Death is truth and truth is God.

I lost my mother in law last saturday. A slight pain in chest and a severe massive heart attack.We could hardly take her to the hospital and with only one percent hope we ended the treatment with ventilator dettached and informing others that she is no more.I never shake myslef when some suc thng happens but when it happened all of a sudden i could not hold it and got shattered.Death is truth and yes truth is God.

The quest is on!

I really did not feel like blogging this year as i quoted the reasons in my previous posts.but it is time to communicate the web community that silence has many answers which i learnt these months. And i am learning to find it through my different experiences through some meditation exercises.
I used to go the local Ramkrishna-Vivekananda Kendra nearby in Rajarampuri and slowly i realised in the spirit of telling others that how one may try and get the blessings of almighty.
incidentally the centre is getting reconstructed by the local devotees of rk followers and the building in xith lane is coming up very fast.
I wish to modestly appeal to those who read this that if you have anybody at Kolhapur definitely send them to the centre and on sundays we meet to read a loud personality development and meditation books for our own and on our own voluntarily at 10:00 am . Currently we do it at Panjarpol behind lucky bazar but we will be shifting very soon to the new premises.
Those who have gratitude and faith in Ramkrishna paramhansa's teachings and want to help for the cause of building of the centre at rajarampuri xith lane may contact the trustees and send the money by cheque and or by draft. Off course this is entirely a volunteering task and i need not force you any thing.
But one experinece i can share with you and that is whenever i feel fatigued and tired and worried and tense i pray thakur these days and my visiting the place especially where the three images of thakur, saradama and vivekananda are kept that environment helps a lot to further calm down yourself and have peace of mind and a great unexplainable support you are blessed with.
At the very beginning of this century what we are looking for is the inner quest enriched in a true spirit, it helps your journey into unknown...
i humbly request you to check all the websites of Ramkrishna missions and its lineages for further information.
Especially The literature created by them is great and worth reading and realising it.

Am I Like Them Only?

That is the question?

I did not feel like blogging because i found the real life more engaging than virtual life for so many days.

IN the beginning of the year i have four major worries letting my spirits down

1. The cultural terrorism

2.The gender terrorism

3.The spiritual terrorism

4.The health and food terrorism

and i think the answer is

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Obey And Command
Here in India, everybody wants to be a leader, and there is nobody to obey. Everyone should learn to obey before he can command. There is no end to our jealousies; and the more important the Hindu, the more jealous he is. Until this absence of jealousy and obedience to leaders are learnt by the Hindu, there will be no power of organization. We shall have to remain the hopelessly confused mob that we are now, hoping and doing nothing.
Interview in The Hindu. Chennai, 1896. Complete Works, 5: 216.

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I need to know myself about these truths of life.......... and prove myself that we as indians are totally different and we want the salvation on;y if the almighty wants o give it. We don not want to have it now in this birth only buying the queue of few people.

ANIKET AMTE IS HERE IN KOLHAPUR..

Friends the extra ordinary project of ANANDVAN lokbiradari prakalp exhibition is here in kolhapur from 7,8,9,10 th of nov at AKSHATA MANGAL KATYALAYA Kolhapur. Don't miss it!

Be mindful and generous and spare time and ot money to help support the casue.

LokBiradari - Lok Biradari Prakalp
At: Hemalkasa, Post: Bhamragad, Distt: Gadchiroli
Alapalli-Bhamragad Road,Dandakaranya
Gadchiroli - 442710.
Maharashtra
Karmayogi : Baba Amte,Prakash & Vikas Amte
Tel : 07134- 220001 (7 am-10pm)
mailto:aniket_amte@rediffmail.com?cc=info@karmayog.org
Website on Karmayog - http://www.karmayog.org/LokBiradari
Contact Person - Dr.Prakash Amte
Phone Work - 220001 (7am-10pm)
Phone Cell - 9423208802 (7am-10pm)

Category 1 - Animal Welfare
Category 2 - Social Welfare
coverage - MAH
budget - under Rs. 50 lakhs
The 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community LeadershipCITATION for PRAKASH AMTE and MANDAKINI AMTERamon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies31 August 2008, Manila, Philippines
CITATION
Hidden amid the dazzling human mosaic of India are millions of tribal people. For centuries, they have lived apart in remote highlands and forests. The Madia Gonds, for example, occupy 150 square kilometers of dense forest in eastern Maharashtra, bordering Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh states. In a thousand isolated villages, they survive by hunting and gathering and shifting cultivation. When Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte arrived in their midst thirty-four years ago, the region had no modern services. Government officials considered it wild and served there only reluctantly. By contrast, the Amtes, both of them medical doctors, came by choice. Prakash Amte grew up in Anandwan, an ashram and rehabilitation center for leprosy patients in Maharashtra founded by his father, the renowned Gandhian humanitarian Murlidhar Devidas Amte, or Baba Amte. Prakash was busy with postgraduate surgical studies in Nagpur when, in 1974, he volunteered to take over a new project begun by Baba Amte among the Madia Gonds. He and his wife Mandakini abandoned their urban practices and, in a leap of faith, moved to remote Hemalkasa. The young couple settled in a doorless hut without a telephone or electricity or privacy. They practiced medicine beside the road and warmed themselves by a wood fire at night. The Madia Gonds, shy people and suspicious of outsiders, spurned their help at first. Prakash and Mandakini learned their language and patiently gained their trust. The miraculous cures of an epileptic boy with terrible burns and a man near death from cerebral malaria turned the tide. "Once a patient is cured," says Prakash, "he comes back and brings four new patients." Beginning in 1975, Swissaid provided funds to build and equip a small hospital in Hemalkasa. There Prakash and Mandakini performed surgery and treated malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery, burns and animal bites. To conform to tribal sensibilities, they placed most of the hospital's facilities out of doors, beneath the trees. They charged nothing. Illiteracy had made the Madia Gonds easy prey for corrupt forest officers and other greedy outsiders. The Amtes helped them assert their rights and intervened to mediate disputes and rid the area of abusive officials. In 1976, they opened a school. The Madia Gonds were reluctant to send their children but, in time, the school prospered and became a center for both academic and vocational education. Prakash and Mandakini's own children were educated there. The Amtes have used the school at Hemalkasa to introduce the Madia Gonds to settled agriculture-growing vegetables, fruits, and irrigated grains organically-and to encourage them to conserve forest resources. This includes wild animals, a tribal dietary staple. The Amtes' popular animal orphanage at Hemalkasa promotes the survival of animals as part of nature's balance. Simplicity and respect guide the Amtes' work with the Madia Gonds. Prakash wears only a singlet and white shorts as he goes about his work, so as not to identify himself with "well-dressed" outsiders. Where applicable, the couple incorporates tribal cures in their medical practice. In school, children perform tribal songs and dances. Today, the Amtes' hospital has fifty beds, a staff of four doctors, and treats forty thousand patients a year free of charge. It is a regional center for mother-child welfare and health education. Its "barefoot doctors" bring first aid to outlying villages. The Amtes' school, meanwhile, has grown to six hundred students and is comprehensive. Among its graduates are the Madia Gonds' first doctors and lawyers and teachers as well as officials, office workers, and police. "More than 90 percent of the students have come back to serve in the community, including my sons," says Prakash, reflecting on his and Mandakini's legacy. "Maybe it's the way we have led our lives." In electing Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte to receive the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes their enhancing the capacity of the Madia Gonds to adapt positively in today's India, through healing and teaching and other compassionate intervention.




Notes - Lok Biradari Prakalp was started by Baba Amte in 1973. Since then Dr.Prakash & Dr.Manda Amte running this project. Activities: Free 50 bedded general hospital, 1st to 12th class Residential school for 600 Madia-gond tribal children & Animal Orphanage for the Wild Animals.

FINDING PEACE IN POVETY!

please free me from all sorts of and types of and hypes of poverties o lord!

MAHATMA ! come back!!

MAHATMA IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO COME BACK AGAIN! We can't find you through cureency notes and your big photographs,and idols.We want you alive and now.

Such is a situation, never before!

And before it is too late you need to do something.. your thoughts are very ridiculously crushed by us in the name of development and so on and what not?

The Varakari who never bothered to look beyond vithoba is now fighting against DOW......

and now we can't stop nor we can run after the mad agreemants or commitments of anybody in the name of global villaging.

Here is a message from one of my pals.

i'm was involved as a volunteer in the anti dow campaign in the pune.

if you check in this week's news then you'll find agressive protests from the locals.

but media has not raised the issue as they would have.

in spite of being educated...people are not aware of the enviornmental issue. if they gonna pollute the pune ...then it won't take much time to distroy the enviornment of the whole maharastra(considerig the geography and political sitautions.) i kindly request u to raise thios issue on your blog.
i'll be going to visit that location in pune ...shinde vasuli village on this sunday.

The protest requires now adays professional tools and street plays are the best. It is not defeating some company but we need to find out the truth and work upon living strategy.

Safdar Hashmi i remember you because bringing th street realities of life was your expertise and where are you?

Let me appeal the community to find the truth out of the turmoil and some resources for help on gandhian thoughts and followership... I was exploring on net on gandhi and i found oasis of these people with gandhilibrary.org

these are the people, member of the board of trustees of gandhilibrary.org .

Communicate with them and may be you will find some more better ways to fight for the cause of people and society.

Bhatt Deepak Jain Sulekh C. , B.S, M.S, Ph.D, MBAKothari Atul B. , MS, MBA, CPA, CFPLokey, Walter (Teb)Mahajan Devinder, BS, MS, PESteele Richard "Dick"Wani Manish K., MD, FACS
Bhatt Deepak
Deepak Bhatt did his engineering undergraduate study in India and graduate study in engineering and business administration in USA. He was a part-time faculty member of Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He did Information Technology (IT) and Management Consulting for domestic and international companies. Since his retirement in 1996, he is enjoying literary, cultural, bridge, investment and community welfare related activities.
Contact Information:4918 Hillswick Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77479Telephone: 281-491-6683E-mail: deepakbh@ureach.com
Jain Sulekh C. , B.S, M.S, Ph.D, MBA
Sulekh is a technology consultant in Manufacturing and aerospace engineering. He is a Vice President of Metalworking Consultants Group LLC and President of MMTS Company ( both companies offer consulting services).He received Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Birmingham University ( U.K) in 1969 and MBA from Clark University, Worcester, MASS in 1977. He did Higher Secondary school in Delhi in 1955, B.Sc Engineering ( Mech Engg) from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, India in 1960 and M.Tech in Production Engineering from I.I.T Kharagpur ( India) in 1962. Sulekh currently resides in Sugar Land, TX.
Contact Information:4502 Saint Michaels Court, Sugar Land, TX 77479 Telephone: 281-494-7656 (Home). 281-494-7656 (Work) Mobile: 832-594 8005Fax: 281-494-7656E mail: scjain@earthlink.net
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Kothari Atul B. , MS, MBA, CPA, CFP
Atul is Certified Public Accountant, CPA, licensed to practice public accounting in State of Texas, USA, since 1979. He received his MBA from University of Houston in 1977. He received his MS in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1975. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, India with B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering in 1974. He received his high school diploma from Sainik School Balachhadi(Jamnagar), India in 1969.Atul currently resides in Houston, Texas. He has his own public accounting firm since 1984.
Contact Information:1015 Crossroads Drive, Houston, TX 77079Telephone: 281-531-1977 (Home), 713-785-3900 (Work)Mobile: 832-265-7936Fax: 713-785-6252E mail: akothari@gandhilibrary.org
Lokey, Walter (Teb)
Teb Lokey received his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971. After spending over 30 years in financial and regulatory positions with financial institutions and regulated natural gas pipelines, he retired in 2003 to devote his time to the study and advancement of peace and social justice. Teb is active in a number of organizations dedicated to promoting communication, respect and nonviolence in all relationships. Contact Information: 1917 1/2 Banks Street , Houston , TX 77098Telephone: 713-528-3521 E mail: wlokey@houston.rr.com

Mahajan Devinder, BS, MS, PE
Devinder (Dev) is a Professional Engineer retired from Dow Chemical USA as an Associate Consultant after 24 years of service. At present, he devotes his full time to various community service projects. He received his BS in Civil Engineering in 1962 from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan & MS in Structural Engineering in 1963 from the same university. Devinder & his wife Sushma currently reside in Houston, Tx
Contact Information:529 Trails End, Houston, TX 77024Telephone: 713-468-4339 (Home)Mobile: 713-494-5382Fax 713-468-4339E mail: mahajandn@yahoo.com

Steele Richard "Dick"
Richard "Dick" Steele retired from the active practice of law in 2002. He now spends his time doing pro bono legal work and working with religious and non-profit organizations. He is especially interested in interfaith relations. He is member of Live Oak Friends Meeting of Houston (Quakers), and represents South Central Yearly Meeting of Friends of The Texas Conference of Churches. He is a lay chaplain with the Community of Hope where he ministers to paroles. In addition to serving as a Trustee of The Mahatma Gandhi Library he is on the board of The American Friends Service Committee serving on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and Friends General Conference Central Committee where he is Clerk of Friends Meeting House Fund, a mortgage company providing funds for Quaker meetings. He also is on the board of directors of Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston, the Houston Drug Court Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union - Houston Chapter.

Wani Manish K. MD, FACS
Manish received his medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1994. He continued his training in Otolaryngology at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. He is Board certified with the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Manish has been practice with Texas, Ear, Nose & Throats Specialists, P.A. in the Katy area since 2001. He resides in Katy with his wife and two children.
Contact Information:707 S. Fry Rd, Ste 250, Katy, TX 77450Telephone: 281-492-9844 (home), 281-492-7827 (office)Fax: 281-646-1416E-mail: manishoto@yahoo.com

THESE ARE THE SEVEN MORAL WARNINGS WE MAY THINK OF AND FOLLOW
7 Moral Warnings
Wealth without work
Pleasure without Conscience
Knowledge without character
Business without Ethics
Science without Humanity
Religion without Sacrifice
Politics without Principle
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4. http://www.mkgandhi.org/
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6. http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/mmgandhi.htm
7. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html
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9. http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
10. http://meadev.nic.in/Gandhi/biblio.htm

NOT ME THIS TIME!

The doomsday fun was the reallife situation for me last week.My mother was hospitalised for heart related trouble and we were struggling for the meaning of life and death... if any thing goes wrong with your dearones you feel that it is the end of the world and when th end of the world will be there we search for new ideas.Or we want to settle for the idea that OH NOT ME THIS TIME!

I had a friend in advertising who called me some years back asking me whether i was alive and working.He had read some news in the newspaper and the similarity of the name he said made him feel as if ... fun apart the reality thereafter was totally different and he had an accident and leave us on the spot. I remembere him calling me and laughing at me asking voh mai to nahi? and i had said, NOT ME THIS TIME..

The speed of thought and action is creating a direct trouble and intervention in our living.We should know the limits of human being and being human ...

The incidence of hospitalisation and everybody rushing to get rid of the environment of fear is a mad scene in India.The health workers too suffer a lot due to work pressure.The great Dr NItu Mandke the worlds famous cardiac scholar had to die out of widows syndrome. The starck realities of life sometimes lead to avery funny troubles.The real hridayparivartan an start only if we practically accept few things.

That is

we are mortal.

We keep changing.

We have to keep changing for survival.

We may not contrubute anything to society but we have to retain and ramain with everybody.

My father a wellknown marathi poet and teacher died in 2001 due to cancer, and he wrote an article the last article in which he gave five basic realisations they are

I am for nobody.

Nobody is for mine.

I am for God.

God is for me.

I am the God or God is me.

These are the stages in the life one has to clearly understand and accept.He lived a great life meditated a lot and helped people with his emotional approach without intellectual barriers.We should not head towards our future forgetting our hearts.I remember ARATI PRABHU very reknown poet in Marathi at tis point of time and felt that we are all poets like WALYAKOLI TURNED WALMIKI.

Everytime for the dreams of our own desires and family members we rob our lives and the truth by drawing convinient meanings and associations with people, when our family members desert us we become WALMIKIS and that is the ramayana of life nothing else.Everybody has a different ramayana and if we don not understand it then mahabharaht happens.

So everyday one should say thanks god.... NOT ME THIS TIME.

गेले दयायचे राहुनी, तुझे नक्षत्रांचे देणे
माझ्या पास आता कळया, आणि थोडी ओली पाने
आलो होतो हासत मी, काही श्वासांसाठी फक्त
दिवसांचे ओझे आता, रात्र रात्र सोशी रक्त
आता मनाचा दगड, घेतो कण्हत उशाला
होते कळयांचे निमार्ल्य, आणि पानांचा पाचोळा