Amma

I was able to take these two pictures of a "very-far-away-Amma" just before someone in white robs singaled me that no pictures were allowed. I could understand it, if every flash started to go off it would be more like a red carpet event, which this was not.

Amma told stories through her translator. I liked the one about the man who owned a horse who only responded to two commands, when the owner said "I" the horse would start running, when the owner said "Oh God", the horse would stop.

A rich man did some kind of a take over bid for this horse and got it, then decided to ride it and said "here I go", to which the horse of course started running. The rich man was in back luck that day because the horse was approaching a high clif. Only at the last minute, facing inmiment dead, the rich man said "Oh God", and the horse stopped, a hair away from the precipice.

People around admired the rich man and told him that he was amazing in his skill to make the horse stop, to which the rich man replied, yes, this horse does what I say...

Simple, but true. As you probably guess the horse is our ego. The rich man perhaps represents when we are run by greed and also the ego.

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