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==Teachings==

In the book ''The Timeless Path'', Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri, one of Amṛtānandamayī's senior disciples, wrote: "The [spiritual] path inculcated by Amma is the same as the one presented in the [[Vedas]] and recapitulated in subsequent traditional scriptures such as the [[Bhagavad Gita]]."<ref name="ReferenceB">The Timeless Path by Swami Ramakrishnananda, ISBN 978-1-879410-46-6</ref> Amṛtānandamayī herself says, "''karma'' [action], ''jñana'' [knowledge] and ''bhakti'' [devotion] are all essential. If the two wings of a bird are devotion and action, knowledge is its tail. Only with the help of all three can the bird soar into the heights."<ref name="ReferenceC">Lead Us to the Light: A Collection of Mata Amritanandamayi's Teachings Compiled by Swami Jnanamritananda</ref> She accepts the various spiritual practices and prayers of all religions as but different methods toward the same goal of purifying the mind.<ref>"The goal of all religions is one—purification of the human mind." ("Living in Harmony" By Mata Amritanandamayi)</ref> Along these lines, she stresses the importance of [[meditation]], performing actions as [[karma yoga]], selfless service, and cultivating divine qualities such as compassion, patience, forgiveness, self-control, etc. Amṛtānandamayī has said that these practices refine the mind, preparing it to assimilate the ultimate truth: that one is not the physical body and mind, but the eternal, blissful consciousness that serves as the non-dual substratum of the universe.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> This understanding itself Amṛtānandamayī referred to as ''jivanmukti'' [liberation while alive]. Amṛtānandamayī said, "''Jivanmukti'' is not something to be attained after death, nor is it to be experienced or bestowed upon you in another world. It is a state of perfect awareness and equanimity, which can be experienced here and now in this world, while living in the body. Having come to experience the highest truth of oneness with the Self, such blessed souls do not have to be born again. They merge with the infinite."<ref name="ReferenceC"/>

 

==Bhajans==