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When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Anandamayi Ma

In ‘whichever direction’ you may turn your gaze you will find One Eternal Indivisible Being manifested. Yet, it is not at all easy to detect this Presence, because He interpenetrates everything.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Direction Forever Himself Manifestation Presence
Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Difficult Greatness Himself Intense Joy Master Sorrow
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Beautiful Body Finding Garden Human Mindset Value Worth
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Experience Expression Forever Oneself Play Truth
There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Change Diversity Manifestation Reality
How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!
ANANDAMAYI MA

Age Finding Live Yourself
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Animal Children Man Saint Tree Woman
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Bury Earth Expense Greatness Labour Precious
In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.
ANANDAMAYI MA

God Himself Infinite World
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Confusion Desire Mindset Nature World
For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Beggar Close Distance God Himself Known Myself
Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Creation Dance Forever Hall Myself
To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Action Believe Enough Form Himself
When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Anguish Flood Heart Herself Tears
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord’s Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Awakening Blossom Devotion Mindset Result Thinking
It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms – verily, The One is all of them.
ANANDAMAYI MA

Deep Form God Infinite Oneself Religious Reveal Visible Way

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

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