Unlike ever before, eyes would sparkle and unbelievably, no scorns of tensions and stress, which was eating the man or woman all the day.
One feels that he is born fresh, like a just blossomed flower. The impact of such experiences cannot be adequately explained in words. After some time, on waking up, one realizes that he remembers nothing as to what happened after he stood before Amma. This would gradually make one forgetting the self and loosing himself into the bhakthi yoga. Like a magnetic pull, even at a distance, one could feel such energy flow emanating from Amma, just by stretching hands forward. Satsang sessions were predominantly a one to one experience of the energy that is flowing from Amma's hands, fingers, feets, head etc. While crossing the streets she used to bless people from all walks of life. Stage I (1980s)Īmma visited all temples in Chennai and conducted bhajans with no defined orchestra.
To understand the evolving nature of Amma's bhakti yoga, we have put the methods of Amma's satsang under three stages. This is only to indicate Amma's interest and involvement in sharing what she possess in the form of divinity, as ordained by the almighty. There is no stop clock in terms of timing and satsang would go on even till midnight, though not always. As indicated, the uniqueness of Amma's satsang is ever freshness and as lively as unpredictable.
Till couple of years before, Amma preferred to hold satsang in the residence of devotees who are in close circle. We do have quite a lot photographs taken on such occasions. Such visit includes some prominent places in Chennai like Thiruvotriyur, Vengeesware Temple (Vadapalani), Avadi, etc. In terms of place or venue where the program was to be conducted, it was as interesting as knowing the sex of a child to be born (don't try for scanning since Amma does not like short cuts), in the sense that Amma visited many temples in and around Chennai and blessed the devotees. Understandably, during prior times, we would not have been taken into surprise, if satsang is fixed amidst a busy working day evenings. Of late, place, date and time of Amma's satsang sessions are predictable, but certainly not the contents or sequence of the program.
This would be full of practical advices and not vedanthic lectures.