Thank you, Devi Mandir Mind Readers!!- Merry Christmas from the Mandir

[Guest guest]

Namaste

 

To all of you, brothers and sisters, Merry Christmas. Tonight at the

Mandir Temple, we celebrated the birth of Christ. Maa and Swami love

this day, and the celebration was fully of love and joy. Starting

with Artri, then many mantras at the fire, specifically verses and

concepts from the New Testimate. For example, "I am the Father and

the Father is Me." This and other mantras, in English, we all chanted

together at the Divine Fire.

It is so amazing that Maa and Swami can take a verse like this, and

chant it at the sacred fire. They know no boundries. Every tradition

is sacred and holy. Every tradition will lead to God if practiced

with pure devotion.

Next, Swami performed puja to Lord Jesus at Maa's place at the altar,

to a wonderful murti of Jesus that She made several years ago. He

used the beginner's Shiva puja, and inserted Jesus's name in place of

Shiva and used the mantra: "On Namao Bhagavatai Shree Jesu Christia

Namah".

Then, imagine Swami performing a High Mass in Latin. Well, He did.

And then he blessed the bread, and the wine, and offered it to each of

us. When we went up to the altar, first Maa placed the sign of the

cross on our third eye with sacred ash, then we knelt before Swami,

and received the blessed wine and bread.

What a high time.

Then we went back to our seats and sang Christmas carols for 45

minutes. The last carol was "We all want our Figgy Pudding", and we

sang the last chorus over and over till Maa brought us all real

homemade figgy pudding which She made Herself.

After all this bliss, Maa and Swami jumped up, and started singing

"When the "Saints go Marching In", and for the next 20 minutes, we all

danced together, jumping, circling around the entire Temple, hand in

hand, and then smaller circles, with Maa in the center, dancing and

singing and clapping.

Finally, the singing stopped, and Maa and Swami hugged each and every

one of us and blessed us again.

As they left the Temple, we exchanged a huge pile of presents,

laughing and hugging and smiles ear to ear. No one could stop smiling.

Christ was truly born. Each of our hearts was full of the Divine

Light, the Eternal Light, the Light that lead us to be born, and the

Light that shines in every smile of every being on this Earth.

Glory to Jesus, born among us this day.

Please join us all in spreading this Divine Light, this Love Eternal.

Make a sankalpa, a firm commitment, to spread this Love Divine to

everyone, in every thought, word, and deed.

Maa and Swami came to Earth with this sankalpa. We can do it too. We

just have to make that sankalpa. How the Earth could change, would

change, if we did this.

Let's Do It.

 

Jai Maa Jai Swami

 

love

 

vishweshwar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In , "Karen" <forall10q wrote:

>

> We are so excited to be listening to the Devi Mandir Christmas Carolers

> on a chilly, snowy night in Colorado. It's amazing. Every time we

> said, "sure wish we could see the singers or the band," the camera

> person seemed to hear us, and zappo, the camera moved. Thanks for

> hearing and responding. Right now both web cams are perfect! Sound is

> really good, too. This is most definitely a wish fulfilled. It must

> take great effort to produce this, and we thank you again and again.

> Our holiday plans were dashed by a huge holiday blizzard so we can't be

> with family. However, being with the Devi Mandir Family in this way

> brings an endearing warmth that is truly uplifting. Though we won't be

> spending Christmas Eve with our relatives this year, we will be looking

> forward to inviting Devi Mandir into our home through the magic of

> technology. What an unexpected delight! Love, Michael and Karen

>