Educational

Amma believes that most present-day technical education mechanizes people to the point where they lose their human side. To counteract this dehumanization, her trust has established the Amrita Institutes of Engineering, Advanced computing, and Advanced Management, at Ettimadai, fifteen kilometers from Coimbatore, India. Apart from these Amma has established many more schools in the field of medicine, arts, sciences and vocational education.

A number of things make the Amrita Institutes unique. In addition to learning the most up-to-date technologies, the students are given information on yoga, meditation etc. As a part of the curriculum, students take a course called " Self-Awareness and Personality Growth", taught by a yoga teacher. The course is to help the students understand themselves. They learn about the human character and exactly what the mind is.

Apart from the graduate schools, meditation forms a part of the routine right from the elementary schools founded by Amma. She says, "Meditation is a priceless gift. It opens up a person's creativity and joyfulness, so that life can become a celebration."

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