Make your home a happy, healthy and harmonious (3H) family
20th April 2011: Call Every one: Cycling for Humanity!
Come out of boring TV & movies, Real life is much more enjoyable: make your own life more interesting with valuable deeds!1st Jan 2011
Wish you all a very Happy, Healthy and Harmonious New Year! Have a great and successful year of 2011!On behalf of Manavata, I thank you for your great support and contribution in 2010 and making such a great progress. I wish you to have great energies in the new year to work together for good cause.
New Year Resolutions:
"Time is precious but life is more precious.. so be cautious"
Many people are busy in new year parties and enjoying themselves. at the same time many people are suffering with hunger, disease and other issues.
Suffering can go easily if other people can give up their parties and do a real celebration by serving needy.
In your new year resolution, you can optimize your life with the following:
- 25% of the time to be spent for the betterment of our children / family for cultivating values in their life
- 25% of the time to be spent for self-study / meditation
- 25% of the time to be spent for self-less service
- 25% of the time to be spent for job / earning
Cut following for betterment of world:
*cut 50% of your fancy shopping
*cut 25% of power consumption
*cut 25% of fuel consumption
*cut 60% of plastic usage
*cut 50% of processed foods
Pls share this eco-friendly, ideal daily schedule with your friends along with your new year greetings, that could inspire them to take positive steps for betterment of their life and for better world!
Thanks & Regards
Srini
PS:
Our 1000 KM cycling camp was successful, full report will be shared soon. http://www.manavata.org/index.jsp?page=EventDetails_11.jsp?id=2075
Some snaps: http://picasaweb.google.com/Manavata/ManavataChaitanyaYatra2010#
Upto date events can be viewed on our website
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19th Oct 2010
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
A universal solution to all persisting problems of the contemporary world is an education. But, today education is often limited to imparting knowledge for the development of some skills for earning livelihood and sustaining life. However, as said by Swami Vivekananda-
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there undigested all your life. We must have life building, man making, and character making assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.
Any kind of education is justified only when it enables an individual to serve the society through the potent of his/her own wisdom
Manavata Holistic Education Program epitomizes an internal evolution process that enables a child to reach out to his/her own self, realizing his latent potential. We believe strengthening the backbone of our country, helping in elimination of vices and laying a rock-like strong foundation for virtues.
It works on building an overall character of a child through holistic education. It also focuses on empowering students through initiatives, like capacity building, health care, nutrition, field visits and establishing a connection with his divine existence that rests in spirituality.
The program particularity focuses upon the underprivileged and underperforming children some of whom are drop outs or even first generation learners. The students are encouraged and motivated regularly. They are given individual attention and personal counseling. The program extends its reach to empower women through education.
APPROACH
Education in true sense is acquiring life skills which enable overall development of an individual. Unfortunately, the present day education system does not reflect a promising future for nurturing young potential. It has lost its holistic nature and has been subjected to enormous commercialization, thus getting restricted and incomplete in its deliverance.
Education at Manavata, is perceived as a process of over all development which is the birth right of each individual irrespective of his social, economic and cultural positioning. The program aims at conferring equal opportunity to all for acquiring knowledge. The approach followed is grounded in the principles of traditional systems of education which were designed to create true human beings. Input of information can create beings that can work like machines but fail to inculcate values of humanity. PDP, nurture and enhance beings with a sound power of discretion enabling them to lead a righteous life.
Based on the historical testimonies of instrumentality of principles of yoga and ayurveda in achieving sustainable living, we work on devising ways of incorporating these timeless principles in reinforcing holistic systems of education. We view education as the key tool for motivating children and youth to successful and sustainable living. The broad objectives of the program are to nurture academic excellence, develop life skills & prevention from drug & substance abuse and health & nutrition.
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27th June 2010
What is the desperate need of today's world?
As you all know, time and again, at different stages of human evolution, different revolutions have occurred to help the human race to lead a peaceful life. This being the Information age, people encounter a lot of information exchange. As a consequence, majority of the human race have lost their paths and have become confused because of the abundant presence of misinformation amidst the valuable information. So much so that many have forgotten the basic purpose of their lives.
Great people have demonstrated in different ages the purpose of human life and how human should live responsibly (eg. Rama, Jesus, Muhammad, Mahavir, Buddha etc.). Their lives made an enduring impact on human life in this world. They created religions to make people do good and be good. During the course of time, people started developing barriers among themselves on the name of religion which eventually led to a wide split in the society.
Great scientists have made us proud with their inventions, which have saved many lives from disasters and diseases. Great leaders have sacrificed their lives to give us a more stable and secure society. However, the efforts of these great men are in the danger of going down the drain since many of us have forgotten about it and have been misusing all the resources well beyond the need.
Now it is time to bring back the basic values into human life.. Humanity is the desperate need of current society to build responsible humans who live for others.
There is a desperate need to demonstrate and communicate to our children that, we are here to protect righteousness and do right things. This is the time we must work together and contribute for a better tomorrow. we are here to add value that can help this world today and in future. It is our responsibility to preserve natural resources and ensure that they are not conserved for selfish reasons. We are here to utilize time by engaging ourselves inactivities that will create a platform for a better tomorrow.
5th June 2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters
It is really a very big concern for all of us when we look at the consequences of Climate change like 850 million children are suffering with food shortage. What is really bothering me is many of us becoming irresponsible humans and misusing our freedom in utilizing natural resources. Some may be careless or some may be ignorant. whatever it may be we are really making a big damage to our Mother Earth.
One side people / children are dyeing with hunger and other side people are over consuming / wasting food without realizing importance of food. How can we fill this gap. It is all about our life style. When we go beyond our basic needs without realizing the facts of damage which we are making, who can save world?
It is we, who can make the difference with our own actions. Let us simplify our life style which saves earth and makes us healthy.
I sincerely urge you to spare 10 minutes to read tips in this link and see how you can help our mother Earth. Let us act now and take some initiatives personally during this week as this is world's environment week.
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5th May 2010
Dear Friends,
Now time has come for great souls to act again.. Current situation in this world makes it clear that human race is slowly losing their base knowledge of nature and completely ignoring their responsibility towards current and future generations.
Knowledge without humanity is dangerous.. that is what happening now:
Today's child has a great knowledge about ferrari, BMW etc. but no idea about their own body, they can easily talk about several video games, cartoons but no idea about their own game, they talk about chips and coke but they have no idea about importance of water, source of grains and nutrition, they study science but they have no idea about how they are damaging earth.. they know purpose of several things, but they don't know the purpose of their own existence, they always think about their own wants and wishes, but they have no thought about how they can help others. People may talk about several good theories, but they have no idea about how to apply that knowledge into their own life. Every one wanted to build their businesses and earn money for their own material dreams.
People are consuming all the resources on the earth luxuriously without thinking about consequences. They only think about their own selfish reasons and selfish wants. they never think about how they can give it back.
It is time for all good people to wake up and raise the awareness in people with different good ideas. Oh my dear brothers & sisters! come and act now. it is your turn. we do not have much time left to pass on the base knowledge to next generations. we don't have much time to create practical people.
Charity At Home program is to bring back that knowledge which can save earth and which can make people to take their part of responsibility. Come together and act. take initiatives and create momentum.. charity is not just raising money. charity is some thing which we need to cultivate in our own actions & behavior which can help people & environment around us.
Thank you for support for the cause. I thank you for adopting eco-friendly and healthy life style.
Wish you all the best for your efforts to save earth.
Thanks & Regards
Srini
Paropakarardamidam Sareeram' means 'our body is to serve others': this applies to every human, so let us act now to help every one around which makes our lives purposeful and more meaningful. C@H program may give you more ideas to achieve ultimate happiness.
If you have come here, you have already taken the first step to change your life with full of possibilities and promises. Manavata will help you move in the right direction with this motivating C@H program.What is C@H all about?
As part of Manavata's ongoing commitment to social responsibility, this program is initiated to provide a platform in enhancing health, happiness and harmony for all of us through awareness and application of good practices in our lives. This is an opportunity for each one of us to get involved personally in charity, simply by helping ourselves. Get rid of hatred by loving and helping each other in our own family and friends.