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Life is a celebration

it’s Onam. all over Kerala people are joyously celebrating Onam. children… they spend their days plucking flowers and running around after dragon flies, arranging the courtyard with flowers… with new dresses they swing on the trees… here also in the ashram we have one swing next to amma’s room. almost all the swamis have used […]

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Adi Shankaracharya – The Spiritual General – Swami Chinmayananda

Bhagavadpada Acharya Sankara was not only a great thinker and the noblest of Advaitic philosophers, but he was essentially an inspired champion of Hinduism and one of the most vigorous missionaries in our country. Such a powerful leader was needed at that time when Hinduism had been almost smothered within the enticing entanglements of the […]

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Jal mahal

i never expected or even dreamt that this photo will be in the interestingness of flicker. front page of explore? wow. a big wow. thanks to Nikon D70s.

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pappaya

this picture featured in the interestingness of the flicker explore. this pappaya is situated in the ashram grounds of amritapuri. when i saw the pappaya i was so fascinated. my sony dfc575 camera did a wonderful job.

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birthday song in Sanskrit

Janmadian gaanam ( birthday song) Janmadinamidam ayi priya sakhe sam tanotu hi sarvada mudam | prarthayamahe bhava satayu: eeswara sada twam ca rakshatu | punya karmana keerthimarjaya jeevanm tava bhavatu saarthakam ||   anwaya: artha: ca (prose & meaning ) ayi priya sakhe, janmadinam idam sam tanotu hi| hey dear friend, let this birthday bring […]

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Too much to handle

An Aligator? Too much for a Python to handle October 6, 2005 Unfortunately for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida’s Everglades National Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to bust a gut—literally. Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead python last week after it […]

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The intention of Lord McCauley

Lord McCauley in his speech of 2 Feb 1835, British Parliament “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do […]

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Forgetting one self

Capturing Amma is such a joy. You come to see the different faces of Amma very clearly. It is such a meditative moment that you forget yourself. You become one with your Master. This is such a moment- during an interview by Malayala Manora daily with Amma. The interview was about Amma’s Onam in her […]

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Amrita ISRO VRC project

From a joint press conference held at the ISRO office in Aluva. ISRO director Padmabhushan Sri. Madhavan Nair and Vice-Chancellor of Amrita University Sri. Venkat Rangan

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Letter for the Elephant

Ram & Lakshmi, I love you very much. Please listen to Amma. Behave well. I will see you two in Amritapuri