Amma
on/about Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
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sit quiet and relax
18 jan, bharata yatra 2008, covai In the evening when amma was talking there were lots of noises. sounds of people talking and talking. she finished her talk started meditation. amma asked every one to keep silence. because they were all trying to jump into the darshan queue. but it would take another one hour…
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baduga dance
18 feb, bharata yatra 2008,covai, tamil nadu it was the badugas again who rocked the last sessions on both days in covai. they sang for 3-4 hours non stop. different sets of people danced in front of amma, below the stage. amongst them was one particular lady who sang on top of her voice, with…
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typical tamil touch
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…
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jai jaikar
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…
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Bharata Yatra 2008 flagged off
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…
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grand finale
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…
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Expect her before your expectation
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.…
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hari sree ganapataye namah
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…
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language is a barrier
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…
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Divine Plan
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…