Dear Friends,
We, here at the Ashram, are sending our prayers and wishes for a Blessed New Year for you, your families, all beings, and Mother Earth. This last year has been a real upheaval for most of us and hopefully a time of growth, even though it may not have been comfortable.
We wish to begin the year with some live-stream offerings of the Sacred Fire Ceremony at 8amMT tomorrow morning (New Years) and Evening aarati at 6pmMT on New Year’s evening. They will be at the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram Facebook page and an hour or so later, posted on YouTube at the Ramloti Wood channel.
On Saturday, January 2, you are invited to a New Year’s Kirtan fundraiser from 2pmMt to 3pmMT, hosted by Urvashi Bhatt from Colorado Springs. It will be on Zoom, so email the Ashram at info@babajiashram.org for the link. You are all welcome to join, participants will be muted except for the beginning and end for satsang so that the music will be heard clearly. Jonathan, Premanand, and Ramloti will be presenting the songs. Half way through, two other singers will each present a bhajan as well.
As we move into the New Year, here is a quote from Shri Babaji from January 1, 1984 that seems pertinent for this year as well.
“Today, as the year 1984 starts, I am happy to give you all congratulations and good wishes. Let this year be happy, auspicious, and blissful for you. May all of you be liberated! May success be yours! I have already told you before that the difficult times are very near. Awake! Arise! Go to the wise and learn from them. All of you must unite together and face these calamities. Jai Mahamaya Ki Jai! JAI VISHWA!!! There is an Indian slogan "Jai Hind!" It means "Victory to India!" But I want the welfare of the whole universe so I am starting a new slogan - "JAI VISHWA!" ("Victory/Honor to the Universe!")
Sending love to you all,
The Ashram Team