Balaji photo chain email supposedly started or fw'd by Big Swami

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Ammachi , " tom " <tomgull wrote:

>

> These are some selected excerpts from it (not Big Swami's words, but

> added by people along the chain), with names and email addy's removed

> for privacy.

>

> Attached to the email was a photo of Balaji, an incarnation/form of

> Vishnu(?) which is one red flag, since you'd think it would be a Devi

> form. There was no distinguishable message from Big Swami in the

> email that I could tell, other than referencing the 'rare' photo.

>

OM Amrtesvaryai Namah!

 

Namaskarams!

 

here below is the smallish contribution from Sw. Amritaswarupanandaji

to the Tirupathi Balaji chainmail picture:

 

>

> >Swami Amritswarupananda [swamiamritswarup...]

> >Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:14 AM

> >Manuel De Laroche; Prabhakar Gomati; Karen Moawad; Agastya;

>Indira;

> >Johnson; vani

> >Fwd: Fwd: Fw: Tirupati Balaji Rare Photo : DO NOT

BREAK

>THE CHAIN

> >

> >

> >

> >Note: forwarded message attached.

> > Aum Amriteswaryai Namah

> >

> >

> >In Amma's Compassion,

> >With Love and Prayers,

> >Swami Amritaswarupananda

> >

 

and then as stated there was a smallish thumbnail of Balaji at the

bottom....which could be blown up a lot larger if desired and without

loss of resolutioon.....

 

Actually Tom, when you refer to Balaji being a " red flag " and that

Devi should be the subject of such a chain mail, really that only

shows the common misconception that all of Amma's children are

devotees of the Devi, or Saktas....this is definitely not true, there

are Saivites, Vaishnavas, Smartas, Saktas, Sikhs, Muslims, Chrisians,

and Jews, each of whom would have his/her own favourite deity.

 

in Swamiji's case i would not be surprised to find him to be a

Vaishnava....when he came to Amma it wasn't because She is the

Devi....it was because he was attracted to Her in Krsna Bhava...and of

course also her Motherliness...but really i believe that it was Sri

Krsna who attracted Swamiji to Amma through Her Sri Krsna Bhava that

She used to assume....Sri Krsna of course to the Vaishnavas is an

incarnation of Lord Visnu...just as Balaji is a localised

" incarnation " of Lord Visnu....it is not really odd at all that he

should be promoting the love of Sri Tirupathi Balaji in my mind.

 

in Amma's Divine Love

and in Her Service,

as ever,

your own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!