0975.Mata Amritanandamayi-The Power To Choose Poem by amma and rajappa

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -Scott M. Peck


Roles often change
Speaking world turning brute
Animal world a silent bliss
A silent human preferred the fauna
Cow became dearer
In toes with the cowherd boy
Dhamayanthi taking inside the cows
During heavy monsoon season,
Invited the warth of all
Except you mother Mercy!
Seasons being speechless speakers
Made the rank number two for you,
In the friendship row
For my everlasting Mother
Believing what you chose,
The downpour from heaven
Cheering the downcast spirit
With every speck of that droplet
Rekindled Thy soul!
The frozen ocean devoid of the voice
Gave you the feel of
The Almighty in warmth!
You could perceive AUM
In the ferocity of the hurricanes!
The more the world turned horrific
The more you became abstract
Bathing for hours drown in meditation
Others defining those spiritual moods
As symptoms plenty of mental disease!
Was He leading Thee my Mother-
-into the realms of self realizations?
Ye the lonely traveler in this fancy world
Started getting visions so divine!
Saw Thy Krishna with the golden fruit,
The naughty boy in dark blue and red!
Many a time could perceive the smell
Of divinely flowers adorning the cot,
Her surrender nearing its fruition stage
Godly visions became a frequent joy!

Krishna in all, and all in Krishna
Made thee think to do away with image
But the gratitude that’s thy mark
Gave the flagging deeper that-
it was the Krishna’s picture on the wall
Led Thee nearer thy sweet lover!

With promotion in the spiritual class,
You started hugging trees and plants,
As ye saw the Dancer all around!
You couldn’t pluck a flower even
Meant removal of Krishna
From his abode of Milk!
Touching of thy body holy,
By the gentle breeze of Idamannel
Connected Thee with the thief of thieves!
As days passed you abhorred to walk
Anywhere on earth,
The fear of hurting hidden Krishna there
Made Thy grade one in Sat-Chit-Anandha!

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Sat-Chit-Ananda—Swamy Chinmayanandha
Sat-Chit-Ananda is a triple consciousness. Sat is existence, Chit is consciousness and Ananda is bliss. You can separate them if you want to and, at the same time, you can take them as one. If one achieves Existence, then inside Existence he has Consciousness itself. And if one has Consciousness, then Bliss is there. It is like an apartment or plot of land. You can give the plot of land one name or, if you want to divide it, each part of the plot can be called by a different name. But the reality of one is bound to be found in the other. They complement one another. So you can either separate them or keep them as one.
Sat-Chit-Ananda is the triple consciousness on the highest plane, and that plane is for the absolutely chosen few. To reach Sat-Chit-Ananda is a most difficult thing. Hardly twenty or thirty Masters have reached it and stayed at that plane, and hardly one or two can embody it. Some Masters have reached that plane and immediately came down because it was too high for them. It is much easier for people to reach the illumined mind or the Supermind, but Sat-Chit-Ananda is absolutely the highest. That consciousness is almost impossible to attain, even for the spiritual Masters. (God, Avatars and Yogis)
To be sure, the Kingdom of Heaven is more than just a mere plane, like other planes. It is a plane of divine Consciousness. It is a state of Realisation. It embodies Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat is divine Existence, Chit is divine Consciousness, Ananda is divine Bliss. When we go deep within we feel these three together, and when we acquire the inner vision to perceive them all at once, we live verily in the Kingdom of Heaven. Otherwise, Existence is at one place, Consciousness is somewhere else and Bliss is nowhere near the other two. When we see and feel Existence-Consciousness-Bliss on the selfsame plane, each complementing and fulfilling the others, we can say that we live in the Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. Not only can we feel it, but without the least possible doubt, we can become It.!

14.07.2010