13 Jun 2009<\/p>\n
Devi Bhava just ended about 45 minutes ago.\u00a0 Amma wore a beautiful maroon sari with gold decorations and trim.<\/p>\n
Friday was the second day of the retreat.\u00a0 Amma held a Q&A session outside.\u00a0 It was quite cold and actually started drizzling briefly just as Amma sat down on the peetham (which was covered).\u00a0 She looked up at the sky with a concerned face and said that she had asked Dayamrita earlier to ask everyone whether they would want the Q&A to be inside or outside given the cool windy weather (no rain was insight)- and she would go with the popular vote.\u00a0\u00a0 So Amma was jokingly blaming us for being out in the cold – and we all had a good laugh.\u00a0 The ‘rain’ lasted only a minute or two and the Q&A continued.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Amma went into the dining hall to serve everyone dinner, then she headed over to the childrens’ table where she passed out papadams (fried crisp wafer) to each child.\u00a0\u00a0 At Amma’s plate was a bowl of ice cream which has been a tradition.\u00a0 Amma then grabbed a bunch of papadams and dutifully cracked them into small pieces and began to mix it into the bowl of ice cream.\u00a0 Amma has done this before, but as she finished this one, someone put an even bigger bowl in front of her and she took it and dumped it on a flat plate and began crushing more papadams into it.\u00a0 Amma motioned for the plate to be passed around as prasad, and a few of the children sitting next to Amma offered to do so.\u00a0 It appeared that when Amma gave them the plate, Amma realized that they would start eating it all instead of taking a bit and passing it onwards.\u00a0 Amma playfully offered them a spoonful, then pulled it back and put it her mouth, before finally given them their share and giving the plate to an adult to be passed around.<\/p>\n
Bhajans on Friday night were:<\/p>\n
On Devi Bhava night, while the Swamis were singing, the little boy who has been sitting on Amma’s peetham during bhajans and satsang was given a microphone and began chanting Amma’s 108 names – which is in Sanskrit.\u00a0\u00a0 His name is Siddharth and he’s 5 years old, and his pronunciation was like that of a Sanskrit scholar.\u00a0 Everyone gave a big round of applause when he finished.<\/p>\n
Next stop:\u00a0 LA<\/p>\n
Sri Pati
\nSan Ramon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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