It was a quiet Monday in Amritapuri today, as it usually is after Amma’s long Sunday darshan. Tonight’s bhajans were really nice with a lot of old songs and a few nice new ones like Mohalu Camppara Gauri Ramana, which I find very nice. The song list tonight was as follows: Nandakumara VanditarupaIni Oru JanmamUshkala […]
Swami Ramakrishnanda left Amritapuri today for conducting satsangs and bhajan programmes in Chile. Amma will be visiting South America for the first time in the month of July 2007. Programme details of Swami————————– Satsang, Bhajans and Mediation Friday, 20th of April at 8:30pm Location: “El Club Providencia”: Av. Pocuro #2878, Providencia Santiago, Chile IAM Meditation […]
The month of April marks two special anniversaries for all of Amritapuri.org’s dedicated fans. It was on Vishu Day of the year 2000 (15th April) that your favorite website was launched. Two weeks earlier, the first issue of Amritavani, E-newsletter was emailed to addresses that had been collected from previous e-mails. It was during a […]
Vishu is the start of the Zodiac New Year—when the sun enters into Sidereal Aries, Ashwini nakshatra—is celebrated as Vishu About 150 children and students gathered in front of the Temple and lit firecrackers after Amma finished darshan. It was fun to focus the camera in the darkness anticipating the bursts of light. Dhyanamrita 14 […]
Finally things are back to normal. Amma returned from Reunion and Mauritius the day before yesterday and has been coming out for a question and answer session on both days. It is nice after the tour to be back in Amritapuri and enjoy Amma’s presence and talks here at home for a change. There is […]
After 6+ weeks, the Ashram is alive again.as Amma returned to Amritapuri at approximately 10:50am this morning. Her camper came in the north entrance of the Ashram and slowly made its way through the throngs of residents and visitors who had gathered. About 200 people were waiting the base of her home. Amma exited the […]
On the first day after returning from Reunion and Mauritius Amma sang many of the new songs from the tour. Most have not yet been published in the bhajan supplements. Maybe it was better to just stare at Amma rather than the books on the first day. The songs were: Manasa ChoraOru Nalum PiriyattoMere Hridaya […]
Saying Hello Just before 1pm, the Ashram began to buzz with anticipation of Amma’s arrival back from Sri Lanka. As usual, the question was which entrance would Amma arrive through. Most people anticipated the north entrance – Her car would pass by the Girl Student Dorm, past the Flats, through the gate, past the Temple, […]
Yesterday during sunset, while laying in savasana after doing IAM on the rooftop of the ‘S’ flats, I caught a glimpse of another flock of Kites (eagles) slowly circling above on an air current near the south entrance to the Ashram. Sitting up, I noticed another even larger flock circling further to the north – […]