Month: April 2009
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IAM for Tamil Nadu Police
On April 26 and 27, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) held Integrated Amrita Meditation Technique® (IAM Technique®) classes for the special police of Tamil Nadu. A total of 56 policemen participated in the training—50 constables and six officers.
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AYUDH-Kenya Cleans Slum
28 March 2009 — Nairobi, Kenya On March 28, 2009, a few weeks prior to Amma’s Kenya programs, AYUDH-Kenya undertook its first project—cleaning up a slum. Approximately 150 young people took part in the cleanup, which took place at Maringo Estate off Jogoo Road in Eastlands, Nairobi. The clean-up was headed by Brahmachari Shantamrita Chaitanya…
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Silent Song of Amma’s Love in Trissur
Amma held a two-day Brahmasthanam Festival here in Trissur. The Brahmasthanam Temple is situated on a plot of land that also includes ASHIS, Amma’s school for the speech- and hearing-impaired, along with an Amrita Vidyalayam school and a Working Women’s Hostel.
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Our Hearts Must Overflow with Love
Amma held a two-day Brahmasthanam Festival here. Amma’s ashram in Pallakad is in a picturesque location, nestled among coconut palms and rice fields, the mountains of the Western Ghats rising impassively in the distant horizon.
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AYUDH Belgium Planting Trees
At Knesselare in Belgium, members of AYUDH Europe worked side by side with Amma’s older devotees to plant 240 willow trees on a parcel of land appointed to Friends of Amma.
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Bihar Flood Relief Work of MAM
On August 18, 2008, the Kosi River broke through a man-made embankment in Nepal. The flooding was massive and engulfed half the neighboring state of Bihar in India.
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Simplicity of the Smile is More Powerful than 100 Presidents
17-18 April, Bharata Yatra 2009 Brahmasthanam Festival, Kochi Amma’s program here was a festival not only in name but in spirit. For two full days, the grounds were filled to overflowing with relaxed, smiling faces. An atmosphere of peace and good cheer pervaded as students and staff of Amrita University and AIMS Hospital worked side…
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Amma, ‘Mother of the Nation’ for the Masai
During Amma’s program in Kenya, members of the Masai Tribe presented Amma with the title of Elder of their tribe. As part of this process, they dressed Amma in the traditional regalia of their Elders.
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Amma Launches Orphanage in Kenya
Six years after Amma first visited Kenya, Amma returned for her first official program