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 MATo 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 MAThere is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.
ANANDAMAYI MAA 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 MAAcquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
ANANDAMAYI MAWhen 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 MAIn Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.
ANANDAMAYI MAReality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
ANANDAMAYI MAThe same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
ANANDAMAYI MAIn ‘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 MAThose who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite.
ANANDAMAYI MAHow many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!
ANANDAMAYI MAI 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 MATry to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’ will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.
ANANDAMAYI MAHe alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.
ANANDAMAYI MAIt 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 MAPrecious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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