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26-08-2021, 06:41 PM
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And for those interested, Yogananda describes his meeting with Anandamayi Ma in Ch. 45 of Autobiography of a Yogi.
Peace
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27-08-2021, 02:55 AM
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Thanks, iamthat! Just read through the chapter. Absolutely mesmerising!
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27-08-2021, 10:32 AM
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Thanks, iamthat! Just read through the chapter. Absolutely mesmerising!
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27-08-2021, 11:03 AM
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27-08-2021, 01:48 PM
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My spiritual mentor was a "soul sister" of Anandamayi Ma and I used to have a picture of the two of them together. We used to hear lots of stories about her at our ashram. Our ashram in Haridwar (India) is actually a short walk from Anandaymayi's mausoleum and I visited it frequently when I was at the Haridwar Khumba Mela in 1998. Both my teacher and Anandamayi Ma were featured in Linda Johnsen's book, Living Women Saints of India.
What I remember most about her was her statement when she revealed herself: "I am the all-pervading Reality".
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27-08-2021, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Still_Waters
My spiritual mentor was a "soul sister" of Anandamayi Ma and I used to have a picture of the two of them together.
We used to hear lots of stories about her at our ashram.
Our ashram in Haridwar (India) is actually a short walk from Anandaymayi's mausoleum...
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You often make me jealous...and I don't get jealous!!! 
I also will re-read Ch 45!!!! 
I have watched long Q and As of hers! ....Using subtitles...not so easy! LOL!
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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27-08-2021, 02:38 PM
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You often make me jealous...and I don't get jealous!!!
I also will re-read Ch 45!!!!
I have watched long Q and As of hers! ....Using subtitles...not so easy! LOL! |
No wonder that I just love the energy of Still Waters 
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29-08-2021, 02:23 PM
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QUOTE 26 EXCERPT:
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As you know by now, I get around ! 
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31-08-2021, 09:32 AM
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Yes, I find Anandamayi Ma's teachings quite inspiring as well.
For me, her greatest teaching was that of virtuous conduct being potent enough on its own to attain enlightenment, and that agnostics and atheists are similarly capable of spiritual development. I consider this teaching important in modern times where philosophies like nihilism and existentialism erroneously consider all values to be mere mental abstractions.
There is a dialogue between Anandamayi Ma and a disciple of hers in this context...
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Question: Suppose an atheist lives an ethical and righteous life. Is he on a lower level than a faithful devotee?
Ma Anandamayi : An ethical life purifies the mind. Even though one may have no faith in God, if one believes in some Superior Power or pursues a high ideal, this also will serve one's purpose. By living an ethical life, one progresses towards the realization of the Divine.
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Buddha had similarly stated that wholesome virtuous behavior is capable of realizing enlightenment.
Rajini Menon is a female enlightened master of recent times who attributed her enlightenment to practice of virtuous conduct....
https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...d.php?t=129341
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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30-09-2021, 04:52 PM
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Leland! go to 1:44 min on here and Peter Mt. Shasta talks about Anandamayi Ma! meeting her... Plus generally
the entire interview is right up our alley...this guy went all over met many Indians in the 60-70s,etc. Fun stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9kL9kbAwY
Another Buddha at the Gas Pump interview :)
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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