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Mother has been home barely a week, after Her six-week Japan/USA
tour. Already She must have hugged nearly twenty thousand
people. The very first day She was home - the sort of day
when most of us would want to rest, unpack, get over jet lag,
She came out and embraced many who had gathered to welcome
Her home. In fact, for Her first two days at home the ashram
was so crowded with visitors that it was only on the third
day that She could offer darshan to the ashram residents.
Despite heavy rains, the ashram premises were teeming with
devotees on both Saturday and Sunday, and Amma was out among
Her children almost all the time: Saturday's darshan drew
a large crowd, of course, and Saturday evening's bhajan saw
the hall full. By Sunday the island's roads near the ashram
were lined on both sides with private cars, tourist vehicles,
and buses, and all the parking lots were overflowing.
Mother came out early Sunday morning, arriving for darshan
at ten minutes to ten, and staying until shortly after two.
Then, again early, She was already in the large new outdoor
auditorium at the south end of the temple before a quarter
to five, for satsang, bhajans and then Devi Bhava. Count the
hours, then, till seven-thirty the next morning - it comes
to almost fifteen consecutive hours that She remained there
with the eleven or twelve thousand who had come to welcome
Amma back home.
This amazing degree of availability to Her children is, to
many people, a sign that Amma is "the Real Thing".
A young man in Boston last month expressed the idea well.
He described his long search for his Guru, for a true Mahatma.
He had read books, searched the Internet, and done his own
travelling in India, home of the Great Souls. He said that
when he met Amma, while it was Her overflowing love that first
drew his heart to Her, it was the fact that She spends almost
all of Her waking hours with her devotees that was a deciding
factor for him.
"The True Gurus," he said, "rarely indulge
in peaceful privacy. They are almost always WITH their devotees.
After all, They have come for them, haven't They?"
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