A true Aquarian is a person whose consciousness is no longer centred on the self but has become universal. His guiding principle is to enable others to prosper and develop spiritually.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Aquarius illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Aquarius paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings.

It is now a week ago that I started the journey back home from India and nearly five weeks since the start. Through the fog of inner and outer impressions, the contours of what I experienced slowly become clearer. In this mist, there is a light shining through which becomes stronger when I contemplate on it, and I might call it the essence. It is inside but it is shining into the outer as well. It has been impregnating me and keeps doing so.

The journey itself is like a multi-dimensional cinema experience – I go in and I go out again. And the intensity fades when the cinema show ends. With a cinema show, there is mostly no lasting impact. And it is the same with many things I encounter in India – they are not of relevance for my life in the West and face away again. But each journey is like a “reset” of my life which is not possible when I stay comfortably at home. It is a transformation experience. Such a pilgrimage journey helps me to better align to the purpose of my life. And gain fresh vigour and determination.

There were many exchanges, I saw saw many forms of community/communities and coherence/being together. With the group members and other people I encountered, I perceived an intense striving for divinity, expressing spirituality in daily life. It was much stronger perceivable than in the surroundings of my Western life. And this was very inspiring. Although I cannot and do not want to live and work and express myself in a way I saw in India – and I also saw forms which kept me at a distance and were disgusting – it gave me fresh resolve to express divinity and spirituality in my life and through the ways and forms which are possible in my surroundings. It is a matter of inner attitude. This fresh impulse is most essential for me.

The Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain

At the beginning of the journey, on the very first day, Sri Joshi showed Mark and me photos from a manuscript which he and Shreya had taken at the Getty Research Institute in LA, the Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain (Master CSG). I was very thrilled to see the beautiful drawings and writings in perfect handwriting mostly in cipher language. It was a touch of the great Master who had built a bridge of the wisdom of Hierarchy from the East to the West – although it still remains a mystery. I didn’t know about this book but we are reading in a German study group the “Most Holy Trinosophia” of Master CSG, which Master EK had mentioned, and Sri Joshi wanted to send the photos. I didn’t receive it but the information came in other ways, by sharing with group members and some further search: the entire book is scanned and online; it is translated into English here. There are two manuscripts of the Triangular Book, one dated 1775, the other 1750. There is a very interesting website about it, “The Triangular Book“, by an anonymous author, giving an aura of mystery. He hinted at a book and he might be the author himself, since he writes about “my publication of Triangular Book of St. Germain (Ouroboros Press, 2014). So, it is probably Nick Koss, who produced an exquisite limited edition reproduction published in Seattle, from where my friend Mark Ray came and where he passed over at return of our journey, completing his cycle on earth.

I do not know which is the relevance of all these impressions and all information about the “Triangular Book” of Master CSG for me. But I mention here this story because it shows well how mysteries reveal themselves when the time is ripe, even if it takes centuries. I learn not to rush but let things develop themselves.

And this is, where the end of my blog-posts about the “Journey to Group Livings of WTT in India” touches the beginning. The mystery of the extremely intense experiences of this journey.

The recording of Saturday’s 4th Aquarian Salon has just been published:

This recording of the fourth “Aquarian Salon” about Art, Astrology and Wisdom Teachings, 20 Jan. 2024, is about an experiment of online group exchange on spiritual topics with the power of the group. All was done just for the joy of doing as a free and non-commercial initiative.

The entire recording is 01:49 h. If you would like to see a specific part, go directly to:

Welcome, explaining the schedule: 0:20
Guitar piece: 02:02
Prayer for group coherence: 06:52
Introduction: Intuition – The Raincloud of Knowable Things… : 08:15
Exchange on image: Capricorn – The Mount, the Star, the White Robe and the Gate of Death : 18:40
Exchange on image: Aquarius – The Mother with the Aquarian Pot : 38:15
Exchange on image: Pisces – The Great Fish and the Seed of the Universe : 54:20
Exchange on image: Leo – The Tree of the Universe and the Cosmic Teaching Principle : 01:09:30
Exchange on image: Capricorn – The Column of Consciousness: 01:21:26
Tribute to Mark Ray: 01:39:40
Musical Closing: 1:45:00
Violet Flame Invocation: 1:46:30: Violet Flame Invocation, followed by
Next Dates & Invitation to After Hour

The virtual exchange was prepared and presented by a team of 5:
Slides (operated by Lauren), participants care (Rosa), musical inputs (guitar, Frank), introduction talk and moderation (Risa), “Images of Synthesis”, explanations (Ludger).
Further: a Prayer for Group Coherence, and an Invocation of the Violet Flame

About 28 persons from 8 countries participated and contributed with their thoughts as much as they wanted. Feedback from a participant: “Beautiful paintings and very thorough and brilliant explanation of all the elements! Love it.”

Information / further meetings (PDF)
Images of Synthesis
Exchanges / Updates on Telegram

Even though I was still a little weak from the Guru Puja celebrations and the diarrhoea, I didn’t want to drop the trip to Pithapuram. It was my 8th trip to the temple at the birthplace of Sripada Srivallabha, the first avatar of Lord Dattatreya in Kali Yuga, and when I started the German translation and the publication of the revised English version 9 years ago, I had promised to bring the further translations to the temple on this basis. Above all, it was an inner promise, and the work has deeply influenced my life.

Reyes had brought the newly published Spanish Sripada biography from Spain. Together with Marta and Adele from the WTT Sripada group from the area of Girona, we wanted to bring the book to the temple. Soon after the morning prayers on the 14th we started with a taxi, accompanied by Sandeep as a guide and translator. It is a journey of about 180 km and the temple closes at 12 am, so we didn’t want to be late. Pithapuram is in a way a labyrinth, and it took again some time to find the Maha Samsthanam temple. It is small and there are nearly no signs in the town indicating how to find it.

As Master Kumar once told us, it is a place of highest energy but veiled. We need to align and orient inside. And so we did. Srī Sajjanagada Ramaswamy (1925 – 2018), the late spiritual head of the temple did not install any follower; there is a temple administration taking care of organisational affairs but it is not a spiritual head. And there are priests conducting ritualistic activities.

Reyes handed over the Spanish book to the director of the temple, who invited us to a coffee in his office. We spoke a bit about our earlier visits and the German and English Sripada biographies published by the WTT.

When driving back to Visakhapatnam, I was in a state of digestion. There had been so many impressions, exchanges and experiences the last days. I felt that it now needs time to digest. The next day, most of the group members from the West left again, going back home or to other places. There were intense talks with those who stayed back and couldn’t leave due to flight connection problems.

I slept very little in the last night and tried to pin down some impressions. Around 10 am, Murthy and Ravishankar came to bring me to Visakhapatnam airport. On the way I thought, it is still 3.5 hours until departure. They brought me to the entry of the airport. When I wanted to enter, the security guard informed me that my flight connection to Bangalore was cancelled and that I should go to the counter of Indigo airlines. I was shocked. I didn’t have access to my e-mail accounts the last days due to a technical problem. I was not the only one waiting at the counter. I came to know that the only way to reach my international flight at 9:30 pm from Bangalore was to catch the 12:30 am Chennai and in the evening a flight to Bangalore. Arrival would be late. I inwardly called for help and guidance. And it was there.

I got a very last minute place at the 12:30 flight to Chennai and rushed as fast as possible to check-in and security. The boarding was already in process. In Chennai I had to wait some hours in a mass of travellers. I tried to stay aligned and focused inside, doing some spiritual practices.

The evening flight was late and also a bit delayed. In Bengaluru, there is a new international airport, where I had to catch the shuttle bus with my luggage. I ran through the airports. At the Etihad counter, the check-in had been through but I came still in time for the flight to Abu Dhabi. In the plane, the travellers were encouraged to use their mobiles for getting access to information and entertainment – there were no more information screens in the plane and I couldn’t understand the announcements but thought, we will arrive in Abu Dhabi anyhow and it’s time to sleep.

The flight to Zurich was fine but it had strong counter-winds. I somehow noticed that we were passing over Iran and Turkey – below some global conflict zone. But we were like in another dimension where I either slept or was carried away by a movie. I saw Dune, the third adaptation of 2021 of an epic science-fiction film with partly occult scenes.

At Zurich I lost a train connection because customs controlled me and checked the Brahmi boxes….. they phoned to someone and found that it’s ok… But soon, there was another connection. It was raining and snowing outside when my wife picked me up at the railway station. I arrived home, very tired.

I felt that I was very much protected and guided by the MASTER – several times, I had experienced incredible short term “openings” to the next steps of the journey. When my mind became restless, I listened inside and always felt: “Everything will be fine and OK” and so it was.

From January 10th in the evening to January 13th, 2024, there was the celebration of the 63rd Master CVV Guru Puja Celebration at a festival site in Visakhapatnam. The tradition of celebrating a global Yoga Festival was initiated by Master EK in 1962. The yoga of Master CVV is the central theme of these gatherings, and truth seekers from East and West are invited to experience collectively the One Master who manifests in many ways.

Group livings similar to the Guru Pujas are celebrated in many countries on astrologically important days such as full moons, new moons, equinoxes and solstices or the May Call Days to tone up their practices and deepen their understanding. Like in previous years, books and other teachings were available at the Guru Pujas and accommodation, food and other facilities were offered with Love and without demanding monetary contributions. The participants offer their services and resources and learn to transcend mundane considerations by their self-offering. Thus, the Guru Pujas are a grand ritual in the spirit of the Yoga of Synthesis and in tune with the hierarchical Plan.

The core of the Guru Pujas is that the World Teacher Trust worships Lord Krishna as the World Teacher presiding over the universe and Lord Maitreya as the head of the Teaching Hierarchy on this planet. Master KPK had conducted the Guru Pujas from 1984 until 2022, the year of his passing. Now, a team of the managing council of the WTT in India conducts the Guru Pujas as a group activity.

The main focus was on the morning and evening group prayers/meditations. Like in other years, there was a fire ritual, a water ritual and the Lalitha Puja for women in honour of the World Mother, a naming ceremony for small children and initiation to literacy as well as initiation into the Gayatri mantram.

There were lectures by speakers from various centres and book presentations by Kulapathi Book Trust (publication of books by Master EK on “Suparna Suktam”, “Spiritual Personality Development” and “Masters and Disciples in the Modern Age” – PDFs of the books will be published later), by Dhanishta Editions (K. Parvathi Kumar: 108 Names of Kumara) and a booklet from Sadguru Tapovana group, Bengaluru, of a lecture of Master KPK on “Merry Life Day”. There were cultural contributions such as musical programs or group singing.

On 12 January, there was the section on “Fusion of East and West.” Guru Prasad had invited Reiner from Germany, Dona from Spain and me on the dais. He introduced us to the audience and presented the new publications brought from Europe.

Reiner, the treasurer of WTT Germany, spoke about group activities in Germany. Dona, a homoeopath and Ayurveda practitioner from Spain, spoke about her path into healing activities. I gave a talk about the stages of the Externalisation of Hierarchy and the role of Master EK and Master KPK in this regard. Here is the YouTube recording of my talk.

I mentioned that the Guru Pujas had always deeply impressed me ever since I started regularly coming in January from 2001 on. Several times, Master Kumar had pointed out to relate to the Great Ones through the images trying to perceive their invisible Presence. The pictures help us to link to the Masters and the divine beings, and maybe we can experience them when invoked in the group livings through the prayers, the rituals and the wisdom teachings. This way, the Hierarchy inspires our activities and interactions and uplifts us to the planes of experience and be-ness, beyond mental concepts.

Besides these Fusion of East and West talks, all other interactions were in Telugu only – besides an English word or sentence here and there, all was in Telugu only. So, we could only follow by inner linking and turning inside. It is a Saturnian discipline. Last year, I had mentioned the importance of the use of English as the Aquarian language and some had spoken English and Telugu – I didn’t want to bring up this topic again.

I do not want to demand anything or to tell what should be done. But in individual talks I mentioned that I am coming from a small multi-language country where translation is very normal in many social interactions, and that at the last May Call celebration in Germany most of the activities were translated into English to include a few non-German speakers, besides regular translation of WTT Zoom transmissions. And I expressed my hope for an opening of the “Telugu language bubble” to possibly include also people from other Indian language groups and from overseas, to make the group livings global. There is not need to translate everything – it was very helpful and necessary with the teachings of Master Kumar. But may an inner urge be felt by the speakers themselves to make the import of their words also available to a larger audience by integrating English. And that this way, the Guru Pujas might become more inclusive.

In the afternoon of January 12th, I felt the “Indian washing machine” approaching – the yoghurt from the Westerners’ lunch had probably been left in the heat for too long. I started to have diarrhoea – and not just me. So I missed one day of the celebration, stayed in my room and slept a lot until Saturday lunchtime. when I went back to the Guru Puja – and continued drowsing there. This is also one of the Guru Puja experiences I am familiar with – it is a cleansing process with bodily re-adjustments. When in the evening the melody of the “Guru Padukam” sounded at the end of the celebration, I was tired, but felt happy about the experiences and encounters.

Eastern scriptures describe how the sage Agastya drank the waters of the oceans in order to save humanity. There were demons hiding under the oceans. At night they came out and ate the humans. The devas felt helpless and asked Agastya to help them. So Agastya absorbed the waters of the ocean for six hours. This enabled the devas to kill the dark forces. The Master then released the waters and the ocean was filled with water once again.

This story is an allegory about the ascending path of the waters. When the Sun moves again northwards after the winter solstice, the warmer rays cause the water to rise up from the oceans. The drinking of the oceans is associated with the evaporation of water, which occurs through the activity of Aquarius.

In the Age of Aquarius, humanity, which has sunk deep into matter, is lifted up again to spirit. Agastya, the cosmic Master Jupiter, releases the energies of Aquarius and thus, contributes to the upliftment of the earth. Symbolically, Agastya drinks up the oceans to help overcome the demons of the lower regions. Agastya always comes to help the earth in great crises.

For the design of the picture I worked with an old Indian drawing of Agastya’s feat and with photos of the Iguazú Falls in Argentina/Brazil.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Aquarius illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Aquarius paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter giving thoughts from the wisdom teachings to inspire putting them into practice.

Over the last months, Mark Ray and I had developed the plans for our journey to India. Mark was a third generation theosophist from Seattle, USA, in link with the Wisdom teachings since his youth. He studied psychology but preferred to work with his hands, so he specialised on renovating houses. For years, he was very active in the Theosophical Society Seattle, be it as president, be it in development of Indralaya, a theosophical center on Orcas Island committed to community and spiritual development.

Ever since he came into contact with the WTT he increasingly committed himself to build a bridge between theosophy and the World Teacher Trust teachings of Master KPK and Master EK. He met Master KPK at a group living in San Jose, California, in 2018 and again at the May Call 2019 at Mount Shasta, California. There, we shared a room together and very quickly became friends. For me, it was like meeting a brother in a deeper sense of the word.

We had been in regular monthly contact via Zoom. These were intense exchanges about many spiritual topics. And nearly at every exchange, Mark gave me profound astrological insights, be it from the perspective of Western or of Vedic astrology – in both, he was very well versed.

On 22 December early morning, we met at Bengaluru airport, he coming from Seattle via Frankfurt, me from Zurich via Abu Dhabi, arriving by chance at the same moment at the immigration counters.

Next day, we went to the Master Mountain Retreat Center in the Niligiris, the Blue Mountains of South India, the place of the ashram of the great Rishi Agastya, where we spent 4 days. Then we returned to Sadguru Tapovana, the WTT center in Bengaluru, where we participated at the December Call celebrations.

Afterwards we flew to Visakhapatnam and participated in the group living there.

We shared the room together over the entire journey and had intense exchanges. These were very harmonious days and Mark was continuously active speaking with members about their astrological charts. He had a GoPro camera with him and we did a number of video interviews about WTT activities at different places – we planned to do a report. And he recorded a gorgeous sunrise in the Nilagiris and we planned to do a video with an Indian bamboo flute player, Kaliprasad, whom we met in Bengaluru and in Vizag.

On Tuesday, 9 January, he started his return journey. From Vizag airport, he wrote to me at noon time:
“I didn’t get to say goodbye but we will see each other again soon on Zoom. I am at the airport and went through check in a security without problems. Then I found my hat upstairs and something western to eat. No more rice for a while. 🙂
There is now a blizzard warning over the mountains to my home so I may have to stay overnight at my sisters again. India has been very kind to me on this trip. I never felt afraid to walk on the streets and had no problems except for the bronchitis. It is hard to leave so many kind and spiritual people.(…) Now I have to formulate my thoughts on the trip and how to make the World Teacher Trust more universal. Meanwhile I will rest and reconnect with family. Thank you again for this great opportunity!”

About 3 hours later, he wrote: “I am in Bangalore now and at Terminal 2. The plane was about 30 minutes late but that is not a problem for me. My Lufthansa flight leaves at 3:30 am so I have a long wait.”
Then he wrote from Frankfurt: “I caught my last flight and am about to take off. Seattle in nine hours.”

This was the last e-mail. On arrival in Seattle, on the way through the customs, Mark (26 April 1954 – 10 Jan 2024) left the body and took the flight to the subtle planes of Light. It was the time of the new moon of Capricorn -Capricorn being the time of the beginning of the solar ascent symbolizing the ascent of the Soul out of the conditioning of matter. And the time of new moon symbolizes the beginning of a new cycle of further development – a very auspicious time for passing over to continue the path on the subtle planes.

Mark had been absorbing the impressions in India like a dry sponge, also with his video cam – I asked him, “will you find time for viewing all this?” But it was a profound soul experience he had – which also made him a bit careless about his health – not only me had warned him to protect his body better and that the warmth here is rough, carrying the energies of winter and affecting the bodies, esp. those from the West.
He got a bronchitis the last days and a doctor at the seminar and healing practitioners gave him medicine. His body was somehow weakened before the return flight but he seemed to be OK. There must be a deeper reason for his sudden passing. There were signs that his soul knew about the passing already: He told several friends from the group about dreams he had during the last nights where he saw faces, esp. of his mother, staring at him, and he asked a friend of mine, “What do they want to say to me, I do not understand.” She told him, “Ask them to tell you.”

These premonitions show that the veil between the spheres was becoming thinner already and that, though a great surprise on the outer, there was a knowledge in the inner of the coming departure.

Before his departure, he gave me all his video recordings, and we had planned to do some report about the journey He had recorded a most splendorous sunrise in the Nilagiris and I had contacted a very well-known bamboo flute player here who wants to play a morning raga for the sunrise video – in a way, this is for me an expression of the gift of Mark’s inner radiance as an inspiration to others, and as his life had been for many.

Mark, farewell and have a good continuation of your journey!

Early this morning Indian time, I came to know that another dear friend from Germany had passed over exactly the same day as Mark, Renate Vincent from Germany. She was one of the early German translators of the books of Master EK. About 2 years, Master Kumar asked me to keep actively contact with her, so we had a few talks and she joined my English online study group for a short while, but then other tasks made her resign. Renate, also to you a much blessed journey to the subtle spheres of Light!

This year’s January group living of the Western brotherhood of WTT in Visakhapatnam, India, was very special, and for me already before going there. It was my 21st journey to a January group living and the 23rd journey to WTT in India, the 27th journey to spiritual group livings in India since 1982. How would things be, a bit after Master KPK had passed over 1 November 2022? Sri Kumar had often explained that the MASTER is an eternal principle and that a teacher is just an expression of of the Master Consciousness.

Master KPK has left behind a great treasure of books, audio and video recordings having come from his tremendous work of teaching. We had planned to do a seminar in the rhythm of earlier group lives with the January 2016 recordings about “Female Hierarchy”. Master’s teachings had been most sublime and the video recordings had been well edited but aren’t published yet.

Guru Prasad, the son of the Master, or Bharath, a group member and family member, were always present to ensure that the projectors were working well. We were just a small group of 8 members from Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the US. But we felt we were gathered there by the will of the Master.

It was a harmonious gathering. And it was a surprising coincidence that at the beginning of the first lecture, Master KPK mentioned that the group lives in India started in January 1988 with a small group of 8 members from the West and then slowly grew with the years, with an average of 30-60 members.

From 2 to 9 January, we saw the 10 lectures of the 2016 seminar. We were all intensely absorbed into the presence of the Master – there was no feeling of seeing a YouTube video or that the presence of the Master was not physical – it was the Presence in the presence. The temple room is strongly vibrating through the ritualistic work having gone on since 1977 at this place, although the building changed. The rooms dedicated to Master EK and Master KPK are very magnetic with the presence of the energies of the Masters and it was an ongoing profound experience, like a focal point of a radiance of Light in a vibrating silence.

We were invited to the homes of Guru Prasad, Bharath – living now with his family in the 5th floor of Radha Madhavam – and other members. We made small excursions with their cars – to the Annadanan Project (explanations later), where there is now the storage of the Dhanishta Publications, to the Bala Bhanu School of WTT seeing the radiant faces of the children, and to the social service project of Master EK Samskruthi Sadan doing professional training programs, especially for empowering women, to the temple and service project of WTT “Hamsavanam” in Ramadri, to the new impressive temple compound of the Tirupati Devastanam on a hill dedicated to Lord Venkateshvara, to the office of Chartered Accountaints “Rao and Kumar” which the Master had developed over many years and where Guru Prasad, together with 10 other associates, and many interns, are doing an impressive professional activity. It was touching sitting at the places where the Master had been working.

We further followed water and fire rituals at Radha Madhavam and participated in beautiful music concerts – of Smt Padmavathi Pappu playing Vina, accompanied by her son Jayadev, and of Kaliprasad Indraganti, an excellent bamboo flute player together with a team of other musicians.

On the 9th of January, there was the end of the seminar and the valedictory function, expressing our gratitude to Guru Prasad and his wife Gayatri and the team of helpers from the Indian brotherhood.

On 10th of January, we visited the temple of Simhachalam dedicated to Lord Narasimha. It was very nice to be there again, like in many previous years. And in the evening, the Guru Puja celebration started, about I will report later. But something else also happened which impacted the entire group and especially me, about which I will the in the next blog post – the passing of my dear friend Mark Ray, who had started his home journey on the 9th.

It was nice to be back to the Retreat Center of WTT and to gather in the morning for prayer / meditation at Radha Madhavam, the WTT-temple where Master KPK used to give his lectures. 31 December in the afternoon, together with 3 friends, we took a three-wheeler and went along the coastal road to visit the Planetary Healing Center. It is about 15 km from the place where we are staying. When I came there 23 years ago, it was a place near a small road and surrounded by little forests at the foot of a pyramidal hill. Now, the entire coastal line is crowded with buildings; the city has grown tremendously and has spread along the coast, with a 4-lanes road full of intense traffic. Nevertheless, the Planetary Healing Center is still a peaceful oasis with old trees surrounded by walls.

The center has been built in the mid-90s of the last century as per suggestions of Master Kumar and it was inaugurated in January 1996 with a number of saints participating. I had been visiting the place whenever possible when coming to India, sitting there surrounded by the continuous melody of OM sounds. In the early years, we had lectures of the Master sitting at a beautiful old statue of Lord Maitreya.

The ideas of the owner were a bit different from the ones proposed by the Master, so there were no more group meetings there the last decade. When we walked around on the site, the owner and his wife were sitting in front of two little huts called with the names of two great Rishis, “Vasishta” and “Vishvamitra”. They called us in and invited us for some coffee snack. He said they are now living there since 27 years, he being 86, his wife 80. He spoke about the foundation of the center:

Master Kumar had told him that Asclepius, an ancient Greek sage/Master of healing who had appeared to him informing that centers for planetary healing might be re-opened on the planet, and that Master Kumar proposed the creation of the Planetary Healing Center near Visakhapatnam. He gave him details of how to construct the center, based on the number 7. He told him that in ancient times, there had been a place of healing and that the energies could be revived. The old man showed us a brochure about Epidaurus, which he had received from Master Kumar, and he said that he was surprised to see that the structures in Epidaurus were similar to the plan that Master Kumar had suggested to him.

I told him that we had been in Epidaurus with Master Kumar in 2005 – after the May Call Celebration in Delphi, we had done a tour with the group to sacred places on the Pelepones. Master Kumar had spoken about the statue of Asclepius with the serpent which represents the kundalini in man and in earth. I also told him that there exists a twin stone in blue, which had originally been meant for the Planetary Healing Center in Visakhapatnam and which is now at a place of healing in South Germany near Lake Constance.

Later, we sat for a while at the Maitreya statue and sang the song dedicated to Lord Maitreya before going back to Visakhapatnam.

Next morning, 1 January, we went to the statue of Master EK at the Beach Road in Visakhapatnam for a morning meditation followed by some rituals in dedication to Master EK. It is always a very sublime experience to be there with the Indian brotherhood at the beginning of the annual seminar time.

In the evening, there was a celebration at Radha Madhavam with some talks of members of the Indian brotherhood.

Next morning, the seminar for the Western brotherhood started – we were seeing the video recordings of the seminar on “Female Hierarchy” which Master Kumar had given in January 2016 – a very profound seminar.

In 1910, when Master CVV had received the Energy of Synthesis, he anchored it on the planet and started distributing it for group initiation at 29 May and at 29 December. Since 20 years, these days of group initiation have been held by the World Teacher Trust at Sadguru Tapovana in Bengaluru. And I participated in a number of these meetings.

When we returned from the Nilagiris, the preparations for the December Call celebrations were already in full swing.

Women were preparing flower arrangements, group members were busy in decorating the hall and the altar stage. And 28 Dec. evening, the celebration started, inaugurated by Sri Joshi and Guru Prasad.

Some hundred people had come from different groups – and also a small number from the West. We started early in the morning with meditation, prayer, hymns, followed later by a fire ritual and a ritual to Lord Dattatreya.

During the day, there were talks, book presentations, cultural presentations by youth groups, blessings of children. And Guru Prasad gave an inspiring talk about the meaning and importance of the December Call.

We spent the nights in the home of group members, where we received a warm welcome. The time quickly ran by, and 30 December at noon time, we were already going again to the airport for catching the afternoon flight to Visakhapatnam.