Dear Family,
Jai Shri Mataji!
We wish you all a Happy Shalivahana New Year!
The Self Realisation Music Of Joy India Tour in December 2018 is a national project for spreading Sahaja Yoga. (Read more about the Tour below.)
Donation towards India project
It will be much appreciated if everyone could please consider a donation of $108 (or as you feel appropriate) for the India Tour 2018 to allow us to provide a donation as a gift on your behalf to each of the Indian Collectives we visit and to donate to the International Sahaja Yoga projects we will visit, being Nirmal Dham in Delhi, International Sahaja Public School (ISPS) and Pratisthan, Pune.
Bank account details
Please use the bank account below with the reference “India Tour 2018” for your donation.
- Name: Life Eternal Trust
- BSB: 012 245
- Account No. 3491 53587
- Branch: 212 Burwood Road, Burwood, NSW 2134
(HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Early India Tour)
More about India Tour 2018
From 8 December until 29 December, 48 members of our Australian family head off for the Self Realisation Music Of Joy India Tour 2018 for spreading Sahaja Yoga together with our Indian brothers and sisters at public programs and concerts and also importantly strengthening the bonds of love and friendship with our Indian family.
Tour program
Music Of Joy will be accompanied this year not only by our brothers and sisters from the Australian Collective but will be joined by some of our children and their parents who will be completing their school year at the International Sahaja Public School (‘ISPS’) in Dharamshala and joining the Tour. A public program concert near ISPS will be held on Sunday 9th December followed by public programs at Pathankot, Jalandar. Ambala, Chandigarh and Delhi. Week two will head to South India where we will be hosted by Yogis from Chennai, Bangalore and nearby towns. The third week will be in Maharashtra where we will attend seminars and public programs in Nargol, Jambut and Pune before returning after the full tour from Mumbai on 29 December.
National project for spreading Sahaja Yoga
The India Tour is a National project for spreading Sahaja Yoga. Participants on the Tour are of course covering all their own travel, food and accommodation expenses and the Indian Collectives contribute to program and advertising expenses. There are, however, always Collective expenses incurred during these Tours and as a Collective we do contribute to promotional materials as required. It is also very important to show our appreciation in a practical way – along with gifts of Sahaja Yoga materials we will make donations to important International Sahaja Yoga projects being Nirmal Dham in Delhi, ISPS and Pratisthan, Pune. We will also provide a donation as a gift to each of the Indian Collectives who are working so hard and contributing a lot as our hosts to promote Sahaja Yoga as well as showering us with gifts and love.
About Shalivahana New Year!
HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Diwali Puja, Hampstead, London, 6 November 1983
“Then comes the day, next to that is the first, of the month in, that is the calendar, My forefathers, because you’re all My children you have to use the same calendar Shalivahanas calendar and that is the first day of the Shalivahanas calendar. And what do they do in the morning time, to celebrate it, they take one of these, jars, Aquarius, and put a shawl with it, and that is put as a flag, representing the Aquarius and the Shawl of the Mother. That’s why they are called as Shalivahana, the ones who carry the Shawls of the Mother. The Carriers of the Shawls of the Mother. That’s how they put it up. The shawl on top of it the Aquarius, this should be actually the flag of the Sahaja Yogis, that you make it the, Aquarius or we can say the, jar, what do you call that, pitcher, or not pitcher but this lota business what do you call that – there’s nothing used like that here. That one is to, kumbha we can call in kumbha, and the shawl is there, so they put it up that’s why they call it as Gudi Padwa means – first day of the moon is Padwa Gudi means this. So they put it up and that is how they say that today is the New Year day, for the Shalivahanas.
Shawl is the covering of your Mother, which gives it warmth and also, it covers her modesty. Shawl is a sign of regality and modesty and chastity. So you stand for that, of your Mother. You protect it, like Ganesha does. Only on one point He gets angry, if anybody says or does anything against the Mother, then He comes down. That’s why Christ has said: ‘Anything against Me I’ll tolerate, but anything against the Holy Ghost, will not be forgiven.’ That’s the Son, talking about the Mother, that’s what happens.”
HH Shri Mataji, Diwali Puja, Hampstead, London, 6 November 1983
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Love and many thanks,
Andre and Lyn on behalf of the Australian Council