7. Om catur bahu samanvitayai namah: I bow down to Amma who is four armed
In Hindu mythology, Lord Visnu, the paramatma, is a four armed God. He holds a lotus flower in one hand, a mace in the other, a conch and a discus in the upper limbs. For me, Amma is the Supreme being, the Leader of the world. She's a four armed Goddess. Amma's lotus flower is love; the mace is Her smile; the conch is Her compassion and the discus is Her ever embracing selflessness.
I go by the theory that Amma is more than what we see. Imagine if one day Amma revealed Her true self, Her true resplendent universal motherhood self! Would we have the spiritual eyes to take in the explosive form? Would we have the strength to understand how the universe has been lovingly contained in a human body?
Amma uses Her four arms to reach out and wipe every tear, to console every tired heart, to remove the pain from every aching body. She uses it to weave miracles into the warp and weft of our every day lives. She uses it to bring me good news in the mail, to help me press the brakes just in time to avoid the reckless, speeding bus, to hold my ailing father up when I thought his knees would buckle under, to wake me up at the dead of the night and check on my daughter just when she had fallen off her bed. Amma uses Her four arms to show Bindu the future and clear the path that lies ahead for her; to show Michael how to make the right decisions for a spiritual life ahead; to show Lakshmi and Rhea what it means to be growing up with the temptation of fickle life choices ahead.
When we stand in the darshan line, volunteers tell us "don't hug Amma, Amma will hug you." But of course!! Because Amma who hugs us with so much motherly love, is actually doing so with Her four arms! Which means all those times we've been blessed by Her embrace, we've actually walked away with four times the bliss!
Om Amriteswariye Namah!!
In Hindu mythology, Lord Visnu, the paramatma, is a four armed God. He holds a lotus flower in one hand, a mace in the other, a conch and a discus in the upper limbs. For me, Amma is the Supreme being, the Leader of the world. She's a four armed Goddess. Amma's lotus flower is love; the mace is Her smile; the conch is Her compassion and the discus is Her ever embracing selflessness.
I go by the theory that Amma is more than what we see. Imagine if one day Amma revealed Her true self, Her true resplendent universal motherhood self! Would we have the spiritual eyes to take in the explosive form? Would we have the strength to understand how the universe has been lovingly contained in a human body?
Amma uses Her four arms to reach out and wipe every tear, to console every tired heart, to remove the pain from every aching body. She uses it to weave miracles into the warp and weft of our every day lives. She uses it to bring me good news in the mail, to help me press the brakes just in time to avoid the reckless, speeding bus, to hold my ailing father up when I thought his knees would buckle under, to wake me up at the dead of the night and check on my daughter just when she had fallen off her bed. Amma uses Her four arms to show Bindu the future and clear the path that lies ahead for her; to show Michael how to make the right decisions for a spiritual life ahead; to show Lakshmi and Rhea what it means to be growing up with the temptation of fickle life choices ahead.
When we stand in the darshan line, volunteers tell us "don't hug Amma, Amma will hug you." But of course!! Because Amma who hugs us with so much motherly love, is actually doing so with Her four arms! Which means all those times we've been blessed by Her embrace, we've actually walked away with four times the bliss!
Om Amriteswariye Namah!!
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