Think about it for a second. You walk up onto a stage in a huge, packed auditorium. You sit still and allow people to perform a ceremony around you, even though you don’t really want it, even though so many flower garlands around your neck are heavy. But it means so much to the people, […]
Sujatha from Prayar, Alappuzha district, Kerala shares her experience “Before meeting Amma about 8-10 years back, I was living in a hut, and led a poor life. Amma took care of me as a child of her own and gave her love and built me a sweet home and educated my children for free. I […]
Who doesn’t like those hot peanuts to pass time? Let’s meet Mr.Selvam, hailing from a village in Theni, Tamil Nadu. He has been coming for Amritavarsham for the past 4 years. He sets up his peanut cart near to the Engineering College every year. He talks about the first time he came to set up […]
“I still remember the first time I saw Her, that inexplicable calmness on Amma’s face.” –Charlie Mathi Charlie Mathi, a diploma holder in mechanical engineering, is a native of Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has been putting up a handicraft stall for the past 7 years on the occasion of Amritavarsham. Being a diploma holder, why has […]
Bangle shops are very catchy and attractive aren’t they? And we see a lot of them during festive seasons. Mr.Abhilash (a bangle seller from Kottarakara, Kerala) shares with us, why he came to Amritavarsham’64. He first came for Amma’s darshan 6 years ago with his friend Ratheesh. Abhilash didn’t have any idea of why so […]
Seven years in a row selling chickpeas at the same spot (in front of the Amrita School of Business parking space) on the occasion of Amritavarsham meet Mr.Nagaraj from Theni, Tamilnadu. He is a man who had to fight poverty and found it very difficult to have one square meal a day. It was then […]
Lakshmi from the village Palamedu, Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, shares with us her experience with Amma. She was overwhelmed when we asked her about Amma. She said “The first time I came here, we were really broke and had plenty of financial problems. My son had studied Electrical Engineering but he was jobless; we did […]
Hailing from Chennai, Mr. Venkateshwara Rao was working as a railway guard when he heard about Amma way back in 1985. On a friend’s suggestion he came for Amma’s darshan on her birthday in the year 1991. After coming back home from the darshan, his life was not the same anymore. He started cherishing his […]
Led by Mr. Girirajan, a group from Srirengapuram, a village in the district of Theni, Tamil Nadu, have been coming for Amma’s birthday since 2013. He says “Every year when I come, I am here to fulfill my desire to meet Amma. This year I have brought some of my villagers for Amma’s darshan. I want […]