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Your Community Growth Fund! |
Your consistent monthly donations sustain the foundation of the Mother Ashram. Giving what you can is greatly honored.
What would inspire you to give? If you are considering becoming a monthly contributor, but have reservations, we would love to hear your feedback.
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| Honoring the long time contributors |
We would like to honor those individuals of the community who over the years have consistently been able to honor SSS's hukam that every adult is responsible to pay ashram dues of $100 per person. Thank you for your sacrifice, gift and giving.
Thank you
Dev Suroop Kaur
"I give because it helps to support and nurture all the many ways that our community serves. "
"Whosoever will serve this house, he shall be served forever."
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NEW ashram events! |
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Save the date!
Mother Ahsram Gift Shop has been rescheduled to open some time in October.
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1A Ram Das Guru Place
Espanola, New Mexico 87532
8:00AM-5:00PM
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You in Community August 2009
Community is our collective giving, loving, sharing and growing. This new monthly bulletin celebrates and highlights the the many individuals and projects that create and sustain our beloved mother ashram. As we give, we do receive. Here's celebrating you in community! |
I love being part of community because....
of the simple things. It's getting to go to the Gurdwara on Sunday and do prakash with one or two other people, who are around that early. It's spending time with people I grew up with in India and have years and years of history with. It's having a group of mothers around me that are trying to do the same thing I am, raise great kids.
Something people might not know about me: I love to read! James Clavell and Orson Scott Card are two of my favorite authors.
I would also like to share:
I am extremely proud of my father. He is working so hard to bring his farming dreams to life and succeeding at it, a little bit every day. I never seem to have enough time to help as much as I would like so, I am sending a shout out to him and hoping that perhaps I inspire just one person to get involved with the community farming project or Khalsa Greenhouses.
Sadh Bakshish Kaur Khalsa |
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 Mother Ashram Community Growth Fund
Yogi Bhajan gave a hukham for the members of the mother ashram to pay $100 per month for every adult. There are other rates for younger people and students. His hukham was to motivate us in a loving way to take care of the mother who takes care of us. Our ashram is fully funded by our collective contributions. Currently there are around 90 families that are able to make the full donation. Though Yogi Bhajan gave a specific amount, many of us are making contributions as we can. As we aim for the goal of the full amount please know that any contributions made are honored and deeply appreciated. Our donations help pay for our ashram secretary services, care and maintenance of our ashram, and so much more. In our next issue we will be providing a graph that shows the exact percentage of funds going to each area of our budget. Whatever your donation big or small we would like to thank you for your caring of the mother ashram.
"This is the root of everything. Here we come for shelter. Here we come for help. If we don't fill the cup, nothing will flow out of it."
~Yogi Bhajan |
 This Months Featured
Unsung Hero
Thank you for your selfless service!
We would like to honor Guru Simran Kaur Sr. for developing, running and consistently giving her love and support to the childrens program. She is dedicated to running this program in order to bring the Sikh teachings to our children. Her actions are inspired by her own love of the teachings and a deep feeling in her heart that this is part of her calling. Thank you Guru Simran Kaur. Your time, energy and service are appreciated and honored. Our children have learned and continue to learn more and more about the Sikh path in the childrens' program. May you forever be blessed for your service.
"Those who will give their seva, their service, or do simran here because God guided them, then God will also guide them to Infinity"
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What's Up in the Community Garden?
By Kulwant Kaur
You may have walked by the field with the beautiful painted sign designating it as our Community Garden and seen a bunch of grass growing and thought, hummm, that's not too impressive... where are the veggies? Well, we do have veggies, but just to confuse you, we've planted them somewhere else. And you will soon have a chance to buy some of our fledging crop after Gurdwara at our very own Farmer's Market.
But let me back track to that field of grass for a moment. It's also doing something more exciting that may not appear at first sight. When it came time for spring planting we determined that the soil was not yet ready to sustain veggies, so we let the cover crop of winter rye stay in the soil a while longer. Then we plowed it under as green manure so it could build the soil. We will soon be planting another cover crop - most likely hairy vetch, which I hear sprouts some lovely flowers. So in addition to helping build the soil, it will be a bit more decorative as well. So, you see, there really is something going on in that field.
But back to the veggies. Kartar Singh and Gurubani Kaur generously extended us one of the greenhouses on their property for our first veggie crop. Ravi Kaur of the Trio School provided us with a wide variety of organic seeds she had received from Seeds of Change and we planted a little of almost everything to see what would came up. So now we have beets, chard, corn, squash, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, beans, growing like crazy over there. We are going to pick whatever looks good and offer it to the sangat in our very first after Gurdwara Farmer's Market. All proceeds will be "plowed back" into the community garden project. You'll have to excuse the pun, but agricultural metaphors just keep coming to me ever since we began this project!
Please keep tuned for our announcement of what Sunday we will have the Farmers Market. It will be so much fun to share with you our first generation of veggies from the Mother Ashram community garden! |
 New Community Members
A warm welcome to those who have just moved here.
If you have just moved to the Mother Ashram we would like to make sure you have everything you need to get a good head start. Please contact us for a welcome packet and more resources that may help with your transition. It is an honor to be in community with you. Welcome!
Featured new member: Sukhbir Singh
Most recently lived:
My home is Florida. I lived there most of my life, spent six months in Charleston, South Carolina, then went to New York City for three month before arriving here.
A little about me:
I was a professional fisherman for about thirty years, mostly sport fishing, traveling to Mexico, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Central and South America on a regular basis, chasing fish. When we had the rash of hurricanes in Florida a few years back, I was introduced to my current business, which is debt settlement. I caught on quickly and did well with it and started my own business about two years ago, which is called EZ Debt Removal. I was introduced to Kundalini yoga while in New York. I immediately felt a very strong desire to learn more and to integrate it into my life. That is how I found Espanola and why I am here. And I wouldn't want to forget to mention my puppy Neyla. She is part of the community too.
I would also like to share:
One of the great attractions of coming here is the work several members of the community do with the healing of addictions. For the past two years, myself and two friends have formed a non-profit based in New York called Models against Addictions. Our goal to open a holistic treatment center and utilize Kundalini yoga and the different techniques that are being taught here in our center.
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Sangat Birthday's for August
Now featured on the ashram website at: www.espanolaashram.com
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Computer Corner
By Guruka Singh
Faster, Faster!Okay, who wants to be shorter?Well you do if you are sending Web links to people using email. Those long links get broken in emails and then the person to whom you are sending it has to copy and paste the pieces of the long link back together. In the past I've recommended TinyURL for shrinking long links, but Dr. Soram found something even better. Try Bitly at http://bit.ly/ Take a look at the right sidebar and drag the "Browser Bookmarklet" up onto your links toolbar, then all you have to do is click it when you are on any web page and it'll automagically create the short URL for you. read more >
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 August Calendar
August 15-25 - Guru Guru Wahe Guru meditation in sangat homes leading up to Siri Singh Sahib Ji Birthday sadhana on August 26th. Locations TBA
August 22 - A Festival of Destiny - A Celebration of the Life and
Legacy of Yogi Bhajan at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das. read more >
August 26 - Special sadhana commemorating the Siri Singh Sahib's birthday. read more >
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The center of our Ashram
If you ever have any questions regarding the ashram or any needs, please contact our main ashram secretary, Mata Gurumeher Kaur. She is the heart and hub of everything that goes on at the ashram. Below is a list of some of the items to touch base with Mata ji about.
Check in with Mata GuruMeher Kaur at Ashram office
- to schedule any event using the Gurdwara, Langar Hall and/or Guru's kitchen.
- to donate any items to grounds, Gurdwara, kitchen, Langar Hall or to request any changes
- to post anything on bulletin boards or on emails
- to "sign in" if you are a newcomer to our community. We would like to welcome all newcomers and visitors
- to share any concerns or suggestions
- to set up fund raisers
- to have your questions routed to the right person/office
P.S. Please help us keep the Mother Ashram Clean. After eating or participating in any ashram events, kindly make sure you have placed your trash in the garbage. Many hands make light work!
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