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A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
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Activity Expression Happiness Love True
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Animal Humanity Nature Plant Return Service
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
The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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Change Ourselves
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Each Other Human Peace Reality
You can only feel love by expressing it.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expression Feeling Love Yourself
If 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 AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Goodness Maintain Mindset Talk Work
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
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Best Ourselves Suffering Try
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
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Achievement Born Ego Goal Human Life Live Vision World
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Human Language Selfish
A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source
Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Learning Place Service Suffering
“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Gender God Man Question Woman
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Book Learning Nature Object Page

A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

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A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

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