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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

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Identify Problem Thinking Yourself
Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Burden Creation Feeling Flower heavy Light Love Yourself
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Angry Rough Word
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Light Offering People Sun Thinking
Do no talk while eating.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Eat One Liner Talk
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Blessing Happiness Life Soul
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Togetherness
God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Heart Himself Stand
The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Beautiful Charm Death Dedication Humanity Possible Service
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Human Language Selfish
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Choice Heart Taste
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
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 AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Patience Yourself
Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expectation Heaven Love Need Search
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Goodness Heart Life Time
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Death Human Machine World
If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Animal Attitude Food God
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
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Change Forget Important
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Best Ourselves Suffering Try
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Change Destiny Person Power
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Face Love Spiritual Strong

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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