Who is a Guru?

The question ‘Who is a Guru?’ to me feels like asking a three year old kid to write a proof of a hard mathematical equation. At this point, I feel like I am not capable of it. However, this is my humble trial to explain the meaning of Guru merely from my life experiences. The …

The need for cyber awareness

During my summer vacation last year, I joined the Ayudh youth camp in a small village in Brombachtal, near Frankfurt, Germany. It was a summer camp for young people with various workshops in areas ranging from sports, music, arts and science. I was very excited to be part of the anti-cyber bullying workshop. It is …

Crowd Controlling During Amma’s birthday

September 27th is so special for everyone at Amritapuri because it is the birthday of our beloved Amma. This time we had a wonderful time celebrating her 59th birthday. And all here at Amrita engage themselves in doing selfless service in one way or the other. People from distant places all over India and abroad …

Is this world real???

“One of the basic mistake about  science -It makes the assumption that the World is real.  Vedanta doesn’t make this assumption. Thus Vedanta is more scientific than our modern science!” This is one of the fascinating lesson that I learned after attending the sessions by Bala Sir . I pondered a lot on this statement.  …

I love to run

I love to run. It is a very nice feeling to run very fast. I feel as if I am flying.  I was a very bad runner when I was in my lower primary. I think it is in my 8th class that I started loving to run. I went to school in private bus …

Few minutes with Deborah Estrin

Deborah Estrin, Ph.D. Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) Professor, Computer Science Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Member, The National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) 20th Dec 2011 I met Deborah Estrin today and introduced myself and began the conversation. Me: “Hi madam. You have become so successful. Being a …

My golden moments with Amma

Date :7th Jan 2012 Day: Saturday Time : 7:45 I was dejected because of the rejection of Devi Amma on my request for  Dharshan of Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi). She said that no Dharshan for students this time. It is not more than a month since I had the last dharshan of Amma. But I …

Interactive session with Maarten van Steen

Maarten van Steen : Professor at the VU University Amsterdam It was around 12:00pm when we were called for the interactive session with Prof.Maarten van Steen at the conference hall. He was already in the room when we reached.  Initially he spoke about the online course that he is offering to the students at Amrita …

Amma’s Birthday

Amritapuri is now getting ready for the celebration of Amma’s Birthday on 27th September.  All here are in the celebration mood. It is the most biggest fest we have at Amrita. We all enjoy it like anything.  People from all over the world come here to celebrate the great day.  This is one of the …

Thought at the exam hall

This was a question that came for my “humanities” class test. I didnt expect a question like that and I wrote what came to my mind then. What is the purpose of life? Ans: I feel this as a very complex question.Of course we can say that there is a purpose to life. But when …