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Q108: Who are you?
Question 108: “In one sentence, can you describe who/what you beleive you are?” To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please think well before you answer, and make your answer brief and clear.
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South India Tour
The 2009 South Indian Tour caravan is back home. For these three weeks, the six hundreds of us have been whirling around, day in and day out, to unload, reload, pack, unpack, get dirty and wash so many clothes, so many plates. Strangely enough, all these bus rides, all these people, all these places have gradually tended to merge into one common experience. By tearing us apart, by working us out, it has brought us together. Everywhere She was bending forward, welcoming thousands in her lap irrespective of Her own tiredness. Everywhere, our exhausted bodies could not refrain from watching…
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Under huge tamarind trees
The tamarind grove behind the Amrita kuteerams in Panakudi dreamt dream this amavas- new moon night. Darkness was becoming insufferable; there was even a solar eclipse the previous day. Still there had been glorious sunrises in many parts of tamilnadu these days… The sun had risen directly in front of Amma who was giving light into the hearts of multitudes in Madurai, in Neyveli… The tamarind trees in the Panakudi grove heard about it all and dreamt of something auspicious approaching. The night after the new moon night was just as dark as the previous one. The stars above them…
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Q107: God and evil?
Question 107: “How could God conquer evil if he has so much compassion and always forgives?” To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please think well before you answer, and make your answer brief and clear.
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God s own language
29 jan 2009, Bharata Yatra it started in coimbatore this time. amma started to speak tamil on the microphone. she used to speak tamil long long ago during the devibhava darshan in the early days, even though it was not her mother tongue. but not otherwise. now, amma was leading the manasapuja step by step here on the mic. when amma spoke in tamil, asking people to sit straight and close their eyes, they started clapping! when amma spoke, she sounded like a small child – very sweet and innocent. many were crying listening to amma speak in their mother…
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one who takes across the ocean
18 jan, bhavani, bharata yatra 2009 bhavani is always fascinating. i had written about it before {click here to read}. this time it was all different. amma reached after the tour group. the water in the river was full. amma sat on the banks and straight away took the mike and asked her children to narrate some spiritual stories. in between the stories amma added pearls of wisdom to the stories – giving more depth of spiritually to the stories. myself and kannan walked around with camera trying to capture those beautiful moments with amma at this pilgrimage center against…
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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 darshan, they made every one the taste a bit of rasa they received from amma. famous play back singers ks chitra and chinmayi sang beautiful bhajans. umayalpuram k sivaram was the next. he did a solo in karnatic percussion instrument mridungam for about 20 minutes.…
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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 nadu. remember last year amma herself asked every one to sit quiet during her satsang in coimbatore {read here}. here it was so quiet. quiet uncharacteristic of tamil. many were seeing amma for the first time and they were in tears. neyveli is famous for…
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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 to the swimming pool of the university. its an olympic standard pool, one of the best in south india. the blue water reflected the western ghats. amma walked alone to the other side of the pool, sat there on the steps. the group joined amma…
