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Many Thanks on Thanksgiving
Dear Blessed Brothers and Sisters,

To all of your Souls, we would like to express our deepest and most sincere gratitude.  Thank you for your thoughts and thank you for your prayers.  It is a true blessing to be able to serve all of you and we are grateful for this opportunity.  Throughout the recent months we have seen and felt so muchThanksgiving love from all of you- in many ways.  Whatever ups and downs that have arisen, there has been the Mother's Love, in the form of each of you.  This support is priceless to us.  We cherish every kind word, prayer and contribution as the Mother acting in each of you.  We are truly blessed to know each one of you, and are excitedly looking forward to meeting everyone that we do not yet know.

This season is a time to give thanks.  So we want to extend our warmest thanks to all of you for your support and well wishes during this Yatra.  It has been an extremely long and remarkable journey.  It has been made possible by the Mother's Grace in each of you.  We have been happy to share our experiences on the journey, in hope that you can feel all of the love that we feel. We are on the very last leg of the Yatra and are completely humbled and honored to bring you on this journey with us.

Many of you have written to us, expressing your thanks for the blessings to be received from the Yatra.  We ask not for your thanks but only for you to receive the great blessings from the Divine and to let it uplift your consciousness.  To be receptive to these blessings all that you must do is open your hearts.  We have held all of you in our hearts during this journey.  The energies experienced during the trip are for everyone.

Now begins the season of sharing with family and friends; and that is exactly what all of you are to us.  In each moment of the Pilgrimage, we have kept you in our Heart and held your prayers.  We wish you the highest and best entering this season, where we give thanks and share with our loved ones.  

Why is it that we only express our thanksgiving now?  We must all work to give thanks for what we have and even for what we don't have.  We should not try to imagine a world where things might be different or seemingly "better" for us.  When you open yourself to the Mother in loving surrender she will carry you and make sure that everything is as it should be.  Give thanks for the moments and opportunity for growth.  And we should even give thanks for the challenges we have overcome and for those still to come.  Is this not why we are all here?  We should relish the opportunities to grow and to help our brothers and sisters along the way.

Lift each other when we can.  Now is the season to consciously join hands.  We can reflect not on only what is "good" and be grateful for that, but we can express deep gratitude for the lessons to be received from all our experiences.  Our experiences are not always pleasant but character and soul growth will be discovered sometimes through hardship.  We should strive and ask not only to be released from hardship, but to live and learn and grow from such moments.  Let us take hands together beginning with this season, and carry our thanks into all seasons to come.

With love, during the upcoming Holiday Season,
Swamiji and Amma