Tag: amalaBharatam
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Amala Bharatam, Clean India: Karma has its consequences
As Indians we all dream about a clean India free of garbage. It is with this idea of creating a clean community, as an initial step towards a clean India, that the Amala Bharatam Campaign (ABC) was initiated. Mahita, who was associated with it since its incipience, spoke to us about her involvement with clearing the garbage inside and outside the ashram premises and how, with Amma’s support, a small individual step was converted into a model worthy of emulation by all. “There is no doubt in my mind that one second of my life spent in this ashram offering…
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Clean Sunday
Early morning Sunday 24 October I was laid back, sipping chai, staring out my south block cell window. In the car park below there was unusual activity. Bramacharis were streaming onto a waiting bus. Ahh I remembered the Sunday Clean Up program. Early in the week I had enthusiastically volunteered to join up. I weighed the alternatives, procrastinated but sense of duty won out and I dashed for the bus. Our group went to Karunappally and pulled up out front of the Siva Temple. A lone western girl emerged from the back of the bus,looking a little bewildered, so being…