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| Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati founded the Kashi Ashram, "an international interfaith community based on kindness, compassion and service", in ] in 1976. | Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati founded the Kashi Ashram, "an international interfaith community based on kindness, compassion and service", in ] in 1976. | ||
| Beloved spiritual teacher, leader, and guru to many, Ma Jaya grew up in an impoverished Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn where her first teachers were homeless folks who lived under the boardwalk at Coney Island. She remembered her first teaching from Big Henry who told Ma, "Girl-child, there are no throw-away people." While she was raising a family with her Roman Catholic husband, she began yoga at Jack LaLanne Fitness Centers and soon after had a vision of the Christ, who taught Ma to "teach all ways for all ways are Mine." Thus, her interfaith teaching was born. ] | |||
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| Bhagavati died, or as an announcement on the website of the ashram she founded in 1971 put it, “left her body,” after a three-month battle with pancreatic cancer. | |||
| A statement by the ashram quoted actress Julia Roberts as saying of Ma Jaya, “There are few people in one’s life that create only the warmest and most powerfully positive impact imaginable. Ma Jaya was one of those people to me and my family. She was a beautiful person who shined with love and understanding in all ways. Her transition was deeply sad news and yet, as with all she did, it brought me even closer to her words and her teachings." | |||
| Read more: http://www.jta.org/2012/04/29/news-opinion/obituaries/ma-jaya-sati-bhagavati-yoga-teacher-and-guru-born-joyce-green-dies-at-71#ixzz39WzBVOU2 | |||
| Singer Arlo Guthrie, who has known Ma Jaya since 1984, was quoted in a Florida newspaper as saying, “I’ve met a lot of people that were very important. Some were nuts and some were great and some were a little bit of both. But I can honestly say no one I ever met in my entire life was as funny and as sincere and as courageous and as unapologetic as she was.” | |||
| Read more: http://www.jta.org/2012/04/29/news-opinion/obituaries/ma-jaya-sati-bhagavati-yoga-teacher-and-guru-born-joyce-green-dies-at-71#ixzz39WzQRxpz | |||
| ==Honors== | |||
| Ma Jaya leaves a legacy filled with selfless service. Her most notable honors include: Interfaith Visionary Award, 2010 from the Temple of Understanding in New York on their 50th anniversary; Humanitarian Service Award in 2007 from the Gandhi Foundation USA, Martin Luther King Center and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Recipient of the title of Mata Maha Mandaleshwar from the Ma Yoga Shakti Mission in 2006, the first American woman to be bestowed this honor; Interparliamentary Paradigm of Peace Award, by 26 parliaments and governments around the world; Inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers, Morehouse College, Atlanta, in 2002, where her oil portrait was later revealed alongside those of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela in their International Hall of Honor; United Foundation for AIDS Award; Universal Way Award; and Woman of Peace from Sikh Dharma of North America.] | |||
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Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati (died April 14, 2012) was a spiritual teacher born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, U.S.A. Her outlook has been influenced by Jesus Christ and the Hindu saint Bhagawan Nityananda. She has also been informed by the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba, Ramana Maharshi and Shirdi Sai Baba.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati founded the Kashi Ashram, "an international interfaith community based on kindness, compassion and service", in Florida in 1976.
References
- "Ma Jaya Bhagavati, spiritual leader of Kashi, dead at 71 | Photo Gallery". TCPalm.com. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
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