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RAY NASCENT: FEBRUARY 2003

Guru Corner

Disclaimer: Teachers highlighted in the guru corner are not being recommended or promoted for spiritual guidance. They are merely individuals who exemplify certain spiritual qualities that are placed here for us to observe and use in whatever fashion works best for us.

Amma was born under the name Sudhamani. Her family were fishermen. Several stories reflect her possible enlightened nature at birth. One speaks of her birth on September 27, 1953. It claims she was born in lotus posture, her body a blue color signifying the Krishna diety, while her fingers were in the form of a sacred sign indicating unity of spirit and self. Another speaks of her devotion to God, in the from of Krishna, upon whom she meditated, sang and prayed She was known to give away the family goods, which were little, in kindness to those around her, despite the fact that it meant a beating for her. Her transformation occurred upon being expelled from her home and forced to live by the ocean, dependent on the wild animals to bring her food. It was there she had a mystical experience that transformed her from Sudhamani to Amrita. She had a vision of the Divine Mother. The Divine Mother came to Suhamani in her suffering and merged with her. No longer was Sudhamani alone, she was now Amma. And obeying the Divine Mother’s wish, Amma asks the people to fulfill their human birth: “O Man, merge in your Self!”

In this paternal age, I find Amma a personal inspiration. Her total dedication to the healing of our planet includes: orphanages, care homes for the aged in both India and the US, thousands of free homes, pensions, and food for the destitute in India. She is tireless in her manifestation of love and compassion, holding meetings where people come up to her and she gives them darshan*: a hug and a Hershey’s chocolate kiss. She has been known to hug over 18,000 people in one day.
*darshan: audience with a saint or sage.

Beyond The Dream

Sliders is one of my favorite shows. It deals with four individuals who are lost in the labyrinth of multidimensional earth. They slide from one alternate earth to another, trying to find the version they initially called “home.” Each earth lives its own variant of history, the spin-off of what-ifs that could have happened in the original earth, but never did. In the show I was watching this week, two of the characters have an unusual “slide” that creates a whole new world based on the unfulfilled dreams of the original characters. They decide to fall in love and marry in an alternate reality. However, in order for the new world to exist, the energy had to split off the original characters and other aspects of them were created. Then, the original characters sicken and appear to be dying while the new aspects prosper and live. The dilemma then is: Which dream is more important than the other, and which dream should be fulfilled? For each dream we create, it appears we must sacrifice another dream we hold dearly. And yet, it’s all a dream and there is no dying. There are no sacrifices, only choices.

In the mass dream, we often think that time and space are laws of physics. Time exists, and so does space. We can’t live two simultaneous lives because we only have one past and one future and we can’t be in two places at once. This is our reality. This is the original earth-frame we are in. In order to slide and perceive all the other realities out there, we have to change our frame of reference and land in another dream. The dream we land in, is one of our own choosing, one of our unfulfilled desires that we wish to complete that we alone can manifest. The sacrifices we make are those aspects of our lives that must remain unfulfilled for the present dream to take center stage in the focus of our lives.

Each individual has dreams. Imagine if all our dreams were realities, residing in parallel universes, awaiting to be discovered and enjoyed. To the loving, devoted mother, the dream of being a single, career woman would manifest itself in a separate dream. The man who sacrificed his ambitions as an artist to feed his family, could be suffering a lonely, unrecognized existence as a sculptor in some other reality. One aspect of him sees the life as suffering, another sees the possibilities, the struggles, the unlimited expression of self and counts it all joy. As long as we remain trapped in one dream, it seems we will be forever unfulfilled. By opening our minds to the vast multidimensional universe, we will see that we really aren’t alone, that everyone is an aspect of us. All our dreams are fulfilled.

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