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Re: I remember
By:Gin
Date: Saturday, 28 October 2006, 11:17 am
In Response To: Re: I remember (George)

Here's most of what he wrote about her in Birthday Warning:

112. (LATER IN STRONG FOREIGN ACCENT--PROBABLY ABRAHIM:) DO YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT PANDITA RAMABAI OF INDIA NOW? I asked Jesus, "Do I have to live so long and wait so long to reach my people?" And Jesus said, "If you are willing to do like Pandita, you can reach them in half the time with twice as much, but then you die!" Pandita was a very wise old woman. She even told them where they could find water to drill for Mukti Mission, when there was no water for miles away, and they drilled and found gushing water! She found the water where there was no water!

113. WHEN I ASKED JESUS, "HOW LONG, how long, how long?"--He said, "If you'll be like her, you can do twice as much in half as long!" She was dying of something, and asked doctor how long she have to live. And he said, "If you be careful and take it easy, you may live one year!" She said, "Doctor, long time you promised me you would go to my people beyond the high mountains with love of Jesus, but still you don't go! If I take the back-pack on my back with all the little Gospels for my people, and climb high mountains and go myself, how long then I live maybe?" And he said, "O Pandita, maybe you only live six months, half as much!"

114. SHE SAID, "DOCTOR, HERE, I'M OLD WOMAN. You strap on the pack on my back, and I'm going to my people! MANY YEARS YOU TELL ME YOU GO, BUT YOU DON'T GO. You strap pack on my back, and I am going to my people!" And he said, "You wait, Pandita!--We'll go some day.--You don't have to go!" But she said, "Now I go." But he said, "YOU CUT YOUR LIFE IN TWO! IT'S HARD CLIMB, 'WAY UP HIGH MOUNTAINS IN NORTHERN INDIA." And he started to help her get the pack on her back, and she cry and weep, and he said, "Don't cry!--You don't have to go. We'll go for you someday." She said, "Foolish man, I don't cry because I have to go! I CRY BECAUSE JESUS GIVE ME HIS WHOLE LIFE, AND I HAVE HALF A LIFE TO GIVE FOR JESUS!" And she went off up the trail with the back-pack.

115. (Tongues and weeping:) OH, SO FEW HAVE SO MUCH LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN OF DAVID to take half their life and give for those who never hear, like Pandita! Last they saw her, she was climbing the mountain trail with the heavy backpack. SO FEW CHILDREN OF DAVID HAVE LOVE LIKE PANDITA FOR ME, JESUS! She go up the trail weeping to her people, and she only have half a life to give to her people, when He give His whole life for her! Many years later many people come from mountains saying they're saved because PANDITA COME WITH HALF HER LIFE, TO GIVE THEM ALL JESUS' LIFE! She give double life and more life to her people! She give twice as much life to her people, but she only had half of hers left. SUCH ARE THE WORDS OF DAVID THAT HE GIVES YOU FROM HIS BOSOM that you kiss. She gave my people Jesus. In only half her life she gave them Jesus, like I'm going to do for you. I'M GOING TO BURN UP FAST AND BRIGHT FOR JESUS!

> The name "Pandita Ramabai", and
> the name of her mission (Mukti) first
> appeared in "Birthday Warning" as
> something that supposedly came to Berg
> "prophetically" in his sleep. All
> he really said about her was that she
> "went over the mountains", or
> something like that, "to give her life
> for her people". Like you said, the
> idea was that we should be willing to burn
> ourselves out like she supposedly did. It
> was the usual spiritual-sounding, but
> totally dishonest stuff he pulled out of the
> hat to make us think that he knew something
> "by the Spirit", when most likely,
> he had read about her in a book on the
> history of missions, or about India.

> There were lots of names of people and
> places that appeared in Berg's letters in
> this way, especially around that time. I
> remember meeting with the Maryknoll Fathers
> in Rome, and the non-plussed stares we got
> from them when we told them that we had come
> because our leader had gotten their name in
> a dream; that we wanted to work with them,
> etc. I wonder what the conversation was like
> after we left. ;)

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