Amma's devotees do their bit
The Mata Amritanandamayi Satsang Group Inc is going out of its way to do its bit for the community.
The Auckland group recently donated $5000 to the Red Cross New Zealand for the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
Group president Chandra Kurup and the fundraising committee member Varima Narula went to the Red Cross Service Centre in Manukau to hand over the cheque in person.
Mata Amritanandamayi Satsang Group was incorporated in 2007 and is a small group of people who are devoted to Amma and meet every fourth Saturday to conduct Satsang. Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, lovingly called Amma or Mother is one of the true living saints of today.
Amma’s mission carries out many spiritual and humanitarian activities all over the world, for instance: programmes to build 100,000 homes for the homeless, three orphanages, relief-and-rehabilitation in the face of disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, free medical care, pensions for widows and disabled people, environmental-protection groups, slum renovation, care homes for the elderly, and free food and clothing for the poor, among others.
These projects are managed and run by various organizations world-wide, including the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (India), the Mata Amritanandamayi Center (USA), Amritanandamayi-Europe, Amritanandamayi-Japan, Amritanandamayi-Kenya, Amritanandamayi-Australia, etc.
Amma says “Real love and devotion for God is to have compassion for the poor and the suffering. Feed those who are hungry, help the poor, console the sorrowful, comfort the suffering, be charitable to all.”
As Amma’s devotees and children it is our duty to follow her teachings.
“So our group here in New Zealand decided to raise funds for the people suffering after the Christchurch earthquake,” fundraising committee spokeswoman Varima Narula said.
“We collected around $4000 through members’ donations and fundraising activities and around $1000 were given from the group’s accounts. We plan to continue with our fundraising activities to help other people that may need it and also to get Amma to visit New Zealand.”
To get more information about Amma you can visit www.Amma.org or for NZ site visit www.amma.org.nz
She has hugged over 27 million people worldwide and is thus also known as the Hugging Saint. With every hug she passes on her compassion, healing and blessings, and you see people simply bursting into tears as they experience the power of her true unconditional Love.
While presenting Amma with the Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence, Jane Goodall, the UN Messenger of Peace, said: "She stands here in front of us – God's love in a human body. She teaches by the example of her own life and conveys the highest spiritual truths in the simplest language. Her teachings are universal.”
Amma does not profess any one particular religion but accepts the various spiritual practices and prayers of all religions as different systems for the single goal of purifying the mind.
Amma says, “Karma [action], Jnana [knowledge] and Bhakti [devotion] are all essential. If the two wings of a bird are devotion and action, knowledge is its tail. Only with the help of all three can the bird soar into the heights.”
She stresses the importance of meditation, performing actions as selfless service, and cultivating divine qualities such as compassion, patience, forgiveness, self-control, etc. Amma says that these practices refine the mind, making it fit for assimilating the ultimate truth: that one is not the limited body and mind but the eternal blissful consciousness.
This understanding Amma refers to as Jivanmukti [liberation while alive]. Amma says, "Jivanmukti is not something to be attained after death, nor is it to be experienced or bestowed upon you in another world. It is a state of perfect awareness and equanimity, which can be experienced here and now in this world, while living in the body.
Having come to experience the highest truth of oneness with the Self, such blessed souls do not have to be born again. They merge with the infinite consciousness.
The Mata Amritanandamayi Satsang Group Inc is going out of its way to do its bit for the community. The Auckland group recently donated $5000 to the Red Cross New Zealand for the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. Group president Chandra Kurup and the fundraising committee member Varima...
The Mata Amritanandamayi Satsang Group Inc is going out of its way to do its bit for the community.
The Auckland group recently donated $5000 to the Red Cross New Zealand for the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
Group president Chandra Kurup and the fundraising committee member Varima Narula went to the Red Cross Service Centre in Manukau to hand over the cheque in person.
Mata Amritanandamayi Satsang Group was incorporated in 2007 and is a small group of people who are devoted to Amma and meet every fourth Saturday to conduct Satsang. Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, lovingly called Amma or Mother is one of the true living saints of today.
Amma’s mission carries out many spiritual and humanitarian activities all over the world, for instance: programmes to build 100,000 homes for the homeless, three orphanages, relief-and-rehabilitation in the face of disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, free medical care, pensions for widows and disabled people, environmental-protection groups, slum renovation, care homes for the elderly, and free food and clothing for the poor, among others.
These projects are managed and run by various organizations world-wide, including the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (India), the Mata Amritanandamayi Center (USA), Amritanandamayi-Europe, Amritanandamayi-Japan, Amritanandamayi-Kenya, Amritanandamayi-Australia, etc.
Amma says “Real love and devotion for God is to have compassion for the poor and the suffering. Feed those who are hungry, help the poor, console the sorrowful, comfort the suffering, be charitable to all.”
As Amma’s devotees and children it is our duty to follow her teachings.
“So our group here in New Zealand decided to raise funds for the people suffering after the Christchurch earthquake,” fundraising committee spokeswoman Varima Narula said.
“We collected around $4000 through members’ donations and fundraising activities and around $1000 were given from the group’s accounts. We plan to continue with our fundraising activities to help other people that may need it and also to get Amma to visit New Zealand.”
To get more information about Amma you can visit www.Amma.org or for NZ site visit www.amma.org.nz
She has hugged over 27 million people worldwide and is thus also known as the Hugging Saint. With every hug she passes on her compassion, healing and blessings, and you see people simply bursting into tears as they experience the power of her true unconditional Love.
While presenting Amma with the Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence, Jane Goodall, the UN Messenger of Peace, said: "She stands here in front of us – God's love in a human body. She teaches by the example of her own life and conveys the highest spiritual truths in the simplest language. Her teachings are universal.”
Amma does not profess any one particular religion but accepts the various spiritual practices and prayers of all religions as different systems for the single goal of purifying the mind.
Amma says, “Karma [action], Jnana [knowledge] and Bhakti [devotion] are all essential. If the two wings of a bird are devotion and action, knowledge is its tail. Only with the help of all three can the bird soar into the heights.”
She stresses the importance of meditation, performing actions as selfless service, and cultivating divine qualities such as compassion, patience, forgiveness, self-control, etc. Amma says that these practices refine the mind, making it fit for assimilating the ultimate truth: that one is not the limited body and mind but the eternal blissful consciousness.
This understanding Amma refers to as Jivanmukti [liberation while alive]. Amma says, "Jivanmukti is not something to be attained after death, nor is it to be experienced or bestowed upon you in another world. It is a state of perfect awareness and equanimity, which can be experienced here and now in this world, while living in the body.
Having come to experience the highest truth of oneness with the Self, such blessed souls do not have to be born again. They merge with the infinite consciousness.
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