Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Amritapuri, 4 September 2006 What is created eventually gets destroyed. What is born eventually has to die. This is the wisdom of the scriptures, and what has been happening right here in Amritapuri. Nothing is permanent. At any given moment, Amma may request that an old structure should be torn down to make way for […]
26 August 2005, Amritapuri Just before midnight–the time of Sri Krishna’s birth–Amma went to the stage. A puja was performed as the “Srimad Bhagavatam” in Malayalam was read describing the birth of Sri Krishna. Amma sang “Agatanayi Agatanayi Krishna Devan,” “Radhe Govinda Gopi Gopala” and “Govinda Gopala.” She then gave a satsang about the life […]
Arun, from Thiruvalla, always comes to help control the crowds when Amma gives darshan. Little did he know that on this day he would have to control someone in the crowd who was carrying a knife {news}. Arun was one of the first ones on the scene when the attacker was forced from the stage […]
The Ashram is bustling with activity as residents prepare for Amma’s arrival. Ashram residents are busy cleaning and sprucing up the premises to welcome Amma back after Her two-month Japan-North America Tour. Residents can be seen painting flower pots, changing curtains, and lovingly painting flowers on the steps the Amma climbs daily. All the different […]
Nowhere on earth is life lived as fully as it is in Amritapuri. Every nook and corner of the ashram sparkles with dynamism. From the stillness of the morning hours when the ashram is rapt in meditation to the vibrancy of the night when the air is filled with Amma’s ecstatic bhajans, Amritapuri is always […]
11 March 2005, Amritapuri Om manusya-mrga-paksyadi sarva-samsevitanghraye namah(Salutations to the feet of She who is served by humans, animals, birds and all others.) It’s like something out of a fairy tale—but it happened. And not just once but many times, to hear Amma tell it. The eagles fed Her. It’s something to picture: a teenage […]
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, […]
31 Dec 2004, Amritapuri For the first time in five days, the temple bell rang three times—announcing to all the ashramites that Amma was coming to the bhajan hall. It seemed to many that the bell was announcing the rain, as it came exactly as the bell was sounded. Everyone—the ashramites and the visiting devotees—ran […]