Friday, October 05, 2007
Flow In North Vancouver
After I posted the quote from Amma yesterday, I set off to do some exploring in North Van. This seemed to be where I wanted to go, so I caught the seabus and wandered up Lonsdale as the rain began to fall, and fall. I poked around in several shops and ate a veggie sandwich with avocado in the Artisan Bakery. There wasn't much happening in NorthVan, or was there? Flow was most certainly happening, as it always is, whether I chose to acknowledge it or not. Then, Utopia appeared. Yes, a little store full of candles, incense, buddhas , tarot cards, spiritual books and lovely, calm energy. Ahhh..... immediately I felt peaceful, loved.Since finishing the fabulous book "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, I've been searching for another book I can escape into and enjoy. Nothing has appeared. In Utopia I discovered several shelves of used books, and instantly one popped out at me, "AMMA. Healing The Heart Of The World." Now, prior to discovering and posting the quote from Amma here yesterday, I had never heard this name and knew nothing about the Indian woman known as "the hugging Saint." I picked up the book and smiled at this beautiful example of synchronicity and flow.
As it turned out, the cashier had met Amma twice, once in a small hall here in Vancouver many years ago, and then again at her ashram in Kerala, India. As I paid for the book the cashier said, "It's strange, I feel that I could have met you at one of Amma's darshans in India. You have this energy about you. Perhaps it's that you look like one of Amma's followers, a woman who travelled everywhere with her. Yes, strange."
I left the store feeling elated, connected. I stopped into a cafe and read about Amma for an hour. "Throughout the world she has been called the hugging saint. Revered in her own country as a healer and a sage, credited with thousands of miracles by her devoted followers, Ammachi, or Amma (Mother), spends most of her waking hours providing strangers with hugs of unconditional love."
Imagine if we could each do this, even if it was just one hug a day, there would be more love and togetherness in the world. Thank-you, Amma.
// posted by Sacred Truth @ 9:21 AM 
