Category: Messages of Amma
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Love, light, compassion, fragrance and beauty fill your heart
Amritapuri, New Year eve 2011 The dawn of 2011 was celebrated in grandeur with Amma here at Amritapuri. In addition to Indian devotees, more than 1500 visitors from abroad had flown in to be with Amma for the new year. The evening hall was packed and every corner had people from various regions and languages.…
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Know yourself is the message of spirituality
“Whenever celebrations and holy days take place, Amma gives a message. However, in reality, these messages are not different; they are all one. Their essence is one. Although religions are many, spirituality has only one message. It is just that this message is presented in different ways.
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MAM ready to start cleaning efforts
Amma announced that MAM is ready to begin constructing toilets, installing trash cans, and leading awareness campaigns for cleanliness in schools, roads, and public spaces, starting in Kerala and expanding to Tamil Nadu.
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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.
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Make your heart a Vrindavan
Discontentment is the real poverty; contentment the real prosperity. Excerpts from Amma’s 2010 Sri Krishna Jayanthi message.
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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.
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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…
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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.”
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Inspire Youth Through Dialogues Not Lectures
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.
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Onam Reminds Us to Become ‘One’
“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. However, in our hectic schedules,…