Not long ago, I discovered an amazing website I'd like to share with everyone: http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. Here one will find transcripts and audio tapes of interviews by Robert Penn Warren with the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement: Malcolm X, Rev. James Lawson, Stokely Carmichael, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others. It is so exciting to hear their words in their own voices, for free, and to be able to read the transcripts as they share their thoughts, unedited. A tremendously, inspiring experience!

Dearest Lorna,,
Thank you for this link. Regarding life in our Ashram....its a relentless crucible, but the ideal stands clear before us through Amma, and that is of great assistance in internalizing it. As she herself said, while the Master is alive, everything is chaotic, once the Master goes, it becomes very orderly, organized and peaceful. She has also given an analogy of an Ashram as being like a hospital. People come to get cured of the "I" disease, the foundation of worldly consciousness. If spiritually sick people couldn't come here, it would be like having a hospital with a sign up that said, "No Patients Allowed." Its something to keep in mind regarding the 'handlers' physically close around her, which she has likened to being in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). She has to keep a sharp eye on them. She has stressed to concentrate on the ideals that the Mahatma's stand for, not the person, personality, the big show, etc.
The important thing to keep in mind, for me, no matter what path we are on, or what we identify ourselves as, is the progression of the internal ideal, from the intellectual understanding to a living reality within. Once that happens, no matter who, or where we are, we come under the grace filled mantle of ethical life.
Much more to say, but time is short.
Loving you,
Aunty Kamala