Category: Festivals
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Siva is my very nature
1st March 2022, Shivaratri Celebrations – Amritapuri Excerpts from Amma’s Shivaratri Message India is a land of countless religious festivals and celebrations. These festivals and celebrations support the social life of the people and increase their faith and ethical values. Among the festivals of Sanatana Dharma, one of the most important is Sivaratri.True Sivaratri means…
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Change the attitude that you are separate from the world, and act with the knowledge
Try to do all your actions as an offering to God, and to accept their results as God’s will, with courage and determination. Incorporate selflessness into your life.
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Our Neighbours are those we encounter in our day-to-day life
Love thy neighbour as thyself, Christ said. Being a good neighbour is a quality we should have in every circumstance and at every moment in life
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May women gain the respect and position they deserve
May women, who should be worshipped as Sarasvati Devi, never be denied education; who should be worshipped as Kali Devi, be never neglected or criticised for her dark complexion.
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Keep hope & use hardships to rise
Only when one gets a few blows in life does one learn to look within. It is when we experience tragedy that the wish to learn how to transcend sorrow.
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Sivaratri leads us to bliss, oneness with God
11 March, 2021 – Shivaratri celebrations, Amritpuri Excerpts from Amma’s message on Shivaratri Sivaratri is the night that gives us supreme auspiciousness. Sivaratri is a celebration that combines spiritual austerities, renunciation, fasting, devotion and knowledge. By worshipping Lord Siva through all of these, we attain supreme auspiciousness. This means becoming one with God. Lord Siva…
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Karuna-virus can conquer the coronavirus
The fragrance of goodness travels equally in all directions.
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AmritaVarsham 67 – One World, One Prayer
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Amma, Amma has never been interested in celebrating her birthday. Regardless, for decades now, we, her children, have been meeting in Amritapuri to celebrate this auspicious occasion by spending the whole day in selfless service and prayers for world peace. As all of you are aware, September 27th of this…
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Face the situation with the attitude of acceptance
In life we only have two options. The first is to put in effort. The second is to accept. We cannot change everything in the world.
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When we renounce the heaviest burden of our ego, we will rise to the plane of Shiva
Lord Shiva is the supreme bliss and complete perfection of that ego-renunciation. Shivaratri is the knowledge ‘I am that perfection’.