Online with Amma

Category: Spiritual

  • Amma on Meditation and concentration

    Children, don’t try to still your mind by force when you sit for meditation

  • Serve patients with understanding and love

    — Amma’s message to the first batch students of Amrita School of Medicine Darling Children, Just as a person needs air to breathe, the soul needs to be nurtured with love and care. The need of love is felt the most when we fall sick, physically or mentally. More than half the cure is done…

  • Take one step, God will take 100 steps towards you

    Question: Mother, you often say that if we take one step towards God, God will take a hundred steps towards us. Does this mean that God is far away from us? Mother: No. It means that if you make an effort to cultivate just one good quality, all the other good qualities will develop naturally…

  • God and your life

    Tell everything to God “No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the puja room (family shrine), 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…

  • Bhajans, the devotional singing

    “Bhajans are prayers in the form of songs, rich in meaning and full of devotional content. When one sings a bhajan wholeheartedly, they completely forget themselves and become one with their longing for the divine; this is meditation. In this modern age with distractions galore, traditional meditation and contemplation are not possible for everybody, but…

  • Mantra Japa: Amma on chanting the name of the Lord

    “Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its…

  • Connect to God, the source of power

    Question: Amma, it is said that if a sadhak (spiritual aspirant) touches someone, he will lose his spiritual power. Is this true?” Amma: A small battery, which has only a limited amount of power stored in it, will lose some power whenever it is used. However, a wire connected to the mains will always stay…

  • How to overcome anger

    “Suppose you have a weakness of getting angry easily. Now, what you should do is this: Once you become normal again, go and sit in the family shrine room if you have one, or sit in solitude; then regret and repent your own anger and sincerely pray to your beloved deity or to Mother Nature,…

  • The purpose of the prayer is to realise oneness

    Question: Amma, in Your ashram, do You accord the greatest importance to devotion? When I watch the prayers and bhajans, it appears like a show to me. Amma: Son, imagine that you have a sweetheart. If you were talking to her, would it seem like a show to you? You can never feel so, if…

  • How to look after children

    Amma’s teaching on how to look after our children “When your children indulge in mischief, explain things to them lovingly. Childhood is the foundation of life. If we don’t pay attention to our children and show them love and affection, they may go astray. Parents should remember to be especially loving towards their children when…