0972.Mata Amritanandamayi-Being To Becoming Of A Mother-Concluding Part Poem by amma and rajappa

Dear Readers

I wanted to write on Mata my Mother; one of friends started this project and stopped halfway; I repeated told that if this was not going to be completed I would take up the project and complete; and got an yes as the reply and I started in the year 2009 on the 24 th of December with a salutation to Lalithambika.

Today is the death anniversary of my Mother; I wanted to dedicate the Great Life Story of the Mother of Mothers to my Mother and completed

There may be omissions and commissions; I seek Amma’s blessings and forgiveness

May Amma bless all Her Children
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Being To Becoming of a Mother

“ My child, I dwell in the heart of all beings and have no fixed abode; your birth is not for merely enjoying the unalloyed bliss of the self but not comforting suffering humanity; hence worship me in the hearts of all beings and relieve them of the sufferings of worldly existence.”….inner voice heard by Sudhamani

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Roadside darshans
A concern for father
Made thy father
Approach thee
With a request
To shift in place
Opening up a venue
In the cowshed,
Birth place of Sree Krishna,
Becoming thy abode
Attracting crowds
Like flowers do bees.

Calling thy father
During the bhavam
Gave the great instruction
Not to hit back thy children
Who might hurt you
Or your father
Whatever be trial
Assuring papa
“Endure my children
For they are your children,
This little girl is pure,
That will go around the world,
God shall bless you ever
And provide for your need”

The rationalists and
Antagonists
Making their teams
Siding with black magic
Tried their skills
To kill my mother
Lo! ash of dead cobra
Invoked with malevolent forces
Turned into real holy ash
With the blessings of my father
Siva the protector
Poisoned milk
Given to my mother
Became the nectar,
The torture of thy brother
Subhagan the eldest
Breaking a lamp
During a Krishna bhave
Brought the lore of
Thy power to burn a lamp
Without oil throughout night
Attributing that greatness
To the inner desire and wish
Of devotees thy children

Meditation and searches
Ridicules and tortures
Inside and outside
Making your transmigrations
From physical to metaphysical
Earthly to heavenly
Happenings of a routine nature
Gave Thee my Mother
The vision of The Great Mother,
The Supreme force of this Universe
Compelling you to request
Krishna the mischievous
To handover Thee
To Mother Kali for a makeshift
For Mother is the force
That demands no language,
Nor anything in return
That made the flute player
Make that great transformation,
My mother became the daughter
Of the Mother, to become Her mirror
With the inner voice raising it decibel
To focus on the children
Distressed and dissipated
Waiting for direction
And a Hug to balm the swollen souls
Mother was born again for us children!

Miracles and grace
The incidences not rare
For the faithful and forlorn
Mother, you attracted
Crowds from inland
And overseas alike
Thronging to Idamannel
Making an issue, illegal in force,
Respecting the law
Of the land of my mother
You consented to followers
To formalize Mata Amritanandamayi Math
and Mission Trust
and adopted the Holy name
Mata Amritanandamayi
On 6th of May, in the year 1981,
Followed by schools and libraries as chains
To impart knowledge
And inculcate ideals
You reached out the children
Far and wide
By making the travels starting from May, August 1987
Ye traveled in Europe and USA at a stretch
It was the beginning
Of an unending journey!
Epilogue:

Saraj-jyotsna-shuddham sashi-yuta-jata-juta-makutam
Vara-traasa-traana-sphatika-ghutika-pustaka karaam;
Sakrn na thva nathva katham iva sathaam sannidadhate
Madhu-kshira-drakhsa-madhurima-dhurinah phanitayah.

Soundaryalahari -15

sathaam—for (those) noble ones
Sakrn—just once
nathva—having prostrated
thva—to you
Saraj-jyotsna-shuddham—who is as pure and white as the autumnal moonlight
Sashi-yuta-jata-juta-makutam—who has the crown of matted hair that includes the moon and
Vara-traasa-traana-sphatika-ghutika-pustaka karaam—who holds in the (4) hands, the boon, fear-prtection, the crystal-bead-necklace and the book
katham iva—why (would)
phanitayah—speech capabilities
Madhu-kshira-drakhsa-madhurima-dhurinah—which are pregnant with the sweetness of honey, milk and grapes
Na sannidadhate—not accrue?

Here Adi Sankara depicts saraswathi without Veena in Her hand;
I visualize Amma, my Mother also similarly and seek Her blessing in fulfilling my mission in this birth
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saktAh karmani awidwAmsah yathA kurwanti bhArata kuryAt widwAn tathA asaktah chikeershuh lokasangraham ||Bhagavad Geeta 3.25||

“As the 'ignorant' men act from attachment to action, Oh, Bharata, so should the 'wise' men act without attachment, wishing the welfare of the world.'
To the extent we work for larger schemes to bless a vaster section of humanity, to that extent the attachment loses its poison and comes to bless the age. Many poisons serve as medicines in their diluted form, while the same in a concentrated form can bring instantaneous death! The ego and ego-centric desires bind and destroy man, but to the extent he can lift his identifications to include and accommodate in it, larger sections of the living world, to that extent the attachment gathers an ethical halo, a divine glow, and becomes a cure for our subjective pains and imperfections.
Here the practical method suggested is that Arjuna should work, unattached to his own ego-centric, limited concept of himself and his relations, and he must enter into the battle-field as a champion fighting for a cause, noble and righteous, against the armies that have come up to question and challenge the deathless 'values of higher living' as propounded and upheld by the Hindu culture.
To serve others is to serve the Lord. Jana-seva is Jnardhana-seva. Nara-seva is Narayana-seva.


7.9.2010