Omkareshwar School Project
POSTCARD FROM ANANDAMAYI MA ASHRAM, OMKARESHWAR
POSTCARD FROM ANANDAMAYI MA ASHRAM, OMKARESHWAR
Our member Karel Bimka from Prag spent a month in Omkareshwar and shares this experience with us:
Amazed I am watching the movements of small six years old girls — dancing and singing on the large terrace of the newly built school. I am also trying to catch through the music the meaning of the words and to understand this charming atmosphere better. I am full of joy while these children add to my good mood higher vibrations of joy and I feel that it is above all due to the spiritual meaning of this delightful performance.
I am participating with another few guests from different countries at a meeting of pupils and teachers of the school of Anandamayi Ma Ashram in Omkareshwar. After the smallest pupils gradually bigger girls and boys present their performance. They all are expressing in dance and songs. Even teachers were called out to show whatever they can. I am trying to estimate the spiritual dimension in the minds of all these human beings and I feel how I am enriched by them.
The gate of understanding opens when one teacher translates the words of the first song:
PVITRA MANA RAKHA
PVITRA TANA RAKHA...
Clean your soul
Clean your body to be able to receive beauty from above, enabling you to be successful in your life!!!
Simply wonderful! Being aware of that is a big spiritual advantage. I learned a lot from these pupils and adults and also from temporary visitors in the Ashram during my one month stay. We meet on our ways when looking for Truth, Light, God and our soul needs to be unrestrained.
I met there an Israeli couple who does not want either war or nor a God conditioned by stiff religious rules, or a Canadian who did not want to be handled by people who spread fear and anger after attack on Twins in September 9th 2001 and so on.
These meetings were mostly in an atmosphere of happy consonance. But also, surprisingly harsh, even shocking events/behaviours were very fruitful and necessary to bring me to be more perceptive and accept whatever occurs. Whatever we have — we deserve it.
I am writing to you, dear DANA MUDRA members, who are supporting those „others“ in India to share with you a few views of the life there. At the end I wish you and also me to behave as Anandamayi Ma (patron of Ashram and school) recommends:
IN WHATEVER CIRCUMSTANCES YOU MAY BE FOUND, ACCEPT IT AS IT IS HIS WAY HOW TO BRING YOU CLOSER TO HIS FEET. TRY TO BE CONTENT AND PERFORM WHAT CAME WITH UTMOST CARE AND LOVE. JAY MA!
Karel Bimka , Prag
