Category: Around Amma
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Pongal at the Ashram
Pongal was celebrated in the Ashram. Amma distributed payasam to all the residents in the afternoon. The day on which the sun begins to move northwards is called ‘Makar Shankranti’. In Tamil Nadu this festival is called the Pongal.
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Fill Your Hearts with Love and Gratitude
The hall was full. Around 10,000 devotees and ashramites were assembled in the hall. The hour of midnight was approaching.
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A Teaching in Tears
When Amma was delivering her New Year’s Talk, she suddenly began telling everyone about a family who had come for darshan the day before:
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Nagapattinam Thanks Amma
29 December 2007 – Amritapuri This morning 75 tsunami survivors from Samanthampettai, Nagapattinam came for Amma’s darshan. Three years ago when the tsunami waves ravaged India’s west coast, Nagapattinam caught the worst of it, and in seconds more than 7,000 people were killed. Amma has visited Nagapattinam twice since that fateful day-once in February 2005…
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Bless us to Realize the Eternal ‘I’ in me
24 December 2007 — Amritapuri On holidays such as Christmas and Krishna Jayanti, Amma often reminds everyone that the real birth of Christ or Krishna must take place in one’s heart, and that to truly celebrate a mahatma’s birthday is to put his or her teachings into practice. This was the focus of this year’s…
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Old faces in Kodungallur
23 December, Kodungallur — Bharata Yatra 2007 In Kodungallur, there is a very famous Devi temple which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year. One specialty of this temple is that it is surrounded on three sides by about a dozen peepal trees, all hundreds of years old. Seeing them, one is reminded of the Bhagavad Gita…
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At the speed of Love
19 December, Kozhikode Brahmasthanam — Bharata Yatra 2007 Amma has been known to call Kozhikode her own Vrindavan. (Vrindavan is where Lord Sri Krishna lived his childhood, along with the fervently devoted gopis) Last year, Amma held a one-day program in a large stadium in the city. This year, it is a three-day festival in Amma’s…
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Wonder in Manjeri
16 December 2007, Manjeri –Bharata Yatra 2007 Amma started off her Indian tours with a mega program in Manjeri, northern Kerala. This one-day public program was held in the campus of Amrita Vidyalayam, one of the schools run by the ashram, and it is the second time Amma has visited here. Because the region is…
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Amma: A Divine Bliss
5 December 2007 — London, England Amma was welcomed to London by Sri. Sanjay Shrinet, the first secretary (trade) of the Indian High Commission, as well as Civic Ambassador of the London Borough of Newham, Smt. Omana Gangadharan. “It is a privilege and heavenly happiness to be blessed by Amma, to be in the company…
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Amma in California
22-26 November 2007 Amma held 5 days of programmes, including a three day retreat in her San Ramon Ashram in California. Mayor H. Abram Wilson, the mayor of the host city of San Ramon, welcomed Amma. He said: “To have her here, so that we can all have that touch and that love is beneficial…