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<\/a><\/p>\nAnother sea hereabouts is that of the fresh, bright faces of the Vidyamritam children, who are part of the Amma-initiated Vidyamritam Programme.\u00a0 The finals of the eagerly awaited Elocution Competitions are to begin shortly.\u00a0 The participants, vibrant with a good night’s rest and ‘bright morning faces’ (to quote Shakespeare) fill the place with fresh energy \u2013 their faces radiating their determination to give out their best today.<\/p>\n
We now push our way through the swarm of children.\u00a0 To our right, are a group of selfless volunteers \u2013 who are easily sighted all over here \u2013 devoting themselves to organize a large bunch of bright yellow flowers to decorate the venue of the ‘Finals’.\u00a0 Yellow signifies Victory, and it is obvious that the entire programme carries the blessings of our Gracious Amma, and would finish with a sign of victory for all the finalists.\u00a0 Amma has always stressed that what is important is how ‘dharmic’ our approach is to everything in life \u2013 of which this competition here is just a reminder.<\/p>\n
We move further along the path towards the stage.\u00a0 We lift up our heads and take in the spectacular decorations of the yellow flowers overhead.\u00a0 Indeed, we have no words to describe so magnificent a sight!!\u00a0 We wonder as to how all these decorations have come up here, overnight.\u00a0 Amma is indeed the lifeline behind every one of us.\u00a0 We are all just instruments in her Divine Hands and She makes things happen.\u00a0 The perfection of these yellow flowers is indeed matched by the grandeur of the stage itself.\u00a0 An experience indeed!\u00a0 “An impulse from the vernal woods can teach you more of man,” says William Wordsworth.<\/p>\n
As we bring our stunned necks back to position, we see the crowds of children now arrayed and organized into neat and orderly lines, each child holding the hand of the next in line.\u00a0 We must now to ‘cut-across’ the lines of children, much against our wish.\u00a0 These lines of children united into long ‘children chains’ appears to teach us adults the need to unite for the overall success of all these events at Amritapuri, short term, and, more than that, to stay united for the welfare of all humanity \u2013 nay, ALL creation!!<\/p>\n
We thus wait on, for the train of children to pass us and to make up to the stage.\u00a0 Going up the ‘wonder-stage’, we witness waves of devotees eagerly moving towards the stage for the long awaited events.\u00a0 They anxiously turn their heads round towards us, only to find that we too, are only waiting for the auspicious moment!<\/p>\n
The announcement indicates that the children gathered there are to have their breakfast as soon as they can and to get ready for the start of the events of the day.\u00a0 We are thrilled to think of the care Amma takes to see that the smallest detail is taken care of, so that biger things could happen.<\/p>\n
Let us all, as Amma’s children and devotees, strive together to implement Amma’s vision of a happy, united world of healthy competition and live-and-let-live attitude.<\/p>\n
by\u00a0 S Jeayaram &\u00a0 K Raviteja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
9:45 AM, 26 Sep 2009 What was a mere frame-work of a ‘stage’ last evening has been transformed this morning into a rich looking mega dais for the great events to come.\u00a0 It has also taken on a magnificent look \u2013 at 9.45 am today (September 26), with an understandable aura of spirituality adorning it.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary","tag-birthday2009"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}