"Love just happens...Love is a sudden uprising in the heart. Love is an unavoidable, unobstructable longing for oneness."
--Amma
The path of universal Love on the journey with the Mother follows six stages. The stages are cyclical; they happen over and over again in many different ways. They are nonlinear in the sense that one does not necessarily follow another.
Stage one is getting to know the Mother; stage two, love and rapture; three, the Mother's discipline; four, the shadow; five, surrender; and stage six, contentment and yearning. The final liberation is not included as a stage because, once attained, it is permanent.
--from The Path of the Mother by Savitri L. Bess
Author, tapestry weaver, and astrologer, Savitri has lived for months at a time in Amma's ashram in India, from 1992-2005. A past recipient of Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts grants, Savitri now lives on an island in Downeast Maine. Please visit her other website, Spirit Tapestries (link on sidebar).
