• Durga Michelle Morais

    Durga Michelle Morais (Brazil) “Thank you, Amma, for helping me see that nothing is impossible for anyone, no matter what problem they have.” —Durga Michelle Morais Durga, who is from Brazil, was 22-years-old and studying to become a doctor at the Amma’s AIMS Medical College in Cochin at the time of Amritavarsham50. In her speech,…

    Read more…


  • Ramya Pradhan

    Ramya Pradhan (India) “My college is the temple of Amma. It is different from other educational institutions that are devoid of love and care.” – Ramya Pradhan An overview of the engineering student from AITEC Bangalore’s Amritavarsham50 Youth Meet speech on Amma’s impact on her life. “The campus, the teachers and the students of Amma’s institution…

    Read more…


  • G. Sai Prasanna Kumar

    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…

    Read more…


  • Amritasri Birman

    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…

    Read more…


  • Arjuna Sayyed

    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.…

    Read more…


  • Kyoto Sato & Miki Sugaya

    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…

    Read more…


  • Sri Krishna

    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…

    Read more…


  • Mila Hamilton

    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.”…

    Read more…


  • Harikrishnan V.

    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…

    Read more…


  • Vani Daisy Rockliffe

    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…

    Read more…