After spending 9 months in 2003-2004, traveling from region to region experiencing the powerful healing effects of Agnihotra, I returned to the United States, but, the transformation had begun. The exposure to such incredible circumstances, both positive and negative completely changed my outlook, throwing me into a state of extreme bewilderment by all the happenings on our Planet. I no longer felt a part of the day-to-day and my goals started to change. Still, I made an attempt to re-settle into life in America, which lasted for about 11 months, when in June of 2005 I returned to India.

I was not completely free from my addictions because while in America I commenced smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol, all of which stifled any kind of spiritual development, or discipline I needed to remain totally sober.

The summoning from my spiritual teacher, Shree Vasant, had me on a plane to India for six months, where I stayed, in Rural Maharasthra, at Tapovan Homa Therapy Center. Though I was there to continue the healing process, I was thrust into a most amazing and eye-opening development of women's upliftment, now known as Rose Circles Mission, headed by Anne Godfrey Australian Clothing Designer & Nileema Misra, who has been instrumental in bringing about the empowerment of the down-trodden women in India's rural and slum areas. In hindsight I realized that being at the service of others is the most rewarding way to discover one's inner light and also to heal one's broken spirit.

The situation in India has reached unbelievable levels. At present, in 2009 approximately 10% of the population is traded into sex channels. Farmers are committing suicide in mass, due to non-payment of large loans taken during poorer seasons where there is no harvest. Those farmers that do not take suicide as a route take to trading their wives and daughters as a repayment to the loans. This cycle is a devastating cycle and one small way to give support is to help the women to earn money. If the women can help to bring an income into their family homes then they are useful enough to keep in their family homes.

Rose Circles Mission (RC) Watch the video from Anne Godfrey, RC Founder

Rose Circles is currently providing work for women who have no food, or who have AIDS, or who are widows who are supporting themselves and their children, women who have no-one to turn to. RC teaches them simple skills, such as making roses from recycled silk chiffon. RC pays the women in cash when the work is received, paying a fair price in accordance with fair trade principles.
* gather to assist a minimum of 100,000 women and children in the next 12 month period to have a better life
* to inspire them to be empowered to make positive changes in their lives
* to teach them how to heal themselves, their children, their husbands and their land by using free medicine through an ancient Ayurvedic technique
* to teach them free of charge how to farm their lands sustainably without using poisons, to heal their lands which are already polluted and poisoned
* to come together in healing circles with other women at least once a week to express gratitude for any positive changes in their lives
* to share uplifting stories
* to pray for healing of the whole planet
* to pray for all suffering to cease on the planet
* to collectively send light and love to fellow man
* to forgive
* to give work through making products that use recycled materials, that are sustainable, and beautiful, which inspire others, which are sold at a fair price and benefit everyone in the chain ... the maker, the buyer, the wearer, the organizers, the planet
* to give an opportunity to women who are asleep to overcome the comfort zones that a comfortable life imposes. We invite those women to realize their untapped potential to be part of revolution which could turn around everything on the planet which is not based in love, in light, in freedom.

Tapovan Health Retreat & Homa Therapy Center

Tapovan, located in Jalgoan District, Maharasthra, India, has been established as a center to demonstrate, by example, Vedic lifestyle. Vedic science provides the solution for a sustainable way of life. Tapovan is a living example. At Tapovan people can come to learn, participate and to experience different levels of healing the mind, body & spirit. Please visit the website for more information: Tapovan

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