Year: 2006
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Medical help to Surat flood victims
25 August 2006 — Surat, Gujarat Between August 17th and August 25th, brahmachari-doctors Ram Mohan and Chandrasekhar have seen to some 3,000 patients as part of the Ashram’s flood-relief work in Surat. Today, their work has concluded and they are returning to Amritapuri. During the past week they treated patients and distrubuted medicine in Rampura,…
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Devotees teach meditation in U.S. prison
24 August 2006 — Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Since 2003, devotee Steve Schmidt has been spending his weekends teaching Amma’s IAM Meditation Technique™ {news } to groups of devotees throughout America, mostly in devotees’ houses. Two months ago, however he entered a completely different teaching environment: the Santa Fe Juvenile Detention Home in New…
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Three great teachings India gave to the world
Past Mid-night, 14 August 2006, Amritapuri. Amma’s message on 60th India’s Independence Day “Seeing the impressive cultural presentations {news} staged by these children (students of Amrita University) Amma forgot everything. It is the proof to the fact that we have not lost our culture. Amma bows down to all of you. It has been 59…
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Independence day celebration
14 Aug, 2006, Amritapuri. The evening of India’s 60th Independence Day was celebrated at Amritapuri with multimedia cultural performances and a Bharatmata Puja by students from Amrita Universities –Engineering, Medicine, Ayurveda, Biotech, and Arts & Sciences schools. Amma joined the students and Ashram residents in the main hall. The performances focused on the various religions…
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Serve just one hour a day
10 August 2006 — Amritapuri Amma says that if everyone in the world were to spend just one hour a day in selfless service, we could change the face of the earth. Students attending classes at Amrita University have been taking Amma’s words to heart, and recently they started a collective called Amrita Sanjeevani, with…
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Arise! Awake! and seek the Enlightened One!
6 August 2006 — Amritapuri It was way past little Dev’s bedtime… but darshan was far from over. Wanting to see Amma one last time before he went to bed, the little Swiss-German boy decided he would wait by the stairs to Amma’s room. She had to come there eventually. But after some time, he…
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Go beyond the mind
July 31, 2006 — Amritapuri Amma had been giving darshan in North America for two months. Regardless, the day after her return to Amritapuri, she promptly came to the temple to give her first meditation and question-and-answer session with the ashram residents. When Amma is in Amritapuri, the brahmacharins and householder devotees who live here…
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Ashram alive again
30 July 2006, Amritapuri Amma returned to Amritapuri on Sunday, July 30th, 2006, after the recent Japan-North America yatra. She arrived at about 10:45 a.m., bringing smiles, laughter and tears of joy to the faces of Her children who had gathered to welcome Amma. In the throng of devotees were freshmen of the Amrita University…
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Amma is making our world a better place
23 July 2006 — Richmond Hill, Ontario Dr. Ruby Dhalla, Member of Parliament for the riding of Brampton-Springdale, welcomed Amma to Canada for the second time. Dr. Dhalla, who is the youngest women to have ever been elected to the Canadian Parliament, began by saying that she was honoured to be in the presence of…
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We welcome the dance of the holy mother
19 July 2006 — Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA Amma was welcomed to her programs in Marlborough, Massachusetts by Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, holder of the Ywahoo lineage and chief of the Green Mountain Ani Yunwiwa. Trained by her grand parents, she is the 27th generation to carry the ancestral wisdom of the Ywahoo lineage. “Mother Wisdom is…