Tag: awareness
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Pause Before You Act: Amma’s Message in Chennai
17-18 Feb 2025, Chennai – Bharata Yatra 2025 Amma arrived in Chennai after the Madurai program for the two-day Brahmasthanam Festival at the temple she consecrated in 1990. This year marked its 35th anniversary, drawing thousands of devotees eager to receive Amma’s blessings. Many dignitaries were present on both days to welcome Amma to Chennai.…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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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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…