Author: Amrita
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joy joy ma
18-20 March, Bharata Yatra 2008, Kolkata Brahmasthana Pratishta the brahmasthanam, 2oth of its kind, is being installed by amma here. i was there for the first one when amma installed in kodungallur. during the time of abhishekam, there is something in amma’s face, that you simply cannot miss. it has been the same for the
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kali kerala vali
13 march, bharata yatra 2008, delhi after the programs in delhi, the next day some devotees and volunteers were waiting for amma outside. in the evening, amma came out and spent a few minutes with them. their joy was unbounded, and different people started calling ‘jay jay kar.’ one person shouted, ‘mata rani ki jai!’
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entering bengal
17 march, bharata yatra 2008, to kolkata we stayed overnight at dhanbad, in the state of jharkhand. the next day, we proceeded to kolkata, the last leg of the great bharata yatra 2008. what will be the next surprise that lies with amma? who knows? on the roadside, it was a series of factories and
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kalis glance
16 marcch, bharata yatra 2008, varanasi to kolkata after the stay at varanasi, we started off to kolkata. a few kilometers later, we entered the states of bihar, and then jharkhand. if it was cultivation in bihar, it was mines in jharkhand, on either side of the road. most of them were coal mines. you
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Kolkata Brahmasthanam
19 March 2008, Kolkata The calculated auspicious time for the Sthapana and Prana Pratistha was between 8.30 am and 10 am. I got up well in advance in order to be ready to experience the auspicious moment in all it’s splendor. Since we are far from South-India where the crowds for such occasions are huge,
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Arriving in Kolkata
Arriving in Kolkata – The last stop on the tour 17 Mar 2008, Kolkata After the Mangalore program I went back to the ashram but could not bear the thought of missing the inauguration of the Brahmasthanam temple here at Amma’s Kolkata Ashram and not seeing Amma before she departs India. I was not alone
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sweet punishment
16 march, itava, uutarpradesh, bharata yatra 2008 the four-lane road to calcutta is beautiful. on either side of the road was spread the fields of cultivation. rice, wheat, mustard.. now its time for the potatoes. big, really big fields of potatoes. the machine ploughs the ground and farmers pickup the potatoes and clean the dirt.
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sacred land
15 march , delhi to calcutta, bharata yatra 2008. today is a loooong trip — by the road to calcutta, it is abut 1500 km. from the north to east of india cutting through the states of haryana, uttarpradesh, bihar and then to west bengal. when passing through the state of uttarpradesh, we saw yamuna
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mantra miracle
13 march, bharata yatra 2008, delhi one little girl about 12 years old asked amma for mantra. last year also she has asked for mantra. but only this time amma gave it. the next day when i saw her she said the mantra has changed her so much. i asked her what was the change.