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Excerpts from Swami's interview given to Dr.
Venkat Kanubaddi
Excerpts from
Swami’s interview given to Dr. Venkat Kanubaddi, Regional
Vice-President, North Central Region:
Although service projects are undertaken in the
fields of Education, Health and Social services, Swami is
emphasizing the “caring” part. So he has coined the following
three terms:
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EDUCARE
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HEALTHCARE
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SOCIALCARE
Swami is encouraging us to channel our services
into these three areas, and implement with proper understanding,
so that the Divine Mission will manifest globally to bring the
transformation of hearts of all our brothers and sisters to foster
LOVE.
EDUCARE: The meaning of Educare is “to bring
out human values” that are inherent in each person and translate
those values into action. We have to incorporate values into
education. Education fosters desires and leads to re-birth,
whereas Educare provides a better vision of life and confers
Immortality. When we convert Education into Educare, life becomes
purposeful.
HEALTHCARE: Healthcare should be
comprehensive and holistic. Acute health care (treated by modern
medical treatments) combined with Preventive health care, paying
attention to the body, mind and spirit should be the future of
Healthcare. It is true Healthcare provides perfect health – to
stay healthy and follow spiritual life. It means not just giving
relief to acute illnesses, but also making sure that people do not
fall sick again. It means not just treating for disease such as
heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes or cancer but also
educating about healthy diet, healthy life-style and giving them
tools to maintain optimum health.
SOCIALCARE: We do many social projects, but
we should be giving more attention to “care”. The projects should
be done as “Service to God”, instead of being a sympathetic
response. E.g. How Swami trained the students to give food to the
residents of neighboring villages/towns. Each student went
door-to-door, greeted them respectfully, enquired how many persons
live there and then gave the corresponding amount of food.
We have to turn up a notch in our current
projects by realizing that we are performing “Service to God” and
honoring the Divine within.
Jai Sai Ram
Source:
http://www.saidetroit.org/ExcerptsfromSwami--VisionforRegion2001.doc
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