Maa anandmayi updesh

 Sri Anandamayi Ma

On True Friendship:

"Your true friend is he who shows you the path that leads to your Supreme Friend. One who takes you along the road of certain death, of sense enjoyment, is not your friend or well-wisher. He is your enemy. He is showing you the way to suicide. Avoid his company. He who urges you to take the path to Immortality, to go out in search of the Supreme Friend, he is your true friend. This Body is the friend of you all, don’t you think so?"

Prayer 

"If pray you must for things of the world, then pray to Him, but the most excellent prayer is for God Himself."

(Source: "In Your Heart - Is My Abode" by Bithika Mukerji, page 56)On Suffering:

"Misery goes away only in the shelter of the Lord. It is God’s grace only that Man suffers as a result of his karma. If this suffering be taken as His grace, it will lead to ultimate good."

(Source: "Ma in Her Words")

Sri Ramana MaharshiOn Meditation and Self-Inquiry:

"Through meditation on the forms of God and through repetition of mantras, the mind becomes one-pointed. The mind will always be wandering. Just as when a chain is given to an elephant to hold in its trunk it will go along grasping the chain and nothing else, so also when the mind is occupied with a name or form it will grasp that alone. When the mind expands in the form of countless thoughts, each thought becomes weak; but as thoughts get resolved the mind becomes one-pointed and strong; for such a mind Self-enquiry will become easy."

By Dr Radhey Shyam gupta 

  28 june 2025