Month: September 2017
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Upper double arm transplant at Amrita Hospital for a female recipient from a male donor
Shreya Siddanagowda was only 19 years old when she tragically lost both of her arms in a bus accident last year. Today she received the upper double-arm transplant at Amrita Hospital. Shreya has two arms again, and her doctors expect her to regain 85% of her hands’ functioning within 18 months. The procedure that gave…
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Amma is my greatest inspiration and ultimate ideal – Baba Ramdev
18 September 2017, Amritapuri Ashram Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev came to Amritapuri to meet Amma on Monday. It was the first time the two had met. He was welcomed with Purnakumbam by the Swamis and was garlanded by Swami Purnamritananda Puri, General Secretary of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math. He met privately with Amma, engaging in a…
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Jewish devotees celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Amma
20 Sep 2017, AmritapuriThe Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashanah- starts in the new moon of this month. This year it falls on the same 10 days of Navaratri. These days have a very important significance in the Jewish tradition. It’s a time that God is watching and deciding what is going to happen with…
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Living with Sri Krishana, Janmashtami celebrations at Amritapuri
12 Sep 2017, Amritapuri The day’s festivities began with the Go Puja, the traditional cow worship. This ceremony is done on this day because Sri Krishna was a cowherd in his youth. At the head of a procession, the Ashram cows made their way to the front of the ashram where the special puja was…
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Realise Your “Krishna-hood” and Thumb Your Nose at Death
Amma’s Sri Krishna Jayanti message 12 September 2017 – Amritapuri Ashram Whenever dharma declines and adharma dominates the land, God incarnates to uphold dharmic values—this is the conviction of our culture. In order to uplift the world, the infinite God-consciousness assumes a body through its own cosmic illusion, Maya. Just as all the water in a tank…
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We invite you to Amritavarsham64
Dhanyatman, It is my great pleasure to invite you to the 64th Birthday Celebrations of Her Holiness Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi—our Beloved Amma. The celebrations will take place at the Amrita University Campus in Amritapuri, Kerala, on the evening- of Sunday, the 8th of October, and on the morning of Monday, the 9th of October…
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AYUDH helps suffering people from Hurricane Harvey in Houston
Over the past week and a half, volunteers from the Houston chapter of AYUDH have been participating in city-wide efforts to assist those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane, which has left thousands of people without their homes and destroyed local infrastructure, ravaged the Houston area from August 24th to September 2nd.…
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Universities should be the engines of innovation
10 Sep 2017, Amritapuri 1424 Graduates from Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus The graduation day for Amrita University’s Amritapuri Campus was held at the Amritapuri Ashram today, in the Darshan Hall. There were 1424 graduates from the Schools of Ayurveda, Biotechnology, Business, Arts & Sciences and Engineering, to receive their graduation certificates after successfully completing various…
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Hanging brain matter removed, tribal boy gets a face lift at Amrita Hospital
July 2017, Kochi Manikandan, the son of plantation workers in Palakkad, Kerala, was born with a rare medical condition called Eencephlocele. Encephalocele is a rare congenital disorder in which bones of a baby’s skull do not close completely in the mother’s uterus. This creates an opening through which brain tissue and cerebro-spinal fluid protrude out…
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Amma devotees respond to hurricane Harvey’s devastation
September 5th, 2017 Houston, Texas, USA Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest and damaging tropical storms in United States history, devastated many lives and rendered millions of people homeless, without access to adequate food, water, and basic resources. Beginning on August 25th, 2017, the hurricane ravaged Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas, leaving destruction in…