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By Ramloti.
April has been a wonderful month with the beautiful Spring Navratri, nine days we set aside twice a year to thank and celebrate the Divine Mother. People arrived from all over the country and Europe to attend the festival. We honored our children one afternoon and delighted in seeing some of our early participants from over 20 years ago who are now adults. One afternoon, we hiked up to the top of our property to bathe and dress our lovely Maha Lakshmi that presides above and blesses our water system and land. Later in the month we celebrated...
By Ramloti
February has been a wintery month with fewer visitors and some much needed snow. We commemorated Shri Babaji’s Maha Samadhi (the day He left His body). It was Valentine’s Day, 1984 when He left this physical plane, and this year was the 40-year anniversary. His love and teachings still guide this Ashram and His devotees around the world.
On Friday, March 8 we will be celebrating Maha Shivaratri (the great night of Lord Shiva) with late night chanting. We will begin at 6 p.m. with aarati and chanting. At 7 p.m. we will do the first of four lingam...
There is a central section of Sri Aurobindo’s mantric poem, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, which is often mistakenly interpreted as primarily a mythological legend of Savitri and Satyavan, rather than as a symbol and spiritual teaching. However, through a series of workshops presented at our center here in Crestone, Colorado, we have tried to demonstrate the truer esoteric nature of the teaching that is revealed in this important part of the book. It is the section of about 60 pages in the very middle of the 700-page tome that ostensibly deals with the meeting of Savitri and...