Fireflies Ashram
Fireflies is an inclusive secular Ashram open to all spiritual traditions concerned with personal growth, social engagement and environmental action. Fireflies aims at bringing together a community of friends and soul mates who revere the Earth as their first mother. Earth Spirituality deals with the interconnectedness of human beings with each other and the Earth. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all intimately connected with trees, birds, animals and all other human beings. We have co-evolved with the rocks and the waters. We are not merely beings, we are inter-beings. Each step that we take on Earth is sacred and is connected to everything else. This awareness enhances our joy.
Fireflies encourages the view that all great religious traditions are the collective heritage of humankind. However, we also respect those who feel the need to deepen their understanding and practice of any one single spiritual tradition.
At Fireflies, we acknowledge and learn from the wisdom of seers and sages such as Gautama Buddha, Kabir, Christ, Basava, Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramana Maharishi, and J. Krishnamurthi. We also strongly believe in the contribution that secular thinking has made to the advancement of human freedoms. In this light, we consider it important to integrate modern secular thinking with those intuitive insights that give deeper meaning to our daily lives. The sacred and the secular have to converge and fuse if we are to solve the grim personal, social and environmental problems facing humanity today.
Apart from practicing a simple lifestyle, we also work with poor farmers and women to improve their agricultural practices. We practice organic agriculture ourselves and the expertise we have developed is imparted to the small farmers around us.
Fireflies nestles among trees, on land that slope towards a lake. It has simple but comfortable accommodation for visitors as well as a meditation hall, a conference hall, an amphitheatre, a traditional dining hall, a well-stocked library and ample walkways for a refreshing saunter. More Information: Workshop and Conference Facilties
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