⏱️ 26 min | Onam is Kerala’s harvest festival and traditionally people gather in unity to express gratitude for nature, each other and the divine. Learn about the spiritual significance of Onam with Swamiji’s insights.

⏱️ 15 min | Immerse yourself in the meditative sounds of Vedic chanting and enjoy a description of the meaning of Diwali: a celebration of victory over the darkness of ignorance. This offering shares profound parallels and insights about our own inner journeys.

⏱️ 2 min | Enjoy eloquent words on the 10-day celebration of Ganesha accompanied by radiant and joyful images from ceremonies at Amritapuri during this special festival. Follow Ganesha to his plunge in the sea, representing form becoming formless.

⏱️ 7 min | Follow along with this fantastic demonstration! With only four items, you can easily make the dough used to form a beautiful turmeric Ganesha with legs, body, head, trunk, ears, arms and a bindu! With some raisins and a toothpick, he’s ready for your altar.

⏱️ 3 min | For many people, a written recipe makes everything clearer. With the short video and this recipe you can feel confident to try decorating your altar with your own hand-made Ganesha.

⏱️ 21 min | Calling out to ancient Vedic teachings, Vaju describes how Guru Purnima honors the Guru’s guidance for cleansing our hearts and minds and reaching the ultimate. Take a moment to touch upon the Guru’s vast silence and boundless compassion.

⏱️ 6 min | Opening with Amma describing Krishna, this video shows the significance and pure fun of Krishna’s birthday celebrations in Amritapuri. Feel Amma’s joy radiating from the screen and see the games, dancing and singing!

⏱️ 16 min | Overcome inner obstacles by hearing Vedic chants and attuning to this account of Navaratri. This nine-night celebration of supreme consciousness, celebrates different aspects of the divine mother, where she defeats the forces of evil and ignorance.

⏱️ 15 min | After reverent Vedic chanting, Vaju describes Pongal as a celebration of overflowing love for nature. She notes how the three days are a harvest festival marking the joy of light after the winter solstice.

⏱️ 21 min | Don’t miss these eloquent insights as he touches on scriptural perspectives on food, the five energy sheaths and the power of gratitude to things like the sun and earth. He also explores themes of overflowing abundance and love.

⏱️ 2 min | Join this annual celebration of Shiva by drinking in the images of the celebration at the Amritapuri ashram. Hear Amma describe how we can know our deepest Self through Shiva —eternal blissful awakening and consciousness.

⏱️ 15 min | Experience deep soulful longing through Vaju’s Vedic chanting, opening us to her insights on the great night of Shiva. Fall into the vast, still presence where infinite awareness meets boundless loving compassion.

⏱️ 23 min | Swamiji shows how we can be happy and show others the way to happiness by connecting with our eternally blissful nature embodied by Krishna. He offers many profound insights on eternal life, sense control, love and reverence.

⏱️20 min | After soulful chanting, Vaju tells the dramatic story of Krishna’s birth and purpose. She takes us on a heartful visual and verbal tour of the celebration at the Amritapuri ashram in India, noting the traditional dishes.

⏱️14 min | Vaju shows how societies co-existing in harmony with nature experience abundance and prosperity. This is celebrated as Vishu. Enjoy lush descriptions of the Vishu tradition, where the first sight of the morning has great importance: the special Vishu altar, which represents abundance.

⏱️ 14 min | Every year in Amritapuri on Christmas Eve, Amma’s children delight in Amma serving chocolate cake to everyone after the cultural performances. Join in the tradition with an explanation about the spiritual journey of making that very cake.

⏱️ 2 min | Striking the bell of memory and divine presence, Meenamba recalls the power of a lit-up angel in her non-religious household during the Christmas season. She introduces upcycling paper and plastic to make beautiful angel ornaments.

⏱️ 12 min | In this profoundly moving talk, Swamini talks about the power and beauty of intense calls to God. Using personal reflections she shows how sincere prayer and a desperate call can bring Amma's presence into our lives..

⏱️ 58 min | Experience the timeless wonderment of Swamiji’s talks as he flings the doors wide upon new meanings: the kingdom of heaven is God Consciousness—of course! When we fill our minds with God, God is all we see and feel.

⏱️ 5 min | Making sustainable choices during the holiday season, enjoy this list of green gift ideas. Learn about green gift wrapping alternatives and using nature as gift centerpieces. There are so many green purchasing tips and ideas.

⏱️ 6 min | Reverently lighting candles while reciting ancient Hebrew prayers, Jani passionately speaks about Hanukkah’s victories over darkness and establishment of purity and spirituality. Discover the dramatic story of Hanukkah.

⏱️ 6 min | Featuring priceless footage of Amma singing in Hebrew, Jani eloquently draws on her own traditions and memories to answer many common questions about Hanukkah.

⏱️ 97 min | Be inspired and don’t miss these stories of selfless service projects and sustainable holiday tips! Many are dramatic such as alleviating poverty and abuse, or impossible coincidences of surplus meeting dire needs.

⏱️ 62 min | This is great for any time of the year, filled with inspiring words on sadhana! Swamiji discusses life in the present, and five daily habits: achievement, seva, sadhana, exercise and trust building (even just a hug) for happiness.

⏱️ 12 min | Drop into the wonderment and love that comes from hearing this moving story of learning to listen from the heart and hear the depth of inner Silence. The speakers share their own profound link between Christianity and Hinduism.

⏱️ 10 min | In the Parisian ashram, New Years is a flagship event where participants celebrate by deepening their connection with Amma, each other and their spirituality. Sharing of food, song and creativity brings in the New Year.

⏱️ 77 min | Enjoy precious and profound gems of wisdom after many long months of the COVID lockdown. How do we adapt and thrive when life changes radically and everything we take for granted is gone? How to deepen, grow and foster love?

⏱️ 2 min read | Circle dance is common to many cultures for special occasions, rituals and encouraging togetherness. They are a joyful way to strengthen community and express identity. Here we learn about dance as a pathway to joy.

⏱️ 9 min | Enjoy moving scenes of rehearsal, set building, midnight laughter, coffee and reflection. This video beautifully captures the challenges, growth and pure joy of preparing a Christmas performance for Amma and the Amritapuri ashram!

⏱️ 27 min | Peek behind the scenes and hear what it was like to produce and act in the play, “The Lord’s Prayer”. See how the three important factors Amma often refers to—timing, effort and grace—magically come to life to create something memorable and meaningful.

⏱️ 14 min | Hear about the play behind the play: puppets made by teams working tirelessly behind-the-scenes to make the Amritapuri performances really special. Enjoy stories of divine flow, where just the right people with just the right skills appear at just the right time to make the impossible happen.

⏱️ 10 min | Enjoy the story and images of making these lively puppets. Viewing this delightful essay also teaches us how to make puppets of our own—even life-sized deer or tiny birds using recycled materials and simple materials.

⏱️ 7 min | Enter the creative world of designing costumes for a play! They are created through collaboration in a devoted community that combines colors and shapes into precious offerings.
Beautiful costumes come to life during dynamic activities, like dancing.

⏱️ 29 min | Hear of the joy, vitality and challenges of being a crew member for an Amritapuri production. The experiences, described with sparkling eyes, uproarious laughter and personal stories, strike a chord within.

⏱️ 4 min | Marvel with a backstage pass to the making of the “Walking Beside Us” play! Meet the children from the production as they describe running straight to rehearsal after school. See the set making, music making and laughter.

⏱️ 18 min | Enjoy this irresistible story of Lavan first hearing of Amma through a leaflet, then meeting her and finding himself experiencing the most profound moment of his life when Amma touched him. He immediately joined the tour and began helping with cooking.

⏱️ 7 min | Delight in amazing stories. Once, Sneha had 15 minutes before curfew to vacate a program hall, with hours needed to clean up. She prayed to Amma, who immediately showed up, followed by hundreds of devotees. The cleanup finished in no time!

⏱️ 14 min | Join the Amritapuri Christmas tradition and learn stories about the famous Amritapuri Christmas cake! Feast on Apoorva’s stories of joining the ashram and the early bakery while imbibing the precious images of Amritapuri Christmas.

⏱️ 4 min | Amma asks this question often, expressing motherly love. Lola also explores the need to feed and nourish the soil that grows our food and for sustaining life in the cycle of growing food and feeding others.

⏱️ 13 min | A must see video! Explore spirituality as a way to train the mind to stay true to resolutions about things like food or other good habits and to ignore negativity. We eat every day, and how we eat is a perfect training ground.

⏱️ 20 min | Join GreenFriends Australia’s journey as they form a community garden, harvest, cook and serve homegrown meals to those in need in Mother's Kitchen. This full-circle, socially distant initiative made seva possible during the pandemic.

⏱️ 27 min | Wow! Learn the effects of chanting on body, soul and mind! The bhojan mantra chanted before meals at Amma’s ashrams and events has exceptional meaning and significance. This talk also includes pronunciation and context from the Bhagavad Gita covered.

⏱️ 13 min | Noting that health is physical, social, mental and spiritual, this beloved professor of Ayurveda and integrative medicine covers concepts from the Chandogya Upanishad such as how food can form the basis of our minds.

⏱️ 30 min | Marvel, learn and laugh as an apron clad Swamiji teaches a 7th grader (and us!) how to cook based on Amma’s teachings. Make a delicious meal, weaving the five elements with ancient principles of cooking as a physical and spiritual act.

⏱️ 7 min | This talk brings to life stories of the ancient ways of sharing food, even when there isn’t enough. Amma’s mother would always save food for guests that might be coming, and Amma often tells dramatic stories of the great value in sharing.

⏱️ 5 min read | Using photos and inspiration, this PDF tells how a sattvic diet is a type of lifestyle recommended in Ayurvedic literature. Learn how the lightness of sattva guna is associated with purity and vitality.

⏱️ 17 min | Vaju is a beloved chef and teacher of cooking and spirituality. Hear how she expresses and nurtures love by cooking. Learn of the power of cooking as a spiritual and medicinal practice nurtured through the ages.

⏱️ 19 min | Hear dramatic stories from the scriptures about Devi. Through them, learn of Devi as the basis for all existence. She is both the very essence of nourishment as well as the one who provides nourishment.

⏱️ 31 min | Enjoy these priceless stories from early tours with Amma! Swamiji elegantly explains how certain bhavana, or attitudes during the meal processs (preparing, cooking, serving and eating) can lead us to oneness with the divine.

⏱️ 23 min | Learn of a fascinating discussion between Shiva and Parvati about food and maya, or illusion. Without food there is no life or world. Swamiji also shows how food absorbs and reflects the energy of the one preparing it.

⏱️ 16 min | Swamiji brings profound perspectives on food as something holy served to ancestors, animals and gods as well as us. Food is not just what we eat, but what we spiritually imbibe and ingest.

⏱️ 18 min | In this talk, Swamiji brilliantly integrates ancient scriptures with modern science, showing how all food has a common ingredient: the mind. She reminds us of the importance of mindfulness, as the vibrational energy of our attitudes and thoughts echo into the universe, ideally as goodwill and positivity.

⏱️ 19 min | Amma’s love for all of us is poignantly tangible as he tells of her tears during a very special story. This talk calls out to our deepest devotion and love to receive the Guru’s grace deeply within

⏱️ 15 min | Swamiji shares stories and insights from years of observations on Amma’s words and actions about food. He covers the five koshas or sheaths and the five elements and how we can truly refine and nourish our bodies and spirits.

⏱️ 20 min | What is the spiritual essence of food? In this incredible talk, Swamiji explains how to approach food when our main goal is inner purification and perfection, using Amma’s words and discussions from the Bhagavad Gita.

⏱️ 21 min | Pongal is the harvest festival in South India that falls in the month of Thai (January–February season). It is a time of overflowing abundance, where Pongal is ceremonially cooked until the pot overflows.

⏱️ 13 min | With an astonishing set of insights, we learn how appreciating food can be a direct way to experience and appreciate God. Touching on ancient scriptures, he shows how God manifests as sight, sound, taste and love.

⏱️ 22 min | Enlightening and fascinating, this talk shows how our bodies are the instruments for achieving our life purpose, and food the basis for nourishing it. Swamiji covers four factors of food as an instrument for light and purity