Happy Holi – Sunday, March 28, 2021
Live-Stream Fire Ceremony and Chanting at 11am MDT
Chai, Muffins, and Little Gifts at the Bottom of the Driveway at 2pm MDT (masks and social distancing required)
We are happy to celebrate the Festival of Holi this Sunday with a Sacred Fire Ceremony and chanting on live-stream at 11am MDT at https://www.facebook.com/HaidakhandiUniversalAshram Please let us know if you would like to have any special names or intentions read before the fire ceremony. Just email us at info@babajiashram.org.)
Later that day, we will have a Bottom of the Driveway Gathering for Chai, Muffins, and little Gifts from 2-3pm MDT. Please wear masks and honor social distancing.
Another story associated with this is that when Lord Krishna was a baby, He acquired a distinctive blue skin color after drinking the poisoned breast milk of the she-demon, Putana. Later, when He grew older, He would often feel sad about whether the fair-colored Radha like him because of his blue color. Giving in to his desperation, Krishna’s mother asked him to go and colour Radha’s face with any color he wanted to. When Krishna applied color to Radha, they became a couple, and since then, people have started playing with colors on Holi.
It is the festive day to end and rid oneself of past errors, to end conflicts by meeting others, a day to forget and forgive. Holi also marks the start of spring, an occasion for people to enjoy the changing seasons and make new friends.
Satsang with the German Ashram in Reiferath – Saturday, March 27 at 10am MDT (5pm Central Europe and 6pm London Time) This will be on Zoom at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84820406020?pwd=RXRKYnJYSDFKYmhxYVMrNXBOVGo4UT09
Meeting ID: 848 2040 6020 Passcode: 474473
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Learn about the founding of the Bhole Baba Ashram in 1978 by Saraswati who met Shri Babaji in the late 1970’s and was instructed by Babaji to buy an old farmhouse in the little village of Reiferath.
It took many years of intensive and hard karma yoga to refurbish the old buildings and redo the lovely gardens. With time, several devotees have settled in the village.
Saraswati is too elderly to tell her stories now, although she still lives at the ashram.
Fortunately, her younger sister, Neelam who is 83, will be joining us with her memories and stories of being with Shri Babaji and the early days of the German Ashram. We are so grateful that she is willing to do this and get these stories recorded.
She will be joined by Rambhrosi, who lived at Reiferath Ashram in the early days and now lives in Italy near the Cisternino Ashram. She will also share her stories of meeting Babaji and Ashram life.
Here she is shown with a wolf in Wisconsin when she was on a Babaji tour around the US with Ramloti back in 1995. You will hear more about this in the next Satsang about the Crestone Ashram.
They will be joined by Saradambe, who lives next door to the Reiferath Ashram, and many may remember her from when she ran a small center in Berkeley, California, before she moved back to Germany. She will be joined by the Pujari at the Ashram and other devotees.
We look forward to hearing more about this lovely and powerful Ashram in this beautiful village that is located in the western part of Germany and around 44km away from Cologne (Köln) in the Windecker Ländchen, an area of 108qkm with little hills, little rivers and small villages.
To find out more about this special Ashram, go to their website at: https://www.babajiashram.de/en/ashram/ashram-life/
Our next Zoom Satsang will be on Saturday, April 3 at 11am MDT and it will feature many of the people who were involved in founding, guiding, and running this Ashram in Crestone, Coloralo. It will be on the same Zoom login as the German Satsang and all of the Satsangs. We hope you can join us.
Emergency Battery Replacement for our Dormitory
After many years of heavy use by all of our wonderful visitors, the dorm batteries have gone bad. We are getting these replaced as quickly as possible but the suppliers are all on 4 to 6 week back order. We are fortunate that our solar man keeps a set of batteries to rent for a situation like this. It also gives us time to raise the funds for this rather expensive repair.
We have begun a GoFundMe specifically for this and are grateful that in six days we have raised $1,767 of the goal of $3,975. If you are able to help us out, please go to https://gofund.me/ca6f1f71
Here is our loyal solar man, Luke putting in the spare loaner batteries.
On-Going Events
Daily 20 Minute Silent Meditations and Discourses on the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, which are available on YouTube at the Ramloti Wood channel and posted on the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram Facebook Page.
Live-Stream Evening Aarati one night each weekend and Small Daily fire Ceremonies a few days a week announced and live-streamed on Haidakhandi Universal Ashram Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/HaidakhandiUniversalAshram.
Gratitude and Maha Lakshmi Shop
Once again, thank you to all who have been donating to the Ashram and purchasing from the Maha Lakshmi Shop. Perhaps the easiest place to get information about donations and to make one is at: https://www.babajiashram.org/donate. And to see our Maha Lakshmi Shop catalogue of devotional items and to purchase on line, go to: https://mahalakshmishop.wazala.com. Both are a big help in keeping everything going at the Ashram.
We are happy to announce that we have a new introductory book on Shri Babaji’s teachings, “Truth, Simplicity, and Love, Essential Haidakhan Babaji” by Pritam. This 108 page book is a quick and simple read to understand Baba’s teaching more clearly and has many delightful images of Baba, both in color and black and white. You can buy it on line for only $15 at https://mahalakshmishop.wazala.com/products/truth-simplicity-and-love-essential-haidakhan-babaji-by-pritam/
Please know we always remember each of you in the Temple at Babaji’s and the Divine Mother’s feet and at our Fire Ceremonies. We are also deeply remembering and praying for all who have suffered at the Boulder shooting. It is a time of deep prayer and reflection.
Call or email us anytime with questions, feedback, or requests at info@babajiashram.org or 719-256-4108. We love to hear from you.
Bhole Baba Ki Jai! Jai Ma!