BHARATA YATRA 2004 - DURGAPUR

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OM AMRITESWARYAI NAMAH

 

Amma in Durgapur

 

Bharata Yatra 2004

Link: http://www.amritapuri.org/latest/mar/4mar25.htm

 

Friday, 25 March 2004 – Durgapur West Bengal

 

After a long drive from Varanasi, Amma and Her children reached

Durgapur, West Bengal just after sunrise on the morning of March 25

th . The program was held at the industrial city's Amrita Vidyalayam

School, which has been in operation for just under a year now.

 

By the time Amma took the dais at 6:30 p.m., more than 10,000 people

had come to listen to Her satsang and bhajans and to have Her

darshan.

 

The night's chief guest was the Honourable Justice Shri. Tapan Sen

of the Jharkhand High Court. He gave a touching speech, explaining

how important Amma has become in his life, and presented pension

certificates to 15 women, symbolic of the 500 destitute widows the

Mata Amritanandamayi Math is now providing to the area's poor as

part of the Amrita Nidhi program.

 

Amma sang almost all of Her bhajans in the local language, including

version of "Ma Jagadambe" and "Ishwari Jagadeeshwari," thrilling Her

Bengali-speaking children.

 

Upon the conclusion of the bhajans, an impressive display of

fireworks were set off, burning in the form of two fruit-bearing

trees.

 

Durgapur is a town built up around a steel plant. It is 40 minutes

south of the birthplace of Jayadev, the poet who composed the Gita

Govinda, and is also near Shantiniketa, the university founded by

India's most famous poet, Ravindranath Tagore.

 

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Photographs from Durgapur:

 

Link: http://photos.amritapuri.org/yatra/bharat04/durga/4durgapur.htm

 

Photographs from Varanasi:

 

Link:

http://photos.amritapuri.org/yatra/bharat04/lucknow/4lucknow.htm