Thank you. So welcome to Google Online. Amma , thank you so much for your amazing work in bringing this little known life to the world.Thank you. We really appreciate it.
The M.A. Center is a nonprofit Institute in San Ramon, California dedicated to spreading the message of love and compassion spread by Amma , also popularly known as the Hugging Saint. Dayamrita's first name literally means , which means "compassion" and "nectar," or "someone who swims in nectarian compassion."
And for those that don't know, Dido Elizabeth Belle was discovered from an 18th century painting that was done of her and her cousin. So Amma , how did you learn about this painting, and how did it shape your interest in doing this project? Yeah. So it was a really interesting process for me.
if you could prove there wasn't enough food, if you could prove there was-- I don't know, the ship was tipping and had too much weight on it, Hi Amma , my name is Lauren.
And here's an aerial of the George Washington Bridge. Apparently Ammann was very influenced by erector sets, a friend of mine has told me, and it has this kind of erector set look to it. But the other thing that's going on here is that it's a bit over-built because it was designed to be clad with stone to give it that kind of New York-y kind
So if you know it, please sing along, y'all. Give it up for Amma Whatt, y'all. Give it up for soul music.
So if you know it, please sing along, y'all. Give it up for Amma Whatt, y'all.
And Hindustan Unilever was facing the heat of competition. These Shakti ammas , or the Shakti entrepreneurs, were rural housewives who became door-to-door distributors
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. It seems like Amman has been developing somewhat as a tech hub, and King Abdullah is somewhat more open.
While I was thinking about like what can I talk with you about, I was looking at emails that we had exchanged, and there is one titled Amma . And you and I are both friends with Gopi, who-- Googler extraordinaire ..
who is sort of the hugging saint. And I know you wrote about Amma in your book. Can you tell us a little bit about her?
Which is a book by David Lynch. So after you went to Amma , what was sort of like your next step?
they're some of the most motivated people I've ever met. I'll be going to Amman.
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. The talent that you see in Amman, and the incubators there will blow you away.
And so I said to myself, "I'd really like to go to Iraq and see what's happened." So, I took my guitar and a video camera and 6 fr-, and 6 friends and we flew to Amman, Jordan. We hopped in a 16 passenger plane and we flew to Bagdad and we get over the airport in Bagdad and the pilot says, "In order to avoid a hit from a SAM-7
amongst the many other things that he does including being Googler. And he turned a lot of us on to Amma . who is sort of the hugging saint.
There's so many definitions to it, but very simply put it's love plus action is compassion. And my master, Amma , she says's that there are two types of poverty in the world today. The poverty due to the lack of material wealth, and the poverty due to the lack of love, and if we solve the second one, which
You want your employees to get feedback, but nobody likes getting performance feedback. So we go halfway around the world to Amman, Jordan.
This is merely by having access and by having some good engineering from the region and/or studying the west, this thing is moving in scale. It sounds similar to what's happening in Amman.
Hello everyone. My name is Clennita Justice, and I'm an Engineering Program Manager for Google Play. And we're honored and excited to welcome director of the movie "Belle," Amma Asante. Everybody give her a round of applause.
So right now, I'm going to bring to the stage a young lady I most recently met, beautiful, beautiful songstress living in Brooklyn as well, another rising songbird. Give it up for Amma Whatt as she makes her way to the stage. This is a song that I recorded with a very good friend of mine, Ms. Ledisi.
Beautiful, beautiful songstress living in Brooklyn as well. Another rising songbird. Give it up for Amma Whatt as she makes her way to the stage. This is a song that I recorded with a very good friend of mine, Miss Ledisi.
But because the church was present, they were able to learn from a lot of the artists and artisans and craftsmen who were there. This is a very important painting that's part of the Shoman Foundation collection in Amman, and it shows you the surrender of Jerusalem to the British in 1980.
That's when he shared an initiative which they considered was their flagship program of integrating social value creation that led to financial success. And that is what they called as Project Shakti, or Shakti Amma entrepreneurial program. Now once the liberalization was introduced in India, a lot of multinationals came into India.
And Hindustan Unilever was facing the heat of competition. Sometime in the last five years, they also introduced along with Shakti amma , the Shaktimaan project.
And in 1993, he was ordained as a monk, and for the last decade, Dayamrita Chaitanya has been the Executive Director of the M.A. Center where this organization, this nonprofit, spreads Amma 's message of love and service, or compassion and action, throughout the Western world. And he's done and led a number of projects here, including projects in Haiti during the earthquake, New Orleans during the New Orleans disaster.
And so they came to me. The BFI said to Damian, have you sent this postcard to Amma ? Because she's obsessed with the women's experience in 18th century England.
if you could prove there wasn't enough food, if you could prove there was-- I don't know, the ship was tipping and had too much weight on it, Thank you. Hi, Amma .
And Hindustan Unilever was facing the heat of competition. And over these 20 years, almost 80,000 Shakti ammas were providing products in one lakh 60,000 villages.
The story is that five billion people are going to walk around-- in Egypt, the mobile providers-- I keep coming back to Egypt, because the stories come from there right now, but this is true in Amman and elsewhere. Every mobile provider that I interviewed for this book told me that within now two years then three years, they'll be 50% or 60% smartphone
This is merely by having access and by having some good engineering from the region and/or studying the west, this thing is moving in scale. Anyway it was at another huge gathering where the former ICT minister of Jordan who actually had done success in business in Amman
think about the world. I expanded that trip and started traveling around Cairo, and Amman, and other places where I'd heard it was real. And I just saw it over, and over, and over again.
Can you tell us a little bit about her? Sure. She's actually my opening chapter, and it was through a conversation with Gopi where he was like, oh, I follow this woman, Amma . She goes around the world literally hugging people.
You know you're loved unconditionally. You know, I've spent a lot of time with various religious and spiritual leaders-- the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Amma -- and one of the things that I will tell you about every one of them is that as soon as you're in their presence, there is a lightness to your spirit
better, a Hollywood celebrity. And then in 1983, he met his spiritual teacher, Mata Amritanandaymi, also popularly known as Amma , the Hugging Saint, a simple fisher-woman who went on to become a very well renowned humanitarian around the world.
It has been something that you know, the establishment has successfully wielded over the last several years. And one of the arguments they make about these progressive candidates is that their association with you makes them unelectable. Candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and Ammar Campa-Najjar, they sound like you on Israel, maybe or taxing the rich, but they don't sound like you when it comes to being complimentary about communism
But as a Muslim woman that performed uncovered and uncensored all over the Middle East, in Doha, in Beirut, in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, Cairo,
has shifted from before that event and after the event. Matter of fact, I extended my trip, and I went to Cairo, and I went to Amman, and I saw more of it literally by the hundreds if not thousands and realized that there was something very big here and that it was not just something that was remarkable
They either bought or rented buses and drove all over Egypt to effectively evangelize about entrepreneurship, and startup, and tech. So a lot of times, what happens is people go to Dubai, or people go to Amman, or they go to Cairo, and Alexandria is an amazing thing. But no one goes to Tanta, which is actually an amazing engineering town, kind of a little town two or three hours
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. It's interesting. Why? Well, I might be a little but I'm on the localization team here, and I studied in Amman in college.