archive for December, 2007


Nagapattinam Thanks Amma

(30 Dec '07)

29 December 2007 – Amritapuri
This morning 75 tsunami survivors from Samanthampettai, Nagapattinam came for Amma’s darshan. Three years ago when the tsunami waves ravaged India’s west coast, Nagapattinam caught the worst of it, and in seconds more than 7,000 people were killed.
Amma has visited Nagapattinam twice since that fateful day-once in February 2005 and [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Around Amma

Bless us to Realize the Eternal ‘I’ in me

(26 Dec '07)

24 December 2007 — Amritapuri
On holidays such as Christmas and Krishna Jayanti, Amma often reminds everyone that the real birth of Christ or Krishna must take place in one’s heart, and that to truly celebrate a mahatma’s birthday is to put his or her teachings into practice.
This was the focus of this year’s Amritapuri Christmas [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Around Amma

Old Faces in Kodungallur

(24 Dec '07)

23 December, Kodungallur
Bharata Yatra 2007
In Kodungallur, there is a very famous Devi temple which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year. One specialty of this temple is that it is surrounded on three sides by about a dozen peepal trees, all hundreds of years old. Seeing them, one is reminded of the Bhagavad Gita verse, [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Around Amma

At the speed of Love

(21 Dec '07)

19 December, Kozhikode Brahmasthanam
Bharata Yatra 2007
Amma has been known to call Kozhikode her own Vrindavan. (Vrindavan is where Lord Sri Krishna lived his childhood, along with the fervently devoted gopis) Last year, Amma held a one-day program in a large stadium in the city. This year, it is a three-day festival in Amma’s brahmasthanam [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Around Amma

Wonder in Manjeri

(17 Dec '07)

Wonder in Manjeri
Bharata Yatra 2007
16 December 2007, Manjeri
Amma started off her Indian tours with a mega program in Manjeri, northern Kerala. This one-day public program was held in the campus of Amrita Vidyalayam, one of the schools run by the ashram, and it is the second time Amma has visited here. Because the region is [Read more... click the article link above]

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Amma: A Divine Bliss

(7 Dec '07)

5 December 2007 — London, England
Amma was welcomed to London by Sri. Sanjay Shrinet, the first secretary (trade) of the Indian High Commission, as well as Civic Ambassador of the London Borough of Newham, Smt. Omana Gangadharan.
“It is a privilege and heavenly happiness to be blessed by Amma, to be in the company of Amma,” [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Around Amma

Wayanad Camp

(2 Dec '07)

November, Wayanad, Kerala
The Amrita Kripa Charible Hospital Kalpetta held its monthly (November) Tele-medicine camp. Through the mobile Tele-medicine van advance diagnostic tools are available for the tribals of this area. About three hundred and fifty patients were seen over the two days and approximately seventy patients received the necessary advance laboratory and x-ray services [Read more... click the article link above]

Category : Health Care