Month: September 2003

G. Sai Prasanna Kumar (India) “Amma treated us not like the chairperson of our institution, but like our mother,” he said. “She came down to our level, and we felt no generation gap.” —Sai Prasanna Kumar An overview of the Bangalore engineering student’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Meet speech on Amma’s impact on his life. In his…

Amritasri Birman (Australia) “With the grace of a great light like Amma, we can grow together, with all palms joined in unity.” — Amritasri Birman An overview of her Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on how Amma has impacted her life. In her speech, Amritasri explained how Amma’s teachings and selfless service have inspired her and…

Arjuna Sayyed (USA) “I have laid my work in dance on a spiritual foundation that Amma has provided for me. I look at my dance as a form of meditation in which I live one breath at a time.” —Arjuna Sayyed An overview of Arjuna’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on Amma’s impact on his life.…

Kyoto Sato & Miki Sugaya (Japan) “We realise that we share a bond of great love with Amma and all the people we meet in India.” —Kyoto Sato & Miki Sugaya An overview of their Amritavarsham50 Youth Meet speech on Amma’s impact on their lives. Kyoto and Miki delivered their speeches dressed in the work…

Sri Krishna (India) “That’s what Amma does—She takes the most mundane of events and preaches the noblest of truths through it.” —Sri krishna An overview of the software engineering student’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech about Amma’s impact on his life. In his speech, Srikrishna told of how doing seva [selfless service] for Amma helped him…

Mila Hamilton (USA) “When I first met Amma, I was like many young people in my country—very self-absorbed, spiritually dull and angry at the world. Since then, I am becoming more centred in the ways of spiritual life and awake to the need of becoming part of the solution to the problems in the world.”…

Harikrishnan V. (India) “Amma taught me the meaning of doing selfless service.” —Harikrishnan V. An excerpt from the AITEC engineering student’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on Amma’s impact on his life. “If it hadn’t been for Amma, only God knows where I would be by now—perhaps in jail. So one must always think that Mother…

Vani Daisy Rockliffe (France) “The most important change Amma has brought about in my life is that She gives everything I do a meaning.” —Vani Daisy Rockliffe An excerpt of the Vani’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on Amma’s impact on her life. “The most important change Amma has brought about in my life is that…

Felix Elmendorff (Germany) “Amma had taught me to pray for the happiness of the whole world. I couldn’t imagine myself doing that with a weapon in my hand, so I decided to do civil service.” —Felix Elmendorff An overview of the Felix’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on Amma’s impact on his life. “I like rap,…

Eknath Graham O’Connor (USA) “Amma has led me to question my own life. ‘What am I doing with myself from day to day?’ ‘Where is my life headed?’ ‘Am I working towards any goal?’ ‘What purpose do my actions serve?’” —Eknath Graham O’Connor An excerpt from Eknath’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Summit speech on Amma’s impact on…