There are important changes we would like to announce.
Remember the old colonial theater where we were planning to have the main public program in Quito?
Part of the main stage got damaged and is under restoration. The city decided to change the venue for a more modern bulding, yet very spacious, with about the same capacity of the previous option.
Recently, the yogis were contacted from the administration asking if we have applied for the different permissions which are required by the law in order to have a happening there. From the beginning nobody told the yogis about this new burocratic process and those applications requires more money and time.
They consist in a permission from the fire department, disaster management department and a third one that we cannot remember at the moment.
As a solution we decided to change the strategy: increase the number of programs, in smaller auditoriums, which are under the care of universities, schools or private sector and they have already applied for those permissions that we were not informed before.
With this solution we will use the money donated by many of you, and keep the target of giving many realizations.
Nevertheless, at the end of the tour we will have a finalcial report with all the details and in case that there is some money left, we assure that it will be use in a future sahaj project.
Additional programs in Colombia:
As many of you know, in order to reach Ecuador, we will travel from Finland through Colombia. There we will have few days of rest before the dinamic tour will take place, starting in Quito - Ecuador.
Anyhow, we will stop by a beautiful city called "Cartagena de indias". With the years the collectivity has been decreasing. We would like to help to boost the energy in the few yogis living there and with the help of the Colombian yogis, we will have a program in that city.
During the colony Cartagena was a very important city for the Spanish crown. All the treasures of South America, were shipped from this city to Spain.
Mother visited Cartagena before Sahaja Yoga was established in Colombia, due to a diplomatic visit with Her husband. The lady who was in charge to be Her translator, contacted the yogis years ago when she saw a poster of Nirmala, the lady with whom she got a beautiful friendship.
She told many things that happen with Shri Mataji during that visit in 1979, but we recall a happening told by Mother Herself:
"I was surprised when I went to Colombia, I asked them, they had a condor as their emblem for navy, and I said, "How condor is your emblem?" because condor has nothing to do with the navy.
They said, "Our old Indians have told us that a God called Shri Vishnu," just see the name, "came on a condor." And really condor is the conveyance of Vishnu. Can you imagine? I was amazed at this".
Cartagena is the city where the navy has its headquarters in the country.
The same day of our return to Finland, 16 of October, in the capital city of Colombia, called Bogotá, we will held a program for the students , in the Catholic university called Pontificia Javeriana.
Both programs are arranged by the Colombian collective and the money collected for the Ecuador tour is not going to be use for this purpose.
The last but not the least, is our constant request to give us your bandhans and vibratory awareness.
We will travel in two weeks and we will try to keep you updated with all the details.
JAI SHRI MATAJI!
Julia, Jessica & William
Ecuador Team.
