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Permission for the pre-tour
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 5 It is hard to imagine those days when there was no computer, no cell phone, no internet . But all the planning for the first tour took place without that. The small typewriter which had been given to me was my way to contact people,
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Buying the plane tickets, reuniting Amma and her children
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 4 December 1986 The ticket I had traveled on during the summer of ’86 was a dream ticket. At first a simple round trip to San Francisco was my plan, but as it turned out the travel agent in Kochi advised me that there was a
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Yoda moment at the US Consulate
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 3 The task which would absorb my attention for nearly three months was applying for all the passports, procuring the US & French visas, and getting the plane tickets for Amma and the nine others who would go on tour. The passports would be easy, but
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Returning back home
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 2 The front porch of the Kalari* was where Amma was sitting that day in August of 1986 when I arrived back**. Some of the residents had also joined Amma there and were curious to know how my time had been spent. What was happening? When
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Q179: Call and Response?
Question 179: Amma says: “The devotee calls and God responds. But the nature of the response depends on the call.” How do you understand this? Please make your answer brief and clear (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
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A project that will change the plastic and the world
Shoshanna Lee, an AYUDH member, won a Rotary Award for AYUDH’s plastic activities in the Bay Area. This is her speech given at the Rotary – 14 may — I use to see plastic waste as worthless garbage. For good reason. Recycling water bottles is good but what about chip bags, candy wrappers, and grocery
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Help me shine
Outside the moon lights the sky, Often hidden by clouds, That is hidden by the leaves on the trees. I still see the moon shining. I see it, as it is a part of me. The petals on the flowers are blooming Morning glories, hydrangea, and lilies, All ready to greet the first morning light
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My Children are crying, Amma must go to them
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – First part (Gretchen Kusuma is recollecting how Amma’s first world tour happened in 1987 on this 25th year of Amma’s visit to USA) 25 May 2011, writing from the Denver airport…. We were about twenty renunuciates living with Amma at the Idammanel family compound in April of 1986
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This is My Rest
19 May 2011, Amritapuri It is that time of the year… when Amma gives room darshan. Before taking off on Her world tour, Amma meets all the ashramites from Amritapuri and all branch ashrams, individually in her room. As one family finishes, she rings a bell and another walks in … one after another… Today
