Author: Amrita
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Amma & elephants
6 Sep 2008, Amritapuri Amma has been feeding both elephants in front of her house last Mon, Tue and Friday after Bhajans. Such a sight.. how they stand in front of the hut, and all the trees there. I watched from above, front of my room, how Amma interacted with them. So beautiful. They both
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Blessed Ram and Lakshmi
It was evening on Tuesday (02/09/2008) when Amma fed Ram and Lakshmi, the blessed elephants of the ashram. As the naughty Ram gets the first chance to be served by Amma, he feels joyous and doesn’t let the food slip from Amma’s hands. When Amma playfully rotates the sweets in Her hands, we can feel
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We are very grateful to you
6 Sep 2008, Bawanipur, Bihar We had finished for the day. The doctors were winding up. A man was standing with his small child near us. The child seemed to be enjoying sitting on the fathers shoulders, heaving up and down. “Did you get your medicines?” Dr. Sachin asked. “Yes.” “What is that on your
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Where do I Stay?
6 Sep 2008, Bawanipur, Bihar We were in Bawanipur – a village in the Purnia district of Bihar, which is by the side of the most affected district Madhepura. The government had set up a relief camp in a school. Our first medical camp in this relief and rehabilitation project. I had been helping control
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First day in the camp
6 Sep 2008, Bowanipur, Bihar After lunch the medical team set out for the first medical camp to be held at a place called Bowanipur. Though, only at a distance of 40 kms, it took about 75mins to reach there, as the road was not always good. In many places the roads have been washed
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First medical camp in flooded Bihar
6 Sep 2008, Bhavani pur, Bihar Ashram brahmachari, Dr. Ram Mohan reports: “Today’s medical camp was in Bhavanipur. We attended over 200 cases. This was our first day. The people are really poor. Most of them are anemic or have respiratory infections. There was no sign of epidemic in this village so far.” The medical
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Reached Purnia
6 September 2008, Purnia, Bihar We arrived with the medical team at Purnia on the 6th morning after detraining at Kathiar, as the tracks further down have been washed away by the river at several places… We called on the local MP Shri Uday Singh, who has been very helpful from the beginning and has
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multi-tasking amma
4 sep 2005, amritapuri now, even during weekdays, the day’s darshan goes well past 10 p.m. while amma is giving darshan, swamis and others will continue singing in turns through out the darshan time. today it was different. swamiji was singing bhajans below the stage; amma was on the stage and giving darshan. i was
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the way to connect to god
there was a 3- or 4-year old boy who has been coming with amma to the stage for bhajans for the past few days. amma gave him her own mic and asked him to sing. he sang — jaya jaya natha gajanana. only a few lines. everyone clapped. then came the surpprise… ‘ premaswarupikalum, atma