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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Amritapuri environs was charged with excitement. The Day : April 22’07 . You’ve guessed it right–it was the Bhava Darshan day. It seemed to have come after ages There was a mood of heightened celebration in the air. As my wife, and I got out of the flat and moved to towards the canteen […]
When I first read on Amritapuri.org that Amma was going to hold Devi Bhava in India, I was actually sad. I had just left Amritapuri on Tuesday and have been staying in the San Ramon Ashram for a week. Even though there will be Devi Bhava here in the US during Summer tour, there is […]