Tag: awareness

  • Interaction with the kids and a lesson in mindfulness

    Interaction with the kids and a lesson in mindfulness

    6 Feb 2023, Amritapuri Ashram The daily evening bhajans at the Ashram are always filled with joy, laughter, love and peace. It is a time for the community to come together and connect with the divine through music and prayers. During one of these bhajan sessions, Amma was interacting with the kids, and one of…

  • Seek, and you will find. But our seeking is all external

    Seek, and you will find. But our seeking is all external

    We are told to wake up to our own True Self, and to arise and use the strength and potential within us. It means to become strong and self-reliant.

  • Spirituality is Compassion in action

    Spirituality is Compassion in action

    True spirituality is compassion in action – it begins and culminates in compassion. If we could transform compassion from a mere word into a path of action, we would be able to solve 90% of the world’s humanitarian problems.

  • Turn your life into one big smile

    Turn your life into one big smile

    Scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita teach us to air-condition the mind. We become adjustable to every situation.

  • Flame Forth Courageously, Awaken The Self

    Flame Forth Courageously, Awaken The Self

    Only a Guru knows how to handle a disciple.

  • The law of Nature and of life is selflessness

    The law of Nature and of life is selflessness

    27 Sep 2019 – AmritaVarsham 66 , Amritapuri Excerpts from the message of Amma on the occasion of her 66th Birthday Celebrations Children, seeing all of you gathered here today, united in love, Amma feels like she is looking at a garland made from many beautiful flowers of different colours. Although this is a time…

  • Yoga is for a healthy life as well as inner & outer purity

    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,…

  • Arise! Awake! and seek the Enlightened One!

    Arise! Awake! and seek the Enlightened One!

    6 August 2006 — Amritapuri It was way past little Dev’s bedtime… but darshan was far from over. Wanting to see Amma one last time before he went to bed, the little Swiss-German boy decided he would wait by the stairs to Amma’s room. She had to come there eventually. But after some time, he…