Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes
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Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
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Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
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Purify the mind through selfless service.
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First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
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No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.
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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.
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A 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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Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.
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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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We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.
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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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Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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The heart sends blood to every cell of the body, and in this way the cells are nourished. The same blood then flows back to the heart. If the flow is obstructed, the person will die. We need to learn this process of give and take from the heart. For the benefit of others, and also for ourselves, we should have the attitude of caring and sharing. We are all links in the chain of life. If one link is weakened, it will affect the strength of the whole chain.
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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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When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
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We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.
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The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.
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Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.
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Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.
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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.
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Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
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Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.
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Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
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The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.
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Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
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If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
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Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.
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The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram is not anyone's private property. It is the means to provide peace and quietude for the entire world.
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There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.
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