Sri anandamayi ma biography of mahatma

She was revered as an incarnation of Hindu goddess Durga. She was described by Sivananda Saraswati of the Divine Life Society as "la fleur la plus parfaite que le sol de l'Inde ait produite" [ 5 ] [the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced]. This name was given to her by her devotees in the s to describe her perpetual state of divine joy.

Both parents were from well regarded lineages, though the family lived in poverty. According to Nirmala Sundari, her mother gave birth to three sons, all of whom died in infancy or early childhood.

Anandamayi ma last days

Nirmala attended village schools of Sultanpur and Kheora for approximately 2—4 months. When her mother once fell seriously ill, relatives too remarked with puzzlement about the child remaining apparently unaffected. In at the age of twelve years, 10 months, in keeping with the rural custom at the time, she was joined by arranged marriage to Ramani Mohan Chakrabarti of Bikrampur Munshiganj District whom she would later rename Bholanath.

It was at Ashtagram that a devout neighbour, Harakumar, recognised and announced her spiritual eminence, developed a habit of addressing her as "Ma", and prostrated before her morning and evening in reverence. When Nirmala was about seventeen, she went to live with her husband who was working in the town of Ashtagram.

Was anandamayi ma married

Their relationship was not in accordance with social norms as it was a celibate marriage—whenever thoughts of lust occurred to Ramani, Nirmala's body would apparently take on the qualities of death. In , the couple moved to Bajitpur , where they stayed until Bholanath was somewhat concerned about that as she would then often fall to the ground and sometimes take hours to return to a normal state of consciousness.

The next morning when I got up early, the body felt light and from the feet to the head a wave of bliss flowed through me. Of this kind was the experience. Day and night, an overflowing light of bliss pervaded me. On the full moon night of August 3, , at midnight, twenty-six-year-old Nirmala enacted her own spiritual initiation.