Category: Festivals
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Cleaning the surroundings, cleaning the mind
3 Oct 2010, Tokyo, Japan Every year, Amma’s Japanese devotees in Tokyo celebrate Amma’s Birthday with great festivity and ceremony. This year, however, they decided to add a new twist – cleaning up a public park. Ironically coinciding with Amma’s birthday message {news} about cleaning one’s community. The cleanup took place in Toyama Park of…
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Navaratri Celebration photos
15 Oct 2010, Amritapuri Photos of Navaratri day celebrations at the Ashram
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If Amma did not exist, society itself would disappear
27 September 2010, Amritapuri, 57th Birthday celebrations of Amma Bishop Mar Chrysostem Tirumeni inaugurated the official Indian website of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math www.amrita.in. This new website will have pages in nine Indian languages—Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Sanskrit. Speaking after the inauguration Bishop Mar Chrysostem commented that Amma has done…
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57th Birthday celebrations of Amma
Amma’s birthday celebration began at five in the morning with Mahaganapati Homam performed by Surya Kaladi Jayasuryan Bhattatiripad. This was followed by the chanting of the Lalita Sahasranama for world peace. Tens of thousands of devotees participated in the archana. The birthday celebration was officially inaugurated at 7:30 a.m. with the lighting of a lamp…
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A beautiful birthday eve
26 Sep 2010, Amritapuri Hundreds and thousands of devotees congregated at Amritapuri ashram on the eve of Amma’s birthday. Amma gave darshan at the ashram hall which was fully decorated with lights of love. Amma also led a soul-stirring Bhajan session. The highlight of the the day’s celebrations was the starting of the cultural programs…
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Vrindavan and Krishna: Celebrating Janmashtami at Amritapuri
1 Aug 2010, Amritapuri This year’s Janmashtami was quintessential Amritapuri, alive with love, light and song. From early in the morning, bhajans could be heard throughout the ashram grounds. There were several processions with many of the youngest of the ashram residents dressed up as little Krishnas and Radhas, with special costumes and peacock feathers.…
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A colorful flowerful Holi
They started dancing, holding Amma’s hands, reminding us all of the beautiful play between Lord Krishna and the Gopis.
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A Holi in Mumbai
Even though the Nerul stage is very small, the devotees used every inch of space around Amma to get a glimpse of her playing the game. Everyone’s faces lit up with the colours of joy, exhilaration and amazement while watching Amma in this wonderful mood. Endlessly, the devotees kept on shouting “Mata Rani Ki Jai.”
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Make your life a celebration
Thousands of people gathered in the Ashram Main hall on New Year’s Eve with Amma to welcome 2010.
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Christmas celebrations at Amritapuri
December 24th 2009 – Amritapuri Every year on this date the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated around the world. This year over 1200 visitors from all over the world and many more from India gathered to spend the holiday in Amritapuri. For this Christmas, many of the ashram residents put together an original musical…