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Sri Anandamayi Ma Quotes, Sayings
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth
and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it,
never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence
of things and finds one's Self--this is supreme happiness. When
it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of
want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be
stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness,
which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate;
but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept
Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything
that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your
own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's
service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an
insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please,
one serves one's own Self in every one of them.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have
relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will
be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a
tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous
seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two
fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle
of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.
All creation is that. There is beauty in the birds and in the
animals. They too eat and drink like us, mate and multiply;
but there is this difference: we can realize our true nature,
the Atman. Having been born as human beings, we must not waste
this opportunity. At least for a few seconds every day, we must
enquire as to who we are. It is no use taking a return ticket
over and over again. From birth to death, and death to birth
is samsara. But really we have no birth and death. We must realize
that.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
God is within everyone, but man goes out in search of Him. This
is what constitutes God's Play and God's Creation.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Even though you may want to push God the Mother aside, She will
never leave you. Are you not her offspring? A mother does what
is good and beneficial for her child. She gives to her scion
exactly what is needed, not more and not less. Her forgiveness
knows no limits, this is why she is called MOTHER. If with deep
faith, devotion and love you can exclaim: 'Mother, come to me,
I cannot pass my days without you', rest assured, the Universal
Mother will spread out Her arms and clasp you to Her heart.
Don't look up to Her only as a mysterious refuge in your hour
of distress. Keep in mind, She is always very, very near as
the Force that guides your life. She Herself is the supreme
refuge of every sentient being. With this conviction proceed.
She will take the brunt of your burdens from your shoulders
and make them light.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
You should kindle fire by any means, either with clarified butter
or sandalwood or even straw. Once alight, the fire burns on;
all worries, darkness and gloom gradually disappear. The fire
will burn to ash all obstacles.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Your sorrow, your pain, your agony is indeed my sorrow. This
body understands everything. You may want to leave this body.
But this body won't leave you for a single day - it does not
and never will leave you. One, who has once been attracted to
this body, even though he may make a thousand attempts, will
not be able to efface or blot out the memory of this body. It
will remain and persist in his memory for all time.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Suffering is sent to remind you to turn your thoughts towards
That which is real - to God who will give you solace.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Whenever you possibly can, sustain the flow of a sacred Name.
To repeat His name is to be in His presence. If you associate
with the Supreme Friend, He will reveal His true being to you.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and
you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp
the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel
free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender
to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do
not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and
obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling
to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within.
And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form.
By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man
to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human
intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
People have various visions of gods and goddesses (in me) according
to their own predilections. What I was before, I am now, and
shall be hereafter. I am also whatever you or anybody may think
I am
why don't you look at it this way: the
yearnings (of seekers after Truth) have brought about this body.
All of you have wanted it and so you have found it. That is
all you need to know.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Just as fire burns away all dross and rubbish, so the three
fold suffering purges man's heart from all impurity and results
in a growing single mindedness in his search after Truth. When
he becomes deeply conscious of his weakness and tormented by
the thoughts of his undesirable impulses and distressing characteristics,
when afflictions like poverty, bereavement or humiliation make
him feel his life is futile, then and then only does he develop
real faith and religious fervor, and becomes anxious to surrender
himself at the feet of the Supreme Being. Suffering should therefore
be welcomed. Never does the soft moonlight appear more soothing
than after the scorching heat of a summer day.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
A wealthy merchant went on a business trip. A thief in the disguise
of a businessman joined him, intent on robbing him at the earliest
suitable occasion. Every morning, before leaving the inn which
they happened to have put up for the night, the merchant would
count his money quite openly and then put it into his pocket.
At night the merchant went to sleep seemingly without suspicion.
While he was asleep the thief would frantically search through
all the belongings of the merchant without being able to find
the money. After several nights of frustrating searching, the
thief finally in resignation confessed to the merchant his true
intention and pleaded with him to tell him how he was able to
hide his money so successfully. The merchant replied casually:
'I knew from the very beginning what you were up to. So, every
night I placed the money under YOUR pillow. I could safely sleep,
knowing full well that that would be the one place where you
would never look.'
God is within everyone, but man goes out in search of Him. This
is what constitutes God's Play and God's Creation.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
If God is the Lord of the world, He can do with it as he pleases.
Suppose you have grown beautiful flowers in your garden, but
decide to plant fruit trees in their place, won't you have to
remove the flowers? If you have a fine house, but wish to build
a larger and better one on the same plot, you demolish the old
one. The freedom that is yours in small things, God exercises
in great ones. In both is He, in destruction as well as in construction.
The history of nations, families and individuals is the great
Lila (divine sport) that He stages with Himself.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your
own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness,
presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this
world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to
the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called
a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the
poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious
duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the
person served, the one who serves and the act of service are
separate only in appearance.
Sri Anandamayi Ma
God is without form, without quality as well as with form and
quality.
Watch and see with what endless variety of beautiful forms
He plays the play of his maya with Himself alone.
The lila of the all pervading One goes on and on in this way
in infinite diversity.
He is without beginning and without end.
He is the whole and also the part.
The whole and part together make up real Perfection.
Sri Anandamayi Ma |
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Sri Anandamayi Ma: a Hindu spiritual
teacher and guru from the Bengal region of India. She was considered
a saint by many and was one of the prominent mystics of the 20th century.
She was born on April 30, 1896, and died on August 27, 1982. |
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