PATH OF THE MOTHER

Journey with Amma the Hugging Saint




Mata Amritanandamayi


Spiritual leader to millions around the world, Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma or Ammachi), spearheads a vast network of charitable and educational institutions throughout India.

Recipient of the Gandhi-King Award for Non-violence, Amma was keynote speaker at the Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona and Chicago; she addressed the United Nations General Assembly at the Millennium Peace Conference.

Amma is the guide throughout The Path of the Mother.

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"Love just happens...Love is a sudden uprising in the heart. Love is an unavoidable, unobstructable longing for oneness."

--Amma


stages on the path with the mother


The path of universal Love on the journey with the Mother follows six stages. The stages are cyclical; they happen over and over again in many different ways. They are nonlinear in the sense that one does not necessarily follow another.

Stage one is getting to know the Mother; stage two, love and rapture; three, the Mother's discipline; four, the shadow; five, surrender; and stage six, contentment and yearning. The final liberation is not included as a stage because, once attained, it is permanent.

--from The Path of the Mother by Savitri L. Bess


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Author, tapestry weaver, and astrologer, Savitri has lived for months at a time in Amma's ashram in India, from 1992-2005. A past recipient of Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts grants, Savitri now lives on an island in Downeast Maine. Please visit her other website, Spirit Tapestries (link on sidebar).

Selected Works

Spiritual Journey
The Path of the Mother
A six-stage journey to union with the Great Mother, with Amma as the guide
fiction
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Adventure, romance, on a search for the mystical mother, in the tradition of heroic quest literature.

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