Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
18 May 2006 – Kaimanam, Trivandrum, Kerala Amma reached her ashram in Kaimanam, Trivandum at 3:00 pm. She was greeted by hundreds of devotees who were busy making the final preparations for the Brahmasthanam Festival that will begin there tonight and will finish up Monday morning. Amma’s room is on the ashram’s first floor, a […]
18 May 2006 – kaimanam, Trivandrum, Kerala On the first night of Amma’s Trivandrum Brahmasthanam Festival, P. Parameswaran, the Director of Bharatiya Vichara Kendra, and Vellappilli Nateshan, the General Secretary of Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana Sangham, were both on hand to offer their prostrations and words of praise to Amma. “In this hottest final days […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
16 March, 2006 – New Delhi When the car driving Amma reached Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, Amma was greeted by a horse-drawn chariot, a team of fully decorated elephants and camels and a band of turbaned bhangra dancers, one of who spit celebratory bursts of flame into the air. The dignitaries who […]
15 March, 2006 – Jaipur, Rajasthan, and the Rajasthan–Haryana border on NH7 Holi is mainly a North Indian tradition. As such, in Amma’s youth she never threw about the celebratory powdered paints as people do in places like Mumbai, Jaipur and Delhi. And even though Amma has been in the North during Holi almost every year […]
14 March, 2006 – Jaipur, Rajasthan Amma’s visit to Jaipur fell on Holi {read more} , the festival associated with Sri Krishna, wherein powdered paints are thrown around, painting everyone with bright pinks, oranges, greens, reds and yellows. In fact, looking out at the people who came for Amma’s programme it was clear that some […]