Dear Friends,

As we enter the new year, I offer my deep appreciation — and that of all the Maharishi Vedic Pandits in India — to everyone in the global family of meditators and sidhas who are naturally helping to bring about a better world. As a key part of accomplishing that goal, we are moving ahead to quickly have a permanent group of 8,000 Vedic Pandits at the Brahmasthan of India, and we feel your kind attention and support bring us closer to the goal.

I have just finished an inspiring visit to the Brahmasthan to evaluate the progress there at the Global Capital of Raam Raj, where we presently have about 1,200 Maharishi Vedic Pandits. I experienced again the powerful sweetness and peace that radiates from such a large gathering of devoted experts in Maharishi’s Vedic Technologies.

Maharishi Vedic Pandits performing a yagya.

It was a great delight to see each of the Vedic Pandits and check for myself – and on your behalf – how they are doing. We visited each of their bedrooms, dining rooms, Vedic performance halls and meditation rooms. We went through all the grounds and met with those charged with ensuring the physical beauty of the Brahmasthan, including planting fruit trees. We met with the dear Acharyas (head Pandits), cooks, maintenance staff, and all other department heads. All are united and working carefully to create this heavenly capital of peace.

My overwhelming impression was that this dedicated and sublime collective effort to fulfill Maharishiji's most cherished goal deserves the highest level of support on every level - and that we have to do everything in our power for the completion of this project including the creation of an endowment for the perpetual proper care of the Vedic Pandits of India. Maharishi’s beautiful direction is even more resonant for me after this visit:

“Yogic Flying and Yagyas are the only thing that will effectively uphold world consciousness on an eternal level of invincibility. I want to engage from now on as large numbers of Vedic Pandits as possible but I have to be careful that once I engage them, the funds will be there to continue to support them. The only wise thing to do now, is to establish homes of Vedic knowledge because the Vedic vibrations of the performances of the Vedic Pandits have been established to motivate life according to Natural Law for the whole world and to usher in a new golden destiny of the human race.”

There is no more important project in the world than this. And with the support of visionary people such as yourself, I am sure it will happen.

Construction Progress Report

We reviewed the 38 started but unfinished buildings, each for 48 Pandits, in the main Karaundi campus. As a result of recent donations, construction work is restarting right away for these. This work will result in additional housing for about 1,800 Pandits.

There are currently about 1,200 Maharishi Vedic Pandits living at the Brahmasthan, and construction is restarting on buildings to accommodate another 1,800.

Already there are three large properties that have been given to the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust — the organization which Maharishi specifically set up and named in honor of his teacher for the perpetual support of the Pandits. These properties, when sold and the proceeds invested, will ensure a significant part of the Endowment Fund for the Maharishi Vedic Pandits. But in these economic times, it might not be possible to sell these lands as quickly as needed, so we must rely on the contributions from our generous supporters to finish building for 8,000 and to have the funds for the ongoing support of these Pandits. We can make this happen.

Please visit vedicpandits.org regularly to check for updates, and inspire your friends to visit the site as well. We also warmly encourage you to share your appreciation for the Vedic Pandits and this project with others and to invite them to know all that is being done. And we sincerely hope that you will be able to help realize this project by making a donation towards the much-needed financial support of Maharishi's dear Vedic Pandits in the coming year.

Thank you again for your support and good wishes. I look forward to reporting more news to you again soon.

On behalf of Dr. Girish Chandra Varma ji and my family, I send very best wishes for a new year of peace, prosperity and perfect health – for you and the whole world.

Jai Guru Dev

Raja Harris, Arlene and RajRajeshwari Lauren Kaplan

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