Reverberations on Amrithothsavam

By Sai Shyam

Hello friends,

It was a pleasure meeting you all at Sevagram. I have learned many new things from you.

In fact, I was socially very in-active since many months, And when I came to Sevagram, Dr.P.Sudhakar ji, Smt.P.Usharani ji, Dr.C.A. Prasad Ji, Sri Styatheertha ji and Sri Arunachal Ji are the people who inspired me and gave me energy to regain my strength to fight back the negative in me and in my surroundings.

One observation that I made is, In the ashram, the tree that was planted by BA (Kasturi Ba) is giving much shade than any other trees. This shows her love towards her ashram visitors. And one more thing, during sunrise, when you sit under Bapu planted tree facing adinivas, look at BA's tree, you see some leaves shining with light gold color, as the sunlight falls on the tree. One should  start their day at ashram with this beautiful seen.   

I suggest some volunteers of ashram, to have a recognisable notice board at Sevagram railway station that indicating visitors in many languages that it will NOT charge them more than 50 rupees to reach Gandhi ashram through auto-rickshaw. I am saying this because they charged me Rs.150. And the second time they charged me 50 rupees from ashram to Sevagram station.

Besides the meeting on Nayeethaalim, we had many brainstorming discussions which are very much important for our nation and among them, we should work sincerely with our complete efforts on one or two areas.

It is very important for the youth who came from the meeting, to work on the guidelines of His Excellency Sri Sudhakar garu. Unless we work on the protection of our planet, we have no right to live here. 

The topic that really touched my heart is 'Go-samrakshana'. The young social activist Sri Arunachal ji from Devnaar Satyagraha, is trying his best to awaken the people, especially farmers. He is not just bringing awareness, he is practicing Acharya Vinoba's principles at his best. 365 days of employment is necessary for cow that raises the demand of cow in every village. And also we should remember the point said by him that "NOT to sell the cow under any circumstances that leads the cow to a butcher. Instead selling it, if you cannot afford for its food, let it die hunger in your premises but don't sell the cow."

The point that I liked much was raised by Santhoshi. She explained me how the movement by the nayeethalim people will badly effect globalization. She also explained about the problems that nayeethalim students can face. I request her to explain these things to all of us, in her own words through emails. And I also sincerely request the respected members who are in different committees of nayeethalim samithi, to consider her points and add them to their worksheets.

Sri Arunachal Ji and myself are planning for a meeting on Go-Samrakshana at Sevagram that is be held from Jan 26th 2013 to Jan 30th 2013. The action plan will be decided on 30th Jan 2013. And before these days, I will be visiting Mumbai, to participate in Devnaar Satyagraha. People who are ineterested can join me. I request participants and others to share their experiences, ideas and thoughts.

Thank you,
Sai Shyam.

By Santhoshi Sunanda

Greetings to Everyone,

It was a thought provoking conference for me. Really I learnt a many things from this conference and I can say that I was astonished to learn few problems like "Go Samrakshan".

Actually I had ample of doubts and ideas regarding nayee talim after the meeting. But I didn't get a chance to discuss them and clarify them. But in these 2 days I had worked on them and found a few solutions.

Firstly I felt there should be more number of youth get participated in this revolution and that too all those must be from different streams. But I came to know that many of the youth are unaware of it. So I am planning to spread the idea of nayee thaleem.

Secondly I was against the idea of teaching the education only in mother tongue as I have many personal experience with my friends who were from telugu medium during campus selections or when ever we do group discussions or whenever we interacted with foreign delegates in our college regarding some research work.

 But after talking with venu anna and prasad garu I am clarified to some extent but I feel some work should be done for the student to face this problem which a student may get in nayee thaleem in this aspect. And this was the thing which made me to think would effect a step with which person begins towards globalisation in his childhood.

I felt really amazing when I heard Sudhakar sir's solutions regarding the problems existing. I got an inspiration that through technically but in an eco friendly manner there are many solution to different problems existing.

I would try to go to do more work on these and spread this as much as I can which I think is the necessary step at present.

Thank you

With Regards

Santoshi Sunanda Gaddam