Anandmurti Gurumaa

Anandmurti Gurumaa

Anandmurti Gurumaa
Born (1966-04-08) 8 April 1966
Amritsar, Punjab, India
Nationality Indian
Known for Spirituality
Movement Shakti – an NGO to educate girls and empower women

Anandmurti Gurumaa (Devnagari: आनन्दमूर्ति गुरुमाँ Punjabi: ਅਨੰਦਮੂਰਤੀ ਗੁਰਮਾਂ), also known as Gurumaa, born in Amritsar, Punjab, India, is a modern-day spiritual master. She has followers of many faiths, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

Anandmurti means "an embodiment of Divine Bliss", and Gurumaa means "Master Mother"[1] in Hindi. Gurumaa teaches the disciplines of meditation, yoga, present moment awareness and self-realisation,[2] using meditation techniques from yoga, zen, tantra, sufism, sikhism, buddhism and devised methods.[3] Gurumaa's core teachings include meditation, self-realization, evolving consciousness and non-duality.

Life sketch

Gurumaa was born on 8 April 1966 at Amritsar in Punjab, India. She was educated in a convent school graduated in arts.[4] In her childhood she used to accompany her mother to spiritual discourses, gatherings, satsangs. She would also have assemblies of sadhus coming to her home. Some of the friendly mahatmas would speak to her.[5]

Gurumaa is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of 16.[5] She says she didn't put in years of austerity for enlightenment and she was a normal girl who used to enjoy all games, sports and extra-curricular activities, which she continued after college.[5]

Gurumaa's discourses started coming daily on Sony Entertainment Television in the morning in 1999 and her popularity started increasing.[5] Her followers started organising meditation camps in Rishikesh twice a year. She established an ashram in the Ganaur area of Sonepat district in Haryana. Since the ashram had a limited residential capacity of around 500 people, she started conducting different meditation camps for people of different regions.

Gurumaa conducted a series of discourses on various spiritual texts of Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and Buddhism like Bhagavad Gita, Japji Sahib, Rehraas Sahib, Jaap Sahib of Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Gita, Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatkam and Bhaja Govindam, Narada Bhakti Sutra. Also including the poetry of Sufi mystics like Baba Bulle Shah, Baba Farid and Rumi. Presently discourses by Anandmurti Gurumaa by the name Amrit Varsha are telecast in India on SAB TV everyday at 6:00 am, in UK on Life OK at 7:30 am (Mon-Fri), and in rest of the world on Star Plus at 6:30 am (Mon-Fri). They are also aired daily on Aastha Intl. in the US, UK, Canada at 8:30 am.

Teachings

“ our relationship with God is rooted in expectations, which stops us from experiencing fulfillment. In the same manner, enlightenment will be denied to us as long as we long for it. It is only when we surrender the desire, that we will attain to it. ”

Humanitarian Initiatives

Shakti is a mission started by Anandmurti Gurumaa to empower female children in India and stop female foeticide.[8] Shakti supports the education of the girls from poor and needy families until 12th standard. Shakti gives financial support for education without any color/caste/creed discrimination.[9][10] It was started informally in 2000. In the 2006–2007 academic year, around 175 girls were given full tuition fees for their studies.[11]

Shakti Udaan is an extension of mission Shakti. Vocational training institutes called 'Shakti Udaan' have been set up in Kaithal, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Kanpur. The vocational courses offered at these centres include basic computer science, home science skills (handicraft, tailoring/clothes designing, art of henna application etc.).[12] So far more than 1500 girls have benefited from these institutes.

Blood Sharing Camps are held throughout the year wherein hundreds of people volunteer to share their blood. These are organised in association with Delhi Red Cross Society.[13]

Works

Gurumaa has translated the Sufi love poems of the Turkish Sufi dervish Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi into the Hindi language, for the first time in India.[14] These poems were published in the book Prem ka chalakta jaam.[15] Gurumaa has also sung few of Rumi's poems, translated to Hindi, on her album Rumi – Love at its zenith.[16]

Further reading

Gurumaa's products (details below) are available.

English

Hindi


Gujarati

Marathi

Punjabi

Telugu

E-Books

References

  1. ↑ Gurumaa on Gurumaa.com
  2. ↑ Gurumaa's teachings and question answers
  3. ↑ Meditation Techniques by Gurumaa published in Life Positive magazine
  4. ↑ Official Life Sketch
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Interview in Life Positive Magazine, May 2005 Issue
  6. ↑ Life Positive Expo 2005 talk
  7. ↑ Life Positive Expo 2006 talk
  8. ↑ Indian Express Ludhiana city edition, November 06, 2006
  9. ↑ Shakti initiative by Gurumaa
  10. ↑ Ananmurti Gurumaa's Shakti mission launched in UK
  11. ↑ Shakti Presentation
  12. ↑ http://www.gurumaa.com/shakti/women-empowerment-shakti-udaan-vocational-institutes
  13. ↑ http://www.gurumaa.com/initiatives/initiatives-blood-sharing-camp.php
  14. ↑ Sufiana Andaaz – Tehelka Newspaper, Aug 26, 2006
  15. ↑ Prem ka chalakta jaam
  16. ↑ Rumi – love at its zenith

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