Sri Anandamayi Ma was a counselor, educator in the spiritual realm, healer and loving mother, all at the same time. She was the source of solace to those who were in distress. In spite of her elementary education, she could converse to all with ease. She was born with the spiritual wisdom and could relate to the people in all walks of life, many times through story telling and personal experiences. Her teachings, rich in vedantic wisdom, have been narrated by her disciples in the form of their personal experiences. The state of mind that is completely silent is the state of love. It is in this condition Ma continually and naturally lived.

Mataji had some kind of power to heal others. At times, she would take upon herself the illness of others. The person who had asked for a cure would recover, but Mataji would suffer from the disease for some time, in many cases for days. In one case, Mataji remarked : "we had to learn to endure suffering when it came." '`Take it as divine will' - was her message. Many miraculous happenings about Mataji have been recorded. One of them was abudance of rain in Madras during a period of acute scarcity of rain for a prolonged time. This appeared to happen as a result of Mataji's grace in response to a request from a delegation of some people for the rains. Mataji's teachings are universal in all respects. A few of them are : Love is invisible. It can be known only by what it reveals to us - the beauty hidden in the heart of man.