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Amma
- Healing the Heart of the World
Throughout the world Amma is known as "the
hugging saint." Revered in India
as a sage, she spends most of her waking hours
embracing strangers, offering them unconditional love.
In this unique biography, Judith Cornell an award winning writer,
recounts this guru's remarkable story through the
words of Amma's own intimate disciples, acquaintances
and devotees,and from her own extensive research and knowledge of
Amma, whom she has watched and moved with for more than a decade.
Awaken Children
- Vol 1 to Vol 9
Awaken Children series,
is a collection of Amma's words and conversations from 1982 with
devotees and others who came to see her.
These volumes are compiled from then on
by Swami Amritaswarupananda, Amma's senior disciple, who came to
Amma seeking divine guidance and has stayed in her presence since
then.
These books are packed with her divine wisdom in the natural setting
of a hermitage in India. This series forms the main resource of
Amma's teachings and philosophy. Amma explains all the mysteries
of life in her own simple and lucid style and yet the message
is deep and profound. Those who wish to understand Amma's teachings
should own these nine volumes which are priceless gems.
The
Awakening of Universal Motherhood
Amma's Address at the Global Peace
Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders on October 7,
2002, in Geneva, Switzerland
This gem of a booklet contains Amma's address on Universal Motherhood
-- the real power of both women and men -- and her acceptance speech
upon receiving the 2002 Gandhi-King Award for Non-violence at the
Peace Initiative.
Lead
us to light
Questions answered
by Amma and complied by her disciple Swami Jnanamritananda puri.
The topics in this book include: Lord of
Yoga--Protector of Dharma, Women and Society, the Master-Disciple
relationship, Speaking with Westerners, Nighttime with Mother at
the Backwaters, and more.
An excerpt from Lead Us To The Light:
Q: Is it possible to enjoy spiritual bliss while still living in
this world?
Mother: Certainly. Spiritual experience is indeed something to
be enjoyed in this world, with this body, and not something to be
gained after death. Spirituality and worldly life are both ingredients
of life. One does not exist totally without the other, just as in
the case of mind and body. Spirituality is the science that teaches
us how to live happily in the material world. There are two kinds
of learning. One is the learning required for a job, for work. The
other is learning for living. Schooling of the former type will
get us a job. But if we want to live in peace and happiness, we
need another kind of learning. That is spirituality.
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