To mark this year’s Easter celebrations, local saints from Yorkshire Nirankari Bhawan organised an Easter charity fair on Saturday 3rd April 2010.

Highlighting His Holiness Baba Hardev Singh Ji’s message of spreading love and humanity in the wider community through self-less service, the charity event was inundated with the generosity of resources and donations by saints.

Local Parmukh Rev Jawahar Singh Ji, along with other committee members, inaugurated the event, which was attended by saints and friends from the local Sangat and community. The event comprised of raffles, a balloon race, naming the Easter bunny, and food and cakes stalls - which were prepared and run by saints.

Children also participated in an egg painting and a drawing competition. Prizes were awarded for the best egg decoration and best drawing during the Sunday Congregation and certificates of achievement were awarded to all the participants to acknowledge their tremendous efforts.

Brother Bhupinder Chohan, through a presentation to the attendees, conveyed that Easter symbolises the new life and the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ who delivered the message of love to mankind. Our Lord Master, Baba Hardev Singh Ji, conveys this same message today, which is to love everybody regardless of caste, creed or colour and to establish humility amongst the whole of humanity.  The Mission’s Vision is established on the key principle of “Universal Brotherhood”. Baba Ji teaches us not to discriminate against anyone on these grounds, but to love and respect everyone as our own brothers & sisters.

The event finale was the balloon race, where all the attendees attached messages of the mission’s philosophy to the balloons, and released them into the air. As the balloons went higher and higher into the sunny blue sky, it brought to mind the concept of detached attachment and the liberation of the soul. 

The balloons, with their unity of diverse colours, were very symbolic and inspirational as they reflected Baba Ji’s message of Universal Brotherhood; that our soul is an integral part of the over soul  - essentially we are all the same other than our outward appearance.

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