By Ellen (Lajja) Mitchell, Ashram Board President

Our fundraiser, “The Gift of Grace,” is ending. I thank everyone who participated in giving. 

Thank you for choosing to support Svaroopa^® Vidya Ashram. Your financial support helps us to continue to shine light into the world as well as support you in uncovering your light.  I am grateful for you and for our Ashram’s support over the years.  

Our Ashram has helped me through physical and mental stuff (oh, mind!). This has helped me to see myself. I am so grateful for our Ashram and for all its offerings. I am more myself and I navigate through life more fluidly. What a gift it is to receive support from Gurudevi and the Swamis.

I opened the Gurudevi App today, and this quote was displayed:

The high points in life are when you’re shining with light, loving, generous, joyful and peaceful. You want to be that way all the time. Of course you do — because it’s who you really are, deep down inside.

– Gurudevi Nirmalananda & Swami Samvidaananda

Yes, that is what our Ashram does. It helps you to see yourself as you truly are and be yourself. What a gift it is to support you in this process. What a gift it is to have your financial support. Yes, a gift of Grace.

While our campaign is coming to an end, we still welcome and appreciate your financial gifts. They make a real difference in what we do!

Donate online or call us at (610) 644-7555.  Or send your check to Svaroopa^® Vidya Ashram, 116 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, PA 19335.  Thank you again and again! 

By Kristine (Dhairyavati) Freeman

Ashram Board Member

Our “Gift of Grace” Ashram fundraiser has begun. Please join me in donating today. 

Gurudevi Nirmalananda’s birthday was November 15^th. Of course, you want to celebrate and wish her health and happiness! While she appreciates your well wishes, she needs nothing from outside, for she is filled from within. She is fueled by the light of Consciousness.

What Gurudevi wants is for you to be supremely happy and filled with the light of Consciousness all the time. She offers you this gift. It is the gift of Grace. 

One who knows can give you the knowing. She gives it freely, every time you are in her presence, whether in person, online or even when connected to her in meditation or deep reflection.

But how do you receive this life changing gift? You do the practices she recommends. Thus, you step into the river of Grace she offers. 

I receive this gift when I do yoga poses, or meditate, or watch one of Gurudevi’s videos. Doing seva and offering dakshina (financial gifts) also drops me into the river of Grace.

But nothing is as saturated with Grace as spending time in the physical presence of my Guru. Just walking into Lokananda, I feel so joyful. I am profoundly nourished by the gift of her Grace.

Embrace the gift of Grace and the yogic practices Gurudevi has given you. Don’t forget who you really are, oh Shiva. 

In the midst of your daily life, rely on the clarity and wisdom that arises from within. Seeing with Divine eyes, you can make a difference in this world.

You can start with gifting back to our Ashram, the organization and the teachers who lead you on this path. Grace takes care of you. Surrender to and thus accept the gift of Grace by donating to the Ashram today.

Donate online or call us at (610) 644-7555.  Or send your check to Svaroopa^® Vidya Ashram, 116 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, PA 19335.  Thank you again and again! 

Rosemary (Rudrani) Nogue, Yogaratna

I donate to our Svaroopa^® Vidya Ashram out of gratitude.

The rare, priceless gift of Guru’s Grace flows through Gurudevi Nirmalananda, our Spiritual Master.  To receive that gift, you need only to be in her presence, in person or online. Or you can think of her deeply to be in the flow of her Grace.

Please join me in donating to our Ashram’s year end fundraiser, “The Gift of Grace.” Experience how both giving and receiving become sacred acts.

The bliss of your own Beingness fills you from within giving you something worth sharing.

—Gurudevi

This is my truth: Guru’s Grace fills and nourishes me. This fullness moves me to give from my Self in many ways, including offering dakshina (selfless financial giving) to our Ashram.

Grace opens me to a greater ME, clearer, more enthusiastic, more compassionate, more present and more generous. I am ME in a whole new way.

Gurudevi’s online daily Meditation Club, together with Sunday and Wednesday satsangs, are so important to me. Through them, I can be in her presence from my home in Calgary. Amazingly, other online Ashram programs present opportunities for staying in the flow of Grace every day.

After repeating a round of mantra recently, I offered arati (flame circles) to Gurudevi’s picture. I looked deeply into her eyes. The tangible flow of Grace uplifted me. So I give back out of gratitude.  Donating is one of many yogic practices that expands my capacity to receive Grace.

Practically, our financial gifts support the Ashram infrastructure that dispenses the Grace of our Guru.  Our gifts subsidize the maintenance and operational costs of Lokananda (our Bliss Place). It serves as our training and retreat center for in-person and online programs. It is also the home of Gurudevi and our Swamis.

Please give from your heart to our “Gift of Grace” fundraiser.  You could raise your monthly donation, become a monthly donor or give a one-time financial gift. I invite you to be generous within your budget!

Donate online or call us at (610) 644-7555.  Or send your check to Svaroopa^® Vidya Ashram, 116 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, PA 19335.  Thank you again and again!