On February 2010, the Festival “We Are All Different. We Are All Equal” was held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. On the first two days, there should be held round work tables on the topic: “The Ideology of Social Animosity in Modern Society. The Youth Are in front of the Choice – between Xenophobia and Internationalism”. The 3rd day of the Festival was devoted to world languages and cultures: there were presentations of different languages of the world (about 30), communication with native speakers, lectures on linguistics and an international concert.
The Sahaja Yoga Collective of Nizhny Novgorod could not but participate in this event. Almost immediately, as soon as we learnt about the coming Festival, an idea occurred to us to perform bhajans at the opening of the Festival and to introduce the art of mehendi to the visitors. We also wanted to take part in the round work tables as there is a very clear understanding that now it is important to introduce Sahaja Yoga at different conferences telling people that the method opened by Shri Mataji is a unique solution to various social problems.
A week and a half before the round work tables we gathered to discuss the topic. The decision was made to Read the rest of this entry »
