From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shempmcgurk Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:53 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Amma does Bill Cosby
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect that it's because of people with your mindset that saints > generally don't perform miracles. Actually, people with my mindset hold that it is regular people that perform miracles and, specifically, it is real Saints that go out of their way NOT to perform miracles. It is the place of Saints to TELL us that WE are the ones capable of performing miracles and that there is no distance between them and us. When a Saint performs a miracle, he/she creates a divide between them and us. It is the works of a performing seal, no more, no less. Real Saints look upon the world and its inhabitants as their equals and, in their loneliness of their enlightenment, say "come on, come on" and join me by realizing your full potential which, by definition, includes the ability to perform any and all miracles but which would be beneath my dignity to do for you because it is your dignity to do yourself. Ash-creating, pudding cooking, performing seals. Tote-board hugging is pretty much the same thing. Good response, and I basically agree with you, but there have been saints who have said "come on, come on and join me" and have done some miracles also, most notably Christ. Doing a genuine miracle or two doesn't brand a saint as a charlatan. You seem to be hung up on this tote board thing. I think you misunderstood what you saw in that video (http://tinyurl.com/28klva). When you go to see Amma, you get a token that indicates your place in the queue. Then there are signs which indicate which token numbers are being called, so that people know when to get in line. The signs aren't a way of bragging about how many Amma is hugging. They're just a method of crowd control. In fact, a couple of years ago they switched from a number-based system in which you could see the total so far in each session, so as to know when your number would come up, to an alphabetical system in which you couldn't see that. I think Amma didn't want people to feel discouraged that there were so many hundreds or thousands in the queue ahead of them. Anyway, I think you're letting a misunderstanding obscure your view of something beautiful. Ain't that the way of the universe?
