Tag: usa1987
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With only five dollars in my pocket
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 7 Often it was the case where there was only $5 in my pocket, but somehow Amma always made sure that I was getting by. Old friends from college would drive me far and wide, or someone from a video show would offer a Greyhound bus
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Emergence of the Divine web
Memories of Amma’s first USA Yatra 1987 – part 6 Crossing the country that winter was extremely cold, but every day I managed one video show and at least one decent meal. Sometimes a contact from the summer would arrange for me to show a video, other times I would simply walk into a bookstore
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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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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