24.03.2025

Day of Spiritual Teachers of Mankind

at the Roerich Estate

The tradition of celebrating March 24 as the Day of the Great Spiritual Teachers of Mankind, or Master’s Day dates back to 1920 - on this day in London, Helena Roerich first met with the spiritual Teacher Mahatma Moriya.

This significant meeting marked the beginning of a long collaboration of Helena Roerich and her entire family with the Great Teacher, and the entry she made in her diary on that day became the beginning of the Teachings of the Living Ethics.

The International Roerich Memorial Trust has a good tradition of celebrating March 24th with spring cleaning and planting flowers. Indian and Russian IRMT staff, guests and tourists take part in this noble endeavor. “In flowers Heaven settles on Earth,” say the Masters of mankind. Flowers do not just decorate our lives - they are collectors and transmitters of subtle energies. Their charm, fragrance, colors affect a person, refining his consciousness.  Bright sunny calendulas, beautiful pansies, colorful verbena and carnations were planted at the Samadhi of Nicholas Roerich, near the Memorial House, on the way to the Urusvati Institute.  With their beauty they will gladden the eyes and hearts of all those who come “to the Roerichs”.

… The Roerichs' cooperation with Mahatma Moriya and other great spiritual Teachers, which began in London, continued during the Central Asian Expedition and then here in Kullu. And all the deeds of the Roerich family, such as the Central Asian Expedition, the creation of the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, the development of the Roerich Pact and the Banner of Peace, artistic and scientific works, were connected with the Spiritual Teachers of the Humanity and the most important evolutionary tasks which the Teachers set before the Roerichs.

 “In different countries <…>,” Helena and Nicholas Roerich wrote in 1938, “may the friends join on 24 March in a cordial conversation and feel all of the soul’s warmth, light up with the best lights and praise the One who is invisibly present among us and knows all the innermost recesses of our hearts. Let us be together, in our good thoughts, and we shall know that even if one is sad today, tomorrow there will be joy. Let us call, with all the power of our spirit, so that it will come, this lucent joy, that lights the way of kindness and labour. 

Hearty greetings from the Himalayas.”