Dear Friends,
Sending love and prayers from the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram.
We are busy finding new ways to stay connected with all of you and to keep us all inspired during this time of closure. We are all healthy and well here and doing lots of karma yoga in this recently snowy place. We are continually thinking of all of our friends, many of you so far away. Our prayers, practices and offerings are increasing all the time. A list of our offerings follow below.
Bhole Baba Ki Jai! Haidakhandeswari Mata Ki Jai!
Ramloti for the Ashram
Weekly Satsangs – Tomorrow, Saturday at 11am MST
We have had such a positive and strong response from the last two Satsangs we held on Zoom at the Ashram, we have organized them for the next month. Tomorrow, Saturday, we are very excited to welcome Pujari and his wife, Anjani all the way from Russia joining us on Zoom. To facilitate their timing, we will begin at 11am MST and go for about an hour and a half.
It will be on our Satsang and Chanting Zoom link (it will be the same for all of them) at: Satsang and Chanting Zoom Meetings
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84820406020?pwd=RXRKYnJYSDFKYmhxYVMrNXBOVGo4UT09
Meeting ID: 848 2040 6020 Passcode: 474473 One tap mobile +16699006833,,84820406020#,,,,*474473# US (San Jose)
Pujari met Shri Babaji in the early 80’s and lived in Haidakhan with Baba for several years. His experiences, learnings, and lessons are deep and Shri Babaji named him Pujari as he had the special duty of doing the pujas.
After Baba left His physical form in 1984, Pujari served Shri Muniraji. He helped to build the Sada Shiva Dham Ashram in Holland as well under the guidance of Shri Muniraji.
Pujari also traveled around the world helping to organize devotees and support ashrams and centers after Babaji’s Maha Samadhi. He traveled to the USA in 1984 to help in the preparation of Shri Muniraji’s and Shri Shastriji’s tour to America.
During this time, he accompanied James, Betsy, Paul, and Ramloti on their trip to Crestone, where we met Hanne Strong and began the discussion of building an Ashram here. He traveled to the US several times after that and accompanied Ramloti and others on tours around the country bringing the paduka puja, aarati, fire ceremony, and chanting into many people’s homes.
After he met his lovely wife, Anjani, who is from Russia, they eventually settled in Russia where they now have a small ashram. She had lived in an ashram in Russia before they met and has made many trips to Haidakhan. Her story is not as well known but equally inspiring.
We hope you can join us so you can ask your own questions. We suggest you get on the call a few minutes early if you want to introduce yourself. It is so great to connect with folks from around the world. If you miss the actual event, it will be posted on YouTube an hour or so later at the Ramloti Wood YouTube channel.
Aarati will be live-streamed this Sunday evening at 6pm MST
Each week we live-stream an evening aarati followed by chanting. This usually happens on the weekend and the next one is this Sunday, January 31 at 6pm MST. It is publicized on facebook and our website at www.babajiashram.org. These are streamed on the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HaidakhandiUniversalAshram. If you miss that time or are more comfortable with You Tube, it will be posted at the Ramloti Wood YouTube channel an hour or so later.
Zoom Kirtans
At the suggestion of devotees, we now have Zoom kirtans and paduka pujas. Over the years we have gone to many homes with Baba’s Padukas and after doing a puja to them we would gather for kirtan. We have done two of these on Zoom and people found them to be very uplifting. We have one planned with Sabina and Ajay Pradahn on the eve of Maha Samadhi, February 13 at 7pm MST. The next one will be with Urvashi Bhatt from Colorado Springs on Shivaratri at 6:30pm. We will send more about these events as they come closer. The Zoom link is the same as for the satsangs and all are invited. If you and your group of friends would like to host one, call us at 719-256-4108 or email us at info@babajiashram.org.
More Sharings
We also live-stream several sacred fire ceremonies a week. Sometimes they are at 8am MST and sometimes at 11am MST if this later time permits us to do them outdoors without the ghee and participants freezing. They are at the same links as the aaratis and publicized in the same manner.
We continue to post our daily 20 Minute Meditations and Discourses on the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam on both Facebook and YouTube. It is always confirming when we hear how much folks around the world appreciate these offerings and share with us how important they are during these uncertain times.
And Finally, Deep Gratitude
We at the Ashram, continually thank Shri Babaji and the Divine Mother for all of their blessings, love, and care for us. We are also deeply appreciative to all of you for your love, prayers, communications, and support. We could not do this all without you, particularly as we are still closed to visitors. Between our GoFundMe campaign at https://www.gofundme.com/manage/help-support-the-ashram, our donate page at our website at https://www.babajiashram.org/donate, checks arriving in the mail at P.O. Box 9, Crestone, CO 81131, and people calling us at 719-256-4108 with their credit cards, the finances have been there to keep the Ashram going and improving. We begin to see how deep our connections are, we are so grateful. Bhole Baba Ki Jai!