Sri Anandamayi Ma

Practise where you are, right here, sickness and all. And you’ll be transformed.

Atmananda, an Austrian woman who spent several years with Anandamayi, and whose account of her spiritual discipleship was published posthumously as the book Death Must Die, recounts horrendous caste-based discrimination she faced as a Western woman in what was for all purposes a strict Hindu ashram.

Anandamayi spoke with incisive clarity that came from a sense of knowing, an incandescence that was not reflected or borrowed light but came directly from the source.

It is she, Atmananda, who must change. Who must use this opportunity and allow her ego-self to be worn down, and reach a state of equilibrium unaffected by what happens to her or around her.

This death is inevitably connected with this life.

One can say that she was completely involved in and committed to positive change; only, her theatre of action was the mind, the very ground of being.

constantly turning circumstances in her followers’ lives into opportunities for learning and practice.

move towards an unconditioned awareness of everything.