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Back from Kodungalloor
Amma is back from Kodungalloor and Kozhikode. She looked so fresh and beautiful despite having just given darshan to over a hundred thousand people within the last few days. And her voice was strong and clear, which surprised me, since She must have been talking day and night to devotees, and there is so much
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Sunny Faces
Amma’s Kodungallur Ashram was a nice surprise for a program location with beautiful nature surrounding it. The attractiveness of the area showed not only in many luxuriant trees and flowers, but also in the bright happy smiles of the local devotees. As I was wiping the ladies’ faces in the darshan line, I mostly only
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madness of the soul
huge crowds, big grounds, evening programmes. That’s about where the similarity stops between indore’s programme last year, and this year’s kozhikode programmes. On one hand, there was the external madness of devotion of the devotees in indore expressed in their rush to the stage by the 10s of thousands to receive darshan at the same
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sameness
every darshan program follows the same schedule. amma comes to the hall, gives a talk, followed by bhajans, meditation, then darshan. as a westerner we travel with amma, go to the program, help with seva and spend time on stage. after so many cities, so many tours, one would think that this sameness would get
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just given dakshina
two children came onto the stage in elaborate dress and makeup to perform kathakali, a traditional dance of Kerala. I busied myself trying to make room for the dancers and musicians. This done, my attention was caught by a couple saying in unison to one of the child-dancers; “No, No!” I looked at the girl
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get married again
amma stayed in the school building in kodungallur. after the morning darshan she stayed in the ashram building which is at the program site. the ashram building has only 3 small rooms. kodungalllur is the first brahmasthanam temple established by Amma. kodungallur is also home to the first amrita vidyalayam. it was nice to see
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Amma’s Vrindavan
it was amazing to see the devotion of the kozhikode devotees. the crowd in kozhikode program was sooooooo huge. darshan began in the evening and continued till 3pm next day. in the morning people were still standing in line for amma’s darshan. most of them with families… mother, father, children, husband, wife… at night they
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In Kodungallur
Amma’s darshan fininsed at 3.p.m the next day. After the Kozhikode programme Amma got into her van and left the stage. Amma reached Kodungallur in the evening. 3 days Amma will be here. Kodungallur 7 Jan 2007
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Leaves for Kozhikode
Amma left Amritapuri for Kozhikode (Calicut) today at 6:30 p.m. Although the majority of the ashramites accompanied her in buses, the several hundred people staying behind were lined up throughout the ashram to offer her a pranam. Amma’s one-night program in Kozhikode will begin tomorrow evening. 5 January 2007 Amritapuri
