This Indian saint from Bengal is described as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." Her followers attributed precognition, healing, and other miracles to her. Her name, Anandamayi, translates to "joy-permeated," a description chosen by her devotees in the 1920s to reflect her habitual state of divine joy and bliss.
Anandamayi Ma has inspired millions of individuals of diverse faiths and circumstances from Prime Ministers, artists, and industrialists to shopkeepers, beggars and monks including Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Jawarharlal Nehru, Former Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Queen Mother of Greece, and the Former President of India, Ragendra Prasad.
People meditate in front of a photo, but what is a mere photo? Just paper. Yet, if pure faith is maintained in meditation, the Lord Himself appears in that very photo. - Leute meditieren vor einem Photo, doch was ist ein bloßes Photo? Nur Papier. Ist dein herz beim Meditieren jedoch von reinem Glauben erfüllt, so erscheint der Herr Selbst in eben diesem Photo. - Les gens méditent devant une photo, mais pu'est-ce qu'ne photo? Du papier, rien de plus. Pourtant si une foi pure est maintenue pendant la méditation, le Signieur Lui-même apparâit dans cette photo.