Tag: Love and compassion

  • Amma’s loving care for Govinda: A lesson in cleanliness

    Amma’s loving care for Govinda: A lesson in cleanliness

    Amma’s loving care teaches cleanliness as a divine quality, bringing awareness to even the smallest details of life.

  • We can bring harmony into society if we can live with restraint

    We can bring harmony into society if we can live with restraint

    The Doctors should be able to say kind words. Their eyes and their words should be tender with compassion. They should be good listeners. They should understand the mental state of their patients and proceed accordingly.

  • Devi manifests as knowledge, love and all virtues

    Devi manifests as knowledge, love and all virtues

    This entire universe is but a play of that cosmic power. Hence, we should see the Mother of the Universe in everything and love and serve everyone equally, without prejudice.

  • Holding God above everything else in our life

    Holding God above everything else in our life

    The message of Vishu encompasses everything that is needed for living. It contains lessons of God-remembrance and devotion.

  • Love makes each day new & fresh

    Love makes each day new & fresh

    If we love something, we will always find it new and fresh. It is when love is lost that an object also seems to lose its novelty.

  • Woman of Worth

    Woman of Worth

    Men may have more muscle power than women, but women have one muscle that make them more powerful than men. It is the muscle of the heart.

  • Our lives are meant to be born in love, to live in love, and to eventually end in love

    Our lives are meant to be born in love, to live in love, and to eventually end in love

    The feeling closest to our True Self is love. Our lives are meant to be born in love, to live in love, and to eventually end in love. In truth, love has no end; it is eternal and connects every aspect of creation — human beings with each other, with Nature, and with God. Thus, its effulgence…

  • Attachment to Detachment: Q&A with Amma

    Attachment to Detachment: Q&A with Amma

    13 Jan 2017, Amritapuri Ashram Beach Meditation Amma gathered with the devotees on the beach for meditation. The gentle rumbling of waves and cool, onshore breeze quieted everyone’s mind. After sometime spent in contemplation, someone raised their hand with a question for Amma: “Amma, you ask us to live a life of love and compassion,…

  • Love is the center point of life with no regulations

    Love is the center point of life with no regulations

    Love is a maha-mantra “My dear children, without a center we cannot draw a perfect circle. In the same way, without the center-point of love, our lives can never be complete. The roots of a tree are what hold it firmly to the Earth. Similarly, it is the powerful roots of love running deep within…

  • When compassion takes birth, Sri Krishna is born

     Sri Krishna’s Birthday Celebrations 21 August 2011, Amritapuri At 4.50 am, on the Krishna Janmashtami day, the bhajan hall was echoing with the mantras of Lalita Sahasranama. The adjacent Kalari, filled with white smoke from the Homa Kunda. The celebrations of Lord Krishna’s birth had begun in the charged atmosphere of Amritapuri ashram. To celebrate Krishna…