Amritapuri ashram

Category: WithAmma

travelling with amma

  • Pushing towards the goal

    22  January 2008 – Pondicherry Since the first night in Coimbatore, some of the Western women have been called to do crowd control at the beginning of darshan.  We form a line against the railing leading to the stage, hands linked together, prepared to stop the local devotees from jumping over the railings to the

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  • puduvai to chennai

    22 jan chennai, bharata yatra 2008 the program in puduvai (this is the tamil name for puducherry ) went very well. the crowd was amazingly patient. amma gave darshan till 9.am. and left straight to chennai. there are beautiful landscapes on either side. but i was too tired to enjoy the ride. so i cocooned

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  • Papillion in Pondi

    If you could take on another life form and come and visit Amma, what would it be? This evening, in Pondicherry, a beautiful black butterfly with what looked like yellow and red markings was fluttering around the stage during darshan.  Not just once, but a number of times it came.  Over the course of a

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  • Fate of oysters

    20 Jan 2008, Bhavani While waiting for Amma to arrive at the Bhavani river, many of the brahmacharis started sharing stories of their experiences with Amma from the old days. I heard one amazing story, and would like to share it with everyone. One brahmachari has been with Amma for a long time, more than

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  • swimming in memories

    20 jan, bhavani, bharata yatra 2008 on the way to pondicherry we stopped at bhavani river. bhavani opens a flood-gate of fond memories. bhavani is a fascinating place. this is where amma started swimming with the children who travel with her during indian tours. during the yatras ‘bhavani stop’ was an unavoidable one. amma used

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  • The sacrificing Mother

    As Amma moves to Pondicherry tomorrow, and continues to give darshan to yet another 50000 or so people, sacrificing Herself as usual, I remembered what Sri Aurobindo, the sage of Pondicherry had to say of the Divine Mother. Did He forsee that one day , the Divine Mother he writes so passionately about, would actually

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  • from covai to pondy

    20 jan, covai, bharata yatra 2008 it was the badugas again who rocked the last sessions on both days in covai. they sang for 3-4 hours non stop. different sets of people danced in front of amma, below the stage. amongst them was one particular lady who sang on top of her voice, with closed

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  • Dancing to the Music

    19 Jan, Coimbatore — Bharata Yatra Today Amma led the sani puja. The first part starts 6:30 p.m., with a talk by a brahmachari. At 7:30 or so, Amma came down to lead the puja. At about 9:00, Amma was ready to lead the bhajans, before concluding the last part. At this time, she said,

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  • jai jai kar

     19 jan, covai — bharata yatra 2008all the time pujas led by amma are very powerful — pujas led by god herself. when you think about it, wow!….. it’s a totally different feeling. and todays sani puja in covai was no exceptional. the bhajans amma sang were all very powerful fast ones. it was so powerful

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