As I read through these Amma posts I’m going to respond to some of them by posting some things written by a good friend of mine on an Amma chat. Her experience with Amma is much more extensive than mine. Here’s one:
Rick,
What are you thoughts on these and related posts?
I don't know.� You get a completely different perspective spending time with Mother in
India.� Many things happen in an ashram that size and some are discussed during
satsangs, Mother specifically asking people not to take notes and then send e-mails to the
west about what is discussed, things can get twisted, taken out of context,
misunderstood.� I respect that.
I have been in India every year during Amma's birthday from 1997 to 2001, and every year
Mother says She wants no fuss, but will let the devotees celebrate.� I was sitting a few feet
away from Mother when Swamiji talked about His plans for the big birthday bash.� Amma
was disgusted, embarrassed, wanted nothing to do with it, looked at us and said what She
wanted was to have the westerners come and help build the houses, or a normal
celebration like every year.� This was Swamiji's initiative and others jumped on the
bandwagon, especially the politicians (namely the one mentionned in prior articles).� A lot
of the long timers stayed completely away from the whole thing.� People around Her have
egos, no matter how devoted and dedicated they are, and therefore on some level, their
own agendas.� Pushing Mother is one of them.
Mother complains over and over about how nobody around Her listens to Her. She has
become very much a prisoner in Her own home.� She cannot go out of the house, move
freely, express herself freely, even swim in Her pool without being jumped on by the
freenzied bhaktinis!� I have seen it evolve over the last few years and it was very sad to
watch...��
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