Happy New Year 2003

[Guest guest]

Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

I wish for you all a peaceful, prosperous and healthy New Year.

 

Peace

 

 

New Year Prayer:

 

Another year is dawning

With the chance to start anew.

May I be kinder, wiser, Lord,

In all I say and do,

Not so caught up in selfish gain

That I would fail to see

The things in life that mean the most

Cost not a fancy fee.

 

The warm, kind word that I can give,

The outstretched hand to help,

The prayers I pray for those in need--

More precious these than wealth.

 

I know not what may lie ahead

Of laughter or of tears;

I only need to know each day

That You are walking near.

 

I'm thankful for this brand new year

As now I humbly pray,

My hand secure in Yours, dear Lord,

Each step along the way

 

- Kay Hoffman.

 

-----------

 

Be not in love with passions.

Think no evil of anyone.

Strive not for greatness, wealth and applause.

Strive for truth, purity and humility.

Awake in the brotherhood of God.

Inculcate love for one and all.

See them all in the One -- the shining One.

 

------------

 

Standing at the crossroads of Time, we must make a

firm resolve to do better from day to day....

As there are landmarks on earth,

so there are landmarks in Time.

 

The past and future are like sealed books to us:

the one is in the limbo of oblivion,

while the other is in the womb of uncertainty.

 

It is only the LIVING PRESENT that is ours, and

we must make the best use if it,

ere it slips away through the fingers

and is lost forever.

 

Human birth is a great privilege

and offers us a golden opportunity.

It is for us to make or mar the same,

for it is given to each individual

to forge his or her own destiny as best he may.

 

- Sant Kirpal Singh

 

------------

 

'harsha harsha nava varsha manaavo!

sri Raadhaa vara guna gaavo!!'

 

Please celebrate the NEW YEAR

with lots of JOY,

FAITH, and DIVINE LOVE!

 

Delightfully SING with your HEARTS the glories

of the ETERNAL Sweetheart of SRI RADHIKA !!

 

- 'nava varsha sandesh' of Jagadguru Sri Kripaluji Maharaj

 

 

"sankeertana aru shravana aru, smarana saadhanaa jaan,

sabai saadhanaa shuunya sama, samarana praan sama maan!"

 

Know that the essential parts of SADHANA (spiritual practice) of

Devotion consists of loudly reciting, singing and chanting of the

HOLY NAMES (kirtana), listening faithfully to His Blissful Exploits

and glories (shravana) accompanied by the Loving REMEMBRANCE of the

Lord (smarana).

 

WITHOUT CONTINUOUS (smarana) contemplation upon God,

however, ALL kinds of devotional SADHANA

are simply VOID and EMPTY!!!

 

Know that the 'Loving Remembrance of the Lord' is the

LIFE-BREATH of Divine Love Devotion, Prema Bhakti Sadhana.

 

- Sri Kripaluji Maharaj

 

-------------

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!

[Guest guest]

Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

 

Greetings to You, O New Year

 

This moment in time has the message of the poet

on its lips:

 

Let this world become a temple of love and peace.

Let love and Truth illumine the world,

And the adversaries of peace awaken to its Light.

This sacred land of God has been trampled

with the burden of oppression.

Life is not a dagger stained with the blood

of hatred;

It is a branch filled with the flowers of love

and compassion.

 

Life itself is restless for peace in the world.

Let its noble dream materialize.

May the garden be illumined with wave after wave

of Light.

May the wealth of love grow greater and greater

and enrich every heart.

 

This is the poet's message on the lips

of this moment in time.

Greetings to you, O New Year.

Greetings to you, O New Year.

 

Everywhere the desire increasingly grows

to forge a bright future.

Humanity itself is traveling toward the goal

of its dreams.

Life is in search of that smile of grace

that now radiates from the forehead

of the times.

What is that glistening smile on the cheeks

of the land?

It is the passion for human unity and love.

 

This is the poet's message on the lips

of this moment in time.

Greetings to you, O New Year.

Greetings to you, O New Year.

 

-- Darshan Singh

 

(Contributed by AGOCHAR)

 

-------

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!