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Q117: Tortoise or Hare?
Question 117: “For you, who would win the race between a tortoise/turtle and a hare/rabbit? (The classical story) Why? ” Please think well before you answer, and please make your answer brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines) and clear.
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Deepak Na Janu!
I visited Bankura, an old town and district HQ in West Bengal to hold an IAM camp. There was a lady among two volunteers who were to be trained in the asanas on the previous night before the camp was to start. This lady gave a very startling experience, another miracle of Amma. According to her narration, “Dada, when you and Durgapur brahmacharinis and brahmacharis came here to hold a satsang you sang a few Bengali bhajans. At our request you left a printout of a few Bengali songs that you were carrying with you. After you left, I was…
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Amma Sheds Tears
On 29th me and my wife returned to Amritapuri after conducting month long IAM® Shivirs and Satsangs in West Bengal. By evening I got a desperate phone call from one of Amma’s darling daughters from a small town of W.B. In her own words, “ Uncle you had given me 3 photos of Amma out of which one is a very compassionate picture. The other day I felt that in that photo Amma’s eyes were filled with tears! First I thought it was an illusion. But I observed closely, Her eyes were certainly looking like filled with tears. Next day…
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Kozhukkatta lessons
This happened a couple of years ago. I was just out of college, working in Pune then, and staying with a friend. One Sunday, I woke up quite early and sipping my morning tea was lazily surfing the web. My browser homepage was set to amritapuri.org and the “Thought for the moment” was something to the effect of “Even to lift a finger, one needs God’s grace”. “So I see”, I thought carelessly and went on.. Being a Sunday, I thought I’d prepare some kaara kozhukkataa ( savoury steamed rice balls had as a breakfast / snack in Tamil Nadu…
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Q116: Tea spill?
Question 116: “You are about to enjoy your afternoon tea when someone hits you by mistake and the tea falls all over your shirt. 1- How would you normally react? 2- How should you ideally respond? ” Please think well before you answer, and please make your answer brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines) and clear.
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A second chance
Life takes its due course with time People come and go, an inevitable change Yet whenever i turn back or look ahead, At times I fail to see you Through all the struggles I’ve gone through, You were always there and still are, right beside me Guiding me to the right direction When i lost faith in myself and any hope for the future I chanted your name, a reason worth living There have been several times when I escaped everything around me And felt your warmth reassuring me The world have always labelled me, pushed me Yet you have…
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i never knew kali is like this
22 mar, palakkad – bharata yatra 2009 after amma’s palakkad program, amma visited the house of a long-time devotee. the house was situated in a congested colony. we drove through a narrow gully, winding left and right. people were pouring out of their houses: many came out on their balconies, many lined up on one side of the road. There was a waist-high wall on the other side of the road and people of all ages jostled and crowded the sides. inside the small house of this devotee, amma did a very simple puja. when amma started singing ‘amba bhavani,’…
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Q115: Deepest Desire?
Question 115: “In your relationship with Amma, what is your deepest desire? ” To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Think well before you answer, and please make your answer brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines) and clear.
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The Love that knows
18 Apr 2009, Kochi We are in Cochin, in our ashram here. It is sweltering, even if we sit, without doing anything, still we almost melt away. But in the midst of all this sits Love in a human form, giving darshan to all Her children. Yesterday there had been a devotee who wanted things a bit different. She had brought a necklace which she wanted Amma to put on her. But as it happens with many of us, when we get to Amma we quite loose touch with our world. So instead of asking Amma to put the necklace…
