• Amma Arrives at Covai

    Amma arrived at 8:00 p.m. at the Amrita Vidyalayam in Coimbatore, as a start to her Tamil Nadu tour

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  • Pongal at the Ashram

    Pongal at the Ashram

    Pongal was celebrated in the Ashram. Amma distributed payasam to all the residents in the afternoon. The day on which the sun begins to move northwards is called ‘Makar Shankranti’.  In Tamil Nadu this festival is called the Pongal.

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  • Two More ‘Tsunami Babies’ on the Way

    Another one of the tsunami victims who underwent fallopian-tubal-ligation reversal is pregnant with twins. Sarita, 30, came to Amritapuri for Amma’s darshan this morning and informed Amma of her condition. She has just completed her first trimester. Sarita will be the fifth such woman to deliver, bringing the total of “tsunami babies” up to eight.

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  • A Miracle in Surgery

    A Miracle in Surgery

    On August 18, 2007, a group of children from a remote tribal village near Janakpuri in Chattisgarh went to graze the village goats in a field in the forest. It was there that three bears-a mother and two cubs-came upon them. All the children ran, but one 12-year-old girl named Kusumavati did not get away.…

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  • 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.

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  • 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:

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  • IAM Meditation classes in 2007

    IAM Meditation classes in 2007

    Photos from I AM Meditation classes throughout India from the year 2007  

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  • Nagapattinam Thanks Amma

    29 December 2007 – Amritapuri This morning 75 tsunami survivors from Samanthampettai, Nagapattinam came for Amma’s darshan. Three years ago when the tsunami waves ravaged India’s west coast, Nagapattinam caught the worst of it, and in seconds more than 7,000 people were killed. Amma has visited Nagapattinam twice since that fateful day-once in February 2005…

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  • Bless us to Realize the Eternal ‘I’ in me

    24 December 2007 — Amritapuri On holidays such as Christmas and Krishna Jayanti, Amma often reminds everyone that the real birth of Christ or Krishna must take place in one’s heart, and that to truly celebrate a mahatma’s birthday is to put his or her teachings into practice. This was the focus of this year’s…

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  • Old faces in Kodungallur

    Old faces in Kodungallur

    23 December, Kodungallur — Bharata Yatra 2007 In Kodungallur, there is a very famous Devi temple which attracts thousands of pilgrims every year. One specialty of this temple is that it is surrounded on three sides by about a dozen peepal trees, all hundreds of years old. Seeing them, one is reminded of the Bhagavad Gita…

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