IF YOU READ THIS ONE POST, YOU WON'T HAVE TO BOTHER READING BOTH OF
RICK'S POSTS...
from a friend
for the life of me, I do not know why I'm doing this, however I have
this strong urge to share the following with you all......
Ok, here I sit reading Swami Ramakrishnan's "Racing Along the Razor's
Edge". I'm on Chapter Five: "The Importance of Having a Guru" and
the subsection is titled - "Healing Presence".
Swami starts this off by describing how people with what may seem to
be huge problems in their lives, as they come up to Amma for cow
urine seems the problems become insignficant, they just "melt away"
as it were.
The following, after I read it, I reflected on an incident that I
witness at DFW (Dallas/Ft Worth airport). Then this "strong urge"
came up to share this and why I don't know but here goes...
"When Amma was in Chicago in 1993 at the Parliament of World's
Religions Centennial, She was requested to give the closing prayers
and message. The devotees brought the car close to the stage door so
that Amma would be able to get to the car as quickly as possible when
the function was over; otherwise, people would crowd around Her. As
the Dalai Lama and some other important celebrities were also on the
stage along with Amma, there was tight security. Because of this, it
was diffuuclt to get permission to park the car near the stage door.
Amma finished Her prayer and message and was walking out the stage
door toward the car when She saw a security guard arguing with a
devotee. The guard's face was red with anger and his voice was
escalating. Amma walked straight up to the guard and gave him a sip
of cow urine. He was totally taken aback by this unexpected loving
and soothing beverage.
The guard, who had been insisting that due to security reasons
they should move the car and bring Amma only through the designated
gate and not through any other door, was now escorting Amma to the
car and opening the door for Her! Just one sip was enough to change
him. Next year when Amma came to Chicago, he was the first person in
the beverage line."
I was there and I remember standing way in the back of this open
arena. It was nightfall, and so happend I was standing next to
another Amma devotee. When it was Amma's turn to come up to the
podium, all we both could see from the angle we were at, was Her nose
ring shining brilliantly. We both could not believe how radiant it
shined! Just a certain way She would turn Her head and the stage
lights would hit that ring and it was like all of a sudden seeing a
bright light from a lighthouse beaming out and it this instance this
dazzling, sparkling, radiant divine brilliance shining forht. It was
truly remakable.
Sometime in the early 90's I went to see Amma at DFW as She was
leaving to go to Chicago. As She was walking to the gate She would
stop and either provide a sip of cow urine or rub cow urine into a
person's chest. Devotee or a passerby! It was remarkable to see how
She would so naturally come up to a stranger and share the cow urine
with them. One very sweet moment, for me was when She walked up to
an American Airline employee, a young African American male, and just
completely showered him with cow urine. You could tell at first he
was a bit bewildered, but then completely accepting and grateful what
just happened to him. The following year he showed up for darshan
there in Dallas.
So there you have it, like I said don't know what came over me to
write this, but its done and hope you enjoyed the story(s).
Happy Valentines
Charles
