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Om Namo Shivaye,

 

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October 8, 2001

HPI will next be issued October 11

 

Today's Stories:

1. UP Gives Tax Breaks on Puja Material

2. Obesity a Growing Challenge to Indian Health

3. China Recreates Afghani Buddhas

4. Antony Recalls How He Got Spiritual Solace

5. A Call to Action for Area Sikhs:

6. Free Issue of MeeRa E-mail Publication

 

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4. Antony Recalls How He Got Spiritual Solace

Source: http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=561109648

 

MRITAPURI, INDIA, October 8, 2001: Has the atheist Chief Minister

Antony become a devotee of the woman-saint Mata Amritananda Mayi?

Antony, a member of the Congress party, would not call himself a

devotee but he admitted that he had found solace in the presence of

the Mata, who is lovingly called Amma. "I am no believer nor do I

practice a religion, but I do not harbor ill will towards any faith

or creed," he said at the birthday celebrations of the Mata at

Parayakadavu in Kollam district. "I met her for the first time in a

Kochi-Delhi flight in1994. I noticed a radiance and love in her

visage. Then in 1996, when I was chief minister, I inaugurated the

Amrita project for free houses to the poor and widowed women. Ever

since that I insist on meeting her whenever possible." Anthony's

philosophic origins lay with Nehru socialism, but many of Kerala's

communists have similarly shifted back toward their Hindu roots.

 

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