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when little hands started playing tabla
in the last post about the conch i told you how amma blows up a small into something huge… here is another story. this story actually began during covid. amma encouraged everyone to learn tabla. brahmachari hari was instructed to teach. soon, around 400 people were learning tabla under him. can you believe it? from…
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when the ashram started blowing conches
a few weeks ago, amma asked some of the brahmacharinis to learn to blow the conch. it started with just two or three. then it became ten. twenty. thirty. forty… then amma asked the brahmacharis also to start learning. and something interesting happened. within a couple of weeks, the numbers simply exploded! now there are…
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ye dil maange more…
20 jun 2026, amritapuri recently we were served mangoes. after two or three days, they started ripening nicely. each brahmachari got three or four mangoes. they had come from our agricultural land in kambam, tamil nadu. i made a simple recipe with them. cut the mangoes into pieces, add salt, chilli powder, and pure coconut…
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The Magnificent City of Ayodhya
Valmiki Ramayana describes incredible design, engineering, and strength of Ayodhya along with the character of its people
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rain bow became miss universe
4 mar 2026, holi – amritapuri yesterday, preethi srinivasan gave a talk here at the ashram, sitting next to amma. she was a gitamritam speaker for “my life, my passion” ten years ago. yesterday she once again narrated her story, in a nutshell. i remember very clearly something she said back then. she was praying…
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new year pledge
people get busy wishing, making new resolutions, refreshing old ones. but does anything truly change? our joy? our peace? our wisdom? when did 2006 really start? and jan 1 of year 0001—what day was that?how was it decided? before that, did day and night not exist? when does a day begin anyway? 6 am? 4…
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how ‘online with amma’ was born
i had no clue how to build a website. i didn’t even know the basics. but i was excited. curious. so i started exploring.
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Jai Sri Ram! A Dream Realized and a Nation United
Oh, what beauty! a few drops of tears, filled with gratitude and bhakti rolled down my cheeks. A surge of love filled the heart, a sense of fulfillment, exuberance, and celebration, all merging in utter silence in the chant of Jai Sri Ram.
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അനന്തഭാവശാലിനി
അമ്മയുടെ 35-ാം ജന്മദിനത്തിന് രണ്ടുദിവസം മുൻപ് അമ്മയോടൊപ്പം കഴിയാൻ ഭാഗ്യം ലഭിച്ച ഏതാനും മണിക്കൂറുകളിലെ ആ ഭാവാതീതയുടെ വിവിധ ഭാവങ്ങൾ പകർത്താനുള്ള ശ്രമമാണിതിൽ.
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Guru, the guiding light
Guru, the radiant beacon of light, Unraveling Vedas, making our path bright, Reaching out, guiding us right, Under her watch, we find our might.