Anandmurti Gurumaa

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location = Amritsar, India
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movement = Shakti, Dhyandoot, CEAP
works = Zikr - Call of a Sufi, Rumi - Love at its Zenith, Urja - Active Meditation, Nishkriya - Passive Meditation.
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Anandmurti Gurumaa (devnagari: आनंद मूर्ति गुरु माँ), also known as Gurumaa, is a new age spiritual guide. She is respected by followers of many faiths including Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and SufismFact|date=January 2008. Her message transcends gender, religious, political, geographic and material boundaries. [ [http://www.mmdnewswire.com/series-spiritul-2686.html newswire.com editorial on Gurumaa] ] Anandmurti means “an embodiment of Divine Bliss” and Gurumaa means “Master Mother” [ [http://gurumaa.com/a-mystic-master-anandmurti-gurumaa.php gurumaa on gurumaa.com (para 3)] ] in Hindi. Gurumaa teaches the disciplines of meditation, yoga, present moment awareness and self realisation, [ [http://gurumaa.com/anandmurti-gurumaa.php gurumaa's teachings and question answers] ] using meditation techniques from yoga, zen, tantra, sufism, buddhism [ [http://amritvarsha.blogspot.com/2005/03/lord-buddha.html A buddhist story by Gurumaa] ] and devised methods. [ [http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/Meditation/Contemporary_Meditations112006.asp meditation techniques by gurumaa publised in life positive magazine] ] Gurumaa's core teachings include meditation, self realisation, evolving consciousness and non-duality.

Teachings

* In Gurumaa's own words, If her teachings are to be summarized in one thing, it would be awareness. [ [http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/Guru/Spirituality_Equips_you_to_Live52005.asp Gurumaa's interview in Life Positive, Question 9] ]
* Gurumaa also emphasizes the need for all seekers to free themselves from the outer garb of religion, [ [http://www.lifepositive.com/LPExpo2006/expo-2005.asp Life positive expo 2005 talk] ] asserting that we don't experience fulfilment because of our expectations. Enlightenment can only happen if one surrenders completely to the existence. [ [http://www.lifepositive.com/LPExpo2006/expo-2006.asp Life Positive Expo talk 2006] ]

Gurumaa Ashram

Gurumaa ashram is situated in Gannaur, d i s t r i c t Sonepat, Haryana, India ( [http://wikimapia.org/1738268/ see in wikimapia] ), 60km from Delhi on National Highway 1. Gurumaa conducts meditation camps in this ashram every year. [ [http://gurumaa.com/meditation-camps.php meditation camps by Gurumaa] ]

hakti

Shakti is a mission started by Anandmurti Gurumaa to empower female children in India and stop female foeticide. [ [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=208379 Ludhiana Newsline (Indian Express city edition), November 06, 2006] ] 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. [ [http://gurumaa.com/shakti-education-for-girls.php shakti initative by anandmurti gurumaa] ] [ [http://www.hinducounciluk.org/newsite/circulardet.asp?rec=7 Ananmurti Gurumaa's Shakti mission launched in UK] ] It was started informally in 2000. In the 2006-2007 academic year, around 175 girls were given full tuition fees for their studies. [ [http://gurumaa.com/images/shakti-slide-show.pps the shakti slide show] ]

CEAP (Computer Education Awareness Program) is a new program started under the Shakti umbrella. [ [http://gurumaa.com/shakti-computer-education-awareness-programme.php CEAP] ] In this project, volunteers from Gurumaa Ashram went to 20+ government girls' schools in Sonepat district and gave them first hand experience of computers and motivated them to learn computers and to be self dependent.

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. [ [http://www.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=hub082606vanityfair.asp Sufiana Andaaz - Tehelka Newspaper, Aug 26, 2006 ] ] These poems were published in the book "Prem ka chalakta jaam". [ [http://gurumaa.com/prem-ka-chalkata-jaam-book.php Prem ka chalakta jaam] ] Gurumaa has also sung few of Rumi's poems, translated to Hindi, on her album "Rumi - Love at its zenith". [ [http://www.mysticamusic.com/rumi.php Rumi - love at its zenith] ]

Further reading

* Anandmurti Gurumaa, "Quotes of the Unquotable" (Gurumaa Vani) 2004 ISBN 108190406019
* Anandmurti Gurumaa, "Shivoham" (Rupa & company.) 2006 ISBN 81-291-0897-6
* Anandmurti Gurumaa, "Rumi Aur Main" (Rupa & company.) 2005 ISBN 81-291-0824-0
* Seema Varma, "Rays of Light" (GM Vani) 2002
* Anandmurti Gurumaa, "Ath Kahe Narad" (saraswati vihar) 2004 ISBN 81-216-1043-5 [http://www.prakashbooks.com/details.php3?id=17096&c=Religion%20/%20Spritiuality]
* Anandmurti Gurumaa. "Going beyond the mind" (Gurumaa Vani)

References

External links

* [http://www.gurumaa.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.mysticamusic.com/anandmurti_gurumaa.php Gurumaa's profile on MysticaMusic.com]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22gurumaa%22+OR+anandmurti Gurumaa videos on Google Video]
* [http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/Guru/Spirituality_Equips_you_to_Live52005.asp Gurumaa's interview in Life Positive magazine, may 2005]
* [http://www.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=hub082606vanityfair.asp Tehelka Newspaper Aug 26 , 2006 ] , Tehelka - SUFIANA ANDAAZ- Supposedly a first for India, the Sufi poetry of Hazrat Jalaluddin Rumi has been translated into Hindi by a woman mystic, Anandmurti Gurumaaji.
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2006080401390400.htm&date=2006/08/04/&prd=fr& The Hindu, August 4, 2006 ] , The Hindu - Gurumaa went to Istanbul and Cornice, to understand the essence of the works of the 13th Century Turkish scholar, who wrote in Persian.
* [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060722/cth2.htm#8 The Tribune India, July 21 2006] , The Tribune “Always revelling in the glory of God, a Sufi saint is an enigma. Shams Tabrezi, Jalauddin Rumi and Bulle Shah were humble and selfless”, said Anandmurthi Gurumaa during an interaction here today.
* [http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20070312&fname=Poet+%28F%29&sid=1&pn=2 Outlook Magazine March 12,2007] , Outlook (magazine) Ruminations On A Poet - Gurumaa "rolled out the magic" at a Valentine's Day concert in a Delhi auditorium where a dozen Turkish dervishes performed Rumi's chants and whirling while she sang his poems in Hindi, sending some 500 youthful disciples into an ecstatic trance.