AMIABLE AID FOUNDATION

 

Tablo reader up chevron

AMIABLE AID FOUNDATION

GENESIS – GENERAL CONTEXT

GENESIS – SOCIAL CONTEXT

GENESIS (ESTABLISHMENT)

ORGANISATIONAL FRAME

STATUS AND CAPACITY

ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES/ RESOURCES

About AMIABLE AID FOUNDATION

AMIABLE AID FOUNDATION is a secular, non-governmental, non-profit making, non-political, non-sectarian social organization which is committed to guide, help, direct, coordinate, strengthen and reshape new dawn of opportunities for the persons with intellectual challenge. AMIABLE AID‘s specialized resource center, striving for the social, economic, educational and cultural integration of the disabled persons in the wider society which take it to a highest standard of excellence.

Whereas, on witnessing the biggest natural calamity, South-Asian tsunami, AMIABLE AID involved itself in corpse retrieval, cremation of bodies, rescue the entangled persons amid destructions, medical assistance to survivors, distribution of relief materials, undertaking de-trauma, counseling programs and rebuilding tsunami devastated infrastructures at Nagapattinam district, South India. Its humanitarian aid includes a care home for tsunami-caused orphan children, capacity building initiatives for tsunami-caused widows and vocational training for the disabled - apart from its regular programmes for the children with intellectual challenge.

After successful completion of major social projects during the initial and consolidated phase of tsunami response, the different level of sensitivity incitesAMIABLE AID to put the accent on its own committed priority to intercede the interests of intellectually challenged children and adults.

As AMIABLE AID implements best supportive care system, it has earned a reputation of strong system care providing credential based organization in this region. Dwelling on the strength of its reputation and with the confidence gained from the accomplishment of major tsunami projects, AMIABLE AID set its goal higher to reach out more people in need. The result is an unprecedented surge in consumption of services across the vast social spectrum. This opportunity is wellspring of AMIABLE AID incline to expand. To help drive global growth, we are passionately investing our resources and energies to institute chain of residential care homes, hospitals, resource and research centers at various geographical locations worldwide engaging established local organizations. A full-fledged residential care facility, medical and Research Centre is being established at Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu, South India.

GENESIS – GENERAL CONTEXT

Social Institutes are becoming an essential dimension of public life in all levels and in all part of the world. The government with its restricted means and huge demands witnessed a growing inability to cope with the proliferation of political, economical, social problems and had to draw upon the support of voluntary organizations and voluntary workers. Thousands of voluntary organisations came forward to carry aloft the torch of human welfare in partnership with government. A close look at the efforts of those institutes would reveal that it is being witnessed, due to lack of coordination (1) uneven, development of welfare services with advanced areas getting a large share and certain backward areas developing none of the activities (2) duplication of the activities with different institutions organizing the same activity in the same locality (3) that qualitative standards do not step with quantitative expansion and (4) the rigidity of rules and conditions attached to the various schemes of assistance that discourage voluntary organisation from availing of the benefit from these schemes.

GENESIS - SOCIAL CONTEXT

On social context, the priority social pursuit taken up by AMIABLE AID is for the disabled sector. The most ordinary of aspirations - to enter school, work in the fields, go out to worship, get married, the prosaic ingredients of even the most humble person’s workday life cycle - are denied to them. Despite profound and consistent denial of their human rights, an estimated 50 million men, women and children with disabilities have remained on the outer periphery of both public policy and social action in India. They are most frequently victims of extreme social prejudice and ostracism, even as they struggle to achieve their potential of a fulfilled, dignified and useful life.

And, People with disabilities are invisible in political agendas, in human rights struggles, in development strategies, in social science research. Nothing been done to improve the existential experience of women and girls with disabilities, who live with disabilities in the countryside. Graver are social attitudes, of shame and ridicule, beginning often within the family, which further immobilize people with disabilities.

Also, a sense of isolation and pervasive low self-esteem are widely amongst people with disabilities. They felt humiliated by their sense of dependency for even simplest acts of daily living, like bathing, eating, and attending nature’s call. The situation is even more tenuous for old persons with disabilities who lack younger care-givers.

It is in this context thatAMIABLE AID was set up to muster an effort on scientific lines to organize activities for the welfare of the persons with physical and intellectual challenge impoverished in weaker sections of the society with emphasis on rural, backward and remote areas.

GENESIS (ESTABLISHMENT)

Formerly,AMIABLE AID functioned in the name of Eshaas Charities.And, Eshaas commences its activities during 1996 and became formally rechristened and restructured asAMIABLE AID FOUNDATION in the year 2010. The inception of the organisation is a giant leap considering the complexity of the task which it has embraced.

ORGANISATIONAL FRAME

AMIABLE AID has been registered under Indian Trust Act and the entire organizational machinery is made up of voluntary workers who are devoted self-less service for no benefit of their own with a small but a competent complement of staff employed in all its service centers. AMIABLE AID has been guided by networks of associate organizations at the local and international level.

STATUS AND CAPACITY

AMIABLE AID is a voluntary organisation working in association with large number of non-governmental organizations spread over India which can utilize the energy, enthusiasm and initiative of large number of persons from all over the Globe. It possesses experience, necessary expertise and huge network in tackling the various problems confronting the weaker sections of the society and voluntary sector and become active partner in development. To enable it to achieve its objective and perform its functions with which it is entrusted, AMIABLE AID with its representatives can acquire and negotiate privileges, immunities, exemptions and other benefits as it deems necessary for the benefit of self and its associate organisation.

ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES/ RESOURCES

The financial resource of AMIABLE AID is mainly sale of organic products, herbal oils, herbal pickles, honey preservatives, jams, candies, dry vaththals, fruits and groceries, seafood etc., Other income sources are subscription from members and loans, grants or donations from associations, individuals, collections from functions organized, and other fees that may be charged byAMIABLE AID for specialized services rendered. Even though the paucity of funds did not deter progress of its plan considerably due to timely generous support from members, well wishers and friends, it would take some time to fine tune the resources to match perspective plans ofAMIABLE AID for expansion of its activities.

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

VISION

OUR ROLE

VISION

MISSION

VALUE

MORAL POLICY

INSPIRATION

DOCTRINES

 

  • OUR WORLDLY MISSION
  • ANIMALS
  • BIRDS
  • FISH
  • PLANTS
  • FOOD
  • HEALTH
  • WORK ETHICS
  • SIMPLICITY
  • SILENCE
  • HELPING OTHERS
  • DREAMS
  • MONEY PHILOSOPHY
  • OUR GURU
  • THE ONENESS OF THE UNIVERSE
  • CREATOR
  • GNANA
  • TEMPLE
  • SPIRITUAL LIES & TRUTHS
  • OUR BIRTHDAY CAKE

 

 

ROLE

OUR ROLE is to guide, help, direct, coordinate, strengthen, and reshape the activities that defend the welfare of the persons with physical and intellectual challenge. 

VISION

OUR VISION is to create a world in which people with advanced age, challenged physique and underdeveloped intellect lead their lives with respect and dignity.

MISSION

OUR MISSION is that through constant professional endeavors the persons with physical and intellectual challenge to access rehabilitation interventions viz., communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self direction, health and safety, functional academics, vocation and leisure. 

VALUE

Our values anchored in non-material values such as living in harmony with nature, social equality, oneness of Universe and the quest for higher levels of being

MORAL POLICY

OUR MORAL POLICY: The purpose of development goes beyond merely increasing income or building assets. It is to enable people to critically understand their condition and their predicament, to identify needs and prioritize them, to evolve methods of resolving their needs and problems, to mobilize resources, to learn from experience and to do this entirely in self – reliant manner. 

INSPIRATION

OUR INSPIRATION: “If we have chosen a work in which we can accomplish the most for mankind then no burden can bow us, because they are only sacrifices for everyone; then we enjoy no poor, limited egoistic joy; for our happiness belong to all, our deeds live on working eternally, and our ashes are watered by the hot tears of noble human beings”

DOCTRINES

OUR DOCTRINES: Within the meaning and spirit of some doctrines AMIABLE AID is functioning, which found to be deeply insightful. They will equally helpful to persons crossing it.

 

AMIABLE AID believes that any kind of doctrines followed by an institution implies an obligation to exchange with all acquaintances, in the interest of hastening harmony with them. While it come into terms with common interests between AMIABLE AID and its acquaintance, these doctrines are important to adhere with.

 

However, AMIABLE AID do not ask – nor do it even expect – any of the persons who get acquaintance, or deriving service from AMIABLE AID to regard its doctrines as their truth – in their private life - unless they should happen to agree with their own personal enlightenment and private convictions.

 

Our Worldly mission: It's our job to go with the flow inside of the Universe, and to celebrate it inside the world that exists. It's not our job to change the world, or the people around us. Our Creator manifests this world’s spirit’s in His own image. Our Creator’s love for the world will allow it to survive as it does for the whole earth. The world doesn’t need to be saved by any other force. Nature Herself is fully capable of solving her own problems, without man’s “helpfulness”

 

Animals: Animals are on earth from eons upon eons ago to manifest the real meaning of genesis. They are all matters relating to a personal enlightenment and esoteric instruction… part of the true story of Genesis. Those who abuse the smaller and more helpless animals have heavy-heavy Karma ahead, and they richly deserve it.

 

Birds: Birds tell the grass, plants, trees and flowers when to grow, by setting up the sounds necessary to their chemical activity by singing. More evidence of the power of sound is birdsong. It can be noticed the chorus of birdsong, like thousand symphonies, all day long in the spring, and ceases during the summer months, except at dawn and twilight. There is a magical reason for this little known phenomenon of Nature. The singing of birds sets up a particular sound vibration that promotes the growth of the young leaves of trees, plants and flowers, so the birdsong is fairly constant all day in the spring, while the new growth is occurring.

 

Fish:  Fish are an important part of Nature’s ecology, they perform vital functions during their brief lifespan… which provides more than seventy percent of oxygen human breathe.

 

Plants:  Plants are creatures without nerves, and are therefore dependent on the auxins they manufacture to achieve growth, phototropism and wilting and such. They exhibit definite and sympathetic responses to the beneficent or malevolent events occurring to living cells of any member of the living community such as animals, humans and other plants in their vicinity – and at a distance.

 

Food: What we eat and what we think is what we are. The food taken into our body is what gradually… slowly but surely … forms our thought patterns. And our thoughts, both conscious and sub conscious, are in absolute control of our body’s health or lack of it. It’s good to become vegetarian, but the ultimate goal is to become fruitarian … and eventually a part-time breathtarian, gaining our body needs from the very air we breathe.Reaching that ultimate in well-being cannot be accomplished overnight. It takes some years – and change of attitude or thought patterns. Deciding to become an instant vegetarian, after eating many years of fleshes, can shock the body into severe illness, as happens only too often, causing people to mistakenly believe that vegetarianism is bad. Before becoming a vegetarian, it is first necessary to desire to do so for the correct reason – a genuine compassion for our animals and birds.

 

Our body can take care of its own needs involving blood, tissue, and so forth. But it needs the cleansing fruit supplies. Fresh air, fruit and vegetables, and a lot of sleep are the requirements for the body to heal itself of illness.

 

Health: Our flesh body doesn’t have the power to destroy itself. It is only Mental Gravity, used in its reverse direction, that has the power – and we control our mental Gravity with our Mind. Our mind survives the death of our body, whether we want to believe it or not. Not believing in Universal Law hasn’t yet stopped it from working. Our body is really the product of our thoughts. The more than forty two billion electric cells in our brain have a power immeasurably stronger than Physical Gravity, when they are controlled and guided by our Mind. The physical gravity is a lightweight, compared to the power of Mental Gravity. Every physical illness, without a single exception, is the result of the initial cause of certain mental and emotional attitudes.

 

The emotional seeding that causes arthritis is resentment, bitterness, and frustration held inside, controlled – and not allowed to express itself outwardly.

 

Heart disease and heart attacks are caused by the lonely longing resulting from not being loved, the inability to give or return love – or the inability to love one’s self. The emotion of love and the human organ of the heart are inseparable.

 

Anger is deadly and swift in its effect. When we become really violently angry with someone – or about something, whether or not justified, and whether or not it’s held in or allowed to spill out – it nevertheless create bile. The result is excruciatingly painful gallbladder attack and the manifestation of gallstones. It is a dreadful and painful price to pay for anger.

 

Forgiveness is as practical as it is spiritual, since it not only strengthens the soul, it keeps the body healthy.

 

Work ethics: Since it involves more than a third of our time – to learn how to improve our financial affairs, since certain amount of financial security is necessary to free the mind to fly into higher realms – and to consider our health, because, of course, our physical well being taking priority over everything, - we must first follow the right paths to contentment and happiness in our work. Without basic needs of the body and the mind, the spirit is not in the mood to contemplate the deeper waters of spirituality.

 

There are millions upon millions of men and women who are discontented, depressed, unhappy, whose talents, daydreams and abilities mismatched with the way they earn their daily bread. Not everyone is destined or designed to be a leader. The ordinary happiness and love we will experience and project as we become an immortal of equal value to the rescue of any situation during the troubled times.

 

There is no use making a list of specific professions that suits someone. Because that doesn’t matter in itself. Any occupation that allows us to demonstrate our rare capacity for listening sympathetically and nurtures our imagination will bring us self-fulfillment. Persons around us sense immediately that we truly care about them, and our very presence has a healing effect, wherever we labor with love. Being completely happy with and challenged by our work is one of the surest ways to make our dreams come true.

 

The splendid and awesome vocabulary of Shakespeare extended to 29060 words in his entire works. Yet forty eight of them comprise fully forty percent of the text of all his plays. That is, forty eight of the poor overworked words performing nearly fifty percent of a task that employs 29060 workers. This seems to be aroused our sympathy for those forty eight wretched words. But they should be thought of as blessed, not cursed. Many are called but few are chosen. There is always a compensation for every apparent “curse”, ready to turn into blessing.

 

Simplicity: All great truths are simple. However, simplicity is the very quality that causes ancient wisdom to be so difficult for us to master. When we were children we grasp it quickly and naturally, until the power of innocence is gradually diluted and finally destroyed by the growing process, through the constant conditioning and programming of our minds with falsehood. We should apply simple facts to un-tie the knots of any problem, without taking into account of the pre-conceived notions and past result about the typical problems.

 

Silence: Silence is noisy until we become accustomed to it. In silence we can hear the sound of our own pulse and heartbeat, the flowing rhythms of our own blood in our veins, - and the rhythm of the Universe - in the inner ear. When we quiet the endless verbal chatter echoing through our language-filled brains, there is a quieter, more universal mode of communication and knowing waiting to be tapped.

 

Helping others: Water translates into anything that definitely moves around, as water must do, is many layered or multi-leveled, somewhat mysterious and flexible. Our personal mission must be to help other people solve their emotional and psychological problems – sometimes simply by being an understanding, compassionate listener. People are going to be dumping their problems on us anyway, so we should not expect to be paid or expect anything for listening to them, and that’s not a materialistic view just sensible – because people who come to us will never fail to be greatly benefited. We are happiest when we are helping others find the way to self-discovery. Exhibiting our gentle manner and subtle humor are an asset, value added. This allows us to demonstrate our rare capacities.  All things considered, it would be better off to just give our listening ear without expectation and reward, so it doesn’t trouble our conscious, and, what not, let us earn our bread in some field that needs our sensitive perception and uncanny ability to solve problems.

 

Spiritual wisdom is the priceless key of those who earnestly desire to help others, as well as to attain personal joy and happiness. The esoteric mysteries resulting from spiritual wisdom must be approached cautiously, with reverence and compassion, with a genuine desire to use the magic to end world’s suffering, to relieve the pain of individuals and to bring happiness to friends and strangers alike.

 

Dreams: We should not discard our daydreams as impotent wishful thinking. Let us listen to them with our inner ear. Let us follow our daydreams energetically, intensely, fiercely – courageously, even when it means temporarily sacrificing financial security. Our daydreams are our blueprint for success and happiness. We should believe in them. Everything that's coming into our life we are attracting into our life. And it's attracted to us by virtue of the images we're holding in our mind. It's what we're thinking. Whatever is going on in our mind we are attracting to us. "Every thought of ours is a real thing—a force."

 

It is the law that determines the complete order in the Universe, every moment of our life, and every single thing we experience in our life. It doesn't matter who we are or where we are, the law of attraction is forming our entire life experience, and this all powerful law is doing that through our thoughts. We are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and we do it through our thoughts.

 

Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we dreamed, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. We become what we think about most but we also attract what we think about most.

 

Money philosophy: Money is more than just paper and coin. As a medium of exchange among people all over the world, it possesses an un-guessed power of its own, and when the secret of that power is recognized and put into use, money will multiply in several amazing ways. We need the green energy of money to make a difference in time. Because money and success – an association difficult to separate in our mundane world.

 

There have been only a few who set out to accumulate wealth, with money being the sole motive, who have succeeded in permanently achieving the goal. Most fail dismally, without ever coming close to their images. The large majority of the remaining, who temporarily appear to have succeeded, aren’t able to retain their wealth. Because it does not bring them a trace of genuine happiness, inevitably their inner depression causes them to make some miscalculated move that eventually results in the loss of their wealth in various ways. Those rare few who don’t fail to accumulate, and who don’t experience the misfortune of losing their wealth, end up as pathetic creatures, full of abject misery, looking and behaving like poor, who, regardless of their enormous fortune, even refused to spend for family and friends, - and for their own self too, who manage to hang on to it could hardly be the desire of any sane person who perceived the future of such avarice.

 

When the power of money is ignored, whether through greed or through ignorance of the nature’s Law, the money gained either gradually dwindles away – or is accumulated to the level of stagnation within the spirit of the one who hoards it, bringing all of the accompanying miseries of the fear of loss.

 

The secret of money mystique is that the green energy of money travels in a magnetic circle. Let go of it, and it follows that invisible circle of pure and powerful energy, infallibly returning to us multiplied, flowing through us and outward in its circular path- and back again. Over and over, continuously, without end. We will have become, then, the center for this energy, the catalyst for its flow – and it will never stop returning to us, each time increased. It will cease only when we cease to give. Then the magnetic circle is short-circuited.

 

We have been conditioned and programmed since childhood to be frugal, cautious and economical – to be practical and hang on our money. So we must risk the initial sharp pain of letting go money, and experience ourselves. When the fear of loss disappeared, and we tipped the scales back with dominant thoughts of wealth, the magic works. Oftentimes when people begin to understand the Great Secret about money, they become frightened of all the negative thoughts that they have. They need to be aware that it has been scientifically proven that an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. That eliminates a degree of worry right there.

 

Wealthy people have always given and their accumulation never stops. Granted, the motive has, for the most part, been one concerned with Tax advantage. But that is one of the strangest things about the money power. It’s law are not concerned with motive once the magnetic energy circle has been spun into motion – only with the circulation of money energy circle back into Universe from where it come. The law is not affected by motive because the very act of letting go itself creates so much intense energy it neutralizes all motives into good. An overwhelming and sudden awareness – a knowing – that we are no longer tied to the desperate need to fear and worship money. Everyone understands how exciting it is to synchronize ourselves with the harmony of the Universe pulsating around us, and tune into giving. There is such a wild sense of euphoria that comes when we realize we are free of the chains that bound us to money – when we finally comprehend that the swiftest and surest way to get money is to give it.

 

After we have taken care of all our essential needs of living – then let us give away half of every remaining rupees we earn through working. Within a shockingly brief period of time the money we crazily, naively and extravagantly gave away will not only return to us, it will return in an increased amount in a completely unexpected manner, from a likewise completely unexpected source. The given money will return, not necessarily from the same source where it was given – rarely from the one to whom did we give.

 

The giving part is an additional booster to the continuation of the flow and required by Law of Karma for personal happiness, the reward of spiritual enlightenment. To use the money earned to be brought benefit to the world, while simultaneously producing a never ending flow of money, is eventually and inevitably ideal. Free will is precious gift.

 

Our Guru: All spiritual and material things are inside us. We do know - everything there is to know, written indelibly upon the ethers, we can read it. We have only forgotten now. To remember what we already know but have forgotten, we need some practice. Every action ever taken, every word ever spoken – remains – on a higher frequency vibration – and may be magnetized back into conscious awareness under certain conditions.

 

When genuine desire stems from the heart and the spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. Released into the ethers each night as the mind falls into the sleep state… and each morning as it returns to the conscious state … it will surely and certainly manifest that which has been desired. It is our teachings. It is our self-taught knowledge. In turn, we are our own Guru.

 

The guidance for refining ourselves from being ordinary person to becoming higher frequency soul will not be guided from other world, but by quite tangible flesh-and-blood people around us, or from very strangers. They will disguise as ordinary humans, albeit the awesome magic they will demonstrate to us at times simply through an un-guessed wise manner of setting examples we will slowly but finally comprehend.

 

Getting the borrowed spiritual knowledge by following deceptive detour means the risk become loosing the higher price of stilling the always wise voice of our own personal Self – our own intuition… becoming taught from within.

 

The oneness of the Universe:  Our hand looks solid, but it's really not. If we put it under a proper microscope, we'd see a mass of energy vibrating. Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's our hand, animal, fish, plants the ocean, or a star. We're all connected. We just don't see it. There isn't an "out there" and an "in here". Everything in the Universe is connected. It is just one energy field.

 

All species ranging from amoeba to big animals respond to distress signals issued in response to life threats against the cells of any member of the living community. Signals from the dying cells to the drying blood of an accidentally cut finger is an evidence. Likewise the same species respond to the love and affection shown upon them. Plants absorb all manners of things in the emotional aura of humans who approach them. Birds tell the grass, plants, trees and flowers when to grow by setting up the sounds necessary to their chemical activity by singing. Every living being of the world is respected for its own sake. There is no living being that is object and absolutely useless, even if we have not yet known its utility to the universe. Staggering it may be to contemplate, there is a life force connecting all of creation. We can not touch a flower without tremble the star above. This basic concept is the driving force for every activities of AMIABLE AID.

 

Creator: We're not a finite body. We're an energy field. Energy creates the world. Energy is objective form and the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the Universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it's moving into form, through form and out of form.

 

The Universe essentially emerges from thought and all of this matter around us is just precipitated thought. Ultimately toe are the source of the Universe, and when we understand that power directly by experience, we can start to exercise our authority and begin to achieve more and more. Create anything. Know anything from within the field of our own consciousness, which ultimately is Universal consciousness that runs the Universe. So depending upon how we use that power, positively or negatively, that's the kind of body in terms of health, that's the kind of environment we create. So we are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of Universal destiny. We are the creators of the Universe.

 

So there's no limit, really, to human potential. It's the degree to which we recognize those deep dynamics and exercise them, the degree to which we harness our power. And that really we are God in a physical body. We are Spirit in the flesh. We are Eternal Life expressing itself as we. We are a cosmic being. We are all power. We are all wisdom. We are all intelligence. We are perfection. We are magnificence. We are the creator, and we are creating the creation of us on this planet.

 

Gnana: All humans are infants, relative to their present state of enlightenment. But all infants eventually mature, as will all humans eventually reach spiritual maturity. It is assured that all will discover more fathoms of peace, wisdom, and contentment by taking necessary steps through monitoring our thoughts.

 

It's impossible to monitor every thought we have - about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Fortunately there's an easier way, and it's our feelings. Our feelings make us know what we're thinking. After the mind rejects thoughts one after another as transient and unreal, that which survives is gnana. It takes a little practice regularly, then all of a sudden we find that we can do it, and we’ll feel as though someone had switched on a bright light in a dark room. Then our third dimensional mind can use it to tune into the fourth dimensional cosmic conscious … allowing us to see the light ... to become in tune with the harmony of the Universe.

 

When we drew our first breath, at which instant the more than four crore electric cells in our brain were programmed. This vibratory frequency makes us immune to the electromagnetic vibrations bombarding us from the cosmos in a pattern commensurate with the positions of the planets and earthly things. Enlightenment is a form of deprogramming, granting immunity from the control of our destiny by planetary and earthling movement. And we can break ourselves free from our hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs, and prove once and for all that the power within us is greater than the power within the world.

 

Temple: We ought to be more concerned with the Spirit, and less concerned with the flesh temple or body. In the long run, it would be greatly beneficial to everyone involved, including future body temples, which, like all houses, would be considerably improved if designed by enlightened architects, working in harmony with the Owner-Landlord.

 

Spiritual Lies and Truths: The word “lie” is the most meaningful exposure of truth and sounds like a contradiction, the ultimate non sequitur. However, the word lie possesses multi-layered meanings. Some lies are born from deliberate deception. Others are born from kindness and consideration. Still other “lies” are born from faith and knowing.

 

For instance, anything we can’t see with physical vision – or can’t prove with visible evidence – is considered by some people to be a lie, if we insist to them it’s there and they can’t see it. After whatever it might be finally manifests into matter of being-ness, the “lie” the believer was accused of suddenly … become the truth. The so called “liar” becomes prophet.

 

If we say to anyone to “focus your mind at the Mooladharam, Swathitanam, Manipooragam, Anadhagam, Visuthi, Akhgna, Sahasraram” – and no realisation has yet manifested into ‘matter’ visible to physical eye sight, he is likely to say, or secretly believe, that we’re lying.  The spiritual thing might very well be cheerfully growing inside, in the etheric sense, waiting to be ordained to manifest itself, but as long as it’s not visible or realized to the physical vision, pointing to it an insisting that it’s really there is defined by everyone as telling lie.

 

There are more interesting insights about what constitutes a lie or does not, as they begin to master, they will discover them for themselves. Spiritual things often start rusty wheels running in our brain. Some of them may be frustrating when we first initiate them, because they don’t seem to make a bit of sense. But it should not be stopped. Keep spiraling, and we’ll find the answer is always logical, even though it may hide at first until we penetrate the meaning. But if we continue to ponder it we’ll be rewarded for our calm contemplation with, a kind of spiritual elation.

 

Believing is a process that will gradually manifest invisible etheric concepts, dreams, ideas and ideals – and convictions – into visible, dense matter. First comes hope, faint and weak. Then comes belief, much stronger. Next comes faith, and we’re almost there! At last comes knowing, the real power that makes it happen. So, when we’re able to know really know a thing it places us in the eternal now and we’ve won.

 

Through the absolute imaging, ordaining and knowing of the Mind, we have the power to manifest any kind of miracle – Ordain, Image, Believe, have Faith and Know – in other words, we impress our image upon the ethers with such intensity that the image will be transmuted into physical, dense matter. One way to impress it on our mind and to always remember the alchemy of it is through yet another facet of meditation

 

Our birthday Cake: The fetus, not yet human, because the breath of life, its first breath, when the water breathing creature becomes an air-breathing creature, is when actual life begins. At the time of our birth a cake was presented by the Nature.  It is our first birthday cake in round shape. It’s ingredients consist of all the major and still viable vibrations we have set up around ourselves in this life. The ingredients of the cake been segregated by us as pleasure and pain. Fifty percent of the cake is made up of pleasure. Rest of the fifty percent contains painful things. For a person, according to the percentage of his one pleasure/ pain, the percentage share of other pleasure/ pain contents in his cake adjusts. Each and every person gifted with a unique combination of ingredients in the cake – unique percentage of pain and pleasure. The cake gives us script at our birth, on assignment from us, which in the present life drama, we can either produce it or throw it away.

 

With the cake, Every man and woman began the long journey together – and each will positively reach the same destination – at an individual time, through an individually chosen method of travel, on an individually selected path, using a likewise individually selected roadmap. We can not rise higher than the highest who is in each of us – nor can we sink lower than the lowest which is in each of us. Everyone is headed toward the same destination, the eventual arrival equally assured for each, regardless of the chosen model of travel.

 

There are infinite demonstrations of the beautiful synchronicity of Universe, flowing from everyone in every imaginable facet of life. There are discordant patterns, too, but fortunately, the sour notes in the symphony are minor, and more than balanced by the harmonious chords.

 

After all our activities are of a pre-determined assignment from us to this wonderful Universe. Let us eat our cake with content and satisfaction without any murmuring!

 

 

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

BRIDGEHEADS

 

BRIDGEHEADS (ACCOMPLISHMENTS)

 

SUPPORTING CHILD WELFARE

“…The children of slum live out in the open, little or no food to eat, bearing the brunt of nature’s fury and poverty, sharing space with beggars and during the months it rained, sleeping the nights in any dry, unhygienic place they find…”

 

While implementing various tsunami relief and rehabilitation programmes distinctly noticed a particular problem of access, arose with respect to children lost their parents to tsunami waves. Given the tragic number of children who died, families were desperate to take in those children who remained. The living standards of the said foster families were hard enough to accommodate and groom those additional child members. 

 

 

AMIABLE AID adopted tsunami-caused parentless-children in the age group of 3-12 years and groomed them in the families those who lost their siblings to tsunami and enabled the foster families to access financial support. Still, there were many other orphaned children whose needs left unattended. AMIABLE AID was continually representing to Government taking up the cause of those children to arrive at a permanent policy framework. The strive ended only after the Government formed a Social Trust for the welfare of the children affected by tsunami and the Trust has taken in all the children of this category into its fold. The Social Trust is still functioning effectively which is in the worldwide attention.

 

VOLUNTEERING WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT

When AMIABLE AID begun working with the women in the tsunami-hit areas, discovered to its surprise, women and girls though living close to the sea could not swim. It was the one of the reasons a large number of women died during the tsunami.

 

In the aftermath of tsunami, the physical safety of Widows and single women had been compromised as cases of domestic violence increased. Death of male breadwinners forced the widows to accept dual roles as the family income earner as well as the main caretaker for children and elderly.

 

The reports about the plights of displaced women after tsunami do not convey the stories that are never recorded, because they were never articulated. Eighty percent of these displaced people are women and children - were forced in to temporary camps. Men are active and automatically take charge of the relief. Women and children are lumped together as the "vulnerable". Newspapers have reported the shocking conditions in these so called "relief" camps. Apart from the physical conditions, there is little medical care available. People, including little children, are dying of malaria and diarrhea. When people are forced to leave their home in emergency situations, a number of things happen. Entire village run away. Many women lost their men to tsunami waves. In the camps we come across women who find themselves suddenly alone, heading their households at a time when they are least prepared, when their whole life has been turned upside down.

 

In such a situation, women are unlikely to come forward with their particular problems - such as for health interventions, or for safe sanitation facilities - unless particularly asked. In any case, they are rarely consulted. As a result, they silently bear the grief of losing a family member, the trauma of displacement and the challenge of survival and their new environment.

 

Even if everyone is equally affected in these camps, the set roles for men and women remain unchanged. Hence, the task of finding the food, cooking it, looking after the children and the elderly remains the primary responsibility of the women. Given these additional burdens, it is even more unlikely that they will volunteer an opinion unless specifically asked. An additional unspoken burden of displacement is the sexual assault many women encounter, within the camps and outside.

 

AMIABLE AID was working towards restoration of degree of earning capacity of the women widowed by tsunami whose livelihood damaged or destroyed.  AMIABLE AID encouraged, trained and arranged financial   assistance  to such women to pursue economic activities and as a result these women

  • Were able to take control of their recovery and are not seen as helpless victims and passive receivers of aid.
  • Can address their household requirements which recognize them as responsible and rational economic actors.
  •  And, restored their dignity. They drive recovery-not just of physical infrastructure but of families and communities.

WEFARE OF THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED

“Persons marked by an infirmity like blindness, deafness etc., depend more than ordinary persons do for their happiness and for their support upon the ties of kindred, of friendship, and of neighborhood. All these therefore, ought to be nourished and strengthened during childhood and youth - for it is then they take such deep root as to become strong and life-lasting.”

 

AMIABLE AID always defending the interests of the persons with physical challenge, striving for them to get equal opportunities, disabled friendly scientific and technological devices stressed upon to enable them to cope with problems, encouraging work - therapy which provides disabled persons with work experience in a real working environment ultimately leading to placement.

 

An unexpected event like tsunami has aggravated the vulnerabilities to recurrent hazards of the disability sector at Nagapattinam, which has already been in the lower levels of the development process in this area. AMIABLE AID has imparted vocational training and arranged micro-finance to start their own business to physically challenged persons of various categories viz., orthopedic, blind, deaf, dwarf, fire injured.

 

MADE HISTORY IN THE LIVELIHOOD REHABILITATION

After the initial shock of tsunami that eased out, the question of livelihood was looming large for the fisher folk. There prevailed a stage that sustainable rehabilitation would not possible unless fishermen venture into sea and resume their regular business. Fear of apparent tsunami and lack of resource for fishing made them stay away from sea even after many appeals from the Government for months together.

 

AMIABLE AID persistently counseled and motivated 50 fishermen families and derived vessels, nets and other equipments for them. As a result, the first batch of 10 boats with 50 crew members to enter into sea for fishing. This was the first time occurrence in the history of Nagapattinam region in the aftermath of tsunami. Only after this event the fishing business was gradually resuming throughout the entire coastal belt.

 

Coordinated a Guinness world record event

In memorial of South-Asian tsunami victims, 254, 464 saplings were planted in 24 hours by 300 persons at Pushpavanam village, Nagapattinam District between the days 01-02 October 2005. The Founder of AMIABLE AID coordinated the programme which was initiated by the Nagapattinam District administration and sponsored by Bilai Institute of Technology. Later on, the Guinness World Records Ltd recognized this event as a world record for ‘most trees planted in 24 hours by 300 persons’. The afforestation programme which started up as a memorial for tsunami victims worldwide and in an aim to protect the people  from any further natural calamity which was declared as a Guinness world record event.

 

Rebuilt tsunami devastated tourist spot

The tsunami had wreaked havoc on the prideful Nagapattinam beach and washed away all structures in it. Once AMIABLE AID was instrumental in establishing this tourist spot in the pre-tsunami days, which preserved socio-culture in this region in which the cultural heritage initiatives tend to be hobbled, even at best of times, by a paucity of funding and conflict among ideological position. The project realized only after much hardship. To build it again after devastation, AMIABLE AID highlighted the requirement, appealed to Government for approval, derived resource from many agencies and bring into reality an auditorium, a restaurant, children play ware, park, tsunami memorial dome and lavatories at the beach front.

 

Installed Water Desalination plant in government Hospital

On the year 2004, on the Boxing Day, tsunami water entered into the government hospital, Nagapattinam made the ground water salty. Steps were taken for patients to access pure water. AMIABLE AID volunteered the Periyar Maniyammai College of Technology, Thanjavur in their tsunami rehabilitation programmes and with the support of college of Engineering, San Diego State University; with the materials of M/s Pure O Tech, Inc CA92029 water purifier of 16,000 lit/day capacities has been installed in the Government Hospital.

 

 

Amiable Aid's OVERALL Tsunami Response

The fast-moving wall of water that rode in from the ocean on December 26, 2004 break with terrifying force over the once calm and beautiful Nagapattinam District.

 

The December tsunami acted with hazardous impartiality, wrecking fishing villages and killing tourists and subsistence level costal farmers, flooding the places of post colonial elites and washing away relics.

 

Having extracted a toll of thousands of lives, while leaving behind much more number of homeless emotionally devastated survivors, the tsunami has reminded the people of the Indian Ocean the rim land of the Capricious natural forces against which all our hopes of development are phrased.

 

Our AMIABLE AID in association with relief agencies and government officials working in the wake of the catastrophe, volunteered/ participated/organized/ implemented/ sponsored/ and preoccupied with the larger number of deaths, the damage to settlements, reorient and rehabilitate those who were spared, rebuild a sense of security and community. Our area of operation was coastal Districts of Tamilnadu State, South India.

 

The list of things done from the first day of tsunami is enlisted here to review the things which are out.

  • Corpses retrieved, arranged for burial/ cremation of the dead, debris removed.
  • Survivors rescued, Injured medically treated, cloths, food, and water supplied.
  • Temporary bridges, roads laid to access the coastal villages engulfed by sea water.
  • Survivors taken to safer campus such as schools, marriage halls and public buildings and feed and clothed.
  • Intermediate Shelters arranged. Each surviving family served with trunk box, kerosene stove, utensils fans, chair and mat etc., provided house hold commodities such as rice, sambar flour, kerosene, palm oil, salt, turmeric powder, tamarind, sugar, tea dust, milk powder and dry chilies provided with money to buy additional kitchen items.
  • Distribution of free books and uniforms for the affected children, duplicate educational certificates to persons who have lost their Original Certificates in the tsunami disaster, exemption from tuition fee, special fee and examination fee to the students affected by tsunami, arranged.
  • A major counseling and support programme aimed at restoring the confidence of the affected people launched Men, Women and Children nursed back to a normal level of confidence after trauma.
  • Capacity building and implementation assistance in the form of design and construction and supervision and technical support consultancy and incremental administration in the event of disaster, provided.
  • Sanctioned the relief package to the families who returned from comparatively worst affected Andaman Nicobar Islands to Nagapattinam.
  • Under tsunami Emergency Assistance Programme accelerated economic growth and poverty alleviation in the tsunami affected areas by assisting in the restoration of livelihoods especially of the poor and complementary rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged public infrastructure. Restored the livelihoods improving transportation infrastructures like roads and bridges and ports and harbors, Rural and municipal infrastructure improvement like water supply and sanitation and others.
  • Relief assistance to the implementing agencies for partly damaged mechanized fishing boats and for construction of new mechanized fishing boats in replacement of fully damaged boats sanctioned.
  • Repair and maintenance of mechanical fishing vessals, built.
  • Package of assistance, for enabling fisherman who lost their landing centre, harbor and launching centre due to tsunami, provided.
  • Relief package to mobile/temporary shop owners and pucca shop owners, sanctioned.
  • Relief assistance to the damages caused to the property of small business men such as Prawn/Crab farm owners, fish seedling farm owners, fish transport owners, ice manufacturing units etc., who had lost their assets due to tsunami, sanctioned.
  • The cross bunds inside the salt works affected due to tsunami, restored.
  • Relief to the Small Scale Industries units affected by tsunami, provided.
  • Acquisition of land for permanent house construction, of permanent houses and infrastructure, repairing reconstruction of existing houses, arranged.
  • Reclamation assistance for sand cast and saline horticulture lands affected by tsunami. Relief assistance for the loss of livestock, grant relief to the affected farmers, arranged.
  • Walls constructed to prevent intrusion of water in to the coastal villages, bio shields planted.
  • Schools, Child welfare centers, Hospitals, Primary health centers, Community centers, Vocational training centers etc., constructed in the tsunami affected areas.
  • Started special creches for children in the tsunami affected districts.
  • Started special homes for orphaned adolescent girls in the age group of 14 to 18 years and unmarried girls above 18 years of age and also provide protection, dresses, skills related to income generation programmes and to pursue their higher studies.
  • Re-channelizing operation for reproduction arranged for family-planned women who lost their children to tsunami waves.

 

As is evident from the world wide response to the tsunami emergencies can and do bring out the best in human nature, compassion, decisiveness and heroism on behalf of others. The efforts and rehabilitation works of AMIABLE AID has received appreciation from many quarters worldwide.

 

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

SYNCHRONOUS SERVICES

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

TODAY'S CATCH

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

GATHER4GOOD

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

FEED a NEED

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

PHILANTHROPY CAP

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

ADVISED FUND

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

CLARION CALL

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

TODAY'S CATCH ORGANIC

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

GO ORGANIC!

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...

ORGANIC FARMING

Comment Log in or Join Tablo to comment on this chapter...
~

You might like MANEKSHAW's other books...