I offer my Pranams and Namaskarams to Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Acharya PujyaSri Periyava and Pujyasri BalaPeriyava seeking Their Holinesses' Blessings and offer my Namaskarams to all the elders and my greetings to everyone else assembled here today. I thank you all for giving me this opportunity to address you in the Seminar.

Now we are celebrating the completion of two years of the formation of this organization named Loka Dharma Seva Foundation Trust or LDSFT. Our main objective has been to work together to create a proper path for our Hindu Dharma to grow and flourish with all its glory around the world. During this short period of time we are pleased to inform of several successful events of various kinds that were organized and achieved by our members and our Board with Divine Blessings and good wishes of every one. We have planned and have taken up several projects and organized several events for the benefit of the Hindu Community and growth of our traditions and for the reform and renaissance with glory of Hindu Dharma.
Our trustees Sri P.N. Vedanarayanan, Sri R. Subramanian and Sri K. Sankaran will explain in details about our projects and events.
The main Purpose and Objectives of the formation of our LDSF Trust is to create a forum with a new understanding for planning a renaissance and a reform in this new Century, the 6th millennium of Kaliyuga, for strengthening the Hindu community and Hindu Dharma, especially for the youth as also for the entire community. At the present time, there are several organizations, groups and individuals who are trying to work on similar projects everywhere. But, many of these groups are working only in some areas and on specific targeted projects, without much coordination and at times often competing with one another. Often their achievements are temporary or partial without a long-term goal or vision.

LDSFT will be functioning in a different way in that, it will plan and coordinate various needed activities for the community in several areas and continue the follow up activities with Hindu community development, maintenance of the projects and necessary oversight. They will work in full cooperation with other similar groups and organizations to achieve the necessary goals. LDSFT will work and plan and perform all their projects with the blessings of the Pujya Sri Acharyas, Sri Periyava and Sri Balaperiyava, and with the full cooperation and support of Srimatam.

To put it in simple English, the needs of reform for the renaissance of Hindu Dharma has to be planned with a vision that needs to be a coordinated effort of several organizations. We, all of us, need to work together in concert, without competing or opposing each other. All of us need to be involved in various activities in several areas according to our grand vision. In this, we must have a proper strategic planning of our activities, with realistic thinking and proper vision, rather than idealistic dreams.
For this, first we need to wake up from our sleep and slumber to get our dreams come true and act on them with proper vision. Yes, we need to have a True Vision to fulfill our dreams. Some of the important Objectives of LDSFT and the major groups of projects planned are as follows:

1. We must plan and develop an International Headquarters and Institute for Hindu Dharma Studies. Here, we can arrange for advanced studies and research with large classrooms, Library and conference halls for students and teachers meet and for our Acharyas address the world about the culture, traditions, philosophy and practice of Hindu Dharma.
2. There are several thousands of village temples and several more small temples and prayer halls in and around the cities which are in a ruined and dilapidated state that needs to be rebuilt, rejuvenated and maintained. There are many small temples which need maintenance support with arrangements for daily pooja services.

3. The Priests, Poojaris and all other Temple employees need to be supported for a decent living and help for education, technical training and other comforts for them and their family members. This is very important for the growth and glory of Hindu Dharma.
4. Hindu Dharma and its cultural glory must be popularized among all members of the various Hindu communities by organizing programs for Devotional songs with explanations of the meanings and philosophy. To achieve this we must make all our Small Temples as institutes of Learning.

5. In addition, next to all the Temples, we need to organize class rooms of regular schools for Hindu Dharma Studies. Our Hindu philosophy, culture and traditions can be taught here from primary level to advanced levels.
6. At the same time, we need to organize several programs for public health, Medical care, general educational assistance and Social and community welfare projects in all villages and city areas adjacent to these small temples. This will include health education, medical check-ups and free medical camps, purified water supply, help for the disabled and handicapped, orphanages and elder care. In addition, we can also organize teachers training program to have spiritually trained train teachers to work every where, in all regular schools.

7. At this time, graduate level studies in Universities, technical colleges and medical colleges, big hospitals and healthcare centers are being organized and run by state government and some big private individual corporations. Leaving aside these ones and avoiding competitions, we can organize programs of evening and week-end educational / tutoring classes for poor school children along with Hindu Dharma education.
8. For some needy members of the Hindu community, we can organize a scholarship program for higher education, based on their education in Hindu Dharma and its culture and tradition, using their Hindu studies as additional qualifying points. Also, we can arrange to organize some spiritually oriented studies. [eg.: MA in Teaching, Spiritual Psychology, Spiritual Journalism, MBA in Temple Administration, Sanskrit Research].

Common to all these plans and programs, there is some basic work we all will need to do. That is to change our basic outlook and approach to all these problems. First of all, we need to create a sense of unity and oneness of all Hindus and join together to teach and train all Hindus to a basic level of all aspects and paths of Hindu Dharma, with a sense of unity.