Mother Meera
Mother Meera (born December 26, 1960 in Chandepalle , in today's state of Telangana , India ) is an Indian living in Germany, who her followers refer to as Avatara . Her maiden name is Kamala Reddy.
Life
Mother Meera is said to have had her first experience of samadhi at the age of six . Her uncle Bulgur Venkat Reddy met her for the first time when she was 12 years old and recognized her as the girl of his visions . He became convinced that she was the divine mother, and he took care of her. In 1974 he first brought her to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry , of which he was a member. A few months later he took her to a girls' school, where she stayed for about two years.
In 1976 she returned to Pondicherry. There she met the first visitors from the west and began giving darshan . In 1979 she was invited by her first followers to Montreal , Canada , where she gave darshan at larger audiences and returned several times. In 1981 she visited Germany, where she settled down a year later and married a German. She is currently giving darshan in the "Waldecker Hof", the former farm building of Schloss Schaumburg in Balduinstein that has been converted into a hotel .
activities
Mother Meera receives many thousands of visitors for darshan, which take place in silence. During darshan, she touches the visitors' temples and then looks them in the eye. She doesn't give lectures.
According to their teaching, their task is to bring down the Paramatman light (literally the light of the highest self ). One could open oneself to this light through Japa , the mental repetition of a divine name or mantra . That could be done quite informally. Her teaching belongs to Bhakti , the path of loving, emotional devotion to the divine.
Mother Meera does not belong to any particular Indian tradition. However, their work has a certain proximity to Aurobindo .
Mother Meera opened an international English Medium School on June 7th, 2010 in her ashram in Madanapalle (India). In April 2017 the school had around 1,300 students.
Quotes
“A common misconception is to think that a reality is reality. You always have to be prepared to give up a reality for a greater one. "
“God and the Avatar are on the one hand the same and on the other hand different. The avatar comes from God and has its power and light from God. But we can distinguish the two, because the avatar has a human body, while God has no form and is all forms at the same time. Every avatar is a manifestation of a part of the divine, the Paramatman. "
Book publications
- Mother Meera: Answers, Part I. ISBN 3-9805475-1-5 .
- Mother Meera: Answers, Part II. ISBN 3-9805475-6-6 .
- Adilakshmi: The mother. ISBN 3-9805475-0-7 .
- Mark Matousek: Mother of the Unseen World: The Mystery of Mother Meera. 2017, ISBN 0-8129-9725-5 .
- Martin J. Goodman : In search of the divine mother: the mystery of Mother Meera: encountering a contemporary mystic . London: Thorsons, 1998 ISBN 0-7225-3688-7
- Andrew Harvey: The Path to the Heart, A Spiritual Journey. ISBN 3-499-19550-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mother Meera |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mother Meera; Mother Meera; Meera Amma; Reddy, Kamal (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mystic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chandepalle , Andhra Pradesh , India |