to visvanathan about humanitarianism and fishing poles

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Dear visvanathan and all ~ well, I must confess that I peeked into

yesterday's digest too. I didn't respond to anything because there seemed to be

so

much contention. I agree with what you say about Amma's focus on selfless

service. She, herself, began to do it at a very young age. Even while she was in

ecstatic trances, meditation, or dancing with Krishna, she still found time to

take food, basically from her own mouth, since it was her family's food, and

take it to impoverished and ill people in her villages. And, definitely, she

is an empowerer, because she gives people the tools to help themselves. How

can it possibly be a dig to call Amma a humanitarian? It would be somewhat

surprising if she wasn't. She gives spiritual food through her

presence, her hugs, her worship, and she also gives concretely to those that

need their own fishing poles. The juxtaposition of these two qualities (and,

there are of course, others) are a big part of what drew me to Amma so many

years ago.

 

 

 

visvanathan wrote:

 

also what you are calling humanitarian efforts is nothing more than

what many other religious insitutions do for the poorest and most

vulnerable folks all over the world...it is called SERVICE to mankind,

and SERVICE to GOD through service to mankind...remember what Jesus

said... " as ye do unto the least of these, so you do unto me... " ....my

paraphrase...

 

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