Anandamayi Ma

Anandamayi Ma (“Bliss-Permeated Mother,” 1896-1982) was a Bengali spiritual teacher widely revered in 20th-century India as a living embodiment of the divine, who underwent spontaneous spiritual awakening without formal training or a guru.

From a young age she manifested spontaneous yogic phenomena—self-arising postures, mudras, mantras, and states of absorption (bhava)—understood in her tradition as the autonomous play of awakened shakti (divine energy) moving through the body.

She taught largely through presence and a continuous outpouring of joy (ananda), drawing thousands of devotees, including figures connected to Yogananda’s lineage and later Western seekers such as Ram Dass, who regarded her as a profound source of transmission.

For the mind-power lineage, Anandamayi Ma exemplifies the embodied energy-and-presence pole of the Eastern energy systems: not a method of cultivation but a living demonstration of awakened divine energy (shakti) spontaneously animating a human form.

Her phenomena—the autonomous movement of subtle energy producing kriyas and states of bliss—are an experiential reference point for the kundalini/shakti dimension of the subtle-body tradition, and for the notion that a transformative energy can be transmitted through presence (darshan).

This feeds the modern “energy transmission,” “high-vibration presence,” and shaktipat-adjacent currents of contemporary spirituality, supplying a vivid embodied example behind the abstract “energy/vibration” language now common in mind-power culture.