Category: Interviews
interviews with diff personalities
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She will travel throughout the world
If you want to know about Amma’s love and grace you can find thousands of people to share it with enthusiasm. But if you want to know about Amma’s life 35 years ago, there are only a few people who can talk about it with authority. Mr. Mahadevan Pillai, 86 years old, a retired school teacher, recalls the moment when he saw Amma for the first time, in 1980. Then, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math was just a 9 cent plot with Amma’s parents house and the Kalari. A friend of Mr Mahadevan who was a devotee of Amma used to…
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The power of a single glance
India has been known to be a land of sages and spirituality for eons. This impact is even felt today and this is evident from the following story narrated by an Iranian lady who requested us to keep her name anonymous. Her roots are in Iran, but born and brought up in California, United States. It so happened once, that when Amma had visited the ashram at California in 2006, she, along with her friends visited Her. At the very first glance, she knew that Amma was her sole Guru. In her own words “That was the happiest and most…
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Amma is a phenomena
During the program in Ahmedabad, the Additional Chief Secretary Government of Gujarat, RM Patel took a few minutes to share his thoughts about Amma. “I have been working 33 years in government service. I heard about Amma five years ago. My new born granddaughter had a serious heart problem and the doctors told that the best place to get treatment for her would be the AIMS hospital in Cochin. I spent one week in Cochin during which my granddaughter had two successful surgeries. During this time I visited the Amritapuri ashram. So, this is how I learned about Amma. I…
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Cooking for thousands
In this paradise, Amritapuri, the abode of Amma, we usually hear numerous wonderful experiences of various people from different walks of life. They throng here to catch a glimpse of Amma, eagerly waiting for that precious moment, perhaps a few seconds of their entire lifetime. We bring to you the experiences of a devotee, Mr. Baskaran, a native of Calicut, who was once working in the Middle East for about 30 years. When we met him this morning, he was busy cooking rice in the kitchen. (He usually cooks for all during days of Amma’s Indian Tour). Even during this…
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From a Sob to a Smile
“Love is God!!” This universal fact is vibrant in this very paradise of Amritapuri – The God’s own abode. Amma, the divine embodiment of love and compassion, fulfills the dreams of her kids, by transforming their miseries into happiness, sorrows to joy and anguish to satisfactions. To perform this prodigious task, Amma uses her weapon called “Universal Love”. The power of love and compassion is inestimable and makes people surrender. Here we present to you the story of Sulochana and her son Babu. Her catastrophes in life knew no bounds. She is a widow and her child is mute and…
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Only Amma s Birthday
Mr Babu was born and brought up in Vallikavu, near Amritapuri. He is from a poor background and now he is the owner of a small general store in Vallikavu. He claims “Though I might be poor in material possessions, I am rich in the blessings of Amma”. For him, Amma is a Goddess and because of Amma’s blessings his two children have a good education, one is doing Master degree and the other Fashion Designing. He says that he celebrates only one festival in the whole year which is not Vishu nor Onam nor Diwali the traditional festivals in Kerala,…
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No, you don’t have bronchitis
There are numerous instances where Amma’s children have enjoyed the incessant river of grace that flows from her heart. Her selfless love and compassion serves as a medicine for all the ordeals and torments of human life. This has been proved at numerous occasions. One such incident is Dr. D.M.Vasudevan’s, story. When meeting the now retired principal of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, recently, he narrated his divine experience with Amma. It was way back in 1985, that Vasudevan had symptoms of throat infection, vomiting blood, etc. Unable to bare the afflictions, he consulted a specialist and was advised to…
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Sarasamma’s only prayer
Sarasamma, from Alapuzha, is one among the thousands in Kerala who receives ‘Amrita Nidhi’ pension, instituted by Amma for destitute women. She is from a very poor financial background and had lost her son and husband in an accident. Her only surviving daughter is married to a poor man. Though her daughter and son-in-law’s families would like to support her monetarily, being poor themselves, they are not able to do so. Sarasamma is unable to go for work due to a weak health and hence finds it difficult to earn her livelihood. Darkness loomed over her future and it was…
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Prasanna vadanam dhyayet…
Prasanna is a 47 year old devotee from Thripunithura, Kerala, who narrates her heartwarming story. She is the last daughter among the five girls her parents struggled to bring up. Some 35 years ago her mother had heard about a lady whom people called ‘Amma’ and also about Her ‘Krishna & Devi Bhava.’ Prasanna’s mother decided to seek Amma’s Darshan & came along with her brother. During the same time, Amma told her devotees that She was awaiting two special children of Hers today!! Prasanna’s mother & uncle came for the Darshan. Her mother has prayed that all that she…