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Amma's hands moved with practiced grace, arranging flowers before the small altar. She'd performed this Thiruppavai devotion for forty years, first in Chennai, now in Toronto. Her granddaughter filmed it quietly, sharing this sacred morning with thousands online. The algorithm blessed them. Comments flooded in—diaspora voices recognizing home. People who'd forgotten these rituals found themselves weeping at their screens, transported to grandmother's kitchens across continents. That small payment from the platform? Amma smiled. Money wasn't the point. What mattered was her granddaughter understanding why these moments mattered, why their heritage lived not in temples alone, but in every shared breath of devotion connecting us all.