Hello Donors, Members and Well-wishers!
The VII Batch of Vocational Training got off on 3 rd November with
Orientation and familiarization exercise ,after which Mrs. Jaya
Thiagarajan conducting Art of Living Classes.In between the students
heard Dr.Girija giving them ` Health education'–basic and personal
hygiene ,cleanliness in day to day life & sanitation.
The batch consists of 17 students in Retail Sales(11girls and 6
boys)and 8 in Tailoring stream(7girls and 1 boy)– total of 25
students.There is a good mix with 2 graduates,6 PUC , majority of
them SSLC and very few of them non SSLCs .The students have been
given a brief on UNNATI's goals and objectives. They seem to
enjoy the classes
Diwali gift to UNNATI !!!!!!!!-- two of our 5 th batch students Ms.
Parimala & Radhimol got their confirmation with an increase in their
salary at Surabi Charitable Trust – computer centers where they
are employed as teachers. Unnati offers them hearty congratulations
to them and wishes them a bright future. Unnati also expresses its
grateful thanks to Suirabi Charitable Trust.
We will be sharing with u the developments .
Dear Friends,
I am K. R. Suresh. I have been attending the Gokulashtami Celebrations
for 4 years and used to be with you during the weekly bhajans for
almost 1 year. Since, I have long office hours I could not attend the
weekly bhajans after some time. Now I am working for Sarala Birla
Academy, Bannerghatta which has again forced me to be physically away
from you all. But my memories are always there with you. And now I am
happy to note that there is a group which has made me virtually close
to all.
Thanks you very much.
Suresh
The write up that appeared recently in Deccan Herald is attached ....
regards, pkn
From: "rangagt" <rangagt@...> Reply-To: unnatisgbstrust@... To: unnatisgbstrust@... Subject: [unnatisgbstrust] unnati update Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:36:49 -0000
Hello Donors, Members& well wishers,
UNNATI wishes Season's Greetings for the just concluded dasara/ navarathri and a very happy /prosperous Diwali 05.
We r happy to inform that we propose to start the VII Batch of vocational Training from the 4th of Nov.05. We have recd. quite a good number of applications and the selection process is on – interviews are slated for 22nd of Oct followed by medical examination of the candidates / counselling with the parents the following Saturday.We are hopeful that as usual we should be in a position to select deserving candidates for the training.
It is heartening to note that 2 of our students from the I Batch - Mr.Raja and Mr.Srinivas who were placed in FOOD WORLD 100 ft road branch during Feb 04 have secured their well deserved promotions as SUPERVISORS with 100% increase in their present salary .We have congratulated the boys when we met them recently and have invited them to share their experiences with the batch that would be selected.
We don't want to sound a discordant note during the festive season, yet we thought we should share this with our members and well wishers. You all perhaps know that UNNATI is imparting FREE TRAINING to the candidates at an approximate cost of Rs.12 to 14 lakhs per annum which works out to Rs. 12000 to 14000 per candidate. Even though we are grateful to our regular donors like Levis, Gokuldas Global and to the numerous individuals from time to time, this itself is not sufficient to run this organization. We earnestly appeal to all of you to speak to your friends/ relatives/ like minded persons/ acquaintances especially at the corporate level and secure sizeable amount so that sufficient funds are available with us to carry on this unique project, of empowering the under privileged, unhindered.
We are sure that all our members and well wishers will understand how important it is for an organization like ours to have sufficient funds at its disposal to continue this ambitious project of helping and finding suitable placements to the most deserving (poorest of the poor) in the society.
Hello Donors, Members& well wishers,
UNNATI wishes Season's Greetings for the just concluded dasara/
navarathri and a very happy /prosperous Diwali 05.
We r happy to inform that we propose to start the VII Batch of
vocational Training from the 4th of Nov.05. We have recd. quite a
good number of applications and the selection process is on –
interviews are slated for 22nd of Oct followed by medical examination
of the candidates / counselling with the parents the following
Saturday.We are hopeful that as usual we should be in a position to
select deserving candidates for the training.
It is heartening to note that 2 of our students from the I Batch -
Mr.Raja and Mr.Srinivas who were placed in FOOD WORLD 100 ft road
branch during Feb 04 have secured their well deserved promotions as
SUPERVISORS with 100% increase in their present salary .We have
congratulated the boys when we met them recently and have invited
them to share their experiences with the batch that would be selected.
We don't want to sound a discordant note during the festive
season, yet we thought we should share this with our members and well
wishers. You all perhaps know that UNNATI is imparting FREE TRAINING
to the candidates at an approximate cost of Rs.12 to 14 lakhs per
annum which works out to Rs. 12000 to 14000 per candidate. Even
though we are grateful to our regular donors like Levis, Gokuldas
Global and to the numerous individuals from time to time, this itself
is not sufficient to run this organization. We earnestly appeal to
all of you to speak to your friends/ relatives/ like minded persons/
acquaintances especially at the corporate level and secure sizeable
amount so that sufficient funds are available with us to carry on
this unique project, of empowering the under privileged, unhindered.
We are sure that all our members and well wishers will understand how
important it is for an organization like ours to have sufficient
funds at its disposal to continue this ambitious project of helping
and finding suitable placements to the most deserving (poorest of the
poor) in the society.
More in our next mail,
Regds,
Salaam Alaikkum. Thanks for sending a nice write-up explaining the salient features of Islam which was interesting. It gives me great pleasure to send the following article on Hinduism which I am sure would be of interest to you. Basically Hinduism believes in universality, plurality and eternality of all beings. Hence it does not prescribe or claim only one exclusive path to divinity although God is one and we are all part of him as stated through the Adwaitha principle. Just as all rivers reach ocean, there can be different approaches to Godhood, and one need not be unduly perturbed by this variety. When we worship a tree or an animal or an object, it is simply because we see it as a manifestation of God itself. There can be no duality. I, you and all others belong to this great creation. One has to develop an universal consciousness to understand this great principle. Trust you would go through the following article with an open mind.
Regards,
Raghavan Krishnan
Hinduism – A Brief Sketch
Three religions now stand in the world, which have come down to us from time prehistoric- Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival their internal strength. But while Judaism failed to absorb Christianity and was driven out of its place of birth by its all conquering daughter, and a handful of Parsees is all that remains to tell the tale of their grand religion (Zoroastrianism), sect after sect arose in India and seemed to shake the religion of the Vedas to its very foundations, but like the waters of the sea shore in a tremendous earthquake it receded only for a while, only to return in an all-absorbing flood, a thousand times more vigorous, and when the tumult of the rush was over, these sects were all sucked in, absorbed, and assimilated into the immense body of the mother faith.
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu’s religion.
Where then, the question arises, where is the common centre to which all these widely diverging radii converge? Where is the common basis upon which all these seemingly hopeless contradictions rest? And this is the question I shall attempt to answer.
There never was a time when there was no creation.
The Hindus have received their religion through revelation, the Vedas. They hold that the Vedas are without beginning and without end. It may sound ludicrous to this audience, how a book can be without beginning or end. But by the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons into different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical, and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the father of all spirits, were there before their discovery, and would remain even if we forgot them.
The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women. Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning and end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? Some say it was in a potential form in God. In that case God is sometimes potential and sometimes kinetic, which would make Him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound, and everything compound must undergo that change which is called destruction. So God would die, which is absurd. Therefore there never was a time when there was no creation.
If I may be allowed to use a simile, creation and creator are two lines, without beginning and without end, running parallel to each other. God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. This is what the Brahmin boy repeats every day: "The sun and the moon, the Lord created like the suns and moons of previous cycles." And this agrees with modern science.
I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die.
Here I stand and if I shut my eyes, and try to conceive my existence, "I", "I", "I", what is the idea before me? The idea of a body. Am I, then, nothing but a combination of material substance? The Vedas declare, "No". I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here am I in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living. I had also a past. The soul was not created, for creation means a combination, which means a certain future dissolution. If then the soul was created, it must die. Some are born happy, enjoy perfect health, with beautiful body, mental vigour and all wants supplied. Others are born miserable, some are without hands or feet, others again are idiots and only drag on a wretched existence. Why, if they are all created, why does a just and merciful God create one happy and another unhappy, why is He so partial? Nor would it mend matters in the least to hold that those who are miserable in this life will be happy in a future one. Why should a man be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?
In the second place, the idea of a creator God does not explain the anomaly, but simply expresses the cruel fiat of an all-powerful being. There must have been causes, then, before his birth, to make a man miserable or happy and those were his past actions.
Are not all the tendencies of the mind and the body accounted for by inherited aptitude? Here are two parallel lines of existence- one of the mind, the other of matter. If matter and its transformations answer for all that we have, there is no necessity for supposing the existence of a soul. But it cannot be proved that thought has been evolved out of matter, and if a philosophical monism is inevitable, spiritual monism is certainly logical and no less desirable than a materialistic monism; but neither of these is necessary here.
The natural habits of a new-born soul; since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from past lives.
We cannot deny that bodies acquire certain tendencies from heredity, but those tendencies only mean the physical configuration, through which a peculiar mind alone can act in a peculiar way. There are other tendencies peculiar to a soul caused by its past actions. And a soul with a certain tendency would by the laws of affinity take birth in a body, which is the fittest instrument for the display of that tendency. This is in accord with science, for science wants to explain everything by habit, and habit is got through repetitions. So repetitions are necessary to explain the natural habits of a new-born soul. And since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from past lives.
There is another suggestion. Taking all these for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue, in fact no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and they rush in. That shows that consciousness is only the surface of the mental ocean, and within its depths are stored up all the experiences. Try and struggle, they would come up and you would be conscious even of your past life.
This is direct and demonstrative evidence. Verification is the perfect proof of a theory, and here is the challenge thrown to the world by the Rishis. We have discovered the secret by which the very depths of the ocean of memory can be stirred up- try it and you would get a complete reminiscence of your past life.
So then the Hindu believes that he is a spirit. Him the sword cannot pierce, him the fire cannot burn, him the water cannot melt (or make wet)- him the air cannot dry. The Hindu believes that every soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, but whose centre is located in the body and that death means the change of this centre from body to body. Nor is the soul bound by the conditions of matter. In its very essence it is free, unbounded, holy, pure, and perfect. But somehow or other it finds itself tied down to matter, and thinks of itself as matter.
Why should the free, perfect and pure being be thus under the thraldom of matter, is the next question. How can the perfect soul be deluded into the belief that it is imperfect? We have been told that the Hindus shirk the question and say that no such question can be there. Some thinkers want to answer it by positing one or more quasi-perfect beings, and use big scientific names to fill up the gap. But naming is not explaining. The question remains the same. How can the perfect become the quasi-perfect; how can the pure, the absolute, change even a microscopic particle of its nature? But the Hindu is sincere. He does not want to take shelter under sophistry. He is brave enough to face the question in a manly fashion; and his answer is: "I do not know how the perfect being, the soul, came to think of itself as imperfect, as joined to and conditioned by matter." But the fact is a fact for all that. It is a fact in everybody’s consciousness that one thinks of oneself as the body. The Hindu does not attempt to explain why one thinks one is the body. The answer that it is the will of God is no explanation. This is nothing more than what the Hindu says: "I do not know."
Well then, the human soul is eternal and immortal, perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centre from one body to another. The present is determined by our past actions and the future by the present. The soul will go on evolving up or reverting back from birth to birth and death to death. But there is another question; Is man a tiny boat in a tempest, raised one moment on a foamy crest of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasm the next, rolling to and fro at the mercy of good and bad actions- a powerless, helpless wreck in an ever-raging, ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause which rolls on crushing everything in its way and waits not for the widow’s tears or the orphan’s cry? The heart sinks at the idea, yet this is the law of Nature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape? –was the cry that went up from the bottom of that heart of despair. It reached the throne of mercy, and words of hope and consolation came down and inspired a Vedic sage, and he stood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaimed the glad tidings: "Hear, ye children of immortal bliss! Even ye that reside in higher spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness, all delusion. Knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death over again."
"Children of immortal bliss"- what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name- heirs of immortal bliss- yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth- sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion, that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.
Thus it is that the Vedas proclaim not a dreadful combination of unforgiving laws, not an endless prison of cause and effect, but that at the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One "by whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth."
And what is His nature?
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the all-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."
This is the doctrine of love declared in the Vedas, and let us see how it is fully developed and taught by Krishna, who the Hindus believe to have been God incarnate on earth.
He taught that a man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world- his heart to God and his hands to work.
It is good to love God for hope of reward in this or the next world, but it is better to love God for love's sake, and the prayer goes:
"Lord, I do not want wealth, nor children, nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth, but grant me this, that I may love Thee without the hope of reward- love unselfishly for love’s sake."
One of the disciple of Krishna, the then emperor of India, was driven from his kingdom by his enemies and had to take shelter with his queen in a forest in the Himalayas, and there one day the queen asked him how it was that he, the most virtuous of men, should suffer so much misery. King Yudhishthira answered:
"Behold my queen, the Himalayas, how grand and beautiful they are; I love them. They do not give me anything, but my nature is to love the grand, the beautiful, therefore I love them. Similarly, I love the Lord. He is the source of all beauty, of all sublimity. He is the only object to be loved; my nature is to love Him, and therefore I love. I do not pray for anything; I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I cannot trade in love."
Purity is the condition of His mercy.
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is therefore, Mukti- freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
And this bondage can only fall off through the mercy of God, and this mercy comes on the pure. So purity is the condition of His mercy. How does that mercy act? He reveals Himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see God, yea, even in this life; then and then only all the crookedness of the heart is made straight. Then all doubt ceases. He is no more the freak of a terrible law of causation. This is the very centre, the very vital conception of Hinduism. The Hindu does not want to live upon words and theories. If there are existences beyond the ordinary sensuous existence, he wants to come face to face with them. If there is a soul in him, which is not matter, if there is an all-merciful universal Soul, he will go to Him direct. So the best proof a Hindu sage gives about the soul, about God, is: "I have seen the soul; I have seen God." And that is the only condition of perfection. The Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising- not in believing, but in being and becoming.
Thus the whole object of their system is by constant struggle to become perfect, to become divine, to reach God and see God, and this reaching God, seeing God, becoming perfect even as the Father in Heaven, is perfect, constitutes the religion of the Hindus.
And what becomes of a man when he attains perfection? He lives a life of bliss infinite. He enjoys infinite and perfect bliss, having obtained the only thing in which man ought to have pleasure, namely God, and enjoys the bliss with God.
So far all the Hindus are agreed. This is the common religion of all the sects of India: but then, perfection is absolute, and the absolute cannot be two or three. It cannot have any qualities. It cannot be an individual. And so when a soul becomes perfect and absolute, it must become one with Brahman, and it would only realise the Lord as the perfection, the reality, of its own nature and existence, the existence absolute, knowledge absolute, and bliss absolute. We have often and often read this called the losing of individuality and becoming a stock or a stone.
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
I tell you it is nothing of the kind. If it is happiness to enjoy the consciousness of this small body, it must be greater happiness to enjoy the consciousness of two bodies, the measure of happiness increasing with the consciousness of an increasing number of bodies, the aim, the ultimate of happiness being reached when it would become a universal consciousness.
Therefore, to gain this infinite universal individuality, this miserable little prison-individuality must go. Then alone can death cease when I am one with life, then alone can misery cease when I am one with happiness itself, then alone can all errors cease when I am one with knowledge itself; and this is the necessary scientific conclusion. Science has proved to me that physical individuality is a delusion, that really my body is one little continuously changing body in an unbroken ocean of matter; and Advaita (unity) is the necessary conclusion with my other counterpart, soul.
Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As soon as science would reach perfect unity, it would stop from further progress, because it would reach the goal. Thus Chemistry could not progress farther when it would discover one element out of which all others could be made. Physics would stop when it would be able to fulfil its services in discovering one energy of which all the others are but manifestations, and the science of religion become perfect when it would discover Him who is the one life in a universe of death, Him who is the constant basis of an ever changing world. One who is the only Soul of which all souls are but delusive manifestations. Thus it is, through multiplicity and duality that the ultimate unity is reached. Religion can go no farther. This is the goal of all science.
All science is bound to come to this conclusion in the long run. Manifestation, and not creation, is the word of science today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has been cherishing in his bosom for ages is going to be taught in more forcible language, and with further light from the latest conclusions of science.
There is no polytheism in India
Descend we now from the aspirations of philosophy to the religion of the ignorant. At the very outset, I may tell you that there is no polytheism in India. In every temple, if one stands by and listens, one will find the worshippers applying all the attributes of God, including omnipresence, to the images. It is not polytheism, nor would the name henotheism explain the situation. "The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet." Names are not explanations.
I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to a crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick, what could it do?
One of his listeners sharply answered: "If I abuse your God, what can He do?"
The preacher said, "You would be punished when you die."
The Hindu retorted "So my idol will punish you when you die."
The tree is known by its fruits. When I have seen amongst them that are called idolaters, men, the like of whom in morality and spirituality and love I have never seen anywhere, I stop and ask myself, ‘Can sin beget holiness?’
We can no more think about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing.
Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse. Why does a Christian go to Church? Why is the cross holy? Why is the face turned toward the sky in prayer? Why are there so many images in the Catholic Church? Why are there so many images in the minds of Protestants when they pray? We can no more think about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing. By the law of association, the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa. This is why the Hindu uses an external symbol when he worships. He will tell you, it helps to keep his mind fixed on the Being to whom he prays. He knows as well you do that the image is not God, is not omnipresent. After all, how much does omnipresence mean to almost the whole world? It stands merely as a word, a symbol. Has God superficial area? If not, when we repeat that word ‘omnipresent’, we think of the extended sky or of space, that is all.
The whole religion of the Hindu is centred in realisation.
As we find that somehow or other, by the laws of our mental constitution, we have to associate our ideas of infinity with the images of the blue sky, or of the sea, so we naturally connect our idea of holiness with the image of a church, a mosque, or a cross. The Hindus have associated the idea of holiness, purity, truth, omnipresence, and such other ideas with different images and forms. But with this difference that while some people devote their whole lives to their idol of a church and never rise higher, because with them religion means an intellectual assent to certain doctrines and doing good to their fellows, the whole religion of the Hindu is centred in realisation. Man is to become divine by realising the divine. Idols or temples or churches or books are only the supports, the helps, of his spiritual childhood: but on and on he must progress.
He must not stop anywhere. "External worship, material worship," say the scriptures, "is the lowest stage; struggling to rise high, mental prayer is the next stage, but the highest stage is when the Lord has been realised."
Mark the same earnest man who is kneeling before the idol tells you, "Him the sun cannot express, nor the moon, nor the stars, the lightning cannot express Him, nor what we speak of as fire; through Him they shine." But he does not abuse anyone’s idol or call its worship sin. He recognises in it a necessary stage of life. "The child is father of the man." Would it be right for an old man to say that childhood is a sin or youth a sin?
If a man can realise his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin? Nor even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, means so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength, till it reaches the Glorious Sun.
Unity in variety is the plan of nature, and the Hindu has recognised it. Every other religion lays down certain fixed dogmas, and tries to force society to adopt them. It places before society only one coat, which must fit Jack and John and Henry, all alike. If it does not fit John or Henry, he must go without a coat to cover his body. The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realised, or thought of, or stated, through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols- so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for every one, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism.
One thing I must tell you, Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. On the other hand, it is the attempt of undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths. The Hindus have their faults, they sometimes have their exceptions; but mark this, they are always for punishing their own bodies, and never for cutting the throats of their neighbours. If the Hindu fanatic burns himself on the pyre, he never lights the fire of Inquisition. And even this cannot be laid at the door of his religion any more than the burning of witches can be laid at the door of Christianity.
To the Hindu, then, the whole world of religions is only a travelling, a coming up, of different men and women, through various conditions and circumstances, to the same goal. Every religion is only evolving a God out of the material man, and the same God is the inspirer of all of them. Why, then, are there so many contradictions? They are only apparent, says the Hindu. The contradictions come from the same truth adapting itself to the varying circumstances of different natures.
It is the same light coming through glasses of different colours. And these little variations are necessary for purposes of adaptation. But in the heart of everything the same truth reigns. The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna, "I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there." And what has been the result? I challenge the world to find, throughout the whole system of Sanskrit philosophy, any such expression as that the Hindu alone will be saved and not others. Says Vyasa, "We find perfect men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed." One thing more. How, then, can the Hindu, whose whole fabric of thought centres in God, believe in Buddhism which is agnostic, or in Jainism which is atheistic?
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son.. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.
This, brethren, is a short sketch of the religious ideas of the Hindus. The Hindu may have failed to carry out all his plans, but there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no location in place or time; which will be infinite like the God it will preach, and whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and of Christ, on saints and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or Buddhistic, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these, and still have infinite space for development; which in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite arms, and find a place for, every human being, from the lowest grovelling savage not far removed from the brute, to the highest man towering by the virtues of his head and heart almost above humanity, making society stand in awe of him and doubt his human nature. It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity, which will recognise divinity in every man and woman, and whose whole scope, whose whole force, will be created in aiding humanity to realise its own true, divine nature.
Offer such a religion, and all the nations will follow you. Asoka’s council was a council of the Buddhist faith. Akbar’s, though more to the purpose, was only a parlour meeting. It was reserved for America to proclaim to all quarters of the globe that the Lord is in every religion.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians, give strength to you to carry out your noble idea! The star arose in the East; it travelled steadily towards the West, sometimes dimmed and sometimes effulgent, till it made a circuit of the world; and now it is again rising on the very horizon of the East, the borders of the Sanpo, a thousandfold more effulgent than it ever was before.
Founder of Hinduism
Question: Was there a specific founder of the religion (Hinduism?)
Reply: Hinduism cannot be described as an organized religion. It is not founded by any individual. Hinduism is God centred and therefore one can call Hinduism as founded by God, because the answer to the question ‘Who is behind the eternal principles and who makes them work?’ will have to be ‘Cosmic power, Divine power, God’
There are these eternal principles, which stand upon their own foundations without depending on any reasoning, even much less on the authority of sages however great, of Incarnations however brilliant they may have been. We may remark that as this is the unique position in India, our claim is that the Vedanta only can be the universal religion, that it is already the existing universal religion in the world, because it teaches principles and not persons.
If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religion. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.... Religion is only between you and your God, and no third person must come between you.Thinkwhat these organised religions have done! What Nepoleon was more terrible than those religious persecutions? If you and I organise, we begin to hate every person . It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes. Truth is of two kinds: (1) that which is cognisable by the five ordinary senses of man, and by reasonings based thereon; (2) that which is cognisable by the subtle, super-sensuous power of Yoga.
Knowledge acquired by the first means is called science; and knowledge acquired by the second is called the Vedas.
The whole body of super sensuous truths, having no beginning or end, and called by the name of Vedas, is ever existent. The Creator Himself is creating, preserving and destroying the universe with the help of these truths.
The person in whom this super-sensuous power is manifested is called a Rishi, and the super-sensuous truths, which he realises by this power, are called the Vedas.
This Rishihood, this power of super-sensuous perception of the Vedas, is real religion. And so long as this does not develop in the life of an initiate, so long is religion a mere empty word to him, and it is to be understood that he has not taken yet the first step in religion.
The authority of the Vedas extends to all ages, climes and persons; that is to say, their application is not confined to any particular place, time and persons.
The Vedas are the only exponent of the universal religion.
Hinduism is based upon Eternal Principles. Eternal principles apply to all human beings everywhere. The laws of physics exist and work all the time. The healing principle will get to work immediately the moment a little cut is sustained on a finger. No one can tell when this healing principle began or when it will end. It is there existing eternally, all pervading (available everywhere), omniscient (aware all the time and therefore healing principle gets to work when injury is sustained). (These simplified examples serve to understand God’s power: omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent).
Hinduism is based upon Eternal Principles. If a great scientist like Einstein, discovered or realized laws of physics, Hinduism would call him a great Rishi (Maharshi or seer of truth.) Such seers of truth are not confined to any one age or country. Self realized persons like Jesus Christ would be called Rishis (seers) and their teachings would be readily acceptable to those who properly understand the principles of ‘Hinduism’. From the ancient times, many great Rishis achieved self-realisation through such practices as meditation and austerities and they realised knowledge concerning Eternal Principles. Their knowledge, taught to disciples, and eventually made available in written form, is known as the Vedas (Ved = knowledge), the scriptures upon which Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) is based. Sanatan means eternal and Dharma means religion.
The word 'Hinduism ‘ does not appear anywhere in Hindu scriptures, The proper name for Hinduism is ‘Sanatan Dharma’ Sanatan = eternal Dharma = religion.
The whole of mankind has to abide by (or is affected by) the eternal principles. The question of acceptance or rejection of Hinduism by any individual simply does not arise, or is irrelevant. It is illogical to talk of conversion to Hinduism. It is like saying that the laws of physics (e.g.gravity) will apply to you only if you belong to an organization or organized religion.
> > I believe that my topic is useful and I would like to share my thoughts. > thank you > > ========================= > > ISLAM AND MUSLIM > > The name of this religion is Islam, the root of which is Silm and Salam > which means peace. Salam may also mean greeting one another with peace. One > of the beautiful names of God is that He is the Peace. It means more than > that: submission to the One God, and to live in peace with the Creator, > within one's self, with other people and with the environment. Thus, Islam > is a total system of living. A Muslim is supposed to live in peace and > harmony with all these segments; hence, a Muslim is any person anywhere in > the world whose obedience, allegiance, and loyalty are to God, the Lord of > the Universe. > > MUSLIMS AND ARAB > > The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims are not to be confused > with Arabs. Muslims may be Arabs, Turks, Persians, Indians, Pakistanis, > Malaysians, Indonesians, Europeans, Africans, Americans, Chinese, or other > nationalities. > An Arab could be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew or an atheist. Any person who > adopts the Arabic language is called an Arab. However, the language of the > Qur'an (the Holy Book of Islam) is Arabic. Muslims all over the world try > to learn Arabic so that they may be able to read the Qur'an and understand > its meaning. They pray in the language of the Qur'an, namely Arabic. > Supplications to God could be in any language. > While there are one billion Muslims in the world there are about 200 > million Arabs. Among them, approximately ten percent are not Muslims. Thus > Arab Muslims constitute only about twenty percent of the Muslim population > of the world. > > ALLAH THE ONE AND THE ONLY GOD > > Muslims believe that Allah is the name of the One and Only God. He is the > Creator of all human beings. He is the God for the Christians, the Jews, > the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the atheists, and others. Muslims > worship God whose name is Allah. They put their trust in Him and they seek > His help and His guidance. > > MUHAMMAD > > Muhammad was chosen by God to deliver His Message of Peace, namely Islam. > He was born in 570 C.E. (Common Era) in Makkah, Arabia. He was entrusted > with the Message of Islam when he was at the age of forty years. The > revelation that he received is called the Qur'an, while the message is > called Islam. > Muhammad is the very last Prophet of God to mankind. He is the final > Messenger of God. His message was and is still to the Christians, the Jews > and the rest of mankind. He was sent to those religious people to inform > them about the true mission of Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. > Muhammad is considered to be the summation and the culmination of all the > prophets and messengers that came before him. He purified the previous > messages from adulteration and completed the Message of God for all > humanity. He was entrusted with the power of explaining, interpreting and > living the teaching of the Qur'an. > > NON-MUSLIMS > > Muslims are required to respect all those who are faithful and God > conscious people, namely those who received messages. Christians and Jews > are called People of the Book. Muslims are asked to call upon the People of > the Book for common terms, namely, to worship One God, and to work together > for the solutions of the many problems in the society. > Christians and Jews lived peacefully with Muslims throughout centuries in > the Middle East and other Asian and African countries. The second Caliph > Umar, did not pray in the church in Jerusalem so as not to give the Muslims > an excuse to take it over. Christians entrusted the Muslims, and as such > the key of the Church in Jerusalem is still in the hands of the Muslims. > Jews fled from Spain during the Inquisition, and they were welcomed by the > Muslims. They settled in the heart of the Islamic Caliphate. They enjoyed > positions of power and authority. > Throughout the Muslim world, churches, synagogues and missionary schools > were built within the Muslim neighborhoods. These places were protected by > Muslims even during the contemporary crises in the Middle East > > > =================== > > For more information about Islam: > > http://www.geocities.com/om_albanat1/1.html > http://www.geocities.com/al7arth1/1.html > http://www.freewebtown.com/alsalam/1.html > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/unnatisgbstrust/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > unnatisgbstrust-unsubscribe@... > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://in.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ************************************************************** > Scanned by eScan Anti-Virus and Content Security Software. > Visit http://www.mwti.net for more info on eScan and MailScan. > ************************************************************** > >
Hello Donors, Well Wishers and Members,
We are happy to inform you, that we have successfully completed the
VI Batch of Vocational Training of Retail Sales and Tailoring. The
students had arranged a good `thanksgiving' function on the
concluding day – 17th Sept and had invited all the faculties.
It was nice to see all the students involving themselves and going
about their work. It was heartening to see many of the students
well focussed and ready to face the challenges ahead.
All the 25 students i.e. 15 from the Retail Sales Stream and 10 from
the Tailoring stream have been placed and they have already started
working in their organisations.
We are thankful to all the members of the faculty who have, through
their total involvement and commitment contributed to the success of
the programme. Likewise, `Unnati' feels indebted to the
immense
support extended by GokaldasImages and Levis without whose backing,
assistance and guidance we could not have achieved this success.
We also thank Mr.Francis, Mr.Prasanna and Mr.Jairam (of Levis) for
sparing their valuable time during the interview stage and
interacting with the tailoring students during their training period.
Further, we take this opportunity to thank our innumerable members
and well wishers who have always been with us in our mission.
We propose to start our next Batch (VII) by the 2nd or 3rd week of
October'05. We have a few applications on hand and hope to
receive
many before we start the selection process.
Shall be in touch with you as frequently as possible.
Regards,
Ranga
(Priya,
FYI, as discussed with you I am forwarding your ID)
I hope you and Mr. Ranga are well and that
this will help you.
I am sorry that I could not be present
during the farewell celebrations but I was traveling at the time.
Let me know when the next batch begins.
Regards,
Randy.
From:
unnatisgbstrust@... [mailto:unnatisgbstrust@...] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:03
PM To: unnati Subject: [unnatisgbstrust]
activity update
Hello,
I am Ranga. I have
started functioning as Administrative-in-charge of
‘UNNATI’ along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of
Mr.Anantharaman. On this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to
all the trustees, donars, members and well wishers of ‘UNNATI’.
We have successfully
completed the 5th Batch of vocational training consisting of 21
students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6 girls) and 9 from
tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to inform you that all the trainees
have suitably been placed.
We have started the
process of inviting applications for the 6th Batch and request you
to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing Batch (likely to commence
from 1st July 2005) as you have done in the past.
It is always our pleasure
to keep in touch with you for guidance and support with the sole objective of
making ‘UNNATI’ perform better and achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the
support extended to us heretofore and look forward to the same in future
too.
Thanks for the update.Good to know that things are on track.Keep going with the good work.
Regards,
S R Iyer
rangagt <rangagt@...> wrote:
Hello Donors, Members and Well Wishers,
This is in continuation of my mail of 18th July and I thought,I will share with you all the progress and developments at`UNNATI' during this past 8 weeks.
Yes. All the students are making tremendous progress.Some of the students who were initially shy and withdrawn have started coming out of their shell.Some who showed better mental make up have started taking initiatives .
Two students from the Tailoring stream dropped out of the course for personal reasons.
We have started the process of finding suitable placements for the students and we are in touch with the prospective employers viz Food World, Fab Mall and several Garments Units the interviews for which is expected to take place during this week. This session is coming to an end on 17th Sept.
'05. We are hopeful that all the trainees will find suitable placements before the session concludes on the 17th.
We shall be mailing the developments.
You can also contact us through – unnatisgbstrust@...
Hello Donors, Members and Well Wishers,
This is in continuation of my mail of 18th July and I thought,I will
share with you all the progress and developments at`UNNATI' during
this past 8 weeks.
Yes. All the students are making tremendous progress.Some of the
students who were initially shy and withdrawn have started coming out
of their shell.Some who showed better mental make up have started
taking initiatives .
Two students from the Tailoring stream dropped out of the course for
personal reasons.
We have started the process of finding suitable placements for the
students and we are in touch with the prospective employers viz Food
World, Fab Mall and several Garments Units the interviews for which
is expected to take place during this week. This session is coming
to an end on 17th Sept. '05. We are hopeful that all the trainees
will find suitable placements before the session concludes on the
17th.
We shall be mailing the developments.
You can also contact us through – unnatisgbstrust@...
Regds,
My Dear Friend,
I am pleased to write you this message through this means, please be
informed that I am a Private person (Project Manager) and a Local
Investor or Businesswoman, we are 2 Businessmen who are into a Joint
Partnership here and we want to go into the Exporting of Crude Oil
Abroad to ready Markets which are available to us since we have
already Secured/Obtained an Crude Oil Export Licence.
On this note we are seeking for a reliable person/ firm whom we can
Trust and that will be Acting as our Foreign Partner because the
Government here in our Country in Collaboration with the Ministry of
Petroleum gave a strong Guideline which must be met before the
Allocation Certificate for Oil lifting /export out of the country
would be granted .
Also we want to front you as our Partner if you are willing to work
with us , since is the Govt policy stipulates that we must have a
foreign partner abroad for immediate sales before the allocation
would be lifted / granted to go into that Venture ASAP since we are
new firm.
We shall start-up all the Necessary Documentations Memorandum Of
Agreement and Understanding MOU for the availablity/protection of
funds since the money would be in your hand , which will take about 3
days with your Full Co-operation's in this regards,as soon as I
receive your posistive /urgent reply.
My Regards.
(Project Manager)
All replies to info_allianz@...
Thanks for the update .Nice to know that the 6th batch is progressing well.
Both Mrs Iyer & I were quite touched by Parimala's gesture .Gratitude is always a value worth cherishing & we were truly delighted that an ex-trainee of ours displayed it in her own way.
I must also take this opportunity to thank you for all the courtesies extended to us, when we recently visited UNNATI.We were really impressed with your good work. We wish you & all those connected with UNNATI Godspeed & good luck in all your endeavours.
Regards,
S R Iyer rangagt <rangagt@...> wrote:
Hello Donors, Members and Well-wishers!
I am continuing from where I left. Yes, I remember telling you that we have started the VI Batch of the Vocational Training in Retail Sales and Tailoring with 15 and 12 students respectively. I am happy to inform u that the classes are progressing satisfactorily. Students are fast getting used to the healthy and educative atmosphere of UNNATI and we are really happy to share with you that we have spotted some very good talents in this batch.
U may be also aware that we arrange an interaction between the past students and the ongoing batch on every 2nd Sunday of the month to enable the students of the fresh batch to know more about UNNATI and how the training at UNNATI has helped shape the lives of the underprivileged. This interaction was held on 10th Jul, 05 and 5
past students turned up and spoke about their experiences in their respective fields, which were well received by the students.
In addition, past students visit us periodically to share the experiences with us informally. This gives us an opportunity to know their progress. One such student Mr.Satyamurthy (of the IV Batch- Retail Sales) who was placed in one of the Food World Chains during Jan.05, has now joined CAFÉ COFFEE DAY as Level II employee and has set his sights high! He is of course a graduate! UNNATI wishes him many more promotions and a bright future.
It is not uncommon for the past students to contribute their might to our kitty as a token of their gratitude. We see this as a sense of belonging on the part of UNNATI Alumnis! Some of the instances where past students get in touch with us either to share their experiences or to seek counsel or even volunteer to pay some money
as donation to UNNATI touch our heart. Miss.Parimala a V BATCH Retail student – brought her first pay packet to Unnati on 7th Jul.and placed the entire pay packet on my table and wanted us to take the packet and treat the same as a donation from her and her family as a token of her family's gratitude towards UNNATI. Touched by her gesture, we returned the packet. However upon her insistence we took Rs.100/- as her Donation to UNNATI. – Parimala's father is no more, her mother works as a house maid and she has a younger sister studying in 8th std , for them the money is very dear and yet she offered, telling us that the family can somehow manage. We have no words to describe such exceptional acts of gratitude. This further reinforces our belief that, after all, the training they have received at UNNATI has not gone down the drain!!.
Hello Donors, Members and Well-wishers!
I am continuing from where I left. Yes, I remember telling you that
we have started the VI Batch of the Vocational Training in Retail
Sales and Tailoring with 15 and 12 students respectively. I am happy
to inform u that the classes are progressing satisfactorily. Students
are fast getting used to the healthy and educative atmosphere of
UNNATI and we are really happy to share with you that we have spotted
some very good talents in this batch.
U may be also aware that we arrange an interaction between the past
students and the ongoing batch on every 2nd Sunday of the month to
enable the students of the fresh batch to know more about UNNATI and
how the training at UNNATI has helped shape the lives of the
underprivileged. This interaction was held on 10th Jul, 05 and 5
past students turned up and spoke about their experiences in their
respective fields, which were well received by the students.
In addition, past students visit us periodically to share the
experiences with us informally. This gives us an opportunity to know
their progress. One such student Mr.Satyamurthy (of the IV Batch-
Retail Sales) who was placed in one of the Food World Chains during
Jan.05, has now joined CAFÉ COFFEE DAY as Level II employee and
has set his sights high! He is of course a graduate! UNNATI wishes
him many more promotions and a bright future.
It is not uncommon for the past students to contribute their might to
our kitty as a token of their gratitude. We see this as a sense of
belonging on the part of UNNATI Alumnis! Some of the instances where
past students get in touch with us either to share their experiences
or to seek counsel or even volunteer to pay some money as donation to
UNNATI touch our heart. Miss.Parimala a V BATCH Retail student –
brought her first pay packet to Unnati on 7th Jul.and placed the
entire pay packet on my table and wanted us to take the packet and
treat the same as a donation from her and her family as a token of
her family's gratitude towards UNNATI. Touched by her gesture,
we returned the packet. However upon her insistence we took Rs.100/-
as her Donation to UNNATI. – Parimala's father is no more, her
mother works as a house maid and she has a younger sister studying in
8th std , for them the money is very dear and yet she offered,
telling us that the family can somehow manage. We have no words to
describe such exceptional acts of gratitude. This further reinforces
our belief that, after all, the training they have received at UNNATI
has not gone down the drain!!.
Hello esteemed Donars, members and well-wishers,
Greetings and best wishes from `UNNATI'.
I thought,I will share with you,the progress`UNNATI' is
making in continuing to empower the under-privileged.
After my last communication with you, we have striven hard to select
the best candidates out of a number of applications received for the
two vocational courses – viz,Retail sales and Tailoring.We have
indeed been successful in identifying and selecting (after proper
interview as regards attitude, aptitude and economic backwardness) 22
candidates for the Retails Sales stream and 15 candidates for the
Tailoring Stream. However finally 15 candidates for the Retail Stream
and 12 for the Tailoring Stream have started attending the course out
of which 9 are boys and 18 are girls.
The classes (for this VI Batch of students) started on 1st Jul 2005.
After introduction / orientation, a demonstrated lecture on "Art
of Living'was given by Mrs&Mr.Rajagopal.Prayers were taught by
Mrs.Tara Narayanan followed by a talk on Health and Hygiene by
Dr.Girija. The regular lecture classes for the Retail Sales Stream
and practicals for the Tailoring Stream have commenced from Monday,
4th Jul, 05.
We are indeed very grateful for the support, help and guidance
extended to us by M/s Gokaldas Images, M/s Levi strauss & Co. and the
IBM without whose patronage we would not have traveled this far. We
take this opportunity to thank all the other donars who have helped
us financially from time to time. We are also thankful to our
faculties who have volunteered to teach the students and make the
programme a successful one.
Yes. we cannot achieve anything without the students' support and
response. We are sure that the students will respond favorably and
extend their wholehearted co-operation so that we conclude the
training for this VI Batch successfully
Thanks once again,
.
CONGRATULATIONS!
thanks for your greetings. we wish you all the best in your new
assingment
vimala ramasubramanian.
----- Original Message -----
From: rangagt <rangagt@...>
To: <unnatisgbstrust@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:05 PM
Subject: [unnatisgbstrust] unnati-activity update
Hello,
I am Ranga. I have started functioning as Administrative-in-charge
of `UNNATI' along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of
Mr.Anantharaman. On
this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to all the trustees,
donars, members and well wishers of `UNNATI'.
We have successfully completed the 5th Batch of vocational training
consisting of 21 students - 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6
girls) and 9 from tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to
inform you that all the trainees have suitably been placed.
We have started the process of inviting applications for the 6th
Batch and request you to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing
Batch (likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in
the past.
It is always our pleasure to keep in touch with you for guidance and
support with the sole objective of making `UNNATI' perform
better and
achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the support extended to us heretofore and look
forward to the same in future too.
With warm regards
Ranga
RadhiRanga
Cell:9886328649
Yahoo! Groups Links
Just a line to welcome you to Unnati and wish you Godspeed in furthering its aims and objectives. We are always ready to give a hand whenever you need.
I will take the opportunity of meeting you at an early date. Meanwhile, pl let me know if any meetings are planned to take the movement forward.
I am Ranga. I have started functioning as Administrative-in-charge of `UNNATI' along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of Mr.Anantharaman. On this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to all the trustees, donars, members and well wishers of `UNNATI'.
We have successfully completed the 5th Batch of vocational training consisting of 21 students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6 girls) and 9 from tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to inform you that all the trainees have suitably been placed.
We have started the process of inviting applications for the 6th Batch and request you to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing Batch (likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in the past.
It is always our pleasure to keep in touch with you for guidance and support with the sole objective of making `UNNATI' perform better and achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the support extended to us heretofore and look forward to the same in future too.
congrats for taking over we wish you a good fruitful period of service
vasantha
rangagt <rangagt@...> wrote:
Hello,
I am Ranga. I have started functioning as Administrative-in-charge of `UNNATI' along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of Mr.Anantharaman. On this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to all the trustees, donars, members and well wishers of `UNNATI'.
We have successfully completed the 5th Batch of vocational training consisting of 21 students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6 girls) and 9 from tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to inform you that all the trainees have suitably been placed.
We have started the process of inviting applications for the 6th Batch and request you to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing Batch (likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in the past.
It is always our pleasure to keep in touch with you for guidance and support
with the sole objective of making `UNNATI' perform better and achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the support extended to us heretofore and look forward to the same in future too.
With warm regards
Ranga RadhiRanga Cell:9886328649
Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour
Thank you for your email informing about your involvement in this good cause and also the progress made by the institution so far. Warm welcome to you both. I'm sure that Unnati will rise to greater heights under your administration. Good luck.
G.Padmanabhan
On Tue, 17 May 2005 rangagt wrote :
>Hello,
>
>I am Ranga. I have started functioning as Administrative-in-charge
>of `UNNATI' along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of
>Mr.Anantharaman. On
>this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to all the trustees,
>donars, members and well wishers of `UNNATI'.
>
>We have successfully completed the 5th Batch of vocational training
>consisting of 21 students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6
>girls) and 9 from tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to
>inform you that all the trainees have suitably been placed.
>
>We have started the process of inviting applications for the 6th
>Batch and request you to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing
>Batch (likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in
>the past.
>
>It is always our pleasure to keep in touch with you for guidance and
>support with the sole objective of making `UNNATI' perform
>better and
>achieve its chosen goals.
>
>We thank you for the support extended to us heretofore and look
>forward to the same in future too.
>
>With warm regards
>
>Ranga
>RadhiRanga
>Cell:9886328649
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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> http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/unnatisgbstrust/
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Wishing you and
Ms. Radhi Ranga all the best in your assignment . Unnati has really grown since
its inception and am watching with delight the progress it is making.
Rgds
Rajalakhshmi
From:
unnatisgbstrust@... [mailto:unnatisgbstrust@...] On Behalf Of unnati Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:03
PM To: unnati Subject: [unnatisgbstrust]
activity update
Hello,
I am Ranga. I have
started functioning as Administrative-in-charge of ‘UNNATI’
along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of Mr.Anantharaman. On this occasion, we
extend very warm greetings to all the trustees, donars, members and well
wishers of ‘UNNATI’.
We have successfully
completed the 5th Batch of vocational training consisting of 21
students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6 girls) and 9 from
tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to inform you that all the trainees
have suitably been placed.
We have started the
process of inviting applications for the 6th Batch and request you
to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing Batch (likely to commence from
1st July 2005) as you have done in the past.
It is always our pleasure
to keep in touch with you for guidance and support with the sole objective of
making ‘UNNATI’ perform better and achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the
support extended to us heretofore and look forward to the same in future too.
Hello,
I am Ranga. I have started functioning as Administrative-in-charge
of `UNNATI' along with Mrs.RadhiRanga in place of
Mr.Anantharaman. On
this occasion, we extend very warm greetings to all the trustees,
donars, members and well wishers of `UNNATI'.
We have successfully completed the 5th Batch of vocational training
consisting of 21 students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6
girls) and 9 from tailoring stream (all girls) and are happy to
inform you that all the trainees have suitably been placed.
We have started the process of inviting applications for the 6th
Batch and request you to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing
Batch (likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in
the past.
It is always our pleasure to keep in touch with you for guidance and
support with the sole objective of making `UNNATI' perform
better and
achieve its chosen goals.
We thank you for the support extended to us heretofore and look
forward to the same in future too.
With warm regards
Ranga
RadhiRanga
Cell:9886328649
I am Ranga.I have started functioning as
Administrative-in-charge of‘UNNATI’ along with Mrs.RadhiRangain place of Mr.Anantharaman. On this occasion, we
extendvery warm greetings
to all the trustees, donars, members and well wishers of‘UNNATI’.
We have successfully
completed the 5th Batch of vocational training consisting of 21
students – 12 from Retail stream (6 boys and 6 girls) and 9 from tailoring
stream (all girls) and are happy to inform you that all the trainees have
suitably been placed.
We have started the
process of inviting applications for the 6th Batch and request you
to sponsor deserving candidates for the ensuing Batch(likely to commence from 1st July 2005) as you have done in
the past.
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You are aware we at UNNATI not only impart Vocational Training but also the cherished values in life,good manners, good character&Conduct,respect to elders, courtesy to be extended to all particularly the elderly,physically challenged,women,children etc. We always tell them to offer their seat in the Public Transport-Bus- to the elderly/physically handicapped/women/children if they do not get a seat and forced to travel standing in the Bus.
Yesterday Shri Ravikumar and Shri Lawrence were travelling in the Bus to reach UNNATI.A senior citizen Shri Sundaram who is an educationist was also travelling in the same Bus but could not find a seat and struggling while standing .Our boys offered him their seat and extended the due courtesy and greetings to him and explained about the training which they are getting.
Moved by the kind gesture of our boys and also impreesed about the good work done by UNNATI, Mr Sundaram came all the way to our centre and expressed his appreciation of the courtesy extended by our students and also lauded the work being done by us to the weaker sections of the society.
This shows that the value education which we have imparted has created an indelible impression in the minds of these impressionable youth which they would observe throughout their life .We are also sure that this will have a multiplier effect in the sense that their neighbours are all seeing these changes and they would also emulate.
The fifth batch is going on and we hope to complete the entire placement process by the second/third week of May.
Members may help us :
in getting placements for these students in Garment Factories and also Retail outlets
in finding out suitable candidates for the next batch -our criteria being poverty,age 18 to 21,SSLC Passed/Failed.Tailoring only ladies and for Retail Sales both ladies/gents.
We are looking for a person, male preferable at Hippocampus. The person needs to
1. be able to read, write and speak kannada
2. should be able to speak passable english but should be able to read and write english
3. knowledge of computers will be preferable
4. educational qualifications not a constraint
5. good telephone skills are needed
the job requirements.
1. He will be working with hippocampus and HRF both.
2. At hippocampus, he will be a backup for Tony. He will also take on work related to managing the first floor at Hippocampus.
3. HE will also need to take on some of the responsibilities of delivery and pickup of books.
4. at HRF, he will support all our libraries, manage logisitics and communicate with all librarians.
it has the potential to be a very challenging assignment. our budget is between Rs 2500 and Rs 3000 but are willing to pay slightly more for the right candidate.
Folks: please pass this onto as many people as possible.
Thanks for the intimation. I would like to attend the meet but m ay not be able to make it at 10.00 sharp. Look forward to the event.
gopal
M.G.Krishnan Ph: (080) 2225 6193
513 The Embassy
15 Ali Asker Road
Bangalore 560 052, India.
>From: "Vishal Talreja" <vishalta@...> >Reply-To: unnatisgbstrust@... >To: <unnatisgbstrust@...> >CC: "Anna" <bangalore@...> >Subject: [unnatisgbstrust] Meeting with NGOs >Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:32:18 +0530 > >Dear Unnati members, > >A group of NGo professionals from various fields working with children and youth are meeting on Thursday, 10th March 2005. > >It would be wonderful if someone from Unnati can also join in and share their work and experiences with us. > >Read mail below for more details: > >The goal is to meet 3-4 organizations with each of us exploring the potential of adding value to our own work and to one another. > >10 - 10.30 Getting to know each other (including our main areas of focus) >10.30 - 12.00 Brainstorming to see if we can network and add value >12 Close (lunch) > >Address : Hope Foundation, 18, Tejus, Saraswathi Ammal Road, Maruthi Sewa Nagar, Banaglore 560033. >Our web address is www.hopeww.org. > >Participating NGOs: Dream A Dream, Hope Foundation, iVolunteer, BOSCO > >Look forward to meeting you, > >Warm regards, >Vishal > > >***************************************************************************************** >Dream A Dream >No. 5, 1st Floor, Nanjundappa Street, >AT Halli, Shantinagar, >Bangalore 560 027, India >Tel:+91 80 2224 7745 / 98455 24118 >E: info@... / vishalta@... >W: www.dreamadream.org >*****************************************************************************************
Thanks for the intimation. I would like to attend the meet but m ay not be able to make it at 10.00 sharp. Look forward to the event.
gopal
M.G.Krishnan Ph: (080) 2225 6193
513 The Embassy
15 Ali Asker Road
Bangalore 560 052, India.
>From: "Vishal Talreja" <vishalta@...> >Reply-To: unnatisgbstrust@... >To: <unnatisgbstrust@...> >CC: "Anna" <bangalore@...> >Subject: [unnatisgbstrust] Meeting with NGOs >Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:32:18 +0530 > >Dear Unnati members, > >A group of NGo professionals from various fields working with children and youth are meeting on Thursday, 10th March 2005. > >It would be wonderful if someone from Unnati can also join in and share their work and experiences with us. > >Read mail below for more details: > >The goal is to meet 3-4 organizations with each of us exploring the potential of adding value to our own work and to one another. > >10 - 10.30 Getting to know each other (including our main areas of focus) >10.30 - 12.00 Brainstorming to see if we can network and add value >12 Close (lunch) > >Address : Hope Foundation, 18, Tejus, Saraswathi Ammal Road, Maruthi Sewa Nagar, Banaglore 560033. >Our web address is www.hopeww.org. > >Participating NGOs: Dream A Dream, Hope Foundation, iVolunteer, BOSCO > >Look forward to meeting you, > >Warm regards, >Vishal > > >***************************************************************************************** >Dream A Dream >No. 5, 1st Floor, Nanjundappa Street, >AT Halli, Shantinagar, >Bangalore 560 027, India >Tel:+91 80 2224 7745 / 98455 24118 >E: info@... / vishalta@... >W: www.dreamadream.org >*****************************************************************************************
Vishal
Thanks for the notice: great idea.
Ramesh/ Mr Anantharaman: one of the things we should explore is whether
we can find good intake from any of the areas where these NGOs are
operating
in: deserving candidates & I am sure there are many kids being shaped by
them. For those kids too, as well as the NGOs who are working with them,
it would make sense to have someone like Unnati take them to the next
stage , viz a career..
Regards
Susheela
Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services
Subramanya Arcade
12, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 029
Direct +91 80 2206 3677
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Fax +91 80 2206 3617
Email: susheela.venkataraman@...
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Dear Unnati members,
A group of NGo professionals from various fields working with children and
youth are meeting on Thursday, 10th March 2005.
It would be wonderful if someone from Unnati can also join in and share
their work and experiences with us.
Read mail below for more details:
The goal is to meet 3-4 organizations with each of us exploring the
potential of adding value to our own work and to one another.
10 - 10.30 Getting to know each other (including our main areas of
focus)
10.30 - 12.00 Brainstorming to see if we can network and add value
12 Close (lunch)
Address : Hope Foundation, 18, Tejus, Saraswathi Ammal Road, Maruthi Sewa
Nagar, Banaglore 560033.
Our web address is www.hopeww.org.
Participating NGOs: Dream A Dream, Hope Foundation, iVolunteer, BOSCO
Look forward to meeting you,
Warm regards,
Vishal
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Dream A Dream
No. 5, 1st Floor, Nanjundappa Street,
AT Halli, Shantinagar,
Bangalore 560 027, India
Tel:+91 80 2224 7745 / 98455 24118
E: info@... / vishalta@...
W: www.dreamadream.org
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A group of NGo professionals from various fields working with children and youth are meeting on Thursday, 10th March 2005.
It would be wonderful if someone from Unnati can also join in and share their work and experiences with us.
Read mail below for more details:
The goal is to meet 3-4 organizations with each of us exploring the potential of adding value to our own work and to one another.
10 - 10.30 Getting to know each other (including our main areas of focus) 10.30 - 12.00 Brainstorming to see if we can network and add value 12 Close (lunch)
Address : Hope Foundation, 18, Tejus, Saraswathi Ammal Road, Maruthi Sewa Nagar, Banaglore 560033. Our web address is www.hopeww.org.
Participating NGOs: Dream A Dream, Hope Foundation, iVolunteer, BOSCO
Dear friends at Levi Strauss - another great opportunity to volunteer for 4 months. Please let me know how you can help Unnati.
Cheers, vasantha
-----Original Message----- From: unnati [mailto:unnatiblr@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:03 PM To: unnati Subject: [unnatisgbstrust] Message to yahoo group about the V th Batch started on 1.3.05
Dear wellwishers &Team UNNATI
At UNNATI, we have now selected 30 students for training in the two vocations Retail Sales &Tailoring.
The batch has already commenced from 1st March 2005 with the first two days devoted to the basic course of ‘Art of Living’ of Sri Sri Ravishankar.
Our members may help us as follows:
Spread the message of UNNATI and create awareness among like-minded persons about this unique project, which has so far transformed the lives of 105 downtrodden families.
All this requires lot of financial support from one and all.
Being the end of the Financial year our friends/wellwishers &their relatives/acquaintances, as a measure of Tax planning, would be thinking of donating to noble causes such as ours, also getting 100%Tax exemption under Sec35 AC/Sec 80GGA.Our earnest appeal would be to help us getting these contributions.
If any your friends/relatives would like to contribute their time or visit our center kindly direct them to us.
Be on the lookout of deserving students for the next batch starting from 1st July 2005 right from now onwards and direct them to us; we had difficulty in getting sufficient number of applications this time despite our appeals to our wellwishers/friends/Core Team UNNATI and repeated Press releases
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