22-2-23
In our recent visit to Hampi with Amma, we visited a place called Yantrodharak Hanuman Temple.
While returning from the temple, Amma said she would sit on a nearby rock for some time and that we could join her if we liked. We all sat on that rock. Amma asked us to chant Aum and as we started chanting there was a cool breeze which stopped when we stopped the chanting. Amma said she would chant the Kalidhwamsini mantra and asked us to just listen. As Amma started chanting we heard a troop of monkeys chattering. Amma chanted the mantra around 9 times.
After sometime, Amma asked us as to what was running in our minds and all of us collectively answered that there were no thoughts at all as we all experienced that thoughtlessness and when we checked our watches we realised that we had sat there with Amma for more than 2 hours and all of us felt that it was only 15 to 20 minutes.
Amma with that beautiful smile told us that all of us sitting there in a thoughtless state with Amma was much more powerful than any Yagna, as it invoked the highest Sathvik energy which was much needed for the welfare of the universe. Amma just pointed to a random rock and told us “you all think only you all are sitting here with Amma; look there, even Hanuman is listening to Mother’s words and He is Chiranjeevi (eternal); if you have faith you also can see him”. We just clicked a picture of the rock as it was looking like any other rock.
But when we looked closely at the rock we all felt that there emerged a glimpse of Hanuman form which looked like he was peacefully listening to Amma. (later we realised why those troop of monkeys reacted that way all of a sudden as they also could experience the presence of Lord Hanuman).
Shalini