At the outset, I start with pranams to Jagadguru
Sankaracharya His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Bharathi Theertha Mahaswamigal, the
ruling and 36th Pontiff and His successor designate Jagadguru Sankaracharya His
Holiness Sri Sri Sri Vidhu Shekhara Bharathi swamigal the 37th Pontiff of Sri
Sringeri Saradha Peetham for everyone’s welfare & continued prosperity.
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| We will enable their dreams |
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| Shri SS Srinivasan being felicitated |
Our sincere thanks to all our philanthropist sponsors and
donors. With your guidance and support, for the 5th year in a row, under the
aegis of Smt Alamelu Trust (Regd) and Sri Kailasanathar trust, we successfully
conducted the distribution of school uniforms to 250+ school children (Class 1
to Class 8) in 2 schools and Merit awards to 32 students from these 2 schools
The schools are:
Panchayath union school in Satttanathapuram and
Harijan Welfare school in Surakadu
The schools are:
Panchayath union school in Satttanathapuram and
Harijan Welfare school in Surakadu
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| Physically challenged student receiving sponsorship |
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| Merit Sponsorship |
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| Merit sponsorship |
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| Merit sponsorship |
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| Uniform distribution |
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| School Head Master Shri Rajshekar and Alamelu Trust chairman S.Jagadeesan |
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| Merit sponsorship |
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| Cultural programme - I |
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| Cultural programme - II |
I recently read the below article from our puranas and felt like adding it to the blog section. I would like to equate the message in the below article to the support provided by our esteemed sponsers and donors.
“ when you think of the pain and needs of others and work to help them, you are doing God's work and hence God Himself takes care of you"
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| School children with Uniforms |
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| Distribution of Uniforms |
One day Krishna and Arjuna were taking their usual walk,
when they came across an old Brahmin begging, taking pity on his condition,
Arjuna gave him a bag of gold coins. The man was overjoyed and went home. On
his way he was robbed by a thief in the forest. He cursed his fate and the next
day set off to requesting alms again.
Arjuna and Krishna saw again and when Arjuna got to know of
his story, once again took pity and gave him a large diamond. The man took it
home and kept it in an old pot which had been unused for many years in order to
keep it safe and went to sleep. The next morning before he could wake up, his
wife went to fetch water from the river and on her way back, she slipped and
her pot broke. She immediately remembered the pot at home which lay unused and
brought it to fill it with water. Just as she dipped the pot in to the river
the diamond escaped the pot and went in to the river. When she returned home
the Brahmin was desperately searching the house for the pot and when he saw it
in his wife's hands, he got to know what had happened. Dejected with what had
happened, he once again left home to go begging.
Once again Arjuna and Krishna saw him and when Arjuna heard
of the unfortunate incident that had happened, he told Krishna ," I don't
think this man is destined to be blessed at all, I don’t think I can help him
anymore". Krishna then gave the man two pennies and the man took them and
walked away. Arjuna then asked Krishna," My Lord, if gold coins and
diamond could not change his condition, what good can two pennies do to
him?". Krishna smiled and replied, "let us see".
As the man walked home he was cursing his fate when he saw a fish that had just been caught by a fisherman and was struggling for its life, he took pity on it and thought to himself," these two pennies cannot fetch me food anyway, let me at least save the life of this creature" and he purchased the fish and was about to throw it in the river when he saw that the breathlessness of the fish was caused due to some large obstruction in its mouth and when removed it , it was the very diamond he had lost in the river. He was overjoyed and started shouting "Look what I found! Look what I found". At this very time the thief that had robbed him in the forest was passing by and heard the Brahmins shouts, he recognized the Brahmin and thought that the Brahmin too recognized him and was thus shouting. Fearing that the Brahmin may take him to be executed, he rushed to him and begged for his forgiveness and returned all the gold coins he had stolen from him. The Brahmin was happy and walked away joyfully with all his wealth. He went straight to Arjuna to narrate the turn of events and thanked him for all his help and went away.
Arjuna then asked Krishna,"My Lord, how is it that my
gold and diamond could not help him but your meager two pennies did?. Krishna
replied," when he had the gold and diamonds he was only thinking of
himself and his needs, but when he had the two pennies he put the needs of
another creature before his and so I took care of his needs. The truth is O
Arjuna,
“ when you think of the pain and
needs of others and work to help them, you are doing God's work and hence God
Himself takes care of you"
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| Trust members on stage |
Special and profound thanks combined with gratitude to Shri
S.S.Srinivasan for co-coordinating and making all arrangements for making the
event a grand success
Special thanks to Mr Somasekar Sundaresan from Mumbai for
supporting the complete Merit award sponsorship for the second year in a row.
(In Alphabetical listing - after the trusts)
| Sl No | Name |
| 1 | Alamelu Trust |
| 2 | Kailasanathar Trust |
| 3 | Ajit Ashok Shenvi |
| 4 | Bhooma Srinivasan |
| 5 | Cadavasal R Natarajan (USA) |
| 6 | G Manavalan |
| 7 | Gomathy Ram |
| 8 | Harini (USA) |
| 9 | Kaweri K Pattar |
| 10 | Lalitha Natarajan (USA) |
| 11 | Linea Properties |
| 12 | Mahesh Chandra |
| 13 | Meenakshi Jagadeesan |
| 14 | Ms Meenakshi Ramamorthy - Muscat |
| 15 | Praveen Baskaran |
| 16 | Puneeth Upadhyaya |
| 17 | Rajsekar D S |
| 18 | Raju MRC |
| 19 | Ramu Mahalingam - Chennai |
| 20 | Sathish Chandrasekaran (USA) |
| 21 | Shriram (USA) |
| 22 | Sivasubbarayan (USA) |
| 23 | Smt Gnanam Viswanathan - Hyderabad |
| 24 | Smt Kamala Natarajan - Chennai |
| 25 | Somasekar Sundaresan |
| 26 | Srinivas Rao Bonu |
| 27 | Srivatsa Ganesh |
| 28 | Suresh Swaminathan |
| 29 | Veena Priya Gopu |
