Online with Amma

Category: Festivals

  • 56th Birthday Preparations

    Activity is going on round the clock in preparation for Amma’s 56th Birthday Celebrations and devotees are arriving from all over to participate in the festivities.

  • Sri Krishna Jayanti Celebration

    Krishna Jayanti was celebrated in Amritapuri will a full day of festivities. Beginning early in the morning, special pujas were performed, including the go puja, in which all the ashram cows were worshipped as embodiments of the divine. A few hours later—led by dozens of Krishnas, Radhas and gopis of all ages—there was a grand…

  • Amma’s 56th Birthday Celebrations

    Each September 27 , the anniversary of Amma’s birth, the world over resounds with prayers of gratitude. We would like to extend to you a heartfelt invitation to participate in this year’s celebrations, which will be taking place on Saturday the 26 and Sunday the 27 of September in Amritapuri, Kollam District, Kerala.

  • Onam Reminds Us to Become ‘One’

    “We all need to become one—this is the message Onam gives us,” Amma said in her annual Onam satsang. “It is from ‘one’ that we have all come, and it is back into that ‘one’ that we all must merge. This is the supreme goal of all of our lives. However, in our hectic schedules,…

  • Ganesh Festival Photos

    Ganesh Chaturthi, Gaja Puja and Ganesh Visarjan photos from the celebration at Amritapuri in the month of August 2009.

  • Gurupurnima at Amritapuri

    Gurupurnima at Amritapuri

    Gurupurnima was celebrated at Amritapuri on 7 Jul 2009

  • Holi Celebrations with Amma

    At the end of darshan, one devotee came to Amma with a tray full of colors to celebrate Holi. The devotee dabbed Amma’s cheek with a little red.  A few others  joined too, smearing Amma’s face with different colors.  Amma was beaming with joy with a mischievous smile.

  • God is Always Awake Within Us

    Sivaratri Celebrations, 23 February 2009 — Amritapuri “God is always awake within us, but we are sound asleep,” Amma said. “As a result, we are unable to experience his presence.” It was almost 2:00 in the morning—half way through the traditional night-long vigil and fast of Sivaratri. Amma then told everyone assembled that holidays like…

  • Overcome the times of trouble with Spiritual strength

    Amma said in her New Year message “Everything in the world is changing—with one exception: our negative mental state! We should develop a mind devoid of egoism—a mind that doesn’t fall apart in failure, a mind that finds joy in giving and accepts adversity with love. Such a mind will never experience sorrow.”

  • Dancing our way into the New Year

    The calendar year might have been about to change, but thankfully, Amma wasn’t. She was still doing what she has been doing Her entire life – giving darshan, pouring compassion and raining Love- as the new year approached.