a beautiful rainbow appeared in amritapuri on sunday. lived for few moments, gave joy to every one and disappeared. trying to catch with a cup?? {read what Amma says on rainbow } watch video of double rainbow -smita
Today, Swami discussed more of the 12th chapter, Bhakti Yoga. Here is a well-known shloka;’ Adveshta sarvabhutanam maitra karuna eva ca,Nirmamo nirahankarah samaduhkhasukhah kshami. 12.13 The Lord describes the characteristics of a devotee from this shloka till the end of the chapter. He says, ‘Free from anger to all beings, friendly and compassionate, free from […]
Today Swami discussed the 12th chapter, on Bhakti Yoga. Here is one shloka; Abhyase’ pyasamartho’ si, mat karma paramo bhava, Madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.’ 12.10 Here, the Lord is instructing Arjuna in the different sadhanas of bhakti. First He says, ‘fix your mind in Me, and you will dwell in Me.’ This is […]
On hearing Swami Kaivalyanada saying, `If you want to have Viswaroopa darshana, ask Amma’, my mind strolled along these lanes of thoughts: and all these with all the respects due to Gita, Sri Krishna and Arjuna. Well, is not Amma always in the Vishwaroopa-bhava? When we watch Her Devi Bhava programs through web casting, there […]
The Chicago Devi Bhava just ended. The stage downstairs was filled to capacity as everyone wanted to feel the contact with Amma again even though it’s just a few days when we saw her last. But then again, whoever gets tired of Amma? It was especially lively tonight as there was a bunch of kids […]
Amma’s Last Devi Bhava was from Iowa. It was sweet to watch as always. About the color of the sari it’s a bit difficult to say because of the limited color scale of the webcast and our screen, but luckily the minds eye has no such limitations. So I would say that it was a […]
Poland is another country waiting eagerly for Amma’s visit. In previous years, groups from Poland would come for Amma’s programmes in Europe, and were very eager to start activities there. On their invitation, Br. Shubamrita visited the beautiful capitol city of Warsaw from July 2 to 4. Held in a school hall, near the centre […]
Today, Swami discussed the 12th chapter, Bhakti Yoga. Here is one shloka; ‘tesham aham samuddharta, mrtyusamsara sagarat,Bhavami na cirat partha, mayyaveshita cetasam.’ 12.7. The Lord tells Arjuna, ‘For those devotees who surrender all actions to Me, intent on Me, with one-pointed devotion, I rescue them from the ocean of death, this Samsara, in no time […]
Today Swami discussed part of the 12th chapter, Bhakti Yoga. Here, there were a few questions by the brahmacaris. One asked, ‘what is the difference between para bhakti (supreme devotion) and jivanmukti (liberation while alive)? Because once para bhakti is attained, ignorance should be destroyed, isn’t that the same as jivanmukti?’ To this, Swami replied […]