Annadan & all night Baul gathering
On the sacred day of the birth anniversary of Parvathy Maa's Guru Sri Sanatan Das Baul Thakur, Sanatan Siddhashram conducted the important Baul ritual 'Bhog aroti', where Baul masters of nine generations are offered sacred Bhog (food offering).
Then, the ashram celebrated with Gramotsav (viallger's festival) and Naranarayan seva, the serving of sacred prasad, to over seven thousand villagers. It was followed by an all night offering of Baul songs.
This tradition commences every year. All are invited to join us at Sanatan Siddhashram for the next Annadan and all night singing on 26th / 27th Jan 2025.
Sanatan Siddhashram
Adhyatmika Vishwa Vidya Satra Foundation
In 2024, the ashram established as a spiritual university: Sanatan Siddhashram Adhyatmika Viswa Vidya Satra, with the aim of creating a solid practice space for various ancient Indian knowledge systems such as Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda and ritual performing arts.
At the same time, the ashram expanded its infrastructure by creating a new east-facing entrance and road.
The Golden Child - Subarna Balya Hriday
Every Saturday and Sunday, over 40 children from surrounding villages come to the ashram as part of the initiative Subarna Balya Hriday (Golden Child). In addition, we also conduct regular special camps.
10 teachers are guiding them in self-defence, theatre, singing and dancing, visual arts, nature awareness, English language and Sanskrit Mantra chanting.
We have just concluded our 5-day winter camp.
Sanatan Baul Organization USA
In 2024, with Guru's grace, we established Sanatan Baul Organization USA.
As part of the April Madhukori organized by the foundation, Parvathy Maa's yatra extended to New York City, New Jersey, California and Oregon.
A New Endeavour: Sanatan Siddhashram USA
Sanatan Siddhashram - USA, finds its manifesting ground at the sacred feet of Sisnaajini - White Shell Mountain in Southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Range.
Sunita Dutt Ji, a very dear Baul Anuragee and atma bandhu of Parvathy Maa most generously offered a space for Sanatan Siddhashram by donating this most sacred piece of land in 2022.
Parvathy Maa conducted the ceremonial worship of the land under the benevolent gaze of her Gurus. Homa (fire ritual) invoking the blessings of Maha Ganapati was conducted and we sought the blessings of MahaKala to confer protection for this sacred work. Our ashram sevaks made traditional invocations and offerings to native American deities and ancestors, seeking their blessings for this sacred endeavor.
Enshrining Sahasra Nāgadevata Vanālaya (1008 Naga Forest Shrine) at Sanatan Siddhashram
Maa Parvathy Baul had envisioned to nourish a sacred groove, deva vana, which will enshrine 1008 Nagas. Last August, 21 Nagas were enshrined as a beginning of this divya kārya.
Ma Parvathy Baul presided over the consecration process by offering Abhishek and conducting archana with turmeric. Homa, the sacred fire ritual was also conducted to invoke blessings of Maa Mansa Devi.
Sanatan Baul Association Europe
In 2024, the European organisation formerly named ‘Serenade aux Etoiles’ became ‘Sanatan Baul Association Europe’ to more clearly represent our values and the inspirational work of Parvathy Maa.
Sanatan Baul Association Europe organised two Europe Madhukori Baul yatras in 2024, spanning
Germany (satsangs at House of Cultures & Religions / Nazareth-church Munich; Gayanshala Sufi Center Mannheim; OM Foundation Inner Science; Just Love Festival & Holy Lake Festival; Gurupurnima and sangha time in Geisenfeld)
Denmark (retreat on Moen Island, satsang in Copenhagen)
and Hungary (satsangs in Budapest; retreat at Lake Balaton; satsang and sangha time in Pilis mountains)
The Parvathy Baul Project
TheParvathyBaulProject is an endeavour to enable a more authentic understanding of the ancient Baul tradition. For this, five songs and three documentary episodes have been released by SVFMusic.
Let Bauls win the hearts of devotees! Let there be peace and love.
Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUV4xMH0R-A&list=PLzxTmXYDR-xWe53UIxB0w-g53SIvk0t6S&index=1
Durgapuja: Sharadiya Navaratri at Sanatan Siddhashram
This year too Maa Parvathy Baul lead ashram sevaks into immersive sadhana. Nine sacred days were replete with the fervour of devotion. Focussed worship of attending to Maa Durga, singing, dancing, chanting stotras, preparing bhog, kumari puja and other essential rituals were conducted with utmost devotion.
video: glimpses into the Navarati sadhana at Sanatan Siddhashram
Peru & Taiwan
After decades of having felt a connection with Machu Picchu, at the beginning of 2024, Parvathy Maa received an invitation to introduce the Baul tradition in Peru. She offered prayers, satsangs and workshops in Cusco and Lima. Upon the visit Machu Picchu, we felt enormously blessed to be allowed to enter Machu Picchu's sacred plane - one of the spiritual centres on earth - and were rendered with only the prayer to be in service of the Divine herself.
Later in 2024, Sanatan Siddhashram led by Maa Parvathy Baul was invited to represent Santana Dharma at “When Buddha Meets the Gods,” a world religions conference, by Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Taiwan. Shri Ananda Das Baul, Shri Lakshman Das Baul and Shri Ramachandra Roddam also travelled and taught alongside Maa Parvathy Baul.
Amidst ecstatic devotional fervor, Sanatan Siddhashram lead a procession of Krishna Kali and Sri Radharani.
2024 Sanatan Siddhashram retreats
Retreats held by our ashram this year:
Sannidhyam retreat exclusively with Maa Parvathy Baul,
Gopi Bhav Darpan retreat of female Baul Masters,
Baul Gyan Darpan immersive retreat with several Baul Masters,
Bhairava Dharana with Sri Rajarshi Nandy and Sri Ramachandra Roddam
Shaktyodaya with Sri Ramachandra Roddam
Ganapati Dharana with Ramachandra Roddam
Teertha Darpan Jaydev Mela
Teertha Darpan Vrindavan
If you'd like to know about 2025 retreats, visit here.
Writings
Two new blogs have been started:
Letter from Maa Parvathy Baul - by Maa Parvathy Baul herself,
and Sahaj Madhuri, our Sanatan Siddhashram Magazine with reflections, poems, articles and more by Maa Parvathy Baul, ashram sevaks and close associates.
You can subscribe to them on the platform substack by clicking on the underlined names above. You will also get the news about new posts if you are subscribed to this site.
Upcoming in 2025: Vidyarthi Bhawan
Vidyarthi Bhawan is the upcoming major infrastructure project at Sanatan Siddhashram.
This new building will have dormitories and rooms to help participants and learners stay at the ashram during their learning phase.
This new building will have the capacity to house over 70 participants.
If you would like to contribute to help the building project, you can do so here:
Guru kripa hi Kevalam
Joyguru!
With love from
Parvathy Maa
and Sanatan Siddhashram sevaks
If you would like to be part of this mission of Sanatan Siddhashram - Maa Parvathy Baul ashram, you are welcome to become a donor. You may give whatever you can afford, it can be as small as 10 rupees to support the work envisaged by our param Guru Sri Sanatan Das Baul.
If you would like to donate for a specific project, you can mention it as a note during the donation process.
Joy Guru!
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