bliss
it comes out of bliss
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cuckoo has stopped?
cuckoo has stopped?the rain has started. slowly, the heat is going down. summer is fading. yesterday and today, we had good rains. we had bonus too—thunder and heavy lightning. the cuckoos, singing day and night, have stopped now. no, wait. i heard it twice or thrice today.this cuckoo at the ashram is special. it was…
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അറിവിന്റ അറിവില്ലായ്മ
ഉദാത്തമായ ചോദ്യങ്ങളില് നിന്നാണ് ഉദാത്തമായ ഉത്തരങ്ങളുണ്ടാകുന്നത്. ശിഷ്യന് എന്തു ചോദിക്കണം, എങ്ങിനെ ചോദിക്കണം എന്നറിയണം. കരുണനിറഞ്ഞ ഹൃദയത്തോടെ ഗുരു സുധാമൃതം ചുരത്തുകയാണിവിടെ.
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Festival Block
2nd leg of the Bharata Yatra started. We were passing through Trissur District on the way from Amritapuri to Mananthavadi. Now its the time of festivals in Kerala. Especially in Trissur, which is a land of temples, elephants and festivals. We saw a lot of temples and celebrations. The area around the temples is divided…
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Nature will wake you up
The trip from Ramanathapuram to Kanyakumari was interesting in the sense that you see the typical Indian villages and their life. You pass through the rice fields, sugarcane fields, bananas and coconuts then to barren lands. Then you come across small mountains. Then cultivation of fans. Yes big fans… Nagarkovil is the district in Tamil…
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May be a 2nd thought?
the marriage held at the end of darshan in covai was little funny. a young brahmin couple were getting married. they had lot of special rituals. boy was from Orissa and girl is form Maduari, Tamil Nadu. the girl was asking the boy to tie the ‘mangalya sutra’ around her neck during the ceremony. amma…
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praying for happy journey
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…
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what new year?
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…
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krishna and his mothers
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…
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Say it now
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…
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Entharo Mahanu Bhavulu
This is one of the most beautiful Karnatic classicals. If you understand the meaning while you listen, it’s awesome. This kriti is supposed to have been spontaneously composed by saint Thyagaraja when he saw great people (Mahatmas, his guru-like souls) assembled in a hall as he entered. This is one of the Pancharatna kriti. This…