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SEVA
DHARMA
Welcome
to Seva Dharma. This is a program to help poor children. To be
involved in this program in any manner, first and foremost, you must
have compassion for the millions of children who are hungry and
helpless and growing up without any kind of education. You must have
a strong desire to help them. If you don't have these two things this
program is not for you.
The
program requires sincere and devoted spiritual effort everyday. If
you do the spiritual part, then you can also do the material part.
There is potential to earn personal income while helping the
children. But it will happen only if you have a sincere desire to
help the children. It will not work for you if your primary purpose
is to earn an income.
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SPIRITUAL
EFFORT
(1)
Do mantra jaap for 10 minutes everyday, morning and evening. Do
Gayatri Mantra, Shiva Mantra or any mantra.
To
do mantra jaap you don't need to sit in one place. You can say the
mantra while taking a shower or driving or while doing any work. You
can say the mantra or you can listen to a CD and say it in your heart.
Though
we are doing this to help poor children, daily mantra jaap brings
Divine Energy and Blessings in our own lives. It brings happiness,
peace and prosperity to us individually. If a large number of people
do mantra jaap together it will bring happiness, peace and prosperity
to everyone in the country.
Read
"Akhand Mantra Jaap" page and download Mantra CDs.
click
here
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(2)
Daily mantra jaap brings happiness, peace and prosperity to the
individual person, to the individual family and when many people do
it together, it will bring happiness, peace and prosperity to
everyone in the country. It will change the poverty situation in the country.
We
can involve every Indian person in this punya karma if we
spread the awareness and inspire one another.
Therefore,
send and/or forward emails to 15 to 20 people every day. (Read more
below.) This does not take any time. You can do it while doing your
personal emails. You need to send and/or forward to 108 people every
week. It spreads the awareness and inspires people. Thus, this is a
spiritual karma same as doing a mantra jaap 108 times. You can send
to the same people every week but you should keep adding more people
to your list.
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MATERIAL
EFFORT
When
you start doing the spiritual part regularly, then you can also do
any or all of the following:
(1)
You can be a "Donation Agent" and earn 10% commission. See
"Agents" page. click here
(2)
If you like to record your mantra jaap and send to us, you will earn
personal income if we include it in our CD. Professional singers also
welcome. For more info:
www.aatmajyot.com
Read
"Bhajan-no Vepar"
and "Hanuman Chalisa".
CHILDREN
PRAYING FOR CHILDREN
(3)
If parents and teachers will teach children to do mantra jaap and
pray for other children we will do our part in this manner. Every
week we will give several prizes for mantra jaap photos and videos
and for designing the emails to share them. Each prize will be a Rs
500 cash gift to the winner plus a donation of Rs 500 to any poor and
needy school in India chosen by the winner. To be eligible for
prizes, children must be involved with adults in all photos and videos.
You
can win these prizes in several ways.
SHARE
YOUR MANTRA JAAP PHOTOS
Take
photos when you're doing your daily mantra jaap, at home, at school,
at the Mandir. Send 5 to 10 photos in one email. Send your email to
108 people. Subject Line of email:
"Photos
- Childrens Praying for Children".
In
your email, write the place and City and Country where the photos
were taken. (EG. These photos were taken at home in Los Angeles,
California OR At (name) School or (name) Mandir in City/Country. If
in India, please write Village/Town, District and State). With each
photo please write the names of everyone in the photo, for children,
also write their age. If you like, you can also write a prayer,
thought or anything. Also write this: "This email is wriiten and
sent by: (your name, photo), city/country where you live. Design your
email in your own style.
YOU
MAY INCLUDE INFO ABOUT A SCHOOL
If
you win a prize, part of the prize will be a donation to any poor
and needy school of your choice anywhere in India. If you know the
school you would like to help, you can include this in your own
words: "IF I WIN A PRIZE, I WANT THE DONATION TO GO TO THIS
SCHOOL" add the school name, address, photos of
students/teachers, any othe info. If you don't know the school but
you know the district/state you want to help, you can say something
like this: "If I win a prize I want to give the donation to a
school in (district/state)." Add your name and email. Most
likely, schools from that district will contact you.
IF
YOU ARE A SCHOOL IN INDIA
You
can work with supporters around the world.
AT
THE BOTTOM OF YOUR EMAIL
you
must include this message.
FORWARD
THIS EMAIL TO 108 PEOPLE
Then,
send your entry to win a prize. Details:
www.mata-annapurna-ashram.org
See
"Seva Dharma".
If
you receive an email like this, forward it to 108 people. If you
like, you can add this at the bottom: "This email is forwarded
by: (your name, photo), city/country where you live, your email
(optional). Please don't do it if someone's name and photo is already there.
SHARE
YOUR MANTRA JAAP VIDEOS
Record
your daily mantra jaap in video, at home, at school, at the Mandir.
Put your video on YouTube, put these tags
"children-praying-for-children"
AND "childrens-mantra-jaap".
Send
the link to 108 people. Subject Line of your email:
"
YouTube Video - Children Praying for Children".
In
your email, write the place and City and Country where the video was
recorded. (EG. This video was recorde at home in Los Angeles,
California OR At (name) School or (name) Mandir in City/Country. If
in India, write Village/Town, District and State).
Also
write this: "This email is wriiten and sent by: (your name,
photo), city/country where you live, your email. You can design your
email in your own style.
Your
email must include this:
FORWARD
THIS EMAIL TO 108 PEOPLE
Then,
send your entry to win a prize. Details:
www.mata-annapurna-ashram.org
See
"Seva Dharma".
If
you receive an email like this, forward it to 108 people. If you
like, you can add this at the bottom: "This email is forwarded
by: (your name, photo), city/country where you live, your email
(optional). Please don't do it if someone's name and photo is already there.
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If
you are a school or NGO in India and you need assistance, we will
pay for recording your video. Please see details on this page: "Schools
on YouTube". click
here
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DESIGN
YOUR EMAILS
This
catagory is only for those who would like to design their emails.
You
can design in two ways: (1) You can design your emails with your own
photos and videos. You cannot design emails using other peoples
photos or videos. (2) You can also design with drawings, cartoons and
your own imagination.
The
purpose of these emails is to inspire and involve people in mantra
jaap, ten minutes everyday, morning and evening. It will change our
lives in India. If and when it matches with your email design, you
may include links for free downloads of Mantra CDs. See "Akhand
Mantra Jaap" page. click here
Your
email must include the three things stipulated below. This info is a
must. You can put it in your own style. (1) Name and photo of the
designer (2) Name
and address of the school you would like to help (3) "Forward
this Email".
IF
YOU ARE A STUDENT OR TEACHER
THIS
EMAIL IS DESIGNED BY
your
full name and photo / if student, write your age or grade, if
teacher, write "Teacher" / Name, address, email or URL of
your school.
IF
YOU ARE NOT A STUDENT OR TEACHER
THIS
EMAIL IS DESIGNED BY
your
full name and photo / your occupation / city and country of your
current residence (if in India, write village/town, district and
state) / your email or URL (optional).
You
must also include this in your own words:
I
WOULD LIKE TO HELP THIS SCHOOL
If
my design wins a prize I want the donation to go to this school:
Write the name, address, email, URL of the school. Add photos or
anything else if you like. If you have not selected a school, write
something like this: "If my design wins a prize, I would like
the donation to go to a school in (district/state).
YOU
MUST ALSO INCLUDE THIS AND PROVIDE A LINK
You
can do it to match your design.
Forward this
email to 108 people.
Then,
send your entry to win a prize. Details:
www.mata-annapurna-ashram.org
See
"Seva Dharma".
HOW
TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY FOR A PRIZE
When
you send or forward one or more emails to a total of 108 people in
one week, forward your last email to us with this statement "I
solemnly swear that I have sent/forwarded this and other emails to
108 people this week." and give your full name, age, city and
country where you live. If in India please write village/town,
district and state. You may submit one entry every time you
send/forward emails to 108 people.
Every
week we will pick winners at random and give them the prizes. Each
prize will be a cash gift of Rs 500 to the winner plus a donation of
Rs 500 to a school in India chosen by the winner. If you are a
winner, you will need to send us your recent photo.
Please
send separate entries for photos, videos and designs:
photos108@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
videos108@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
designs108@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
HOW
MANY PRIZES EVERY WEEK
This
program is launched on 30 April, 2009. For the first three months we
will pick three winners every week, one for mantra jaap photos, one
for videos and one for email designs.
In
August 2009 we will pick six winners every week, two for photos, two
for videos and two for email designs. Thereafter we will add three
more winners every month for the next eight months. Thus, in April
2010, we will pick thirty winners every week, ten for photos, ten for
videos and ten for email designs. These prizes will be from MAA.
There will be more prizes comming directly from donors.
DONORS
WELCOME
We
are all doing this together. You are welcome to give prizes. When
you see photos, videos or email designs that you like you can send
your prize directly to the individual person and to the school or
send it to us and tell us who it is for. We will send the whole prize
to them in your name. MAA does not take any cut. Or you can send a
donation to MAA for giving prizes. We will give more prizes. Please
send your donation thru PayPal or give it to our Donation Agent if
you know the agent personally. Donation Agents get 10% commission.
For details of how they work, please see "Agents" page. click
here
If
sending thru PayPal, please send it to this account:
ten-million-meals@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
In
message space please give your name, city and country of your
current residence, your email and how the donation should be used. We
will use it accordingly.
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ORGANIZE
"TEN MILLION MEALS" EVENTS
In
this program meals will be served to children one time only. Ten
million children will benefit. Meals will be served by organizing
small and big events in schools and neighbourhoods. These will be
half-day or whole-day events similar to "Childrens Day"
events (please see "Childrens Day" page) and will include
games and fun activities for children. The
events will be organized,
a few at a time, in various districts and sub districts all over the
country. Every event will be recorded live in video, every child,
every single meal.
From that recording, a 20 to 30 minute final video will be made
highlighting the event. For big
events involving a large number of children, the final video will be
45 to 60 minutes. We will preserve all videos. This will become a
part of our history.
Our
desire is to organize 108 small and big events every day until ten
million meals are served,
may be beyond that.
The purpose of the following plan is to find the right people to
organize and manage the events.
All events will be organized and managed by local residents. A
school, NGO or group of people can organize and manage a few events
in their own district, none in any other district. This is not for
business people. We are not hiring any caterors or contractors.
If
you have the ability to plan and manage an event to feed the
children in your neighbourhood and if you are regularly doing the two
spiritual things mentioned above, you can submit a preliminary plan
to organize an event. If we like your plan we will help you work out
the details. The funding will include a small donation to your school
or NGO. If you are an individual that amount will be remuneration to
you for organizing and managing the event.
The
budget for your first event will be One Thousand Indian Rupees. You
must plan and manage your event within this budget. Plus, we will
give Five Hundred Rupees as donation to your school or organization
or personal remuneration to you. We will pay separately for video recording.
If
your first event is well organized, the budget for your second event
will be Five Thousand Rupees and the donation or personal
remuneration will be One Thousand Rupees.
After
the first two events you can plan bigger events.
In
your plan please keep this in mind. There will be no hired help. All
the work must be done by teachers, parents, volunteers or by the
individual organizer and his/her team mates. We will pay separately
for video recording.
Your
plan must show that you have the ability and the dedication to use
your budget to provide benefit to a large number of children. We will
not accept your plan if we don't see that. We will accept or reject
your plan at preliminary stage or at any stage, at our sole
discretion. If your plan is not implemented for any reason, there
will be no donation or personal remuneration.
With
your preliminary plan,
please
give your full name, age, village/town-district-state where you
live, occupation, your recent photo.
Please
send it to:
introduce-yourself@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
Subject
Line: Seva Dharma
If
you don't like to organize and manage an event and if you are doing
your spiritual part regularly, you can join someone's team.
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YOUR
THOUGHTFUL SUGGESTIONS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
volunteers@mata-annapurna-ashram.org
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