A lesson in faith!

524. Om majja-samsthayai namah: I bow down to Amma who is the presiding deity of the bone marrow

I had a beautiful meeting today with a friend. I was meeting her after almost 24 years. We’d both grayed slightly at the temples but for the most part, time had stood still. Yet, she was talking to me about life, about manifestation, about God, shivoham. And absolutely everything she said reminded me (as most good things do!), about Amma. She was very clear in her mind that we are, each of us, God. We are the creator and we are the ones who make thinsg happen. Whatever happens in our life, we are responsible for it because we have manifested it. She spoke clearly and confidently about the power of the self; about the power of faith. And I gave away to her my deepest, darkest secret. That despite professing to be a devotee of Amma, I lack faith. I steer towards fear. And she explained that fear was also a kind of faith. In fact, a strong faith. In the negative. And that made me cringe. So basically what I was doing was choosing the darkness over my universal Mother!? How could I? But then Raji made it even simpler. “See yourself as God. You are God. And so things can happen only as you wish it to.” All the while that I was thinking myself to be a very devoted child of Amma, my friend had quietly and firmly established her faith and in fact was living her life in exactly the way Amma would approve off. While she isn’t a devotee of Amma, she is a spiritual soul. Exactly the way Amma wants us to be. Thank You Amma for this beautiful reunion. Thank You for sending me a valuable lesson through this beautiful person.

Om Amriteswariye namah!