While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIWhile eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIBy living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYILove is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYILook at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIWhat we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIThe guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIWe must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIEach and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIPure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIAny pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIGod realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIIf japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIIn most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIWhile carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIIn this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIThe change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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