[Tavern-Talk] Trust Talk - Amartithi Webcasts, 2010

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Amartithi Webcasts, 2010

Dear Friends,

This coming 31st January marks the forty-first anniversary of that Day 
in 1969 when Beloved Avatar Meher Baba dropped His physical form. Over 
the years since then Amartithi has emerged as the chief event in the 
Trust's annual calendar, attracting to Meherabad tens of thousands of 
Meher Baba's lovers from throughout India and around the world.

The Amartithi commemoration proper runs from early afternoon on 30th 
January through about 1 p.m. 1st February; but really speaking it has 
begun already, as volunteers pour into Meherabad and begin to take up 
their duties. On the afternoon of 28th January, a small army of nearly 
one thousand volunteers will gather in the back veranda of Hostel D for 
the annual orientation meeting presided over by Trustees Jal Dastur and 
Shridhar Kelkar. And then we are off!

As it has done over the last few years, again this year the Avatar Meher 
Baba Trust will be broadcasting presentations from the Amartithi 
Gathering at Meherabad, 30th January through 1st February 2010, through 
its web site (whose home page url is http//www.ambppct.org). Over 18 
hours of live audio-video webcasts, hosted by Bob Fredericks, will 
feature highlight events, most of them on Meherabad Hill. In case you 
miss the live broadcast, you will also find on the web site highlight 
video clips available for download, as well as the audio files of Bhau 
Kalchuri's talk in the late morning on the 31st and the arties that 
follow the silence at noon. Through the entire forty-eight hour period 
our web master Frank Bloise will be posting photographs.

If you want to drop in on the Meherabad Amartithi celebrations via 
cyberspace, go to the Trust web site, and from the home page, click on 
"AMARTITHI LIVE." If you want to proceed directly, the url for the 
internet broadcast and schedule is: 
http://www.ambppct.org/events/amartithi-live-2010.php.
The video and audio highlight clips can be found at: 
http://www.ambppct.org/events/amartithi2010.php.

The culmination of Amartithi, of course, is the fifteen-minute silence 
starting at twelve noon on 31st January; the two-hour period running 
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the climax of the Gathering. Noon in 
Ahmednagar corresponds to:
4:30 p.m. in Sydney; 2:30 pm in Shanghai; 10:00 a.m. in Teheran; 9:30 
a.m. in Moscow; 7:30 a.m. in Paris; 6:30a.m. in London; 4:30 a.m. in 
Buenos Aires; 1:30 a.m. in New York; and 10:30 p.m. (30th January) in 
Los Angeles.

The schedule for the live internet webcasts is as below:

January 30th 2010

3:00 p.m.-6 p.m.: Music Program
8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.: Stage Performances

January 31st 2010

8:30 a.m.-12 noon: Singing by bhajan mandali of different Meher Centers 
and “Welcome Address” by Bhau Kalchuri, Chairman
12-12:15 p.m.: Silence
12:15-1:00 p.m. Arties
3 p.m. until 7 p.m.: Music Program
8:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.: Music and Stage Performances

February 1st 2010

9 a.m.-1 p.m.: Music and Conclusion

Over the next few days, from time to time we will be sending 
announcements and updates as the program unfolds. To all Meher Baba's 
lovers throughout the world, from your family here in Ahmednagar, 
salutations to Him, the Eternal One, the Highest of the High, Who 
descended into our night of ignorance so that we could come to know Him, 
and Who returned again to His Beyond State to awaken within us the 
longing to seek Him there.

– Ward Parks, for Trust Talk
26th January 2010