Anandamayi Ma is certainly on my top 5 people I would have died to meet while alive.
Her life story and the actual Shakti in her words are phenomenal.
This is a great quote from her describing her experience of life;
Quote:
paramhansa yogananda wrote about her in his “autobiography of a yogi”. when paramahansa yogananda met anandamayi ma and asked her about her life, she answered:
"father, there is little to tell.” she spread her graceful hands in a deprecatory gesture. “my consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. before i came on this earth, father, ‘i was the same.’ as a little girl, ‘i was the same.’ i grew into womanhood, but still ‘i was the same.’ when the family in which i had been born made arrangements to have this body married, ‘i was the same.’ … and, father, in front of you now, ‘i am the same.’ ever afterward, though the dance of creation change[s] around me in the hall of eternity, ‘i shall be the same.'”
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