On August 8, 2012 the monsoon clouds finally hit Jadan ashram and rain started to pour down! It should normally come around July 1 but during last years the situation is getting worse. The rain doesn’t come in time and its intensity is much less than it used to be 10-15 years ago.
Mataji - Celebrating Mother as a cosmic principle of love and protection is the significance of this simple address which has deep roots in Indian culture. Mataji is all-embracing love and protection of all creatures that are as close as one’s own. Mataji means strength, the strength of tenderness, the power of simple life originating from gentleness and harmlessness.
The Talab completely dried out around 5th May and our masons immediately started to complete a missing lower strip of plaster at the north and west walls. It took several days including night shifts. When this work was finished we started with cleaning the sediment soil which is getting deposited at the bottom of Talab.
A few days after we shifted the rescued fish from drying out Talab to the Om Ashram water tanks, we noticed that one lizard – the Common Indian Monitor (Varanus bengalensis) - entered one of the tanks.
For the last four years, Rajasthan has been facing a severe drought. The extremely hot and dry climate during 6 months of the year, with temperature reaching 49 degrees, is a great challenge for humans and animals. Because there are almost no surface water recourses (like lakes and rivers) left, the habitants depend mainly on groundwater.
After returning to Jadan Ashram on 23rd April 2012 from visiting two ashrams in Jodhpur area (read here), Swamiji gave a very beautiful and a most inspiring satsang about Guru and disciple relationship and confidence.
