(6 Sep '09)
2 September 2009 – Amritapuri
“We all need to become one—this is the message Onam gives us,” Amma said in her annual Onam satsang. “It is from ‘one’ that we have all come, and it is back into that ‘one’ that we all must merge. This is the supreme goal of all of our lives. However, [Read more... click the article link above]
(12 Sep '08)
12 September 2008 — Amritapuri
With the coming of Tiru Onam, thousands of people came to Amritapuri in order to celebrate. The bhajan hall was filled with smiling people dressed in new clothes. The feeling of celebration was in the air.
Amma came to the dais to the sounds of panchavadyam around 11:00 am. After offering her [Read more... click the article link above]
(6 Sep '07)
25 Aug 2007, Idukki
Workers atf the JSS office in Idukki, which is managed by MAM, in celebration of Onam, pledged to distribute 1000 packages of food staples to the poor and needy over the next few months. In a function held last week, Sri K.K. Jayachandran (MLA – Udumpanchola) handed out the 108 first bags.
One [Read more... click the article link above]
(12 Sep '05)
12 September 2005 – Amritapuri
“What were your Onam of old like?” {read} This is what the reporter had asked Amma. And the picture Amma painted in response was of a world wet with life–one where boys and girls lepta into the backwaters and splashed about, making as much noise as they wanted, singing together, dancing [Read more... click the article link above]
(6 Sep '05)
September-2005
Each morning for the past 10 days, students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham have presented Amma with a beautiful pookkalam at [Read more... click the article link above]
(6 Sep '05)
6 September 2005 — Amritapuri
When Amma came down the steps from her room, the first pookkalam of Onam was waiting [Read more... click the article link above]
(28 Aug '04)
28 August 2004, Amritapuri
Several thousand devotees came to Amritapuri for the traditional Onam festival. Amma sang and danced, gave darshan and served prasad lunch to more than 7000 people.
For ten days preceding the festival, students of Amrita Institutions who reside at the ashram made large flower mandalas at the base of the steps to Amma’s [Read more... click the article link above]