Category: AshramDiary
life at the Amritapuri ashram
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Video Clips – Amma s Birthday
Aum Five video clips of Amma’s Birthday Padapuja are now available on YouTube: Clip 1: Padapuja – close up on Amma Clip 2: Padapuja – Swamiji chants the 108 names of Amma Clip 3: Padapuja – end of chanting Clip 4: Padapuja – Swamiji putting sandal paste and Kumkum on Amma’s Feet and forehead Clip 5: Padapuja – Swamiji garlanding Visit also the following YouTube channel to view more videos of Amma: www.youtube.com/user/amma
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From a Sob to a Smile
“Love is God!!” This universal fact is vibrant in this very paradise of Amritapuri – The God’s own abode. Amma, the divine embodiment of love and compassion, fulfills the dreams of her kids, by transforming their miseries into happiness, sorrows to joy and anguish to satisfactions. To perform this prodigious task, Amma uses her weapon called “Universal Love”. The power of love and compassion is inestimable and makes people surrender. Here we present to you the story of Sulochana and her son Babu. Her catastrophes in life knew no bounds. She is a widow and her child is mute and…
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Only Amma s Birthday
Mr Babu was born and brought up in Vallikavu, near Amritapuri. He is from a poor background and now he is the owner of a small general store in Vallikavu. He claims “Though I might be poor in material possessions, I am rich in the blessings of Amma”. For him, Amma is a Goddess and because of Amma’s blessings his two children have a good education, one is doing Master degree and the other Fashion Designing. He says that he celebrates only one festival in the whole year which is not Vishu nor Onam nor Diwali the traditional festivals in Kerala,…
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No, you don’t have bronchitis
There are numerous instances where Amma’s children have enjoyed the incessant river of grace that flows from her heart. Her selfless love and compassion serves as a medicine for all the ordeals and torments of human life. This has been proved at numerous occasions. One such incident is Dr. D.M.Vasudevan’s, story. When meeting the now retired principal of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, recently, he narrated his divine experience with Amma. It was way back in 1985, that Vasudevan had symptoms of throat infection, vomiting blood, etc. Unable to bare the afflictions, he consulted a specialist and was advised to…
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Sarasamma’s only prayer
Sarasamma, from Alapuzha, is one among the thousands in Kerala who receives ‘Amrita Nidhi’ pension, instituted by Amma for destitute women. She is from a very poor financial background and had lost her son and husband in an accident. Her only surviving daughter is married to a poor man. Though her daughter and son-in-law’s families would like to support her monetarily, being poor themselves, they are not able to do so. Sarasamma is unable to go for work due to a weak health and hence finds it difficult to earn her livelihood. Darkness loomed over her future and it was…
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Photos – Amma s Birthday Padapuja
Aum Amriteswrayai namah The padapuja was a great and beautiful event. Hope you enjoy the photos below. More photos and padapuja video clips soon to be available on the site! Love to all from Amritapuri!
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Prasanna vadanam dhyayet…
Prasanna is a 47 year old devotee from Thripunithura, Kerala, who narrates her heartwarming story. She is the last daughter among the five girls her parents struggled to bring up. Some 35 years ago her mother had heard about a lady whom people called ‘Amma’ and also about Her ‘Krishna & Devi Bhava.’ Prasanna’s mother decided to seek Amma’s Darshan & came along with her brother. During the same time, Amma told her devotees that She was awaiting two special children of Hers today!! Prasanna’s mother & uncle came for the Darshan. Her mother has prayed that all that she…
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Every drop makes a part of the ocean
Our first interviewee was a first year student pursuing Bachelor of Pharmacy from Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi. It was her first visit here. When we met her, she was cutting vegetables in the engineering campus hall. Quite unusual a sight to see a 20 year old vibrant graduate to sit calmly and patiently cutting vegetables, that too, on a mass scale. This prompted us to ask her the obvious question “Are you doing this task as it is assigned to you or doing it voluntarily?” The teenager gave a smart reply, “I have been cutting vegetables at home so…
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The look, the hug, the transformation
Mr Isyan is a social worker in France. Years ago, he happened to see an advertisement about Amma’s visit to France and was very inquisitive to find out– who Amma is? This quest took over him and he met Amma. And that was it. He said “The look of Amma itself transformed me from deep within. At that moment, he felt that life was completely refreshed and it had a new look filled with joy and peace”. That seed of Love that Amma had sown in him started germinating and his desire to meet Amma only increased further. This is…