Webcast Coverage of the 2012 Amartithi

[Kalyan Meher Kotay]

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Webcast Coverage of the 2012 Amartithi

Dear Friends,

As Amartithi approaches, again the Trust plans to broadcast main
events of the Meherabad gathering through the internet. From the
comfort of your homes or offices all around the world, you can tune in
to the events at Meherabad, where the forty-third anniversary of the
immortal date when Avatar Meher Baba dropped His physical form will be
commemorated at His Tomb-Shrine on Meherabad Hill.

Like last year, most of the 2012 webcast will be handled by a team of
Baba lovers from Hyderabad, working in concert with the home team here
at the Trust and various pilgrims who will take part in various ways.
As most of you know, over the three days from 30th January through 1st
February, Baba’s lovers from all over India and throughout the world
come in the tens of thousands to pay their respects to the One who
lives in our hearts eternally. Baba’s Samadhi, of course, is the real
center of the Amartithi gathering; and what happens between each lover
and Him in the moment of darshan there is known only within the
intimacies of love. But what the camera can show are events on the
stage, in a program that runs continuously through the greater part of
the 48 hours, and various scenes and happenings elsewhere on the
Meherabad estate.

The centerpiece of our coverage, of course, is the live broadcast. But
in addition, from time to time we put up video clips and photos.
Officially the coverage begins at 2 p.m. on the 30th; but in past
years photos and videos began to appear online starting the 28th, when
about a thousand volunteers arrive at Meherabad and start to take up
their duties. You can find out more about this by clicking on the
“AMARTITHI” button on the homepage of the Avatar Meher Baba Trust
website at: http://www.ambppct.org

The main url’s for the Amartithi coverage are these:

Live broadcast: http://ambppct.org/events/amartithi-live-2012.php
Video clips and photographs:http://ambppct.org/events/amartithi2012.php

Since Amartithi commemorates Avatar Meher Baba’s dropping His physical
body at 12:15 p.m., 31st January 1969, the culminating moment of
Amartithi is, naturally, the fifteen-minute silence starting at twelve
noon on Amartithi day; during the greater three-hour period running
from about 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. the program reaches its climax.
Noon in Ahmednagar corresponds to: 7:30 p.m. (31st January) in
Auckland; 5:30 p.m. in Sydney; 4:30 p.m. in Brisbane; 2:30 p.m. in
Shanghai and Perth; 1:30 p.m. in Bangkok; 11:30 a.m. in Karachi; 10:30
a.m. in Moscow; 10:00 a.m. in Teheran; 8:30 a.m. in Jerusalem, Cairo,
and Istanbul; 7:30 a.m. in Paris, Rome, and Oslo; 6:30 a.m. in London;
3:30 a.m. in Buenos Aires; 1:30 a.m. in New York; 12:30 a.m. in
Chicago and Mexico City; 10:30 p.m. (30th January) in Los Angeles; and
8:30 p.m. in Honolulu.

The schedule for the live internet webcasts is as below:

30th January  2012
       2:00 p.m. – 10 p.m.:  Stage Performances

31st January  2012
       6:30 –7:15: Dhuni (at Lower Meherabad)
       8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (including “Welcome Address” and Silence from
12 noon-12:15pm)
       3 p.m. – 10 p.m.: Music and Stage Performances

1st February  2012
8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.:  Music and Conclusion

Starting on the 25th, you will be able to find this schedule, along
with other information about the Gathering itself and our coverage of
it, on the Trust web site. Over the following four- or five-day period
we will be sending announcements and updates from time to time. One of
these will be the Amartithi performance program, which will be
finalized in the next few days.

Our salutations to Him, the Mighty Beloved of all mankind, whose life
in us is our journey to His feet, and whose death in us is our
awakening to His Love.

— Ward Parks, for Trust Talk
25th January 2012
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