“If you open up your heart and start seeing with your heart you will perceive the glory of the Lord everywhere.” – Sri Swami Vishwananda
Holi:
Today was the main day of Holi. The celebrations started as
soon as we woke and didn't end till the night.
In the morning we celebrated Holi at Jiva Institute. We
sang, danced and drenched ourselves with water and colour the whole morning.
A few things Swami said about Holi:
“On our journey to God we have to be humble, we can’t have
pride. Even spiritual people have certain arrogance, certain pride inside of
them, they think they are everything … there is no one better them. Pride
leaves when the Lord Himself becomes everything for you.
The colors symbolize the quality of the Lord. The color we
put on each other is the joy, the color of the saints … who have drenched themselves
in the color of Krishna. We are inviting the quality of the Lord to be on us.The deeper meaning of Holi is to stain oneself, to drench
oneself in the color and stain of the Lord. To drench oneself in the color of
the Lord, without Guru’s grace, it is not possible.”
Vrindavan Parikrama:
In the evening our group was invited to perform a Parikrama with
Babaji Satyanarayana Dasa around Vrindavan. It felt like a welcoming party for
Swamiji and Bhakti Marga as we move closer and closer to establishing an official
ashram in Vrindavan.
