--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 9/3/06 3:48 PM, t3rinity at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > Did you know that at the side toward Viv. island, at the > >> > temple walls lived a great Avadhuta, Mayi Amma? She is on one of the > >> > early videos of Ammachi who visited her. > > > There are some cool stories about that trip in one of the early books about > her. She is purported to have levitated in front of the group that was > traveling with her.
Really, I haven't heard this before. I have one friend, who lives in Pondy who meat her early on. He describes her as 'raw Shakti'. Here is a photo I found on the web: http://archives.amritapuri.org/matruvani/pic_mv/amma_with_mayiamma.jpg Very difficult to find anything about her at all on the web (partly because her name is written in many different ways), even though she is quite famous in the south. She was always surrounded by dogs, which she would feed with prasad people brought her. This is in a way typical for Avadhutas, as the archetype Avadhuta, Dattatreya, is always pictured with dogs. To get an idea what an Avadhuta is: Famous Avadhutas would be Shirdi Sai Baba, who by his Hindu devotees was looked upon as an Avatar of Dattatreya, and Swami Nityananda, Guru to Mukthananda. She wouldn't say anything sensible, if someone would ask her: 'May I stay' or 'should I go' she would simply repeat the question. She has healed many people. There is one very juicy story about her: Somebody went to Ammachi,a nd complained about stomach pain. He had it since ten years. She asked him if he had ever seen Mayi Ma. He said yes. She asked if it was abou ten years ago, just before the pain started. He again confirmed. Ammachi then asked him if he was offered Prasad by her, and again he confirmed. She asked him if he actually took it, and he denied. Now, you must understand, and my friend very grafically described it to me, that she would feed the dogs with her own hands the prasad people brought. She would actually put it into their mouths, and there would be moisture on her hands from the dog. Then with the same hand she would give prasad to another person, and as my friend pointed out 'You had to take it'. When Ammachi heard that he had declined to take the prasad more than 10 years ago, she told the man to go back to Mayi Ma and take prasad, which he did, and then he was cured of the stomach pain. Anybody having stomach pain here? When I was in Kanyakumari, I also visited a place called Marutvamallai, a mountain, were there is a samadhi of another saint callaed Nayana, which also plays prominently in Ammachis biography, i think he called her 'Kali'. The mountain is regarded as holy and has caves. I met there an Indian Swami, friend of my friend in Pondy, who frequently goes to Thiruvannamalia. I think his name is Thannu or Thannupillai Swami. He is well educated and speaks english well. he told me about Mayi Ma, and he knew Ammachi, when she was still quite unknown. He said that she had a guru, also an Avadhuta, I think he is the one who appears in the book by Nealu ('Road to Freedom, II'), who comes in the village of Ammachi regularly, and hugs all the women, and the men close all their wifes away, but Ammachi recognizes that he is a true saint. I believe she retained the hugging habit by him. He is not called a guru in the book, but simply a saint she met. 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/
