One of the joys of the Europe tour is the glimpses of the unique and beautiful culture of each country.\u00a0 Each country has its unique way of welcoming Amma.\u00a0 Munich is always one of the most stunning.\u00a0 In Munich, Amma stays in a room on the second story of the venue and comes and goes along a catwalk, clearly visible to everyone in the hall.\u00a0 \u00a0Or rather, she glides like a swan over the heads of the mesmerized devotees<\/p>\n
Each entrance and exit was eagerly awaited, as this was such a unique opportunity to clearly see Amma, unobstructed by cameramen and security.\u00a0 Each exit and entrance was different.\u00a0 When she enters for a program, Amma generally walks purposefully, looking ahead to where the devotees are waiting to do the pada puja to welcome her in the traditional Indian way.<\/p>\n
However, the first night, as she floated along the catwalk, she could see and hear the spectacular welcome the devotees had prepared.\u00a0 Traditionally costumed devotees held an arch of greenery and flowers for Amma to walk under, with Danke Amma (Thank you Amma) emblazoned on the top.\u00a0 This was in honor of the 25 years Amma has been visiting Munich.\u00a0\u00a0 As Amma approached, they sang a lovely song playing traditional German instruments.<\/p>\n
Behind them the backdrop with the colours of the rainbow glowed softly. Shining in gold letters were the words-Einheit est Frieden<\/em> (Unity is Peace).\u00a0 Amma often mentions the rainbow in her satsangs, explaining how the beauty of the rainbow comes from its diverse colours blending in harmony.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was the theme of Amma\u2019s satsang that night.\u00a0 She explained in depth how it\u2019s the unity of hearts that makes society beautiful.\u00a0 And indeed, in Amma\u2019s coming and goings to and from the program we could see that beauty of the unity of hearts.<\/p>\n At the close of the second day\u2019s darshan, Amma swept up the stairs and onto the catwalk to the rhythmic clapping of the devotees to the refrain of the bhajan, \u201cMe Khedi\u2026\u201d\u00a0 (\u201cIf Shyam can\u2019t come, surely he will send a message\u201d.)\u00a0 But Shyam had<\/span> come and the message was unconditional love!\u00a0 Amma slowly drifted along the catwalk staring down at the devotees with a melting look.\u00a0 Slowly reaching the her door, she stopped and reached out toward the crowd and with a few Mata rani ki Jai\u2019s<\/em>, \u00a0gestured to them and to her heart and entered her room after 10 hours of darshan.\u00a0 There would be three more chances to see Amma come and go in Munich, and then-on to Paris!<\/p>\n Rta S<\/p>\n Europe Yatra 2012- Munich, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the joys of the Europe tour is the glimpses of the unique and beautiful culture of each country.\u00a0 Each country has its unique way of welcoming Amma.\u00a0 Munich is always one of the most stunning.\u00a0 In Munich, Amma stays in a room on the second story of the venue and comes and goes […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-amma"],"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\/5066","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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}