Category: Festivals
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Ganesh Chaturthi
21 Aug 2012, Amritapuri Today marked the beginning of the Ganesha Chaturthi festival here in Amritapuri. The festivities began before sunrise with a Ganapthi Homa in the Kalari. After the homa a Ganesh statue was installed in a temporary altar just in front of the Kalari where it will reside until the end of the…
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Amma plays Holi in Amritapuri
8 Mar 2012, Amritapuri Thursday night as darshan ended, the Holi celebration began at Amritapuri. Just before the end of darshan a devotee presented Amma with a bowl of colored powder and a bucket of water and a ‘pichkari’ (elongated water pistol). Amma mixed the colors into the bucket of water and then she filled…
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New Year Eve of 2012
May our lives and the lives of all beings be pervaded with goodness. This is Amma’s prayer on this occasion. 2012 New Year celebrations at Amritapuri
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Xmas gifts for an Orphanage
Xmas eve, Fiji On Christmas Day a group from Amma Fiji visited the Happy Home Orphanage in town of Domain. There they met five boys who had no family home to return to and were spending Christmas Day with a few dedicated staff. They were provided with new school bags, snacks, and items for personal…
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Christmas carol of Swiss Bala Kendra
The Bala Kendra (children’s group) in Switzerland (Kindertreff Ziegelhütte) sang and played Christmas carols for elderly people in a retirement home near the Amma Center in Germany. The old people were very moved by the concert and applauded enthusiastically at the end. They very much appreciated, that these young people came to sweeten their holiday…
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Mass marriage on Amma’s 58th birthday
27 Sep 2011, Amritapuri In connection with the 58th Birthday celebrations, Amma conducted a mass marriage of dozens of underprivileged couples. As it does every year, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math provided all the requisite items for a traditional Hindu wedding, including gold necklace, bangles, wedding dresses for both bride & groom and feast for all…