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New Years Day (US) 1 Wednesday 2 Thursday 3 Friday Pujya Swamiji presented with the HSS Mahatma Gandhi Lifetime Peace and Service Award Pujya Swamiji presented with the HSS Mahatma Gandhi Lifetime Peace and Service Award by the hands of HE President India Shri Ram Nath Kovind 4 Saturday To perform actions without any expectation, Birthday of Guru Gobind “ just as an instrument of divine grace, is Yoga. Singh 5 ” (Sikh) Sunday Do not try to move others; rather find your way between anuary Epiphany “ the others and around them. Humbly and sincerely J (Christian) 6 make your own way on the path of life. ” Monday 7 Tuesday 8 Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday Photo by: Ravi Kapadia Photography 11 Saturday 12 Sunday ome to nature, be with nature, anuary Lohri C J (Sikh) (Hindu) 13 “ and discover your true nature.

” Monday Makar (Hindu) 14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 Friday

Interfaith Peace Pledge Pilgrimage for peace and protection of water in Assisi, Italy 18 Saturday 19 Sunday

anuary Tu B’Shevat Forgiveness removes the J (Jewish) 20 “ vice from our hearts

and allows us to breathe, Monday Martin Luther King Jr. Day live and love freely. (US) Mahayana New Year 21 ” (Buddhist) Tuesday 22 Wednesday

Paush Purnima (Hindu) 23 Thursday

Ganesh Sankat Chaturthi (Hindu) 24

25 Friday Saturday

Republic Day (India) 26 Sunday Our own actions, January 27 “ choices and habits are February the seeds which create Monday our world.” 28 Tuesday 29 Wednesday 30 Thursday 31 Friday

Green pledge during Shri Ram Katha with Pujya Swamiji, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Resources & Singh Rawat, Hon’ble Minister of State HRD, Water Shri Trivendra Rejuvenation Shri Satyapal Singh, and many eminent interfaith leaders 1 Saturday 2 Sunday February 3 Monday

Mauni Amavas (Hindu) 4 Tuesday

Losar (Tibetan New Year) (Buddhist) 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday Parinirvana-Nirvana Day Pujya Swamiji singing with women from Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre’s Pujya Swamiji singing with women from Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre’s Old Age Home in Ladakh (Buddhist) 8 Love and compassion should “ not merely be a part of life, Saturday but ALL of life.” 9 Sunday Basant ebruary Panchami F (Hindu) 10 Let your selfless service “ be your prayer and Monday your meditation. 11 The best way to

honor God in our lives is Tuesday through serving humanity. Rath Saptami ” (Hindu) 12 Wednesday

Bhishma Ashtami (Hindu) 13 Thursday

St. Valentine’s Day (US) 14 Friday Nirvana Day Pujya Swamiji cleaning trash from the sacred Sangam during Kumbh Mela in (Alternative Day) (Buddhist) 15 Saturday 16 Sunday ebruary To truly understand each other we must F 17 “ stand under each other with humility.

” Monday President’s Day (US) 18 Tuesday

Magi Purnima (Hindu) 19 Wednesday

Purim (Jewish) 20 Thursday 21 Friday Hola Mohalla Interfaith Pledge and Prayer for peace protection of water in Assisi, Italy (Sikh) 22 Saturday 23 Sunday How to recharge your February 24 batteries? Plug yourself back March into the Source. Get connected Monday again to God. The moment we reconnect, the charge 25 is there! Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday International Yoga Festival Begins 1 Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji with ambassadors from around the world during Festival 2018 International Yoga Saturday 2 Sunday March 3 Monday

Mahashivratri (Hindu) 4 Tuesday 5 Wednesday

Ash Wednesday (Christian) 6 If we want to be “ torchbearers of peace, Thursday we must first become 7 rivers of love, dousing

all flames of discord Friday

in the waters Pujya Swamiji offers flowers to a beautiful crystal Shiva linga during Maha Shivratri celebrations on the banks of Mother Ganga at Parmarth of our own compassion 8 and serenity. Saturday ” 9 Sunday Daylight Savings arch Time M (US) 10 Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday 13 Thursday 14

You can be fit or have fits. Friday “ You can be set or upset. 15 You can be better or bitter. Naidu, President of India Shri M Venkaiah Inauguration of IYF 2018 with Hon’ble Vice Hon’ble Governor of Uttarakhand Shri KK Paul, and Chief Minister Uttarakhand, Singh Rawat, along with many other eminent Hon’ble Ministers and dignitaries Shri Trivendra

You can be in peace or in pieces-- Saturday the choice is yours.” 16 Sunday Yoga connects us to our innernet rather than the internet. arch St. Patrick’s Day (Christian) “ People always ask if there is Wi-Fi, but the real question M 17 should be “Why-I?” ” Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday

Spring Equinox Dahan (Hindu) 20 Thursday

Holi (Hindu) 21 Friday

World Water Day Eco-friendly Holi celebrations during International Yoga Festival Eco-friendly Holi celebrations during International Yoga 22 Saturday 23 Sunday We must learn to give, give and give like the Sun, arch “ and like Mother Ganga - with no hesitation, no expectation, M 24 no vacation and no discrimination. ” Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday

Rally for Water, Sanitation & Hygiene along banks of Ganga at Parmarth Niketan Rally for Water, 29 Saturday 30 Sunday Cultivate the attitude of not April 31 “ “what for me”, but rather “what through me.” Monday ” 1

” Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Friday Pujya Swamiji plays with renowned percussionist Sivamani during International Yoga Festival Pujya Swamiji plays with renowned percussionist Sivamani during International Yoga 5 Saturday (Hindu) Navratri (New Year) (Hindu) 6 Sunday April 7 Monday 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday 10 Thursday 11

12 Friday Surrender. Become humble. Pujya Swamiji, Hon’ble MP Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal, and Sadhvi Abha Saraswatiji celebrate special 75th birthday at Parmarth Speaker of the Lok Sabha Smt. Sumita Mahajan’s “ Realize everything Saturday is due only to God. Ashtami (Hindu) Ram Navmi ” (Hindu) 13 Sunday pril Palm Sunday A (Christian) 14 (Hindu) Monday Prayer is the 15 “ broom which

sweeps out Tuesday our heart, 16 making it clean

and divine Wednesday for God. Mahavir Jayanti ” (Hindu) 17 Thursday 18

Hanuman Jayanti

(Hindu) Friday Good Friday (Christian) Passover Begins (Jewish) 19 Theravadin New Year (Buddhist) Saturday 20 Sunday Giving is living, living is learning, learning is knowing, pril Easter Sunday “ knowing is growing, growing is giving, and giving is living. A (Christian) 21 That is the cycle of life. ” Monday Earth Day 22 Tuesday 23 Wednesday 24 Thursday 25 Friday

Global Interfaith WASH Alliance’s Massive “Swachhta Hi Seva” Clean-Up program brought hun - Alliance’s Global Interfaith WASH dreds of volunteers together in Lakshman Jhula, to clean up the banks Mother Ganga 26 Saturday

Passover Ends (Jewish) 27 Sunday April May 28 Monday 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday

Yom Hashoah (Jewish) 1 Thursday

Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh) 2

3 Friday

“If you can experience love, Saturday you will manifest love.” 4 Sunday ay Ramadan Begins M (Muslim) 5 Monday 6 Tuesday

Akshay Tritiya (Hindu) 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday

Pujya Swamiji shares the work to protect environment and restore River Ganga with Adityanathji Hon’ble Chief Minister of Shri Mahant Yogi 10 Accept whatever comes as Prasad from God. “ Whatever He gives us – a hut or a castle, Saturday is His divine gift.” 11 Sunday May 12 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday 16 Friday

Green pledge of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) and tGELF to work together for the Alliance (GIWA) Green pledge of Global Interfaith WASH Sustainable Development Goals during the LIFE Leadership Summit at Parmarth 17 Life is not just about connecting to the Internet “ and getting the fastest speed, but we must remember to Saturday Buddha Purnima connect with the Innernet and get the right direction.” (Hindu) 18 Peace is living in harmony within ourselves Sunday and with all those with whom we share the Earth ay Buddha Day M (Buddhist) “ - the humans, the animals, and the plants. 19

” Monday 20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday Water Blessing Ceremony during the “Go Green, Go Organic” Pact signing ceremony Water between Pujya Swamiji and HH Drikung Kyabgon Rinpoche, the 37th throne holder of Buddhism Drikung Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan 24 Saturday 25 Sunday May June 26 Monday

Memorial Day (US) 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 29 Thursday

Ascension Day (Christian) 30 Friday Lailat al Qadr (Muslim) 31 Saturday “If we are peaceful, humble and sincere inside, then nothing outside can take away our peace.” 1 Sunday “In order to bring deep and lasting peace to our world, June 2 we have no choice but to begin from the inside and move outwards.” Monday Birthday of H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati 3 Eid-Ul-Fitr (Muslim) Tuesday

Ramadan Ends (Muslim) 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday Pujya Swamiji’s Green Birthday Celebrations Pujya Swamiji’s 7 Saturday

Shavuot (Jewish) 8 Sunday une Pentecost J (Christian) 9 Monday 10 Tuesday 11 Wednesday

Ganga Dussehra (Hindu) 12 Thursday 13 Friday

Ganga Dussehra celebrations at Parmarth 14 Saturday Let us realize that everything is just as it is supposed to be. “ We are in the lap of the Mother. How can anything go wrong? 15 Sunday (Hindu) ravel light on your journey in life. Your desires une Martyrdom of T J Guru Arjan Dev “ and expectations are heavy baggage, which slow you down (Sikh) 16 and thwart your progress. Let them go. Monday ” 17 Tuesday 18 Wednesday 19 Thursday 20 Friday Summer Solstice 21 Saturday 22 Sunday Engage yourself in Karma (good, selfless work), under the shade June 23 “ of Dharma (righteousness), with an awareness of Brahma (God).” Monday 24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Thursday 27

28 Friday Saturday

St. Peter & Paul’s Day (Christian) 29 Sunday Make every day a holy day: July “ Start every day with a prayer. 30 Fill every day with prayer. Monday End every day with prayer.” 1 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday

Independence Day (US) 4 Friday

Photo by: Filip Cederholm Agoo #CreateTheChange 5 Saturday 6 Sunday Go to God. Whatever name, whatever form you worship uly “ is no problem. Just go to Him. He accepts all names J 7 and all forms. If God can be worshipped

only in one way then He is not God! Monday ” 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday 10 Thursday 11

12 Friday At the time of Ramazan, children from madrasas across Uttarakhand and Delhi come together alongside Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasiji with children of the Parmarth Gurukul Saturday 13 Sunday July 14 We must learn to be

“ noiseless amidst the noise. Monday ” 15 Tuesday

Guru Purnima (Hindu) 16 Wednesday 17 Thursday 18

19 Friday Saturday 20 Sunday If we really worship the Divine, everything becomes a spiritual practice. July “ Everything becomes a practice in non-violence, truth, integrity, 21 sharing and compassion. ” Monday 22 Tuesday 23 Wednesday 24 Thursday 25 Friday

Massive interfaith clean-up to support the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission 26 Saturday 27 Sunday “Yoga is not what you do; it is who you ARE. July 28 ” ” August Monday 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 31 Thursday 1

2 Friday Pujya Swamiji sharing a moment of love with Revered Dada J.P. Vaswaniji Pujya Swamiji sharing a moment of love with Revered Dada J.P. Saturday 3 Sunday Live in peace, not in pieces. ugust “ If you are in peace, you will exude peace, A 4 manifest peace, and spread peace. If you’re in pieces, you will manifest pieces Monday and spread pieces.” 5 Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8

9 Friday Saturday Tisha B’Av (Jewish) Eid-Ul-Adha 10 (Hindu) Sunday August 11 Monday 12 Tuesday 13 Wednesday 14 Thursday

Independence Day (India) (Hindu) Assumption of the Blessed 15 Virgin Mary (Christian) Friday

Independence Day celebrations at Parmarth, symbolizing a new dawning in interfaith harmony as hundreds of Muslim and Hindu faith leaders, students community members converged for a more peaceful and sustainable world 16

“Interfaith is when we enter into the common faith Saturday of acceptance which says we may worship our own 17 but we must respect all.” Sunday Be happy, be peaceful. August “ Embrace all, include all, 18 exclude none. Monday

” Sankat Chaturthi (Hindu) 19 Tuesday 20 Wednesday 21 Thursday 22 Friday

Krishna Janmasthami (Hindu) 23 Saturday 24 Sunday Do not wait for miracles. ugust “ You ARE the miracle! Never A 25 forget the miracle of yourself!

” Monday 26 Tuesday 27 Wednesday 28 Thursday 29 Friday Parmarth Gurukul students with Pujya Swamiji following yagno pavit (sacred thread) ceremony on Raksha Bandhan 30 Saturday

Al-Hijra (Muslim) 31 Sunday The ‘I’ is the cause of all our problems. It is a wall, September 1 “ a barrier between us and others.

Learn to bend the ‘I,’ make it a bridge. Monday ” (Hindu) Labor Day (US) 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5

6 Friday Maulana Mahmood Madani, Secretary General of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, and Pujya Swamiji lead a clean and green India pledge with lakhs of Muslim faith leaders followers in Kishanganj, Saturday 7 Sunday Birthday of the eptember Blessed Virgin S Mary (Christian) 8 Monday

Ashura (Muslim) 9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday

9/11 Observances (US) (Hindu) 11 Thursday 12 Friday Sradha Prarambh Pujya MM Swami Gurusharananandji and Swamiji share a loving moment (Hindu) D on’t only light the 13 “ oil lamp in your temple, but light the lamp in Saturday your own hearts.” 14 Sunday eptember The waters of Mother Ganga are always S 15 “ pavitra (pure) but we must pledge and

work to keep them also swaccha (clean). Monday ” 16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday 19

20 Friday Saturday 21 Sunday September 22 We may not have “ the power to make Monday

flowers blossom in Autumn Equinox all the gardens of 23 the world, but at least wherever we go, Tuesday whatever path 24 we walk on, we can remove the thorns Wednesday we pass on the way.” 25 Thursday 26 Friday Photo by: Filip Cederholm Agoo #CreateTheChange 27 Saturday 28 Navratri Sunday Let us fill our homes with love - love for God, Begins eptember (Hindu) “ for each other, for the community, and for all of Sctober Rosh Hashanah O (Jewish) 29 humanity. Then, through that love, all else

will automatically follow. Monday ” 30 Tuesday 1 Wednesday

Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday (Hindu) 2 Thursday 3 Friday Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji light the inaugural lamp with children during beautiful UK Leicester, spiritual program at Shree Sanatan Mandir, 4 Saturday 5 In order to maintain inner peace, calmness and stability Sunday ctober Durgashtami “ regardless of external circumstances, we need a O (Hindu) 6 daily multivitamin of meditation, no reaction,

and introspection. Monday Navratri Ends ” (Hindu) 7 Tuesday Dussehra (Hindu) Yom Kippur (Jewish) 8 Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday Sacred Bhelpatra sapling given to Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman of The Akshay Chandrodaya Mandir with Smt. Hema Malini, Famous Patra Foundation at the Bollywood Actress and Hon’ble Member of Parliament, 11 Saturday 12 Sharad Sunday ctober Purnima ife is about the journey, O (Hindu) L Sukkot (Jewish) 13 “ not the destination.

Live in Heaven now. Monday Don’t wait for it to come later. Live in Moksha now. 14 Don’t wait for death. Tuesday ” 15 Wednesday 16 Thursday

Karak Chaturthi/ (Hindu) 17 Friday celebrations at the Hindu Temple of Kentucky in Louisville, KY (USA) Guru Purnima celebrations at the Hindu Temple 18 Saturday 19 Sunday We must not only pray for peace, but we must work October “ for peace, every minute and every moment of our lives. 20

” Monday 21 Tuesday 22 Wednesday 23 Thursday 24 Friday

Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji at the annual General Assembly of Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) in Geneva, Switzerland 25 Saturday

Dhanteras (Hindu) 26 Sunday Meditation is the ctober O (Hindu) best medication for November 27 “ all agitations. ” Monday 28 Tuesday

Bhaiduj (Hindu) 29 Wednesday 30 Thursday

Halloween (US) 31 Friday All Saints’ Day (Christian) 1 Saturday

All Souls’ Day (Christian) 2 ‘ Sunday Daylight When you talk to God it is prayer. ovember Savings N Time Ends “ (US) 3 When He talks to you it is meditation.” Monday 4 Tuesday

Election Day (US) 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday Yog Guru Pujya Swami Ramdevji, famous Sufi Singer Kailash Kher, Director of The Yoga Director of The Guru Pujya Swami Ramdevji, famous Sufi Singer Kailash Kher, Yog and Smt. Bhanumathi Narasimhan of the Art Of Institute Smt. Hansa Jayadeva Yogendra, Living come together with yogacharyas and yoga enthusiasts from 100 countries during the conclusion of IYF 2018 8 Saturday Milad un Nabi Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (Muslim) (Sunni) 9 Sunday November 10 Monday

Veteran’s Day (US) 11 Tuesday (Hindu) Birthday of Guru Nanak 12 (Sikh) Wednesday 13 , eminent leaders and schools to help support the local Thursday 14

Friday Facebook is great, “ Tree plantation programme in Dehradun with the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Shri Tree Singh Rawat, Pujya Swamiji ​ Trivendra efforts to revive their local stream community’s 15 but you must also make time to Face your Book. “ Facing your own book is what is needed most. Saturday 16 Sunday ovember Yoga is not a union of our hands to our feet or our head N 17 “ to our knees. It is a union of the self to the Divine. ” Monday 18 Tuesday Shri Bhairav Ashtami (Hindu) World Toilet Day 19 Wednesday 20 Thursday 21

22 Friday International Women’s Day celebrations during the International Yoga Festival with Pujya Day celebrations during the International Yoga International Women’s Shiva & Smt. Hansa Jayadeva Yogendra Vandana Swamiji, Sadhvi Bhagawatiji, Dr. Saturday 23 Sunday Martyrdom ovember of Guru N Tegh Bahadur 24 (Sikh) Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday

Thanksgiving (US) 28

29 Friday We must learn to be like the calm, “ undisturbed water in the depths of the ocean itself, Saturday unaffected by the small, transient fluctuations.” 30 Sunday December 1 Monday 2 There can be

“ a PLAN A & PLAN B Tuesday but there is no PLANET B. We must protect the one 3

we have. Wednesday ” 4 Thursday 5

6 Friday Saturday 7 Gita Jayanti (Hindu) Sunday ecember Feast of the A leaf is alive only when it is part of a tree. When it disconnects, it dies. Immaculate “ D Conception (Christian) 8 In the same way, when we are connected to our roots, sanskaras & Bodhi Day (Buddhist) our global family, only then do we stay healthy and full of life! ” Monday 9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday

Green leadership pledge by Pujya Swamiji with HH Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche in eco-friendly hut at Parmarth Pujya Swamiji’s 13 Saturday 14 Sunday December 15 Monday 16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday

Expectation is the 19 “ Mother of Frustration.

Acceptance is the Friday Mother of Peace and Joy. World Record Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji presented with official certificate for the classes from Festival for hosting a record number of hours Yoga of Biggest International Yoga at conclusion of IYF 2018 teachers practicing multiple styles of Yoga world-class Yoga 20 Never expect.

Always accept. Saturday ” Winter Solstice 21 Sunday ecember Hanukkah D Begins I want peace,’ everyone says. (Jewish) 22 “ Simply remove the ‘I’ and remove the ‘‘want’ Monday and you will have ‘peace.’ 23 Peace is not something

to search for. It is ‘I’ Tuesday Christmas (our egos) and ‘want’ Eve (Christian) 24 (our desires) that make

peace elusive. Wednesday

” Christmas Day (Christian) 25 Thursday 26

27 Friday Saturday 28 e the change and bring the change. Sunday B ecember “ If we set the divine example, Danuary 2020 29 others will follow. J

” Monday Hanukkah Ends (Jewish) 30 Tuesday 31 Wednesday

New Year’s Day (US) 1 Thursday 2 Friday Inauguration of Killwaste Solid Waste Management Technology at Parmarth Management Technology Inauguration of Killwaste Solid Waste Singh Rawat Niketan with Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Shri Trivendra 3 Saturday 4 Sunday Birthday of Guru anuary Gobind Singh J (Sikh) 5 Monday

Epiphany (Christian) 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday

Always cultivate 9 “ an attitude of gratitude. shrimratyunjay

Then life will feel like prasad. Friday ” Photo by: 10 Saturday 11 Sunday January Do Divine! Be Divine! It is not enough 12 “just to BE divine, one must also DO divine. ” Monday 13 Tuesday

Makar Sankranti (Hindu) 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday 16

17 Friday Saturday 18