Sri Anandamayi Ma

Question - One visitor, an Irish journalist, frankly asked Ma , “Am I right to believe that you are God?”

Sri Ma Anandamayi - “There is nothing but He alone; everyone and everything is but a form of God. In your person also He has come here to give darshana.”

Journalist persisted, “Why are you in this world?”

Sri Ma - “In this world? I am not anywhere. I am myself reposing within myself.”

During the same conversation, the Irishman said, “I am a Christian.”

Sri Ma responded, “So am I, a Christian, a Muslim, anything you like.”

In general, Sri Ma’s inimitable smile disarmed all questions regarding her identity. Ma once answered a devotee’s query in these words:

“What a childish question to ask; people have various visions of Gods and Goddesses (in me) according to their own predilections (preference)

What I was before, I am now, and shall be hereafter. I am also whatever you or anybody may think I am; why don’t you look at it this way: the yearnings (of seekers after Truth) have brought about this body. All of you have wanted it and so you have found it. That is all you need to know.”

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Life’s journey is bound to proceed inevitably in the manner you describe.

Search in every home and see how many people can be found who have never known bereavement (misery due to loss of loved ones)

This is why the only way out of this misery is by the path to Self-Realization.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Knowing that one is but an actor on the stage of the world, one lives happily.
Those who mistake the pantomime for reality are of the world (samsāri), where there is constant change and reforming, ceaseless going and coming, the oscillation between happiness and sorrow.

Those who are dressed up in various disguises, must not forget their real nature.

Verily, you are the offspring of the Immortal.

Your real being is truth, goodness, beauty (Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram).
Samsāra (the world) means the abode of the uncertainly and doubt (sangsai).

The clown (sang) mistakes his role for the Real, yet it's only dressed up for the play.

This is why one speaks of ‘sang-sāra.’

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Speech leads you to float on the surface. When you take a plunge into the deep source of Joy, your speech is silenced. Only when you float, words come out. Just think of the limitations of your speech. You cannot even half express what you know fully and deeply. Try to understand the voiceless speech of the soul.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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There is nothing impossible in God's Kingdom.

The possible is impossible, and the impossible is possible.

It is also said that the hansa (swan) can separate milk from water. Water is mixed with milk, but it can take only milk and leave the watery portion. (Similarly, the yogi can separate the mind from worldly actions and thoughts and fix it in the Self.)

- Sri Anandamayi Ma

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This is what Sri Ma Anandamayi says concerning Service (Seva)

"If you serve human beings or animals as such, it is not pure service. But if you serve them with the thought that there is only the ONE, that by serving whomsoever, you are serving God in that particular guise, then and then only does it become real service.

Since nothing exists really but the Supreme Being, one should serve THAT alone.

Purity means Truth, that which IS.

Essentially, whatever aids towards the realization of Truth may be called pure and whatever is apt to retard it, impure."

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This is what Ma Anandamayi says concerning Service (Seva)
If you serve human beings or animals as such, it is not pure service. But if you serve them with the thought that there is only the ONE, that by serving whomsoever, you are serving God in that particular guise, then and then only does it become real service.

Since nothing exists really but the Supreme Being, one should serve THAT alone.

Purity means Truth, that which IS.

Essentially, whatever aids towards the realization of Truth may be called pure and whatever is apt to retard it, impure.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Question - Ma, Is there no justification at all for professional or any other mundane work?

Sri Anandamayi Ma - Occupation with worldly things acts like slow poison. Gradually, without one noticing it, it leads to death: Should I advise my friends and my fathers and mothers to take this road? I cannot do so.

What this body says: Choose the path to Immortality, take any path that according to your temperament will lead you to the Realization of your Self.

Nevertheless, even while working in the world, you can do one thing. Whatever you do throughout the day, endeavor to do it in the spirit of service. Serve God in everyone, regarding everyone and everything as manifestations of Him, and serve Him by whatever work you undertake. If you live with this attitude of mind, the path to Reality will open out before you.

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It is well to keep in mind that whatever one enjoys of worldly happiness, be it good food or anything else, uses up some of the merit (punya) that one has accumulated. It is therefore commendable to remember God at all times, and to enjoy whatever comes as coming from God. Similarly should one try to bear in mind that any suffering or adversity that one has to go through, expiates one’s accumulated pàpa (wrong or evil actions and thoughts).

Mataji then related the following story:

"A very rich man died leaving his wealth to his son. Before closing his eyes forever, he told his son that if ever he got into very bad straits, and when he is utterly helpless and destitute, he should open a certain cupboard in the house. However the cupboard was not to be opened under any other circumstances.

The son was a spendthrift and soon exhausted all his wealth. At last he was virtually penniless, there was not even enough to provide the barest necessities for his family; moreover, there was illness in the house besides all sorts of other troubles. He remembered the cupboard and managed to open it with great difficulty. To his utter disappointment, he found it empty. It was an ordinary black cupboard, so he threw it outside into the compound and started to dig and search everywhere for the hidden treasure - in vain. In his despair, he finally went to solicit the help of a Mahàtmà (Saint). The Mahàtmà agreed to come to his house and see what could be done. On arriving there, he looked around and then asked, "Give me a seat beside the black cupboard." He sat down and scraped the varnish off the old piece of furniture, and lo and behold, it was found to be made of pure gold.

"Similarly ", Mataji concluded, "the gold is to be found in everyone's own heart where the ONE sits enthroned on His lotus seat. But unless one is completely empty the gold cannot be found.

- Sri Ma Anandamayi.

Question - Ma, Is there no justification at all for professional or any other mundane work?

Sri Anandamayi Ma - Occupation with worldly things acts like slow poison. Gradually, without one noticing it, it leads to death: Should I advise my friends and my fathers and mothers to take this road? I cannot do so.

What this body says: Choose the path to Immortality, take any path that according to your temperament will lead you to the Realization of your Self.

Nevertheless, even while working in the world, you can do one thing. Whatever you do throughout the day, endeavor to do it in the spirit of service. Serve God in everyone, regarding everyone and everything as manifestations of Him, and serve Him by whatever work you undertake. If you live with this attitude of mind, the path to Reality will open out before you.

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One of God's Names is Love. He Himself resides within all, at every moment, everywhere. When man - true to his calling - aspires after the One with uninterrupted intensity, then only His Presence manifests.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Realization must be all-comprehensive, all-embracing, and one must recognize one’s Self in everything.

~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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