while standing at the end of devi bhava after showering flower petals on the devotees, amma looked at us. clad in a peacock-green sari with golden ornamental designs, amma kept smiling at us. she was looking into the web camera. the camera was on the floor. amma looked majestic. i felt she was looking into […]
Meditation in the deserts We (Br. Amarnath, Mr. Jhingan of Delhi and I) were welcomed by the second-in-command of the Gujarat Frontier Headquarters of BSF when we arrived at Gandhi Nagar. While speaking to him, I asked him if he had heard of Amma. He said yes. “She’s known as the ‘hugging saint,’ right?” He […]
a beautiful rainbow appeared in amritapuri on sunday. lived for few moments, gave joy to every one and disappeared. trying to catch with a cup?? {read what Amma says on rainbow } watch video of double rainbow -smita
Today, Swami discussed more of the 12th chapter, Bhakti Yoga. Here is a well-known shloka;’ Adveshta sarvabhutanam maitra karuna eva ca,Nirmamo nirahankarah samaduhkhasukhah kshami. 12.13 The Lord describes the characteristics of a devotee from this shloka till the end of the chapter. He says, ‘Free from anger to all beings, friendly and compassionate, free from […]
Today Swami discussed the 12th chapter, on Bhakti Yoga. Here is one shloka; Abhyase’ pyasamartho’ si, mat karma paramo bhava, Madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.’ 12.10 Here, the Lord is instructing Arjuna in the different sadhanas of bhakti. First He says, ‘fix your mind in Me, and you will dwell in Me.’ This is […]
From BSF Baramulla, it took us about 2 hours to reach Kupwara on 22nd June, 2007. The IAM sessions were scheduled from 23rd June 2007 to 25th June 2007. It was quite scenic on the way – large green paddy fields surrounded by mountains, streams of small river, flowing parallel to the road, horse-carts carrying […]
On 18th June 2007, we started for Baramulla in a BSF convoy under tight security and reached Baramulla BSF SHQ, Singpura, in around 3-4 hours. On the way, we saw army trying to toe a burnt passenger bus to the roadside. We were told that some people had burnt the bus after a child had […]
On hearing Swami Kaivalyanada saying, `If you want to have Viswaroopa darshana, ask Amma’, my mind strolled along these lanes of thoughts: and all these with all the respects due to Gita, Sri Krishna and Arjuna. Well, is not Amma always in the Vishwaroopa-bhava? When we watch Her Devi Bhava programs through web casting, there […]
The Chicago Devi Bhava just ended. The stage downstairs was filled to capacity as everyone wanted to feel the contact with Amma again even though it’s just a few days when we saw her last. But then again, whoever gets tired of Amma? It was especially lively tonight as there was a bunch of kids […]