Amritapuri ashram
  • Amma heals with hugs in Castro Valley

    By April Dembosky Mercury News Posted: 06/14/2009 12:01:00 AM PDT For up to 20 hours, they wait for their hug. Devotees say the 10-second embrace is worth it, inspiring everything from simple loving reassurance to profound spiritual clarity, even a miraculous respite from aches, pains and disease. When it comes to matters of the heart

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  • Tears of Joy or Tears of Sorrow

    It’s been raining outside the past few days.  Is the sky raining tears of joy or tears of sorrow?  It’s the last night of Tour and Amma in on stage here in Toronto wearing a beautiful green sari. Seven weeks of tour is almost over.  Along the way, we’ve been introduced to new friends, new

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  • Q129: White Color?

    Question 129: “What does the white color symbolize for you? What feelings does it bring up?” Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).

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  • Hugging Saint Greets Large Crowds in Marlboro

    MARLBORO (WBZ) ― ‘Hugging Saint’ Greets Large Crowds in Marlboro Divine Signs: Holy, Hoax, Or Just Hope? Hundreds, maybe thousands waited for hours Wednesday at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center in Marlboro to feel the embrace of the woman known as Amma. “She inspires people to volunteer on behalf of the

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  • Q128: Love then divorce?

    Question 128: “Why do people fall in love, marry, then can’t stand each other and often want to divorce?” Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).

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  • Children have so much to teach

    There is much to learn from virtually everything – from the sunrise, from the blue skies, from the air around us, from the birds and insects,…. from everything.  They can teach us so many things – about the nature of the world, about living in harmony, about life and death and so many other things.

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  • Q127: Fall in Love?

    Question 127: “What do you think is that makes people fall in love?” Please make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).

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  • Smile with your heart

    Tour has rolled in and out of Dallas, then onto Iowa and is in Chicago where it is now Devi Bhava. Dallas and Iowa were both only two days so bhajans were only on the first night for each city. In Dallas, Amma sang: Sri Gananayaka Murali Vale Pyare Kanha Virahatti Sankara Siva Sankara Nannu

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  • Beautiful New Mexico

    21-25 June 2009 The programs in Albuquerque New Mexico consisted of one surprise after another.  First there was the last public evening at the end when Amma sang Khol Darvaza.  Then the first retreat night, as the darshan line trickled down to the last few, everyone rushed forward expecting a repeat of the previous evening. 

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