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I am very touched by Shankar Balakrishnan's description of Ammachiji.
She certainly reflects the powerful and unique ways that Mataji, our
Divine Mother, continues to manifest to Her children today. While my
devotion, as noted in an earlier post, is to Meerammaji, or Mother
Meera, the stories of Ammachiji fill me with joy.
SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN wrote:
>
> Dear Sally Raven and others,
>
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> Well, first as an answer to your question about the worship of the
> Mother, I would recommend again as references books of the Ramakrishna
> Mission (Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna for example), books by Sri Aurobindo
> and any of the books on Sri Vidya and the Lalitha Sahasranama. Really as
> these books will tell you there is no adequate way to describe the Mother.
She is beyond description -- the more one sees of Her play, the less it
is possible to describe Her. The Bengali poet Ramprasad tried, and left
us with some of the most memorable metaphoric descriptions of Mataji,
who he worshipped as Ma Kali. I love the imagry in these lines of his:
"In the market place of this world,
The Mother sits flying Her kite,
In a hundred thousand,
She cuts the string of one or two,
And when the kite soars up into the Infinite
O how She laughs and claps Her hands!"
Through meditation and other sadhana, and Mataji's grace, one can come
to have a more real sense of the Mother of work, and then these words of
our kite-flying Lady take on new meaning, new power. Jai Mataji!
> Infinite are Her aspects, but what draws us closest to "Mother" is Her
> Love. That Matchless Motherly Love that patiently supports and guides Her
> children, all the way through evolution. So if there is one word that
> can describe Mother, it is the word " Love"- unconditional Love..
>
> It is this Love that pours out of all Mahatmas.It was this that I
> experienced when I went and saw Ammachi, a famous woman saint from
> South India.
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> Ammachi is a saint from India who Hugs and meets each person who comes to
> see Her. Sometimes thousands and thousands come, and She sits patiently
> sometimes up to 22 hours at a stretch, without getting up even once until
> She has met all the people , greeted them with Love and listened to their
> problems and counseled them- and this day after day after day. She is, in
> my experience, an embodiment of
> Matchless Pure Love. She is considered by many as an avatar or embodiment
> of the Divine Mother- but Ammachi Herself never claims anything- She
> always says " I am your servant". The Love and Peace that radiates from
> Her is astounding.
>
> When I first saw Her, I was astounded by the Love of this little woman
> who meets everyone, hugs each person, sitting for 20 hours or so day
> after day unmindful of Her physical strain. The smile She shows the last
> person is as fresh and spontaneous as the smile She shows the first. It is
> quite evident that genuine Selfless Love pours out of Ammachi all the
> time.
>
> Many have found solace near Her, many have had Divine experiences bestowed
> by Her(visons etc), many have had their diseases cured by Her- but more
> than all this is the tremendous transformation that She effects in
> people's hearts when they see Her Selfless Love.
>
> She is, along with Mother Meera and other great Souls, a living Form of
> the Mother today.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with Ammachiji. Worship of the
Divine as the Mother opens for the devotee so much grace and sense of
God's presence and power always with us. And the love, especially the
love.
Daly
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