Mata Amritanandamayi

Many people meditate in order that the third eye will open after the two eyes that see the world go blind. Such a thing will never happen. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-Realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings, even while our two eyes are wide open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. That is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.

Just having a respectful approach to everything can bring about a huge transformation in our society and in the world. To rise triumphantly in life, we should begin from the bottom. To build a tall tower that stretches to the sky, we should start by building a solid foundation down in the earth. It is humility that makes us rise high. It is respect that gives one real power.

We live in an age wherein despite immense scientific and technological advancements, we are witnessing the disintegration of many other important aspects of our lives. Therefore our focus today should neither be on dependence nor non-dependence, but on interdependence. This is because humans, animals, plants, the earth, the sky, the atmosphere, the sun, the moon and all the planets are all interdependent.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Wise Words from Vivekachudamani

What greater fool is there than the man who having obtained a rare human body, and a masculine body too, neglects to achieve the real end (liberation) of this life.

Work is for the purification of the mind, not for the perception of the Reality. The realization of Truth is brought about by discrimination and not in the least by ten millions of acts.

The man of discrimination between the real and the unreal, whose mind is turned away from the unreal, who possesses calmness and the allied virtues, and is longing for Liberation, is alone considered qualified to inquire after Brahman.

The resting of the mind steadfastly on its Goas (viz., Brahman) after having detached itself from the manifold of sense objects by continually observing their defects is called Sama or Calmness.

Vivekachudamani