Kategori: Ananadamayi Ma

Question: How to acquire the child like state?
Mataji: Seek the company of the pure and Godlike and obey the Guru and elders. This will lead to the spontaneous unfolding of the childlike state.

Question: How shall we realize God?
Mataji: Weep for Him and you will find Him.

Question: I cannot weep at all. Tears simply won’t come. What shall I do?
Mataji (laughing): Seek the company of those who weep. Keep the company of pure and God minded persons.

Question: What is the easiest way to God?
Mataji: Profuse tears.

Question: And if tears do not come?
Mataji: Then you should seek the company of those who shed tears; namely, seek satsang. This is the easiest way to God through love and devotion.

– Sri Ma Anandamayi

~Question and answers with Ma Anandamayi. Matri Upadeshamrita.2

Try your utmost never to succumb to anyone’s influence. In order to become firm, calm, deeply serious, and full of courage, with one’s personality wholly intact, pure, and holy out of one’s own strength, one has to be centred in God.

Sri Anandamayi Ma

Questioner: For a long time, I regarded Jesus Christ as my Savior. But for a while now, I have no longer been able to believe any of it. Perhaps I never truly believed it, but only wanted to believe. That is terrible. Please help me let go of this desperate desire to believe.

Anandamayi Ma: You must now learn to accept the inner emptiness and to live with it. Resist the temptation to fill it, for you would only be deceiving yourself. If you are patient, one day you will discover that Mahashunya (the great emptiness) is Christ itself. Then you will no longer be without him for even a single moment.

– Anandamayi Ma

God is one’s very own Self, the breath of one’s breath, the life of one’s life, the Atma.

Not until his true Self has been revealed to him may a seeker ever relax his search. By seeking, one will find the Self is within one’s own grasp. To feel fatigued, exhausted, because one has not found Him is a very good sign indeed.

It indicates that one is nearing the purification of one’s heart and mind.

– Anandamayi Māa

It is not right to compare and reason saying: “Such and such a person has done sadhana for so many years and yet has not got anywhere”.

How can you judge what is happening to anyone inwardly?

Sometimes it seems that a person who does sadhana seems to have changed for the worse.

But how do you know that this tendency has not always been in him and has now come out so that it may be dealt with and purified as a result of his endeavors?

– Ananadamayi Ma

Once, when the satsang was over, an old man was taking leave. ”It is getting late,” he said, ”I must be going home.”

”Late indeed,” agreed Anandamayi, ”there you are right; but go to your real home, not to the dharmasala pilgrim hostel.”

”I am not staying in any dharmasala, I have my own house here,” he replied.

She shook her head and smiled:
”Do you call that home? You won’t be able to stay there for ever. Your days are numbered and when your time is up, you will have to leave. I call it dharmasala. There are rules and regulations; you may remain for a while but then you have to quit. This body tells you to find your real home from which nobody can drive you out, which is not of this world. Dig deep and unearth your real wealth, find your real home in God, who is your own Self.

~ Anandamayi Ma

(Discourse and Dialogue of Anandamayi Ma – Richard Lannoy, Chapter 6)