permit me just for a moment just to
reflect back on these last two years
when when the board asked me to assume
this responsibility there was such a
consciousness of the spiritual Giants in
whose footsteps I was going to be trying
to follow in and there was such a sense
of responsibility to gorgey and his work
and yes a sense of responsibility to all
of you and not just responsibility but a
sensitive opportunity a sense of because
of the literally astounding
accomplishments that had been worked on
year after year decade after decade by
our guru and by those great divine ones
that too in who in whose hands he
entrusted his work in the decades after
his passing so much of it has been
ripening behind the scenes and so I shot
it down some things that I that I wanted
to remember that I wanted us the other
monks and nuns the the the wonderful lay
members that serve with us to focus on
and I won't share all of them now some
other time I'll talk about them but just
to mention three of them to keep
forefront in the priorities one was to
complete the publication of gorgeous
teachings one was to fully take
advantage of the opportunity to use
digital media digital tools to maximize
dissemination of the teachings and to
serve in a better way
all of gorgeous spiritual family around
the world and the let be another one was
this and you'll see why this relates to
what we just saw and that was to tap
more into the vast
Poole of wisdom and ability and devotion
and dedication that exists in our guj
our gurus worldwide family of lay
members of srf and yss I feel so
strongly about this when looking out
here and and knowing other devotees
around the country and around the world
we have an unbelievable opportunity and
resource we have devotees that have been
meditating that have been practicing
inner discipline inner sadhana following
the teachings for decades 20 30 40 years
I applaud all of you and now now I want
to add a greater opportunity in the
sadhana of such of anybody who want
which is to have it a greater
opportunity for the dimension that is so
sweet and so powerful and so
transforming in sadhana and that is Guru
Saiva service to the guru there's so
much that though that you beautiful
wonderful devotees who have lived the
life who are living the life can do for
master's work and believe me I am going
to and I have the monks and nuns and
others that I work with at mother Center
and our other ashram Center are going to
be concentrating on this over the next
year or two
so some months ago I reached out to two
or three longtime lay members and
expressed this and they reached out to
to a few more so there was maybe a group
of 20 or 25 and you know they are the
ones that created this online Center for
all of you
they created it for the mother center
for Senator Department now now will be
run as I said by by our monks and our
and our senator department but this is
just an example this is just a I I said
to them come up with some ideas of
things that that you know the devotees
around the world would benefit from that
they would that they would be helped by
and they work together they they did all
of the programming they did all the
thinking all the planning are still
working as soon as convocation is over
we're going to get back to work and
finish it but this is a this is a
tremendously satisfying first step and I
can't even begin to estimate the great
blessings and the great benefits and
spiritual and material progress that
this will bring to Gorgias work so a big
thanks to those devotees you'll be
hearing more about this
[Applause]