Editor
The Winter Magic Festival will be held in Katoomba, “City of the Arts”, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney from 23 to 24 June 2007. As the festival website indicates, “The Winter Magic Festival celebrates the shift from the ever-shortening days of Winter to the approach of Spring and the promise of warmth and rejuvenation.” It is held each year near the time of the Winter Solstice.
On Saturday 23 June the Sahaja Yoga music group, “Music of Joy”, will be presenting beautiful, inspiring world music at various venues in Katoomba:
Civic Centre Forecourt: 10.00 am
Carrington Place: 11.00 am
Carrington Place: 3.00 pm
“Slowly Soulful” Cafe: Various times throughout the day.
The “Slowly Soulful” Cafe will be in operation in the Senior Citizens Kitchen, next to the Civic Centre. Following the principles of Cittaslow and sourcing local organic vegetables, it will be offering nourishing meals at reasonable cost.
More information about the Winter Magic Festival can be found at the festival website: http://www.wintermagic.com.au.
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A Sahaja Yoga program will be held on Saturday 16 June 2007 at Lane Cove Public School at the corner of Longueville Rd and Austin St, Lane Cove, Sydney. The evening will commence at 6.00 pm. Everyone is welcome to come along to experience the inner peace and joy that come from Sahaja Yoga meditation.
If you would like to have information about this program you can phone 0422 798 498.
If you want to know about Sahaja Yoga programs in other areas, you can telephone 1300 72 42 52 (1300 SAHAJA) or visit Sahaja Yoga Meetings.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
And He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
From The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
You must pray to God and ask what you want. Ask for:
Complete satisfaction in my heart, Joy in my heart, Bliss in my heart, so that the whole world becomes blissful.
Give me Love, Love, that I could love the whole world and that the whole world becomes one in Love.
Give salvation to the entire humanity, which is suffering.
Take me to Your Feet.
Cleanse me with Thy Love.
Now see if there’s God or not. You can feel it within yourself. He hears you. He is the Glory of all the Glory. He loves you. He protects you. He guides you. He has created you to really be His Love. But accept it. Any time any thought is coming to you, pray; and you will be moving in the way of that Ocean which is Unconscious mind, which starts with thoughtless awareness. If you cannot become thoughtless, you pray to Him:
Forgive me for what I’ve done, and forgive those who have done harm to me.
Shri Mataji, 1975