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Life becomes full and complete only when the heart is
filled with faith in a Supreme Power.
Until then, the search to fill the gap will continue.
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Experience
with Amma.
By Vallath Nandakumar - Excerpted
from Immortal Bliss magazine |
During darshan
in Los Angeles, she whispered in my ear, "my daughter,
my daughter." I was so surprised, but when I suddenly
realized that she was joking, I burst out laughing.
She joined me in my laughter, and said, "Laughter should
always burst out of you just like now." Read
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Summer
Tour
Amma's Summer Tour - Dates finalized
 Amma's
worldwide programs are offered free of charge to everyone
who wishes to attend. They are supported by the efforts
of hundreds of volunteers who give their time effortlessly
both during the program and year round. Amma's Summer
tour dates are posted
here
Program
Guide
While Amma gives her
love without asking for anything in return, the programs
are made possible by funds raised through a variety
of sources. One of these is through ads placed in
the Program Guide and other fundraiser events like
the upcoming Mother's day Fair.
The Program Guide
is given free to all attendees and provides informative
information about Amma and Her worldwide humanitarian
and charitable activities, program schedules and local
satsang information.
Thousands of people will attend the programs and this
is a great way to spread the word about your business
or practice and support a worthy cause at the same
time. If you or someone you know has a business and
would like to place an ad, or if you would like to
send a message to Amma, please click here
for more information....
Make
a donation
When
a great being like Amma comes to us, we are indeed blessed.
Thousands of people come day after day to Amma wherever
she is, for their share of blessings. These programs
however are supported through fundraisers and donations.
For more details
To make a donation please click here.
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IAM
Meditation technique - born out of Amma's divine inspiration.
What
is the IAM Technique?
The
IAM - Integrated Amrita Meditation TechniqueSM (IAM
Technique) is a powerful way to reconnect with our real
center, our inner Self, and thereby experience true
joy and peace in life. By practicing this meditation
every day, we can experience these benefits. Born out
of Amma's Divine inspiration, the IAM technique, when
practiced with dedication, is designed to bring about
integration in our lives-an integration of body, mind,
intellect and heart; an integration of our True Self
with God.
For
more details and on how to register for this course,
please visit this link
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Events
in the Amma Centers nationwide.
You
may visit the following satsang home pages to check
out their latest events and activities.
Seattle satsang
- An inspiring example
As
the New Year dawned some of us came up with the idea
of making scarves, afghans and hats for the poor and
homeless. We sent an email to the other members of our
satsang to determine interest. It was a pleasant surprise
to receive about 25 responses within a couple of days.
We decided to use a model developed by a group called
‘Warm Up America’ where everyone makes 7 x
9 inch squares and then joins them together into afghans.
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Mother's Day fair on May 8,
2004 - San Ramon ashram, California
This fair is something
you will not want to miss...Some of the attractions
are:
Booths on arts &
health.
Herbal treatments,
Have your horoscope
read,
Get a massage or a blood
pressure checkup.
Some of the Bay Area’s finest alternative health
practitioners will be there to inform you.
Plus, we’ll have
live music from outstanding musicians throughout the
day, and a raffle with the best prizes you’ve
ever seen.
For Children (of all ages) there will be a wide array
of exciting games. A few of the many activities will
include face painting, inflatable play, and animal
balloons for young children, and games such as basketball
shooting contests and ring tosses for teenagers.
For Everyone there will be excellent food to suit
the eastern and the western palette, created by local
gourmets.
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Gems
to treasure
For our daily life
Question to Amma
by a Japanese reporter: Amma, from your point of
view, what is the most significant thing to keep in
mind in daily life for ordinary people in the world?
Amma: The most important thing we must keep in
mind is, that while doing work in this world, we should
always try to have a discriminative intellect, not just
an intellect. To know what is truth and what is untruth,
what is good and what is bad - with that attitude, we
should try to discharge our duties. In the present world,
we see a lot of conflict, chaos and confusion. Take
a household, for example. There may be five or six members
in the family. One may be a drunkard, one a hot-tempered
person, and another may be an egoistic person. But there
may be one family member who is very discriminative,
who is very loving, and who has a lot of patience and
other good qualities. Now, if you look closely, you
can see that it is this person who maintains the hrmony
of the household, the integration of the family.
In ancient India, there existed the joint family system.
There may have been a similar system in Japan, where
twenty or thirty family members lived in the same house.
They had great love, compassion, and understanding.
This is because good qualities of the heart existed
in those days. But now, even if there are only three
members in the family, all three members are isolated.
They have no connection at all. They are like three
islands in an ocean. That is the situation today. What
is most important in such a world is the discriminative
intellect, and a heart endowed with love, compassion
and truthfulness. You can work and earn money, but remember
mere accumulation of posession without discrimination
is like keeping a comb for a bald head!
Briefly
excerpted from " The Immortal Bliss magazine."
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Humanitarian
Activities
This
section highlights one of Amma's innumerable Humanitarian
activities.
Circle
of Love
Amma's Circle of Love program is yet another one of
her practical examples of this universal compassion.
Its whole purpose is to provide a network of compassionate
service between those devotees who are in need of assistance
and those who would like to help them. By selflessly
extending ourselves to those brothers and sisters in
need of a little loving support, we become more expansive,
and grow a little more towards that universal compassion
that our beloved Amma radiates so fully. To us it may
mean only a little of our time and effort; to someone
else it could mean the world. To read more
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| This is the March 2004
edition of Amrita eNews, a monthly newsletter. |
Om
Om Peace Peace Peace |
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