Author: Amrita
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Final Day of Fun
Today is the fifth and final day of the Children’s camp. It will be almost sad to see all the kids go tomorrow, even though I’ve always considered myself a bit of a recluse and definitely not very good with children.These past five days have made me reflect on some things like the nature of
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Getting better every day
Today was the fifth day of the children’s personality development camp. The day was full of excitement as it started with Amma answering the children’s questions, then giving darshan to everybody, and after that took all the kids swimming. After darshan Amma sang Mata Rani Ke, during which the children got up danced all through
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Go Swimming
It’s the fourth day of the children’s camp and by now it almost feels like the children have always been here. The day culminates in the bhajans for them that they genuinely seem to enjoy to the full. You can see that these are children of devotees with some real spiritual samskara. And the love
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Loosing all shyness
The mayhem continues and the children seem to be liking the camp more and more. They are having the time of their lives. There are spiritual activities, satsang with Amma and all kinds of fun. Right now they are watching Finding Nemo in the temple and judging by the sound, loving it.When Amma came for
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The Soundless Mother
Even though the camper made sound while entering the patio of Amma’s house this afternoon and its door made sound when it was opened to let Amma come out of it, and the people made sound while running to see her, and the trees made sound by hitting softly with their twigs against her house,
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Amritam ’07 – Day 2
Today is the second day of the personality development camp, Amritam ’07. All I see is kids everywhere, left and right. If one has any prarabdha to do with children I think that gets taken care of during this children’s camp. With so many children who needs more? I’m just joking. It was meditation day
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It has begun
It has begun. That is, over two thousand children have arrived in Amritapuri for a personality development camp. Every corner of the ashram is bustling with life and enthusiasm, like it should be. That’s what an ashram is about. It is refreshing to have so many children around. We can learn a lot from them
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Karunyamoortte
Karunyamoortte – Embodiment of Compassion Very nice bhajans again tonight, Karunyamurtte being the highlight of them, for me at least. Such a nice raga and beautiful lyrics: O Embodiment of compassion Who art of black color, deign to open Thy eyes.Art Thou not the destroyer of sorrow? This being so, do remove my sufferings. In
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Happy Birthday Swamiji
It was all started after midnight on Devi Bhava. Amritaswarupananda was sitting next to Amma’s chair. Suddenly, a group of Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peetham students brought a bouquet of balloons and presented them to Swamiji, singing, “Happy Birthday To You Dear Swamiji…” Today is Swamiji’s 50th birthday, and they wanted to be the first to