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🌺 The Five Mothers of Sanatana Dharma | Amma
⏱️ 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.
🌺 Motherhood in Everyone | Bri. Amrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 32 min | This precious talk tells an amazing story of a male neighbor adopting the children of a woman who’d passed away. The children wished to see Amma. Though not a devotee, he drove them six hours to an Amma program in France, demonstrating motherhood as beyond gender.
🌺 Satsang on Mother Cow | Bri. Amrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 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.
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🌺 Grow & Serve | GreenFriends Australia
⏱️ 20 min | Join the fun as GreenFriends Australia forms a community garden, harvest the veggies, 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.
🌺 Happiness in Healthcare | Sw. Nijamritananda Puri
⏱️ 25 min | In this mind-blowing video of Amrita Hospital in Faridabad, Swamiji tells of Amma’s vision and foresight and how the entire hospital was built as a manifestation of Amma’s love for her children and compassion in action.
🌺 Joy of Sharing | Panel Discussion
⏱️ 97 min | During the pandemic, devotees demonstrated their ongoing love and commitment to seva for those in need and Mother Nature. Learn how to support sustainable, fair-trade clothing, turn food waste into abundance, and discover conscious Christmas shopping to make a big difference.
🌺 Walk of Love: Each Journey Begins with a Single Step
Cinmayi & Ahalya
⏱️ 7 min | Devotees across Europe showed their determination to stay focused on Amma and support her mission of love and service through pledged walking as a fundraiser. Learn how they stayed strong, inspired and enthusiastic in a time of global crisis.
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🌺 Exit Policy: Death & Dying | Panel Discussion
⏱️ 76 min | What happens to us when we die? How can we die consciously with love for divinity? Enjoy a lively and fascinating discussion with Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Bri. Amrita Chaitanya, Dr. James Doty (a prominent Stanford neurologist) and Sarayu (a hospice care Amritapuri renunciate).
🌺 Gratitude Retreat: Opening Satsang | Swami Dayamritananda Puri
⏱️ 24 min | Swamiji explains why we run after Amma, a physical manifestation of the absolute bliss at our core. How do we find Amma inside when we can’t be with her physically? Manifesting her love, we transcend likes and dislikes.
🌺 Gratitude Retreat: Closing Satsang | Swami Shantamritananda Puri
⏱️ 37 min | Enjoy many insights about gratitude, including a rare story of Amma taking a crowded commuter train in Japan. Imagine, Amma standing with everyone! Amma expressed her gratitude that the train arrived on time, allowing her to get to the program on time.
🌺 Learning from the Goddess | Swami Shantamitananda Puri
⏱️ 64 min | How can creation be a living form of God while also beyond all form? The Divine Mother is the living reality of this mystery. She manifests this truth as the absolute knowledge we touch when we undergo studies.
🌺 Motherhood in Everyone | Bri. Amrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 32 min | This precious talk tells an amazing story of a male neighbor adopting the children of a woman who’d passed away. The children wished to see Amma. Though not a devotee, he drove them six hours to an Amma program in France, demonstrating motherhood as beyond gender.
🌺 Searching for Happiness | Swamini Ambikamrita Puri
⏱️ 59 min | We are all seeking happiness and everlasting love. Amrita Yoga is a spiritual practice designed to purify the body and relax the mind allowing us to go more deeply inward to experience true happiness and peace of mind.
🌺 Self-Reflection & Goal Setting: Inauguration Satsang and Q&A | Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri
⏱️ 69 min | To march forward in life, we need courage and determination. In his unique and enthusiastic way, Swamiji explains how we can overcome challenges and negativities by managing our emotions and taking refuge in the Guru.
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🌺 Cooking as a Seva, Sadhana & Worship | Vaju
⏱️ 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.
🌺 How to Chant the Bhojan Mantra | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️ 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.
🌺 Japa Meditation in Nature - Session 1 | Sadanand
⏱️ 8 min | Join Sadanand as he shares practical tools for boosting our sadhana including mantra japa and nature. Regardless of our external environment, these tools can serve as inspiration and uplift our daily practice.
🌺 Japa Meditation in Nature - Session 2 | Chandrika
⏱️ 7 min | Powerful teaching about the difference that comes when we create ripples of peace and harmony in nature through spiritual practice and the purity of our mind, rather than disharmoniously bumbling through our life.
🌺 Learning from the Goddess | Swami Shantamitananda Puri
⏱️ 64 min | How can creation be a living form of God while also beyond all form? The Divine Mother is the living reality of this mystery. She manifests this truth as the absolute knowledge we touch when we undergo studies.
🌺 Music as Sadhana | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️88 min | Mixing soul stirring bhajans with words on devotion and music, we dive into the heart of devotion. This deep explanation of how through focus on a bhajan helps our minds drop every thought until it becomes completely quiet.
🌺 Puja Class | Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
⏱️58 min | With humorous words and a wide ranging exploration on the origins of puja, we learn how to offer fully to the divine and go deeply into our truest selves, the changeless blissful reality. This talk covers the steps and materials required to perform puja.
🌺 Puja in the Garden - Adjusting our Attitude and Actions | Seetala
⏱️ 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.
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🌺 Christmas and the Mystic Christ | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 58 min | Remastered treasure of inspiration and knowledge with stories, anecdotes, and scriptural references. It includes many of Swamiji's own personal spiritual experiences with Amma and other saints, filled with genuine insight and humor.
🌺 Becoming the Absolute | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 39 min | The real sign of spiritual progress is equilibrium. By doing continuous sadhana we can experience equilibrium. Learn how you can do continuous sadhana while in the midst of daily activities and responsibilities.
🌺 Stories of Saints - Part 1 | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 31 min | Enjoy beautiful stories of female saints to fill your heart with devotion. Swamiji shares his experiences meeting spiritual seekers in India who transcended worldly attachments and duality and became Avadhutas, or one with God.
🌺 Stories of Saints - Part 2 | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 41 min | This talk includes stories of women saints and Mahatmas. Many had jobs or families—relatable for many of us. Yet, they were also deeply one with universal love. Therefore, their every thought and action benefited the world.
🌺 On Guru: Part 1 | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 29 min | Swamiji reflects on the Guru, especially in the life of a person who wants the deep bliss they unconsciously know is their birthright. The Guru gives us a taste of something that makes all other tastes meaningless.
🌺 On Guru: Part 2 | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 29 min | With great stories, Swamiji tells how serving the Guru fills us with their presence and consciousness even without scriptural teaching. The Guru teaches us that most rare thing—how to still the mind and experience truth.
✨ Bhajans as Sadhana | Swami Paramatmananda Puri
⏱️ 27 min | Traditionally, it is considered best to practice singing bhajans at dusk. If sung with single-minded concentration, bhajans can purify the inner and outer atmosphere and deeply accelerate our spiritual progress.
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🌺 Amma Stories from the Europe Tour Kitchen | Lavan
⏱️ 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.
🌺 Amma Stories from the Europe Tour Kitchen | Sneha
⏱️ 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!
🌺 From Batter to Bliss: US Tour Memories in the Kitchen | Panel Discussion
⏱️36 min | Take a fun walk down memory lane with Amrita Prasadam as devotees tell about humorous experiences from their many years during their tour cooking seva. Also, learn from an expert the secret of making really delicious, mulit-purpose batter.
🌺 The Irresistible Attraction of Divinity | Panel Discussion
⏱️ 59 min | Most of us have never heard these personal stories about Amma in Krishna and Devi Bhava from the old days! Senior disciples tell of the dramatic impact of meeting Amma as youth, with miracles and personal revelations. The panel includes: Sw. Amritaswarupananda Puri, Sw. Ramakrishnananda Puri & Swi. Krishnamrita Prana
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✨ Gita Chapter 2 - Satsang 1 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 36 min | Discover the backstory and characters of the Bhagavad Gita, profound descriptions of yoga and the conditions necessary to get unstuck from suffering. Provides an overview of the entire chapter and its applicability to our lives.
✨ Gita Chapter 2 - Satsang 2.1 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 39 min | Deeply explore: what it means to be eternal, deathless and present throughout past, present and future; to be a disciple; to transcend apparent pleasure and pain; to be fit for immortality, to be grounded in nondual awareness.
✨ Gita Chapter 2 - Satsang 2.2 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 20 min | What does the Gita say about karma yoga? Swamiji tours us through verses 47–50, which contain the essence, covering: the attitudes of karma yoga, the concept of doership, and the secret to boundless tranquility.
✨ Gita Chapter 2 - Satsang 2.3 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 25 min | Swamiji illuminates each of the qualities of a perfected human, covered in verses 54–73. Listening, one intuitively grasps what it’s like to be fully peaceful, beyond sorrow, identifying with limitlessness and bliss.
✨ Gita Chapter 2 - Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 52 min | This absorbing session answers revealing questions about the talks on Chapter 2. Topics include decision making, karma, meditation obstacles, the role of Amma’s grace in our lives, and communicating the Gita to children.
✨ Gita Chapter 3 - Satsang 1 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 30 min | Swamiji parts the curtain on Chapter 3, touching on each of the 9 sections just enough to get you hungry for the depth provided in the other satsangs, connecting the essence of karma yoga to ultimate knowledge.
✨ Gita Chapter 3 - Satsang 2.1 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 50 min | Calling Karma yoga the Alpha and Omega of spiritual progress, Swamiji deftly shows how a Mahatma’s actions are to express bliss. As we practice karma yoga and purify our minds, we discover our nature as bliss & freedom.
✨ Gita Chapter 3 - Satsang 2.2 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 17 min | This talk explores the delusion of being identified with the body and mind and contrasts with the profound compassion of the perfected karma yogi. It clearly shows how delusion can be replaced by joy and eternal bliss.
✨ Gita Chapter 3 - Satsang 2.3 | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 33 min | What does it mean to perform all actions as worship and connection with the Supreme? Letting go of action at the level of result, motivation and even action itself, we experience deeper and deeper freedom and joy.
✨ Gita Chapter 3 - Q&A | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 32 min | Explaining how the attitude behind our actions is key, Swamiji gives practical examples of karma yoga from the personal to the global level. He discusses 3 levels of karma yoga and correct attitudes toward results.
✨ Krishna Satsang | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 14 min | This illuminating talk on Krishna explores a famous bhajan which invokes the sound of his footsteps on a silvery moonlit night and the rapturous melting of the mind. Learn how Krishna’s flute represents us as instruments of God.
✨ New Year, Fresh Start | Swami Atmananda Puri
⏱️ 62 min | Enjoy this great talk, with a Q&A on how to start the New Year with positive intentions. Swamiji explains how to become illuminated from within. In this way, we can become a blessing to the world, like a rose giving fragrance to all that pass by.