Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share
As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“To cry out to Him is never in vain. So long as no response is received, the prayer must be continued.” — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share
There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity. — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share
