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Looking for places to rehabilitate
17 – 20 Sep 2008, Supaul, Bihar After the successful start of the first flood relief camp by the math we set forth to more interior and more heavily affected districts and finally reached Supaul district on 18th morning. As before we started visiting various camps and looked for an ideal place for setting up our camp so that we could run our camp in an independent manner and provide better service to the flood affected people residing in our camps. After two full days of traveling in Supaul district we came across places where the water level was still…
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Akhilandeshwari Jaya Jagadamba
20 Sep 2008, Amritapuri Yesterday night, at the very end of the evening bahajns Amma sang a heart-stirring version of “He Amba”. When she told the musicians on stage about her choice of the song they exchanged glances and smiled at each other. They must have thought to themselves: Amma, who has a repertoire of thousands of devotional songs in dozens of languages, chooses to sing this simple Namavali at the climax of her bhajans? But in fact, there is no such thing like a simple song for Amma. She can infuse the greatness of her devotion into any bhajan.…
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Amritapuri 18.0 to be launched soon
Aum Amriteswaryai Namah Blessed Children of Amma, We are pleased to announce that within a few days we will be launching a new version of Amritapuri.org. We wanted it to be launched before the birthday as an ‘Online Gift’ to our Omnipresent Amma. There were a lot of technical problems, some web team members were sick, internet was down, etc. We were so busy with other things too. So this will be a beta version. Sorry. But the new site will be fully functioning upon launch. Pages deep within the site will be steadily converted until the transformation is complete.…
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A miracle in front of our eyes
16 Sep 2008, Bowanipur, Bihar A miracle took place today. So many take place very day – the sun rises, it gives us warmth; there is air to breathe; birds fly and trees grow drawing sustenance from the earth and the sun and the air and we live. I feel the coolness of the breeze as it blows in my face. I can feel. I live. It is a miracle. And within a five days shelters have risen up housing some of the poorest of those displaced – about 500 of them. Today we inaugurated the first shelters built by…
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Q82: Indulging in?
Question 82: “Amongst these activities, which one do you indulge in the most: sleeping, eating, gossiping or mentally finding fault in others?” 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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First camp to be inaugurated
15 Sep 2008, Bowanipur, Bihar The last two days were quite hectic as the temporary shelters along with a kitchen, toilets, etc were nearing completion and we were planning to have a small inaugural function before the camp was started, to create awareness and also inspire others to take up similar such activities. The camp with a capacity to accommodate around 500 people would be inaugurated at 4.30 pm on 16th September 2008. Yesterday, Bri Rasamrita, who was entrusted the responsibility of managing the Kitchen, arrived in Purnea after procuring all the vessels, etc that would be needed for cooking…
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First shelters are ready
13 Sep 2008, Bowanipur, Bihar The past two days we were busy getting the temporary shelters in place, and being a totally new place it took some time to get familiarized with the local working style, speed etc. Two shelters of around 4000sqft have been completed. Work is going on to get the kitchen and the toilets completed. Work has also started on a third shelter. During the day there were heavy showers and so the work had to be stopped for some time. As far as we know ours is the first organization to put up such temporary shelters…
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Q81: God Will & Effort?
Question 81: “If everything that happens to us is predestined or God’s will, why should we then bother to do any effort in any direction at all?” To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please think well before you answer, and make your answer brief and clear.
