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 International Day of Peace
Wednesday, 21 September 2005

"Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace."

Amma requested the M.A.Math and it's sister organizations all over the world to observe the United Nations International Day of Peace.  Prayer meetings were held in satsangs around Australia this year - updates coming soon.

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If you are interested please visit the UN Peace Day Website or www.worldpeace.org/peaceday for more general details.

 

Australian Experiences 2004
As part of the International Day of Peace organised by the United Nations, Amma organised all of the M.A. Math’s educational institutions, hospitals and branch ashrams to perform peace prayers, as did hundreds of thousands of Amma’s devotees throughout the world.
Adelaide Satsang - Peace Day Events
Canberra Satsang - Peace Day Events
Perth Satsang - Peace Day Events
   

Adelaide Satsang - Peace Day Events
We celebrated a beautiful peace day at the MA Centre Adelaide. We started at 11.00am with the 1000 Names and stopped at 12 noon for the minutes silence, then chanted "Lokah Samasta" until 1.00pm. About 20 people came. We had a big outreach contacting thousands of people to pray for peace at 12 noon in Adelaide.

Here is the list of people we involved:

  • 600 people in the City Police building
  • Phillipino Church
  • Anglican Church
  • All car wash clients
  • All MA Adelaide email mailing list people
  • Adelaide Malayam Community
  • All Catholic Schools (650)
  • Government Schools
  • Private Schools
  • Catholic Church
  • Uniting Church
  • Sikh Community
  • Islamic Mosque
  • Buddhist Community
  • Hindu Temple (holding special Puja 12pm)
  • Hindu Community
  • Adelaide Remand Centre
  • Adelaide Yatala Prison Guests
  • Aboriginal Community
  • All Sai Baba Centres
  • Devotees Friends, Workplaces and Offices
  • Press release to Adelaide Advertiser
  • ABC Radio (possible interview)
  • FM Radio
  • 200 plus flyers distributed at Peace Rally on Sunday
  • Jewish Community and School

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Canberra Satsang - Peace Day Events
Prior to the day, the material from the ashram was sent to local organisations, such as the two Hindu temples, and it was circulated to their members. Media releases were sent to the Canberra Times and to local community radios.

The UN’s International Day of Peace started with students of the InSync Institute’s Meditation Teacher Training Course (led by Kieran O’Callaghan), meditating for peace and chanting Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu.

Then members of the Canberra suburban community of Griffith came together to the sound of brass bells at their local shopping centre just before 12 noon to share a minute’s silence before lighting the giant rainbow-coloured Peace Candle. With this flame they were continuing the long line of people before them – the original candle was lit from two sources of light: one from the Dalai Lama’s peace flame and the other from the World Peace Flame. On this International Day of Peace a young boy of 4 and a highly respected community elder – the local pharmacist, jointly lighted the flame.

All those present were invited to light their own peace candles from this central flame, thus taking a small part of this light and sharing it with others. The crowd of about 30 who gathered was a mixture of local shop owners and employees, as well as members of the local community and those who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It was a wonderful opportunity for the local community to come together to share a special moment – the differences coming together with a shared vision. All present then enjoyed the spontaneous sweet pastry prasad provided by one of the local shop owners. It was a moving, community-building event.

The special occasion was also marked by a half-hour of chanting the Peace Mantra before our scheduled satsang (third Tuesday of the month for us, which coincided with the IDP. A wonderfully calm and soft atmosphere was noticed by many of us throughout the evening.

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Perth Satsang - Peace Day Events

We had a wonderful response to our request in few schools, TAFE and a speach given by a high school student on that particular day in the general assembly at the school.

As an MA Centre, we organized a twelve hour non stop chain chanting of Lokaha at our place in Amma's room. Started at 11 am with lighting the lamp followed by Amma's 108 Names & Lalitha Sahasranamam .

At 12 clock , all were in silence for a minute followed by Lokaha Samasthaha chanting till night 11 pm.and concluded with Amma's 108 names and Lalitha Sahasranamam.

We felt Amma's presence very strongly.

Also would like to share the experiences of Amma's Birth day celebrations which was held on the 27th of Sep. as well as on the 2nd of Oct.

On the 27th of Sep, evening , we started the prayer at 7 30 pm. We had nearly 70 people gathered on that day. Among them one of the couple had a beautiful experience and blessings of Amma's , which followes:

This particular couple is going through some hard times  regarding one of their daughter's failures & disappointments in life.

The daughter resides in Eastern states. Just before they were ready to come for the bhajan on that evening, they received a telephone call from the daughter who seemed very depressed. This made the parents very unhappy and the father strongly wanted to fly to Eastern state immediately without coming to the bhajans. But the wife told him that she had promised Shanthy that we will be there and being their 30th wedding anniversary too on that same day, we should attend this special bhajan. And she forced him to go.

When they arrived at the entrance of my house, seeing so many cars , no parking space, the husband again was not willing to come in, he made that as an excuse to go back, but the wife was very keen to attend the prayer meeting. She eventually dragged him and came in and sat through the celebrations and had prasad and went home.

When they went home, they noticed their answering machine light was flashing. When they listened to the message, it was such a surprice to hear two bhajans, which was sung at our place on that evening were taped fully with out any disturbance lively in the answering machine. They were shocked and stunned and tried to work out how it could have possibly happened.

They could not come to any conclusion. Since it was too late that night, she called me the following day morning and said that a miracle has happened in their house last night and told me all in detail. Also she mentioned, when they played the message how peaceful they and the house was. This divine support has changed her husband's decision not to fly to Eastern state.

When I heard this, I was very happy for them and wanted to go and listen to the tape with my husband. We were there late in the evening and listened to the tape. It was amazing how the songs has been chosen too. Normally in between each songs , I announce the page and the song to the devotees. To my suprise , my announcement was not there, also the songs which has been picked and tapped was not sung in consecutive order. In between these two songs that is Om Namasivaya & Durge, there was a song of Lord Muruga "Oru mantram " which was not recorded in the message.

The couple are very definite that it could not have happened through their mobile phone either.

Until now this is a big mystery to everybody!

On the 2nd of Oct. when we had Amma's star birth day celebrations in the morning at 7 30 am, I invoked Amma's energy by a Sanskrit mantra and leading the devotees to do the patha puja to Amma with milk, honey and yohurt. When we were concluding the patha pooja mentally I told every one to do the final arati and imagine  as if  Amma is accepting the patha pooja done by you and blessing you with the flower petals from her garland, with a beeming smile as she normally does.

The moment I mentioned this, a flower with 3 inches long stem, which was kept by the side of Amma Doll, on a flat surface on her right hand side, fell down and blessed us all. There was no way that flower could have fallen without Amma's blessings.

It was also a great suprice to all devotees who witnessed the flower falling on that day.

We felt that we had been so blessed with both of Amma's celebrations.

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