0986.Mata Amritanandamayi-Bubbling Sadanas Poem by amma and rajappa

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer


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Destiny deciding a shift
in your grinding work spot
From the house of grandma
to Damayanti’s sister’s
Ye turned fourteen in the wheel of life
Toiling as ever roasting your body, my mother to the core
Preparation of boiled rice
An addition to your probation
When all the peers getting shelter,
in the temple of education,
when thee, my mother Saraswathi
were washing the clothes and our sins eternal!

Torture taking an avatar, my mother
In the form of kith and kin
Hindering Thy singing dedicated to the Lord
Your greatest solace searching for a place,
Oh! God is merciful, made you row the boat,
Across the backwaters to a distant source
To ferry fresh water, providing you the comfort
Of opening thy heart to the beloved lord effervescent!
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Eternal lover where are you?
Who else can pick me up?
Strange your methods my Lord!
Showing your face thousand fold
In every droplet splashed to and fro!
Are you the king seated in the clouds?
No! You pour down on me my king,
Quenching the rebellious self
With the generous rays of grace!
Love ridden soul recoiling your healing names
Wild passion and fantastic desire
Compelling a merge with thy supreme spirit
Instantaneous resurrection warranted
Lift me up Purushoththama, the great son of Devaki!


Again as a tribute to motherhood which Amma symbolizes, I want to present the readers the following news that appeared in August 2008

Melissa Bowmer was prepared for a gruelling programme of treatment when she was told she had cancer.
But just a few weeks later her four-year-old son Llewelyn was diagnosed with cancer too.
Mrs Bowmer then made a sacrifice only a mother could make - she delayed her own chemotherapy by six months so she could help her son through his treatment for a rare brain tumour.
Doctors warned her that a delay could prove fatal, but she was adamant that she wanted to be there for her son.
Now Mrs Bowmer and Llewelyn are back home in Swansea and currently free from the disease.
Mrs Bowmer,38, who formerly worked in customer services, said: 'My son has made a great recovery from the brain tumour.
'It was risking my own life, but having his mum by his side was the best thing for him.
'As soon as he woke up from a mammoth eight-hour operation to remove it, he asked for me and I was by his side.
'If I had been weak and exhausted from the chemotherapy treatment, I wouldn't have been able to be there properly for him.'
After Mrs Bowmer found a lump in her left breast, doctors diagnosed breast cancer in August last year.
Four weeks later she had an operation to have the lump removed at the Singleton Hospital in Cardiff.
Mrs Bowmer,38, who is married to Shaun,40, a scrap metal yard manager, was due to start her chemotherapy a few weeks later.
But the day before it was to start, doctors found Llewelyn's cancer.
He had had some puzzling symptoms and when a CT scan was carried out doctors found a tumour of a type so rare there were only 100 cases in the country.
Llewelyn was transferred to the Heath Hospital in Cardiff, and Mrs Bowmer told her doctors that she wanted to delay her treatment.
'He was only four years old, ' she said. 'All I could think about was him.'
Llewelyn started his chemotherapy and in January he began radiotherapy.
Mrs Bowmer's doctors arranged for her to start treatment at the same time - and gave her radiotherapy before chemotherapy so she could have it with her son.
She said: 'It wasn't as frightening for Llewelyn because I was there for him too. We both lost our hair together.'
Mrs Bowmer is still having chemotherapy, which is due to finish in August. She has no regrets.
'We have gained strength from each other. I was there for him, and now he's better, I know that I've got to fight extra hard now to carry on being here for ever.
28 3 2010