Month: June 2006
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Divine pictures, music, drama and dance in the city of angels
24 June 2006 — Los Angeles, California, USA Amma was only in Los Angeles for five days—20 June – 24 June—but her face blessed the city for much longer. Giant posters bearing Amma’s divine image, announcing Amma’s visit, lined the streets of the City of Angels for almost two weeks prior to her arrival. It’s…
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Support Amma in all her work
22 June 2006 — Los Angeles, California, USA Ms. Yolanda King, daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., came for Amma’s blessing in Los Angeles. Just before arati, Ms. King garlanded Amma and, with a voice full of emotion, shared her appreciation of Amma with the 3,000 or so people who had come…
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Amma rocks the house!
San Ramon Ashram has formed a rock band that always plays around sunrise—serving as a kind of wake-up call to any devotee
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Amma’s interfaith speech is “Ugran, Adipoli”
Human beings will not have to keep on learning from pain and suffering and loss and death, but that we can learn the way we learn here
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Amma visits San Ramon 2006
Amma visited her ashram in the hills of San Ramon during her 2006 USa yatra. Programs where held from 8-18 June.
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20th Anniversary of Amma in the West
3 June 2006 — Seattle, Washington, USA When Amma’s plane touched down at SeaTac Airport in Seattle on May 31st, it marked the 20th year that Amma has come to the United States. As Swami Amritaswarupananda pointed out in one of his morning talks during Amma’s “Northwest Retreat,” a lot has changed in the past…
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A hope for the world
2 June 2006 — Seattle, Washington, USA On the first night of Amma’s ”Northwest Retreat,” a seven-year old girl named Amritavarshini from Eugene, Oregon came for Amma’s darshan. As the child approached Amma, she gently placed a garland around Amma’s neck. The garland was not made of flowers, but of dollars—$200 to be exact, everything…
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Space needles, Pine trees and rain: Amma in Seattle-Tacoma
1 – 4 June 2006 —Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, USA Amma has come to Seattle for the past 20 years, and for the past 13 years it has been the first city of her U.S. Tour. But this was the first year that Amma held a program in the heart of the city, just a stone’s throw…