Category: interesting
selected posts because its interesting
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Volunteers distribute food and water in Sendai
14 March 2011 Embracing the World has sent its first group of local volunteers from our Japan Center to Sendai—the major city nearest the epicenter of the earthquake, and hit hard by both the quake (Japan’s worst-ever) and the subsequent tsunami. At Amma’s request, the ETW representatives went to Sendai in order to study the
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the day that was
watching ’embracing the world’ video triggered some memories in me. it was sometime in 1998 and i had been a part of amma’s free housing project – amrita kuteeram. amma had organized a team of volunteers which was to build 25 thousand free houses for the poor. as a forerunner, we visited every applicant’s address
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A letter written to Amma
This is a letter written to Amma by an ex resident of the Ashram. Sharing this for the benefit of Amma devotees. — My dear friend, Even though I address you in this way, to me you are beyond that. I recall, more and more, what you said to me when I left the ashram
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Historic moment at Buffalo
25 May Buffalo, NY I was fortunate to be there and want to share my experience with all of you. It was a historic occasion , probably one of a kind .. It was a great moment that a university in US would choose to confer a doctorate not on a scientist or an engineer
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amma, i want to see my krishna!
28 April 2010 – Kochi amma sometimes would visit a devotee’s place. at the house, she would first perform a puja and then would gather to talk with the family members. likewise during one visit in kochi, after the puja, amma was meeting with the family privately in a room. after few minutes, the little
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A unique seva of cleaning the septic tank
27 Nov 2009, Amritapuri Few days back, one ashramite asked the other, “Why do you smell bad?” the latter said, “I am back from my seva.” The former frowned, “I wonder when computers started stinking?” The latter said, “No! Today I got a chance to do a unique seva. You get a chance to do
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If I walk away, I am not doing my best
Today we went on a safari around the Athi River side of the Amrita children’s Home property line. We were surveying the construction site,taking documentation of the physical boundaries of the 11 acre plot. We found a mature indigenous tulsi plant with seed pods, so we collected them for our tulsi start. We also saw
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A unique seva
Few days back, one ashramite asked the other, “Why do you smell bad?” the latter said, “I am back from my seva.” The former frowned, “I wonder when computers started stinking?” The latter said, “No! Today I got a chance to do a unique seva. You get a chance to do this seva once in
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Flood relief in Kurnool
Around 4 AM on the 5th of October there was a call from Amma enquiring on the on flood situation in Andhra Pradesh. I conveyed the information that I had gathered from the media and also our devotees circle in AP. The situation there was pretty bad and it was said that this was the