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Rain in Amritapuri
Though the rainy season has supposedly passed, here in Amritapuri, it seems to have never ended. When I first arrived on August 14th, it rained every night for a week. Long, steady downpours that leave ankle deep puddles all over the Ashram. After that week of downpours, there seemed to be a break. But then
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Amma the Unpredictable
Today as Amma was coming for bhajans, She took a detour to the east-side of the bhajan hall where the Indian Shop and the two story building adjacent to it have been recently demolished to make more space for Amma’s upcoming birthday crowds. “Demolished!”, some people who have not yet heard about it might exclaim.
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because i know She Knows
This was my second meeting with Amma. I had gone to the Chicago O’hare International Airport to receive her, as had many others that day. In the last one year, I had already heard many powerful stories about Amma that clearly pointed to her being a Self-realized saint, no less than God Himself! While a
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Another try
Arriving for the first time at Amma’s Ashram in India after 35 hours with hardly any sleep, two delayed flights, and a two-hour dirve on Indian roads was quite a shock. When somebody asked me for my first impressions I mostly answered: “Crowded, plain, and even though I have my Mom with me, I feel
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What can I say?
Om Namah Sivayah, I am spending a few weeks here in Amma’s Ashram. I’m asking myself: “What can I say?” I feel it impossible to put into words anything that happens in this ‘magic’ place on the planet. There’s not even a second of wasting time. Amma takes care of each one’s precise necessities at
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Two Prayers
I’m a left liberal academic from the USA who never dreamed I would ever be at a school where the day starts with the chanting of prayers, an act that is at the source of intense American political and cultural tension. At Amma’s University, however, the 8:30 AM prayers come from the heart of Sanatana
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Amma came early
I was sitting outside my room above the bhajan hall when I saw some white saris moving at the speed of light towards the stage which usually of course means that Amma is coming or going somewhere. My sisters, the brahmacharinis have a sixth sense of some sort, I feel. Amma was arriving for bhajans
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Damayanthi Amma
Swamiji is pushing Damayanthi Amma, the mother of our beloved Amma, through the ashram grounds to darshan. Dhyanamrita 4 Sep 06
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Life is a celebration
it’s Onam. all over Kerala people are joyously celebrating Onam. children… they spend their days plucking flowers and running around after dragon flies, arranging the courtyard with flowers… with new dresses they swing on the trees… here also in the ashram we have one swing next to amma’s room. almost all the swamis have used
