A birthday, offered to the world.

Beloved children of Amma around the world,

In Amritapuri, where the backwaters fold quietly into the sea, another September is dawning — and with it, the birthday of the one who has spent every day of her life wiping the tears of this world.

This year, at Amma's own wish, there will be no festival of garlands and grandeur. Her birthday becomes Vishwa Seva Dinam — a day on which love does not merely speak, but works: healing ailing bodies, mending children's hearts, cleansing the earth, consoling the grieving, joining hands in marriage, and rising as one unbroken prayer for peace.

For what gift can we place before the Mother who keeps nothing and gives everything? Only this — to become her hands for a day. A wound tended, a street made clean, a family comforted, a lamp of hope lit in a darkened home: each of these is a flower laid at her feet.

Come to Amritapuri on the twenty-seventh of September. And if the distance is great, do not grieve — let your own two hands become the celebration. Wherever there is selfless service, Amma is there; and whoever serves is already seated at her side.

At Amma’s Feet,