AMMA , My Guru, my grace and source of inspiration
I was wondering if there was a need to add a page about AMMA, the hugging saint. After all it is a professional website dealing with pets but then I felt an inner urge to do so. All medicines are the same, yet at some clinics patients recover faster than at others! So that is where I feel I am blessed to have the grace of my Guru. Not many people can boast of the fact that they were instructed by their spiritual teachers of how to get on with their professional practice. I am eternally grateful that AMMA was with me (and still is) at the start of my career.
AMMA as she is popularly known around the world is one of the only Guru's to personally hug each and every person who comes to take Her Darshan. She speaks to everyone and gives prasad. I don’t know of any Saint in the world who has sat for more than 10 hours daily for the past 30 years solving problems of people across the globe. She runs many charity institutes and has a simple philosophy to help one who in turn when possible should help another one, imagine the number of people to benefit from this!
I first met AMMA when I was a student in 1996. I went to Her ashram in Kerala and had Her Darshan. She spent a lot of time with me. The visits increased and in 1997 I asked Her what I should do when I passed out, She was kind enough to tell me to start my own clinic. In March 1998 I started a small clinic that was a modified part of the garage in my house. To my good fortune, She was in Delhi around the same time and came to our house. It was then that she stepped in to my small 80 sq-foot clinic. The rest is history and we have already expanded to 400 sq-feet of commercial space. It is said that wherever the Guru steps is sacred, I treat my clinic in a similar way; it’s a place for prayer and karma. My practice is my dharma and karma, and my actions are a tribute to my Guru.
AMMA as she is popularly known around the world is one of the only Guru's to personally hug each and every person who comes to take Her Darshan. She speaks to everyone and gives prasad. I don’t know of any Saint in the world who has sat for more than 10 hours daily for the past 30 years solving problems of people across the globe. She runs many charity institutes and has a simple philosophy to help one who in turn when possible should help another one, imagine the number of people to benefit from this!
I first met AMMA when I was a student in 1996. I went to Her ashram in Kerala and had Her Darshan. She spent a lot of time with me. The visits increased and in 1997 I asked Her what I should do when I passed out, She was kind enough to tell me to start my own clinic. In March 1998 I started a small clinic that was a modified part of the garage in my house. To my good fortune, She was in Delhi around the same time and came to our house. It was then that she stepped in to my small 80 sq-foot clinic. The rest is history and we have already expanded to 400 sq-feet of commercial space. It is said that wherever the Guru steps is sacred, I treat my clinic in a similar way; it’s a place for prayer and karma. My practice is my dharma and karma, and my actions are a tribute to my Guru.
Grace and healing go hand in hand..............
It is therefore no surprise that whenever some patient who seems incurable stages a miraculous recovery, I attribute the credit to Her. Similarly when I fail in my attempts to heal, I also surrender it to Her. What I mean to say is that I feel I am but an instrument of the divine chosen to heal, whether I succeed or not is not within my hands, what is however in my grasp, is effort. And I put in the maximum effort in each and every case I get. After that irrespective of the results I am able to sleep well. And that is the attitude I wish to carry till I retire from the profession. The day I feel that I don’t want to enter my clinic will be the day I retire. Today it would take ten wild horses to tie me down and prevent me from doing the one job i know, treat my patients. It’s the world around which I revolve. The day I am free and have less patients I get depressed. And the day I have no time to sit, I have excess energy, an adrenaline thrill!!! Quite opposite of what one would expect.
I pray everyday to AMMA that I am able to reduce the pain of my patients, to be able to heal fast and for the divine energy to flow through me. Till the day I am alive that shall be my prayer and may my Guru give me the strength to go through this phase with flying colours.
I pray everyday to AMMA that I am able to reduce the pain of my patients, to be able to heal fast and for the divine energy to flow through me. Till the day I am alive that shall be my prayer and may my Guru give me the strength to go through this phase with flying colours.
