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Amma visits Cochin and continues her humanitarian work.
Apr 28, 2007

Amma visited Cochin and participated in the two-day temple festival. She gave darshan to thousands of people gathered there. On this occasion she also launched the Health Card Scheme of the AIMS Hospital. According to this scheme, all the poor residents of the area will receive free medical treatment using their Health Card up to Rs.10,000 per year. Additionally life-time pensions were given to the destitute under the Amrita Nidhi Scheme. (Life-time pension scheme)

Former Greater Cochin Development Authority chairman Antony Issac distributed sewing machine kits to selected women under the Amritanandamayi Math-sponsored Self Employment scheme for poor women, a math press release said.

Hope and joy visit them again!
April 14, 2007

Asha and Pradeep (both 35 years old) from Azheekkal, India had lost their two daughters (ages 7 and 10) in the Tsunami. After undergoing reverse tubal litigation and in-vitro fertilization sponsored by the Ashram, Asha gave birth to a boy. Today, she brought 24-day old Amrit, to see Amma for the first time. After Amma's darshan, Asha and Pradeep said, "After we lost our children, we had no life. When Amma told us that she would do everything possible to help us have a baby, those words gave us half our lives back. Now it's full."

A new concept of maintaining health by primary prevention and thereby keeping chronic diseases under control has evolved globally and is getting popular day by day. The Pediatric Cardiology department at AIMS has started a Life Style Clinic with an objective of preventing cardiovascular diseases in future generation. This preventive cardiac clinic dedicated for adolescents and children is the first of its kind in the country. Read more

Tsunami rehabilitation and celebration
March 24, 2007

The International Volunteer University Student Association (IVUSA), an organization in Japan for students interested in doing volunteer work and selfless service has been participating in the humanitarian activities of the M.A.Math since 1998. Read

Amrita University students sponsor the education of financially disadvantaged students!
March 21, 2007

Giving success in academics combined with a well-rounded personality rich in values and culture is the hall-mark of a good educational system. The Amrita University students bring pride and satisfaction to the University through their kind gesture. Mr. Muralish and Ms. Niveditha, members of the Amrita University alumni association handed a generous donation of Rs.50,000 towards the education of the financially disadvantaged students.
Mr. Muralish said, "We thought the best way to offer our respects and gratitude to Amma would be to help a deserving student experience the fruits of great education, like what we got from Amrita. In the future we plan to provide scholarships and also sponsor a lot more students. With the blessings of Amma we are confident that we will be able to achieve much more along this line, together.”

Circle of Love in the U.S.

The Circle of Love program in the U.S. is today serving many lonely and forsaken individuals. Off late, many prisoners and incarcerated juveniles are benefiting from this program.

Mother's Kitchen in the U.S.

The Mother's Kitchen project has been providing a full-course healthy meals to the needy on a regular basis in various centers all over the United States.

If you would like to support the various humanitarian activities please donate here

Experience with Amma
Excerpted from the LATEST issue of the Immortal Bliss Magazine.

Last November, the monk in charge of Anbu Illam (Old Age Home established for destitute elderly people by the M.A.Math) went to Madurai in TamilNadu, India. He went there to attend the hundredth medical camp conducted by the branch ashram there. He took with him a bag containing bare essentials, about 300 Indian Rupees and the key to the locker in the Old Age Home, Anbu Illam.

When the Medical Camp ended, the monk looked for the bag he had left in one corner of the hall. He picked it up and opened it. To his dismay, he found that his wallet was missing. It contained the cash and the key to the locker at the old-age home. Anxiety gripped his heart. He didn't mind the loss of 300 rupees. What upset him was that he had lost the key to the locker, which contained cash. Without the cash, he would not be able to buy food and provisions for the elderly residents of the home. At present, there were provisions for only the next two days. He did not have a single cent with him. Feeling utterly despondent, he fervently prayed to Amma to help him out of his predicament. Read

Questions and Answers
Amma answers a question.

Question: "Amma, what do you mean by being fully conscious of your thought process?"

Amma: "Can you see a thought rising in your mind? Can you see how the thought works and how it dies? Once you are able to see a thought clearly, that very thought becomes impotent. Identification with a thought gives power and the thought will then culminate into action. When you see a thought and you are not identified with it, you are witnessing it. When you witness, you are fully conscious. In witnessing there is no thinking, no thoughts, there is only consciousness. You may see two people fighting. If you witness their fight, you are not a part of it, you have nothing to do with it. You are simply aware of it, consciously watching. When you witness, you are wide awake."

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Satsang of the Month
Congratulations to the Seattle Satsang for their contribution to society!

The Seattle satsang members are involved on a regular basis in various community projects like Mother's Kitchen, Food lifeline, Crafts and much more.

We express our deep appreciation to the satsang members for their contribution to society. We pray that their good work grows and continues for a long, long time.

Visitseattle satsang homepage and learn more.

Amrita Universities
Where high-class, value-based education is open to all

Focused on imparting world-class education without losing the humane touch the Amrita Universities have been taking giant leaps in the field of education.

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Gems to Treasure
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
More on Optimism by some famous people..

Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Dr. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Katherine Mansfield
I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy.. you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Chinese Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Muhammed Ali
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

William Arthur Ward
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Excerpt from what Amma once said about optimism.
Amma once said this to a heart-broken lady who had practically given up on life.

"Amma knows it isn't easy to always be optimistic. You may ask, how is it possible to be optimistic in the face of the many hardships and sorrows in life? It is true that it's difficult - but by being pessimistic you move towards even greater despair and darkness. All your strength and clarity of mind gets dissipated, and in the darkness of pessimism you feel abandoned and isolated. Optimism is the light of God. It is a form of grace which allows you to be much more perceptive and to look at life with greater clarity.

Life and God are one and the same. You are God's child. God would never close all the doors around you. His unlimited love and compassion would not allow Him to be that cruel. God always keeps more than one door open. They may look as if they are closed, but they have, in fact, been left slightly ajar. Just a mild knock and they'll give way."

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