29 November 2008
\nSan Ramon<\/p>\n
Dawn gave way to sunshine as Amma continued to give darshan through the morning.\u00a0 Dozens if not nearly a hundred people were standing outside the hall waiting for the first rayso of the sun to clear the hilltops to the east.\u00a0\u00a0 A blissful serenity has befallen MA Center.\u00a0\u00a0 As the sun rose higher, the blue sky was adorned with white streaks of clouds and airplane trails – instantly reminding one of Amma inside with her blue sari adorned with golden threads.<\/p>\n
Swami Ramakrishna was singing his set for some time when Swami Amritaswarupananda came for the final bhajans.\u00a0 It was almost 10:50am when the last hug was given.\u00a0 Abhishta Varadayike<\/em> followed by Amritavahini <\/em>boomed from the speakers.\u00a0 Nine feeding ceremonies and one wedding later and Amma stood up from her peetham and approached the front of the stage to throw flower petals on everyone.\u00a0\u00a0 Swami sang Amma Amma Taye as the crowd walked past.\u00a0 When the procession finished, Amma stepped back and gazed out at her children.\u00a0\u00a0 Two years back during the Seattle retreat, someone asked Amma what she was seeing when she stood there looking at everyone.\u00a0 Amma replied that she was feeling the love and adoration and bliss that everyone was radiating towards her and was reflecting it back at each and everyone of us.<\/p>\n Amma Amma Taye <\/em>continued for quite some time before the curtains finally closed.\u00a0 Closing prayers.\u00a0 Amma coming out.\u00a0 Smiling and blowing kisses to everyone, Amma headed out of the hall.\u00a0\u00a0 Someone called out ‘Mata Rani Ki…….’<\/em> and of course everyone shouted ‘Jai!’. This happened a number of times.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, as Amma left the hall and got into her car. a peaceful chant of Amba Bhavani Jaya Jagadambe<\/em> began.\u00a0 It was so soft and sweet and reverent.\u00a0 A few more Mata Rani’s (punctuated by shouts of ‘Jai’ coming from as far as the Mandapam – about 3 football fields away).\u00a0 The crowd stretched all the way down the hill and probably past the kitchen tent as Amma’s drove off.\u00a0 Amma will hopefully rest before flying off to Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n Off to rest.\u00a0 For some, it’s time to pack and prepare to head to the airport to join Amma in Michigan.\u00a0 For others, it’s time to reflect.\u00a0\u00a0 And to hold on to the special jewels that Amma has given us these past 6 days here in San Ramon.\u00a0\u00a0 For this child, the time went by surprisingly slow – and wonderful.\u00a0 Each day was different.\u00a0 And each day brought a different jewel.\u00a0 Some rough, some smooth, some glistening with such delight.\u00a0\u00a0 While it will be six months before Amma’s next visit to San Ramon, these jewels will be kept in my heart along with all the others she has given me over the years.<\/p>\n We are truly blessed to have Amma in our lives.<\/p>\n Sri Pati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 29 November 2008 San Ramon Dawn gave way to sunshine as Amma continued to give darshan through the morning.\u00a0 Dozens if not nearly a hundred people were standing outside the hall waiting for the first rayso of the sun to clear the hilltops to the east.\u00a0\u00a0 A blissful serenity has befallen MA Center.\u00a0\u00a0 As the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-amma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}