be aware that ALL OF YOU HAVE TOUCHED ME

> OR HUGGED ME AT CERTAIN TIMES. That makes each and

> every one of you Prasad."

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> {{In my last post I omitted the following}}

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> ///With Amma's grace I wrote the punchline to this

> story on back of my Motel 6 bill:/// The punchline

> is:

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> Sri Krishna said: " ONLY WHEN YOU SEE EACH OTHER

> LOVINGLY WILL I BE PLEASED.

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> The jot down also say that Big Swami repeated this

> phrase twice in his translation of our Beloveds

> nectarean words.

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> Namah Shivaya,

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> Chitanand

> (GeorgeSon)

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