Anandamayi Ma
Anandamayi Ma ( Bengali: আনন্দময়ী মা, Anandamayi Ma,, born April 30, 1896 † 27 August 1982) was a renowned spiritual master from India. Ananda means happiness. Allegedly, she was kind of its nature forth, quiet and serene. Her hobbies were: tell stories, sing, dance and laugh: "Whenever you have the opportunity, so a lot of laughs you can. "
Life
Anandamayi Ma was as Nirmala Sundari was born on 30 April 1896 in Kheora, Bengal. Her parents were Bipinbihari Bhattacharya and Mokshada Sundari Devi. Her father was a famous singer and followers of Lord Vishnu. At twelve, she was married and moved in 1914 at the age of 18 years with her husband Bholanath together. It was 1922, and died in 1938 as a student sannyasin.
Anandamayi Ma traveled to more than 50 years the Indian subcontinent. Her followers built 28 ashrams in India, Europe and the USA ( Hawaii). They founded the Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha in Varanasi. The Blissful Mother taught the unity of all religions and was worshiped by Muslims, Christians, Parsis, Sikhs, Jains, Hindus and Buddhists. Also, many public figures such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Richard von Weizsäcker and Karl Fried Count Dürckheim you visited.
Yogananda wrote about it in his Autobiography of a Yogi. She told him: .. .. " My consciousness has never identified with my body, I was the same before I came to this earth as a little girl, I was the same as a young woman, I was the same when I got married, I was the same Now before. you I 'm still the same. And after my death I'll be the same in the hall of eternity. "
On August 27, 1982 Anandamayi Ma died in the ashram in Kishenpur Ashram in Northern India ( Dehradun ). Your body is kept in the Mahasamadhi temple in Haridwar on the banks of the Ganges in northern India.
Teaching
In 1917 she began her six year old Sadhana. First they said the name of Lord Vishnu " Hari " as a mantra, because their parents were Vaishnavites. But her husband was a follower of Lord Shiva Yoga, and she went over to the mantra " Shiva ". She danced to the mantras and then lingered in a quiet meditation. After a few months she began then with the postures of yoga that allegedly invaded her spontaneously, without them it would have ever learned.
Your body postures (asanas ) she practiced out of the feeling. She practiced a way of creative and intuitive Hatha Yoga. Their mental exercises she made creative and intuitive. They each practiced the positive characteristics and the role models that they just needed in each moment. One after another flowed a variety of deities through their mind. They visualized their forms, identified with them, thought their name as a mantra, trying thereby activate the " kundalini energy " in itself.
According to the legend lingered Anandamayi Ma, after she had charged her body and mind with spiritual energy, then from 1922 for three years in the "great calm" (Raja Yoga). They hardly spoke ( Mauna ), acted little and sat mostly just there. She needed no more exercises. The awakened Kundalini energy purified from alone her body, her mind and her soul.
Anandamayi Ma was a master of hatha yoga. They gave the world the way of creative yoga. The creative yoga consists of physical exercises ( Hatha Yoga), mental exercises ( bhakti - yoga), meditation (Raja Yoga) and the path of universal love ( karma yoga ). The creative yoga has parallels to the Yoga of Synthesis of Swami Sivananda, who knew and greatly admired.
Further, the legend goes 1922: Her husband told her that it by a guru is without the dedication no deeper progress on the spiritual path. Then she decorated her room solemnly lit incense and consecrated themselves a. It connected with their inner guru. A mantra spontaneously appeared in her mind. She drew the associated mandala (meditation image ) on the floor and meditated in the following years with this mantra. At the conclusion of their sadhana they achieved a state large inner happiness, well corresponded to the name " Blissful Mother". She had now the wish: " May all beings experience this indescribable joy. " They wanted to share their inspiration with the world and therefore had the rest of their lives as a spiritual master in India.
Anandamayi Ma was not lecturing, but responded to questions. Their advice directed mostly to fit their individual questioner. She taught both a life of renunciation as a yogi ( ascetic ) and the spiritual life in a family. However, they recommended that everyone without exception, a certain amount of time to meditate daily. Was the core of their doctrine: " The highest calling of a human is to strive for self -realization. All other obligations are secondary. " All people who practice every day consistently 15 minutes spiritually, she promised her blessing.