Thursday we spent the morning packing ‘showbags’ for school kids, filled with pens, toys, hair clips, stickers and a t-shirt from “Shiva Ashram Melbourne”. All of us went to the local school to hand out the bags to the 600 students. The kids were great – they sang a couple of chants for us when [...]
Wednesday morning I went to Chai by myself and must have been the first customer for the day. Before serving me, the Chaiwalla poured two glasses of fresh chai then tipped them in a small pothole in the middle of the road, making a sign of prayer at the same time. After chai, we meditated [...]
Tuesday was a big day. We had a yagna at Kothavalla and 7 brahmin priests from around Maharashtra came to Ganeshpuri to perform the ritual for us. A yagna is a fire ceremony which is meant to remove karmic blocks or negative karma from the past. Gopi and Krishna were selected to participate and the [...]
Monday moring, Iqbal had arranged for us to go to Abishek as a group, and we had paid for the pooja which allows people to participate. Maria, Alan, Chandana, Carly and Michael were selected, and Alan was the one who led most of it. They went through the entire ritual of bathing the deity in [...]
After our huge day yesterday, we took it pretty easy on Saturday. We had hoped to get up in time for Guru Gita at 5.15am at Gurudev Siddha Peeth ashram but didn’t make it! At Satsang on Saturday, Swamiji read from Volume one of ” Satsang with Baba”, a collection of Q&As recorded in the [...]