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Category: Messages of Amma

  • Globalization fails to connect our hearts and minds

    Globalization fails to connect our hearts and minds

    In her 57th Birthday Address, Amma highlighted the failure of globalization to unite hearts and minds, emphasized respect for nature, and announced MAM’s initiative to improve cleanliness in schools and public spaces.

  • Make your heart a Vrindavan

    Make your heart a Vrindavan

    Discontentment is the real poverty; contentment the real prosperity. Excerpts from Amma’s 2010 Sri Krishna Jayanthi message.

  • Onam is a call to reclaim our heritage

    Onam is a call to reclaim our heritage

    Amma’s Onam message called for reclaiming our heritage, fostering love, devotion, and unity while embracing a simpler, more natural way of life to make every day an Onam.

  • Embrace scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom

    Embrace scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom

    These are selected quotes from the address of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi  upon receiving an Doctorate of Humane letters from State University of New York 25 May 2010. ****** “Spiritual education is a training that helps us to truly understand ourselves. It gives us strength and helps us comprehend the deeper realms of knowledge. It gives us…

  • Forgive and forget, happiness will embrace us

    Forgive and forget, happiness will embrace us

    “Children, the New Year is here, bringing with it new hopes and dreams. It is like a new page in a journal. We are the ones who decide what should be written on it.”

  • Inspire youth through dialogues not lectures

    Amma inaugurates Vivekananda International Foundation 1 December 2009 — Chanakyapuri, New Delhi On 1 December 2009, Amma inaugurated the Vivekananda International Foundation in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. The foundation,  which is an independent non-partisan think-tank, will undertake solution-oriented research and studies through different activities. It also will participate in international, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. In her…

  • Onam reminds us to become ‘One’

    2 September 2009 – Amritapuri “We all need to become one—this is the message Onam gives us,” Amma said in her annual Onam satsang. “It is from ‘one’ that we have all come, and it is back into that ‘one’ that we all must merge. This is the supreme goal of all of our lives.…

  • God is always awake within us

    Sivaratri Celebrations, 23 February 2009 — Amritapuri “God is always awake within us, but we are sound asleep,” Amma said. “As a result, we are unable to experience his presence.” It was almost 2:00 in the morning—half way through the traditional night-long vigil and fast of Sivaratri. Amma then told everyone assembled that holidays like…

  • Overcome the times of trouble with Spiritual strength

    Amma said in her New Year message “Everything in the world is changing—with one exception: our negative mental state! We should develop a mind devoid of egoism—a mind that doesn’t fall apart in failure, a mind that finds joy in giving and accepts adversity with love. Such a mind will never experience sorrow.”

  • May the Christ take birth in your heart

    Christmas in Amritapuri December 24, 2008 — Amritapuri Christmas Eve and Christmas Day both fell on darshan days in Amritapuri, and Amma was still giving darshan when the midnight hour struck on the 25th. While Amma continued to embrace her children, she had Swami Amritaswarupananda read out a message she had prepared. In Amma’s message…