{"id":55342,"date":"2024-09-29T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/?p=55342"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T03:58:17","slug":"kyivukraine-rakhi-retreat-shine-of-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/?p=55342","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv,Ukraine: Rakhi Retreat “Shine of Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kyiv, Ukraine :<\/mark><\/strong> With the global family about the\u00a0Raksha Bandhan\u00a0<\/em>news celebrated in\u00a0Ukraine<\/em>\u00a0with courageous and big hearted alokik family members\u00a0from Bila Tserkva, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Ternopil and Kharkiv.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gift to Baba\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>on the eve of the<\/em><\/strong> Rakshabandhan celebration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shine of Purity<\/em>\u00a0began on the first day with an evening of powerful meditation. Followed by the meditation, we the children of the Purifier Father gathered around the fire to burn to the slightest traces of impurity on the eve of the Rakshabandhan celebration. After such a ceremony we returned to our rooms and moved into the Lap of the Purifier\u00a0Father\u00a0and Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sweet Silence\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filled with\u00a0Sweet Silence<\/em>\u00a0from the beginning\u00a0of\u00a0Amritvela<\/em>\u00a0our retreat mood continued with Karma yoga<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0spiritual study.<\/em>\u00a0In addition, an online workshop\u00a0“Light\u00a0and Might of the Army of God”\u00a0<\/em>was also organised. In the evening we gathered in the newly built summer pavilion to meet the revered\u00a0Didi Sudha<\/strong>\u00a0via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When we tie rakhi to someone or some one comes to have a rakhi tie us, at that time a state of the soul naturally arises: “I, the soul, look at the soul.” This soul consciousness of both me and the other person is the foundation of purity. And in order to make this practice firm, we celebrate it every year, because knowledge of the soul is our first and our last lesson,<\/em>” said\u00a0Didi.<\/strong>
A sweet surprise was the joining of Baba’s special jewel,\u00a0Didi Chakradhari<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0the meeting.\u00a0Didi Chakradhari<\/strong>\u00a0addressed to us with words of inspiration and blessing, and also congratulated us for celebrating the sacred festival in\u00a0Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely, the main event of the retreat was the elevated celebration of Rakshabandhan. After a talk on the spiritual significance of the festival, everyone wrote a loving letter to\u00a0Baba,\u00a0<\/strong>gottied rakhi and applied tilak, received blessing, gift and toli. At the end of the Rakhi tying ceremony we sat together and again merged in the love of BapDada and divine family. Had\u00a0Brahambhoj<\/em>\u00a0in silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rakhi – a special gift of self-development<\/strong>
Various programs of self-development and subtle service:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshop on\u00a0“Purity in the Service of the World”,<\/em>\u00a0special meditation on\u00a0“Serving the Elements of Nature”,<\/em>\u00a0a friendly family talk on\u00a0“Time of Receiving and Giving”,<\/em>\u00a0an evening meditation on\u00a0“Gratitude to the Father”<\/em>. A special event was the festive ceremony of\u00a0planting flowers and trees\u00a0<\/em>in the garden of\u00a0Baba’s Sangam Retreat Center.<\/em><\/strong>
\u00a0Suddenly came the Last day<\/strong>
We felt\u00a0how every minute of Rakhi gathering gave us\u00a0 unforgettable\u00a0fruits of the Confluence Age.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0After the Murli class and breakfast, the retreat participants gathered for the farewell ceremony, vidai-badhai. Each Brahmin received an apple as a symbol of the instant fruit of spiritual efforts, and words of special inspiration from the senior sisters. Sisters and brothers left the Retreat Center as\u00a0jewels of contentment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kyiv, Ukraine : With the global family about the\u00a0Raksha Bandhan\u00a0news celebrated in\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0with courageous and big hearted alokik family members\u00a0from Bila Tserkva, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Ternopil and Kharkiv. Gift to Baba\u00a0on the eve of the Rakshabandhan celebration Shine of Purity\u00a0began on the first day with an evening of powerful meditation. Followed by the meditation, we the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-6","8":"category-17","9":"category-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55359,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342\/revisions\/55359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omshantimedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}