This year, the international May Call Day Celebration took place from 27 – 31 May in the Hotel Weissenburg in Billerbeck, Germany. There had been 5 group lives with Master KPK in this hotel. Now Sri Guru Prasad, the son ofMaster KPK, came from India for this year’s May Call celebration together with Ramana, who already had accompanied Sri Kumar during many of his tours to the West.
We drove up from Switzerland one day before the start of the seminar. It was a very hot day with partly heavy traffic. We stayed overnight in the house of good friends in Münster, Doris and Günter. On the way to the seminar centre, I visited with them the St. Ludger Cathedral in Billerbeck. It is at this place that my patron saint died in 809. And 50 years ago, I spend 4 years of my student times 2 villages from Billerbeck away.
St. Ludger Cathedral in Billerbeck seen from near the hotel
The huge hotel and seminar center is beautifully located on a little hill surrounded by old beech woods – very nice for little promenades and exchanges with friends.
There were about 125 group members mainly from Germany and Spain – and some, like me, from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and France. the group life started with a little thanksgiving candle ceremony in memory of Master Kumar and his wife Kumari.
After welcome greetings, Guru Prasad presented the topic he chose for the seminar, “Transcending of Death” on the basis of the Katha Upanish – a very profound teaching: the story of the child Nachiketa coming to Yama, the Lord of Death and enquiring about reality – the eternal and the transient.
Guru Prasad elaborated the topic very well during the seminar. Especially fascinating were the explanations on working with respiration and pulsation for opening the petals of the inner lotuses and the sounds related to these petals. I decided not to take notes during this seminar, unlike I had done in earlier seminars of Master KPK, but to dive into the teachings.
Guru Prasad during the opening session
Looking back into the hall through the camera & laptop of Ramana during a pause of the zoom transmission of a meeting
Friday morning, 29 May, the day of the May Call Day, there was a fire ritual after the morning prayer / meditation.
Guru Prasad and Ramana during the fire ritual, with an image of Master CVV projected at the background.
Cake cutting ceremony
In the afternoon, there was the presentation of a number of new books of WTT Spain and WTT Germany as well as the Annual Report of WTT-Global and two new English story books, Lord Maitreya – The World Teacher, and on Master Koot Hoomi and Master Morya (available as PDFs) as well as the first English audio book on The Teachings of Sanat Kumara, by Sri Kumar and some new Spanish audio books. There were also three new story books launched in German, about the lives of the Masters CVV, MN and EK. The story books were realised by Sanath Kumara Sripathi from Hyderabad, on the basis of the wisdom teachings of the scriptures and the Masters EK and KPK.
The new English story books
Besides of the official program, there was time for plenty of exchanges and networking during the meals or in the free times. Saturday evening, there was a cultural program with musical presentations of some artists and of an ad-hoc choir / band.
Sunday morning after the prayer and closing words, the departures started. We stayed until early afternoon, for the Gemini full moon meditation followed by the global health and healing meditation at noon.
It was a small but very dedicated team of WTT Germany / Executive Group who had made this harmonious and rich May Call celebration possible – very well organised. A warm thank-you to all who participated and contributed. (The pictures used here are partly from Ramana and Guru Prasad.)
View of the hall at the end of the morning prayer
