Nationality Indian Name Anandmurti Gurumaa | Known for Spirituality Role Spiritual leader | |
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Born 8 April 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-04-08 ) Amritsar, Punjab, India Movement Shakti – an NGO to educate girls and empower women Books Sutras for Transcending Indulgence, Premabhakti Ek Utsav | ||
Live bbc interview with anandmurti gurumaa 2011
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.
Contents
- Live bbc interview with anandmurti gurumaa 2011
- Anandmurti gurumaa on spiritual love and marriage
- Life sketch
- Teachings
- Humanitarian Initiatives
- Works
- References
Anandmurti means "an embodiment of Divine Bliss", and Gurumaa means "Master Mother" in Hindi. Gurumaa teaches the disciplines of meditation, yoga, present moment awareness and self-realisation, using meditation techniques from yoga, zen, tantra, sufism, sikhism, buddhism and devised methods. Gurumaa's core teachings include meditation, self-realization, evolving consciousness and non-duality.
Anandmurti gurumaa on spiritual love and marriage
Life sketch
Gurumaa was born on 8 April 1966 at Amritsar in Punjab, India. She was educated in a convent school graduated in arts. 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.
Gurumaa is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of 16. 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.
Gurumaa's discourses started coming daily on Sony Entertainment Television in the morning in 1999 and her popularity started increasing. 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
Humanitarian Initiatives
Shakti is a mission started by Anandmurti Gurumaa to empower female children in India and stop female foeticide. 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. It was started informally in 2000. In the 2006–2007 academic year, around 175 girls were given full tuition fees for their studies.
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.). 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.
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. These poems were published in the book Prem ka chalakta jaam. Gurumaa has also sung few of Rumi's poems, translated to Hindi, on her album Rumi – Love at its zenith.