Surrender and devotion
makes us soaring high

In this dire melting
there is no question why  

Dear me! I wanted to write:
In this dear melting
there is no question why  

Beautiful!
Thanks for the pictures,
Elisabeth  

Wow what a life spirit and beauty we shared in Dolce Vita, Guru Purnima, thank you dear Madhukar, thank you dear sangha! Thank you all for your help and lovely being. Dolce vita 2010 will be from July 10-31! possible to come 2 or 3 weeks! Make up your mind and we will dance again until the morning light!! Love Pranava Lohita  

Ciao carissimi!
"La via piu' semplice", Madhukar's first book in Italian is now available! Finalmente!
Publisher: OM edizioni, Bologna, ISBN: 978-88-95687-22-3
In bookstores from Autumn on.
Have much fun reading it and with Italian course lesson 1!
Bacioni e un abbraccio
naima  

Namasté !
How did you like our celebration in Tuscany?
Please share your experiences... :)
You can also upload photos if you made some.
Love,
Arati  

From Susanne and Peter:

Guru Purnima
Only love is,
that is why I am here.

Beloved One,

Thank you from the heart for you loving rejection.

For a very short moment sadness and disappointment were here. But already while we received your refusal via Lohita we found a wonderful stone in a plane heart form directly in front of out feet. Emmediately we could feel relexation, and sadness turned into loving acceptance. The sms we immediately sent to you via Lohita already came out of a laughing heart.
With big joy we completed the garlands of flowers we had started on and put some additional adornment on them because then we had enough time.
Guru Purnima 2009 – a special celebration of love.

In the shelter of darkness, with three pictures of the Beloved Ones, adorned with the garlands of flowers, with a candle and delicate butter biscuit as prasad, we were sitting silently in the fragrant meadow in front of the retreat house, gently caressed by the light of the full moon, surrounded by countless joyfully dancing fireflies.
Very close to you – One with the Beloved.  

Untouched, silently loving, joyful devoted – happy, fulfilled, loving Being.
Very close – One with the Beloved.

With a loudly pounding heart, full of joy and thankfulness, happy and free, we listened to the wonderful song of loving silence inside.
One with the Beloved.

A present beyond all description!
Guru Purnima is always – pure love – independent and free!

Each moment of our spontaneous journey to the Beloved in the Tuscany was guided and carried by an invisible loving hand. Everything was easy and without any effort with many heart-touching moments.
Even the Guru Purnima flowers are – in spite of the long drive and the heat in the car – still beautiful, brightly and astonishing fresh.

Because I am happy I am here with you!

Thank you beloved Guru for this wonderful, loving present.

Thank you Beloved One.

In absolute devotion,
thankful and silently loving
Susanne and Peter  

Namaste,

Mystic silence ... warmth ... love ... abundance ... myriads of dancing fireflies in the Tuscany full moon night ... in the end also with stomping techno beats … a new morning … !

Shalom and Salaam,

love ... Anand Virya  

A wonderful beautiful celebration with the beloved Guruji and the wonderful cheerful people in a fantastic landscape – a wonderful dream …
The band, this special connection between Guru and devotee – the most beautiful dream there is at all and more, much more – unexplainable, beyond all words …
Unlimited faith is,
Eternal thankfulness is,
Love is.
Hare Madhukarji !
Hare Krishna !
In reverence, angela  

Thank you very much for the love greetings from Italy! Found them
just now..... therefore joy is so much bigger :)I am just clicking thru You Tube. Everything you are saying is so true and right!Everything is always leading back to the One. Really true is only silence.  

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! It was and is wonderful! and the youtube video is fantastic !!!
Love Anja  

Wonderful! Wonderful Guru Purnima, danced under the bright full moon towards enlightenment. The Guru shines from inside.
purna  

It was wonderful! Laughing, singing, dancing and full of thankfulness we celebrated with our beloved Guruji under the magnificent full moon!

Jaya Madhukarji!
Ki Jai Ho!  

Immeasurable grace being allowed to celebrate Guru Purnima with you. Deep silence and hot rhythms until dawn. Wonderful.
Jutta  

A ceremony full of love and devotion, being touched and immeasurable ecstasy. May it never end. Pure grace to be allowed to be with you beloved Guruji.
Jaya Jaya Madhukarj
Leela  

Love called me to Tuscany to celebrate the thankfulness to the Guru together with the Sangha. Pure joy. Silently preparing all arrangements, creating a carpet made of flowers, sitting to your lotos feet, singing and dancing under free skies until the morning sun replaced the full moon. Enjoying Satsang at the beach.
Thank you from my heart beloved Guruji
Shivani  

I am so happy that I was allowed to be present in Tuscany. Thank you very much for this wonderful present, adored Master Madhukarji. Thank you very much. It was so abundant, so full, so blessing for me!!! It is, it is like this!!! Your Bernd  

at the pulse of eternity
in the silence of timelessness
in the pulse with the Master and the Sangha
in the boundlessness of joy
overflowing joy and thankfulness
under FREE sky endless
eternal youth of danced through nights
without words
grace
blessing  

From Bernd:

According to the wish and suggestion of a dear friend I write some lines about Guru Purnima, the celebration of veneration of the Master, that took place in the night from July 7 until 8, 2009 in Monticello Amiata, at the mountain Monte Amiata, the mountain of love, in Tuscany, Italy.

Hello dear friends,

Yes, Guru Purnima was a very special festival, two days as I never experienced before, three, four, with the ones afterwards and before, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten… At the ceremony on July 7 Rita – brightly shining – was reading to us from a wonderful book that the bands between Master and disciple, between Master and devotee would be renewed and strengthened. The day started with having breakfast together, fruits and tea, water, milk and honey was offered. Actually the day started with getting up, washing, showering, getting ready and driving together by car to the place of the celebration. But all these details and immensenesses of that day cannot be told here.
A day of fasting for preparation, for catharsis and focusing on the Self. At first, Satsang took place together with the Master in silence. Keeping still, being silent during the day, only important communication for focusing on what is essential. It was wonderful, a beautiful, magnificent retreat place as I have seldom experienced it. Located in a deep valley surrounded by marvelous lushly green meadows and dark Tuscany forests, the sun was shining, the bees were humming, everything was soft, warm, sunny and fresh. The people gathered together in groups to make the preparations for the celebration, Guru Purnima, and a magnificent night afterwards. Dear women were walking through meadows collecting flowers for a flower-carpet and for mandalas and hearts for the Master, a music stereo system that would have fit each professional DJ, set up on the terrace in front of the Satsang room, with lighting system, cross-beam, light and sound show etc. A very special present for the Master: Some of the beams were sending the M-logo in the most glowing colors onto the floor, on the houses of the residence, into the sky and out into the world. It was grandiose. I was allowed to film the people, the surroundings, taking impressions of the day, and was allowed to see the place with other eyes. Other eyes? Which should that be…!?!
Well, the day was passing by, the mermaids were swimming in the pool and the evening came closer and closer. Slowly the sun disappeared behind the hills and colored the people, the flowers, the houses and everything into a beautiful, warm, sunsetredyellowsunbeautiful Marvelous. Arati, the singer, was preparing mantras and songs with the ones who got pleased by it. It was great. All together going after their small and big tasks, or were just simply being there, being. We were staying at the Satsang place for a couple of hours before the event took place. Singing, dancing, laughing. Some sunken into the effect of the holy celebration and anchored in the Here, in the Now, in the presence of the Master and of Being.

You dear ones, I could keep on writing for a long time for telling you what I have experienced these days, so full of abundance, beauty, ecstasy and intensity. So beautiful with deep encounters with many people, while driving through the landscape of Tuscany, Satsang in the sunset at the beach with the Master, the rush of the ocean and the screaming of the sea gulls.
60, 70 or even more searchers and having found ones together at a hidden beach, facing ocean and sun, holding each others hands, and, guided by the Guru, arms up towards the sky and then - just like on single, joyful, happy wave - running towards the flow and diving down, still united with the hands, fizzy, happy.  

(...)
What a wonderful picture; and the night during and after the ceremony was one big party. Each one laying a rose down to the Master’s feet, bowing low in front of the grace of the Self, chanting, singing, louder and louder, stronger and more powerful than before. So that the whole world gets to know what is celebrated here. Before this, the Master’s feet have been washed and anointed and have been embedded in blossoms of roses. Beautiful, so many shining, happy and delighted faces in the room!

The party night, breaking our Lent with having dinner together in the middle of the night. Fried vegetables, risotto, candlelight, moonlight ….. Purnima and sweetest food were served to us.
The organic red wine the people of the property are growing on the surrounding hills started to flow, all were one with the Guru, sitting together on a long table. What a present, so wonderful encounters of people who cherish each other, love each other and who are focused on THAT. Gorgeous, wonderful. We danced through the night, driven by the power of Madhukarji, his awakeness, truth, clarity and joy of life. We danced, laughed and were celebrating under the full moon in the never ending sounds of the electronic music of our DJ Sukkhadas. Fortunately, it did not end, and some of us did without any sleep to celebrate love together.
The next day we had breakfast together. We were full of what happened the last 24 hours and we were looking forward to what is and what is yet to come. A further present: Meeting the Master at a hidden beach. Well, I could write and write to share all these impressions and moments with you, hold onto them, letting them go, freedom, love, happiness. Thank you venerated Guruji, thank you dear Master for your everlasting focus on what is essential, clear, bright, straight and pure like the brazen blade of a sword. Thank you for what we were allowed to experience during these days of the celebration and after it.
It was a true present that we were allowed to be there. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your Bernd from Freiburg