Gurumaa

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 Sufism. Her message transcends gender, religious, political, geographic and material boundaries. Anandmurti means “an embodiment of Divine Bliss” and Gurumaa means “Master Mother” in Hindi. Gurumaa teaches the disciplines of meditation, yoga, present moment awareness and self realisation, using meditation techniques from yoga, zen, tantra, sufism, buddhism and devised methods. 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.
• Gurumaa also emphasizes the need for all seekers to free themselves from the outer garb of religion, asserting that we don't experience fulfilment because of our expectations. Enlightenment can only happen if one surrenders completely to the existence.

Gurumaa Ashram

Gurumaa ashram is situated in Gannaur, district Sonepat, Haryana, India (see in wikimapia), 60km from Delhi on National Highway 1. Gurumaa conducts meditation camps in this ashram every year.

Shakti

Shakti is a mission started by Anandmurti Gurumaa to empower female children in India and stop female foeticide. 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. It was started informally in 2000. In the 2006-2007 academic year, around 175 girls were given full tuition fees for their studies.

CEAP (Computer Education Awareness Program) is a new program started under the Shakti umbrella. 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. These poems were published in the book Prem ka chalakta jaam. Gurumaa has also sung few of Rumi's poems, translated to Hindi, on her album 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 1
• Anandmurti Gurumaa. Going beyond the mind (Gurumaa Vani)

External links

• Official Website
• Gurumaa's profile on MysticaMusic.com
• Gurumaa videos on Google Video
• Gurumaa's interview in Life Positive magazine, may 2005
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.