“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 AMRITANANDAMAYIA seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
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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.
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
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You can only feel love by expressing it.
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The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
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Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.
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Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.
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We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
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Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.
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The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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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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Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
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Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
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Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.
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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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What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
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Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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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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If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
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Purify the mind through selfless service.
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Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
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The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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