Passage 13

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Samyak dṛṣṭi. You must have good vision. Just because you have eyes, you must not look at everyone you please. First, control this vision at least. Then surely everything will come under control. In the same way, there are some boys who follow Swami's commands faithfully. The boys who came to Kodaikanal this time, all of them, are noble boys; how fortunate they are, there is no telling. So I Myself have been looking after everything of theirs. If boys like these grow in the world, the country will be greatly the better for it. Only when the individual becomes good does society become good. Only when society becomes good does the nation become good. So first of all the individual must become good. The individual is vyaṣṭi. Society itself is samaṣṭi. Vyaṣṭi must join with samaṣṭi. This creation is the very form of this samaṣṭi. Vyaṣṭi, samaṣṭi: the oneness of these three is Divinity itself.

Easwaramma, the Amma of Īśvara

First of all you must remember your mother and give her fitting contentment. You must offer her fitting gratitude. When such a son is born, what fortune that mother has! Kondamaraju said just that. “Easwaramma, you live like some ordinary woman. You are no ordinary woman. God was born in your womb. How fortunate you are, Amma.” She was his daughter-in-law. Are there fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law who bow to their daughter-in-law and say this? “You are very fortunate, Easwaramma!”: saying this, he gave it a great inner meaning. “Easwaramma, your name has come true. Easwaramma: the Amma of Īśvara.” So he described her. The name came true. Those who come to know it so come to know a great deal. Those who cannot come to know will not know, however much you show them. One who has even a little sight can see the sunrise. But when one has no eyes at all to see the sun, how can he see the sunrise? For one who has the spiritual principle, those who have devotion to their mother can achieve anything. Everyone must understand the principle of the mother. After they reach a certain age: what did my mother do? She somehow looked after me when I was small. “I am looking after my own body myself,” they say, and swell with Ahaṅkāra.