Behind the Scenes – Kitchen Volunteers of Amma’s 2007 North American Tour We come from all over the globe:US, Canada, Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Finland, Japan, Brazil, Vietnam and elsewhere.We travelled by bus, car, van, camper, plane, or train. We chopped vegetables, cooked the meals, baked cakes and cookies, made chai, and washed […]
Mother is giving Devibhava darshan at this moment when I write this. It is 11 PM and the hall is full. People have been very devoted today. They applauded a lot for the video about Amma’s charity which they saw before Amma came. Mother has orange colored sari with golden broidery. She looks very beautiful […]
3:00 p.m. Darshan ended. I have never seen such a crowd lining her path from the hall, through the lobby, to the elevators. The looks on the faces of the people after Amma went by were priceless. At the same time, in the hall, there was and still is a crowd around the bookstore tables. […]
Yesterday was a little overwhelming here. The first night darshan ended at 5:30 a.m .The second morning program was again packed, and She did not finish giving darshan until 6:15 p.m., a near record for world tours . The bookstore sales are doing very well. One of the odd-job sevas that I picked up was […]
Today Swami Kaivalyananda answered a number of questions from the brahmacharis on the topic of the Guru, as we recently celebrated Guru Purnima. Here was one question; ‘what is the importance of the physical closeness to the Guru, or living with the Guru?’ Swami said, ‘if one has gained the necessary samskara from previous births […]
So beautifull the program in Rio. The best I have been to. Beetween a wonderfull beach and gorgeous mountains. Mild Temperature 20 degrees Celsius. Birds singing on the trees. Sky blue without a cloud. The hotel packed with people that stayed for hours patiently on line to get a token. Fervorous singing. Mother stayed for […]
Today the morning darshan lasted till 6:15 pm. Last night also, it seemed that many did not wait till end, yet, Mother finished darshan around 5:30 am or maybe it was near 6:00, did not look the exact time. In tonight’s bhajans Mother sang: He gananayaka siddivinayaka Sri Krishna saranam If this is not the […]
At meditation, the seats in the hall were pretty much filled. But there was still a long line outside the hotel. Some of the tour staff people didn’t arrive until 9:45 this morning (the airport leelas), the Amma flight people did not get to the hotel until about 10 p.m. So, during the first hour, […]
Now we are in Rio, Brazil. First it seemed as if there would not be a big crowd. But as the darshan started more people started coming. Till now all tokens for morning darshan were given out, many are waiting to get token for the evening darshan. We are in Intercontinental hotel which provides a […]