The Power of a Hug An Indian Woman Draws Hundreds of Thousands of Devotees — All for Her Hugs By VIVIAN HERNANDEZ ORTIZ and SARAH HODD May 9, 2007 — In the south of India lives a woman who has dedicated her life to helping others through the simplest of gestures — an embrace. […]
The last public darshan was on Sunday and it lasted late into the night. Amma has now started receiving all the residents of the ashram for the yearly private darshan. A little private time she gives to each resident to discuss with her whatever is on their minds and instruct them in their sadhana and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]