{"id":5793,"date":"2025-10-04T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:02:38","slug":"162-october-4-2025-mitti-seva-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2025\/10\/04\/162-october-4-2025-mitti-seva-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#162 – October 4, 2025 — Mitti Seva 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Friends,<\/span><\/div>\n

\nThe week leading up to Mitti Seva weekend at Ishwar\u2019s dera is a busy time for the sevadars lucky enough to participate. The days are filled with preparations for the arrival of Ishwar\u2019s friends, who are traveling to Wisconsin to celebrate their love and devotion for the beloved. The pre-event seva includes cleaning all of the buildings and grounds, planning menus, harvesting prashad from the gardens, purchasing supplies, staging construction projects, setting up tables and chairs, organizing the kitchens, creating flower bouquets, organizing all of the tools and materials required for the dozens of seva tasks, and so much more.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThis year, there was also an extra buzz in the air concerning the upcoming restart of Ishwar\u2019s special building project dedicated to his Master, Baba Sawan Singh. Much of the steel framing for the ISHA Meeting Hall has been delivered to the dera site, and if all goes well, the assembly of the building will begin within the next month. Preparations for the installation of the steelwork have been happening up on the Hill for the last several weeks, and Mitti Seva attendees got to see the completion of this exciting seva.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIshwar again blessed us with excellent weather for Mitti Seva, and many beneficial, indoor and outdoor tasks were completed. Here are some photo highlights of a few of the many happy sevadars who gathered for Ishwar\u2019s September 19-22, 2025 event.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nHarvesting and cleaning Ishwar\u2019s prashad garden is always the center of attention!<\/span><\/div>\n
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And once again, the prashad was bountiful, beautiful, and delicious!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The bounty was gracefully prepared and processed by blue-clad sevadars.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The new patio project was advanced nicely by a gleeful sevadar team who were inspired to build the first retaining wall.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As always, there was plenty of brush to cut, weeds to whip, and grass to mow.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A pair of skilled visitors volunteered to custom-weld wonderful new steel handrails for the entrances to the ISHA office and the greenhouse.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The tea emporium was a popular stop for sevadars in need of some rest and a delicious cup of fresh hot tea.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As always, Ishwar\u2019s amazing, talented chefs and kitchen helpers provided four days of an abundance of fresh food for the entire group, including vegetables from the prashad garden.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The dera \u201cBad Boy\u201d buggy was a great hit (including with these chefs!), both for recreation and for moving tools and equipment to the Meeting Hall worksite on the Hill.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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A team of exuberant and inspired sevadars worked in the dirt for several days to complete preparations for construction to begin on the steel frame and roof of Ishwar\u2019s Meeting Hall. The seva was completed (ahead of schedule!), and so the steelwork can begin soon.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Posing after a job well done on the Hill!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Some of the chefs left the kitchen to inspect the mitti seva project on the Hill.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0All are invited to visit Ishwar’s Wisconsin dera any time between May 1 and November 1, 2026.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0There are also two special, 4-day events planned for next year:<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mitti Seva, May 29 – June 1, 2026<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mitti Seva, September 18 – 21, 2026<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
In either case, please let us know when you will be visiting by emailing\u00a0dera.seva@ishanews.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
We hope to see you there!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nTo learn more about Ishwar’s Meeting Hall, check out the dera website at\u00a0https:\/\/dera.ishanews.org<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
If you would like to offer seva to Ishwar Ji, please visit\u00a0https:\/\/ishanews.org\/voluntary-contribution\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Any questions related to Ishwar’s dera can be directed to Jagannath Kerai’s email at\u00a0chairman@ishanews.org<\/span><\/div>\n
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With warmest regards,<\/span><\/div>\n
Paul Bauer<\/span><\/div>\n
ISHA Dera Building Committee<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dear Friends, The week leading up to Mitti Seva weekend at Ishwar\u2019s dera is a busy time for the sevadars lucky enough to participate. The days are filled with preparations for the arrival of Ishwar\u2019s friends, who are traveling to Wisconsin to celebrate their love and devotion for the beloved. The pre-event seva includes cleaning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5844,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}