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Mata Amritanandamai

Mata Amritanandamai Dewi (sanskryt: माता अमृतानन्‍दमयी, język malajalam: മാതാ അമൃതാനന്ദമയി; ur. 27 września, 1953) - indyjska przywódczyni duchowa uważana za świętą przez jej zwolenników, którze także nazywają ją "Amma", "Ammaći" czy "Matka". Jest powszechnie szanowaną działaczką charytatywną [1] i nazywana przez niektórych "przytulającą świętą".[2]

Wczesne życie

Amritanandamai urodziła się pod imieniem Sudhamani w małej wiosce Parayakadavu (obecnie częściowo znanej jako Amritapuri), koło Kollam, w Kerali w 1953. Sudhamani urodziła się rodzinie rybackiej z dżati Arajan. Jej nauka szkolna zakończyła się gdy miała dziewić lat i zaczęła się zajmować młodszym rodzeństwem i pracami domowymi rodziny przez większość swego czasu.

Zdobycie sławy

Według jej wyznawców, jako dziecko, Amma miała wiele doświadczeń mistycznych. Od 1981 roku uczy aspirantów duchowych z całego świata. Założyła międzynarodową organizację Mata Amritanandamayi Mission Trust, która jest zaangażowana w liczne czynności duchowe i charytatywne. Od skromnych początków podjęła podróż, aby osiągnąć "uniwersalną matczyność". Mówiła nawet na forum Zgromadzenia Generalnego ONZ.[3]

Międzynarodowe wydarzenia

Recognition

In 1993, she was one of the representatives of Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.

Amritanandamayi was the keynote speaker at the Global Peace Initiative of Women, at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland held in October 2002. This was an initiative of the UN' Millennium World Peace Summit, in which Amritanandamayi spoke in August 2000.

In 2002 Amritanandamayi was presented with the Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence by The World Movement for Nonviolence at the UN General Assembly Hall (Palais Des Nations) in Geneva in recognition of her lifelong work in furthering the principles of non-violence. The three previous recipients of the award were Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, and primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall.

In 2006, Amma was honoured with the 4th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Award at the Interfaith Centre, New York.[5] Some others who had previously accepted the awards are former US President Bill Clinton, Dalai Lama, and famous Indian musician Pandit Ravi Shankar.

In Oct 2007, Amma was awarded for her humanitarian activities at human rights film festival, Cinema Verite, in Paris. Actress Sharon Stone presented the award.[6]

She is also considered by some to be an avatar of the Great Mother.

Senior disciples

The first set of monastic disciples of Amritanandamayi came to her in the late 1970s. Today, they as well as other disciples and devotees look after the ashram's multifaceted activities. The first disciple to be initiated as a sanyasi was Swami Amritaswarupananda.[7] Other senior disciples are Swami Paramatmananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda, Swami Purnamritananda, Swami Turiyamritananda, Swami Amritatmananda, Swami Pranavamritananda, Swamini Atmaprana and Swamini Krishnamritaprana. The Ashram is now known as Amritapuri. Bramachari Dayamrita Chaitanya is one of Amma's senior disciples stationed at the MA Center located in San Ramon, CA. He is in charge of all activities performed by the MA center in the US and all branch groups.

Darshan

Amritanandamayi is known to the world media as 'the hugging saint'. She offers a hug to everyone who approaches her and in India she has been known to individually hug over 50,000 people in a day, sitting sometimes for over 20 hours.[8]Worldwide, Amritanandamayi is said to have hugged at least 30 million people in the past 30 years.[9]

"Darshan – The Embrace", a film on the life of Amritanandamayi was officially selected for showcasing at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jan Kounen, an award winning filmmaker who was born in Netherlands and is based in France, directed the film. Manuel De La Roche of France, is the producer. Jan Kounen and his crew began shooting the footage for the film in 2003 during Amritavarsham50,[10] Amritanandamayi's 50th birthday celebrations in Kochi. The team also traveled with Amritanandamayi on her Indian and International tours in order to complete the movie. About the film, Kounen says, "when I first took up the project and started filming, I thought, 'Amma is a good person, doing good things, in turn I can do something good for her'. But as it went on, I realized, no, I am the one who is receiving the gift".[11]

Matruvani

Matruvani is a monthly magazine concerned with spirituality in India.

It is published by the Amritapuri Ashram in both Indian and European languages. Matruvani was first published in 1984. The magazine has been translated into English, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and Hindi. European Matruvani is also published in French, German, Italian, Finnish and Spanish. The International version of Matruvani is known as "Immortal Bliss".

Amritapuri

Amritapuri is the main Ashram of Amritanandamayi. It is located in Parayakadavu, Kollam, Kerala about 120km north of Thiruvananthapuram and 120km south of Cochin. Amritapuri is also the name by which the location of the ashram is now known.

Amritapuri is also one of the campuses of the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Humanitarian activities

Mata Amritanandamayi Math's website describes various charitable and humanitarian projects undertaken by the organization.[12] Examples include a program to build 100,000 homes for the poor; hospitals; orphanages; hospices; women's shelters; pension disbursements for widows; community aid centers; homes for the aged; eye clinics; and speech therapy centers.[13] Many of Amma's centers in the US run 'Mother's Kitchen', or 'vegetarian soup-kitchens', where volunteers prepare and serve meals to the poor and needy.

The Mata Amritanandamayi Math runs 33 schools, 12 temples, one super-speciality hospital in Kochi, feeds thousands during mass kitchen, provides pension every year to over 15,000 widows, builds 25,000 houses annually for the homeless and has 35 Amma welfare centres all over the world to spread her spiritual message.[14]

Recently, Mata Amritanandamayi Math announced a billion rupees (23 million dollars) in aid to the victims of the 2004 tsunami.[15] The Math's relief work is happening in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman & Nicobar islands and in Sri Lanka.[16]

In September 2005, Mata Amritanandamayi donated $1,000,000 to the Bush-Clinton Hurricane Katrina fund.[17] She also sent a top aide to the devastated areas soon after the storm struck in the United States to assess the kind of help needed by victims.

In October 2005, thousands of blankets were sent and distributed to the survivors of the Kashmir and Pakistan earthquake.[18]



Notes

  1. ^ Artykuł BBC na temat Ammy
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times: The Week In Photos, (2006). www.latimes.com. Ostatnie dostęp: 15 października, 2006.
  3. ^ Artykuł z BBC-News o Macie Amritanandamai
  4. ^ Award - Interfaith Center New York
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ Ammachi - A Biography of Mata Amritanandamayi by Swami Amritaswarupananda, ISBN 1-879410-60-5
  8. ^ "Amma: The 'hugging saint'", By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA TODAY, 7/18/2006
  9. ^ BBC-News Article About Mata Amritranandamayi
  10. ^ Amritavarsham 50, Amma's 50th B 'day celebrations @ Amritavarsham.org
  11. ^ I am Receiving the Gift, Interview with Kannadi on September 10th 2004, Cochin, Kerala, Available Online
  12. ^ Social Service,
  13. ^ Social Service,
  14. ^ Hindustan Times, "Healing wounds with a hug" by Surendra Singh, October 9th 2003, Available Online
  15. ^ Tsunami relief
  16. ^ Amrita Tsunami Relief & Rehabilitation Projects in India Srilanka Asia
  17. ^ Hurricane relief
  18. ^ M. A. Math Responds to Kashmir Earthquake Available Online

References

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