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Booklet Nine
In Amma's Lap
Bhakti, Self-Laughter, Māyā, and the Child's Surrender
An illustrated poetry booklet in Telugu, Roman Telugu, and English.
After the maps, the witnesses, the grief, and the stotram, the seeker becomes simpler. Māyā is no longer only a philosophical problem. It becomes a mirror, a food-offering, a costume, a joke, a knot, a noise, a mask. The seeker laughs at himself — not with cynicism, but with tenderness. Here, bhakti becomes childlike again. Krishna is teased. Kāli becomes Amma. Service becomes Father's service. The roles and masks are asked to be broken apart. The child simply asks to be held.
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