Название: Death, Beauty, Struggle
Автор: Margaret Trawick
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Учебная литература
Серия: Contemporary Ethnography
isbn: 9780812293920
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She has a name, she has power, she has substance, everything is in her hands. We cannot stand opposite her and ask her who she is. According to the wish of her mind, whatever she wants she will accomplish. If someone says, “This is wrong. You are no deity. Where is Māriamman?” In that place, very close to them, she will not show her power. Patiently waiting, afterward she will show it. People will say there is no deity, they will not be good. The foods they eat will not be good, their family life will not be peaceful, they will have no learning, they will have no good customs.
[Even if someone has no learning, can’t he be a good person?]
A man who has no learning is poor, but he will have that mother’s devotion. If someone wants to do research in the world, they can do nothing. But the man with devotion, no one can deceive him. In any life, in any labor, he will have all wisdom. The reason is that he has that mother’s grace. Because he has belief, even if ten people come to get him, he can say, “Go away. My mother is here to protect me.”
Those ten people will think he is lying. One of them will say, “Let your mother come and speak in person. I’m listening.” Thus he will ask.
But what word is that? A word without action, a word of disbelief. But because the man who has no learning has belief, he will say, “My mother somehow will protect me.”
And what will the educated man say? “I have education, I have money, I have everything. What do I need a god for? I have more charity than a god. Do you have the luxuries I have?” Thus he will ask.
But how is this? Do you understand? The educated man will suffer disease, he will suffer torment, in his family a lawsuit will arise. He will not have wisdom at all. He will have money and luxury. But he will not have the stomach to eat till his stomach is full. She will cause a disease to arise in his body.
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