17 jan 2008, covai we reached covai past 8 p.m. amma was welcomed in the traditional way. now wherever amma goes people call out “mata rani ki jai”. its nice to watch the love and devotion in action in amma’s children. tamil people are characteristically very vociferous. i fail to understand why they speak so […]
17 feb, bharata yatra 2008, kovai all the time pujas led by amma is very powerful — puja led by god herself. wow!. when you think about it …. its a different feeling. and todays sani puja in covai was no exceptional. the bhajans amma sang were all very powerful fast ones. it was so […]
17 Jan 2008, amritapuri amma started her bharata yatra 2008. in the first leg amma will travel through tamil nadu and come bak to amritapuri. past mid noon amma started off to coimbatore. other ashram buses with the residents and visitors from abroad left early in the morning. its a journey of 7-8 hours to […]
22 dec 2007 bharata yatra, kodungallur, kerala when we reached kodungallur it was already 6 pm. the hostel children of amrita vidyalayam welcomed amma with padpuja. you could see them telling ‘i washed amma’s feet,’ ‘i put chandana,’ ‘i did kumkum.’ ‘i did the arati’…etc. these kids are really blessed to be in amma’s schools […]
21 dec, bharata yatra 2007kozhikode brahmasthanam that was the grand finale in kozhikode. imagine what it could have been. you guessed it right.mata rani!!! amma asked to play the music and started dancing at the end of darshan. a few mantras and then there were more than 50 babies for annaprasham -to receive their first […]
20 dec 2007, Kozhikode Amma says that her life is like that of a river. flowing all the time — flowing all over the world. flowing into the humble, into the poor, into the suffering — to awaken, to fulfill, to purify. amma says that she didn’t became a railway track. she became a river. […]
21 Oct 2007, Amritapuri it’s always blissful during puja holidays. it didn’t start just now. since my school days, it has been like that. even if you get two months vacation you are not as happy as during puja holidays. what is the great thing about puja holidays?hey ! it’s the only 3 days in […]
13 Oct 2007, Amritapuriarjun and his wife live in the ashram. it was last sunday when arjun and sampurna (from Austria) did the padapuja. amma had been giving darshan since 10.am. at the end of darshan at around 3.00 am their turn came to do the padapuja. i was by the side of amma helping […]
Anagha (13), from Pala – Kottayam, could not attend Amma’s 54th birthday in Amritapuri on Sep 27th. While sitting in the classroom she composed a four-line prayer in Malayalam. Anagha recited this to Amma when she came to Amritapuri, on Sunday the 30th. The poem was so powerful. After listening to this Amma asked the […]
4 sep 2007, amritapuriIt has been so wonderful to listen to Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhagavatam is a Purana written by Sage Vyasa depicting the incarnations of Lord Vishnu. A Malayalam translation of the original text is sung during Krishna’s Birthday Celebrations in Amritapuri. I had never heard such clarity, such musical tone, and nice voice. Amma […]