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27th October 2021
Dear Beloved Baba’s Worldwide Family,
A very loving Jai Baba to you all!
As the Trust Chairman has recently announced, our Board of Trustees
has decided that it will again not be possible to hold the live “Educational
Gathering” for Beloved Baba’s 53rd Amartithi at Meherabad this
year, due to the ongoing restrictions and uncertainties of the “Covid
pandemic.” Beloved Baba’s lovers are requested to remain in their
native places and observe Amartithi in their own Centres and homes.
Like last year 2021, we will celebrate Avatar Meher Baba’s 53rd Amartithi,
or “Eternal Day,” (the Anniversary of the day in 1969 when He dropped His
physical body, to live eternally in the hearts of His lovers) together
through the internet, with a Virtual/Online Programme.
The 53rd Amartithi Virtual Programme 2022 will be streamed
on:
30th January 10 AM until
midnight India time (tentative
timings)
31st January 7 AM until
midnight IST
1st February 7 Am
until 12 noon IST
· The love-filled Amartithi
programme to be webcast will feature bhajans, ghazals, qawwali, songs and
dances specially recorded and submitted on video by His lovers worldwide,
and selected for this occasion; Meher Baba films; prayers and artis in
various languages, “Begin the Beguine,” Meher Dhun, the Chairman’s
Address, and the Silence at 12 noon on 31st January.
· Baba willing, the Silence will be
webcast live – and there may be other live offerings, to be announced. During the fifteen minutes Silence on 31st January noon, there will
be live camera views from inside Samadhi on Meherabad Hill.
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN 53rd
AMARTITHI
VIRTUAL PROGRAMME:
Up to 10th December 2021, through https://amartithi.avatarmeherbabatrust.org you are lovingly invited to participate by submitting a video (mp4)
of your song, bhajan, qawwali, ghazal, instrumental or dance performance.
(We regret we cannot include talks or spoken drama this time.) In the
same way as last year, our Amartithi program
team has provided a short online registration form and a simple
way for you to upload and submit your video directly, to be received by the
Amartithi Coordinator and the program team in the Trust Office.
The form and guidelines for registering your song or dance video are to
be found through this link https://amartithi.avatarmeherbabatrust.org/
Another way is to open the Avatar Meher Baba Trust website home
page, https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org,
where you may click on the Virtual
Amartithi link on the left side menu. Or you may open the Activities/Events
tab on the home page Tabs or Menu.
Next, on the colourful Amartithi stage page, click on the link https://amartithi.avatarmeherbabatrust.org/ to open our “Amartithi
website.”
Click on “Kindly read guidelines” for the updated Amartithi 2022 Guidelines
for making your videos. Click on “Participate Now” to open the Participant
Registration form. (Important: Your video should be ready to upload
before you fill in the registration-submission
form; if it is not ready, the form will not work.)
Please read and follow the guidelines for recording your video for
best results. If you need help, contact numbers and email
address are given at the bottom of the Guidelines page.
1.
Make your video! Sing, play or dance for Beloved Baba! following the guidelines, please, with
5 minutes maximum length. After
your video file is ready and saved on your phone or computer…
2.
Fill in the short online
form with name, contact no, address,
performance details. The form will allow you to directly…
3.
Upload your video! from mobile phone or computer.
(This may take 5-10 minutes, or less)...
4.
You will receive a “Form
Submitted” message on the website, and you will
receive an automatic email reply when your video has been
successfully uploaded and received.
5.
Kindly cooperate - please do
not send your video to Mehernath Kalchuri, Trust Office, or to
Amartithi Help Desk by email or WhatsApp.
Kindly use
the form on Trust website https://amartithi.avatarmeherbabatrust.org/ to upload and submit to us directly, only. Help with technical problems is available; please
phone the help numbers on form, not Mehernath! Or email
<amartith...@gmail.com>
6.
Please observe the final date
of 10th December to submit. If your video
is uploaded after that date, it will not be considered for the programme.
7.
When programme
timetable/schedule is completed by around 20th January, a
link will be posted on the official Trust website, https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/ as
usual. There you will be able to see if your video has been
selected for the programme, and find your time slot and your favorites.
Kindly note we cannot accept any requests for a specific date or time
spot. Beloved
Baba is giving us the opportunity to participate in a Baba programme. Whatever spot we get, we should be
happy, and we should accept lovingly.
Baba said we should become headless and footless!
8.
Dear Baba lovers, kindly accept
that it may not be possible to include every video in the Amartithi
virtual programme. We will try our best to show all, somehow!
TO VIEW AMARTITHI PROGRAMME 30th Jan-1st Feb
2022: Of course, all of Baba’s lovers with an internet
connection will be able to join hearts together worldwide as they watch
the Amartithi programme, through a link on the Trust website and
circulated in other ways. Details will be available in January. The program will be archived on the
Avatar Meher Baba Meherabad Streams You Tube channel for our
international Baba family viewing at different times. (You may view the entire Amartithi 2021
programme in multiple sessions at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHgX4D75Runw0DGImL9yrHNdpdilE-mlT
We look forward to a beautiful observance of 53rd
Amartithi in Beloved Baba’s Love.
In His Service,
Mehernath Kalchuri,
Trustee, Amartithi Programme Coordinator
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