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Finger of Grace
The other night we were again watching Amma via web-cam, this time in Her ashram in San Ramon. Okay, I’ll go straight to the point – that is the babies. What babies? At the end of the Devi-bhava Amma often does baby feeding, that is blesses them by giving them some food with Her own hand. So this time also there was a cavalcade of those little fluffy creatures brought to Amma one after the other, one sweeter than the other. Being a brahmachari myself I never had the urge to get one those troublemakers myself, but I cannot help…
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Silent dance of Bliss
The roof of the flats offers much solace after a long days work of seva. As the sun begins to set, I often head up there and lie on my back just looking up at the clouds and out into the infinite. The other evening while resting in Savasana, I looked up to find about dozen or so eagles circling overhead. Their wings outstretched, floating effortlessly on an invisible air current, they drifted high above – crisscrossing in a silent dance of bliss. I wanted to join them. Alas, the mind kept drifting back to body consciousness – and the…
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Mother was on vacation
After being on the European Tour and seeing quite a few Devi Bhavas live and also witnessing the web-casts back to Amritapuri, now that I am back in the Ashram, I have been eagerly looking forward to watching everything from this end. So around breakfast time this morning (Saturday in India) I joined the Brahmacharis on the stage in the Main Hall and waited for the connection from San Ramon to be established. Though there was some initial delay, the connection was made just as the Satsang finished and the Devi Bhava puja was starting. I could clearly hear Swamiji’s…
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Elephant cast
Amma again blessed the residents of Amritapuri with another web-cast – this time from the San Ramon Ashram where the third evening of programmes were beginning. After satsang, bhajans, and arati, Amma began giving darshan. The computer with the web-cast was brought near Amma who occasionally glanced over at us to everyone’s delight. After sometime Amma was asking to see Ram and Lakshmy – the Ashram elephants! In no time, Ram and Lakshmy were standing in front of the stage – camera pointed at them to give Amma a clear view. We positioned the TV screen so that they could…
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Hay is for Horses
Once Amma left the hall in Dublin after Devi Bhava, most of the tour staff headed by bus to a location in Dublin where we would spend our last night in Europe before dispersing to either the US, home, or Amritapuri. We didn’t know much about the place where we were going, only that it was right in the center of Dublin. We were grateful that we would have a place to stay and ‘decompress’ for one last night after a long hard tour. It must have been mid afternoon when we arrived. It was quite cold outside – the…
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Prema Pizza
We all got ready to visit the San Ramon ashram early Sunday morning. When we reached there we were surprised to see a long line for Darshan tokens. Amazing that on the first day of public Darshan so many people both old-timers and many new faces had come. When Amma enetered the Hall at 10:00am there was not a space left inside the temple. Every nook and cranny had people. Amma saw this and asked people especially those with kids to sit on the stage. Thinking of Her children’s comfort to the last minute Amma started giving Darshan and moving…
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Mosaic Darshan
Today Amma’s European tour ended in Dublin, Ireland. The Internet connection was poor, but hopefully the connection of the heart all the more strong. Amma was wearing a green sari. I like the green sari, because the first time I saw Amma in Devi-bhava, She was wearing a green sari. The picture kept breaking into a surreal pixilated mosaic reminiscent of modern art. At one point Brachmacharini Chitra said to Amma that the picture was not clear. Amma was quick to respond and said that her (Chitra’s) mind is not clear. I guess that’s what it comes down to, making…
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Karmic Physics
I’ve been teaching a course in semiconductor physics here at the Engineering College of Amrita University, a ten minute walk across the new backwaters bridge from the ashram. The electrons in semiconductors and metals chaotically move around with average speeds of a hundred thousand kilometers per second, first one way, then the other, and then another; changing directions with each new collision. This is their thermal velocity. When an electric field is present, they drift in the direction of the field with a speed of only one percent of the thermal velocity. If you could see them, they might look…
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rain at amritapuri
last few days its has been raining heavily with thunderr and lightning in amritapuri. two people died in the village struck by lightning.
