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Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.
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Ego Experience Happiness Ourselves
Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
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Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
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Faith Heart Lost Mindset People Reason Spoil
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
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Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
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Death Human Machine World
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
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Action Harmony Man Thinking World
Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
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Accuracy Face Intelligence Life Meditation Mental Strength Treasure
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
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Body Heart Love Purity Transcendence
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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Change Destiny Person Power
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
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Children Happiness Herself Mom See
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
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Compassion Discrimination Himself Love
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Learning Nature Object Ourselves Teaching
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
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Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
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Material Pursuit Sacrifice Society Value
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Divine Ego Expression Grace Let Go Open Remain Yourself
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Offering Word
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Meditation Prayer Recite Yourself
There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
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Death Essence Jealous Live Message Religion True Vision Willing
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
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Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
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Division Intellectual Scissor Unity
The 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 AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Himself Learning Love See Teacher
Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Harmony Peace Prayer Reach Unity
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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Fear God Hold
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Food Health Mindset Necessary Sleep Spiritual

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

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