--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The lady saints arrive, chronicling FFL: > > Every year now these are some of the best weeks to be in Fairfield, > while the lady saints are arriving. > > Karunnamayi arrived last night in Fairfield for a visit of several > days. Last night she sat with people who had gathered to welcome her > in a home and then the group migrated over to the Temple on W. > Burlington Street that a number of Fairfield meditators maintain for > their worship. Karunnamayi again sat with people there. > > Tonight (Monday) Karunnamayi has a public meeting with people down at > Roberts Memorial Hall just north of Keosauqua. > > > These are the special months to be here in Fairfield. The annual > visits of the lady saints has started again now. > > Both Ammachi on her national tour and Karunnamayi on her national tour > also come to Fairfield. Both like Fairfield especially for the unique > large community of old long-time meditators doing a long sadhana here. > Each lady saint carries her own `field effect' of darshan to give > freely on their national tours according to their own character. > However, coming to Fairfield they evidently both like to pool the good > powerful field effect that can be had with the large group of our long > time practicing meditator community here. > > They do get invited here to Fairfield by the meditating community. To > bring the Lady saints here there is a lot of concerted committee work > that goes on in the meditating community to sponsoring them here. > Each of these saints are great teachers with large spiritual gifts to > consul in their ways. They have been very formative for the > meditation practices of a lot of Fairfield meditators especially here > in the last years of the TMO and MMY. > > > Tuesday morning Karunnamayi sits with people individually for > blessings also down at Roberts Memorial Hall. > > Weds. She presides over a fire homa ceremony held up by Vedic City. > > Like with Ammachi's visits these meetings are always powerful with > Shakti and Atman Vidya to be a part of. The meetings are also great > fun to go to and see who all comes out of the FF wood work here and > see who all is still here in the meditating community. > > JGD, -D
Ammachi arrived in Fairfield last night (5 July 2005) Again a large work by meditatiing community committees to facilitate one of the famous lady-saints for a visit to Fairfield. The Fairfield Ledger printed a front page article about Ammachi a few days ago.. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14786051&BRD=1139&PAG=461&dept_id=142642&rfi=6 id=14786051&BRD=1139&PAG=461&dept_id=142642&rfi=6 "An Indian holy woman who has become known as "the Hugging Saint" will return to southeast Iowa next week for the fourth year in a row. Mata Amritanandamayi, whose followers simply call her "Amma" -- an Indian word meaning "mother" -- will visit the campus of Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant Wednesday and Thursday. Her annual visits are organized by a group of admirers from Fairfield who say they have been inspired by her message of selfless, unconditional love. Amma, 51, was raised in a small village on the southwest coast of India. Her nickname, "the Hugging Saint," comes from her practice of greeting visitors with an embrace, holding them in her arms while speaking soothing words in their ears. "When she hugs you, she offers complete love, unconditional love to you," said Mark Petrick of Fairfield, one of the people involved in planning Amma's visit. "There's no holding back. It's completely unconditional." Amma first visited the United States in 1987, and now tours the country every summer. Although she gives speeches at each stop, most of her time is devoted to hugging the people who come to meet her. Amma has been known to sit in one place for hours, hugging person after person without stopping to rest. "She always looks at you and acts as if you're her favorite person in the whole world," said Bob Hoerlein of Fairfield, who first saw Amma during a visit to Chicago in the 1980s. Hoerlein also traveled to India in 2003 for Amma's 50th birthday, and noticed that although a crowd of about 2 million people had gathered for the event, "I never felt any hostility." For a complete story, read the June 30 Fairfield Ledger. -D To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
