On sunday, the 9th of November Sulieman drove me to Ramallah where Nouran recieved me. After lunch we drove to "Star of Hope" Palestinian NGO for disabled women. I taught the Breath Water Sound course to 15 blind women and some with physical disabilities. The director Miss Ola is herself totally ["except for her hands and head"] inmobile on a weel chair, but she was smiling all the time. There were two blind women who asked very deep questions. Within three days, there was comradrie and belongingness amongst all of them. They were curious to know about my life, India, and how i got the knowledge, and from whom. They even offered some moneyt for the three days which i donated right back to their NGO.
Stay in Suad's house is like living with Arielle or any one of my children . The same hurrying in the morning without breakfast and coming home hungry and tired. It was good for me to have somebody to scold and make sure she eats properly!! :-) She cooks amazingly and refused to allow me in the kitchen. All most every hour one could hear the Shaikh call the "faithfull" to worship Allah. It sounds like a song and i think I'm going to miss it when i go to India.
The course had a 16 year old " Ismaeil" who insisted on staying in the course even when i told him he is under age! He has handled the course quite maturedly. This group of 14 feel belongingness and friendship, will send the picture later.
Celebrated "Karthigai festival of lights" with Suad and burst some fireworks. Am being driven by Tyis a dutch guy back to jerusalem where arielle will take me to Kabala shabath in her synagogue. It will take untill 12pm. Next day we have lunch at Sarit's & then satsang & long kriya at telaviv centre. From sunday, morning & evening courses are planned.

playschool

hi all

this post is by rajima's son. just putting up some pics of her at a recent reunion she had with her playschool friends - yeah they are in touch all these years. enjoi these pics as they sure are njoing their second childhood!! these were taken in ooty & coonoor..

ramallah course - oct 9-14

The Ramallah course happened in this beautiful hall owned by the Quakers it is very old. we had dancing & singing[carols, arabian &

bajans] - on the last day as is usual in my course. they are busy arranging another couse in nov. from 9th -14th. there will be a breath water sound course for disabled women, a regular basic course in the eve & a KYC.

SAGOL- WoW.
what to say!! 1st day, when i was asked to come up on stage & bless, it came in the form of Om NamahShivaya chanting as a song which spontaneously built up as the drums & synthesiser played on. Everyone gave a standing ovation & remembered me for the rest of the 3 days & came to both my workshops in droves!
The blessing was at 8pm & the 2 hr satsang at 10pm with this amazing group from a synagogue- Ruth [the rabbi], Dafna[vocal * guitar], Nathaniel[drums, kalimba, & other asorted percussions], & Yoel[guitar] . It ws rocking so that Dalit & Rona are arranging for a full blown concert in Dec at Jerusalem in a big auditorium with Simon Perez & other vips.
Next day my workshop ws at 1pm for 2 hrs on Ínner Potential. The tent ws overflowing. Of course they had come to see India in me!! But they stayed to ask plenty of questions, & have a great discussion on mediation, spirituality, etc. Many enrolled for the Haifa & Telaviv courses. Many came for blessings, for e-id, for pics of me, with me etc. at 3 pm we[ dalit, arielle & me went for this amazing dance workshop with Marion , a lovely guy from netherlands. the music was very inspiring[there ws one from Enya also.] it ws mind blowing. that guy was soo intense.
evening was meeting lots of people in the Art Of Living booth & holding an impromptu bajan satsang. many men & women came for blessings, advice, hugs & photo sessions. then we retired to bed at 1am. next day we woke up at 8am, went for a stroll along the beach, did padmasadhana & kriya on the beach, & then had breakfast in the cosy igloo like building where we were put up.then we went for another dance workshop with 2 lovely ladies. it was called chakra & color dancing.!! it was also great. for another 2 solid hrs. will show you the dances when we meet in person!!at 3pm was my workshop on 'Transforming Organisation''. it was fun. people loved the informal way in which i handled it. discussions , meditation, & dalit spoke about business in AOL & the women's conference. more people enrolled for the courses.then we got beads strung in our hair & painted our faces-generally freaked out!!now i'm back home in Jerusalem with shereen & have an intro talk in west Jerusalem.

mysore course participant response

Patti,
''My Experience''-(sorry i am late)
I stayed away from geeta, Mahabharata, etc... not because I'm not interested but just because i had no guidance. But as i attended the first day of Bhagavatham I decided I should not miss it.
I was not able to attend 2 days of bhagavatham, I know i missed a lot...& as i want to cover it, I'm waiting to buy the book & go through it. And waiting for you to come here, so that i can attend bhagavatam . . .In the very 1st day, u asked us to pick any role of our choice(for our self) I just truly loved it paati, as far as i remember i was never given such a choice earlier, might be i don't remember. Bhagavatam is having everything in it. It is full of enjoyment, fulfillment. It is just awesome.We gain good things &We loose.............. only the bad, unwanted things.
We can even find
i. Our past in our present...
ii. Our present in our past... through Bhagavatam.
We have got many things from it. As many times we listen to Bhagavatam we get many more new things, just like if i can say...
''As many times we do the course we go deeper & deeper & get many things'' It is not in visiting different places, but it is in seeing the same places but in different view''. One of the great movement was when you said I am not the one who is speaking, the divine himself is the One who is speaking through me & you are not the One listening, but divine himself is listening through you. For me this was representing the presence of divine everywhere & I was able to find everything in me & myself in every thing. I was able to feel the oneness, belongingness. We celebrated everything i.e...
Birth of Krishna His naughty behaviour His Marriage & everything, & we also celebrated the pain of krishna i.e...the issue of his stomach ache& for sure there is knowledge behind all this...I had things running in my mind, when I went through Bhagavatam i.e Only listening to bhagavatam is so effective & it is made us change & what if we apply the knowledge pionts in our life, then it will just be awesome. Before I used to feel that, this is not the age(17) for me to go through spiritual things for so long a period & that too continuously...Later i felt I'm most fortunate, who is able to get to know about such beautiful things so early. But paati right now I'm feeling I have wasted my 17yrs (behaving according to others) without knowing, getting aware of myself & without knowing about all these & now i have decided not to waste my time & go for it, For this i need a guidence of a lovable,friendly,elderly & good person just like u paati...Patti, I'm very much gratefull to you. Paati so far in my case no one was able to get me so deeply into these things, this was able to happen just because of u my dear paati. Paati i thank u cz,u permited me to be one among you, you accepted me as ur pethi &Let me accept u as my paati.I gained many things from u . ''VANAKKAM''Love uTake Care...

from a teenager who attended the bhagavatham in Mysore last month.

ramallah update

In july when i ws in Ramallah, i was asked to go to somebody's house to bless a cancer patient [4th stage]. They were 2 sisters & the elder one was the patient. She could hardly walk. Was totally emaciated [all skin & bones]. They were both very grateful for my visit & blessing. A month later after i had returned to India, I learnt through Nouran that she had moved on. I conveyed my condolences . This time around the sister gladly offered her apartment for me to stay during my courses in ramallah! She is taking great care of me, has given the key to the apartment & continues to be grateful for that single blessing i'd given her sister.!! [ The apt. has 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms & a huge kitchen cum dining! I cook meals for Enaya[my host] & nouran & suleiman whenever they drop in. ] oh. yes. Suleiman is my local sarathy [sanskrit for chauffer]. He drives me around, when Nouran is busy, & mainly between Jerusalem & Ramallah, or Ramallah to Bethlechem, or back to Jerusalem. !!

Guruji's mahima is simply amazing.

shanku have included the flowers a well.

Westbank Ramallah Program

Raji’s program
Ramallah 9-13/10/2008

8-10 -2008
Arriving to Ramallah 10:00 am.
If you would like you may join me to the hall to arrange it for the course , that will around 1:00 pm.
* 2:30 pm. Short meeting with Mis. Diana Abdul Noor, Principle of Friends Girls School ( it is a Quakers school)
* 5:00-7:00 pm Arab Evangelical Episcopal School ( contacts,Mr. Iyad Rafidi, director& Ms. Amal Duaibs , Deputy)

9-10-08
* 9:30 -11:30 KYC workshop, for heads of Activities Councils, and the Technical deputy in the in the Ministry of Education. ( those people are responsible to follow up parents’ programs to develop to develop the surrounding environment). City in Hotel – Al Sharafa area.

* 1:00 pm. meeting with Mr. Jereus, the principle of the Friends Boys School, to introduce for him what are you doing.

11-10-2008

* 11:00 am. to 12:00 , knowledge meeting with schools’ principles ( 50 persons), contact person , Mr Refat Sobh. ( this activity may change to KYC depending one the experience of the day before.

12-10-2008
Full day for the basic course from 12-7:00 pm

Tentative meetings,
Meeting with people in Ashtar theater,
Meeting with the Indian Ambassador,
Activity with the Friends Boys School