Amma
Amma Healing the Heart of the World
A Biography by Judith Cornell
The healing power of love, forgiving the unforgivable and the gifts of Divine Mother in her many manifestations are the themes of this biography of a remarkable woman, a living saint. "My life is my message," Gandhi said.
Amma's life begins in abject physical poverty and emotional abuse. As a child her divine incarnation was viewed as mental illness; a clear embarrassment to her overburdened family and superstitious village.
A blue baby at birth, Amma was not expected to survive. Only eight of her thirteen siblings lived into adulthood. Girl infants were not celebrated and this tiny child was very dark-skinned giving her superstitious and prejudiced family ever more reason to mistreat her. Amma would later claim significant spiritual advantages as a direct result of painful early years. These experiences led her to understand that people love conditionally. God alone loves without desire for a return on the investment.
A balancing of planetary energies had scarcely begun. On June 5, 2000 the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared that "…not only do women belong on this planet, but (that) the future of this planet depends on women."
At six months of age, Amma simply stood and walked. Shortly thereafter she began to talk and, to the horror of those around her, could be found conversing with trees, plants and animals. While still in the bloom of childhood she was farmed out as a servant and routinely beaten for giving food to those poorer than herself. Her oldest brother mocked her and destroyed any small possession she had been given. Amma filled her life with spiritual practices.
By the time she was nineteen years old, her waking hours were focused on God. She routinely recognized the divine in trees, plants, animals and children by hugging and kissing them. People around her began to demand "proof." "Show us a miracle!" became their mantra and she turned water to milk and then to pudding. Asthma was healed and Amma became enough of a threat that an assassination was attempted.
A group of "rationalists" formed the Committee to Remove Blind Beliefs. Not wanting to stain their own hands, they hired a black magician who prepared a potion guaranteed to kill.
During Amma's initiation period, she was extremely sensitive to foods that had to be prepared under very special conditions. During her transformation, Amma experienced the Divine Mother merging within her and she "perceived that the universe itself was Divine Mother's physical body." As a result of this experience she made a conscious decision to manifest only love and compassion, qualities attributed to the feminine aspect of God. "I felt this was what our world needed."
Amma has become "the Hugging Saint." As she holds someone, their own spiritual awakening is said to increase in the simple presence of her manifestation of Divine Mother. She takes on their physical afflictions and suffers only briefly what they might suffer a lifetime.
India has its battalions of skeptical scientists who have extensively studied Amma. She told them that their collective scientific vision is too narrow because they don't consider the possibilities of dimensions beyond their current perceptual abilities.
Dr. Srivastava has been trained as a physicist and in the spiritual science of India. He holds that "Most people are fragmented personalities. And that fragmentation causes disharmony and chaos. If a person is not in harmony in his own being, how can he experience harmony in the world?"
Amma is a fully integrated personality, a living saint who encourages people to continue with their own spiritual practices and to look beyond their own needs to the needs of the planet and all of her occupants.
This woman with only a fourth grade education who preaches love in action is "walking her talk." She has founded over two hundred ashrams, many schools, built a state of the art medical hospital, established orphanages and a monthly pension fund for destitute women. Currently she is building twenty-five thousand free homes for the poor.
Amma's life is her message.
A Biography by Judith Cornell
The healing power of love, forgiving the unforgivable and the gifts of Divine Mother in her many manifestations are the themes of this biography of a remarkable woman, a living saint. "My life is my message," Gandhi said.
Amma's life begins in abject physical poverty and emotional abuse. As a child her divine incarnation was viewed as mental illness; a clear embarrassment to her overburdened family and superstitious village.
A blue baby at birth, Amma was not expected to survive. Only eight of her thirteen siblings lived into adulthood. Girl infants were not celebrated and this tiny child was very dark-skinned giving her superstitious and prejudiced family ever more reason to mistreat her. Amma would later claim significant spiritual advantages as a direct result of painful early years. These experiences led her to understand that people love conditionally. God alone loves without desire for a return on the investment.
A balancing of planetary energies had scarcely begun. On June 5, 2000 the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared that "…not only do women belong on this planet, but (that) the future of this planet depends on women."
At six months of age, Amma simply stood and walked. Shortly thereafter she began to talk and, to the horror of those around her, could be found conversing with trees, plants and animals. While still in the bloom of childhood she was farmed out as a servant and routinely beaten for giving food to those poorer than herself. Her oldest brother mocked her and destroyed any small possession she had been given. Amma filled her life with spiritual practices.
By the time she was nineteen years old, her waking hours were focused on God. She routinely recognized the divine in trees, plants, animals and children by hugging and kissing them. People around her began to demand "proof." "Show us a miracle!" became their mantra and she turned water to milk and then to pudding. Asthma was healed and Amma became enough of a threat that an assassination was attempted.
A group of "rationalists" formed the Committee to Remove Blind Beliefs. Not wanting to stain their own hands, they hired a black magician who prepared a potion guaranteed to kill.
During Amma's initiation period, she was extremely sensitive to foods that had to be prepared under very special conditions. During her transformation, Amma experienced the Divine Mother merging within her and she "perceived that the universe itself was Divine Mother's physical body." As a result of this experience she made a conscious decision to manifest only love and compassion, qualities attributed to the feminine aspect of God. "I felt this was what our world needed."
Amma has become "the Hugging Saint." As she holds someone, their own spiritual awakening is said to increase in the simple presence of her manifestation of Divine Mother. She takes on their physical afflictions and suffers only briefly what they might suffer a lifetime.
India has its battalions of skeptical scientists who have extensively studied Amma. She told them that their collective scientific vision is too narrow because they don't consider the possibilities of dimensions beyond their current perceptual abilities.
Dr. Srivastava has been trained as a physicist and in the spiritual science of India. He holds that "Most people are fragmented personalities. And that fragmentation causes disharmony and chaos. If a person is not in harmony in his own being, how can he experience harmony in the world?"
Amma is a fully integrated personality, a living saint who encourages people to continue with their own spiritual practices and to look beyond their own needs to the needs of the planet and all of her occupants.
This woman with only a fourth grade education who preaches love in action is "walking her talk." She has founded over two hundred ashrams, many schools, built a state of the art medical hospital, established orphanages and a monthly pension fund for destitute women. Currently she is building twenty-five thousand free homes for the poor.
Amma's life is her message.
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