your bridge home
Saints and Poets
For sixty years she never said “I”. Something asked a question; this body answered.
She did not say I.
For sixty years, in conversation, in answer to questions, in every recorded exchange, Anandamayi Ma referred to herself as this body. Not as an affectation and not consistently enough to be a rule she was enforcing on others - simply as the accurate description. Something asked a question; this body answered.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.