The Community
Established on November 3rd 1957, by Zechariahs mar Athanios, bishop of
Thiruvalla, as an autonomous monastrel of eparchial rank of the syro malankara
church, kurushumala ashramam grew as a community of spiritual seekers. Their
quest is pursued in prayer and work. Yet it is meant to lead the seeker to a
higher consciousness, the realization of our communion with our lord as
attested in Psalms abide in me as I abide in you; we have to be in
communion with the lord as well as within ourselves, as the early experience
of the church teaches us "Beloved if god so loved us, we ought also to love
one another, if we love one another , god abides in us and his love is perfect
in us"But the fundamental constituents of our spiritual quest remain the basic
virtues of renunciation and humility, of mutual obedience and acceptance of
others.
In practice we have to free ourselves from all complexes of
superiority or inferiority based on psychological inhibitions or urges and
also social bars. we need a deep sense of being life partners. further we must
develop a consciousness of belonging to the human family , with a sense
of universal communion, as the foundation of the right attitude to human
relationships. Only then can one be led in an inner process of realization
that opens the door of the heart. Our spiritual quest harmonizes meditation
and prayer with work for the common good and prayer with work for the common
good and service of the others. The framework their prayer is that of the
services of others.
The frame work of our prayer is that of the prayer of
the church, the celebration of the liturgy of the hours and of the
Eucharist, with their abundant reading of the holy scriptures, their poetic
hymns, and solemn Eucharistic prayer, which actuate in us the mysteries of
the divine dispensation: creation, the fall, and Christ works of salivation.
Yet such a celebration fosters the expected growth only when it is rooted in
a personal sensitivity which leads one to meditative awareness the fruit of
an attitude of the mind, sensitivity of the heart, kept alert in daily life.
In order to grow in it each one has to practice a discipline of meditation.
