Amrita Dhara

A poetical rendering of Amma's immortal utterances by Swami Turiyamritananda offered at the Lotus Feet of Amma on the occasion of Her 46th birthday. The poem was translated into English by Professor V. Muraleedhara Menon.

Come quickly, my sweet children! You are the very essence of Om. Be adorable, cast off your sorrows, Become one with Om, the Pranava Eternal. We care not for the earth and the creation around, But are in great haste to reach heaven. Not knowing how to knock at the very door, We go about knocking at all distant doors in vain.

The ignorant and the deluded are prone to fancy
God as a remote entity, away from their reality.
The wise ones who plunge within themselves and contemplate
Know well He is none other than his very own Self.

Divine love is the supreme passion
Before which all earthly love is trivial.
It is more intense, deep and abiding
Than what a mother's heart pours out to her babe.

Seek and know for certain, my children,
God's kingdom is in your very heart.
Sing the hymns in rapturous devotion;
Reach His Lotus Feet and be blessed.

The luminous rays from heaven, all-purifying,
Will flood the hearts devoted solely to God.
Their path is straight, clear and illumined,
And the end is the ultimate merger in God's eternal bliss.