Category: WithAmma
travelling with amma
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musical chennai
23 jan, chennai – bharata yatra 2009 it was always a problem of space in chennai. too many people come to see amma in tooo little space. but there is space for everyone in amma. lot of politicians, film actors, musicians came to see amma apart from the general public. the musicians not only had
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uncharacteristic tamil
19 jan, neyveli, tamil nadu – bharata yatra 2009 the industrial city of neyveli welcomed amma. this was amma’s first visit to the city. the crowds have been very quiet. even though it was big, they sat through the satsangs and bhajans and waited patiently for darshan. this rarely happened in amma’s programmes in tamil
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stop at the university
15 jan, bharata yatra 2009, ettimadai it was not scheduled. nothing in amma’s life is scheduled. amma says that her life is like that of a river. she is just flowing the way she wants with her own undisclosed plans. so here also the same thing happened. on the way to coimbatore, amma went straight
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Mysterious Bhavani, Mysterious Amma
Jan, Bharata Yatra 2009 This south indian tour has been fascinating for me. Usually I have seen Amma on US tours- somehow seeing Her near temples and holy rivers, seems more appropriate than in hotels and ballrooms… This time was the first time I accompanied Amma’s famous trips to Her favorite Bhavani river. Little did
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Living in the present with Amma
We on tour with Amma are learning this lesson intensely – to live in the present, whether on the journey or in the destination. While our straight-jacket mind thinks of program places as the real events of the tour, it calculates the distance between places and time of journey etc. Sometimes more than even the
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Free cellphone
Bharata Yatra 2009, When i arrived in the Ashram 3 days earlier I didnt know that i ‘d go on tour with Amma. And when i learned about it, I decided to go even if i was not very confident for I dont know much about AMMA, I dont even know what “Aum Namah Shivaya”
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Love in Coimbatore
18 Jan 2009, Coimbatore In Coimbatore during a morning darshan I was standing on the first floor of the school which gave a full view of Amma giving darshan. She was doing this in full speed. People pushed and rushed to secure darshan tokens in exchange for the timecards served on their arrival. It looked
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inner coolness
13- 14 jan 2009, Bharata Yatra 2009, Kodungallur on the 12th evening amma arrived at amrita vidyalayam, kodungullar. amma stayed there. the ashram is about one kilometer away. i saw an old man, who was supposed to be at amrita university for an ugc inspection – but was here. i asked him why he was
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Blue Sky, Blue Sari, Jewels
29 November 2008 San Ramon Dawn gave way to sunshine as Amma continued to give darshan through the morning. Dozens if not nearly a hundred people were standing outside the hall waiting for the first rayso of the sun to clear the hilltops to the east. A blissful serenity has befallen MA Center. As the