Atmic Arch Ladies

Well, what about those ladies who always sit in first or second arch? His side long glances are able to turn a pig's ear into a silk purse, aren't they, even at one glance? They are laser beams which sear off and pulverize our hardest karma, the barnacles on the bottoms of our little boats which we hope will take us across the seas of samsara. Wow, talk about mixing metaphors! Do you think those laser beam glances are really so powerful as that? Swami has said that His name is so powerful that chanting it once will bring liberation. I think He said that. And His glances are so much more powerful than chanting His name, aren't they? Its impossible to judge these things, of course and I hope you know that I've got my tongue pressed firmly in my cheek.

But let's get back to those ladies sitting there in the front rows, all the time. And what about those ladies sitting on the pedestal, the first arch ladies. They can certainly be included. And the 'step ladies'? Ah yes don't exclude them. They demand that the second arch ladies move over so they can have room for their feet. They get to see the Lord over the heads of the second arch and yet they have to have 'feet room reservations' as well. Two special seats for them when many ladies can't even get into the Hall. It really did annoy me that they would demand room for their feet. Special seating for their bottoms and there feet, for heaven's sake.

Theere has always been some spirit of competition among the ladies. Did I tell you the story of 'the arches'? You see many years ago when I was a mire 60 ...or maybe 50, there really were arches. These were cement arches with pretty pictures on the front, giving shade to the ladies and a nice raised place off the sand. The picture for the first arch ladies closer to the gate was of a couple of lions. and the second arch had a picture of rabbits. Ladies whose husbands were allowed to sit on the veranda sat in the arches with the lions and the ladies whose husband had good positions on the staff were allowed to sit with the rabbits.

Anyway now you may be relieved to know the derivation of those phrases.

The point of this blog is to try to evaluate the effect of Swami's laser beam crystal star galactic glances, which are more powerful than anything in the cosmos. But anyway, do we know just how all these fortunate ladies have evaded the commitment of liberation. Why in the hell aren't we all liberated? We certainly had many of these glorious glances. I posed this question to a dear friend the other day and she said....maybe you are. And she really knows me too, knows me better than to make a dumb remark like that. I wouldn't be so outspoken if I were self realized. I wouldn't have had to leave India because I would have flown to Delhi and fought for righteousness. And I would be thinking of Him every second of the day and night instead of on the hour. Lots of things would be different. I wouldn't feel guilty either that I'm not enlightened after He gave me so much grace for so long but seems to have given up now.

This blog is supposedly about the power of His sublime laser glances and I'm afraid that I'm a living example of Sai Failure. Please forgive me, Swami, I'll never forgive myself.