As I was doing my prayers this morning I found myself thanking Swami
for Face Book. Even with the Grammy awards blaring on TV, I managed
to spend three hours with Susan Lawrence Caffery Face Book and Western
Sai Graduates. Then I read my new Time-line which is huge.
You know I read these articles about how people waste their time
writing about how they shampooed their hair and went shopping and all
those things. I find that Face Book is primarily my worship of
Swami. I spend hours and hours watching videos which have been posted
by dozens of different Sai groups which have spouted up. Several are
doing,'thoughts of the day', some post wonderful rare old photos of
Swami, some post their spiritual feelings and thoughts while others
get into discussions about His teachings. It is simply incredible;
the ideas, the music and His UTUBE Darsans, create a Sai world beyond
belief. It's really like being back at the Ashram and running into
various devotees on the way to Darsan. And another wonderful thing is
that interspersed in all this is the world. My wonderful niece who
lives and works in California is quite political and brings in
different organizations working for President Obama. I have a nephew
in Virginia who is a professor and teaches social psychology. His
wife, whom I've never met, is quite an activist politically and so we
have those organizations too. As this is such a crucial year with the
elections coming up I am glad to be a platform. Then our Face Book is
also there for various social issues like 'gay rights' and animal
welfare, vegetarianism and child abuse. All these things are terribly
important and as I believe our Swami is in everything seen and unseen,
they are a part of this spiritual perspective. It's sort of like Face
Book is a little stage and various people and ideas jump up on the
stage and share their ideas and feelings, then they jump down and the
next person or video or song jumps up to do their bit. It's so
wonderful!
As my name is on the top of all of this I feel that I have an
obligation to sort of be the 'mother' so I'm Susan Ama. There have
been a few times when people have used bad language or posted unseemly
pictures which I have deleted. It's kind of like saying...'OK, you
can feel that way if you want but don't bring that into my kitchen' .
And there is another aspect which has a great influence. It is sort
of a fusion on USA values and traditional Indian values. Well not
absolutely traditional but I think that some of the young men who are
posting are either Swami's ex students or are working for Him now.
Also some of His Anantapur students are posting and Swami wouldn't
like them to see things that are off-color. I feel Swami would want me
to be rather protective of them. Actually we are all doing His work
and that is our purpose, our very life which makes this FaceBook page
very meaningful. It's funny but usually the Indian aspect and the
Californian aspect don't interact with one another. Each group have
their own followers and I just sort of mother them along. My niece in
California has an absolutely fantastic family with a son who is a
professional actor and play-write and a daughter who sings at gigs all
over southern California so things are always not only spiritual but
lively and exciting in my Face Book kitchen.
for Face Book. Even with the Grammy awards blaring on TV, I managed
to spend three hours with Susan Lawrence Caffery Face Book and Western
Sai Graduates. Then I read my new Time-line which is huge.
You know I read these articles about how people waste their time
writing about how they shampooed their hair and went shopping and all
those things. I find that Face Book is primarily my worship of
Swami. I spend hours and hours watching videos which have been posted
by dozens of different Sai groups which have spouted up. Several are
doing,'thoughts of the day', some post wonderful rare old photos of
Swami, some post their spiritual feelings and thoughts while others
get into discussions about His teachings. It is simply incredible;
the ideas, the music and His UTUBE Darsans, create a Sai world beyond
belief. It's really like being back at the Ashram and running into
various devotees on the way to Darsan. And another wonderful thing is
that interspersed in all this is the world. My wonderful niece who
lives and works in California is quite political and brings in
different organizations working for President Obama. I have a nephew
in Virginia who is a professor and teaches social psychology. His
wife, whom I've never met, is quite an activist politically and so we
have those organizations too. As this is such a crucial year with the
elections coming up I am glad to be a platform. Then our Face Book is
also there for various social issues like 'gay rights' and animal
welfare, vegetarianism and child abuse. All these things are terribly
important and as I believe our Swami is in everything seen and unseen,
they are a part of this spiritual perspective. It's sort of like Face
Book is a little stage and various people and ideas jump up on the
stage and share their ideas and feelings, then they jump down and the
next person or video or song jumps up to do their bit. It's so
wonderful!
As my name is on the top of all of this I feel that I have an
obligation to sort of be the 'mother' so I'm Susan Ama. There have
been a few times when people have used bad language or posted unseemly
pictures which I have deleted. It's kind of like saying...'OK, you
can feel that way if you want but don't bring that into my kitchen' .
And there is another aspect which has a great influence. It is sort
of a fusion on USA values and traditional Indian values. Well not
absolutely traditional but I think that some of the young men who are
posting are either Swami's ex students or are working for Him now.
Also some of His Anantapur students are posting and Swami wouldn't
like them to see things that are off-color. I feel Swami would want me
to be rather protective of them. Actually we are all doing His work
and that is our purpose, our very life which makes this FaceBook page
very meaningful. It's funny but usually the Indian aspect and the
Californian aspect don't interact with one another. Each group have
their own followers and I just sort of mother them along. My niece in
California has an absolutely fantastic family with a son who is a
professional actor and play-write and a daughter who sings at gigs all
over southern California so things are always not only spiritual but
lively and exciting in my Face Book kitchen.
Yes, Facebook and other Internet sites are a great way to find like-minded communities to share with. I love all the info on Internet!
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