Journey to Group Livings of WTT in India, Part 3: First days in Visakhapatnam
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.
