Kathmandu, Jan. 1 : Brahma Kumaris Rajyoga Centre, Nepal is to organise a Shree Pashupatinath Rath Yatra (chariot procession) on January 3 with a view to promoting and popularising the spiritual practices and experiences of essential unity and brotherhood of mankind.
Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai is scheduled to launch the Shree Pashupatinath Rath Yatra procession amidst a special function at Open Threatre Tundikhel, 9 am on that day.
Prime Minister Bhattarai will be the chief guest of the talk programme on “Entering the golden age through spiritual empowerment” organised by the Brahma Kumaris Rajyoga Centre on the same occasion.
The Rath Yatra procession will make a round of various places of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Thimi, Lalitpur and Kirtipur on the same day.
The Rath Yatra, which covers a distances of about 3,000 kilometers, will reach the international headquarters of Brahma Kumaris at Mt. Abu Rajasthan, India on Feb 8.
The Rath Yatra will pass through nine major towns of Nepal and 32 various towns of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan of India.
A total of 22 Rath Yatras from various renowned pilgrimage sites with Jyotirlinga temples of Shiva in Nepal and India will reach Mt. Abu on Feb 8, covering a distance of 66,000 kilometers and providing spiritual message to about 330 million people of thousands of villages, towns and cities of Nepal and India.
These Rath Yatras which are part of the Brahma Kumaris on-going two year long mega project called “Entering golden age through spiritual empowerment” will highlight the present day need and efficacy of spiritual empowerment attained through the practice of divine knowledge, human values and Rajyoga meditation for realisation of universal peace, love and cooperation, holistic health, harmony and happiness, national unity and integration as precursors to the heralding of golden age early next century.
During the Rath Yatra procession spiritual talk programmes on various topics of spiritual awakening and empowerment will be held in different places in Nepal.
“Spiritual values for the establishment of divine society” in Narayangarh, “Moral and spiritual values for world peace” in Hetauda, “Spiritual empowerment for better world” in Birgunj, “The real meaning of religion: concept of divine virtue” in Janakpur,” Rajyog: the basis of character upliftment” in Rajbiraj, “Spiritual awakening for world transformation” in Dharan and “God realisation for character purification” in Biratnagar will be the topics of talk programme during the Rath Yatra in Nepal.
A 21 members central committee has been formed under the chairpersonship of Brahma Kumari Gita, president of Brahma Kumaris Centres Nepal. An advisory committee and seven sub-committees have also been formed to make the programme succesful.
Likewise, 51 to 101 memebrs reception committees and sub-committees have been formed at various districts including Narayangarh, Hetauda, Birgunj, Janakpur, Rajbiraj, Dharan, and Biratnagar.
Another Rath Yatra which will be launched from Pokhara covering different places of western Nepal, will also reach Abu Rajasthan on Feb 8.
Those participating in the rath Yatra from Nepal are 15 Brahma Kumars and Brahma Kumaris.
This information was given at a press conference organised here today, where directer Brahma Kumari Rajdidi and Brahma Kumars had shedlight on the Rath Yatra.