To Amarnath about gifts and letting go of ego

[Guest guest]

Dear Amarnath ~ oh, keep them coming; each one is a precious jewel, and then

on the YouTube page, there are even more jewels. I love the technology that

can bring all of us closer, just by " plugging (turning) in. "

 

Also what you quoted from Awaken Children seemed especially pertinent for me

today as I have been having trouble with my hubby. Getting back together

after a 29 year separation has had its joys and challenges. I'm sure my own ego

gets in the way, and I'm the only one I can speak for. But this digest has

brought tears of healing and joy, and remembrance of where the true Source is.

 

I would like to share with the group, so I hope you will bear with me. This

is a story of my sister, who was the one responsible for me meeting Amma. Then

she went on to follow Shree Maa and Swamiji Satyananda Saraswati. Although

always being ever a gemini, she flits back and forth from one flower to

another. She still sees Amma every year, more than once if she can. Anyhow ...

the

story ... she was with Shree Maa, walking along, complaining about her

husband. Shree Maa looked at her, very pointedly, and said, as if an order,

" You,

worship him. " My sister was astonished. She immediately put a picture of her

husband along with the others on her altar, and has included him, in absentia

because he is a non-believer, in her sadhana.

I have been thinking maybe this would maybe be a good idea with my

difficulties with my own hubby. Anyway, Amarnath, you are right: " ego must go. "

Thank

you ~ Linda

 

 

Amarnath wrote:

 

" Only when we become aware of the burden of our own ego will we be

able to remove our faults. At present, we cannot bear someone else's

ego or mistakes, but ours is all right. `My ego is beautiful, but his

is ugly.' This is our present attitude, and this attitude should go. "

- Ammachi, Awaken Children, Vol.4 p264 (0246)

 

" Children, try to be humble. We are here to see God in others, not

the evil or ignorance in them. That is what our practice should be.

- Ammachi, Awaken Children, Vol.4 p264 (0247)

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Ammachi , nierika wrote:

> Anyway, Amarnath, you are right: " ego must go. " Thank

> you ~ Linda

> >>>

 

Please, everyone, understand that these quotes are Amma's words not

mine! They are posted for your contemplation. I consider them as

pointers to truth to which Amma wants us to awaken to.

 

And, these quotes of Amma are being posted in sequential order,

not my response to anyone. Different devotees may resonate with these

pointers at different times, etc.

 

Whatever I offer as my own 2cent comments, please accept as relative

and not absolute.

 

The enlightened Socrates said something like:

" The only thing I know for sure is that I do not know. "

 

Still, it's fun to express ourselves, etc, as long as we look at

everything as possible pointers to the truth and not truth itself.

 

Absolute Truth, some say, is inexpressible, unknowable, without form,

on the one hand; but, on the other hand IT IS " our own true nature " to

which Amma wants us to awaken to.

 

Amma Bless,

amarnath