this is the first time in this year i am seeing so many mosquitos. at night in the room i had to put on odomos – an ointment — to drive away all the mosquitos. it worked well. the weather in covai is very nice and cool. usually when we come in the month of […]
Amma reached the Coimbatore Brahmastanam around 11pm. We were caught in the traffic and came few minutes later. Two hours later, Amma’s children arrived by bus. As they walked across the Ashram towards their accommodations, Amma was standing on the stage, surveying the surroundings, making sure everything is ready for tomorrow’s programmes. As they walked […]
Around 3 p.m, Amma left Amritapuri for the 3 week visit to Tamil Nadu. It’s a 7 hour journey by road. Nine buses and six cars with about 500 children of Amma, four trucks with luggage, sound system, bookstall, and kitchen items are there with Amma on the tour. Really , it’s the Ashram on […]
Darshan continued throughout the duration of the bhajan today. Itcontinued on after the bhajans finished also. Hundreds of people werethere. Chandramohan, a little boy from Kozhikode who is mentallychallenged, was next to Amma’s chair. Amma asked him to hug and kiss the cheeks of the devotees who came for darshan. Seeing a Sardarji sitting beside […]
amma stayed in the school building in kodungallur. after the morning darshan she stayed in the ashram building which is at the program site. the ashram building has only 3 small rooms. kodungalllur is the first brahmasthanam temple established by Amma. kodungallur is also home to the first amrita vidyalayam. it was nice to see […]
it was amazing to see the devotion of the kozhikode devotees. the crowd in kozhikode program was sooooooo huge. darshan began in the evening and continued till 3pm next day. in the morning people were still standing in line for amma’s darshan. most of them with families… mother, father, children, husband, wife… at night they […]
new year eve was quite an eventful one. whole day i was busy. 14 baby feedings, 2 padapujas … i was on my feet to click-click-click. in between amma said ‘no photos’ to me. so some one else was taking photos of the function. there were few stage performances and then amma’s bhajans followed by […]
1 jan 2007, amritapuri a kathakali performance was staged at the ashram in amritapuri to honor sugunanandan, the biological father of amma, sri mata amritanandamayi devi, when he turned 80. he used to perform kathakali in his youth. krishna was his favorite character. this kathakali story was of sri krishna, devaki and yasoda about the […]
It was Akhilesh who stole the whole show last night. For more than 90 minutes he was talking to Amma non-stop! That too while Amma was giving darshan. Akhilesh is from Pune. He is four years old. He speaks only Marati. He was telling Amma so many things that no one could understand. First of […]
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder […]