Category: Spiritual
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In difficult times, kindle the strength of love
Excerpts from Amma’s satsang on the occasion of her 52nd Birthday 27 September 2005 — Amritapuri “Amma is very happy to see so many of her children gathered together here today. Children who have the attitude of service are the pride of their mother and the beauty of society. In Amma’s world, there is no…
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Nature’s fury is not yet abated
1 September 2005 — Amritapuri When the night’s bhajans finished, Amma’s voice came once more over the microphone: “Amma would like all of her children to pray for the peace for those who died and for those who lost their loved ones in the recent stampede in Iraq and in the flooding in New Orleans…
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“Amma is not afraid of death”
If anyone wants to kill me, they can do it anywhere at any time. Amma is not afraid of death at all
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Science needs direction from spirituality
Amma’s message send from Dallas, USA for the launch of Amrita-ISRO VRC network launch. Amma bows down to everyone, who are the embodiments of pure Love and the Supreme Self. Amma is pleased to learn that the inauguration of the AMRITA ISRO Village Resource Center is being conducted in the esteemed presence of the Honourable…
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Tsunami kids take classes
1 May 2005 — Amritapuri Amritapuri was flooded once again, but this time the ashramites were not waist deep in seawater, but in children. Approximately 4,000 children from the villages around the Ashram spent the five days from April 25th to 29th at Amritapuri, taking free classes in Spoken English, Sanskrit and Yoga. The children—who…
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The place where speech ends
12 April 2005 – en route to Amritapuri from Trissur In this land of caste rivalries,Where caste is worshipped and the worshippers reap the thorns of sorrow,Even today when people revel in the thorns reaped from castes,My Amma is that love which transcends all these boundaries. ജാതിക്കുശുമ്പിന്റെ നാടാണു ജാതിയെ പൂജിച്ചു പൂജിച്ചു മുള്ളുവാരിഇന്നുമാമുള്ളില് മദിക്കുന്ന ജാതിയെ വെല്ലുന്ന…
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The water is a delightful game
16 March 2005 — Amritapuri The 30 children from Alappad who are currently taking swimming lessons in the Ashram swimming pool came to Amma with a desire: Would Amma go swimming with them? Word got around pretty quick. Soon everywhere one went one would people talking in hushed yet excited tones: Did you hear? Amma…
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Sri Rama knew Sitas heart
15 March 2005 — Amritapuri The Puranas and Hindu epics are full of stories that seem simple on the surface, but upon deeper investigation reveal fathomless depth. This, in truth, is their greatness—the fact that everyone from a child to a scholar can hear them and come away with meaning appropriate for their stage and…
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Fight for Dharma, Amma asks journalism students
3 March 2005, Amritapuri Journalism students get their first big interview “Newspapers are meant for dharma. And for the purpose of protecting dharma we have to live our dharma,” Amma said. She was talking to 15 students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Journalism who She’d called to Her room after bhajans on 3rd March.…
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Sciences of ancient India
1 March 2005, Amritapuri One of the Ashram residents had read something in the paper and wanted to share it with Amma. So she placed the clipping in a pile of questions on Amma’s peetham during Tuesday’s Meditation Day. It was the story of a group of elephants kept at a resort in Phuket, Thailand,…