--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From Steve Briggs, who wrote India: Mirror of Truth > (http://www.kumarclub.com/) > > Hi Rick > > I was reading the thread about Maya Amma, but since i don't seem to > have an active FFL account i can't add my bit. This is what i remember: > > When i met Maya Amma in 1982 she was living in a hut near the Kanya > Kumari temple; she was attended by a few male devotees and surrounded > by a pack of dogs. She was very old and the villagers said she liked to > ride drift wood out to sea for days at a time. Fishermen from Kanya > Kumari would often see floating about. I never heard anything about > her walking 'under the water.' The account that she fed both dogs and > people without discriminating between the two is accurate. I received > morsels of banana both before and after the dogs several times along > with my friends. I understand about the guy who didn't eat the prasad. > I hesitated but am glad i took it. I don't remember Maya Amma saying > anything. Her eyes conveyed it all. When i was with her she looked > younger and her eyes clearer then the photo in the link. If you post > this i'm wondering if anyone knows when she passed away or if she's > still living. When i returned to KK in 1996 there was no sign of her so > i assumed she had departed. If she's still living i'd definitely make > the effort to see her when in India. Having Maya Amma's darshan is a > treasured memory! > > Steve
I think she passed in 1993. I was there in 1995, didn't get to meet her. Thanks for the nice account. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
