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