Category: Spiritual
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Onam: a beautiful memory of the past and a bright hope for the future
25 September 2018, Amritapuri Ashram (excerpt from Amma’s Onam Message) Onam is usually a time of celebration. However, this Onam, our minds are weighed down with grief. Many people lost their lives in the recent floods and landslides here in Kerala. Many people lost their homes and everything they had. It is heart-breaking that such…
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“I am the infinite, I am fullness itself” – Gurupurnima celebrations
-from Amma’s Gurupurnima message Guru Purnima is a reminder to find our purnatvam—our fullness—within. Looking through the small windows of our mind, we come to wrong conclusions about ourselves and the world. The guru is the most noble and trusted friend who awakens us to the reality that, “I am not this small entity (body,…
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Our lives are meant to be born in love, to live in love, and to eventually end in love
The feeling closest to our True Self is love. Our lives are meant to be born in love, to live in love, and to eventually end in love. In truth, love has no end; it is eternal and connects every aspect of creation — human beings with each other, with Nature, and with God. Thus, its effulgence…
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Yoga is for a healthy life as well as inner & outer purity
Amma’s message on Yoga on International Yoga Day Yoga is the means of awakening the infinite strength within, by training the body, mind and intellect properly, and of realizing one’s full potential. Yoga helps us become more efficient in worldly life. It enhances our health, sense of well-being, and sensitivity to values. For these reasons,…
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Transform our life into Siva
When the mind is completely dissolved, Self-knowledge dawns and the realisation of “Shivoham” happens
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See newness and beauty everywhere and discover joy in that
Amritapuri Ashram –1st January 2018 Now is the auspicious hour when the world enters a new year. Everyone dreams of a happy and fortuitous future; may 2018 be filled with happiness and peace and less war and conflict. But it’s not enough to pray and hope for a favourable future. We should also be ready…
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We should leave Mother Earth with flowers bedecked in her hair
9 Oct 2017, Amritapuri – Amritavarsham64 (Excerpts from Amma’s Birthday message ) “India is one of the fastest-developing countries. We need development, but it has to be sustainable and based on culture and respect towards nature. No progress that alienates culture or nature will ever be successful. If we cut the string of a flying…
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Safeguard enquiry, patience and enthusiasm throughout your life
Amma’s Vijayadasami Message 2017 September 30, 2017 – Amritapuri Ashram This is the holy day on which we hold the fingers of the tender new generation and initiate them into learning. Vijayadasami is the culmination of the past nine days of Sakti worship. Invoking the blessings of Sarasvati Devi, the Goddess of Learning, children enter…
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In search of “the modern,” dont forget the “old” truths
4 Sept 2017 — Amritapuri Ashram Amma’s Message on Thiruvonam Amma bows down to everyone, who are embodiments of divine love and supreme consciousness. The festival of Onam brings with it a sweet sankalpa—an ideal whose sweetness and novelty never fade with time. Amma is happy when her children come together here on the occasion…
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Maya doesn’t mean ‘non-existent’, it means ‘ever-changing’
21 August 2017, Amritapuri Ashram In a question-and-answer session in Amritapuri this week, a questioner asked Amma about Maya, often defined as “the illusory nature of the world.” The questioner asked Amma, “What is Maya or illusion and why it is so difficult to come out of it? I have been doing spiritual practices for…