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December 4, 308 Dwapara

Thank you for your continued prayers…There seems to be a special link right now between Ananda and the tragedy of the attacks in Mumbai, ..and I feel that link calls us to continued prayer to bless and uplift the world. One link that defies all the odds is that two visitors from India were at Ananda Village at the day of the attack and they counted as their friends three of the people killed in Mumbai that day. One woman, Gayatri, knew one of the policemen who died, and the other young woman, Simran, lost two friends: an older professor friend, and a young journalist friend. (These two Indian guests came here separately for different programs.) So, the way this tragedy hit them in a personal manner, while visiting Ananda Village, brings home the point that this world is one global village, after all. The things that happen on the other side of the world are really quite close…Paramhansa Yogananda says that in Dwapara Yuga distance seems to disappear, for we can transcend it (even now) in so many ways.