Darshan Film

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Om Namah Shivaya,

 

At the MA Center last night, 3 devotees gave good reviews of Darshan, The Embrace. One devotee said it was really something to see Amma on the big screen, & that she could just feel the shakti coming from it. She loved it.

 

The team of 2 counselors with whom I work M-Th, plus possibly our manager, are going from Santa Cruz to Berkeley tomorrow to see the 5:10PM show. We're calling it a team building experience. Amma's picture is now displayed in all 3 of the day rehab's counseling offices. Seems She's infiltratng it.. Will anyone else be there?

 

Sweta

 

 

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I saw DARSHAN:THE EMBRACE in a movie theater in Berkeley, California

on Sunday. Prakashini (Teresa Turner) went with me. The theater

was full of MA Center devotees plus, blessedly, some people I had

never seen before. (Please, may some people who don't know amma

come see this movie!)

 

I loved the film. It was like a trip to India without the airfare

or the heat and humidity. For me there were lots of enjoyable

moments, such as when Amma is scolding the elephant handler, as she

is feeding the elephant the laddus provided for her to feed her,

that he should be feeding the elephant green leaves and not sweets.

Sounds like my behavior when I go on a diet: eat the laddus and

remind myself that I should be having salad. The elephant was very

cute and saluted Amma as trained to do.

 

I enjoyed hearing various languages, including French and remembered

how many French-speaking people have been in Kerala for centuries.

One French woman was seen throughout the film.

 

Other than the Swamis, the only other people I recognized were

Ramaadevi who goes across the screen in 10 seconds and one of the

American boys who chanted the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita

(in Sanskrit, of course) at San Ramon this past summer. I don't

know his name. He is stocky and blond. He seemed to be in many

scenes quite near Amma. What an experience for a child! I wonder

if he'll stay with it as adolescence hits.

 

True confessions: I always suspected that Big Swamiji did not

translate most of what Amma said and there is was in the film--THE

PROOF! AAAAAAAAIIEEEE! (Where are those Malayalam notes; I better

practice that alphabet again!) Amma would speak and the subtitles

would translate what she had said and Big Swamiji would say

something different. Even when she repeated what she was saying

twice, each time with more dramatic emotional expression, he still

ignored what she said and said something else. (The Ultimate "What-

we-say-to-men-and-what-men-hear" Department!) Even while Amma is

still in the body and able to speak, she is being edited! What else

has she said that we will never know because someone found it

disagreeable?

 

The appropriate crescendo at the end of the film was a screen

containing only text announcing the statement that Amma hugged

45,000 people in 20-some hours on her birthday!

 

When we came outside the screening room, we saw that Ron who donated

the M.A. Center property, had just seen the movie with us along with

Dayamritaswamy who looked completely thrilled, film grad that he is.

 

Prakasini and I went to dinner to a nearby (two or three doors down

from the movie theater), slightly funky Indian restaurant with some

of the rest of the film audience. We had an enjoyable meal and

another experience of "What we say to men and what men hear" in

ordering and paying for our food.

 

Aikya

 

 

 

 

 

Ammachi, Sweta Mitzel <swetabc wrote:

>

> Om Namah Shivaya,

>

> At the MA Center last night, 3 devotees gave good reviews of

Darshan, The Embrace. One devotee said it was really something to

see Amma on the big screen, & that she could just feel the shakti

coming from it. She loved it.

>

> The team of 2 counselors with whom I work M-Th, plus possibly our

manager, are going from Santa Cruz to Berkeley tomorrow to see the

5:10PM show. We're calling it a team building experience. Amma's

picture is now displayed in all 3 of the day rehab's counseling

offices. Seems She's infiltratng it. Will anyone else be there?

>

> Sweta

>

>

>

> How low will we go? Check out Messenger's low PC-to-Phone

call rates.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Om Namah Shivaya,

 

3 of my colleagues & I saw the film last night. We sailed through 71 miles of traffic to Berkeley. Even a coworker who hasn't met Amma, said that Her grace was with us when we parked across from the theater.

 

It's always so wonderful to watch Amma on film, & this was no exception. There were a surprising number of devotees on the screen whom I recognized. I think someone posted that Amma's huge facial close up, (profile?) was the face of God. This is exactly what I saw. Like another poster, I also felt disconnected after the film. It was reminiscent of how I felt riding home from Amritavarsham50, on the dismally industrial California freeways. Both then & now, I long to be back in Amritapuri, & in Amma's physical presence.

 

Today I was more aware of Amma's great blessing in my new coworker, especially after experiencing "persecution" from some employees, reportedly based on spirituality. My colleague met Amma just before joining our site. She already loves Amma, & wants to use a few days of vacation in November to see Her. It's so powerful to have a coworker who prays for our clients & staff. She seems to be a much older & wiser soul than me, even though I'm almost twice her age. I guess Amma wants to use 2 of us to serve Her & support each other there for now. We make up almost 1/2 of the team, & now Amma has a devotee working there 7 days a week!

 

All of my coworkers liked the movie, & it won't surprise me if we all visit Amma together. 2 of us thought we felt Amma's energy/presence. After the film, the former skeptic of our small pilgrimage said that Amma is the real deal. The arati song at the film's end, gave a nice sense of closure. The film seemed like a beautiful act of devotion to Amma.

 

Sweta

 

Aikya Param <aikya > wrote: I saw DARSHAN:THE EMBRACE in a movie theater in Berkeley, California

on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I too just got back from seeing the film in San

Francisco. I went with one of the people I met from

Mother's Kitchen. She called me today and asked if I

had seen it yet.

 

This was her fourth time seeing it. And she said it

gets better and better each time. That Amma is there

throughout all of what is happening.

 

I can feel what she meant. What was said, and what

what shown was not as important, as the further into

the movie we got, the more high I was getting on Her

Shakti as if she was pouring Herself through the

screen. I felt like She was there with me!

 

I started to go within and to feel her closeness and

sweetness.

 

The one thing that did strike me as intense, and this

is the part where Big Swami was translating a bit

differently.

 

Amma was asking all of the devotees in the ashram to

call all of their friends around the globe and to ask

everyone to pray for one minute at 12 Noon wherever

they were in the world, to pray for World Peace. This

was to be on the anniversary of 911.

 

What she was trying to say was that we are going in

the wrong direction in the world, and that we need to

pray for peace as much as we can. We may not achieve

the peace that we pray for, but we must at least try.

Well, this had me in tears!

 

I have heard this before from others, and so it was

finally confirmed by Ammachi.

 

What I came away feeling after seeing this movie, is

that we may not have that much time left....of

normalcy on this planet, if you can call it that.

 

I feel, at least for myself that there is no time left

to argue, no time left to be angry, no time left to be

sad and no time left to be idle.

 

That I need to just drop all of the behaviors that I

indulge in that keep me from being completely present,

and in the moment, and that I need to begin to live

even more simply than I am right now.

 

And that I need to stop caring whether certain

personal wishes will or will not be fulfilled. That I

should not want anything for myself any longer.

Whether they come or do not, it does not seem to

matter.

 

Only serving Her matters, only rejoicing in Her Love

matters. Only sharing Her love with others matters.

 

Start Now,

 

This is what I received.

 

--- Aikya Param <aikya > wrote:

 

> I saw DARSHAN:THE EMBRACE in a movie theater in

> Berkeley, California

> on Sunday. Prakashini (Teresa Turner) went with me.

> The theater

> was full of MA Center devotees plus, blessedly, some

> people I had

> never seen before. (Please, may some people who

> don't know amma

> come see this movie!)

>

> I loved the film. It was like a trip to India

> without the airfare

>

[Guest guest]

Beautiful! Now that's Bhakti!

 

-

Stacee Kramer

Ammachi

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:54 PM

Re: Darshan Film

 

 

I too just got back from seeing the film in San

Francisco. I went with one of the people I met from

Mother's Kitchen. She called me today and asked if I

had seen it yet.

 

This was her fourth time seeing it. And she said it

gets better and better each time. That Amma is there

throughout all of what is happening.

 

I can feel what she meant. What was said, and what

what shown was not as important, as the further into

the movie we got, the more high I was getting on Her

Shakti as if she was pouring Herself through the

screen. I felt like She was there with me!

 

I started to go within and to feel her closeness and

sweetness.

 

The one thing that did strike me as intense, and this

is the part where Big Swami was translating a bit

differently.

 

Amma was asking all of the devotees in the ashram to

call all of their friends around the globe and to ask

everyone to pray for one minute at 12 Noon wherever

they were in the world, to pray for World Peace. This

was to be on the anniversary of 911.

 

What she was trying to say was that we are going in

the wrong direction in the world, and that we need to

pray for peace as much as we can. We may not achieve

the peace that we pray for, but we must at least try.

Well, this had me in tears!

 

I have heard this before from others, and so it was

finally confirmed by Ammachi.

 

What I came away feeling after seeing this movie, is

that we may not have that much time left....of

normalcy on this planet, if you can call it that.

 

I feel, at least for myself that there is no time left

to argue, no time left to be angry, no time left to be

sad and no time left to be idle.

 

That I need to just drop all of the behaviors that I

indulge in that keep me from being completely present,

and in the moment, and that I need to begin to live

even more simply than I am right now.

 

And that I need to stop caring whether certain

personal wishes will or will not be fulfilled. That I

should not want anything for myself any longer.

Whether they come or do not, it does not seem to

matter.

 

Only serving Her matters, only rejoicing in Her Love

matters. Only sharing Her love with others matters.

 

Start Now,

 

This is what I received.

 

--- Aikya Param <aikya > wrote:

 

> I saw DARSHAN:THE EMBRACE in a movie theater in

> Berkeley, California

> on Sunday. Prakashini (Teresa Turner) went with me.

> The theater

> was full of MA Center devotees plus, blessedly, some

> people I had

> never seen before. (Please, may some people who

> don't know amma

> come see this movie!)

>

> I loved the film. It was like a trip to India

> without the airfare

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing experiences about the movie. I am in Michigan and can't find a screening yet. I want the DVD, NOW.

I appreciate all the posts that I see here, I skip the ones that don't mean anything to me. I love you all and will continue to come here for as long as I can. It is a blessing to share these comments and keep in touch with like minded people. It is important to keep good company, even misguided or distorted though it may be. We are all on our own paths and they intertwine like a jungle sometimes and then we each continue along our lonely way.

 

 

Om Namashivaya - In Amma's service,

 

Supriti Omenka Nnadi