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Protecting Mother Nature…
With due respect and adoration, I want to take an oath to protect my Mother Nature… We are turning the planet into a wasteland, destroying wildlife, contaminating Nature’s food chain… Thus, ruining the beauty of our planet… She takes away all our burden… I don’t want to be a exploiter, among other exploiters… I don’t
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Q176: Praying for others?
Question 176: Amma says: “When we pray for others, the entire universe prays for us.” How do you explain/understand this? Please make your answer brief and clear (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
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The arrival at Ernakulam
8 April 2011 – Ernakulam The Brahmasthanam area is abuzz with devotees, most of them are young and in uniforms – Amma’s college students from Ernakulam. Whether it is their love for Amma or Amma’s love for them, the scriptures have said in no uncertain terms, “Even a moment’s association with a mahatma can confer
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Faith
Faith that you are listening to my deep longing, and will answer my prayers… Faith that you are gazing at me, re-binding me in your love every moment… Faith that you are hearing me, making me remember your words and bring to me tears of joy… Faith that emerges in me Faith
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Q175: Invisible Soul?
Question 175: “The soul (Atman) can’t be seen. So, why give so much importance to something invisible?” Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
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A learning that transforms
Day Four: 31 March 2011 Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture The final day. Again we split up into two teams: clean-up and cooking. Outside its windy, raining and so cold. The cooking team sets up our kitchen tent in front of the supermarket near the residential area where many people stay in the upstairs level of houses.
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All I can do is walk up
Day Three: 30 March 2011 Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture Today we all go to the peninsula where lots of villages were washed away by the tsunami. The area near the port has a very strong smell, like something rotten. We stop by a small shelter for about 80 refugees. We give them boxes of long sleeve
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Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture
Day Two: 29 March 2011 Up early again. We split up into two groups. One group will work to clear rubble and help clean up damaged houses and public areas. The second group will cook food for people staying in a junior high school that has been converted into a shelter for about 900 refugees.
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Tokyo to Miyagi Prefecture
For more than 10 years, the Japanese student volunteer organization IVUSA has been sending groups of students to India to participate in Embracing the World’s housing projects for the homeless and for disaster refugees. These students participated in projects to build homes for tsunami refugees in both Kerala and Tamil Nadu after the 2004 Indian
