Newsletter • June 2023

"O human beings!, You are fortunate. The clarion call of the Universe has reached you. The very call is vibrating in every cell of your body."

-- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

UPCOMING:

East Coast Summer Retreat

Ac. Krsna is hosting a retreat in New Hampshire.

Arrival date: June 16

Departure date: June 18 or 19

Cost: $120

(Come a day early or stay a day later at your convenience.)

Pickup is available from Boston Logan Airport.

This is an open retreat. sadhakas from all affiliations are welcome!

Day visitors are welcome!

Contact Krsna with Q's, dietary needs and transport needs.

Let Us Move Together

free monthly program on Zoom

June 3rd @ 9:00 am Pacific



Join our spiritual community events!



Visit our website!

Ananda Seva Activities

Ohio

The Ananda Seva Ohio meditation group Led by Ac. Giriisha remains active.

Regular Saturday meditation for new people continues at 10:00 am ET with music and a discussion of a spiritual topic. 

Contact Ac. Giriisha for more info.



Oregon



The Dharmalaya Community in Eugene, Oregon held an inspiring Spring Weekend Retreat in May with the theme :

 "Let Us Move Together"

Ac. Gayatri’s shared the following comments to open the retreat:

Here’s a wonderful translation of the ancient Sanskrit chant Samgacchavam. It poetically encapsulates ideals that express what makes life worth living. And this is what we are going to follow to live more intensely during these two days of the retreat.

Let us move together. As a community we will dance kiirtan, we will move through asanas, we will walk to the river, we will wash the dishes – together.

Let us sing together. At the beginning of classes, at the beginning and end of meditations, during our evening program, at dharmacakra, we will sing and radiate the same thought wave. Music will do its magic!

Let us come to know our minds together. Through discussion, reflection, and sharing we will discover more of our deep selves.

Let us share like sages of the past. I don’t know if we can be sages, but we can definitely become wiser through our sharing.

That all people together may enjoy the universe. As we become more aware, we get more light in our mind, we perceive others' light, and we can better enjoy this wonderful universe we are part of.

Unite our intention. What do we want to do? Remember: The people united will never be defeated!

May our hearts be inseparable. Love, love, and more love – may it flow and unite our hearts that we may be an ocean of kindness.

Our mind is as one mind, as we to truly know one another become one. One as a cosmic consciousness – alive, inspiring, bringing goodness to humanity.

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Seva

The Eugene Community continues to hold work parties at Vistara to help grow food for neighborhood food security and to serve the Community Supported Shelters homeless camps. Work parties are on Saturday mornings at 10:00 am followed by a collective meal cooked by Dacé. The Vistara garden is located at 805 Horn Lane. Contact Bert or Tara for more info.

Last month the Dharmalaya community donated a truckload of high quality gardening soil and shovels and trowels for a garden project at one of the camps!

Evening Kiirtan

The evening kiirtans are taking a break for the summer and will resume again in the Fall.

Meanwhile, Kirana, Ac. Anandam and Gayatri are working on creating and performing concerts as fundraisers for Ananda Seva service projects

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Stay tuned for upcoming

House Concert announcements!

Ottawa

Ananda Seva Ottawa, led by Ac Chandranatha, is now having in-person group meditations in addition to the regular guided mediations on Zoom. People from California, Oregon and Montana are joining the online weekly Wednesday class.

Follow Ottawa Meditation on facebook for all events and classes.

Contact Ac. Chandranatha for more info.



Weekday Morning Kiirtan & Meditaiton

Every weekday morning at 7:35 am PT Ac. Gayatrii and others lead kiirtan, meditation, kaoshikii and a morning check-in to connect and support each other on our spiritual journeys.

Join by Zoom

passcode: Baba



East Coast Dharmachakra

Ac. Govinda and Ac. Sandeep host East Coast Dharmachakras on the first Sunday of each month. More info here.

They are also offering two more opportunities to join a community meditation on Mondays at 6:00 pm ET and Wednesdays at 6:30 pm ET both on Zoom. Contact AC Sandeep to get on the email list for those programs.



West Coast Dharmachakra

Join us for our weekly Sunday morning group meditation. This event is free and open to everyone. The program includes singing uplifting devotional songs, yogic dance, chanting, meditation, a discourse, and group discussion.

The first Sunday of the month program is followed by a sattvic vegetarian potluck..

more info here.



New on the PROUT Café

The latest initiative by the PROUT Café is called "PROUT Bites". These are short videos that illustrate a bite-sized PROUT concept.

Check out the newest PROUT Bite here!

Visit the PROUT Café for interviews and other PROUT "snacks".

PROUT

The Solstice PROUT Gathering at Dharmalaya in Eugene, Oregon will take place June 17-18

PROUTists from any and all affiliations are encouraged to attend.

Read more about the Gathering.

See Schedule for Gathering.

For more info, contact Ravi

Philosophy Study Group

Please join us every two weeks on Zoom to discuss Shrii Shrii Anandamurti's writings. We choose 3 to 4 discourses, (currently from "Problems of the Day) and discuss these in a congenial setting. Participants are free to share what they found relevant, interesting, and meaningful which will deepen our understanding of the material and make them relevant to the progress of our spiritual lives. Participants must have access to the Electronic Edition compendium of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti's writings. 

We would love to have you join us!

— Ac. Jayadeva



If you have questions and wish to join, please email Jayadeva at:

 Jayadevaasm@hotmail.com. 

Projects

Ac. Ammadevi is working on a project called Community Driven Recovery and Transition (CDRT).

Read about it here

The first phase of the project will culminate with a presentation on the group's process and results on June 24th at Dharmalaya.

If you are interested in attending events related to this project, please

contact Ammadevi

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Ananda Seva Finland



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Andanda Seva in Maharliika



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Ongoing Service Projects in Maharliika (Philippines)

Ac. Atma Jyoti works tirelessly in Maharliika with a tribal population that has, by and large, been forgotten by the government and large aid agencies. If you would like to support these ongoing efforts, please make a tax deductible donation via our website. Choose "support for Maharliika service projects" in the drop down menu.



From the Blog

Health for Humanity

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Ananda Seva Educational Opportunities

Transformation Education

Fall 2023 Class Schedule

Upcoming Classes:

Human Society is One and Indivisible

Instructor: Ravi Logan

Description: 90 minute class

Date/Time: Sept. 16th at 10 am PT

Opportunities to learn at your own pace and time:

NEW ON TEACHABLE

Our Transformation Education Teachable site gives you the opportunity to take on-demand courses at your own pace. We now have 16 classes up on the platform covering a variety of topics.

Featured Class this Month:

With the defects of democratic political systems becoming painfully evident — particularly in the United States — this two-class series on PROUT’s political system offers timely understandings of how political systems can be progressively reformed.



This course explores topics such as:

• economic democracy vs political democracy
• selectoral-electoral system
• compartmentalized democracy
• strengthening the electorate
• planetary confederation
• the archetype of moral leaders
• sector-based representation
• the core rights undergirding political constitutions

These classes give a vision of the political system needed for a new era in which political institutions serve people, communities and the planet, and in which leadership is drawn from the best of humanity.

This course is taught by Ravi Logan

"The artists or writers, before holding their brush or pen, should look around and assess the direction in which society is moving and the basic causes of its weakness. What are the “isms” that have supplied impetus to evil ideals? It is not enough to look around; they may also have to take a firm stand against the apparently irresistible forces of destruction.."

– Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Abhimata, The Opinion, 14

Artistic expression has always been integral to human evolution. The artists spark the imagination and pave the way for new ideas to flourish. Can you imagine a revolution with no songs to rally the people? The energy stirring beneath the earth now calls us to connect with that Divine Source and draw inspiration to birth a new society. How will you use your creative energy to support that flow?



poetry by Kirana Perkins

Click on image below to listen to an original composition

of the English translation of Samgacchadhvam

by Ac. Gayatri.

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