Category: Festivals

  • Guru Purnima celebrations in India 2008

    Guru Purnima celebrations in India 2008

    18 July, 2008, Guru Purnima celebrations Amritapuri: Swami Turiyamritananda performs Guru Paduka Puja. Ashramites chanted Amma’s 108 names and Veda mantras as part of Guru Purnima celebrations in Amritapuri. The ashram resonated with devotion to the Guru. Chennai: At Chennai ashram, Guru Poornima was celebrated as a full day event starting with Guru Paduka Pooja,…

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • Photos of various events in Amritapuri 2007

    Photos of various events in Amritapuri 2007

    Photos of the following 3 events in Amritapuri Oct – Dec 2007 -Amma arriving in Amritapuri after her 2007 Europe & USA tour -60 Devotees from Pune dancing & singing -Amrita TV’s Raga Ratnam program winner is singing for Amma  

  • Deepavali 2007

    Deepavali at Amritapuri.

  • Durgapuja at Amritapuri

    Durgapuja at Amritapuri

    19 October 2007 Amritapuri Friday marked the beginning of the last three days of Navaratri during which Saraswati, the Embodiment of Knowledge, is worshipped.  Village children began arriving at the Ashram in the late afternoon to place their school textbooks and musical instruments on the temporary altar that had been set up on the stage…

  • Story of an Orphan Bride

    Story of an Orphan Bride

    27 September 2007 — Amritapuri It has become a birthday tradition – on Amma’s 54th birthday she once again performed the marriage ceremonies for 50 impoverished couples. The Ashram sponsored all the traditional wedding items—from brocade saris, to gold wedding necklaces and rings to post-wedding family feasts. This year, one of the brides was Jayashree,…

  • I have got Everything Back

    I have got Everything Back

    27 September 2007 — Amritapuri On Amma’s birthday, some 200 children benefitting from the Ashram’s Vidyamritam Program came to Amritapuri from Hyderabad in order to have Amma’s darshan. Vidyamritam is the Ashram’s new project aimed at fighting farmer suicide through the provision of scholarships to 30,000 children from poor agricultural families. Similar students also came…

  • Her Deeds made Amma immortal

    Her Deeds made Amma immortal

    Sri. Vellappally Nateshan, Secretary, Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam speaking at Amma’s birthday celebrations. “Amma is a chiranjivi [one who lives on earth forever]. Amma’s deeds themselves have made Amma immortal. Amma will be here until the end of the world as a chiranjivi. “Each of Amma’s actions come from love alone. Through that, she…

  • Speeches from Birthday

    Let Amma live more than a century to lead us Sri. M.V. Rajasekhar, Honourable Union Minister of State for Planning, upon the inauguration of MAM’s Vidyamritam Program of 30,000 scholarships for children of poor farmers “This land has been known for centuries for spiritual advancement. This land is led by spiritualism and knowledge. This is…