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Amma began her 55th Birthday Address by saying that the point of religious and cultural festivals was to help human beings gain peace of mind. Amma lamented that in general this wasn’t happening.

AN EXERCISE FOR DEVELOPING VIRTUE

Examine your character. Pick up the defects you find in it, and find their opposites. Let us say that you suffer from irritability. The

THE FOUNDATION OF ETHICS

Put yourself in the place of others. Learn this great secret. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. The doctrine

THE PEAK OF PERFECTION

You can climb the peak of perfection through resolute will, intense dispassion, renunciation and rigorous Meditation. Sublime divine

The fourteen facts of life ...

1: The greatest enemy in life is the EGO...
2: The greatest deceit in life is: I Am Mine...
3: The greatest failure in life is narcissism...

By Rabindranath Tagore
(1861 - 1941)

English version by Rabindranath Tagore

That I want thee, only thee --
let my heart repeat without end.

All desires that distract me,

By Civivakkiyar
(9th Century)

English version by Kamil V. Zvelebil

In bricks and in granite,
in the red-rubbed lingam,
in copper and brass
is Siva's abode --

An insincere and evil friend does
More harm and thus to be feared than wild beasts.

A wild beast may wound your body,
But an evil friend will wound your mind.