Online with Amma

Category: Festivals

  • 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.

  • Xmas celebration photos

    Christmas eve 2008, Amritapuri Photos of Xmas celebration with Amma at the ashram.

  • Vidyarambham at Amritapuri

    09 Oct 2008, Amritapuri Navaratri – the nine days of festival of Devi concluded today with Vidyarambham this morning of Vijayadasami. Swami Turiyamritananda and Swami Amrita Geetananda led the prayers during Vidyarambham. There were hundreds of people who came to initiate their children on to the world of alphabets. Swami Turiyamritananda initiated them, first writing…

  • Love is the Centre-Point of Life: Amma

    Love is the Centre-Point of Life: Amma

    27 September 2008 — Amritapuri Amma began her 55th Birthday Address by saying that the point of religious and cultural festivals was to help human beings gain peace of mind. Amma lamented that in general this wasn’t happening. The culprit Amma said was man’s obsessive focus on money. “While meditating on money and luxuries, we…