Anandamayi Ma Quotes

India, Saint
April 30, 1896 – August, 27, 1982.

Anandamayi Ma (née Nirmala Sundari) was an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society) as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." Precognition, faith healing and miracles were attributed to her by her followers. Paramahansa Yogananda translates the Sanskrit epithet Anandamayi as "Joy-permeated" in English. This name was given to her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe her perpetual state of divine joy.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Anandamayi Ma
- Labor
- Gems
- Extracted
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.

Anandamayi Ma
- Reality
- Words
- Expressed

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

Anandamayi Ma
- Tree
- Protect
- Calls
How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Anandamayi Ma
- Find
- Lives
- You Are
When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart.

Anandamayi Ma
- Life
- Heart
- Tears
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self.

Anandamayi Ma
- God
- Hands
- Result
There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

Anandamayi Ma
In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.

Anandamayi Ma
- Find
- Everything
- Him

It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

Anandamayi Ma
- Path
- Ways
- Forms
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Anandamayi Ma
- Mind
- Nature
- Desires