Journey to India 24-25, 9: WTT Group Life in Visakhapatnam
Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Summary
Coming to the group lives for the Western Brotherhood of WTT in Visakhapatnam is always a beautiful time – meeting with friends and new members, and exchanging and viewing profound wisdom teachings of Master KPK together. We stayed in the WTT Retreat Centre at “Angels Enclave”.
Early morning on 1st of January, we went to the Master EK statue at the beach road called SudaraVanam. There were the morning prayers followed by some rituals in honour of Master EK, joint singing of hymns and having breakfast together.
Later in the morning, we went to the AndariTalli project of Danishta Foundation in Vishakhapatnam where a food distribution project is conducted by Dhanishta Foundation. Many people receive daily food prepared at this center. It is also the center where a large part of the books of Danishta are stored and made ready for distribution.
In the evening there was the meeting with the Indian Brotherhood at the WTT temple RadhaMadhavam for the release of the yearly Telugu calendar of WTT India. And there was also the first meeting of the seminar.
The topic was “Asvins, the Cosmic Twin Gods” (see on YouTube), a seminar recording with Master Kumar from January 2019. It was a very profound seminar. A book has now been published at the Guru Puja on the basis of this seminar.
We had daily two lectures from this seminar and also meetings with Parvathi Varanasi, the sister of Master Kumar, who taught us the intonation of the Ashvins Stotram (hymn); this was a very profound experience.
Thursday 4th of January, there was a fire ritual in the morning.
In the afternoon, the group went to Ramadri, a beautiful place with a service center of the World Teacher Trust.
There is a cow protection project (Go Seva) and there are also little little temples all over this place.
We meditated at Ramadri in the evening and returned to Visakhapatnam.
On 7th of January we went to the school Bala Bhanu Vidyalayam school of World Teacher Trust for value-based education and saw many beautiful smiling children’s faces. And we had looks into different classes and then later sat together in the court of the school.
After this visit, we went to Master EK Samskruthi Sadan, a service Center for training women in tailoring and other activities to empower them for various kinds of professional activity like tailoring. During this visit, certificates were distributed to to the women and the accomplishments honored.
In the afternoon we went to Simhachalam temple outside Vishakhapatnam. It is always fascinating to see the Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple but this was the first time in the evening. We had a tour through the temple where many things were explained. There is a strong energy present at the innermost sanctum of the temple.
During the seminar, the group was several times invited for a meal at the home of Indian group members – a very family atmosphere.
9th of January, there was the final meeting of the seminar on Asvins. It concluded with a little celebration, a valedictory meeting.
In the evening, after the meditation, the prayer, we came together for a dinner at the basement of RadhaMadhavam offered by the Indian brotherhood.
