The letter of the mission

Issue 94

Praṇāma

Fortnightly reading
and news of the centres

Universal Fraternity

People seated together in a class

Seva Dharma Mission

Praṇāma3–16 June 2030

Fasting

Upavāsa

  • Shukla EkadashiWednesday 12 June 2030
  • PurnimaSaturday 15 June 2030

No food is eaten from sunrise until the next sunrise. On a fast day, water is not taken.

Gatherings

This fortnight

Ananda Marga Summer Retreat 2027
Four days of spiritual inspiration, kiirtan and meditation in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Vegetarian meals, and a child-friendly retreat.

Meditation, kiirtan and Dharma Cakra
Sunday at 6:00 pm at 44 Marylyn Place, Cranbourne North.

Yoga class
Saturday 8:00–9:30 am and Monday 7:00–8:00 pm at Sankat Mochan Temple, 4 Margaret Street, Oakleigh South.

Food distribution
Sunday from 7:00 am at the Adra Community Centre car park, Woodridge.

Service

Service

Narayana Seva is the mission's food sharing. Volunteers prepare meals and offer them to people who need them. Sunday food distribution in Brisbane is from 7:00 am at the Adra Community Centre car park, Woodridge. Relief work and the volunteer rota sit with the same service.

See the projects · Join the rota

This fortnight's article

Universal Fraternity

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Fraternity is brotherhood and sisterhood stretched until the word 'stranger' loses its power. It does not ask people to pretend they are the same. It asks them to refuse the idea that difference is a reason for contempt.

Universal does not mean vague. It means the next person in front of you is included, and so is the person who will never visit your suburb. A feeling that covers everyone in a speech and no one in the queue is not yet universal.

Language, dress, and custom will keep their colour. Fraternity does not sand them flat. It sets a floor beneath them: no one is outside the duty of care, and no group is the owner of the whole human story.

Practise it in the scale you actually have. Learn the name of someone at the distribution. Make the class explanation clear enough for a first visit. Refuse a joke that needs an outsider to be small. Fraternity grows by these refusals and these welcomes, not by a larger poster.

Meditation

Meditation

A person seated in meditation

Sunday at 6:00 pm the Cranbourne North centre sits for meditation, kiirtan and Dharma Cakra, at 44 Marylyn Place. Learn personalised Meditation and Mantra from a qualified Acharya. The practice is given in person, and it is not printed in this letter.

See the class

Health & Yoga

Boils

The talk headed Boils in Yogic Treatments and Natural Remedies is this fortnight's health and yoga note. Samanvit Cikitsa belongs with the same field of care. Beside it, Shabda Cayanika follows the words Ka to Kandara. The treatment is not printed here. A qualified teacher explains what the body needs.

Yogic Treatments and Natural Remedies, Samanvit Cikitsa, Shabda Cayanika

Grammar

Language and Dialect

This fortnight's grammar note is headed Language and Dialect, from Varna Vijinana. Varna Vicitra sits with the same study of letters, beside Varna Vijinana, Shabda Cayanika, and Sarkar's English Grammar. The lesson stays in the book. This letter only names the talk.

Varna Vijinana, Varna Vicitra, Shabda Cayanika, Sarkar's English Grammar

Health

Blood Pressure Diseases

A second health note this fortnight is the talk headed Blood Pressure Diseases. It comes from the same published field of yogic treatment and natural care. The steps are not printed in Praṇāma. Read the book with a teacher if you want to study it.

Yogic Treatments and Natural Remedies, Samanvit Cikitsa, Shabda Cayanika

Story

Ghost In-Laws

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Sarkar's Short Stories

Sarkar's Short Stories

10 · Activities

From the centres

People seated together in a class
Class
A person seated in meditation
Meditation

Gatherings and photographs are posted on the mission Facebook group and on Instagram. This letter links there.

Praṇāma · Seva Dharma Mission3–16 June 2030

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