Month: March 2005
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Bringing happiness & samskara into the lives of the Tsunami children
12 March 2005 — Alappad Panchayat, Kollam District, Kerala Every morning after breakfast you see him—with his book-bag slung around his shoulder, pedalling off the Ashram grounds on his bicycle, he could easily be taken for a student. But instead of textbooks, his bag carries collections of bhajans, and he is not heading off to…
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An eagle comes for Amma’s bhajan
11 March 2005, Amritapuri Om manusya-mrga-paksyadi sarva-samsevitanghraye namah(Salutations to the feet of She who is served by humans, animals, birds and all others.) It’s like something out of a fairy tale—but it happened. And not just once but many times, to hear Amma tell it. The eagles fed Her. It’s something to picture: a teenage…
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Fight for Dharma, Amma asks journalism students
3 March 2005, Amritapuri Journalism students get their first big interview “Newspapers are meant for dharma. And for the purpose of protecting dharma we have to live our dharma,” Amma said. She was talking to 15 students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Journalism who She’d called to Her room after bhajans on 3rd March.…
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Buddhist monk finds inspiration in Amma
1 March 2005, Amritapuri Around the time Amma left for Sri Lanka, a Buddhist monk from the island country came to stay for a while in Amritapuri. He had heard a lot about Amma and, as he was spending some time in India, had decided to come to Her Ashram. After Amma returned from Sri…
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Sciences of ancient India
1 March 2005, Amritapuri One of the Ashram residents had read something in the paper and wanted to share it with Amma. So she placed the clipping in a pile of questions on Amma’s peetham during Tuesday’s Meditation Day. It was the story of a group of elephants kept at a resort in Phuket, Thailand,…