Mata Amritanandamayi

Mata Amritanandamayi

Humanitarian known as Amma.

Widely known as Amma, she is a revered spiritual leader and humanitarian who offers solace through her practices of hugging and charitable work. Her teachings emphasize compassion, selfless service, and the importance of spiritual realization. Amma's global outreach includes extensive social and charitable initiatives, focusing on education, healthcare, and disaster relief, reflecting her commitment to alleviating suffering and promoting human values.

Mata Amritanandamayi Quotes about Life

  • Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
  • Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.
  • Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
  • Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.
  • Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
  • In this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.
  • Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
  • The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.
  • Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
  • When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.
  • Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
  • Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.
  • The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.
  • 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.
  • If we have been able to give happiness to a soul—even for a minute—it makes our life blessed.
  • 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.
  • Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.
  • Take a vow for a life of service to others.
  • When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.
  • Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
  • To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
  • Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.
  • Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
  • Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.