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Laugh more!
20 February, Davangere to Hyderabad bus journey – Lunch stop So far the trip from Davangere to Hyderabad has been our longest journey, approximately 24 hours. It was an exhausting journey, especially physically. The only thing that is keeping me from flying from city to city is the stops with Mother. These stops make the…
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Amma visits the upcoming Engineering college – Bangalore
18 February, Bangalore , Karnataka – Bharata Yatra 2002 Amma visited the upcoming Engineering college at Bangalore, during Her visit to the city. The college will offer courses in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, in Electronics and Telecommunications and in Computer Engineering. The college will impart value based Education as a part of its curriculum similar…
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Amma blesses Mysore with homes and healthcare
14 Feb 2002, Mysore – Bharata yatra 2002 Amma’s darshan programs in Mysore in 2002 began with the implementation of charities and the request for more. Shining as bright as diamonds, Amma greeted Karnataka’s District Minister H. Viswanath with a loving embrace. The full hall of devotees listened on as the minister thanked Amma for…
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Something was there!
13 February 2002, En route to Mysore The first stop on Amma’s 2002 Mahayatra was Mananthavadi, Kerala, where a Brahmasthanam Temple was installed last year. The ashram and Amritavidyalayam School are nestled in the Nilgiri hills among lush rain forests and coffee and tea plantations. Those travelling with Amma had been road weary and tired…
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Request for a hospital in Wayanad
11 February 2002, Mananthavady, North Kerala On February 11 the Mananthavady Hospital Development Society came to Amma to seek Her assistance for the District Government Hospital. The hospital serves the Wayanad District of North Kerala, an extremely impoverished area. This district is home to a large population of tribal people who have lost their traditional…
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“Va, Makkale!”
9 February 2002,Leaving Amritapuri Nobody ever suggested that Mother is predictable. She’s not even schedulable. Even when She’s about to leave home for two months, nobody knows either the time nor the mode of departure. This morning, after the tour group travelling by bus departed (about 5:00 a.m.), the ashramites who would be staying behind…
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Adi Sankaracharya: The Jagadguru of Advaita
The guru-disciple paramparas1 of India are like malas2 strung with gems; each jewel is precious and invaluable. Still, some shine with an attention-commanding splendor. Sri Adi Sankaracarya was such a diamond. Sri Sankara’s accomplishments were many, but he is singled out because his brilliant commentaries on the prasthana-trayam—upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Brahma Sutras—crystallized the…
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Overlooking God
16January 2002,En route to Madras Just at dusk, somewhere in Tamil Nadu, Amma’s South India Tour buses stopped at a countryside temple to Lord Ganesh. The pujari was there, anointing and garlanding the murthi; the local devotees gathered near, and the people travelling with Mother stood close by, respectfully. A temple houses a murthi, an…
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The frog’s tail
16 January 2002, on the way from Madurai to Madras “Come close this side. Sun very hot,” Amma called to Her devotees. We had stopped for lunch and a chair had been set up for Her under the shade of a majestic, old, gnarly-branched tree. It couldn’t, however, shade all of Her children travelling with…
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An ever-present Guru
Even a yogi living in a Himalayas must listen to Satsang every day even if he has thoroughly studied the scriptures Otherwise, he can easily become deluded.