Amritapuri ashram
  • jai jai kar

     19 jan, covai — bharata yatra 2008all the time pujas led by amma are very powerful — pujas led by god herself. when you think about it, wow!….. it’s a totally different feeling. and todays sani puja in covai was no exceptional. the bhajans amma sang were all very powerful fast ones. it was so powerful

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  • Q38: Practice of Dharma?

    Question 38: “What is the main dharma in a human life? How do you practice this in your normal daily existence?” ——————————— To post your answer, click on ‘Add Comment’. Please make your answer brief and clear.

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  • Oil painting

    20 Jan 2008 I am writing with my still-yellowed turmeric-stained hands as evidence of my participation in the Rahu Puja this morning. And I have learned that when one waits for breakfast and arrives late for one’s veggie chopping seva, one has a greater chance of receiving the dullest knife, the largest cabbage, and a

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  • sit quiet and relax

    18 jan 2008, covai In the evening when amma was talking there were lots of noises. sounds of people talking and talking. she finished her talk started meditation. amma asked every one to keep silence. because they were all trying to jump into the darshan queue. but it would take another one hour to start

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  • New Bhajan Time

    18 Jan 2008, Covai It’s that time of year again.  the time when new bhajans flow forth. Lyrics are penned and new melodies are composed for the upcoming tours.  For many, they will become the defining sounds of 2008. The two evenings before the South Indian Tour, after dinner, Amma headed to the stage in

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  • Devoted in Covai

    18 jan 2008, Covai Here is Amma’s first program this year in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is a place with a really deep spiritual culture, probably the home of more saints then anywhere else. The culture is seen in the devotees coming for darshan. There is many smiling faces, lots of devotion.. During the archana,

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  • Signs

    18 Jan 2008, coimbatoreThe other day I was discussing with one senior brahmachari about how many devotees who come to see Amma for the first time have extraordinary experiences. One example he said was a woman who had a dream where Amma appeared and gave her two coins, which she found in her hands when

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  • And the Tour Begins

    18 Jan 2008, Covai Sitting on the second floor balcony, swaddled in my sari and caressing the last remnants of my morning chai, I am enjoying the morning sun – not yet burning with the ferocity that will later send me searching for shade.  My charkas spin and dance to the vibrations of the second

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  • typical tamil touch

    17 jan 2008, covai we reached covai past 8 p.m. amma was welcomed in the traditional way. now wherever amma goes people call out “mata rani ki jai”. its nice to watch the love and devotion in action in amma’s children. tamil people are characteristically very vociferous. i fail to understand why they speak so

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