Category: WithAmma
travelling with amma
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Look within
“It is only with the heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” So deep and timeless a wisdom spoken between friends in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘The Little Prince’ reflects Amma’s teachings to us. How profound an experience was yesterday’s installation of the Brahmastanam Temple in Mangalore. But what
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become greater than amma
24 feb, bharata yatra 2008 washim, vidharbha, maharashtra. during arati, at the end of the programme in washim, a girl jumped from the stage and joined the arati line, did the arati courageously pushing a lady who is supposed to do it. after waving it few times, she jumped back on to the stage. amma
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beautiful washim
24 feb, bharata yatra 2008 washim, vidharbha, maharashtra. from hyderabad, at 3 am we reached washim. washim is in the vidharbha area, in the state of maharashtra. children and people with their families wide awake, were waiting for amma. the whole street was lit with small oil lamps. people decorated the street in front of
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all are ammas children
23 feb, bharata yatra 2008, hyderabd to washim the drive from hyderabad to washim is something like from hi-tech to pre-tech; from the head to the heart. on either side of the roads were full with the farms of grapes, oranges, sunflowers, barley and wheat. as we entered maharashtra, one could feel the change of
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say yes to life
hyderabad, 22 feb, bharata yatra 2008, we crossed karnataka then into andhra state. after some distance our car broke down in the middle of the road. it wouldn’t even move from the spot. there were no apparent reasons why it should not move. where we broke down, there was a temple nearby and a festival
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Bathing in Bliss
Before coming to Mangalore, i had made a resolve that I would find a spot near the spigot where the Tirthum (Abhishekham water) would flow out of the Temple. Inside the Temple, Amma was going to pour a few dozen pots of sacred water imbued with herbs and sacred mantras. The murti’s first Abhishekham –
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huge hyderabd
22 feb, bharata yatra, hyderabad, andra pradesh hyderabad was huge programme. there was an LED screen put up in the ground. you could see amma even when u go over the bridge of the far road. so clear and nice. it was so beautiful. it was too cold, in fact chilling at night. the wind
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unexpected blessing
22 feb, bharata yatra 2008, raichur, karnataka. the sun was still on the horizon, in its count down. we were 20 km away from karnataka – andhra border. amma’s van pulled over to an office compound. it was the seed collection office of karnataka govt. the moment amma entered there, an old man, in his
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sleepless drive
21 march , bharata yatra 2008. we reached bellari at 7 am the next day. last 20 hours we have been driving. of course there was a chai stop. but it was a straight drive. we stayed in jindal steel factory guest house. the road to the factory was horrible. that is the reason why