September Satsang Activities

"If you channel your thoughts, which are beings dissipated in various directions, along one concentrated stream, you can definitely gain strength. Though your body, mind, intellect, actions and words, you can harness this strength to help others. Worldly people squander their energies to gratify their desires. Spiritual people sublimate their desires through spiritual practices, and thus transmute them into power."

Thursday 17 September *date change 

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

Monday 21 September

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes. Park on the left around the back :) 

Thursday 24 September

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans

Saturday 26 Amma's birthday

• SATSANG Celebration for Amma's Birthday, 3:00 Tulasi harvest and offerings with chanting, Amma video, Kirtan, and vegetarian potluck at Kalyani and Jitendra's 400 Waiahiwi Rd, Makawao. 

Monday 28 September

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

Monday 5 October

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

 

“Open yourheart and chant: May all beings in the universe attain peace and happiness.”   -Amma

 Amma chanted “Om Lokaha Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu” throughout Her North American tour and asked us all to pray for Nature and for all Beings. She spoke of the agitation of Nature and of people’s minds.

 In Toronto, we received Amma’s permission to invite everyone to start chanting the ‘Om Lokah” 108 times daily. Many people have pledged to add 108 Lokahs a day to their spiritual practice. Right now, we have about 1.3 million mantras being chanted by peace and nature loving people like you, for Amma’s Birthday on September 27. (Have no fear; plans are in the works for those who wish to chant beyond Her birthday! One goal being considered is pledging 100 million mantras between September 27, 2015 and September 27, 2016!)

 Would you like to join us, at least for the first leg of the journey (until Her Birthday this year)? If you would like to pledge 108 Lokahs (or even 1008), please let us know. Leena is keeping count of all the pledges, so we can offer them to Amma for Her Birthday! You can email me your pledge and I will pass it on to her. karunamba@hotmail.com Feel free also to sign up any groups of people who might like to do this: yoga class, meditation group, local satsang, etc.

 In addition to benefitting world peace and our beloved nature beings, people who are chanting are feeling deep powerful changes in their own lives!!! An exciting development: in San Ramon we will be chanting the Om Lokah chant 108 times after archana each Saturday evening!

 Please pass this on to all the peace-lovers that you know! 

AMMA'S 2015 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

SILENT AUCTION OPEN FOR BIDDING NOW!

Aum Amriteshwaryai Namah!

In honor of our beloved Amma's 62nd Birthday, MA Centers are currently offering very special AMMA items for silent auction. Several of these items have been donated by Amma; many are from Her recent 2015 North American Tour and some additional items have been donated by Amma's loving devotees. The auction is online and bidding is now open. Proceeds from this online auction will benefit Amma's Local and International Humanitarian Service Projects, collectively known as "Embracing the World".

 Web auctions in the past have contributed to many of Amma's humanitarian projects across the globe, including Amrita Kuteeram (Amma's housing project), Disaster Relief efforts, and the Farmer Relief Project. The annual auctions have built houses in India for the poor, contributed to 2013 Typhoon Haiyan relief funds in Philippines, 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami relief funds, 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster relief efforts, 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief funds in US, and supported both phases of the Tsunami relief efforts. More recently Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) announced two massive charitable projects: a 50-crore relief-and-rehabilitation project in the flood-ravaged state of Uttarakhand (North India) and Amrita Swasraya Gramam a programme to adopt 101 villages throughout India insuring a proper home for each villager along with social, educational, medical and community services for the adopted villages so that they may become self reliant and thrive as a community.  

Please visit www.embracingtheworld.com to learn more about Amma's various local and international charitable projects.

This year's highlighted items from the special Online Auction celebrating Amma's 62nd Birthday include:

Amma's Amritapuri Room Lamp.  This stunning brass peacock lamp is Amma's personal lamp that She has used in Her room at Amritapuri for many years.

 

Amma's Devi Bhava Foot Cushion.  This beautiful white brocade covered cushion provided a soft resting place for Amma's lotus feet during every Devi Bhava program on the North American Tour for many years.  When you look closely you will see imprints of where Amma's lotus feet rested.

Amma's Amritapuri Room Glider.  This glider with thick flowered cushions gave Amma much enjoyment for many years as She gazed out of Her room at the Ashram and upper lotus pond.  ONE ONLY!

Amma's Pada Puja Rug.  Lovely fringed rug of ivory, beige, rust and burgundy colors in a spiraling floral design.  This rug has been the softness under Amma's lotus feet for each morning and evening Pada Puja ceremony in 2013 and 2015 during the five days of the Southern California Tour.  

Siddha Mala. One through fourteen faced rudrakshas.  Guari Shanka and Ganesha rudraksha on gold wire with with chikna rudrakrshas framing the back of the neck. This mala that Amma has worn is considered to be one of the most powerful malas of all. 

 

Amma's Earrings.  22k gold filled bead and Amritapuri Prasad rudraksha earings worn by Amma for one year.

Amma's Vatican Bangle.  Gorgeous pink jade bangle with ornate gold caps.  Pink jade is noted for many beneficial qualities.  Amma wore this bracelet during Her visit to the Vatican in July 2015.

 The online auction ends on Saturday, October 3rd at 8:15pm (PST). Live event bidding in Los Angeles will be available at the MAC LA Birthday Celebration event on Saturday, October 3rd from 2pm to 8:15pm (PST). 

 Please visit: www.Auction.Amma.org  or go to www.theammashop.org and click on auction to place your valuable bid. Winning bidders will be notified after the Silent Auction close on October 3rd at 8:15pm(PST). During this year's special auction we encourage everyone to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to find precious treasures that will bless your lives and homes for years to come and simultaneously support those in need.

Thank You for your support, 

Amma's Auction Team    

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By Amma's Grace there is a website for GreenFriends of North America!  (http://www.greenfriendsna.org) 

Swami Dayamrita Maui Program in Wailea

Swami Dayamrita returns to Maui

Sunday, August 30 at 4:00pm

Wailea, Maui

Aum Namah Shivayah, Swamiji will have his Maui program Sunday, August 30.
Please share and spread the word so everyone will have a chance to hear about this special event. Mahalo!

August Satsang Activities

“By changing a very common misconception—the idea that your problems are to be found in the outer situations of life—you can remove your problems 

once and for all. 

        Understand that the difficulties are to be found within your own mind. Once you become  aware of this, you can begin the process 

of removing your inner weakness.” Amma

Thursday, 6 August

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798 and if there will be a cancellation due to weather. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans. 

Monday 10 August

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

Monday 17 August

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

Saturday 22 August

• Amma Satsang Saturday 5:30 at Tanmayo's in Haiku. Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck.

(the following is for the island of Oahu)

Thursday 27 August Satsang with Dayamrita 6:00- 8:30 in Waikiki, Oahu. Please contact Shiva Priya- oahuammasatsang@icloud.com for details.

Saturday 29 August

• All day retreat with Dayamrita 10:00-7:00 in Hawaii Kai, Oahu. Please contact Shiva Priya- oahuammasatsang@icloud.com for details.

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By Amma's Grace there is a website for GreenFriends of North America!  (http://www.greenfriendsna.org) 

July - August Satsang Activities

“There is a treasure chest of diamonds within you, but you are searching for diamonds 

        outside. The key to that chest is also with you, but it has become rusty. You have to 

        polish it if it is to open the chest. We approach a guru for this purpose.” Amma

Friday 17 July

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

Monday 20 July

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Monday 27 July

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans.

Thursday 30 July

• GURU PURNIMA, 5:30 PM at Kalyani and Jitendra's in Makawao. Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck. 400 Waiahiwi Rd, Pi'iholo, Makawao. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325.

Monday 3 August

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

Monday 17 August

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

Monday 22 August

• Amma Satsang Saturday at Hladini Shakti Devi Dasi's home in Huelo - (Tentatively Scheduled for this day, but waiting to hear if Swami Dayamrita will make a second visit to Oahu this summer around this time. Thank you for your patience and will keep you posted for confirmed plans.)

AYUDH AMERICAS 2ND ANNUAL RETREAT "The Ripple Effect"  |  August 6-9, M.A. Center Chicago JOIN US We cordially invite you to a 4 day long retreat aimed at exploring the importance of taking small steps to create big ripples of change. Don't miss this rare opportunity to meet and collaborate with fellow AYUDH as we get inspired and set new goals for the upcoming year! Activities will include: Workshops focused on "being the change we wish to see in the world" Games Spiritual Discussions Music Nature Walks Lots of fun! REGISTER NOW Facebook Twitter ayudh.org

July Satsang Activities

 "We are not isolated islands. Our lives are interconnected like the links of a chain. 

          Whether we are aware of it or not, our every action has an effect on others. Let us strive to reach a state in which we are able to see all beings on earth as a part of our own Self." 

Saturday 11 July

• AMMA SATSANG, 5:30 PM at Radha's in Kihei. Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck. 18 Kai Makani Loop #203 
  Right off Pi'ilani on to Ohukai to S Kihei Rd. left on S Kihei, immediate left Into Kai Makani Beach Villas (across the street from the ocean) Building #18, unit 203. Park anywhere except reserved spaces. Radha 868-9167 

 Monday 20 July

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Thursday 30 July

• GURU PURNIMA, 5:30 PM at Kalyani and Jitendra's in Makawao. Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck. 400 Waiahiwi Rd, Pi'iholo, Makawao. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325.

Monday 3 August

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

Monday 17 August

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

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Washington, DC: July 5-6 

Boston, MA: July 9-10

New York, NY: July 12-14

Toronto, ON: July 17-20

Check out Mother's Kitchen USA Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/motherskitchenusa/timeline

By Amma's Grace there is a website for GreenFriends of North America!  (http://www.greenfriendsna.org) 

If you would like to host a Satsang or other Amma event, please reply with your interest.

May Satsang Activities

“Love one another without any expectations. 

Then there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.” Amma

Monday 11 May

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans. 

Friday 15 May

• AMMA SATSANG, 5:30 PM at Kalyani and Jitendra's. Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck. 400 Waiahiwi Rd, Makawao. Call 344-0325 for directions

Monday 18 May

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Wednesday 20 May

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Veena 214-5393 or Rajita 280-263. Bring your closed toed shoes :) 

Thursday 21 May

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans. 
  
  
  
  
  We have some designer clothes and a beautiful, large Handmade Kali batik to sell at our silent auction.
  
  
   Emilio Pucci suit starting bid $35       100% silk starting bid $45     Kali Batik starting bid $108
  
  
  Dr Nibodhi Haas has given our bookstore a few new books and a great remedy for Vog - Kasturi pills. They help reduce congestion in the lungs and reduce symptoms from Vog.
  
  
                   

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Seattle, WA: May 30, 31 & June 1

San Ramon, CA: June 3-12

Los Angeles, CA: June 14-18

Santa Fe, NM: June 20-23

Dallas, TX: June 25-26

Atlanta, GA: June 28-29

Chicago, IL: July 1-3

Washington, DC: July 5-6 

Boston, MA: July 9-10

New York, NY: July 12-14

Toronto, ON: July 17-20

Check out Mother's Kitchen USA Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/motherskitchenusa/timeline

By Amma's Grace there is a website for GreenFriends of North America!  (http://www.greenfriendsna.org) 

If you would like to host a Satsang or other Amma event, please reply with your interest.

April - May Satsang Activities & Events

Aum Namah Shivayah,

The Amma Satsang will be having a booth at the upcoming Earth Day Festival this  Sunday April 19. There are great opportunities to help out from home or at the festival. :)

    "Humanity is not different from Nature. Humanity is part of Nature. The very existence of human beings on earth depends on Nature. In fact we do not protect Nature, Nature protects us. Trees and plants for example are necessary to the purification of vital energy. Everybody knows man cannot live in deserts because there are no trees to purify vital energy. 

   Nowadays, the air is getting more and more polluted and water too, rivers dry up and forests are destroyed. New diseases are spreading. If this goes on, a major disaster might happen which would affect the whole of Nature and mankind. 
    Nature is our nurturing mother. Our physical mother lets us sit on her lap for a few years but Nature patiently bears our weight during all our life. Mother Nature sings us lullabies, feeds and caresses us. Children are indebted to their mothers; likewise we should all feel we owe something to and that we have a responsibility toward Mother Nature. Forgetting that responsibility is like forgetting ourselves. If we forget nature, we will cease to exist; acting in such a way is like walking to death. 
   The biggest threat for mankind is not a world war; it is the widening gap between Man and Nature. That is why we must develop the vigilance of a man at gun point." Amma

Wednesday 15 April

• ARCHANA 8:15 AM - Chanting 108 & 1000 Names of the Divine Mother 8:15 at Pasha's house 63 Olinda Rd, Makawao. Walk down right side of house all of the way to the back. 633-1387

Sunday 19 April 

• EARTH DAY! 10-4 at the Ke‘opuolani Park Amphitheater, behind the Maui Nui Botanical Garden, across from the War Memorial Stadium. We will be  having another Amma Satsang booth, selling bookstore items and homemade goods. Yes, we do need you! Set up at 9:00 AM, breakdown at 4:00 PM. 
  http://mauiearthday.org
  
  
  Please RSVP with Kalyani if you can help. (We will get some free passes with our booth)
• Volunteer at the booth for a few hours, especially for set up and breakdown.
• Massage therapists - Come do Chair massage at the booth! Or come get a massage….
• Donate baked goods or other food, handicrafts, plants, or farmers market type goods to sell to raise money for our local Mothers Kitchen

Monday 20 April 

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Thursday 23 April 

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans. 

Saturday 25 April 

• AMMA SATSANG, 4:00 PM Satsang at Andrew and Udaya's house in Huelo at 655 N Honokala Rd. 442-2486 Amma video, Chanting, Bhajans, Satsang, and Vegetarian potluck. 

MAY 

Monday 4 May

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Veena 214-5393 or Rajita 280-263. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Thursday 7 May

• BHAJAN PRACTICE, 4:00 PM at Bryans in Paia. Please call Bryan for directions 283-9798. Everyone is welcome to come learn bhajans. 

Monday 18 May

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Kalyani 344-0325. Bring your closed toed shoes :)

Wednesday 20 May

• MOTHERS KITCHEN, Come help prepare a meal for the homeless at Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, located at 670 Waiale Rd in Wailuku, 3:30-6:30. Please contact Veena 214-5393 or Rajita 280-263. Bring your closed toed shoes :)