Category: Around Amma
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Housing for psychologically challenged
13 May 2005 — Trivandrum, Kerala On the first night of Amma’s Trivandrum Brahmasthanam Festival, Amma handed once again handed over keys to houses. But these keys were given not given to the poor, but to the government. The 10 homes were constructed to serve as much-needed halfway houses for patients of the Mental Hospital…
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Tsunami kids take classes
1 May 2005 — Amritapuri Amritapuri was flooded once again, but this time the ashramites were not waist deep in seawater, but in children. Approximately 4,000 children from the villages around the Ashram spent the five days from April 25th to 29th at Amritapuri, taking free classes in Spoken English, Sanskrit and Yoga. The children—who…
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Camp for tsunami kids
Ashram Provides spoken english, yoga & sanskrit classes 25 – 29 April 2005 — Amritapuri The tsunami has created a big shock in the minds of the children in the affected areas. Understanding this, Amma has been providing them with counseling for the past several months through child psychiatrists of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.…
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Blessings on the way home
12 April 2005 – en route to Amritapuri from Trissur Amma finished giving darshan around 6:00 in the morning, thereby concluding Her first ever Brahmasthanam Festival in Trissur. On Her way back to Amritapuri, Amma made several stops at places She was invited to during the festival. In Trissur itself, Amma visited the Brahmasvam Matham,…
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The place where speech ends
12 April 2005 – en route to Amritapuri from Trissur In this land of caste rivalries,Where caste is worshipped and the worshippers reap the thorns of sorrow,Even today when people revel in the thorns reaped from castes,My Amma is that love which transcends all these boundaries. ജാതിക്കുശുമ്പിന്റെ നാടാണു ജാതിയെ പൂജിച്ചു പൂജിച്ചു മുള്ളുവാരിഇന്നുമാമുള്ളില് മദിക്കുന്ന ജാതിയെ വെല്ലുന്ന…
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Installing god in the temple & in the heart
10 April 2005 — Trissur, Kerala In the pre-dawn morning, admist the chanting of the devotees, the explosions of fireworks, and the joyous hue and cry of the panchavadyam, Amma installed her 18th Brahmasthanam murti—this one in Trissur, Kerala. Watch video: The murthi is being brought to the temple Amma installing the murthi
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Amma is a role model for the world
9 April 2005 — Trissur Ashram Tomorrow Amma will install and consecrate the murti for Her 18th Brahmasthanam Temple. But tonight She handed house keys over to 10 of the Trissur District’s poor. The keys are representative of 100 houses the Ashram is constructing here as part of its Amrita Kuteeram project to build 100,000…
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Brahmasthanam temple in Trissur
20 March 2005 Amma will inaugurate Her 18th Brahmasthanam Temple, conducting the stupika pratishtha on 9 April from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. and the murti pratishtha on 10 April from 6:20 to 6:30 a.m. The new temple is located at Amma’s ashram in Ayyantol, Trissur, approximately 180 kilometres north of Amritapuri. Trissur is considered as…
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Lose yourself in the song
Someone had put a note on Amma’s peetham before the start of the evening bhajan, requesting Her to sing the Mahishasura Mardini Stotram, a 21-versed hymn in praise of Durga. Amma read the note aloud to the ashramites and devotees who were seated before Her and then told them all to close their eyes, imagine…
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The water is a delightful game
16 March 2005 — Amritapuri The 30 children from Alappad who are currently taking swimming lessons in the Ashram swimming pool came to Amma with a desire: Would Amma go swimming with them? Word got around pretty quick. Soon everywhere one went one would people talking in hushed yet excited tones: Did you hear? Amma…