September 27, 2007.

About 150,000 people attended Amma's Birthday celebrations. The hall was filled with people from various walks of life, nationalities, ages and social status. Prominent dignitaries like Sri. M.V. Rajasekharan, the Honourable Union Minister of State for Planning; Sri. S. Sharma, the Honourable Minister for Fisheries & Registration of Kerala; and Swami Prakashananada, the chairman of Sri Narayana Guru Dharma Sangha were also present.

Swami Amritaswarupananda, the senior monk of the M.A.Math in his welcome address said, "Amma’s love and compassion is the sole source of the M.A.Math's success in the field of social welfare. There is no ‘calculation’ with Amma.
In her own words, ‘Amma sees a need and she just flows to fill it.’
That is how compassion works.” he said.

Social Welfare Projects announced on this day:

The two main new social-welfare projects inaugurated by the M.A.Center were those aimed at fighting the epidemic of farmer suicide through education and the reduction of financial strain placed upon impoverished agricultural families.

The first project, Vidyamritam, is providing 30,000 full scholarships for children of farmers living below the poverty line. Thousands of 10-to-15-year-old children enrolled in the program were in attendance, having come by train and bus from locations in Maharashtra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Twenty-five of the children received their first education financial aid stipends onstage from Amma and Union Minister M.V. Rajasekharan. These were symbolic of the 30,000.

The second project in the farmer-suicide prevention program is providing vocational training and start-up capital to help 5,000 groups of women from agricultural families to form home-based businesses. This was inaugurated by Kerala State Minister S. Sharma. “The social service being rendered by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math is an example for the entire world,” Sharma said from the dais. He then thanked Amma on behalf of the Kerala Government for her financial assistance to the children of agricultural families living below the poverty line. At this point, Vijay Doshiram Yadav, an MLA from Maharashtra, handed over financial-aid checks to five self-help groups from Maharashtra, symbolic of the 5,000.

As part of the Ashram’s long-term tsunami relief-and-rehabilitation program, Amma handed over keys to pre- schools built by the M.A.Math in Alappad Jurisdiction to Sri. Rajadas, the area president.

This was followed by the distribution of sewing machines to impoverished women by Swami Prakashananda.

The public program ended with Amma conducting a mass marriage of impoverished couples, with the M.A.Math sponsoring all the tradition wedding items, such as wedding saris, dhotis and gold ornaments.

Amma started embracing people at about 1:00pm and did not stop until about 4:am the next day morning! Amma's life is one of giving constantly and her message is her life!

May all beings in all the worlds be peaceful and happy!