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Rath Yatra proclaiming Amritavarsham60
As part of Amritavarsham60 Celebrations, there were procession held in different parts of the country. Some of them drove all the way to Amritapuri with lots of decorations and making announcements about the program. One even came from Mumbai! Pics from those processions when they reached Amritapuri on 24th Sep.
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We enjoy helping others
Amrita University students clean-up Hundreds of students from Amrita University have joined in the Amritavarsham60 celebrations by rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty. Managing the logistics of food service, waste management and crowd safety is a big job at an event with visitors numbering in the hundreds of thousands, but the Amrita
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Dignitaries Participating in the Two-Day Summit
Two-Day Summit “Our Villages, Our World: What Can We Offer?” Dignitaries Participating • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India • Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Father of India’s Green Movement • Sri. T.K.A, Nair, Adviser to the Prime Minister • Dr. Leland H. Hartwell, Nobel Laureate in Physics / Medicine • Sri. S.V. Raghavan, Scientific
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Free Cardiac Surgeries, Kidney Transplants & Cancer Treatment at Amrita Hospital
In celebration of the 60th birthday of spiritual leader and humanitarian Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (also known as AIMS or Amrita Hospital) in Kochi, Kerala, will provide 50-crore worth of totally free kidney transplants*, cardiac surgeries and cancer treatments to poor people throughout India. People living beneath the
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60 years, 60 deeds, a thousand smiles – The joy of Giving
For Ammas sixtieth birthday, Her children in Idukki have decided to embark upon sixty deeds that would express Amma’s teachings of Love and Compassion – from distributing clothes, toys and books, planting trees, cleaning hospitals, feeding the poor, repairing homes, paying medical bills, or even pledging to be willing cadaver organ donors – Ammas children
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Amma lights the lamp of Chandika Maha Yaga
22 Sep 2013, Amritapuri The celebration of Amritavarsham 60 begins! With the age old traditional ritual called Maha Yaga or the great Fire Ceremony! Amma, blessed the occasion by Her presence in the yaga shala this morning. Amma lighted the auspicious lamp which is symbolic of world peace and knowledge. Amma went about the yagashala,
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Amrita Personal Health Record
Marking yet another medical revolution in India there is now a way for ordinary citizens to take control of his/her life health record. Amrita Technologies have come up with portable Electronic Health Record stored in a pen drive, purely personal and protected, universally usable, designed to enable self-management of personal health. The medical records can
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When we submit ego and selfishness to God, attain perfection
As always the day of Thiruonam was a festive occasion in Amritapuri. Accompanied by Panchavadyam musicians Amma made her way to the stage in the morning to the delight of the packed hall that had come for the festivities. Amma started the celebrations by sharing her Onam message in which she said, “Onam sankalpa is a time
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Answers that are not in science should be searched in spirituality
12 Aug 2013, Amritapuri Amma meets Scientists from International Conference on Biotechnology for Innovative Applications A group of 100 scientists from all over the world including India, USA, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Russia, UK, and Australia had come to Amritapuri to participate at the International Conference on Biotechnology for Innovative Applications. The conference, called Amrita Bio