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JAINA CONVENTION 2011
have devoted themselves to the aagnya of Pujya Gurudev.
Son's of millionaires... double graduates... owners of Mercedes and Honda city cars... employees at high posts in multinational companies... follow the words and aagnya of Pujya Gurudev and collect newspapers from their neighboring vicinity to perform charity & humanitarian activities with the collected money.
"Live and Help Live"
Every year they support many families with food grains, medicines, children's fees, scholarship, dialysis, operation cost, school kits, and other items of necessity. Apart from these, blood donation camps, eye check up camps, medical checkup camps, mediclaim, skin surgery camp, plastic surgery camp etc are organized in the city and in remote tribal areas as well. According to different seasons... ice cream, juices, umbrella, raincoat, shawl, blanket, fruits, milk and food are distributed to the needy people. Large scale projects like save water and events like career seminar are also organized by them. In situations of natural as well as man made disasters like fire, building collapse, bomb blast, storms and floods, the Arham family is always ready to provide help and support. They visit butcher shops and engage in activities related to setting free bonded animals. During the hot summers, they visit door to door providing people with earthen pots and grains to keep on their window sills for birds to drink and eat. During the festival of Uttran (kite flying), many birds are injured and the Arham members provide help to these injured birds through various mobile medical units!
Pujya Gurudev designed their Arham activities according to the four Sundays of the month without even preaching 4 words, but with lot of love & understanding. On the First Sunday of the month, the members engage in devotion of Lord Parshwanath by doing jaap of Shree Uvasaggahara Stotra and cleanse their soul. On the Second Sunday of the month, members visit door to door collecting old newspapers and magazines. The bitter sweet experiences during these times bring down their ego levels and make them independent to perform charitable activities with the money they get by selling these
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newspapers. The Third Sunday they engage into humanitarian activities with the collected money by visiting slums & tribal areas to distribute food, medicines or other items of necessity. On the Fourth Sunday, the members go personally (if possible) to Gurudev to seek his blessings and if not, they engage in devotional bhakti. The Sundays which were earlier spent in sleeping till late, lazing around & messaging are now put to a fruitful use.
This experiment has worked out wonderfully... youngsters who were once filled with ego and anger have now become more polite & loving... Looking at the poverty of the slums and coming face to face with the reality of life, they have understood the importance of the wealth they own. Through philanthropic
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