Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Amma’s foremost disciple, toured North America through November and December 2024 with Swami Dayamritananda Puri and Br. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya. The tour took in four retreats at M.A. Centers and public programmes in cities across the continent — San Ramon, Los Angeles, Phoenix, the Pacific Northwest, Michigan, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Santa Fe, Washington D.C., New York and New Jersey, New England, Atlanta and Toronto.
At the talk based on the theme ‘Compassion in Action: Addressing Today’s Global Challenges’, at the Arizona State University he shared that the essence that beats at the substratum of every human heart is compassion.
All virtues and vices can be brought under two categories: love and grief. Love and grief. All virtues such as compassion, patience, forgiveness, perseverance, etc are offshoots of love.In contrast, all vices such as lovelessness, impatience, hatred, jealousy, depression, etc are offshoots of grief. Because the end result is grief. That’s the fundamental problem.
- Swamiji
Thank you Swamiji for the inspiring talks, powerful, devotional songs and those very precious personal interactions.
