Category: Yatra

  • Mother nature in Melbourne

    Mother nature in Melbourne

    5 – 9 April, 2006 – Kyneton & Moorabbin, Australia (both near Melbourne) At Amma’s retreat outside of Melbourne, the air was filled with the sound of cockatoos and some devotees even spotted wild kangaroos grazing just across a field near the program hall—not to mention all the domestic cows, horses and sheep roaming about.…

  • Darshan by the sea in Perth

    Darshan by the sea in Perth

    31 March – 2 April 2006 — Perth, Australia Less than two days after finishing the North Indian Tour, Amma was again giving darshan, this time in the city of Perth on Australia’s west coast. The programs were held in the Fremantle Marine Passenger Terminal, which is right on the Indian Ocean. Huge windows let…

  • A safe and happy journey

    A safe and happy journey

    29 March, 2006 – Gokulpur, Kolkata, West Bengal Bharata Yatra 2006 began with the start of February {news}. The past two months have been full of bus trips, roadside satsangs, bhajans in myriad Indian languages and of course hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of India coming into Amma’s arms. With the conclusion…

  • One yatra ends, another begins

    Bharata Yatra 2006 29 March — Dum Dum International Airport, Kolkata, West Bengal Amma left the Kolkata Ashram around 8:00 p.m. to go to Dum Dum Airport in Kolkata. From there, she flew on to Perth, Australia. After giving a series of programs in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, Amma will return to Amritapuri. –Tulasi

  • First darshan in Kolkata ashram

    Bharata Yatra 2006 28 March 2006 — Gokulpur, Kolkata, West Bengal Amma has been coming to Kolkata almost every year since 1988, but only recently did the Math acquire property in the ancient city upon which to construct an ashram. The Kolkata Ashram is located on a five-acre piece of property in Gokulpur, on the…

  • Ego and all things bow down to such Love

    27 March — Kolkata, West Bengal, Bharat Yatra 2006 Amma’s first of two programmes in Kolkata took place at Nazrul Munj, an indoor-outdoor theatre in the southern part of the city. Participating in the program were a number of businessmen and government officials, including IAS officers Sukumar Das and Rajendra Kumar and industrialists Harsh Neotia…

  • Bharata yatra darshan

    March 28, Gokulpur, Kolkata, West Bengal –Bharata Yatra 2006 At the end of each of Amma’s tours, there is one question in the hearts of many of the brahmacharis, brahmacharinis and devotees traveling with Amma: “Will Amma call us for darshan?” Sometimes she does, and sometimes she does not. In the early days of the…

  • May Ammas love blossom in Jharkhand

    May Ammas love blossom in Jharkhand

    25 March, 2006 — Ranchi, Jharkhand “We’ve heard a lot about Amma and seen her on TV, but today we have the great luck of actually meeting her and having her darshan, and as such I feel very happy,” said Arjun Munda, the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, upon Amma’s first visit to the recently formed…

  • Amma consoles victims of Varanasi bomb blast

    Amma consoles victims of Varanasi bomb blast

    24 March, Benares Hindu University Hospital, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh –Bharata Yatra 2006 On 7 March, the ancient city of Varanasi made worldwide headlines when bomb blasts went off at its Sankat Mochana Hanuman Temple and railway station. Twenty people were killed and more than 100 were injured. On Amma’s way from Lucknow to Ranchi on…

  • Mother of Lucknow’s poor, handicapped and homeless

    Mother of Lucknow’s poor, handicapped and homeless

    22 March 2006 — Lakshmanpur, Uttar Pradesh Both pensions for widows and houses for the homeless were given away during Amma’s program in Lakshmanpur (Lucknow). The occasion prompted both Sri. Matraprasad Pande, the Speaker of the State Assembly of Uttar Pradesh, and the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Sri. Jagadambikapal, to comment on Amma’s…