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Loka
Dharma Seva Foundation Trust
(Regd.)
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90/2
--[old 153],
Beracah Road,
Varadhambal
Thottam Main
St,
Kilpakkam,
Chennai-600010
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Regn
. No: 1044/2007
Book IV, - Registered
Under The Indian
Trust Act of
1861
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A
Brief Presentation of the LDSFT Project
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16 December, 2007
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Integrated
Community Development Projects
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Economic,
Educational, Social and Spiritual Development
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Bala
N. Aiyer, M.D.
International President,
LDSFT
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Our
community has now come to realize that our Hindu Dharma is at its
cross roads needing some reforms and realization that the spiritual
part of our Faith must be integrated with the economic and social
welfare of the community to bring up the glory and greatness of Hindu
Dharma as it deserves in this new era, the sixth millennium of Kali
Yuga. The efforts need to be taken up in a war path with a strategy
proper for this new Maha Bharata War. We need to realize that there
are various levels of Spiritual development and understanding among
the Hindu Population and a vast majority of them are living at below
poverty level, lacking basic education and basic needs of life. Most
of these "Indigent Population" of the segments of
Hindu communities, who are socially, economically, educationally and
spiritually deprived, live in the urban areas / inner city, called
the slums, and in many rural areas / small villages. Here they need
our support for economic, educational, social and Spiritual development.
This is taken up by LDSFT as the "Integrated Rural and Urban
Community Development Projects" for the "Body, Mind
and Soul". LDSFT plans to initially start this program in
one or two small and underdeveloped and poor urban areas in and around
the city of Chennai and near by rural area. Then slowly we can extend
it to other areas. This will be the true reform and renaissance of
Hindu Dharma.
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The
needed areas of the "Integrated Community Development Projects"
are as follows. All of the four programs will go together in each
locality and should be taken up concurrently.
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Economic Development Projects will encourage the people in the
community get proper vocational training and also get micro loans
to start their own small businesses including home-based manufacturing
like Sewing machines for tailoring, doll making, making pooja materials
for religious practice and other handicrafts. We can attract major
industries participate in this. We also need adult education and vocational
training classes for adults.
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Educational Development Projects will include program for children
and adults. We need to develop educational programs for children,
more like tutorial classes to get them motivated to study and get
good grades, as there are already many schools. We also need basic
and advanced Hindu Dharma classes in the tutorial classes and also
Religious Practitioners courses to train teachers and preachers. We
need to develop good library with books for the adult members and
for school children.
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Social Development Projects will include assisting and educating
the people about proper cleanliness, proper protected water supply
and sanitation practices with the proper use of available public facilities.
Health education and health care camps need to be organized in each
area with increasing health awareness to prevent diseases like infections,
hepatitis, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, heart attack and stroke.
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Spiritual Development Projects will be organized as a Faith
Based initiative to be given along with the other threee projects
to assist in uplifting the community with training in their traditions
and culture. These will include identifying small temples of their
Ishtadevatha and Grama Devatha and assist in renovating them and conducting
regular worship services following their own traditional practices.
We can then introduce them to other aspects of Hindu Dharma and the
philosophy by conducting musical discourses. We need to organize training
programs for the Poojaaris, teachers and preachers and assist in their
welfare also.
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Oliver
Wendell Holmes:
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail
we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. |
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The
above Intergrated Development projects will be organised along with
the core Objectives of LDSFT which will include Temple Rejenuvation
- Renovation, cleaning, maintenance and Priests training and welfare
programs as also training of the public in recitations of prayers
and special studies in each of the small communities.
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1.
A centralised Corpus Fund programme will be created and organised
for funding the Rejuvenation of several thousands of dilapidated
Temples and also for the community to be involved in it as a centre
for learning Hindu Dharma.
2.
Every Temple, big and small, will be made into a seat of learning
Hindu Dharma in addition to be centres for rituals and place of
worship practice.
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For
details and expalnation - Please go to Next Page
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Strategic,
Practical and Realistic Planning for the Body, Mind and Soul
Yes -- Now what we need is Vision
and not just dreams
- Realistic rather than Idealistic approach.
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