Our Amma is in Mananthavati
Dearest Friends and Family, Our Amma is now in Mananthavati, a place that is very special to Anni, Link and I…its in the great Western Ghats, the highlands of Kerala…the nights and mornings are cool and crisp, the days hot and dry…the program takes place in the Amrita Vidyalayam School building there, on a hill […]
Call for your Prayers
Dearest Friends and Family, When the heart says, ‘speak!’ Â I think its good to respond. Â Link and I are truly blessed in that our little family includes so many. Â There is much that I have intended to write about, Lasya Priyan, the Tommy Cat who has entered our lives, skeek, velvet and black, with subtle […]
Ethics and limits of Tolerance
Dearest Friends and Family, The New Year has rolled in.  Hello, 2009.  Our few encounters outside of our little world show us the deline and decay of dharma everywhere.  It is the ‘educated’ and those who are ‘educating’ in India now that are responsible in large part for this decline.  Such is the value […]
Christ-mass Greetings
Dearest Friends and Family, Â We hope you have a wonderful Chirst-mass, and are able to pour your hearts out on those you love. Here, Amma was too busy giving darshan to stop and make a separate time for the Christ-mass eve program, so, it carried on, on the main floor of the Bhajan hall…I […]
Nature’s Responses
Dearest Friends and Family, Amma will be home day after tomorrow, rumor has it. Today, a spring like air came into the atmosphere here. The response of Nature to Amma has always been amazing to feel and see. There was a response in Nature for Anni also, I think we told you all how so […]
Survival of the Future
Dear Friends and Family: Long time since any posts. We’ve been holed up in our room, weathering. I finished one more semester of college (just 3 more – one year – to go) and with God’s Grace passed all the papers. The following article is one that I wrote for my Mechanical Department’s quarterly, Sanketika. […]
Its your real birthday when….
Dearest Friends and Family, The last few days have been very tough….I try to keep going, to keep my mind full of good thoughts, to at least be of some service to the creation someway…but…one can only bury the grief so far. My dear friend who is like a fellow sister came over….I knew it […]
Upanishads and philosophers vs. a real Jnani
Dearest Friends and Family, Gandhi once said, “ I know the path, it is straight and narrow, like a razor’s edge. I rejoice to walk upon it. God’s word is, he who strives never perishes, therefore, though I fall a thousand times, I will not lose faith.†Once we begin to consciously strive to awaken […]
Shiva and Compassion
Dearest Friends and Family, More unfortunate news on Shiva. About 2 weeks ago, we got a desperate call from Amar Seva Sangham. Shiva was behaving despicably. They wanted him out at the earliest. They were consulting us, as we had been providing funds, and so they wanted our input…I spoke to Shiva, he spoke as […]
Guru Poornima, July 18, 2008
BLOG: GURU POORNIMA, Shiva Update, ACF Dearest Friends and Family, We had Guru Poornima here on Friday, July 18. It is a day of honoring the Guru with love and gratitude. Celebrated throughout India, and for that matter the world, I could not help but reflect that just as we were all sitting in our […]