I never heard of her beyond Paramahansa Yogananda mentioning their meeting. He believed she was a living goddess. She reminds me of one of those beautiful hippies from the Woodstock Music Festival.
I am now reading this biography of her and wished I had met her as she only just died in the 1980s. So amazing. I would love to sit in the presence of someone like her and feel the vibes!
have you considered sitting quietly in her presence, even though she does not currently have a body?
tigress
I never heard of her beyond Paramahansa Yogananda mentioning their meeting. He believed she was a living goddess.
I think you'll like this, Treetop...
I would love to sit in the presence of someone like her and feel the vibes!
Sri Amritanandamayi is in London on 16th and 17th of Novemeber. Sunanda could tell you more about her...
I am now reading this biography of her and wished I had met her as she only just died in the 1980s. So amazing. I would love to sit in the presence of someone like her and feel the vibes!
Hi
It is not her/his presence that one needs to sit in, it is pure presence itself one needs to sit with - which is available at all times. Wishing to have met her or Buddha or Jesus is an old trick mind plays to avoid doing just that. There is always someone who has attained to pure presence/emptiness whether we can see that or not.
'Feeling that vibe' depends entirely on one's intensity to open up to grace. When that desire is on the boiling point in an individual the right guru/master/guide comes along.
Even reading about her will open something in you, as the presence/emptiness is not contained in a body...
Hi
It is not her/his presence that one needs to sit in, it is pure presence itself one needs to sit with - which is available at all times. Wishing to have met her or Buddha or Jesus is an old trick mind plays to avoid doing just that.
I do agree with you, Jnani.
When a great soul is present in human form though, and makes themself available to the public, they are tempting us towards the Divine. Being in their presence is a blessing (though that's not to say blessings aren't available wherever we are).
This thread, and my last post, just reminded me of a thread some time ago in which I was posting about saints and yogis I admired. Whilst I was typing a friend (not a HP member) that I hadn't heard from for a long time sent me an email out of the blue. All it said was...
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
It just popped into my head again. 🙂
Ahhhhh, how lovely to be reminded of Anandamayi Ma, just a few days before my teacher, Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), comes to London (16th and 17th November at Alexandra Palace.) You can come and sit in her presence if you can get to London, Treetop; it's very powerful and her hug can change your life.
I read once that before she left the body Anandamayi Ma sent some of her people down to Kerala to check out the young holy woman, Amma, and pronounced her genuine.
Of course, as Tigress and Jnani so rightly say, you don't need to be in the physical presence of a master....but oh gosh, it is so powerful when you are. These satgurus are so magnetic...
I have spent time in Anandamayi Ma's ashrams in Varanasi and Almora and visited her samadhi (tomb) near Haridwar. There's a very special vibe in each of these places. Apart from the link that Barafundle has given, there are other clips on youTube of Ma giving darshan....She is so beautiful.
I remember reading an account written by a devotee of his first meetings with Ma. Apparently the first time he met her she made a big fuss of him so he turned up for the second meeting completely full of himself, believing that he would again be given a place at her feet. To his utter consternation, she totally ignored him, leaving him hurt and floundering until she leaned towards him and whispered 'I can play with you any way I choose.' For a long time, I didn't know what to make of this - it seemed so cruel - but as I learned more of the gurus and the way they slice through our egos to get to our hearts (and having had the same sort of thing happen to me with Amma) so I came to understand that following a guru would not always be a bed of roses. It's a hard path sometimes.....as evidenced by Irene Tweedie in her book Daughter of Fire, which tells of her time with a Sufi guru. It's not always, in fact hardly ever, sweetness and light.
Hi Sunanda
True. A living guru is the ultimate challenge. The guru is always preparing (with hook or crook!) the desciple to throw back to the guru within. How auspicious to have a living sadguru!
Whilst I respect Sudgurus, to have them treat you like rubbish and play these mind games, does very very little to progress you unless that is the exact thing you needed at that time. I can't think of a single guru who reguarly treated or treats seekers badly actually having any profound effect, or a list of finders. And you do not need to look far to find lots of 'gurus' who get this kind of bad press. This method is for those who are advanced in practice and knowledge and have pride in their achievement, they need to be knocked and this method may work. If you read hindu scriptures this is not the way jnana was given to a seeker, the truth was spoken to qualified seekers of truth, in a manner that cuts through ignorance. Ignorance being the belief that I am this body/mind complex.
Jamali & Jalali
Whilst I respect Sudgurus, to have them treat you like rubbish and play these mind games, does very very little to progress you unless that is the exact thing you needed at that time. I can't think of a single guru who reguarly treated or treats seekers badly actually having any profound effect, or a list of finders. And you do not need to look far to find lots of 'gurus' who get this kind of bad press. This method is for those who are advanced in practice and knowledge and have pride in their achievement, they need to be knocked and this method may work. If you read hindu scriptures this is not the way jnana was given to a seeker, the truth was spoken to qualified seekers of truth, in a manner that cuts through ignorance. Ignorance being the belief that I am this body/mind complex.
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History is littered with Perfect Masters abusing their devotees.
You only have to look at the numerous examples of the jamali and the jalali style of master.
‘Jamali’ means mild or sweet-tempered, whilst ‘Jalali’ refers to the fiery tempered who occasionally beat their followers.
e.g. Upasni Maharaj, (1870-1941 CE), the Perfect Master who set his seat at Sakori on the Maharashtran Deccan.
A visitor once recounted visiting the Perfect Master only to later witness Upasni knocking six bells out of one of his devotees.
This visitor was even more surprised the following day to discover that this devotee was not only physically unscathed, but positively glowing.
So it seems that being physically beaten up by a Perfect Master is a good thing.
But how do you know if someone is a PM – Perfect Master?
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