Honouring Guru Purnima – A Heartfelt Message from Virginia

On July 30th, the World Peace Mission family gathered virtually from over six countries across three continents to celebrate Guru Purnima – a sacred tradition dedicated to expressing deep gratitude to spiritual teachers who illuminate our paths.
While our group celebration took place on the 30th, the essence of Guru Purnima transcends a single day. Below is the beautiful tribute written and shared by Virginia for the occasion, offering a timeless message of love, light, and gratitude to Swami Aliananda Paramahansa.
Today we join millions of people around the world in celebrating Guru Purnima, a day dedicated to honouring the teachers who illuminate our lives through wisdom, compassion and selfless service. Whatever one’s faith or tradition, it is an opportunity to pause in gratitude for those who help us become more loving, more peaceful and more fully ourselves. We offer this message in that spirit.
Beloved Swami Aliananda Paramahansa,
Thank you for your teachings. Thank you for your love. Thank you for being the Great Mother of the World Peace Mission. Thank you for being a living example of how to be in the world but not of it.
You show us how to raise our consciousness and go onto the magic carpets that take us to the World of Magic, where there is only light, love and peace.
You guide us and support us on our healing journeys as you put us in the Grail.
Gradually, week by week, year by year, tirelessly, you take us on pilgrimages. You bless us. You teach us peace prayers, how to embody the World of Peace, and how to become living Grails.
You’ve gifted us with Grails in different parts of the world, in our homes and in our hearts. You’ve wrapped us in the Divine Mother’s mantle.
What a wonderful gift.
May we remember. May we remember your teachings, the light of love and the peace of love.
May we continue walking the path of love, as you show us, and enfold the world as the beings of light that we are, together under your wings, forming a beautiful Grail of Light.
May the World Peace Mission continue to grow stronger and stronger.
Happy Guru Purnima.
With all our love, Virginia





