Living in the present with Amma
We on tour with Amma are learning this lesson intensely – to live in the present, whether on the journey or in the destination. While our straight-jacket mind thinks of program places as the real events of the tour, it calculates the distance between places and time of journey etc. Sometimes more than even the program place we lose ourselves in thinking that once the bus stops we have to rush to secure a place for our mats. All for a stay as brief as one or two days! Sometimes mistaking it for the end of our lives.
Amma’s tours break this habit of ours. We stop on the way be it day or dark in a field by the road. We spend time leisurely in question answer sessions, singing, joking, eating and so on. This we do, not within any fixed schedule, but as Amma’s sweet will decides. This is as joyous as Amma’s darshan sessions in programs.
The journey becomes as meaningful as the destination, as joyful too. Every minute of the journey has become valuable and valid.
In how many ways Amma is penetrating into our lives! How can we ever express our gratitude to Her enormous compassion?! Can there be another or better opportunity for our human lives!
— Sandhya
I love to read every story about Amma’s tour. I love it when I switch on the computer and I see new and amazing photos! This helps me so much to feel close to Amma and her other devotees; even if I am so many miles away in another part of the world. Which is very comforting to me. Everywhere Amma goes She brings joy & peace. Most pictures remind me of that and so does your writing, Sandhya. Thank you for that.
i very much agree with you Sandhya! Your words are truly very inspiring!
Thank you so much for sharing with us. Your words are like a string that pulls us closer and closer to Amma and reminds us that life is like that. You never know when the bus will pull over and you never know when the bus will break down 🙂
being near Amma is really like being in Paradise, she take us there…