/Sweet Mother, / /Why do we celebrate Christmas here? What special meaning does this day have for us? And why is a distinction made here between Europeans and Indians on Christmas Day? / *Long before the Christian religion made December 25th the day of Christ’s birth, this day was the festival of the return of the sun, the Day of Light.* It is this very ancient symbol of the rebirth of the Light that we wish to celebrate here. *As far as I know, everyone in the Ashram is allowed to come to the Christmas tree and the distribution. * The custom of sending special baskets to the Europeans and Americans comes from the fact that in those countries they usually give presents to each other on Christmas Day, instead of on January first. That is all. Blessings. /26 December 1969/ page 366, More Answers from The Mother - vol - 17 |
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Regarding Christmas, I'll tell you a curious story.
For a while, there was a Muslim girl close to me (not a believer,
but her origins were Muslim; in other words, she wasn't at all
Christian) who had a special fondness for Santa Claus! She had seen
pictures of him, read some books, etc. Then one year while she was here,
she got it into her head that Santa Claus had to bring me something.
'He has to bring you something for Christmas,' she told me.
'Try,' I replied.
I don't know what all she did, but she prayed to him to bring me
money. She fixed a certain sum. And on Christmas Eve, exactly this sum
was given to me! And it was a large sum, several thousand rupees.
Exactly the amount she had specified. And it came on that very day in
quite an unexpected way.
I found it very interesting. page 497 , Mother's Agenda , volume - 1, 20th Dec. 1960 |
This is my Christmas message: "The time has come for the rule of falsehood to end. In the Truth alone is salvation." page 343 - Mother's Agenda , volume 12 , 22nd Dec - 1971 |
(Champaklal hands Satprem the French and English texts of the Christmas message so Mother can put it in her own handwriting.) (Satprem.:) You've put: We want to show to the world page 331 , Mother's Agenda , volume 13 , 27th Dec - 1972-1973 |