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"You are all blessed because you are constantly showered with the blessings of

Amma. The ambience of her colleges is sufficient to instill in you the values of

life.. Her divine mission should be your inspiration to make right use of life

and add value to society."

- Bharat Rana Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, talking to students at

one of Amma's colleges

 

''The world today needs solid proof that our human values are useful, that such

qualities as compassion, selflessness, renunciation and humility have the power

to create a great and prosperous society. Amma's work provides us with the

much-needed proof."

- Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India

 

 

"There are people who can expound eloquently on all the scriptures and explain

all their nuances, but rare are those who live the life described in these

scriptures. Sri Mata Amritanandamayi belongs to this rare category of

enlightened souls."

- Sri L. K. Advani, Union Minister for Home Affairs, India

 

"I believe that [Amma] stands here in front of us, God's love in a human body."

- Dr. Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist and 2001 recipient of the

Gandhi-King Award for Non-violence

 

"Amma is the embodiment of pure love. Her presence heals."

- Deepak Chopra, M.D. (international best-selling author)

 

"By her emphasis on selfless service and charity, Amma will, I believe, hugely

influence the future world."

- Brother Wayne Teasdale, Parliament of the World's Religions trustee and author

 

?She is Love Incarnate. The moment you come in contact with Her, an affectionate

blessing enters into your soul.?

-- Shri. Murli Manohar Joshi, India's Honourable Minister of Human Resources. At

New Delhi, Wednesday, 17 March 2004

 

"[Amma is] one of the most glorious lights to appear in the history of religion.

Just her stamina - embracing these millions of people one by one, day after day,

without a break, all over the world - is some kind of divine gift. No mere human

resources could accomplish this."

- Timothy Conway, Ph.D., author of the book Women of Power and Grace and expert

on spiritual figures

 

"A society having only the government system, no matter how powerful and

sincere, cannot survive for long without the solid base provided by

spirituality.. One plausible solution is to evolve a new universal religion..

Now, only a vague outline can be speculated. Fortunately to have a glimpse of a

sage of that universal religion, we have not to wait for some distant future.

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi's life and work is a living example of universal love

and service. "

- Dr. D. N. Srivastava, Senior Scientist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

 

" In all my life I have not met a warmer personality than [Amma]. Even an

agnostic like me had great difficulty in holding back my tears."

- Khushwant Singh, author and journalist

 

"Mata Amritanandamayi is the cultural ambassador of India."

— Pon Radhakrishnan, Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs

 

"We love Amma not because of who She is, but because of who we become in Her

presence."

-- Shri. Uma Bharati, the Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, at

Bhopal, Friday, 12 March 2004

 

"She is a great person. She has done tremendous work for the poor and

downtrodden, which most Mahatmas do not do. Most are going for big people. Amma

is going for small people, the common people. This is a great thing. She is

effecting jobs, effecting education —this is God's work."

-- Shri. Brijesh Misra, India's National Security Advisor, on Wednesday, 17

March 2004 at New Delhi

 

"My first feeling of Amma--right from the beginning--was that some great

Mahatmas are born for changing the destiny of the world, and She is one. They

have come for a purpose. They are not ordinary. They are Parameshwara Himself.

They come with a purpose.

-- Shri. Ashok Singhal, the president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), at New

Delhi Wednesday, 17 March 2004

 

?Amma is a very, very transparent personality. She is in the real sense a

Mother. And as a Mother, She loves all of the Universe. She blesses us all. She

gives strength to the individual, to the system and to the spiritual. That is

how I feel!?

__-- Shri. Narendra Modi, the Honourable Chief Minister of Gujarat, at

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Thursday, 10 March 2004.

 

"All religions should work together for peace. Amma is a voice for all of us.

She is certainly inspired by God and sent by God to guide us on this path. She

is doing great work. She can only come from God. She is spiritually empowered,

this spirituality of brotherhood. We all feel inspired by Her, and we thank God

that He sent this gift to humanity!"

- Arch Bishop of Bhopal,His Grace Dr. Pascal Topno, at Bhopal, Friday, 12 March

2004.

 

"Amma does fantastic work for communal harmony. She does great service to human

beings, without any difference of class, creed, religion or nationality. I was

really moved by Her work. I was overcome by emotions when I met Her? I was

moved! She is wonderful!"

-- Smt. Amisha Beagun Mirza, the honourable mayor of Ahmedabad, at Ahmedabad,

Friday, 10 March 2004.

 

?Amma is a very, very transparent personality. She is in the real sense a

Mother. And as a Mother, She loves all of the Universe. She blesses us all. She

gives strength to the individual, to the system and to the spiritual. That is

how I feel!?

-- Shri. Narendra Modi, the Honourable Chief Minister of Gujarat, at Amrita

Vidyalayam Ahmedabad, Thursday, 10 March 2004.

 

"Amma's approach is total to remove the suffering of the people. Amma's mission

is to comfort and uplift humanity by developing and upgrading their skills."

--Shri. Sarad Pawar, president of the Congress Party in Maharashtra, member of

Indian Parliament, at Pune, Sunday, 29 February 2004

 

"We all need heroes, people like Amma, who remind us of how great we can be when

we've forgotten."

– Ms Linda Evans, Hollywood actress and Environmental Activist, at

Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Amma, is a glorious example of such universal motherhood. Her life itself is a

lesson on universal motherhood, as She took Her painful steps from a neglected

childhood to become Amma to millions of devotees and admirers around the world.

One Mata Amritanandamayi can bring about the integration of the people of the

world in a deeper sense than any number of organizations like the U.N. O. Love

is the greatest conqueror.

-- Swamini Niranjanananda, Resident Acharaya of the Chinmaya Mission

International Foundation, at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, we have, the embodiment of both Motherhood and

spirituality mingled in one single human presence which embraces the entire

globe as it is, without any discrimination, in one single sweep of unbounded

love and limitless acts of compassionate service.

-- Shri. P. Parameshwaran, Director, Bharatiya Vichara Kendra, at

Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

"I thank Amma for giving me the direct experience of the Divine Mother. It has

been 13 blissful years; this year I celebrated my bat mitzvah with Amma."

-- Rabbi Leah Novick, Pathfinder of the Jewish Renewal Movement, at

Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Mata Amritanandamayi represents a long line of women seers, saints, social

reformers who have transformed the collective psyche of India by their sheer

presence. Their experience of the inner life of reflection and introspection, of

tapas [austerities] and sadhana [spiritual practice], has, as it had to,

manifest itself in diverse ways of public action for the good of humanity.

-- Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Former Secretary, Department of Arts, Ministry of Human

Resources, at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

I had the blessed privilege and honour to meet Amma and receive darshan during

Her U.S. Tour. It was a moment of transcendence, for I was able to grasp for the

first time the essence of true fulfillment and agape [unconditional] love. What

I cherish about Amma is that she not only talks the talk and is the embodiment

of unconditional love, but She expresses that love in action. She walks the

talk. Mahatma Gandhi urged us to 'be the change we wish to see in the world.'

Amma IS the change She wants to see in our world. She is a profound living

example for all of us.

--Ms. Yolanda King, Daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Director,

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, at

Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Mata Amritanandamayi has showered the whole world with the nectar of motherly

love. Adi Shankaracharya who forms the taproot of Indian Culture was born in

Kerala. It is also the birthplace of Amma. Kerala is called God's own land. We

call it Mother's own land.

-- His Holiness Shankaracharya Swami Raghaveshwara Bharati, Hosanagar,

Karnataka, India, at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

After the Millennium World Peace Summit at the UN in 2000, where Amma addressed

the UN General Assembly, Amma made a great impact. At that time, Swami Dayananda

said to me, 'She is a great spiritual power. She should definitely be made the

representative of the great Hindu culture in the UN World Council

-- Sri Bawa Jain, Secretary General, World Council of Religions, at

Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Fellow pilgrims, in a journey of faith and compassionate service we engage in a

dialogue of life. We are companions of love in action. Amma is the universal

symbol of Motherhood, of compassion.

-- Rev. Dr. Ipe Josef, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches,

India, at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Through God's servant Amma, we see that human beings are capable of enormous

compassion, and as She shares God's love we see and feel love's healing power.

-- Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Director, Department of Religion, Chautauqua

Institution, USA, at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

Amma, Your embrace has become a worldwide treasure sought by princes and

peasants, women and men, babies and frail elderly. Your embrace is not just to

comfort the suffering, but is a gift of strength and spiritual energy to all who

work to embrace the world, the world of work, the world of government, and the

world of family.

-- Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Director, Department of Religion, Chautauqua

Institution, USA , at Amritavarsham50, September 24-27, 2003 Kochi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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