Tag: orphanage
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Embracing Compassion: the transformational journey of Athira
10 May 2024, Amritapuri Ashram In the verdant landscape of Amritapuri, a beacon of hope shines brightly at Amma’s Ashram. Among those touched by this light is Athira, whose early life was marked by hardship and loss. Orphaned at a young age due to her father’s passing and her mother’s severe illness, Athira’s future seemed…
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Remembering the path we have travelled – 30 years of love and gratitude at Amma’s orphanage
At a time when we witness a deterioration in basic human values, abiding in those very values you tried to share love and brotherhood among all. Children like you are Amma’s wealth and joy.
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Children of Parippally: Who says they are orphans?
10 December 2017, Amritapuri Late last year, just one day after Amma had returned from her annual European tour, a group of very special visitors came to Amritapuri to see Amma. They were all alumni of the *Amrita Niketan orphanage and Higher Secondary Sanskrit School at Paripally. Though they may have lived in the orphanage…
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Amma’s visit to Amrita Watoto Boma
April 19, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya It was a very special day for the children of Amrita Watoto Boma, Amma’s day school in Athi River, Nairobi. It was a day they had been waiting for for a long time. 160 children, many of whom have been there since the school opened its doors, last saw Amma…
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Amma in Parippally
23 Feb, Parippally – Bharata Yatra 2014 The travel journey between Palakkad and Trivandrum on Amma’s Bharata Yatra had a peculiar aspect: The route to follow meant that the caravan of buses would pass right by Amritapuri on the way to the capital of Kerala. The lunch stop was at Paripally orphanage. It was a…
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Onam: Unity of hearts is the beauty of the society
15 September 2005 — Amritapuri “All of you look like a beautiful pookkalam,” Amma said, looking down at the 10,000 or so people who had gathered at Amritapuri to celebrate Onam. Later, in her satsang, Amma explained that pookkalams, the multicoloured flower-petal mandalas of Onam, symbolize the confluence of hearts in society. “Pookkalam represent the…
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Onam celebration in the pool
Amma painted in response was of a world wet with life–one where boys and girls lepta into the backwaters and splashed about, making as much noise as they wanted, singing together, dancing together, running, laughing, knocking down fruit from the mango trees.
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She had become one with them
Amritapuri — Tuesday, 24 August 2004 When you visit Amma’s orphanage at Parippally and speak about Amma with the children who live there, they never fail to mention one thing: Amma’s dancing. On holidays, such as Onam and Amma’s birthday, all 500 or so Parippally children come to Amritapuri — to listen to Amma’s bhajans,…
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Lakshmi’s wedding
15 December 2002, Amritapuri A long time resident of Amma’s orphanage gets married “I had always been troubled by the fear that being born the child of a beggar woman, I would have to spend my life begging in the streets, or in still worse conditions… “As we slowly moved closer to Amma, my mind…