Back at Amritapuri, the Europe tour now becomes a beautiful memory and not a day to day adventure. Other lucky people are still on tour with Amma in the USA. However, it is also lucky to be at Amma’s ashram where there is construction everywhere for new housing. Looks like a lot more people are […]
I was dormant in a shell, like a hermit in penance . Many seasons passed by, placing year rings on me. Unaware I delved deeper, to find an end to beginning. and beginning to an end. I felt my body crumbled. My breathe chocked heavily. My sinews stretched full, as my body was burning. My […]
A westerner living in Amritapuri commonly has the chance to leave India for Amma’s various Western tours at least once or twice a year. After living consecutively in Amritapuri for four years I found myself in Europe for the first time ever, tears streaming from my heart and down my eyes at the sight, sense, […]
After the massive Toulon program, Amma drove to her ashram near the historic town Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume where Mary Magdelene is said to be buried. The ashram building was once an old mill and a river flows behind it and a stream under it, which once powered the mill wheel. A small waterfall is within view down […]
Normally one would not write a post about bathrooms. But then, we aren’t usually talking about “Amma” bathrooms! The facilities at Amma’s programs are amazingly decorated. It is a joy to enter them. Each city and country has a different flavor. In Switzerland, the decorations were vines and autumn flowers. In Berlin, lovely paper hearts, […]
During Devi Bhava in Berlin a devotee brought Amma a traditional Indian sweet, kozhakatta. It is a healthy sweet made of steamed rice flour with coconut and sweetening inside. (Many of us were first introduced to this sweet in Calcutta, when Amma spontaneously made them herself for the tour group and local volunteers.) Amma showed […]
I do see her eyes of grace. I graze in her eyes with urge. Cosmic dream rests there. I delve in her mystic mystery. I come across her subtle smile. All creatures move around her holding her hands of compassion. Possessive; all we fight for attention, drawing you to foment our wounds. You embrace all […]
A birth at Thy Lotus Feet, Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet, To fearlessly live in Thy gracious spiritual light, Forsaking the sensual pleasures, living in Thy compassion Embellished with the jewels of discrimination and dispassion Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet, To joyously live in Thy […]