Built up on the very property where Amma was born, Amritapuri is now the headquarters of Ammas worldwide mission and the spiritual home for Ammas monastic disciples and hundreds of householder devotees. All the residents have dedicated their lives for realising God and serving the world. Everyday, Ammas children from across India and abroad flock here to have Ammas darshan. She sees each and every one, listens to their worries, consoles, encourages, provides new direction to their lives.

Amritapuri is the living example of the ancient Indian ideal the whole world is one family (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). Here you will find people from all parts of the world speaking different languages and having different customs and religions all living under one roof. In their quest for the meaning of life, each has forgotten their differences and become a child of Amma.

Children, this ashram exists for the world; it belongs to you, to all the people who come here. Amma

When people come to Amritapuri Ashram for the first time, they are almost always surpriseda remote fishing village on a small island cradled between the backwaters and the Arabian Sea has become the centre of a silent spiritual revolution..

When the deep, spiritual yearning of the disciple basks in the effulgence of the Gurus grace, an ashram is born. There one grows in peace and harmony.

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Sagar Kulkarni , Oct 12, 2014, DHNS:

Prime Minister Narendra Modis stress on cleanliness has struck a chord with the residents of the ashram established by Mahatma Gandhi in this village about eight kilometres from Wardha. The residents went a step further to caution that the Swachha Bharat campaign should not be confined to a few days. Modi has picked up one of Gandhiji's many messages. The cleanliness campaign should not be a one-off affair. It should be part of daily life, octogenarian Kusumtai Pande, who has been a resident of the Ashram since 1945, told Deccan Herald.

Modi has taken the cleanliness drive to election campaigns. He has been exhorting the audience at his massive rallies across Maharashtra to maintain cleanliness at the venue and dispose of waste paper, empty water and bottles in garbage bins.

There are about 12 residents in the Ashram and each is assigned a specific task to keep the sprawling campus clean. Pande cleans the Bapu Kuti, which was home to Gandhi.

Modi had also appealed to the schools to carry out cleanliness drive for six days from the birth anniversaries of late Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14) to that of Indira Gandhi (November 19), in what was seen as a bid to poach on Congress icons.

Modi had visited Bapu Kuti and paid tribute to the Mahatma.

He wrote in Gujarati that Gandhi was not just a human being but a thought.

Sevagram Ashram was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936 after he left Sabarmati on conclusion of his salt satyagraha. This was his home in his last years. Gandhi left Sevagram in 1946 for a tour of the country which took him to places such as Naokhali, now in Bangladesh, and later to Delhi, where he was killed.

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The Gandhi Ashram has organised an exhibition of paintings by artist Haku Shah to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The exhibition of paintings by 80-year-old Mr Shah -- titled "Nitya Gandhi: Living Re-living Gandhi" -- explores the various narratives that emerge from the Mahatma's life; political, religious and spiritual.

Known for his folk-themed paintings, Mr Shah is among the nation's renowned artists and is also a recipient of Padma Shri award. The exhibition was inaugurated by K G Subramanyan, an eminent and versatile modern art artist. Mr Shah was an early student of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the MS University, Vadodara, where N S Bendre and K G Subramanyan were among his teachers.

"His concern for the tribal and folk art had a more human quality; the artisan or the craftsman as a human being was his focus and the art was its by-product. There you can see the Gandhi in him, in the concern for the lowest person," says artist Amit Ambalal.

In Mr Shah's canvases, the images of Gandhi making salt or spinning yarn, with their vigour and abandon, surprise art historian S Kalidas. Curator Amrit Gangar celebrates the return of the colour white which underlines the austerity of the painter and his subject while the depiction of Bapu without a deh or body reminds writer Tridip Surhud of the impermanence of all form.

The paintings are replete with plain symbolism of still life objects that bring alive Gandhi's working of the mind.

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The first table, South Park Super Sweet Pinball is a fan service-filled experience that includes nods to a number of classic episodes. The visitors, Terrence and Philip, Sexual Harrassment Panda, Chef, Sarcastiball, and more make appearances on the table. Oh, and watch out for ManBearPig.

The second features the loveable goof Butters. Based on the episode starring Butters (along with the terrible and amusing theme song), this table of course also features Professor Chaos. Of course, no villain is complete without heroes to thwart him. Mysterion, The ***, and the rest of the team shows up.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The first case of Ebola transmitted between patients in America has experts across the country reviewing safety protocols.

At Purdue University, Dr. David Sanders has been studying the virus since 2003 specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells.

While the virus has thus far only been shown to be transferred via bodily fluids, Sanders argues that it could become airborne.

"It can enter the lung from the airway side," Sanders said. "So this argues that Ebola is primed to have respiratory transmission.

"We need to be taking this into consideration," he continued. "What if? This is not a crazy, 'What if?' This is not a wild, 'What if?'"

Sanders said the longer the virus spread and mutates, the more likely airborne transmission will become. He also said that's why it's critical to suppress the outbreak in Africa to prevent a worldwide spread.

Sanders said it's impossible to know how many Americans could contract Ebola, or how much longer this outbreak could last. But, he said, the danger is still very low for the average American.

IU hosts Ebola Q & A forum

Indiana University (Bloomington) is planning an educational forum from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday in WhittenbergerAuditorium in Indiana Memorial Union. If you can't make it in-person, you can watch a live video stream of the forum here.

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Enlightenment,French sicle des Lumires (Age of the Enlightened), German Aufklrung, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and man were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and the celebration of reason, the power by which man understands the universe and improves his own condition. The goals of rational man were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness.

A brief treatment of the Enlightenment follows. For full treatment, see Europe, history of: The Enlightenment.

The powers and uses of reason had first been explored by the philosophers of ancient Greece, who discerned in the ordered regularity of nature the workings of an intelligent mind. Rome adopted and preserved much of Greek culture, notably including the ideas of a rational natural order and natural law. Amid the turmoil of empire, however, a new concern arose for personal salvation, and the way was paved for the triumph of the Christian religion. Christian thinkers gradually found uses for their Greco-Roman heritage. The system of thought known as Scholasticism, ... (200 of 1,028 words)

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