Mata Amritanandamayi
When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.Collection: Heart
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.Collection: Relationship
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.Collection: Spiritual
As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.Collection: Food
It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can attain peace and concentration. The concentration gained when one goes there cannot be achieved if one sits at home. Even though the breeze blows everywhere, coolness will be felt more if we sit in the shade of a tree. In the same way, although God is all-pervading, this presence will clearly shine in certain places more than others. That is the greatness of satsang. Satsang is the best thing for spiritual advancement.Collection: Spiritual
Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.Collection: Love
By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.Collection: Nature
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.Collection: Compassion
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.Collection: Spiritual
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.Collection: Relationship
Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.Collection: Children
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.Collection: Relationship
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.Collection: Spiritual
Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting for others to improve, we should try to improve ourselves. Once our attitude has changed, we will be able to perceive goodness throughout world. If there is a positive change in us, it will also be reflected in others. It is only what we give that we can hope to get back.Collection: Attitude
One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.Collection: Spiritual
What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.Collection: Meditation
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.Collection: Love
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.Collection: Attitude
Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get up, we should prostrate in that place. It is good to cultivate the habit of considering our pen, books, clothes, vessels, and the tools of our job as imbued with divine presence and use them with care and respect. This will help keep the thought of God alive throughout our body, mind and atmosphere.Collection: Jobs
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.Collection: Love
In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.Collection: Heart
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.Collection: Achievement
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.Collection: Attitude
When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.Collection: Love
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.Collection: Spiritual
Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.Collection: Spiritual
Take a vow for a life of service to others.Collection: Service To Others
Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.Collection: Numbers
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.Collection: Before Death
You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.Collection: Spiritual
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.Collection: Suffering Of Others
Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.Collection: Spiritual
Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship.Collection: Heart
It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.Collection: Giving
Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.Collection: Spiritual
At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.Collection: Meditation
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.Collection: Thinking
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.Collection: Food
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.Collection: Children
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.Collection: Spiritual
In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.Collection: Independent
Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in the mind may not always be possible at first, so in the beginning, practice japa by moving the lips incessantly-like a fish drinking water.Collection: Drinking
Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.Collection: Children
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.Collection: Letting Go
Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.Collection: Children
Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.Collection: Spiritual