May 17th marks the birthday of PARAMA SADGURU SHREE GAJANAN MAHARAJ (1918-1987) of Akalkot, India, who resuscitated the ancient knowledge of Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path for modern times. Parama Sadguru Shree Gajanan Maharaj From I Wish I Had Known, by Fran Rosen-Sawyer (now Parvati Rosen-Bizberg): “Shree is KALKI AVATAR. The word AVATAR means …
Do not think, “What will be?” Focus on what already is, i.e., “Be here and now.”
To rid yourself of negative habit patterns, replace them. Concentrate only on positive thoughts. Positive actions will result. Get out of these material worldly desires. It is not a question of liking or disliking oneself. You take care of the physical body because it is an instrument. You take better …
Divine love is the opposite of attachment. Do not concentrate on the attachment.
If you come to an impasse it is always best to improve one’s concentration in order to overcome obstacles to success in any venture. If one is not concentrated the energy dissipates and loses its direction. Avail yourself of this energy. It takes some effort to become organized and still …
Silence “The silence of the guru is his sermon and all the doubts of the devotees are dispelled.”–old Sanskrit proverb “Let what …
In the spring of 2015, Homa Therapy teachers Abel Hernandez and Aleta Macan visited the Tapovan English School to support the YYMM …
When I came to Ancient Oaks last December, while in Baltimore for a visit, I felt as though the land were …
When I came to Ancient Oaks last December, while in Baltimore for a visit, I felt as though the land was calling out to me, asking me to come be here, to be part of it. On that trip I was only able to stay for a few hours at the farm. When I left the feeling stayed with me and I knew I would be back. A few months later I was able to return in the dead of winter when nature was silent and sleeping under a blanket of snow. Still I felt as if something were speaking to me, quiet though it was. As the weather warmed and the snow melted away the voice grew stronger, growing with the pasture, the forest and the garden as they took on new life and became green again. Now, just past the summer solstice, that quiet voice has turned into a joyous song, a song sung by all of the beings that have made Ancient Oaks their home: the people, the plants, the cows, the wildlife, the nature spirits, devas and spiritual beings. A song those of us living here and everyone who visits or helps from afar are wrapped up in and are part of.
“This Centre of Light is to provide sanctuary, refuge for coming times.”
It is with great joy that we announce that the construction of the Centre of Light at Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya in Poland has begun!
On May 17th 2015, Shree Gajanan Maharaj’s birthday, we performed a powerful Rudra Yajnya with all the community and close friends present. Afterwards, on this beautiful spring day we officially broke ground. One by one, we took shovels and dug into the earth where the Centre of Light will stand. Two days later, contractors arrived to begin the excavation work.