Shoshanna Lee, an AYUDH member, won a Rotary Award for AYUDH’s plastic activities in the Bay Area. This is her speech given at the Rotary – 14 may — I use to see plastic waste as worthless garbage. For good reason. Recycling water bottles is good but what about chip bags, candy wrappers, and grocery […]
March 4, Ikundi, Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands The second leg of Br. Shantamrita Chaitanya’s Melanesian tour was deep in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea. In a historic visit to the remote village of Ikundi, Shantamrita’s plane was the second ever to land on an airstrip that locals have been building by hand […]
We got an inspiring note from the language site http://www.amrita.in Sharing the mail for you all. Have a look, may be you also will be inspired. — — — — Neerja Sharma Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM Subject: [punjabi] A note of Thanks!! It feels so good to be reading Amma’s journals, […]
The students & teachers of Amrita Shilpa Kalakshetra, Thiruvananthapuram, presented a carved Artistic Table & Chair made out of rosewood to Amma on Her 57th Birthday. The mementoes to be presented to the panel guests for the birthday celebrations are also being sculpted at the institute.
28 August 2010 M. A. Center, San Ramon, USA In India, and especially in Amritapuri, every day is a festival. Indeed, the months of August and September are filled with holidays and celebrations to be enjoyed by all. Here at M.A. Center, over two hundred devotees came from around the region this past Saturday to […]
Of Amma’s 108 names, #48 is “Om devi-sadyas-tirodhana-tapa-vyathita-cetase namah” meaning “Adorations to Amma who became very sorrowful on the Divine Mother’s sudden disappearance”. After spending many weeks with your North American children, Amma, you have left us and returned to your children at home who have been missing you desperately. While your departure at the […]
So today is the 24th of May. Somewhere, on the other side of the world, our Mother is being feted with a PhD. An honorary degree in Humane Letters, by a major American University. Sounds nice. As one who has spent the better of my adulthood in Universities across the world, I am naturally drawn […]
April 11, 2010, Milano, Italy Even here, Amma inspires us all the time. She is beyond what we can imagine yet her acts of Grace keeps us so enthusiastically happy. Recently we read that Amma had started a new center for the Differently-Abled. Amma’s vision is not what we can imagine yet her style is […]