“The morning had a wonderful purity about it. the low-slung sun, which might have been a mighty fireball in preparation to be launched in a battle of giants, cast long shadows on the ground. Trees spread Rorschach-test shadows three times their size. Bushes seemed to be perfectly twofold, with an equal part of vegetation above […]
Continue reading“As corroboration of her claims about God, Ma now extended her arm and moved it from right to left, indicating the scenery: the reflective pond, the massive banyan tree, the cluster of smaller trees, the undulations of the grassy land stretching out before them, and the blinding brilliance of the sun. As the visitors followed […]
Continue reading“‘Actually, there is no such thing as time. So long as you remain enslaved by time, there will be birth and death. Time is a construction of your mind. Do not focus on other lifetimes, those that have come before or those that might come after this one. Pay full attention to what you can […]
Continue reading“‘Think of yourself,’ she replied. ‘You were an infant body, a toddler body, an adolescent body, and an adult body. Someday you will be an old body and then a dead body. Through all these changes of the body, you remained you. The body changed completely, but the essence that is you never changed. You […]
Continue reading“What radiance! What overpowering emanations of love spread out from this divine being! The friends automatically bowed their heads in the presence of such a highly developed soul. While it was her soul that overwhelmed them, Anandamayi Ma’s face was similarly powerful. Her ink-black hair fell in gentle waves down below her shoulders. Her brows […]
Continue reading“So it was that, as they sat there watching the fire, the friends were alive to the feminine, maternal qualities of creation. The fire itself, softly glowing and sending out regular crackles and crunching sounds, seemed in its emitted warmth to be wrapping them round with a protective blanket. The moon, nearly full now, had […]
Continue reading“The cadence of the music increased. The spinning tore the dancers’ awareness away from their bodies and sent it flying out into a timeless dimension. Their minds had turned off, leaving their souls open and free to the spirit of God that enlivened the room. Faster and faster came the music. Quicker and quicker came […]
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