Submission to God is key to success in life, says Mata

[Guest guest]

As Amma's South Indian tour rolls on... if it's

Tuesday, it must be Chennai

 

Jai Ma!

 

Keval

 

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>From the Tamil Nadu page of http://www.newindpress.com

 

Submission to God is key to success in life, says Mata

 

CHENNAI: Satguru Sri Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

gave the first copy of the book titled Amruta Seva

Yuva Dharma to Chennai Corporation Deputy Mayor Karate

R Thiayagarajan at a function held on Monday at Mata

Amritanandamayi Math in Virugambakkam.

 

The Deputy Mayor, in turn, gave the first copy to the

music composer Deva. Noted dance exponent Padma

Subramaniam gave the first copy of the Math's souvenir

'Amrita 2003' to Yashoda, an MLA.

 

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi said, ''Everything in this

world happens according to the Lord's wishes. Let us

not have unnecessary tension.''

 

She asked the gathering not to blame themselves if

they were unsuccessful in their work in spite of their

best efforts. Because, according to her, there are

many factors beyond our reach. She asked people to

surrender to the Lord in order to be successful in

life.

 

''Our life has become easy because of many scientific

inventions. But it is of no use when our mind is

restless. For, fear has engulfed every one's mind.

Because of this fear and unnecessary tension, diseases

have gone up, for which there is no medicine. The only

solution to this problem is through spiritual

growth.''

 

Commenting on our thinking process, Mata said, ''Think

well before speaking anything.'' Giving an example

from Mahabharatha, she noted, ''If lakhs of people

lost their lives during the Mahabharatha war, it was

because of the loose talks of Draupadi.''

 

About anger, she said, ''It is foolish to get angry.

For, if you get angry for a minute, we lose the

enjoyment for those 60 seconds.''

 

One of the other factors leading to our defeat is the

element of pride in us, said the Mata. ''In

Mahabharatha, Karna was powerful than Arjuna. But it

was the pride in Karna that killed him. It does not

mean that Arjuna did not have pride about his

strength. But the reason for his success was that he

surrendered himself to Sri Krishna.''

 

Her final word of advice for those present there was

not to think about the past nor to be worried about

the future. ''Work and be happy for the present,'' she

said.

 

 

 

 

 

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