Amma – Gods Love In A Human Form

I consider myself deeply privileged to have spent so much time withAmma. It would take an entire book to describe the experience of being with her and I suspect even that would offer an inadequate description. There are many gurus and teachers in the world today, some wonderful, many dubious. Amma is quite literally beyond. Beyond the capacity to describe, to know or understand, beyond any normal human parameters. Amma doesn’t do miracles, she is a miracle. A regular, or even spiritually advanced person could not do for one month what she has been doing now for decades.

I have lived and traveled with her in India, seen her give darshan (embracing) to tens of thousands of people, not just once, but day after day after day. At the end she stands up her eyes shining, bright and radiant. She travels almost continuously and yet has initiated more humanitarian acts and charitable works that probably any other other person on earth.

These outward manifestations of her life and actions are on such a huge scale that it is easy to focus on them. What happens internally to those who come to her is equally if not more profound. It is naturally more difficult to quantify and will be described differently by different people.

I have never been a guru chaser, my own profound spiritual experiences early in adulthood left me certain that the truth was within. I saw bowing to a guru as disempowering and sycophantic. I still believe it can be. I also know that when the guru is a Sat Guru (established in truth) or in Amma’s case something beyond even that,whatever that is, it can be the most profound, mysterious and powerful relationship we can ever have.

Even from the more rare instances when the autobiographies or biographies those who have awaken actually describe the blood and guts details of the process, it is hard to appreciate just how courageous one must be. More than this is the potential of reaching some degree of awakening and believing it is complete when it is not. When we see the continuous catalog of revelations and scandals  about spiritual teachers and gurus, we are seeing the consequences of this.

I am entirely confident, from many direct experiences with Amma, that she can, and is guiding – usually invisibly – towards liberation, and wants nothing else for us. I had the good sense to recognize that she could and was helping me and that there are parts of the process that it is a really good idea to have help with. To have help with the whole process, well, I know of no greater blessings. Maybe in the future I will recount some of these experiences her on lifedivine.

Here then a short excerpt from the film ‘Darshan the Embrace’ hope these words and images inspire you to make the effort to see Amma somewhere in her world travels.

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