Second day of 10YBM Celebrations – Amazing Blessings of Sri Swami Vishwananda

The official programme of the second day of the 10YBM celebrations with Sri Swami Vishwananda, started with him performing puja on some of his private murtis, including Giridhariji and Thakurji. In the end, Swamiji distributed blessed water to everybody present.

The full programme of the second day from 9:00 to 18:00 was quite intense, with different activities happening sometimes simultaneously:

- Shree Peetha Nilaya tours;

- Satsangs with Rishi Nikhilananda and with Rishi Tulsidasananda;

- lectures about Simply Meditation, Atma Kriya Yoga and Mantra Project;

- Sati Kasanova/Giridhari Mantra Concert;

- Garbha Stick Dance; Japanese Folk Dancing;

- Rocking Kirtan followed by Shree Peetha Nilaya Sankirtan Parikrama;

- OM Healing; Kriya Sadhak Group Practice.

Sri Swami Vishwananda enjoying Sati Kasanova/Giridhari Mantra Concert together with devotees

Satsangs with Rishi Nikhilananda (left) and with Rishi Tulsidasananda (right)

Japanese Folk Dance (left) and Garbha Stick Dance (right)

Shree Peetha Nilaya Sankirtan Parikrama

A total of around 250 people joined different groups performing OM Healing simultaneously

The Children were also involved in a range of different activities.

Bhakti Marga Children activities

In between activities, participants of the 10YBM Celebrations could enjoy delicious food, sweets, hot and cold drinks, fruits juices and smoothies, ice-cream, or simply browse around the open-air stalls.

Amazing pic of the improvised Bhakti Marga Bhajan Cafe, outside of Shree Peetha Nilaya Main Entrance

The programme of the Grand Night of the 10YBM Celebrations included:

* a talk about Bhakti Marga- 10 years looking forward, where the new Sri Kripeshwarnath Mandir was presented;

* a talk by Sri Swami Vishwananda about the importance of changing our attitude towards our life and God, so that we can take full advantage of the opportunity that He is giving us, to realise Him in this lifetime;

* the Main Concert with Bittu Mallick and Kirtaniyas;

* final arati.

World Peace Prayer Society Award

Sri Swami Vishwananda was awarded by the World Peace Prayer Society for his outstanding accomplishments for world peace and harmony in the world.

Swamiji received a certificate and a Peace Pole with 2,5 m length, where it is written in 8 languages "May peace prevail on Earth. This Peace Pole is going to be implanted at the Shree Peetha Nilaya grounds. 

Sri Swami Vishwananda talks to devotees (left); Bittu Mallick Concert

Kirtaniyas Concert

Final Guru Arati

During this second day of the 10YBM Celebrations, Bhakti Marga devotees had an unforgettable, awesome time at Shree Peetha Nilaya, embraced by the Love of Sri Swami Vishwananda and Divine Mother.

 

Impressive start of the official programme of 10YBM Celebrations!

First evening of 10YBM celebrations: Bhakti Marga concert - Sri Swami Vishwananda, Bhakti Sounds (Shree Peetha Nilaya) and Karthiegasen (South Africa)

The official programme of the first day of the 10YBM celebrations started with Guru puja and Maha abishekam to the Lotus Feet of Sri Swami Vishwananda.

 

 

 

 

 

It was very touching and powerful to see hundreds of devotees chanting together the Guru Stotram. After arati, Sri Swami Vishwananda came down from the stage to cut the 10YBM anniversary cake and partake it with everybody present.

Rishi Nikhilananda led a wonderful presentation about the 10 years of Bhakti Marga, sharing with all, in a very joyful way, a special selection of photos and videos from the archives of Bhakti Marga.

He invited Paartha, Swami Vishwakurunandhanananda, Rishi Pramod and Swami Vishwakeshavaananda to give a personal overview of relevant events which have happened throughout the years.

Devotees enjoying the Bhakti Sounds performance

Traditional Indian dance performances: Kathah and Bharatanatyam

Final arati

What an amazing, unforgettable first evening of the 10YBM celebration! There were times of collective laughing, singing, dancing, cheering and praising our beloved Satgurudev Sri Swami Vishwananda. Swamiji also praised his devotees, via Twitter, in return for all the love and devotion showered on him, writing, "All glory to Bhakti Marga devotees".

First day of 10YBM Celebrations – Final preparations

On Friday morning, the 10th July, hundreds devotees of Sri Swami Vishwananda's and their invited guests, from all over the world, started arriving at Shree Peetha Nilaya to participate in the celebrations of the 10 Year Anniversary of Bhakti Marga.

After several months of plans and preparations for this event, finally everything is falling into place by the Grace of our beloved Satgurudev Sri Swami Vishwananda.

10YBM Welcoming Team

Each participant of the 10YBM Celebrations receives from the Welcoming Team a band "Love Changes Everything"

Sri Swami Vishwananda personally welcoming  his devotees and their invited guests

Shree Peetha Nilaya kitchen's team, supported by the 10YBM organisational team and dozens of devotees, from different countries, are finally putting into practice a plan designed to provide a great variety of delicious international food, sweets, drinks including fresh fruit juices and smoothies.

 

 

During these three days, the devotees of Sri Swami Vishwananda have an unique opportunity to participate in prayers performed in three different Mandirs, specially set up in the gardens of Shree Peetha Nilaya. These Mandirs were named by Sri Swami Vishwananda as Maha Kali Mandir, Lakshmi Narayana Mandir and Radha Krishna Mandir.

All participants of this great event can also visit the sixteen open-air stalls, where a wide range of products are displayed and promoted.

Among them, four stalls are grouped under the theme “Sadhana of the New Era”, promoting different types of sadhana taught by Sri Swami Vishwananda, namely Atma Kriya Yoga, OM Healing, Simply Meditation and the Mantra Project.

The team promoting the "Sadhana of the New Era".

There are also stalls promoting the Alpha Omega Water, Bhakti Marga Art, Friends of Bhakti Marga and the Fundraising of the New Sri Kripeshwarnath Mandir, next Shree Peetha Nilaya's great construction project.

 

Live reporting during the 10 Year Anniversary

The celebration of the 10 Year Anniversary of Bhakti Marga is finally here!

During this whole week, people have been streaming in to Shree Peetha Nilaya from all over the world to celebrate with Sri Swami Vishwananda. We've got such a huge and beautiful family!

During the next three days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) we'll be working to share updates to our Bhakti Marga family that couldn't make the trip to SPN, in a couple different ways:



Periscope - live streaming video

As you may have noticed in the last few days, we've been sharing improptu livestreaming over an app called Periscope. This app shares the view from a mobile phone with the world, and we'll be using it as the only form of livestreaming for the 10 Year event.

Since we started using it, we've been able to share some pretty cool spontaneous events, like Swamiji singing in the temple, the installation of new murtis in the entrance (by Swamiji), Bhakti Sounds musicians singing their hearts out, and more.

For the 10 Year Anniversary weekend, we'll be walking around, sharing on-the-ground views of booth presentations, funny moments with guests, and, of course, Swamiji. We'll for sure be livestreaming the main concerts with Swamiji, Bhakti Sounds, Bittu Mallick, Karthigiesen, and the Kirtaniyas, AND, the satsang Saturday night with Swamiji.

How to tune in?

1. Download the Periscope app for your mobile device(s) here: www.periscope.tv
2. Then, follow @BhaktiMarga108 on Twitter.
3. Make sure to turn on push notifications for @BhaktiMarga108, so you're updated when we tweet about the streams going live. (Instructions for Android and iOS here)

The links that Periscope posts to Twitter about a new livestream do also work with desktop internet browsers. They look like this:

Twitter - live tweet updates and pics

Along with announcing livestreaming, we'll also be using Twitter to share pics and to announce what's happening, when it's happening.

Look here for fun selfies of the international group of the devotees, comments from guests on "how Love changes everything", tidbits from the vendor booths, tombola results, and more.

Follow @BhaktiMarga108 here.

If you're at the event, tweet your best pics to @BhaktiMarga108 to share them! If you're not here, tweet us a selfie to say hello and #JaiGurudev!