Category: AshramDiary
life at the Amritapuri ashram
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transmisson of love
while standing at the end of devi bhava after showering flower petals on the devotees, amma looked at us. clad in a peacock-green sari with golden ornamental designs, amma kept smiling at us. she was looking into the web camera. the camera was on the floor. amma looked majestic. i felt she was looking into me. i felt the love and compassion, my hair stood on end.(the last time, she called my name. this time, she did not.) well, there is a debate that amma’s sari is not green, but metallic blue with silver borders. the majority supports that. anyway…
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Burning with IAM
Meditation in the deserts We (Br. Amarnath, Mr. Jhingan of Delhi and I) were welcomed by the second-in-command of the Gujarat Frontier Headquarters of BSF when we arrived at Gandhi Nagar. While speaking to him, I asked him if he had heard of Amma. He said yes. “She’s known as the ‘hugging saint,’ right?” He was also aware of Amma’s humanitarian efforts. When I asked him whether he had had darshan of Amma, he said “I’m looking forward to that good day”. “As we are with the security forces, it’s very difficult for us to get time off whenever we…
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a double rainbow
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
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Even Mind
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 the feelings of ‘I’ and ‘mine,’ he is equal in pain and pleasure, and patient.’ This verse contains a lot of instruction for a sadhak. First it says ‘adveshta,’ to not have anger. Here, Shankara says in particular, ‘even when cursed, or hit, he is…
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Do Karma for ME
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 the first step. Then He says, ‘if you cannot do that, perform practice (abhyasa). In other words, the first step is meditation, but meditation truly takes place only in a one-pointed and mature mind. If that suitability isn’t there, then one must practice to reach…
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Amma’s Viswaroopa
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 are many things revealed right in front of our eyes. I mean even through a web cast program! Onstage in Chicago for example She is fully with each one of her children in Chicago as much as She is fully with Amritapuri children seeing Her…
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Mata Mookambika Ki…. Jai!
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 on the stage in front of the webcam and Amma spent quite bit of time talking with them. The expression on Amma’s face is so unique when she interacts with children that it really melts your heart. There was again the usual ritual of “Makkale!”…
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Saturn Transition
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 startlingly beautiful violet that blended perfectly with Amma’s lovely brown skin. At the end of the Devi Bhava Amma said that everyone should pray a lot and do a lot of Japa in the near future due to an upcoming Saturn transition. Vishwanath 6 July…
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I can easily fit in the bag
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 of the city, the venue was packed to the capacity. People came from many other cities of Poland also, driving hours together. The evening programme started with the viewing of the “Embracing the World” video in Polish language. As the organiser mentioned in his introduction…