AMMA, WORLD RENOWNED SOCIAL ACTIVIST,
ADDRESSES CROWD OF HALF MILLION
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
"In Rama’s Age, devils lived closer, in a neighboring land. In Krishna’s Age, devils lived in our families. Now they are even closer, they are inside us. These devils, we must kill them to succeed. They are Arrogance, Selfishness, and Greed. To gain peace of mind, we must be ready to battle. Not to battle with real weapons, but with Love, Devotion and Sacrifice. A battle without bloodshed. Only Peace and Love.
Look at our Society. We spend a lot of money traveling to the depths of the oceans and space to study them. But we never travel to our inner world, which is so close at hand.
Everyone loves TVs with bigger screens. But as the screens get bigger, our hearts get smaller. We have vacuum cleaners that suck up the tiniest dirt. Yet we are not ready to clean the dirt from our minds.
Our minds make our lives beautiful or ugly. We try to learn about the outside world, but never the inner world. We try to right the outside world and forget to right ourselves. We are slaves to the outside world.
We bear many physical and mental scars. We bear many unhealed wounds.
Total happiness cannot come from the outside world. It is like trying to hold the sky or sail across land.
Life is short. We must try to celebrate it. You hold only this moment in your hands."
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