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Shekhar Kapur releases docu on Amma
The nearly 50-minute film was shot at Amma’s ashram in the Kollam District of Kerala over four days in September, 2013.
Renowned film director, actor and producer Shekhar Kapur launched a new documentary titled "The Science of Compassion" on the great spiritual leader and humanitarian Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), which was released exclusively on his YouTube channel. The nearly 50-minute film was shot at Amma’s ashram in the Kollam District of Kerala over four days in September, 2013.
The movie includes a rare, lengthy private interview with Amma, as well as with Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr Leland Hartwell and many others about Amma’s approach to life and how her love has touched and transformed their lives. Speaking about the documentary, Shekhar Kapur said, “The search for what lies beyond our own individuality has been with me since I was 15 years of age.
I have been grappling with questions like, what is the true nature of love? Is there love beyond ownership? What is compassion? Is it something you do or is it a state of mind or a state of being? If you become a much more compassionate person, does it alter your physiology? Do you become a much more intuitive being? It is not only a spiritual search for me, but a scientific quest too. Meeting Amma on her 60th birthday was a huge opportunity for me to investigate these deeper truths. I ask her the same questions in the documentary.”
“Spirituality is not about miracles and drama, but about experiencing subtle and incremental changes through which you evolve. I have not remained unaffected by Amma’s message of love and compassion. The more I realise how incredibly loving and compassionate she is, the more it changes me subtly and incrementally,” he added.
