A Tale of GraceAmma’s Grace
Anni’s Dairy Jokes
Dearest Friends and Family,            We found some hilarious jokes in Anni’s diary which we wanted to share…On tours stops in India, and sometimes elsewhere, Amma occasionally will ask for a joke. While we never had the chance to give Her any, we wanted to be prepared. Trying to keep a ready repertoire of jokes […]
Anni’s Diary
Dearest Friends and Family,            Tomorrow is the celebration of Amma’s official birthday here in Amritapuri. The celebrations have started fully today, and there are tens of thousands of people in the ashram. I haven’t gone down yet today…the crowds are thick…every time I look over at the bridge that we made after the Tsunami, […]
Mothers and Attachment
Dearest Friends and Family, There is something else I wanted to discuss. It is what I feel to be an erroneous ‘spiritual’ concept of a Mother’s blind attachment to her child. Attachment, in some circles around me, is considered a hindrance to ‘spiritual advancement’ a sign of holding onto this world of name and form, […]
What is and How-to-do Gerson Coffee Enemas
Dearest Friends and Family, We have received lots of inquiries on how to do coffee enemas. We learned to do them through the Gerson Therapy, which we sought to apply for Anni. For us, we were not able to conduct the Gerson Therapy as it is meant to be done, for someone as sick as […]
Anni’s Karma?
Dearest Friends and Family, We want to address the concept of ‘karma’ as leading to‘destiny’ in Anni’s death. That our precious Anni died, is, we feel not due to any ‘karmaâ€, but due to our own inability to shake the tree hard enough to find the appropriate people with the actual know-how to help us. […]
Krishna Jayanti, 2007, 2006 and Cuckoo birds
Dearest Friends and Family, Today is Krishna Jayanti, the celebration of the birth of Lord Krishna here in India, and perhaps most joyously so, here in Amritapuri. Amma used to adapt the bhav or attitudinal vibration of Krishna when she first began public darshans. Seeing her in that mood, people felt she was genuinely entranced […]
Anni’s Diary – September 2005
Dearest Friends and Family, We found this little list of “Aspirations†in Anni’s Diary that we wanted to share with you all. As a family, we often talked about what we thought were our shortcomings, the reactions or feelings we had that we did not feel we could honestly be proud of in front of […]
Anni’s Sweeping Seva
Dearest Friends and Family, I feel I need to say something about our ‘sweeping in the ashram’ as Anni is most often visually remembered here this way. This we did for over 6 years. When we first came to the ashram in 1999, we desperately wanted to help Amma. There was nothing that we could […]
The Ashes Funeral, Onam, Musings
Dearest Friends and Family, We had the formal ashes ceremony on the night of August 20. I had hopes of pouring rain, but it was just a partly cloudy night. We sat on the side of the stage with the ashes pot in front of Amma during bhajans, then she carried it and another lady’s […]
A poem by Anni – 1 Jan 2006
Dearest Friends and Family, I finally opened her diaries and journals – mostly two books, and found quite a few poems and songs. Link said we should put them on the blog, one at a time. Here is one, written January 1, 2006. It seems to refer to the description she had given me of […]