Amritanandamayi Quotes

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn’t a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.

Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.

Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.

Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

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.

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa.

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.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

Children, if we can do archana of the 1000 Names of the Divine Mother daily with devotion, we will grow spiritually. There will never be lack of life’s essentials, food and clothing, in a family that chants the 1000 Names with devotion.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.

We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.

Love is our true essence.

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.

Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God’s, or the Guru’s, compassionate face.

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.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

Do no talk while eating.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life’s journey miserable.

The more you give, the more your heart is filled. Love is a never ending stream.

Each and every living being in nature is part of God’s body.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

Love sustains everything.

Money is not a problem, but unintelligent attachment to it is.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.

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.

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.

Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.

Everything is God, there is nothing else but God.