Here are the summaries/analysis of the answers provided for Q6, Q7 and Q8.

Q6 was: “What would be your most precious gift to Amma on Her Birthday?”
77 answers were posted and here is what they said:
– Most wish to offer their good qualities. Some want to offer their bad qualities for Amma to clean them up. One person wants to offer both good and bad.
– Most wish to fully surrender to Amma, offer their selves and their life. Some want to offer their ego and their anger.
– Some want to offer their love, and a few their heart. One person wants to offer the lines of Amma’s Birthday song.
– Some want to take a vow to put in practice Amma’s teachings. A few mention needing Amma’s help in that.
– Some want to offer their Seva, and a few their tears.
– A few have material gifts like roses, a painting, a Birthday card, a garland, a shawl or sweets that they cook themselves.
– Two people want to offer Amma a holiday or a resting time. One wants to make her laugh.
– Finally one person wants to offer her the Nobel prize of peace, and one wants to work to end the US war in Iraq.
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Q7 was: “Would you accept to be cloned? Why?”
34 responses were posted and here is what we learned from them:
– 15 answers give a clear ‘No’, and 9 give a clear ‘Yes’.
– 6 say that they would simply ask Amma.
– 7 believe that, anyway, only the body would be cloned and not the soul or individuality.
– 6 raise the point that it would be better to use the money to help the existing people on earth.
– 6 chose a humoristic approach, saying that one is enough trouble for the world.
And one person said he accepts and will make the clone do all the work for him!
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Q8 was: “What is your favorite animal? Why? What qualities do you see in it?”
29 responses were posted and here is what the favorite animals were:
– 6 chose the bird (eagle, sparrow, osprey, ferrets….), that symbolizes freedom.
– 5 chose the sacred cow, which symbolizes motherhood and the all giving nature.
– 4 chose the dog, being the man’s best friend.
– 4 chose the elephant for his gentleness even being so big.
– 4 had difficulties to eliminate any animal, so they said: All.
– 3 chose the tiger for his majesty and 2 chose the lion for his strength.
– 3 chose the…. Human. Saying that he is the most interesting to study!
Finally the dolphin was chosen twice, while each of the cat, horse, orangutan, rabbit, donkey and phoenix got one vote.
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Summaries/analysis for other questions to follow.