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Q42: Your poem to Amma!
Question 42: “Would you like to compose and share a ‘haiku’ or simply a 3 or 4 line poem for Amma?” ——————————— To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please make your answer clear.
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Bhajans in Amritapuri
2 Feb 2007, Amritapuri Amma is back from the South Indian tour and so is the bliss of singing bhajans in her presence. I Stayed back due to some work, and just two weeks without Amma are enough for the mind to start wandering a little, so it is invigorating to immerse oneself in Her
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An offering with devotion…
Amma’s eyes rolled back slightly, and there She was, Devi in all her glory. So beautiful Her form, so bright Her radiance, so vast Her benevolence. It was during bhajans on the evening of the Tirunelveli program that Amma granted this brief but penetrating glance of Devi. ” Whosoever offers with devotion a leaf,
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Q41: Vow of Silence?
Question 41: “What for you is the deeper value of a vow of silence? For how long do you think that you could keep such a vow?” ——————————— To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please make your answer clear.
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miracles after miracles
29 Jan, enroute kumbhakonam to tiruvananthapuram — bharata yatra 2008 the drive from kumbhakonam to tirunelveli was nice. kumbhakonam is not only home to hundreds of famous temples, but also for its rice production. either side of the road was filled with rice fields, spread across far beyond your eyes can catch. or you see
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Where the other guys stayed
29 Jan 2008, Tirunelveli In Tirunelveli, most of the men stayed at a hostel school just down the road from the Sarada Devi college where Amma and the women (and some Swamis and Brahmacharis stayed). We had arrived early in the morning (around 3am) and we had the next day off until the evening program.
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A Colorful and Sonorous Welcome
27 Jan, Tirunelveli We arrived in Tirunelveli at about 3am. The women were staying at the Sri Sarada Devi Woman’s College and Hostel – a school founded by Vivekananda and inspired by Sri Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi. The students here typically go to bed at 9:30pm and wake up between 3 and 4am for morning
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Bathroom Break
On the long bus journey from Kumbokanam to Tirunelveli, we stopped for a bathroom break. The bathroom consisted of a large field with some bushes and trees. What a laughable scene it must have been to see hoards of women in white saris and Punjabis spreading out across this green and golden landscape in search
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Stop before Tirunelveli
28 Jan, 2008 Before sunset, Amma stopped in an empty field with the traveling devotees. Amma’s chair was placed facing the fading sun, and all the devotees crowded around. As the sun set, Amma spent some time with everyone meditating. After meditation, Amma and Swamiji tried out a newly tuned Malayalam bhajan; Amma was making
