Holiday Message 2021
Holiday blessings and inspiration from His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda.
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Feeling Gratitude and Giving Thanks with a Grateful Heart
These difficult times provide an opportunity to express our gratitude and harness our humane qualities. Choking with fear and splitting with worries can be overcome by converting our humane qualities to a divine experience of grace, lest we are brave to transform our fear of God into a love of God.
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Full Moon Message to Families with Children – January 2021
A message of blessings from His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda for families raising children during their most formative years and rapidly growing into their youthful state.
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Holiday Blessings 2020
Year-end is the time for reflection and rumination. How to make these holidays meaningful and uplifting is within the reach of your own affirmations. Change is the nature of the world and it is constantly slipping away from us. Often at the end of an era or a yuga like this, change is accelerated, bringing in a clash of ethos and bipolar ideologies. There...
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Thanksgiving Message 2020
These difficult times provide an opportunity to express our gratitude and harness our humane qualities. Choking with fear and splitting with worries can be overcome by converting our humane qualities to a divine experience of grace, lest we are brave to transform our fear of God into a love of God.
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Dipāvali Blessings and Message 2020
Let this New Moon evening of Dipāvalī be celebrated as a Peacemakers' Illumination honouring the lamp within. May the Dipāvalī inspire you to save and protect the lighted paths attained by truthful deeds.
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Meditation during the Lunar Eclipse
The upcoming total lunar eclipse on the 20th/21st January is the second eclipse of 2019, following the partial solar eclipse that took place on 5th/6th January.
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Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse
The upcoming total lunar eclipse of Wednesday, 31st January 2018 is on a blue moon. A total lunar eclipse is often called a blood moon because of the reddish orange glow the moon exhibits during the eclipse, moreover this full moon also happens to be a super moon. Thus this eclipse is being called the Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse.
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Healing for Mudslide Tragedy in Montecito
We are living through incredibly tragic events of the recent mudslide and impact from rock debris in our locality. Our hearts are pouring out for those families who lost their loved ones. Within just a few roaring moments on early Tuesday, 9th January 2018 morning, our precious world slid beneath our foothold of those idyllic neighborhoods in Montecito.
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Pathway to the Victory Day
The new moon of 19th/20th Sept. is a special day for ascension rites to honour the departed souls of familial lineages, as per the Vedic soli-lunar calendar. This particular new moon (Mahālayā) is immediately followed by the auspicious nine-night period (Navarātri) leading up to the Victory Day. Thereafter, the auspicious Śaradiyā-navarātri or a nine-night period dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother will...
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