Amritapuri ashram
  • 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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  • Q45: Ego description?

    Question 45: “What for you is the most accurate description for the ego? Is it ‘selfishness and egoism’? ‘Self importance’? ‘Identification with (a wrong or limited identity)’? Something else?” ——————- To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please make your answer clear.

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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

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  • beautiful western ghats

    20 march, bharata yatra 2008 after the mangalore brahmasthanam installation we started off to hyderabad at about 11 a.m. the landscapes of western ghats are beautiful. its a lovely sight of waves of mountains one after the other. its really beautiful. on either side plantations of betel nut, pepper, cardamom and coffee. as amma pass

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