ONE IN TEN MILLION
Priest: What does Ma consider the most essential thing in life?
Anandamayi Ma: To try and find out 'Who am I'. To try to know that which has brought into existence one's body and mind. This also may become the search after God. But the first thing is to conceive the desire to know oneself. Finding one's Self, one has found God and finding God one has found one's Self — the one Atma.
Q: Are there many people who succeed in this quest?
Ma: Quite a number attain to some siddhi [a degree of attainment] or mukti [liberation], but only one in ten million arrives at complete Realization. It is very, very rare.
Question: Do you think you have reached the ultimate state?
Ma: (Laughs) Whatever you believe me to be, that I am.
Q: From what moment did you have that Realization?
Ma: When was I not?
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