From: Balakrishnan Shankar (balakrishnan_sh@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 08:07:55 PST
From: "Balakrishnan Shankar" <balakrishnan_sh@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Amma's grace!! Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:07:55 -0500 Message-ID: <F77NXRPmcarcR4ZDgC80000692e@hotmail.com>
Visvanath,
Thanks for your nice mail.. yes Saturn's transit thru Aries was quite
difficult for many of us here- and i noticed that in 1999 even Amma seemed
to be more tired and the pain in Her arm was more- braces and all- i felt
She was simply lapping up all the cosmic karma on Herself- taking the sting
away for most of us.
But Saturn is a magnificient spiritual planet as the scriptures say and He
has the unenviable task of reminding us that this world is NOT the truth. So
i have read that He is actually very compassionate- those suffering from His
transits forgive me! :-)- He is quite compassionate but His 'job portfolio'
is to remind us of the Truth. So what can He do?
I am mentioning this here because of the following fact:
I have read that for Avatars usually Saturn will be exalted, and their
rising sign will be a cardinal one- and Jupityer will be in a kendra -
well Amma has- Exalted saturn in Cardinal Libra rising sign!- and Her
Jupiter is in the 9th house of Divine Grace aspecting Her lagna!
well, i dont know astrology but those who do tell me these are very strong
signs!
bala
>From: hans smedbol <kasi_visvanath@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: amma-l@hindunet.org
>To: amma-l@hindunet.org
>Subject: Amma's grace!!
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:21:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!!
>
>Namaste to my darling sisters and brothers!!
>
>i want to wish all of you darling children a
>beautiful, blessed Christmas....and a wonderful
>New Year in 2001...Let's hope that it will be
>much better than the last one...which was very
>challenging for me, and i think, most of Amma's
>children....
> when i saw Steve Fleischer, (Amma's lawyer
>devotee from, i think, the Bay area) at the
>Seattle retreat this year...i talked with him a
>little...he had given this wonderful satsang last
>January, when he got back from Amritapuri, and
>his words had comforted me very much...knowing
>that i wasn't alone in this strange and
>challenging year...Prasannan Herke had told me in
>1999 that from Jan 2000 until Dec 23 (today!!!!)
>i must be very careful, due to a Jup/Mars period
>i was to be going thru...and the challenges
>presented by that would be remedied at least
>partially, he said by observing Tuesdays...yeah
>right!...i work that day...and have to cook three
>meals for my client, and do all the normal
>community support worker stuff...fasting just
>didn't work out too well with that...particularly
>as i get migraines if i don't eat for too
>long...interesting how the karma sets itself up,
>so that you CAN'T do the remedies prescribed
>sometimes, and thus must go thru the effects of
>the transits, and periods....(although even so,
>mitigated by Amma's Grace a lot).
> So anyways, yes, it has been a very
>challenging time....(i read that for you too,
>Lalitha, it had also been a difficult time....and
>several others on the list...)...and in June i
>had that conversation with Steve...wherein i
>thanked him from the bottom of my heart for his
>wonderful, comforting satsang...(he had told us
>that Amma had asked the entire Ashram to observe
>Tuesdays!!!!so i wasn't alone...maybe they all
>observed my Tuesdays for me!!!!....of course with
>the SanRamon fire, which happened on TUESDAY
>(Mars' day), June 13th, it became obvious why
>Amma wanted everyone to observe
>Tuesdays....especially when Sani was hanging
>grumpily about in Aries, Mars' own sign...where
>Sani hates to be, and is in fact
>debilitated....(so if you were having a tough
>couple of years back there a couple or three
>years ago...you justmight be able to blame it on
>grumpy old Sani...and angry young Mars!!!
> Of course now, Sani is once more threatening
>to invade Aries, in his retrograde towards the
>borderlands...but he is in Taurus...Mother's Moon
>Sign....and he is doing his wonderful work of
>gazing upon us all ....thru Amma's Sade
>Sati...(and our own if we have a Taurus
>Moon...although Svoboda's Greatness of Saturn
>says that for a Taurus Moon, Aries is the worst
>sign of the three, for Sani to be in...) wherein
>one's support groups are challenged and life can
>be difficult....also Sani is in Amma's 8th house,
>(a not very auspicious house in worldly ways
>(except for sudden windfall gains...such as
>inheritances..)...it's a very difficult house..
> So anyways, to wander back to Steve...when i
>commented on how good it was to hear that i
>wasn't alone in this challenging time, he agreed,
>and told me that he believed that due to Sani's
>transit (he wasn't sure of the exact astrological
>reason...i figured it out later...he did say it
>was astrologically related tho') that if we were
>to ask 100 Amma devotees at Seattle how their
>year had gone (and is still going!!) 75 out of a
>hundred would say: "Very Challenging and
>difficult...more than usual by far!!"....
> and wouldn't this all happen in 2000....as the
>millenium turns slowly over for another go.....
> So my dear ones, knowing all this....i ask
>that Amma's blessings be particularly upon you
>all, and upon all Her children, that they may
>face all difficulties with unswerving faith in
>our Mother, and with pure loving Devotion to
>Her...which grows ever more intense as the days
>go on....may we all
>be blessed with Amma's Darshan in our hearts,
>whenever we think to turn therein....and when we
>need it, even if we forget...may She remind us,
>with Her soft, Sweet, Husky voice: "Daughter,
>Son, don't forget Love...don't forget Humility,
>don't forget Compassion...remember that all are
>My children and that when I am not there, you
>must be Me for the children.....full of love,
>forgiveness, and unending compassion for the
>little children of this world..."
> Remember that Amma always says:
>"I am the You that is in You and You are the Me
>that is in Me."
> As Paramahansa Yogananda used to say:
>"Oh my Divine Mother, it doesn't matter what
>trials and tribulations you send my way...only
>please never let me forget Thee!! Please never
>let my Devotion for Thee diminish, but let me
>dwell in Thee always." (paraphrased from so many
>of that darling man's beautiful prayers and
>songs)...For me He was the way bringer...he
>brought Divine Mother to America, he brought
>Divine Mother to my Heart...he made it possible
>for Amma to find a place in my ignorant
>heart....in fact as far as i know, Amma is the
>very same Divine Mother which Paramahansaji used
>to worship in the form of Mother Bhavatarini
>Kali...Dakshineswari Kali....Sri Ramakrsna
>Paramahamsa's own Beloved...
> So my dears...i just want to send you all my
>Divine Love....and wish you only the best...that
>your eyes will never sink below those of the
>Divine Mother's...that they will drink in Her
>beauty for eternity...in bliss and Divine
>Love....
>
> O my darling Ones!!!
> this little child
> oh so humbly salutes
> your beloved Selves!!!
> With a tearful eye,
> and a Love-filled Heart,
> wherein
> the Mother dances in bliss,
> he makes
> koti koti pranams
> to you all,
> Mother's darling
> little Ones...
> Reverently,
> he takes
> the sacred dust
> from your feet,
> touching it to
> his brow,
> and uttering a prayer
> for the welfare
> of the entire creation:
> Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu!
> Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu!
> Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu!
> Om Santi Santi Santihi!!!
> Om Sri Gurubhyo Namah Harihi Om!!!
>
> as ever,
> Your Own self,
>
> visvanathan
>
>Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!
>
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