⏱️ 48 min | The Narada Bhakti Sutras are seminal texts about the path of divine love and God realization. In these talks, Swamiji explores the nature of Bhakti, its various forms, and guidance on achieving the bliss of divine love.

⏱️ 41 min | Swamiji begins with a beautiful quote from the Upanishads on how genuine devotion to God and Guru leads to ultimate truth. He then dives deep into the waters of bhakti, where we can dissolve all sorrow and swim in divine love.

⏱️ 67 min | Enjoy a superb explanation of how dropping illusory name and form, and receiving grace, allows us to see the luminous truth shining beneath these concepts. This purification of the body, mind and intellect leads to the next level of bhakti.

⏱️ 59 min | Going ever deeper, Swamiji discusses specific sutras on attaining purification by meditating and taking actions which promote devotion. Other sutras show how to transcend beyond attributes and fly into the sky of pure divinity.

⏱️ 44 min | This brilliant opening to the Bhakti Retreat: Part 2 tells of worshipping divinity with undiluted, uninterrupted love. Do this through whatever arises in the present moment. Learn how to attune to the infinite qualities of divinity.

⏱️ 42 min | Imagine a state where your body, mind and intellect are so purified through spiritual practice that divine love shines from your actions. Swamiji demystifies this process, moving us tantalizingly closer to supreme bhakti.

⏱️ 41 min | Swamiji brilliantly distinguishes the ego—and its insistence on likes and dislikes— from the sky of pure bliss and joy available when the ego is quiet. He explains how to drop the habits of the mind and dive into true presence.

⏱️ 58 min | What rare qualifications are required for supreme devotion? Is it possible for everyone? Swamiji describes exactly how we can let go of false ideas of happiness, allowing profound devotion and infinite bliss to arise.

⏱️ 50 min | Welcome to Part 3, the last retreat on the Narada Bhakti sutras! Swamiji beautifully summarizes the previous two retreats and then plunges into deep depths of devotion with clear instructions on merging into the divine.

⏱️ 54 min | True bhakti is born of both transcending action and knowledge. Yet, once we are living in the continual awareness of God as all of creation, we are approaching supreme devotion, where we love God in all things at all times.

⏱️ 52 min | Stabilizing in supreme bhakti, we emerge deeply beyond the belief in an individual “I” who experiences happiness, sorrow and separateness. Distance from this illusion allows the complete bliss of supreme devotion.

⏱️ 64 min | Progression into the understanding that only Ishvara exists—not even the devotee—allows for the stabilization of supreme bhakti. Swamiji offers profound and practical tips on establishing this as a firm basis for life.

⏱️ 7 min | The renewal of ancient farming practices has profound healing benefits. Modern techniques have lead to the tragedies of: loss of ancient seed stocks, soil depletion and related farmer suicides. Learn holistic, effective alternatives.

⏱️ 5 min | Merge with Amma’s oneness in nature and life as you enter and receive this beautiful painting. Maybe you can feel Amma as your deepest Self, rooting through the earth while caressing the blossoms, birds and butterflies.

⏱️ 6 min | Amma’s mother, Damayanthi Amma, deeply inculcated traditional manners to Amma. She taught her: reverence and care for people who visited, the careful use of natural resources, and to even honor paper as Goddess Saraswati.

⏱️ 1 min | When protecting nature is seen as worshipping God, a humbler and more effective attitude blooms in our hearts and minds—and all of nature rejoices. These moments of heartfelt images and reverent thoughts can powerfully transform awareness.

⏱️ 2 min | Enjoy an enchanting behind-the-scenes tour of Amma’s luscious rooftop garden! Narrated by Swamini Krishnamrita Prana, this Vlog includes Amma’s words on nature being a visible form of God. Amma also encourages us to grow some of our own food, becoming more self-sufficient.

⏱️ 1 min | This beautifully centering contemplation roots us into the awareness of gardening as a path of love, harmony and self-realization with practices of awareness, reverence, sustainability and care for the local and global community.

⏱️ 3 min read | This lovingly prepared handout gives the principles and practices so beautifully described in the accompanying video. Enjoy eloquent insights on principles and practices with many examples of Amma’s and Amritaculture’s perspectives.

⏱️ 16 min | Br. Rishi Chaitanya evokes Amma’s experiences of singing and talking to nature. He also tells of his work in the villages of India, seeing the reverent attention to the wisdom behind all creation. Watch and rekindle this connection.

⏱️ 51 min | Enjoy this powerful talk and a profound workshop on spiritual seed planting. Recalling how the Bhagavad Gita speaks of the entire universe as being part of Krishna’s form, he shows how we can draw on this fact in our daily lives.

⏱️ 5 min | Devotional gardening is reverence in action, as we gently tune into Nature before gardening. Cultivating love and appreciation attunes us to our gardening tasks as well as to Amma’s depth of presence within us.

⏱️ 4 min | The basis of our food system: birds, worms, bacteria and fungi are starving, and we are starving them through the modern practices of agriculture. By giving to and feeding the soil, we can heal our system from the root.

⏱️ 80 min | How does the idea that we are the self-effulgent sun work in our practical and spiritual life? How does the fact that we literally share the common ground that is our planet become a way to heal, unite and inspire?

⏱️ 50 min | A major goal of life is to realize that everything is pervaded by consciousness. We can live in true harmony by fulfilling the five debts to what makes life possible: our ancestors, deities, rishis, humanity and nature.

⏱️ 5 min | Padma introduces the ancient Mayan prayer to the Seven Directions such as East for clarity, or West for wisdom. Connecting to our primordial roots and to nature can transform us, whether we live in a lush natural setting or not.

⏱️ 1 min | Discover exciting, fun and easy ecological projects you can make at home that embody and demonstrate the re-use of materials that might otherwise be thrown away. View examples from the Amritapuri Ecology Center.

⏱️ 5 min read | Be inspired to make sustainable choices through many green tips for making delightful gifts. Remember that there is power in buying local, supporting companies that use recycled material or donating to environmental protection.

⏱️ 7 min | The concept of the five elements composing matter, and even representing devas seems to pervade cultures around the world. This has major implications for our relationship with nature, which can be like a loving partner.

⏱️ 26 min | This introductory class gives five tips on starting a vegetable garden. Being a partner with nature in the growth of a plant is a very magical and inspiring experience. We can emulate nature by using organic approaches.

⏱️ 10 min read | This reading excerpts a series of questions and answers posed to Amma on returning to ancient environmental wisdom. For example, Amma speaks on the importance of revering the five mothers of Sanatana Dharma: the cow, earth, Vedas, motherland and one’s biological mother.

⏱️ 2 min | This beautiful image is a fruitful meditation on the entire process of honoring nature and planting as a ceremony. Be inspired to nurture the soil, plant seeds and enjoy the flowers and fruits as a puja to nature.

⏱️ 61 min | Get absorbed in footage of Amma’s rooftop garden and Lola’s heart-melting stories of Amma’s relationship with nature as a child, knowing the wind as the touch of the Divine Mother. Hear beautiful, practical gardening instructions.

⏱️ 11 min | With deep perception of nature, we can learn everything about life and spirituality. Teachings include: balance, giving, the perfection of cyclical life, the ease of change and the absence of rigidity.

⏱️ 3 min | With the knowledge and experience of 25 years of gardening at Amritapuri, Lola reveals how to start a genuinely natural garden. Get inspired by beautiful natural imagery and anecdotes on how natural fungi are used to create living soil.

⏱️ 12 min | Sharing stories of seeing Amma bless seeds, Sarvaga also mentions Amma saying that hybrid seeds are like premature babies. It is vital to return to ancient farming practices to save and nurture the best healthy seeds.

⏱️ 6 min | Amrita Upcycle started over 15 years ago with Amma’s blessing. It is a way to create beautiful, useful items from things that would normally be plastic waste, such as juice boxes and plastic bags.

⏱️ 14 min | Enjoy this enchanting story of Shakuntala who tended nature as if it were her child. When leaving for her marriage, the flowers crept around her ankles and the animals wept, showing the power of love between nature and people.

⏱️ 46 min | In this riveting and profound story, learn how Amma inspired a worldwide environmental movement. The GreenFriends Initiative is based on love and respect for the web of love and life that nature embodies. Includes a free PDF book download.

⏱️ 45 min | Be moved in this account of connecting with Amma through loving nature by upcycling. By using materials that even scrap markets won’t, we can make wallets, water bottle holders, carry bags and other items.

⏱️ 6 min | Swamiji passionately conveys Amma’s pleas to us to deeply listen to nature and protect it as a member of our family. Learn how we must serve the totality, and our own part of the totality, with reverence and appreciation.

⏱️ 15 min | One of the five Mothers in Santatana Dharma is the cow, associated with Lord Krishna. Cow milk is the first replacement for mother’s milk. Even cow urine and dung have been important for farming, even used in the production of traditional Ayurvedic medicines.

⏱️ 10 min | Swamiji heartfully reminds us how nature gives without asking anything in return—a true offering of humility. How can we give back with gratitude for the oxygen, water, sunlight and food so abundantly provided by nature?

⏱️ 6 min | In our genuine worry and concern for environmental destruction, it is possible for us to generate negative energetic vibrations. Swamiji lovingly describes how to transform our concern into caring and effective action.

⏱️ 8 min | Lord Krishna and Amma both have stressed how nature is a textbook constantly teaching us principles such as humility, love and giving. Learning from nature’s selflessness can heal ourselves, nature and the planet.

⏱️ 7 min | Explore with our beloved Swamini as she shares how nature is truly a blessing and gift of God! Learn about the healing properties of various essential oils and how to use them to support your health and well-being.

⏱️ 15 min | Swamiji shares how making the effort to take responsibility for the damage done to Mother Nature actually results in healing our inner hearts. He shares many practical tips mixed with stories from Amma’s GreenFriends efforts.

⏱️ 11 min | Amma’s upbringing was based on the ancestral library of natural knowledge passed down through the generations, functioning like a compass towards truth for Amma’s mind. Examples of using natural dyes are given.

⏱️ 24 min | Connecting the many GreenFriends activities to the deepest spiritual Vedantic principles, Swamiji draws on his over 30 years of ashram life to share Amma’s relationship with nature and as an expression of oneness.

⏱️ 24 min | Essential oils are a healing, concentrated form of plants that interact with our bodily systems, potentially in profoundly beneficial ways. Swamini sweetly gives many specific examples of herbs and the conditions they aim to treat.

⏱️ 11 min | Enjoy this beautiful sharing of how we can show love to nature and calm our own minds by doing puja—a love offering to the divine—in our gardens. This talk includes beautiful instructions for transforming our gardening actions into mindful worship.

⏱️ 5 min reading | This handout is a fascinating exploration of how we can absorb the healing qualities of various herbs and plants by wearing textiles dyed with them. This ancient healing modality aims to boost the immune system and is used traditionally to support specific health conditions.

⏱️ 34 min | In this fascinating talk about using dyes that have medicinal properties, Swamini shares a rare story of how the ashram tailoring department made 600 robes for the newly initiated disciples, completed only two days before the lockdown.

⏱️ 19 min | Amritaculture is about devotional gardening, so the idea that soil has a soul is uniquely consistent with the principles of regenerative agriculture applied in the ashram. Enjoy this inspiring introduction to the AVA course.

⏱️ 6 min | Tune in to an enchanting talk about connecting with plants, even kissing and caressing them like beloved friends. Such sensitivity nourishes us in mysterious ways. We can even begin to know intuitively when a plant needs something.

⏱️ 42 min | Swamiji helps us transform our connection to the sun into something profound and gratitude-filled, illuminated by ancient scriptural teachings. He also uses prayers, insights and stories to remind how the sun is the source of all life.

⏱️ 6 min | Enjoy this enchanting story Amma tells of Krishna explaining why Tulasi is the plant of self-sacrifice. It is a story telling of seeds, dry leaves and clods of dirt vying to be under Krishna’s feet but then sacrificing themselves to save the seeds who were dying in the sun.

⏱️ 2 min | How would we talk and act if we were truly tuned in to our plants as expressions of God? Watching this, you will experience the answer as Karen, experienced gardener, speaks about one of her very special Tulasi plants.

⏱️ 3 min | In this beautiful story, Karen tells of the life of a dear Tulasi plant grown from a seed from the GreenFriends table on Amma’s US Tour. Her children would play with it in innocent ways, when it passed she lovingly collected its seeds and began new plants.

⏱️ 55 min | Unique to Amritaculture is the Vedic basis for ashram gardening practices. Swamini describes many fascinating examples of Vedic scriptures connecting to things like seeds, from which the universe itself emerged.

⏱️ 4 min | Sharing Amma’s own words and stories from ancient scriptures, Swamiji discusses the beautiful ways we are connected with nature and nature with us. When we love and care for nature, amazing riches are freely given.

⏱️ 10 min | Inspiring and eye-opening, this video shows how we can use textiles and dyes for healing the body and mind instead of polluting our planet with fast fashion. Many commonly available plants have medicinal properties.

⏱️ 5 min | Through a passionate overview, learn how so many precious, indigenous and diverse seeds have been lost forever. We must lovingly preserve and protect as much biodiversity as possible to allow for changing planetary conditions.

⏱️ 5 min | Amma has mentioned how saving and using seeds adapted to local climatic environments is vital for healthy food production. Commercially developed seeds are weak, like premature babies, and can damage our food supply.

⏱️ 17 min | In her characteristically reverent style, Pranada speaks about attuning to nature, the Guru and ourselves with yoga. She unites Amma’s words on Nature with practical guidance on living in harmony with nature through yoga.

⏱️ 6 min | This inspiring talk shares how to use plastic waste to make beautiful carry bags. Amma has said that while making plastic is inexpensive, it doesn’t get properly absorbed by the earth, leading to harmful repercussions. Learn one approach towards remedying the plastic problem.