{"id":1624,"date":"2025-09-20T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/event\/christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:35:46","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/event\/christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual festival of Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ, is also celebrated every year at Sadashiva Dham. The celebration on Christmas Eve <strong>December 24 starts at 6 PM<\/strong> with singing Christmas carols by the Christmas tree in the temple. Then, at 7 PM, we sing the usual Aarti. Visitors are invited to bring a small gift (around 7 euros) to place under the Christmas tree. These gifts are shared with the help of angel cards after the Aarti. Afterwards, we enjoy a meal together.     <\/p>\n<p>On Christmas morning <strong>December 25<\/strong>, the program is the same as that of a Babaji weekend:<\/p>\n<p>7:00 AM: Paduka Puja in the Babaji Kutir (chalet); a ceremony to invite Mahavatar Babaji into everyone&#8217;s heart<\/p>\n<p>8:00 AM: Aarti (light ceremony and chanting of mantras)<\/p>\n<p>10:00 AM: Festive havan (fire ceremony) at the open fire site<\/p>\n<p>11:30 AM: Karma Yoga<\/p>\n<p>1:30 PM: Prasad (warm lunch)<\/p>\n<p>After lunch: Break and rest<\/p>\n<p>4:00 PM \u2013 6:00 PM: Karma Yoga<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon: Satsang with a Christmas thought as the theme. Satsang means &#8216;sitting together in truth&#8217;. Satsang is about sharing experiences and learning from each other.  <\/p>\n<p>7:00 PM: Aarti<\/p>\n<p>8:00 PM: Simple evening meal<\/p>\n<p>10:00 PM: Silence, rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual festival of Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Christ, is also celebrated every year at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1624","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babaji.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}