Friday, October 16, 2009

World March for Peace at Bangsar

A Self Realisation and fund raising activity was organised by Penny and some of the yogis at Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar in conjunction with World March for Peace festival fair recently last Friday 10th. October, 2009 from 6pm till 10pm at night.

Two booths were paid for; one for SR and the other a fun raising initiative by the parents of Dharamsala going children with the support of Puchong sub-collective. The turnout by yogis for this SR was great and some 30 odd yogis came to lend help at the two booths.

YB Nurul Izzah Anwar visited our booth and spent some time chit chatting and taking photos with us. We have met YB several times in the past and she is very familiar with Sahaja Yoga activities.

We had a variety of items on sales ranging from our regulars; such as the fruit enzyme cleanser, Kimchi, Austrian cookies, Rosella jam and drinks, buns from RT bakery and tomato chutney to name a few. Even our outstation yogis came to help out. Heng and Anna from Muar brought along moon cake jellies for sales.

It was a tough crowd that night as many came party revelling and just to look and see. It was a challenge just to talk to them about SR and even to purchase goods that was on sales for charity.

There was a simple march procession by several NGO members complete with “tang-lungs”, whistles and even dogs. Many different breeds were there from tiny to small to long and big dogs. There were banners encouraging people to keep animals as pets rather than serve them on the dinner table. Food for thought, eh!

Nevertheless, some people did get their SR that night including foreigners as far as from Iran and Europe. This Iranian lady heard about Sahaja Yoga in Iran but did not get an opportunity to receive her SR then until that very night in Malaysia. Well, this shows that everything we do is done at divine time.

With things going slowly, it was quality time for the yogis to mingle with each other and catch up on some latest news. Later that night, we had a “fire sales” and sales then became brisk and the yogis had a bargain snapping up buns and other items at discounted prices.

All in all, it was a good collective outing, somewhat tiring but fun.

By Stephen

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