From Amma's Heart - Conversations with Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

Back of the Book

For the past 30 years, Amma has dedicated her life to uplift suffering humanity through the simplest of gesturesan embrace. In this Intimate manner, Amma has blessed and consoled more than 30 million people throughout the world. Wherever she travelsbe it in India, America or Europethousands flock to seek her boundless love and compassion, her solace and her wisdom. From Ammas Heart is a collection of Ammas answers to questions asked during her programs in the West since 1999. Amma Speaks on a vast range of topics, including the nature of birth and death, worldly relationships, war and peace, and spiritual practices and philosophy. No matter the question, Amma answers in her own inimitable earthy stylefull of the love of a mother and the wisdom of a true spiritual master, presenting the most esoteric of spiritual truths in a manner so simple that even a child could understand.

Foreword

Without verbal communication, human existence would be miserable. Exchanging ideas and sharing emotions are part and parcel of life itself. However, it is the silence that we acquire through prayer and meditation that really helps us find peace and true happiness in this noisy world of conflict in differences and competition.

In normal every day life, where people have to interact and communicate in numerous situations, observing silence is difficult. And even if our surroundings are conducive to quietude, remaining silent is not so easy. It can even drive ordinary human beings crazy. However, blissful silence is the true nature of divine personalities such as Amma.

Watching Amma deal with various situations and people all over the world, I have seen the grace and perfection with which She switches from one mood to another. One moment, Amma is the supreme Spiritual Master and, the next, the compassionate mother.