Celebration & chat, on a global scale

What an amazing new paradigm we’re experiencing when it comes to our Ananda events. The necessity for doing everything online is leading to expansive breakthroughs in so many ways!

Tonight we celebrated Yogananda’s Mahasamadhi a day early (from a USA perspective) in order to be able to collaborate with Ananda India in putting on the event. So monks from the India monastery started off with chanting; then Jaya, Jyotish, and Devi spoke from the Temple of Light at Ananda Village; and then it was back to India, with Dhyana closing the event with healing prayers.

But things weren’t over yet! Everyone was invited to a virtual “meet & greet” on Airmeet afterwards. It was great fun to see so many friends from India (Vineet, Varun, Priti, Hari, Rajesh, Priya, Lakshmi, Dhyana!), but it was equally a treat to greet devotees from here in America that we hadn’t seen in ages (Jeanne, Tarini, and even the Viscogliosi’s!).

This is definitely a beautiful aspect of technology.

Meet & greet

Here are some photos from this afternoon’s Music Leaders “Meet & Greet”. It was surprisingly well-attended, when you consider the many demands on everyone’s time!

All we really had time to do was go around the circle and share a little bit about ourselves and our experience with Ananda Music, but it was really inspiring to hear people’s stories and to see how–as different as we all are–we share a deep love and dedication to this music.