Transcending Time & Space Through Love ~ Amma in Kozhikode

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Transcending Time & Space Through Love:

Amma in Kozhikode

8 - 10 January 2006 — Kozhikode, Kerala

 

They begin queuing up the day before Amma is to give darshan, and

they spend the whole night there, entire families sleeping on the

hard ground under the open sky. Most of them have been waiting all

year for these three days—Amma's annual visit to Kozhikode. Though

the majority of them cannot afford to take time off from work to

travel down to Amritapuri, their every day is lived in remembrance of

Amma. For them, she is everything—their mother, their guru, their

god, their very life.

Amma has been coming to Kozhikode (or Calicut, as it is also called)

since 1985. And over the last 21 years she has forged an unbreakable

bond with the people here.

 

Watching Amma give darshan, one may wonder as to how it has been

possible for such a bond to have formed, as a typical pace of darshan

in Kozhikode is one devotee per every two seconds—30 per minute,

1,800 people per hour. Brahmachari Vivekamrita Chaitanya, who has

been in charge of Amma's ashram in Kozhikode since 1995, feels he

knows the reason: "In true bhakti [devotion], one goes beyond the

limitations of time and space."

 

For rest of article see ~

www.amritapuri.org/amma/2006/601kozhikkode.php