Ashram Diary

11 Feb 2013, ABC in Mangalore: During Her last visit Amma launched Amalabharatam project  for Mangalore. Mangalore devotees and Amrita Vidyalayam school children  have taken it to their heart as greatest Prasad and are earnestly pursuing it, on regular monthly basis. While on this extensive Indian tour  Amma’s ashram children, mostly western children, have made [...]

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Cataract removal and Lens implant Camp Amma had instructed that we should have medical camps in our new Uttarkashi camp. As per these instructions we had a camp earlier where a group of doctors and para-medics visited many villages holding camps there and ultimately conducted a general medical camp in our ashram. In collaboration with [...]

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It was Amma who sent us to Sabarimala. Well, we all know it. You may wonder why I am saying it. I am saying it with double emphasis, with gratitude. I will say once again that it was indeed Amma who sent us. The young brahmacharies were apprehensive about our ability and health. They didn’t [...]

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This yatra of ours saw three of Amma’s precepts merging into one experience: Divinity, caring for nature and cleanliness: they are not three different teachings anymore for us Amma’s children, who by Her Grace took to ABC work in Sabarimala and Pampa, in the first week of November, 2011. Just as Amma has said on [...]

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I just got back from an ecstatic trip to Sabarimala. As you know, under Amma’s  instructions  most of the ashramites, several hundreds of students, overall around 4000 volunteers have spent the last 3 days in cleaning up Sabarimala- one of India’s most sacred and most visited pilgrimage spots. As usual, whenever I undertake anything that [...]

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26 Sep 2011, Amritapuri It’s hard to find people who think and feel for their fellow beings. Their sense of pride limits themselves in many ways.  For instance, no one would care to  direct people to  dustbins  as they feel that it’s a shame for them and it’s not their responsibility. I was astonished to [...]

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7 April 2011   It was the night of the seventh of April, and I had just fallen asleep in our tent. We were camping along with hundreds of other volunteers on the lawn of a local university, which had been transformed into the headquarters for the relief efforts in Ishinomaki. Half an hour before [...]

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