Producing Amma’s New Mexico program requires  thousands of hours of seva in many departments.  This year I was once again doing the kitchen laundry.  This requires loading several bags of damp aprons, rags, and chef’s coats used by the kitchen staff while preparing and serving  meals, and driving to the nearest local laundromat.  Fortunately, in […]

If you ask me which bird I like the most, I have no answer. But I can definitely say that magpie robins are the best singing birds in all of India I have known from Himalayas to Kerala. They are ‘voracious’ singers. Almost year around, every morning and evening their routine is to sit on […]

At five in the morning, a small group armed with flashlights to light her way, waited to greet Amma at her ashram in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Amma hadn’t been here for many years. The programs had outgrown the tent on the land and had moved to urban hotels. For the last years the programs […]

O! Amma, O! Mother, May I be a soft bed for Thy Lotus Feet to rest. O! Amma, O! Mother, May I be a fragrant flower at Thy Lotus Feet. O! Amma, O! Mother, May I be the anklets to adore Thy Blessed Ankles. O! Amma, O! Mother, May I be the sandals to protect […]