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A Cap for Humility
Amma was walking on her way to the stage for evening bhajans. Security guards were holding back the throngs of devotees and students who were pushing against each other trying to touch Amma. While walking, Amma’s arms were outstretched as usual to touch everyone within reach. Suddenly, she bent down and picked up something and
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A Prophecy of Amma’s Divine Birth
Dear Sisters&Brothers, Some of you remember the world has celebrated Amma’s Golden Jubilee Birthday (Amritavarsham 50) for 4 days in Cochin in 2003 and was live on the internet throughout the Globe. There was a prophecy of Amma’s Divine Birth. Just before His leaving of this world, Swami Vivekananda made a prophesy about a remarkable
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From all over the world…
26 September 2004 — Amritapuri Amma’s 51st Birthday As the 27th approaches, the number of people coming to Amritapuri to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Amma’s birth continues to climb. Truly, they are coming from all over—from Kerala, France, Australia, Pune…. Amritapuri.org took the chance to speak with some of the devotees and see how
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A Connection Day
It was dawn and I was about to drive down to the Ashram from Trivandrum. As I quickly scanned the morning newspapers,before I hit the road with my family, I was pleasantly surprised.All the prominent newspapers today carried pictures of Amma with a shovel working along with sevaks clearing the Ashram premises which was flooded
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Birthday tribute
I woke up this morning listening to the Lalita Sahasra Nama chants through the loud speakers. It’s not from the ashram sound system. It’s coming from the village. I have heard Bhagavatam reading over the loud speakers from the village. But not Lalita Sahasranam. What is it? The villagers are paying their tribute to our
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A birthday wish
“Mother”—the word is incomparable. No other word is equal to this one. It is pure and full of auspiciousness. It is said that we cannot see God. We can only experience Him. But, Amma, when we experience your love and concern, we feel that we are before God. So we are the fortunate ones. We
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Kumbha mela
The festival of Kumbha mela in the north of india is world famous…and now, the kumbha mela of south india, the birthday celebrations of our beloved mother and guru, mata amritanandamayi(mother of immortal bliss) is going to take place over the next 3 days, 27th ofcourse being the main day. The kumbha mela tradionally is
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Ishwar Tumhi in Hebrew
The bhajan hall is starting to look like the birthday venue that it will be in a few days. The lights, sound system, seating, and everything are geared for a large happening. Tonight along with Amrita-TV, there was also a crew from Israel who are making a kind of reality-TV documentary about two Israelis coming
