The bhajan hall is starting to look like the birthday venue that it will be in a few days. The lights, sound system, seating, and everything are geared for a large happening.
Tonight along with Amrita-TV, there was also a crew from Israel who are making a kind of reality-TV documentary about two Israelis coming to meet Amma.
Amma sang the song Ishwar Tumhi in Hebrew to make her Israeli children happy. I saw some of them seated in the crowd and they really looked blissfully happy, singing along with Amma in Hebrew. It was really delightful.

The songs tonight were:

Hare Murare
Pelava Kaiviral
Adiyil Parameshwariye
Idamilla Talayunna
Ishwar Tumhi (Hebrew Version)
Sarva Vyapiye
Kannindallade (Telugu)
Om Namah Shivaya
Mera Pranam He (Hindi)

The new song Pelava Kaiviral is really nice and I love the lyrics:

I long to walk together with You, along the vast open space of consciousness.
Happy and excited I will take hold of your soft fingertips.

By swimming across the ocean of time I will at last reach the kingdom of love.
May my mind become as soft as a flower
when caressed by Her eyes that resemble peacock feathers .

Please shine a ray of light in my eyes so that I am guided steadily along this lonely path of life that is like a forest.

Just like water and fire, so are the body and the Self different from one another. Let me lose the weight of the notion “I am the body” and salute Your feet.

The Vedic knowledge, the consciousness, is the truth within me; it is the ocean of bliss. Through the light that flows in my meditation I explore Your ocean of love.

Vishwanath,
25 Sep 2006