I wanted to share with you an experience we had yesterday in Slough which was truly inspiring and reminded me of how we must all be.

Last night the Sahaja Yoga UK Music Group performed at an International Cultural Event in Slough where there were also meditation workshops and a small stall. The Music Group had practiced and performed without falter some Kawalis and also performed Indian dance over a compilation of musical styles at the end. The whole event was from 6PM until 10PM, just to the west of London.

This event was organized as a cultural project mainly by two young Iranian girls who were exceedingly dynamic, inspirational and strong in communications, hosting the entire event. There was a break in between with so much food from every country, and also many performances and even a fashion contest that included traditional costume from about 20 countries. They also had prepared information exhibits on each culture, a projector, sound system and managed to book so many performers (just like us) from every country. Money raised by donation from the evening was collected to be taken back to Iran for work with young children, teenagers and drugs.

But what was so sweet and inspirational is that these two young girls had made this happen, giving so much love and generosity through their manner and commitment in hosting and producing the event for the benefit of everyone who attended. It reminded me of some North American youth I know - just getting up on stage or making announcements and just getting on with it .. making it flow. Satoodeh (the older sister) kept wishing everyone to enjoy each and every single performance (from Sahaj, to Kurdish, to Iranian, to UK rap/hiphop, UK youth dance, Carribean steel drums, a very enlightened band and so much more).

After I gave Satoodeh the address for takingitglobal.org and called up a friend of mine who is a coordinator for Peace Child International. i hope we can get them together and also help her to get funding.

At the end Satoodeh wished to thank her mom and dad, saying without them it could not have been possible. And gave some flowers to the father (who is a documentary film maker, and so humble and dignified, both girls and mom wearing the traditional muslim head-scarf hijab) - and the father then took the microphone and so sweetly told everyone that it had been Satoodeh's birthday that day and gave the flowers back to her. Satoodeh had previously wished a number of people birthday wishes over the mike (including Devendra) earlier in the evening.

This one Iranian family, with such magnitude of character and commitment to the world is truly uplifting.

After I spoke to her and told her of Dharmshala in India, and going to school there and she said with such enthusiasm that they had raised 145 pounds! I felt like this wasn't enough and quickly gave her some more notes and so did Rylan, knowing that at any event how much more money can be raised .. and the bottom line being that the funds raised to the right cause being put to use by such dynamic people truly will make the difference to the world. She almost wouldn't accept, but then turned and found something to give in return .. some traditional food and said to come to Iran anytime as a guest. You can see that their parents must be such beautiful and deep people and the two girls were so happy to have all these people from all over the world. Giving so much selflessly to everyone. They return to Iran in two months.

– No hesitation what-so-ever. No doubt. Just do it. Lets do it.

With Much Love, I hope I could express even a part of what I felt in the hear that we can do in the world together. There are so many young people that are so dynamic (as we saw earlier this year in Scotland at WYC as well), lets connect with them!