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 […]
traditional evening prayer of Lord Shiva – in Malayalam & English text
ഉദാത്തമായ ചോദ്യങ്ങളില് നിന്നാണ് ഉദാത്തമായ ഉത്തരങ്ങളുണ്ടാകുന്നത്. ശിഷ്യന് എന്തു ചോദിക്കണം, എങ്ങിനെ ചോദിക്കണം എന്നറിയണം. കരുണനിറഞ്ഞ ഹൃദയത്തോടെ ഗുരു സുധാമൃതം ചുരത്തുകയാണിവിടെ.
It was baby-feeding time at the end of darshan in Mananthavadi. Today there were 20 babies. The last set of parents had 4 children to be fed by Amma belonging to the same parents. All delivered in one birth! The fifth one died immediately after the delivery. Oh my god. When I told Amma their […]
Mananthavadi is a beautiful place. The ashram is on top of a hill in the town. From the top you see a range of mountains around. We are staying in the Amrita Vidyalayam here. Amma is just two rooms down the veranda. Today Amma sang kannunir kondu nin padam kazhukam. It was intoxicating. There was […]
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 […]
It was in Kanyakumari, I was updating the web site, sitting in the left corner of the stage. Amma was giving darshan. I can see Amma, she occasionally turning around – and I look at Her. The prasad line is stretching all the way from Amma to where I am sitting, and beyond, then curls […]
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 […]
In Trichy, during darshan, in the wee hours of the night, a special darshan was there. He had 4 legs, but he didn’t walk. He could fly because he had wings. He was a small black bat, very tiny, like the size of a small mouse. Somehow it ended up on the stage – on […]
oh! there is amma. she is by the road side in a field distributing dosa…all children had gathered around her. some others are making tea little further away.by not far from amma, there is group of ducks inside a net-fence. both had similarity. the scene, the contrast stuck me. here one is there due to […]