“Mother”—the word is incomparable. No other word is equal to this one. It is pure and full of auspiciousness. It is said that we cannot see God. We can only experience Him. But, Amma, when we experience your love and concern, we feel that we are before God. So we are the fortunate ones. We […]
The festival of Kumbha mela in the north of india is world famous…and now, the kumbha mela of south india, the birthday celebrations of our beloved mother and guru, mata amritanandamayi(mother of immortal bliss) is going to take place over the next 3 days, 27th ofcourse being the main day. The kumbha mela tradionally is […]
The bhajan hall is starting to look like the birthday venue that it will be in a few days. The lights, sound system, seating, and everything are geared for a large happening. Tonight along with Amrita-TV, there was also a crew from Israel who are making a kind of reality-TV documentary about two Israelis coming […]
Sunday night 8.30 pm, amma’s still giving darshan, lots of people left, i made my way upto the stage thinking i could sit around her for about 30-40 mins, normally when the crowds are so much i try to avoid sitting around amma for long because the outsiders also would be yearning for the same […]
Since yesterday it has felt like the birthday is really closing in. Amma gave darshan all day and so didn’t make it for bhajans. The whole ashram is preparing for the event of the year. The bridge building and road construction seva is going on full swing. The brahmacharinis were clearing the southern entrance to […]
I love my seva. Each week, I take Ashram visitors on a boat trip along the backwaters near the Ashram. Along the way, I serve them chai and snacks. We depart from the Ashram boat jetty and trawl north to a Kali Temple a few kilometers north of here where the backwaters meet the Arabian […]
Yesterday in the engineering college, i walk into a classroom and after a while i saw a picture of a little girl on the wall with something written beneath, so i started reading it. Apparently the students of that particular class are all together sponsering that girl, who is 5 yrs old, has no mother […]
Bridge seva has started again today! No. it’s road seva! I was at the ashram and had some free time so i decided to sit for sometime around mother before i could get back to my work at the engineering college, but as i was making my way towards the kali temple, i heard amma […]