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What is Happiness?
What makes me smile? Is it fame and money in an enormous pile? Becoming smart, rich and experiencing success? These must be the providers of my happiness. Everyone will be my friend and all will respect me I will rejoice and laugh with all this popularity But one day after all I want is bought I lose that smile and all that money runs out Respect and fame will be temporary Once jealousy and hatred of others leave me wary Best of friends will lose their trust Romance of true loves will turn out to be lust And all my…
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Amma accepts an award
16 Sep 2010, Amritapuri It was a busy Thursday and Amma’s Darshan were going on a full swing. Devotees from all over the world thronging to see Amma and Amma with all earnest to see her children. Some eyes cry, some smiled and all this goes on day long. It was almost 11 hours after Amma had started Darshan that day. A group of girls came on the Darshan queue, wearing beamingly beautiful smiles as they neared Amma. One of them had a shining glass trophy in her hand. The trophy itself was attractive: a multi-sided polygon that looked almost…
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Q169: The One Word?
Question 169: “What is the one word that you use the most? (Observe yourself and find out)?” Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
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Onam at MA Center
28 August 2010 M. A. Center, San Ramon, USA In India, and especially in Amritapuri, every day is a festival. Indeed, the months of August and September are filled with holidays and celebrations to be enjoyed by all. Here at M.A. Center, over two hundred devotees came from around the region this past Saturday to celebrate Onam, the traditional Kerala festival marking the return on the legendary king Mahabali. They were greeted by a beautiful pookkalam decorating the entrance to the Main Temple. Inside, Br. Dayamrita gave satsang followed by a humorous play about a Malayalam family living in the Bay…
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Heaven on Earth
Amritapuri Ashram A heaven right here on earth Managed by a goddess, since birth Righteous but tender are her ways Inspiring is her gaze Through her simple embrace And in the beauty of her grace People are brought to their knees Under her wings their hearts unfreeze Reassured that they are protected In her hugs, their fears deflected Always present whether in body or soul Service and love are her goal Helping the needy is her mission Ridding the world of its great depression All this place is her blessing May it be forever growing — Charbel, Lebanon
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Mother Earth
Oh! see the mother earth with lot of trees the autumn leaves that comes with the breeze The beautiful birds that continuously sing A playground that have seesaws and swings Oh! see the mother earth with a lot of flowers they are all chanting a verse Because they don’t want to be harmed and they want to be calmed Oh! see the snowflakes come down the snow-mobiles are all brown I see the children enjoy ice-cream cones and dogs chewing bones How did the mother earth become so beautiful? like a rainbow which is bright and colourful! — Anupama Dilip…
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A Sunday with Amma
8 Aug 2010 Every day, with Amma, is so very beautiful. Yesterday was the second day of Darshan after the USA Japan programs. Amma spent long days starting at 11am until 2am the next day spending time with each person who had come. Yesterday evening turned lively as Amma called in for Amrita University students. Amma’s interaction with her student children is really touching. Amma asked the whole stage to be emptied for her students to sit. Many of the students were new and hence as they sat behind after seeing Amma, they saw her with a new tinge of…
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I need you, I need you with me
On Mondays and Fridays Amma has regularly been going to the beach and leading meditation and question and answer sessions. Monday the 16th, however, it had been raining heavily. So, we were surprised when we heard the familiar three bells announcing that Amma was coming out to join us. But where? In the bhajan hall under a tin roof reverberating with raindrops we discovered. Amma was accompanied, as usual, by Siddarth who sat by her side. When another little boy came up and got a kiss from Amma, Siddarth clearly wanted to be sure he got his share of attention…
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Kotha tumi Jonani?
Of Amma’s 108 names, #48 is “Om devi-sadyas-tirodhana-tapa-vyathita-cetase namah” meaning “Adorations to Amma who became very sorrowful on the Divine Mother’s sudden disappearance”. After spending many weeks with your North American children, Amma, you have left us and returned to your children at home who have been missing you desperately. While your departure at the end of each tour city was never sudden…how lovingly you prepared us at the end by showering us with petals and gazing upon each of us as we walked past the stage…you have still left thousands of your children despondent and longing for your presence.…
